Liu Fangliang almost couldn't believe his eyes, this Qing army looked down on the Dashun army too much, he didn't say a word, and ordered the whole army to raid Tongguan, nearly 10,000 soldiers of the left battalion were in the same mood as him, from loss to hope.

Under his command, the Qing army launched a fierce attack on the Qing army that was repairing the city wall, the Qing army did not have many soldiers and horses, and was repairing the city wall, and was soon raided into the city by the Dashun army.

After Liu Fangliang recaptured Tongguan, he hurriedly ordered all troops to repair the city wall, but how could the city wall be repaired so easily, Liu Fangliang was extremely smart, and even let Liu Rukui lead the main force to retreat outside Tongguan, only keeping him and a cavalry unit with hundreds of mobility in the city, and quickly withdrawing if the Qing army attacked the city.

After Ao Bai returned to Tongguan, he did not venture into Tongguan, and the troops were exhausted, so they chose to camp outside the pass, giving the left camp and the rear camp and the middle camp the opportunity to contact.

The three soldiers and horses of the Dashun army met under the nose of the Qing army, and the morale of the Dashun army was bursting, but Li Guo was not hot-headed and suggested that Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang attack the Qing army.

Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang said: "General Liu, how many soldiers and soldiers do you have?" ”

The left battalion lost hundreds of people in the attack on Tongguan, and there were still more than 9,000 people, Liu Zongmin shook his head, and there were more than 9,000 people left in the rear camp and the middle battalion, and more than 18,000 people after joining forces with the left battalion, which was still not as strong as the Qing army, and if they attacked the Qing army, they would be at risk of being defeated by the Qing army in the field.

The three sat down to discuss, thinking that the city wall of Tongguan could not be repaired in a short time, and the Qing army was dead and drained here, it was not a wise move, after dawn, the Qing army knew that the Dashun army was false and real, and would launch an attack again, the Dashun army was not the opponent of the Qing army in the field at all, and the three decided to continue to retreat, so under the cover of night, the Dashun army retreated towards Xi'an City.

The cavalry in the city also rushed out and withdrew in the night, and Ao Bai waited until dawn to see that Tongguan was quiet, and the opening in the city wall was not repaired.

This time, he was more cautious and made sure that there was no Dashun army in Tongguan, so he ordered the troops to rush in and completely occupy Tongguan.

After occupying Tongguan, Ao Bai asked people to report the good news to the regent, and then the whole army entered Tongguan, repaired the city wall, and waited for the regent's army to end the Henan campaign, and invaded Shaanxi together to eliminate the Dashun army.

Ao Bai looked west on Tong Pass, always felt as if he occupied Tong Pass, but it didn't seem to occupy Tong Pass, and his subordinates did not continue to pursue the Dashun army.

After withdrawing from Tongguan last night, he once again set up an ambush in Huayin, waited for two days and two nights, but did not see the shadow of the Qing army, and finally had no choice but to give up the ambush and retreat to Xi'an City.

On the way to retreat, many generals knew that the retreat to Xi'an City was just a temporary rest, after the Qing army captured Tongguan, with Shanxi condescending terrain, Shaanxi had no danger to defend, and the entire Dashun army had to choose to withdraw from Shaanxi to find a new territory.

Li Zicheng resisted the attack of the Azig army in the north of Xi'an Prefecture, the Azig army was strong and strong, and the Dashun army fought three times, and the Dashun army was defeated three times, and the Dashun army did not dare to fight with the Qing army in the end.

Li Zicheng had no better strategy to break the enemy, so he had to withdraw to Xi'an City with his troops, and joined the generals who had retreated to Li Guo and other generals.

In order to have a better way out, Li Zicheng convened a meeting of the ministers of civil and military affairs for one night, and finally decided to abandon Shaanxi, and the whole army retreated towards the Huguang area, striving to defeat Zuo Liangyu, and use Huguang as a new territory to continue the confrontation with the Qing army.

This strategy is actually very wrong, Hongguang court and Zuo Liangyu face and heart discord, but Li Zicheng can't beat the Qing army, so he turned to attack Zuo Liangyu, who is weaker than himself, many generals do not agree, but when you think about it, it seems that there is no better choice, only to go south to Huguang, eat Zuo Liangyu, swallow its territory, there is a glimmer of life.

Li Guo felt that this was inappropriate, and spoke to Li Zicheng.

"Your Majesty, our army rushed south, didn't we put the Chongzhen court in Taiyuan Mansion to death?"

Song Xiance stood up and said to him: "General Li, the Chongzhen court is just a group of clowns who jumped off the beam, not only did not help us hold back the Qing army, but also occupied the important state capital of Taiyuan Mansion, let it fend for itself." ”

The more Li Guo listened, the more angry he became, and he angrily reprimanded: "If the monarchs and ministers of the Chongzhen court fall into the hands of the Qing army, my Dashun army will really be attacked by the Qing army and the Ming army, even if it defeats Huguang and destroys Zuo Liangyu, how long can it last?" ”

The monarchs and ministers of the Dashun army were speechless, but if Huguang was not captured, the living space of the Dashun army would be gone, and the Dashun army and their families would be slaughtered by the Qing army.

Li Zichang sighed, endured his loss, and ordered with the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs: "You don't need to say much, from now on, all troops and horses will go south to Huguang." ”

Before the loss of Tongguan, Ling Jingyang and Jiang Xuan led the troops to Liaozhou, rested in Liaozhou for half a day, and then advanced to Lu'anzhou.

The army entered Weihui Mansion from Lu'an Prefecture, but on the way, it joined Gao Jie's general Li Benshen.

Li Benshen was ordered to come to support Weihui Mansion, not because Gao Jie was good-hearted, but because Gao Jie and his generals also knew that they did not support the Chongzhen court at this time, and they would not support it in the future, so they would either surrender to the Qing army or fight to the death with the Qing army.

It is almost impossible to fight to the death, Gao Jie can imagine that after the Chongzhen court was destroyed, his army will continue to fight against the Qing army, and in less than three days, he will be tied up by his subordinates and sent to the Qing army.

Rather than that, it is better to fight to the death now, maybe there is still a way to live, he transferred Li Benshen to support Weihui Mansion, he led his troops north to Taiyuan Mansion, and wanted to rob Emperor Chongzhen.

Halfway through, he was frightened by the news that the Qing army had broken through Tongguan and did not dare to go north, so he was forced to lead his subordinates to continue to garrison Zezhou to prevent the Qing army from suddenly returning to Shanxi and snatching his base camp Zezhou.

Ling Jingyang led the troops to Weihui Mansion, and the cavalry corps had a skirmish with the Qing army's forward, and the Qing army scouts were all elite cavalry led by Bayala, and the cavalry corps that fought could not raise their heads.

After a day of fierce fighting, the cavalry corps lost one-third of its troops, but the Qing army only lost dozens of people, and the Qing scouts withdrew with victory, and all the generals believed that the field combat ability of the two armies was not at the same level.

Jiang Hao suggested that Ling Jingyang lead his troops to station outside Xinxiang City to contain the Qing army's siege troops and create favorable conditions for the soldiers in the city to break through or counterattack.

Ling Jingyang rejected this suggestion, comparing the strength of the Ming army with the strength of the Qing army, there was almost no possibility of winning a field battle, and only by relying on the city wall to fight with the Qing army

In order to maximize the damage to the Qing army.

Jiang Hao resolutely disagreed to enter Xinxiang City, thinking that if the army entered Xinxiang City, wouldn't it be trapped to death by the Qing army?

Li Benshen, as a guest army, also expressed his intention to defend Xinxiang City, Ling Jingyang and everyone said: "Their grain and grass can support half a year, and entering Xinxiang City, they can drag down the Qing army's strength in Henan, so that the Qing army is only left with two mobile troops, Azig and Aobai, these two excited troops have strong combat effectiveness, but they have no ability to go south to defeat the Dashun army and the small court of Yingtianfu." ”

Jiang Hao was indignant, and Ling Jingyang was angry: "Then you don't have to let us die for them." ”

Li Benshen also kept nodding, everyone disagreed, Ling Jingyang could only lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters into Xinxiang City to support the defenders in the city.

Without waiting for Ling Jingyang to lead his troops into the city, Duoduo led the army to kill, he received news from the scouts that there was a Ming army from Shanxi to support Xinxiang City, Duoduo was overjoyed, he wished that the Ming army would be concentrated in Xinxiang City, and then annihilate the living forces in one fell swoop.

He hurriedly asked Dolgon to fight, and Dolgon was also suffocated, the troops were besieged but not attacked these days, and the morale was a little low, so let Doldor lead the troops to rush the Ming army, which could improve the morale of the whole army.

After receiving the military order, Duoduo led 5,000 banner soldiers in his headquarters, as well as 20,000 green battalion soldiers, and the momentum was average.

The sudden attack of the Qing army caught Ling Jingyang a little off guard, thinking that the Qing army was really able to fight well, and the Ming army had just arrived at Weihui Mansion, so they gathered troops to attack, wanting to fight the Ming army with an unstable foothold.

Ling Jingyang asked Jiang Jiu and Li Benshen to come up with advice and advice with the generals to repel the Qing army's attack.

Jiang Hao and Li Benshen were also greatly surprised that the Qing army would be so fast, and before they were familiar with Weihui Mansion, they led the army to fight, and the two were forced to order the troops to meet the enemy, and then came to the Lingjingyang military camp.

Ling Jingyang had already summoned his generals, waiting for the arrival of the two here, after everyone met, their faces were silent, the Ming army had more than 40,000 reserve troops on the surface, more than 20,000 Jiang Huang troops, more than 5,000 Li Benshen, and more than 2,000 Iron Fist Legions and cavalry corps, which were much more than the Qing army that came to attack.

But these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, most of them are recruits who have not been killed on the battlefield, and less than one-eighth of the elite veterans have almost no possibility of winning in the field.

Ling Jingyang saw that Li Benshen's request for reinforcements was fake, and avoiding war was his real purpose, and he didn't want to stay and fight, and forcibly asking for war would only backfire, Ling Jingyang said to him very angrily: "General Li, you go back." ”

Li Benshen blushed very much, seeing that Ling Jingyang was so bold and agreed to his withdrawal, he cheekily returned to the barracks with his own soldiers, and retreated to Zezhou with his troops.

After he left, Jiang Hao looked disdainful, and Ling Jingyang smiled with him: "Governor Jiang, the two armies are in the middle of a battle, if there are escapees, won't the whole army collapse?" ”

Jiang Hao thought about it, so Ling Jingyang actively arranged the battle with the Qing army together, he felt that leading the troops to withdraw to Bailu Mountain, relying on the terrain of Bailu Mountain, could offset the mobile advantage of the Qing army, and then fight with the Qing army, there was a half-point chance of victory.

Ling Jingyang looked at the distance between Bailu Mountain and Xinxiang City, and it only took a day to arrive, so he ordered the whole army to retreat towards Bailu Mountain, and at the same time ordered the cavalry corps to harass the Qing army and try to block the Qing army's advance.