For a time, the Dashun army retreated south in a hurry, the Qing army pursued relentlessly, and the Dashun army continued to have broken troops to be wiped out or incorporated by the Qing army, but fortunately, the covering force with the West Route Army as the main force finally blocked the Qing army's pursuit and won a precious opportunity for the retreat of the East Route Army.

The Western Route Army was mainly based on the rear camp, led by Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other generals, and fought an ambush battle of the Qing army in Xi'an, annihilating thousands of Azig forwards, forcing Azig to stop and rest, and the other Qing army was led by Aobai and entered Huguang from Henan to pursue the Eastern Route Army, but the distance between the two armies was too far to pose a fatal threat to the Eastern Route Army for the time being.

After the Western Route Army blocked the Azig Division, Li Guo led a large team composed of the rear battalion and his family, from Hanzhong in Shaanxi to Shu, and the Western Route Army also had a large number of people, and after retreating to Hanzhong, the two discussed using Hanzhong as a base to cover Li Zicheng's retreat to Huguang.

Unexpectedly, the He Zhen Department of the Dashun Army stationed in Hanzhong suddenly rebelled, and other rebels attacked the rear camp, and Li Guo was caught between the rebels and the Qing army, and was forced to withdraw to Xi'an.

Xi'an was captured by the Qing army, the Qing army thought that the Dashun army would not come back after going south, who knew that Li Guo led the rear camp to fight back, and captured several prefectures and counties overnight, Azig was a little contradictory at this time, he wanted to continue to pursue Li Zicheng, but Li Guo's army was under his nose and had to be eliminated.

He knew that the Shanxi Ming army fought a decisive battle with the Qing army in Henan, but he did not know that the main force of the Ming army was in Henan, and finally he decided to continue to pursue Li Zicheng, so that Boluo and Shang Kexi attacked Li Guo.

The Qing army once again divided the troops, after Li Guo retreated to Xi'an, he decided to move the whole army closer to Taiyuan Mansion, and when he retreated to Shanxi, he found that there were not many Ming troops in Shanxi, and he also knew that Ling Jingyang and Jiang Hao led the troops to Henan.

There were Bo Luo and other Qing troops chasing behind, Li Guo did not dare to lead the Qing army to Taiyuan Mansion, and led his troops to Henan, trying to lure the Qing army away.

After the Boluo monk Kexi who pursued Li entered Shanxi, he also found that the defense here was empty, which was a good opportunity to end the Chongzhen court in one fell swoop, and the two gave up pursuing Li Guo's remnants, and the whole army went north to attack Taiyuan Mansion.

The Qing army changed the direction of the attack, which startled Li Guo into a cold sweat, and he and his uncle Li Zicheng raised troops to overthrow him

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The Ming Dynasty, but after the Qing army entered the customs, everything changed, and the Ming Dynasty could not be overthrown.

At least at this time, it could not be overthrown, the Qing army launched an attack on Taiyuan Mansion, Li Guo did not hesitate, and Gao Yigong led the Western Route Army to follow behind the Qing army.

Bo Luo asked Shang Kexi to eliminate Li Guo, he continued to lead the army to attack Taiyuan Mansion, he led the army to advance to Fenzhou Mansion, the defenders here had long been withdrawn to Taiyuan Mansion, and told the Ming Dynasty civil and military officials of Taiyuan Mansion the news of the Qing army's attack.

At this time, Yuci City is an empty city, Wang Mu went to Bailu Mountain, ordered the evacuation of the people in the city, most of the people retreated to Taiyuan City, Bo Luo killed under Yuci City, found that this is an empty city, was furious, led the troops to continue to attack Taiyuan City.

The news of the Qing army's raid on Yuci City soon reached the ears of Wang Mu and others, they had advanced to Liaozhou, not far from Taiyuan City and Bailu Mountain, everyone was a little confused, only Wang Mu knew that His Majesty was not in Yuci City, and it was no longer Taiyuan City, but in Bailu Mountain, but some middle and low-level civil and military officials in the army could not let go of His Majesty, and they were clamoring to go back to support Taiyuan Mansion.

Gao Jie didn't make a sound, Chongzhen didn't care about life or death, he had a lot of troops under his command, but he didn't have much combat power, he didn't have the strength to continue fighting with the Qing army, Jiang Xuan didn't have that heart, he wanted to lead his troops to support his brother in the battle.

The two main generals were silent, Wang Mu saw that the two did not speak, and knew the intentions of the two, so he pretended to be confused, and led the civil and military officials and Qingzhuang to continue to advance towards Bailu Mountain.

At this time, there were only two armies in the entire Shanxi Province rushing to Taiyuan City, one was the Dashun army led by Li Guo, and the other was the northern guard force of Taiyuan Mansion led by Gao Ding.

Li Guo was to save the Ming Emperor, while Gao Ding just wanted to rest in Taiyuan City, and then rushed to Bailu Mountain with all his strength to support the Ming army and the Qing army in a decisive battle.

Li Guo did not rush to Taiyuan City, was attacked by Shang Kexi's troops, most of the soldiers and horses of Shang Kexi's troops were also veterans, and their combat effectiveness far exceeded that of the Ming army, but his opponent was the rear battalion led by Li Guo, and the rear battalion was the descendant of the Dashun army, with a large number of old battalion soldiers, and its combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of Shang Kexi.

Two armies in Hot Springs

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A bloody battle, Shang Kexi's troops were brave and good at fighting, Li Hou's camp was full of blood, the two armies broke out into a tragic battle as soon as they met, the blood poured out on the earth, the stumps and broken arms flew all over the sky, the two armies suffered countless casualties, and still did not distinguish the winner or loser.

The Qing army and the Dashun army fought bloodily, alarming Gao Ding, who rested in Taiyuan City, he led more than 4,000 people from Ningwuguan and Yanmen Pass to support Bailu Mountain, but it was a night's rest in Taiyuan City, and the next morning there was a scout report, there was a Qing army was killing Taiyuan City, and there was a Dashun army and the Qing army fought fiercely in Hot Spring Town.

Gao Ding hurriedly summoned his generals and decided to break through immediately, or to defend Taiyuan City, most of his subordinates were Ming army border troops, and they didn't want to surrender again and again, so they asked to defend Taiyuan City, but Gao Ding thought about why the Qing army raided Taiyuan City.

Isn't Your Majesty in Yuci City, why did the Qing army continue to attack Taiyuan City after capturing Yuci City, in his opinion, the Qing army's choice to attack Taiyuan City was a very chicken military deployment.

In the end, Gao Ding gladly accepted the suggestion of his subordinates, ordered the whole army to defend Taiyuan City, and mobilized all the people in the city who could lift the big knife to defend the city together.

The young and strong people in the city were taken to Bailu Mountain by Jiang Xuan, and most of the rest were old, young, sick and disabled, as well as the four major families and Fan Honghuo and other businessmen and family members.

He carried a ghost-headed knife to supervise the battle on the city wall, and asked his generals to go to nearby states and counties to gather local forces, because Taiyuan City was the center of the Ming army in Shanxi, and many new Ming scholars came to support with their families, and some landlords were armed and also came to support with weapons and ammunition.

Before Boluo attacked Taiyuan City, Gao Ding gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Taiyuan City, which was also the last force in Shanxi to support the Ming Dynasty.

Gao Ding helped the red ribbon on his forehead, stationed on the city wall, and there were those who surrendered in Kaesong, and there was no mercy for killing.

After the Qing army captured Yuci City, it was not in a hurry to attack Taiyuan City, which is also the genius of Boluo, he wanted to use heavy troops to besiege the Ming Emperor of Taiyuan City, to attract the local Ming army in Shanxi to Taiyuan City, waiting for the opportunity to eliminate the Ming army in Shanxi in one fell swoop, which is a military strategy once and for all.

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