According to Guanzhong and take the world, they will generally take the Cuihan Ancient Road and go straight to the Central Plains. Or, cross the Wuguan Pass to take the Nanyang Basin, and attack the Central Plains from the south on both sides.

However, the Cuihan Ancient Road was blocked by the Datong Army, and in addition to Tongguan, several other Xiongguan were all in the hands of the Datong Army.

Although Wuguan was controlled by Li Zicheng, Fushui Fort was seized by Zhao Han, which was equivalent to blocking Wuguan Road with each other - it was called Fushui Fort in the Ming Dynasty, Fushuiguan in the Qing Dynasty, and later became Fushui Town.

Li Zicheng also has a plan to send troops, that is, to send troops from Shanxi to Henan.

But if you do this, you will be attacked by the Datong Army of Henan and Hebei from the east, northeast, south, and southwest, which is equivalent to bearing the main force of the Datong Army in the north alone. At that time, it is very likely that the Datong army will ignore the Manchu Qing and go all out to annihilate Li Zicheng's army.

So Li Zicheng made a stupid move, took the elite main force to Hebei, and attacked the fortified city of the Datong army with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Datong Army could only passively defend in Hebei, and instead sought to open up the situation in Shanxi and Liaodong.

At this moment, the Datong Army had gathered the strength of three divisions in Tongguan and Hedong, but the troops of Dashun in Shanxi began to collapse. (The West River region covers the east side of the river, and the geographical concept is larger than that of the east side of the river.) ）

This is the trend of the times, and the momentum is the success.

Zhao Han has already gained power, so the people on Li Zicheng's side are unstable, and there are always civilian officials and military generals who want to take the opportunity to rebel.

Just like back then, Li Zicheng gained power in the north, and the Ming civil and military forces chose to surrender one after another.

It's late May.

After Li Guo's general Zhang Neng led his troops to defect, he opened the Xiegu Pass, opened the Baochuan Road, and welcomed Fei Yinghui's army into the Guanzhong.

Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other Dashun generals retreated to Fufeng in a hurry with the remnants of the army, trying to recruit Xiangyong as soldiers to block the Sichuan Datong Army. Barely managed to gather 10,000 men, but after only six days, a general opened the city gates.

In the chaos, Li Guo and Gao Yigong fled with their own soldiers and took over the Dashun army from Gansu in Baoji.

There was no war at all, the Gansu Dashun army came in a hurry, and I heard that Li Guo's troops were all wiped out, and I heard that Hanzhong was lost, Xi'an was also lost, Hedong was occupied by most of it, and Tongguan and Weinan were strategically surrounded. As a result, the generals of the Gansu Dashun Army also chose to turn against the water, arrested Li Guo and Gao Yigong, and quickly sent them to Fufeng to invite merit.

"Are you the False Prince? Why are you so old? Fei Yinghui wondered.

Li Guo didn't speak.

Fei Yinghui looked at Gao Yigong again: "You are the son of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's cousin-in-law?" ”

Gao Yigong spat violently, almost spraying Fei Yinghui's face, and roared: "If you want to kill or chop, listen to your convenience, if you are a hero, you will be happy!" ”

Fei Yinghui scratched her forehead, feeling that she was so lucky. He didn't seem to have done anything, not only occupied Hanzhong and successfully entered Guanzhong, but also captured Li Zicheng's nephew and cousin-in-law.

Fei Yingheng thought to herself: Could it be that Lao Tzu is a lucky general?

Seeing that the two of them were very angry, Fei Yinghui stopped asking questions, and said to his soldiers: "Bring these two people and show them to the defenders of Weinan and Tongguan." After winning the audience, he will be escorted to Hebei to meet Li Zicheng before going to the battle. ”

Under normal circumstances, if an important person of the enemy is caught, he should be sent to Nanjing as soon as possible to report his merits.

But the coach of Hebei is Fei Ruhe, who is Fei Yinghui's nephew.

It doesn't matter if you have your own merits, you should hurry up and help your nephew, Fei Yinghui knows that the battle in Hebei is not easy to fight.

After dealing with the prisoners, Fei Yinghui was full of pride, drew his sword and shouted: "The whole army sets off and marches to Weinan!" ”

Fei Yinghui's troops fought more and more, and only Zhang Nengbu, who surrendered, and the Gansu Dashun surrendered army, adding up to tens of thousands of people.

Walking to Xi'an, Cao Bianjiao was finally able to take a breath.

Cao Bianjiao went out of the city to greet him: "General Fei, you came in time, otherwise I will be surrounded here." The enemy troops from Ningxia and Yulin had already arrived in Chunhua, and they didn't know why, and suddenly the garrison stopped moving in Chunhua. ”

"What else could be the reason? It's just a wait-and-see situation," Fei Yinghui said with a smile, "They don't go to Hedong and join the main force in Shanxi." They also did not go to the rescue of Tongguan and Weinan, or even came to Xi'an, indicating that those enemy troops were ready to surrender at any time. Once our army wins another battle in Hedong and Tongguan, the enemy troops stationed in Chunhua will immediately change their banners. ”

"Dada-da-da!"

There was a sound of horses' hooves, and the dragoons turned over and dismounted: "The Chunhua enemy army sent a messenger, saying that they are willing to submit to our dynasty!" ”

Cao Bianjiao and Fei Yinghui looked at each other, and then they both laughed.

The main general of this surrender is called Ma Chongxi, and he is also one of the thirteen families in Kuidong in history.

Fei Yinghui and Cao Bianjiao led their troops straight to Weinan, Li Guo and Gao Yigong were taken to the city, and a high-voiced soldier shouted: "Liu Sanhu, open the door and surrender quickly, Li Guo and Gao Yigong are all wiped out." The pseudo-obedient soldiers in Gansu and Hetao have also surrendered, so don't resist stubbornly! ”

When Liu Sanhu heard this, his face changed drastically, and he carefully observed the prisoners in the city, and it was indeed Li Guo and Gao Yigong.

The defenders of the city were also noisy, and the officers and non-commissioned officers wanted to surrender.

General Hua Chun said: "General Liu, let's surrender, we can't win." ”

Boom!

Liu Sanhu pulled out the sword from the sheath, slashed it out, and after hacking Hua Chun to death, he shouted: "Whoever surrenders again, this is the end!" ”

The defenders of the city were so frightened that they did not dare to speak again.

Fei Yinghui put down the clairvoyant mirror and sighed: "Li Zicheng is the emperor after all, there must be a few people who serve to die." Pull up the artillery, start bombarding the city, and let the craftsmen build the siege equipment. ”

On the east side of the river.

Liu Fangliang was at a loss, and was going to gather troops to fight the Battle of Tongguan, but as a result, Henan generals defected one after another. He has successively gathered 15,000 troops here, but nearly half of them are new recruits, so they dare not take the initiative to attack, so they can only withdraw the whole army to Yicheng to defend.

Immediately received bad news one after another, Hanzhong was lost, the Gansu soldiers surrendered, and Li Guo and Gao Yigong were captured.

Immediately afterwards, more than 10,000 Dashun troops gathered in Hongdong County actually inexplicably broke out in infighting. The cause seems to be because of old grievances, Li Zicheng did not break out under pressure before, but now the situation is a mess, there are grievances to revenge, there are revenge and revenge, and they actually fought in Hongdong County.

The one who won the kill, took the remnants of the soldiers to Linfen to ask for surrender.

In this way, not a serious battle was fought, and only the few troops supporting Tongguan were left with the few people in Liu Fangliang's hands.

"I thought there was a bad battle, but who knew it was like this." Liu Zhu couldn't laugh or cry.

Lin Ruzhao said: "At the end of the dynasty, Chongzhen is like this, and so is Li Zicheng. At that time, Li Zicheng's foundation was unstable and he was killed by the Tartars. Although he has barely gained a firm foothold in the past two years, he has long lost his heart in a corner of peace. Once the defeat is revealed, there will inevitably be a scene of scrambling to surrender. ”

Liu Zhu said: "Send troops to Yicheng, first straighten out Hedong, and then slowly besiege Tongguan." ”

Henan Datong Army, three divisions came, one was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, one was stationed in Fenglingdu and Daqingguan, and the remaining one ran to attack Yicheng.

Knowing that Liu Zhu led his troops to kill, Liu Fangliang immediately abandoned the Yicheng and pulled the troops to guard the passes of Luliang Mountain.

The entire Xihe region, the famous land east of the river, was once again all controlled by the Datong army.

The enemy army in Shaanxi has only two places left: Tongguan and Weinan.

Tongguan.

One by one, the military information came, and it was all sent by the Datong Army, and Tian Jianxiu had already begun to become numb.

The morale of the defenders was low, and in addition to the soldiers of the old battalion, whether it was a temporarily recruited militia or a non-commissioned soldier recruited in the last two years, they all quietly discussed whether they should surrender or not.

Tian Jianxiu could only say to the soldiers: "The enemy's shooting is a rumor, you should not be gullible." It only takes a month to hold out and reinforcements from all walks of life will arrive, and then we will fight another big victory! ”

The soldiers were skeptical, but there was no rebellion.

Just when Fei Yinghui and Cao Bianjiao attacked Weinan, Li Guo and Gao Yigong were also sent to Fenglingdu by detour.

These two precious captives were immediately rowed to the north of Tongguan City.

The defenders wanted to release the arrows, but Tian Jianxiu, who had a clairvoyant mirror, saw clearly who was standing at the bow of the ship, and hurriedly shouted: "Slow! ”

The archers looked puzzled, and they all turned to look at Tian Jianxiu.

Tian Jianxiu lowered his head and pondered, gritted his teeth and said, "Release the arrow!" ”

Arrows rained down, and before the Datong army could shout, they hurriedly rowed a boat and drifted downstream.

Seeing that the ship was washed downstream, Tian Jianxiu shouted again: "Fire at that ship!" ”

Artillery ammunition doesn't cost money?

A ship is worth firing, maybe it won't hit for half a day.

"Boom, boom!"

The shells whizzed, but fortunately the target was small and the ships carrying the prisoners were unharmed.

In desperation, Jiang Liang could only use the old method, and sent someone to quietly approach at night and shoot letters towards the city wall.

After the letter spread, Li Guo and Gao Yigong were escorted over during the day.

Li and Gao were defeated and captured, and the bad news finally reached Tongguan. The morale of the defenders of Tongguan has dropped to the bottom, and this Xiongguan has become a besieged dead place.

Jiang Liang is still besieging but not attacking, attacking is to send him to death, and Xiongguan has always been won by the surrender of the defenders.

We have to wait a little longer, and after we capture Weinan, we will take Huazhou and Huayin by taking advantage of the situation, and then we will be able to completely surround Tongguan, and the defenders in the pass will inevitably collapse.

On the Tianjin side, Li Zicheng didn't know that Shaanxi had lost most of it, let alone that his nephew and cousin-in-law had been captured.

However, Li Zicheng knew that Shaanxi was in danger and the battle situation in Tianjin was completely deadlocked, so he began to ponder whether to withdraw his troops.

"Your Majesty, withdraw!"

He Jin, the general, persuaded: "The surname Zhang in the city and the surname Fei outside the city have always refused to fight. If you want to break the game, you have to cross the river to attack, and you have to cooperate with the Tartars to attack together, and that style of play will definitely cause heavy casualties. ”

Li You, the general of Youwuwei, also said: "Your Majesty, Shaanxi and Shanxi are both steep mountains, so we might as well give up Hebei and wait for the puppet army to die in Shanxi." ”

Wu Ruyi, the general of Consequence Yi, persuaded: "Your Majesty, staying in Tianjin can only consume military rations in vain!" ”

Just when Li Zicheng was undecided, Haoge actually sent someone over: "My prince wants to cross the river and attack, if His Majesty Emperor Li agrees, discuss how to fight." ”

"Why is Haug suddenly crossing the river?" Li Zicheng wondered.

Li Zicheng's Shaanxi had problems, and the Manchu Liaodong also had problems.

When Haoge learned of the military situation in Liaodong, he did not follow Dolgon's orders and returned to the division to rescue Liaodong, but wanted to desperately defeat Fei Ruhe's main force!