Li Guo led thousands of cavalry to meet Li Zicheng, and seeing the heavy casualties, he hurriedly got out of the way and retreated while defending.

Kong Youde led the team to see Azig leading the army back to the east, and everyone in the army was bloody, thinking that they had suffered a big defeat, and hurriedly escorted the remnants of the army to retreat to Tongguan.

A big war ended inexplicably, and both sides thought they had lost and did not dare to go out of the city to investigate, leaving only more than 10,000 corpses, strewn across the wilderness.

There is an interaction of flesh and blood, regardless of you and me, the enemy who fought the night before, and after the night, they all became the rations of the beast.

Azig returned to Tongguan, panted, and threw his weapon on the ground: "I didn't expect that the Shun army still had such strong soldiers, and it was this king who underestimated Li Zicheng." ”

When Kong Youde heard Azig say this, he was sure that he had suffered a defeat, and he didn't dare to ask more, but just helped take off his armor and served carefully.

Li Zicheng entered the county seat of Weinan, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly climbed the city wall and looked east.

"The damn Tartar, so strong, that I took the most elite cavalry with me to work at ease, and I almost wiped it out. How did Emperor Chongzhen Dog fight with them for more than ten years! ”

Li Guo followed by his side and said, "I'll go and organize the defense!" ”

"No need." Li Zicheng stopped, "You go to Xi'an quickly and arrange for evacuation." We can't stay in Guanzhong anymore, so I'm going to go to Huguang first to avoid the Tartar soldiers. ”

Li Guo was stunned, and he didn't know why Li Zicheng was so decisive, so he stepped back first and went straight to Niu Jinxing.

Niu Jinxing listened, and understood what Li Zicheng meant, and immediately persuaded Li Guo to obey the order.

"Prime Minister, don't talk about Weinan and other county seats, just say that Xi'an has a tall city wall and a wide moat, and it is not a problem to keep it for two years, why give up? Now that we have established a country, we are not a wandering army, how can we easily give up the emperor's city of being called the emperor. Li Guo was angry.

"The gold, silver, grain and grass we have in Shanxi have basically been snatched away by the Tartars, and there are more than 100,000 Ming army generals who have turned their backs on Dashun and taken refuge in the Tartars.

Because of your defeat, there is no danger to defend the Guanzhong Plain, and we can't fight the field battle, so we can only shrink back to defense, once trapped in Xi'an, we can only sit and eat empty!

And the Tartars have controlled Shanxi and Shaanxi since then, and with the support of Mongolia, in the long run, our army will be defeated! ”

When Li Guo heard this, he felt very uncomfortable, it was his own fault that led to such a passive situation.

He kept his face calm, didn't say a word, and went west silently.

On the same day, Niu Jinxing personally led the team to the field site to inspect and counted the bodies of both sides, and his heart was shocked.

He didn't say much, but he packed up what he could use, set a fire, and burned it.

Two days later, Li Guo completed the preparations for retreat, and tens of thousands of troops hurriedly set out on the road with grain, grass, gold and silver.

After joining up with Li Zicheng in Weinan, the Dashun army went all the way to the southeast and fled along the Wuguan Ancient Road.

When the people saw this, they were terrified.

In the past month, everyone has heard of the tragedy in Shanxi, and now the Dashun army has retreated, and there is no one to protect it, so they have brought their families and mouths, and followed Li Zicheng's army to flee for their lives.

The news was quickly sent to Azig's desk, who looked at the military newspaper, tapped his fingers on the table, and remained silent.

In the conference hall, Ah Shan, Kong Youde and others were also silent, "This is too weird, just now the elite of our army has been severely defeated, why did Li Zicheng run away in a hurry?" ”

When Azig heard this, he just frowned and said nothing.

Ah Shan said: "Is this another trick by Li Zicheng, pretending to retreat, attracting our army to pursue, cutting off the front road at Wuguan, and ambushing in the valley?" ”

When Azig heard this, he was shocked, "Bring me the map!" ”

The soldiers brought the map, unfolded it and put it on the table, and everyone looked at it carefully, and found that the Wuguan Ancient Road ran through the Qinling Mountains, with hundreds of miles of continuous valleys, and once it was ambushed, there was a possibility that the whole army would be annihilated.

Azig looked at the map, stroked his beard and said, "In this way, what Ahsan said also has some truth. ”

Geng Zhongming pondered for a long time, and slowly spoke: "Could it be that in the last fierce battle, Li Zicheng also suffered heavy losses, and now that he has lost the natural danger of Tongguan, he does not dare to stay in Guanzhong, is it really a rout?" ”

Kong Youde said: "The city wall of Xi'an is high and thick, it is difficult to break, even if he suffers heavy losses, he should hold on, how can there be a reason to retreat?" ”

Ah Shan was puzzled: "In the fierce battle the night before, our army was almost wiped out, so Kong Wang Ye reinforced in time, Li Zicheng saw our reinforcements, so he had to retreat, and there should be no deception."

The victorious army is now suddenly fleeing into the mountains, and there must be something strange. ”

When Azig saw that someone mentioned his defeat again, he was angry and drank, "Wait a minute." If he really runs away in fear, we can catch up in three days. ”

Geng Zhongming saw that Azig was annoyed, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "What the prince said is exquisite! The minions are willing to lead 5,000 cavalry to Xi'an and other places to investigate, and if they are easily occupied by me, it is not too late to pursue. ”

"Good. So do it! Azig got up and walked away.

Geng Zhongming read several batches of military reports, put his mind at ease, took the people of his headquarters, and went to Xi'an.

At sunset, a group of about 50 remnants of Shanxi fled to the west of Tongguan in embarrassment.

They were going to the Azig military camp, not wanting that he had already captured Tongguan, and they were shocked and excited in their hearts.

With a nervous mood, a group of people went to the front of the customs to report.

The guards of the city gate checked the military badges, and half-convinced and released people into the customs, "The whole territory of Shanxi has been lost?" Eighty percent of these people lied about the military situation! Don't you want to die? ”

At this time, Azig was having dinner, and when he saw his soldiers pacing at the door in a panic, he didn't dare to come in, and said angrily: "What's the matter, make me irritated at the door, come in quickly and report it." ”

The soldiers got the order, hurriedly came in, and whispered in Azig's ear.

Azig was about to scold again, but after listening to one sentence, his eyes widened instantly, and when he finished listening, he almost flipped the table.

He got up quickly, grabbed his robe, and ran out, looking left and right, and running towards the lobby.

Inside and outside the lobby, more than 30 people sat on the ground, almost all of them were injured, and when they saw Azig running, they quickly knelt down and shouted for the prince.

When Azig saw their shabby appearance, he believed sixty percent, ran to the nearest place, casually lifted a person, and roared: "Is it that you are lying about the military situation? Disturb my army's heart? ”

The soldier was stunned, stunned for a long time, and muttered: "How dare the slave lie about the military situation, it is indeed a Ming army descended from heaven, attacking the city all the way, and all the cities in Shanxi were lost." ”

"Impossible!"

"Lord Wang, it's true, the two of us fled all the way south from Jinnan to here."

"Lord Wang, the Ming army was ambushed outside the city early in the morning, as soon as we opened the door, we were blocked in the city, we originally had 500 men and horses, and now only these twenty people have fled defeated."

……

Listening to the beeps of these people, Azig's head was in a cold sweat......

"What about Datong? Is there any Datong from here? ”

Everyone shook their heads, they were all defenders of Jinzhong and Jinnan.

Azig analyzed the time of their city breaking, and almost confirmed the guess that Datong was the first to lose, but he refused to believe it in his heart, and immediately sent hundreds of men and horses to Shanxi to investigate the situation.

At night, another defeated army came to Tongguan, and the news of the loss of Shanxi was confirmed again, and the city of Tongguan suddenly exclaimed, "Ours, the back road...... No ......."

Seeing that the news leaked, Azig was furious, arrested those routed soldiers overnight, convicted him of lying about the military situation, beheaded him in public, and made an impassioned speech to appease the army's morale a little.

……

Geng Zhongming had already left the city, he didn't know about Shanxi, and he was still moving forward cautiously, for fear of being ambushed by Li Zicheng.

Tongguan is 300 miles away from Xi'an City, and the cavalry can rush to it in 2 hours at the earliest.

When he saw from afar that the Xi'an city tower and city gate were burned, he was completely relieved.

"It seems that I have to take the great work of Xi'an."