Hauge was defeated and had to choose to retreat directly to Beijing.

But the Ming army had delayed him for so long, and Wu Sangui, Jiang Hao and Li Fuming's three-way division was almost in place, and of course they would not let him retreat.

So, on the eleventh day of the lunar month, Haoge had just withdrawn his troops from Handan and returned north, and Wu Sangui, who had just conquered Shahe County, came to intercept.

Haoge was also angry, and said in his heart that Lao Tzu can't do it, Zhang Huangyan can't do it, and he can't do you Wu Sangui? Although Wu Sangui's subordinates are also elite veterans of a hundred battles, the scale of the Guanning Army is there, and it has not received much decent replenishment over the years.

In Haoge's eyes, he confronted Wu Sangui a few years ago, and Wu Sangui barely held on to it by relying on the geographical blockage of Guanzhong. If Wu Sangui dared to fight with him head-on, he would have been beaten down by him.

At that time, Haoge only had one or two banners in his hands, and now although he has suffered heavy losses from the Ming army, he has a good grasp of the Qing Dynasty's national soldiers, can he still take Wu Sangui?

So out of the mentality of not believing in evil, Haoge and Wu Sangui still broke out a breakthrough field battle in the Lishui Fushui Basin north of Handan and south of Shahe County.

At that time, Wu Sangui's Guanning army was fortified and intercepted south of Lishui and north of Fushui.

Since Shahe, Xingtai and other places have been occupied by the Ming army, Haoge's withdrawal route must be detoured from the east of Juluze, through Julu County and Ji County to the north, and it is impossible to take the road west of Juluze and sticking to Taihang Mountain.

In the face of Wu Sangui's interception, Haoge could only choose to either break through Wu Sangui directly, or cross the water twice.

Considering that he still had more than 100,000 troops on hand, repeatedly crossing the river would be very delayed, and might give Zhang Huangyan a chance to pursue later, so Haoge chose to break through head-on.

The two armies fought all the way from Quzhou County to Jize County, and Wu Sangui also fought and retreated, but he never collapsed.

The terrain in this area is bound by the water and the water, which is relatively cramped, and the width of the east and west battlefields is less than twenty miles, which is not convenient for the army to carry out a roundabout, so although there are many soldiers and horses, there is no chance to quickly go around, which allows Wu Sangui to resist step by step.

The fighting between the two sides dragged on for about two days, and each suffered thousands to more than 10,000 casualties. But the war lasted until this moment, and the Han people all over the world knew that the Ming Dynasty must have turned the tables, and reinforcements would come at any time, so the morale was strong. Wu Sangui's troops were able to maintain their crumbling despite casualties.

On the other hand, Wu Sangui's current strength is no longer the strength that Haoge thought at the beginning, since Wu Sangui officially returned to the Ming Dynasty, the Nanjing Imperial Court also allocated the original Li Zicheng's old department Hao Shaoqi Department, which was originally divided into Guanzhong and later went to Hanzhong to defect to Fang Kongzhi, and also successively allocated it to Wu Sangui to replenish his troops.

The reason why Wu Sangui was only given to supplement the old department of Li Zicheng's peasant army was that Zhu Shuren considered that Wu Sangui was capricious in history after all, and if he really gave him the excellent equipment of the first-line Ming army, he was also worried that he would not be able to lose his strength in the future, and once again tried to rebuild his power for the generals of Liaoxi.

In contrast, it is not so distressing to allocate Li Zicheng's old ministry to Wu Sangui, anyway, let them fight and consume. If you can really prove yourself by making meritorious contributions, it is not too late to give you better treatment for your descendants.

Therefore, Haoge consumed a wave of each other with Wu Sangui's people and Hao Shaoqi's old army, and was finally caught up by Huang Degong and Li Dingguo sent by Zhang Huangyan.

The parties fought several battles from Jize to Julu, and in the end, Hauge had to choose to give up the seriously wounded and some of the slower troops again, and led the main force to break through at high speed.

During this period, there is nothing to elaborate on the specific battle situation - it is nothing more than that after the previous battle of Neihuang, although Hauge lost 100,000 soldiers, he still had 100,000 garrisons in Handan, Daimyo and other places did not participate in the decisive battle of Neihuang, these troops were filled in the line, and their mobility was not very good.

However, Hauge wanted to abandon Handan and return to the north, and these second-line troops lacked horses, and the march must have been relatively slow, which slowed down the speed of the whole army's joint action.

Now that he is being attacked by Zhang Huangyan and Wu Sangui, he has no choice but to "these slow-moving troops are not given away in vain and let them surrender to the enemy as Han people, it is better to consume them on the field battlefield of Julu, so that Zhang Huangyan Han people kill more Han people, and the Manchu people can earn a little more and reduce the pressure in the future."

Therefore, in this battle of Julu, Haoge changed the previous battle of Neihuang to make the main force of the Manchurian Eight Banners desperate and hard-fought posture, and almost did not use the Manchurian cavalry again, all of which were urging the Green Battalion and the Ming army to waste their lives, including the previous consumption with Wu Sangui and Hao Shaoqi.

It's a pity that the battle has reached this point, and those second-line defense line green battalions who did not participate in the Neihuang Battle will not really wait for death, so their morale is extremely low.

At the beginning, I fought with Wu Sangui for a few days, relying on my outnumbered enemies, and I could still consume to the death, but after the main force of the Ming army sent by Zhang Huangyan arrived, only two days, the troops collapsed one after another.

Of the 78,000 cannon fodder troops of the Qing army, which was dominated by the second-line green battalion, only 20,000 or 30,000 were killed or wounded by him, and the rest either fled or surrendered.

Before the start of this round of battles, Haoge brought a Qing army of 2780,000 people, and only 260,000 were left before the decisive battle of Neihuang.

After the decisive battle of Neihuang, there were only about 170,000 left. After consuming those days with Wu Sangui, there are still 150,000 or 60,000 left.

In the end, Zhang Huangyan sent the main force of the Ming army to catch up again, and after the siege and annihilation of the giant deer, Haoge's total strength was finally sharply reduced to more than 80,000.

In other words, in the three months beginning in October, Hauge lost 200,000 horses, of which 30,000 were Manchus, 20,000 Mongols, and 150,000 Han Chinese.

When a military regime is finally on the verge of collapse, it weakens so quickly, like an avalanche.

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Although the Han green battalions were eventually sent away by Hauge, in the process, these green battalions still fulfilled the task of delaying time very well.

After all, even if 100,000 pigs are caught by the Ming army, it will take a long time. These green battalions are also uneven in people's hearts, and they cannot achieve the surrender of tens of thousands of people in a neat and unified formation, and they all surrender piecemeal after being defeated, and they cannot drag the Ming army for ten days and half a month.

In addition, the Ming army wanted to attack and recover the counties of Hebei one by one, and when the rule was rebuilt, there would be chaos, and countless bandits and bandits would emerge, many of which were the old departments of the original green camp that survived after the collapse.

Some cities also have Qing troops stubbornly defended, and it will take some time to conquer.

Therefore, the advance of the Ming army will be very slow, and it will need to be steadily cleared of the rear and flanks, and it is destined to be unable to rush to Beijing before the end of the fifth year of Longwu.

The seventeenth of the lunar month, the Ming army Kejulu, the twenty-fifth of the lunar month, Keji County, the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, and the Hengshui.

In this chaotic situation, the wheel of history finally quietly turned into the first month of the sixth year of Longwu.

At the beginning of the first month, the Ming army divided into joint attacks and began to encroach on the two prefectures of Baoding and Hejian, which were already two state capitals bordering Shuntianfu, where Beijing was located.

According to the advance speed of the Ming army, the Lantern Festival of the sixth year of Longwu can be celebrated in Baoding City at the earliest, and the two prefectures can be overcome in the second half of the first month at the latest.

At the same time, Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Zhenhai on the sea route, also blossomed in many ways and opened up another battlefield. A few days before the Lantern Festival, the Tianjin Wei armed logged in, first captured Dagukou, and then went straight to Tianjin Sanwei.

Seeing that the situation of the Ming army from all walks of life is very good, Zhu Shuren, who is coordinating the overall situation in the rear, will certainly not miss this opportunity to establish prestige. In the two decisive battles in Neihuang County and Julu County before, he did not personally participate in the command.

But in the end, he must have personally participated in the siege of Beijing, as well as the entry ceremony, so as not to shock the achievements of his subordinate generals.

This is also to protect his subordinates and get a long-term wealth of the monarch and the minister.

Therefore, from the third day of the first month of the sixth year of Longwu, after spending the New Year in Daimyo County, Zhu Shuren once again personally led the guards to the north to inspect the superintendents. Yu arrived at Baoding Mansion on the Lantern Festival, and caught up with the siege of Baoding City in person.

The morale of the Ming army is like a rainbow, the heavy artillery hedgehog is gathered, and under the sound of a hundred cannons, it is estimated that Baoding City will not last for a few days.

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While the Ming army was advancing rapidly, Hauge hurried back to Beijing at the end of the previous year, but this New Year was extremely tormenting.

But he still has to make some difficult decisions, some decisions that are destined to "lose power and humiliate the country".

For example, abandon Beijing.

At this point, not only Haoge knew in his heart, but in fact, other Manchu high-level officials also knew that Beijing would definitely not be able to defend it, and it would be meaningless to defend it, and it would only make tens of thousands of Manchu elites be killed by the Ming army's urns, and it was better to flee to the prairie or the white mountains and black water jungles in order to survive.

But who will make the decision to abandon Beijing?

Haoge originally planned to dispose of the traitorous Empress Bumu Butai after returning to Beijing, but now he has to face a problem: if he disposes of the traitorous Empress Bumu Butai, but does not abolish the little emperor Fulin and let him ascend the throne, then he must be worried about whether the emperor will detonate at any time and trouble him for the revenge of killing his mother.

However, if the little emperor is eliminated, and after he ascends the throne, his first order is to abandon Beijing and flee from the customs, then his ruling prestige will be completely lost.

After thinking about it, Haoge could only find Hong Chengchou, the representative of the Han official, again, and let him think of a way - it is said that this Hong Chengchou is also fateful, on the eve of the Battle of Neihuang, he sent a message to Zhang Huangyan, but after a month, he has not been put on a goof, and Haoge does not know that it is the military plane leaked by him and Zu Dashou, and he is still looking for Hong Chengchou to ask for a plan.

Hong Chengchou is also living like a year, this kind of day when he may be killed at any time, he doesn't want to live at all, and when asked by Haoge, he casually broke the jar and planned it:

It is better to stay with the little emperor, give up the will of Beijing, and wait until he reaches the outside of the pass, and then slowly figure it out.

Hauge thought about it, but there was no better way, so he grabbed Hong Chengchou and asked the last key point: "When Dolgon was alive, he failed to help the Qing Dynasty to hold the territory, and since the regency of Lone, he has not been able to do the same. Now, why should the army still obey Lone's orders when they withdraw from the pass? ”

Hong Chengchou was silent, unable to answer the question.

Hauge said to himself: "Since the city of Beijing is about to be abandoned, Lone ordered to allow the Manchurians to plunder, and everyone has to be rich, can the children of the Eight Banners be determined to die to Lone?" At least for a year and a half. ”

Hong Chengchou was shocked: "Lord Wang...... In this Beijing city, there are hundreds of thousands of living beings, all of whom are well-dressed people, and when my Qing Dynasty royal master arrived, none of the Beijing scholars resisted, but they were happy and obedient, how could they ...... This is going to completely lose the hearts of the people in the world! ”

Hauge: "Don't you have two hearts?" What about the hearts of the Han people who lost the world, Lone was going to give up completely! ”

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Under Haoge's insistence, in the first month of the sixth year of Longwu, several changes occurred in Beijing.

First of all, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Haoge finally claimed to have found evidence in the form of turning over old accounts, saying that the first emperor Zhengmu Zhezhe, who died last year, was also the empress dowager, was poisoned and killed by his niece, the pseudo-queen Bumu Butai.

The Beijing court was in turmoil for a while, and the flags were forced to face infighting again. However, Hauge hinted at the powerful generals of each banner, saying that it was the traitorous Bumu Butai who controlled the young master, and was reluctant to let the concubine Dolgon enter the customs with the fruits of the decision, so he wanted everyone to be buried with Beijing City.

Only when the adulterous queen dies will the young master give up Beijing and return to Guanwai.

For the sake of everyone's life, the real power generals of several major banners all chose to stand on Hauge's side. And Prince Zheng Zilharang, at this moment, was also framed by Haoge, saying that he was also the original lord who entered the customs and the party attached to Dolgon in order to get rich, and now he encourages the traitor Bumu Butai to stick to it, and he also has a share-

Otherwise, Bumu Butai is a female streamer, and there is no source of information from the foreign court, so it is impossible to make decisions by herself, even if the intention of the decision is spontaneous, she has to consult with the auxiliary ministers of the foreign court, and get the approval of the foreign court, so as to strengthen her confidence in doing so.

In Beijing, the last infighting finally took place.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, a bloody battle broke out again in the palace, Bumu Butai and Zilharang were executed, and thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners were killed and wounded.

On the eleventh day of the first month, Haoge, in the name of the little emperor Fulin, ordered all the armies in the capital to retreat north to Guanwai, and the money and grain from the government treasury were shipped immediately, and at the same time, the peripheral cannon fodder armies withstood the Ming army to delay time. After all, the Ming army is still separated by two prefectures, and it is impossible to fly over.

After the valuables such as gold, silver, silk and satin from the treasury were transported out of the capital, the remaining heavy money and grain were transported slowly, and Haoge estimated that he would not be able to transport them all. I plan to use all the limited transportation capacity on the blade, more gold, silver, jewelry, and silk, and less copper money and grain.

Now that the treasury has run out of gold, silver and jewelry, let's start looking for folk gold, silver and jewelry.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, Haoge ordered the remaining Manchurian troops to plunder, and the city of Beijing did not seal the knife for three days, and at the same time, Tianjin, Baoding Hejian and other places can also plunder the grass valley at will.

Xuanfu, Yanqing, Huailai and other places that are also under the control of the Qing army are also dealt with in the same way, especially the rich businessmen who want to rob Zhangjiakou -

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the "Eight Locust Merchants" in Zhangjiakou and Datong, that is, the traitor merchants who helped the Manchus to smuggle contraband materials and help the Manchus get steel, gunpowder and other materials during the reign of the Ming Dynasty, had already been whitewashed and made public. For example, the famous Jin merchant Fan Yongdou family.

At that time, the Qing court also felt that it had already sat firmly in the country, so there was no need to hide the identity of the traitors who funded them, and they should be given plaques and names to glorify their ancestors.

Who knows that now that the Ming army has pushed back, the identities of these traitors have been exposed, and if they stay in the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely be liquidated by the Ming Court and confiscated their family property, and it is impossible for the Qing court to use these traitors who have been exposed to sell salt, iron and gunpowder in the future.

Since these people have completely lost their use value and use possibility, it is better for the Ming army to rob the house than for the Qing army to rob it themselves.

As for the complete loss of the hearts of the Han people because of this, and let the Han people know that the Manchus will even kill their own lackeys to eat meat, so that no one will dare to work for the Tartars in the future, this is no longer something that Haoge needs to consider.

What he wants now is to maximize the benefits in the last hammer deal! No more business!

In game theory terms, this is a one-time game, not a repeat game.

As a result, Fan Yongdou and other eight Jin merchant families can be regarded as having poured blood mold for eight lifetimes. Finally, he secretly became a traitor to make profits and earn tens of millions of family fortunes, and he had just whitewashed his identity and glorified his ancestors for six years, but when he met his master, he wanted to retreat outside the border, and directly arrested all the eight Jin merchant families, looted all the family property, and killed him directly if he dared to resist.

The only humanity that Haoge retains is that he did not directly order the physical extermination of the Eight Great Jin Shang Families, all he wanted was to snatch the gold, silver, jewelry, silk and tea, and did not want their lives.

The lives of these eight families will be left to Wu Sangui and Jiang Jiu's Shanxi Ming Army, and when they recover Datong, Zhangjiakou and other places in the future, they will come to investigate and kill them.

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Regardless of the news of abandoning the city of Beijing, indiscriminately burning and looting, and leaving to get a vote, of course, Haoge was soon learned by the Ming army.

The news reached Baoding, two days after the Lantern Festival.

After Zhu Shuren learned about it, he didn't care about breaking through Baoding and Tianjin first, and directly asked Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen to chase north with most of the main cavalry of the Ming army, so as to expel the Qing army as soon as possible and reduce losses.

Although the cavalry strength of Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen was not enough to compete with all the remaining main forces of the Manchurians, Zhu Shuren knew very well that Haoge had begun to retreat in batches and would not leave all the soldiers behind to wait for the transportation of goods.

The pursuit of Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen is impossible to hit or even bite Haoge's absolute main force.

Under the rapid advance of the Ming army regardless of logistics, three more days later, on the twentieth day of the first month, the cavalry vanguard of the Ming army finally arrived at the city of Beijing. On the 22nd, the complete encirclement of all gates in Beijing was finally completed.

The Qing army had thousands of Manchurian cavalry and some second-line Manchurian strongmen, because the Ming army advanced too fast, and did not have time to withdraw from the city of Beijing, and was surrounded in the city - in fact, these people are too greedy, they were assigned the task of robbery by Haoge, they always wanted to take a little more, grab a few more days, and felt that before the Ming army broke through Baoding, it would not bypass Baoding and go north, so it was not a good time to retreat.

Someone will always die of greed, and that's normal.

They carried out the slaughter and looting of innocent Han Chinese in Beijing, and they will naturally be punished at this moment. Although the Ming army only had cavalry and could not attack the city, the remnants of the Han people who had been killed for seven or eight days in the city directly rose up to resist, snatched the city gate to welcome Wang Shi, and led the way for Wang Shi to kill the Manchu people who plundered in the city.

In the end, the battle of Beijing broke out unexpectedly in a posture of "not being able to escape", and the Ming army broke the city on the second day of the siege, killing tens of thousands of Manchurian soldiers, strong men, civilians who participated in the looting, and several times the number of family members. It can be regarded as a little revenge for the hundreds of thousands of Han people who were innocently killed in Beijing.

Three days after the city was broken, on the twenty-sixth day of the first month, the battles in Baoding and Tianjin in the south had also ended. After Zhu Shuren learned of the situation, he brought thousands of cavalry guards, and Zhang Huangyan and others rushed to Beijing in person to prepare for the military parade into the city.