On the second day of the eighth month, the Mongol cavalry, the vanguard of the Xia army, passed through Zhuozhou and met the Wu army rangers wandering on the periphery, and several skirmishes broke out between the two sides.

The Wu army rangers were not the world-famous Guanning iron cavalry, but just ordinary cavalry trained by Wu Sangui in Shaanxi, so in the battle with the Mongol cavalry, these Wu army rangers quickly fell into disadvantage and fled back to Beijing in a hurry.

They fled back to Beijing and brought the news of the Xia cavalry to Wu Sangui, which was the sixth day of Wu's plunder, and it took three days to travel from Zhuozhou to Beijing.

In order to avoid being entangled by the Xia army, Wu Sangui hurriedly gathered the chaotic army in the city and prepared to evacuate the Beijing division.

But after six days of looting, the Wu army's military discipline had long since lost its restraints, and most of them were unwilling to stop this unfettered indulgence, so they ignored the orders of the army and continued to roam the streets, looking for targets to attack.

In a whole day, the rebel army in the city actually only collected less than half of the soldiers and horses, which made Wu Sangui angry in his heart, he ordered his own soldiers and Guanning iron cavalry to patrol the streets, drive away those wandering soldiers, and strictly ordered the generals of all departments to collect the soldiers and horses, if there are those who do not obey the military order, they will be beheaded.

As soon as this order was issued, the efficiency of the army's collection was significantly improved, although there were still some rebellious soldiers who did not obey the military order, but they were soon beheaded by the personal soldiers of the gendarmerie and the Guanning iron cavalry, and it was not until the fourth day of the first month of August that the Wu army finally gathered the soldiers and horses, and drove away from the Beijing division with the large bags and dozens of large vehicles that had been looted in the past six or seven days.

Before leaving, Wu Sangui looked at the majestic Forbidden City, unwilling to leave it to the Xia army, and ordered the city to be set on fire.

This news was quickly sent to Su Ci, the main general of the Xia army, and Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Shandong, Zhang Huangyan learned that Wu Sangui actually did the thing that Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, and his heart was angry and hateful, he almost gritted a mouthful of silver teeth, and ordered the forward Su Ci to rush to Beijing to extinguish the fire.

After receiving the order, Su Ci did not dare to slack off, and the starry night march arrived at the south of the Beijing division the next day, entered the wide open Yongding Gate and other southern city gates, and extinguished the fire in the city together with the panicked people in the city.

It was not until two days later that the fire in Beijing was finally extinguished, some palaces in the Forbidden City were burned down and destroyed, and many houses in the inner and outer cities were also turned into white ground, and tens of thousands of people were affected by the fire, or their families were destroyed and displaced.

Su Ci rode his horse on the street, his eyes were full of people with sad faces, and his ears were full of people's cries of sorrow, and charred corpses were neatly placed on both sides of the street, and the atmosphere of sadness permeated the city.

"Wu Sangui ......"

Su Ci looked at this scene, his heart was angry, his hands holding the reins were clenched into fists, and his muscles were bursting up, if Wu Sangui was in front of him, he would definitely draw a knife and break his body into thousands of pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart.

However, the top priority now is to appease the people in the capital and restore order in the city, so Wu Sangui can only let it go for the time being.

Two days later, Zhang Huangyan personally led the army into the Beijing Division, recovering the prefectures and counties around the Beijing Division, that Wu Sangui had already led the army through Changping, Juyong Pass, fled to Xuanfu Town, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Xia army, he also left some soldiers and horses to guard the Juyong Pass.

However, the Xia army did not pursue, and after Zhang Huangyan was stationed in Beijing, he immediately played to Su Yan, reported the victory to the imperial court, and spread the news to all parts of the northern Zhili, asking all places to be attached to the imperial court.

When the news of the occupation of the Jingshi by the Xia army spread throughout Beizhili, the Wu army Wang Ping's domain had already escaped Wang Yi's obstruction and returned to the territory of Zhangde Mansion.

Back in time to the night when Wang Yi's troops just appeared behind the Wu army, in order to defeat Wang Yi, Wang Pingfan was able to concentrate his forces to attack Jun County, and mobilized the cavalry in the army to launch a night attack on the Xia army that night.

But Wang Yi had already prepared, and after the Wu cavalry rushed into the camp, they were immediately hit by intensive firepower, and the Xia army's bird guns and bows and crossbows were fired in turn, and the Wu army's Guanning iron cavalry suffered many losses and could only retreat.

In the next few days, Wang Pingfan, who was unwilling to fail, fought several battles with Wang Yi one after another, and the two armies fought back and forth, on par, although the Wu army had elite Guanning iron cavalry, but still could not shake the Xia army's infantry phalanx, and the two sides reached a stalemate.

But Wang Yi

If the capital continues to be consumed, he can get material supplies from the imperial court at any time, but Wang Pingfan does not consume energy, he goes out of Shanxi alone, there is no stable material supply line, and the army is prone to chaos after a long time.

Seeing that Wang Yi could not be defeated, Wang Pingfan had to decide to temporarily withdraw to Zhangde Mansion, one night, he pretended to attack the camp, but in fact broke through separately, the attention of the Xia army was all on the enemy army attacking the camp, and it was completely uninteresting to see that the Wu army was breaking through, and when they found out, half of the Wu army had successfully broken through.

But at this time, the night was dark and the wind was high, and Wang Yi did not dare to pursue rashly, for fear that as soon as he left the camp and appeared on the flat ground, he would be charged by the Wu army's Guanning iron cavalry, so he had to watch the Wu army break through.

After withdrawing to Zhangde Mansion, Wang Pingfan also learned the news that Wu Sangui had abandoned the Beijing Division, and he knew that he had no need to continue to hold on to Zhangde Mansion, so he resolutely withdrew westward to Shanxi.

Although the town of Xuanfu was still under the control of the Wu army, Zhang Huangyan also temporarily decided to focus on the east of Shuntianfu first, intending to recapture the important town of Shanhaiguan first.

As soon as Shanhaiguan was not in the hands of the Xia army, it might be threatened by the Qing army one day, so after stabilizing the situation in Shuntianfu and the surrounding prefectures and counties, Zhang Huangyan sat in Shuntianfu and ordered Su Ci to lead the army eastward to attack Shanhaiguan.

In addition, Zhang Huangyan did not intend to let Xu Tianpet go after losing the battle, he directly put Xu Tianpet in prison and ordered him to be escorted back to Jiangning for trial.

If he just suffered a defeat and would not be severely punished, but this was the first defeat after the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, and this was the first time he was given to Xu Tianzhong, how could he do it without a heavy punishment?

On the other hand, because of the abandonment of some post stations along the way, it was not until ten days later that Zhang Huangyan's good news was finally sent to Jiangning by fast horses.

Although Shuntianfu is no longer the capital of the dynasty, its importance is still indescribable, so the government and the opposition are all happy, and Su Yan also decided to reward Zhang Huangyan and the generals who participated in the war.

However, before that, he first changed Shuntianfu to Beiping Mansion, abolished Beizhili, renamed Hebei Buzheng Envoy, and a group of local officials sent from the south to supplement.

Considering that the imperial city in Beiping Mansion still existed and was not completely burned, he still set Beiping Mansion as the accompanying capital, so that he could personally sit on the front line when attacking the Qing court and Mongolia in the future.

Subsequently, he began to think about how to give the reward, and after some discussion in the court, Su Yan finally issued an order, Jin Zhang Huangyan as the Duke of Ning Guo (Su Yan promoted him from earl to marquis when he ascended the throne), awarded the crown prince and prince, and transferred back to Jiangning to serve as a Beijing official.

His position was replaced by Su Ci, and the post of governor of Shandong was also changed to the governor of Hebei and Shanxi provinces, with the title of right attendant of the military department, and the prime minister of military affairs in Hebei and Shanxi.

The reason why Zhang Huangyan was transferred back from the front line was not a product of political struggle, but that Su Yan had long wanted to transfer Zhang Huangyan back, after all, his own position was the secretary of the military department, and it was always not good to let Gu Yanwu take charge of the military department.

In addition, Yang Chengzu, the Bo of Jiading, who had been following the Northern Expedition, was awarded the command of Hebei, and Zhang Tianlu, the former governor of Zhejiang, was awarded the command of Shandong.

The titles of the two have not changed, and Zhang Tianlu, who does not have a title, still does not - after the establishment of the dynasty, the granting of titles must be carefully considered, and they can no longer be indiscriminately sealed like Nanming.

Moreover, for some unworthy princes in the west, Su Yan was also secretly ready to find someone who would almost degrade them all.