Xijing fell, and Wu Zhou's power in Shaanxi was not far off, not to mention that it was eliminated.

With the exception of Hanzhong Prefecture, which was Wu Sangui's base, the state capitals sent envoys to submit a surrender table to Zhang Huangyan in Xi'an, expressing their willingness to submit to the Xia Dynasty.

Wu Guogui of Hanzhong Mansion became a lone army, he directly gave up northern Sichuan, collected all the troops back, and divided troops in the Hanzhong border of Changguan, Baitu Pass, Chaijia Pass, Maling Pass, Yangping Pass, Qipan Pass, Qingshi Pass, Yanchang Pass and other passes to garrison, strengthen the city defense, and it is clear that it will be defended.

"I have been fighting with Your Majesty since I joined the army in Liaodong, and Your Majesty has treated me with great kindness, so when the country is in danger, how can I turn my back on Your Majesty and grovel to the Xia thief?"

He said to his henchmen and the officials up and down the Hanzhong, and when it came to emotion, he directly drew his sword and cut off the table, pointed to the table with a broken foot, and said to everyone: "If anyone dares to say anything about surrender again, there is such a case!"

Looking at the table case that was chopped off and a corner was missing, the onlookers couldn't help but shudder, so they were dispelled from the idea of surrendering.

Although Wu Guogui made up his mind to defend Hanzhong, the Xia army had gained the upper hand, and the Zhou army was gradually uprooted in the key passes in northern Sichuan, and northern Sichuan finally fell into the hands of the Xia army.

At the same time, Zhang Mingzhen also deployed troops and horses, and ordered Ma Jinzhong, Ma Weixing, and Ma Bao to lead the army to attack Hanzhong, and cooperate with Su Dingyuan in northern Sichuan to completely eliminate Wu Guogui, a die-hard force of Wu Zhou.

At the same time, in order to prevent Wu Sangui in Shanxi from counterattacking, he ordered Anyang generals Liu Shixun, Danghu Bo Ruan Jin and his brother Ruan Mei and eldest son Ruan Jun to lead their troops east into Chaoyi and deploy defenses in the west of the river.

However, Wu Sangui obviously did not lose his mind because his crown prince and queen were captured alive by the Xia army, and attacked Shaanxi desperately, he knew that the Xia army was strong and could not be matched by himself.

In order to close the gap in strength between the two sides, he sent envoys north to the desert, intending to hire the Mongol tribes to fight for him with the gold, silver and jewels plundered in Beiping.

At this time, the desert had already become chaotic again due to the gradual loss of control of the Qing court in the area, and the Mongol tribes attacked each other, and sharpened their knives for the coming winter, preparing to return to their old business and plunder the Han people to supplement themselves.

Wu Sangui didn't care if he would become the next Shi Jingjiao, and the envoy he sent soon contacted several Mongolian tribes, who happily accepted the gift money of the envoy of the Zhou Dynasty, and then mobilized the men in the tribe, and with the envoy assembled in the north of the Great Wall, preparing to attack from Yulin Town and Ningxia Town, and contain the Xia army.

In the middle of October, the Mongol cavalry marched southward, brazenly crossed the line of the Great Wall, and attacked Ningxiawei and Yulinwei, and the wolf smoke rose everywhere in the border passes, and the Mongols wantonly burned and looted in the Great Wall, burned down houses, trampled on acres of fields, and echoed the fierce laughter of the Mongols and the cries of the Han people in the sky-high fire.

Ningxia Wei was originally stationed with tens of thousands of brave and warlike border troops, but in the eighth year of Shunzhi, after the imperial court transferred Liu Fangming, the chief soldier of Ningxia, to the south to aid Jiangning, there was a shortage of major generals here, and the defense was empty.

Lacking the protection of elite soldiers, Ningxia Weige Fort could only fight on its own, clear the wall, gather all the people into the city, and resist the attack of the Mongol cavalry with a strong castle.

It was also in order to defend their families and property, the people spontaneously took up arms and walked to the city, and held on with the few remaining officers and soldiers.

Hearing that the Mongolian cavalry Koubian, although the northern part of Shaanxi had not been completely controlled at this time, Zhang Mingzhen still did not want the people of Shaanxi to be poisoned.

He allocated the only remaining thousands of soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in Xi'an to the Pingyi Hou Zhou Hezhi, and ordered the town's general soldier Ma Tai to assist, and the army went north to resist the Mongol cavalry.

After these soldiers and horses were transferred, there were only hundreds of personal soldiers left in Xi'an City to guard Zhang Mingzhen, and if there were the remnants of Wu Zhou's forces at this time, Zhang Mingzhen's safety would be difficult to say.

However, fortunately, Wu Zhou did not gain much popular support in Shaanxi, and the so-called remnant forces are not at present

Exist.

He looked at the urgent documents sent by Ningxia and Yulin, and also had a plan in his heart, ordering someone to bypass Hanzhong Mansion with a fast horse and whip it to the hands of Su Dingyuan, the governor of the three provinces.

He knew that Su Dingyuan would definitely understand what he meant.

Regardless of whether Su Dingyuan would understand what he meant, in just a few days, the NMG cavalry broke through many castles, killed all the men inside, and plundered all the women.

These Mongol cavalry also knew the horror of the Xia army, so they did not continue to penetrate deep into Shaanxi after crossing the Great Wall as agreed with Wu Sangui, but only plundered in the northern part of Shaanxi.

When Wu Sangui heard the movements of the Mongol cavalry, he was furious and scolded these barbarians for their treachery, but at this time he had already led almost all the main forces to the east of the river, and he was ready to send arrows.

In late October, Wu Sangui personally led the army to Puzhou, and set up camp between Puzhou and Daqing Pass, and the main army he led this time had about 50,000 soldiers, and the external army was known as 100,000 troops.

Naturally, this is to include the people and strong men he forcibly recruited in Shanxi, no matter how much water there is in the 100,000 army, at least the Zhou army camp is continuous for several miles, and there is no end in sight.

And the strength of the Xia army separated by a water from them is extremely small, Zhang Mingzhen's soldiers and horses are mainly the first town composed of more than 10,000 soldiers he brought from Zhoushan, the first town has lost a lot of casualties since the southern and northern wars, and there are also supplements, and the strength is only maintained at more than 15,000 people.

This time, the Xia army stationed in Chaoyi only had more than 10,000 men, and their only advantage may be the sharpness of artillery.

This was enough to deter the Zhou army on the other side of the river.

On the twenty-seventh day of October, Wu Sangui, dressed in armor, ascended to the head of Daqing Pass, and looked at the Xia army camp on the other side of the river through the wide turbid Yellow River.

What annoyed him the most was that the ferries connecting the two sides of the strait, including the famous Pujin Ferry, were burned by the Xia army in advance, and the boats in this section of the river basin were also requisitioned by the Xia army, so the Zhou army could only collect boats from further upstream, and the efficiency of crossing the river was seriously reduced.

The rolling Yellow River has become a powerful helper for the Xia army, whether Wu Sangui wants to take Shaanxi directly, or go south to Henan, the Yellow River is a moat that he cannot bypass.

It's not that he didn't think about going south to Henan and changing the battlefield, but the danger of going south to Henan is too high, and it is very likely that tens of thousands of troops will be buried if he is not careful, if he is still in his twenties and young and vigorous, it is very likely that he will take action, but now he is old and has lost the sharpness and courage to gamble.

Therefore, he chose a more secure Shaanxi, even if he couldn't recover Shaanxi, he would escape all the way west from Gansu Town and go to the vast Western Regions to fight for a life.

Another point, seeing that the temperature is gradually decreasing, the arrival of cold winter is not far away, once it enters winter, the Yellow River freezes, even if the Xia army can keep them in winter, then the turbid Yellow River in front of him will not be able to stop his pace.