Wu Sangui's imperial conquest did not bring good development to the declining war situation.

Although he went west with a will for revenge this time and vowed to recover Xijing and save his queen and crown prince, whether it was a military officer or a Jindi official, they had already realized that Wu Zhou, the big ship that had just set sail, had leaked in many places, was crumbling, and could sink at any time.

In this case, because of Wu Sangui's excellent ability to govern the army and his ability to control the army for many years, as well as generous rewards, the officers and men in the army can still be loyal to him and will not desert.

But he can't control the officials in Shanxi, most of the officials in those places are directly appointed by the former Qing Dynasty who surrendered, and they don't have much loyalty to him, so Wu Sangui knows that the officials everywhere are detached from him, but he can't do anything, so he can only send it to the battlefield to beat the Xia army to enhance his prestige and the confidence of his subordinates in him.

Although he knew it, the Yellow River was still in danger, so he could only patiently search for ships and try to build a pontoon bridge upstream so that the army could cross the Yellow River.

While Wu Sangui was facing a predicament, the Xia army's offensive against Hanzhong was also in full swing, especially in northern Sichuan, after Zhang Mingzhen ordered someone to send a Ningxia emergency report to Su Dingyuan, Su Dingyuan instantly understood what he meant.

He ordered this urgent report to be sent to Liu Fangming, the general soldier of Ningxia who personally supervised the battle on the front line, and the latter immediately became anxious after opening the emergency report and checking it in detail.

Not to mention him, the wives and children of these Ningxia sons under his command are also in Ningxia Town, and now the Mongols are wreaking havoc in Ningxia Town, and their wives and children are in danger at any time, but they are stopped thousands of miles away in Hanzhong and cannot move forward half a step, how can they not be worried and anxious?

However, this also gave him an inspiration, and he went to the front line of the siege in person, told all the soldiers about the looting of his hometown by the Mongol cavalry, and then stood on a stone, raised his saber, and shouted:

"The Mongol Tatars are plundering our hometown, and our wives and children may be poisoned at any time, but that damned Wu thief has been resisting stubbornly, blocking our way back to our hometown in the north, and the brothers will kill with me, conquer Hanzhong, return to Ningxia Town, and defend the country!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The Ningxia children in the army have been away from their hometowns for a long time, and they are always thinking about their families, and now they hear that their hometown is actually being plundered by the Mongols, and they are suddenly angry and morale.

Especially when Liu Fangming's own heavy armor and threw themselves into the front line of the siege, their morale and fighting spirit were once again mobilized to the highest peak, and these Ningxia soldiers roared and followed the general army to launch a fierce attack on the pass in front of them.

Perhaps it was indeed homesickness, or perhaps it was Liu Fang's role as a pioneer who played an inspiring role, and it took less than two days for the Ningxia army to conquer the Qipan Pass and Yanchang Pass for which they were responsible.

When the banner of the Xia army was planted on the Qipan Pass, Liu Fangming immediately sent the good news to Su Dingyuan, who was sitting in Guangyuan, and without any repair, he led the army to the north and went straight to Ningqiang Prefecture in the north of Qipanguan.

Although the Zhou army in Ningqiang Prefecture resisted stubbornly, it was still forcibly conquered by the Xia army in the middle of the night of the same day, and Liu Fangming strengthened the city defense and repaired the soldiers and horses after capturing this place, intending to use it as a stronghold to march into Hanzhong

On the night of the fall of Qipanguan, Wu Guogui learned the news, he only felt that the general trend was coming, the Xia army had broken through the defense of the pass and entered the Hanzhong Basin, with the only remaining more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, how should he resist the homesick Ningxia army?

Although he knew that he could not turn the tide, Wu Guogui still decided to stick to Hanzhong Mansion until the last moment, he transferred all his troops back to Hanzhong Mansion City, strengthened the city defense before the arrival of the Xia army, built city defense equipment, and shouted the slogan of swearing to survive with Han ***.

But the defenders of Hanzhong are not all as loyal to Wu Sangui as he is, in the Xia army captured Ningqiang Prefecture, to Hanzhong to kill this period of time, the Hanzhong defenders from time to time will appear desertion, some persuasion to surrender of the official Zuo also by Wu Guogui head to show the public, the head of the head hung at the head of the city, to deter others.

At the beginning of November, Liu Fang's troops of the Xia army came to the city of Hanzhong, and immediately built a siege camp outside the city, waiting for the rocket artillery transferred by Su Dingyuan from Guangyuan and the addition of friendly troops.

During this period, Liu Fangming also organized many sieges of Hanzhong Fucheng, Hanzhong Fu

The city walls were high and strong, and the Xia army could not attack them several times, and it was not until November 10 that the rocket artillery was sent along with more artillery that Liu Fangming finally began to storm it.

With the support of rocket artillery and artillery, the defenders of Hanzhong suffered heavy casualties, and the Xia army broke under the cover of artillery, buried a large amount of gunpowder under the city wall, ignited and detonated, and blew down many city walls.

Subsequently, the Xia army stepped on the ruins of the city wall and entered the city, and fell into bloody hand-to-hand combat with the Hanzhong defenders, who were already demoralized, and were defeated and retreated under the onslaught of the Xia army.

In order to defend the city, Wu Guogui was draped all over his body and personally took his own soldiers to join the battle group, intending to inspire other soldiers by taking the lead, but this did not play a big role.

The battle lasted until the afternoon, the Zhou army in the city was all defeated, and Wu Guogui's body was also dug out of the corpse pile after the battle, he had many hideous wounds on his body, but his right hand was still holding his saber, and the soldiers in charge of cleaning the battlefield wanted to pull out the saber, but several attempts could not do it.

After the Xia army conquered Hanzhong, the states and counties in Hanzhong naturally had no intention of resisting, and submitted a surrender table to Fucheng, and all passes also opened the city to surrender, and let the Xia army enter the pass to take over.

Hanzhong was pacified, and with the permission of Su Dingyuan, Liu Fangming led the homesick Ningxia army north to return to his homeland, one is to determine the safety of his hometown, and the other is to fill the gap in the lack of troops on the front line of the Great Wall in northern Shaanxi.

Sanma, who was ordered to attack Hanzhong, also returned to Xi'an and rushed to Hexi to improve the military strength of the Xia army in Hexi to resist Wu Sangui's westward advance.

In northern Shaanxi, the Mongolian cavalry hired by Wu Sangui still did not have the idea of continuing to go south, and after they learned that the Xia army had sent troops to the north, they had no contract spirit at all, and directly escaped from the Great Wall after grabbing a handful.

By the time Zhou Hezhi, the Marquis of Pingyi, and Ma Tai, the chief soldier of Zhongzhen, led their troops to Ningxiawei, it had become a blank land, the fields cultivated on both sides of the Yellow River had been trampled by horses, the villages had been burned to the ground, and the corpses of the killed people who had not had time to escape could be seen on the roadside from time to time.

The further north they went, the more severely the Mongol cavalry was destroyed, and even a number of fortified castles were conquered by the Mongols, and the people inside were either slaughtered or plundered, as well as everything that could be taken with them, such as money, food, and so on.

The brutal Mongol cavalry set fire to the city before leaving, and by the time the Xia army arrived, the castle had been burned to the ground, and even the people who had died inside were also burned to char.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Xia army who went north to defend against the enemy all bit their silver teeth, they felt outrageous for the atrocities of the Mongols, and they wanted to avenge the people immediately.