Under the attack of the Manchu cavalry on both sides, the situation was quickly reversed, and the Dashun army of the various fronts on the west side of Shanhaiguan was simply difficult to parry, as in the original history, and the army was defeated like a mountain.

In fact, until the two white flags of Azig and Duoduo rushed out, Li Zicheng thought that the Tartars were just a strengthened version of the trapping, nothing more than soldiers, cavalry armor, better weapons and equipment, firearms, and soldiers were more courageous.

You must know that when the Dashun army was in Shaanxi last year, it repelled the Mongols who came to plunder Qinghai, Gansu and Hetao more than once, and Li Zicheng did not take them seriously at all.

But the truth is far beyond his expectations, the cavalry of the Tartars is much stronger than the rumors, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen also boasted to him about how strong he is two days ago, the Tartars are actually vulnerable, but Chongzhen commanded indiscriminately, and those eunuchs of the prison army bullied others and embezzled food and wages, which led to the fact that every time the Tartars had an opportunity.

Although Li Zicheng did not fully believe their words, because the process of capturing the capital was too smooth and he had already occupied the entire north, he was full of pride in his heart, and he could not help but breed pride.

Now, he is paying the price for his pride and underestimating the enemy, Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang's two main forces of the Dashun Army, more than 40,000 men and horses are retreating, and the losses are quite heavy.

However, with the addition of Liu Xiyao and He Jin to the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield soon changed a lot.

Liu Xiyao's 7,000 men and horses, like a sharp knife pierced into the Manchu cavalry formation, with his handsome banner as a guide, this strong Shun army was invincible, and the formation of the Manchu heavy armor soldiers who dismounted and fought on foot was thrown into chaos, and Liu Zongmin's department only then got a little respite, and the soldiers and horses immediately shrank backwards.

The 8,000 soldiers and horses led by He Jin also quickly entered the siege and temporarily stopped the offensive of the Manchu Eight Banners.

The two sides kept exchanging deaths, Jin Ge collided, heavy objects fell to the ground, war horses neighed, and the sound of human voices screaming was mixed together, and the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood were nothing more than that......

But as time passed, the wind and dust also stopped, and the superiority of Manchu soldiers and horses on the battlefield in terms of numbers and equipment began to appear, and Wu Sangui's Guanning army had also eased up and began to organize a counteroffensive.

But at this time, in Li Zicheng's hands, except for the 3,000 Chinese army standard cavalry battalion, there were no soldiers to send, and the Dashun army could only use the three-wall tactics that he was good at, taking turns to go back and forth, and support him to the death.

Moreover, it was at this time that the morale of the Dashun army was still high, except for Tang Tong and Bai Guangen, the rest of the former Ming army were all veteran battalion soldiers of the Dashun army who had been trained in Shaanxi, and their combat effectiveness was not weak.

At least, in the current East Asian land, except for the Manchu Eight Banners, no army of more than 50,000 people has such combat power, Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army is still a lot worse, after Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo took power, in Yunnan for a few years, in order to have the strength to compete with the Manchu Eight Banners.

It was precisely in this way that Li Zicheng's army of 60,000 could withstand the onslaught of Wu Qing's 100,000 elites, and the victories in the past few years made them still believe that they would be the ultimate victors.

The soldiers of the three armies fought fiercely on the front, and the front gradually intertwined and folded each other, and everyone was fighting hand-to-hand with a ruthless spirit, never to the death.

It's just that the Shun army has been fighting for two days in a row, and it has come all the way from the capital, and in the face of the superior soldiers and horses of the Wu-Qing coalition army, it is already tired and gradually does not stand up.

This is not that they dare not fight bravely, but the gap between the strength of the enemy and us is too great, excluding the defenders of Xiangyong and Shanhaiguan, only Wu Sangui's Guanning army and the Manchu Eight Banners, the soldiers and horses are already twice as large as the Dashun army, and the firearms are even more advantageous.

In the case of being attacked by the Qing army, the Dashun army was able to hold out for so long, and I don't know how many times stronger than Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and others.

However, because of the decision-making mistakes of Li Zicheng and Dashun's high-level leaders, this battle is bound to be difficult to win.

Most of the Dashun army could only fight and retreat, except for the two newly added reserves, which were full of combat strength, the rest of the troops had gradually lost their support and retreated.

Li Zicheng stood on top of the hill and unwillingly glanced at the Shanhaiguan where the corpse mountain was bloody.

He knew that he had miscalculated and that the poster was real...... It's true......

But he did not lose his mind, and years of battlefield training have made him able to calmly deal with all kinds of sudden crises.

The ups and downs of more than ten years have been carried over, and what is the temporary defeat today?

Moreover, he knew very well that if he continued to fight like this, the damage would only get bigger and bigger, and he would not be able to turn the tide of the battle, so he had to feign defeat, and then organize a counterattack to repel the pursuit of Wu Sangui and the Manchu cavalry.

"Order, Liu Xiyao, He Jin lead the troops to cover, and the rest of the troops and horses immediately shrink and retreat, and the generals must maintain the army structure." Li Zicheng came back to his senses and gave the order concisely and resolutely.

Although in the face of such an advantageous enemy, it was in the midst of rout, but the Dashun army was worthy of being a strong army in this period, and there was no chaos between the various departments, and it still maintained a considerable structure.

However, the situation on the battlefield was much more severe than Li Zicheng expected, and the Manchu cavalry waited for work at ease, rode against each other, and were more mobile, and bit a part of the Dashun rout, forcing them to retreat in the direction of Laolongtou south of Shanhaiguan.

And at the end of this direction is the sea surface of the old dragon's head, where there is no way to retreat, and the Dashun army, which has been routed here, can only continue to retreat westward along the seashore, and the final result can be imagined - either killed by the Manchu Eight Banners, or fall into the sea and drown......

Soon, the shores of the Liaohai Sea were dyed red, and countless corpses were scattered all over the place, either on the beach or floating in the sea, which was unbearable.

Li Zicheng originally wanted to regather his troops near Qixingzhai, and then send his Zhongjun standard cavalry battalion to organize a rout counterattack and kill the Qing soldiers by surprise, but in the face of the comprehensive defeat of the Dashun army, Li Zicheng's plan could not be implemented at all, and he could only choose to continue to retreat to the west.

Liu Xiyao and He Jin led the army under their command to continue to block the attack, with heavy losses, and thousands of soldiers and horses died directly in the front, and the battle situation can be described as tragic.

After ensuring that the large army had retreated, Liu Xiyao led the remaining 2,000 remnants of the army to retreat under the cover of He Jin.

But as a result, the subsequent battle between He Jin's troops and the Manchu army almost turned into a one-sided massacre, with the Qing and Wu forces surrounding them and then taking advantage of the firearms to bomb and shoot in turn......

In the end, less than 1,000 of the 8,000 soldiers and horses under He Jin's command followed him to escape the pursuit of the Qing army.

As night fell, outside Shanhaiguan, only the wailing of countless crows was heard!