Haoge pursued Liang's army without getting any advantage, so he led the cavalry back to Beijing in panic.

Gao Huan then led his troops to retreat into Shandong territory, and then sent cavalry to reinforce the southern line. At the same time, he issued a manifesto, which was on the surface to scold Zheng Zhilong for being untrustworthy and Zhang Xianzhong invaded Liangjing, but in fact, he informed all forces that Hu Hansan was back.

As soon as Gao Huan retreated from the city of Beijing, Li Jiyu, the closest one, received the news.

To the west of Luoyang, Xin'an County, Shunjun camp.

A team of scouts rushed back to the camp and hurried to the central army tent.

At this time, Li Jiyu stood in front of the map with his hands behind his back, and the scout knelt on one knee, reporting: "King! Liang's army has withdrawn from Hebei!"

When Li Jiyu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and turned around, "Is the news accurate?"

The scout clasped his fists and said, "The news is true! Liang Jun should be about to enter Shandong now."

Li Jiyu rubbed his hands and felt a little excited, "It seems that the Qing Dynasty was saved this time."

Ma Laoer said: "The Liang army withdrew its troops and the Qing Dynasty temporarily retained the land of Hebei. As long as the Qing Dynasty is present, the king will not become the primary target of the Liang State."

Li Jiyu breathed a sigh of relief, "I occupy Guanzhong, with Tongguan and Wuguan, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as the Qing army is still in the pass, the Liang army will definitely attack the Qing army first. After all, there is no danger to defend in the Hebei Plain and will not drive the Qing army out of the pass. Henan and Shandong, controlled by Gao Huan, always face threats from the north."

"The king is wise!" Ma Laoer flattered and asked immediately: "Gao Huan is withdrawing troops from Hebei now, what should we do?"

Li Jiyu waved his hand immediately, very decisive and said with confidence: "Retreat the troops! And withdraw immediately!"

Li Jiyu said in a deep voice: "This time Gao Huan's troops arrived in Beijing and almost captured the city of Beijing. As a result, because of us, Zhang Xianzhong and Zheng Zhilong, he was forced to withdraw his troops. With Gao Huan's child's mind, he must be extremely angry and must settle the score. Therefore, I have to retreat into Tongguan quickly, otherwise I will welcome Gao Huan's anger."

Ma Laoer agreed deeply and nodded quickly, "Wang Ming, let us retreat first and let Gao Huan fight with Zhang Xianzhong and Zheng Zhilong. If there is an opportunity, we can take advantage of the opportunity to attack."

At that moment, Li Jiyu issued an order to withdraw his troops. One hour later, more than 100,000 Shun troops packed their luggage, retreated to Shanzhou, and then retreated to Tongguan.

When Gao Huan arrived at the Shandong border and was in Dezhou, he received information from Henan.

At this time, Gao Huan was riding on the war horse. After reading the military newspaper, he couldn't help but sneer.

"King, is it Li Jiyu withdrawing his troops?" Sun Chuanting asked.

Gao Huan nodded slightly, "This turtle grandson relies on the terrain of Guanzhong and acts like a turtle. He stretches out his head and bites his mouth, and immediately retracts back to Guanzhong if he has anything to do."

Many generals burst into laughter after hearing Gao Huan's words.

A Confucian general like Sun Chuanting also smiled and said, "The metaphor of the king is really vivid."

"The words are rough but not rough!" Gao Huan thought of Li Jiyu's reliance on the terrain and out of seclusion from time to time to harass the Liang Kingdom. When Gao Huan returned to his army, he retreated, making Gao Huan unable to punish him. He couldn't help but feel a little angry, "Let him be proud for a moment first, sooner or later I will break his turtle shell!"

When Li Ji met the Liang army withdrew from Hebei, he was afraid of causing trouble, so he hurriedly retreated from Henan. As the Liang cavalry quickly moved south and arrived near Yangzhou, the Zheng family navy, who besieged Chongming, hurriedly retreated.

After Li Dingguo broke into Jiangxi, hesitated that Liang State had proper policies in recent years, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. People's hearts were on the side of Liang State, and there was no situation where prefectures and counties surrendered to the Western Army.

The people did not support it, and the gentry and wealthy families even more hated the Western Army and paid and fed money to resist the Western Army's invasion, which prevented Li Dingguo from opening up the situation in Jiangxi.

At this time, after learning that Gao Huan had returned to the army and the vanguard of the Liang army had arrived in Jiangbei, Li Dingguo led his troops to retreat to Huguang, and Zhang Xianzhong also withdrew from Yuezhou and returned to Jingzhou City.

When Gao Huan led his army to Yanzhou, he received news that the Zheng army and the Western army had withdrawn one after another.

Since Zheng Zhilong and Zhang Xianzhong withdrew their troops, Gao Huan was not in a hurry to return to Nanjing. Some of the troops continued to move south, while he stayed in Shandong.

This northern expedition failed to recover Beijing and pushed the front line to the front line of the Great Wall, which made Gao Huan feel regretful and very annoyed, and indeed hated Zhang Xianzhong.

However, although Gao Huan hated Zhang Xianzhong, his next goal was not Zhang Xianzhong, but Zheng Zhilong.

At the end of December, as Gao Huan returned to the army, everyone hurriedly withdrew their troops, and the world gradually recovered peace.

Although the Liang State's strategy was not fully realized and the important town of Changsha was lost, Gao Huan first obtained Chongming, broke the Zheng family's maritime blockade against the Liang army, and then collected Shandong, Huaiqing, Weihui, Zhangde and Daming four prefectures, and seized a large amount of money, grain and materials from various flag farms in Hebei. It can be said that it achieved a decisive victory.

In the sixth year of Hongguang, 1650, in the New Year, Gao Huan and a group of ministers did not return to Nanjing, but stayed in Jinan for the New Year.

It started to snow heavily in the north, the canal was frozen by the ice surface, and the official road was covered with heavy snow. Gao Huan stayed in Shandong on the spot. After the New Year, the snow melted and the weather warmed up before returning to the court.

At this time, a group of officials in Jinan were busy counting the seizures of Liang's army since the northern expedition, so as to come up with a summary report as soon as possible.

This time, the Liang army conquered the entire territory of Shandong, defeated the Qing army and the pseudo-Ming coalition in Yanzhou, and later invaded Hebei, and the capture was quite rich.

If the officials who followed the army were allowed to count it, it would probably take a year or two to clean up the seizure and count the military achievements.

Gao Huan issued an order to Nanjing, asking Li Yan to dispatch officials who were good at arithmetic and statistics to come to help count and seize the capture. He led several people to inspect Denglai.

After learning that Zheng Zhilong and Zhang Xianzhong withdrew their troops, Gao Huan was not in a hurry to return south, but decided to straighten up the matter in Shandong and digest the land of Shandong as soon as possible so that the next battle would be possible.

Dengzhou Prefecture, Penglai County.

Gao Huan, Sun Chuanting, Zhou Yanru and other civil and military officials stood by the dock in the north bay of the city, looking at the endless sea.

Sun Chuanting said: "The king led his ministers and others to Dengzhou, which must have a deep meaning!"

"Hahaha~" Gao Huan laughed heartily, "I originally wanted to keep it a secret, but I didn't want to be seen through by Sun Qing, so I didn't pretend anymore! I did have some plans when I inspected Denglai!"

When Zhou Yanru heard the two of them talking, his eyes rolled on his wise, and he smiled and said, "Earlier, in order to support the war in Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty set up the Denglai Road, which specialized in transporting food and soldiers to western Liaodong and Liaodong. The king inspected Denglai. Could it be that he wanted to set up a naval army in Denglai?"

Gao Huan nodded slightly. There were more and more smart people around him. As long as he could control it, what he wanted to do would be easier.

"Not bad! The Zheng family in the southeast coast is too powerful. If setting up a navy army in Denglai, it will be possible to avoid the harassment of the Zheng family, which will have at least three major benefits." Gao Huan said in a deep voice.

Seeing that Gao Huan had nothing to say, several officials discussed it for a while, Sun Chuanting said: "I guess one of the benefits of this is that it is convenient to deal with Jiannu."

Gao Huan nodded with satisfaction: "Yes! It's a pity that I couldn't take Beijing this time. But from another perspective, it's actually a good thing. This time I led a small number of troops and could not surround Beijing. If I really attacked Beijing, the Eight Banners and their relatives in the city would break north. I only had 20,000 cavalry, and I couldn't stop them. If these people returned to Liaodong, they would inevitably lengthen my front line, causing inconvenience to supply the army. In addition, the mountains and forests outside the pass were dense, and many places were not developed, which was not conducive to the army's attack and suppression."

After hearing this, everyone nodded. Seeing how tired the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu were fighting outside the pass, they felt that Gao Huan was saying it was very reasonable.

For a moment, everyone was less persistent about not being able to conquer Beijing and didn't feel sorry for it.

Gao Huan glanced at everyone's expressions and continued: "In Denglai, I can set up a navy. I will go to Liaodong first and copy Jiannu's nest in the future. Didn't the Qing Dynasty occupy Beijing and not leave? Next time they will be unable to leave!"

"Hahaha~" Gao Huan couldn't help laughing happily again, as if he had seen the scene where the Eight Banners and their relatives were trapped in Beijing and had nowhere to escape.
Chapter completed!