After listening to Hu Guozhu's report, Chongzhen really didn't know whether he should be happy or depressed.

After he traveled through time and came to this world, he worked hard to do many things. He even issued an edict to punish the captives and left Li Zicheng with a capable general named Li Yan. However, he still failed to change the course of history?

Duduo's army was actually attracted to Huaiqing Mansion?

Then after finishing the attack on Huaiqing Mansion, will Duduo continue to march westward to Tongguan?

Then Li Zicheng was forced to take the army that had already gone north to go south to Tongguan.

And then he was defeated by Duduo in Tongguan. Li Zicheng was so desperate that his rogue nature broke out. He didn't wait for Li Yan and Gao Yigong's troops to go south to rendezvous, so he gave up Xi'an and Guanzhong?

Then the thieves fled all the way to Hubei again?

Thinking of this, Chongzhen couldn't help but put his hand on his forehead.

Chongzhen suddenly wanted to know how Li Zicheng would react when he learned the news.

Are they appreciating the heroic performance of the remaining Dashun troops in southern Shanxi and western Henan? Or are they furious with Yuan Zongdi and Liu Yongfu for their unauthorized actions?

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Li Zicheng does not know this news now.

Because Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu launched a counterattack against Huaiqing Mansion from western Henan and southern Shanxi, it was just a spontaneous action, that is to say, they did not obtain Li Zicheng's consent.

From this we can see the hidden worries of Dashun Army again.

These senior generals of the Dashun Army who dominate one side are too casual.

Or to put it another way, these "military region commanders" of the Dashun Army enjoy too much power and can actually launch wars without the approval of the central government.

Now let’s talk about Chen Yongfu and Yuan Zongdi.

When Li Zicheng passed through Shanxi, he left Chen Yongfu behind to guard Taiyuan.

Although Chen Yongfu was a demoted general, he was very loyal to Li Zicheng. Jueluo Bahana besieged Taiyuan for several months and was unable to advance, so he had no choice but to ask Dorgon for help.

Dorgon sent Ye Chen and his army to help in the battle.

Li Zicheng also asked Li Yan to send troops to rescue Taiyuan.

However, Li Yan did not directly reinforce Taiyuan, but adopted the tactic of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, bypassing Taiyuan and attacking Datong. Jiang Xiang, the general of Datong Town, was defeated and trapped in Chou City.

Dorgon heard the news and urgently ordered Bahana to go north to reinforce.

Li Yan set up an ambush midway and trapped Bahana in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, Shi Tingzhu led the Eight Banners Han Army to arrive at the critical moment.

Because Li Yan could not continue his supply of food and grass, Tang Tong, who had been defeated and fled, came back again, and there was a risk that his retreat would be cut off. For safety reasons, Li Yan finally withdrew his troops and returned to Suidezhou.

With Li Yan's withdrawal, Taiyuan will no longer be able to hold on.

Chen Yongfu also decisively abandoned the city and led his remaining troops to retreat to the Shanxi mountainous area.

After talking about Chen Yongfu, let’s talk about Yuan Zongdi. He is the coach of the Dashun Army in the Henan direction.

However, during the previous large-scale pursuit by Jiannu, in addition to sending the main force of the Dashun Army towards Guguan to pursue and kill Li Zicheng, there was also a partial division heading south into Henan.

Facing Zu Kefa Jinyu and Gao Di, Yuan Zongdi's troops lost consecutive battles, losing the territories of Zhangde Prefecture, Weihui Prefecture, Huaiqing Prefecture, Runing Prefecture, Nanyang Prefecture, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Guide Prefecture one after another.

The thieves and the surrendered troops of the Ming Dynasty also revolted one after another. In this case, Yuan Zongdi's remnants could not withstand it at all, so they could only retreat to the mountains of western Henan.

The remnants of Chen Yongfu and Yuan Zongdi have been holding out in the mountainous areas of southern Shanxi and western Henan for three or four months.

The purpose of this counterattack against Huaiqing Mansion is actually very simple, which is to raise food.

Because southern Shanxi and western Henan are both mountainous areas, the area is narrow and the people are barren, making it difficult to raise food.

The Guanzhong area had been hit by major disasters in the past few years, and even Li Zicheng's main force was facing a shortage of military rations, so Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu did not ask for help from Guanzhong.

With no food and grass inside and no assistance from outside, Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu could only raise food from outside. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the tens of thousands of troops under their command to survive this cold winter.

Raising food from outside is nothing more than two directions.

One is the Ming Dynasty, and the other is the Qing court. Dashun has already formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, they cannot start the war lightly. Shanxi is also barren, the people are poor, and there is no food to levy, so they can only ask Huaiqing Mansion.

Wei Hui Mansion launched a counterattack in this direction, trying to get some grain from the Qing court, and at the same time wash away the shame.

Really, Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu just wanted to raise some food. They really didn't expect that they would attract Duduo's army and bring disaster to the Dashun court.

If they had known this in advance, the two of them would probably rather starve to death than send troops.

Unfortunately, there were no all-pervasive spies in this era, let alone radios, so Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu had no idea that Duduo's 60,000-strong army happened to reach Texas.

Yuan Zongdi and Chen Yongfu joined forces to first kill Jin Yuhe, the Huaiqing general of the Qing Dynasty, and then ransacked Huaiqing Mansion, but did not get much food, so they went east and invaded Weihui Mansion.

At this time, Yuan and Chen's 30,000 troops were attacking Xinxiang County.

Zu Kefa's three thousand surrendered troops defended Xinxiang County and were in danger.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng in Xi'an did not know what happened in Wei Hui Mansion.

However, Li Yan, who was guarding northern Shaanxi, sent an urgent message to Xi'an, reporting to Li Zicheng that Azig was leading the main force to build slaves, and together with the Ming army's surrender general Jiang Xiang, Wang Daye took advantage of Tumute Mongolia and turned south to attack Shaanxi.

Military situation in the North.

Li Yan's intelligence work was quite impressive. Not only did he find out that the leader of Jiannu was Azig, he even found out that the total strength of Jiannu was about 200,000.

This number of troops is still very reliable.

Because the Eight Banners Manchurian, Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han troops led by Azig numbered about 100,000 people. In addition, there were about 60,000 coated slaves, plus three or four others such as Jiang Xiangtangtong and Wang Daye.

The number of troops surrendered by Wanming Dynasty was almost 200,000. Even if there were some differences, the difference would not be too big.

Li Yan also specially reported a piece of news to Li Zicheng.

Even Wu Sangui also sent troops with Azig.

After receiving Li Yan's urgent delivery, Li Zicheng immediately began to summon the main force of Dashun Army.

To this day, Li Zicheng is still bitter about the defeat of Shanhaiguan. He always believes that the Dashun army was unjustly defeated in the battle of Shanhaiguan. If it weren't for Wu Sangui, a traitor and a traitor, the Dashun army would not have been defeated at all.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Therefore, Li Zicheng hated Jiannu, but he hated Wu Sangui even more, and wished he could peel Wu Sangui off.

So when he heard that Azig was leading 200,000 slaves to conquer the country and that Wu Sangui had arrived, Li Zicheng's first reaction was not fear, but excitement. God had given him a chance to avenge his humiliation.

Li Zicheng vowed that this time he would win a great victory in northern Shaanxi and severely curb the prestige of Jiannu. It would be best if Wu Sangui, a traitor, could be captured alive and taken back to Xi'an to be skinned and cramped.

So after receiving Li Yan's urgent delivery, Li Zicheng immediately began to gather the main force.

Except for Chen Yongfu in southern Shanxi and Yuan Zongdi in western Henan who did not move, and the troops sent to expedition to Qinghai and Gansu were not transferred back, Li Zicheng even transferred most of Bai Wang's troops in Xiangyang, leaving only five

Thousands of people.

By the way, Zuo Maodi, the envoy sent by the Ming Dynasty to Dashun, was still in Xi'an at this time.

It wasn't that Zuo Maodi didn't want to go back, but that Li Zicheng wouldn't let him go. Li Zicheng didn't know what was wrong with him. Perhaps he was impressed by Zuo Maodi's eloquence and actually developed a love for talents and wanted to recruit Zuo Maodi.

No. .

The reason why Li Zicheng removed most of Bai Wang's troops who were guarding Xiangyang was because he believed Zuo Maodi's deception. Zuo Maodi told him that since Dashun and Ming Dynasty had formed an alliance, the two countries should treat each other with sincerity.

We should withdraw troops in both directions and reduce the number of troops stationed in border areas to show sincerity to the other side.

Zuo Mao first persuaded Li Zicheng and wrote to Zuo Liangyu.

One more thing, Zuo Liangyu was seriously ill in bed at this time and was not conscious, so He Tengjiao was actually in charge of military affairs in Wuchang.

He Tengjiao is still quite capable.

While Zuo Liangyu was ill in bed, the royal flag and Shang Fang sword given by Chongzhen successfully frightened Zuo Liangyu's group of arrogant soldiers.

After He Tengjiao received Zuo Maodi's letter, he immediately significantly reduced the number of troops stationed in Jingzhou Prefecture, Chengtian Prefecture and the southern part of Huangzhou Prefecture to show his sincerity to the Dashun Army.

After Li Zicheng received the military report, Li Yan sent another urgent delivery, so he reciprocated and transferred Bai Wang's main force to Hanzhong to defend Zhang Xianzhong who had occupied Sichuan. There were only 5,000 old battalions and more than 20,000 civilians left in Hubei.

In short, this is the situation in Xi'an, where Li Zicheng is gathering his troops to prepare to go north.

As for Zhang Xianzhong, who had just entered Sichuan, he was busy ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor and establishing the Daxi regime.

In the early days of the Daxi regime, Zhang Xianzhong did a lot of work including compiling almanacs, raising furnaces to mint money, opening schools to recruit scholars, and enacting a three-year tax exemption to ensure the livelihood of the people of Sichuan.

, so at this time, Zhang Xianzhong had no intention of caring about things outside Sichuan, and only wanted to be his king in Sichuan.

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In Xuzhou, Chongzhen convened a temporary imperial military meeting.

Attending the meeting were Ma Huabao, Jin Shenghuan and other commanders-in-chief of the ten towns, Du Yinxi, the censor of Tuntian and the censor of Youqiandu, Zheng Hongkui, the chief soldier of the Navy, and Jin Xuan, the doctor in the Ministry of War and temporary chief military officer.

Zheng Hongkui was promoted, and the naval guerrillas became the chief naval force.

Jin Xuan was also promoted, a member of the Ministry of War, Wailang, was promoted to a doctor in the Ministry of War.

In addition, there were sixty-four scholar chiefs, including King Zhu Cijiong, the eunuch Wang Chengen, Zheng Sen, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Fang Yizhi, etc., who also attended the meeting.

Standing in the hall, Zheng Sen, Xia Yunyi and other scholars felt thunder in their chests.

Although they did not wear official robes like Du Yinxi, Jin Xuan and others, nor did they have the majestic mountain armor worn by Ma Huabao and Jin Shenghuan, this did not affect their sense of participation at all.

It was also at this moment that the sixty-four sergeants truly realized that they had entered the center of power.

From this moment on, their words and suggestions may determine the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty. This also means that they finally have the opportunity to show their ambitions and do something beneficial to the common people of the world.
To be continued...