When Jinzhou City was broken, the rescue Ming army was defeated again ten miles away from Songshan.

The Qing army intercepted reinforcements outside Xingshan City. After being repelled by the Sichuan Army's guns and cannons, Gao Qiqin ordered the entire army to pursue them. The Ming army pursued them all the way, but was intercepted by the Qing army only ten miles away from Songshan.

This time, the situation reversed.

The Qing army was leaning against a trench, and many artillery were arranged on the hillside on the side.

Facing the Ming army that was rushing towards them, the Qing army artillery fired together and attacked the Ming army from both sides. The Ming army was in chaos for a while. At this time, Duoduo led the Qing cavalry to rush out in large numbers and rushed straight into the Ming army formation.

The two armies fought in a melee. Wang Pu, the general of Datong, was the most active when he grabbed the credit and escaped. His escape led to the defeat of the rest of the Ming army. Although Qin Liangyu fought to the death, all the troops were defeated, and even Gao Qiqian turned around and ran away. In the end, Qin Liangyu fought and retreated, and was the only soldier who still maintained the formation. Finally, he retreated to Xingshan City with Gao Qiqian and others.

After 50,000 reinforcements, after this battle, they lost their troops and generals. Wang Pu and others ran back to Ningyuan. Most of the 50,000 troops were lost, and many of the defeated soldiers ran away.

Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou of Songshan could no longer sit still after hearing the news of the defeat.

After discussing with Zu Dashou, he led his troops out of the city to break through the siege that day. Duoduo led his troops to intercept, but this time, Ning Jin's troops exuded great combat power in order to escape. At that time, the main force of the Qing army was still siegeing the city under Jinzhou City. Duoduo could not intercept it, so he actually let Ning Jin's army break out of the siege and flee back to Xingshan.

However, although he was killed out, Ning Jin's soldiers suffered great casualties. There were only more than half of them who broke into Xingshan in the end.

As soon as Wu Sangui escaped into Xingshan, he met with his godfather Gao Qiqian and Sichuan general Qin Liangyu, and heard worse news.

Jinzhou was destroyed, and deputy general Xia Chengde secretly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, opened the city and led the Qing army into the city. The 50,000 Jinzhou defenders were wiped out. Hong Chengchou, the second Governor of Sun Chuanting, and the five generals including Yang Guozhu did not escape. All were captured.

Later, a worse news came back, Hong Chengchou and others refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon was furious and massacred more than 40,000 Ming troops in Jinzhou and massacred more than 20,000 Ming people in the city.

Dorgon was leading his army to Xingshan.

"You can't defend Xingshan anymore." Gao Qiqian shouted in fear.

Wu Sangui looked at Zu Dashou, and his uncle nodded slightly to him.

Just as he wanted to agree to retreat westward, Sichuan General Qin Liangyu firmly opposed the retreat. She believed that Songshan in Jinzhou had been lost one after another, and Xingshan could not give up.

However, her words could not change the minds of Gao Qiqian, Wu Sangui and others. Tashan was just a small town, and now the Qing army has many cannons. Jinzhou was broken in just two days, and Xingshan could not be defended.

The final result of their discussion was to retreat westward before the Qing army had even come to the side, and without returning to Tashan, and retreat directly to Ningyuan. Relying on Ningyuan's city high city to defend, they also collected the defeated troops and waited for reinforcements there.

There were more than 50,000 troops in Xingshan City. At this time, they abandoned the city and retreated together. When they left, they burned all the food, grass and equipment they could not take away. Their hurried retreat was even ignored, and they only cared about the people in the city, and only ignored their own retreat, allowing the people to follow them in fear and helplessness.

However, what surprised Wu Sangui and others was that they retreated from Xu Yuan and did not see the pursuit of the Qing army. There was no pursuit of the Qing army in a day, two, and three days.

Wu Sangui retreated all the way to Ningyuan, but he did not see the pursuit of the Qing army.

"Why didn't the Tartars chase after him?" After retreating into Ningyuan City, Wu Sangui breathed a sigh of relief. He couldn't help but wonder. When did the Tartars still be so kind and give up such a good opportunity to pursue?

The Qing army was not kind-hearted, but was in a state of panic like Wu Sangui at this time.

Just after Wu Sangui broke through Songshan, Dorgon captured Jinzhou, and then Dorgon was about to take the opportunity to attack Xingshan and annihilate Wu Sangui's troops, Dai Shan suddenly came back.

As soon as Dai Shan saw Dorgon, he immediately asked him to retreat and then said something to him.

"The emperor was ambushed by Liu Jun in Liaohe. Five thousand soldiers were gone, and the emperor died in battle."

Then Dai Shan said another sentence, "Haoge broke through from Liaoyang and returned to Shenyang. Liaoyang has been lost and was captured by Liu Jun."

Dorgon was deeply shocked and didn't say a word for a long time.

After a long time, Daishan broke the silence.

"Liu Jun now occupies Liaoyang, and can attack Shenyang in the east and intercept my retreat in the west. At present, we should discuss peace with the Ming court and stabilize the situation first."

The battle situation of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is quite complicated. In western Liaoning, the Qing army turned defeat into victory and now has the upper hand. The 200,000 troops and horses of the Ming army in western Liaoning have been completely defeated. Although there are still about 70,000 to 80,000 people in Ningyuan, these are already defeated soldiers and are not worth worrying about.

After the Qing army captured Jinzhou, Songshan and Xingshan, the next step was to attack Ningyuan City at any time, and even reach Shanhaiguan.

But when they were advancing in western Liaoning, their hometown in Liaodong was also attacked by the Ming army. Now not only were the Jin, Fu, Gai, Hai and other states in southern Liaoning destroyed, but even the heavy city of Liaoyang was lost.

If only a few cities were lost, it would be acceptable. But now, the emperor is dead, which is the big problem.

"At this time, peace talks, the good situation in western Liaoning will not be able to be defended." Dorgon said.

"If we don't stop and return to the teacher, Shenyang might be lost." Dai Shan said.

Liaoyang.

The weather was getting colder and colder, the Liao River was frozen, and the navy had to retreat to the sea.

Liu Jun is also facing a choice now, whether to continue to advance eastward, attack the Tartar capital Shenyang, directly attack his nest, or rescue western Liaoning.

How to choose makes Liu Jun hesitate.

Many generals shouted that they would attack Shenyang while they were fighting to attack Shenyang and attack the Tartars' nests. However, Liu Jun was also worried that Shenyang was indeed empty at this time, but it was cold and it was not convenient to march. Especially Shenyang was deeply involved in the Jurchens' hearts. Once Doyanggun and Daishan led the army back to the rescue, they might be blocked under the city of Shenyang, which would be quite dangerous.

But if you go to Liaoxi to rescue Jinzhou, there will be great risks. The biggest trouble is that you can't walk on the sea waterway. They can only go from Route 6 to reinforce. Not to mention the distance is long, they will also face the problem of a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army in the field.

After the Battle of Liaohe, Liu Junyue understood that although the Chu army had the advantage of guns and cannons, they could fight in the field. Without city defense and fortifications, they actually had no advantage in facing the Qing cavalry that was coming and going like the wind, and even with the same force, they were far from being a match for the Qing army.

The original plan was to rescue the enemy and to siege Wei to save Zhao. Now Huang Taiji has also killed him and Liaoyang has also taken him, but the Qing army has not yet moved.

"Mr., I think we should attack Chenyang. Chenyang is only more than 160 miles away from Liaoyang. We now occupy Liaoyang City, and we can attack and retreat or defend. Once the main force of the Tatars returns to support, we can withdraw back to Liaoyang City. If we can capture Chenyang, then the two cities of Liaochen will not be afraid of the Tatars."

"But what if Jinzhou can't be defended?" Liu Jun asked. Generally speaking, the Ming army was still quite powerful in defending the city, especially the Jinzhou city was full of veterans like Hong Chengchou and elite border troops. However, the Qing army had obtained a large number of artillery, and now the ability to attack the city has increased greatly.

Just when they were hesitating and unable to discuss, the General Staff Department of the Military Information Department urgently reported it back from western Liaoning.

"A rebel general surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jinzhou City, opened Jinzhou and led the Qing army into the city. Jinzhou City was broken, and Hong Chengchou and other governors were all captured."

"Dorgon massacred the city in Jinzhou, and more than 40,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 people were massacred."

"The high-rise and the siege rate is 50,000 troops to rescue Songshan, but was defeated by Duoduo and retreated to Xingshan, losing more than 20,000 soldiers."

"Wu Sangui breaks through Songshan and retreats into Xingshan, losing 30,000 troops."

"The director of Guan Ningjin Gao Qiqian, the governor of Liaoxi Wu Sangui, the governor of Liaoxi Qiu Minyang, the general of Jinzhou Zu Dashou, and the general of Sichuan Qin Liangyu evacuated Xingshan and retreated to Ningyuan. The court originally had only one city in western Liaoning outside the pass, and now there was only one city in Ningyuan. The 200,000 lost horses focused on the western Liaoning, and only 80,000 defeated soldiers gathered in Ningyuan."

One by one, the news came back to Liaoyang City.

The Chu army was shocked by the successive changes.

Liu Jun invited Fu Zonglong, Fan Zhiwan, Li Chunjiang, Qu Shi, Wang Kun and others to inform them of the news. Everyone who heard the news was in a heavy mood and full of shock.

At this time, Liu Jun was less hesitant.

He glanced at everyone and said, "Jinzhou is lost, Songshan is lost, Xingshan is lost, Tashan is lost, and the entire western Liaoning is now only an isolated city in Ningyuan."

After pausing, he continued, "I don't think we need to go to western Liaoning now. There is nothing to save in western Liaoning. I decided that we should continue to go north and attack Chenyang. The Tartars seized our western Liaoning and broke our Songshan in Jinzhou, and then we will break the Liaoyang Chenyang of the Tartars and hold their nests."

Fan Zhiwan asked, "The Tartars broke the city one after another in western Liaoning, and the troops were at the forefront. Now we have become an isolated army. At the moment, the sea is frozen, and other reinforcements from the Central Plains cannot come. When we go to Shenyang, will sheep enter the tiger's mouth? If the Tartars return to the rescue, wouldn't we be surrounded? It is a risk to go deeper into the army. Please be careful."

Governor Fu Zonglong also had this concern. Now no one was restrained by the Qing army in western Liaoning. At this time, he went to Chenyang, but he was alone in the army.

Fu was the generals of the Chu army, but they all supported Liu Jun. This was not only because they had always trusted Liu Jun, but also because they were not afraid of the Qing army. The Tartar emperors were killed by them, and the Tartar princes were scared to abandon the city and left. What's so scary?

Anyway, with Liaoyang City in hand, you can attack and retreat or defend, but it really doesn't work. If you retreat, you can just retreat. The Tartars are still hundreds of miles away, and they will not be able to come back at all for a while.

"I support the supervisor." Li Chunjiang said.

The military censor Qu Shixi also said, "I also support the supervisor."

The eunuch Wang Kun and the eunuch Lu Weining looked at each other and said in unison, "Our family also supports Duke Chu."

Fu Shan, Wang Qian, Zhang Shan, Cao Duan and other nine-headed generals naturally expressed their unanimous support for sending troops to Chenyang.

"Then it's decided to send troops north and attack Chenyang!" (To be continued.)

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