When Xi'an was lost, the news of Liu Zongmin's murder reached Hangu Pass, and Li Zicheng was shocked.

"Our army's food and grass are stored in Xi'an, and most of our family members stay in Xi'an. If Xi'an is lost, the general's morale will be in chaos. The most urgent task is to seize the contribution with all his strength!" Li Zicheng gave the order.

Li Zicheng ordered to mobilize troops from Hangu Pass, Fenglingdu, Pingyang Prefecture and other places to gather 150,000 troops, leaving only a few troops to defend the situation, and the main force of the Shun Army drove towards Xi'an.

Seven days later, the 150,000 Dashun Army arrived at the city of Xi'an and launched a fierce attack on Xi'an City, trying to regain Xi'an.

In addition to the 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers from Ajige and Haoge, there was also a 50,000 regiment of the Shaanxi gentry. In terms of combat effectiveness, Li Zicheng did not take the sect of the regiment of the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to train the people to. After all, the powerful one was 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers. However, at this time, the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers were shackled in Xi'an City to defend the city, unable to play the advantage of field battles, and the Mongols could not play the advantage of cavalry. Moreover, the number of Qing soldiers was only one-seventh of the Dashun Army, so Li Zicheng was not afraid of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers in the city.

It’s a pity that Li Zicheng didn’t know that the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers in the city were just coming to capture the vanguard of Xi’an City, and there were 20,000 Eight Banners Han Army and 180,000 Green Camp soldiers behind them were rushing towards Xi’an City.

The Shun Army began to attack the city, and the red barbarian cannons were inconvenient to transport them, so the Shun Army used six-pound field cannons and four-pound artillery cavalry to bombard the city wall. The six-pound cannons directly bombarded the city wall, breaking the bricks of the city wall, revealing the rammed earth inside; the four-pound cannons specifically bombarded the female wall battlements, bombarding the female wall battlements into pieces, and a large section of the city wall turned into bare.

"There are so many red cannons and red cannons!" A squire stood at the top of the city wall and shivered. At the top of the city wall beside him, there were more than a dozen bodies wearing corpses with the word "yong" written on them.

Brave means practicing bravery, which is the training and militia that welcomes the gentry and militia formed by the gentry themselves on the Internet.

If Emperor Chongzhen hadn't allowed the gentry to form a brave man on their own, would it be so easy for the Ming Dynasty to cross? The Ming Dynasty collapsed, and it didn't matter. Anyway, it would be the same as changing an individual to become an emperor. But after the Ming Dynasty collapsed, Li Zicheng actually implemented a system of equal land and confiscated all their land and distributed it to mud legs. This is what the gentry could not tolerate.

When the thieves massacred gentry everywhere in the Central Plains and distributed fields and food to the mud-legged men, the foolish monarch Chongzhen did not allow the gentry to form a group to fight against the robbers. As a result, the gentry felt so bitter, and they had no place to fall.

Now, the gentry are looking forward to the stars and moons, and finally we are looking forward to the invincible royal army of our Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty not only drove away the bandits, but also allowed the gentry to organize teams to deal with the bandits. This is the blessing of the gentry.

But there were too many thieves under the city, with a large area of ​​blackness, and there were no sight at a glance. There were at least more than 100,000 people. What's more, the artillery fire of the thieves was fierce. The red cannons (the Qing army and the gentry regarded the six-pound cannons as red cannons) and small red cannons were countless. There were at least hundreds of cannons, and a round of volleys fired, which made the city wall tremble, the bricks were broken, and the defenders on the city were killed and injured.

But Haoge told these gentry not to worry, the main force of the Qing Dynasty King's Army would come soon.

After the Shun Army launched a two-day and two-night shelling, it immediately launched a fierce attack on the city. Groups of Shun Army soldiers carried simple trench bridges and simple cloud ladders, shouting and launching a fierce attack on the city head of Xi'an. dozens of tightly built simple tower-looking vehicles followed behind, and three archers stood on each tower-looking vehicle.

The siege of the Shun Army arrived at the city, spread the simple moat bridge on the moat, then rushed across the moat, and ladders on the city wall. A large number of Shun Army soldiers climbed the cloud ladders and climbed towards the top of the city.

The Wanglou car behind also stopped at an arrow from the city. The Shunjun archers on the Wanglou car shot arrows at the city Xuanyong, and the arrows kept shooting down the brave soldiers guarding the city one by one.

The brave men guarding the city braved the arrow rain of the Shun Army and fought desperately, constantly smashing wooden rocks under the city, throwing turbulent oil tanks, and ten thousand enemies dropped lime bottles, shot rockets, and gold juice. The Shun Army, who climbed the simple cloud ladder, fell from the cloud ladder. Ten thousand enemies exploded under the city, and the Shun Army under the city suffered heavy casualties, and the cloud ladders were blown off and fell down.

The Manchu archers on the top of the city also began to shoot arrows at the Wanglou Car. These Manchu Eight Banners archers were as archers as magical. Each arrow shot out, a Shunjun archer fell from the Wanglou Car screaming.

Fortunately, Shun had many soldiers, an archer was shot to death by a Manchu soldier, and another archer climbed up the cart to shoot arrows at the top of the city, suppressing Lian Yong at the top of the city.

Finally, a group of Shun Army soldiers climbed the top of the city, jumped into the female wall, and chopped over the top of the city Lian Yong. Just as they were trying to gain a foothold at the top of the city, a group of fierce Manchu Eight Banners soldiers came to them.

The Shun Army who climbed the city was unable to resist it, and most of them were killed at the city. Only a few people jumped off the city and fled in a panic, and handed over the position that they had finally occupied to the Qing army.

Li Zicheng ordered a fierce attack, and at all costs, he would regain Xi'an and regain the food and grass they lost. Once Dashun could regain Xi'an, the 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers in the city would become turtles in the jar.

But just when Li Zicheng ordered a fierce attack on the Xi'an city wall, a Qing army suddenly broke out from the north of Xi'an city. In front of them were all Eight Banners soldiers wearing lightning rod helmets, cotton armor, holding bird guns and turtledove guns, followed by groups of green camp soldiers.

These Eight Banners soldiers who came out from the north were the Eight Banners Han Army Wuzhen Ha Chao soldiers, which were purely fire-like weapons. The Qing army first used the cannons behind to bombard the Shun Army formation, and then the Eight Banners Han Army firearms rushed up with Green Camp soldiers. The battlefield was filled with smoke and the sound of cannons and guns roared. The Shun Army, who was completely unprepared, was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.

"King, Jiannu has reinforced him, at least 200,000 people!" One Shunjun refused to take him back at night and reported to Li Zicheng.

The 150,000 Shun Army was unable to capture Xi'an City, which had only 20,000 Eight Banners and 50,000 bravely garrisons, and not to mention that the main force of the Qing army came. However, Li Zicheng was still unwilling to give up Xi'an and decided to fight to the death.

As a result, Li Zicheng's decision led to the disastrous defeat of the Shun Army.

So the Shun Army took the old camp cavalry as the vanguard, followed by a large number of infantry, turned the gun mouth, and launched violent artillery bombardment towards the formation of the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Camp soldiers. After the artillery, the cavalry rushed out, and they were in a stance to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop.

However, the tactics of the three walls of the old camp cavalry were stagnant in the face of the fierce firearms of the Han army of the Eight Banners. Then a large number of Green Camp soldiers launched a fierce attack. The infantry of the Shun Army could not resist and quickly retreated.

What happened was that the Eight Banners soldiers in the city also took advantage of the situation to break out of the city. Even Lian Yong broke out of Xi'an under the command of Ajige and Haoge and launched a fierce counterattack towards the Shun Army.

The Shun Army, which was attacked by internal and external forces, suffered heavy losses. Li Zicheng's vitality that had finally recovered in the past five years had almost suffered nearly all losses in this battle. The Dashun Army, which suffered heavy losses, retreated from the city of Xi'an, and almost all the cannons and supplies were lost. The 150,000 Dashun Army was chased by more than 200,000 Qing troops, and more than 30,000 people were killed, and more than 80,000 surrendered and captured.

Li Zicheng's 150,000 army was defeated, leaving only 20,000 old battalions and 20,000 infantrymen fled back to Tongguan.

The Qing army followed and killed. The steep Tongguan had already fallen behind after entering the firearm era. The city walls, which were tall but not thick enough, were vulnerable to the Qing army's cannons.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to give up Tongguan again and fled back to Hangu Pass with the remaining defeated soldiers.

It can be said that the Qing army followed him and there was no bastion guarding behind Hangu Pass, so it was much easier for the Qing army to attack from behind.
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