Mao Xiang stood up and said, "Ziyang victory, Yanzhou has no enemy to compete with our army. In the eyes of Xiang, General Chen Sheng led his troops to advance north quickly. First, reinforce the two generals Song An and Qian Qiaogong. Second, if they can defeat Oboi's troops, then it would be natural to attack Jinan Prefecture. As long as they conquer Jinan, Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou, they will become an isolated land, and the restoration is just around the corner. Even if the three generals Chen, Song and Qian cannot defeat Oboi's troops and stabilize the front line in Jinan Prefecture, Yanzhou is the item in the prince's bag. If the Qing court comes to negotiate, even millions of yellow and white things will never be returned."

Wu Zheng was speechless. He heard that Mao Xiang had another battle before Yin pointed out that he had exchanged Xuzhou for money.

However, Wu Zheng was happy at this time. After all, there was a great victory in Ziyang. He thought about it and said: "If Chen Sheng's troops advanced north, if the Qing army of the two prefectures attacked eastward, Ziyang would be in danger."

Mao Xiang said: "Don't worry, the Dongchang Prefecture has only 3,000 Qing troops, and there are more Daming Prefecture, but only 6,000 people... In this way, I would like to go to Daming Prefecture and his party."

"What do you mean?"

"I have met several times with the general of Daming Mansion. Now that the king's army is attacking north to Ziyang, it should be said that he surrenders."

Wu Zheng asked, "Can you be sure?"

"Sixty percent."

"Sixty percent can be tried!" Wu Zheng pointed at Lu Jincai and said to Mao Xiang, "I will ask him to take some people to escort you all the way."

Mao Xiang shook his hand and said, "No need to do this too much... Xiang entered Daming Mansion with white body, but he could avoid people's eyes and ears and would not be blocked by others. General Chen advanced north and the prince was going to Ziyang to take charge. How could he not have Lord Lu beside him?"

Wu Zheng thought about it and made some sense, so he nodded and said, "Don't force it. If things fail, return as soon as possible. If there are lonely people standing in front of Ziyang, and there are only thousands of chaotic people, why fear it?"

....

However, compared with the rapid advance of the Northern Expedition Army, Li Dingguo in Runing Mansion was in trouble.

And it's not a common dilemma.

Li Dingguo only realized the drastic changes when he went to the mall. On the one hand, he reported the war situation to Yongli, hoping to adjust the established strategic goals, and on the other hand, he sent people to rescue him from three groups.

Originally, he wanted to defend the mall, but the established goal could not be achieved. The fruit he had obtained could be defended. After all, the army of the Daxi Army had already attacked Runing Mansion from Huguang.

But what Li Dingguo did not expect was that Ajig would attack the mall with a strong army.

What he didn't expect was that Emperor Yongli, who was temporarily stationed in Yueyang, quickly headed north to Wuchang Prefecture, and issued six decrees along the way, ordering Li Dingguo to step up the north attack and capture Kaifeng in one fell swoop.

This is not a joke. Let’s not talk about the long supply line of the Daxi Army at this time, and Huguang behind him was almost "plundered" by the Daxi Army. More than 100,000 troops were attacked by the Daxi Army for 2,000 miles. At this time, the Daxi Army can be described as "the end of the strength".

In fact, Li Dingguo's decision was very wise, so he should stick to the mall. Even if Ajige attacked the city wildly, it would be a war of attrition. The Western Army relied on the city walls, and it would be impossible for Ajige to win quickly.

As long as reinforcements arrive, the Azige tribes are reversely divided and surrounded.

Unfortunately, Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang had a similar mind and character to Chongzhen and belonged to the "wise ruler".

Typical ambitions and talent are out of place.

This may be inappropriate, but in fact, many times, good intentions will definitely do bad things.

The emperor personally goes to the front line to inspire morale. If he is an emperor who is good at brigade, he will be able to decide to command the army at the right time.

But has Zhu Youlang fought a war?

Although he suffered a lot of hardships in this war-torn year at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhang Xianzhong led the Daxi Army to attack Hunan, Zhu Youlang followed his father, King Guiduan Zhu Changying to wander around. In the end, the father and son were captured by the Daxi Army, and he suffered a lot of hardships.

But he really doesn't have that military talent. You said you should stay in the back of Yueyang, eat and drink, and even if you are recruiting some beautiful girls, wait for Li Dingguo to finish the battle.

Zhu Youlang was not good at this and insisted on learning to do it personally. After hearing the battle report of Li Dingguo, he couldn't sit still. The emperor personally led the army to fight, and there was a heroic spirit of a king who died in the country.

The six imperial edicts urged Li Dingguo to attack the north, which made Li Dingguo listen or not.

If the sky is high and the emperor is far away, then the orders of the outside king will not be accepted.

But the emperor has moved behind him, how can he not listen?

If you don’t listen, you will resist the order and you will be beheaded.

Li Dingguo didn't want to support Ming for several years, but when he became a disgrace, he reluctantly went out of the city to fight Ajige.

This is a disaster, which is completely different from Bai Wenxuan and Ma Weixing's defeat and captured.

Bai Wenxuan, Ma Weixing was careless and defeated by the war, saying that it was annihilated by 20,000 troops, but not many people died, most of them fled in scattered areas, and when the war ended, most of them could still be gathered. However, Bai Wenxuan, Ma Weixing was unfortunately captured, and the Qing army was not as good as five years ago. At that time, the Ming army and the rebel generals were captured, and most of them were beheaded. Now even Ajige, who is known for his strength, subconsciously dare not kill prisoners easily.

As long as they are replaced after the war, of course, the premise is that the two will not surrender to the Qing Dynasty during their capture.

But Li Dingguo is different now. The two gates in the west and north of the mall are surrounded by Ajige and Sun Kewang, and the enemy is spreading towards the east gate. In other words, the only one that can really contact the outside world is the South Gate.

At this time, we will go out of the city to fight. In order to reduce our defensive strength, if there is any accident, we will lose consecutively outside the city.

Of course, Li Dingguo also had something wrong with him. He relied on his 200 elephant soldiers. Based on his previous combat experience with the Qing army, when the Qing cavalry saw the elephant, the metropolis would dig the ground with their hooves and stop moving forward. Then, with the ten thousand cavalry in the city at this time, there would be hope to fight with the main force of Ajige. As long as he wins a battle, not only will the siege of the mall be resolved, but the emperor's desire to attack Kaifeng Prefecture may not be a fantasy.

For this reason, Li Dingguo decided to fight.

The cavalry detoured from the south gate to the west gate overnight, cleared the west gate block overnight, and waited for the city tower to watch the cavalry to arrive, opened the west gate, first elephant soldiers came out to scare the enemy cavalry, and then the infantry attacked and fought with all their might.

To be fair, this tactic has nothing to do with it. In fact, Li Dingguo's troops are only slightly inferior to Ajige.

If you bet with the main force in a decisive battle, there is nothing wrong with it.

But Li Dingguo was not considerate, Bai Wenxuan and Ma Weixing were defeated by the enemy twice, which had a great impact on the morale of the army. Not to mention that there were many soldiers in the army who were interested in the former master Sun Kewang.

Furthermore, Li Dingguo had already sought help from three groups, while Fengyang and Luzhou were not far from Runing. It would be too late to wait for two or three days to defeat the enemy when the reinforcements arrived.
Chapter completed!