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Gao Yigong is Gao Yingxiang's son and Li Zicheng's cousin.His ability to fight can only be regarded as mediocre, and he cannot bear the heavy burden of being ordered in a crisis.

After that, there were deserters every day. After a few days, one-eighth of Li Guo's troops fled.

Any fool knows that Shaanxi is definitely gone, and continuing to fight is not far from death.

If it was the Tartars, they might still be united, but the Datong court was also Han Chinese, so why should they continue to work hard?

Seeing this situation, Zhang Neng, one of Li Guo's subordinates, left the camp overnight with his troops, and ran to Hanzhong to join the Datong army, taking a third of the soldiers away.

The news spread that there were more deserters, and in a blink of an eye there were only 2000 left, and the Dashun Army had given up all the way.

Chapter 549 [Fortunate General Is Myself? 】

According to Guanzhong to take the world, usually take the Weihan Ancient Road and go straight to the Central Plains.Or, pass Wuguan and take the Nanyang Basin, and go around from the south to attack the Central Plains on both sides.

However, the Weihan Ancient Road was blocked by the Datong Army. Except for Tongguan, the other major passes were all in the hands of the Datong Army.

Although Wuguan was controlled by Li Zicheng, Fushui Fort was seized by Zhao Han, which was equivalent to blocking Wuguan Road. It was called Fushui Fort in Ming Dynasty, Fushuiguan in Qing Dynasty, and later became Fushui Town.

Li Zicheng also has another plan to send troops, which is to send troops to Henan from Shanxi.

But if you do this, you will be attacked by the Datong Army from Henan and Hebei from the east, northeast, south, and southwest, which is equivalent to bearing the northern main force of the Datong Army alone.At that time, the Datong army will probably ignore the Manchus and try their best to wipe out Li Zicheng's army.

So Li Zicheng made a stupid move and took the elite main force to Hebei to attack the strong city of the Datong army with the Manchus. .Therefore, the Datong Army could only passively defend in Hebei, and instead sought to open up the situation in Shanshan and Liaodong.

At this moment, the Datong Army has assembled the strength of three divisions in Tongguan and Hedong, but Dashun's Shanshan soldiers have begun to collapse. (The Xihe area covers Hedong, and its geographical concept is larger than that of Hedong.)

This is the trend of the times, and what happens is what happens.

Zhao Han has already gained power, so Li Zicheng's support is not stable, and there are always civilian and military generals who want to take the opportunity to jump back.

Just like back then, when Li Zicheng gained power in the north, the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty chose to surrender one after another.

Fast forward to late May.

Zhang Neng, one of Li Guo's subordinates, defected with his troops, falsely opened Xiegu Pass, opened the Baoxie Road, and welcomed Fei Yinggong's army into Guanzhong.

Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other Dashun generals hurriedly withdrew to Fufeng with their remnants, trying to recruit Xiangyong as soldiers to stop the Sichuan Datong army.Barely gathered 1 people, but after only six days of guarding, some generals opened the city gate.

In the chaos, Li Guo and Gao Yigong fled with their own soldiers, and took over the Dashun Army from Gansu in Baoji.

There was no fighting at all, and the Gansu Dashun army rushed in. I heard that Li Guo's army was completely wiped out. I also heard that Hanzhong was lost, and Xi'an was lost.Therefore, the generals of the Dashun Army in Gansu also chose to turn against the water, arrested Li Guo and Gao Yigong, and quickly sent them to Fufeng to claim credit.

"Are you the fake Prince Shun? Why are you so old?" Fei Yinggong asked doubtfully.

Li Guo didn't speak.

Fei Yinggong looked at Gao Yigong again: "Are you Gao Yingxiang's son, Li Zicheng's cousin?"

Gao Yigong spat out violently, almost spraying it on Fei Yinggong's face, and roared sharply: "If you want to kill or cut, it's up to you, if you are a good man, you will have a good time!"

Fei Yinggong scratched his forehead, feeling very lucky.He didn't seem to have done anything, not only occupied Hanzhong, successfully entered Guanzhong, but also captured Li Zicheng's nephew and cousin.

Fei Yinggong thought to himself: Is Lao Tzu the lucky general?

Seeing that the two were very stubborn, Fei Yinggong stopped asking questions, and said to the soldiers: "Take these two people and show them to the Weinan and Tongguan defenders. After the audience is captured, they will be escorted to Hebei. Meet Li Zicheng before going to battle."

Under normal circumstances, if you catch an important person from the enemy, you should send them to Nanjing as soon as possible to report your meritorious service.

But the coach of Hebei is Fei Ruhe, who is Fei Yinggong's nephew.

It doesn't matter what your own credit is, just help your nephew quickly. Fei Yinggong knows that the battle in Hebei is not easy to fight.

After dealing with the captives, Fei Yinggong was filled with pride, drew his sword and shouted: "The whole army sets off and marches into Weinan!"

Fei Yinggong's troops fought more and more. Only Zhang Neng's troops who surrendered, and the surrendered troops of Dashun in Gansu, totaled tens of thousands.

When he arrived in Xi'an, Cao Bianjiao was finally able to catch his breath.

Cao Bianjiao went out of the city to greet him and said, "General Fei, you come in time, otherwise I will be surrounded here. The enemy troops from Ningxia and Yulin have already arrived in Chunhua, and for some reason, the garrison in Chunhua suddenly stopped moving." .”

"What else could be the reason? It's just to wait and see," Fei Yinggong said with a smile, "They don't go to Hedong, they join the main force in Shanxi. They don't go to rescue Tongguan and Weinan, and they don't even come to Xi'an, which means that the enemy troops are ready at any time. Surrender. Once our army wins another battle in Hedong and Tongguan, the enemy troops stationed in Chunhua will immediately change their banners."

"Da da da da!"

There was a sound of hoofbeats, and the dragoons got off their horses: "The enemy army in Chunhua sent an envoy, saying that they are willing to submit to our dynasty!"

Cao Bianjiao and Fei Yinggong looked at each other, and then they both laughed.

The main general who surrendered this time was Ma Chongxi, who was also one of the thirteen families of Kuidong in history.

Fei Yinggong and Cao Bianjiao led their troops straight to Weinan. Li Guo and Gao Yigong were taken to the city. A loud soldier shouted: "Liu Sanhu, open the door and surrender quickly. Li Guo and Gao Yigong are completely wiped out. Gansu, The puppet soldiers in Hetao have also surrendered, so don't hold back any more!"

Liu Sanhu's face changed dramatically when he heard the words, carefully observing the prisoners under the city, it really was Li Guo and Gao Yigong.

The defenders in the city also became noisy, and all the officers and soldiers wanted to surrender.

General Hua Chun said: "General Liu, surrender, we can't win."

Clang!

Liu Sanhu drew his saber out of its sheath, slashed out with all his strength, and after hacking Hua Chun to death, he shouted: "Whoever says surrender again will end up like this!"

The guards were terrified and dared not speak any more.

Fei Yinggong put down the binoculars and sighed: "Li Zicheng is the emperor after all, there must be some people who will die. Pull up the artillery and start blasting the city. Let the craftsmen make siege equipment."

On the other side of the river.

Liu Fangliang was at a loss. He was going to gather troops to fight in Tongguan, but soldiers from Henan defected one after another.He has successively gathered troops to 5000 people, but nearly half of them are recruits, and they dare not take the initiative to attack at all, so they can only retreat to Yicheng for defense.

Immediately after, bad news was received one after another. Hanzhong was lost, Gansu soldiers surrendered, and Li Guo and Gao Yigong were captured.

Immediately afterwards, the 1 Dashun Army gathered in Hongdong County unexpectedly started a civil strife for no reason.The cause seemed to be old grievances, Li Zicheng suppressed them before and did not explode, but now the situation is in a mess, there are grievances for grievances, revenge for revenge, and even a fight in Hongdong County.

The one who killed the winner took the remnant soldiers to Linfen to surrender.

In this way, a serious battle was not fought, and only a few troops in Liu Fangliang's hands were left to support Tongguan.

"I thought there was a bad fight, but who knew it would be like this." Liu Zhu couldn't laugh or cry.

Lin Ruzhao said: "The dynasty is at the end, so is Chongzhen, and so is Li Zicheng. Back then, Li Zicheng's foundation was not stable, and he was defeated by the Tartars. Although he managed to gain a foothold in the past two years, he was in a corner. .Once the call for defeat is revealed, there will inevitably be a scene of scrambling to surrender."

Liu Zhu said: "Let's send troops to Yicheng, first straighten out the east of the river, and then slowly besiege Tongguan."

The Henan Datong Army came with three divisions, one was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, the other was stationed at Fenglingdu and Daqingguan, and the remaining one ran to attack Yicheng.

Knowing that Liu Zhu led troops to kill, Liu Fangliang immediately abandoned Yicheng and led the troops to guard the passes of Luliang Mountain.

The entire Xihe area, the famous east of the river, was once again under the control of the Datong army.

Of the enemy forces in Shaanxi, only Tongguan and Weinan are left.

Tongguan.

One by one, the military news came, and they were all sent by the Datong Army. Tian Jianxiu had already begun to become numb.

The morale of the defenders was low. Except for the old battalion soldiers, whether it was the militia recruited temporarily or the soldiers recruited in the past two years, they all quietly discussed whether to surrender or not.

Tian Jianxiu could only say to the soldiers: "The enemy's shootings are all rumors, don't believe them. As long as you persist for a month, reinforcements from all walks of life will arrive, and then we will fight another big victory!"

The soldiers were dubious, but finally there was no rebellion.

When Fei Yinggong and Cao Bianjiao attacked Weinan, Li Guo and Gao Yigong were sent to Fenglingdu by detour.

These two precious prisoners were immediately rowed to the north of Tongguan City.

The defenders wanted to shoot arrows, but Tian Jianxiu, who had a binoculars, saw clearly who was standing at the bow of the boat, and quickly shouted: "Slow down!"

The archers showed doubts on their faces, and they all turned to look at Tian Jianxiu.

Tian Jianxiu lowered his head in thought, gritted his teeth and said, "Fire the arrow!"

Arrows fell like rain, and the Datong Army hurriedly rowed downstream before they could speak out.

Seeing the ship being rushed downstream, Tian Jianxiu shouted again: "Fire at that ship!"

Are artillery ammunition free?

How can a ship be worth shooting, maybe it won't hit for a long time.

"Boom boom boom!"

The shells roared, but fortunately the target was small, and the ship carrying the captives was safe and sound.

In desperation, Jiang Liang had no choice but to use the old method, sending people to approach quietly at night and shooting letters towards the city wall.

After the letter is spread, Li Guo and Gao Yigong will be escorted there during the day.

Li and Gao were defeated and captured, and the bad news finally spread to Tongguan.The morale of the defenders at Tongguan has dropped to the bottom, and this Xiongguan has become a dead place under siege.

Jiang Liang still besieged and did not attack, and a strong attack would mean death. Xiongguan has always been won by the surrender of the defenders.

We have to wait a little longer, after capturing Weinan, take Huazhou and Huayin, then we will be able to completely surround Tongguan, and the defenders in the pass will inevitably collapse.

On the Tianjin side, Li Zicheng didn't know that most of Shaanxi was lost, let alone that his nephew and cousin were captured.

However, Li Zicheng knew that Shaanxi was in danger, and the situation in Tianjin was completely stalemate, so he began to ponder whether to withdraw his troops.

"Your Majesty, withdraw!"

The general He Jin persuaded: "The surname Zhang in the city and the surname Fei outside the city have always refused to fight. If you want to break the game, you have to cross the river and attack with force, and you have to cooperate with the Tartars to attack together. That kind of fighting will definitely cause heavy casualties. .”

General Youwuwei Li You also said: "Your Majesty, both Shanxi and Shanxi have steep mountains. We might as well give up Hebei and wait in Shanxi and Shanxi for the puppet fellow troops to come and die."

Afterwards, General Wu Ruyi persuaded, "Your Majesty, if you stay in Tianjin, you will only waste your military supplies!"

When Li Zicheng was hesitating, Hauge actually sent someone over: "My prince wants to cross the river and attack by force. If His Majesty Li agrees, let's discuss how to fight."

"Why is Hauge suddenly going to cross the river?" Li Zicheng wondered.

There was a problem in Li Zicheng's Shaanxi, and there was also a problem in Liaodong in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Hauge learned of the Liaodong army situation, and instead of obeying Dorgon's order, he returned to rescue Liaodong, but wanted to defeat Fei Ruhe's main force with all his might!

Chapter 550 [Phoenix City]

Liaodong, Phoenix.

Hundreds of years later, the Manchus accounted for more than 70% of the city's population, making it one of the largest Manchu settlements in the country.

But most of those Manchus moved there later, and the Qing Dynasty deliberately enriched this "Land of Prosperity".Fo Manchu is a descendant of Changbai Mountain Jurchen, Yiche Manchu originally settled in Jilin, and Baoyi Manchu is a Han Chinese who worked as an errand in Shenyang's Ministry of Internal Affairs.The Eight Banners of Xibo and Eight Banners of Mongolia also moved from the north.

At this time, the population of Phoenix City, inside and outside the city, was less than [-].

At the end of March, when the snow melted away, the Baozhou (North Korea border) Datong Army crossed the Yalu River and moved to Dandong City, which had not yet been repaired. .

In the northeast of Dandong is the ruins of Jiulian City in Ming Dynasty.

Jiulian City, also known as Zhenjiang Fort, was used to guard against Japanese pirates on the Yalu River.After the Manchus broke through the city, they not only destroyed the castle, but also moved all the population away, so neither Manchu nor Han could live here.

The dangerous mountain castle further north is also deserted.

Only Tangzhanbao, which is the closest to Phoenix City, Dorgon moved some troops and their families here in order to guard against the Datong Army in the past two years.

around Phoenix.More than [-]% of the fortress defense system built by the Ming Dynasty was abandoned by the Qing Dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng has already been promoted to division commander, commanding the No.14 Division stationed in Baozhou, North Korea.He led his troops all the way north without encountering any obstacles, and quickly came to the repaired Tangzhan Fort.

Tangzhanbao, originally a post station, was founded in Chenghua five years ago.

There are two son-mother cities, big and small. The side length of the mother city is 400 meters, and the side length of the son city is 150 meters.

Moreover, the sub-city is within the mother city!

Obviously, the city is not big.

The garrison, family members, artisans, coaters, and serfs all withdrew into the city, plus livestock and food, and the two small cities were crowded enough.

"fire!"

Lu Xiangsheng didn't talk nonsense. After setting up camp, he immediately shelled.

These two small cities are connected together. Although there is no moat, there are two natural rivers, both of which are tributaries of the Da Chong River (Love River).

There are rivers on three sides and mountains on one side, easy to defend but difficult to attack!

"Boom boom boom!"

To deal with this kind of castle, only as a last resort, a fool would cross the river and climb the city to attack.

It's shelling, shelling, shelling!

After six full days of shelling, the southern city wall next to the river has been punched with a crack as thick as a head.