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  Chapter 552 549 [The lucky general is actually myself? 】

   To conquer the world based on Guanzhong, they usually take the ancient Weihan 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 are all in the hands of the Datong Army.

  Although Wuguan was controlled by Li Zicheng, Fushui Fort was seized by Zhao Han, which meant that Wuguan Road was blocked from each other. It was called Fushui Fort in Ming Dynasty, Fushuiguan in Qing Dynasty, and later became Fushui Town.

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

  If you can 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, took the elite main force to Hebei, and attacked 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 gathered three divisions in Tongguan and Hedong, but the Shanshan soldiers of Dashun 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 people are 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.

   In the blink of an eye, it's late May.

   Li Guo’s general Zhang Neng, after defecting 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 withdrew to Fufeng in a hurry with the remnants of the army, trying to recruit Xiangyong as soldiers to stop the Sichuan Datong army. Barely gathered 10,000 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 war at all. The Gansu Dashun Army came in a hurry. I heard that Li Guo’s army was completely wiped out. I also heard that Hanzhong was lost, and Xi’an was also 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 a fake Prince Shun? Why are you so old?" Fei Yinggong asked puzzled.

  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 sprayed 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 hero, 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 and show them to the Weinan and Tongguan defenders. After taking Guanzhong, 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 set off and march into Weinan!"

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

  Traveling to 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 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!"

  Hearing this, Liu Sanhu's expression changed drastically, and he carefully observed the prisoners under the city, and it turned out to be Li Guo and Gao Yigong.

  The defenders on 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 city 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 a few people who will die. Pull up the artillery and start blasting the city. Let the craftsmen make siege equipment."

  Hedong side.

  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 15,000 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, bad news came one after another. Hanzhong was lost, Gansu soldiers surrendered, and Li Guo and Gao Yigong were captured.

   Immediately afterwards, the 10,000 Dashun Army gathered in Hongdong County unexpectedly started a civil strife for no reason. The cause seems 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 kills the winner, takes the remnant soldiers to Linfen to surrender.

   Just like that, no serious battle was fought, and only a few troops in Liu Fangliang's hands were left to support Tongguan.

   "I thought there was a bad battle, 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 there are signs of defeat, there will inevitably be a scene of scrambling to surrender.”

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

  Henan Datong Army, three divisions came, one was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, one 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 various passes of Luliang Mountain.

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

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

  Tongguan.

  Military information came one by one, 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 shooting is all rumors. Don't believe it. Just hold on for another month, and reinforcements from all walks of life will arrive. At that time, we will fight another big victory!"

  The soldiers were dubious, but there was no rebellion after all.

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

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

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

  The archers looked puzzled, and they all turned to look at Tian Jianxiu.

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

  Arrows rained down, and before the Datong army had time to speak out, they hurriedly rowed and drifted downstream.

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

  Aren’t artillery ammunition free?

  A ship is not worth shooting, maybe it won't hit for a long time.

   "Boom boom boom!"

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

   In desperation, Jiang Liang could only use the old method, sending people to approach quietly at night, and shooting letters towards the city wall.

   After the letter was spread, Li Guo and Gao Yigong were escorted there during the day.

   Li and Gao were defeated and captured. 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 we capture Weinan, we will take Huazhou and Huayin. Then we will be able to completely surround Tongguan, and the morale of 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!"

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 make a strong attack, and you have to cooperate with the Tartars to attack together. That kind of fighting will definitely cause heavy casualties. .”

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

  Afterwards General Wu Ruyi persuaded: "Your Majesty, if you stay in Tianjin, you will only be wasting your military rations!"

   Just 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 asked doubtfully.

   Li Zicheng's Shaanxi had a problem, and Liaodong in the Qing Dynasty also had a problem.

  Haug learned of the situation of the Liaodong Army, so he didn't follow Dorgon's order and went back to rescue Liaodong. Instead, he wanted to desperately defeat Fei Ruhe's main force!

  (end of this chapter)