Anti Qing

Chapter 23 Situation

The vegetable porridge last night was really not tasty, but Li Zijing sat around with the others and drank several bowls in succession, not caring about the taste at all.

Traveling through more than two months, this is the best thing I have ever eaten.

Since the defeat of Shanhaiguan, the Dashun army has been displaced all the way, and the Qing army has been chasing after it. There is no time to cook good food.

The biscuits are easy to make, as long as you have flour and water, you can bake them with dry firewood, and they can be stored for a long time

The cooks of each battalion of the Dashun Army could prepare sesame seed cakes for several days at a time and distribute them to ordinary soldiers in case of emergency.

In the past two months, Li Zijing has eaten this kind of sesame seed cakes, which shows how difficult it is to eat a meal of vegetable porridge in this era.

After eating porridge and going back to sleep in the tent, Li Zijing didn't take off his armor.

In today's troubled times, especially in times of war, no matter whether it is ordinary people engulfed in camp or Dashun soldiers, it is a precarious day.

No one knows when the next battle will come.

Only the thick and warm armor on his body and the Yanling Saber standing beside the straw mat could bring Li Zijing some comfort.

Li Zijing wanted to get up and go directly to Li Zicheng to discuss the issue of war strategy, but he didn't expect that before he woke up, the hurried Liu Fangliang came to him at Yinshi.

"Your Majesty's promotion of military affairs, news has reached Tongguan!"

Yin time is around three to five o'clock in later generations. When night and day alternate, the mountains are still silent at this time.

Looking into the distance, there is a hazy darkness between the sky and the earth.

But in the front battalion, the soldiers of the Shun Army who were full of food and drink had already got up and went back and forth busy.

The difference from last night was that there was a chilling atmosphere in the camp now. Many old soldiers from the former camp were sitting outside their tents, wiping their knives against the moonlight.

When Li Zijing followed Liu Fangliang to the general military mansion, the general military mansion was brightly lit, and old soldiers of the Chinese army in blue arrow uniforms stood around.

Stepping into the lobby, many Dashun generals were filled with righteous indignation.

Liu Zongmin jumped up against the crime, spitting all over the place.

"They think that if another emperor is established, it will be counted as the imperial court again?"

"If I, Dashun, can overthrow Chongzhen, then I can also eliminate this little court of Hongguang!"

"If it wasn't for the rush of the Qing captives, what's the matter with them?"

Several hideous knife marks on Liu Zongmin's face kept shaking, and his words were full of hatred for what the Nanming Hongguang court did.

"I'm in such a hurry, I'm going to take a part of the army to cross the south of the Yangtze River, first destroy Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang, then attack Nanjing, and completely overthrow the small imperial court!"

Li Zijing came to his seat and sat down, quietly looking at Li Zicheng who was at the top.

Li Zicheng had already changed into a light blue arrow jacket, and his felt hat was placed on a shelf not far away. With his back to the main entrance, he stared at the map in front of him.

After returning to the northwest, the situation in Dashun is still not optimistic.

Not long ago, the Dashun Army launched a counterattack in the Huaiqing Campaign. Although the partial results were remarkable, from the perspective of the overall situation, it was a bit like stabbing a hornet's nest.

Therefore, Dorgon realized that the Dashun Army still had sufficient strength to threaten the rule of the Qing Dynasty, so he transferred Duoduo, who was originally scheduled to attack Nanjing, all the way to Huaiqing, and then attacked Tongguan.

Nanming, who benefited from this, not only did nothing at this time, but a piece of news came today that made all the civil and military in Dashun indignant.

In May of this year, the gentry and bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River supported Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, as emperor in Nanjing, with the reign name Hongguang, which was the famous Nanming regime in history.

Shi Kefa, a well-known contemporary official who enjoys a great reputation, was appointed as a bachelor of the Dongge University, and he was also in charge of military affairs of the Ministry of War to control the Ming army in Jiangbei.

It was this Shi Kefa who became the target of the Dashun army wishing they could go to Nanjing immediately and cut him to pieces.

News spread to Tongguan tonight that the Nanming monarchs and ministers headed by Shi Kefa are actively begging for peace from the Qing captives with the national policy of uniting with the captives to suppress the invaders.

The so-called alliance with the captives and the suppression of the bandits means that it is the Qing captives who are united, and the Shun bandits are the ones who are flattened.

To put it more bluntly, Shi Kefa wanted to use the hands of the Qing army to level Dashun and Daxi first, and then negotiate terms with the Qing army.

Li Zijing had long known about this ridiculous policy of Nanming in history, so he didn't react as much as other Dashun generals.

The naive Shi Kefa actually thought that the Qing army, which entered the pass under the banner of avenging Chongzhen, would withdraw from the pass and return the capital to them after destroying the Dashun army.

As the Dashun Army formed a brief stalemate with the main forces of the two Qing armies in Tongguan and Yan'an, Nanming's various coquettish operations came as scheduled.

Of course, the Hongguang court was not the only one who stabbed the knife in the back.

While Li Zicheng led Dashun's main force back to Guanzhong from Shanxi, the situation in Shandong, Henan and other places was also changing.

Li Zicheng was chased by two groups of Qing troops, and he had no time to take into account the changes in other places.

The former Ming officials, gentry and landlords, who had not expressed their hatred, immediately revealed their true colors when they saw the defeat of Dashun Shanhaiguan, and began to contact each other secretly.

Those who have money donate money, some people donate people, or they bow to the Qing army, or raise the banner of Nanming Hongguang, and almost disintegrate the officials and garrisons stationed by the Dashun Army.

In Shandong area, Wenshang, Yutai, Juye, Zouxian, Laiwu and other prefectures and counties jointly captured and killed the officials stationed in Shandong by Dashun.

After the battle of Huaiqing, the main force of the Qing army along the way Duoduo defeated Yuan Zongdi, the main general of Dashun Henan in Huaiqing, part of the Dashun army transferred to Shandong, and all parts of Henan almost surrendered.

Sang Kaidi, the former prefect of Guide in the Chongzhen Dynasty, joined forces with other officials and gentry to trap the officials stationed in Shangqiu, Luyi, Kaocheng, and Xiayi counties in Dashun, and sent them to Beijing to report their meritorious service.

Some Dashun officials were even on the way to take office, and the officials and gentry at the place where they took office were already impatient to surrender to the Qing army, so they were captured and killed as soon as they took office.

Dong Xueli, the former deputy general of Ninghua of the Ming Army, surrendered to Dashun, and last month he also surrendered to Duoduo in Huaiqing area, dedicating the distribution of troops in Dashun in Henan for his meritorious service.

The entire territory of Henan fell, so that Li Zicheng was completely unable to contact the part of the Dashun army that had withdrawn to Shandong.

Each of these news made Li Zicheng physically and mentally exhausted.

But it's not over yet.

At the beginning of November, Hanzhong Youtang News came.

Daxi, who was in the same peasant military regime as Dashun, actually touched Li Zicheng's ass at this time.

Seeing Dashun's successive defeats, Zhang Xianzhong wanted to invade and occupy Hanzhong, so he sent [-] Western troops to attack Hanzhong Mansion under Dashun's jurisdiction.

The good news is that He Zhen, who was stationed in Hanzhong, defended the city and defeated Zhang Xianzhong's [-] army.

But the situation is still not optimistic. Zhang Xianzhong was furious after his initial attack was frustrated. Now he is gathering heavy troops in Chengdu and is about to attack Hanzhong again.

Dashun under He Zhen's command has only more than 1 troops, no matter what, it cannot withstand Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops.

In November and December, urgent documents from Shandong, Henan, and Hanzhong were sent one after another.

What Li Zicheng has to deal with now is not one person or one force, but a group of people.

The Qing army, former Ming officials, local landlords, and Nanming army attacked Dashun at the same time, and even Daxi, who was a peasant regime, also acted as a demon behind his back, which was hard to guard against.

Now the main force of the Dashun Army has been delayed in Yan'an and Tongguan, and its strength is simply stretched.

Due to the surrender and rebellion of the former Ming officials and gentry in various places, the Dashun garrison and officials stationed in the local area will suffer extremely serious losses every day.

Hanzhong Mansion is the gateway to Sichuan and Shu. Once it is breached by Zhang Xianzhong, the Great Western Army can drive straight in and wreak havoc in Shaanxi and Huguang.

However, in November, in order to fight Duoduo, Li Zicheng was continuously transferring the Dashun army to the north, and he was unable to take care of Hanzhong at all.

Li Zicheng stared at the turbulent situation on the map, trying to find a glimmer of hope from the dead end.

　In the past few days, I have not been able to sleep well, my head is groggy, and the quality has declined. I will adjust my state as soon as possible. Please forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)