Anti Qing

Chapter 39
Tongguan General Military Mansion, the main hall.

"Your Majesty, I watched the sky last night. The Ziwei star moved eastward. The situation is not good for our army. We should evacuate Tongguan as soon as possible to avoid being surrounded."

Song Xiance was holding a folding fan and stroking his beard, quite mysteriously.

Li Zicheng was wearing a light blue arrow jacket, looking at the map in front of him with his hands behind his back.

"What the military adviser said coincides with mine."

"I just don't know if Azig's [-] Qing troops are approaching, did they come from Tongguan, or have they already gone to Xi'an?"

After speaking, Li Zicheng turned around and saw that it was already late at night outside the hall, and his expression suddenly became a little irritable.

"Send someone to urge Jiexuan again, tell him not to be too aggressive, so as not to damage his capital too much, it's better to evacuate quickly."

A veteran soldier was ordered to leave, but he was knocked over by a veteran soldier rushing in just as he was about to go out.

The two threw themselves into their arms and fell on their backs, but everyone in the hall just looked at each other coldly, all of them looked displeased.

The situation was so critical that all the battalions were ready to withdraw to the south, but Liu Zongmin's Chinese army was still stuck in the field and did not return.

Calling so late, many people feel that it is not good.

Li Zicheng stared back, his face full of anxiety.

"Why are you so flustered? Could it be that Duoduo took advantage of the situation and killed Jin Dou to pass?"

The old soldier who rushed back was dressed in red arrow clothes, and was under the command of Ma Shiyao who was ordered to stay at Tongguan.

After getting up, he didn't bother to plead guilty, and said repeatedly.

"Your Majesty, great victory!"

"King Xiao Chuang dug the tunnel to the Qing army's camp, and General Quan took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill him. Dashun won this battle!"

Li Zicheng was taken aback when he heard the words, and the hall was also silent for a moment.

This unexpected change made everyone unexpected, and the Dashun generals in the hall were at a loss, and they didn't even know whether they should celebrate or not.

The same was true for Li Zicheng, who stood still at the same spot, neither continued to ask, nor looked happy, as if he hadn't understood what was going on.

Song Xiance's hand shaking the feather fan paused slightly, and his two thin eyebrows twitched slightly, dumbfounded.

The atmosphere in the hall was completely opposite to Jin Douguan's carnival at this time. It was quite weird, and everyone seemed to have no reaction for a while.

Just now they were discussing what to do next with gloomy faces, but in the blink of an eye they were suddenly told that they had won and they didn't need to continue running.

"You, you say it again."

After thinking for a long time, Li Zicheng came back to his senses, his eyes flickered slightly.

God knows how determined he was to say this.

Li Zicheng even felt that he hadn't slept for too long and was insane. He heard it wrong. He was really afraid that the news was fake.

The veteran soldier thought that the hall would be the same as Jindouguan, full of cheers, but he didn't expect the silence to be so terrifying.

He couldn't help but wonder if Yigai had given the wrong news.

"Your Majesty, the tunnel was dug and the Qing army's camp was blown up. General Quan took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill us. Our army won a big victory, and Duoduo retreated!"

Li Zicheng's eyes widened in astonishment, the expression on his face suddenly froze, his mouth opened wide, and he stood there like a wooden man.

Even Duduo, who he personally led the 3 horse infantry to line up before the pass, could not win, was defeated by Li Zijing and Liu Zongmin with more than [-] people.

This news, let alone Li Zicheng, even other people can hardly believe it.

Ever since Shanhaiguan was defeated, they have been running away even in their dreams.

After getting the exact news, the Dashun generals in the hall immediately put aside the matter of withdrawing to the south and rushed out one by one.

The dog-headed military strategist Song Xiance didn't know when he quietly retreated. In the entire lobby, only Li Zicheng was left standing there.

On the other side, Jin Dou closed.

After the bloody battle, Liu Zongmin didn't know where he threw the helmet on his head. The original blue arrow jacket on his body could no longer be seen, and the armor was dyed reddish brown.

Holding a big knife in his hand, he walked into the pass surrounded by everyone.

"General Quan is brave!"

"If there is no general Quan to check this battle, and the tunnel cannot be dug at the foot of the Qing army camp, General Quan will be the first to win this battle!"

Liu Zongmin put the knife away, and seemed to have no intention of looking back.

At this moment, Li Zijing was walking in front of the thousands of Shunjun troops in the front battalion, looking down at the ground, with no trace of joy on his face.

Liu Zongmin closed his eyes and laughed loudly.

"Everyone in the Chinese army has meritorious service, and everyone is rewarded!"

Li Zijing followed at the end of the team, so he really didn't have the mood to celebrate.

Withdrew all the way from the battlefield, Li Zijing knew how miserable the Chinese army was in front of the Qing army, with corpses everywhere and rivers of blood, and it was only in exchange for enough time.

Every step you take, you have to step over several corpses.

After this war, how many families have been torn apart, how many parents, wives and children have lost their loved ones!
This is war, this is troubled times, and human life is worthless!

The cruelty experienced personally is far more real than watching TV dramas and those words in later generations.

Li Zijing is also human, and his heart is also fleshy, so he can't be indifferent to all this.

At first, Li Zijing thought about helping Dashun win the battle of Tongguan, but he didn't think about what to do next.

Now that it is urgent to solve it, the problem is coming, what should I do next?
Now that things have happened, it seems that there is no other choice but to follow Dashun all the way to Hei.

Li Zijing has seen too many dead people in the past few days, and he has truly understood the cruelty of this era, completely abandoning those naive thoughts at the beginning.

After walking through the piles of corpses, Li Zijing's footsteps became firmer, but his expression gradually became numb.

Dashun won this battle, and the Qing army was defeated.

Just from the perspective of the officers who died in battle, it was the most disastrous match since the battle against the Dashun Army. One of the three Shun kings died.

Even Duoduo's Prince Yu, Huanglong Dazhu, was captured by the Dashun army on the way to retreat.

Shangshan, Xianghongqi Gushan Beizi, was trapped and killed by Liu Fangliang in the gully during the first night attack, and Geng Zhongming, king of Huaishun, was captured and killed by Li Zijing.

Li Sutai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army, the second son of the first traitor Li Yongfang, died at the hands of Liu Zongmin.

The Han army was led by the Yellow Banner, and Wu Zhaosheng, the former deputy general of the Ming army at Daomaguan, surrendered in front of the battle.

The Han army led the Zhenglan Banner, and Tu Guobao, the former general of the Ming army, died in the right-wing rebellion.

The Green Battalion of the Qing Army who died in battle was not counted, and no one counted, but after the Dashun Army counted, there were more than 850 sets of usable Jurchen armor confiscated on the battlefield.

Although quite a few were rescued from the Qing army camp, the number of Jurchen Eight Banner casualties is still likely to exceed a thousand.

Since the Dashun Army fought against the Qing Army, it was the first time that more than 1000 people were killed or injured by the Pure Jurchen Eight Banners.

Of course, the price paid by the Dashun Army was also very painful.

More than 3 of the [-] men under Liu Zongmin suffered casualties in day and night fighting.

Due to facing the attacks of the Qing army on three sides on the battlefield, it is estimated that nearly 2000 old soldiers were directly killed in battle.

The medical system in the Dashun Army is still immature, and the number of people dying of serious injuries is still increasing. These are unnecessary casualties, and they are also problems that need to be urgently resolved in the future.

The casualties of ordinary soldiers were not counted. When Li Zijing passed by the camps, he could only hear the wailing, probably quite a few.

The price of this battle was terrible. The last [-] elites around Li Zicheng were now injured and severely damaged.

For both Qingshun and Qingshun, this battle at Tongguan was a win-lose outcome.

The only advantage is that Dashun temporarily avoided the dilemma of being surrounded by enemies, and Li Zicheng temporarily kept Dashun's "Land of Prosperity" - Guanzhong.

Therefore, Li Zicheng has freed up his hands and began to focus more on Hanzhong, Huguang, and Henan.

Li Zijing returned to the camp, put the blood-stained Yanling Saber under his feet, and began to clean up the wounds left on his body after the battle.

Staring at his own blood-stained face reflected in the copper basin water, Li Zijing's face was slightly dazed, and then he began to wash vigorously.

Li Zijing didn't know how much the battle of Tongguan brought about the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty.

Now Li Zijing only knew that if he didn't want to die worthless like those people lying on the ground, he had to climb up step by step.

In troubled times, no one can avoid being coerced by such a torrent, and only with considerable power in their hands can they have the ability to rewrite their own destiny.

(End of this chapter)