Anti Qing

Chapter 47 Xi'an
It has been four days since Duoduo retreated, and the [-] Qing troops from Azig who went south from Yan'an still remained silent.

I don't know where it is hidden, or it has turned back.

The movements of [-] Qing troops were unknown. Li Zicheng was worried about the situation in Yan'an on the North Road, and did not dare to stay too long in Tongguan, so he decided to lead the main force of the Dashun Army back to Xi'an.

The Dashun army rested in Tongguan for three days. In order to reward the army for fighting for a long time, Li Zicheng specially prepared a sumptuous meal on the last night.

As the night falls, the fragrance in Tongguan permeates.

In the garrisons of the Central Army, Zuoying, and Qianying, marching pots were set up, and steaming meat porridge was boiled in the pots, and there were minced wild vegetables between the white foam.

In the first month of the second year of Dashun Yongchang, due to the small ice river, Guanzhong was also very cold, but a big victory dispelled the coldness in people's hearts.

After the big victory, people's hearts are warm.

There wasn't much meat in the porridge, but the soldiers of Dashun were all beaming, sitting around each other with smiles on their faces.

For this age, to be able to eat such a bowl of meat porridge is something that one would never dare to dream of.

The smell of meat is enough, who cares how much meat there is.

Li Zijing sat among the crowd with a bowl in his hand, looking forward through the bustling crowd with a little curiosity.

After traveling for more than two months, Li Zijing was first hunted down, and then forced to participate in a war that should have failed.

For a long time, Li Zijing has never carefully observed this "big brother" - Li Zicheng who is close at hand.

All I saw was Li Zicheng surrounded by everyone, chatting and laughing together, he didn't look like a superior emperor in the traditional sense at all.

All the Dashun soldiers around looked at Li Zicheng with full awe.

The veteran soldiers who killed people without batting an eyelid on the battlefield seemed to have turned back to the original honest farmers when they were in front of Li Zicheng.

Tens of thousands of people eat horse chews. It is not so easy to prepare, but Li Zicheng still tries his best to let everyone eat the best.

Li Zijing sipped his porridge, and now he somewhat understood the reason why these people still followed closely after Li Zicheng's defeat after defeat in history.

The aroma of meat porridge was blown by the wind and permeated the entire Tongguan.

Many people slept on the ground, and the loud chatter and laughter gradually subsided, leaving only the crackling sound of firewood burning.

There is no never-ending banquet in the world, and running around and fighting is the main theme of troubled times.

This night was also the most solid sleep Li Zijing had ever had since he came to this era, and he soon fell into a deep sleep.

"Bang bang bang—"

The familiar sound of the gong resounded through the pass again, and before dawn, the Tongguan was already full of people shouting and neighing.

A group of sentry horses galloped out, rolling up smoke and dust on the Guanzhong Plain.

Li Zicheng, who was wearing a light blue arrow jacket, got up at some point, put on a brand new light blue arrow jacket, and rode out from under the city gate.

Behind him are Niu Jinxing, the Prime Minister of Dashun, Song Xiance, the military adviser, Liu Zongmin, the general of the Central Military Power, Liu Fangliang, the general of the Zuoying System, and others.

At dawn, Li Zicheng led the remaining [-] main force of the Dashun Army and set off back to Xi'an under the watchful eye of Wushan Bo Ma Shiyao, who was guarding Tongguan.

Li Zijing was riding on the horse, looking back.

The troops of the Dashun Army rose from the foot of Tongguan, stretching inward like a black line, with flags covering the sky, mighty and mighty, with no end in sight.

The straight-line distance from Tongguan to Xi'an is more than 100 miles, and the Guanzhong Plain is flat. If the cavalry is fast, it can be reached within two days.

However, due to the unknown movement of the cavalry under Azig, Li Zicheng still adopted a cautious attitude and planned to arrive in Xi'an within three to four days.

The veterans of each battalion formed a cavalry formation several miles away on the left and right sides of the army. If a Qing army suddenly rushed out from somewhere, they could quickly go up to fight and delay the formation of an army formation for the infantry.

The infantry is the main body of the Dashun Army. When marching, the battalion is the main force. The elite old soldiers are still outside, and the ordinary soldiers with weaker combat effectiveness and the family members of the old battalion are protected inside.

Li Zijing's front battalion collapsed after the Battle of Qingdu, and the headquarters is still being recalled, with the smallest number of soldiers.

Therefore, it was arranged in the rear position in the middle of the army, which is easy to be protected.

The one hundred elite cavalry who had just been selected by Li Zijing's headquarters were also left out of the team by Li Zicheng and marched with the army.

Before evacuating Tongguan, the Dashun army carried a considerable part of the firearms from the god hangar, and marched slowly on purpose, and only advanced forty miles on the first day.

Fortunately, nothing happened on the first day, and Azig's so-called [-] cavalry could not find anyone at all.

Ordinarily, if tens of thousands of cavalry really came south, the road from Xi'an to Tongguan would be smooth, and they would definitely leave traces.

But for many days, the sentry cavalry of the Dashun army went out everywhere, but they found nothing.

The more this happened, the more dignified Li Zicheng's mood became.

Perhaps, Azig didn't lead the cavalry south at all. This was just a deliberate spread of rumors by the Qing army, a trick of suspicious soldiers?

Xi'an is located in the central part of the Guanzhong Plain, bordering the Wei River in the north and the Qinling Mountains in the south.

Historically, thirteen dynasties including Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty, Former Qin Dynasty, Later Qin Dynasty, Western Wei Dynasty, Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty established their capitals here successively.

If Da Shun is counted, there are fourteen.

Guanzhong is the land of four fortresses. The so-called four fortresses are four passes. There are four major passes in the east, west, north, south, and north directions of the Guanzhong Plain.

East Tongguan, South Wuguan, Xidashan Pass, North Xiaoguan.

Qinchuan is eight hundred miles away, and the mountains are locked and keyed. In the east, the prestige of Jin and Yu is used to suppress Shandong, and in the south, the benefits of Sichuan and Shu are used as backup.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the fertile fields are thousands of miles away, and the world is shaped like this.

Guanzhong is the basic market that Li Zicheng has painstakingly managed. It has long been solid, stable for a long time, and people's hearts have turned to Dashun.

Most of the old soldiers are from Shaanxi. Fighting here is to protect their hometown, and they have a deep obsession with returning home, so they were all brave when they were in Tongguan.

Li Zicheng rode his horse up a high slope, looked around, and sighed deeply.

Recalling the past few days, he almost gave up the fertile land of his hometown because of a temporary failure, and he felt a burst of self-blame in his heart.

In case the so-called personally led the cavalry to go south, it was just Azig's suspicious strategy, but he gave up Guanzhong because of this, Li Zicheng dared not even think about it now.

Li Zicheng turned around slowly, staring at the team with a little complicated eyes.

Fortunately, the third younger brother respected himself and broke the Qing army's camp, so that it would not be a big mistake.

After three days in a row, the Dashun Army advanced a total of more than 130 miles. On the morning of the fourth day after leaving Tongguan, the marching speed of the Dashun Army suddenly accelerated.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong from the North Road sent back news last night that the main force of the Dashun Army in Shaanxi and Yulin had been fighting with the Qing army under Azig for many days, and Azig's banner had been outside Yan'an all along. .

Li Zicheng was concerned about the safety of the North Road, and he had already deployed sentry cavalry. Coupled with Li Guo's news, he concluded that Azig had not gone south, and decided to return to Xi'an at an accelerated pace.

(End of this chapter)