Appearing outside the Great Wall of Weiyuan Fort was the Qing army led by Azig! They had retreated from under the city of Datong a month earlier. However, he did not return to Beijing to make small tartars, but rested on the grassland north of the Great Wall of Datongfu for more than ten days, and after meeting with the Mongol soldiers of the left and right banners of Tumut mobilized by Dolgon, they marched west to the Hetao grassland outside the border wall of Yulin Town.

They were quite numerous, the Eight Banners plus the Han army plus the nomadic Mongols of Tumut (not belonging to the Eight Banners of Mongolia), with a total strength of forty or fifty thousand. Supplies along the way were provided by the left and right banners of Tumut - Tumut's cavalry drove cattle and sheep to join the Azig!

As early as the sixth year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji, who was still the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, launched a grassland expedition with 100,000 participants, and led the Later Jin-Mongolian coalition army to chase and kill Lin Dan Khan until Guihua Cheng (Hohhot)!

Compared with the expedition more than ten years ago, the expedition commanded by Azig this time is really nothing. However, for the Dashun army, which had no experience in fighting outside the Saiwai, Azig's attack on Yulin was greatly unexpected. So much so that when the news of Weiyuanbao being attacked by the Qing army reached Li Zicheng's Tongguan Palace, the high-level of the Dashun army were all shocked.

"How, how so?" Li Zicheng, who had just returned to the palace after inspecting the safe and sound front line, was shocked, "Didn't you say that the Tartars were defeated in Datong Mansion?" Why did you go to Yulin again? Commander, tell me what's going on? ”

Song Xiance was also panicked, and even forgot to count his fingers, "Emperor, Emperor...... Let's fall for Wang Yongji and Jiang Jiu again! ”

"Yes, yes!" Li Zicheng was really angry, his face was pale, and he gritted his teeth, "I fell for them again...... They are clearly traitors in collusion with the Tartars! ”

"That's right! It must be Wang Yongji and Jiang Hao who colluded with the Tartars and sold them! Liu Zongmin also shouted, "You can't spare them!" ”

"Can't spare them!"

"Can't spare ......"

Above the main hall of the palace, there was a shouting and shouting to kill, and a group of generals of the Dashun army gritted their teeth one by one, hating to kill Datong Mansion and Wang Yongji and Jiang Jiu.

However, they really wronged the bad guys this time, although Wang Yongji and Jiang Hao falsely reported the number of beheadings—which was nothing to the Ming army—but they did nothing else.

And the first siege of Datong can indeed be judged as the victory of the Ming army - the siege was surrounded for a winter, without hurting half a point of Datong City, and in the end the Qing army left tens of thousands of slaves and retreated in disgrace, how was it not a failure?

"Don't say it's useless!" Li Zicheng looked at his subordinates and was a little annoyed, so he waved his hand and said, "Say something useful!" ”

"Emperor," Luo Hu was the first to speak, "Yulin's military newspaper said that Weiyuan Fort has not been lost...... Let's send troops to rescue immediately, maybe it's still too late! ”

Weiyuan Fort was indeed not lost, and the battle of Weiyuan Fort lasted for eight days and seven nights, until the fifth day of April in the second year of Dashun Yongchang...... More than 3,000 soldiers and civilians defending the city were all slaughtered, and none of them were spared!

The fall of Yulin City, Dashun's big stronghold in Yulinwei, dragged on until July of the second year of Yongchang. Because the Qing army only switched to surround Yulin City after breaking through Weiyuan Fort. The defenders of Yulin City were much more numerous than Weiyuan Fort, and the city was stronger, so the Qing army besieged it for more than 30 days before breaking Yulin City...... The soldiers and civilians in Yulin City, like the soldiers and civilians in Weiyuan Fort, were slaughtered!

"It's too late...... Liu Fangliang shook his head, "There are too few defenders on the side wall of Yulin Town, there are only three or four thousand in total, and the Tartars will definitely be able to find a place to break through the wall." ”

He's right! Although Weiyuan Fort and Yulin City held out for a long time, it was only the Han army under Azig who was responsible for the attack. The main force led by Azig broke through the Yulin border wall at Huaiyuan Fort near Weiyuan Fort. Then, along the side wall, after breaking through the Yinzhou Pass south of Yulin City, leaving a guard over Yulin City, the vanguard has now occupied Li Zicheng's hometown of Tianbao County (Mizhi).

However, the resistance of Weiyuan Fort and Yulin City still slowed down Azig's pace, because it was Azig who led the troops to fight, not Duoduo. The latter was bold and decisive in his use of troops, while Azig was more cautious. Before taking Weiyuan Fort and besieging Yulin City with his troops, he did not dare to move south, so he gave Li Zicheng time to adjust his deployment.

"Then withdraw the troops and return to Chang'an!" Tian Jianxiu suggested, "Emperor, the prime minister has collected 300,000 stone of grain in the countryside of Chang'an Mansion these days, and all of them have been sent to Chang'an City...... And these days, the people in Chang'an City have run a lot, as long as we return to the army to defend, and then send our own families to Xiangjing, maybe we can rely on Chang'an Jiancheng to push the Qing army back. ”

The city wall of Xi'an Mansion in the Ming Dynasty was also extremely strong - Zhu Yuanzhang liked to repair the wall in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and at that time, the country also had money and food, and it could also mobilize the people, so all the places that could be repaired were repaired. Xi'an is also the location of the Qin Palace, and it was once a candidate for the capital of the Ming Dynasty, so the city wall was built very strongly. Later, it was reinforced again during the Longqing period, and the rammed earth was wrapped with green bricks. By the time Sun Chuanting became the governor of Qin and strengthened again, it had reached the point of being impregnable, and the city defense was by no means under Datong Mansion.

If Azig can't win Datong for a few months, then he can't take Li Zicheng's Chang'an.

Besides, Niu Jinxing had just gotten 300,000 stone grain into the city, if Li Zicheng drove the people in the city away and his family was evacuated, leaving only 30,000 people to guard the city, and saving a little bit of 300,000 stone grain was enough to eat for five years......

"Emperor," Luo Hu said, "there are 15,000 people in Gao Yigong, and another 15,000 will be given...... If you have been guarding him for three or five years, you don't believe that Tartars can still raise babies outside Chang'an City. ”

This is a way to defeat the Qing Dynasty, the population of the Eight Banners is small, if this city will be besieged for three years, and that city will be trapped for five years, if they can't wait for the whole of China to be defeated, they will have to delay the birth of the successor of the Eight Banners......

Li Zicheng was also a little hesitant, glanced at Song Xiance, and said: "Emperor, Dashun and Xiangjing Mansion are also the capital!" Moreover, the Marquis of Bo and the Second Army Division did well in Xiangjing, the hearts of the people were attached, and the people were happy. ”

What the? Li Zicheng didn't believe that the people of Xiangjing Mansion had become tenants of the old battalion soldiers, and they could still be happy?

"Emperor," Song Xiance said again, "It's better to transfer your family members to Xiangjing first, and then decide whether to defend Chang'an City or not depending on the situation!" ”

Li Zicheng's thick eyebrows were deeply furrowed, as if he was thinking hard, everyone looked at him, and after a while, he heard him say: "The whole group retreats to Huguang, how about Xu Tujiangnan?" ”

"No!" Luo Hu shook his head, "Xiangjing Mansion is the nest of the people, it takes time to make a good business before it can be solid, if Chang'an is suddenly abandoned, the Tartars will inevitably press Xiangjing, how will it be good then?" Do you abandon Xiangjing Mansion again? Aren't they the dogs that have lost their families? As for the plot to Huguang Jiangnan...... The Jiangbei part of Huguang may be easier to fight, but the Yangtze River is not easy to cross! Have you forgotten the Battle of Tianjinwei? ”

Chen Yongfu, who had suffered enough in the Battle of Tianjinwei, echoed: "What Tong Guanbo said is extremely true, Prince Zhu Thief has already won the Beiyang Sand Boat Gang, the Nanyang Eighteen Zhi and the Jianghuai Canal Army, and the naval army is much stronger than when he was in Tianjin. Can we defeat the Zhu thief on the Yangtze River? If not, how can you plan Jiangnan? ”

"This ......," Li Zicheng groaned, "Xiangjing, Shenyang, De'an, Chengtian...... These few mansions are too cramped, if you can't allow Jiangnan, it's not a way after all. ”

"Emperor," Song Xiance said, "since ancient times, those who have taken the south of the Yangtze River have mostly taken the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River and gone down the river, forming a trend of breaking bamboo. If I want to go south of the Yangtze River, I must build warships in Xiangjing, train sailors, and accumulate strength for two or three years before I can swing in one drum...... In the past two or three years, Chang'an Mansion cannot be lost, otherwise the Tartars will attack Xiangjing with all their might, and we will have no place to stand. ”

Li Zicheng frowned: "I'm afraid that after a long time, Prince Zhu Thief's foundation in Jiangnan will be firmly established." ”

"No," Song Xiance said with a smile, "The minister got the news that the prince of Zhu Thief was desolate and greedy, far better than the faint monarch Chongzhen, and he was tyrannical in the southeast, and the people had a lot of resentment. ”