"Wu Sangui? Guan Ningjun is also coming to intervene? ”

After hearing this latest information, Sima De shook his head again and again, "Although we are not afraid of the Guan Ning army, we are afraid that we will not be able to deal with Wu Sangui if we want to deal with Li Zicheng and clean up the mess in the capital." ”

"That's right, if the three parties fight together and mess up the situation in the capital, it will run counter to our previous plan." Xia Nan said, "We must use all means to prevent the Guan Ning army and the Dashun army from appearing in the capital at the same time, and even to prevent them from meeting before approaching the Forbidden City." ”

A staff officer of the Military Aircraft Staff Office hung up a map of the surrounding area of Suncheonfu at the signal of Xia Nan.

Under the gaze of the bigwigs, the young staff officer licked his lips nervously, pointed to a place in the east of the capital, and said: "If you want to exclude the Guanning army from the capital, then at least you must block Wu Sangui east of Tongzhou......"

"Tongzhou is just afraid that it won't work." Sima De denied this location, "It's too close to the capital, it's easy to get entangled with Li Zicheng." Li Zicheng was an army of hundreds of thousands, not a small group of bandits, and after the team launched a siege of the capital, it was easy for the peripheral troops and scouts to contact the Guanning army. ”

Huang Hansheng, Wei Lianheng and others also nodded in agreement: "If you want to block it, block it farther, Tongzhou is closer." ”

Where is the right choice? Sima De carefully searched for the location on the map, frowned, and said: "It's too close, it's not too far, and you can't block it to Yongping - it's all at Shanhaiguan, how can there be a reason to gamble on people's doorsteps, in this way, it will inevitably give people the impression of suppressing reinforcements and seeking power......"

Xia Nan was a native of Beijing, and although the administrative area of this dynasty was completely different from the old time and space, the general outline could still be seen, and he walked to the map and pointed his hand at a place.

"It can't be too close, it can't be too far, so let's go here—what do you think of Xianghe County?"

Everyone's eyes were focused on this small place, silently estimating the distance in their hearts.

Xia Nan recalled the impression of the road trip in the old time and space, and explained: "Xianghe County is about 30 kilometers away from Tongzhou...... About sixty miles, Tongzhou is about forty miles away from the Forbidden City, that is to say, a hundred miles away from the place where Li Zicheng and we are going to fight. This distance should be ideal......"

Sima De nodded again and again: "The place chosen by the general is very suitable, not near or far." ”

Lin Weiye, who was specially invited to participate in the meeting, asked: "In what name should we stop the Guan Ningjun who came to King Qin?" Can't you tell him directly, we are picking peaches behind Li Zicheng, if we know each other, don't stop us from doing Chongzhen? ”

Xia Nan smiled: "How can you be so stupid? Send a team of people over and tell Wu Sangui directly, Lao Tzu is also the king of Qin, he arrived before you, if you want to be safe, don't step into the capital obediently, if you want to grab credit, ask us if the guns in our hands agree! As long as he dares to make a move, Qiong Haijun will fight to the end with Guan Ningjun. ”

Sima De stroked his beard and smiled: "This is very much in line with the impression of the government and the opposition on our Qiong Navy - flying and domineering, and empty-eyed. Just how many men to send, and who to send to lead the army? ”

"Wu Sangui has seen our combat effectiveness in Shandong, at that time we were still the Qiongzhou battalion, only 2,000 main forces, still fighting the rebels all over the ground to find teeth, now after the expansion of the army is no longer the same, as long as he is not stupid, he should not really do anything with us." Xia Nan analyzed, "Our main energy is to deal with Li Zicheng. In this way, the First and Second Armies, the Independent Artillery Regiment, and the Special Combat Team and Guards Battalion remained in Gyeonggi to deal with Li Zicheng, and the Xianghe side was handed over to the Third Army. ”

Su Thick Leg patted his chest and promised: "My subordinates promise that Wu Sangui will not be allowed to step through Xianghe County." People are in the defensive line! ”

"Of course I can trust you." Xia Nan patted him on the shoulder, "However, as a last resort, you don't really fight with Wu Sangui, we won't do anything about killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, just be able to scare him." ”

On the second day, Su led the Third Army to separate from the main army and headed east. At this point, the military operations of the Qiong Navy were all deployed: the Liaodong Peninsula was the main army of part of the navy's fleet and the Marine Corps to contain Dolgon and Hauge; The Third Army rushed to Xianghe County to block the approaching Wu Sangui; The rest of the main force followed the Dashun army and approached the capital, preparing to come to a praying mantis to catch cicadas and yellow finches. Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, Huang Taiji, Wu Sangui, all the opponents are in Xia Nan's calculations, the chess pieces have fallen, and the victory or loss of the entire chess game depends on the capital.

These arrangements are directly related to the future of the Dashun Army and even the Ming Dynasty, but the parties Chongzhen and Li Zicheng were kept in the dark, and Chongzhen was still waiting for Wu Sangui to step on the seven-colored cloud to come to the rescue - if he had a choice, he really didn't want King Qin to save the driver was Xia Nan - Li Zicheng began the military action of besieging the capital with the dream of being the emperor.

Before besieging a city, you must first remove the nails and stumbling blocks that stand in your way.

Liu Zongmin, the chief general of the Chongyi Ti Battalion who went on behalf of King Xinshun, received a report from the forward generals that Li Guozhen, the commander of Xiangcheng of the imperial court, led part of the troops and horses of the three battalions (Note 1) to defend Shahe. Li Guozhen, the both of Xiangcheng, was the governor of Beijing, and he was originally a son of a hakama, with no military experience, and could only talk about it, which was not the same as Liu Guozhu, the general soldier of Baoding, who fought against Liu Zongmin. After Liu Zongmin suffered a loss, he did not dare to go deep alone, and led the army to push over, and had an encounter with Li Guozhen in Shahe.

On the twentieth day of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Guozhen, the Bo of Xiangcheng, led part of the Beijing camp troops rebuilt by newly recruited soldiers to Shahe to deploy defense - the original main force of the Beijing camp had been crippled in the summer when the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu and Shanxi towns launched the "military advice", and they had to be rebuilt, and most of the recruits were market gangsters, and the combat effectiveness was not the most scum than before, only more scum. After seeing the arrival of the Dashun army, he saw the flow of people all over the mountains, and he was frightened, and he collapsed without a fight, and turned around and fled back to Beijing. Liu Zongmin led his troops to pursue for more than ten miles, and the Beijing camp suffered countless casualties, leaving a corpse along the way.

Jingying is fragile and incompetent to this point, which really shocked the government and the opposition. Yang Sichang had no choice but to order in the name of the military department to mobilize all the troops in Yongpyeong Province and Gyeonggi to concentrate, and prepare to resist the Dashun army for as many days as possible before Wu Sangui arrived.

However, in front of the morale of the Dashun army, whether it was the battalion soldiers from Henan or the army near Gyeonggi, they could not stop it for too long, Liu Zongmin led the defeat of Li Guozhen's might, and won several battles one after another, and in a few days he defeated these left-behind troops and advanced directly outside the capital.

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Note 1: The three major battalions refer to the five military battalions, the Shenshu battalion, and the Shenji battalion of the Beijing camp, which is another name for the Beijing camp.