However, now it is useless for Zhu Jie to be angry, if the Manchurian Tartars in the north are not defeated, the imperial court simply does not have the extra energy to go on an expedition to the east and capture Tagawa Nanazaemon.

Zhu Jie was furious, returned to Nanjing City with Cha Bolt, and handed over Xia Wanchun to Song Jiaxing to teach, from ancient times to the present, all famous generals were rushed out of the battle array, how could Zhu Jie not understand this truth, if Xia Wanchun can rise quickly, the only way is to throw it on the battlefield, sharpen it in the sword and sword, and when the Manchurians were driven out of Shanhaiguan, Xia Wanchun was sharpened into a sharp sword.

Song Jiaxing and others did not stay in Lianshui for more, in order to be able to advance quickly, Song Jiaxing mobilized a large number of ships near Huai'an in one breath, pulled all the firearms battalion and infantry battalion onto the warship, went straight down the Grand Canal, and went straight to the Central Plains, as for the cavalry, it was to protect the safety of the fleet along the road, after all, there are still many people in Manchuria who stay in the area from Shandong to Huai'an, if you get a few artillery pieces and suddenly put a few cannons on the shore, then the Beijing camp and the Tianwei army will be unlucky.

Starting from the territory of Huai'an Mansion, it took only seven days for the army to chase through Xuzhou Mansion all the way.

Tan Tai and Wu Sangui stopped at all, panicking all the way like lost dogs, frantically fleeing towards Shandong, and ran to Jining Prefecture in one breath, where they were in one place with Wang Nikan of Duoluo County.

However, at this time, Nikan was also frightened, Azig's army of 60,000 or 70,000, Zhu Jie had just arrived in Huai'an Mansion, but in more than ten days, he was completely defeated by Zhu Jie, and the defeat was too miserable, 60 million troops, only a few thousand people came back, and even Azig died on the front line, and now with the strength of Nikan's men, there are less than 20,000 people, and many of them are locally recruited green battalion soldiers.

This is not counting, in the south, now Zhu Jie's army has passed Xuzhou Mansion, is rapidly advancing towards Jining, with the speed of the Ming army's daily march of 100 miles, at most seven days, it will advance to Jining City, and at that time, the Qing army in Jining will face annihilation.

The 60,000 or 70,000 people of the Eastern Route Army were no match for the Ming army, not to mention that the Qing army only had less than 20,000 people? I'm afraid that it is not anyone's opponent.

"Lord Wang, what should we do now?"

Tan Tai's face was ugly to death, and he asked in a low voice.

Ni Kan shook his head and replied: "Lord Tan, the current situation is very bad, even Prince Yu is facing the dilemma of being besieged by the Ming army, Sun Chuanting is leading tens of thousands of troops to besiege Zhending Mansion, although now Abatai has led an elite to return to Zhending, but it is still not the opponent of Sun Chuanting's army, Zhending Mansion is crumbling, and it may be broken by Sun Chuanting at any time, to the south, the Tianwei army led by Xu Yifan has come to the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, and may launch a siege of the Daimyo's Mansion at any time, once the Zhending Mansion falls, when the time comes, the north and the south will attack, and Prince Yu will die for nine lives......"

"Alas......"

Wu Sangui sighed: "The most important thing is that now we and Prince Yu have been divided into two independent combat forces by the Ming army, and now Qin Mufeng occupies the two main roads of Caozhou and Puyang, so that we can't go west at all, as for Prince Yu, now he is facing a huge threat, and he has no time to send troops east out ......of Puyang to open up this channel, and Xu Yifan will not give Prince Yu such a chance, if we don't want to find a way to meet together, sooner or later we will be broken by the Ming army."

The three of them fell silent, the situation was already obvious, Jining's 20,000 troops were definitely not the opponent of the Ming army in the south, but they had eighty artillery pieces, and at the same time a large number of rockets and muskets, the combat power was terrible to the extreme, although Jining City was strong, it was absolutely impossible to withstand the attack of so many artillery rockets, and there were more than 10,000 people in the elite of the Tianwei Army, that was the division of a hundred battles, and these Tianwei troops alone were not able to deal with the small 20,000 Qing troops in Jining City now.

As for Prince Yu being able to protect himself in the Daimyo Mansion, he has to chant Amitabha, Sun Chuanting and Xu Yifan, the combined strength of the army has exceeded 100,000 people, and although Qin Mufeng in the east does not have many troops, it is still a threat, surrounded on three sides, where can Duoduo support it? The fall of the Shincho and Daimyo Mansions was almost inevitable.

"Retreat!"

Wu Sangui said in a deep voice: "Lord Wang, Lord Tan, our army must evacuate Jining, move closer to the direction of Dongchang Mansion, shrink the force, only in this way, it is possible to escape the catastrophe, and to Dongchang Mansion, we are closer to Prince Yu, once Prince Yu is tight, we can also cross the canal from Dongchang Mansion nearby, go straight to the Daimyo's Mansion, and assist Prince Yu to get out of the siege, he is the only remaining combat power of the Qing Dynasty, and there is absolutely no room for loss, once it is surrounded and annihilated, then the Qing Dynasty can only obediently withdraw from Shanhaiguan......"

Although what Wu Sangui said was ugly, it was indeed the truth, even if he was unwilling to give up control of Shandong, he would now have to give up his car to protect his handsome, not to mention, even if he wanted to defend Jining, he had to be able to withstand the attack of Song Jiaxing and others......

"It's just, we just give up Shandong, the regent, how can we deal with his reproach?"

Tan Tai hesitated.

Nikan smiled bitterly and said, "Lord Tan, we have all reached this time, where can we still take care of the regent's reproach?" As long as we can help Prince Yu get out of the predicament, even if the whole of Shandong is lost, he will not blame us, and the regent will not fail to understand this truth. Now Manchuria has suffered heavy losses, has lost the strength and ability to confront the Ming Dynasty head-on, shrinking the front, turning to defense, it is inevitable, for today's plan, the first is to keep the Baoding Mansion, Beijing City and Tianjin Wei line of defense, if, this line of defense is also broken, then we have only the last way, exit Shanhaiguan, send elite soldiers to defend, with the danger of Shanhaiguan, block the route of the Ming army to the north, or no problem......"

Wu Sangui nodded, you see what he said is right, unless there is a major turn on the battlefield, or the Ming army makes an extremely low mistake, otherwise, it is impossible to turn the tide of the war, presumably the current regent has also begun to take precautions and prepare for a retreat.

"In that case, then let's withdraw our troops immediately and go straight along the canal to Dongchang Mansion......"

Tan Tai said astringently, this battle is too much of a, is this Zhu Jie really an omnipotent god of war? Manchuria, which had the advantage, was suddenly defeated, and now Tan Tai can't believe it!