Li Zicheng hurriedly hurriedly, and finally led his army to Xi'an before Azig arrived.
There are many civil and military officials and family members of soldiers from the Dashun Dynasty in Xi'an city, and they must not be abandoned easily.
Even if he wants to retreat, he will definitely take these relatives with him.
Li Zicheng decided to retreat immediately from Xi'an and move to Henan via Lantian and Shangluo.
Due to the rush of time, he had no time to send people to inform Gao Yigong and Li Guo of northern Shaanxi of this important decision.
However, Li Zicheng believed that with the strength of Li Guo and Gao Yigong, they would be able to successfully lead the army to move.
Li Zicheng was a rogue and was very experienced in marching with his family members.
His experience is to organize family members into an old battalion separately, and the soldiers cannot easily meet with the old battalion.
In this way, the combat effectiveness of the army will not be affected.
Instead, the soldiers will fight bravely to protect their families and shed the last drop of blood.
In order to adapt to the needs of marching and moving, the soldiers married women with big feet, so there was no problem in traveling long distances.
Although some generals became corrupt after the Dashun regime was established and took several concubines, they were all Tianzu girls.
Besides, for this big move, Li Zicheng only allowed them to bring their first wives, but not any concubines.
What pleased Li Zicheng was that the brothers in the Lao Eighth Team did not have any dissatisfaction.
Even Liu Zongmin did not openly oppose him this time.
Faced with difficulties, the old brothers once again became united.
Li Zicheng has faced situations even worse than today's situation, but he survived.
When Tongguan was defeated miserably by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, the beaten old camp was separated, with only a dozen people around him.
Everyone thought he was dead, but he just held back his strength and lurked in the mountains of Shangluo for a while before rising up.
He, Li Zicheng, never believed in fate.
My fate is up to me.
The situation today is much better than before.
Although he gave up Shaanxi, he gave up on his own initiative, and most of his troops and horses were saved.
Li Zicheng now has nearly 100,000 troops in his hands, not counting the 100,000 troops stationed by Li Guo and Gao Yigong in northern Shaanxi, and the 80,000 troops of Bai Wang in the four prefectures of Huguang.
Counting all these soldiers and horses, Li Zicheng still has nearly 300,000 people in his hands.
He will have a chance to make a comeback in the future and face the Qing army in an upright showdown.
What he has to do now is to retain as much strength as possible and carry out strategic shifts.
Shaanxi, I will come back again Looking back at Xi'an City, Li Zicheng swore secretly.
"General, let's surrender at the pass.
We can't hold Tongguan no matter what."
At the top of Tongguan City, the soldier Wang Guichuan knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Wushan Boma Shiyao who was staying at Tongguan: "Your Majesty has returned to Xi'an and will definitely not come back again.
How can we resist the Tatar army with only more than 7,000 people?"
” The current situation is even more severe than two days ago.
The crenellations on the Tongguan city wall were almost flattened by the bombing.
The soldiers had to defend the city despite locust arrows, and the number of casualties was increasing.
Although the city wall has not been blasted open yet, it will be a matter of time.
If they continue to defend, Ma Shiyao and more than 7,000 soldiers will have to be buried with Tongguan.
But it was really hard for him to accept that he would betray Li Zicheng and surrender to the Tatars.
Seeing Ma Shiyao beginning to hesitate, Wang Guichuan gritted his teeth and said, "If it really doesn't work, we can pretend to surrender first and survive first.
Then we can just find a chance to escape."
Ma Shiyao's eyes lit up when he heard this.
This method is good As the saying goes, a war never tires of deceit, and there have been many cases in history of people pretending to surrender and then rebelling again.
Not to mention the Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong is a good player.
He has been recruited by the court many times, but every time it doesn't take long for him to raise the flag of rebellion again.
It is best to describe him as ruthless.
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If the Eight Kings can do this, why can't he, Ma Shiyao?
Survive, and only by surviving can you have a chance for revenge.
How can I take revenge if I turn into a corpse?
Ma Shiyao swallowed and finally made up his mind.
"Okay, we'll surrender" Having made his decision, Ma Shiyao no longer hesitated and immediately sent Wang Guichuan down the city via the horse road to notify the defenders to open the city gate.
These loyal soldiers were all direct descendants of Ma Shiyao, and they complied without hesitation.
To be honest, they wanted to surrender a long time ago.
If their general hadn't been holding on, the city gate would have been opened long ago.
But it's not too late.
Duduo was unable to attack Tongguan for a long time and was very upset.
At this moment, he suddenly saw the city gate of Tongguan opened wide, and his mouth opened in surprise.
"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince.
The defenders were afraid of the might of the prince and surrendered at Xianguan."
Upon seeing this, Kong Youde immediately seized the opportunity and boasted: "This is really a great joy.
The army no longer has to suffer losses in the siege."
"kindness."
Duduo hummed, feeling very happy.
The population of Manchuria is sparse, and every member of the Eight Banners Army is precious, and every one who dies is one less.
It would be a good thing to be able to capture Tongguan without any bloodshed.
Seeing that Kong Youde was flattering him, Geng Zhongming was not to be outdone.
He smiled charmingly and came to Duduo and said: "I think God is blessing the prince.
Otherwise, why would the prince be invincible all the way in this western expedition?"
Duduo laughed loudly and said: "What King Huaishun said is interesting.
Come on, follow me into the city."
"Your Majesty, please wait" Kong Youde hurriedly said: "Although the prince is prosperous and blessed, I am afraid that there is fraud in it.
We might as well order all the defenders in the city to leave the city and accept the surrender."
Kong Youde's suggestion was immediately adopted by Duduo.
The Han people were cunning and cunning, and it was common for them to fake surrender.
Their sudden surrender this time was indeed unavoidable.
"Well, just do as King Gongshun said."
As long as all the defenders in the city leave the city and accept the surrender, there will be absolutely no tricks to play.
If they want to cause trouble, Duduo's army can kill them all immediately.
Duduo sent people to tell Ma Shiyao the terms of surrender, and Ma Shiyao gritted his teeth and finally agreed.
There is no way, people under the eaves have to lower their heads.
What he wants to do now is to let these more than 7,000 brothers save their lives first.
As long as the green mountains are left, there is no need to worry about running out of firewood.
Sooner or later, there will be a chance to escape and join King Chuang.
In order to show his sincerity in surrender, Ma Shiyao risked his life and his soldiers threw away all their weapons and walked out of the city with bare hands to accept the surrender.
Seeing more than 7,000 soldiers walking out of Tongguan City one after another, Duduo was extremely excited.
"Okay, okay, this king has made great achievements, and the regent will definitely give him more praise."
This time he and Azig led troops separately, which may not have meant that Dorgon took the exam.
Although Dodo and Azig are brothers, they still want to compete with each other.
By capturing Tongguan, and then taking advantage of the situation to seize Xi'an, Duduo will completely surpass Azig in this Western Expedition and become the well-deserved number one general of the Qing Dynasty
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