On the ninth day of Li Zicheng's fierce attack on Ningwu Pass, the original 200,000 army was fought to the point where more than 100,000 troops were left. The corpses under Ningwu Pass were almost equal to Ningwu Pass. They were really a mountain of corpses piled up with human lives!

These corpses were too late to deal with and emitted a foul odor. If they were not conquered, the plague would probably break out on a large scale. None of the peasant army and the Ningwu Pass soldiers would survive.

Countless peasant troops launched the final attack on Ningwu Pass. This time, the soldiers lost 80 or 90% of the soldiers and defenders were unable to support the defense of various city wall sections. The surging peasant troops finally entered Ningwu Pass!

The tenacious resistance of Ningwu Pass made the peasant army hate this majestic pass and the soldiers guarding the pass. In nine days, 70,000 to 80,000 people died at Ningwu Pass! As soon as they entered Ningwu Pass, they immediately began a bloody massacre here!

Ningwu Pass has fallen into a purgatory on earth, and the soldiers blocked it can only die!

Li Zicheng looked expressionlessly as more than 100,000 refugees killed all the remaining soldiers. He hated him more deeply than anyone else. Only by slaughtering all the soldiers in Ningwu Pass could he relieve his anger.

After breaking through Ningwu Pass on the ninth day, no one of the remaining soldiers of Ningwu Pass could be spared, and all fell into a pool of blood. The civilians living inside were also slaughtered, and the majestic Ningwu Pass turned into a ghost city.

"I have never done such a loss-making business. I have spent 80,000 lives to get a break-out without food and no one!" Li Zicheng's heart was bleeding, "Start the fire!"

The order issued by Li Zicheng to burn Ningwu Pass came, and more than 100,000 refugees cheered! They ignored the meaning of Ningwu Pass. As long as they burned Ningwu Pass, which left them with psychological shadow, completely disappeared in front of them!

Soon the angry peasant army set fire in Ningwu Pass. The raging fire engulfed the ancient Ningwu Pass and completely engulfed the legendary pass. The generals of the three passes who once vowed to resist to the death, the Ningwu Pass and others were annihilated with this pass, as if it did not exist more than in this world. It is hard to say whether their resistance was meaningful.

Li Zicheng quietly looked at Ningwu Pass with firelight soaring into the sky. His face was filled with the reflection of the fire. He felt a little relieved and showed a terrible smile. In this way, the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle and refugees did not need to be dealt with extra, and a fire was destroyed with the pass.

"Congratulations to the King of Chuang for conquering Ningwu Pass!" Although Liu Zongmin and other generals knew that this hard battle was more of a crushing defeat than a miserable victory, they still congratulated Li Zicheng on his behalf.

"How is the Southern Route Army?" Li Zicheng asked.

"Zhang Yuan attacked Gao Qiqian's troops in the past two days, but the offensive was blocked in the northeast of Zhending County. Because Gao Qiqian was the emperor's supervisor, the nearby Ming troops supported each other, and Zhang Yuan was blocked in two consecutive fierce attacks. The latest military newspaper said that Zhang Yuan was adjusting his deployment and intends to take a feint to attack the Central Army. When the Ming troops on all sides support the Central Army, he will gather heavy troops to break through its left wing." Liu Zongmin said.

"Well, let him make careful arrangements, just say that the Northern Road Ningwu Pass has been cut off, and I will soon lead troops to the north to capture Datong Prefecture, and his Southern Road Army should also destroy the Ming army in Hebei as soon as possible." Li Zicheng said.

Li Zicheng was the first to win the victory in front of Zhang Yuan, so Li Zicheng gave him a breath, otherwise if this continued, Zhang Yuan's reputation would be overwhelming.

"King of Chuang, we will attack Datong Prefecture in the north next." Liu Zongmin and others felt cold when they thought of attacking Datong Prefecture, one of the important towns of the Ming Dynasty. Tens of thousands of people died in Taiyuan Prefecture and Daizhou. If another 100,000 people were killed in the attack of Datong Prefecture, the Northern Army would almost be deposed.

"Let's go, if we really can't fight, we can still go back to northern Shaanxi to continue to deal with the officers and soldiers." After Li Zicheng calmed down, he was really unsure about continuing to attack the rumored important towns Datong Prefecture and Xuanfu, and also began to retreat.

After Li Zicheng conquered Ningwu Pass, what was beyond Li Zicheng's expectations was that Zhang Yuan did not quickly defeat the Ming army. Zhang Yuan led the musket battalion, the cavalry battalion and 100,000 refugees to frequently attack and defend with the 30,000 Ming army in the northeast of Zhending County, but still failed to eat the Ming army in Hebei.

The father-in-law Gao Qiqian was under great pressure. Although Zhang Yuan did not swallow the Ming army in Hebei in one breath, the offensive like the vast ocean made him feel uncomfortable. Under Zhang Yuan's offensive, the Ming army had only passive power to fight back and was retreating back. After Lu Xiangsheng was captured alive, no Ming general was willing to rush forward to fight to the death. Once he saw a friendly unit retreating one step, he would at least take two steps back.

So Zhang Yuan took down Zhending County without losing many people and looted Zhending County as a supply.

Zhang Yuan completely controlled the areas around Zhending County, which was already the twelfth day that he and Li Zicheng agreed to. Zhang Yuan, who delayed the agreed deadline, apologized to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng just blamed Zhang Yuan a little in the letter and urged him to march into the Baoding area as soon as possible. Zhang Yuan was not as good as that. Zhang Yuan was the most capable general in Li Zicheng's army now. No one in the Southern Army could effectively command him, and the lack of experience in high school is still far from being able to do so. Besides, Li Zicheng had to see that Zhang Yuan's progress was slower. Otherwise, it would be a bit like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu agreed to be the king of Guanzhong at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

The Tangbao on the north and south routes was quickly spread to the court due to military emergency. Chongzhen saw these Tangbaos, which was hard to describe.

"If all the levels are like Ningwu Pass, and one level can consume 100,000 troops, then the northern thieves will not be able to reach the capital." Chongzhen took the Tangbao of Ningwu Pass and sighed.

"All of this is due to the mighty power of the heavens. All the soldiers of the Three Passes went to the national crisis together, which is really a great blessing for the subjects in the world." Some officials in the halls deducted the honors of the generals of the Three Passes for their deaths to Chongzhen.

"There are still Datong Prefecture, Xuan Prefecture, and Juyong Pass on the northern road, so it can be as stable as Mount Tai. But why did the troops in Shandong repeatedly defeat the southern road, allowing the trespasses from the southern road to occupy Zhending County?" Chongzhen asked.

"If you return to the emperor, this matter was caused by Lu Xiangsheng, the Tianxiong Army." The Minister of War stood up and said.

"Why do you say that?" Chongzhen asked.
Chapter completed!