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Chapter 415 How to restore the situation?

Under the arrangement of his uncle Gao Jie, his nephew Li Benshen led people to open the silver boxes one by one, and inside were layered with silver ingots with coded.

The moment the silver box was opened, the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Town all straightened their eyes, and the front row even shone with their eyes, and their throats kept swallowing.

Everyone loves money, nothing wrong.

Senior generals such as Li Chengdong and Hu Maozhen will not participate in the division of the bank, but everyone below has a share of the officers, and these officers get more of the divisions. The reason is that the middle and lower levels of officers are the backbone of an army.

Gao Jie, who was the generals of the bandits first and then the Ming army, and then the Huai army, knew this even more clearly. This time he went north, he was preparing to bring all the sixth towns, but privately prepared to discard thousands of troops and horses.

As long as thousands of old brothers can be preserved, the Sixth Town will still be there.

Soon, boxes of silver were carried to each department to divide it in turn. Because there was no scattered silver, many of them were two or three soldiers who took a ingot.

Gao Jie was originally going to order to set off, but Hu Maozhen whispered a few words in his ear, and quickly woke up and asked Li Yanzong to come forward with a smile and say a few words to everyone.

"Gao Shuai is joking, there is no place for a young general to speak here." Li Yanzong was modest, not in front of Gao Jie because his uncle was the governor.

Gao Jie said: "It's not that you want you to say it, it's that you want you to say it for your uncle."

"Okay,"

Li Yanzong thought about it and took his red tassel spear a few steps forward, and said to the officers and soldiers: "My name is Li Yanzong. My uncle is the commander-in-chief of our Huai Army. He asked me to come and eat meat with everyone, drink with you in big bowls, live in the same life, and die in the same life. Well, there are women sleeping together!"

After saying that, he turned his head and asked Gao Jie: "Ship Gao, is it okay to say this?"

Gao Jie smiled

In the Shangluo Mountains, there are continuous wind and snow.

After the Dashun army withdrew from Xi'an, it encountered snowfall, causing the women and children of the old camp to freeze and kill thousands of people while crossing mountains and ridges, which seriously damaged the morale of the Shun army.

Because of the hasty retreat, the Shun Army did not carry too many cold-proof supplies, and the tents were also in short supply, which made many soldiers unable to wear clothes in the wind and snow.

After patrolling, Li Zicheng came to his imperial camp tent, and the guards found some firewood to make a fire.

After entering the tent, Li Zicheng sighed and sat down and smoked while roasting the fire.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Gu Junen, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi and other civil and military officials saw that His Majesty looked ugly, and they didn't dare to speak.

Li Zicheng not only looked ugly, but also looked very haggard, with his eye sockets much more concave.

A few days after quitting Xi'an, Li Zicheng regretted his hasty decision. As military advisor Song Xiance said, abandoning Xi'an not only shakes the foundation of Dashun, but also divides the main force of Dashun into two, making things unable to echo.

When Tongguan was not given up, there were more than 100,000 Shun Army in Shaanxi. Although Xi'an had no danger to defend, the Shun Army was able to fight against the Qing army in Xi'an to protect its hometown. Especially in the city of Xi'an, there was a large amount of food, which could support the Shun Army for half a year.

On the other hand, although the Qing army was strong and powerful, the troops from afar could not be supported by all aspects of food and grass, so it was impossible to spend a long time in Xi'an and Shun's army.

Song Xiance and others insisted on confronting the Qing army in Xi'an at that time, but Li Zicheng misjudged the military situation and thought that Gao Yigong and Li Guo in northern Shaanxi could not restrain the Qing army. The Shun army in Ningxia, Gansu, Hanzhong and other places were mostly surrendered by the original Ming army. Therefore, if he insisted on Xi'an, it would be very likely that the Shun army troops around Shaanxi would not dare to come to support him, so he decided to evacuate.

Niu Jinxing believed that the situation had not yet collapsed, Henan was counterattacking, and the Huai army on the eastern front of Shandong could also restrain a part of the Qing army. Radical abandonment of Xi'an was equivalent to making Shandong and Henan Dashun troops lose confidence in the central government, but they failed to persuade them.

There were actually as many as 110,000 soldiers and horses evacuated from Xi'an with Li Zicheng. Generals such as Ru Hou Liu Zongmin, Ze Hou Tian Jianxiu, Ci Hou Liu Fangliang, Mian Hou Yuan Zongdi, Yi Hou Zhang Nai and other generals were all there. The old camp's family, including Empress Gao, had more than 40,000 people, and the total number of people evacuated was nearly 150,000.

The retreat of such a scale was without any plan or preparation, and it was all decided by Li Zicheng, which led to extremely serious consequences.

Military, the Shaanxi Shun Army was divided into two. Except for the Eastern Army that retreated with Li Zicheng, the northern Shun Army, dominated by Li Guo and Gao Yigong troops, could not directly retreat south because Xi'an was occupied by the Qing army. They could only go south through Hanzhong to enter Sichuan and arrive in the Jingxiang area by Shunjiang.

This evacuation plan is destined to be lost directly with the Western Route Army for a long time. The Western Route Army did not know that the emperor was there, and the morale of the military would inevitably be confused.

Song Xiancai, who had no way to prevent Li Zicheng from evacuating Xi'an, urgently formulated a plan, that is, after the army arrived in Xiangyang through business, Luo, immediately joined the local Bai Wang troops to go east to occupy Wuchang, and organize defense against the Qing army in Hubei.

But this solution seems not to work now.

Because the Qing army chased us too quickly.

The Qing army of Duoduo's troops first entered Xi'an. After two days of quitting, Alzin led 10,000 people to pursue him. Ajige, who arrived in Xi'an, also rushed to Xi'an, also sent elite troops to pursue him.

What's even more terrible is that when Ze Houtian saw Xiu make a stupid mistake, he did not order to burn millions of slate of military rations from Xi'an.

Tian Jianxiu did not implement Li Zicheng's instructions on the grounds that "the Qin people were hungry, so they left this rice to live the people." He only lit the East Gate Tower of Xi'an and the Nanyue Tower, so he rushed to tell Li Zicheng that he had obeyed the order and handled it.

Li Zicheng looked at the smoke and flames soaring into the sky in the city, believing it, but he didn't expect that Tian Jianxiu's wife's benevolence made the Qing army, which was short of food, have the confidence to pursue it. If Tian Jianxiu burned Xi'an's food and grass, the Qing army would not have bitten him.

At this point, Li Zicheng had no choice but to order Tian Jianxiu to be removed from all positions and detained first.

Because they easily gave up Xi'an, many officials of the Dashun regime felt bleak about their future. The former Ming officials who had surrendered to Shun were ministers, and those who were ministers all gave up Xi'an and fled.

Li Zicheng was very worried that his morale was depressed and he could not bear to fight again. If the Manchu soldiers turned south from Lintong and pursued them relentlessly, his Dashun army would likely collapse in one battle and his future would be unimaginable.

"If the Tartars pursue this again, I am afraid that even when I arrive in Xiangyang, I will not be able to stand up. Tell me, what else can I do to save it now?"

Li Zicheng put down his cigarette puff and looked at everyone.

"It really doesn't work. Your Majesty will leave first, I will stay."

Although Liu Zongmin's injuries were almost the same, he was injured due to his serious injury and actually stopped fighting to kill the enemy.

"It's better for me to stay by myself than for you."

Li Zicheng sighed lightly.

Yuan Zongdi said: "Bai Wang came to report that Zuo Liangyu took advantage of our defeat in Beijing and occupied a lot of our territory."

"This Zuo Liangyu, that is, I am not here. If I am there, he will meet the cat with the mouse."
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