Juyongguan is the largest city in the Great Wall in the north of Beijing and one of the nine barriers in the world. The current Guancheng was built by Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan in the former Ming Dynasty. It has been a place that military strategists must fight for since ancient times.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army broke through Yanqing and broke into Juyong Pass, rushed into Changping, and burned down the Deling Tomb of Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Tang Tong, the governor of Juyong Pass, surrendered to Li Zicheng's Dashun army.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, because inside and outside the pass were owned by the Qing Dynasty, both Shanhaiguan in the east and Juyongguan in the west lost their military strategic significance. Therefore, like Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan was abandoned by the Qing court, and only 50 soldiers stationed in the Eight Banners were sent here to arrest bandits and prevent theft.

Six days ago, Juyong Pass was led by Li Benshen, the nephew of the Huai Army general and Gao Jie, the commander of the town, to lead 120 warriors to break through the pass.

Although Li Benshen is young, he is brave and good at fighting, and is not as strong as Gao Jie's other three powerful generals Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen and Yang Qingquan.

Gao Jie wanted to ask for a wife for his nephew in his early years, but Li Benshen actually said to his uncle: "Women will only affect the speed of the child drawing the sword!"

After Li Benshen broke through Juyong Pass, he beheaded all the more than 30 captured Eight Banners and armored men who were captured.

Gao Jie led his main force to arrive at Juyongguan in the evening. After resting that night, Gao Jie ordered Li Chengdong to lead 2,000 people out of Badaling to attack Huailai. Li Chengdong rushed forward quickly, but there was no resistance along the way. He once fought less than 20 miles from Bao'anzhou City, and took over thousands of people.

Yang Qingquan, another general of the Gao tribe, led more than a thousand people to sweep south along the Great Wall, successively breaking through Arieskou and along the river mouth, killing 40 people in the Qing Dynasty in the Eight Banners, 90 Han soldiers, and more than 120 Aha in the armor.

For a moment, inside and outside the Great Wall, there was a panic, and local officials appointed by the Qing court either surrendered or abandoned their official positions.

The civil forces in some areas also fought to attack the Qing officials, and even gentry who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty spread songs that encouraged the people to resist the Qing Dynasty, which was called Zhuman Song.

There were forces against the Qing Dynasty and local gentry trying to contact Gao Jie's troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. However, since he left the north of Lu, Gao Jie's troops have actually been a bandit group dedicated to destroying and killing. Under the instructions of Lu Si, the governor of the Huai Army, they destroyed the people's livelihood in the Beizhi area and defeated the enemy by taking advantage of the enemy. This not only made the Beizhi and the near-ki area extremely destructive, but also caused the Qing court's rule in the Beizhi area to collapse.

To a certain extent, Gao Jie's army was the Qing army of the Chongzhen Dynasty. This "robber" identity and Gao Jie's army were originally a peasant army, which is the so-called bandits. He naturally did not want to cooperate with those anti-Qing forces and gentry, because this would lead to their "destructive power" being reduced.

And destruction is a military order.

On the other hand, the Qing army entered the pass and occupied Beijing and moved its capital here, but instead reversed its former image of a robber, it turned into a "government army" in the Beizhi area. In order to maintain the rule of the Qing court in Beizhi, the Qing army could no longer kill, rob and destroy like before. Therefore, in front of Gao Jie's army, which "used to defeat the enemy", the Qing army was always led by the nose and completely lost the initiative in the war.

If this situation continues, the Qing army will fall into a crisis of shortage of food or even out of food due to the sparse population in the occupied areas.

In fact, this crisis has already emerged, which inevitably affected the Qing court's military strategy.

Dorgon led his army south to fight and seek a quick battle and a quick decision was a manifestation of the food shortage crisis.

If there was enough food, Dorgon would not have taken such a risk.

Now they cannot "harm others with their original intentions".

For Gao Jie's army, as long as they can find living people, they can find food, and they are not afraid of shortage of food.

Of course, behind this is the blood and tears of countless people in the north.

Gao Jie's decision to divide the troops equally was correct. He did force the main force of the pursuing Qing army to divide the troops, but the Qing army pursuing Gao Jie's troops was led by the 6,000 Manchu Eight Banners led by Gongtu Lai, the third-class Huangqi of Manchu.

The Manchu soldiers had extremely high combat effectiveness on the one hand, and on the other hand, Tu Lai was also a famous general among the Qing generals, and his reputation was known as Tan Tai, Ye Chen and Oboi.

Tulai was the seventh son of Fei Yingdong, one of the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty. When he entered the pass with Dorgon the previous year, he first fought against Tang Tong in a stone-stone commander. Tang Tong was defeated. Later, Tulai led his troops to attack Li Zicheng again, and the Shun army was defeated. After entering Beijing, Tulai led his army to pursue the retreating Dashun army, defeated Shun army in Qingdu, killed Shun army general Gu Ying, and robbed the thousands of taels of silver that Shun army had paid from Beijing, and received nearly 10 million taels of silver. His merit was awarded the third-class merit.

This person was also a two-Yellow Banner official who betrayed Oboi and expressed his surrender to Dorgon.

Gao Jie was originally planning to wait and see Juyongguan for a day or two, but he didn't expect Tu Lai to come so quickly. He didn't dare to stay in Juyongguan, so he led his troops to Huailai, trying to join forces with Li Chengdong to make trouble. However, what surprised Gao Jie was that he had just joined forces with Li Chengdong's troops, but the rear explored horses came to report that the Qing army, who had been chasing them, suddenly turned around and went back.

"What happened to the Tartars!"

Gao Jie keenly realized that something must have happened in Beijing, otherwise the Qing army would not have been able to abandon him and return.

Nephew Li Benshen believed that the Qing army suddenly returned to Beijing was only two reasons. One was that Li Yanzong's troops attacked Zunhua eastward and contacted the Seventh Town outside the pass. The momentum of the two sides' joining forces forced the Qing army to draw troops from the pass; the other was that the Grand Governor in the south led the main force to attack.

"No matter what the reason is, let's give the Tartars a shot back!"

Li Chengdong suggested that the Qing army return to Beijing, and they also go back, not only to go back, but also to attack Beijing!

But it is undoubtedly a dream to win Beijing with the combat strength of less than 6,000 people in the Sixth Town of the West, so Li Chengdong meant that by fighting against Beijing, the retreating Qing army turned around and returned.

"No matter whether the governor comes or the young master is making a big fuss, we cannot let the Tartars rush over! We have to lead them to run, and we can't go east or west. Run between them and run, exhaust them to death!"

"Uncle Dahu is right!"

Li Benshen agreed with Li Chengdong's opinion, as if a family was standing at each end of a rope, with a bell representing the Tartars hanging in the middle. On this side, the bell ran to this side with force, and on the other side, the bell ran to that side. If the two sides had a tacit understanding enough, the bell in the middle would always be subject to both sides.

"Fuck it!"

Gao Jie's horse whip was whipped in half, and immediately ordered the entire army to turn around and return to Juyongguan. He also sent a fast horse south to find Yang Qingquan's troops, and asked them to return to Changping area to engage in activities, and to inquire about the reasons for the sudden retreat of the Qing army.

"Shishou, I'll take someone over first!"

Li Chengdong was also impatient, but he did not immediately turn over and take the horse to set off. Instead, he carried his concubine who had been fighting with him on the war horse, and then turned over to the mount.

This concubine is not dressed in a woman's outfit, but is wearing military uniforms like a man. She has no weapons on her body, but there is a dagger given to him by Li Chengdong in her boots.

"Brothers, come with me!"

Gao Jie whipped the horse whip and pulled his concubine's mount to run first.
Chapter completed!