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Chapter 733: Li Guoquan defends Fengxiang City

It will take several days for Liu Wenxiu to join the central army commander Wang Shangli to arrive in Fengxiang. Long live the imperial camp urged him to break the city and the order was urgent. Wang Ziqi and Ma Yuanli decided to continue the attack after discussing it.

However, the Western Army failed in the two offensives organized by the previous and subsequent times, and always failed. Wang Ziqi sent people to shoot in the Book City, persuaded Bai Minghe and Dang Meng'an to surrender, and bluntly said that the Western Army was about to arrive soon, how could Xiao Xiao Fengxiang defend it? He also told the city that General Niu Wancai, the General of Gongchang, was defeated by the Western Army, and said that as long as Bai and Dang opened the city, the Emperor of Daxi would use it more.

Bai Minghe was very loyal to Dashun. He knew that Dashun had conquered Beijing and wiped out all the Tatars in the north. At this time, Shaanxi was in a tight position, but as long as the main force of the Eastern Expedition could return in time, no matter how fierce the Western Army came, it would be impossible to seize Xi'an. Seeing that the Western Army outside the city failed to attack the city three times in a row, he was firmly determined to defend himself and ignored Wang Ziqi and Ma Yuanli's persuasion.

Dang Meng'an was confused in his heart.

This person was a general of the Shun Army earlier, but after Li Zicheng evacuated Xi'an, he and He Zhen, Guo Dengxian, Wu Dading and others believed that Li Zicheng's situation was despair. Therefore, in order to protect himself, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Ajige, who was led by He Zhen, attacked Li Guo who led the Shun Army's Western Route Army into Sichuan. Later, after repeated persuasion by Lu Wenzong, the new regent of the Dashun State, the rebellion king, Lu Wenzong, had changed his flag and surrendered again.

After He Zhen led his troops to the east to follow the rank of the ruling country, Meng'an and another Shun general Tian Hu led their troops to garrison Xi'an City. The party was awarded the position of general Xi'an. Dashun treated him with great confidence.

However, seeing that the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong led a large army to attack Fengxiang, the reinforcements of Gongchang, Niu Wancai, were wiped out, and Guo Dengxian, the other reinforcements of Hanzhong, was delayed. Dang Meng'an was inevitably anxious, worried that with his and Bai Minghe's troops, it would be difficult to defend Fengxiang.

Two days later, Liu Wenxiu, the Funan General of the Western Army, led his troops to arrive. After hearing the details of Wang Ziqi and Ma Yuanli's three defeats in the siege, Liu Wenxiu sent the central army commander Wang Shangli to lead thousands of cavalry to intercept the Shun army that might come to Hanzhong to aid, and on the other hand, he shot again in the Shun City to persuade Bai to surrender and the two generals of the Party.

At the same time, the troops were ordered to open their camps outside the city. On the surface, they seemed to be trying to attack again, but in fact they secretly dug tunnels to use the coffin gunpowder method to blow down Fengxiang city walls.

As expected, Liu Wenxiu's persuasion was rejected by Bai Minghe in the city again.

Although Dang Meng'an was suspicious and afraid that the Western Army was powerful, the reinforcements of Hanzhong were coming soon and he had a lot of expectations.

However, Guo Dengxian's troops failed to arrive in Fengxiang as scheduled.

Wang Shangli, who was ordered by Liu Wenxiu, led elite cavalry to seize the Dasan Pass, where Tong Fengxiang must pass in Hanzhong. This made Guo Deng, who had just led his troops through Wudu Mountain and just left the monk's land, be blocked in front of Dasan Pass.

On the seventh day of November, Guo Dengxian supervised his troops to attack Dasan Pass. At first, the offensive was quite smooth, but the gate suddenly opened shortly after a few days. Later, Wang Shangli personally led the cavalry to attack Guo Dengxian's troops.

Guo's troops were not careful that the Western Army would attack and attack, but were instantly defeated by the Western cavalry. When Guo Deng retreated to the monk's original place to collect the remaining troops, there were less than a thousand people, and he could no longer go further. He had no choice but to lead his troops back to Hanzhong to meet with General Luo Dai and then make a picture of it.

Wang Shangli sent the captured Guo Dengxian and many flags of the Hanzhong Shun Army to Fengxiang City quickly. Bai Minghe and Meng An in the city were shocked to see this, and his heart was also gloomy, because the defeat of the Hanzhong Army meant that the three reinforcements that had rushed to Fengxiang to rescue were gone.

It is difficult for Xi'an to mobilize troops to assist Fengxiang, and the main force who followed the Eastern Expedition of the Supervisors would not be able to return next month at the earliest.

Liu Wenxiu was due to the fact that the Western Army of Shun Army were of the same roots and could not bear the battle between the two families was too tragic, so he sent someone to the city to persuade him to surrender again.

This time, Bai Minghe was still unshakable, but Meng'an of the Dang wanted to surrender. When Bai Minghe led his troops to attack Fengxiang, he cut down the Qing flag on the city, erected Shun flag, and led the gentry and people in the city to present the Huang Ce Ding Bo's mouth to "Welcome the Dashun Heavenly Soldiers", Wen Yuan, the prefect of Fengxiang, who was preparing to welcome the Daxi Emperor early to prepare for the incense table.

There are more and more western troops outside the city, which cannot be described as even thirty miles of the battalion. The dust raised by the Western cavalry who gallops on horseback under Fengxiang City every day is simply covering the sky, but the morale of the Shun army on the city is getting worse.

Bai Minghe is ready to die in Fengxiang City, and he does not expect Xi'an to send reinforcements to Fengxiang again. Now he only hopes to drag the Western Army to a better day.

Dang Meng'an was fighting in his heart. He wanted to tie Bai Minghe and open the door to welcome the Emperor Daxi, but also felt that doing so would be a joke from the Western Army. And no matter how much Dashun and Daxi were both in the same pot, they looked down on both the Shun Army and the Western Army.

Meng An of his party had already made a fool of himself back then. Could it be that he would be able to do it again this time?

But if the door is not opened, the eight kings really come to the city, and Feng Xiang can defend the three-way drums and cannons?

Just when Meng An was worried about it, something unexpected happened - Fengxiang actually came to reinforcements.

The General of the East Envoy who stayed in Xi'an, Li Guo, Duke of Xingguo, led more than 4,000 troops and horses pieced together by Shaanxi Governor Meng Qiaofang, and rushed into Fengxiang City at the risk of being surrounded by the Western Army.

Li Guo's arrival gave Bai Minghe a backbone and also made Dang Meng'an's thoughts slightly calmer.

Liu Wenxiu heard that Li Guo was rushing into the city, so he did not scold the generals for letting Li Guo enter the city. He only ordered each division to close the previously loose encirclement and strictly monitor Fengxiang.

At the same time, I will speed up the tunnel.

The tunnel excavated by the Western Army was very close to the Fengxiang City Wall, but suddenly a large number of stone foundations were dug underground, making it impossible for the tunnels to reach the city.

After asking the locals, they learned that Fengxiang City was built on the basis of the old city of Yongcheng, the ancient capital of the pre-Qin Dynasty, so there is a long section of the old foundation of Yongcheng buried underground.

As a last resort, Liu Wenxiu had no choice but to re-excavate the tunnel from the underground of Fengxiang South Gate. This episode prevented Fengxiang City from being bombed and collapsed today and tomorrow.

Two days later, Zhang Xianzhong, who had only brought a few thousand cavalrymen to the Imperial Camp, finally arrived at Fengxiang City. Seeing that his adopted son Liu Wenxiu and several governors were unable to break Fengxiang City, Zhang Xianzhong was very unhappy. However, when he learned that Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo was also in Fengxiang, he couldn't help but become very happy again, asking Liu Wenxiu to send someone to the city to persuade Li Guo to surrender, saying that as long as Li Guo was willing to surrender, he would be the King of Shun.

"Even if Li Guo refuses to surrender, you must not kill him after he breaks the city. He brings him to me very much. He will not treat this nephew badly without looking at the monks and Buddha's faces. For the sake of the blind Li's love for me, I cannot treat this eldest nephew badly."

Zhang Xianzhong really wanted to persuade Li Guo to surrender, and at the same time he wanted to use Li Guo to split the current Shunjun.
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