Ningxia.

The tentative second army admiral Zhao Zhongyi, who received the order to march into Lingzhou, supervised his troops, and the two surrendered troops commanded by Dou Mingwang, who were the former commander of Xiying Imperial City, quickly advanced north along the Huluhe River without any stop along the way.

The first checkpoint blocked the Shun Army into Ningxia was Zhenrong Sub-south, which was originally a thousand-household office of the Ming army. After the Western Army occupied this place, more than 4,000 troops were stationed here, and they were under the supervision of General Ainengqi, a general of Dingbei, and there was also an ordnance repair factory and horse factory directly under the Ministry of Western Yinggong.

After Dou Mingwang led his troops to persuade people to surrender to the defenders of Zhenrong. The defending general Guo Huai had received a letter from General Ainengqi of Dingbei to surrender. He had already shaken his heart. Seeing that Shun Army was coming in a fierce manner, he could not defend Zhenrong. So he judged the situation and led his troops to open a fort and surrender.

After he was happy to appease Guo Huai and ordered him to be guarded by Zhenrong, Dou Mingwang led the cavalry to the upstream Xuanhe Fort along the Qingshui River in Zhenrong.

The Xuanhe Fort Guard was Ma Yuan, the general of the Eastern Prefecture. He was originally a local tyrant. When the Qing army entered the northwest, he surrendered to the Green Camp guerrilla position. Later, the Qing army was in decline and surrendered to the Western Army. He was recruited and awarded the position of deputy general by Sun Kewang.

As early as half a month ago, Ma Yuan heard that Emperor Daxi died in expedition to Xi'an. The Western Army was defeated in Shaanxi. At that time, he developed a rebellious spirit and decided to surrender. However, the Shun Army was in Guyuan, and the two generals of Milayin and Ding Guodong suddenly killed more than 60,000 soldiers and civilians in Pingliang. This incident made Ma Yuan dare not surrender to Shun, and decided to stick to Xuanhebao to wait for assistance.

The military order of the camp to temporarily organize the Second Army was to seize Lingzhou before the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, so as to cut off Sun, who fled from the Ningxia rear guard, and the Li group may enter Lingzhou, and eventually sealed the remnants of this Western Army in the area of ​​Ningxia rear guard Huamachi.

As the deputy admiral of the temporary second army, Dou Mingwang was the vanguard of the second army entering Ning. He was more eager to seize Lingzhou than the main army of the Shun Army. It can even be said that he wanted to annihilate Sun Kewang. Li Dingguo's mind was more firm than the generals of the Shun Army, so Dou Mingwang, who was eager to march to Lingzhou, immediately ordered a strong attack on Xuanhe Fort.

After two days of fierce fighting, the Dou tribe finally broke the fort at the cost of losing more than 1,000 soldiers, killing more than 600 soldiers below Ma Yuan, but the rest did not kill them.

After the admiral of the Second Army, Zhao Zhongyi, led his troops to Xuanhe Fort, hated Ma Yuan's persistence, causing the Shun Army to delay two days. He killed all the soldiers of the Ma army who were not ordered by Dou Mingwang outside the fort, and sent troops to hunt down living people within a radius of 50 miles to deter and warn the rest of the Western Army to control the Zhoufu Castle and resist Dashun's fate.

This brutal act quickly achieved results. The officials, gentlemen and civilians north of Xuanhe Fort and nearby areas controlled by the Western Army were frightened by the massacre of the Shun Army. They also knew that the situation in the Western Army was destined, so they set up cases outside the city (fort) to burn incense and pray: "May God protect the creatures from the massacre. If they are kind and righteous, we will do our best to serve Shun." After praying, they killed pigs and prepared wine, transported food and grass ten miles outside the city, and sent envoys to welcome the arrival of the Dashun Army.

In this way, the second army temporarily organized to enter the Qingtongxia line without bloodshed, and successively occupied 32 castles and villages along the way, captured more than 16,000 Western troops, and captured 70,000 to 80,000 people.

A side brigade of the second army temporarily advanced westward along the Great Wall from the direction of Yongkang Fort, successively occupied Yongkang Fort, Shengjin Pass, Zhenlu Fort, and advanced to Shashan, stationed troops from the Big and Big Songshan Fort, opening up the post road channel between the former Shaanxi Xingdusi and Ningxia Province, which had been designated as Gansu Province.

Due to the Ningxia Forewar, the gentry and grass in the many castle villages in the Central Guard were afraid of the massacre of the Shun Army, which allowed the temporary second army, which had a food outage crisis due to the rapid expansion of the front line, continued to advance northward.

Under Zhao Zhongyi's strict order, except for the Xuanhe Fort massacre, the Shun Army did not massacre other places. The military disciplines were strict and there was no offense. It was extremely fair to buy local people. This made the surrendered officials and gentry relieved, and were glad that they did not choose to fight the Shun Army as much as Xuanhe Fort Ma Yuan.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Fu Gui, the brigade commander of the temporary fifth towns of the Second Army, led by Fu Gui, the commander of the brigade of Qingtong Gorge, and faced him was Li Yukui, the governor of Ningxia who was guarding Jinji Fort.

Fu Guiyu's army had a nickname called "Sanguaizi", because this person beat Xiao Luo's legs and turned around when walking.

The "Sanguaizi" was also the first river engineer to follow Lu Wenzong, the governor of Dashun, to uprising in the canal. He was also one of the 76 warriors who bravely seized Huai'an with the governor. He first served as a team official in the Huai Army, and later promoted to battalion officer. He followed the army north to attack the Manchu Haoge Group for his merits and was promoted to the throne commander. He is now transferred from the former Second Army to the position of brigade commander of the Five Towns adapted from the Baiwenxuan Department of the Western Army.

Qi Long, a fellow villager who rebelled with Fu Gui, now serves as the brigade commander of the Seventh Army, while Song Laogua, another fellow villager, is a judge of the town army in the Second Army.

More than two months ago, Fu Gui and Song Laogua met in Shangluo. When they talked, they learned that the official wife who was personally betrothed to Song Laogua by the regent that year had given birth to three sons and one daughter for the old Song family.

This made Fu Gui very jealous because he has not yet started a family.

There were women. When they captured Beijing, they sent Fu Gui two princes from Manchuria. Because the two princes were not growing, they looked ugly. Fu Gui was not very happy, so he gave one to his clan brother as his wife, and the other sold it to an old bachelor in Beijing at a price of 30 taels of silver.

Fu Lushuai was determined to wait for peace in the world, so he went back to his hometown in Yancheng to marry a local girl as a female general. He didn't like women from other places, especially those of Manchu Tartars.

According to the above meaning, Fu Gui sent someone to persuade Li Yukui, the governor of Xiying Ningxia who was guarding Jinji Fort.

Li Yukui knew that Zhenrong Sect, Xuanhe Fort and others had "fallen" one after another, he knew that the Shun Army was coming to Lingzhou, and he also knew that the power of the Western Army in Ningxia could not stop the Shun Army. He also knew that in order to force the Western Army to surrender to Xuanhe Fort, the Shun Army would slaughter the entire radius of fifty miles, so if he persisted, he would likely cause the people of Jinji Fort to be slaughtered by the Shun Army, just like Xuanhe Fort.

So after thinking about it over and over again, Li Yukui decided to surrender to Dashun in order to prevent the people from being killed innocently. However, his son Li Hong said that Jinji Fort controlled Qingtong Gorge and occupied all the land. He had the momentum of being a pass that was not open to ten thousand men. Therefore, even if Jinji Fort had only 3,000 defenders, it was enough to block Shun's army's 100,000 troops in front of the pass.

"If my father surrenders without fighting, he may be afraid that his mother and brother will die in a bad life!"

Li Hong insisted on not surrendering, except that Jinji Fort had a good location, his mother and younger brother were both in Lingzhou City.

Zhang Yingke, the governor of Lingzhou, was a close confidant of the Eastern Palace. You must know that Li Yukui and his son surrendered without fighting, and they would definitely kill Li Yukui's wife to vent their anger.

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After being persuaded by his son repeatedly, he wanted his old wife, young son and others to be in the hands of Zhang Yingke. Li Yukui changed his mind and decided to defend Jinji Fort.

When the news of Jinji Fort not surrendered, Fu Gui had no choice but to start attacking the fort, but this fort did have all the advantages. He could not even lead the troops to break the fort, but instead lost three or four hundred people.

Helplessly, he had to stop the attack, and while he was working hard to build equipment, he also called the town and military headquarters.

Zhao Zhongyi, the admiral of the temporary second army, heard that the Ningxia governor of the Xiying dared to resist the fort and defend the enemy. In furious, he personally led his troops to attack.

However, Zhao Zhongyi was not a brave and unscheming person. After inspecting the terrain of Jinji Fort on the spot, Zhao Zhongyi ordered people to pile up soil into high platforms one mile southeast of Jinji Fort, and then the general brought artillery to the platform. Then the large and small artillery fired at the fort at the same time. He also used a throwing weapon to throw dozens of King of Break into the fort. The repeated artillery bombardment finally made it difficult for the defenders in the fort to support it. The infantrymen of the Shun Army wore armor and died soldiers and carried shields to attack the fort, and finally defeated the fort.

Li Hong, the son of Li Yukui, still fought to the death after the Shunjun broke the fort, but was forced to jump to the cliff by the Shunjun and died. Li Yukui himself was raised by several people when the Shunjun broke the fort and escaped. Because he did not dare to go to Lingzhou, he went to his son-in-law Wang's house in Weizhou to hide.

More than two months later, Li Yukui was found by the Shun Army and his formation was in Weizhou.

After receiving a letter of help from Jinji Fort, Zhang Yingke, a close confidant in the Eastern Prefecture stationed in Lingzhou, knew that the Shun Army would never allow the army to capture Jinji Fort, so he drew troops and horses to be personally taken to prepare to rescue Jinji Fort.

Unexpectedly, the Shun Army broke through the fort too fast. Zhang Yingke led the reinforcements halfway and was still halfway. Jinji Fort was lost. He was stunned and extremely frustrated. He said to his left and right: "The land of Lingzhou is always the Jiangnan in the Fortress, but there are no troops to resist the Shun Army in this rich place. Even if I want to manage the Jiangnan in the Fortress for the East Prefecture, I am afraid that I can no longer support it."

Jinji Fort is like the southern gate of Lingzhou. Once this fort is lost, the Western Army has no better place to rely on. Zhang Yingke Zong refused to surrender, and there was no way to go against the fierce Shun Army.

The news between Lingzhou and the East and West governments was also cut off. Zhang Jike, who didn't know where the two governments were, retreated back to Lingzhou in dejectedly, preparing to make the final persistence to complete his integrity.

However, not everyone in Lingzhou City was willing to shed the last drop of blood for the already-destroyed Daxi. In the end, Zhang Yingke was killed by his generals, and then Lingzhou City sent people to surrender to the Shun Army.

It is the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the time for the camp to capture Lingzhou is one day ahead of time.

The surrender of Lingzhou City directly shook all the troops stationed in Ningxia vanguards and left and right central guards. For a while, the post roads were all Western envoys who surrendered with letters, and castles and villages in various places also changed their flags.

Zhao Zhongyi led his army to Lingzhou as the governor of Ningxia. At the same time, the Ningxia governor appointed by the Dashunxing Camp, Yan Ximing, the former right prime minister of Xiying, also arrived in Lingzhou City.

According to the camp order, Yan Xi ordered the Ningxia governor to start the demarcation of Ningxia province and prefecture, and finally classified the original Ningxia vanguard as Lingzhou Prefecture; the Guyuan, Pingliang and Ningxia rear guards belonging to the former Shaanxi governor as Zhenrong Prefecture; the Ningxia Central Guard and 114 forts in the west near Gansu area were designated as Pinglu Prefecture; the Ningxia rear guard and some areas of the former Yansui were designated as Pinglu Prefecture;

Originally, he planned to use Lingzhou as the Ningxia Provincial Government, but soon received an imperial edict and set up the Hetao area as the Wuyuan Prefecture. He ordered the Ningxia Provincial Government to establish Wuyuan, temporarily Ningxia Governor's Office, Ningxia Governor's Office, and Ningxia Censor's Office opened the yamen in Lingzhou first. After Wuyuan belonged to Dashun, the three yamen immediately moved to Wuyuan.

With the temporary arrangement of the Second Army, the Second Army was stationed in Ningxia and took over the former Xijunguan Zhanyanchi, Hui'an, Yangning Sanbao, Xingwu, Anding, Liuyang, Tianchi and other border Great Wall Fortresses; the First Army of the Shun Army left Hetao, the Second Army, the Fourth Army and the Sixth Army successively advanced from Yansui and Shaanxi, and a large encirclement against Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo Group had been initially formed.
Chapter completed!