After gathering his troops and taking on the siege again, Zhu Yixi climbed onto the tower and looked to the west.
The cold wind blew, making him feel more and more unhappy.
After setting up an offensive and then being forced to withdraw it, it is really easy to cause internal injuries.
The soldiers were definitely dissatisfied, but the anger in His Highness King Yu's heart was extremely hot.
Just because the scouts reported, Liu Zongmin set out from Tongguan and took advantage of the heavy snow to run all the way. He was only a few dozen miles away from Luoyang and had already arrived in Xin'an County.
"Your Highness, Liu Zongmin has always been arrogant and domineering. Except for Li Zicheng, he doesn't pay attention to anyone in the army."
As a native of Henan, Chen Yongfu knew a lot about the Chuang Army and couldn't help but say:
"In this decisive battle between our army and Jiannu, this rogue must want to take advantage of him."
"Fisherman?"
Zhu Yixi was so angry that she was about to kill the three kings, but was forced to give up. Who could bear it?
But it can’t stop.
Who knows how long it took to capture the city of Luoyang? The delay was so long that Liu Zongmin set off from Xin'an and marched in half a day to arrive. By then, he would be facing the risk of being attacked from both front and rear.
In war, caution is king, and the comparison is about who makes more mistakes.
Duduo was so arrogant at that time, he swept all the way to the foot of Ruzhou City, destroyed the two military camps at the first sign, and forced tens of thousands of Qin troops to the corner.
However, as arrogant as he was before, he is now miserable and trapped in Luoyang City, becoming a turtle in a urn.
A simple arrogance strategy, combined with his arrogant personality, could easily make him make big mistakes.
"In front of me, I want to turn this fisherman into a big-headed fish."
Zhu Yixi said coldly, and then ordered with a livid face:
"Let the auxiliary soldiers and prisoners pretend to be stationed in the military camp, the Chongbu Camp, the Yulin Camp, the Mingjie Camp, and the Ming'en Camp to guard the four gates of Luoyang."
These four battalions, each with 8,000 men, are all elites. Once they escape from the city, they can be encircled and suppressed together.
"As for the Sanguan camp, the cavalry camp, and the firearms camp, follow me to the west. I will kill Liu Zongmin with my own hands!"
King Yu said aggressively.
Sichuan generals Yang Zhan, Cao Xun, and Wang Xiang shrank their necks when they saw King Yu like this for the first time.
"As you command!"
King Yu took away more than 20,000 people and decided to kill Liu Zongmin himself. All the generals knew that he was really angry and did not dare to disobey.
Of course, what reassures them even more is that Liu Zongmin only brought 30 to 40 thousand people here personally, waiting for opportunities to seek benefits.
The intruder who was beaten up by the Manchus many times had already lost his original arrogance.
Even the Eight Banners could be defeated, so Liu Zongmin was nothing.
So, he ordered his troops immediately, set out at noon, and arrived directly at the gate of Xin'an City in the evening.
Liu Zongmin was immediately shocked: "How dare you besiege the city with only 30,000 people?"
"The Qin army defeated the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they must have had the courage to do so."
Liu Fangliang turned around and looked at him, stunned: "This is the arrival of the pseudo-Prince of Yu."
"Fake King Yu?"
Liu Zongmin was also stunned and took a breath: "How brave you are."
Chuang Jun still hadn't expected what he had done.
In fact, when Li Zicheng, who was far away in Xi'an, heard that the Qing Dynasty and the Qin army were fighting, he instantly relaxed and went all out to fight Wu Sangui and others in northern Shaanxi.
Moreover, he clearly ordered Liu Zongmin to defend Tongguan and never take the initiative to prevent being attacked from both sides.
But Liu Zongmin could not resist the temptation and gathered the defeated 70,000 to 80,000 people, leaving half to guard Tongguan. He personally led 30,000 people, waiting for opportunities to gain benefits.
Apart from anything else, when the two armies are fighting, it would be good to intercept some baggage and replenish it.
"We didn't bring much food. We wanted to get some benefits, but we never wanted to take the initiative to deliver it to our door."
Liu Zongmin calmed down and said: "Go out of the city first and try to fight. If you lose, retreat!"
The generals, in view of the Qin army's reputation for defeating the Eight Banners, cautiously agreed.
The Eight Banners defeated them, and the Qin army defeated the Eight Banners. Doesn't this mean that the Qin army is far superior to them?
You can never be too cautious.
Liu Zongmin tentatively sent thousands of troops out of the city.
As expected, the Qin army ate it without hesitation and without leaving any people behind to return to the city.
At this time, Liu Zongmin was completely frustrated and could only send someone to sue for peace.
Unfortunately, the reputation of intruders is so bad, especially Liu Zongmin, who has always been untrustworthy and untrustworthy, and no one in the Qin army believed in him.
King Yu even wanted to kill him himself, so that Li Zicheng might live a few more years!
After realizing that the morale of the intruders was declining, Zhu Yixi thought that this might be the afterglow of the Battle of Luoyang in the Qing Dynasty.
This time, he felt relieved. Although it was difficult to get red cannons, he had a lot of several hundred kilograms of French cannons.
It is effortless to deal with a small town like Xin'an County, which is no more than two or three feet tall.
More than a hundred French cannons were fired at a section of the city wall, bombing desperately.
The city wall of the county town, which was half rammed earth and half masonry, could not withstand such bombardment. In half a day, it was already crumbling.
At this time, Liu Zongmin was completely frightened and retreated in panic without waiting for the city to be breached.
"How can I let you run away?" Zhu Yixi said coldly: "Cavalry battalion, let me chase you!"
The courageous intruder was no longer worth King Yu's hard work. He turned his head and prepared to return to Luoyang and organize another offensive.
But at this moment, news came from Luoyang that the Eight Banners had broken out.
The Eight Banners, numbering nearly ten thousand people, split into two directions and broke through at a desperate speed.
"What the hell!"
When Zhu Yixi returned to the military camp, Chen Yongfu came to report: "Your Highness, it has snowed heavily in the past few days, the trenches have been filled, and the Yellow River has frozen again. Jiannu saw this opportunity and desperately broke out."
"North gate and east gate?" Not seeing Liu Tingjie and Wang Guangen, Zhu Yixi immediately understood the direction of the Manchu escape.
"Who broke through the north gate?"
Zhu Yixi asked hurriedly.
"It should be Duduo!" Chen Yongfu said with a smile: "Mengjin Ferry is right there. If you go across Hebei, Wei Hui and the other three houses may provide a lot of money and food."
"Dodo?"
Zhu Yixi smiled: "Just let Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde go. This dog-headed Duduo will never escape."
"Let's go and see what happened to Dodo."
Mengjin Ferry.
Thousands of cavalrymen looked ahead with numb faces.
Only the ships of the past were seen, and not a single one was seen.
What made them even more desperate was that the expected ice turned into pieces of broken ice. Not to mention war horses, even three-year-old children had to fall down.
"Your Majesty?"
Baqi quickly looked at Duduo, whose face was ashen, with a searching look on his face.
Duduo's face was full of bad luck and his face was trembling: "This thief actually set up a thousand people in Mengjin to cut the ice day and night. How can there be such an insidious person in the world?"
"The Han people are so shameless."
The Eight Banners cursed one after another.
Now, there is no way to advance or retreat.
I saw that on the Yellow River, at some point, dozens of icebreakers were set up, and they were constantly moving back and forth. The ice-breaking dynamics of the Yellow River were constantly being terminated.