Liu Fangliang had 8,000 defenders in Zunhua and 5,000 defenders in Santun camp, supporting each other and rushing to each other.

The Qing army vanguard arrived in Zunhua and surrounded Zunhua. Then the Qing army gathered and surrounded the Santun camp. Liu Fangliang received a report from Zunhua in Jizhou and urgently ordered 10,000 troops to rush to Zunhua.

Hong Chengchou followed Dorgon's army to the south and learned that the Qing army had successfully broken the pass. Hong Chengchou's mood seemed extremely complicated. Hong Chengchou was deeply favored by the emperor. As a magistrate, he personally led the Ming Dynasty to 130,000 elite soldiers and expend countless food, grass and weapons. However, he lost a lot in the Battle of Songjin. Almost all the elite soldiers and generals of the Ming Dynasty were destroyed in this battle. Hong Chengchou initially acted as a swearing to never surrender, but eventually surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning, Hong Chengchou had psychological obstacles to the Qing court, but after learning that Li Zicheng had defeated Sun Chuanting, he suddenly took the initiative. After Hong Chengchou learned that Li Zicheng had broken through Ningwu Pass, he predicted that Li Zicheng would not encounter any decent resistance in the capture of Beijing. Fan Wencheng told Dorgon of Hong Chengchou's prophecy. Dorgon still didn't believe it, but he expected it to come true!

Chongzhen was very kind to Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou avoided the matter of planning to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty for the Qing court. However, Hong Chengchou had no psychological burden to deal with Li Zicheng. Even in his subconscious, he had the intention of defeating Li Zicheng and revenge for the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Hong Chengchou insisted that Dorgon immediately marched south after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, pacifying the enemy and entering Beijing. It seemed that this country was obtained from Li Zicheng, and Hong Chengchou was not a sinner of the Ming Dynasty for the eternal period! However, Hong Chengchou has been deceived by himself in this way for a year. The traitor's mental journey has always gone from self-deception to deceiving others, which is generally the case.

Hong Chengchou had a clear idea of ​​the combat effectiveness of Li Zicheng's army. When he found out that Liu Fangliang came to rescue, Dorgon hurriedly asked how to deal with it. Hong Chengchou said that Liu Fangliang was not worth worrying about, and he just had to siege the city without attacking, and fight with all his strength to help. If Liu Fangliang was defeated, Zunhua would come down.

Duoduo adopted the usual tactic of siege and aid that the Qing army used, and led 30,000 Qing troops to set up an ambush south of Zunhua, defeated Liu Fangliang, and pursued him for 30 miles. The Dashun army was killed and injured. Liu Fangliang was seriously injured. Under the cover of the six hundred remaining soldiers, he retreated to Jizhou in a hurry.

The defeat reached Beijing. Li Zicheng was shocked when he heard the news and quickly summoned Liu Zongmin and other generals and advisers to discuss countermeasures.

The Dashun Army stationed around Beijing to 120,000 troops. Yuan Zongdi's troops were originally transferred from Xi'an to Henan to pacify the rebellion of the Ming ministers. However, after the "Tianjin Treaty" was signed, Yuan Zongdi's troops were transferred to Beijing.

Yuan Zongdi was the first to ask for the order, and he asked to lead 40,000 troops as the vanguard and rushed to Zunhua for reinforcements.

Regarding the reinforcements of Zunhua, Song Xiancai Li Yan and Gu Junen both opposed it. Instead, they suggested to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, lure the enemy into deep, and wait for work. They concentrated 120,000 troops in Beijing, supplemented by the attack on the east and west wings, Jiang Xiang in the west and Bai Guangen in the east, and 160,000 troops to attack 100,000 Qing troops. In addition, reinforcements can still arrive continuously, and there is a great chance of defeating the Qing army.

Niu Jinxing was mostly politically considering it. He was worried that the Qing army would approach the capital to fight, so people would inevitably be in panic. Yu Dashun's prestige was often unfavorable, so he advocated fighting away from Beijing.

Liu Zongmin was holding back his anger. The government bond market was already rising all the way, but yesterday it had already reached a high of nine cents and two cents of silver. It was obvious that it would be more than one tael of silver in one fell swoop, and it was still planning to sell the government bonds after one tael of silver. It would be really profitable at that time. Unexpectedly, as the defeat spread in Beijing, the government bonds plummeted and fell to three cents of silver before it stopped.

Liu Zongmin hated the Qing soldiers to the core, how could he let the Qing soldiers approach Beijing? If the Qing army surrounded Beijing, how could the public debt collapse? He now insisted that he personally led an army of 110,000 to reinforce and fight the Qing army to the death between Jizhou and Zunhua.

Li Zicheng thought in his mind that although the chance of luring the enemy deeper into the enemy was greater, as Niu Jinxing said, once the Qing army approached the capital, Beijing would be panicked. The Dashun Dynasty's foundation in Beijing was not stable. If it caused unstable people, it would inevitably be unfavorable to the war. Thinking of this, he decided to lead the imperial army in person. With Yuan Zongdi as the vanguard, he led 30,000 troops to lead 30,000 troops to follow, and Emperor Dashun personally led the army to fight. He then ordered Bai Guangen to lead 20,000 troops to attack from east to west, and Jiang Xiang led 20,000 troops to attack from west to east. If he led Zunhua, the Santun Camp could hold on until reinforcements arrived. In addition, the total number of troops in Zunhua Santun Camp exceeded 160,000. What's the fear of dealing with the 100,000 Qing army!

After receiving the military order from the army to go north, Luo Dinglong, a hundred households, had almost no time to explain his private matters, and he hurriedly followed the army to north. Fortunately, Luo Dong, a village, is now responsible for preparing food and supplies for the Dashun Army in Beijing, so he had to entrust him with the "Pingliao Public Debt" he bought with his brothers. He can't bring this to the battlefield!

Luo Dinglong led his hundred cavalry to travel day and night to north to reinforce.

Xiang Fei next to him asked, "The legend says that the Tartars have green faces, fangs, green hair, and their skills are like ghosts. Brother Luo, can you believe this rumor?"

"Listen to others, the Tartars are carrying one head on both shoulders, and they will still explain it if they have a knife down." Luo Dinglong smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, each of us is equipped with a grenade this time. If the Tartars are rampant, let them taste the grenade. Haha, with a rumbling sound, the Tartars turned over and cut their heads, and they just came back to receive the reward."

Another man named Wang Jiu came forward and asked, "Brother Luo, after we defeat the Tartars, can the government bonds really rise to one tael of silver?"

"Of course, if you defeat the Tartars, the government debt can increase to at least one or two cents. So, brothers, this time I am killing the enemy for ourselves, so you can't be a coward." Luo Ge's pre-war mobilization was easily handled in casual conversation on horseback.

After passing Jizhou, the horse was not saddled and continued to move forward. He ran sixty miles in one breath and encountered the Qing soldiers ahead. After an encounter, both sides suffered casualties and were injured. After the bow and arrow shot, the two sides set up camp to confront each other, waiting for the brigade to assemble.

On the third day, the main forces of both sides gathered together. The Qing soldiers finally broke the Zunhua wall with the red cannons transported there yesterday and seized Zunhua. All 8,000 troops of the Dashun army were killed in battle. The Qing soldiers took advantage of the victory and gathered together to prepare to decide the victory and defeat with the Dashun army.

On the field, the Qing soldiers lined up 80,000 soldiers and horses, and Dashun lined up 100,000 soldiers and horses, and they were destined to decide the outcome in one battle.

In this battle, Li Zicheng watched the enemy's supervising formation on the distant hillside, and Liu Zongmin personally commanded it. There were 30,000 cavalry in front of the Dashun Army, 20,000 spearmen in the center, followed by 10,000 thunder-throwing soldiers, and behind the hall were 20,000 spearmen, and each wing was 10,000 cavalry. This was the "three walls" tactic of Li Zicheng's reliance on defeating various Ming armies. In the past, a new recruit array composed of hungry people would be arranged at the forefront to consume the enemy's combat power. Li Zicheng's battlefield discipline was extremely strict. The rear team supervised the front team. If the front team retreated without authorization, the rear team would kill them. Therefore, the Ming army often had the upper hand in the first battle, but the combat power was consumed by the layers of rebels for the first time, and in the end, they were often counterattacked by the rebels, and the situation was reversed.

The Qing soldiers were all cavalry, and their formation was not as neat as the Dashun Army. However, the Qing soldiers and cavalry were divided and combined, and the changes were extremely fast and complex.

Both sides had red-clothed cannons in this battle, and both sides were bound to win. The Dashun Army's field battle has always been the "three walls" tactics, and they will never leave their roots and respond to all changes. The Qing army's tactics are changeable and extremely flexible. The two armies are at the forefront and murderous intent is soaring to the sky.

The sound of drums suddenly started, and the cavalry on both sides rushed forward. Two high-speed rapids collided with each other, and then the sound of killing shook the sky and stumbled together.

After the first wave of cavalry rushed into the enemy formation and tied it with the Qing soldiers, the second wave of cavalry also rushed forward. Luo Dinglong, with one hundred cavalry under his command, shouting and rushing towards the Qing soldiers, and saw the Qing cavalry in front rushed straight towards him. After getting closer, there was a rain of arrows on both sides. Luo Dinglong called the order, and fifty grenades in the front row were thrown out quickly. A group of black iron balls flew through the sky, some of which exploded in the air without waiting to land. There was a rumbling explosion in the air. The Qing cavalry one after another, and more than twenty cavalry fell to the ground. They were trampled by the roaring cavalry of the rear team. Whether they were dead or injured, they were instantly trampled into meat sauce.

As the second batch of fifty grenades flew out, the Qing soldiers learned a lesson this time and they all stopped their horses and avoided them. Even so, more than a dozen Qing soldiers were still caught. In the blink of an eye, the two sides were already twisted together.

When Wang Jiu saw the Qing army rushed towards him, he also urged the horse to swing his sword and took the Qing army. The two horses missed it quickly, but when the blade flashed, he was in the middle of the knife. Wang Jiu didn't believe how the scimitar broke through his lower abdomen until he died. He stared at him and fell to the ground to die.

Luo Dinglong stared at a rushing Tatar cavalry, calculated the speed of the horse, raised his sword and chopped it down with all his might, and concluded that the Tatar cavalry could not avoid it. Unexpectedly, the Tatar cavalry suddenly hid in a stirrup, and actually avoided it. When Luo Dinglong saw his comrades around him, eight of them were not the enemy of the Tatar cavalry. When he met, more than 30 of his subordinates died. Luo Dinglong was so sad that he quickly became energetic, used all his strength to fight with the Tatars.

It is easy to kill a Tartar. Looking around, only Xiang Fei and a few subordinates with high martial arts skills are still around. I don’t know how many other brothers are left. At this time, everyone was red in their eyes, and after a rush, several brothers died. Luo Dinglong and Xiang Fei each injured a Tartar. When they looked around, they had no subordinates. Fortunately, the cavalry of the Dashun Army continued to fight and were tangled with the Qing soldiers. There was no formation in the two strokes, and they were fighting each other.

The Taurus cavalry that I encountered this time had much more combat power than the Ming cavalry. One Turus cavalry could exchange for at least three Dashun cavalry. Luo Dinglong didn't know that the Tartars rolled on horseback since childhood and were very skilled in horse control. The years of battle made the Tartars riders very good at using swords and arrows in their hands to fight horses, and the combination of people and weapons reached a superb level. Even the Liaodong cavalry of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to swear their edge easily because their individual combat power was too scary.

When Liu Zongmin saw that this kind of hard fight was not a solution, he hurriedly commanded the cavalry in front to retreat. The exquisite tactics of the "three walls" of the rebel army were to rush for a while and then retreat and lure the enemy, and then the infantry spear formation of the rear team resisted the enemy cavalry, and then the cavalry returned to their horses and killed them again, which could achieve miraculous effects.

Luo Dinglong retreated and saw that only sixteen cavalry remained, and half of them were injured.

When the Qing cavalry saw that the Dashun cavalry retreated, they released their horses to chase after them. Although Hong Chengchou reminded the bandits of "three walls" tactics, the Qing soldiers rely on the myth of undefeated field battles, they did not take Hong Chengchou's reminder to heart. The Qing army broke through the pass and seized the city. In contrast, the Dashun army's combat power was even worse than that of the Ming army in Liaodong, and Dorgon could not help but underestimate the enemy. At this time, when he saw the Dashun army fleeing, he ordered the flag to point to the flag, and the Qing cavalry chased him with all his strength.

The 20,000 spearmen of the Dashun Army were also experienced for a long time, and Liu Zongmin was in command. The soldiers knew that Liu Zongmin's army was like a mountain, and they could only advance but not retreat. The Qing cavalry came like flying. There were a siege in front of the Dashun Army, and there were shield soldiers blocking the rain of arrows. The long spears stabbed like flying, and resisting the Qing army. The Qing cavalry in front rushed over with huge inertia. They were either tripped by the siege, or stabbed by flying spears, or even the Tartars who crossed the siege, were instantly stabbed to death by the spears in the back row.

Taking advantage of the gathering of Qing cavalry in front of the formation, the thunder-throwing soldiers who fell afterward rushed forward. A black crow-like thunder flew out of the Dashun formation, and exploded one after another in the Qing cavalry formation, and all the Qing cavalry were killed and injured. Dorgon saw that he could not bear it, and the Qing army's tactics were always extremely flexible. When he saw that the strong attack was not good, he retreated immediately.

When Liu Zongmin saw that he was successful, he raised the flag. The cavalry in the middle took advantage of the situation and returned. The cavalry on both wings also came out in full swing and rushed straight to the Qing army formation.

Dorgon was not panicked, but just ordered the red-clothed cannon to fire the cannon. The cannon did not attack the cavalry, but just aimed at the Dashun army's spear formation. There were a burst of cannons, and there were casualties in the spear formation.

When the cavalry on both sides came together, the individual combat capability advantages of the Qing cavalry were once again reflected. When the cavalry battle was so dark that the earth was dark, Liu Zongmin ordered the cavalry to retreat again. However, this time the Qing soldiers had the experience last time, and followed the cavalry of Dashun, and the cavalry of Dashun retreated in panic. The rear team was unable to retreat and were killed by the Qing cavalry.

When the Qing soldiers chased after him again, the spear formation of the Dashun Army changed to the spear formation behind the hall, with shield soldiers, crossbow archers, spear soldiers and thunderheads mixed in the formation. The 30,000 mixed-type square formation resisted the Qing cavalry. A rain of arrows and a flying thunder. When the Qing cavalry rushed to the formation, there were spears flying stings. Although the Qing army's cannons were shot into the formation from time to time, and the Qing army in front of the formation also rushed into the formation several times, but someone died and someone filled it. In addition, the Dashun Army's cannons also fired at the same time. The Qing army was killed and injured in front of the Dashun Army, and it was impossible to break the spear formation.

As a result, there was another cavalry battle between the two sides. When the cavalry approached the Qing cavalry, they first threw a grenade. After injuring many cavalry in the Qing army, the situation of the melee seemed to improve. However, after they were twisted together, the Qing cavalry still had the upper hand. Li Zicheng stood on the hillside and could see clearly. Seeing that he could not win, he had to send a message to Liu Zongmin, and it would not be too late to fight again after gathering reinforcements.

When Liu Zongmin saw such a melee, the old camp cavalry might have fought all. In this battle, almost 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry were killed or killed. If he fought, he would not be able to afford it, so he cried out the gold medal to withdraw his troops.

At first glance, Dorgon had no way to defeat the rebel army in one fell swoop. His own casualties were unprecedented, and the casualties had already exceeded 10,000. The rebel army was so fierce and fearless, but it was a strong enemy. The Qing army's traditional law was to preserve itself and eliminate the enemy. The business of losing money was not easy to do, so he also called the gold to withdraw his troops.

The casualties ratio in this battle was about 1:2.5, the Dashun Army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and the Qing army had 12,000 casualties.

Both sides withdrew their troops and each needed time to lick their wounds. In any case, the Dashun Army finally resisted the Qing army in this battle, but it was far from a victory.
Chapter completed!