Jirgalang was not clear about these situations. After hearing Fan Wencheng said this, he immediately stood up, "Will this not a good opportunity for us to enter the Central Plains?"

Fan Wencheng shook his head and said, "I think it's not yet. If I wait for a while, the Ming Kingdom will be even more chaotic in the future. This time, the main purpose of entering the pass is not to plunder wealth and population, but to test the defense and real strength of various places in the Ming Dynasty, and to make some preparations for entering the Central Plains in the future."

Jirgalang said with a puzzled face: "Prepare?"

Fan Wencheng nodded and said, "The north is in chaos and people's minds change. At this time, we can show our strength through this military dispatch. At the same time, we can contact Shanxi merchants and Ming dynasty officials and generals stationed in various places. Make friends with gold and silver to convince them to serve our Qing Dynasty. If we really enter the Central Plains in the future, these people will be the greatest help for our Qing Dynasty. Also, we can use this military dispatch to completely solve the problem of the Chahar tribe."

Shortly afterwards, Jirgalang handed over fifty posts to Shang Kexi and led his troops to retreat north. During the retreat north, he carried out a major clearance near Liaoyang, further weakening the local resistance. Then, Dorgon ordered Jirgalang and Nikan as generals to lead an army of 30,000 to fight.

Eight of these 30,000 strokes became cavalry, and Mongolian cavalry accounted for a large proportion. They bypassed Shanhaiguan and entered the pass from Mongolia. One of them broke into Xifengkou under Nikan, captured Jizhou Town, and headed westward to the capital. The other, led by Jiergalang, attacked from Huangyakou, broke through Miyun, and came down to Huairou, and advanced to Changping, the Beidamen of the capital.

For a moment, the capital was in danger and the world was shaking.

In Jianghuai, Ainengqi obtained Bai Wenxuan reinforcements and attacked Hefei fiercely. Ten days later, the city was broken, and the Henan governor Yue Qijie, who fled to Hefei due to the fall of Henan, committed suicide. The assistant Chen Qianfu died in battle. The Longwu army continued to march southward and successively entered Shucheng, Huoshan and other places. In Tongcheng, Ainengqi defeated the joint troops of Ma Shiying and Liu Liangzuo and defeated the Ming army.

In a panic, Ma Shiying actually gave up Anqing's crossing south, and his troops were seriously damaged. The result was that the Jianghuai court was all obtained by the Longwu court, and the Longwu army could cross the river to attack Jiangxi or Nanjing at any time. What's more serious is that after the defeat, Ma Shiying believed that Nanjing could not be defended for a long time and fled west with Liu Liangzuo. In the end, he stole into Wuchang on the grounds of conscription. With the cooperation of King Zhu Huakui, he completely occupied Zuo Liangyu's nest.

The war in Nanyang was fierce. Sun Chuanting originally wanted to block the connection between the Huguang Rebellion Army and the Kaifeng Rebellion Army by occupying Nanyang. He used his own troops to attack Zuo Liangyu, Qin Liangyu, He Tengjiao and other troops from north to south, first defeating Liu Tichun, and then heading north to fight against the Rebellion Army. However, as soon as he captured Fancheng, Liu Fangliang led reinforcements, and Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng followed one after another, forcing him to withdraw the troops attacking Xiangyang and deal with Li Zicheng with all his strength.

Originally, Liu Tichun was trapped in the lonely city of Xiangyang, and foreign aid was cut off. Zuo Liangyu, Qin Liangyu and He Tengjiao's three troops were far superior to Xiangyang's rebellion, but He Tengjiao was the governor of Huguang, while Zuo Liangyu and Qin Liangyu were the foreign generals. According to the regulations, Zuo Liangyu and Qin Liangyu should be controlled by He Tengjiao. However, Zuo Liangyu was unruly and suffered the loss of civil servants in Kaifeng to command troops. How could he listen to He Tengjiao?

At the beginning, the three armies could still work together to attack the city. However, when the losses gradually increased, He Tengjiao's supply of food and grass was not continued, and Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and his military disciplines were corrupted and plundering good people everywhere, the conflict between the two became more serious. Later, except for Qin Liangyu's tribes who were still attacking the city with all their might, Zuo Liangyu and He Tengjiao's tribes were both jealous and spent much more energy on internal fighting than fighting the enemy.

After several months of battle, even though the city of Xiangyang was short of food and grass and people were starving to death, they still could not break the city. When Zuo Liangyu heard that Wuchang was occupied by Ma Shiying and Liu Liangzuo, he was furious and retreated to Wuchang. Zuo Liangyu's troops basically accounted for more than half of the total strength of the three. After he withdrew his troops, he could no longer form a siege against Xiangyang. He Tengjiao and Qin Liangyu could not cope, so he had to temporarily retreat to Jingzhou and recruit troops.

Sun Chuanting knew that his troops were less than the crusing army. When Li Zicheng led a three-fold enemy to come, he mainly adopted a defensive move, and ordered most of his troops to guard the key passes and gradually fight. He seized the opportunity and took the initiative to attack, constantly consuming the crusing army's strength and spirit. Cao Bianjiao led his elite cavalry to hunt outside and attacked everywhere for restraint, so that Li Zicheng could not suppress the entire army.

Li Zicheng was worried about the Xiangyang army and was eager to fight. Sun Chuanting happened to take advantage of this and even won the battle. Fortunately, when he captured Nanyang, the Ming army received a large amount of food and grass to support it until now. However, with Xiangyang's rescue, Li Zicheng was not so anxious. Instead, the Manchu army entered the pass again, and Emperor Chongzhen had no troops to adjust and kept ordering Sun Chuanting to fight the battle with the army as soon as possible. In fact, Nanyang's food and grass did not last long.

The Ming army everywhere gave up the periphery and gathered around Nanyang, and a war was about to break out.

During this period, some seemingly small but very important things happened, most of which were related to Emperor Longwu.

After taking Anqing, Emperor Longwu Zhu Youjian returned to Fengyang to worship the ancestors of the Zhu family. He took advantage of the incident of the Qing Dynasty entering the pass again and wrote a letter to Emperor Chongzhen and circulated it around the world. The letter said that the Manchus were raging and the people died. For the sake of the people of the world, he proposed to temporarily stop the troops with the court and was willing to reinforce 10,000 soldiers to help Emperor Chongzhen expel the Qing army from the pass.

In fact, Zhu Youjian occupied the Jianghuai River and was also controlled by Sun Kewang. He wanted to lead his troops north, either through Shandong or Henan. But the two places, one under the control of Zhou Xian and the other under the control of the rebel army, could not allow him to go north. He had just occupied the entire Jianghuai River and his foundation was not stable, and it was taking time to stabilize and digest the newly occupied land. He no longer had the strength to expand again, and the court sent troops to counterattack was his most worrying. At present, the two were the most in line with his interests.

In fact, shortly after the Longwu Army occupied Anqing, Huang Degong immediately led his troops to Tongyang and intercepted the waterway from the Longwu Army to Nanjing. Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiangxi stationed in Jiejiujiang, urgently recruited 20,000 troops from each prefecture and entered Huaining, and formed a joint attack on the Longwu Army of Anqing with Huang Degong.
Chapter completed!