But faintly, everyone also had some guesses in their minds.
It was simply because Ao Bai saw that Guan Ning's army was unable to retreat from Tongguan that he dared to allocate troops from the army to raid Huayin.
As for the troops being mobilized and the lack of men in the army, what should I do if Guan Ning's army sees it?
In fact, it is not difficult, just recruit civilian men to fill the vacancy caused by the withdrawal of troops.
Anyway, Guan Ningjun did not dare to leave Tongguan, and he would not be able to discover such detailed problems if he was far away.
However, although everyone in Guan Ning's army had speculations!
But no one dared to say it.
Because it was their emperor Wu Sangui who ordered the Guan Ning army to retreat to Tongguan and not go out to fight the Qing army.
Have you never heard that the emperor was guilty and his ministers took the blame?
There is no one present but who dares to blame Wu Sangui casually?
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Wu Sangui also realized his mistake, with a dark face and said nothing.
Wu Guogui stood up and said.
"What should our army do next? Please ask your Majesty to judge!"
Ma Bao, Wang Fuchen, Wu Yingxiong and others also spoke together.
"Please ask the Emperor for a holy judgment!"
That's what they said, but all of them wanted Wu Sangui to order the army to leave the border and fight a decisive battle with Obai.
After all, this is Wu Sangui's first battle after ascending the throne, and he must fight it well!
However, after Wu Sangui pondered for a while, he spoke.
"Since that traitor Ao Bai can send troops to raid Huayin and cut off my retreat, then he can send troops to raid Chang'an."
"If anything happens to Chang'an, the consequences will be disastrous!"
"Let me tell you, our army should evacuate Tongguan at this time and return to Chang'an to ensure that Chang'an is not lost!"
As soon as Wu Sangui said this, everyone in the hall was stunned.
Good guy!
Good guy!
Are we going to withdraw to Chang'an?
The city defense of Tongguan is still good now, and there is no shortage of food and grass in the city.
Moreover, there are currently many Guan Ning troops in Tongguan.
Although they fought fiercely with the Qing army for a long time, because Guan Ning's army was always defending the city, the losses were not great.
The current Guan Ning Army, let alone defending the city, will not necessarily lose even if they go out of the city to fight with the Qing Army!
Why withdraw?
Such a big Tongguan Fortress is no longer needed?
Why should the Qing army be released into the Guanzhong Plain when they could obviously keep it out of the Pass?
are you crazy!
A normal person in Wu Sangui's position wouldn't have made such a confused decision!
But who told Wu Sangui to have the old habit of late-stage phobia of mania again?
Just seeing the Qing army's banner outside Tongguan, he lost his fighting spirit and only wanted to preserve his strength and escape.
Everyone tried to persuade him, saying that the Battle of Tongguan could still be fought!
But Wu Sangui was determined and ordered Guan Ning's army to withdraw from Tongguan and retreat to Chang'an.
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Ao Bai saw that something had happened in Tongguan, and Guan Ning's army withdrew from Tongguan and all the way west to Chang'an.
He said with a sneer.
"Wu Sangui?"
"You are a cowardless bandit, how dare you ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor and rebel against the Qing Dynasty?"
"hehe!"
"Send the order, the whole army will pursue us!"
Following Obai's order, the Qing army rushed towards Tongguan City.
In just the blink of an eye, Tongguan changed hands.
The Qing army led by Ao Bai launched a tail-to-tail pursuit of the retreating Guan Ning army.
A large number of cavalry galloped on the Guanzhong Plain west of Tongguan, charging and firing arrows at the retreating Guan Ning army.
Arrows are falling like rain!
The retreating Guan Ning army was covered by arrows, and from time to time some people fell to the ground and died miserably.
Either they were pierced by arrows to their vital points and hit the city sieve, or they were trampled into a pulp by their own troops after reaching the end.
Wu Sangui, the general of Guan Ning's army who was responsible for cutting off the rear, ran very fast, and everyone's heart was filled with fear and resentment.
How could you, Wu Sangui, abandon us and run away?!
With their morale collapsed, a large number of Guan Ning Army soldiers dropped their weapons and took off their heavy armor.
Just to run faster!
Some people even chose to kneel on the ground and surrender to the Qing army.
The Qing army's cavalry roared past and continued to pursue the defeated troops of Guan Ning's army.
If they encounter a murderous Qing army, they may casually chop off the heads of the surrendered Guan Ning army as a military merit.
Facing such a murderous Qing army, surrendering was not easy.
However, some Qing cavalry remained rational and just whizzed past the surrendered soldiers without any intention of giving them a blow.
Guan Ning's army, which moved in front of the formation, once again demonstrated what it means to be defeated like a mountain!
In fact, if Wu Sangui had fought this battle seriously instead of running away timidly.
In fact, he may not lose this battle!
In fact, his chance of winning is much greater than that of Obai.
After all, Guan Ning's army relied on Tongguan, but the invading Qing army only had one camp.
If Wu Sangui had enough courage to fight Ao Bai.
Then, it is not impossible for him to replicate Zhu Hongyu's brilliant results outside Tongguan City again outside Jiaxing City!
But there was no way, Wu Sangui was so timid that he ran away!
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The Qing army's pursuit was as fierce as the wind and rain!
Logically speaking, Wu Sangui should have sent Guan Ning cavalry to block the Qing cavalry, and then reorganized his troops and horses to prepare for the battle.
But he doesn’t!
Wu Sangui firmly held Guan Ning's cavalry in his hands. He would rather cut off its tail to survive than send Guan Ning's cavalry out to block the attack.
If Wu Sangui was just a warlord, there is nothing wrong with doing this to preserve his strength.
If a warlord wants to keep his own glory and wealth, the army is the top priority!
Once there is no army, this warlord will be doomed!
However, now Wu Sangui is not a warlord, but an emperor.
If he continues to preserve his strength like this, he is really being stupid.
If Zhu Hongyu is placed in Wu Sangui's position, then what he has to do now.
That is to do his best, at all costs, to win the battle for the founding of the country after he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
In order to win, he would not hesitate to smash all the Guan Ning cavalry and Yi Ding cavalry he had on hand!
Rather than playing a trick of moving in before the formation to preserve strength.
This is the so-called gap in the way of thinking!
The reason why Wu Sangui did such a stupid thing was because his thinking had not yet completed the transformation from a general to an emperor.
After Guan Ning's army withdrew from Tongguan, they were chased and killed by the Qing army.
After a rout, it was out of control!
Along the way from Tongguan to Guanzhong, Guan Ningjun’s corpse completed a major weight loss.
Although Wu Sangui's main force, the Guan Ning cavalry, and his bodyguard, the Yi Ding cavalry, suffered minor casualties, most of his infantry was lost.
The remaining infantry had basically lost their fighting spirit.
There are not many left who can still fight and dare to fight!
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