However, the situation was not as expected, and the battle of Runing involved the interests of all parties.

This causes too many variables that may occur.

Wu Zheng underestimated Sun Kewang's insidiousness, Ajige's dying madness, Emperor Yongli's greed for the throne, and Wu Sangui and others' cunning to take advantage of the situation.

After that, the progress of the Battle of Runing was completely separated from Wu Zheng's prediction and rushed towards an extremely uncontrollable direction.

In fact, Li Dingguo lied to Wu Zheng, at least he didn't tell the truth.

In fact, what he said was that the 50,000 troops who could reach the battlefield in just three days were still in Changsha and Yuezhou area, and were trying hard to march northward.

Of course, in terms of distance, you may be able to arrive, but with the marching of 50,000 troops, coupled with the constraints of the weather, roads and transportation conditions at that time, it is almost impossible to arrive at Runing Mansion to participate in the war within three days.

In other words, the only one who can be the main offensive force at this time is Bai Wenxuan and the 30,000 troops under Ma Weixing's troops.

Logically speaking, there are a lot of 30,000 troops. Even if Sun Kewang and Ajige join forces to take the initiative to attack, the 30,000 Western Army will resist and delay for three or five days, and wait for the arrival of the rear army before launching a counterattack, it will not be very difficult.

But the question is, who is Sun Kewang?

He was the former commander of the Daxi Army, Li Dingguo's righteous brother, and the former chief boss of most Daxi Army generals.

Even if Li Dingguo was determined to be the traitor who surrendered to the Qing court, many generals would probably not be able to take action. Moreover, Li Dingguo himself did not want to kill Sun Kewang.

People are not sages, so there is always something to talk about, even if they are in a camp of opposition to us.

In this way, the difficulty of this battle will increase infinitely, reaching an irreversible level in the end.

Wu Zheng's mistake was that as long as he stayed in Anqing, Luzhou or Fengyang Mansion for more than five days, no? Even if it was three days? When the war began, Wu Zheng would find out that Ajige and his forward had already arrived in Ruyang. In other words, it was not Sun Kewang who really commanded this battle?

And the ones who followed the Ajige tribe to participate in the war were not just Sun Kewang's Zhengbai Banner Han Army? There were also Wu Sangui, Titicacum and other tribes who came from the west.

But this is not the most important thing? After the war started, these armies showed their status in the open and could not hide it from others.

The most important thing is that the Qing Dynasty Han army, who had taken the initiative to leave Wu Sangui, was under the command of Li Guohan's troops inlaid with blue flags? His eight thousand troops have not been detected by Changlin Wei. It suddenly appeared on the battlefield of Runing, causing great destructive power.

To sum up, if Wu Zheng could quickly respond to the situation and directly order the troops on the borders of Fengyang, Luzhou and Anqing to participate in the war, he would be able to maximize the vitality of the Western Army.

What a pity? Wu Zheng had already gone north at this time, and most of his energy was on Doerbo, Yanzhou.

This is not only a private deal with Jirgalang, but also a strategic goal set by Wu Zheng.

The military force of the Qing court? In addition to the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, the three largest parts are the Wu Sangui and other divisions in the southwest, the Ajige tribe, and the Dorbo tribe? These three forces run across the east and west, forming the most important barrier for the Qing court to deal with the Northern Expedition.

If Wu Zheng wanted to defeat the crowd with few and break through this line of defense, he had to defeat these three forces, or one of them first.

Ajigexi fled out of Fengyang Mansion, and Jiang Quanyi controlled Xuzhou, so the door to march from south to north was opened.

However, the army of Dorbo in Yanzhou was still standing in front of the Northern Expedition Army. Both the public and private forces had to resolve Dorbo first.

Leaving Huaining, Wu Zheng ordered the team to accelerate northward, which actually not only echoed Li Yong and Mao Xiang's bet, but instead decided to go to Xuzhou before returning to Hangzhou Prefecture, and before officially signing a treaty with the Qing court, he would take a break from his busy schedule to resolve the problem of blocking the road in Yanzhou.

This led to Wu Zheng staying away from Fengyang and Luzhou, which were closest to the Runing battlefield. When Wu Zheng heard about the drastic changes in the Runing battlefield, he had no time to respond quickly.

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Because Chen Zhiyuan led 20,000 new troops under his command to "rebellion", Yanzhou was in chaos.

The new army under Chen Zhiyuan had another 10,000 troops stationed in Dunningyang. The main reason why this army did not lead to "rebellion" was that this army was placed too many people by Dorbo, and Chen Zhiyuan could no longer easily mobilize this army.

However, all Dorbo could install middle and upper-level officers, and lower-level officers and soldiers were beyond the control of Dorbo's control in a short period of time.

After the news of Chen Zhiyuan leading his troops to "rebellion" spread, the army suffered several chaos. Fortunately, the scale was not large and after being suppressed by force, Dorbo transferred the army south to Jining Prefecture.

The purpose is nothing more than that the Xuzhou army and the Ziyang army can stand between north and south to monitor the every move of this army.

However, Xuzhou suddenly broke out in chaos, and was then attacked by Jiang Quanyi's troops. Doerbo had to order the army to retreat north to Yutai, northwest of Pei County.

In this way, from Ziyang to Jiningzhou and Yutai, the narrow area was filled with up to 60,000 people, and the friction and filth that arises are inevitable.

Dorbo was determined to transfer one of his troops to the east to defend against Chen Zhiyuan in the east. But he didn't dare. Who can guarantee that the transferred troops would turn against Chen Zhiyuan at the moment of seeing him?

He did not dare to transfer the troops retreating from Xuzhou to the east, because Dorbo did not dare to. After the troops retreating from Xuzhou to the east, he would inevitably transfer ten thousand new troops under Chen Zhiyuan to defend against Jiang Quanyi's troops in Xuzhou to the north. By the same token, Chen Zhiyuan has already come to the fore. Who can guarantee that this army will not turn against Jiang Quanyi in the last battle?

Dorbo gathered the controversy of civil and military officials. After thinking about it over and over again, he also asked his sister Dong'e's meaning and made a decision.

That is to adjust his direct line in Ziyang City. No, to be precise, it should be the direct line left by him by Ama Dorgon to the east. The loyalty of this flag army is extremely high and it is absolutely impossible to conquer it. It is natural to use it to defend against Shen Zhiyuan. The attack of the western region of Lu is of course the most appropriate.

But this also has its drawbacks. The number of this flag army is not large, and the three flags are only more than 10,000. In the east, Chen Zhiyuan has 20,000 new troops. In addition to the Wusongwei in the Lu region, Dorbo had to mobilize most of the flag army to deal with the threat from the east.

In this way, Ziyang City became empty, leaving only three thousand troops to guard the garrison.

Of course, Ziyang is at this time in the retreating army in Xuzhou, and it is also very safe to block the 10,000 new troops and the flag troops sent from the east.

This is also the reason why Dong'e agrees with Dorbo to transfer the winner of Ziyang eastward.

But Dorbo and Dong'er both ignored the most important point, that is, the fortress was always broken from the inside, and they actually forgot such a famous saying that was widely circulated. The two were indeed careless.

But it’s no wonder that both the siblings and tigers are still in their teens, so how can they get to the surrounding people and tigers and wolves?
Chapter completed!