The news that Wu Sangui broke through Tongguan and led his troops to the Central Plains was transferred from Li Laiheng's troops nine days ago. This news shocked the Taiping Army and caught Zhou Shixiang off guard. He had never underestimated Wu Sangui, but he did not think that he could break through Tongguan in a short time. After all, Tongguan was a natural dangerous pass. When Sun Chuanting fought against Li Zicheng and Li Zicheng fought against Duoduo, Tongguan was never broken. It can be said that as long as the Qing army defended Tongguan and did not come out, even if Wu Sangui could take Tongguan, he would definitely be seriously injured under the pass. In other words, as long as the Qing army showed half of its combat power in the past, Wu Sangui might have invaded Henan without any damage as he is now, causing Zhou Shixiang to lose his strategic initiative.

Based on his previous life's hesitation impression of Wu Sangui and the Three Feudalists' rebellion, Zhou Shixiang believed that something must have happened within Tongguan, otherwise Wu Sangui would not have been able to succeed easily and would not have had such great determination to advance eastward. Sure enough, two days later, the Military Information Department sent a detailed work in Shaanxi to send news, which confirmed that Tongguan was not forcibly breached by the Wu army, but was lost because Li Guoying, the governor of Qingchuan and Shaanxi, had sacrificed the pass anyway.

After understanding the inside story of the loss of Tongguan, Zhou Shixiang said regretfully: "That Wang Jinbao is a fierce man. He killed Ebilong, which made Li Guoying lose his way out and had to surrender to Wu, allowing Wu Sangui to open up the road to east. Unfortunately, such a fierce man belonged to Wu Sangui."

After lamenting the series of changes that happened in history due to his arrival, Wu Sangui was like a lucky person, Zhou Shixiang had to think about how to deal with the reality that Wu Sangui's actions were already ahead of him.

According to Li Laiheng, the governor of Henan, Jia Hanfu of the Qing Dynasty, has now contracted the Qing army in southern Henan, and his son-in-law Shi Huashan, and his son-in-law Shi Huashan, were waiting for assistance in Kaifeng. After the Wu army vanguard Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan had marched towards Kaifeng after sweeping western Henan. On June 21, Wu Sangui sent his eldest son-in-law Xia Guo Prime Minister, General Guo Zhuangtu and others to lead 70,000 troops into Henan to reinforce Hu Guozhu's troops. At the same time, Wu Sangui mobilized the forces of Shaanxi and Gansu. All signs indicate that Wu Sangui was ready to go north. Just wait for Kaifeng, the Wu army would cross the Yellow River and go north, thus controlling the capital of the Ming Dynasty, obtaining the commanding heights of legal system and morality, and overwhelming the Dingwu regime in Nanjing.

Information from the Military Information Department showed that Fulin had handed over the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, which had not yet been reorganized, to lead Oboi to reinforce Kaifeng. Depending on the situation, Fulin was going to fight Wu Sangui in Henan, but the decisive battle seemed a bit small. The three armies of Manchuria and Mongolian and Han were less than 50,000, while the Wu army had tens of thousands, and half were elite troops who had fought for more than ten years. Among them, there were not only Wu Sangui's direct descendants Guanning Army, but also Sun Kewang's front army, and the elite soldiers who surrendered under the former Li Dingguo. Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, Gao Qilong and others were all very good at fighting. There were also elite troops among the Qing army surrendered by Wu Sangui, and the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp fell completely into the hands of Wu Sangui.

When Zhang Yong explained the details of the Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp to the people of the Military Information Department, he once said that Zhao Liangdong was very capable. When this name was heard by Zhou Shixiang, he said to his left and right: "Oh, that big beard, well, it is indeed a powerful character, and Master Wei admired it very much."

The general was confused about who was talking about Wei Jue Ye, but Zhao Liangdong's reputation as a bearded man has increased greatly. Zhang Yong was very puzzled. Although Zhao Liangdong has a beard, he is not a beard. Could it be that he has a beard now?

Things in the world have always been planned as fast as changes. After the Battle of Yangzhou, Zhou Shixiang had no intention of fighting again in a short period of time, because if he continued to fight, the finances would go bankrupt. He planned to spend two to three years to digest the provinces he had obtained, and then he would run hard, and then crush the soldiers and equipment to swell all the way. His little historical knowledge told him that Fulin would probably be infected with smallpox this year, and then die, followed by the little emperor Xuanye with pockmarks on his face. If he had the patience and was in the state of watching the fun, it would be badly done, and he would be beaten to death for the Qing Dynasty in a few years. Ao Shaobao, who had bowed all his money, would be deceived into the palace by the little pockmarks and die.

However, of course he could not have the patience to wait. Wu Sangui would not give him time now. Henan fell into the hands of Wu Sangui and the Wu army went north to attack Beijing, and the Taiping army obviously could not accept it. All the generals were unwilling to accept it. They fought the Tartars in Yangzhou, but the biggest fruit might fall into the hands of Wu Sangui, which was really depressing.

Ge Yi, who was stationed in Jiangbei, personally crossed the river to Ganlu Temple, and asked Zhou Shixiang to order the Jiangbei army to go north to attack Xuzhou immediately and seize Beijing in front of the Wu army.

"We went north at this time, and there were only two results. One was when we competed with Wu Sangui, who would go to Beijing first, and the other was when Fulin and Wu Sangui stopped at the same time and turned against us. Don't forget that in Wu Sangui's view, the Qing court was already a dying camel, but we were tigers and wolves who were accumulating strength. If you were willing to fight with the dying people, or join forces to deal with the more dangerous tigers and wolves."

"The Tartars and Wu Sangui join forces? This is impossible." Ge Yi didn't believe that Wu Sangui, who betrayed the Tartars, could still cooperate with the Tartars again.

"What's impossible? In the past, would someone believe that Wu Sangui would surrender to the Tartars and create a rebellion?" Zhou Shixiang shook his head, "The times create heroes, and the times create momentum. Of course, there is another possibility that once we move, no one moves, the three families are just consuming it. But this will not benefit the three families."

"What does the Grandmaster mean? I heard from Grandmaster."

Ge Yi has not yet figured out what Zhou Shixiang's decision was. He asked Wu Sangui to fight with the Tartars, but he still made a three-way battle.

Zhou Shixiang did not directly express his meaning, but asked Ge Yi: "The strength of the Qing court was far inferior to that of Wu Sangui. If Oboi could not stop Wu Sangui, what would you do if Fulin would do?"

"I'll run back to my hometown outside the customs. Could it be that he dares to stay in Beijing and wait for death?" Ge Yi muttered, "Fulin does not have the backbone of our Master Chongzhen."

Zhou Shixiang smiled and said, "If Fulin ran outside the pass, wouldn't he become the Later Jin Dynasty again? Even if we solve Wu Sangui in the future, wouldn't we still have to go out of the pass to find him? That would be too troublesome. In the future, he would simply not give him the chance to leave the pass, and keep all the Manchus and Tartars in Beijing in Beijing."

Ge Yi was surprised: "Wu Sangui has already fought to Henan. If Aobai is defeated, Fulin will have to run away. How can we keep him?"
Chapter completed!