Wu Sangui's army captured Tongguan on the ninth day of the sixth month.

In order to protect himself, Wang Jinbao assassinated Ebilong, and ordered Li Guoying to jump into the Yellow River and could not wash it. He had no choice but to turn to Wu Sangui. After learning that Li Guoying had been hesitating about the eastward advance anyway, he never hesitated anymore. He immediately sent his second son-in-law Hu Guozhu, general Guo Zhuangtu, Ma Bao, and the powerful general Wang Pingfan to lead 60,000 elite troops to attack Tongguan.

Li Guoying concealed the death of Ebilong, and the generals of the Qing, Manchu and Mongolian Banners stationed in Tongguan were actually kept in the dark. On the seventh day of the fifth month, the Wu army's powerful general Wang Pingfan led 400 dead soldiers to climb Jiajinling to sneak towards the Twelve Liancheng. After paying more than 60 lives, Wang Pingfan successfully climbed the dangerous pass of Jiajinling. After seeing the signal that Wang Pingfan had successfully sneaked in, he immediately turned on and let Wang Pingfan enter the city. Then he pretended to be the Qing army and deceived Li Guoying's order to open the ban ditch and sneaked to Tongguan at night.

On the other side of Tongguan, Li Guoying had already asked his trusted generals to open the door. The eight Manchu and Mongolian Banners in the Pass were in a sleepy state were frightened by the Wu army who broke into the door. It was pitch black. He thought that the Wu army had arrived in large numbers. In the panic, he would not have carefully observed it. In addition, these eight Manchu and Mongolian Banners fled thousands of miles from Guiyang with Doni and Luo Keduo, and then fled to Tongguan like a broken dog in Xi'an. The Manchu and Mongolian pride in their bones had long disappeared and only became a frightened bird. Therefore, when he heard the shouts of killing outside, most of the Manchu and Mongolian Qing soldiers chose to leave the pass and escape. Zi Ai Xing'a led his troops to fight with the Wu army to death, and later died in the chaos.

After the fall of Tongguan, Guo Zhuangtu and Ma Bao led the troops to persuade the rest of the Qing army in Twelve Liancheng. Seeing that the situation was over, the Qing army surrendered one after another, and planned to surrender more than 7,000 troops. The most unlucky Qing army was Yibiao Green Flag Camp from Shanxi. After only a few days in Tongguan, they all became prisoners, from the generals to ordinary soldiers.

After the Wu army seized Tongguan without any effort, Wu Sangui immediately ordered his second son-in-law Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan to lead 20,000 troops to attack Henan as the vanguard. Jia Hanfu, the governor of Henan stationed in Kaifeng, was shocked by the loss of Tongguan, and rushed to Beijing to report urgently. At the same time, he ordered all troops who resisted Zhongzhen Camp in southern Henan to return to Kaifeng quickly to ensure that the provincial capital was not lost.

After Hu Guozhu and Wang Pingfan led the army into Henan, the prefectures and counties in western Henan were almost undecided. Wherever the Wu army went, they were open, and they were ready to move before they arrived. Some officials and gentry secretly snatched their braids early and ordered people to prepare wine and meat. As soon as the Wu army arrived, they opened the door to greet them, and sent people to help the army of Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty. After only half a month entering Henan, Hu Guozhu's troops expanded to more than 30,000 people. This situation was in sharp contrast to the officials and gentry in southern Henan who vowed to resist the Zhongzhen Camp to the death.

The situation in Henan is in danger and the Central Plains is in crisis!

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In Beijing, Shunzhi has not been to court for three days, and his beloved concubine Dong E's condition is getting worse. The imperial physicians said that I am afraid the imperial concubine will not be able to survive this month.

After returning to the Qianqing Palace from Dong E, Shunzhi sat there in a daze. The eunuchs in the vicinity did not dare to come forward to disturb the emperor. However, when the inner minister Sony led several ministers to the outside of the hall, the eunuch Zhao Quan carefully entered and knelt in and reported to the memorial: "Long lively, Lord Sony, Hu Shi'an, the great Chinese scholar of Wuying Palace, and Yitu, the Minister of War, sought to see him."

Shunzhi looked at Zhao Quan absent-mindedly, turning a blind eye, as if he had not heard it.

Zhao Quan did not see the Lord Long Sui's instructions, so he did not dare to get up or look up, so he had to report it again and slightly raise his voice.

"Xuan enters the hall."

Shunzhi finally waved his hand. Zhao Quan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly led the three ministers in. Sony looked worried, while Hu Shian had a dark cloud on his face. Only Yitu seemed to remain unchanged, but his slightly trembling fingers showed that he was trying to suppress his inner anxiety.

The three of them knelt down and bowed. Shunzhi asked them all to get up. Seeing Sony's ugly face, he couldn't help but ask him: "What's the urgent matter? Is there any need to enter the palace so late?"

Sony glanced at Hu Shi'an and Yitu and went forward to me and said, "Report to the master, Henan Governor Jia Han, the urgent handover, Tongguan is lost!"

"What!"

Shunzhi's ear buzzed and his face suddenly lost its blood. In order to cover up the panic in his heart, he blew his palm and slammed the table, shouting sternly: "Didn't Ebilong go to Tongguan? Maleji came back and said that Wu Sangui had no intention of advancing eastward, why did Tongguan lose in a blink of an eye! What's going on!"

Sony said stutteringly: "According to Jia Hanfu's memorial, Ebilong was defeated and killed, and the Tongguan defenders only fled back more than 6,000 people..."

"Is Ebilong dead?"

Shunzhi shook his body and couldn't believe his ears.

Hu Shian touched the emperor's gaze and was so scared that he dared not speak anymore. Yitu tried hard to calm himself down and replied: "Emperor, Tongguan has been lost. Now Wu Sangui's army has attacked Henan. Jia Hanfu has only more than 10,000 Green Flag Camp, and his prince Shi Huashan has only 4,000 Han troops. Even if the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers retreated from Tongguan, the military strength in Henan is only 20,000, but the Wu army has tens of thousands of people. There are also the remaining thieves in southern Henan, such as Li Laiheng and Hao Yaoqi. All Jia Hanfu can do now is to guard Kaifeng. If Kaifeng is lost again, the whole province of Henan will be lost. Henan is a dangerous place in the Central Plains. It must not fall into the hands of Wu Sangui. Please make a decision soon!"

Shunzhi was stunned for a while and said hoarsely: "Send the Eight Banners Power Brigade to reinforce Kaifeng!"

Upon hearing this, Sony was stunned and said, "Master, the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade have just been reorganized. Now I am urgently transferred to it, I am afraid that it will be beyond the reach. Furthermore, if the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade are transferred to the south and the important areas of the capital and auxiliary areas, there will be no troops to defend."

Sony's worries are precisely the biggest problem facing the Qing Dynasty now, which is that there is no soldier to be sent. Prince Jian is in Guangdong, Roto is in Guangxi, Guan Yizhen is in Zhenjiang, Yuele is in Nanjing, Shunzhi is in Yangzhou, and Doni and others are in Mopanshan, Yunnan. After these major battles, the losses of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia have been amazing. Now, in Beijing, even the Eight Banners of Shengjing outside Shangguan are full of plans, and the Eight Banners of Manchu are only more than 30,000.

Although after raising the flag, more than 10,000 Han troops and more than 4,000 green camps were now incorporated into the Eight Banners of Manzhou, these people were still short of their days in carrying them into Manzhou and had not yet adapted. They hurriedly transferred south to Henan to resist Wu Sangui, for fear that it would be too much.

According to Sony's original intention, the flag-raising event is still in progress. After half a year, the Han army and Green Banner camps planned to be carried into Manchuria were 50,000 people. With the Zhen Manchuria and Mongolian military flags, the Qing Dynasty only had a mobile group of 100,000 people available. Although it still cannot change its current disadvantages, at least whether it is to resist the thief scholar or Wu Sangui, it has the power to fight back. However, the premise for this matter to be successful is not only the inability to reject the Han people in Manchuria to carry the Han people into the flag, but also the thief scholar and Wu Sangui can give the Qing Dynasty time to complete this major event.
Chapter completed!