During this meeting, Chongzhen directly planted two surprises for Li Zicheng.

The first thunder is Niu Venus, and the second thunder is Henan.

Not surprisingly, Li Zicheng should be happy to accept these two landmines.

Chongzhen's move did cause some damage, but it was also a helpless move, because what the Ming Dynasty urgently needed most now was the growth of the underworld. Before the Qin princes and scholars had grown up, and the new army had not been trained, they had to survive.

However, Chongzhen had an intuition that Dorgon would most likely see through this.

…

Let’s talk about Jiannu later.

He Luohui led more than 10,000 Eight Banners soldiers with white flags to rush to the border of Xin'an. They happened to encounter more than 5,000 cavalry led by Zhang Nai. The two sides fought an encounter. Dashun's cavalry was slightly defeated, and about 300 cavalry were lost in the battle.

Dashun cavalry can be considered elite, but compared to Eight Banners Manchuria, they are still far behind.

In particular, the large bows used by the Eight Banners soldiers posed a fatal threat to the Dashun cavalry. The arrows they shot were like short spears, piercing both men and horses!

On the other hand, the bows and arrows used by the Dashun cavalry could hardly pose a real threat to the Eight Banners soldiers.

Because most of the Eight Banners soldiers with the white flag were wearing double armor, chain armor and cotton armor, it was difficult for the cavalry bows used by the Dashun Army to shoot through both layers of armor at the same time, so the losses with the white flag were minimal.

However, the Eight Banners soldiers with white flags had just marched for hundreds of miles and were exhausted. Therefore, after a small victory, they did not pursue and kill them, but allowed the Dashun cavalry to retreat calmly.

The next day, Duduo's army also rushed to Xin'an County.

At this time, Ye Bushou, who was wearing a white flag, had already detected the exact news.

"Your Majesty, the Eight Banners and the Han Army are finished." He Luohui said with a dark face, "The four flags are all finished."

"What? All four Han army flags are gone?" Duduo said in shock, "How is this possible? With only three to five thousand Ming army cavalry, more than ten thousand eight-banner Han army could be destroyed?"

It's no wonder that Duduo didn't believe it, because the Ming army was indeed unbearable.

"Your Majesty, it's not the Ming army." He Luohui shook his head and said, "It's the Shun army!"

"Shunjun?" Duduo said with a serious expression, "Damn it, the Ming army really colluded with Shunjun?"

"Yes, the Ming army must have colluded with the Shun army." He Luohui said solemnly, "otherwise, the intruders would never dare to send tens of thousands of elite troops deep into Xin'an County at this time."

"Tens of thousands?" Duduo looked even more embarrassed, "Where is the Dashun Army now?"

He Luohui said solemnly: "We are retreating towards Luoyang, carrying the baggage and red cannons we snatched from the Eight Banners Han Army. We are still less than twenty miles away from Luoyang at this time."

"Less than twenty miles?" Duduo's face completely fell.

Because this means that it is impossible to recapture the food, grass and baggage and these red cannons no matter what.

Because once the Dashun Army entered Luoyang City, it not only meant that they had a strong city to defend, but it also meant that they could mount more than 180 red cannons on the city head to defend the city.

Luoyang has become the second Ningyuan City and is in big trouble!

Now it was Duduo's turn to be in a dilemma. He didn't know whether to withdraw his troops or insist on attacking?

Duduo was really unwilling to withdraw his troops in such a dejected manner, but what should he do if he did not withdraw his troops? Should he turn around and go back to attack Tongguan to force Li Zicheng to return to the army? Or should he defeat Luoyang first?

Well, these are not problems. The biggest problem now is that there is no food and grass.

All the grain, grass and baggage carried by the army were snatched away by Dashun's army. Now the entire army is left with only a small amount of rations carried by more than 30,000 soldiers. This ration can only last for half a month at most.

What if Luoyang cannot be captured within half a month, and the food, grass, baggage, and red cannons cannot be recaptured? Duduo is in a huge struggle in his heart, and this decision is really difficult to make!

Shi Tu, He Luohui and other generals with white flags waited quietly.

Only coach Duduo can make a decision on a major matter like this.

After taking the exam for half an hour, Duduo finally made up his mind: go on to fight in Luoyang!

However, the matter of food and grass must be resolved first. At that moment, Duduo called Prince Horqin Mongolian Zasak tribe to him: "Sebuteng, I order you to lead your tribe to sack the entire Henan Province immediately. You must raise 90,000 troops within half a month and three months."

If the required food and grass cannot be raised in Henan Prefecture, we will move to Ruzhou and Nanyang Prefectures."
Chapter completed!