In October of the 11th year of Yongli, Chen left Guizhou and returned to Wuchang to preside over the meeting. Li Dingguo hurried back to Kunming shortly after entering Guizhou. The possibility of war breaking out in the southwest gradually disappeared as the commanders of the two armies continued to unfold, but in the northwest, the war had already begun to rise again.

Half a year ago, Zhang Tianfu, the general of the Han and Qiang in Qing Dynasty, took the banner of the general of the Ming Dynasty, led the crowd to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Upon hearing the news, Ma Zhixian, the governor of the three sides of Sichuan and Shaanxi, immediately organized the Ganzhou and Shaanxi green camp to encircle and suppress Zhang Tianfu's troops, but in the first battle, Zhang Tianfu defeated him.

The reason is that as the anti-Qing movement in Ganzhou and Shaanxi was gradually destroyed by the Qing Dynasty in the past few years, and Hong Chengchou formed the Southeast Economic Standard to deal with Chen's rise, a large number of strong combat-capable Ganzhou and Shaanxi green camps were mobilized to go south. Zhang Tianfu's troops were abolished according to the original plan, but were delayed by a war, and instead became a number of elite troops in the Ganzhou and Shaanxi green camps in recent years.

Next, the Southeast Economic Bian was defeated in Jiangxi, and very few were able to escape back to Shaanxi, many of which were directly incorporated by King Pingxi Wu Sangui. The combat effectiveness of the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp decreased significantly due to the flood of new recruits, and was naturally defeated by Zhang Tianfu's old camp.

Zhang Tianfu won the battle and widely publicized the news of the Qing Dynasty's several defeats in Jiangnan, and widely publicized the Qing Dynasty's current strength and the middle. Soon, the anti-Qing movement in Ganzhou and Shaanxi showed signs of resurrection.

In the next few months, Ma Zhixian organized several encirclements and suppression, but Zhang Tianfu seemed to have predicted his ability, and he could jump out of the encirclement and suppression circle every time. Once, after jumping out of the encirclement, he even walked around behind Ma Zhixian's army and gave him a slap.

As if Zhang Tianfu was helping the gods, the anti-Qing movement in Ganzhou and Shaanxi became larger and larger, and soon gained a foothold in Gansu. On the Qing army, the 50,000 Guanning Army of King Wu Sangui of Pingxi and the 3,000 Han army flags of Li Guohan, guarding Gushan Ezhen Melgen, needed to station in Hanzhong and Baoning to prevent the Ming army from heading north; the 2,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners of the Four Right-wing Banners of Xi'an, Shaanxi were stationed in Xi'an to defend the provincial capital. In this way, the Qing army in Shaanxi and Ganzhou was in a dilemma where the elite troops dared not move and the weak troops could not defeat them.

In early July, Ma Zhixian was seriously ill and unable to take charge of the director. The person who took over was Zuo Liangyu's general. Only the governor of Sichuan in Baoning's first prefecture was Li Guoying, the famous green camp general who defeated Liu Xiu in the Battle of Baoning in the sixth year of Yongli.

Li Guoying knew that the army was good at defending, and he also had a certain understanding of Zhang Tianfu's troops. He simply asked for an imperial edict and mobilized Wu Sangui's Guanning Army, supplemented by Li Guohan's two thousand Han military flags, and launched a meeting against Zhang Tianfu's troops with absolute advantage in military strength.

By mid-October, the main force of Zhang Tianfu's troops was besieged in Xining Guards. The Qing army surrounded him. The only thing that was to break through the city and capture Zhang Tianfu's troops in one go. As long as the newly rising anti-Qing rebels lost Zhang Tianfu's troops as the backbone, Li Guoying believed that by then, he could destroy them with the green camp, and there would be no need to work on these elite troops.

"This time I arrested Zhang Tianfu, I want to ask this guy, what is the purpose of the court's rebellion?"

At the end of last year, the Qing court issued an order to ask Zhang Tianfu to lead his elite troops to the capital, in order to restore the strength of the Han military flag mentioned by Shunzhi and Liu Cheng. As a result, before the imperial edict arrived, Zhang Tianfu was the first to get sick, and the matter was delayed until this year. After this year, Zhang Tianfu ruled with various excuses.

The Qing court was very puzzled about this, especially Zhang Tianfu's brother Zhang Tianlu committed suicide in Suzhou and was established as a loyal minister by the Qing Dynasty. Is there still a way out if he doesn't raise the flag? For this reason, the Qing court issued an order to denounce Zhang Tianfu, but he arrived at the garrison, but Zhang Tianfu killed the angel in public, cut off his braid, and raised his troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Tianfu's troops were brought by him from Jiangnan. He had been with their brothers for many years. His loyalty and combat effectiveness were very high, which caused great trouble to the situation of suppressing and pacifying in Gansu and Shaanxi. The anti-Qing Fiery Eyes, which had been almost extinguished, were about to reappear.

In recent years, there have never been a few people who resisted the Qing Dynasty. Many people who turned to fight against the Qing Dynasty were present. There were many troubles in Shaanxi alone. The Hanzhong General He Zhen, the general of Hanzhong, had anti-Qing, and other officers such as Ma De. However, Zhang Tianfu was a Han army bannerman, and his brother was the same. He even died for the Qing Dynasty. It was beyond everyone's expectations that such people would raise an army and rebel.

Wu Sangui's nephew, also his general Wu Yingqi, said so, and the generals nodded frequently, even Wu Sangui, Li Guoying, Li Guohan and others. In this regard, their expressions were all confused, but if they wanted to know the truth, they still had to wait until the day of breaking the city.

"Prince, the court has lost the south of the Yangtze River and the grain has been cut off now. If it weren't for conquering North Korea, I'm afraid that the bannermen in the capital would be short of food. Now, it would be a huge amount of money to surround us. We should capture the city as soon as possible and return to the garrison, which can save some money and food for the court."

What Li Guoying said is the current fact. Shaanxi Province has the highest military expenditure in the whole country. In the eighth year of Yongli alone, it once reached 3.11 million taels of silver. The two provinces that followed Huguang and Guangdong were only more than 2.8 million taels, while the other provinces were only 1 million taels.

Chen Rio rose sharply in the military expenditure of four provinces, Zhejiang, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian. Especially between the seventh year of Yongli and the eighth year of Yongli, the establishment of the Southeast Economic Objectives once increased the military expenditure of Jiangxi to more than 2 million taels of silver, but compared with Shaanxi's military expenditure, it was still not on the same level.

In recent years, Chen has been reducing the source of military expenditure for the Qing Dynasty as always, but the things in this world have their own advantages and disadvantages, and fiscal revenue has continued to decrease with the loss of land. Especially in the two major years, the eighth year of Yongli and the ninth year of Yongli, the former caused the Qing Dynasty to lose control of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian provinces in just a few months, while the latter lost a series of important financial resources in northern Zhejiang, Jiangnan and Huainan, which was a devastating blow to the Qing Dynasty's finances that were already ineffective.

Now, relying on the plans of Hu Quancai and Liu Cheng, the Qing army advanced eastward and conquered North Korea, thus increasing large revenue. However, a mere North Korea really cannot compare with Jiangnan. The huge fiscal deficit still exists. Wu Sangui also understood that Li Guoying just made the advice to Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui also understood that this was by no means groundless.

"Li Zhijun said very much. I am deeply concerned that every day the army has passed under this city, the court has to pay a lot of money and food for it. We slaves should still save some for the emperor."

It is true that Li Guoying is the governor, and Li Guohan can be regarded as a real and unknown military supervisor. However, Wu Sangui's official position, title and proportion of his troops in the army's suppression all make Wu Sangui the actual commander of this army. At this moment, Wu Sangui affirmed Li Guoying's statement, and immediately made the decision to start siege tomorrow, and the generals and ordered them to retreat to the camp to prepare.

Xining Acropolis was built in the 19th year of Hongwu. The city had a defensive system composed of four city gates and four corner towers, but the city walls were not very strong. The earliest Xining Acropolis was the masterpiece of Changxing Hou Geng Bing, a veteran in the Jingnan Campaign. Later in the third year of Wanli, Dong Ruhan, the Xining Army's Preparation Bureau, led the people to strengthen the city wall project on a large scale. The foundation of the wall was made of large stones and the walls were inlaid with bricks, which seemed to be a solid city in the northwest.

The Qing army besieged in the city attacked the next day. The east of the city was the main attack direction and the core of the Qing army - Wu Sangui's more than 10,000 troops and Li Guohan's two thousand Han army flag camps. The other three sides were siege by the Green Camp who participated in the meeting to attack the city, so as not to find a flaw by Zhang Tianfu to break through. In that case, they would continue to work hard for this, and the financial difficulties of the Qing court would be even worse.

The Qing army had its own military strength advantage and did not cover up at all. Zhang Tianfu was a long-time general, so he could naturally see the trick. Even when he transferred the main force to the east of the city to deal with the siege, the other directions were only a small number of troops from the headquarters to cooperate with the rebel army to defend. The offensive and defensive posture of both sides was aimed at the siege, and with the failure of the last persuasion and surrender, the siege battle officially kicked off.

The Qing army was mainly attacking Wu Sangui's army. When he was in Shanhaiguan, there were 30,000 troops in the Guanning Army headquarters, which was the absolute main force of the Ming Dynasty to guard the Shanhaiguan gate. Li Zicheng captured Beijing, and Wu Sangui annexed Tang Tong and some other Ming army surrendered soldiers, about 20,000. This 50,000 army was always Wu Sangui's army, and it was also the huge rock used by the Qing Dynasty to block Sichuan's road into Shaanxi and crush Yunnan and Guizhou. It also suffered little losses in Shaanxi in recent years. This time, the Guanning army in his headquarters was even more effective in suppressing the rebel army against the Qing Dynasty.

However, this time, Wu Sangui's troops always seemed a little weak when the army attacked the city. The first offensive was quickly repelled by the defenders. Wu Sangui's Guanning Army retreated without even suffering any losses, but instead threw a lot of siege equipment under the city.

Wu Sangui was very dissatisfied with the incompetence of his subordinate generals. He whipped Wang Pingfan, the general who led his troops to attack in public, and then began to prepare for the next round of offensive.

Li Guohan couldn't understand the soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui's headquarters. However, he was not so good at helping with the war, but rather than being aiding the war, he came to supervise the army, and could only continue to wait and see the situation.

In the second offensive, Wu Sangui's troops' fighting will was significantly enhanced, but the determination of the defenders seemed even more difficult to overcome. The defenders were expected, because they were the Qing army, and Zhang Tianfu was also the Qing army before. After the Qing army broke through the cities of the Anti-Qing Rebel Army or the Ming army, everyone was mentally prepared for the outcome of the people in the city, so Zhang Tianfu's defense this time was extremely resolute.

The second offensive was soon declared to be defeated. However, this time, as Wang Pingfan's troops retreated, the east gate of Xining Acropolis was directly opened, and the cavalry of the brigade came out, which clearly was Zhang Tianfu's desire to further expand the results of the battle, thereby eliminating more Qing troops and reducing the pressure for the subsequent defense.

However, the gap between the forces between the two sides was too large, and the cavalry was even more so. Seeing that Zhang Tianfu miscalculated, Wu Sangui was drawing troops to respond to Wang Pingfan and asked Li Guohan to dispatch cavalry to try to capture the city gate so as to end the battle as soon as possible.

The weakness of Wu Sangui's troops was common. For the financial pressure of our Qing Dynasty, Li Guohan had to lead the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han army to attack and head straight to Xining Acropolis, and handed over the infantry and artillery to the headquarters to be responsible for the command.

Li Guohan led his troops to attack, bypassing the cavalry of Zhang Tianfu, who had already fought in a regiment with the cavalry sent by Wu Sangui to assist, and the gap between them and the city wall. He rushed into Xining Acropolis from the city gate with the arrows at the top of the city.

Things went too smoothly, especially the city gate was closed too slowly, which didn't look like a general's reaction at all. However, the war horse was running at lightning. Li Guohan thought of this, and he and the vanguard were already in the city, but saw the arrangement inside the city, and a thought suddenly exploded in his mind.

"I've fallen into the trap!"

In the east gate of the Acropolis, there were only a few dozen steps away. A half-person-high low wall had been built to the streets and alleys on both sides. The low wall was neatly arranged by the horse and the deer antlers. After the low wall, it was covered with archers, and was pulling the bow and pointing at them from a distance. When he looked back, the archers above the city had already turned around, locking their targets on them like the archers in the city.

"Run!"

At the command of Li Guohan, his subordinates were all old soldiers who had been through battle formations and had a very fast reaction speed. However, the terrain was small and it was difficult for war horses to turn around, and more cavalry were constantly rushing into the city. Soon, as the flags on the top of the city swung, the already chaotic Eight Banners cavalry ushered in a storm of arrows.

While the plot was reversed in the city, the cavalry of Wu Sangui and Zhang Tianfu, who had just swung the commanding flag, also let go of the conflicts between them, and rolled towards the Eight Banners cavalry that had not yet entered the city like brothers. At the same time, with Wu Sangui's commanding flag echoing, the Guanning Army, who had not participated in the battle, immediately turned the spearhead and directly rushed towards the Eight Banners infantry and artillery under the leadership of the officers...

The scene of turning against each other in front of the battlefield was not performed in Qujing, Yunnan, but it was made up for this scene outside the Xining Acropolis, which was nearly 4,000 miles north of Yunnan. Wu Sangui and Zhang Tianfu were both determined and unintentional. Wu Sangui's son-in-law Hu Guozhu even led some cavalry to intercept the defeated troops of the Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp on the way to avoid the news leaking too early.

In the afternoon, the battle was completely over. Li Guohan, the Gushan Ezhen Melgen guard who had been guarding Wu Sangui for many years, was shot to death in the Xining Acropolis. The infantry outside the city was crushed by dozens of times his opponents. Even Li Guoying, who was outside the Xicheng Gate, was captured by Wu Yingqi. Even with the help of the surrounding terrain of Xining Guard, there were very few defeated soldiers who could escape, which could be called a great victory.

"Thank you for your hard work in Zhang Shuai. Zhang Shuai has made great contributions to this great victory. I will call on the court to ask for the contributions of Zhang Shuai."

After dealing with Li Guohan, Wu Sangui removed the reins that restrained him, and was very happy. However, the court he mentioned was no longer the Qing court that had established its capital in Beijing, but the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which is currently in Kunming.

"The prince is too honored. The general is just to survive. It is all due to the prince's clever tricks and playing these Tartars in applause, which led to this great victory. General Shu Mo said bluntly that the court can enthrone the King of Qin, King Jin, King Shu, and even the King of Yue. With the prince's great martial arts over the years, he should have a title of prince, so it is not considered humiliating. General Fu is following the prince's horse's tail, and establishing achievements is the greatest honor."
Chapter completed!