The cavalry on the right wing of the bandits was about eight thousand cavalry, and the leading generals were Li Guo and Li Yan.

Although he had been fighting with two thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry for half an hour, the main force of the bandit cavalry still existed and his spirit was not lost. The five thousand cavalry surprises of the Zhenghong Banner and Zhenglan Banner were prominent, which was quite sudden in tactics. But what disappointed Dorgon was that the bandit cavalry on the opposite side did not collapse at all!

In fact, the confidence of the bandit cavalry who were killed was soaring. Not only did they not collapse at all, but they also fought back. The five thousand cavalry of the two flags of Zhenglan were only able to resist and had no power to fight back! The 40,000 Korean Eight Banners and the Han Army Eight Banners who followed up were unable to attack because the cavalry blocked the front line, and because the two armies were in a mess, they could not support them with bows and arrows, so they had to line up behind and stare at them.

Dorgon was shocked and quickly adjusted his deployment, ordered the Eight Banners of Korea and the Eight Banners of Han to support the central army of Guanning Army, and then all five flags were released, including the two thousand iron cavalry, the right wing cavalry corps of the bandits, and then launched a mountain-like attack like a mountain-like attack on the right-wing cavalry corps of the bandits!

In addition, Dorgon also ordered Mongolian cavalry to harass the cavalry corps on the left wing of the bandits, making it difficult for the head and tail to take care of each other.

Li Guo, seeing that the situation was not good, Li Yan quickly asked Li Zicheng of the central army for help. Li Zicheng rushed to send archers to support him. Unfortunately, the front line was too long and the archers were slow to move. When the 10,000 archers and archers arrived, the cavalry corps on the right wing of the thief had collapsed, and the 10,000 thief archers who had lost their protection were soon slaughtered by the Jiannu Iron Cavalry.

The right-wing cavalry legion was defeated, and the left-wing cavalry legion was entangled by the Mongolian cavalry again and could not help. The bandits and infantry on the middle line immediately fell into the front and back attacks of the Guanning Army and the Jiannu Banners. After barely supporting them for half an hour, they finally failed to defeat. This shows that Wu Sangui retreated ten miles and the decisive move was coming. Because the Guanning Army took the initiative to retreat ten miles, the battlefield for the decisive battle was outside the Great Wall. Once the bandits were defeated, the narrow pass passage became the dead end for the bandits!

In the end, Li Zicheng only led more than 80 cavalry and more than 2,000 defeated generals to escape the pass. The remaining bandits were either killed in battle, captured, driven into the sea and drowned, or fled into the mountains and forests to become savages.

After Li Zicheng joined forces with more than 10,000 bandits from Li Shuangxi, he retreated to Yongping. Before the bandits could take a breath, under the pressure of Dorgon and the Jiannu army, Wu Sangui followed with more than 20,000 Guanning remnants and 20,000 Han army Eight Banners. Li Zicheng was furious and then set off a decisive battle with Wu Sangui in Yongping.

Just as Li Zicheng was about to win, Dorgon's Jiannu army arrived again, and the bandits were defeated again.

After this defeat, Li Zicheng no longer had the desire to fight and handed over the remaining nearly 10,000 bandit soldiers to Li Yan, leaving behind the rear. He brought Liu Zongmin, Song Xiance, Gu Junen and other close friends to Beijing.

The impact of these two defeats on the morale of the bandits was fatal. From then on, when the bandits were facing Wu Sangui's traitor army, the bandits could always achieve decent results. However, once they met the army of Jiannu's Eight Banners, the bandits would be afraid before the battle, and even if they heard the sound of the horse hooves of the Jiannu cavalry, they would flee in sight.

Nanjing.

After Wang Duo, the lecturer of the Eastern Palace, made a testimony in person, Nanjing officials had no doubts anymore. Under the auspicious leadership of the Minister of War, the 14-year-old crown prince Zhu Cilang successfully succeeded to the throne. However, the official throne ceremony required the Ministry of Rites to hold another auspicious day. Therefore, Zhu Cilang is still nominally a state-supervisor, and still uses the Chongzhen reign title.

With Zhu Cilang successfully succeeding to the throne, the redistribution of rights was inevitably put on the agenda.

Politics has always been the dirtiest game, while politicians are the dirtiest players. There has never been any warmth among politicians, and only naked interests. Because of the success of the lord and the protection of the lord, Sun Chuanting and Wang Pu became the biggest vested interests in the crown prince's succession. The redistribution of rights was naturally dominated by the two.

The main forces involved in this power distribution are four main forces: the northern forces represented by Sun Chuanting, Wang Pu and his son occupy the dominant position; the Guming bureaucratic group led by Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying and Gao Hongtu, and the local warlord forces represented by Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Zuo Liangyu are also participants in this power competition; the southern Silin forces represented by Donglin Fushe have a deep foundation, but due to Zhou Biao's bad performance in the lobby of the Ministry of War, Donglin Fushe has a great reputation and has become the biggest loser in this power competition!

The question before Sun Chuanting-Wang Pu and his son is how to dominate this distribution of rights?

It is obviously unwise to ignore the other three forces to monopolize the power. Sun Wang Group has a foundation in Jiangnan and has weak connections and does not have the ability to hold power alone. Therefore, the wisest choice is to win over one or two forces and attack and differentiate the other forces.

Sun Chuanting is a loyal minister, capable minister, and a loyal minister, but he has never been an excellent politician because he is not shameless and cruel enough. Zhen Youcai is shameless and cruel enough, but he has no overall perspective and lacks strategic vision, so neither of them can help Wang Pu.
Chapter completed!