Song Xiance and Gu Junen glanced at each other, and they couldn't help frowning.

The situation is not quite right!

There is no need for a large army division, a second army division, and ordinary soldiers can also see that something is wrong. Since coming out of Beijing, where are the 60,000 veteran battalion soldiers in Dashun still have the kind of morale they had when they entered Beijing before? However, the demoralization of the old battalion soldiers was not due to the fear of Tartars. It's that Li Zicheng's money is not enough!

Now before entering the city of Beijing, everyone thinks that Emperor Chongzhen is slamming the door - many of the backbones of Li Zicheng's old camp are from the Northwest Frontier Army, if Emperor Chongzhen gives enough silver, they are still official soldiers!

But after entering the city of Beijing, these old battalion soldiers knew that it was not Chongzhen who slammed the door, but Chongzhen who was poor! He has no money, and the country's money has been swallowed up by a gang of corrupt officials. The group of officials caught in Beijing alone copied out thirty or forty million taels of dirty silver!

When the old battalion soldiers learned the results of the torture, the big guys were still very happy. But what happened next gave them a real glimpse of what it was to pick the door.

Li Zicheng obviously had tens of millions of taels of silver, and he also got the whole country, but he was only willing to give ten taels of silver to ordinary old battalion soldiers...... Only give ten taels!

Everyone's credit is so great, they all helped you bring down the city of Beijing, so he gave ten taels of silver...... Is this a dispatch called Hanako? The big guy is the founder of the country!

The money was not enough, and the other benefits, especially the land that could sustain people for generations, were not secured. A group of old battalion soldiers now feel that they have given Li Zicheng the world for nothing, what else can they have?

But Li Zicheng also has difficulties. There are not only 60,000 old battalion soldiers under his command, but also old battalion soldiers who still stay in Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei, as well as veteran battalion soldiers who went west to Hexi and Xining, as well as all kinds of heroes and Ming Dynasty soldiers who have been attached. Miscellaneous and miscellaneous add up to hundreds of thousands! There are no more 10 taels for one person, and officers at all levels have to give more money, and they really have to give at least 10 million yuan in rewards.

In addition, starting from April this year, Li Zicheng has to pay these hundreds of thousands of soldiers!

He can "not levy money for three years" for the people, but he can't "not pay the soldiers for three years"! Before, everyone followed Li Zicheng to fight the world, looking forward to sitting in the world together in the future, so naturally they could not take money for the time being. But now that the world has been defeated, Li Zicheng has not given everyone much benefit. If he doesn't pay him again, he will turn around and people will raise troops against him, the emperor who picks the door.

And hundreds of thousands of people are paid silver...... 10 million taels a year may not be enough!

Therefore, the thirty or forty million taels of silver that Li Zicheng plundered in Beijing City reluctantly gave everyone a reward, and then he could cope with the expenses of the three-year non-levy period. Li Zicheng can't leave a few children in his pocket, if his hand is too loose, this emperor will have to pay compensation, and it will become a loss of money to make money!

Li Zicheng's difficulties are known to Song Xiance and Gu Junen. But they can't help it, they are military advisors, not financial experts, and they don't know how to make money for Li Zicheng, so they can only plan to have no money.

Gu Junen frowned and said, "Emperor, now that our Dashun is not exhausted, we can still deter the enemy...... If we fail to return this time, I am afraid that the momentum of the Zhu thief will be revived, and the morale of our army will become more and more low, and the hearts of the people of the Quartet will probably change. ”

Li Zicheng nodded. In fact, after the Battle of Tianjin, the momentum of the Zhu thief has begun to recover, and the morale of Dashun has begun to decline. If this attack on Shanhaiguan is unsuccessful, I am afraid that the forces that belong to Dashun in various places will begin to make small calculations......

"Great military division," Li Zicheng asked Song Xiance again, "Zhu Thief's notice said that he had borrowed 100,000 Manchurian soldiers, you calculate the amount, is this true or false?" ”

Yes...... Again?

Cold sweat broke out on Song Xiance's forehead, why did this Li Zicheng always let himself be counted as such a thing?

The emperor has opened Chrysostom, and it can't be counted! Song Xiance had no choice but to pretend and count his fingers, one, two, three, four, five...... It's all there.

"Your Majesty," Song Xiance had already calculated, "Tartar is definitely coming, and the question now is whether he is only coming from Shanhaiguan or from Jizhou and Miyun." The minister thought that it was more likely that they would go to Jizhou and Miyun. Because Shanhaiguan is the throat of western Liaoning leading to Jingshi, and there is a sea route to contact Denglai, with the cunning of the prince of Zhu Thief, it is impossible to take the initiative to hand over Shanhaiguan to Dongyu. If there were no words from the prince of Zhu Thief, it would be impossible for the Tartars to come to the Shanhai Pass, after all, the Shanhai Xiongguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack to the east, even if there are only 30,000 weak brigades, it can support a month or two, how can the 100,000 troops of the Tartars stay outside the pass for so long? Do they have that much food? So I am not sure that the Tartars will not dare to come.

Most of the Zhu thief leaders will use the sea route to draw away the elite soldiers on the Shanhai Pass, leaving only the partial division to garrison, and at the same time make a noise, falsely claiming that the East is so big that it will deter our army. In this way, our Dashun army will face the Dongyu near the city of Beijing. If both are defeated, he will counterattack from Dagukou. Otherwise, he could still float south from the mouth of Dagu, and with the strength of the Wu family's father and son, he would garrison the southeast half of the wall.

Moreover, if there is really an army of 100,000 Donglu, the Zhu thief will not shout everywhere, but because he keeps it a secret, he will let the Donglu army attack when we get to Shanhaiguan and catch us off guard. Now they are posting notices everywhere, but they are showing their cowardice, indicating that there is no Dongyu army outside the Shanhai Pass at all. ”

A military division is a military division, pinching his fingers, he counted Zhu Cihong's wishful thinking! But he just missed Wu Sangui - Wu Sangui is not an obedient and good boy!

"It makes sense, it makes sense, if you really want 100,000 Tartars, they won't tell you!" Li Zicheng nodded again and again, "And the prince of Zhu Thief is so cunning, he will definitely not give Shanhaiguan to Dongyu...... He will definitely let Dongyu go to Jizhou and Miyun, and fight to the death with us under the city of Beijing.

However, it will not give Prince Zhu Thief the opportunity to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight...... You have to go straight to Shanhaiguan, first defeat the partial division on the pass, and then go back to the division to deal with Dongyu! ”

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not afraid of Tartars!" As long as Shanhaiguan and Beijing City are pinched in their foreheads, there are still tens of thousands of old battalion soldiers who can come and go on horses, and the old battalion soldiers who act like the wind will be dragged to death by the forehead, no matter how fierce the Tartars are! ”

Li Zicheng's self-confidence is not unreasonable, he is a rogue. The mobility of the old battalion soldiers is very strong, and it is not worse than the Manchurian Eight Banners. As long as Li Guo and Chen Yongfu can hold the city of Beijing. The pass of Shanhaiguan can be held in his hands, and he can use it for sports warfare and Dolgon. How long can Dolgon support a virtual expedition around Beijing?

It's a big deal to give him one or two million taels, and just send him out of the customs......

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng became more confident, and ordered loudly: "Order the three armies, and give more strength to the forehead, and go to the territory of Shanhaiwei to go to the village...... If this battle can defeat Shanhaiguan, everyone will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! ”

......

"Heroes of the Lieutenant Division's Forward Association, this palace asks you, are you afraid of Tartars?"

"Not afraid ......"

"Old Taishan, Cao Weishuai, Sanfu, this palace didn't lie to you, right? There are really heroes in our Ming army who are not afraid of Tartars! ”

At the mouth of Dagu, on Haisha Island, on a flat wasteland, Zhu Cihong was taking Wu Xiang, Cao Youyi, and Wu Sanfu to test a new army that had just been formed, the Forward Association of the Middle Division of the New Army.

This unit is the trump card unit that Zhu Cihong is preparing to use to break the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners!

The nearly 1,500 officers and soldiers of the Forward Association are all heroes who are not afraid of Tartars. And the reason why they were not afraid of the Tartars was that most of them were not from serious Ming army backgrounds at all, but were selected from among the rogues captives.

And Prince Zhu is also generous enough to them, all the benefits that should be given are in place, and the veterans of the New Army are treated equally!

Hao Shaoqi, who "surrendered" in the Tianjin Acropolis, was appointed by Zhu Cihong as the co-commander of this forward association, and his military rank was mentioned to a thousand households, which can be said to be a great favor!

However, Wu Xiang, Cao Youyi, and Wu Sanfu were quite complaining about Zhu Cihong being so important and promoting a group of rogues.

It's always reassuring to be born in a rogue!

Who knows if they're a swindler?

As for those who are not afraid of Tartar Yunyun, what's the point? Can you defeat the Tartars without fear? They are not afraid because they don't know how powerful they are, and when they know that they are powerful, they should be afraid......

The afterglow from the corner of Zhu Cihong's eyes swept over the faces of the three people, but a hint of a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He slashed at his foreman guard Chen, who immediately stepped up and handed Zhu Cihong a spear-stabbed turtledove's foot firearm.

"Hehe, it's so heavy!" Zhu Cihong took the fire gun in his hand and shook it, "There must be twenty catties!" ”

He raised the firearm and showed it to the strikers who lined up in front of him.

"Look, everyone, this is the guy you guys are going to use to fight the Tartars!" Zhu Cihong said loudly, "It's a fire gun and a sleeve spear!" Snipe your enemies in the distance with your own skilled guns, and most of you will be responsible for firing them at twenty paces and charging with spears! ”