"This, this, this ......"

On the night of 22 March, when Li Zicheng saw the three "certificates of loyalty" brought back by Wang Dehua on the Yongding Gate, he would not say anything surprised.

How can there be such an operation? The Righteous were ordered to surrender...... Loyal ministers and surrenders are not delayed, they can be ministers above board, and they can also be three ministers who are listed in the "Biography of Loyal Ministers"!

Li Zicheng, the son of Dashun, suddenly felt that his brain was not enough! Speaking of which, Li Zicheng is also quite treacherous, when he was engaged in the anti-thief business, he did a lot of insidious and cunning things, and he was deceived by all the deceptions. I always feel that I don't know how much better than Emperor Chongzhen in terms of wisdom, and now I have met a prince of the Ming Fujun who is obviously more treacherous than himself......

"Damn," surprised for a while, Li Zicheng smiled bitterly, "I actually asked a sixteen-year-old doll to play it!" Fortunately, he is the son of Zhu Youxiao, if the two of them were replaced, how could they be today! ”

Yes, Zhu Cihong wants to exchange with Chongzhen, Li Zicheng is not fooled into becoming a Ming loyalty, but he is fooled into a Ming loyalty, how can there be a thief?

"Your Majesty," Li Zicheng's military advisor Song Xiance also stood up and spoke at this time, "Zhu Cihong, this thief is not trivial, but a thief of great treachery and righteousness!" ”

Since the loyal and righteous people on Zhengyangmen are willing to surrender, then the city of Beijing is Li Zicheng's - the Ming Dynasty is almost overthrown, and Li Zicheng has of course become the orthodoxy of the world. From now on, Zhu Cihong is a thief.

So Song Xiance immediately defined Zhu Cihong's sex, this is a traitorous and righteous thief!

"Great treachery and righteousness......" Li Zicheng thought for a while and nodded, "It's proper!" Zhu Cihong can support the endgame of the Zhu thief in just a few days, and he can also play tricks on his forehead, and he can make people like Luo Yangxing and Gao Yushun become loyal and righteous people, which is indeed a means of great treachery and righteousness!

It seems that the number of bright rooms is not exhausted! He's a formidable enemy! ”

Gu Junen stepped forward and suggested: "Your Majesty, Beijing has vested it, and Dashun has the reputation of orthodoxy in the world. The top priority is to catch the father and son of Emperor Zhu Thief, and we must not let them run to Nanjing, otherwise there will be a bloody battle between the north and the south! ”

"That's what I thought!" Li Zicheng's face was already gloomy, he admired Zhu Cihong very much, but Zhu Cihong was still his mortal enemy!

"Your Majesty, Dongyu must pass that hurdle!" Song Xiance reminded, "In particular, beware of Zhu Cihong and Dongyu joining forces. First of all, we should find out whether Zhu Cihong and Dongyu have a marriage? If there is indeed a marriage, then we have to beware of Wu Sangui and Dongyu joining forces. If the marriage is imaginary, then the Shanhaiguan should also be seized as soon as possible to prevent the easterners from advancing westward. ”

"It's going to have to be checked!" Li Zicheng laughed, "Talent! How many days has he been in power? Just play the amount around! It's a pity that the number of qi is not in him! Otherwise, he was born ten years earlier, and he has the world? Come! Give an order to the Yellow Tiger and a Tiger to seal the road of the Zhu Thief Prince to the north and east no matter what......

Also, who can take a trip to Yongping? I want to recruit Wu Sangui as a marquis! ”

"Your Majesty," Wang Dehua suggested in a low voice, "Wu Sangui's sister-in-law is Zhu Cihong's concubine, and he is afraid that he will not surrender...... Moreover, Wu Sangui is the head of the Guanning army, and their Guanning army has long been afraid of the Dongyu. If His Majesty is surrendered, it will inevitably lead to the king and fight to the death with the Eastern Captives. ”

Li Zicheng laughed: "I know that he won't descend, but I still have to ask someone to take a look, so as to find out whether Donglu and the Zhu family have joined forces to marry, but you can't just listen to the words of those ministers in Beijing who don't know how to be loyal and treacherous."

Wang Dehua, you go back and tell Luo Yangxing, Gao Yushun and Guang Shiheng, and say that he is the most loyal and righteous person in his life. As long as they are willing to return to the Great Shun with sincerity, and truthfully inform the prince of Zhu Thief and the daughter of the auxiliary king of Dongyu whether there is a marriage, they will be named loyal and righteous uncles, loyal obedient uncles, and loyal and good uncles. If you dare to deceive, you will not spare them! ”

Wang Dehua hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty is really benevolent and righteous, and virtue is worthy of heaven and earth." ”

Zhu Cihong's false statement on the tower of Yongding Gate is about to become a piece of Li Zicheng's heart, if he doesn't understand, I'm afraid that the emperor will not feel at ease!

……

On March 22, it was nearly dusk.

In the territory of Zhili, on the west bank of the Grand Canal, on the city wall of a big town called Wang Qingtuo, in a temporary watchtower, Cao Huachun and his adopted son Cao Wenbao are standing on it in military uniforms, with a monocular in their hands, looking northward.

This watchtower is so simple that it doesn't even have a roof to protect it from the wind and rain, but four large logs to support a platform. However, standing on it, you can still take all the situations near Wang Qingtuo into your eyes.

Wang Qingtuo is not too close to the canal, not very far, almost twenty or thirty miles. This is not a big town, but it has developed because of Cao Huachun in the Chongzhen period. By the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Wang Qingtuo was the largest town between Tongzhou and Tianjin Acropolis.

The main reason why Wang Qingtuo was able to rise was the perennial operation of the Cao Huachun family. In the past ten years, the Beizhili area has gradually become chaotic, so safety is more important than favorable traffic conditions.

Wang Qingtuo's Cao family is a strong party that has produced the admiral, the eunuch of the Beijing camp and the general soldier! Naturally, they will not ignore the operation of the nest, so after many years of operation by the Cao family, Wang Qingtuo has become an impregnable fortress!

In the past few battles for the entrance of the ugly, Wang Qingtuo has never been broken here!

With this, it is enough to attract landlords and wealthy merchants from a radius of 100 miles to move over. Therefore, although Wang Qingtuo is a town, it is more prosperous than several nearby counties.

However, this prosperous place in the troubled times seemed to have come to an end in March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen...... It's not necessarily the end, but it's certainly a crossroads of rise and fall.

As Wang Qingtuo's ancestor, Cao Huachun and Cao Dajue came back on the evening of March 18, only bringing more than a dozen families and no luggage. As soon as they entered the town, martial law was immediately declared. In addition to the strong people in the Cao clan and the Cao family, everyone in the family is armed, every family, whether rich or poor, has to contribute, and the rich have to contribute extra money.

Therefore, when the dust raised by the brigade appeared in the northwest sky, Cao Huachun and Cao's father-in-law gave an order, and gathered two or three thousand strong men.

Inside Wang Qingtuo's wall, the two or three thousand strong men who were in a mess had barely formed an array, and dozens of rows were lined out. Although these Ding Zhuang are rabble, they have been raised by the Cao family for many years as the backbone to be deployed there, and it took some time, and they finally have some appearance. Among them, the people in the first row are all the housekeepers of the old Cao family, and each of them has a turtledove foot fire gun! It's not like fooling the imperial court, it's all made in Guangdong that Gonggong Cao asked Zheng Zhilong to offer, and even the gunpowder with gunpowder is a high-quality product!

Over the years, when the Tatars were at the entrance, Wang Qingtuo relied on these really effective firearms to keep him safe!

However, those Tartars are not really unable to beat Wang Qingtuo, but they are unwilling to take dozens or hundreds of lives for a town. In the end, there are few people, and they still have the idea of grabbing a handful and leaving, and when they see a hard walnut, they will of course choose to give up.

But Li Zicheng is different, when he enters Beijing, he is the lord of the world...... Will there still be a stronghold loyal to the Ming Dynasty under your nose?

Therefore, in the small city of Wang Qingtuo, people are now thinking about it...... Most of the people are looking at Gonggong Cao to take the lead, everyone is ready to surrender to the Dashun Heavenly Soldiers!

Cao Huachun's adopted son, Cao Wenbao, put down the binoculars in his hand first, turned his head to look at his eunuch father, and his voice trembled a little: "Daddy, it's a team of ironclad cavalry!" ”

Gonggong Cao twisted his white eyebrows: "Is it Da Shun's, or Da Ming's?" ”

"I don't know," Cao Wenbao shook his head, "It's too far away, I can't see the flag clearly......"