"What? The emperor of the Zhu family borrowed 20,000 Manchurian soldiers, and he also asked the prince to marry the daughter of the Manchurian auxiliary king? Is there such a thing? ”

Diaoyutai Palace, King Li Zicheng was woken up by his son Li Shuangxi at night, and in his dormitory, wearing pajamas, summoned Tang Tong, Wang Chengyun, Bai Guangen and Du Zhizhi, as well as Song Xiance, the division of the army, and Gu Junen, the division of the second army, who rushed to hear the news, and listened to their reports of the "false statement" from the upper floor of Guangning Gate City.

Zhu Cihong really dared to blow it, and he still had a nose and eyes, and he actually bluffed Li Zicheng.

Originally, he thought that the reinforcements were Wu Sangui's 30,000 or 40,000 Guan Ning troops, even if it was a field battle, Li Zicheng would have a chance to win. Yesterday, some of Liu Fangliang's old battalion soldiers also arrived, and now he has 60,000 old battalion soldiers on hand, which is enough to defeat Wu Sangui's 30,000 or 40,000 Guan Ning army - in the history of the Stone War, the situation is almost the same. If there were no Manchurian soldiers who suddenly killed him, Wu Sangui's little capital would definitely have to be lost in a stone.

But now suddenly there are 20,000 more Manchurian soldiers...... If this is true, it is still quite a headache.

"Didn't you call people blind?" Li Zicheng looked at Tang Tong, Wang Chengyun, Bai Guangen and Du Zhizhi in front of him, frowned and asked again.

"Your Majesty, how can I believe in this!" Du Zhizhi knows the situation in Beijing best, so it is up to him to go back and forth, "Zhu Thief is dying now...... What else can't be done? As the saying goes, a rabbit bites when it's in a hurry, and a dog jumps off the wall when it's in a hurry, let alone an emperor? ”

This one is really able to make up for his brain, and on the way back to Diaoyutai, he made up for it himself. felt that Emperor Chongzhen was cornered, and he was able to borrow troops from the Manchurians. Even if you cut the land, pay compensation, and make peace, it is better than losing the country!

Anyway, if this emperor is in the rank of Du Zhizhi, let alone cutting land, paying compensation, and making peace, even if he recognizes the Manchurian emperor as his father, he will not say anything...... The emperor's errand, but there are no upper and lower levels, so he has to carry it to the end!

Otherwise, the whole family will die!

"Advice, Jun'en, what do you two think?" Li Zicheng asked his two military advisors again.

Song Xiance likes to pretend to be a ghost, pinching his fingers and calculating there. Gu Junen was more honest than him, and said as soon as he opened his mouth: "Your Majesty, if you and the Emperor of the Zhu family are exchanged, are you willing to borrow Manchurian soldiers?" Will you marry Dorgon's daughter? ”

Li Zicheng said without thinking about it: "We must borrow it!" If you don't borrow it, you're dead...... As for marrying someone else's daughter, that's even more of a sentence! ”

Gu Junen nodded, "Since that's the case, let's believe it." ”

Song Xiance had already calculated it, and said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, our Dashun country does have Manchuria to pass...... For example, today's royal spirit, if you are not in Guanzhong, you are in Liaodong, although Your Majesty has the lead, but Liaodong should not be underestimated. If we can't take advantage of it, we are afraid that the good situation will be in vain! ”

Li Zicheng touched his beard and narrowed his one-eye, "Great military division, do you mean that if the Manchurians are allowed to enter Beijing first, we Dashun will have to suffer?" ”

Song Xiance nodded.

"Then you can't call them first!" Li Zicheng's face sank, "It's not easy for us to come all the way from Guanzhong to Tangjingshi, no matter how we have to go into the city and pull the Emperor of the Zhu family down from the Jinluan Palace!" ”

In fact, Li Zicheng did not take Beijing City very seriously, he and his gang of people were a little outdated in their thinking, and they were still stuck in the era when the Han and Tang Dynasties had the world according to Guanzhong, and did not realize that due to the exhaustion of Guanzhong's land resources, they were no longer able to support the army to sweep the world.

However, the "gold and silver mountains" in Beijing are what Li Zicheng wants. Because in order to buy people's hearts, the Dashun regime put forward the political slogan of "no levy for three years". This made it difficult for the Dashun regime to obtain enough food from its existing base areas to support its growing army.

Therefore, Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, is more of a cornucopia full of gold and silver treasures in Li Zicheng's eyes. As long as he can fight down, he can scrape a lot of gold and silver, and his army will not have to worry about food and drink for the next few years.

"Call the Sky Harrier here!" Li Zicheng has already made a decision, and the battle for Beijing must be carried out at an accelerated pace.

"Lock the Sky Harrier" Tian Jianxiu was soon called to Li Zicheng's dormitory.

"Lock-up Harrier, how are you preparing?" Li Zicheng asked his general, "When can you attack the city?" ”

Tian Jianxiu replied: "Your Majesty, the ladder has been built a lot, and other equipment has not been obtained, and the cannons have not been delivered, only some tiger squat cannons and firearms. ”

"Can't put it off any longer!" Li Zicheng said, "There are rumors that the Zhu thief borrowed troops from the Manchurian Tartars...... We have to step up our actions and seize the city of Beijing before the Manchurian soldiers arrive! You can't let the mountains of gold and silver in Beijing be swept away by the Manchurians. ”

"Obey the order!" Tian Jianxiu asked again, "May I ask Your Majesty, which battalion leaders should be commanded to fight Beijing City?" ”

Li Zicheng pointed to the four generals in front of him and said, "The four general soldiers here are all deployed by you, plus Liu Xiyao's front camp and Li Guo's back camp, is it enough?" ”

"Enough!" Tian Jianxiu patted his chest, "Your Majesty, rest assured, Beijing City will be conquered within ten days!" ”

"Good!" Li Zicheng laughed, "I heard the good news in Diaoyutai!" ”

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Zhu Cihong never thought that bragging and boasting would cause trouble - there was no CSRC to treat him this year, but he couldn't stand Li Zicheng!

He was so happy that he blew Dolgon's six-year-old daughter Dongor Gege as his daughter-in-law, but Dolgon didn't settle accounts with him, but Li Zicheng would rather believe it.

In the early morning of the 19th, when the sky was overcast and bright, the Dashun soldiers of the brigade were divided into three roads and began to be arranged outside the south, north, and west walls of Beijing.

Among them, the 8,000 men of Tang Tong who were responsible for attacking the north wall of the inner city of Beijing were not the main attack, but a feint, and at the same time, a cavalry was also assigned to monitor the west side of the city.

Wang Chenger and Bai Guangen were responsible for attacking the west of the inner city of Beijing and the west of the outer city of Beijing respectively, with a total of 10,000 troops.

And Chen Yongfu is the general who guarded Kaifeng and blinded Li Zicheng's left eye! However, Li Zicheng does have the capacity to accommodate people, and he still reuses such a character! Therefore, Chen Yongfu is also very grateful, and he sincerely worked hard for Li Zicheng.

Today he commanded 10,000 men to attack the southern part of the outer city of Beijing, which was also the main direction of attack. Tian Jianxiu took more than 20,000 people under Li Guo and Liu Xiyao to spread out between You'anmen and Yongdingmen, acting as a supervising team and backup. In order to allow Chen Yongfu to make contributions in the first battle, Li Zicheng also ordered Tian Jianxiu to transfer a team of "child soldiers", that is, the elite composed of teenagers who followed King Chuang, for Chen Yongfu to use. Because the boy is flexible and light, it is very useful in the battle of ascending the city!

On the morning of the 19th, more than 30,000 people began to fight in the south of the city of Beijing!

These more than 30,000 people are elites, among which Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers are all white felt hats and blue robes, with strict queues, each holding swords and spears, very imposing!

Chen Yongfu's people were mainly soldiers of the Ming army, but the color of his skin and clothing was the same as that of Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers, with a white felt hat on his head and a blue battle robe on his body.

Zhu Cihong also moved to the tower of Yongding Gate at this time, with only one fire bolt bureau and his own East Palace guard battalion by his side, as well as more than 100 soldiers and generals who were originally guarding Yongding Gate, a total of less than 1,000 people, which is really not enough.

The outer city of Beijing will definitely not be able to defend it, and it does not need to be defended. According to the plan formulated by Wu Xiang and Li Ruolian, the outer city should be abandoned, and the limited troops should be concentrated in the inner city, the imperial city, and the Forbidden City or used to protect Zhu Cihong's father and son from escaping.

"Let's go!" Zhu Cihong patted the battlements of Yongding Gate, and smiled at Wang Qi, Luo Xiushen, and Wang Yong, who were on his left and right, "Retreat to Zhengyang Gate, and take away the gatekeepers on this side of Yongding Gate...... By the way, the flags are all left. ”

Wang Qi is now Zhu Cihong's foreman guard, and the original foreman Zhu Chunjie was sent to Beijing to be the general manager of Qian-there are also elites who can fight in the Beijing camp, Zhu Cihong asked Zhu Chunchen and Li Guozhen to sort it out, and stuffed in some newly recruited brave men to form three battalions on the left, middle and right, of which the left battalion was given to Zhu Chunjie, the right battalion was given to Li Ruolian, and the middle battalion was given to Zhu Guoyong, the general of the Beijing camp from the Xungui family.

At the same time as Zhu Chunjie left, Zhu Cilang's East Palace guards were also reorganized and expanded, absorbing a large number of noble children, and forming a guard battalion of about 1,000 people, which was handed over to Wang Qi and Luo Xiushen for command.

And Wang Zhou, who was born in the Yongwei Battalion, was promoted by Zhu Cihong to serve as the general manager of a newly organized fire bureau. This firecracker bureau is composed of people who can use firearms in the Jingying and newly recruited brave middle schools, and the firecrackers used are inferior products distributed to the Jingying, but they can also scare the thieves and fill the façade.