On the same day that Yuan Zongdi abandoned Huai'an and fled to Yangzhou, a wonderful branch in the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous long-legged general Liu Liangzuo abandoned Fengyang. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Well, he lives up to his name.

After he fled, Zheng Chenggong's Western Route Army, with the help of the people of Fengyang, repaired the burned Linhuai pontoon bridge in just one night, and then the army of four brigades, including the heavy cavalry brigade, crossed the Huai River in a steady stream. Immediately after that, he also divided his troops into two routes, the Second Cavalry Brigade and the Fourth Infantry Brigade went west to Shouzhou and Hefei, while Zheng Chenggong himself led the Heavy Cavalry Brigade and the Seventh Infantry Brigade to the south to pursue Liu Liangzuo who fled to Chuzhou.

Nanjing, stormy.

"Now that Yangzhou is in danger, I hope Your Majesty will make a decision as soon as possible!"

Nanjing, the Imperial Palace Tianyou Palace, that is, the original Wuying Palace, the former Ming Dynasty Rite Department Shangshu, the head of the Donglin Party, and now the Dashun Tianyou Hall University scholar Qian Qianyi, with a face of courage and loyalty, said to the one-eyed dragon sitting on the throne in a dragon robe, that is, Li Zicheng, the emperor of Dashun Yongchang.

Then a group of Nanchen hurriedly agreed.

"Qian Qianyi, the emperor is rampant in the world, and now you ask the emperor to ask for help from a small country that came out of nowhere, are you laughing at the emperor?"

Li Laiheng said.

"Yes, then Chongzhen is here, let's set up a battle to fight for the death, I Hao Shaoqi has not been afraid of fighting from east to west and from north to south, how can I be like you guys, my legs are weak before I see the enemy, Mr. Qian, when you first cast Xuanwu Lake, the water was too cold and frozen, so why can't you stand up straight with your knees until now? Don't be afraid, we will definitely protect you when Chongzhen comes, if it doesn't work, we will take you with us when we go back to Chang'an! ”

A burly general said.

Then the generals of the Shun army immediately burst into laughter.

When the city of Nanjing was broken, when Ma Shiying committed suicide, Qian Qianyi took Liu Ru to join the Xuanwu Lake to martyrdom, the two sat there and sighed for a long time, when Liu Ru got up and shouted to him, let's jump, he said that the water is too cold, I am old, we will not jump. I don't know how this matter was known to Li Laiheng, who has always had a bad relationship with him, and recently it has been spread to him almost everyone in Nanjing, but fortunately, Qian Dashi is a gentleman, and he will not deal with such a boring guy, and he stands there with a demeanor and no reaction.

"General Hao, Nanjing is the capital of my Dashun, when this national disaster occurs, all the generals should be determined to live and die with Nanjing, for the saint, for our Dashun bloody battle to the end, why leave lightly."

Xiong Wenju stood up and said righteously.

"The capital of Dashun is Chang'an!"

Another general of the Shun army said with a smirk.

"Huh?"

Xiong Wenju shut up.

Nanjing is indeed not the capital of Dashun, the real capital of Dashun, is still Chang'an in Guanzhong, and the nature of this place is still similar to the accompanying capital, but at present, His Majesty the Emperor Yongchang of Dashun temporarily lives here.

In fact, at this time, Nanjing was also divided into two opposing factions, the real Shun army generals advocated abandoning Nanjing and returning to Guanzhong, although the Ming army had blocked Luoyang, but it was a big deal to take the Languan Road, Nanyang has not been lost, hurry up and go west to Wuchang, and then go north to Nanyang out of Wuguan, everyone has been fighting in the north and south for more than ten years, how do you still care about this road, as for Nanjing......

Here in Nanjing, Lao Tzu doesn't care if you live or die!

And the other faction is the new ministers.

That is, the Donglin Party headed by Qian Qianyi and the former Ming Dynasty officials.

Of course they can't let Li Zicheng pat the shares and leave, judging from the previous battles, although the Shun army can't stop the dog emperor, but the Shun army is at least much stronger than the Ming army that surrendered, the latter has not fought with the dog emperor so far, all of them fled or surrendered, and what is even more hateful is that they also killed the generals and surrendered, and the main forces of the Shun army are only invincible, whether it is Liu Fangliang or Lan Yingcheng, they are all really killed on the battlefield, they are still more reliable after all!

If they are leaving, then there is really no hope for this Jiangnan.

But the Jiangnan gentry didn't have any cards to play.

If they want to hold Li Zicheng, they must let Li Zicheng see hope, see the hope of being able to keep Nanjing, but the problem is that even the old lady who sells vegetables in Nanjing knows that this Dashun Dynasty is coming to an end, Qian Qianyi and his gang are nothing more than taking those false things, desperately making Li Zicheng feel the majesty of the emperor, and by the way, thinking about the obligations of the emperor, don't forget that they are also his ministers, and this Jiangnan is also his country, don't be irresponsible, but Li Zicheng is not a fool, it is impossible to be played by them as a monkey like Chongzhen in the past, Li Zicheng had already shown that he was going to run away.

Fortunately, at this time, Gong Dingyu gave them a life-saving straw, and then Qian Qianyi grabbed it without hesitation.

No matter what the result is, at least this is a real thing that can be used to fool Li Zicheng to stay, what if Li Zicheng believes it? The red-haired people are indeed ethereal, and they don't know if they can succeed, but if they can use these two to hold Li Zicheng, this is a real harvest. Scholar Qian and those henchmen have been busy with this in the past few days, and even just now they have made thousands of old and virtuous people to petition for Fuque, asking His Majesty Emperor Yongchang of Dashun not to abandon his subjects, just like when the gentry in Beijing were lying in front of Chengtianmen, crying and shouting that the regent should not leave, it is said that at this point, the northern and southern Shilin is indeed a virtue.

"General Gao, where the Son of Heaven is located is the capital, if the Son is here today, Nanjing is of course the capital."

A civil official said.

"Why can't the Son of Heaven change the capital?"

General Gao said.

"Don't even make any noise."

Li Zicheng shouted impatiently.

"Spread the decree, let Yuan Zongdi withdraw first, Liu Liangzuo reinforced Yangzhou, and ordered Zuo Liangyu to immediately counterattack Xuchang, his hundreds of thousands of troops made Wu Sangui's 20,000 people scared and didn't dare to move, didn't he feel ashamed? There are also Li Benshen and Zhang Yingyuan, all of whom asked them to reinforce Yangzhou, and use Liu Liangzuo as the envoy of Huaiyang Festival to control the armies, since you also said that now that the national disaster is at hand, then work together, and tell Liu Liangzuo that he has to die for me in Yangzhou City even if he dies, and bring his family to the palace, and I will take care of him first. ”

Then he said.

Well, he's actually ready to run.

Yuan Zongdi is his cronies, and he can be said to be a confidant, but Liu Liangzuo's rotten goods are just cannon fodder, Li Benshen is Gao Jie's nephew, Gao Jie was killed by Liu Zeqing, and the rest is under his command, and there is no way to go left and right. In the end, he had no choice but to return to the banner of King Chuang. Li Zicheng didn't feel sorry for him, but this army was a miscellaneous card in the Shun army, and it was also used as cannon fodder, Zhang Yingyuan was Zuo Liangyu's subordinate, and he brought part of the army to join in, so he also went to be cannon fodder now, Li Zicheng changed his cronies back, and threw a bunch of dead cannon fodder into Yangzhou......

Needless to say, this purpose is not to be mentioned.

"Your Majesty, the minister still has a clear thing, a few days ago, a red-haired man who escaped from Beijing came to the minister, saying that he had seen the powerful invincible general cannon used by the demon in Beijing, and thought that he could help His Majesty cast the same, and the cupola cannon used by the demon He said that it was also very simple, including the flowering bullet can be cast in Nanjing."

A civilian official suddenly stepped forward and said.

"What?"

Li Zicheng's face immediately changed.

"He's not bragging, is he?"

Lee Rae-hyung asked.

"General Li, this person's name is Tang Ruowang, he is a red-haired man who was in Beijing many years ago, and Xu Guangqi and others are old friends, he was responsible for making cannons for Chongzhen before, and he once hired red-haired people from Macao for Chongzhen to teach the army to use cannons. It's just that they believe in Jesus, and their original intention is to preach, and the demon forbids them to preach, so he has no choice but to flee from Beijing and go south, if His Majesty allows him to preach, then he is not only willing to cast cannons for His Majesty, but also willing to recruit red-haired gunners from Macao for His Majesty. ”

The official said.

Well, he's talking about John Soup.

Tang Ruowang did not leave when the Shun army or the Qing army occupied Beijing before, and he was still very respected in Dolgon, but after Yang Feng entered Beijing, he issued a decree prohibiting missionary work, and he was also going to arrest him and send him to prison, fortunately, he saw the opportunity to escape from Beijing quickly, and then fled all the way south to Nanjing, he also had a large number of acquaintances and friends among the gentry in Jiangnan, and it was not difficult to find a place to stay.

However, he was Jesuit, had a bad relationship with the Protestant Dutch, and was actually the Portuguese system, and Spain, another major European power in the region, had not yet signed the Peace of Westphalia with the Netherlands, so the Dutch were still fighting against the Spanish king, and Portugal had just started the Lisbon Bao a few years ago by João II of the Bragança dynasty, which began a 28-year war of independence with Spain, so all three were at war.

Well, King Philip IV of Spain at this time was known as the King of the Earth.

Similarly, for the trade in the East, the three are also incompatible with each other, and even often bombard each other's ports, for example, the Netherlands often went to bombard Macao during this time, so John Tang really accidentally entered, of course, this did not prevent him from becoming another straw for Qian Qianyi, in other words, how can Qian Daxue know the intricate relationship between the red-haired people, and he can know that the red-haired people are not a country is already knowledgeable.

"It takes time to cast a cannon, so how can we have time to wait at this time? Liu Liangzuo couldn't hold Yangzhou, but the Ming army entered the Yangtze River, and it was not easy to withdraw at that time. ”

Li Laiheng said.

"General Li, it is precisely because of this that we have to hire the warships of the red-haired people, as long as their plywood boats pass through Beijing, then the Ming army will not be able to get out of Guazhou even if they take Yangzhou, General Li may not know the power of the red-haired people's plywood boats, they are all made of oak more than a foot thick, each ship carries dozens of Hongyi cannons, and a bombardment can make our warships shatter to pieces, which is really a strong ship."

Qian Qianyi said with a smile.