The outer city was in full swing, but the palace was a bleak and desolate scene: the eunuchs and palace maids who were retained watched the soldiers pack up their precious jewelry and precious utensils in a complicated mood, and the palace was in a mess inside and outside, the ground was sprinkled with silk and satin, and countless footprints were trampled on, and from time to time people hurried by, and some people shouted to lead the emperor's mount from the imperial horse prison into the palace.

Gao Guiying hurried from Kunning Palace to Qianqing Palace, and asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty, we have finally conquered the capital, and you are about to ascend the throne, and you are going to leave before you can sit on the dragon chair?" ”

Li Zicheng sighed and didn't say anything.

Gao Guiying looked at Song Xiance on the side: "Mr. Song, I heard that you are resourceful, hurry up and think of a way for the emperor to solve the external trouble, and cut off his idea of escaping." From northern Shaanxi all the way to the capital, how much suffering have we suffered, how can we give up easily? ”

Song Xiance smiled bitterly twice, the emperor's idea, which can be influenced by a literati who joined halfway?

However, when the queen opened her mouth, she had to persuade two sentences of meaning. Song Xiance said cautiously: "Your Majesty, although the outer city has been broken, the inner city is safe and sound, things may not be corrupted to such an extent, you need to go out of the city to avoid trouble......"

Li Zicheng finally spoke, he looked at the firelight in the north of the Forbidden City, and said, "Do you think that the entry of the Qiong Navy and the Guan Ning Army into the city was accidental or deliberate?" ”

Song Xiance hesitated: "The Guan Ning army was ordered to go south to King Qin before the Dashun army invaded the capital, and since they refused to be attracted by us, it is reasonable to wait for the opportunity to enter the city." But this Joan Navy ......"

Speaking of this, Song Xiance was suddenly startled, and his mind flashed into his head: "No, yesterday they also sent people to send cannons into the city to assist us in defending the city, why did they turn their faces overnight?" Also, why did Guan Ningjun suddenly join forces with Qiong Navy? These changes are inevitably too fast, could it be that all this is Xia Nan's trap? ”

Li Zicheng said with a complicated expression: "If Mr. Song had joined my Dashun Army since northern Shaanxi and knew the ins and outs of the whole thing, he would have guessed today's changes. At the beginning, Lone was still chased by Hong Chengchou and had no way out, and his soldiers and horses were only thousands, at this time, Xia Nan suddenly sent people from the south to northern Shaanxi, saying that he would move Lone to the north, and fund military supplies such as cotton cloth, medicinal materials, artillery, etc., and also said that as long as Chongzhen was killed, he was willing to share the world equally with Gu with the Yangtze River as the boundary......"

Song Xiance understood more in his heart, and he asked: "So, under the instigation and funding of Xia Nan, the Dashun army expanded rapidly, and then fought all the way to the capital according to his wishes?" ”

"Lone is willing to believe that the Qiong Navy has drawn the Guanning army to attack the city, in order to promote peace, in order to force Lone to fulfill his promise to divide the world equally. But they took the night to do it, and they didn't plan to negotiate terms with us at all, where is this to promote peace, it is clear that they want to put Gu and Dashun to death! ”

Song Xiance looked up to the sky and sighed: "It is said that the only thing that can restrain Xia Nan's ambition is word-of-mouth and reputation, it turns out that all this is a game set up by him: instigating the emperor to attack the capital, and then he tends to follow behind, and when Chongzhen is forced to die, he immediately turns his face - after defeating the Dashun army, he is the hero who saved the Ming Dynasty, and the bad things have been done by us, and the benefits are his ......"

Gao Guiying was furious: "This surnamed Xia is really a bad stomach, let's carry the black cauldron, he has gained benefits and kept his reputation, in the end, Chongzhen was killed by him in the end!" ”

Li Zichang sighed: "But people in the world don't think so, they all think that Emperor Chongzhen was forced to death alone, and Pingnanhou is a loyal minister." With such public opinion, as long as you find a puppet emperor from the Zhu family, he will become Cao Cao of the Ming Dynasty, and the country will fall into his hands. ”

Gao Guiying said hatefully: "Since the emperor knows, why is he still led by the nose surnamed Xia?" ”

Li Zicheng said helplessly: "Lone also waited until the army entered the city to figure it out, but it was too late......"

"It's not too late. Your Majesty, we still have an army of 200,000, and we have fought with the surname Xia, and we don't know who will kill the deer! Gao Guiying heroically pulled out the sword at her waist - this was the trophy she had captured from the corpse of a general soldier of the imperial court, and she had always carried it with her, even when she entered the palace. She is the queen and does not follow the rules, how dare the palace maids and eunuchs accuse her?

"Madam, you don't let your women shave your eyebrows, and you have always admired your husband." Unconsciously, Li Zicheng resumed his old name with Gao Guiying, but he didn't realize it, "But the Guanning Iron Cavalry is not a bone to gnaw, and the Qiong Navy is even more unfathomable, although we have an army of 200,000, but what is the ability to fight a tough battle, you should know, facing the enemy, how can you fight these two together?" Although Lone said to the generals just now, it was just to boost morale......"

Gao Guiying asked unwillingly: "Did you really just leave like this?" Where are we going, going to Henan or back to northern Shaanxi? They don't care about waving flags and seeing shows? ”

"You can go anywhere. As long as the foundation of the old camp is still there, go to northern Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi, and fight a few states and counties at will, and can pull up a large army, there is no need to stay here and fight with the two strongest armies of the Ming Dynasty. As for the old brothers, it's up to them to be created......"

When Xia Nan led the First Army to assist the Second Army in repelling Hao Shaoqi and entered the inner city from Fuchengmen, he never imagined that Li Zicheng was such a bachelor, he could afford to take it and let it go, and he would run away. He divided his troops into two routes, one way to protect the prince, and the other to the palace to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, but he got the news that the opponent had fled out of the palace.

"Damn, this guy is going to run." Xia Nan couldn't help but burst into foul language when he heard the news, "His three-way army is still fighting hard, so he just ran away?" ”

Sima De asked: "Do you continue the pursuit, or let him go?" ”

"Of course you have to chase, you have to see people alive and you have to see corpses when you die." Xia Nan replied without hesitation, "As long as this guy doesn't die, it will always be a hidden danger, if he lets the tiger return to the mountain, it won't take much time, and he can gather hundreds of thousands of troops." I have a lot to do next, and I don't have time to entangle with him, I must cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and never suffer in the future. ”

The order reached the troops who searched the palace, and the army followed the trail left by Li Zicheng to the south.

Under the protection of the old camp, Li Zicheng went straight to Zhengyangmen, preparing to leave the inner city from here, and then leave the capital from Yongdingmen. Along the way, the wolves rushed to the ground, Chang'an Avenue was washed into chaos, and many gangsters who took advantage of the chaos to fish in troubled waters suffered and were cut down on the spot as long as they blocked the way.

Rushing all the way to Zhengyang Gate, seeing that he could leave Beijing from the outer city, Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect a sudden change.

The gate of Zhengyang Gate was closed, and countless torches suddenly lit up on the city wall, spreading to both sides, seemingly boundless. On the tower of the city, a crisp voice sounded: "The officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion led by Princess Kunxing of Daming Kunxing have been waiting here for a long time, so they will rebel and die!" ”