After listening to Wu Sangui's words, the generals were very unwilling: "Are you being led by the nose by the Qiong Navy like this?" We're here to King Qin, but we're not here to see the excitement! ”

Wu Sangui blushed and didn't answer again, just stared at the other side. Why didn't he want to go into the capital, defeat Li Zicheng, and take the monstrous credit of King Qin's protection, just like when he rescued his father in the Tartar array, and once again staged the good show of "Brave Champion Three Armies"? It's just that Qiong's naval strength is still above himself, and he doesn't hesitate to risk tearing his face to grab credit, and he doesn't want to lose face, what can he do?

Su Bu didn't care if this Ping Xibo was happy or not, after "persuading" the other party, he ordered the whole army to camp and block the direction of the Guanning army to the west, anyway, there was no news from the capital, and he would not withdraw his troops.

Guan Ningjun was even more unhappy when he saw it, and shouted one after another: "General, the Qiong Navy is going to camp, and we are consumed, is it unbearable, let's fight with them!" ”

Wu Sangui couldn't help but roar: "Fight? Whoever says they want to fight, they will send you to be the vanguard, not to break through the enemy formation, and to meet you! ”

In the face of the Qiong Navy, which has extremely sharp firearms, the fate of being a pioneer can be imagined, and when he heard this, the sound of shouting and killing slowly thinned out.

Someone suggested: "If you don't fight, it's better to bypass the camp of the Joan Navy by night." They are mainly infantry, and most of us are cavalry, as long as we bypass it, they can't catch up if they want to. ”

Wu Sangui said with a straight face: "Both sides are tens of thousands of troops, if you want to completely bypass each other, Tongzhou can't go, you have to go to Wuqing or Pinggu." But whether it is to go southwest to Wuqing County, or to the northwest to Pinggu County, it will take an extra one or two hundred miles, and it is not as spacious and easy to walk as the official road from Xianghe to Tongzhou. ”

"Fight us with the rogues?" The generals gasped, "Isn't it just to grab credit, and it won't be in cahoots with the rogue, right?" ”

"Who knows?" Wu Sangui looked at the crowd of people who were busy camping opposite, and said coldly, "They even dare to besiege the imperial city, what else can't they do?" ”

Outside the capital, Li Zicheng was leading everyone to inspect Xizhimen, preparing for the next large-scale siege, he didn't know that the "allies" were very powerful, and quietly blocked the Guanning army for him in Xianghe County, dozens of miles away, so that he could deal with Chongzhen with peace of mind.

Li Zicheng rode his own car oolong horse, from Deshengmen all the way to Xizhimen, stationed in Ma Xiwang, but saw the sunset street mountain, the mountains around the West Mountain overlapped, depressed and blue, and thought to himself: "Occupy Beijing, the country is decided!" ”

Then he reined in the reins of the horse and stopped moving. As soon as he stopped, the ranks behind him all stopped, and the Hu Congqin army in front of him was also immediately stopped by the order of Li Shuangxi, the accompanying son.

When Liu Zongmin, Song Xiance, Hao Shaoqi and others saw Li Zicheng stop, they immediately lifted the silk reins and rushed to his side to listen to his orders.

Li Zicheng smiled with a hesitant smile and said: "A year ago, we were in northern Shaanxi at this time, trying to escape under Hong Chengchou, and we didn't expect to be able to come to Beijing now!" ”

Song Xiance replied: "It can be seen that King Shun's seizure of the Ming Dynasty today is not only a matter of course. ”

Li Zicheng said again: "Zong Min, this way to patrol over, the defenders on the city wall are sparse, no one in the capital of Nuoda is willing to defend the city for Chongzhen, the hearts of the people have been scattered, everything should be done after the city is broken, are you ready?" How to break the outer city first, and then the inner city, and where the battalions will be stationed after entering the city, must be decided in advance, so as not to disturb temporarily. Also, how to arrest officials above the sixth rank of the Ming Dynasty and strictly recover the stolen goods, you have to be prepared! ”

Liu Zongmin patted his chest and said loudly: "Please rest assured King Shun." E's already ready with the Song Army, tomorrow will break the outer city first, and the inner city will be broken the day after tomorrow. A few months ago, many of our army had entered the outer city, pretending to be all kinds of people in the rivers and lakes, small merchants and hawkers, small craftsmen, nailing plates and bowls, and bone road pots (Note 1), and they had secret connections with the poor people in the city, and they also had a series of connections with the Huihui who lived in the Guangning Gate. Break the outer city first, everyone in the inner city will be afraid, and the eunuchs who defend the city will also sacrifice the city gates. As for the arrest of officials and the recovery of stolen goods, this matter will be handed over to the amount, please rest assured that King Shun. ”

Li Zicheng nodded, and then ordered everyone to go back to the station to rest. When he returned to the station, after everyone saluted and withdrew, Li Zicheng walked into the courtyard and looked at the city for a while, but saw that the lights on the city were sparse, and there was no cannon shot, and there was no shouting of the defenders, only the lonely sound of bangzi came from a few places. He thought that Liu Zongmin was all ready, the city would be broken tomorrow, and Dengji was also in front of him, a smile appeared on his face, and he said softly in his heart:

"Dashun is determined from now on!"

On the second day, Liu Zongmin got up early and came down to Desheng Gate with his henchmen. The Dashun army launched more than a dozen Hongyi cannons that had been prepared long ago and aimed them at the city wall - if it was not a field battle, the Hongyi cannons were much more powerful than mountain cannons, and they were a great weapon to scare the defenders.

The roaring cannons of "boom boom boom ......" sounded outside the Desheng Gate, although the heavy cannonballs could not destroy the city wall, but in an instant, many pheasant moats collapsed, and the defenders were so frightened that they did not dare to raise their heads.

A general held a proclamation from Liu Zongmin in both hands, rode a horse to the city, and read aloud word by word in a thick Guanzhong accent:

"Liu Yu, the chief general of the Dashun Advocate Battalion: I would like to follow the order of King Xinshun to inform the soldiers and civilians and ministers in the city. The Ming Dynasty has run out of energy, and you are all my subjects. The righteous teacher entered Beijing at noon today. I only heard the sound of cannons, and you opened the city gate as soon as possible. The army hangs the people for substitution, and discipline has always been strict. After entering the city, all industries remain the same, and the market is not alarmed; Cloth the new and remove the old, and share the peace. If they dare to resist behind closed doors, and refuse to surrender the city immediately, they will be slaughtered as a sign of severe punishment. Earnestly obey this commandment! ”

Liu Zongmin's proclamation was repeated three times by the loud generals, and the city was silent. There are also Hongyi cannons in the city, which are no less powerful than those under the city, but I don't know what kind of psychology the defenders have, and none of the guns fought back, so the generals under the city read out the proclamation.

Everything that happened outside the Desheng Gate was passed through layers and passed to the Qianqing Palace.

Chongzhen knew that if there were no reinforcements coming, the city would be broken, and he fell into despair even more, and said to himself in his heart:

"I have been conscientious all day long, I dare not slack off on the government, I have worked hard for nine years, and I have ended up today!"

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Note 1: The craftsman of the bone road pot - a professional iron pot. Repair the pot with welding. In the area of Henan and Shaanxi, it is called the bone road pot. The Jiangnan area of the Song Dynasty also had this word