Book 1 of the 22nd:

"I heard that the capital had fallen, but I don't know if it was true. About the city has been besieged, it is not known what the mouth of the house is. I hope that it will be cherished, and it will be good if you can move out of the city. If you move, you should not bring more silver, and bury it. And prayed to Gao Zhu and Concubine Chen, whose son was very strong, and asked Yi to be patient. ”

Book 2 of the 22nd:

"After the seal, I had to report that King Chuang brought 400,000 people to attack, and the capital was broken. If you plan to retreat from the customs, if you can't do anything, you will be notified quickly. The family is trapped in the city, and its momentum can only surrender. Concubine Chen, I miss it very much! ”

Grizzly Panda Note: These two letters seem to be extremely panicked by the sender, and they look very normal, if I am Li Zicheng, or if the other side is not Wu Sangui, I will think that it is not difficult to recruit this person.

Book of the Twenty-Five:

After receiving the 20th edict, I knew that the city had been broken. If you want to protect your family, you have to surrender and reach the right to change, and you are the big husband.

Grizzly Panda Note: On the 25th, Zuo Maode, Zhang Ruolin, and the Shunjun troops appointed by Li Zicheng had already met Wu Sangui, and when they saw this book and Zuo Maode's report that Wu Sangui had surrendered and handed over Shanhaiguan, they would probably relax their attention to this place.

Book of the Twenty-Seventh:

The day before yesterday, because of the report that Liu Zongmin plundered Concubine Chen, he came to the camp with people and figured it out. Thieves plundered women, all of them raped first and then beheaded. Woohoo lament, promotion can't be seen again. At the beginning, my father miscalculated so far, yesterday while the thieves were not being beaten, they broke through the Shanhai Pass, the big red all won, the thieves were killed, and the garrison was in the pass, and the side had borrowed troops from the Qing State. was going to drive straight in, fearing that Concubine Chen might have gone home, or Liu Zongmin knew that she was a concubine and did not rape and kill, so she surrendered. Once in the army, there is no physiology, so he heard the news.

Grizzly Panda Note: On the 26th, Wu Sangui attacked the Shun army that accepted the Shanhaiguan, and on the 27th, he flew this book, so far Wu Sangui still did not play the banner of not sharing the sky with the Shun army. On the 28th, this letter was sent back to Beijing along with the news of Zuo Maode's report on Wu Sangui's rebellion. Li Zicheng thought that Wu Sangui was just a misunderstanding, because Concubine Chen was still under good protection at this time, so he sent Tang Tong's officers and soldiers and 40,000 copies of silver to recruit Wu Sangui for the second time.

Next is that Wu Sangui, mentioned in the peasant war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, surrendered again on April 2, rolled into the court, posted Anmin notices along the way, and suddenly rebelled again in Shahe on April 4, and returned to Shanhaiguan to attack the Shun army that accepted Shanhaiguan for the second time. Wu Sangui and his father's book were also after this, and there was no letter to his father since then.

The Qing army left Shenyang on the 9th, crossed the Liao River into the Mongolian region, and entered the Duoyan Mongolian region along the old road that had entered the customs before; After Li Zicheng left Beijing on the 12th, he went to Tongzhou and Shunyi, and arrived in Miyun on the 16th.

On the 15th, Wu Sangui sent people to contact Dolgon to get in touch with the Qing army, and on the same day the Qing army began to turn, turning east and pointing from the outside of the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan. On the 16th, after Li Zicheng discovered this situation after arriving in Miyun, the Shun army also turned around and marched eastward, pointing from the inside of the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan. On the 17th, Wu Sangui sent an envoy to negotiate peace with Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng thought that this was a delaying tactic and refused, launched an attack, on the 18th the Shun army conquered the Yongping Wu army camp, on the 19th the periphery of the battle, on the 20th the Shun army began to attack Shanhaiguan, and the war broke out.

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