This plane, which was condensed by the power of countless beliefs, has also reached the most intense moment at this time!

When the Great Song Dynasty was founded, Zhao Kuangyin set the national policy of first south and then north, first easy and then difficult, which is actually insightful, although it was unsuccessful, but this is also because Zhao Kuangyin's business collapsed halfway, but it is not the reason why the policy is wrong.

If the world is divided into ten parts, the land of the capital can be counted as two parts, Xiangfan, Sichuan and Shaanxi can be counted as one, the Central Plains and the land of Qilu can be counted as one, the mountains and rivers in Shanxi can only be counted as half a share, and the Jiangnan should be counted as three and a half parts, and Liaodong is only one and a half, and the land of Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan, as the throat of Liaodong, can barely be counted as half a share.

Li Zicheng now only occupies one-tenth of the world at most, if he can have another three years to get together, seize the Central Plains and then sweep the world, is the right way to win the world.

Now, coercing Li Min millions, vainly trying to annex the capital can command the world, this is not without a chance of victory, after seizing the capital, if you can adopt a defensive position, first the south and then the north, first easy and then difficult, and then the power of the big victory, and then try to go north in one fell swoop, but there is also a few chances of winning the world.

At this time, Yang Yi also suddenly understood that the biggest enemy of this plane was not the Manchu Qing who had been worried, but Li Zicheng outside the city.

Because, the goals of the two sides are inconsistent, and the Manchu Qing at this time did not have any ambition to win the world, and it was also luck to win later; Li Zicheng has been trained for more than ten years, and he has made no achievements in internal affairs, but in military affairs, he is enough to be called a good general.

And Li Chuang's army is now winning consecutive battles, and its morale has accumulated to the top, which is where the most important gap between the two sides lies now.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was still struggling for survival at this time, after all, the land in Liaodong was too cold, and according to the current level of agricultural reclamation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the "black land" of later generations was still a wild land at this time.

The most important thing in the war is to determine the enemy, since the enemy has been confirmed, then Yang Yi naturally needs to know more about Li Chuangjun, this Li Chuangjun is only a flash in the pan in history, at this time, it is the strongest time!

That's why Yang Yi desperately needs a victory, and even offended Chongzhen a lot, of course, he has already offended greatly, and now he has offended more, which is nothing.

Li Zicheng was also marching to Beijing City at this time, he was only a few dozen miles away from Beijing City, and after riding a horse for about an hour, he had already crossed the Shahe River less than 40 miles away from Beijing City, and the huge Beijing City Outline was faintly visible.

This world's first male city, at this time like a sweet fruit, is waiting for him to pick, as for the Ming army, these days of successive battles, the Ming army is about to collapse, has given him a deep impression, what can the Ming army in the capital of the Ming Emperor?

However, the Jingshi City under the morning light looked tall and sturdy, which was incomparable to any of the heroic cities Li Zicheng had seen before.

Although Li Zicheng has broken many big cities in recent years, not many of them have really succeeded, and the cities that have fallen into the hands of King Chuang's army are either few defenders or the defenders surrender on their own initiative.

Encountering a really stubborn resistance to the fortified city, such as Kaifeng, Li Chuang's army fought three times in a row, and the time before and after lasted was really a lot, but he suffered enough, and finally opened the Yellow River dam to flood Kaifeng City to be considered successful, and even when he attacked Kaifeng for the first time, Li Zicheng's left eye was also blinded by the arrows of the Ming army under Kaifeng City, and became a one-eyed dragon, which is why he must beat Kaifeng.

And the city defense of the Ming Jingshi is obviously stronger than Kaifeng, which is something that can be understood at a glance, far beyond the many cities that Li Zicheng has seen, and far more than Kaifeng, which still gives him nightmares.

Moreover, at this time, there was no Yellow River water to flood the city of Beijing, and the surrender of the defenders should not be possible...... It is Emperor Chongzhen and his Beijing camp who are guarding Beijing, will they surrender? This shouldn't be likely?

At this time, Li Zicheng still had the intention of fighting, after all, the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, how could there be no loyal and brave people, although Li Zicheng felt that he was very smooth at this time, so he was ready to establish the Great Shun Dynasty; But I don't really think of myself as the Son of Heaven yet.

That is, the city of Beijing was easily captured by him, which made Li Zicheng's confidence extremely inflated, and finally prompted him to lead the army directly to fight the Manchus!

At this time, Li Zicheng was still sensible, and when he thought of the heavy losses in Beijing's offensive and defensive battles, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, couldn't help but set his eyes on the old battalion generals with high morale who were passing by him.

Li Zicheng's old battalion generals were all dressed in similar clothes, wearing white felt hats and blue battle robes, most of them were on horseback, and only a small part was on foot.

The so-called old battalion refers to the spring of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng was established in Xiangjing, he sorted out the rebel army of various departments and organized the elite of the five battalions responsible for the siege field battle, which were the Zhongquan pro-army led by the general Liu Zongmin, the left battalion led by the general Liu Fangliang, the right battalion of Yuan Zongdi led by the general, the front battalion led by the general Liu Xiyao, and the rear battalion led by the general Li Guo.

However, Li Zicheng did not bring the five battalions of elite soldiers with him, among which the right battalion led by Yuan Zongdi was sent to Huguang and Henan because of Zuo Liangyu's containment, while the first part of the Zhongquan pro-army led by the general Liu Zongmin and the left battalion of Liu Fangliang went west out of Taihang, entered northern Henan, and the south of North Zhili, and went straight to Baoding, intending to copy the Ming Jingshi from the south and block the possible army of King Qin.

Therefore, the old battalion soldiers who are now following Li Zicheng's side should have had the second battalion and the first part of the Zhongquan pro-army, and the total strength was originally more than 50,000 elites; However, Li Guo, as a striker, is also a signal that Li Zicheng intends to train him to succeed, leading nearly 10,000 elites and some new annexed troops as forwards.

But Li Guo was under the capital, and was broken up by the First World War, it is said that there is a peerless fierce general in the capital, just like those characters in the romance, one person killed their forward army and defeated it!

If you want to talk about losses, in fact, there are not many, it is nothing more than the more than 10,000 people of the newly attached army directly dispersed, these were originally used as cannon fodder, the really serious thing is that the 8,000 old battalion soldiers, who were directly led by Wang Dou to rush into battle and killed, may be killed by thousands of people, and the ambushed Ming army Beijing camp killed is twice this number, plus trampled, seriously injured and died, the loss exceeded 5,000, this is the most serious.

However, Li Zicheng was not too worried, the number of troops in the capital, the generals of the Ming army who surrendered in these days have already made it clear, that is, tens of thousands.

In addition to the nearly 50,000 soldiers of the old battalion, there are more than 50,000 newly attached troops led by Tang Tong, Wang Chengyun, Chen Yongfu and other Ming army generals, plus the righteous army and Tukou who joined the Dashun army on Li Zicheng's march, the total strength is now almost 150,000.

There are also tens of thousands of people led by Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang and others, so at this time, the total strength of Li Zicheng's attack on the Ming Jing Division was almost more than 200,000.

Of course, these 200,000 troops seem to be a lot, but if they stop under the fortified city of Beijing and cannot be conquered for a long time, and if the Qinwang army of the Ming Dynasty arrives one after another, then there will be great variables in the battle of Beijing.

After all, Li Zicheng's foundation at this time was not yet thick, although he had already called the king system, but most of the territory was newly attached, the government decree had not yet been completed, and a complete set of systems, including taxation, had not yet been completed.

Therefore, Li Zicheng can only win now, not lose, defeat is a defeat, once back to the past!

Li Zicheng's mind had been seen through by a person not far from him, and he saw this person riding forward, and when he came to Li Zicheng's side, he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty is worried that Jingshi City will be difficult to overcome?" ”

Li Zicheng smiled: "Or the prime minister knows what he thinks, does he have any clever plans to break the city?" ”

The greeting person's name is Niu Jinxing, the word Juming, the Central Plains Baofeng County, the father's name is Yao, is Lufu Jishan, "the ancestors from the age of Gongshi to the county doctor and the palace officials of several people", so the young are educated, more than 20 years old in the show, the seven years of the Apocalypse raised people, for the simple, the sex likes to read, familiar with the heavenly officials, Fengjiao and Sun, Wu Art of War, there is a field in the north of Pibei, and the museum is set up on weekdays to teach apprentices, living a life of abundant food and clothing.

Niu Jinxing is good at scheming, in Chongzhen for about ten years, Niu Jinxing was falsely accused of resisting taxes and forcibly occupying women because of provocation with relatives surnamed Wang, and was "wronged", and was dismissed to raise people and confiscate the army.

In the winter of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, after Li Yan introduced Li Zicheng into the curtain, he suggested "less punishment and killing, relief of the hungry, and collection of people's hearts", making important contributions to the construction of Li Zicheng's regime, in the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng established the Dashun regime in Xi'an, and Niu Jinxing was appointed as a scholar and prime minister of Tianyoudian University; He is a rare literati in the army, and he is naturally Li Zicheng's think tank, so Li Zicheng trusts Niu Jinxing very much and regards him as a confidant.

"Your Majesty," Niu Jinxing chuckled, "The Art of War: Attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the heart is the top, since Your Majesty's Eastern Crusade, almost all the big cities that have been broken are taken by attacking the heart, only Ning Wu failed to attack the heart in one pass, and had to fight a bloody battle to attack the city, resulting in heavy losses." ”

Li Zicheng nodded: "I'm also worried that Ning Wu's incident will be repeated in Beijing!" Let's just this little bit of the elite of the old battalion, if we lose a lot here, I'm afraid that we will lose all our efforts. Besides, the Emperor of the Zhu family had already withdrawn the troops outside the pass, and he didn't know when he would call over. ”

The news of Chongzhen's withdrawal from the Guanning army to aid the Beijing division was reported to Li Zicheng by Tang Tong and Du Zhiyi, the generals of the Ming army, and Li Zicheng also knew that the Guanning army was relatively powerful, so he was worried.

He was worried that if he hit his head in the capital and broke the bloodstream, the Guan Ning army over there would just be killed, and if his old camp was cleaned up, there would be no share for him in this world!

"Your Majesty can negotiate peace." Ox Venus offered advice.

"Peace?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "It's all killed in Beijing, and you still want to make peace?" On what terms should peace be negotiated? ”

"The conditions are not important," Niu Jinxing said with a smile, "The important thing is to let the officials and generals in the Daming capital know that His Majesty is benevolent and unwilling to kill more, and is also willing to surrender and rebel."

In today's Ming capital, I am afraid that only the emperor of the Zhu family can not surrender, this kind of season, I am afraid that other people will more or less have the intention of opening the city gate to welcome the new lord, and what they are worried about is whether they can save their lives and wealth after surrendering, if Your Majesty can reassure them, the minister dares to conclude that this city will be taken lightly. ”

Li Zicheng laughed when he heard this: "The prime minister is really Zhuge of the forehead!" According to what you said, who should you call to make peace with the Emperor of the Zhu family? ”

Niu Jinxing said: "Naturally, Du Xun, who was reused by His Majesty, should be called, if the people in Beijing City see that such a despicable and filthy eunuch can be used by His Majesty, what else can they worry about?" ”

There are a large number of manors of dignitaries in Beijing outside the Fucheng Gate, after all, every inch of land in the capital is expensive, so a large number of nobles have established a variety of mansions and manors outside the city, so it was also selected by Li Zicheng as the garrison palace of Li Zicheng to command the siege of Beijing.

Li Guo was still a pioneer officer at this time, but this time he was a lot more careful, and after arriving in the west of the city, he first sent people to occupy the manor here, but this place has now been cleaned up by the Ming army's Beijing camp, and they did not gain much.

After occupying here, Li Guo led his troops to go north to Shahe to meet Li Zicheng, and there was a Ming army stationed on this side of Shahe, but there were only a few thousand people in total, and the commander of the army was another Beijing camp commander, Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen (he was official, Zhu Chunchen was the agent), Xiangcheng Bo This branch is also a noble family of the Ming Dynasty, passed on from the Yongle boat, but this generation of Xiangcheng Bo and Zhu Chunchen are the same, in fact, they have lost the ability of their ancestors.

Therefore, this wave of people came to the wind and collapsed, Li Guozhen was lucky, because at this time Li Guo had suffered a loss, and he was very careful, for fear that it would be a trap, so he did not dare to pursue, but ran away for him.

However, Li Guozhen ran outside the Desheng Gate only to find that the city gate was blocked, so he had to walk around the city, and lingered outside the city until early in the morning, and then entered the capital in a panic with the Beijing raiding team that had withdrawn from the north and south directions at this time.

Entering the capital, Li Guozhen did not get a good treatment, and even inferior to those who were led by a group of eunuchs from the north and south of the Beijing camp, his Beijing camp of thousands of people was temporarily settled, but he was also watched by a group of hundreds of Jinyi guards, looking at these Jinyi guards Although the number of these brocade guards is small, but they are all honest, because this brocade guard is very weird, and the leaders of each leader have been on the killing array, wearing battle jackets and iron armor, and they are murderous.

"But Uncle Xiangcheng?"

It was Li Guozhen who was thinking about who to find, after all, he felt like he was running away, which was also a big or small sin, at this time, a military general in his twenties, looking quite powerful, suddenly strode up to him and bowed.

"Ah, Benjue is Uncle Xiangcheng, you are ......" Li Guozhen didn't remember that there were such heroes in his Beijing camp.

Although Li Guozhen himself doesn't know how to fight, he still has a vision, and he can see the murderous aura on this guy at a glance.

"This Jue is newly sealed, and it is not surprising that Xiangcheng Bo has not seen it, the champion of this Jue, Hou Wangdou, is now the defense envoy of the Beijing Division, and according to the ruling order, he wants to requisition Xiangcheng Bo's subordinates, please Xiangcheng Bo leave his family and subordinates, and then go to see the ruling party!"

"What? Champion Hou? Ruling? Li Guozhen listened to Wang Dou's words, his eyes were almost as wide as copper bells, what is going on, he has only been out of the city for a few days, what happened in the capital?

"This ...... Benjue's family members have followed him for many years...... If the champion wants to use it, I'm afraid it won't be easy, right? ”

Jingying doesn't matter, but Li Guozhen, the family member, doesn't want to hand it over, so he wants to say something......

"It's okay!" Wang Dou waved his hand at this time, "Uncle Xiangcheng, let's go and see His Royal Highness, your family Ding Benjue will be appeased." ”

As he spoke, he took a copy of the edict from the entourage beside him, and after unfolding it, he shouted loudly to the entourage behind Li Guozhen: "According to the order of His Royal Highness, all the brave and brave soldiers in Beijing must serve the defense of the country, and be incorporated into the national defense, and the reward is fifty taels of silver, and those who are skilled in martial arts, good at riding and archery, or skilled in manipulating firearms, will be awarded the hereditary brocade guard secular position, and those who have official bodies will be immediately added to the rank of two ranks......"