Chapter Fifteen: Be Careful
Inside and outside Zhengyang Gate, a large number of Dashun Army soldiers were maintaining order. At the "warm" invitation of the soldiers, the people in the nearby neighborhood changed their smiles and happily went out to welcome Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng.
Perhaps because the siege process was very easy, the soldiers of Shun Army were not very resentful. Although several robberies occurred, they were quickly dealt with by the officers, and the soldiers involved were even beheaded on the spot.
However, there were several cases that were discovered and dealt with, and perhaps more than dozens of cases that were not discovered.
Although Li Zicheng repeatedly told the orders, the Shun Army was a feudal army after all, and it was still possible to achieve this in the late Ming Dynasty when demons were dancing. To some extent, it was considered to be considered as excellent military discipline.
Li Zicheng is now proud and full of confidence. He rode a tall horse into the capital he had dreamed of, surrounded by hundreds of fully armed central cavalry.
General Quan Liu Zongmin and Grand Secretary of the Tianyou Palace, Niu Jinxing, the Prime Minister of Dashun, followed him. Years of battlefield tempering and blind left eye made this Emperor Dashun look a little scary.
Soon, Li Zicheng rode his horse to the south gate of the Ming Dynasty Imperial City, where dozens of surrendered eunuchs had already been kneeling, and the eunuch leader Du Zhizhi was the leader.
As one of the eunuchs that Emperor Chongzhen trusted most, Du Zhizhi decisively chose to surrender when the Shun army was at Yongguan City, which made Li Zicheng win without fighting again.
However, this is not a problem for Du Zhizhi alone. Since Li Zicheng vowed to the Eastern Expedition in Xi'an in the first month of the first month, the Shun Army has been "invincible" and has been accepting the surrender of the Ming army along the way.
Except for the resistance in Ningwu, they had never fought a decent battle. The Ming army in the north along the Great Wall was rushing to open the city gate to surrender. Along the way, there were nearly 200,000 Ming army surrenders alone. After rectification, there were 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers available.
Li Zicheng ignored Du Zhizhi who was kneeling on the ground. He hated these eunuchs who harmed the country and the people. He slowly walked into the Forbidden City and came to the Huangji Palace where he ruled the politics.
After carefully looking around, Li Zicheng's tense face finally relaxed.
In the sixteen years since the rebellion, even though he had experienced ups and downs and at the most critical moment, there were eighteen cavalry left by his side, Li Zicheng was still very excited when he entered the capital and truly ascended the throne.
The world is finally named Li!
Let me say that in Li Zicheng's view, if the situation is determined today, as long as he subdues Wu Sangui, rectifies his troops, goes south to capture Jiangnan and eliminates Zhang Xianzhong, it will be easy.
As for the Tartars outside the pass, Li Zicheng did not think it had anything to do with him. The Tartars were the affairs of the previous dynasty, and he was the new dynasty. No matter what kind of hatred it was, it should have been written off.
Even the Tartars should not only not have any grudges with him, but also thanked him for destroying the Ming court!
Of course, Li Zicheng is not a white lotus. He will never allow the huge hidden danger of the Qing Dynasty to exist outside the barrier for a long time. However, in his cognition, the other party will not take the initiative to attack.
In other words, Li Zicheng just wanted to pacify the inner and outer gates, and then free up his hands to destroy the Tartars outside the gates.
Throughout the dynasties and at the beginning of the founding of the country, the dynasty's desire to expand was extremely huge, not to mention that there was so much arable land in Liaodong.
Unfortunately, Li Zicheng lacked a strategist with a strategic vision around him. He did not fully recognize the strength of the Qing Dynasty and only thought that it was a trap and was easy to deal with.
However, at this time, Li Zicheng did not consider these issues at all. After his eyes slowly swept across the magnificent palace, he suddenly turned his head to look at Niu Jinxing and said nervously:
"Has Chongzhen not found it yet?"
Niu Jinxing felt nervous when he heard this, but he was not worried. He bowed his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the Prince of Ming Court, King Yong, and King Ding have all been captured by our army. Although the soldiers and horses in the city broke through the siege last night, they were all small defeated soldiers, and Chongzhen must be still in the city."
In addition to Zhou Shixian's convoy, at the night of the city break, there were seven or eight soldiers in the Beijing camp who were unwilling to break through the blockade of the Shun Army.
However, no one expected that the escort carriage of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had only more than 300 soldiers and thirty carriages. No one expected that the checkpoint with more than 30 guards had not been reported to the death of the generals.
"Send people to post notices along the street. If anyone dares to hide the royal relatives of the previous dynasty, he will never forgive him. If someone contributes, he will be rewarded with a thousand taels and a three-generation official!" Li Zicheng heard this and immediately ordered.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Jinxing responded immediately, and then he suddenly took out a notice and presented it to Li Zicheng, while saying: "Your Majesty, when it comes to the notice, the soldiers found this in the Ten Princes Mansion and several streets."
Li Zicheng looked at Niu Jinxing's expression and knew that things were not simple. He then reached out to take the notice presented by Niu Jinxing, but just took a look and immediately drank the guards beside him, leaving only Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing.
Although Zhou Shixian could not change the strength comparison between Shunqing and could not control the time when the Qing army entered the pass, he could influence Li Zicheng and stumbling to the Qing Dynasty.
The decisive battle between Shunqing was inevitable. Li Zicheng killed one more Tartar, and a year later, his defense line in the Huaihe River would be less stressed.
History is always influenced by many coincidences and accidents, and reality is often unreasonable. Butterflies' wings may flap a tornado, let alone those figures standing at the intersection of history to change their decisions?
"Wu Sangui must not be trusted, and the Tartars must not be underestimated!" Li Zicheng looked at the last two sentences of the notice and said to himself.
In fact, he did not fully trust people like Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, but Li Zicheng did not think that these people dared to lie to him. He despised the so-called Manchu Tatar in his heart.
On the way to the east of the first month of the year, Li Zicheng also received a letter from Dorgon. In the letter, the other party actually talked about dividing the Ming Dynasty with him, which was ridiculous.
In response to this, Li Zicheng was too lazy to reply, just a chief king, how could he compare with the emperor of the Central Plains?
"What can the Tartars have? Isn't it just the Eastern Captains? When we were in Shaanxi, we still had few traps?" Liu Zongmin also disregarded himself after reading the notice:
"Your Majesty, even the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were defeated by us. What is the only tens of thousands of Manchus? Didn't they even fail to defeat the capital after six times? We took it down in three days."
"What the Marquis said is that these Manchu Tartars are only tens of thousands of people, and they have nothing to do with me in front of hundreds of thousands of troops." Prime Minister Niu Jinxing, Dashun, did not take the Qing Dynasty seriously. "When Wu Sangui surrenders and sends 10,000 or 20,000 elite troops to Shanhaiguan, the Tatars will not be able to enter."
However, Li Zicheng was a little suspicious. Although he did not feel that the Manchus threatened him, Wu Sangui had to deal with it as soon as possible, otherwise it would be very likely that he would have long nights and dreams.
In other words, in Li Zicheng's view, Wu Sangui is even more threatening than the so-called Manchu Tartars. This is a joke in later generations. But in original history, it did happen.
Reality is often more absurd than drama, and art all originates from life.
"Now that Wu Sangui's whole family is in my hands, he should not refuse to surrender. But he is afraid of anything. Send Tang Tong to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible to surrender Wu Sangui so that he will not have too many dreams." Li Zicheng said again.
However, he would never have thought that in Wu Sangui's eyes, the lives of dozens of people in the family were not as good as those of glory and wealth. In other words, Wu Sangui did not think that Li Zicheng could give him glory and wealth.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Jinxing didn't understand the situation of the Qing Dynasty. Although he had a certain ability to govern the country, he was not as good as assisting the king of a country.
"Your Majesty, I think this is Chongzhen's plan to dissuade him before his death. He probably resented Wu Sangui for not coming to save him and wanted to use our hands to kill people." Liu Zongmin, who was beside him, narrowed his eyes and suddenly said gloomyly.
"I actually have this heavy worry too!" Li Zicheng nodded. If he believed everything, he would not have been Li Zicheng who had been in the Central Plains for 16 years.
"Then..." Niu Jinxing hesitated a little. He knew that he was not capable enough and was afraid that he would be replaced, so he kept guessing Li Zicheng's thoughts to please the other party.
Chapter completed!