It was clearly written in the secret report, although when Emperor Lin De left, there were only more than 20,000 defenders left in Yanjing City. But Lu Sheng, the squire of the military department, was a fierce general, not only brave but also strategic, he held Yanjing City for eight days, but he did not let Gao Zicheng attack.

If Zhao Mingyi, the secretary of the military department who went out of the city first, kept his promise to Lu Sheng when he left the city, and after converging the tens of thousands of soldiers who came to Yanjing Qinwang from all over the country, he led them to counter-surround Gao Zicheng's troops who were surrounding Yanjing City, if the command and deployment were appropriate, not to mention the siege of Yanjing City, it would be possible to severely damage Gao Zicheng's army and make them suffer great damage.

Lu Sheng thought that he was planning the same way, but unfortunately he mistakenly believed his immediate boss. After Zhao Mingqi gathered tens of thousands of soldiers from all over the country who came to King Qin, not only did he not send a single soldier to support Lu Sheng, who was guarding Yanjing City, but simply took these horses and horses along the canal to chase Emperor Linde's dragon boat all the way to the south.

As soon as the soldiers defending the city heard that their military department had abandoned them like this, they abandoned the city and fled one after another, and the disappointed Lu Sheng was disheartened, so he did not draw his sword again and beheaded those soldiers who fled from the battle.

The owner of this imperial city ran away, and the military department Shangshu who was ordered to defend the city also ran away, why should these lowest-level soldiers be martyred, he alone is enough!

On March 19, the 23rd year of Lin De, Gao Zicheng's army finally attacked Yanjing City, and the defender Lu Sheng killed himself and died in his country.

After Gao Zicheng invaded Yanjing City, he said that Qin Fei, the king of Linchuan, had contracted the disease and died, and left a will before his death, making him the lord of the world, so he changed the name of the country to Dashun and established himself as the emperor.

Qin Fei saw that the urgent newspaper wrote: "After the high thief entered Beijing, he issued a false edict: 'Those who dare to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will not be forgiven!'" There are two thieves who plundered the satin shop and stood on the chessboard street. The people are happy, and they live in peace."

He said to Cai Wei: "This is most likely the idea that Li Yan gave him, if that Gao Zicheng can really do this, I am afraid that the world will be his." ”

Cai Wei said: "Then it depends on whether he has the foresight and whether he can restrain his subordinates for a long time." 'From thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift', that Gao Zicheng was born poor, and most of his generals were hungry people and peddlers who had not read much. Although they claim to be righteous soldiers, but the previous behavior is more like a group of robbers, only to plunder, and now they live in the imperial city all of a sudden, just like a man called Huazi suddenly entered a treasure mountain full of gold and silver treasures, he wants to restrain his subordinates, and it is not so easy to strictly enforce military discipline. ”

"It's just, Ah Fei, should we still go to Yanjing?"

Qin Fei thought for a while, "Let's go to Shandong first, and then let's see what happens in Yanjing City, I'm afraid that the Jurchens will take advantage of it." ”

Cai Wei also nodded and said: "Yes, there are still some garrisons of my Great Qin in Shandong, if Ah Fei can subdue them, when the time comes, he can recover Yanjing, and retreat to defend Jinling." ”

As a result, a few days later, before they arrived in Shandong, they heard some news from Yanjing City, saying that from the 27th, the soldiers and generals under Gao Zicheng began to torture and plunder the officials of the Yan and Qin Dynasty, and raided their homes everywhere, stipulating that all former Qin officials needed to be paid, and stipulated that their salaries were "100,000 taels of silver in the middle hall, 70,000 or 530,000 brocade clothes in the Jingtang of the ministry, 530,000 in the Taoist department, 321,000 in the Hanlin, and thousands of subordinates under them."

Liu Qingmin, the number one general under Gao Zicheng, made 5,000 clamping sticks, "The wood is all edged, connected with nails, and all the bones are broken in order to clamp people." "As a result, the terrifying atmosphere in Yanjing City gradually became solemn, and the people were panicked." Whoever tortures hundreds of officials, most of whom have tens of thousands of dollars, is forced to 20,000 or 30,000, and the number is slightly dissatisfied, and then they are strictly compared, and they are beaten with cannons, and they are extremely miserable and poisonous, and they will never die." It is said that in the past few days, more than 1,600 people have been tortured to death in Yanjing City.

Gao Zicheng's soldiers looted, and the generals were arrogant, "killing people is not in vain, and most of the soldiers are also robbing the people's wealth." The Dashun army not only plundered in Yanjing City, but also set up officials in the occupied areas, the first is to pursue wages, in Fenyang, "search for rich rooms, truss clamps to help pay"; In Jiangzhou, "the scholars and doctors were brutally tortured to death"; In Xuanhua, "General Quan levied the gentry Benda, ran through the five woods, prepared extremely miserable and vicious, and asked for money."

In fact, once you can't stop the looting of your subordinates, not to mention that a group of officials and squires have been extorted for their property, even the homes of ordinary people have been looted, and if there is a daughter who has a bit of beauty, she will be forcibly taken away.

For a while, the land occupied by the Dashun army, the people were wailing, and many people angrily shouted and cursed a person's name. "Li Gongzi, you big liar! What do you say, 'When the king comes, he will not pay the grain, let us open the door to welcome the king', and the result will be? Although the previous officers and soldiers were strict, King Cheng's men were even more robbers, and they robbed them of everything in my house! ”

After Qin Fei and Cai Wei heard these news, they were not happy at all.

The Qiu Wu was puzzled and said: "Your Highness, that Gao Zicheng is completely self-defeating by doing this, let's recover Yanjing is just around the corner, why do you have a gloomy face?" ”

"Actually, I hope that Gao Zicheng can strictly enforce military discipline and control his subordinates, if the situation in the land of Jingshi is stable, at least the Jurchens in Liaodong will not dare to make a big move. But he is so short-sighted now, but after living in Yanjing City for less than a month, he has already lost his mind, and he has become corrupted and fallen into such a state, he is afraid that he will ......"

The terrible consequences that the two of them feared came a few days later.

It turned out that the reason why the Liaodong general army surrendered to Gao Zicheng was because when he invaded Yanjing City, he took Wu Changbo's family and relatives hostage, and ordered his father to write a letter of surrender to him, ordering him to surrender.

I don't want Gao Zicheng to meet Wu Changbo's family, but after being fascinated by the glamorous light of his concubine Chen Yuan, regardless of Li Yan's repeated dissuasion, saying that the Chen family is Wu Changbo's beloved, and every family letter does not ask about his wife, but he must ask about Concubine Chen, and his love for her is so deep that he jumps on the paper, if he snatches her over, he is afraid that it will anger Wu Changbo, shake his sincerity, and still snatch the Chen family.

It turns out that Gao Zicheng has no longer obeyed Li Yan as before since he entered Yanjing City, seeing that he is still in charge of the east and west and is not allowed to enjoy himself, he is so impatient in his heart, the world is his, does he dare not ask for a woman?

He dropped a sentence, "It's just a woman, which man will really care about a woman." He still snatched the Chen family as his concubine, and also named her an imperial concubine.

Uncle Wu is already on the way to surrender, as soon as he heard that his concubine has become a high-ranking imperial concubine, then the Chen family is more loving and loving in his heart than his wife, how can he bear this kind of wife-snatching hatred? Immediately Chong Guan was angry, and immediately took a few of his henchmen and generals to return to Shanhaiguan overnight, saying that he would not surrender to the thieves to death, and said that he would send troops to crusade against the rebels.

Gao Zicheng saw that this guy was really on the bar with him for a woman, and suddenly he also lost his temper, ordered all the people, and led an army of 100,000 to Shanhaiguan on April 13 to recruit him Wu Changbo, a dog thief who surrendered and rebelled.

On April 21, the two armies met at a rock, and fought fiercely for a day and a night, although the Guanning iron cavalry led by Wu Changbo was the most elite cavalry of the Yan and Qin Dynasty, but because it was less than half of the men and horses of the Dashun army, it was gradually defeated. I didn't want a gust of wind and sand to rise, and suddenly rushed out from behind the mountains and rocks tens of thousands of Jurchen pigtailed soldiers with money rat tails on their heads, and joined forces with Wu Jun, and killed Gao Zicheng's men and horses.

The cavalry of the Jurchens was well-trained and extremely powerful, and Gao Zicheng's men and horses had been fighting for a day and a night, and the men and horses were sleepy and lacking, where could they resist. Before he could fight, the main general Liu Chengmin fell from his horse with an arrow, and was rescued by his generals, so he had to send an order to retreat.

It is said that when Gao Zicheng fled back to the capital on the 26th, there were only more than 30,000 people left, three days later, he hurriedly held the enthronement ceremony, called the emperor, and the next day he fled to Chang'an with his subordinates and his imperial concubine Chen, before leaving, Wu Changbo's family of 34 people of all sizes were beheaded, the head was hung on the city gate, and a fire was placed in the imperial city, and the Forbidden Imperial City built by several generations of emperors of the Yan and Qin Dynasty was burned.

It is said that the fire was not extinguished after Wu Changbo led the Jurchens into Yanjing City. The once splendid and beautiful Forbidden Imperial City, how many green tiles and vermilion eaves, Guidian Lan Palace, have all turned into rafter tiles, and turned into cold smoke.

At this time, Qin Fei and Cai Wei had already arrived in Shandong, and he let out the wind in advance, saying that the king of Linchuan was not captured by Gao Zicheng's thief army that day, but was injured and hid in the mountains and forests.

He also specially wrote a letter to bring to Jinling, and handed a few words to his brother Qin Min, Qin Min then euphemistically expressed a certain meaning to Cui Xiang, so Qin Fei got an edict from the court as he wished, ordering him to lead the Shandong army to resist foreign enemies, and never let the Jurchen iron cavalry take a step forward.

Qin Fei took advantage of the fact that the Jurchens were busy grabbing territory with the Dashun army, and hurriedly counted all the soldiers and horses in Shandong in one place. The twenty-four night pearls left to her by Cai Wei's father had already been taken to Jiangnan by Qin Fei and exchanged for silver, rice, grain and other things.

Although the Central Plains in the north is in full swing, the south of the Yangtze River is still singing and dancing at this time, and there are many wealthy businessmen along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, otherwise Empress Dowager Sun and Emperor Lin De would not want to abandon Yanjing and run to Jinling.

Qin Fei had money and food in his hands, and those soldiers were naturally willing to obey him, that is, the generals who led the army had the one who looked down on him, and after he showed his ability to clean up a few meals, he suddenly put away his previous contempt, and did not dare to see him as a useless county king who only knew how to eat, drink, and enjoy wealth and wealth, but was loyal to him with a happy heart.

However, before he could train his soldiers more and arrange the defense of all the important places in Shandong one by one, the Jurchen army had already attacked.