On July 18, Zhending City.

The martial arts arena of Zhending City is in the southeast of the city, and it is rumored that this is where the feng shui of Zhending City is, and the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Yongchang of the Great Shun Kingdom is being held here.

A few days ago, Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo led a large army to Baoding Mansion, and the scholar Li Jiantai surrendered in Baoding, and the soldiers of the Chuang army took Baoding, one of the three male towns in the north, without blood, and the Beijing division was completely exposed to the soldiers of the Chuang army.

The surrender of the civil and military officials of Baoding Prefecture without a fight made Li Zicheng more confident in winning the Beijing Division.

Li Ziwei wanted to conquer Shandong and proclaim himself emperor in Jinan, but when he heard that the city of Jinan had been ruined by the Tartars a few years ago, he canceled the plan and changed it to a more prosperous Zhending.

The founding of the country and the title of emperor this time were mainly to fiercely attack the soldiers of the whole army and take down the Beijing division in one go.

The crowds on the martial arts arena are like a sea, the flags are like a forest, and the arrays they arrange are endless, the core is Li Zicheng's old battalion, in addition, there are also elite soldiers selected from hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

As more and more Ming troops surrendered, the number of invasion troops was as high as 500,000 or 600,000, Li Zicheng began to reorganize the invasion army, imitating the Ming Dynasty Governor's Mansion to set up a five-battalion military system, which were the middle battalion, the left battalion, the right battalion, the front battalion, and the rear battalion.

In the middle camp, the flag is cyan, the main general is Liu Zongmin, the general of the right, and the general Tian Jianxiu, the deputy general is General Guoyi Ren Jirong, and Wang Zhen was also pulled into the middle camp by exception and is a mighty general.

The left battalion, the flag is white, the main general is Liu Fangliang, and the deputy generals are Ma Shiyao and Liu Rukui.

The right battalion, the flag is red, the main general is Yuan Zongdi, and the deputy generals are Bai Minghe and Liu Tichun.

In the front camp, the flag is black; The main generals will be Gu Kecheng, and the deputy generals will be Xie Junyou and Tian Hu.

After the camp, the flag is yellow; The main general is Li Guo, the general, and the deputy generals are Gao Yigong, Zhang Neng, Ma Chongxi, Helan and others, who are basically Li Zicheng's relatives.

On the platform, Li Zicheng sat on the king's chair in a felt coat, looking down at the huge military array composed of five-color flags, and his heart was surging.

Around him were a group of Dashun generals, six government officials, and Ming Dynasty generals and gentry who surrendered.

The gentry who came to watch the ceremony looked at the elite of the army in front of them with neat armor and solemn swords and spears, and their eyes were full of shock.

The Ming court official nodded at Li Zicheng, who was at the top, and patted his ass and said: "The Dashun army is strong and strong, and the unification of the world is unstoppable!" ”

Immediately, a squire Su Lao echoed: "Yes, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Court are vulnerable, and the Jingshi is also one down, and the Dashun army is invincible in the world!" ”

"King Chuang should have taken the world a long time ago and let the immoral and incompetent Emperor Zhu give way......"

Faced with the huge opportunity to change the dynasty, these former celebrities and gentry licked vigorously in front of the new master, regardless of the face of the scholars.

At the enthronement ceremony, Li Zicheng issued the edict of the first year of Yongchang to the world, and set up the official system of the new dynasty of Dashun, appointing Niu Jinxing as the prime minister and Song Xiance as the left assistant.

Under the prime minister, there are six governments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and appoint officials such as squires and langs, and local defense envoys, government officials, state pastors, and county commanders......

After the edict was read, Dashun Baiguanshan shouted long live, and then the Shun army also let out an excited shout: "Long live the Emperor Dashun!" ”

"Hooray!"

"Hooray!"

Listening to the overwhelming sound of long live wave after wave, Li Zicheng's face flushed with excitement, and he said proudly in his heart: "Two hundred and seventy-five years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang, a poor man, could win the world, and I, Li Zicheng, could do the same!" ”

After the enthronement ceremony, Li Zicheng decided to take advantage of the beginning of the new dynasty and the morale was strong, and led 500,000 troops to the north and marched into the Ming Dynasty!

In Chinese history, only Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded in fighting the north and setting the world, and Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of destroying the Yuan in the north was: first take Shandong, remove its shield, rotate Henan, break its wings, pull out the Tong Pass and defend it, according to its household threshold, the situation in the world, into my control, and then enter the Yuan capital, then he is alone and helpless, and can be overcome without fighting......

The route of the Dashun Dynasty's march was similar to that year, Shaanxi and Henan had been taken, and only Shandong was left, and Liu Zeqing of Shandong was already like a lost dog, and he did not have the ability to resist the attack of the Dashun army.

What Li Zicheng has to do now is to use the Northern Expedition strategy of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to take the world of his Zhu family!

He immediately issued an edict: "Order General Gu Kecheng to lead the front battalion to attack Shandong!" ”

"Order Liu Fangliang, the general of the left battalion, to be the vanguard, and go straight to the Beijing division, and I will lead the army to conquer in person!"

Three days later, Dashun poured out of the country, known as a million, and went north to extinguish Ming.

Under the city of Zhending, the sound of the horn resounded all over the world, and the 500,000 Dashun army marched north like a torrent, a banner covered the sky, people and horses neighed, and the scene was spectacular.

Along the way, the people of the prefectures and counties looked at it at a glance, only to see flags in the wilderness like a sea, and the mighty crowd of people did not see the head in front and the tail in the back, and they were so frightened that they shivered and hid.

The movement of the Shun army, the people of Zhili are very concerned, compared to the people in Shandong and Henan who are vying to open the city, all looking forward to the arrival of the righteous army, the people around the Beijing division reacted coldly, and the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven were a little cold.

......

Shenyang, Jiliao Governor's Palace.

Anxi Bohong Chengchou held a piece of information in his hand, and frowned slightly: "Dongyu has made a big move?" ”

After the end of the Liaodong War in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou still guarded Liaodong as the governor of Jiliao, and was on the front line of fighting against the Tartars.

He was very concerned about the movements of the Qing Kingdom, and he didn't want to pull the army out to recover the lost land of Liaodong such as Salhu, and he became famous, but Liaodong was constrained by the door, and he became more and more disobedient.

In recent days, Hong Chengchou received reports from sentinels, and also knew the news that the thief leader Li Zicheng was the emperor in Zhending and went north to Beijing, and he wanted to lead 30,000 Hong soldiers to aid the Beijing division, but now he was dragged out by Jiannu's actions.

Not only did Hong Chengchou want to join the Beijing division to save the driver, but Wu Sangui was also unwilling to be lonely, and also wanted to lead his troops to the Beijing division to escort King Qin.

On 26 July, news of the Qing army's large-scale invasion of the Qing army continued to come, and the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Mongolia, Han, Korea, and Japan, totaling 100,000 horses, crossed the Yalu River and headed straight for the Taizi River, and the target was the city of Shenyang defended by Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou immediately made a decision, ordered all cities in western Liaoning to be under martial law, closed the city gates, and made a good response, and ordered all departments in eastern Liaoning to rush to the aid of Shenyang and strictly guard the border.

Wu Sangui, who was also an earl, no longer took Hong Chengchou in his eyes as usual, not only did he not go north to Shenyang, but directly led his troops south to Shanhaiguan, trying to enter the customs and wait for the emperor to issue King Qin's order.

Mao Yuanyi, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, stopped him outside the pass, said that he would not let him enter the customs at all, and said that the enemy was at present, and before the emperor's holy decree, he should be subject to the order of the governor of Jiliao, and he should not enter the customs without authorization.

Wu Sangui hated it, and led his troops back to Ningyuan.

.......

Some book friends said that I opened Li Zicheng, in fact, strictly speaking, I opened the Ming army, and after Li Zicheng was proclaimed emperor in Xi'an, he won the Beijing division from Xi'an all the way to 2,000 miles in three months, which is much more awesome than in the book.

The combat effectiveness of the army in the later period was already very strong, and the Battle of Shanhaiguan proved that Wu Sangui's Guanning army was not the opponent of Li Zicheng's army, and it was miserably made up, and in the end, it was the father of the Eight Banners who saved Wu Sangui, a good son, and crushed the tired army.

(End of chapter)