This is the mental journey of our new Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng.

It is also the reason why the entire Dashun leadership is dizzy because of successive victories.

Therefore, this is also the day they left a reserve second-rate army of about 10,000 people, and then took tens of thousands of main troops, as well as 20,000 troops under Tang Tong, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing presided over the rear, and Li Yan assisted him, and after that, they were ready to swear to the east and crusade against Wu Sangui.

Outside the Xuanwu Gate, the school field was quickly cleaned up.

Gao Yigong said excitedly: "Uncle, how many soldiers Wu Sangui has under him, I have already inquired clearly, the old blood of the original Guanning Iron Cavalry, there are only 10,000 people left, plus some defeated soldiers who can't afford to pay for weapons, and some strong people, the one who can really fight is actually the three thousand soldiers of the old Wu family, which are fully equipped with weapons and are not easy to deal with, and the others are not very difficult." ”

Behind Gao Yigong, there were a few soldiers wearing Ming army uniforms and some fear, Gao Yigong pointed at them, obviously, these people ran out of Shanhaiguan.

Li Zicheng nodded, he is not a reckless and ignorant reckless man, the reason why he ordered the army is that at this time, Wu Sangui has no money, grain and grass, and even the hometown of his soldiers is not in Wu Sangui's grasp, if he has rich time, Li Zicheng definitely doesn't mind slowly boiling Wu Sangui to death, and he doesn't have to do anything else, he just needs to block the trade routes on the road, go south to Shandong by the way, and cut off Wu Sangui's sea supplies, he really cried.

However, Li Zicheng put all his energy on the matter of going to Jiangnan after the summer, he was full of confidence, marched to Shanhaiguan, defeated or forced to surrender the last cavalry unit of the Ming Dynasty under Wu Sangui, and then rested, it only took a month, just spend the summer in the north, and then go south to seize Jiangnan, and achieve his Li family's hegemony.

He pointed to the two horseback riders in the group behind him, these two people were indeed very eye-catching, one was gray-haired, but his body was quite strong, and the other was a thin young man, barely riding on a horse.

"Wu Xiang, this time to recruit Ruzi, you can't fiddle with your careful thoughts, otherwise, the life and death of your Wu family, honor and disgrace, but it all depends on this time, the army will go over and crush it clean."

Wu Xiang's face was very frightened, and he lowered his head again and again, refusing to speak.

Looking at the young man, Li Zicheng nodded, he had to admire, but this prince did not insult the honor of the Zhu family, compared to the young masters of the official family who were captured before, at least in this army, the people and horses were noisy, and they were not so frightened that they peed their pants and cried, which is also remarkable.

Li Zicheng pointed at Liu Zongmin and said, "Take care of the prince...... Yigong took a good look at Wu Xiang, an old man. ”

After saying this, he patted his horse and walked a few steps forward, looking back at the 60,000 army he had carefully built, this was not a strong man who was pulled casually when he was still a homeless person, but among the millions of people, the best selected soldiers, whether it was physique or courage, were one in a hundred, he felt that these 60,000 people were breathing with him, and suddenly shouted, "Destroy Wu Sangui and go down to Jiangnan as soon as possible!" ”

"Destroy Wu Sangui and go to Jiangnan as soon as possible!" The responses of 10,000 people, one after another, this passage is from the hand of Li Yan, who is preparing to stay in the imperial capital this time, this scholar does have a hand, can come up with such short and inspiring words, and such as "Lay down the city of Nanjing, marry a young lady", this kind of thing that is a bit out of discipline and can only be transmitted internally, but it does sound good.

Li Zicheng waved his whip and walked briskly forward.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong glanced at Li Zicheng's back, although he was powerless in his heart, he couldn't resist, and he didn't know how to make a sound, although everyone said that he had the appearance of a Ming Jun, but under the building was about to fall, what could he do? I can only go with the flow.

It would have taken a lot of time to go straight from the imperial capital to Shanhaiguan, but what Li Zicheng brought was all the people of the old camp, so it was natural to walk.

The so-called old battalion can be understood as the meaning of the main force, the peasant rebel army coerced a large number of displaced people to fight, and when fighting, the displaced people were used as cannon fodder, and the old battalion was postponed. When the cannon fodder does not die in a few battles, he will gradually be selected into the old camp, and the food treatment will be improved. Therefore, the people of the old battalion are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, the elite of the elite, simply put, these 60,000 people are the trump cards in the main trump card of King Chuang's descendants.

However, these 60,000 trump cards have now encountered a problem: slackness.

Since the second day of the first lunar month, the 200,000 elite soldiers in the northwest brought out by Li Zicheng have been constantly dividing their troops because of the continuous occupation of the city, and the remaining 60,000 have been Li Zicheng's old team for many years.

However, these people's minds are not in the war, there is no way, because the army occupies the imperial capital, Li Zicheng through forced donations, or raised a lot of silver taels, although in fact, not very satisfied, but Li Zicheng ingeniously came up with a way to exchange land for military merits, which spread, and stabilized the hearts of the people.

What is the exchange of land for military merit, we said before, Chongzhen two years, seven years, nine years, eleven years, and two years ago in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji personally commanded the Eight Banners soldiers to enter the customs and rob, and gained a lot, robbed a lot of gold, silver and jewelry wealth, as well as the plundered population, returned to the northeast as a slave, and even cleared a large piece of terrible no man's land in the imperial capital.

This has even become one of the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, after all, a government cannot even guarantee the safety of agricultural cultivation in the land around the imperial capital, who can guarantee anything else, and the people's hearts will be scattered.

Around the imperial capital, Hebei Province at this time, in fact, is still called North Zhili, this is the cultivated land for hundreds of years, convenient for farming, Li Zicheng generous to others, with a wave of his hand, promised the soldiers, after this battle, will go back to the Zhili Province around the imperial capital, looking for a large amount of land, to these soldiers who have been fighting for many years.

A philosopher once said that the dream of Chinese peasants is the landlord, and Li Zicheng prepared to give them a hundred acres of land at one time, which was simply their biggest dream since childhood.

They are all dreams, and they were looking forward to a better life at that time, compared with those Eight Banners soldiers who did not produce, they made a lot of progress, and some of them got up, and with the military salaries and silver taels accumulated over the years, they went to either be the landlord, or become a homesteader, and marry a wife and give birth to a big fat boy.

The wife and children are hot on the kang, and the ugly wife near the ground is torn padded jacket, the dream of the common people.

That's why they differ from robbers.

But Li Zicheng's big taboo is also here.

Troubles the hearts of the army.