Liu Dahe simply answered part of Zhuo Liktu's questions, but did not answer all the other party's questions, which is also a kind of prestige.

For the Mongols, the treasure army had enough psychological advantages.

Zhuo Liktu didn't dare to ask more, and hurriedly made a gesture of please: "The general has worked hard, please go to the camp to rest quickly." ”

Then Drorictu said to his subordinates: "Kill the sheep and roast the meat, and entertain the most distinguished guests with the best wine and food." ”

Zhuo Liktu's men loudly agreed, and Zhang Luo went.

Liu Dahe was quite satisfied with Zhuo Liketu's attitude, and arched his hand, which was regarded as a thank-you.

Even if the treasure army marches in a narrow area, it is orderly, mighty and majestic, and has a high royal spirit.

Zoriktu hurriedly asked people to vacate the tent for the treasure army.

"General, there is a road of people outside, it looks like a border army coming from the direction of Jizhou, do you know?" Zoriktu asked.

Liu Dahe really doesn't know this, let alone Liu Dahe, even the General Staff of the Bao Army doesn't necessarily know.

Even President Wei doesn't necessarily know.

Wei Bao just sent people to Jizhou to inform the barracks one by one, and he didn't know who would listen.

Although Heaven and Earth will have a tightly networked intelligence agency like the Statistics Bureau, when Cao Wenzhao led the team to set off, he had already sent someone to send a message to the headquarters, and Lord Wei must have known about it at this time, but there was no way to send a message to Liu Dahe.

Liu Dahe frowned suspiciously, did not nod, did not shake his head, did not know whether to say that he did not know or whether to say that he knew.

Tiebatu was behind Liu Dahe, and he was equally puzzled about this matter.

Liu Dahe and Tiebatu made eye contact, and neither of them knew it.

As soon as he saw the expressions of the two people, he guessed what was going on, "Then they come here, the two generals don't know?" They are the centaurs of Jizhou, can Lord Wei control them? What are they here for? ”

"They are naturally under the control of the lord, the lord is the chief army of Jiliao, except for the superintendent of Jiliao, who can't manage it? And with the power and popularity of the lord, the generals under him all obey the lord, including Jiliao's soldiers and horses. "Liu Dahe Road.

"It's unlikely that they surrendered to Jiannu, and it's unlikely that they're here to fight you, if it's really the soldiers and horses from Jizhou, it's very likely that they're here to help you!" Tiebatu analyzed.

Actually, Zorictu thinks the same way.

Don't worry about it for now, settle the treasure army, and then arrange people to wait for the generals and soldiers of the treasure army.

Over there, Zhuo Temur had already personally arrived in front of Cao Wenzhao's army.

Cao Wenzhao saw Zhuo Temur's momentum and knew that it was not an ordinary person, so he was polite to Zhuo Temur, and arched his hand: "We are under the military order of Lord Wei to respond to your Inner Khalkha Tribes. ”

Zhuo Temur hurriedly returned the salute immediately, and at the same time his heart was relieved, what he was most afraid of was the enemy, it was easy to deal with friends, but he had never heard of the Ming army border army who dared to take the initiative to go out of the customs, and he was still a little vigilant, "Welcome good friends!" Do you have any paperwork? After all, you are not a direct treasure army, please forgive me for being careful. ”

Cao Wenzhao waved his hand to his nephew Cao Bianjiao, and Cao Bianjiao hurriedly took out a letter from his arms to ask Lord Wei to answer the military order from the Inner Khalkha tribes to the vicinity of Xifengkou.

Zotmur couldn't see the Chinese characters, so he handed it over to a strategist-like person who knew a little bit of Chinese characters.

The strategist looked at the letter, but he could only understand a rough idea, and felt that it was not a big problem, so he nodded to Drotmur: "Master, the letter is not a big problem. ”

Zhuo Temur was not very suspicious of Cao Wenzhao's passers-by, because he recognized the clothes of the Ming army, if it was Jiannu pretending, it would be difficult to get so many clothes, and it would be difficult to make so many people who knew that they were Han people at a glance to pretend to be them.

Moreover, if you want to carry out a sneak attack, you must send elite Eight Banner soldiers to pretend, otherwise there are only a thousand people, and robbing the camp will not play a role.

Manchus and Han Chinese, Mongols and Han Chinese, are still very easy to distinguish, and they can be easily distinguished with the naked eye.

Zhuo Temur politely asked Cao Wenzhao to wait, he went back to report to his father, and vacated the tent, and then invited Cao Wenzhao's men and horses to enter, and asked Cao Wenzhao to wait for a stick of incense.

Cao Wenzhao didn't get angry, this was all as it should be, he walked in the snow for two days, and he didn't care about waiting longer.

Zhuo Temur would be so polite, because he felt that Cao Wenzhao's men and horses were very different from the ordinary border army of the Ming Dynasty, and it seemed that everyone was very energetic.

In fact, Cao Wenzhao has always been very good at leading troops.

Not all of the Ming army's troops could not be fought, let alone because of the corruption of the Donglin Party and the corruption of the eunuch party.

Originally, in modern times, Wei Bao often thought that the Ming Dynasty died in the bloodless integrity of the so-called civilian official group, but later looked at some of the battle calendars of the army, only to find that this was not the case at all.

The war between the Dashun army and the Ming army was really tragic, the Ming Dynasty was annihilated by the Dashun army, the heavy army group, killed or captured the high-ranking civil and military officials can not be counted on both hands, it can be said that in this process, the peasant army and the Ming Dynasty military machine, the northern bureaucratic gentry group did lose both, and the grievances were very deep, which laid the groundwork for the rapid advance of the Qing army.

Among these people was Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi.

Fu Zonglong was released from prison in 1641 and became the governor of Shaanxi Trilateral Military Affairs, from Shaanxi to Henan, and joined forces with Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, to encircle Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

Zhongfu was defeated, fled to Xiangcheng, and walked to a place only eight miles away from Xiangcheng, where the rebels caught up and captured Fu Zonglong alive.

Then he went to the gate and shouted, "We are the guards of the governor of the three sides, please open the gate and let the governor in!" ”

Fu Zonglong shouted loudly: "I am the governor of the three sides, and unfortunately I fell into the hands of thieves, and there are thieves on the left and right!" ”

The rebels spat on Fu Zonglong, and Fu Zonglong scolded them: "I am a minister of the imperial court, I will kill if I want to, how can I earn the city gate for the thief to survive!" ”

The rebels drew their knives and slashed at Fu Zonglong, Fu Zonglong was beheaded and fell, and the rebels cut off his ears and nose, and Fu Zonglong died under the city gate.

Shaanxi Governor Wang Qiaonian is also a hard bone, the Donglin Party actually does not lack a hard bone minister, Shaanxi Trilateral Governor Fu Zonglong saw that he was killed in the peasant army, Wang Qiao was in the era, and was ordered to dig Li Zicheng's ancestral grave and meet the teachers to discuss.

In 1642, Wang Qiaonian gathered 30,000 scattered soldiers and ordered He Renlong to lead them. Li Zicheng "attacked it with all his might", He Renlong and others left without a fight, and Wang Qiaonian collected 2,000 soldiers and entered Xiangcheng (now Xiangcheng County, Henan) to refuse.

Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's army attacked the city for five days and nights, and the city fell on February 17 in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642).

Wang Qiaonian killed three rebels, and then attempted suicide and was captured by the rebels, Li Zicheng asked him to kneel, Wang Qiaonian refused, so he dug out his kneecap.

Wang Qiaonian still scolded non-stop, Li Zicheng asked people to cut off his tongue, and Wang Qiaonian pointed his finger at Li Zicheng and scolded with blood.

So he was cut off his finger again, Wang Qiaonian looked north and worshipped, and then was killed by the five oxen corpse split.

Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding and Hebei, is also this kind of hard bone.

In 1642, Li Zicheng surrounded Kaifeng, and he came to the aid of Ding Qirui, Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei and other four general troops, and collapsed in Zhuxian Town, where he was killed by the rebels in Runing.

The rebels attacked on all sides, Dai Fei stood in a formation, and the arrow stone ladder blocked the wall. The arrows at the head of the city are gathering stones and rains, and the mountains of dead and wounded are accumulated, and the attack is endless.

One drum and a hundred roads are ascended together, and the Wenyue and Shicong, the national treasure, the emperor, and the famous saint are at the head of the city, and the literary teacher of Ruyang Zhixian is killed in the city.

The righteous army embraced Wenyue and others to see their own success, scolded, became angry, tied the south of the city Sanlipu, bombarded it with cannons, and died of holes in the chest and bones.

Sun Chuanting, the secretary of the military department and the governor of Henan, is even more famous, and everyone who knows a little bit about the history of the Ming Dynasty has heard of Sun Chuanting.

In May 1643, the imperial court ordered Sun Chuanting to supervise the military affairs of Henan and Sichuan, and then he was promoted to the secretary of the military department, renamed the superintendent, and supervised the military affairs of Shanxi, Huguang, Guizhou, Jiangnan and Beibei.

Zhang Fengxiang, the squire of the military department, said that Sun Chuanting is all the best soldiers in the world, and the emperor only has this belongings, and he cannot be moved lightly.

Emperor Chongzhen did not obey.

Sun Chuanting did not want to rush into battle, but under the urging of the imperial court, Chuanting had to personally lead 100,000 people from Bai Guangen, Gao Jie and other troops to Tongguan in August, and at the same time Zuo Liangyu went west, and the general soldiers Chen Yongfu and Qin Yiming respectively turned Henan and Sichuan soldiers into horns.

In September, Sun Chuanting was defeated in Ruzhou (Jiaxian, Henan), and Li Zicheng pursued and killed 400 miles in one day, directly driving Mengjin, and more than 40,000 Ming troops were killed in battle, losing a large number of weapons and baggage.

At the beginning of October, Li Zicheng conquered Tongguan, and the general soldiers Bai Guangen and Chen Yongfu surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng besieged Sun Chuanting with 100,000 troops, Sun Chuanting retreated to Weinan, and on the third day of October, Sun Chuanting died in battle at the age of 51.

Chongzhen thought that he cheated to death and absconded, but he didn't give him a gift.

Shaanxi Governor Feng Shikong is also good.

In the winter of 1643, Li Zicheng's army broke through Xi'an, and more than ten people died under the governor Feng Shikong.

Lin Riduan, governor of Gansu, and Cai Maode, governor of Taiyuan.

On the fifth day of February 1644, Li Zicheng's army attacked Taiyuan, and Cai Maode sent Niu Yong, Wang Yongkui, Zhu Kongxun and other 5,000 overseers to fight and die.

On the morning of the eighth day of the first month of February, the Dashun army responded to the guard general Zhang Xiong as an internal response, bombarded the city, entered the city from the Yingze Gate, after the rebel army landed in the city, Maode worshipped in the north, and the language said: "I have studied the Tao for many years, and I have investigated life and death, and today I am dead." ”

His subordinates fled on his horse, and Wei Liyun dismounted and said, "You want to trap me for being disloyal? I should die to seal the territory, and all the kings will go by themselves! ”

Entering the Sanli Ancestral Hall, the court pursued "loyalty".

Datong Governor Wei Jingming: On the first day of March 1644, when the righteous army came to the city, Jiang Liang shot the king of Yongqing to death, welcomed the righteous army into the city, and then deceived Jingjing to discuss the matter.

Jing Ying rode out on a horse, and saw the rebels all over the street, only to realize that he had been deceived, and he was so shocked that he fell off the horse, and was seen by the rebels as self-defeating. The crowd called for Jing Ying to kneel, Jing Ying did not kneel, sat on the ground, and cried for the emperor.

Zicheng persuaded: "I am a farmer of rice fat, and at this point today, the destiny of heaven can be known", persuaded him to surrender, and promised to be a high-ranking official. Jing Yu said: "I am an official appointed by the emperor, how can I surrender and be a thief!" ”

Everyone led Jing Yu out, and Gu saw Jiang Hao scolding: "The thief and slave sold me, and you turned your back on the alliance, how can God forgive you!" Three days later, everyone saw that Jing Yu was self-contained. Zicheng said: "You are really loyal, I will send a carriage and horse to take you home." ”

Jing Yu said: "The country is broken, how can there be a home, you kill me quickly." "I will never kill you." Jing Ying suddenly touched the stepping stone with her head, bleeding all over her face, and recovered from death, and dragged out of her life.

The rebels persuaded Jing Ming's mother to surrender, and Jing Ying said: "My mother is more than 80 years old, so I should take care of myself." The son is the minister of the country, and he cannot be immortal. ”

When the mother came out, Jing Ying said to others: "I don't scold thieves, in order to protect my mother." At that time, Jing Ying had not eaten for several days, and she was still not discouraged.

On the sixth day of the first month of March, Jing Ying traveled to Haihui Temple, cried to the emperor in the south, and shouted, "The minister lost the territory, and died a crime, and he was willing to repay the ghost." After saying goodbye to Deyi, Demin's two sons and his mother, he bathed in front of the Guanyin Hall and crowned himself, and hanged himself.

Zhu Zhifeng, governor of Xuanfu: On March 6, 1644, Li Zicheng fell into Xuanfu, and the general soldier Wang Chengyun and Du Xun went out of the city for 30 miles to greet him. Then you are a thief, how can you see it? Du Xun didn't say a word, and walked away laughing. Zhu Zhifeng climbed the city tower and ordered the cannon to be fired, but there was silence left and right, and no one stepped forward.

So Zhifeng personally lit the fire and set off the cannon, and was pulled left and right. At this time, the wire hole of the cannon had been nailed with iron nails.

Zhu Zhifeng sighed: "I don't want people's hearts to come to this. Seeing that the general trend had gone, he wrote a suicide note and hanged himself. The army also killed at least more than 10 officers and soldiers of the Ming army.

Including: Cao Wenzhao, Ai Wannian, Tang Jiuzhou, Yu Chongxiao (captured, whereabouts unknown), Hou Liangzhu, Hu Dawei, Wang Shiguo, You Shiwei, Zhou Yuji, Zhu Sanle, Li Shouhua and others killed or captured more than 10 Ming Dynasty vassal kings, and when the Qing soldiers swept through the Central Plains at the end of the Ming Dynasty, what were those vassal kings surnamed Zhu doing? Fuwang Zhu Changxun (killed by Li Zicheng), Tang King Zhu Yuyun (killed by Li Zicheng), Chongwang Zhu Youjiao (descended to Li Zicheng, and was later executed), Qin King Zhu Cunshu (descended to Li Zicheng, died in the Qing army), Jin King Zhu Xianxuan (descended to Li Zicheng), Dai Wang Zhu Chuanhuoqi (killed by Li Zicheng), Qing King Zhu Zhuohong (killed by the peasant army), Han King Zhu Kanghuo Spine (killed by Li Zicheng), Shen King Zhu Hongtong (captured by Li Zicheng, whereabouts unknown), Zhao Wang (captured by the peasant army, whereabouts unknown) and others.

In general, except for the Shandong Chuang army did not fight, Kaifeng did not fight, the place where the Chuang army passed, it can be said that the attack was invincible, killing dozens of civil and military high-ranking officials and vassal kings such as the governor of the Ming Dynasty, the governor, the general soldier, etc., and almost all the dignitaries and nobles in the governor's area of the governor's district died.

The bureaucracy of the entire north has been completely crippled by the intruding army, and the Ming army in the north, except for the main forces outside the pass, was almost completely annihilated by the Dashun army.

But these achievements are not difficult to see, basically in just 4 years to complete, Li Zicheng and a civilian to lift a three-foot sword almost won the world, of course it is a miracle, but this also makes him not have enough time to subdue the morale, the army in the north to attack a lot of fortified cities, such as Kaifeng, Runing, Tongguan, Ningwu, etc., the city defense is naturally dilapidated, before the time to repair, the Qing army fought, and the Qing army has a large number of red-coated cannons such as the first attack on the city weapons.

It has to be said that this is very beneficial to the rapid advance of the Qing army.

Especially at the beginning of the peasant army, many officials in the Ming Dynasty were deeply rooted in the idea of loyalty to the monarch, and they would rather die than surrender to death, and finally die, which was naturally even more unfavorable to Li Zicheng's good relationship with the official gentry group.

Later, after Li Zicheng approached Beijing, he saw that the general trend of the Ming Dynasty had gone, and the number of officials who surrendered, mainly military generals, gradually increased.

In fact, there is also a survivor bias here, most of the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty were almost dead when they stubbornly resisted the invasion of the army, and those who surrendered were capricious people such as Jiang Hao, Tang Tong, and Zhang Jinyan.

It is not very strange for these people to see that the Qing army is strong, that the great shun is gone, and that they have defected again.

In short, the battle situation in the process of the Dashun army attacking the north was fierce, and the relationship with the northern gentry group was not good, and the policy did not change much after entering Beijing.

Li Zijin himself also noticed this, he listened to the advice of his subordinates not to kill indiscriminately, and began to march on the road to Beijing, and appeased the Ming Dynasty civil and military generals along the road, but history still did not give him more time.

Compared with the Dashun army, which tortured and plundered the civilian officials and did not forgive the military generals who surrounded and surrendered, Dolgon's policy and rules of the game towards the civilian and military generals of the previous dynasty were indeed milder, so as the Dashun army was defeated all the way, it was normal for the major cities and strongholds in the north to surrender to the Qing army, showing a one-sided battle situation.

In addition to these, there are two main reasons.

First, Gu Cheng, Yao Xueyin and other famous scholars agreed that Li Zicheng was indeed too careless when victory was coming, and he seemed to think that the dispute between the Ming and Qing dynasties was a matter of the previous dynasty, and he and Houjin could not violate the river water and get along peacefully, so they did not assemble the main force of the Dashun army in Hebei. However, after the Battle of Songjin, the losses of the Qing army were actually very heavy, after the Battle of Songjin did not attack Ningyuan was one of them, after the Battle of Shanhaiguan, Yao Xueyin also pointed out that the Qing army did not pursue decisively, and waited until Li Zicheng gave up Beijing before he was relieved to advance, plus the official report of the Qing Dynasty said that there were only 50,000 men left in the Eight Banners at the beginning of Shunzhi, it can be seen that at this time, the Jin manpower was close to exhaustion, even if a war of attrition was beneficial to Dashun.

From this point of view, the Qing Dynasty really went down the mountain to pick a big peach, and Li Zicheng can be said to have made a mistake and hated it for thousands of years. The peasant army seems to have forgotten that Cao Mengde, whom they admired the most, actually became the real overlord of the north after the Battle of White Wolf Mountain broke the desperate situation of Wuhuan.

Second, the internal friction between the Ming Dynasty, the Southern Ming Dynasty and the peasant army was indeed very large, which should not be underestimated. There were so many fierce generals in the peasant army, and Li Dingguo was a tactical genius, but the Ming Dynasty could not use it, until the Great Western Army retreated to Yunnan, the Great Shun Army retreated to Hunan, and the Yangtze River defense line had been broken through, the Southern Ming regime agreed to form an alliance with the peasant army to resist the Qing Dynasty, and the daylily was cold at this time. Prior to this, Nanming even planned to unite with Dolgon to suppress the peasant army first. Li Zicheng has proposed peace to Chongzhen many times, but Chongzhen has rejected them one by one, and he has to kill you to the death.

So after seeing more of these things, I feel more and more that it is really a to be outside and inside first, and if you do this, most of them will end up with the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Dynasty, "When everyone fought together, the Britons came in and conquered them all."