Chapter 67 Trapping Li Zicheng (Asking for Collection, Asking for Recommendation)
"Hold, hold...... There will be a period later! ”
"Chitose Lord, the old minister ......"
Another official who had changed into ordinary people's clothes had tears in his eyes and wanted to kneel for Zhu Cihong. Next to the stone bridge outside Chaoyang Gate. Zhu Cihong, Wu Sanmei, Wang Qi, Bi Jiucheng, and dozens of other guards all stood in front of a row of open wooden boxes containing silver taels, and distributed money to officials, soldiers, ordinary people, noble children, and others who fled through the Chaoyangmen Stone Bridge.
There's something for everyone!
Needless to say, the money sent was all moved out of Zhou Kui's house!
More than 300,000 taels of silver, while supplies last!
This courage to burn money can catch up with the subsidy war of some Internet giants in later generations.
And Zhu Cihong's purpose of burning money is similar to that of the Internet giants of later generations, people spend money to buy the market, and Zhu Cihong spends money to buy people's hearts.
Zhu Cihong, who left Beijing, will lack people's hearts the most in the next month or so! And as long as Li Zicheng's army is defeated by a stone, people's hearts will slowly return to the side of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason is very simple, because before Li Zicheng was kicked out of Beijing, the Ming Dynasty was "dead country", not "dead world". These are two different concepts! The so-called death of the country is nothing more than a change of dynasty.
For the scholars and doctors of the world and the common people, Li Shun's replacement of Zhu Ming is just the emperor's turn, and it is no different.
It can even be said that after entering Beijing, Li Zicheng is orthodox in China, while Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong are just remnants of the previous dynasty.
If Li Zicheng can pass the hurdle of the Manchurians, he doesn't have to destroy the Qing State, he can make a draw on a piece of stone, and finally sign a peace treaty or something, even if he gives some New Year's coins, the world of Dashun will be stable!
Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong, father and son, I am afraid that they can only avoid overseas and struggle to survive.
If you want to fight back with the help of half of the Jiangnan wall, it's a fool's dream!
However, once Li Zicheng was defeated by Manchuria, he lost the city of Beijing, the best city in the world. Then the death of Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong's father and son will be solved immediately.
Because the next thing is not to lose the country, but to die in the world!
And the Ming Dynasty will represent the world of the Han people!
The Great Qing Dynasty, at least until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the New China, meant foreign rule. The struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty ran through the entire Qing Dynasty.
If Li Zicheng wins in a stone, will there be an anti-Shun regain his sight? It's impossible!
Therefore, the battle of a stone was a disaster for Li Zicheng's Dashun, but for Zhu Cihong's Daming, it was a rare opportunity for asset restructuring.
Historically, Li Zicheng's easy abandonment of Beijing after the defeat of Yishi made him lose his status as the leader of the anti-Qing communists.
In other words, the pot that lost the world is Li Zicheng!
In the world, it was not the Ming Dynasty that was thrown to the Qing Dynasty, but Li Zicheng who was thrown to the Qing Dynasty. Daming has died in the country, how can he still let Daming take the blame for Dashun?
This responsibility was very clear back then, when the whole world knew that he had an army of millions! How much can a million-strong army lose in a single stone? At most, tens of thousands.
Behind a stone, even in the area of the Beijing Division, Li Zicheng still has at least an old battalion of 30,000 or 40,000 people and a new army of at least 100,000 people. There is still the strength to hold on to Beijing! Moreover, Beijing's city is quite strong, and it is entirely possible to hold on.
At least in the eyes of the world, Li Zicheng is completely powerful, and he should also defend the city of Beijing!
Abandoning Beijing when the forces are still sufficient is actually carrying out a line of non-resistance...... A "non-resisting" Emperor Dashun, still so rallying the hearts of the people to resist the Qing Dynasty?
Of course, Li Zicheng's move of abandoning Beijing and preserving his strength is understandable in his opinion. He had a very shallow foundation in Beijing, and he had tortured military salaries before, and lost the hearts of the people in Beijing. There is no heart inside, and there is a strong enemy outside, how dare he hold on to the city?
It is better to retreat with the gold and silver plundered from Beijing and return to Shaanxi to regroup...... But this time, the general trend has gone!
In short, Beijing City is a century for Li Zicheng! Before he got in, Li Zicheng was the new lord of the world admired by hundreds of millions of people, and he was waiting for him to destroy Zhu Ming, open Dashun, and build a peaceful world.
After Li Zicheng is out of the game, he will be a sinner who will die in the world, a puppet emperor who is an anti-thief and does not resist!
However, in the early morning of March 21, the seventeenth day of Chongzhen, when the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng climbed the Yongding Gate Tower in the cheers of tens of thousands of old soldiers. He never thought that the Beijing City he was about to take over was a super "landmine" that made him lose his old capital, let alone that the owners of Beijing City, Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong, had already escaped under the cover of the fake Chongzhen.
At this time, he was still worried that he might not be able to defeat the inner city of Beijing!
The cannons on Zhengyang Gate, Xuanwu Gate, and Chongwen Gate roared all night, and the soldiers guarding the city kept shouting long live, and the momentum was quite strong!
But after dawn, the cannon is no longer paid, and the long live is no longer shouted, it seems to be a little wilted, could it be that he is tired after a night of trouble?
A man who was about forty years old and looked a little similar to Li Zicheng, both with high cheekbones, wide forehead, and a bearded man walked quickly to Li Zicheng's side at this time, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the sons and daughters sent to patrol the east of the city report that they found that the Zhu thief had broken through and left!" ”
The person who came was Li Guo, Li Zicheng's eldest nephew, known as a tiger, and the general of the battalion after the official worship. The cavalry patrolling the perimeter of Beijing was sent out by his rear battalion.
"Zhu thief breakout?" Li Zicheng turned his head and saw that Du Zhizhi was still holding a telescope looking in the direction of the Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower?
"Lao Du, is the Emperor Zhu Thief still there?"
"Yes, it should be in the ......," Du Zhizhi said, "I can't see it clearly, but the figure is like, the clothes are right, and there is an old eunuch next to him who is Gao Yushun...... He is the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of the seal, and he is the most trusted eunuch of the Zhu Thief Emperor. Oh, the minister also saw Luo Yangxing, he was the commander of the Jinyi Guard. ”
Li said: "Your Majesty, Emperor Zhu Thief may not have left, but there must have been many people who escaped from Beijing City last night!" ”
"Oh? What's going on? ”
"The rangers sent by the ministers outside Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate met a large force of Zhu thief cavalry. One of the rangers reported encountering a large group of iron cavalry! ”
"What?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "The brigade of iron horses? How many? From what direction? ”
"More than a thousand rides!" Li Guo's expression was serious, "It's hard to say where you came from...... But I went to Tongzhou! ”
"Lao Du," Li Zicheng asked, "there are iron cavalry in Beijing City?" ”
"Nope." Du Zhizhi shook his head, "Now Daming is only a bit of an iron horse for the Ning Army......"
He didn't treat General Dahan as a soldier at all......
"Guanning Iron Horse?" Li Zicheng narrowed with one eye, "Wu Sangui is here?" The full tartar...... Huang Hu (Liu Zongmin): Is there any news over there? ”
"Nope." General Tian Jianxiu immediately reported, "I also received a military report from the Zhongquan pro-army this morning, and the sentry cavalry was placed in the area of Sanhe and Pinggu, and the Guanning army was not found. According to other sources, the Guanning Army only crossed the Shanhai Pass on the 16th, and arrived in Yutian on the 19th. As for the news of the Manchu Tartars' troops, I have not heard of it. ”
"Strategist, what do you think?" Li Zicheng asked Song Xiance, who could pinch and calculate.
Song Xiance was pinching his fingers and pretending, and when he heard Li Zicheng's question, he immediately replied: "Your Majesty, maybe the prince of the Zhu family is out of the city...... Didn't the day before yesterday say that the prince of the Zhu family was going to marry the daughter of Dorgon, the auxiliary king of the Tartars? He can't get married in Beijing. ”
"Makes sense!" Li Zicheng didn't know the details of Manchuria, and thought that Dorgon's daughter was a big girl. In fact, he is only six years old, and it is impossible to marry Zhu Cihong.
"Your Majesty, you can't let the prince of the Zhu family run out! Please lead the troops to chase and kill! "The general Tang Tong is also on the city tower, and he is in a hurry to ask for battle. He didn't have any holiday with Zhu Cihong, but mainly because he felt that he couldn't get the oil and water in Beijing, so it was better to go out of the city to try his luck.
"Good!" Li Zicheng nodded and said with a smile, "A tiger, you go too...... Bring 3,000 old brothers and be sure to capture the prince of the Zhu family alive! ”
"Obey the order!"
"The minister will not dishonor!"