"Sir! Let's hurry up and send an envoy to the army of the regent of the Qing Dynasty and ask him to enter the Shanhaiguan as soon as possible! ”

"But the Chitose Lord told us to stick to the Shanhaiguan Pass and not let the Qing soldiers come in...... Shanhaiguan is the first Xiongguan in the world, and even if there are really 200,000 Liukou, they can't beat it in a hurry. As long as the Qing army enters the pass from Jizhou and Miyun, the thieves will inevitably retreat. ”

"But what about so many people and their families in Shanhaiguan? Several customs cities in Shanhaiguan are not large and cannot accommodate so many people. ”

"Then move out of the customs."

"Out of customs? The Qing army is also coming to Shanhaiguan! Do you want to give the families of the soldiers to the pro-army as slaves? ”

"Yes, you can't ignore the soldiers' families! In addition, the money is not enough! The millions we asked the court for are not a penny now. Once the army starts to see the battle, you have to spend pensions and rewards, which is like money! Shanhaiguan City is strong, but we have to have silver to defend it! The imperial court pointed to our Guanning army to fight, so we can't help but give money! ”

"Let's let the soldiers in! I heard that 100,000 Qing soldiers came, plus our soldiers and horses, there are 150,000. How can you defeat Li Zicheng...... Li Zicheng is down, whether he goes to Shanxi or Beijing, where is it better than being blocked in Shanhaiguan? ”

In Wu Sangui's marshal's mansion, the staff and generals were in a chaotic voice. These people of the Guan Ning Army can fight, but they have to be coaxed with gold and silver.

If they really want to fight Li Zicheng's army, they will have to have a heavy reward of hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of silver!

But Zhu Cihong didn't have so much silver to squander, so he didn't send money to Wu Sangui, and now Guan Ningjun's military salary is supported by Wu Sangui with the silver he embezzled before.

But if there is an expense that has not been paid, he can't support it for too long! If you really want to fight with Li Zicheng's 200,000 army under the Shanhai Pass for a month, how much will it cost? Even if Wu Sangui was willing, he didn't have it!

In addition, it was the hundreds of thousands of people who withdrew into Shanhaiguan that gave Wu Sangui a headache - seriously, it was better to stay in Ningyuan than to withdraw these people into the pass!

If these people's families are now staying in the castles of Ningyuanwei, Ningyuan Zhongright, Ningyuan, Guangning, Guangning, Guangning, and the surrounding fortresses.

He, Wu Sangui, can really wait and see what happens now. Even if Li Zicheng won Shanhaiguan, he was worried about something. It is impossible for Li Zicheng to go out of the customs and fight for Liaoxi with Wu Sangui city by city. This way down, Dolgon, not to mention Beijing, even Shaanxi has been won.

If the Guanning Army had entered the customs after the Battle of Songjin and settled in Yongping Mansion and Jizhou Town, then there would have been no matter for Li Zicheng to break the Jingshi.

As long as the elite of Guanning goes to support Datong and Xuanfu, the defenders there will not surrender, and Li Zicheng can't even touch the edge of Shuntianfu.

However, Emperor Chongzhen only issued a decree on March 6, that is, a few days before the fall of Beijing, to abandon the cities of Ningyuan and move the people into the customs - this bullshit will is really better not to send it!

If you don't make this will, Wu Sangui is still staying in Ning Yuanwei now!

It's good now, it's blocked in Shanhaiguan for Dashun and Qingguo! If you really can't advance, you can't retreat. It's impossible to go back to Ningyuan now!

Most of Dolgon's army has crossed the Liao River, will Wu Sangui be allowed to retreat back to Ningyuan?

Wu Sangui is worried!

Chongzhen's holy decree pitted him, Dolgon's Qing soldiers forced him, and Li Zicheng, the thief, didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he didn't go to Dagukou to chase and kill the emperor, but went to Shanhaiguan! There is also a prince who robbed his own sister and fooled his father and brother, and actually regarded the clever plan of luring the Qing soldiers into the customs as the next strategy!

But then again, it's easy to lure clear soldiers, but it's hard to send clear soldiers! If you don't know it, it's really self-defeating, and you were forced to surrender to Tartar by Dolgon's Tartar regent.......

At this time, the people below were still chaotic, noisy, and the sound tended to get louder and louder. Wu Sangui's forehead was bruised, and finally he couldn't help but yell: "Don't make any noise!" ”

The voice was so loud that everyone in the capital hall was startled, and they all dared not speak.

Wu Sangui's gaze swept over the generals and staff under his command one by one, and all he saw was a helpless look.

His group is a bit heavy on martial arts and light on literature, and there is no shortage of men who can fight and kill. There may be no strategists who plan strategies for him, and even a few civilian staff members are only at the level of a scrivener.

Just as he was disappointed, he suddenly saw a strange black face with a slightly different expression, as if he had some thoughts.

Who is this man...... Wu Sangui thought about it and remembered that this person was the escort brought by Chen Yuanyuan, named Liu Sheng. It seems that he has worked with Sun Chuanting, and he knows more about the liukou, and he also knows a few words, so he appointed a petty official and put it in the staff pile.

"Liu Sheng, do you have something to say?" Wu Sangui asked.

Liu Sheng nodded and said, "Sir, you forgot about King Ding." ”

This black-faced vulgarity is actually lifting people! And the level is not low, if it is not a shortage of soldiers, it is a matter of time before a lieutenant sergeant becomes a civil official.

As a preparatory civil official, Liu Sheng certainly knows how to shake the pot.

"Yes, yes, yes......" Wu Sangui slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot the great god of His Royal Highness King Ding!" Tell me more, how should Benjue make good use of this great god? ”

Liu Sheng said with a smile: "Didn't the lord borrow soldiers from the Manchurians in the name of King Ding? Now it is better to continue to play the banner of the king, on the one hand, to deal with the Manchurians; On the one hand, a notice was posted in the territory of Yongping Mansion, saying that His Royal Highness had borrowed 100,000 Manchurian soldiers and would soon counterattack Beijing. If we retreat from the news, then we will not open the Shanhai Pass and let the Manchurian soldiers come. ”

"Hahaha," Wu Sangui laughed, "I didn't expect you to have such a strategy...... Okay, that's it! Ben Jue is just the chief military officer of Liaodong, and there is also the governor of Jiliao on it, and His Royal Highness the King of Damingding! Ben Jue is a great loyal minister, of course, he must listen to the words of the Governor and His Royal Highness the Dingwang! ”

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Li Zicheng left Beijing on 13 April to begin his expedition to Shanhaiguan, one day later than Dolgon's departure from Shenyang. The distance from Beijing to Shanhaiguan is about the same as the distance from Shenyang to Shanhaiguan, which is seven or eight hundred miles. However, Li Zicheng's journey has been harder than Dorgon's.

Before entering Ning Yuanwei's territory, Dolgon's army marched on the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Not only do you not have to worry about being attacked, but the government along the way will also organize people to provide food and drink. The morale of the soldiers of the Eight Banners was also very high, and almost everyone was eager to enter the customs and seize the city of Beijing.

However, Li Zicheng's army was marching in the "enemy territory", which surprised him very much. The so-called enemy territory does not mean that the land east of Beijing up to Shanhaiguan was still under the firm control of the Ming Dynasty. But the gentry and common people along the way all regarded the Dashun army as an invader!

This situation is the exact opposite of what he encountered when he marched to Beijing. At that time, everyone was welcoming the king, and the army was full of people eating pot pulp to welcome the king. King Chuang's army didn't even need to prepare military rations, relying on the supplies of the people along the way, and they could march all the way.

But now, the army has passed, and not a single one is gone! Don't be a military ration, you can't even find anyone to inquire about it!

After entering the territory of Yongping Mansion, not only was there no one on the roadside, but even the Kaiping Acropolis and Luanzhou City were empty, and the people and officials were all gone. The only thing that greeted Li Zicheng's army was a notice posted at the gate of the city.

"Your Majesty, look."

Outside Luanzhou City, Li Shuangxi, who was in charge of the imperial camp, handed Li Zicheng a notice that had just been removed to Li Zicheng with both hands, and Li Zicheng took it and looked at it, and his thick eyebrows were unconsciously twisted into a ball.

"Great Army Division, Second Army Division!" Li Zicheng called Song Xiance and Gu Junen forward, handed over the notice in his hand to the two, and after they read it, he asked calmly: "What do you think?" ”