Ma Bao abandoned a piece of Shiguan City with 10,000 troops, and returned to Shanhaiguan to see Wu Sangui and give orders. Although he carried out Wu Sangui's military order, he was a little puzzled.

"Uncle, do you really want to cooperate with Li Zicheng?"

Ma Bao's words are very straightforward, which means that you don't plan to repay the hatred of your wife? When it comes to Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Wu Sangui used to grit his teeth, eager to crush his bones and scatter ashes, eat his flesh and drink his blood.

And in addition, Ma Bao also saw the importance of the status of a piece of Shiguan City, although it is a subsidiary of Shanhaiguan, but it affects the whole body.

Because he cooperated with Li Zicheng to give up a piece of Shiguan City, it is possible that Shanhaiguan will not be guaranteed, once Li Zicheng's army lives in a piece of stone, the dangerous status of Shanhaiguan will be greatly reduced.

Li Zicheng was born as a thief, what if he was treacherous and sent troops to Shanhaiguan to strike a blow?

Wu Sangui smiled indifferently when he heard this, "Hmph, they all have to die!" ”

They in Wu Sangui's hands, of course, include Lin Yi. Of course, Ma Bao didn't know that the scheming Wu Sangui had already met with an important person before this, otherwise how could he let the important Guan Cheng become a stone?

Ma Bao can see this step, why can't Wu Sanguiyan see it?

Of course, Wu Sangui knows revenge, as long as it is a bloody man, he will do it. But he is not only a bloody man, he is also the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, Ping Xibo, who was personally sealed by Emperor Chongzhen. If there is chaos today, he has 50,000 Guan Ning troops in his hands, how can he be willing to be lonely and at the mercy of him?

He understood what was going on at a glance of the edict sent to him by the prince, and now of course he also knew, Li Zicheng captured Yanjing in a lightning way, and Lin Yi drove away Li Zicheng's men and horses in a lightning way and recaptured Beishangjing.

The prince is just a puppet, a 15-year-old child, and he understands this child, he has returned to Beijing several times, he knows that this prince is silent, obscure, and a nerd, and in the future, if the world is pacified, Lin Yi will definitely abolish him and replace him.

Then wouldn't he Wu Sangui be unlucky? In Wu Sangui's eyes, anyone can get power, but Lin Yi can't!

Wu Sangui knew that it was only a matter of time before Lin Yi sent his troops to Shanhaiguan, and now the elite of the Eight Banners of the 100,000 Qing troops behind him had arrived in Ningyuan City, looking at Shanhaiguan.

Now he is entangled with Li Zicheng, killing 3,000 enemies and losing 800, and he sees that Li Zicheng's strength is extraordinary, these 100,000 horses are not easy to deal with, after a long time, he may not be Li Zicheng's opponent.

Instead of consuming your own strength, it is better to consume the strength of others, preserve your own strength, and exert your strength again at a critical time, which can become a great thing.

Therefore, after thinking about it again, he made an important decision, and with a personal guard, he secretly went out of the gate city to Ningyuan to see Dorgon.

In recent years, the upper echelons of the Tartars have also caused a major earthquake due to the sudden death of Emperor Taiji, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, in September last year.

Inside and outside the royal family, the struggle for power and intrigue is inevitable in all dynasties. The Great Qing State, established by the Manchu Tartars, was no exception. What's more, this Qing Taizong did not set up an heir during his lifetime, probably across the battlefield, and he was as strong as an ox, he never dreamed that he would suddenly die at the age of 51, and if possible, he should borrow another five hundred years from heaven.

Now the situation of the Qing Dynasty is very good, except for a few tribes, all of the southern Mongolia and northern Mongolia are subject to the Qing Dynasty, and the western Mongolia of the Western Mongolia has also sent envoys to communicate with the Qing Dynasty due to the invasion of Tsarist Russia, and Huang Taiji also agreed to send troops to the northwest border of Mongolia to deal with the Russian nose.

The battle of Ningjin here has just ended, the Qing Dynasty has won a complete victory, Zu Dashou has also surrendered, and Hong Chengchou has also surrendered. Jinzhou and Ningyuan were all taken down, and the elite outside the Ming Dynasty was basically lost, leaving only one Wu Sangui in Shanhaiguan, which was another chess piece that Huang Taiji had long taken a fancy to.

This chess piece can help them win the Central Plains and drink the Yangtze River, but at this time, who would have thought that God would be so eyeless and cruelly let him return to heaven.

Huang Taiji died suddenly, Sheng Shangjing was caught off guard, inside and outside the palace, up and down the Qing Dynasty, suddenly fell into chaos, people were panicked, and the six gods had no master.

The country cannot be left without an owner for a day, and the struggle for power begins. In fact, this kind of struggle has never stopped.

The contradictions between the princes in the past have existed for a long time, but when Huang Taiji was there, these contradictions were hidden and did not dare to erupt, and now there is no scruples, just like Pandora's box has been opened.

At present, the most acute form of contradiction struggle is the question of who will inherit the imperial power of Huang Taiji, and this is the flashpoint and focus of contradictions.

It is said that Huang Taiji has sons, especially the eldest son, Prince Su Haoge, who is the dragon and phoenix among people, and has completely inherited the bloodline of Huang Taiji.

Haoge is an all-round talent, in the prime of life, leading thousands of troops and horses to gallop across the field, killing the enemy in the army of ten thousand horses, such as chopping melons and vegetables, governing the country is also a good hand, Huang Taiji once let him take charge of the household department, he did a very good job, Huang Taiji is very appreciative.

Such a meritorious talent, of course, is the first choice for Huang Taiji's inheritance.

And now Haoge is in a high position, you are the king of the Qing Dynasty, with outstanding military achievements and strong strength, and he personally holds the blue flag and the inlaid blue flag, in addition, the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty Ao Bai strongly supports Haoge to inherit the unification.

But after all, the Tartar is different from the Han people, and he does not have the tradition of inheriting his father's business. Who are these barbarian people on horseback as their heirs? It depends on people's aspirations and personal merits. Otherwise, when Nurhachi drove to the west, it would not be the turn of the Eighth Emperor Taiji to inherit the great cause.

Because the rest of Nurhachi's sons are all extraordinary, the eldest son Chu Ying, the second son Daishan, the fifth son Mongoltai, the seventh son Abatai, and the twelfth son Azig, the fourteenth son Dorgon, and the fifteenth son Dodor, which of these is not a powerful generation?

It can be said that among these people, there are those who are better than Huang Taiji in terms of martial arts, talent and morality, and at the beginning, Nurhachi did not fancy Huang Taiji. What he values is Chu Ying, and then Dai Shan. If it weren't for Huang Taiji's scheming and ruthlessness, this seat would definitely not be his turn.

Of course, after Huang Taiji took power, the princes and grandsons of Aixin Jueluo formed gangs, intrigues, and fought for power, and did not stop, and because of Huang Taiji's power, the resentment between each other was deeper, intensified, and ready to go.

This includes Azig, Dolgon, and Dordor's own brothers, who can never forget to see their own mother being forced to death by the Emperor Taiji and unable to do anything about it.

The tradition of the Tartars does not say that wives are buried for their husbands, and there is no reason for concubines to be buried for the emperor.

However, under the planning of the Huang Taiji Group, Dolgon's biological mother Abahai was buried alive by Nurhachi.

In essence, Dolgon knew very well in his heart that Huang Taiji was not his half-brother, but his mother-killing enemy!

Not only that, due to the funeral of Da Feizi Abagai, the three Dolgon brothers lost their power, and the power was lost, and Nurhachi's inheritance fell into the hands of the old Eight Emperor Taiji.

Over the years, Dolgon has been haunted, but the power is not there, people are not as good as dogs, and he has always buried these hatreds in his heart.

Now that Huang Taiji has died suddenly, how can Dolgon give up?

Competing for the throne, Dorgon not only has this ambition, but also has the strength to do so.

Dolgon is now the Prince Rui of the Qing Dynasty, and his essays on martial arts, talent and virtue, and meritorious connections are not inferior to Huang Taiji at all, let alone what Haoge is now.

Now that Huang Taiji has died suddenly, of course Dolgon has to fight with his nephew for the throne that belongs to him.

Such an opportunity is hard to ask for, he has lost an opportunity, and he never wants to lose this opportunity again, because the opportunity is too rare for him. It is impossible to have this in front of him if he loses this life again, he understands it very well.

Dolgon also had many supporters, although his own brother Yu Prince Duoduo died under Lin Yi's knife. However, a banner of Dordor's soldiers and horses was firmly controlled by Dolgon, and now there is also his brother Azig, Prince Ying, although this person is not good at words, not good at expression, and is not a pioneer in the struggle for power, but once it comes to the critical time, he will definitely stand on his side.

After all, the three of their brothers crawled out of the belly of a mother, and now that Duoduo is gone, there are only two of them left, brothers who fight in war, fathers and sons who go into battle, how can there be brothers who don't kiss each other when the time comes?

Therefore, the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, their two brothers controlled the two banners, and such strength was quite terrifying.

Therefore, Hauge and Dorgon had a large group of supporters, and their two factions were of equal strength, and the two sides started a life-and-death power struggle, with tens of thousands of horses on both sides, all of whom once rushed into the palace, and the two sides were tense, and the war was about to break out, and the situation was quite critical.

At the critical moment, a woman appeared. This is the famous Empress Xiaozhuang of the Qing Dynasty.

This Mongolian woman, who is as beautiful as a fairy, is indeed a legendary figure, seeing that the royal family is about to kill each other at a critical moment, she stepped forward, with a weak body, to shoulder the heavy responsibility, from which to mediate, Prince Li Daishan, the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty Aobai, Prince Zhuang Zierharang, under their mediation, finally Hauge and Dolgon sat down, calmly negotiated.

The two sides have been constrained, bargaining, and finally they reached an agreement, both of them took a step back, no one inherited the throne, but let the six-year-old youngest son Fu Lin, the ninth among the many princes of Huang Taiji, inherit, this is the Shunzhi Emperor, because Shunzhi is young, let Dolgon regent, is the regent.

In this way, the Qing royal family avoided a catastrophe, but the real power of the Qing Dynasty fell into the hands of the regent Dorgon. Prince Hauge of Su was young and inexperienced, and he couldn't play Dolgon, so he was excluded from real power.

A few months later, the spring that belonged to them came again, Li Zicheng broke through Yanjing, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, and Dolgon immediately sent troops to Shengjing, with 100,000 troops to Ningyuan, preparing to seize Shanhaiguan and enter the Central Plains again.

A few days after Dolgon arrived in Ningyuan, he ushered in Wu Sangui, an important figure in the history of the Qing Dynasty and an important minister of the Ming Dynasty.

After Dolgon found out Wu Sangui's intention, he treated him politely and warmly took him into the city. The two sides soon reached a cooperation intention to jointly deal with Lin Yi of the Ming Dynasty, because the Manchu Tartars led by Dolgon also hated Lin Yi.

The two sides unanimously agreed that after doing their best to get rid of Lin Yi, Wu Sangui would support the crown prince, and then the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty would form an alliance.

But Wu Sangui raised another problem in front of him, that is, Li Zicheng, the king of Dashun, Dolgon laughed: "Put him outside the Great Wall, this king kills Li Zicheng, like slaughtering a pig and slaughtering a dog!"

Wu Sangui was overjoyed and took the guards away.

Dolgon looked at Wu Sangui's back and smiled slyly, "Hmph, come with this king?" Come on, spread the matter of our alliance with Wu Sangui today to deal with Li Zicheng, and make sure that Li Zicheng's people know as soon as possible. ”

"Huh." Kong Youde agreed, as the prince of the Eight Banners of the Khan, it would be more appropriate for him to arrange this matter.

The first warrior of the Qing Dynasty beside him was puzzled: "Lord Wang, it is obvious that this Wu Sangui is calculating that we are here, since this is the case, why didn't you kill Wu Sangui just now?"

"Hehe, what do you know, he Wu Sangui wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger, let me fight with Li Zicheng, this time this king has to watch the two of them fight first, Wu Sangui is a plastic talent, this king has not used enough, how can he kill him! Besides, the Han people have a good saying, don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, his own uncle is the commander of the ancestor after all! ”

"The prince is clever!" Ao bowed his hand in admiration.

Wu Sangui secretly returned to Shanhaiguan City, and the next day he came to a Shiguan City to meet Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng of course also treated him politely, very grandly.

Wu Sangui told him that there were Tartars behind him, 100,000 elite Eight Banners were looking at Shanhaiguan, we needed to fight the enemy together, and while Lin Yi's soldiers and horses had not yet arrived, we needed to repel the enemy behind him, so as not to suffer from the enemy on his back.

Li Zicheng slapped the table: "Commander Wu, please rest assured, I will spare no effort to eradicate the Tartars!"

The two sides soon agreed that they would jointly send troops in three days, send troops to Ningyuan, and destroy the Tartars.

Wu Sangui happily returned to Shanhaiguan City, he was ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, a day passed, there was a report from the Malay, the Tartars of Ningyuan City had already opened under the leadership of Wu Sangui, and on the third day, Li Zicheng ordered Liu Zongmin to lead an army of 50,000 to also open a piece of Shiguan City.

Wu Sangui was full of ambition, and immediately ordered 30,000 horses, and asked Ma Bao to stay and lead the remaining 20,000 horses to garrison Guancheng.

But at this time, Li Zicheng's men and horses suddenly turned their faces, and 100,000 Dashun soldiers divided into two ways and killed at Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui was shocked and hurried back to Shanhaiguan, but it was already a little late, outside Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui's main force was entangled by Liu Zongmin.

On the pass of Shanhaiguan, Ma Bao's 20,000 horses were killed by surprise, Li Zicheng led an army of forty or fifty thousand to pour out, pounced on Shanhaiguan from the Great Wall, and rushed into the pass with a charge.

At this time, Dolgon, who was only a hundred miles away from Shanhaiguan City, with more than 100,000 sweaty iron horsemen, was stopping to watch, Dolgon, Haoge, Aobai, Abatai, Ganglin, Azig, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, etc., couldn't help laughing.

Dolgon's men and horses and Li Zicheng's men and horses fought from morning to noon, from noon to afternoon, several hours passed, Wu Sangui finally couldn't support it, and the vast battlefield outside Shanhaiguan was full of dead corpses, with Wu Sangui's men and horses as many.

Ma Bao, who was above the city, couldn't hold on anymore and complained to Wu Sangui. At this time, Wu Sangui received a report that Dolgon's hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry were looking out for 100 miles, and they did not move.

Wu Sangui knew that he had been fooled, he wanted to play Dolgon and Li Zicheng, but he didn't expect to be tricked by Dolgon.

If this is to be fought again, if the city is not protected, his men and horses will have to be wiped out, because his 30,000 horses outside the gate cannot deal with Liu Zongmin's 50,000 horses, and Ma Bao's 20,000 horses above the city cannot deal with Li Zicheng's 40,000 or 50,000 troops.

While Wu Sangui was scolding, he calmed down and thought about it, he must not just sit back and wait for death, and he had to ask the Manchu Tartars for help.

So he led his own guards to fight a bloody road, and came to Dolgon again, asking why Dolgon did not abide by the covenant and did not send troops to sit here and watch the tiger fight.

"Hehehe, why did Commander Wu say this? I'm afraid you have to ask yourself about this, it's not that I, Dorgon, don't keep my promise, but you have a ghost in your heart. But I, Dolgon, have always treated people with integrity, you can be unkind, I Dolgon will never be unjust, if you want me to send troops, you can, there is only one condition......"

Dolgon said his conditions, and Wu Sangui immediately knelt down.

"I, Wu Sangui, am willing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and be loyal to His Excellency the Regent forever, and I swear this arrow." With a click, he broke a carved arrow in two.

"Hahahaha, okay, the one who knows the times is Junjie, and the commander of Wu will be the commander of Pingxi of my Qing Dynasty from today on."

"Thank you for the prince's support, the slave knocked on the prince!" Wu Sangui knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Dolgon, and from this day on, his traitor's hat was put on.

Dolgon did not break his promise, and immediately sent troops, and hundreds of thousands of Manchu and Han Eight Banners, like a rolling iron stream, rushed to Shanhaiguan......

By the time Dolgon's men and horses arrived at the foot of Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui's men and horses had been almost killed by Liu Zongmin's army, and the Dashun army was about to rush to Chengguan City.

At this time, it was sunset, the remnant sun of the West Mountain was like blood, the wind was dusty, and hundreds of thousands of Eight Banner Iron Cavalry started from the back of the Dashun army, they were also soldiers, divided into two roads, all the way Hao Ge led the killing to a Shiguan City, and one route was led by Dolgon himself, and went straight to the flank of Liu Zongmin of the Dashun army......

At this time, on the other side of Shanhaiguan Guancheng, more than 40 miles away, Lin Yi's forward unit Hao Shaoqi was rushing forward on Pegasus, and 10,000 iron horsemen were rolling in dust.

Dozens of miles behind this team was Lin Yi's main force, and after receiving the report from the front, Lin Yi immediately ordered Hao Shaoqi's team to stop advancing and stand by on the spot, while Lin Yi stepped up his march and hurried forward.