"How much gold and silver have you received there?"

"Tell the emperor, those corrupt officials are all soft bones, and they all handed over the money after being frightened by the ministers, and now we have received about 40 million taels of silver and 12 million taels of gold."

"Well, yes, but we still have to try to speed it up, we won't be here for long."

"Yes, then the subordinate will send someone to search directly in their house and directly grab all his silver."

After taking a sip of wine, Li Zicheng did not object to Liu Zongmin's rough approach.

"Whoever dares to hurt people and plunder people's property and women will not be forgiven."

This order was given by Li Zicheng himself when he first entered the capital, but now that everyone else is about to leave the capital, there are so many things, of course, the most important thing is to grab a sum of money by yourself!

During this period of time, Li Zicheng was the pinnacle of his life, just drove Emperor Chongzhen away a few months ago, and then took Beijing City, and now lives in Zhu Youzhen's palace, playing with Zhu Youzhen's woman, this life is not chic.

If it were according to the development of history, he would lead his troops to attack Wu Sangui next, and then force Wu Sangui to surrender to the Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon, and then be defeated by the two of them together, driven out of the capital, and then exiled all the way until the fall of Dashun.

But because of Li Yi's appearance, he had to withdraw from Beijing City in advance.

Why quit Beijing?

Because he doesn't have any soldiers now!

Yes, that's right, Li Zicheng is now without soldiers.

Li Zicheng had hundreds of thousands of troops, but those troops were all over the Dashun regime, and his main force remained in Datong.

When he first entered the city of Beijing, he brought only 20,000 troops, if it weren't for Cao Huachun and Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, to help open the door, he might not have sat in the Ming Palace so early.

"Strategist, how long can we hold off the opposing army there?"

Looking at Niu Jinxing, who has now been named a university scholar, Li Zicheng is still used to calling him a military teacher.

"Your Majesty, although I don't know where the people are from on the other side, but with those people I arranged, I don't think it is possible for them to attack Beijing City so quickly, our people will definitely delay their pace along the way, but we still have to leave as soon as possible, go to Datong, and we will fight back when the time comes."

Hearing Niu Jinxing's words, Li Zicheng showed a tangled expression on his face, he was still a little reluctant to be a little reluctant to the Daming Palace here, after all, once as a post man, he might not be qualified to step here for the rest of his life, but now he is the master here.

"Your Majesty, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood, our top priority is to save our lives, and when we arrive in Datong, gather soldiers and horses, and we can fight back immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty, what you said is right, there are tens of thousands of people on the other side, and it seems that they are still elite soldiers, so we can only retreat first."

Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin have been here to persuade Li Zicheng, but they are afraid that Li Zicheng will not be able to think about it, and they will stay here and fight each other, their own family knows their own affairs, and they know what kind of goods the 20,000 people under their command are.

"Okay, then let's go back to Datong first, let's sneak out of the city tomorrow night, don't let the enemy know, if we are pursued, then we will be in trouble."

"Okay, then go and prepare."

After they left, Li Zicheng sat here alone and drank alcohol, the more he drank, the more annoyed he became, and finally slammed the wine jug on the ground.

"Damn, where did these ghosts come from, and they are so close to Beijing City, I want to send someone to find out clearly, and then I will take revenge on you."

After scolding a few words here, Li Zicheng went back to ask someone to clean up his things, scolded and scolded, and he still had to run away.

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"Open the door, open the door quickly, if you don't open the door, we'll bump."

A group of itinerant militiamen stood in front of a large gate with spears in hand, and even several children who were only twelve or thirteen years old looked very excited.

With a creak, the door opened a crack, and before the people inside could poke their heads out, the group of homeless people immediately slammed the door open, and all of them rushed in at once.

"Well, stand still, all stand out, and who let you in, do you know whose house it is? This is the mansion of Lord Li of the Ministry of Officials, have you eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall? ”

Seeing this group of homeless people rushing in, the old housekeeper hurriedly stopped him, but he was easily pushed and fell to the ground.

At this time, Li Shilang, who heard the movement in the inner courtyard, came out and said to the homeless person who was the leader:

"Whose subordinates are you? I just drank with you a few days ago, and I am friends with you, so if you don't leave, don't blame me for suering. ”

A few days ago, Li Shilang just gave Liu Zongmin 20,000 taels of silver privately and escaped being investigated, why is he here again?

"Yo, Lord Li, it turns out that you and Ru Hou are friends, that's right, we have received an order from Youhou, I hope you will give some money, 100,000 in the middle hall, 70,000 or 530,000 in the Jingtang of the Ministry, 530,000 in the Taoist Officials' Department, 321,000 in Hanlin, Lord Li, give money."

"I've handed it over to you personally."

"That's right, that Ru Hou just gave another order today, saying that there are many people, and they don't even pay the subsidy for the sake of Dashun, so let's search for it ourselves to see if those people are really handed over, and those people are fake, Lord Li, let me go."

Hearing this, Li Shilang's face was like ashes, and he came to search after paying the money, this reason is too, what is the search? Search your empty house? This is obviously Liu Zongmin wants to grab it again!

Pushing Li Shilang away, the group of homeless people happily rushed inside, and after a while, screams were heard everywhere in the house.

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"General, it's impossible to detour ahead, and if we make a detour, our time will take two more days."

Just now, Meng Tian and the others had already bypassed a forest, and they did not give the opposite side a chance to launch a fire attack.

But now in front of Meng Tian and them was a low mountain range, although it was small, but the radiation area was large, so it was impossible to go around now.

"Then don't go around, send the order down, the whole army is ready, and attack the front."

"Yes."

"General Meng, I have an idea."

"Oh, what does General Zhang think?"

"General Meng, should we try a new weapon?"

Looking at Zhang Han, who suddenly pointed at those cannons, Meng Tian thought for a while, and immediately reacted,

"Alright, let's try this new weapon."

After a while, several cannons were immediately pushed over, lined up against those hills.

"Centurion, will you use this?"

"General Hui, no."

"It doesn't matter, then let's try it today, we have enough gunpowder here, do you see those mountains, you bombard fiercely today, and when you attack the city tomorrow, I hope to be able to get your affirmative answer."

"Yes, General."

After explaining the explanation, Meng Tian and the others stood aside and watched as the centurion and his men manipulated the iron lumps.

The soldiers slowly moved the muzzles of their guns, aiming as far as they could at the opposite hill with their senses, and when they felt that it was almost there, they lit the gunpowder together.

Boom, boom...........

On closer inspection, only two of the dozen or so cannons hit the opposite hill, and several more hit the mountainside, and the most outrageous thing was that one guy's cannon was crooked by more than 60 degrees, which frightened the cavalry on the flank of the army into a riot.

The centurion's face darkened, and he walked over and kicked the crooked guy hard, and then changed to another person to continue.

Slowly, after dozens of rounds, the barrels of the guns had begun to get hot, and the rogue militia who were ambushed on the opposite hill all ran out.

Let them hide in the grass and be bombarded without moving, if they had this perseverance and discipline, I am afraid that they would have unified the world a long time ago.

"Okay, yes, I'm looking forward to your performance tomorrow, Charge."

After boasting to the centurion, Meng Tian led his soldiers to chase down the homeless people who were rising.