The next day, Hao Shaoqi came to the Xishan Army camp early, and he wanted to lead Chen Yue to meet Li Zicheng.

With a few personal guards, he followed Hao Shaoqi out of the camp and rode into Yongding Gate.

The streets were quiet, few pedestrians took to the streets, only patrolling soldiers passed through the streets.

"There is an epidemic in this outer city, and His Majesty has ordered it to be quarantined and disposed of, and the people are not allowed to move around casually if they have nothing to do." Hao waved the flag.

"It's not enough to just isolate, we have to take measures to prevent it." Chen Yue frowned. In this era, epidemics were great disasters, especially in densely populated cities.

"Rest assured, Your Majesty has ordered all the imperial doctors to be summoned to treat the people free of charge." Hao Shaoqi said, "By the way, Your Majesty has sent an envoy to recruit the defenders of Tianjin, you had better send someone to accompany you, don't go wrong." ”

The current Tianjin Wei is Yang Zhengping leading the troops to defend, without Chen Yue's order, he will never surrender easily, Tianjin is so close to Beijing, the Dashun court will definitely not forget.

"Brother Hao, don't worry, I will send someone to Tianjin and order Yang Zhengping to surrender." Chen Yue replied, but he was secretly complaining in his heart, Tianjin is his last way back, and he must be in his own hands. It seems that the choice must be made as soon as possible!

He entered the inner city through the Zhengyang Gate and met Tang Tong, who was also summoned, outside the Dashun Gate (Note 1).

"Lord Chen, we can fight side by side again!" Seeing Chen Yue, Tang Tong was overjoyed.

"General Tang Bing." Chen Yue greeted Tang Tong with a smile.

The two generals looked at each other and smiled, the experience of fighting side by side in the past is now the same identity of the generals, which makes the two feel more cordial.

"Brother Chen, I still have things with me, so I won't accompany you in." Hao Shaoqi said hello to Chen Yue and went to take care of himself.

"Isn't that the iron lion in your camp, what?" Tang Tong looked back at the departing Hao Shaoqi in surprise.

"He was originally the general of the Shun army." Chen Yue said indifferently.

"Tsk, Shunjun's methods are really clever!" Tang Tong pondered for a while, understood, and sighed in admiration.

The two entered the Dashun Gate together and headed towards the palace.

"Lord Chen, have you heard, Cheng Guogong was killed." Tang Tong whispered to Chen Yue.

"I heard it, there is nothing surprising, although the status of Chengguo is high, but it is in Daming, how can Dashun let go of such a noble relative." Chen Yue said indifferently.

"Alas, it is also said that these noble clans were killed, for sure. But you say, will Dashun take those of us under the knife? Tang Tong whispered, his eyes purring and looking around.

"Probably not, they can use us." Chen Yue comforted.

"Alas, our brothers are really miserable, they were sent to a place like Shanhaiguan to fight against Mantar!" Tang Tong said with a sad face.

The soldiers of the Shun army guarding the Chengtian Gate had been notified, and Chen Yue and Tang Tong entered the palace unimpeded. Chen Yue has been here several times, and he is naturally familiar with the road, the palace is still majestic, and the surrounding scenery is still the same, but the owner has changed.

The Qianqing Palace, where the emperor originally lived, burned down when Chen Yue came last time, and Li Zicheng now lives in the Wuying Palace. Under the guidance of a Shunjun officer, the two came to the outside of the Wuying Hall and were immediately received by Li Zicheng.

"The last general, Tang Tong, greets Your Majesty!" Tang Tong knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Zicheng sitting in the hall.

Chen Yue hesitated for a moment and knelt down.

"Hahaha, they are all their own brothers, no need to be polite! Hurry up. Immediately, there was a hearty laugh from above.

Chen Yue stood up, looked up, and looked at the lord of the Great Shun Kingdom on the throne.

Li Zicheng, anyone who knows a little bit about history has heard of this name. In history textbooks, he was regarded as a hero who resisted the tyranny, but there is another saying on the Internet, saying that he was a rogue who caused trouble in the world, and the reason why the Ming Dynasty was replaced by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and China sank for more than 300 years was because Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were fooling around, which gave the Manchus an opportunity.

Whether it is ruined or reputational, one thing cannot be denied, the person in front of him is a man of the hour who no one can despise in this history, and he has brought endless nightmares to the Ming court!

But in Chen Yue's eyes, the person sitting on it was just a stout and ordinarily dressed veteran. Ordinary green cloth military uniform, wearing a white felt hat, only a single eye that flashes with fine light shows the difference in their identity.

This is the famous Li Zicheng! Coming to this time and space, Chen Yue's ears were full of legends about this person, and now he finally saw a real person, but in terms of physiognomy, it was nothing more than that.

"Hahaha, you are Chen Yue, Brother Hao often mentions you in front of me, you are really young and promising!" Li Zicheng got down from the throne, walked in front of Chen Yue, looked at it carefully, and praised.

"Your Majesty has praised it." Chen Yue looked into Li Zicheng's eyes squarely, and said neither humble nor arrogant.

"Since the two of you voted for Dashun, you must be conscientious and serve me, and you can't do it like you did in the Ming Dynasty in the past." Li Zicheng said and looked at Tang Tong with a side face, and his one eye glanced at Tang Tong's face, and Tang Tong was in a cold sweat.

"Yes, Your Majesty." The two bowed at the same time and saluted Li Zicheng.

"Now the two of you are the envoys of Liaodong Jiedu, and the other is the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui has given up Ningyuan City, Shanhaiguan directly faced the Manchu Qing, I often heard that the Manchu Eight Banners are amazingly powerful, I don't know what countermeasures the two have? Li Zicheng asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, although the Eight Banners are strong, we are not given in vain, at the end of last year, General and Lord Chen defeated the Manchu cavalry in Panshan, Your Majesty can rest assured." Don channel. Although he was very frightened of the Eight Banners in his heart, he didn't dare to show it in front of Li Zicheng.

"General Tang's courage is commendable!" Li Zicheng praised casually, and then turned his head to look at Chen Yue, "Chen Yue, what do you say?" ”

"Your Majesty, although rest assured, with the danger of Shanhaiguan, there are 10,000 troops of the ministers and the general army of Tang, which is enough to resist the 100,000 army of the Manchurians. At present, Dashun is attacking Ming, it is the time to fish in the troubled waters of the Tartars, they may not choose to attack Shanhaiguan, but most of them will go south from the side wall of Jizhen as in previous years, and please Your Majesty must be careful. Chen Yue thought about it and said.

"What Chen Qing said is deeply in line with my intentions, although I have not been to Shanhaiguan, I also know its danger, which is why I only sent you to defend with 10,000 troops. If the Manchus chose to storm Shanhaiguan, it would be the best, even if they were defeated, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and then I would personally lead a large army to help and annihilate them under Shanhaiguan.

However, it is estimated that the Manchu Qing will not choose to storm Shanhaiguan, so I will stay in Beijing with the main army, waiting for the Manchu Eight Banners to go south and fight them under the city of Beijing! I am not Chongzhen, and my Dashun army is not a weak Ming army, as long as they dare to come, I will let them have no return! Li Zicheng said sonorously, his voice full of pride.

Chen Yue thought about it carefully, and immediately understood the strategy chosen by Li Zicheng, and couldn't help but secretly admire.