When Gao Yihuan was practicing his internal skills in southern Henan, Li Zicheng's Dashun army was in Shanxi, all the way like a bamboo, sweeping the Ming official army.

Li Zicheng set out in January, and in February, the army had already entered the city of Taiyuan.

In the face of the menacing Shun army, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, Cai Maode, persuaded Zhu of the Jin Dynasty to ask Gui for help, but only got thousands of taels of silver, and the morale of the soldiers was extremely low.

The Ming Dynasty's finances collapsed, the officers and soldiers were generally in arrears, and they could barely maintain themselves in peacetime.

Zhang Xiong, the general in the city, surrendered Kaicheng on the second day after the Shun army arrived in Taiyuan.

Taiyuan is the capital of a province, an important town in the east of the river, it was broken in only two days, the governor Cai Maode committed suicide and martyrdom, Zhu Qiugui of the Jin Dynasty, Zhao Jianji, the political envoy Zhao Jianji, Mao Bingwen of Shouning Dao, Lin Gangzhong of the Grain Dao, and Sun Kangzhou, the prefect of Taiyuan, were killed by Li Zicheng.

The rapid fall of Taiyuan was of great political significance, which made the fighting spirit of the Ming army in Shanxi lose its morale.

At this moment, Li Zicheng and the Dashun Imperial Court have a lifetime of experience in operating in Guanzhong, and they have long thought that they were not the rogues of the year.

Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing clearly knew that they were going to take the Ming Dynasty and win the crown, so every time they attacked a place, they would set up officials and retain soldiers, and they did not commit any offense against the people, but the policy of recovering stolen goods and helping the gentry of the Ming Dynasty was still being implemented.

At present, judging from the composition of the Dashun Imperial Court, there is no shortage of talented people, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance is not stupid, and there are also a large number of demoted officials such as Gu Junen, Song Qijiao, Gong Yan, etc., who give advice to Li Zicheng, and naturally know that there is harm in recovering stolen goods.

Looking at the dynasties in Chinese history, there are almost no dynasties that do not treat the gentry class favorably to win the hearts of the people and stabilize the foundation of the new dynasty.

Li Zicheng was established as the emperor in Xi'an, and he was not entirely a fool, why did he and the Dashun court do such a self-destructive thing? The answer is just two words, "too poor".

This is also a matter of no choice, money and food will not be conjured out of thin air, Li Zicheng's men and horses are millions, they want to eat, and the surrendered Ming army also needs to be appeased with silver money, and if he doesn't take the nobles and gentry of the Ming Dynasty, he can't support Beijing at all.

In order to obtain money and food, Li Zicheng copied the Jin clan and a large number of official gentry, and he remembered Gao Yihuan's reminder, and by the way, he also copied Jiexiu Fan's house.

And this copy, Shunjun was surprised to find that it was amazing, yo, there were still a lot of things, so he simply copied the remaining Shanxi businessmen.

Last year, Abatai withdrew from the gate and returned almost empty-handed, so that there were not enough supplies outside the pass, and many slaves starved to death, even the flag soldiers were not very happy.

At this time, Huang Taiji, who had ruled outside the Guanwai for many years and laid a solid foundation for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, died suddenly at the end of last year.

Within the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after a short but fierce political confrontation, Hauge, who held a good hand, was defeated by Dolgon and the Duoduo brothers, and surrendered the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After the regency of Dorgon and Zilharang, something had to be done to stabilize the Manchu rule and unite the people.

The first thing they had to solve was the problem of eating, so they sent a large amount of treasure to the Jin merchants to buy grain in the customs.

The Fan family is only one of the larger of these Jin merchants. Although it suffered heavy losses because of Gao Yihuan, the other Jin merchants did not. Now it's all cheap, Li Zicheng.

When Li Zicheng learned that he had copied out a large amount of money and grain, he couldn't help but appreciate Gao Yihuan, and personally issued a hand pardon, praising Gao Yihuan, promising to give him an earl after he conquered Beijing.

After obtaining a large amount of money, Li Zicheng's predicament was easily solved.

For the vast majority of people, it is not difficult to choose whether to eat Lao Zhu's family or Lao Li's family.

Li Zicheng rested in Taiyuan for eight days, and gave silver rewards to those who came to take refuge to appease the surrendered officers and soldiers.

For a while, a picture appeared in Shanxi, where the garrisons everywhere were clearly marked with prices, and the money would be reduced.

The land of the Three Jin Dynasty changed color, and it was not until the end of February that Li Zicheng's army entered Ningwu Pass, only to be met with desperate resistance from Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of Shanxi.

Zhou Yuji, like Hu Dawei, was the last fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, and he had been on the campaign for decades and experienced countless bloody battles.

For more than 270 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been a number of loyal ministers.

Even if the dynasty has been turbulent for 17 years, loyal people have been almost consumed, but there are always fish that slip through the net.

Zhou Yuji, resisted the Qing Dynasty, suppressed the thieves, just last year when Abatai withdrew from the Guanwai, Zhou Yuji also took the initiative to attack, intercepting and killing more than 100 Tartar soldiers, and was a general who rarely dared to attack the Qing army in the Ming army.

Li Zicheng's army entered the city of Ningwuguan, the terrain in front of the official was narrow, the troops could not be used, it was difficult to attack, and the Shun army encountered the first hard battle after entering the Jin Dynasty.

At this time, the momentum of the Dashun army was already in full swing, and a Zhou Yuji, how could he stop Li Zicheng.

At the beginning of March, the Ningwu Pass was broken, Zhou Yuji was killed in battle, and after Li Zicheng slaughtered Ningwu, he went north to Datong to join Li Guo.

Although Li Zicheng did not listen to Li Yan's advice, when he set out on the expedition, he still intended to strengthen the northern route and chose to march along the south of the Great Wall, with the purpose of taking over the defense of the Great Wall.

Datong was an important town on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, and Jiang Xiang still held tens of thousands of defenders, but he did not resist at all in the face of the menacing Shun army.

After getting Li Zicheng's promise, Jiang Xiang decisively chose to defect to the rising Dashun Dynasty, continued to enjoy the glory and wealth, and abandoned the decadent Ming Dynasty without hesitation.

Jiang Xiang's surrender led to the surrender of Tang Tong, who was stationed at Juyong Pass, and Juyong Pass fell into the hands of the Shun army, and Li Zicheng's road to Beijing was already a smooth road!

When Li Zicheng was breaking all the way, Li Jiantai, a scholar, supervised an army of 20,000 and marched west to Shanxi, preparing to break the family and serve the country, and use his family wealth to reward the army and resist the thieves.

But who knows, when the army is still on the road, there has been news that Shanxi has been lost and Li Jiantai's hometown Quwo has been occupied by the intruding army.

The men and horses who came out of Beijing originally expected to get money and grain from Shanxi, but when they learned that there was no money to take, most of them immediately fled.

Since Shanxi has been lost, there is no point in Li Jiantai going again, and at this time, Liu Fangliang on the South Road has already hit Wei Hui and the Daimyo, so he led the army to the south and went to Baoding, preparing to resist the Shun army on the South Road.

The army commanded by Li Jiantai was originally a patchwork army, and its combat strength was low, and when it reached Baoding, only half of the 20,000 men and horses were left.

At this time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Ming Dynasty was about to end, and Li Jiantai saw that the situation had taken a turn for the worse, so he hurriedly sent someone to play and said: "The thief is powerful and invincible." The minister is willing to go south with the crown prince. “

The news of the north and south of the Shun army and the pressure on Beijing reached the Beijing division, and the Ming court was in a state of panic.

Chongzhen wanted to give up Beijing and move the capital to Nanjing, which is why he did not agree and sent the prince away.

Because the prince went to Nanjing, then he couldn't go at all.

It's just that the matter of moving the capital has never been proposed by the minister, Chongzhen has a good face, and he refuses to make his own decision, plus there are Guang Shiheng and other mouth officials who interfere with the situation, and the matter of moving the capital is delayed, and as a result, Chongzhen did not succeed, and the prince did not succeed.

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