Since Shi Lang reconnoitred in the north and then gave a more accurate information, the entire Hongmen Liaodong Theater has become busy.

In addition to the fact that the soldiers on the front line of Liaoyang and Benxi have fewer movements, the movements of several other divisions in Liaodong are becoming more and more frequent, but without exception, the vast majority of troops are converging towards Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan and other southwestern castle strongholds.

In Shanhaiguan, only a few hundred miles to the west, it is where the heart of the Ming Dynasty was located, but now it is only the camp of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, nominally, Jingshi is still the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but since Emperor Chongzhen led the six ministers to accompany the capital of Nanjing, he has never thought of returning to this royal capital that has been poisoned by the Qing people for more than half a year.

Chongzhen's excuse is very loud: the government in the country is difficult, and the Jingshi is seriously poisoned by the Jurchen barbarians, and if he returns to the Jingshi, he will need to spend money to repair the land of the Jingshi, and at the same time, it will also disturb the people.

But in the final analysis, it was Emperor Chongzhen who was unwilling to risk his life and lose people again after losing face once and violating the legal system of his ancestors.

It's not impossible, don't look at the Ming Dynasty and Hongmen now, Chongzhen appeased Li Tianyang with a king of the South Sea, but Hongmen occupies an important entrance and exit of Shanhaiguan, and Liaodong has hoarded a large number of soldiers and horses, and can go south at any time.

The Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry, which was able to defeat the Ming Dynasty's henchmen, fled north to Siberia, and the strength of the army displayed by Hongmen has become the real opponent of the Ming Dynasty.

But now that the Ming Dynasty is facing internal and external troubles, it is easy not to provoke Hongmen, and maintaining this strange situation is what they are most willing to see.

At the same time, what the Ming Dynasty could do was to take advantage of the remaining strength to quickly wipe out the two major peasant rebel forces of Daxi and Dashun, revive their Daming mountains and rivers, and then use the strength of the whole country to deal with their biggest enemy.

Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, as the most powerful military and political force in the Ming Dynasty, made outstanding achievements in the past few years when he cleared up Li Zicheng and a group of peasant rebels in the Dashun Dynasty, and successively recovered the entire territory of Henan and most of Shanxi, and compressed Li Zicheng's forces in Shaanxi and Gansu, and his strength was reduced a lot.

As for Zhang Xianzhong, who is located in the Chengdu Plain and the country of abundance, under the siege of the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't even get out of the Chengdu Plain, which made the Ming Dynasty have a lot less scruples and worries.

After two or three years of lying on the salary, the Ming Dynasty has gotten rid of the predicament of the year, although it has not yet reached the peak of the scene, but in terms of today's strength, it is much better than after the Jurchens broke through the Shanhai Pass.

The relocation of the Ming Dynasty to Nanjing not only did not greatly reduce the strength of the Ming Dynasty, but because of the reduction of the burden of the north, the recovery of power in the south, and the dividends of catching up with the period of exploration, which was enough for the Ming Dynasty to regain its strength and rise again.

Recovering the lost land in Shanxi was the first step, and at the beginning of the spring of the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen summoned again and began another expedition against the Dashun Dynasty.

has been on the throne for twenty-four years, and Emperor Chongzhen has changed from a young and high-spirited young man to a middle-aged uncle with stubble and wrinkles.

Although he has not experienced the hardships of the people, the trivial things of a dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters still broke Emperor Chongzhen's heart, and he couldn't sleep well all night.

And in his heart, there is still a luxury, that is, before he returns to the west, he can finally recover the land lost from his hands, so that he can go to see the ancestors of the Zhu Dynasty!

However, his body, as he grows older, is not day by day, and now he will appear fainting, weakness and other phenomena from time to time, so that he knows that his time is probably running out.

Zhu Cihong, who was born in the second year of Chongzhen, has not wavered since he was made the crown prince when he was one year old, which has certainly made the battle for imperial power of the dynasty smooth, but he has been cultivated as an heir since he was a child, although he is upright and peaceful in character, but he is only a master of success, not an enterprising king.

For the sake of the future generations of the Zhu Dynasty, Chongzhen needs to at least exterminate the two major peasant thieves of Dashun and Daxi in the years when he is still alive, so as to deter Li Tian, the king of Hongnanhai, from raising this fang.

Conquest and suppression of the king of the South China Sea, at least in Chongzhen's own opinion, he can't see hope, the foundation of Hongmen is far above the South Seas, the Ming Dynasty has been worried about internal troubles over the years, and the last sailors in the court have been handed over to Hongmen, and if you want to start over, it will take time.

And Chongzhen himself is the person who has the most no time, and even now he has asked the Internal Affairs Office to prepare the imperial doctor at any time, for fear that after a mistake, he will not wake up for a long time.

Most of the army of the Ming Dynasty was in the hands of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, and after receiving the decree of the cabinet of the court, Sun Chuanting did his best to raise an army, a total of 300,000 people, from Linfen, Shanxi and Luoyang, Henan, to the territory of the Dashun Dynasty in Chang'an, Shaanxi Province in the west.

The days of the Dashun Dynasty have been very difficult in the past few years, and the generals Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu were defeated by Fu successively, and then they were directly beheaded by the Ming Dynasty official mansion who hated them, which shocked people's hearts.

The loss of territory in Shanxi and Henan, coupled with the defects of the peasant military regime's poor management, caused the land under the control of Li Zicheng of Dashun to be ruined, and the land was barren for a long time.

From the beginning, the people supported the Dashun Dynasty, took the initiative to revolt and joined the Dashun, and later began to resist and resent, and now they can resist the invasion of the Ming Dynasty with the livelihood of the people.

In fact, even if there was no Ming Dynasty's spring expedition, the Dashun Dynasty would surely perish by itself by the time of the autumn harvest, because there were not many cultivators in its court.

Attacking the city and plundering the land all the way, the prudence was far smoother than Sun Chuanting's plan, and the two armies surrounded Li Zicheng and his group of people in the Dashun Dynasty under the city of Chang'an.

After a month of siege, the entire Chang'an City was attacked by 300,000 Ming troops, and until the city fell, there was hardly much to live.

Since then, none of the 377 important vassals of Dashun Li Zicheng, who has been ravaging the Ming Dynasty for decades, have escaped from Chang'an City and become prisoners at the hands of Sun Chuanting of the Ming Dynasty and escorted to Nanjing to await trial.

On March 15, the 24th year of Chongzhen, the city of Dashun Dynasty fell, and Emperor Li Zicheng offered the emperor's jade seal and received Fu.

(End of chapter)