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On the third day after Zheng Sen landed in Jinghai, the troops of the Second Infantry Regiment and the Third Infantry Regiment also arrived in Jinghai, plus the garrison troops that were originally stationed in Jinghai, and now near Jinghai, the Zheng family gathered more than 6,000 infantry, 50 12-pounder guns, and more than 3,000 cavalry for the first time in one place, with a total of more than 10,000 army troops.

With this group of troops, there was also King Fu Zhu Yousong.

When Li Zicheng sent out a message and marched eastward, Zhu Yousong, who was frightened by Li Zicheng, immediately left Huaiqing, followed his friend Zhu Yuanwai all the way to the east, and fled to Huai'an in one go. Even so, Zhu Yousong still felt that it was not safe enough, so he asked Zhu to help, found a boat on the Huai River, and lived on the boat. Because he heard that Li Zicheng did not have a navy, it was safer to live on a boat, and it was easy to escape if something happened. In the process of looking for a ship, through Zhu Yuanwai, he met Zheng Cai, who was in charge of many businesses of the Zheng family. Not long after, news of the fall of Beijing came. Immediately afterwards, the news of Chongzhen's martyrdom also came.

The Son of Heaven was martyred, and the whereabouts of the other princes were unknown, and the country could not be without a king for a day, so Nanjing naturally began to discuss who should be the king. In terms of blood, Emperor Taichang had two sons, the eldest Zhu Youxiao, that is, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, had long since died, he had no son, and the throne passed to his younger brother Zhu Youzhen, that is, Chongzhen. Now Chongzhen's son of heaven has also been martyred, and his sons are missing, some people say they were captured by Li Zicheng, some people say they died in the chaos. In short, now there is no one in the Taichang Emperor's line who can inherit the unification.

According to the law of etiquette, since there is no one in the Taichang Emperor's line who can inherit the unification, then the first heir to the throne should naturally be from the son of the Wanli Emperor and the descendants of the younger brother of the Taichang Emperor. Emperor Taichang had only one younger brother, the old Fu King Zhu Changxun. Now that Lao Fu Wang is gone, he has only one son, and that is Zhu Yousong. So now, Zhu Yousong should theoretically be the highest and most compliant heir to the throne in the entire Ming Empire.

However, because of the conflict between the Donglin Party and the old Fu Wang in the fight for the country's foundation and the attack case, the Fu Wang family is particularly repulsed. Qian Qianyi first proposed that "when this great change occurs, the country depends on the virtuous monarch, and the virtuous should be the first". Then Shi Kefa also scolded King Fu for being "unfilial", and there were "seven cannot stand"! Therefore, it is better to set up the "virtuous" King Lu as the emperor. Although he is more distant from Emperor Chongzhen's blood relationship.

In the original history, Zhu Yousong got the help of Lu Jiude, the eunuch of Nanjing, hooked up with the four towns of Jiangbei, and finally relied on the support of the four towns of Jiangbei to become the emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty. It's just that in this time and space, the situation has changed a lot. First of all, the four towns in Jiangbei in history are now only Gao Jie and Huang Degong, and the other two are gone. Moreover, Gao Jie's defense area is also more northerly than the original historical location, far away in Texas, which is a bit beyond the reach of the whip. Moreover, his station is very close to Beijing, and he himself has an enmity with Li Zicheng. Gao Jie was originally Li Zicheng's general, but he abducted Li Zicheng's wife and gave Li Zicheng a green hat. In the eyes of ordinary people, this hatred of taking a wife is almost second only to the hatred of killing a father. Now that Li Zicheng is so close to Gao Jie, the power in his hands is far inferior to Li Zicheng, and now he is naturally trembling, and he has to open one eye when he sleeps in the middle of the night, for fear that when Li Zicheng will wave his army south, he will come to find him. Naturally, I can't care about anything else. As for Huang Degong, the strength in his hands is also limited, as the so-called lonely palm is difficult to sing, it is naturally impossible to rely on himself to carry his direct subordinate Sima Shiying on his back like the four towns in history, and directly go against the will of the civil officials and directly send Zhu Yousong to the throne. So now, for a while, Zhu Yousong has no way at all.

At this time, that Zhu Yuanwai found Zhu Yousong again and persuaded him to cooperate with Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, to supervise the country as a prince, and to command the Fujian army to counterattack the Beijing division. He told him that it would not be difficult to recover Jingshi, because the city was not a self-sufficient city, and its food and material supplies were almost entirely dependent on Cao Yun. Now there is obviously no luck for Li Zicheng. Therefore, as long as the confrontation drags on for a long time, Li Zicheng, who is short of food, will naturally withdraw from Beijing. When the time comes, you can chase Li Zicheng and be the first to recover the Beijing Division. And once the Jingshi is recovered, with such a great achievement, and then inherit the unification, who else can say anything?

However, as soon as he heard that there was going to be a war, especially a war with Li Chuang, Zhu Yousong was terrified. He told Zhu Yuanwai that he didn't really want to be the son of heaven, as long as he could be a stable prince, he would have nothing else to ask for. This son of heaven, King Lu is willing to be it, so let him be a good one.

In this regard, Zhu Yuanwai naturally had no choice but to shake his head. However, when he said goodbye and left, he still reminded Zhu Yousong that since ancient times, in order to compete for the throne, he has always done everything. As the saying goes, "people do not hurt the tiger, but the tiger harms people's hearts", but their own safety cannot be prevented. The king of persuasion quietly changed to a different boat.

As it turned out, Zhu's worries were not unfounded, and one night a few days later, the boat where King Fu was staying was suddenly attacked by a group of militants. The militants killed all the people on board, set fire to the ship, and burned the ship. This guy frightened Zhu Yousong, although afterwards, Nanjing insisted that the thieves who did this must be the thieves, but Zhu Yousong decided in his heart that these murderers must have been sent by the Donglin Party in the south. Because at the time of the attack, he was in a boat not far away, very close to the scene. And one of his chamberlains also heard that the leader of the thieves who took the lead in killing spoke Nanjing.

This attempted attack made Zhu Yousong feel that it was no longer a question of whether he was willing to be the emperor, but whether he could save his life. Early the next morning after the attack, he personally went out to find Zhu Yuanwai, and then through him, he took the line of the Zheng family. Although according to the Zheng family's plan, it is dangerous to go to the front (in fact, it is to sit in Jinghai), but now, for Zhu Yousong, although the world is big, there is no safe place anymore.

In this way, Zhu Yousong got on the Zheng family's ship, and then followed the Third Infantry Regiment to Jinghai.

Because of seasickness on the road, on the first day after arriving at Jinghai Port, Zhu Yousong recuperated in the mansion where he lived temporarily, and did not see anyone. It was only on the second day that he cheered up and met with Zheng Sen, the son of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, and Zheng Zhihu, the chief soldier of the Dengzhou Water Battalion, and other generals. Reluctantly said a few words to them, encouraging them to fight bravely to kill the enemy and serve Daming or something, and then he showed a weak spirit, indicating that he was unwell and was going to send off guests.

A few people naturally thanked them and took their leave. Out of the door, Zheng Sen said to Zheng Zhihu: "Second uncle, what do you think of this person?" ”

"At first glance, it's not a material that can be an emperor." Zheng Zhihu was also not polite, and directly gave an evaluation of "not looking like a man", "Look at his body, that face, although there is a reason for seasickness, but at first glance, he is a person who has been hollowed out by wine." This kind of person is the most unambitious. And this person is timid, I just glanced at him, he was scared, such a person should be more obedient. ”

"That's what the second uncle said. Originally, I wanted to give him some blessings. Longevity. The anointing, now it seems, is not needed. At least not until he had a son. Zheng Sen also nodded and smiled.

The two were talking, and suddenly saw Guo Huaiyi and Liu De walking over side by side.

"Major general, second general, there is military intelligence." Liu Dedao.

"What's the news?" Zheng Sen asked.

"Jian Yan and Li Zicheng have moved!" Liu De replied briefly.

"Oh? Second uncle, let's go to the war room together! Zheng Sen said immediately.

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Inside the war room in Jinghai, there is a large map. This map was drawn by the staff officers of the Model Army over the years under the cover of the Zheng family's caravan and went around for field investigations. Originally, according to Zheng Sen's original idea, he really wanted to make a set of super-large ones in this war room, including the entire Beijing Division, extending north to Ningyuan and south to Cangzhou. To the east to the sea, to the west to the sand table of the Datong area. However, after the actual implementation, it was found that the workload was too large, and if such a thing was really to be completed in a few years, unless the entire model military school, as well as all the other technical schools of the Zheng family, were all changed to surveying and mapping colleges, and the entire model army was all professionally surveyed and mapped. This is clearly unrealistic. Therefore, these maps are still quite rough nowadays, only the terrain near the official road is relatively accurate, as for the place away from the official road, the terrain is much rougher, many times it is just careless, for example, some villages far away from the official road, their location is not accurate, the actual location may be one or two miles away. However, the height and distance near the official road can be measured with a ruler and a compass. Therefore, although in Zheng Sen's view, this map is not ideal, but in this era, this map is simply priceless.

"Three days ago, according to the agreement with us, Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, asked the Qing army to surrender. The Qing army reacted quickly. According to their agreement with General Wu, they will send 50,000 troops as the backing of the Guanning army to jointly attack Li Zicheng, who is still entrenched in Beijing.

Li Zicheng may have also noticed it, so he preemptively mobilized his army and began to move towards Shanhaiguan. According to Li Zicheng's propaganda, his army numbered 200,000 men, but this was mostly bragging. We believe that Li Zicheng should have tried to force Wu to surrender with the forces in his hands. However, the exact situation has yet to be verified. "A staff officer of a model army is presenting the current situation.

"Arsen, should we send more scouts to reinforce reconnaissance?" Zheng Zhihu asked with a frown.

"Absolutely." Zheng Sen nodded and said, "However, these scouts had better wear Guan Ningjun's clothes. ”