Seeing off Zheng Sen, Zhu Yousong turned around and returned to the inner courtyard. A eunuch came up and helped Zhu Yousong across the threshold of the inner courtyard.

"Chitose Lord, those thieves who surrendered to Li Chuang are also the murderers who killed the first emperor. Zheng Zongbing is young, and now when he is a military attaché, when he thinks about things, he often only thinks about how to fight. How can the prince blindly listen to such a thing? In the future, people will say that His Royal Highness's order to let go of the murderer who killed the first emperor is not good for His Highness's reputation. ”

Zhu Yousong turned his face slowly and said to the eunuch: "Lu Jiude, you are a eunuch, what nonsense!" Now, the most important thing is to recover the Beijing Division as soon as possible, and it is worthy of the first emperor. Compared with the recovery of the Jingshi, reputation is nothing! ”

"Your Highness......" Lu Jiude seemed to want to say something.

"Say no more. Grandpa Lu, go and see, is the bird's nest stewed? When the stew was done, let them serve it to Gu. Lone is busy with big things now, and he needs to make up for himself. ”

Lu Jiude sighed and retreated.

After a while, Lu Jiude walked up with a little eunuch and a small bowl. At this time, Zhu Yousong was already sitting in his chair and began to do big things. And his so-called big thing is watching singing and dancing.

"Etiquette is the world's first-class event, when Emperor Shun did a dry dance, and the four Yi guests. It can be seen that this song and dance is also a ritual music, and it is also a first-class event in the world. When the world is in danger, how dare you not be dedicated to this? This is Zhu Yousong's explanation for his daily intoxication in watching singing and dancing. As for Emperor Shun's dance, it is a dry dance, but the dance that Zhu Yousong watched is a beautiful dance. Zhu Yousong will naturally use "the joy of the present is still the joy of the past" to prevaricate.

Lu Jiude handed the bird's nest to Zhu Yousong and said, "Lord Wang, the bird's nest is here." Zhu Yousong didn't look at him either, just stared at the dancing girls with straight eyes, and just stretched out a hand. Lu Jiude put the small bowl into Zhu Yousong's hand, Zhu Yousong took it, drank it dry, and handed the bowl over without looking back. Lu Jiude took the bowl and retreated.

Just when Zhu Yousong, the future son of the Ming Dynasty, was busy with the world's first-class major event of "Lile", Li Zicheng, the son of Dashun, was also nervously preparing for the withdrawal of the army. The defeat a while ago made him very nervous, and he was even ready to run away with the core team and money regardless of it. However, only two days after this defeat, a messenger claiming to be a messenger under the command of "King Jianguo Fu" came to Beijing and proposed such a quid pro quo to Li Zicheng: return the crown prince and the kings, as well as the army of the hundred civil and military officials and the king of Jianguo Fu, suspend the attack on Li Zicheng, allow him to withdraw from Beijing safely with his own soldiers, and ensure that he will not pursue them during their retreat.

This condition is too strange in Li Zicheng's opinion. First of all, Li Zicheng does not have the crown prince and the kings in his hands, and secondly, if the prince and the kings are dead at this time, who is most beneficial in this world, it is obviously the blessed king who is now in charge of the country. And the so-called guarantee not to pursue them is a joke at all, when the time comes, they will pursue them in bad faith, where else can Li Zicheng find to sue them?

And in the conversation with the other party's messenger, Li Zicheng found more strange things, that is, the other party was actually very clear about his situation, the other party knew that he lacked food, even if the Jingshi grabbed some, it was not enough to support it for a long time, and he would definitely have to retreat in the end.

Since the other party knew that he was definitely going to retreat, and the other party's army was still so combative, Li Zicheng couldn't understand what the other party was sending such a messenger for. However, Li Zicheng didn't say anything about the messenger, but just told him that he still had to consider these things he said. And he sent the messenger back.

After sending away the messenger from King Fu's side, Li Zicheng immediately sent someone to find out what was going on, and then he got the news that Jianxin had entered the Kou again and was besieging Shanhaiguan.

Li Zicheng didn't believe it at first, but the news was quickly confirmed repeatedly. This news made Li Zicheng breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, it also made the actions of King Fu's messenger understandable. Obviously, the Ming army itself has encountered problems, and for the time being, it is actually unable to attack itself at all. At this time, the condition proposed by the messenger was naturally the means of the empty glove white wolf.

Li Zicheng knew that because of the torture, he had now torn his face with the entire gentry class of the Ming Dynasty. As the saying goes, if you don't do it, you don't stop doing it. Now that you have torn your face, of course you have to do it to the end. Li Zicheng estimated that the gentry in Beijing should still have a lot of wealth in their hands, and they did not get rid of it. Leaving Beijing before they are squeezed dry is obviously not the best option. Anyway, the Ming army couldn't kill it in a short time, so Li Zicheng decided to postpone his withdrawal from Beijing and seize the time to loot.

Of course, the retreat still needs to be prepared, but it can be more prepared and more relaxed. While Li Zicheng used some of the money he grabbed to appease the new annexed troops, he began to arrange his descendants one after another to control the key points on the retreat road. While stepping up the time to torture the officials of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that Li Zicheng reused some of the former Dongchang feudal clans, and used all kinds of interrogation techniques accumulated in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, making those officials miserable one by one. And Li Zicheng relied on this hand, and it is said that the amount of silver obtained is as high as tens of thousands of taels (this is of course the result of exaggerated rumors). However, Li Zicheng has made a lot of money in Beijing, which is definitely not a rumor. And the money is constantly increasing.

Li Zicheng knew that if he could smoothly withdraw the money and his descendants to the territory from Xiangyang to Shaanxi, then his series of adventures would really be considered a success. Along the way, he trained the team, expanded his strength, and brought back a lot of money. Although in the process, he offended a large number of gentry. However, as long as he has money in his hand, judging from the discipline of most of the so-called gentry he has seen, he is not worried about not being able to buy supplies, but as long as he has enough materials, he can consolidate the place and turn Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi into a solid foundation for him Li Zicheng, just like the Guanzhong of Han Gaozu, Hebei of Guangwu, and Jianghuai of Ming Taizu, on this basis, he can train more and more effective armies. Maybe next time, when he takes 500,000 troops down the river to the east, maybe the real number of troops can be 200,000. At that time, it will be the time to truly calm the world.

Therefore, although Li Zicheng knew that he would definitely retreat from Beijing, he still hoped to retreat one day later as long as possible. Because every night you retire one day, you can have more income.

But Li Zicheng also knew that because he had deployed more reliable troops to those places in order to ensure the safety of the retreat, so now the number of truly reliable and capable troops around him has been further reduced, so in fact, he has been further weakened militarily. If he were attacked at this time, it would be even more impossible for him to hold Beijing.

"As soon as the main force of the enemy forces approaches Beijing, immediately abandon Beijing and retreat." Li Zicheng had already made up his mind, and informed his most trusted generals of this determination.

Li Zicheng discussed it with Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and others. They all felt that the army under King Fu was very capable of fighting, and Jian Xuan was not easy to mess with. So they estimate that it will take some time for the two sides to decide the winner. Previously, encouraged by Zheng Sen's victory over Li Zicheng, some Ming troops in the south, especially Gao Jie, who had a hatred for Li Zicheng's wife, seemed to be a little ready to move.

Therefore, Li Zicheng also shifted the center of gravity of defense to the south, and he asked Liu Zongmin to station Daxing in the south with 50,000 troops (of which about six or seven thousand were real descendants) to deter Gao Jie's subordinates. Speaking of which, Gao Jie eloped with Li Zicheng's wife and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the officials of the Ming Dynasty felt that Gao Jie had no possibility of surrendering again. Unexpectedly, although Gao Jie would not collude with Li Zicheng, let alone surrender to Li Zicheng, Gao Jie was particularly afraid of Li Zicheng. In his opinion, if Li Zicheng had the same chance to eliminate him or others, then Li Zicheng would definitely give priority to eliminating him; And if others surrender, most of them can save their lives, but if he surrenders, it is a dead end. Therefore, every time he plays against Li Zicheng, as long as there is a little bit of turmoil, Gao Jie's first reaction is to run away quickly. As a result, the Ming army fought against Li Zicheng all times, and Gao Jie took the lead in running away, playing "Dead Friends Don't Die Poor Dao", and became a veritable pig teammate of all the officers and soldiers of our Ming Dynasty.

Although Gao Jie was a little encouraged by Zheng Sen's victory, after Liu Zongmin came over with an army of 50,000, Gao Jie's phobia of Li Zicheng immediately flared up again, and he hurriedly retreated with the army.

Gao Jie retracted, Shanhaiguan was still fighting (Jian Yan didn't say that he could retreat immediately), Li Zicheng felt that he was at least very safe for the time being, and he could make money wholeheartedly. However, he did not expect that Zheng Sen's army was far beyond his imagination in terms of mobility.

After capturing Jinzhou, Zheng Sen quickly loaded the army and transported it back to Tianjin, such a maneuver, if it was replaced by any other army at that time, it would take at least a month or more, but in Zheng Sen's case, relying on the strong sea power, the model army only took six days to complete such an operation. This speed is even a little faster than the speed of the Eighth Banner Army, which is also one of the most capable armies in the Far East in this era, to figure out the situation, make decisions, and deliver news. At least now, the messenger sent back by Ao Bai to report the news has not yet had time to see Huang Taiji.