"Taishi, this is the coffin of the emperor and the queen."

In the evening, in Beijing City, an old man led Li Hongyu into a land temple, pointed to the two coffins in the land temple and sighed to Li Hongyu.

Li Hongyu asked people to open the coffin, and suddenly a corpse smell came to the nostrils, if it wasn't for Li Zicheng to make people embalmed, I am afraid that the corpse would have been serious in this weather.

"The emperor, the queen, the ministers are late." Although the faces of Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou were swollen and deformed, Li Hongyu still recognized them at a glance, and knelt on the ground with weak knees, tears pouring out of his eyes.

After all, Li Hongyu had a relationship with Emperor Chongzhen, and he was Emperor Chongzhen's teacher, and now he felt really uncomfortable when he saw Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou.

With Li Hongyu's action, the sailor generals who followed behind and the civil and military magnates in the capital also knelt down one after another, and the crying shook the sky for a while, and there were only 30 officials who cried outside the Donghua Gate not long ago, which is really a huge irony.

The soldiers of the water division entered the city after the Dashun army withdrew from the capital, and the people in the city were relieved to learn that Li Hongyu led the army to fight back, from the princes and nobles, to the peddlers and pawns, knowing that they were completely safe now.

Those surviving civil and military officials came to see Li Hongyu one after another, crying about the brutality of the Dashun army, showing deep hatred for the Dashun army, and eager to peel Li Zicheng's skin, smoke Li Zicheng's tendons, and drink Li Zicheng's blood.

To tell the truth, Li Hongyu didn't want to see these officials who had taken refuge in Dashun, the officials who were really loyal to Dashun had been martyred after the Dashun army invaded the capital, and the rest were just a group of ugly people who jumped off the beam.

But there is a good saying that the law does not blame the public, and now the situation in the capital has become a mess, and there are many civil and military officials killed and injured, Li Hongyu is really not in the mood to worry about those officials.

"Old man, have you heard the whereabouts of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and King Ding and King Yong?" After crying for a while, Li Hongyu wiped his tears and stood up, and asked the old man who led him in a deep voice.

"I don't know about this, I took His Royal Highness the Crown Prince away when I went to Shanhaiguan, and no one has seen the three Highnesses since." The old man shook his head when he heard this, and even the news in the capital has become chaotic these days.

"Send an order, post a notice, and tomorrow the whole city will look for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the two princes."

Li Hongyu's face showed a look of disappointment, and he said to the guards standing on the side in a deep voice, "If there is anyone who provides effective clues for the purpose of saving the driver, this Taifu will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and there will be another heavy reward after the emperor ascends the throne!" ”

Now that Emperor Chongzhen is dead, then the prince and King Yong, King Ding became, if the prince escaped, it was naturally the prince who ascended the throne, if the prince was unfortunately killed, then the throne would be the turn of King Yong and King Ding, which represented the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty.

If the crown prince and King Yong and King Ding have been killed, then who will ascend the throne to inherit the throne has become a difficult problem for the Ming Dynasty.

Normally, in this situation, the queen mother needs to call the shots, summon important ministers of the court to discuss, and select an heir from the local royal family.

Just after the Dashun army attacked the inner city, Empress Zhou, Empress Zhang, Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Zheng of the Inner Palace all committed suicide and martyrdom in the name of the mother of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, after the city of Beijing was broken, the important ministers of the Ming court were either martyred or surrendered to the Dashun army, and those living ministers naturally lost the right to decide the son of the emperor.

In this way, the situation becomes very complicated, and it is no longer possible to determine the orthodox heir of the Ming Dynasty, and how can the righteousness of the name of orthodoxy command the world?

With the destruction of Beijing, not only Emperor Chongzhen was martyred, but also those high-ranking civil and military officials in the center of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out and lost their former reputation and majesty.

If you can't find the crown prince and King Ding, King Yong, then the Ming Dynasty will encounter more serious trouble next, who will succeed the throne will definitely quarrel, so that the Ming army everywhere is gone, a plate of scattered sand, how can you defeat the Qing army that is raging south?

Early the next morning, the sailors and soldiers banged the gong in the streets and alleys of Beijing to find the whereabouts of the crown prince, King Ding, and King Yong, but unfortunately no one knew the whereabouts of the three.

At the same time, Li Hongyu was preparing for the evacuation of Beijing City, and this time he only brought 20,000 sailors, and only 15,000 were able to fight on the 6th.

According to the information he obtained, the Qing army could be said to have poured out of the nest this time, gathering more than 100,000 troops, so the capital would definitely not be able to hold it.

After experiencing the catastrophe of the Dashun army, where did the surviving people in the capital dare to stay in the capital, and they didn't know what terrible things would happen when Jiannu came over, so people decided to move south.

Li Hongyu believed that Dolgon would not be stupid enough to send troops to pursue and take down the people who had been escorted south by the sailors, and that Dolgon's top priority was to pursue the fleeing Dashun army and occupy the territory north of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army in the south is still strong, and before the situation in the north is stabilized, Dolgon will definitely avoid a situation of fighting on two fronts, once he sends troops to pursue those people who move south, then Li Hongyu will definitely mobilize troops to counterattack, and then the Qing army will have to fight the Ming army and the Dashun army at the same time.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng obviously hated the Manchus more, if it wasn't for the sudden entry of the Manchu Qing into the war, how could he have been defeated at Shanhaiguan, and then fled the capital in embarrassment?

Moreover, Li Hongyu's reputation also played a deterrent role, Dolgon would not take the initiative to provoke Li Hongyu, but just some people, as long as there were as many people as there were after seizing the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

For a time, there was a huge migration army in the Gyeonggi area, and many people dragged their children and daughters to leave their hometowns, and went south to take refuge under the escort of sailors and soldiers to escape the slaughter of the war.

Shanhaiguan.

"What are you, Li Hongyu personally led the sailor to Beijing City?"

When Dolgon was convening the Manchu generals to discuss the matter, a guard hurried in and reported in silence that Li Hongyu had led his army into the city of Beijing, which surprised Dolgon.

The Manchu generals present looked at each other even more, no one thought that Li Hongyu would venture to come to Beijing, didn't he know that Emperor Chongzhen was dead?

"How many soldiers and horses did he bring with him?"

Then Dorgon came back to his senses and asked in a deep voice as he stared at the guard, looking nervous.

Among all the armies of the Ming Dynasty, what he feared the most was the army in the new army system created by Li Hongyu, namely the Naval Division, the Western Expeditionary Army and the Forbidden Army.

Among them, the sailors are personally controlled by Li Hongyu, not only well-trained and well-equipped, the most powerful in combat, once Li Hongyu brings tens of thousands of sailors to the capital, then the Qing army's southward road will be completely blocked.

"Back to the regent, it's not clear how many people there are due to the rush of time." The guard shook his head, much to Dorgon's disappointment.

"Send the order down to find out the strength and intentions of the Ming army's naval division." Dolgon's brows furrowed, and then he said in a deep voice, the sudden appearance of Li Hongyu and the Ming Army's sailors disrupted his previous southward deployment.

"This matter must not be known to Wu Sangui and the others, tell Wu Sangui and let them go back to Ningyuan City to rest!" After the guard hurried down to deliver the order, Dorgon remembered something and commanded with a blank face.

Although Wu Sangui led the Guan Liao army to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui was under the banner of destroying Li Zicheng's Dashun army to avenge Emperor Chongzhen.

"Regent, what are we going to do next?" Everyone present naturally knew that the situation was serious, and after looking at each other a few times, a Qing army general asked with a serious expression.

"Wait and see!" Dolgon's brows furrowed, and four words slowly spit out from his mouth, anyway, the Manchu Qing had already taken the initiative after owning Shanhaiguan, and the number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty was the Dashun army that killed Emperor Chongzhen.

Therefore, Dolgon was not worried that Li Hongyu would attack Shanhaiguan, which was exactly what he hoped for, and he could kill and injure a large number of Ming soldiers by virtue of the steepness of Shanhaiguan.

"Taishi, we surrounded the bandit army behind the palace in the county seat of Yongxing County, and the leading female bandit asked to see you, you can surrender, and tell you the whereabouts of the crown prince, King Ding, and King Yong."

In the evening, Li Hongyu was summoning the generals of the sailor division to be busy arranging the matter of escorting the people to the south, when a dusty military attache entered the door and reported loudly.

"Bandit!" Li Hongyu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and then looked at the military attache and asked in a deep voice, "Does she know the whereabouts of the crown prince and the two princes?" ”

"Back to the Taishi, when the female bandit saw the Taishi, she naturally told her what she knew." The military attache was also unsure, and bowed back when he heard this.

Originally, this kind of thing of forcing the enemy army to surrender could not alarm Li Hongyu, but because it involved the crown prince and King Yong and King Ding, it was different, and it was necessary for Li Hongyu to decide personally.

Li Hongyu's brows furrowed, and he secretly made a decision in his heart, it seems that he is going to go to the county seat of Yongxing County and meet the female bandit.

If Li Hongyu didn't guess wrong, the female bandit must be a famous red lady in the Dashun army, according to a strange woman with excellent talents, he had heard of this name in later generations, so he was looking forward to this meeting.

At the same time, Li Hongyu also wanted to know the whereabouts of the crown prince and King Yong and King Ding, if they were captured by Li Zicheng, then the Dashun army would definitely be attacked by the Ming army with all their strength to rescue the three orthodox heirs to the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

There is no doubt that the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely take the opportunity to flank the Dashun army in order to seize the land in the north, and Li Zicheng will not be able to escape the catastrophe with three heads and six arms, and the Dashun army, which was originally composed of ordinary people, will definitely collapse in the face of the combined attack of the Ming army and the Qing army.

In fact, even if the Ming army did not attack the Dashun army, then the Dashun army would not be able to defeat the menacing Qing army, and sooner or later it would inevitably be defeated.

(End of chapter)

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