Li Zicheng looked at Li Guo's tentative actions from afar, and when he saw the Ming army firing artillery, Li Zicheng pointed at the Beijing city wall with a horsewhip, and turned his head to Liu Zongmin and said: "Old Liu, you see that these Ming troops are really getting worse and worse, what can you hit if you fire artillery so far away?" Isn't this just a cannon battle? ”

"Your Majesty, they're just emboldening themselves. It's the same thing as walking at night and whistling. Liu Zongmin said with a smile, "If you want to do this, Beijing is really not difficult to fight." ”

At this time, a cannon at the head of the city exploded. Li Zicheng couldn't help laughing. Liu Zongmin scolded: "Holy shit, the cannon barrel is stuffed with gunpowder and can explode, I stuffed so much gunpowder on the Kaifeng city wall, it can't be blown up by the fuck, this is completely unreasonable!" ”

However, the unreasonable thing is still to come, although after seeing the indiscriminate firing of cannons on the city wall, Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin have already been able to foresee that the soldiers of the Beijing camp will definitely shoot indiscriminately before Li Guo and them enter the firing range, but after Li Guo and them rush slightly, the entire military camp with tens of thousands of people will be in chaos, which is completely beyond Li Zicheng's expectations.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, they have gone in! It's in! The emperor is quick, quickly order an attack, as long as one or two thousand more cavalry rushes over, these Ming troops will be all finished! Liu Zongmin's eyes widened and he gasped.

"Lao Liu, you take the cavalry, rush up, and defeat this group of pigs!" Lee became a self-enlightened man.

"The last will be ordered!" Liu Zongmin shouted and rushed out.

"Gao Yigong, you will immediately bring 5,000 people to follow Lao Liu ......" Behind Liu Zongmin, Li Zicheng's shout came.

On the other side of the battlefield, tens of thousands of Ming troops had fallen into complete chaos, and some officers tried hard to reorganize the army, but with little success. This is actually normal, because these so-called "officers" in Beijing have not actually undergone much military training themselves, and their subordinates are all such a rabble, where can they be reorganized in a moment? But fortunately, Li Guo and them are only about a hundred people, although they are trying to create chaos as much as possible, but compared to the number of Ming troops, the chaos and death they can cause are limited after all. If those Ming troops could have enough time, they could still regroup their ranks, and rely on the large number of people, after Li Guo and the others and their war horses were exhausted, they launched a counterattack and expelled them from the camp. However, the enemy generals they faced, whether it was Li Zicheng or Liu Zongmin, were all veterans of a hundred battles, and they may not have much so-called "talent for famous generals", but they would never let go of such an opportunity in vain. Soon thousands of cavalry led by Liu Zongmin personally killed them, and then more infantry of the Shun army, so the rout became completely out of control, and the officers no longer tried to collect the soldiers, but took the lead in fleeing towards the city gate, they fled to the moat, and while desperately squeezing on the bridge leading to the city gate, they shouted loudly to the city, asking the people in the city to open the city gate and let them in.

"You can't open the city, you can't open the city!" Li Guozhen shouted, "Otherwise, the thieves will also take advantage of the situation to kill in!" "Actually, without Li Guozhen's order, the panicked Ming army in the city will definitely not open the city gate.

The soldiers who had fled to the moat crowded the river, looking up at the city with their heads raised and their eyes open, hoping that the gates would be opened with mercy from above. However, the city gate was never opened, and even, not only did the city gate not open, but Li Guozhen also asked people to put down the jack gate. And the Shun army in the back is getting closer and closer, and there are more and more routs squeezing over, and the people behind are squeezing forward, and the people in front can't stand on their feet, and they are squeezed into the moat one after another.

"Early fall, early drop!" There was a neat shout from behind, and the routs became more and more chaotic, some people realized that the city gate would not be opened, and desperately wanted to run in other directions, some people jumped into the river and wanted to swim across the moat, and the bridge leading to the city gate was even more crowded with people.

The Shun army got closer, and some of the Ming troops, who were too late and had nowhere to run, threw their weapons aside and fell to their knees. The Shun army drove them to one place like a sheep, and then escorted them away one by one under the noses of the Ming troops in the city. These captured Ming soldiers did not dare to resist at all, but wept loudly there, and the crying rang out. The Ming army in the city was also depressed, and even many people cried loudly with the people below.

All this was completely beyond Li Guozhen's expectations. Li Guozhen had never fought a war, and the war was not at all like this in his imagination. Is it true that the battle should be the commander beating the drum to boost morale, and the soldiers want to say the great trust of the saints, thinking that although the Ming Dynasty is big, we have no way out, and the emperor is behind them, so they will fight to the death? How could it be like this?

At this time, the Shun army had already taken away all the prisoners of the Ming army under the city, and some Shun soldiers with loud voices were still loudly persuading the city to surrender outside the range of muskets, and the soldiers in the city were in chaos.

"My lord, my lord, the soldiers are crying, many people are running home while others are not paying attention, and the overseers have run a lot! My lord, my lord, how is it now! An officer ran into the tower, knelt down and shouted to Li Guozhen.

"I don't know, don't ask me...... I'm going to face the saint, I'm going to face the saint! Li Guozhen suddenly stood up, shouted loudly, and then ignored the reactions of others, and ran down from the city tower at a trot.

……

"50,000 people, 50,000 horses, all of them were caught by us in one morning." Although he easily won a big victory, although he played a key role in this big victory, Li Guo still felt that this thing was very unreal, "50,000 people, that is, 50,000 pigs, where to put it for us to catch, it is not a morning to catch it, I dare to say, three days can't be caught!" Laiheng, don't you say? ”

"Daddy, you're saying that I still feel like I'm in a dream." Li Laiheng also said, "Daddy, look." He rolled up his sleeve and stretched out his arm to show Li Guo.

"What are you doing?" Li Guo asked inexplicably.

"See that green place?" Li Laiheng said, "The more I thought about it just now, the more I felt that I was dreaming, so I twisted my arm fiercely, you see, it was all twisted and bruised, and he hadn't woken up yet, this was definitely not a dream." Why can't they fight like that, you say? The child thinks that I can capture a hundred such Ming soldiers with a soup spoon alone. ”

"It's beautiful. Such a Ming army, the whole world is probably only on the side of the Jingshi. Li said, "Although it shows that the army is becoming more and more unable to fight, it is not all like this." Zuo Liangyu is stronger than them, and then, Guan Ningjun should be stronger than Zuo Liangyu, and then Jianyu should be stronger than Guan Ningjun, how can there be so many good things. It's a good thing to take a spoon and capture a hundred, probably just this once. ”

……

At this time, Li Guozhen rode a horse, sweating profusely and rushed to the Chengtian Gate, he jumped off the horse and rushed directly to the palace. A eunuch grabbed him and said, "Uncle Xiangcheng, what are you going to do?" ”

Li Guozhen hurriedly said: "I want to face the saint, I want to face the saint!" ”

"Uncle Xiangcheng, this is not the time to face the saint." The eunuch said.

"Oh, what time is it now, and when is it not?" Li Guozhen said urgently.

"Uncle Xiangcheng, when do you have to talk about the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, right?" The eunuch said.

"Oh, Husband Du, when is it! Monarchs and ministers, a moment earlier, a moment more monarchs! If it's late, what kind of monarch and minister will be over! Li Guozhen said without choosing words.

"Uncle Xiangcheng, what's wrong?" Another voice asked.

Li Guozhen turned his head to look, but it was Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War. Now that the capital is under martial law, Zhang Jinyan is in charge of the defense of the inner city Zhengyangmen, which is now familiar with the front gate of Beijing.

"What else could be done?" Li Guozhen cried, "Defeated, defeated!" The whole army outside the city was wiped out, and most of the people in the city ran away! This city can't be defended, can't be defended! …… I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor! ”

Zhang Jinyan frowned and said, "Uncle Xiangcheng, be quiet!" He looked around and said to the eunuch, "Husband Du, the situation is critical now, don't worry about time or other small things." ”

"That's good!" Eunuch Du said, "Then Uncle Xiangcheng, wait a minute, and our family will report it first." ”

After a while, the gate of Chengtianmen opened, and Li Guozhen hurriedly ran in......

"Li Guozhen! Don't you have an army of 100,000? Didn't you say that the 100,000 troops were well trained? How did it collapse all at once! You...... You deserve to die! Chongzhen shouted angrily with a pale face.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the ministers deserve death! But this is really not incompetent, but the thief is too cruel! Moreover, Your Majesty, the soldiers of the ministers could not get their salaries, and they could only eat one meal a day, and the thieves shouted outside the city that they had surrendered and had something to eat, and the hearts of our army were shaken, and the soldiers fled one after another! Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are incompetent, it's really that this Beijing city can't be defended! Your Majesty, you are going to cut down Weichen, Weichen has nothing to say, but Your Majesty, you have to make arrangements as soon as possible! Emperor! ”

"Make an early arrangement, make an early arrangement, arrange a fart!" Chongzhen finally couldn't help but burst into foul language. As early as the time when the Taiyuan accident occurred, he discussed with the ministers the matter of mobilizing the Guanning army to defend Beijing, and as a result, the discussion was delayed by those ministers for various reasons; Later, after the battle of Ningwu, Chongzhen planned to move south quickly, but was dragged by the courtiers, and later, he planned to let the prince go to the south first, but it turned out to be these ministers......

"I'm really not the king of the dead country, but I am really surrounded by some dead ministers!" Chongzhen couldn't help but say.

At this moment, Wang Chengen ran in with a pale face.

"Wang Banban, what's wrong?" Chongzhen looked at him with wide eyes.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Changyi Gate, Changyi Gate is lost!" Wang Chengen cried.