Liaodong Town is one of the important towns on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the area guarded by Pingxi Bo Wu Sangui before. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Wenghou County (now Fuxin, Liaoning), 50 kilometers north of Liaodong Town, was the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

Since Li Zicheng attacked the Beijing Division, the small Wenghou County has become very lively, in just ten days, there are 100,000 elites of the Eight Banners here, and the leader is the regent of the Qing Dynasty, Aixin Jueluo Dolgon.

In the early morning of the 21st, Dolgon, who had been analyzing the battle all night, had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps.

"Ao Dutong, the prince has just fallen asleep, what's the matter, wait for the prince to wake up." The guards outside the tent blocked the way.

"Is it Aobai? If you come to this king so late, there must be something urgent, and please go into the account and tell me in detail. Dolgon's voice came from the tent.

With the order of the regent, the guards naturally did not stand in the way.

After entering the account, Ao Bai knelt on one knee and saluted to the man in the dragon robe in front of him: "The minister with the yellow flag guards will lead Ao Bai and meet the regent." ”

"Get up, it's important to get down to business." Dorgon went straight in.

"According to the report from the spies, Li Zicheng had completely occupied the capital division of the Southern Dynasty yesterday evening, the Ming Emperor Zhu Chunchen surrendered, the Ming Prince Zhu Cihong was captured, and the whereabouts of the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen are unknown." Ao Bai replied.

Wenghou County is nearly a thousand miles away from the Beijing Division, and the battle on Li Zicheng's side is over, less than four hours, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, thousands of miles away, has already learned about this, obviously this is the credit of the carrier pigeon.

"Zhu Youzhen should have fled south, Jin Li, who was lurking beside Zhu Chunchen, had already flown a pigeon to pass the message, and found Zhu Youzhen's traces at the pass of Sanhe County, but the attack was unsuccessful, and we couldn't wait for the whip, so I didn't disclose this news." Dorgon explained.

"What a pity! If the emperor of the Southern Dynasty dies, the entire Southern Dynasty will definitely be in chaos, and we just take this opportunity to wave the army south, expand the territory and make contributions, isn't it beautiful! "It's a pity.

In Aobai's view, this is an opportunity to march into the Central Plains in a big way, but now that Zhu Youzhen has fled, with Zhu Youzhen's influence, he will definitely be able to gain a foothold in the south, but the north is Li Zicheng's territory.

"Someone! Please come here, Mr. Kento. Dorgon also felt that things were a little tricky and needed to be planned by someone.

Originally, Dolgon went on this expedition just to take advantage of the war between Li Zicheng and Zhu Youzhen, and he had no time to take care of him, and took advantage of the situation to plunder, but now that an opportunity to enter the Central Plains is in front of him, how can Dolgon not be moved?

Fan Wencheng, the word Xiandou, the name Huiyue, a native of Shenyang, Liaodong, is an important minister of the early Qing Dynasty, most of the regulations of the Qing Dynasty when the founding of the country came from his hands, and he is regarded as the head of the civil ministers.

A short time later, a thin man of about fifty years of age, supported by two guards, came to Dolgon's tent.

"Sir, I'm really sorry, this king knows that Mr. is sick, but he still sends someone to disturb him late at night, just because the matter is urgent, please forgive me." Dorgon said apologetically.

Dolgon said this politely, but in fact there was no sincerity, if he was really guilty, why should he invite the sick person, and he himself went to consult the other party?

The reason is that when Huang Taiji died, several princes competed for the throne, and Fan Wencheng stood on the wrong team and was hated by Dolgon.

However, grudges are grudges, Dolgon still admires Fan Wencheng's political vision, and now it is the time to unite with the outside world, and Dolgon wants to hear the other party's opinions.

"Ahem..... The prince is so anxious, there must be something important, please elaborate. Fan Wencheng didn't mind, anyway, it wasn't once or twice like this.

The matter was so important that Dolgon did not dare to delay, so he reported the information received by Ao Bai and the information he received to Fan Wencheng in detail.

"In this way, this is indeed an opportunity, as for Chongzhen....... He didn't even dare to make a statement about Sanhe County, even if he went south to take power, it would be a month or two later, as long as it was operated properly, two months, my Qing Dynasty was enough to gain a firm foothold in the north. "Fan Wencheng is still sick, so he can't talk much, just stop at the point.

"Mr. Takami!" Dolgon immediately understood what Fan Wencheng meant.

"The spies in the herald of the Beijing Division, in the past few days, have spread the news to me that Zhu Youzhen was secretly killed by Li Zicheng and abandoned his body in the wilderness." Dorgon said to Aobai.

"Wow!" Ao Bai was ordered to leave.

"Listen to orders left and right! Order the army, pull out the camp in the morning, and go to Shanhaiguan! As he was leaving, Dorgon gave another order.

When Fan Wencheng got up to say goodbye, he also added: "Wu Sangui is available." ”

His meaning was obvious, that is, to let Dolgon find a breakthrough from Wu Sangui.

On the side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, on the third day of actively planning to enter the customs, Fengrun, Hebei, not far from the Beijing Division, Wu Sangui learned through the fine work from the Beijing Division, that the Beijing Division was broken by Li Zicheng, and the Chongzhen Emperor was "secretly executed" by Li Zicheng.

Soon after, Wu Sangui received a letter from Wu Xiang: "The Dashun army has fallen into the city, and the father and the ministers have surrendered, and the son can prepare to surrender to Dashun, but it is necessary to observe how Dashun treats the Ming family to surrender to the general." ”

"Drop your own plum? If Li Zicheng really has the image of the Son of Heaven, then he naturally has to descend, otherwise I, Wu Sangui, can still go to the outside of the customs to surrender? Am I or not a good man in Liangshan? After reading the letter, Wu Sangui said to himself.

He has no aversion to the surrender of Dashun, who can reverse the change of dynasty?

Good ministers choose the lord, and birds choose good trees.

Wu Sangui had been delaying the march before, precisely because he saw that the Ming Dynasty's qi was exhausted, and he knew that even if he entered the king of Jingqin, he would eventually end up in defeat and surrender.

Now staying in Fengrun, there are still fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses under his command, which is suitable for waiting and watching the situation, and he is not afraid that Li Zicheng will not pay attention to himself.

But the epistle seems to ........ My father knew that I cared about Yuanyuan, but why didn't he say a word? Wu Sangui wondered.

The ancients usually mentioned the recent situation of their family when they wrote letters to report safety, but this letter not only did not mention Chen Yuanyuan, but also did not mention the affairs of the family, which made Wu Sangui a little worried.

"Fang Xianyan, you immediately send a messenger to Beijing to discuss the surrender with Li Zicheng, and find another way to find out the current situation of my father and his family." Wu Sangui commanded the adjutant general on the side.

He didn't doubt the authenticity of this family letter, but since the family letter was sent by Li Zicheng, the bad content in it would definitely not be written on it, and these needed to be arranged for trustworthy people to go to Beijing to investigate.