Wu Sangui thought that if it was delayed for another two days, Dolgon's reinforcements would arrive, and Li Zicheng would be able to retreat without a fight, and even release the whole family. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Who would have thought that on the sixth day of Buddha Xiao, there was a group of 5,000 light horsemen, taking advantage of the dawn, to sneak attack Li Zicheng's flank.

Although it did not cause much loss to the intruding army, this attack on the camp also completely annoyed Li Zicheng.

And this attack was nothing more than a ploy by Dorgon.

Wu Sangui asked Dolgon for help on the condition of dividing the north and south of the Yellow River, and Dolgon would not be satisfied with only half of the country.

So he planned to take advantage of the negotiation between Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng, and ordered Kong Youde to send 5,000 light cavalry, travel 200 miles day and night, rush to the vicinity of a stone at dawn, and launch an attack on Li Zicheng.

This move made Li Zicheng shout at Wu Sangui, and it was only at this time that he reacted, Wu Sangui was about to lure the wolf into the room.

Li Zicheng, who was embarrassed and angry, escorted the 38 members of the Wu family to the middle of the two armies and showed them to the public.

It was this radical move that completely provoked Wu Sangui, and he no longer waited for Dolgon's reinforcements, and directly led the 70,000 sergeants of the whole army, as well as the 5,000 Qing cavalry who came to support, to charge Li Zicheng's array.

At this time, most of the peasant army was from the northwest, and it absorbed some of the elite of the Xiliang soldiers, as well as some local troops in northern Shaanxi who fought with the Xiongnu all the year round as the main force.

The two sides fought until the early morning of the second day, although Li Zicheng's troops, only about less than 80,000 infantry troops, but Wu Sangui's men, the world-famous 70,000 Guanning iron cavalry, and the forward came to support, Kong Youde's 5,000 Eight Banner Army, which could not be parried.

In the end, with the help of the main force of Dolgon, who had been killed from the flank, he repelled Li Zicheng's army.

Although the coalition army defeated Li Zicheng's peasant army, the Manchu Eight Banners, who had traveled all the way, did not have much strength to pursue, so they could only watch Li Zicheng and lead the remnants of 30,000 to retreat.

The cavalry fought the infantry, but after defeating the other party, it allowed half of the enemy to flee, which shows that Li Zicheng's army is indeed extraordinary.

On the 29th, Li Zicheng, who had only fled back to Beijing, proclaimed himself emperor in Beijing, and in order to resist the allied forces of Wu Sangui and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he even wantonly collected money in Beijing.

Under the leadership of Liu Zongmin, the Dashun army tortured Ming officials, raided homes everywhere, and stipulated that the amount of subsidy was: "100,000 in Zhongtang, 70,000 or 530,000 in Jingtang Jinyi in the Ministry, 530,000 in the Taoist Bureau, 321,000 in Hanlin, and thousands of subordinates." ”

Even the general Zhu Chunchen was killed by Liu Zongmin because he did not pay all the money.

Zhu Chunchen can be said to be self-inflicted, before Li Zicheng attacked the Beijing Division, he not only did not actively resist, but also listened to the words of his adviser Jin Li, set up a checkpoint at the pass of Sanhe County, and made a fortune.

Even in order to facilitate his escape, Zhu Chunchen transferred the property of Jingshi to Sanhe County in advance.

As a result, Li Hongfei blew up Andingmen, causing Li Zicheng to launch an attack in advance, and Zhu Chunchen not only did not run out, but his property was also transported to Manchu by Jin Li and others.

Although Zhu Chunchen didn't get a penny, Li Zicheng didn't think so: The defenders of Sanhe County are yours, right? You ordered the toll to be collected, right? Transferring property is what you mean, right? Since these things are all benefited by you, Zhu Chunchen, then you must pay enough money!

Zhu Chunchen, who couldn't take out the money, could only end up with a full house of beheadings in the end.......

After Li Zicheng's army was defeated, he was rampant and expropriated, and the people were struggling to make a living.

In addition, in order to stop the rumors, he had wantonly killed the soldiers and civilians in the city and exploded their corpses on the streets to deter others.

As a result, instead of deterring the civilian population, this move led to the spread of the plague, which infected many sergeants in the army and reduced their combat effectiveness again.

Seeing this situation, Li Zicheng knew that the Beijing division could not hold on, so he could only take advantage of the fact that Wu Sangui's army had not yet arrived, and hurriedly left the Beijing division, retreated from Shanxi and Henan, and fled to Xi'an.

Since being defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng can be said to be out of order, in order to delay Wu Sangui before leaving, Li Zicheng ordered to burn the Forbidden City and some buildings in Beijing, this move made many Ming Dynasty generals completely disheartened, these people fled in large numbers on the way to retreat, or surrender to the Qing Dynasty, or to the Southern Ming.

Li Zicheng's power began to decline from then on, while Dolgon of the Manchu Qing Dynasty successfully entered the Beijing Division and embarked on the road to the Central Plains..........

Jiangnan beautiful land, Jinling Imperial Prefecture.

This beautiful place is naturally the Qinhuai River, which originates in Nanjing.

This imperial state is the capital of Nanjing.

In the middle of May of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen and his entourage had been staying in Nanjing for almost a month.

It took nearly a month to go south from Tianjin to the Grand Canal, and during that time, in order to ensure absolute safety, in addition to purchasing materials along the way, the ships of Zhu Youzhen and others did not dock for the rest of the time.

And even if the materials were purchased, Wang Guoxing, Guo Sheng and others came forward, and they did not contact the local government, or even the intelligence points of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

After all, no one knows how Nanjing would react if it learned the news of Zhu Youzhen's southward departure?

In case a team of sailors is sent to intercept it, on this river, but there is no place to escape.

Due to the backwardness of communications, Wang Guoxing learned the news from ordinary people, which was the news that Li Zicheng's troops were besieging the Beijing division more than ten days ago, and these news had no effect on them at all.

In Nanjing, there are not many people who have seen Zhu Youzhen's true face, and even fewer ministers who have seen his true face and have a certain amount of power.

Originally, as soon as everyone arrived in Nanjing, they wanted to contact Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, because he was Zhu Youzhen's cousin, although he was on an errand in Nanjing, his fief was in Luoyang, and he had also entered Beijing to face the saint, Zhu Youzhen came to Nanjing, and it was the most suitable to find him.

To put it bluntly, although the other party has a little face in Nanjing, his own fief is in Luoyang, which is occupied by Li Zicheng, which means that he has no soldiers and no power, and Zhu Youzhen is not worried about what tricks he plays.

As a result, Zhu Yousong had not yet been contacted, and the news that Chongzhen was "secretly executed" by Li Zicheng finally reached Nanjing after a month. (Previously, due to the blockade of Jingshi, the message transmission was much slower)

A "dead" emperor was suddenly resurrected, and he also arrived in Nanjing, who would believe this?

At least the ministers who have never seen Zhu Youzhen's true face will not believe it.

In addition, a group of ministers in Nanjing are already preparing to support Zhu Yousong as the emperor, and if they go to him at this time, isn't that going to die.

Zhu Yousong may not have dared to kill Chongzhen before, and he didn't have the ability to kill Chongzhen, but he can justifiably become the emperor at the moment, who can stand this temptation?

At this time, I am afraid that no matter who it is, it is impossible to let go easily.