Li Yan had a gloomy face and strode towards the Chuang Wang's Palace in the Funing Guard.

When he walked to the door, he was stopped by several guards: "Bold, the Palace of the Son of Heaven, how can you trespass!" ”

Li Yan glanced at these guards, they were all old brothers who knew each other, but now they were all full of red light, with their chests and stomachs protruding, and they were also wearing gold and silver, looking rich and compelling.

Originally, they were old brothers who grabbed food in a spoon, but now they are so strange.

"I want to see King Chuang, please all the brothers." sighed in his heart, but Li Yan gave up.

"Bold, now that Your Majesty has ascended the throne as the emperor, you still call him King Chuang, and you have no heaven, which is really crazy!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a male duck's voice sound, and then, a person flashed out from behind the guards, but it was Du Xun.

Du Xun, who was originally the great eunuch of the Ming Xuan Army, has now become the chief eunuch beside King Chuang, he flashed out and pointed at Li Yan and scolded.

Li Yan smiled, stepped forward and arched his hand, looking like he was going to salute, and then suddenly grabbed Du Xun, grabbed his chest with his left hand, slammed his right hand high, and slapped him with four big slaps, and then pushed him to the ground.

"We and King Chuang are friends who fight the world together, you eunuch, Chongzhen treats you so kindly, but you still betray him, and now you still want to deceive King Chuang's trust, will you betray King Chuang one day?"

While speaking, Li Yan was still angry, and kicked again, kicking Du Xun to vomit, and then he turned to the guards again: "Let a few brothers laugh, please give me a good voice." ”

If he doesn't beat Du Xun. I'm afraid that these people won't be so easy to pass for him, but after he showed his fierce and decisive side, the guards were a little afraid. Someone accompanied him and smiled: "General Zhengdong, please wait, I'll go ......"

Seeing that no one came forward for him, Du Xun used both hands and feet, crawled away from afar, and stared at Li Yan with resentful eyes. Muttered and cursed in a low voice.

It didn't take long for the guards who had gone in to pass the ceremony to come out and say to Li Yan with a smile: "Your Majesty is invited." General Zhengdong, please come in. ”

Walking into the room, Li Yan heard the music, and his brows furrowed again. Bypassing the screen, I saw Li Zicheng on the top position, and below were six dancers dancing, and there were musicians playing music next to them. Seeing Li Yan, Li Zicheng laughed and stood up: "Brother Li Yan, you're here—fuck me down!" ”

He was laughing, but suddenly he roared and the room rumbled. The musicians and dancers changed color one by one and retreated one after another, and Li Zicheng kicked the table in front of him again. Haha laughed.

He looks like this, obviously because he has drunk too much and is a little moody. Li Yan's heart froze, and he stepped forward and saluted: "Long live my emperor!" ”

"Brother Li Yan, I believe what others say. You say this, we don't believe it at all, we don't want to be an emperor, it's not human...... These days......"

Li Zicheng was babbling nonsense in his mouth, but in the deepest part of his gaze, a trace of sharpness flashed. He looked drunk. In fact, he had been paying attention to Li Yan's expression, and seeing that Li Yan did not show contempt or dissatisfaction because of his gaffe, he stopped his performance.

Compared with Chongzhen, who is accustomed to acting, Li Zicheng's current acting skills are really a little unpopular.

"Brother Li Yan, you must still have something important, but Wu Sangui is going to fall?" He snorted and got down to business.

"No, Your Majesty, the soldiers are very fast, now that our army has arrived in Funingwei, we should quickly press Shanhaiguan and force Wu Sangui to surrender. Your Majesty can also return to Beijing as soon as possible, so as not to hand over the important land of the capital to others! ”

"That's what you said." Li Zicheng patted him on the shoulder: "Others are persuading me, saying that I should enjoy my life as this emperor, but only Brother Li Yan will remind me to pay attention to major events...... You can rest assured, I have sent Tang Tong to a stone pass, Wu Sangui relied on, but Jianlu, as long as he cut off his connection with Jianlu, he can only surrender. ”

"A stone pass?" Li Yan's troops are the most dependent on Shanhaiguan, but he never thought that Li Zicheng had already mobilized his troops and made a detour to get a piece of Shiguan. In this way, Li Zicheng has been indulging in wine in Funingwei these days, but it is to paralyze Wu Sangui's spies.

But Li Yan thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized that something was wrong: "Your Majesty, why did you send Tang Tong, our own brothers, you can send whoever you want, but this Tang Tong can't be sent!" ”

"Huh? Why? Li Zicheng suddenly stopped pretending to be drunk and asked in a deep voice.

"Tang Tongxin has not been in the army for a long time, and his troops are not attached, so they may not be willing to fight to the death, this is one of them; Tang Tongbu was born as a former Ming officer and soldier, and was repeatedly defeated by Jianlu. Li Yan paused and said: "The minister is willing to lead the troops to the north and go to meet the ......."

But before he finished his words, one of the guards ran over in a panic: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the military report, General Tang has been defeated in a piece of stone, and Jianyu has already won a piece of stone pass!" ”

Li Zicheng muttered and cursed, although he swelled quickly after entering Beijing, his military vision was still there, so he was proud to take a piece of Shiguan. If his goal can be achieved, he will indeed put Shanhaiguan in the middle of the north-south attack, and Wu Sangui can only surrender except to escape. But now that Jianyu has captured a stone pass, it means that he may come to the aid of Wu Sangui at any time, and he only has one way left to attack head-on.

"Pass on the generalissimo, order the three armies, prepare to march, before Jianyu, destroy Wu Sangui first!" Li Chuang said sharply.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

When Li Chuang put aside the cunning of the small peasant, he showed his fierceness in a hundred battles, but he had a bit of momentum. Li Yan couldn't help but praise it, but Li Chuang didn't have the heart to listen to this anymore, these days, he has heard a lot of all kinds of praise!

"Without further ado, Brother Li Yan, I will summon the generalissimo and others to discuss, you lead the headquarters to Shanhaiguan first, and I will arrive later." Li Zicheng ordered.

"Yes!"

Li Yan was about to leave, and then thought of one more thing: "I heard about the plague in Beijing, my front is fine, I don't know what the situation is in His Majesty's army?" ”

"There are always some people who can't get cold when it's cold, what kind of plague is it!" Li Zicheng was a little dissatisfied: "Besides, if it's really a plague, what can manpower do?" ”

"Doing a good job of hygiene in the military can reduce ......"

"Brother Li Yan, the military situation is like fire, these things, it's not too late to mention them after Wu Sangui is cleaned up." Li Zicheng interrupted him: "You go quickly!" ”

Li Yan thought about it, the epidemic prevention in the army is not a matter of one or two days, and Wu Sangui's urgent need can only be solved first. He turned and walked out of the house, but unbeknownst to him, Venus came in through the small door after he walked on the front foot.

"Li Yan really has different intentions." Niu Jinxing said in a deep voice: "The rumors turned out to be true, he really sent the red lady to contact Yu Guozhen!" ”

"Don't talk about those shadowless things first, let's deal with Wu Sangui first." Li Zicheng said impatiently: "Prime Minister Niu Cheng, you go and urge Zong Min again, he, the generalissimo, can't know how to drink and have fun all day long!" ”

Niu Jinxing had to go out to find Liu Zongmin first, and after he also left, Li Zicheng suddenly felt a little lonely. He was the only one left in the room, and he looked around at a loss.

Li Zicheng does not have a clear understanding of what he wants, but Yu Guozhen is clear about what he wants.

In order to prevent the spread of the plague, along the canal, Huwei set up a quarantine zone, and all those who entered these quarantine zones were first led to a special area for a 10-day mandatory quarantine. In order to better isolate them, he ordered that all rodents in the area under his control be killed, and that the dead rats must be burned without any residue.

All the victims were completely mobilized, and in order to prevent the panic from spreading, Huwei gave the victims little time to think, and every day was to level the land and roads, even if there was really nothing to do, pushing large stones to roll the roads.

For this reason, Yu Guozhen could only change his original plan of preparing to make a profit in the battle between Jianyu and Chuang Army, and only sent people to pay attention to the movements of the two sides at any time. After Li Zicheng learned that Yu Guozhen was all-out to relieve the disaster, he had no scruples and went all out to attack Shanhaiguan, while Wu Sangui learned the news of the defeat of the Shiguan army, which strengthened his determination to take refuge in Jianguo.

Li Zicheng's army was about 150,000 people, but there was a disease in the army, and the actual number of people who were put into battle was about 120,000. Wu Sangui's army was 50,000, but he arrived on the battlefield first and seized the favorable terrain, and the Guanning army had always been the most well-equipped of the Ming officers and soldiers, and his subordinates used firearms better than the Chuang army. The vanguard forces of the two sides came into contact, and Li Yan led his army to defeat Wu Sangui's outpost, but he was frustrated in the attack on the ancestral mountain occupied by Wu Sangui, and had to retreat and wait for Li Zicheng to become the main force.

The two sides fought fiercely on February 10, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and the invading army still concentrated artillery and bombarded the ancestral mountain controlled by Wu Sangui, while Wu Sangui held the danger. The battle lasted from morning to noon, and just as the invading army withdrew for lunch and was ready to fight again, Dolgon himself led the main force of Jianyu to arrive.

After Yu Guozhen's two heavy defeats, the original strength was greatly reduced, although after four years of development, the total strength has recovered, but most of the people who have been supplemented are Han, Korean and Mongolian, especially Koreans, Dolgon in addition to the eight banners of the Mongolian army and the eight banners of the Han army, but also the eight banners of the Xian army. As a result, there were 100,000 soldiers who rushed to the battlefield, and the rate of firearms was 40 percent -- which was already higher than that of Li Zicheng's troops.

Faced with this situation, Li Zicheng had to order the withdrawal of the army, and Li Yanbu was ordered to be cut off. Li Yan performed extremely well in this battle, once again concentrated his artillery, and severely defeated the pursuing Jianyu cavalry at Yuguan, forcing the Jianyu Xian army to collapse first, and the rest of the armies also temporarily retreated.

However, Jianyu had the guidance of Wu Sangui, who was familiar with the terrain, and then took a detour to the mountain road of Beiniuling, and attacked Li Yan from the flank and back, and Li Yan had to blow up the artillery and retreat quickly by night. Fortunately, he finally remembered the reminder of the red lady, and this time, he did not return to the capital, but returned directly to Tianjin Wei.

Because Li Chuang did not return to the capital, after this battle, both sides were the main forces undamaged. At this time, it was already early spring, and when Li Zicheng was mobilizing people and horses to prepare for a decisive battle with Jianyu under the Jingshi City, a large-scale plague broke out in Gyeonggi as the temperature warmed up, like a thunderbolt... (To be continued)