In the early morning of 27 April, the weather in Beijing was gloomy, and the yellow wind blew from time to time, adding to the gloomy and gloomy atmosphere.

In the courtyard in front of the Wuying Palace, the emperor's full set of honor guards were set up by the brocade guards very early, and six elephants dressed in red and hung colors were led by the colorful elephant slaves, and they stood outside the Jinshui Bridge.

Two lines of brocade-clothed guards stood beside His Majesty Dan. Then there are two lines of brocade clothes and flags, holding golden melons, axes, and ceremonial guards such as kicking towards the sky.

The civil and military officials were already waiting in the room outside the noon gate.

Suddenly, the bells and drums sounded three times at the noon gate, and the ministers solemnly walked into the Forbidden City from the right gate, and came to His Excellency Wude to stand solemnly. The bell outside the Wuying Gate rang three times, they followed the special regulations of the founding of the Dashun Dynasty, Wu Zuowen Right, came in two lines, crossed the Jinshui Bridge, entered the Wuying Gate, passed through the Jinyi Banner School and the Jinyi Lux, avoided the royal road in the middle, boarded the Danbu from the east and west, and waited in the Danqi step by step.

Half of these civil and military officials were newly appointed officials from Xi'an and Beijing, and eighty percent of the civil officials were former ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not have the slightest excitement about Li Zicheng's accession to the throne today, and their faces were cold, and they were most worried that the Manchu army would soon invade Beijing, and Zihou might not even be able to save his own life. The ministers who followed Li Zicheng loyally participated in this ascension ceremony with mixed emotions, and they were both happy and worried. Only those naïve and ignorant palace ladies were excited to be able to bow to the founding ceremony of the country, and watched all this with curiosity.

A eunuch walked to the corner of Danqi and waved the long whip three times, this is the so-called silent whip, the civil and military officials were originally silent, but after the three silent whips, it became even more silent.

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of firecrackers, after the firecrackers, a palace maid opened the yellow satin embroidered dragon door curtain, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, and said: "Please ask the emperor to get up!" ”

Li Zicheng wears a crown of flat heaven, with twelve rows of jeweled beads hanging down to the top of his eyebrows in front of the crown, wearing a yellow satin embroidered dragon robe, a jade belt around his waist, and a straight satin foundation and gold thread embroidered dragon inlaid beaded cloud boots. He was sitting upright on the throne with a solemn face.

At this time, Li Zicheng did not have the slightest sense of excitement, and last night he received several battle reports from the front, saying that the Manchu army would arrive in Beijing in less than two days, and that it must withdraw from Beijing tomorrow night. For a long time, he has dreamed of this day, and it is precisely because of this strong spiritual pillar that he has fought to this day, but he never expected that this day would really come, but it would be like this.

His love will Li Shuangxi, Li Qiang, and Li You will all live to participate in his own day in the future.

The sound of suona was mixed with the royal music, and the officials of Honglu Temple invited him to go out to salute, and Li Zicheng silently left the throne and walked towards the main hall.

Long live the ministers, after the ceremony, the ministers began to recite their congratulatory watches, which were all the same, first reprimanding the Ming room for the lack of way, and then saying how Li Zicheng did the way for heaven. After Hebi, Li Zicheng left the throne and retreated to the Yingwu Palace, and the ministers retreated from the Dan Majesty of the Yingwu Palace.

In the crowd of people attending the ceremony, Concubine Dou was also there, she was crowned with a phoenix, leading the harem maid to stand aside, in the last day or two, she knew that the defeat of Shanhaiguan was far more serious than she imagined, she also knew that after the ceremony was held today, Li Zicheng would withdraw from Beijing tomorrow night, she didn't know what Li Zicheng would do with herself, and she might even give her death, thinking of this, she couldn't help but have a trace of fear.

The ceremony was over, Li Zicheng returned to the Yingwu Hall with a heavy heart, and the palace maids removed the Pingtian crown, dragon robe, and cloud-toed shoes, feeling much more relaxed.

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Above the hill is a flat-roofed slope with a circular castle built on it, and below the gentle slope is a shallow river several zhang wide, and on the opposite side of the river is a flat land.

Liu Liangzuo, dressed in chain mail, was riding a variegated flower horse, shuttling back and forth between the troops, holding a spear at the tip of the spear, and there was always blood splashing.

There were at least thousands of people on the battlefield, shouting and screaming, and the river had almost turned pale red, and there were many corpses lying by the river.

Zhou Hao has also seen big scenes in the army, but this kind of real knife is real. It was the first time that the gun was comparable to the Shura field, and Zhou Hao's heart was shaken, and he hurriedly took a long knife to prevent his life from being lost here.

When Liu Liangzuo saw the reinforcements led by Wu Xiong and Shen Tao arrive, he was overjoyed, and said in a vertical voice: "Old Wu, old Shen, attack from the flank, and the dart bureau will not be able to support it for long." ”

Zhou Hao looked at the person who spoke, and there was a variegated flower horse under the seat, it seems that this is Liu Liangzuo, who is called "Flower Horse Liu" in history. After a while, on the one hand, he will help Liu Liangzuo kill the enemy, and on the other hand, he will also protect Liu Liangzuo from killing the enemy.

It turned out that Liu Liangzuo hijacked the team of the dart bureau from the middle of the road yesterday evening, and the two sides began to fight fiercely, the dart bureau never expected that with their own reputation in the rivers and lakes, some people dared to move their darts, and this time the darts were worth tens of thousands of taels of gold, so there were hundreds of dart masters to defend.

They fought and retreated, and put their bodyguards' silver into the hill fort at the top of the slope, and all they had to do now was to protect the fort from the enemy.

Zhou Hao raised his long knife, galloped into the battle formation, and also joined the battle group, killing while moving closer to Liu Liangzuo's side.

Liu Liangzuo was fighting, and suddenly saw a fast knife coming and going freely in the battle formation, with superb knife skills, obviously helping himself, so he said in surprise: "Who is this brother?" ”

Zhou Hao said: "Brother Zhou next, I will send an important letter to General Liu from the garrison of Lu Jiude. ”

Liu Liangzuo said while fighting: "What letter? ”

Zhou Hao said: "This is related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also related to the fate of the general, first of all, I will help you win this batch of dart silver." ”

As he was talking, suddenly a team of thousands of people rushed towards this side of the warband.

Liu Liangzuo was shocked and said, "Everyone, pay attention, it's the reinforcements from the Dart Bureau who are coming." ”

This team came so quickly, in a moment, they arrived not far from the battle group, only to hear a big man immediately say: "Lu Dingyuan, the owner of Furong Village, is here, which are the thieves of Huama Liu, Lao Tzu chopped him." ”

It turned out that after the big dart bureau was surrounded, Lu Zhongliang, the head of the dart, saw that this batch of dart silver was very likely to be robbed by the other party, so he released the carrier pigeon and asked for help from Furong Village.

Lu Dingyuan, the owner of Furong Village, and Zhu Xiaoming, the leader of the Dart Bureau, are friends of the same rivers and lakes, when the dart team of the Dart Bureau passes through Huai'an, they often collapse in Furong Village, of course, Furong Village also gets a lot of benefits from the Dart Bureau, at this time, Lu Dingyuan got the news soon, and he led his troops to come to support.

Liu Liangzuo saw that the treasure in his hand might be flying, and that night was in vain. Liu Liangzuo's corps, not only the soldiers of the imperial court, but also a group of bandit legions, the villages and towns, plundered everywhere, now this treasure of tens of thousands of taels is about to arrive, Liu Liangzuo killed and couldn't watch him fly, so he galloped to Zhou Hao, and said: "This brother, Huang Degong's army is in Shihe Town, which is less than ten miles away from here, you immediately go to let him lead 3,000 men and horses to support, just say that 'Huama Liu' said that there is a business of 10,000 taels of gold, which will be in hand soon, if it is in hand, he will share 4,000 taels." ”

As he spoke, Liu Liangzuo took out a jade talisman from his body, threw it at Zhou Hao in the air, and said, "As long as he sees this, he will come." ”

Zhou Hao was happy to learn that Huang Degong was in Shihe Town, but if he left, Liu Liangzuo had three longs and two shorts, and King Fu would have one less warlord to support him, if he didn't ask for help from Huang Degong, the situation would be even worse, so he said: "Okay, I'll go immediately." Just where is Stone River Town? ”

Liu Liangzuo said: "The front avenue goes straight to the south, and it is blocked in front of the mountain, and then turn west to arrive, go quickly!" ”

The two said on the side of the battle, Zhou Hao took the jade rune letter, rode his horse out of the battle group, rushed to the avenue in front, and galloped south on his horse.