Although after Li Zicheng entered the city, he soon issued a ban on burning, killing and looting, and executed more than a dozen Shun soldiers who participated in the looting of the people, but on this night, I still don't know how many fresh lives disappeared without a trace.

In the afternoon, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, tried to open the Zhengyang Gate to welcome the Shun army, but was killed on the spot by Fan Jingwen, a scholar of the university, Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the household department, and Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital. This also made Liu Zongmin, the general of the Shun army who besieged the city, furious, and personally commanded the capture of Zhengyangmen, Fan Jingwen and other ministers were captured alive, swore not to surrender, and were killed by Liu Zongmin on the spot.

After Liu Zongmin's subordinates entered the city, they basically aimed at the wealthy Gaomen in the Beijing Division, plundering all the way, like a group of hungry wolves rushing into the sheepfold.

After capturing Zhengyangmen, watching Fan Jingwen and others being cut off their heads, Liu Zongmin let out a bad breath in his chest. The prosperity of the Beijing division is not something that people like Liu Zongmin can imagine, following Li Zicheng to fight in the south and the north for so many years, during which he has experienced countless life and death, until he arrived at the city of Beijing, Liu Zongmin deeply felt that his good days were coming.

Li Zicheng is his sworn brother, and after taking the Jingshi, he will naturally be his son of peace. And he, Liu Zongmin, wants to enjoy the supreme glory and wealth in the world, this world is the world that he Liu Zongming helped Li Zicheng to fight with a knife and a shot, and at this time, of course, it is the time to enjoy the reward.

Along the way, dozens of mansions of the magnates of the Beijing Division and Gaomen flowed into a river of blood, and the countless gold and silver goods obtained from it made Liu Zongmin like a wolf who smelled blood, and he couldn't wait to take Zhengyangmen, that is, he wanted to go to the city to kill and grab more treasures, which belonged to him Liu Zongmin.

But it backfired, and just after taking Zhengyangmen, a team of men and horses was killed in the oblique stab, and Liu Zongmin's troops were cut into two sections.

Liu Zongmin was taken aback, thinking that this was an ambush of the Ming army in the city, but when he looked closely, the soldiers and horses in front of him were the uniforms of the Dashun army.

Liu Zongmin suddenly became angry, and before he could shout, Li Yan, whose face was sinking like water, had already come to him with dozens of personal horses.

"General Quan, Your Majesty has issued an order, stating that the military order is not to hide platinum, not to cross the city, not to take his wife outside, and to sleep with a single cloth. But why don't your subordinates do it? ”

Hearing Li Yan say this, Liu Zongmin calmed down, he squinted at Li Yan, and felt disgusted when he saw Li Yan's handsome and fair face.

"Li Xiucai, I followed the army to dominate the world, relying on chasing stolen goods and wages, without these supplies, where did so many troops follow. King Chuang's order is just for the people of the world to see, but Lao Tzu's pursuit of stolen goods is to help King Chuang gather the heart of the army, without the heart of the army, what do you use to capture this Beijing division? ”

"General Quan's words are wrong, His Majesty has ascended the throne and called the emperor, and now this Jingshi is my Dashun's city, and the people are also my Dashun's people, General Quan is so bent on going his own way, isn't he afraid of losing the hearts of the people and causing a civil uprising?"

Liu Zongmin laughed, "You go and ask the soldiers under Lao Tzu's command, ordinary people, will I, Liu Zongmin, go to touch my hands, Lao Tzu is looking for those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, with the tyranny of expropriation, accumulated gold and silver, I use these goods to supplement military resources, in line with natural reason, in line with the will of the people, why not!" ”

Liu Zongmin touched his chin, with a hint of banter in his mouth, "I forgot, but you are a general from a wealthy family in Henan, I heard that your father is still a high-ranking official in the Ming Court, is it possible, do you want to protect these remnants of the former Ming Dynasty, or, do you want to swallow these people's goods privately?" ”

"You're ......!" Faced with Liu Zongmin's rogue answer, Li Yan was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Liu Zongmin didn't have time to pay attention to Li Yan, and immediately ordered his troops to disperse Li Yan's soldiers and horses, and went straight into the city from Zhengyang Gate.

"General!" Yang trembled angrily, "This guy talks about King Chuang every day, for fear that others won't know that he is King Chuang's sworn brother, and he will look at us coldly, humiliating in every way, you ......!" ”

"Enough!" Li Yan shouted, "How many times has Ben said that King Chuang has ascended the throne and called the emperor, where is there any King Chuang now, only today's Yongchang Emperor!" ”

Li Yan squeezed the horse's belly fiercely, "Let's go, go and report to His Majesty, and ask him to decide!" ”

……

Chengtianmen slowly opened in front of Li Zicheng, and at this moment, Li Zicheng felt that his breathing was about to stop. What caught his eye was a majestic imperial city, even if he had dreamed of it more than once in his dreams, but when he saw it with his own eyes today, he found that the magnificence and solemnity of the imperial city in reality were far beyond his imagination.

In the afternoon, the eunuch Wang Dehua opened the Desheng Gate and introduced Li Zicheng's troops into the inner city. The defense of Chengtianmen lasted for an hour before it was broken, and the Shun army found that it turned out that the defenders of the city were actually eunuchs. It can be seen that the palace is completely unavailable.

The hands holding the reins of the horse couldn't help but tremble a little, which made Li Zicheng can't help but feel a little disdain for himself, cheered up, took a deep breath, suppressed the love surging in his chest, and occasionally turned around, but saw Wang Dehua kneeling in front of a corpse outside the city gate and shed tears.

Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and other generals were all smiling, but Li Zicheng was a little strange, pointing at Wang Dehua with a horsewhip, "Why are you?" ”

Wang Dehua turned around and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hand, "Back to Your Majesty, this person is Zhang Yunhan, the commander of the East Factory of the Inner Palace, but he is the old boss of the slave, and he takes care of the slave a lot, but I didn't expect that he died here!" ”

Li Zicheng looked at Zhang Yunhan's body, there were dozens of feather arrows in his body, the blood had dried up, his face was extremely pale, and he had obviously been dead for a long time.

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, "Although these people are internal officials, they are all loyal and righteous people, and I also admire them, so I will bury them all!" ”

Wang Dehua kowtowed again and again, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Li Zicheng led the crowd to ride into the Chengtian Gate, as soon as he entered the city gate, there was a gasp of praise behind him, so that Li Zicheng couldn't help but be a little fascinated for a while, over the years of conquest, but never thought that he really looked forward to this day, think about Song Xiance's "eighteen children main artifact" prophecy, maybe he is really destiny!

On both sides of the road, the Dashun army found many people wearing prison uniforms, including Du Xun, the eunuch he had sent into the city before.

As soon as Du Xun saw Li Zicheng, he immediately howled and cried, knelt on the ground, bent his legs forward, and stopped Li Zicheng's war horse.

"陛xià! 陛xià! The slave will see you again! ”

Li Zicheng looked at Du Xun, his face was full of whip marks, obviously he had suffered a lot, and then he comforted him gently: "Don't cry, now that the army has captured the Beijing Division, you will not have your place in the inner court in the future!" ”

Du Xun thanked him again and again, and scolded Zhang Yunhan. Li Zicheng didn't bother to pay attention to him, but he saw more than 100 people kneeling next to him, some old and some young, but they didn't look like eunuchs.

"...... are they?"

"Back to His Majesty, these people are all important ministers in the former Ming Dynasty, and they have been contacted yesterday to dedicate the palace to His Majesty today, but they were detained here by Zhang Yunhan!"

Among them, there are many ministers of Chongzhen and officials of the six departments. Chen Yan and Wei Zaode were among them, and when they saw Li Zicheng, they stepped forward to bow down, but they shouted, "The number of former Ming Qi has been exhausted, and I respectfully invite Your Majesty to ascend the throne, with the heart of Ansheji and Li Min!" ”

Li Zicheng pursed his lips disdainfully, but he didn't say anything, but Wang Dehua on the side suddenly burst out, waving a pair of fists, rushing towards Chen Yan and others, punching and kicking, but Chen Yan and others didn't dare to fight back, so they could only scream miserably.

Li Yan led his troops to rush over, and when he saw this situation, he couldn't help but sigh: "The central minister of the court actually doesn't have the slightest sense of shame!" ”

Li Zicheng smiled: "These people are just clowns jumping off the beam, why bother!" ”

Turning his head to look at Li Yan, "Lin Quan came just in time, he entered the palace with me, I heard that Chongzhen is still in the Qianqing Palace, let's go to meet the emperor's majesty together!" ”

Everyone laughed when he said this, but Li Yan didn't have the slightest smile, but solemnly saluted on his horse, "Please give an order to stop the looting of my army in the city!" ”

Li Zicheng was very strange, "Why did Lin Quan say this?" Didn't I make an order before entering the city? ”

"General Liu Zongmin did not follow His Majesty's edict and is still chasing stolen goods!"

Li Zicheng was stunned, and the faces of the generals behind him were also very unsightly.

Li Zicheng snorted, "This country man, where has he ever seen such a prosperous Jingshi, no matter what, I will send someone to pass the decree later, so that he can return to the camp and stand by!" ”

"Your Majesty ......!" From Li Zicheng's words, Li Yan knew that he had no intention of punishing him, and was about to continue, but was stopped by Li Zicheng.

"Lin Quan, such a good day, naturally we have to celebrate with the whole world, you enter the palace with me, and when Chongzhen is caught, you and I can rest easy!"

Li Yan had no choice but to follow Li Zicheng into the imperial city.

The main hall of the Qianqing Palace is in front of you, Li Zicheng's army surrounds the entire Qianqing Palace with three layers and three outer layers, and when it is two hundred steps away from the main hall, Li Zicheng stops, sits on the horse and looks at the whole palace, and the lanterns and torches illuminate the palace as if it were day.

On the steps in front of the palace gate, dozens of eunuchs with weapons in their hands were waiting for them, which made Li Zicheng a little funny.

"Your Majesty, Chongzhen is now in this main hall!" Du Xun said flatteringly.

In front of the wide palace gate, except for the eunuchs guarding the main gate, a barrier that is not too big is built with bricks and stones. Behind the barrier, two white-faced middle-aged eunuchs sat upright, and in front of them was a rather strange thing, which looked like a firecracker, but it was much larger, and the barrel of the gun was like a thick bamboo barrel, but it was obviously made of fine iron, and under the light, it shimmered with black oil.

One of them sat next to him, holding a horizontal row of unknown materials in his hand, and inserted it on the side of the thick iron pipe, and under the iron pipe was a very delicate shelf, which made the iron pipe unusually stable.

The front section of the iron pipe is clearly the muzzle of a firearm, and the black hole is aimed at the countless enemies in front of it. R1152