Zheng Xunrui pondered for a whole day.

There was information sent by the Investigation Agency on the table, and history finally moved forward according to the original trajectory.

After Yang Sichang's suicide, the army led by Li Zicheng quickly captured the city of Baoding, except for Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, a few people to fight out of the siege, most of the soldiers were either killed in battle, or chose to surrender, Li Zicheng in Baoding after a little rest, immediately led the army into Shuntianfu, the goal was pointed to the capital.

At the end of February, Li Zicheng's troops had arrived in Fangshan, less than 100 miles away from the capital. 、

The capital has long been in chaos, this time it is a real chaos, Zhu Youzhen urgently recruited Wu Sangui, who was stationed in Shanhaiguan, to enter the king of Jingqin, hoping that the Guanning iron cavalry under Wu Sangui could block the pace of the Liukou, but what Zhu Youzhen did not expect was that Wu Sangui did not agree immediately on the grounds of tight food, Yang Sichang led the army to resist the attack of the Liukou, and almost exhausted the silver taels of the treasury. said that he could not get the money.

Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan, life is also not good, the chaos in Beizhili, Huang Taiji has already known, he quickly ordered Prince Rui Dolgon to lead 100,000 Eight Banner Army, arrived in Jinzhou and Ningyuan, and paid attention to the situation in Beizhili at any time.

The information sent by the secret line in the capital said that Zhu Youzhen had fallen into a desperate state of mind, and even cried in the face of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs at the court meeting.

For Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, Zheng Xunrui does not have much malice in his heart, in his opinion, Zhu Youzhen is a good person, but by no means a good emperor, Zhu Youzhen took over the messy stall left by his brother Emperor Tianqi. If you want to clean up this stall well and let the Ming Dynasty continue to maintain, it will definitely not work without extraordinary ability, to put it mildly, unless an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di appears, see if it is possible to reverse the situation.

Zhu Youzhen obviously does not have such ability.

There are many objective reasons. In the Xiaoice era, the reversal of the climate and frequent natural disasters made the Daming Dynasty, which was already full of holes, crumbling and slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.

After being in a different position and identity, Zheng Xunrui's view of Zhu Youzhen softened a lot, Zhu Youzhen was like a child, desperately trying to support the weight that he couldn't bear at all, and as a result, his own body was crushed. The collapse came as scheduled.

At this time, everything is irreparable, Li Zicheng took the capital is expected, during this period, the Emperor Taiji of Houjin will not move, and he Zheng Xunrui will not move.

The time to really do it is when the Houjin Emperor Taiji starts to act.

Xu Wanghua once suggested that Zheng Jiajun could consider launching an attack from southern Liaoning. Shake the foundation of the Great Qing State, so that the Eight Banners Army, which has been assembled in Liaodong, will not dare to act rashly.

Zheng Xunrui rejected the suggestion. He knew very well that Huang Taiji would no longer particularly estimate southern Liaoning, once the Eight Banners Army broke through the Shanhai Pass and occupied a large area of the Central Plains, the importance of southern Liaoning would be significantly reduced, even if the Zheng Jiajun took Yaozhou, Gaizhou and Haizhou. Threatening Tieling, Liaoyang and other places, I'm afraid Huang Taiji is not so panicked in his heart.

What's more, it will take a certain amount of time for Zheng Jiajun to take Haizhou and other places, and it is uncertain how long it will take.

Therefore, the Zheng family army must march north and start a Jedi battle with Li Zicheng and Huang Taiji in the north.

Zheng Xunrui knew that Zhu Youzhen would not survive. Zhu Youzhen, who has been arrogant all his life, can't endure such humiliation, and Li Zicheng will never let Zhu Youzhen go, he thinks of Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter, and under possible circumstances, Zheng Xunrui still needs to save Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter.

This idea seems a bit silly, but it is not surprising that Zheng Xunrui, who has crossed over, has such an idea.

Zheng Xunrui, who is in power, is different from many people's opinions, Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter are not a threat at all, and the glorious Tang Dynasty at the beginning also has many relatives left over from the Sui Dynasty. Besides, Zheng Xunrui, who is ready to ascend to the pinnacle of power, also needs to show a generous mind to convince the world that Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter are not guilty, not to mention that they are not very old, although doing so is dangerous in the eyes of Zhou Yanru and others, and it is self-inflicted.

Zheng Xunrui gave an order to Duan Zongkui, a businessman who was still staying in the capital, if Li Zicheng captured the capital, if possible, he would try to protect Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter, including the crown prince Zhu Cihong, Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, Yongwang Zhu Cizhao, the youngest son Zhu Cihuan, Princess Zhu Huijiao of Changping, and the youngest daughter Zhu Huiqin, which was later Princess Zhaoren.

Duan Zongkui is capable of completing this task, of course, Zheng Xunrui thinks very carefully, once Li Zicheng captures the capital, then the capital will be in chaos, and Duan Zongkui's own safety may not be able to guarantee at that time, how can he accept Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter, according to the laws of history, Zhu Youzhen will not kill his son, and sent all his sons to the home of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and killed his daughter.

Duan Zongkui has a good relationship with Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and he can find a way to protect Zhu Youzhen's son, but there is no way to save Zhu Youzhen's daughter.

If Duan Zongkui wants to complete the task, he can only enter the palace when the chaos is coming and the capital is breached, so that he can truly save Zhu Youzhen's son and daughter.

After careful consideration, Zheng Xunrui personally wrote two letters, ordering the Investigation Department to send the letters to the capital as soon as possible, these two letters, one is for Zhu Youzhen, and the other is for the celebrant eunuch and the chamberlain Gao Qiqian.

Only with these two letters could Duan Zongkui see Zhu Youzhen.

When Zheng Xunrui did all this, he did not inform Xu Wanghua, Zhou Yanru and others.

The Zheng family army has made all preparations, the 40,000 people of the third army of the Zheng army in Shaanxi are all concentrated in Tongguan, the 20,000 people of the second army of the Zheng army in Shandong are all concentrated in Dezhou, and the 60,000 people of the Zheng army in the south are all concentrated in Nanjing.

These 120,000 people are the army of the Zheng family army that is about to march north.

Huang Taiji was also prepared.

The 100,000 Eight Banner Army led by Prince Rui Dolgon, plus the 50,000 Eight Banner Army stationed in Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places, the total strength of the Eight Banner Army in Liaodong has reached 150,000.

Huang Taiji originally planned to personally conquer, including the persuasion of Prince Zheng Jierharang, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou and others, so that he did not have a personal expedition for the time being, after all, the situation in Beizhili is still in violent turmoil, what the final situation is, no one knows, if the capital of Daming is really captured by the Liukou, then the Eight Banners Army can all be dispatched.

Presumably at that time, Wu Sangui, who was guarding Shanhaiguan, was also at a loss.

After Dolgon set off with the 100,000 Eight Banners Army, Huang Taiji was in a state of high tension.

This offensive is very important for the Qing Dynasty, as long as the Eight Banners Army can take Shanhaiguan and defeat Li Zicheng who entered the North Zhili, then it can smoothly occupy the Central Plains and confront the Zheng Army in the south, once the Eight Banners Army occupies the Central Plains, the position of southern Liaoning is not particularly important.

Huang Taiji did not personally lead the Eight Banners Army to fight Zheng Xunrui, but he had long regarded the Zheng family army as the biggest enemy of the Qing Dynasty.

The Manchu Eight Banners came out of the white mountains and black waters, I don't know how much suffering they have experienced, they have long been sharpened like sharp spears, how long has the Zheng family army been established, and they are all mainly Han people, and a small number of Mongols are full of them.

Huang Taiji looks down on the Han people in his bones, although he advocates Confucian culture and trusts Fan Wencheng, but this does not mean that he looks down on the Han people, the once incomparably brilliant Ming Dynasty was not defeated in the hands of these Han people.

The Han people are very smart, which is understandable, but many smart Han people are together, then there will be countless stories, these Han people can not form a joint force, each other, in order to be able to fight for more interests, greater power, but the Manchu people are different, although there is also a struggle for power and profit on weekdays, but at the critical moment, the Manchu people can abandon the previous suspicions, unity, the Han people can not do this.

Not to mention anything else, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming, who were canonized as kings by Huang Taiji, could not be united when they were together, but had their own thoughts.

Huang Taiji saw through this, so in his bones he didn't look down on the Han people, and he would not trust the Han people absolutely and unconditionally.

Fan Wencheng is the most trusted Han of Huang Taiji, which has also been observed for many years, in the eyes of Huang Taiji, Fan Wencheng is no longer a Han man, and has become a member of the Manchurians.

As for Hong Chengchou, he is indeed very capable, but Huang Taiji will never be completely trusted, even if it is recommended by Fan Wencheng.

Treat the Manchurians, Huang Taiji's attitude is different, Dai Shan, Dolgon, Duoduo, Zilharang and other Manchu elites, at the critical moment, Huang Taiji is the courage to boldly trust, he has ruthlessly rectified Dai Shan, but still has trust in Dai Shan, when the Qing Dynasty was established, he canonized the four princes, Dai Shan ranked first.

Huang Taiji pays attention to the situation of Liaodong and Beizhili every day, he is ready to go to the expedition, once the capital of the Ming Dynasty is broken by Li Zicheng, then the Eight Banners Army will definitely be dispatched, so that Huang Taiji is troubled by Wu Sangui stationed in Shanhaiguan, not how powerful Wu Sangui is, but Shanhaiguan This obstacle is indeed not easy to break, and the big change is coming, if the Eight Banners Army detours into Beizhili, the time may not be in time, if you wait until Li Zicheng completely stabilizes the situation of Beizhili, I am afraid that the Eighth Banner Army will lose the opportunity to march and control the Central Plains. (To be continued.) )