Just when Zhu Youzhen left Tongzhou and went to Tian0 Jinwei.

Li Zicheng's main army has also arrived in the capital.

Li Zicheng stationed the big tent of the Chinese army in Shahe, and ordered the general Liu Zongmin to command the battle to attack the capital.

However, what Liu Zongmin would not have thought was that at this time, the capital was already wide open.

There were no defenders at all.

In fact, after Zhu Youzhen withdrew from the capital with the entire Ming ruling system in Beijing.

The entire capital is already in chaos.

Some people fled on their own initiative.

There are also those who are reluctant to put the "Shunmin" flag in front of the house, hoping to continue to survive in the new court.

There are even lawbreakers who take the opportunity to break into the people and rob them on a large scale.

Because there is no government to control it.

For a while, the crime rate in the capital rose sharply.

In a panic, the entire capital was like the end of the world, like an empty city.

Liu Zongmin easily occupied the capital.

Li Zicheng was also shocked when he heard that the capital was already an empty city, and hurriedly left Shahe and went directly into the city.

"What's going on, did Chongzhen run away, or did Wu Sangui or Jiannu take the lead?" Li Zicheng was secretly suspicious.

Li Zicheng has now established the country and claimed the emperor, and there are many pseudo-obedient ministers behind him.

Moreover, most of them were ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Dong Fu, the governor of Datong who had just surrendered, stepped forward, took down the notice of the city gate, and handed it to Li Zicheng:

"Your Majesty, please look at the content of this notice, it was written to you by Chongzhen, and it seems that from the content of the notice, Chongzhen did run away!"

Li Zicheng was silent for a long time after taking the notice and reading it, not knowing what to do for a while.

As a hero, Li Zicheng knew how important Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor, was.

He thought about directly executing Chongzhen after entering the capital, and also thought about forcing Chongzhen to make himself king, and then coerced the princes of the Son of Heaven to pacify the remnants of the Ming forces in the south.

Of course, Li Zicheng preferred that Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen commit suicide by themselves, so that he would not have to be accused of killing Chongzhen and be hated by the southern forces loyal to the Ming court.

Even, he can also use this to bury Chongzhen and win the hearts of the people in the world.

But now Chongzhen has run away!

This means that even if he occupies the capital, he does not really completely occupy the world and completely destroy the Ming Dynasty.

From a certain point of view, in the eyes of the southern forces, he is still a thief, and he cannot be transformed into the orthodoxy of the world.

"Chongzhen ran away!"

The civil and military officials who followed Li Zicheng couldn't help but be shocked when they heard this.

Especially these old ministers of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to Dashun are even more uneasy!

After knowing that Chongzhen and Zhu Youzhen had evacuated the capital, they were even more restless than Li Zicheng.

After all, if Chongzhen is arrested or commits suicide, they can still justifiably become Dashun officials.

But now that Chongzhen is out of danger, it means that they are still traitors from thieves.

Even, they don't know if Chongzhen will come back and punish them.

As if they had been put on the neck by a knife, the Ming Dynasty ministers hurriedly advised Li Zicheng to immediately lead a large army to pursue.

"Your Majesty, you can't let Chongzhen go, Chongzhen is not dead, the country is unstable, the south is still under the remnants of the light, once Chongzhen returns to the south smoothly, there will be endless troubles!"

The Ming Dynasty subordinate Yu Chonghua hurriedly suggested.

As the former governor of Shuntian, Yu Chonghua was very depressed, why didn't Chongzhen die directly in Beijing!

Other Ming Dynasty ministers also hurriedly echoed and suggested that Li Zicheng immediately pursue Chongzhen.

Li Zicheng saw that they didn't miss the friendship of the old monarchs and ministers, and he was also a little disdainful in his heart, but as a generation of heroes, he also knew that Chongzhen's retreat to the south was indeed a huge threat to his future unification of the world.

Therefore, Li Zicheng did not refuse these proposals of the Ming Dynasty:

"Order: The right battalion general Tian Jianxiu pursued along the canal after capturing Tongzhou, and the left battalion general Liu Fangliang immediately pursued north along the Tongzhou Bao direction, and Chongzhen must be captured alive! Tell the Ming Dynasty guards in each city, capture the people who sacrifice the city of Chongzhen, and make the marquis! ”

After speaking, Li Zicheng ordered the army to enter the city.

As Li Zicheng, who led the uprising of the displaced people, this is the first time he has entered Beijing, and seeing that this big city has belonged to him since then, Li Zicheng's heart cannot but be excited.

Although Chongzhen has fled south, it does not affect his current passionate heart at all.

Raising troops from Shaanxi, Li Zicheng did not think that he would come to this day, that he would one day occupy this Beijing city, and that he would really become an emperor one day.

Moreover, what Li Zicheng didn't expect was either.

The bureaucrats who did not follow Zhu Youzhen's retreat to the south, such as Chen Yan, Shaozhan Zhiyu, Shaozhan Zhiyu, Song Nian, the intermediary of the affairs department, and Liu Yangzhen, the director of the cabinet, were kneeling neatly in the Yongding Gate to greet Li Zicheng at this time.

Zhu Youzhen left in too much of a hurry, and he didn't have time to force every official in the capital to evacuate with him.

But what Zhu Youzhen naturally didn't expect was that as soon as he left, these scholars and doctors who stayed in the capital quickly surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Chen Yan knelt on the ground very humbly, put his black gauze hat on the ground, and prostrate on the ground: "Chen Yan, the first assistant of the former Ming Cabinet, greets His Majesty the Emperor Dashun!" ”

Other Ming Dynasty officials who remained in the capital were also busy shouting: "Long live my emperor" and the like.

Li Zicheng was very proud of this, and he walked into the capital with his head up.

Although, like Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng was also a peasant rebel and had a class hatred for Chen Yan and other scholars.

But Li Zicheng does not have Zhu Yuanzhang's forbearance skills.

Therefore, Li Zicheng despised these surrendered ministers in his heart, so he did not make any cover up and ignored Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's flattering smile was maintained for a long time, but his face stiffened with laughter, and he didn't see Li Zicheng send someone to invite him, so he couldn't help but feel a little lost.

Li Zicheng entered the palace.

He is now more interested in the throne that Zhu Youzhen once sat on.

However, when he stepped onto Dan Fan and walked to the golden imperial throne in the main hall, he saw a letter under the imperial throne.

Li Zicheng personally opened the letter.

This letter was left to Li Zicheng by Zhu Youzhen.

As a latecomer, and also considering his own safety, Zhu Youzhen decided to leave a letter to Li Zicheng before retreating south.

The content of the letter is to tell Li Zicheng who is the biggest threat to him now after he occupies the city of Beijing.

Zhu Youzhen explained the Jiannu outside the customs and Wu Sangui and himself at Shanhaiguan.

He hoped that Li Zicheng would understand that he was just a down-and-out emperor who was like a lost dog, and he couldn't make big waves in the short term, and it was impossible to reunify the north in a short time.

And the ones who really posed the biggest threat to him Li Zicheng were Wu Sangui and Jiannu.

Zhu Youzhen specially told Li Zicheng that the future pattern is likely to be the division of the north and the south.

However, such a situation of division between the north and the south, each of which is the emperor, needs a premise.

That is, Jiannu and Wu Sangui will not collude together to become a new force, and then take advantage of the fact that the emperor and you, Li Zicheng, are holding each other, to make a profit, and finally get this country.

"What a Chongzhen, I can see it clearly, but I don't understand, since you are so aware of the general trend of the world, why are you still losing so badly, and even losing the capital with you."

Li Zicheng couldn't help laughing after he said this, turned around and sat on the throne, touching it with some love.

Li Zicheng was not a fool in the end, and he also knew what Zhu Youzhen meant, and he also adopted Zhu Youzhen's opinion, so he did not use all his strength to go south to pursue Zhu Youzhen, on the contrary, he explicitly ordered the main force to rest in Beijing for ten days and prepare to go north.

At the same time, Li Zicheng also sent envoys to recruit Wu Sangui, and mobilized the elite of Dashun in Shanxi Province to gather in Xuanfu and Jizhou, in order to prevent Jiannu or Wu Sangui from going south.

It can be seen that Li Zicheng finally accepted Zhu Youzhen's opinion and focused on Jiannu and Wu Sangui.

Of course, Li Zicheng in history also chose this way.

After all, there is no need for Zhu Youzhen to say, Li Zicheng also knows that among the world, the only ones who can have combat power and have the strength to fight with his own Dashun army are Wu Sangui's Guanning cavalry and Jiannu's Eight Banners soldiers.

And Zhu Youzhen and other remnant forces are naturally not enough to worry about.

And Zhu Youzhen's initiative to show weakness also gave him such a chance to be a strong soldier.