Wherever the Dashun army went, the landlords and gentry in various places gradually accepted the rule of Dashun and were loyal to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng rose in the wilderness, of course, he knew that the vacuum of imperial power in the Ming Dynasty was in the vast countryside, these places were controlled by local clans, and the strength of the gentry was very huge, if they were forced to rebel, their previous military achievements would be greatly discounted.

However, the Dashun army surrendered a large number of Ming troops, as well as garrisons in various places, there are hundreds of thousands of troops, they all need military salaries, without military salaries, the surrendered Ming army will rebel again, and the previous Dashun army will also lose its restraint and become warlords who do not obey the call.

"Zong Min, we have overthrown the Ming Dynasty, we can't be as unruly as before, you are General Quan, you have to take the lead."

At this time, Li Zicheng's mind was still very clear, and Liu Zongmin saw that he didn't agree, so it was difficult to say anything, and he continued to surrender in the city with his subordinates.

After Li Zicheng waited for him to leave, he came to the palace, summoned the civil and military ministers who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and appeased them with good words, but there were some people who were not within the scope of his appeasement, such as Wei Dezao, the first assistant minister of the Chongzhen cabinet, whose brazen appearance made Li Zicheng disgusted and severely belittled Wei Dezao.

Wei Dezao was ashamed and self-conscious, and some civil and military ministers who were usually resolute in suppressing bandits were also ordered to be killed by Li Zicheng, but most of the middle and low-level civil and military ministers still stayed to serve the new dynasty.

In Bauhinia City, the remnants of the Ming army were gradually eliminated, at least on the bright side, there was no resistance, Liu Zongmin's troops rampaged in the capital, and the surrendered Ming army also began to accept the adaptation, from the Ming banner to the Dashun banner, without the slightest awkwardness, the three major firearms battalions in the capital were transformed into old gun battalions, and other surrendered armies such as Jinyiwei began to accept the leadership of the Dashun army.

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After the Chinese army entered Beijing, tens of thousands of regular soldiers of the Ming army were surrendered, some of whom were old, young, sick and disabled, and were sent home, leaving 20,000 strong and able-bodied people, all of whom were absorbed into the Chinese army.

Zhang Shun originally wanted to dismiss Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, two weak people, but later thought about it, there were more than 70 soldiers under his command, and they were still not full.

It was Ling Jingyang, who followed him back to the barracks and introduced himself to Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun knew Ling Jingyang's name and place of origin from him, and he didn't care about the rest.

In front of all his subordinates, he announced Ling Jingyang as the head of the fifth outpost, and then called all the soldiers of the fifth outpost over and asked them to say hello to Ling Jingyang one by one.

In this way, Ling Jingyang became the commander of the military post in the Dashun Army, serving as the lowest-ranking officer in the Dashun Army, Ling Jingyang took office, and the first thing was to order the disbandment of his subordinates and let his subordinates go back to rest, because he didn't want to lead Chongzhen and Wang Chengen to wander around in the barracks.

Ling Jingyang thought of one more thing, not long after, the battle of a stone is about to break out, the Dashun army in this battle, lost a lot of elite troops, if you can follow the forward army of the Dashun army to Shanhaiguan and participate in the battle of a stone, wouldn't it make the Dashun army in the city deflated and can't find Chongzhen?

He plans to participate in the forward army to Shanhaiguan, and needs the support of the entire army, although there are two big soldiers Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, but there are eight other soldiers, these eight people have four Ming soldiers, one boss Shun army, three liukou, and the equipment is also varied, some use three-eyed guns, some use spears, bows and arrows, and one liukou actually uses a broken knife.

The use of a broken knife, in Ling Jingyang's opinion, is a thing that must not be tolerated, the capital has weapons and ammunition, why does this rogue still use a broken knife?

This is disrespectful to the army, although Ling Jingyang has newly joined the Dashun Army, most of the soldiers in the barracks are the same as him, and they are also new recruits to the Dashun Army.

After Ling Jingyang ordered the dismissal of eight subordinates, he returned to the camp, and as the head of the outpost, he had a small room for rest, because Chongzhen and Wang Chengen were very conspicuous in the capital, and although they changed their clothes, there were still many people who knew each other.

So Ling Jingyang asked Chongzhen and Wang Chengen to rest in the room together, the two of them jumped into the room like rabbits, trying not to let outsiders see their figures, the three of them rested in the room until dark, and that night, Ling Jingyang came to the tent where Liukou and others lived.

The three rogues were the Dashun army that the king of Chuang had fled to on the way to attack the capital, and they were also honest peasants before, and they had no way to be hungry, and they also fell into the grass for the cowards, and after becoming the rogues, they became fierce, and followed the local rogues to do mischief, and the imperial court lost the control of the entire Beizhili and Hebei regions, and the local governments did not have the army and ability to suppress the rogues who walked everywhere, and these rogues could be slaughtered horizontally in the local area.

When Li Zicheng's army approached the capital, all forces along the way, whether it was the imperial court soldiers and horses, the rebel army, or the thieves and rogues, came to vote one after another, and the main forces to which these three people belonged also defected to the Dashun army.

The main force of the Liukou was dispersed to various armies, and hundreds of people were assigned to Liu Zongmin's Chinese army camp, and the Chinese army camp continued to be divided, because there were many generals and troops in the Dashun army, and there were only these three people who were assigned to Zhang Shun's department.

These three people are also old oilers on the battlefield, fighting with the Ming army, the wind is good, and the headwind is dispersed, after Ling Jingyang came to the barracks, he felt that these three subordinates were useless, but after all, they were also their own subordinates, so it was impossible to take one foot, right?

When the three of them saw Ling Jingyang coming to them, they quickly got up from the ground, and one of them quietly stuffed a package under the mat.

Ling Jingyang asked, "What is it, take it out?" ”

The three of them were silent, and at this time, Chongzhen and Wang Chengen also came behind Ling Jingyang, and they felt that they should be with Ling Jingyang all the time, at least have a care.

Liukou saw Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, two expressionless soldiers, following behind the sentry, the three of them had been mixing in Liukou and the army for some days, and they were also smart people, one of them hurriedly took out the package, which was full of white flowers and silver, but there were blood stains on some of the silver.

Ling Jingyang saw that the silver was all bloody, and it must have been these three people who killed people and robbed the goods, squinted his eyes and said, "Where did you get this silver?" ”

After the Liukou entered the capital, they really couldn't stand the wealth of the big families in the capital, but they watched with their eyes, so they quietly slipped into a house, killed all five members of the family, and robbed fifty taels of silver.

How dare they say that the silver was robbed by murder, and one of them said: "Sentry, this silver was picked up by the brothers from the road, and I don't know which rebels killed and robbed them, maybe they robbed too much silver, and they fell to the ground carelessly, and were picked up by a few of us." ”

After finishing speaking, half of the silver was distributed from the package to Ling Jingyang, Ling Jingyang didn't even look at it, and on the way to the barracks, Zhang Shun told him that His Majesty ordered that after the Dashun army entered the city, no sergeant should burn and plunder, and those who violated the order would be killed.

Ling Jingyang pretended to look at the three of them inadvertently, they all had calluses, they should all be sergeants who had been using weapons for a long time, and they could barely kill the three of them, but Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, the two side effects people, were here, and it was inconvenient for him to show his hands and feet.

So after he took the silver, he smiled and said, "If you know something, wash and sleep, and take me to familiarize yourself with the other sentinels tomorrow." ”

Ling Jingyang pretended to be generous and stuffed twenty-five taels of silver into Chongzhen's hands, and motioned to Chongzhen to put the silver in his trouser pocket to paralyze the three of them.

The three rogues sent Ling Jingyang away, and they all took a long breath in their hearts, but they scolded this newcomer in their hearts for being really hateful, and they actually snatched half of the silver at once, which they snatched at the risk of killing their heads, and the three of them couldn't swallow this breath, and they actually plotted to kill Ling Jingyang in the next battle, and cut off Ling Jingyang's head as a ball.

Ling Jingyang didn't know about the conspiracy of these three people, he took Chongzhen and the others to the room of the boss Shun army, because the Dashun army occupied the capital, and the troops were scattered all over the capital, and almost every army had a large barracks.

The boss Shunjun has old qualifications, and Zhang Shun is the same, he is assigned to a small room, he sits in the room, carefully wipes the iron knife, this iron knife has followed him for many years, and there are dozens of Ming soldiers who died under the knife, if it weren't for the words, he is at least in charge of the flag now, one level higher than Zhang Shun's seven-pin headquarters.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open by Ling Jingyang coldly, which scared him a lot, it was Ling Jingyang who came in with a smile, otherwise he really thought that Ling Jingyang was the remnant of the Ming army in the city, and he fought with Ling Jingyang with a knife.

Seeing clearly that it was the new sentinel chief, he said lukewarmly: "It's the sentinel chief, it's a long way off." ”

Ling Jingyang didn't know the real name of the boss Shunjun at all, and Zhang Shun and the old steamed bun were not familiar with it, because of the large number of people in the barracks, many soldiers are comrades-in-arms today, and tomorrow they will be separated by yin and yang, just tell Ling Jingyang that the nickname of the boss Shunjun is enough, and Ling Jingyang is embarrassed to ask more, how can there be the nickname of the old steamed bun?

"Brother Mantou, this is the silver picked up by the three cubs, I will ask them to give me half of it, Brother Mantou is my predecessor in the Dashun Army, I will give you half of this silver."

The old steamed bun suddenly pulled his old face, as the boss of the Shun army, he was very unaccustomed to the Ming army that surrendered later, as well as the uneven rebels in various places, etc., most of them had no discipline, and when fighting the enemy, there was a slight setback, and they fell in the wind, grabbed things, and were all good hands.

Before His Majesty entered the city, he repeatedly ordered that there should be no chaos in the city, but there were still some mongrels who ignored the holy order and burned and plundered in the city, and this morning they had killed dozens of soldiers who disobeyed the holy order, but now they suddenly found that their comrades-in-arms were also burning and plundering, and the old man's mouth was crooked.