"Well, I just don't know what the group of people in Ying Tianfu will feel and do?"

Li Zicheng refers to the small court established by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Yingtianfu after the capital was broken by the Dashun army, and they admired the blessed king Zhu Yousong as the new emperor, if this Zhu Youzhen is true, then Zhu Yousong has no legitimacy and must abdicate, so the group of people who pushed him to the throne will not recognize Zhu Youzhen?

This is something that Song Xiance did not expect, but Li Zicheng thinks that the group of people in the south of the Yangtze River, regardless of the fact that the capital was breached, the Qing army entered the customs and occupied a large number of cities in Jiangbei, and they were still fighting for who to make the emperor, and they could not achieve a big deal.

He and Song Xiance said: "That group of people is a group of mud, no soldiers and no money, Zuo Liangyu, Jiangbei Four Towns and other warlords are also a group of remnants of defeated generals, they have no strength, and they don't have the vision to cross the river to fight for the world." ”

But Li Zicheng is worried that these people will do some ridiculous things in the future, after all, they are a group of people without discipline, without waiting for him to speak, Song Xiance asked him for instructions, how should he interact with the Chongzhen Emperor of Taiyuan Mansion, is to resist the Qing army with them, drive the Qing army out, and compete for the world?

This statement was strongly opposed by Liu Zongmin, another high-level general of the Dashun Army, who believed that this Chongzhen was a fake son of heaven found by Jiang Hao and Ling Jingyang from which ravine, and he should send troops to destroy it in time and recapture the central and southern parts of Shanxi, which is also worthy of the spirit of the Dashun Army for so many years and the soldiers who died in battle.

Li Zicheng shook his head and said to him: "Whether it is true or false, we must treat him as true, we are now in a hurry to destroy him, those remnant Ming forces that have fallen to us will follow the Qing army with all their hearts, and those forces who want to oppose the Qing Dynasty will also follow the tide and follow the Qing army to continue fighting." ”

Speaking of this, Song Xiance also said to Liu Zongmin: "General Liu, if we destroy this Ming Emperor who doesn't know whether it is true or false again, the small court in Jiangnan will also regard our army as a mortal enemy, and will attack our army with the Qing army. ”

Liu Zongmin said that he couldn't say that Song Xiance, seeing that Li Zicheng didn't want to destroy the Ming army in Taiyuan Mansion, he was a little disheartened, so he said that his wounds had not healed, and told the two of them to retreat to the room to sleep.

After he left, Li Zicheng and Song Xiance said: "I decree that soldiers and horses from all over the country are not allowed to attack the Ming Emperor of Taiyuan Mansion, and they must not let the Qing army take Taiyuan Mansion in one pot." ”

Song Xiance comprehended the divine understanding, drafted the holy decree overnight, and the fast horse that set off from Xi'an City conveyed it to the generals of the Dashun Army in various places, and even the Dashun Army troops fighting in the Huguang area also received the holy decree.

Unlike Dolgon and Li Zicheng, the small court of the Ming Dynasty in Yingtianfu received top-secret information from Jiangbei Xizuo early one morning, saying that the dead Emperor Chongzhen had come back to life.

Jiang Huang, the general of Datong, Shanxi, and Ling Jingyang, the left mighty general of the Dashun Army, were escorted and re-enthroned in Taiyuan Mansion.

Ma Shiying and others, who got the news, were shocked and hurriedly went to the palace to ask to see Emperor Hongguang.

After Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong got the news that Zhu Youzhen was still alive, he also had a big mouth, he was the closest clan vassal king in blood other than Zhu Youzhen and the prince, Zhu Youzhen was still alive, isn't he a joke as an emperor?

He looked at Ma Shiying a little blankly, Ma Shiying was also blinded, he and Zhu Yousong said: "Your Majesty, I don't know if this news is true or false, this Jiang Jiu is also a repeated villain, the Majesty he supports, maybe which one of the clans that luckily did not die in the hands of the Qing army and thieves, please cheer up, lead me to the south of the Yangtze River, the Central Plains, and recover the homeland." ”

"En, what Aiqing said is very true."

Zhu Yousong was halfway through speaking, and suddenly remembered other things, and said to Ma Shiying: "Aiqing, the military salaries given to the four towns in Jiangbei have been sufficient, and they are guarding our defense line." ”

Speaking of the four towns of Jiangbei, Ma Shiying was in a trance, the four towns of Jiangbei, headed by Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo, were stationed in Huai'an, Yangzhou, Zhenzhou, Shouzhou and other places, and they were also the military fortress of the Hongguang Imperial Court to resist the Dashun army and the Qing army.

Ma Shiying suddenly cried with a sad face, and complained to Zhu Yousong: "Your Majesty, I can't make ends meet in the New Year, and I have exhausted all the silver to the four towns in Jiangbei, and I also ask Your Majesty to take the lead in donating money for military salaries." ”

Hearing that he was going to donate money, Zhu Yousong was also in pain, so he quickly changed the topic, it was still Emperor Chongzhen, he asked Ma Shiying to send the powerful ministers of the court to sneak into Shanxi to see if His Majesty in Taiyuan Mansion was real?

"Your Majesty, what if that's true?"

Zhu Yousong's face changed, and after a long time, he slowly said: "Do you want to recognize him as true, or fake?" ”

There were only two people in the room, he and Ma Shiying, Ma Shiying gritted his teeth and said to him: "Your Majesty, Taiyuan Mansion is a puppet emperor, and my Ming Zhentianzi is His Majesty in front of the old minister." ”

"Well, let's say it's true, he was also beaten by Li Zicheng and fled, and when we gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan, at this time he came out, didn't he pick up ready-made?"

The two monarchs and ministers decided not to recognize Emperor Chongzhen of Taiyuan Mansion, and secretly ordered the Jiangnan Ming army to continue to form an alliance with the Qing army to attack the Dashun army and the Jiangbei puppet emperor, but this secret order was limited to a few high-ranking civil and military ministers, and other soldiers and civilians were still in the dark.

He did this because he was one of the four towns in Jiangbei, and there were civil and military officials in Tianfu who supported him.

If Zhu Youzhen is reinstated, the dragon skills of the civil and military ministers who support Zhu Yousong will be turned into ashes, and the power will also return to the hands of the civil and military ministers of Shuntianfu, which is something they absolutely cannot tolerate.

The next day, Ma Shiying ordered his elite soldiers to infiltrate Shanxi, and at the same time, Shi Kefa, who supervised the army in Yangzhou, also selected capable people to go to Shanxi to see if His Majesty was real.

The performance of the four towns in Jiangbei is different, Huang Degong is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, not loyal to Zhu Youzhen or Zhu Yousong, whoever is the emperor is the same, Gao Jie is different, he used to be Li Zicheng's best general, and later committed adultery with Li Zicheng's wife, gave Li Zicheng a green hat, afraid of being killed by Li Zicheng, he actually surrendered to the Ming army with his troops and became a pawn of the Ming army.

He also supported the strategy of the Hongguang Imperial Court to unite with the Qing army to pacify the Dashun army, and suddenly heard that Emperor Chongzhen came out of Taiyuan Mansion, and also ordered the whole country to join forces with the Dashun army to expel Jiannu, which is absolutely unacceptable, he can go on a bloody battle with the Qing army in the north and regain the lost territory, but he must not join forces with the Dashun army, then he will die a miserable death.

As for Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, the two of them have long had different ambitions, and they only know how to ask the court for money, and as for the army construction and the defense of Jiangbei, they are all put aside, and they don't care very much about whether Chongzhen is still alive.

However, the attitude of the monarchs and ministers of the Hongguang court affected Zuo Liangyu and his army in Huguang.

Although Zuo Liangyu belonged to the Hongguang Dynasty to listen to the army sequence, but his main force was annihilated by the Dashun army in several major battles, and later re-formed troops to garrison Wuchang, although the territory is large, there are many soldiers, but most of the soldiers are new soldiers, and there are not a few veterans left.

He heard that Emperor Chongzhen was still alive, and the generals were surprised, but he scoffed, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Battle of Zhuxian Town broke out during the Third Battle of Luoyang, and the Ming army led by him was completely defeated by the Dashun army.

In that battle, he lost almost all the main forces, retreated to Huguang in a hurry, and then there were signs of listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement, and he was unwilling to continue to be called by the emperor in the capital.

Until the capital was broken by the Dashun army, he did not raise troops to go north, opened up the North Zhili Channel, and took His Majesty from the capital to Huguanglai, but he had contradictions with the Hongguang court, who the Hongguang court supported, he would oppose whom, he had many allies in Yingtianfu, and many people told him privately that the court did not want to admit that Emperor Chongzhen of Taiyuan Mansion was the true son of heaven.

After getting this exact news, Zuo Liangyu immediately decided to support Emperor Chongzhen of Taiyuan Prefecture, and also asked his right-hand man to go to Shanxi to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

As for King Fu in Zhejiang, Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, He Tengjiao in the west of Huguang, and the Ming army in the Liangguang region, they have also selected elite soldiers to sneak into Shanxi, and there are more hot-blooded men, regardless of whether Emperor Chongzhen of Taiyuan Mansion is true or not, he pulled up the team and ran to Taiyuan Mansion.

For a time, the north and south of the river, the wind and clouds surged, there were righteous troops in all parts of the country advancing towards Shanxi, the Qing army in Henan, Shandong and other places The enemy increased, not only to fight with the Dashun army, but also to block the advance of the righteous army to Shanxi, the Qing army was exhausted, forcing Dolgon to order to shrink the front again, and at the same time transfer all the withdrawn soldiers and horses to Xuanfu Town, next door to Datong Mansion, to support the Azig Department fighting in Datong Mansion.

Azig did not achieve a complete victory in the battle of Datong Mansion, the early battle of besieging Datong City was very smooth, successfully eliminated the Dashun army of the Acropolis near Datong Mansion, and began to bombard Datong City, but the city of Datong was thick with high walls, and the Qing Hongyi artillery bombarded for dozens of days, but did not completely knock down a city wall, and the strong attack was repelled by the defenders.

Soon after, Bolo withdrew with the remnants of the defeated army, and behind Bolo, it was the Dashun army led by Bai Minghe, chasing and killing Datong City all the way.

Azig was not afraid of danger, and decisively ordered Meng Baqi, Ming Baqi to give up the siege, and he personally led to meet Bolo, forced back the reinforcements of the Dashun army, and rescued Bolo, Tian Jianxiu and Dang Shousu in the city also rushed out of the city when Bai Minghe's reinforcements arrived, but were repelled by the army led by Tulai, Geng Zhongming and others.

So the two armies fought on the spot under the city of Datong, and after a few days of bloody fighting, they suffered heavy losses.

The commanders of the two armies received the news of the reinstatement of Emperor Chongzhen's Taiyuan Mansion almost at the same time one night, and the commanders of the two armies were at a loss, not knowing whether to continue the fight or withdraw.

After all, they were all enemies of Emperor Chongzhen once, but at this time, Emperor Chongzhen once again reappeared in the world, and there was no reason for them to continue fighting.

Soon after, the two received the latest orders from their respective superiors to temporarily stop fighting and wait and see.

So Azig led the troops to withdraw from Datong Province to Xuanfu Town, and continued to exert military pressure in the northeast of Datong Province, so that the Dashun army did not dare to take a step forward in Datong Province.

In the middle of July, the entire land of the Central Plains, no, it should be the entire land of China, fell into a pre-dawn silence, and all forces were gearing up and secretly accumulating strength.

On the surface, they are all harmless to humans and animals, and behind them they are desperately searching for resources in the jurisdiction, actively preparing for war, waiting for the enemy to attack, so as to reap the benefits of the fishermen in the back.

The thunderstorms in summer will wash away the blood stains on the battlefield, and a bigger storm is about to set off in the land of China, only the Chongzhen court in the center of the eye of the storm has the fastest growth in strength, and the fastest growth in strength is because their strength is too weak, only if there is an army to defect, the strength will also be qualitatively improved.

In Shanxi, two-thirds of the green battalion soldiers came to Taiyuan Mansion and became Jiang Jiu's generals again, and in Henan, Beizhili and other places, there were also a large number of green battalion soldiers who were unwilling to serve the Qing army, and the righteous army who were unwilling to return to the Dashun army also broke through the Qing army blockade line and came to Taiyuan Mansion to become the available soldiers and horses of the Chongzhen court.

Zhu Youzhen ate and drank well in Yuci City, and every day he either appointed Wenchen military generals, or watched the sunrise and sunset with Wang Chengen, who was recuperating in the harem, and soon after, Zhu Youzhen had another task in Yuci City, that is, to meet people from all over the world every day.

In fact, with his body as a son of heaven, he couldn't pay attention to this gratifying audience at all, but Ling Jingyang said to him: "Your Majesty, if you don't show up, how will they know if you are true or false." ”

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, it's true, aren't these people who came to see him sent by various local forces to see him?

At this time, revealing his true body, it is a good thing, he endured physical fatigue, and received an endless stream of people with a smile every day, there were many messengers from Jiangnan, after seeing Zhu Youzhen, he was moved by painful tears, some people are true temperament, some people are hypocritical, but when they are crying, they are giving advice to the master behind them.

On the one hand, Ling Jingyang protected Zhu Youzhen, on the other hand, as the governor of the Five Armies, he actively recruited troops and horses in Yuci City.

He first resumed commerce, let the four major families, Fan Honghuo, establish shops in the city he ruled, and revitalize trade, and asked Wang Mu, Mi Shengguang and other officials to recruit displaced people, cultivate the land, and prepare for the autumn harvest.

The second is Yuci City, he wants to build this city into a military fortress, and appoints Jin Dashou as the city construction envoy, responsible for repairing and strengthening Yuci City.

On the other hand, on behalf of Emperor Chongzhen, he incorporated all kinds of soldiers and horses into the army, Jiang Huang and he said in advance, His Majesty can be in Yuci City, but the army that came to defect must have three-fifths of them report to Taiyuan City, and become his Jiang Huang's troops.

Ling Jingyang readily agreed to him, after all, Jiang Xuan was the strongest in Taiyuan Mansion, not only that, Jiang Xuan's power was getting bigger and bigger, he ordered Jiang Xuan to go south to occupy Qinzhou and Liaozhou, and consolidate the eastern and southern defense lines of Taiyuan Mansion.