Chapter 33: Chasing the Poor

Wu Sangui and Li Yutian led the army and chased to the northeast in two ways, leaving behind a mess and still burning Jianyu camp.

There were too few Ming troops left in Shanhaiguan to be able to extinguish the fire. I had to let it burn.

At present, all you can do is to divide into several squads and slowly collect loot under the premise of ensuring safety.

Zhu Youjian, accompanied by Wang Chengen, Ni Yuanlu and other five people, went out of Shanhaiguan and came to the abandoned Jianyu military camp.

Looking at the raging fire and the dust trampled by the Daming Iron Horse, Zhu Youjian remembered the masterpiece of the great man.

After stealing the beams and changing the pillars, he chanted loudly:

"Wolves and tigers are mad,

Swords, swords, shadows, mountains and seas.

It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery,

Don't sell your name as a scholar. ”

"This poem is really a famous sentence through the ages, majestic, rare to see in ancient and modern times!" Ling Yiqu heard Chongzhen's poem, and praised it half-sincerely and half-flatteringly.

Zhu Youjian smiled faintly, didn't explain, let alone explain, I saw him with his hands behind his back, with an expression of I am a great writer, and walked towards the depths of the camp.

Li Yan did not go to the city, he belonged to an unidentified person, and he was still under special management. He looked at the burning camp with an expression of disbelief.

In the fierce battles of the past few days, Li Yan thought several times that the Ming Dynasty would undoubtedly lose. Of course, he was mainly worried about the ravages of the people by entering the Central Plains after Jianyu broke the city, and he was even more worried about whether the invading army could block the iron hooves of Jianjiao.

The Chuang army can be on par with the Guanning army, and that is because the soldiers are consumed by the exiles during the siege.

However, unlike the Jianyu cavalry, they can rush into the wandering militia and slash and kill at will, and the consumption of armaments and materials is extremely limited.

In addition, in order to plunder, Jianyu didn't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place, let alone the life and death of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

At the very least, the Dashun regime will fall!

However, the extremely vicious Jianyu was blocked by Chongzhen, and even counterattacked and annihilated!

Unbelievable!

Zhu Youzhen, who grew up in sweet water and has been glorious and wealthy all his life, where did he come from with his amazing strategy, where did he come from with such blood, and where did he come from with extraordinary skills!

If there is no Jianyu, no natural disasters, will Chongzhen really be attacked by King Chuang?

Li Yan fell into deep thought.

Zhu Youjian looked at Dolgon's Chinese military tent, and a sense of accomplishment arose, and he pondered which verses were appropriate for the occasion......

"Holy Lord, it is very dangerous to send all the centaurs out to pursue Dolgon." Ni Yuanlu said worriedly.

"This old man Ni is blind and compares, disturbing my poetry!" Zhu Youjian slandered.

"When you beat the water dogs, you can't be soft, there are fewer soldiers, and I don't feel at ease. If the two generals handle it properly, maybe they can recover Jinzhou in one go this time! ”

Zhu Youjian put away his complaints, looked at the raging fire, and said firmly.

"But there are only the Flying Dragon Army and the Holy Guard's personal guards left in Shanhaiguan, which is really ......"

"Are you still afraid that Li Zicheng will not succeed?" Zhu Youjian interrupted Ni Yuanlu's words with a smile.

"Holy ten thousand gold body, it's better to be careful." Ni Yuanlu said sincerely.

"Hahaha...... Li Zicheng was already frightened, let alone counterattacking Shanhaiguan, even the Jingshi didn't dare to hold on! I predict that he will flee to Shaanxi today! Zhu Youjian smiled easily. Instead of worrying about safety, Ni Qing should plan to recover Juyong Pass! ”

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Jizhou City.

Gao Di took the 8,000 cavalry gathered up, looked at the empty Jizhou City, and despised Li Zicheng a hundred times in his heart.

What kind of dog X broke into the king, just this little guts, he didn't even have the courage to kill a horse pistol, and he didn't even have the courage to stick to Jizhou, so he ran wildly.

Don't call it the king of breaking, just call it the king of running!

Thanks to this, I slowed down and was careful to be vigilant, probing everywhere, for fear of being ambushed.

"Send the herald and continue to gather the 2,000 cavalry that are trailing!"

"Order!"

"The army immediately marched and went straight to the Jingshi! The great achievement of recovering the capital master must be my highest! Gao Di waved his big hand, full of pride.

Historically, the Battle of Shanhaiguan ended in a crushing defeat for the Dashun army, although the Qing army's combat effectiveness was strong, which is a fact, but Dolgon waited for Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng to fight two days before suddenly killing, taking advantage of waiting for work.

After entering the customs, it relied on the strength of many Han people.

Especially in the early days of entering the customs, Dolgon, together with Wu Sangui, under the banner of avenging Chongzhen, recruited hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in the north. The Ming generals who had surrendered to Li Zicheng before rebelled one after another, surrendered to Dolgon, and served the Qing Dynasty.

And Li Zicheng's defeat this time, if handled properly, is entirely likely to be resolved into a partial and temporary defeat.

In this battle, except for Liu Zongmin who was wounded and Li Shuangxi was killed, many generals did not die in battle, and the losses of the Dashun army were not large, and a counteroffensive could be organized in a timely manner.

Dorgon also considered that "the thieves have been rampant for a long time, and they should not be underestimated." Therefore, Dolgon had concerns about whether he could defeat Li Zicheng.

It's a pity that Li Zicheng didn't know what the reason was, so he directly abandoned the Gyeonggi region and went straight to Xi'an, leaving the vast areas of Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other provinces to Dolgon.

Plainly made Dolgon's military prestige.

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Jingshi, noon gate.

Li Zicheng rode a swarthy horse and wore a felt hat, and looked at the men and women kneeling on the ground with anger on his face.

His eyes were full of anger, as if what he saw was not Wu Sangui's family, but Wu Sangui himself.

Dozens of executioners, shirtless, holding ghost-headed broadswords, with fierce eyes in their eyes, stood majestically beside the trembling men, women, and children.

The peerless beauty Chen Yuanyuan is also among them, she has been ruined by Liu Zongmin several times, her face is haggard, and all thoughts are discouraged.

As one of the "Qin Huai Bayan", she is a famous prostitute who is unique in color and art, and her name moves Jiangzuo, but since she followed Wu Sangui, she has been guarding herself like jade and guarding women's ways.

Who wants to be looked down upon by Liu Zongmin, and he is taken captive alive, and his already unclean body is even more dirty.

At this point, she just wanted to die quickly.

Li Zicheng looked at this red face and was angry. If she hadn't seduced Liu Zongmin, Wu Sangui might not have surrendered to Jianyu.

At this time, Li Zicheng still didn't know that it was Emperor Chongzhen who defeated him, and he was still worried about the sudden arrival of the Jianyu cavalry.

He looked at this so-called culprit, and was resentful, and patted his horse over, and was about to cut off the head of this scourge with his own hands.

"Kill ......"

There was a sound of killing, and there were thousands of people.

Li Zicheng was shocked, there were only 50 people around him. The army was assembled in the west of the city, and the killing was by no means his own.

If someone rebels, the little people around him can't protect him.

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng pulled the reins and took the people around him to Fuchengmen.

Revenge or not is not more important than saving your life!

Wu Sangui's family was confused when they saw the soldiers who left suddenly. Because he was tightly tied, it was difficult to get up for a while.

The sound of killing gradually approached, and I saw a white-bearded old man riding a brown horse, leading more than a thousand miscellaneous soldiers, coming in the dust.

When he saw the Wu family still kneeling outside the noon gate, he was greatly relieved.

This person is Li Banghua.

On the same day, he was overjoyed to learn that Chongzhen had successfully escaped from the predicament, and when Fan Jingwen told him that Chongzhen was going to Shanhaiguan, Li Banghua volunteered to stay in Beijing as an internal response.

Seeing Li Zicheng's remnants returning to Beijing last night, the soldiers were all dressed in rags and their expressions were gloomy, and they knew that Wu Sangui had won.

Thinking of Li Zicheng's brutality, knowing that he would definitely kill the Wu family to vent his anger, he summoned the old department overnight and struggled to gather this miscellaneous soldier of less than 1,000 people.

Knowing that he was not an opponent of the intruder, he had to shout in unison in the distance, hoping to scare away the intruder.

Who knew that Li Zicheng had already been frightened, and when he heard the shouts of killing, he really fled desperately.

When the Wu family saw the visitor, although they didn't know who it was, they were sure that they would not be beheaded, and they all cried with joy and kowtowed to Li Banghua again and again.

"You don't have to wait like this, Mr. Wu killed the thieves, and I should try my best to protect the Wu family. In this way, it is worthy of the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty! Li Banghua sighed.

After ordering someone to send the immortal Wu family back to the mansion, he rushed to a barracks in the city, where he had already arranged an important matter.

At this time, the remnants of the camp had already assembled at Fuchengmen, and as soon as Li Zicheng arrived, he was ready to retreat westward.

These are all cavalry, and they are the capital of Li Zicheng's comeback. And those ladies and families have long been thrown by him in the city.

He even ordered some of the female dependents to lead them to the east, hoping to drag the elite soldiers of the Jurchens.

Li Zicheng called Li Laiheng, Li Shuangxi and others before the battle, issued military orders, and went to the only carriage in the whole army to visit the seriously injured Liu Zongmin.

Then with a heavy heart, he ordered the pull-out.

"Woo...... Ahhhh......h

A burst of crying came, and there were a large number of people, Li Zicheng was shocked and looked back.

It's actually the family members of the breaking army.

"What's going on, how did they find here." Li Zicheng was incredulous.

Hearing the cry, the intruders who had just finished lining up were in a mess, and some of the soldiers even broke away from the team and ran back to find their families.

"Don't leave the team! No departures! Li Shuangxi and the others shouted, trying their best to organize the team.

However, there were too many soldiers who left the team to stop them, and at the same time, the families of the soldiers had already rushed into the queue to find their own family members.

When someone learned that her husband and son had died in battle, she began to cry on the spot, and for a while, the crying shook the sky and chaos was in chaos.

Li Banghua watched from a distance, showed a mysterious smile, waved his horsewhip, left this place, and headed towards the east of the city.

Li Banghua ran out of the city for more than 20 miles, met a scout sent by Gao Di, and revealed his identity.

The scout didn't know whether he was friend or foe, and he didn't dare to act rashly, so he had to send someone back to deliver the message.

Li Banghua knew that time was waiting for no one, and he was very anxious, but the scout rider just wouldn't let people go, and he had no choice but to force his impatience, dismount and wait.

Half an hour later, the army finally arrived, and Gao Yi took the lead and rushed straight over.

"Where's Lord Li?" Gaudi shouted loudly.

When Li Banghua heard this, he was very excited. It seems that Fan Jingwen has informed Guan Ningjun of his identity.

Otherwise, he was really afraid that Guan Ningjun would treat him as a surrender official and kill him indiscriminately.

It's small if you die, but it's big to delay the military plane!

"This official Li Banghua, dare to ask the general, but the general is the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan?" Li Banghua asked politely.

"It's Xia Guan. The saint has already informed the identity of Lord Li, I don't know what Lord Li means by coming here? Can Li Zicheng's army be deployed in the city? Gaudi asked eagerly.

"This official is here to inform you of this. The thieves did not dare to defend the Beijing division, and led 10,000 remnants of the army to gather outside Fucheng Gate to flee west. The official drove his family members to follow, which should have slowed down the thief army, and the general soldier Gao pursued as soon as possible, and killed the thief today! ”

When he heard this, he ordered the whole army to march at full speed and shouted.

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Li Zicheng saw that the soldiers and their families were entangled, and although he was in a hurry, he did not dare to drive them apart wantonly, so he had to let the soldiers and their relatives evacuate with the army.

Those who did not find their relatives were left to fend for themselves outside the Fucheng Gate.

Gao Di ran 40 miles, bypassing the faltering family members of the invading army, and finally saw the invading army, and his heart was overjoyed.

"Charge with all your might! Kill Li Zicheng! Gao Di shouted, and the army rushed forward.

When Li Zicheng heard the sound of killing, he looked back and saw that the pursuers were less than 10,000 people, and he wanted to fight back, but he was worried that the enemy still had a rear team, so he immediately gave up resistance.

Decisively left behind the baggage and the soldiers who carried their families, took some light horses, and fled all the way to the west.