dragged on until three o'clock, and Li Zicheng finally led the Chinese army into the city from Zhengyangmen.

As far as the eye can see, I saw that both sides of Zhengyangmen Street were already crowded with welcoming people.

Seeing Li Zicheng riding a green barge horse, the hundreds of thousands of people in Beijing and the servants of wealthy families who crowded both sides of the street cheered hysterically.

"Open the gates of the city and meet the king!"

"King Chuang is here and won't pay for food!"

"Long live King Chuang! Long live the king! ”

In the hundreds of thousands of people's slaves, Li Zicheng led Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan and Liu Fangliang and other civil and military generals to urge the horse forward with great ambition.

From Zhengyang Gate to Chengtian Gate is almost 600 steps,

[Note: 1 step in the Ming Dynasty = 5 feet = 1.6 meters]

Li Zicheng and the others walked for more than a quarter of an hour.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Zicheng finally stood under the Chengtian Gate.

I saw that both sides of the gate were already kneeling with Ming civil and military officials.

Among them, there are many first-class members wearing bullfighting suits and even python robes.

Li Zicheng's gaze went beyond these demoted officials and looked at the plaque of Chengtianmen.

Looking at the three gilded characters of "Chengtianmen" on the plaque, Li Zicheng was full of emotion.

In the second year of Chongzhen, when he and his nephew Li Guo killed officials and rebelled, how could they have thought that there would be today?

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang had 100,000 soldiers, and defeated the righteous army with the strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net", and he only took Liu Zongmin and other 17 horses to escape into Shangluo Mountain, how could he have thought that there would be today?

Last year, he led the army to defeat Sun Chuanting and break through Tongguan Dingdingguan, but he was just thinking about tearing the earth and sealing the king, how could he have thought that there would be today?

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it.

This Beijing city was really taken down.

Huanghuang Daming, he really died!

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng could no longer hold back the surging emotions in his heart.

"Bring the bow." As soon as Li Zicheng stretched out his hand, Liu Zongmin, the general of the Dashun military power and the Marquis of Ru, immediately presented a treasure carved bow and a carved arrow.

"Good bow." Li Zicheng swept the bow in his hand.

"Ladies and gentlemen, watch me shoot an arrow through this Ming sky!"

Immediately pulled the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at the plaque on the Chengtian Gate.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Liu Fangliang and other civil and military officers opened their mouths together, waiting to congratulate loudly, but before they could say anything, they were stuck in their throats.

Because Li Zicheng's arrow was shot low.

Li Ziwei deliberately wanted to shoot the word sky.

But in the end, it shot in the middle of the word Tianzi and the door word at the bottom.

This is only about 20 steps away, but it actually missed, which is really embarrassing.

Seeing this, Liu Zongmin and other henchmen showed a constipated look, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh.

Song Xiance, the left military division of Dashun, hurriedly leaned into Niu Jinxing's ear and whispered a few words, and Niu Jinxing immediately said loudly: "The Lord shot an arrow into the sky, it can be seen that it is the will of heaven for the Li family to replace the Zhu family in this world." ”

After a pause, Niu Jinxing almost roared out in an accentuated tone: "The Lord is even more destiny, otherwise my Dashun Army would never have captured Beijing so quickly and destroyed Zhu Ming!" ”

Song Xiance immediately echoed: "Minister, congratulations to the Lord!" ”

At this time, Liu Zongmin and others also reacted, and they followed to congratulate Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was in a good mood, looked sideways at Niu Jinxing and said with a smile: "What the prime minister said is always right." ”

After a pause, Li Zicheng threw the treasure carving bow at Liu Zongmin, and shouted loudly: "Enter the imperial city!" ”

Liu Zongmin laughed, and then shouted: "Come on, immediately send me troops to seal the Forbidden City, the Pseudo-Ming Hubu Tai Warehouse, and Chongzhen Xiao'er's Inner Court Key Vault!" ”

The first two things to do when entering the city are to arrest people and rob money.

The person to be arrested is Chongzhen, and it is the money that is robbed of the Ming treasury and Chongzhen's internal funds.

However, as soon as Liu Zongmin's words fell, a fast horse galloped to Song Xiance's side.

Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "Military Division, is there any news from Chaoyangmen?" ”

After listening to the report of the sentry horseman, Song Xiance immediately bowed and said: "Go back to the lord, there is news." ”

"Really?" Liu Zongmin's expression moved slightly, and he hurriedly asked, "What happened to those loud noises just now?" ”

Song Xiance said solemnly: "The puppet emperor Chongzhen personally led the forbidden army to break through from Chaoyangmen, and the loud noises just now were made when the puppet Ming forbidden army detonated the gunpowder. ”

"Huh?" Li Zicheng was a little surprised.

Chongzhen Xiao'er actually had the courage to lead the forbidden army to break through from Chaoyangmen?

However, Li Zicheng is not too worried about this, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, except for Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army, which can barely withstand a battle, the rest are just local chickens and dogs.

Chongzhen Xiaoer wants to break through? Pipe dream!

Liu Zongmin also laughed and said, "Chongzhen Xiao'er is so anxious to get on the road? ”

In addition to Li You's 5,000 elite soldiers outside Chaoyangmen, there are also more than 100,000 Beijing battalion soldiers.

So many people just stand still and let Chongzhen cut it, and they have to cut it until the Year of the Monkey.

"Decree the right mighty general, don't harm Chongzhen's life." Li Zicheng specially advised.

Although Li Zicheng hated Chongzhen to the core, he didn't want to bear the infamy of killing the monarch, not to mention that in order to strengthen the legitimacy of the Great Shun Dynasty, it was best to force Chongzhen to abdicate the throne, which would not let him die.

……

There is no need for Li Zicheng's subordinates to show mercy, because Chongzhen has already led the army out of the siege.

Le Ma turned his head and looked at the towering arrow tower of Chaoyang Gate from afar, Zhu Gaoyuan was a little distracted.

Zhu Gaoyuan expected that there was a great chance to break through, but he never expected to be able to break through so smoothly, and the entire process of breaking through hardly suffered decent resistance.

There were more than 600 horsemen before the breakthrough, but when they broke out, they actually became more than 700 horsemen.

Because many soldiers robbed or picked up the war horses abandoned by the thieves on the battlefield, although the number was smaller, there were more than 100 war horses.

And Gong Yonggu and other noble officials have a sense of being separated from the world.

Escaped? They escaped from the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of thieves?

Wang Chengen pinched his thigh even harder, to determine if this was just Huang Liang's dream?

Sure that it was not a dream, Wang Chengen couldn't help but be surprised and exclaimed: "Holy Lord, we have broken out!" ”

Wang Chengen's voice also woke up Wang Jiayan and the others, and they cried with joy one by one: "Taizu Taizong has a spirit in the sky, and the saint is blessed with Qitian, Daming is saved, Daming is saved!" Ha ha! ”

Looking at the noble officials who were crying with joy, Zhu Gaoyuan's heart was unwavering.

"Don't get too excited just yet." Zhu Gaoyuan said coldly, "Breaking out of the siege is only the first step, and then the thieves will definitely send a large team of cavalry to search the mountains and seas to chase down you and my monarchs and ministers." ”

The faces of Wang Jiayan and other noble officials immediately fell.

Then they suddenly remembered that the thieves claimed to have 600,000 cavalry.

600,000 is definitely fake, but 60,000 cavalry is probably true.

Since the establishment of power in Xiangyang, the thieves have won many battles on the battlefield, snatched a large number of war horses from the Ming army, and it is not impossible to establish a cavalry of 60,000 people.

Thinking of the overwhelming pursuit of 60,000 cavalry,

Hundreds of people in their area searched the mountains and seas,

Wang Jiayan and other noble officials once again gave birth to first-class despair.

Could it be that after all, you still can't escape the end of being caught?

Zhu Gaoyuan tapped a little, and then said with relief: "However, don't be discouraged, hundreds of thousands of thieves have surrounded the Jingshi, and we can easily break out." ”

"Not to mention the pursuit of tens of thousands of rogue cavalry."

"What's more, the thieves can't determine our whereabouts at all in a short period of time."

"So at least for the next few hours, we're safe."

Hearing this, Wang Jiayan and other noble officials breathed a sigh of relief again, and a first-class hope was born again in their hearts.

These noble officials did not realize that Zhu Gaoyuan had swayed their emotions with just a few words, and he had easily grasped the command of this army.

If they obeyed Zhu Gaoyuan before this, it was only because he was the emperor,

So now, they are willing to obey Zhu Gaoyuan because of his leadership.

Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan, who knew the soldiers, were particularly touched, and the two really didn't expect that the saint had never experienced a battle formation, but he actually had such an old command skill.

Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting and other supervisors are afraid that this is just the case, right?

At that moment, Wang Jiayan asked: "Shengshang, are you going to Tianjin Wei next?" ”

"No, we're not going to Tianjin Wei." Zhu Gaoyuan shook his head and said, "That's a dead end." ”

"Then take the dry road to Zhuozhou." Wang Jiayan said with deep thought, "Dry roads are safer than waterways. ”

"We can't go to Zhuozhou either, that's also a dead end." Zhu Gaoyuan's eyes flashed and said, "Let's go to Changping!" ”

"Huh? Going to Changping? Wang Jiayan wondered if there was a problem with his ears, the army of thieves came all the way from Xuanfu and Juyongguan to Changping, and going to Changping was not a sheep into the mouth of a tiger?

Taichang Shaoqing Wu Linzheng also said: "Since the holy driver wants to tour the capital in the south, wouldn't it be the opposite to go north to Changping?" ”

"It's nothing to go in the opposite direction, it's just to take more wrongful paths." Wang Jiayan said, "The problem is that Changping has already fallen into the hands of thieves, so isn't it self-defeating?" ”

Jin Xuan frowned and said: "If you go south directly, it is indeed easy for the thieves to see their intentions and send cavalry to intercept and kill them in advance, but even if you don't go south directly, the Holy Driver can go to the Yongping area to meet with Ping Xibo's Guanning army." ”

"Yes." Wang Jiayan thought so, "There are still 40,000 iron cavalry under Ping Xibo, and the Guanning army has unparalleled combat strength. ”

When Zhu Gaoyuan heard this, he just smiled.

Go to Yongping to find Wu Sangui? Am I too long-lived?

This is a lord who can strangle the Yongli Emperor with a bowstring, and he is a real monarch killer!

Even if the current Wu Sangui is not the Wu Sangui in 20 years, he may still have a little attachment to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoyuan does not dare to take this risk, he is not afraid of 10,000 in everything, just in case.

After all, Wu Sangui at this time had already transformed into a warlord.

A warlord, can you count on him to be loyal and patriotic? !

At that moment, Zhu Gaoyuan said: "I have made up my mind, and you don't say much. ”

Wang Jiayan and the others could only shut up and honestly follow Zhu Gaoyuan north.