Another night has passed, and it has been five days since Li Zicheng's expedition to the east.

Li Yan took Gu Kecheng to inspect the city defense early in the morning.

After passing through Chengtianmen Street and coming to the outer city of Beijing, Li Yan could clearly feel that the atmosphere in Beijing had become more depressing.

I remember that when their Dashun army first entered the city, the people of Beijing were welcomed, and their faces showed joy from the heart, but now, almost all the people looked indifferent, and many people even threw hatred at them.

This is the after-effect of the recovery of stolen goods.

The people of Beijing no longer trust and no longer welcome them.

When passing by an alleyway, a child even threw a stone at Li Yan.

"Hey, you little bunny!" Gu Kecheng was furious and pulled out his waist knife with his backhand.

"General Gu, forget it, it's just a child." Li Yan said gloomily.

The child quickly disappeared into the depths of the alley, but Gu Kecheng scolded angrily: "These people really don't know what to do, we helped them fight corrupt officials and kill officials, so that they can live a good life, not only are they grateful, but they actually beat us in turn, how can there be such a reason." ”

Did the Dashun Army really let the people live a good life?

Li Yan was silent, and didn't even bother to argue.

The wood is already in the boat, what is the use of saying more?

Patrolled all the way to Chaoyang Gate, and nothing happened.

Just as Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from outside the city.

Looking back in a hurry, he saw that a fast horse had galloped over, and the messenger on the back of the horse shouted from afar: "It's reversed, Miyun is reversed, Miyun is reversed!" ”

Li Yan's face collapsed in an instant, and Miyun reversed?

In the past few days, Li Yan's biggest concern is not Beijing, but Gyeonggi.

Because Beijing still has Gu Kecheng's standard of 20,000 elite soldiers, but there are only a small number of Dashun troops stationed in the prefectures and counties of Gyeonggi, and they mainly rely on the puppet Ming army to maintain order, which is undoubtedly very dangerous.

As a result, whatever you are afraid of will come, and Miyun County is really the opposite!

Li Yan is even more worried that this is just the beginning, and more states and counties will follow suit.

"What's going on?" Gu Kecheng stepped forward and grabbed the reins of the messenger's horse, forcibly strangled the war horse and asked.

"General Guo Yi, Right Army Division!" The one who came to report the news was also a veteran of the Dashun Army, who recognized Li Yan and Gu Kecheng at a glance, and gasped and said, "Yesterday evening, I didn't know where to kill a puppet Ming cavalry, and Wang Yinglong, the original puppet Ming capital who stayed in Miyun, directly rebelled with his men and horses. ”

"Suddenly kill a cavalry?" Li Yan's face changed drastically, "How many people are there?" ”

"It was dark and I couldn't see clearly." The old soldier of the Dashun Army shook his head and said, "But judging from the momentum, there are thousands of riders!" There are pseudo-Ming cavalry outside the four gates of Miyun County. ”

"Thousands!" Gu Kecheng shouted, "It can't be Chongzhen, right?" ”

"It must be him!" Li Yan said in a deep voice, "There will be no one else besides him!" ”

"Is it really him? This dog emperor is really good at picking the time! Gu Kecheng said with a dark face, "Right Army Division, it's better to do this, you stay in Beijing, and the last general will lead two thousand light horsemen to intercept and kill the Dog Emperor." ”

The "Shuai Biao" led by Gu Kecheng had a total of 20,000 horses, including 2,000 cavalry.

But these 20,000 people are all veterans (soldiers), not including raising children (logistics), nor including the people's husbands, strong men and their families.

The commander standard is the establishment of the Dashun Army below the "battalion".

The main general is generally General Guo Yi or a mighty general.

The specific number of troops is not fixed, ranging from tens of thousands to thousands.

"No, you're no match for him." At this time, Li Yan was not in the mood to take care of Gu Kecheng's face, but said bluntly, "You stay in Beijing, and I will intercept and kill Chongzhen." ”

"When I'm away, don't leave the city, no matter what happens."

"If the puppet gentry and the surrendered army in the city dare to cause chaos, they will all be killed!"

"Yes." Although Gu Kecheng felt uncomfortable, he didn't argue with Li Yan about anything.

Li Yan thought for a while, and then instructed the entourage: "Go and bring the pseudo-Ming prince, King Ding, and King Yong, and take them to wait outside Chaoyang Gate first." ”

Here, the trajectory of history has changed slightly.

Because Chongzhen is still alive, the value of Zhu Cihong's three brothers has been greatly reduced.

So this time in the Eastern Crusade, Li Zicheng did not bring the three Zhu Cihong brothers.

Because it's useless to bring it, Wu Sangui won't change his mind because of the prince.

……

It is about 150 miles from Beijing to Miyun County, and the light cavalry passes through Shunyi County to Huairou County and then to Miyun County along the official road, and can arrive in three hours after a rapid march.

However, Li Yan did not take the official road.

Instead, it crossed the canal from Tongzhou to the east, and then rushed north along the east bank of the Chaohe River.

Because his intuition told Li Yan that Chongzhen would definitely lead his army south along the east bank of the Chaohe River.

The reason is very simple, because you can go south along the Chaozhou River to Tongzhou, and after arriving in Tongzhou, you can go south along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

It's much easier to travel by water than by land.

The timing of Chongzhen's choice is really tricky.

At this time, the main force of the Dashun Army had arrived at Shanhaiguan and was confronting the Guanning Army.

Although Gu Kecheng's commander has 20,000 old soldiers, the cavalry is only 2,000, and he must leave enough troops to guard Beijing, otherwise if Chongzhen kills a horse gun to recapture Beijing, the Dashun army will be in trouble.

In the face of Chongzhen, I really don't dare to take it lightly, anything can really happen.

Not to mention anything else, the people's hearts in Beijing alone have undergone tremendous changes, the original Ming Dynasty court in Beijing was almost everyone shouted and beaten, and the civil and military officials in Beijing almost completely abandoned the Ming Dynasty, but now, the situation has been completely reversed, and many officials and gentry in the city are nostalgic for the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Gu Kecheng's 20,000 old soldiers really didn't dare to move lightly.

Therefore, at this time, the Dashun army left in Beijing could basically only watch Chongzhen go south.

Li Yan took the three brothers Zhu Cihong to intercept and kill, but he just wanted to fight one last time.

Just after noon, the Dashun army had just reached the junction of Tongzhou and Shunyi County, and the scout cavalry responsible for exploring the way ahead hurriedly turned back and reported: "Right Army Division, find the puppet Ming cavalry!" ”

Li Yan drank the war horse and asked, "How many people are there?" ”

The scout captain gasped and said, "There must be at least four thousand horsemen." ”

"What? Four thousand! Li Yan's heart suddenly froze, how did he conjure up four thousand horses?

Half a month ago, when the Ming army was in the Hara Hetao, it was clear that there were only more than 1,000 horsemen, even if the 1,000 Yiding of the Guanning army were annexed, it was only more than 2,000 horses, how could there be 2,000 extra horses?

Could it be that Chongzhen subdued the Gongtu tribe?

The question is, how could the Gongtu tribe surrender to the pseudo-Ming?

Unless the leader of the Gongtu tribe is crazy, he will never surrender to the Ming court.

Just when Li Yan was in doubt, billowing smoke and dust had risen on the northern plain.

As soon as he saw this dust, he knew that there was a large cavalry moving south, and at that moment Li Yan ordered the two thousand cavalry under his command to set up a cavalry formation.

……

On the east bank of the Chaohe River to the north, more than 4,000 cavalry troops are marching south.

In fact, these 4,000 cavalry are only on the surface, and there are only 1,000 elite soldiers who are really capable of fighting, and the more than 1,000 cavalry brought out by Zhu Gaoyuan from Beijing can barely fight.

The remaining more than 2,000 horsemen are just guards in Miyun County anyway.

These two thousand guards are just tenant farmers on horseback, and it's okay to pretend to bluff people, but if they are allowed to go to battle, it will definitely be crushed at the first touch.

The Ming Dynasty's guard army, combat effectiveness is scum.

This person who will ride a horse and walk beside Zhu Gaoyuan is Wang Yinglong, the capital of Miyun County.

"Shengshang, Tongzhou is not far ahead, and the last general is willing to lead fifty families to attack Tongzhou first, or he can grab one or twenty boats, so that this way to the south, Shengshang will not have to work too hard."

To be honest, because of the black history of thieves, Wang Yinglong was really panicked at this time.

Because Chongzhen is not a generous emperor, on the contrary, he is very resentful, and he is also mean and unkind, so the probability of being settled by him after the autumn is very high.

That is, I didn't know that it was Chongzhen outside the city last night, and I only thought it was Guan Ningjun.

If he knew, Wang Yinglong would rather be chased and tortured by thieves than turned back, because what he lost by being chased and tortured by thieves was only money, but he would die if he turned back.

But as soon as the gates were opened, it was too late.

Therefore, Wang Yinglong was anxious to show it in order to atone for his sins as much as possible.

Of course, Wang Yinglong also had a different kind of thought in his heart, that is, if the surprise attack on Tongzhou failed, and the idea of atonement for his sins came to naught, then he simply went to Wu Sangui.

Anyway, now the world is in chaos, as long as you have soldiers in your hands, no matter who you take refuge in, you can eat together.

"I can understand Wang Dusi's feelings." Zhu Gaoyuan looked at Wang Yinglong with a smile, his eyes seemed to be able to see through Wang Yinglong's deep thoughts, and said, "But you don't have to do it too much, I'm not afraid of hard work." ”

"Huh?" Wang Yinglong was stunned, but his heart was even more flustered, this is going to be over, it's really going to be over.

At this time, Yi Ding's cavalry galloped back from the front at night, and reported to Zhu Gaoyuan: "Shengshang, ten miles ahead, I found a thief cavalry, about two thousand horsemen. ”

"Got it." Zhu Gaoyuan waved his hand and said, "Explore again." ”

Immediately, he turned back and shouted: "Spread my will, spread the formation, and prepare to fight." ”

Immediately, the sound of horns and trumpets sounded at the same time, and more than 4,000 horsemen slowly spread out in formation, forming a huge horizontal formation of about 1,000 horsemen in four rows in front and behind.

The first row is almost a straight line.

The second row is barely visible.

The back two rows are completely unsightly.

The quality of the soldiers can be seen from the queue.

After a quarter of an hour of walking south, a black line appeared on the horizon ahead.

As the distance approached, the black line gradually thickened and extended to the flanks, and finally transformed into a large cavalry, but in a tight queue with swords and guns.

PS: Finally going south to escape!