On the night when Wang Guoxing set off for Shanxi, in the palace of the king of Jin in Taiyuan, Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, knelt down for Li Zicheng pitifully with tears, and Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, accompanied him.

Why do you want to kneel, Li Zicheng has to do something unsophisticated.

According to the History of the Ming Dynasty. The lineage of the Qin clan is: Zhu Zhang, King of Qin, Zhu Shangbing, King Zhu Huai, Zhu Zhijun, King Zhu Kang, Zhu Gongxi, King Zhu Hui, Zhu Chengyong, King Zhu Jian, Zhu Bingzhen, King Zhu Ding, Zhu Huaicheng, King Zhu Xuan, Zhu Jingrong, King Zhu Jing, Zhu Yiyi, King Zhu Yiluo, King of Qinsu, and the Qin Domain perished in the hands of Zhu Cunshu. In fact, Zhu Cunshu did not be the king of Qin, and the Zhu Cunshu recorded in the biography of the kings was captured alive by Li Zicheng, and then Li Zicheng was defeated, and finally did not know what happened, which is inconsistent with the facts. Zhu Cunshu was named the son of the King of Qin on July 17, the 44th year of Wanli, and died of illness on March 5 of the second year of Chongzhen, when his father Zhu Yiluo was still alive and lived until the twelfth year of Chongzhen, so who did Zhu Yiluo pass the throne to? It was passed to Zhu Cunshu's younger brother Zhu Cunji, and in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cunji died, because he had no children, and the throne was inherited by his younger brother Zhu Cunji.

And the lineage of the Jin domain, the last king of Jin is not Zhu Qiugui as said in the biography of the kings, Zhu Qiugui died in the third year of Chongzhen, and the king of Jin at this time is Zhu Qiugui's son Zhu Xianxuan.

This Li Zicheng retreated to Taiyuan after the defeat at Ningwu Pass in Daizhou, not to mention the death of seventy or eighty thousand people, and tens of thousands of people were disabled to varying degrees, at this time, the level of medical skills was already poor, and there was still a shortage of doctors and medicines in the army, listening to the wailing of the wounded soldiers every day, Li Zicheng was very annoyed, he had suffered Zhou Yuji's loss under the city of Daizhou, and saw that Zhou Yuji ran away with the remnants of his soldiers, Li Zicheng was angry and determined that no matter where Zhou Yuji fled to, Zhou Yuji would be killed, and the result was chased to Ningwu Pass, two or three days, let Zhou Yuji kill tens of thousands of him again, do you say that the nest is not a nest? Finally, Zhou Yuji's ammunition was gone, and when he was about to catch Zhou Yuji, who knew that a group of people would run away and scatter the 200,000 people who were besieging the city.

If you fight further north, it will definitely not work, there are fifty or sixty thousand border troops in the Datong court in front, what should you do? Back to Taiyuan.

Back in Taiyuan, Li Zicheng convened a meeting for analysis and research, and finally everyone felt that staying in Taiyuan was not the way.

Why? Because there are still tens of thousands of border troops in the north, after so many years of fighting, everyone has a deep understanding that the border army is so powerful, and those who fight and have no power to parry are basically not the border army, or the soldiers led by the generals of the border army.

The unanimous opinion of everyone is to hold Taiyuan temporarily, if the army of the imperial court comes to attack, if there are fewer people, they will defend it, and if there are more people, they will simply retreat south to guard the Yellow River moat.

So, the original intention of the expedition was mentioned in the agenda, didn't we come out to grab things? Li Zicheng glared, Liu Zongmin, you are responsible, put Taiyuan aside again.

Liu Zongmin's favorite thing to do is to grab things and kill people, and he has a lot of experience.

It is said that when Liu Zongmin was young, because his family owed taxes to the government, his father was forced to death by the official, and he couldn't survive, so his mother took him out to escape the famine and ask for food, but the result was that there were disasters everywhere, it was difficult to get food, and his mother also starved to death, Liu Zongmin hated the government to death, if he hadn't found his maternal uncle, Liu Zongmin felt that he would have starved to death on the way to ask for food.

Later, Liu Zongmin followed a master from Hannan to learn a blacksmith job, this blacksmith life in this backward era is also a relatively high-tech professional, so Liu Zongmin's life gradually got better after growing up and working alone, not only built a new house, but also married the most beautiful local girl Lantian Yizhihua as a daughter-in-law.

That year, Li Zicheng hit Liu Zongmin's hometown Lantian, Liu Zongmin, who hated being an official since he was a child, did not hesitate to join Li Zicheng's team.

But this buddy hates rich people in his bones, so he does two things every time he goes to a place, the first is to kill the people of the old Zhu family, the special corrupt officials are appointed by their family, and the second is to rob the property of the rich.

Liu Zongmin took people to work, Li Zicheng was not particular, so he remembered that Zhu Xianxuan sent silver to the guards when he was fighting Taiyuan, so that he could fight for three days before he took Taiyuan, and he also spread rumors about what I was doing, so I wanted to find trouble with Zhu Xianxuan.

To say that according to the original rules he set, this Taiyuan City must be slaughtered, but whether it is Prime Minister Niu Jinxing, or military advisors Song Xiance and Li Yan all said that if they want to win the world, they must win the hearts of the people, so he did not order the slaughter of the city, you did not enter the slaughter of the city, and also named Zhu Xianxuan a general, do you say that this thing is stupid?

No matter what, the current Zhu Xianxuan is already his subordinate, so Li Zicheng doesn't want to kill Zhu Xianxuan, so he wants to humiliate a Zhu Xianxuan.

What humiliation? called a few soldiers to turn Zhu Xianxuan's wife in front of Zhu Xianxuan, asked Zhu Xianxuan to observe the scene, and then wrote a piece of afterthought.

Zhu Xianxuan is eight years Chinese New Year's Eve old today, and his wife is thirty-four years old, as a princess, the wind can't blow or rain, and it looks like she really has a little bit of that smell, so Li Zicheng ordered Zhu Xianxuan's wife to be stripped naked and tied to the bed, and asked Zhu Xianxuan to observe on the spot, where did Zhu Xianxuan suffer? asked Zhu Cunji to help intercede, this uncle would come to trouble, and he was mixed with General Quan in Li Zicheng's place.

Of course, Zhu Cunji didn't want his nephew and daughter-in-law to suffer such an insult, no matter whether he knew him before or not, he was always a descendant of an old ancestor, so he asked Zhu Xianxuan to take out a piece of jade Ruyi that he had secretly hidden and give it to Li Zicheng.

At the beginning of February, Li Zichengdu led his troops across the Yellow River to start the eastward expedition, claiming to have an army of one million, including 600,000 cavalry and 400,000 infantry.

During the Three Kingdoms period, after Cao Cao occupied Jingzhou, Liu Zong's army was only 280,000 horses, but he wrote to Sun Quan to bring 830,000 troops to hunt Jiangdong with Sun Quan.

The purpose of Li Zicheng's Eastern Expedition was not to send troops to destroy the Ming regime, but to go out as a last resort.

In September last year, Li Zicheng defeated the governor Sun Chuanting in Jiaxian, Henan, and recruited troops all the way, so that there were millions of people, and after the battle of Tongguan eliminated the remaining Qin army led by Sun Chuanting, he led a large army to the city of Xi'an.

At this time, the defenders of Xi'an City only had 5,000 people, and there were no warm clothes, Xi'an in early winter was already very cold, and the guards found Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, and asked for some silver taels to buy clothes to keep out the cold, Zhu Cunji was very stingy and refused.

On October 11, as soon as Li Zicheng's army arrived, Wang Genzi, the deputy general guarding the east city gate, directly opened the city gate, Li Zicheng's troops occupied Xi'an City without blood, the governor Feng Shikong, the envoy Huang Jiong was killed, and the political envoy Lu Zhiqi and others surrendered.

Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, was also in the surrender series, but because Xi'an City did not resist, the peasant army did not go on a killing spree, and Li Zicheng also made Zhu Cun's totalitarian general.

General Quan was the highest military rank in Li Zicheng's ranks, and before Zhu Cunshu, only one person received this position, and that was Liu Zongmin, the first general under Li Zicheng.

Of course, Zhu Cunji was named General Quan, and it was completely Li Zicheng who bought people's hearts.

Then, Li Zicheng officially ascended the throne in Xi'an and announced the establishment of the Dashun Dynasty, appointed Niu Jinxing as the prime minister, imitated the establishment of the Central Government Office of the Lighting Dynasty and renamed the six governments, and appointed Song Qixiao as the secretary of the government, Lu Zhiqi as the secretary of the household government, Gong Yu as the government of the ceremony, Zhang Lingran as the secretary of the military government, Yang Yongyu as the secretary of the labor government, and the generals under his command also sealed it all over again, the old feudal generals with great merits, the generals who did not dismantle much, the mighty generals, and the lower ones who were in charge of the brigade, the ministry, and the general flag.

became an emperor, but Li Zicheng's life was not easy.

Why?

Because he suddenly had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, Shaanxi was in the hardest-hit area, and it was impossible to get so much food to feed these people.

In addition, there are a large number of imperial court troops around, and if these people are not eliminated, Li Zicheng will not be able to sleep well.

Isn't there a saying? On the side of the couch there is no room for others to sleep soundly.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's Spring Festival is not over, on the fifth day of the first month, Li Zicheng convened the generals to discuss what to do next? In the end, we discussed and got a consensus, fuck it.

So, Li Zicheng ordered the building of a ship and prepared for the eastward crusade.

On the second day of the second month of February, Li Zicheng led more than 300,000 men and horses to cross the Yellow River in a 3,000-shoumu boat at Shadukou, and captured Fenzhou, Puzhou, and Yangcheng on the same day. The next day, another part of the men led by Liu Fangliang captured Huaiqing Mansion and killed King Zaiyan of Lujiang.

Huaiqing Mansion was later known as Jiaozuo City.

On the fifth day of the second lunar month, Li Zicheng led more than 200,000 horses to the city of Taiyuan.

At this time, Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi who had gone out with his wife and concubine, had just returned to Taiyuan, and when he heard the news of the fall of Pingyang, Fenzhou and other places, he regretted his death, and blamed himself for not listening to the words of King Jin to return to Taiyuan. On the other hand, I especially regret that I have been playing with my wife recently, not to mention the weakness of my body playing, which has delayed the major events of the national military aircraft.

In a hurry, Cai Maode sent all the concubines away, and they all went back to their parents' house! The wife who knotted his hair was also sent back to his hometown, ready to devote himself to the defense of Taiyuan.

However, Taiyuan's troops were not enough, in order to ensure that Taiyuan was not lost, Cai Maode sent people to fly to Yang and the general army Wang Guo'an led the troops to rush to aid Taiyuan.

Where is Yang He? Two hundred miles east of Datong, I don't know why Cai Maode went to invite Wang Guo'an to help, instead of inviting Zhou Yuji, who was closer.

Cai Maode's overall arrangement was that he himself, together with the political envoy Zhao Jianji, the deputy military envoy Mao Wenbing, Lin Gangzhong, according to the inspection of the affairs of Bi Gongchen, the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture Sun Kangzhou, the governor of Yangqu County Fan Zhitai and other groups of civil and military personnel, divided the whole city soldiers and civilians to the city to defend the city, and sent the deputy general of the Chinese army Ying Shisheng to lead his subordinate generals Niu Yong, Zhu Kongxun, Wang Yongkui and other battalions out of the city to meet the battle.

When everything was arranged, the various scouts who had already been sent came to report that the huge elite of the Dashun army was coming towards Taiyuan, and Cai Maode heard it, so he immediately summoned all the soldiers inside and outside Taiyuan City, and distributed the money and grain hidden in the treasury to reward.

At this time, Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, personally sent 3,000 taels of silver to encourage the generals to fulfill their duties. At the same time, in view of the fact that the residents of Taiyuan City were very afraid of the attack of the Dashun army, he ordered Fu Shan, a famous literati in Shanxi, to immediately write a post entitled "The thieves are poisonous and the coercion is unbearable", and immediately sent people to copy countless copies of this post and post them on the streets and alleys of the city, telling the people that if Li Zicheng's rogues came in, everyone would suffer, and all the property would be robbed, all the men would be killed, and the women would be divided.

Not only that, the literati Fu Shan also immediately made up a nursery rhyme to intimidate the residents, and let these soldiers sing it in private, the nursery rhyme said: "It is difficult for horses to walk in the door, and this year it is Bi Ma Wen", which sounds really frightening, but I just don't know what it means.

In order to encourage everyone to stick to Taiyuan, Cai Maode generously wept, "The country has raised troops for a thousand days, and used soldiers for a while, but now the rebels are rampant, Pingfen has fallen, and now Taiyuan is even more in danger." The Ministry was ordered to Fu Jin, and the responsibility was heavy, in case the frontier was not guarded, he should fight to the death to repay the country. But the thief was so cruel that he slaughtered everywhere he passed. You and other soldiers and civilians, who has no wife and children? Who is parentless? Who has no money? When this opportunity for your life to die, you must go to the country together, take the lead bravely, and swear to kill the thief, so that you can repay the emperor's grace and protect your life. If we can unite as one, kill and retreat the thieves, and the provincial city will be defended, and we will be rewarded for meritorious deeds in the future, the emperor will have his own special grace, and the court will have his own reward. However, when this opportunity is in danger, those who are willing to obey and flee from the city, must be killed, otherwise they will kill the court first, and then surrender. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all greatly moved, and they all expressed their willingness to go to danger with the governor, serve the emperor, and swear to defend the city to the death.

Cai Maode was also overjoyed when he saw that everyone was united and his morale was strong, and ordered Wang Guo'an, the general of Yanghe, and the deputy general of the Chinese army, Ying Shisheng, to lead his men and horses to engage the vanguard of the Dashun army, and give the vanguard of the Dashun army a blow.

At this moment, I saw a dusty court messenger under the escort of several brocade guards to the Fuyuan Yamen.

Na Qin sent a horse and said loudly: "Shanxi Governor Cai Maode takes the order!"

When Cai Maode heard this, he immediately kowtowed to the ground.

I only heard that Qin Cha unfolded Huang Juan's very indifferent voice in the voice of a male duck unique to eunuchs: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: Cai Maode, the governor of Chashanxi, left without a fight, causing Pingyang to fall, and ordered to wait for the investigation, the post of governor, and Guo Jingchang, the imperial history of the capital, will take up his post on the same day." Chin this. ”

What's going on? It turned out that Zhu Youzhen couldn't sit still and fainted again.

Zhu Youzhen had this problem, once he heard that there was an unfavorable situation below, or that he had lost a place, he immediately replaced him without asking the reason, and he didn't know that changing people in battle would be a taboo for soldiers, and he didn't care whether the newly sent people could do it.

Because he doesn't know anything about officials at all, the only feeling is that the people who used it are not good.

For so many years, because of this, the battles that should not have been defeated have been defeated by Zhu Youzhen, and the places that should not have been lost have also been lost by Zhu Youzhen's blind command.