Inside and outside the Zhengyang Gate, a large number of soldiers of the Dashun Army were maintaining order, and the people in the nearby neighborhoods changed their smiling faces and happily went out to greet the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng under the "warm" invitation of the soldiers.

Perhaps because the siege process was very easy, the soldiers of the Shun army were not very angry, although there were several robberies, but they were quickly dealt with by the officers, and the soldiers involved were even beheaded on the spot.

However, there are several cases that have been discovered and dealt with, and there may be more than dozens of cases that have not been discovered.

Although there are Li Zicheng's three orders, the Shun army is a feudal army after all, and it is still in the late Ming Dynasty, in the era of demons dancing wildly, to this extent, it can be regarded as excellent military discipline.

Li Zicheng is now proud of the spring breeze, full of ambition, surrounded by hundreds of heavily armed Chinese hussars, riding a tall horse, into the coveted capital.

General Liu Zongmin and the scholar of Tianyu Palace, and Niu Jinxing, the prime minister of Dashun, followed him. Years of battlefield grinding and blindness in his left eye made this Dashun emperor look a little scary.

Soon, Li Zicheng rode his horse to the south gate of the Ming Imperial City, where dozens of surrendered eunuchs had already knelt, led by the eunuch leader Du Zhizhi.

As one of the most trusted eunuchs of Emperor Chongzhen, Du Zhizhi decisively chose to coerce Tang Tong to surrender when the Shun army was approaching the city of Yongguan, so that Li Zicheng won again without a fight.

However, this is not Du Zhizhi's problem alone, since Li Zicheng swore in Xi'an in the first month, the Shun army can be described as "invincible", and all the way in accepting the surrender of the Ming army.

In addition to encountering resistance in Ningwu, there was no decent battle at all, the entire northern Ming army along the Great Wall was competing to open the city gate and surrender, along the way there were nearly 200,000 Ming troops who surrendered alone, and when they were rectified, there were 70,000 or 80,000 people available.

Li Zicheng didn't pay attention to Du Zhizhi who was kneeling on the ground, he was very disgusted with these eunuchs who brought disaster to the country and the people. He slowly walked into the Forbidden City and came to the Emperor's Palace, which listened to the government.

After carefully looking around, Li Zicheng's tense face finally relaxed.

In the sixteen years since the start of the army, even though he has experienced great ups and downs, and at the most critical time, there are eighteen horsemen left around him, but when he entered the capital and ascended to the throne in the real sense, Li Zicheng was still excited in his heart.

In this world, the surname is finally Li!

Moreover, in Li Zicheng's view, if the general trend is set today, as long as he subdues Wu Sangui and reorganizes his troops and horses, he will go south to attack Jiangnan and eliminate Zhang Xianzhong, it will be easy at all.

As for the Tartars outside the gates, Li Zicheng doesn't think it has anything to do with him, the Tartars are a matter of the previous dynasty, he is the new dynasty, no matter what the grudge is, it should have been written off.

Even, not only should the Tartars not have any grudges against him, but they should also thank him for destroying the Ming court!

Of course, Li Zicheng is not a White Lotus, he will never allow the huge hidden danger of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to exist outside the gate for a long time, but in his cognition, the other party will not take the initiative to attack.

In other words, Li Zicheng just wanted to pacify the Guannei and free up his hands to destroy the Tartars outside the Guan.

In all dynasties, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the dynasty's desire to expand was extremely huge, not to mention that there was still so much arable land in Liaodong.

It's a pity that Li Zicheng lacks a strategist with an overall strategic vision around him, and he doesn't fully realize the strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and only thinks that it is a trap and is easy to deal with.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng did not consider these issues at all. After his gaze slowly swept over the splendid palace, he suddenly turned his head to look at Niu Jinxing, and said nervously:

"Chongzhen hasn't been found yet?"

When Niu Jinxing heard this, his heart tightened, but he was not worried, only to see him clasp his hands and clench his fists and say: "Your Majesty, the prince of the Ming court, the king of Yong, and the king of Ding have all been captured by our army, although there were soldiers and horses in the city last night to break through the chaos, but they are all small groups of routs, and Chongzhen must still be in the city." ”

In addition to Zhou Shixian's convoy, on the night of the city break, there were seven or eight groups of Beijing soldiers who were unwilling to break through the blockade of the Shun army.

It's just that no one expected that the escort team of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only had more than 300 soldiers and 30 carriages. No one even thought that the sentry post that had killed more than 30 guards had not been reported because of the concealment of the generals under it.

"Send people to post notices along the streets, if anyone dares to hide the relatives of the former dynasty, kill the nine clans, and never forgive. There are donors, a bounty of 1,000 taels, and three generations of officials! Li Zicheng listened, and then ordered.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Jinxing immediately responded, and then, he suddenly took out a notice, presented it to Li Zicheng, and said: "Your Majesty, speaking of the notice, the soldiers found this in the Ten Princes' Mansion and several streets. ”

Li Zicheng looked at Niu Jinxing's expression and knew that things were not simple, so he immediately reached out and took the notice presented by Niu Jinxing, but after just a glance, he immediately retreated from the guards around him, leaving only Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing.

Although Zhou Shixian could not change the balance of strength between the Shunqing and Qing dynasties, nor could he influence the time when the Qing army entered the customs, he could influence Li Zicheng and stumble the Manchu Qing.

The decisive battle between Shunqing and Qing is inevitable. And Li Zicheng killed one more Tartar, and after a year, his defense line in the Huai River would be less pressure.

History is always affected by many coincidences and accidents, and reality is often unreasonable. The wings of a butterfly can fan a tornado, not to mention those who stand at the crossroads of history to change their decisions?

"Wu Sangui can never be trusted, and Tartar must not be underestimated!" Li Zicheng looked at the last two sentences of the notice and muttered to himself.

In fact, he didn't fully trust Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, and Bai Guangen, but Li Zicheng didn't think that these people dared to lie to him, and he despised the so-called Mantar very much in his heart.

On the way to lead his troops to the east in the first month, Li Zicheng also received a letter from Dolgon, in which the other party actually talked about dividing the Ming Dynasty with him, which was simply ridiculous.

In this regard, Li Zicheng didn't even bother to reply to the letter, just a chieftain, how can he be compared with the emperor of the Central Plains?

"What can be so powerful about the Tartars, isn't it the East Captive? When we were in Shaanxi, did we beat up less traps? After Liu Zongmin read the notice, he was also unimpressed:

"Your Majesty, even the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty have been defeated by us, and there are only tens of thousands of Tartars, what is it? Didn't they fail to break through the capital after six sieges, but we took it in three days. ”

"What Master Hou said is extremely true, this Tartar is no more than tens of thousands of horses, and in front of my hundreds of thousands of troops, it is not harmful at all." Niu Jinxing, the prime minister of Dashun, did not take the Manchu Qing in his eyes, "As soon as Wu Sangui surrenders, send one or two thousand elites to Shanhaiguan, and it will be impossible for the Tartars to enter." ”

However, Li Zicheng had some doubts, although he didn't feel that Mantar threatened him, but Wu Sangui had to deal with it as soon as possible, otherwise it was very likely that he would have a long night and a lot of dreams.

In other words, in Li Zicheng's view, Wu Sangui is even more threatening than the so-called Manchu Tartars. In the eyes of posterity, this is simply a joke. But in the original history, it did happen.

Reality is often more absurd than drama, and art originates from life.

"Now that Wu Sangui's whole family is in my hands, he shouldn't be unsurrendered. But everything is just in case. Send Tang Tong to Shanhaiguan as soon as possible to recruit Wu Sangui, so as not to have too many dreams at night. Li Zicheng said again.

It's just that he would never have thought that in Wu Sangui's eyes, the lives of dozens of people in the family are not as good as glory and wealth. In other words, Wu Sangui didn't think that Li Zicheng could give him glory and wealth.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Jinxing also did not know the situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although he also had a certain ability to govern the country, but he was not at the level of assisting the king of a country.

"Your Majesty, I think this is Chongzhen's discord plan before he died, he probably resents Wu Sangui for not coming to save him, and wants to borrow our hands to kill people." Liu Zongmin on the side squinted his eyes and suddenly said gloomily.

"I'm actually worried!" Li Zicheng nodded, if he believed everything, he would not be Li Zicheng, who had been crisscrossing the Central Plains for sixteen years.

"Then ......" Niu Jinxing hesitated a little when he heard this. He knew that he was not capable enough, and he was afraid that he would be replaced, so he had been speculating about Li Zicheng's mind to please the other party.

"Regardless of whether this is Chongzhen's trick or not, the sooner Wu Sangui takes it, the better, so that Tang Tong can rush to Shanhaiguan as quickly as possible." Li Zicheng paused, and then continued. "It's better to be careful in this matter."