On the other side, Gao Yiming, who was escorted by 40,000 Guanning iron cavalry, finally came to the city of Jinan after six days, and during this period, he collected 2,000 people and horses from Huang Degong's department from the capital.

Huang Degong's arrival made Gao Yiming overjoyed, Chongzhen finally didn't do the thing, and left so many generals who could take on great responsibilities.

The emperor came to the city, but Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Jinan Mansion, closed the door, and Gao Yiming was not in a hurry, and ordered the army to be stationed under the city and wait for Liu Zeqing to come out.

The day before Gao Yiming arrived, he sent a messenger to Jinan Mansion to inform Liu Zeqing of the upcoming events, and Liu Zeqing, who received the report, had mixed feelings in his heart.

Originally, he heard that the thieves were besieging the capital, and Chongzhen swore to live and die with the city, so he didn't take Chongzhen's edict of King Qin at that time seriously, and now this goods suddenly appeared in Shandong, which is embarrassing. He said that the small ones were for himself, and to say that the big ones were bullying the king and rebellious.

"Wasn't this goods pulled by the Donglin Party and not let him leave the capital and go south, how did he come to Shandong now? also came up with some kind of five edicts before the army to fool the people. Liu Zeqing was sad in his heart.

But the people recognized this and ordered the edict to arrive in Jinan Mansion, which could be said to be celebrated by the whole city at that time.

"I knew that he was not in any danger, I should have sent troops to King Qin, now that King Qin's great achievements are gone, if I don't get it, I will be given a hat of disobedience and disrespect, and it is possible to kill my head and lose my head."

"This Wu Sangui is also an idiot, how can he rest assured that he handed over his family to this king of the dead country? Although I also have more than 100,000 elite soldiers under my command, they are not the opponents of Guanning Iron Cavalry, they are the rest of their lives, and not many of my subordinates have been on the battlefield, how can this be good. Liu Zeqing was full of hesitation.

Gao Yiming's sudden arrival really embarrassed Liu Zeqing, he didn't have the courage to rebel, he didn't have this condition, didn't see that the people of Jinan Mansion were ready to welcome the emperor into the city.

Let the emperor wait outside the city all the time, this will make the people in the city think that they are wolves, but they are afraid that they will open the city gate to welcome the emperor into the city, and there will be no way back at that time.

After thinking about it again and again, Liu Zeqing still couldn't withstand the pressure, and finally opened the city gate a day later and entered the city with a bang.

"The ministers are late, all to prepare for the grand welcome ceremony, and ask the emperor to take a clear look."

Gao Yiming glanced at it, the soldiers and civilians in the city were really happy, there were many people on both sides of the road, but it could only be regarded as lively, and it had nothing to do with the grand one, and he didn't poke him in person, nodded, and rode into the city.

It was Huang Degong who followed Gao Yiming into the city, and in order not to cause dissatisfaction among the Wu family's father and son, Gao Yiming asked Wu Xiang to take the army to be stationed outside the city.

came to the city, entered the residence prepared by Liu Zeqing for Gao Yiming, and after the guards changed their guards, Gao Yiming glanced at Huang Degong, and Huang Degong immediately ordered the guards to take Liu Zeqing down.

Ignoring Liu Zeqing's nonsense about killing loyal ministers for no reason, he ordered Huang Degong to immediately lead troops to collect Liu Zeqing's silver medal and seal letter, and the garrison of Jinan Mansion was temporarily taken by Huang Degong.

Gao Yiming suppressed Liu Zeqing's arrest and ordered Guan Ningjun to take over the city defense of Jinan Prefecture.

Immediately, some officers reported that Liu Zeqing had withheld military rations, oppressed the people, and had a wait-and-see mind to resist the order and not send troops to the king, and other crimes, but under the condition that the evidence was conclusive, Gao Yiming still exempted him from the death penalty and commuted the sentence to life, and only investigated him alone, and the military and the people of Jinan Mansion were greatly settled.

After the peasant army led by Li Zicheng attacked the capital, it did not immediately send troops to pursue the remnants of the Ming army, but stopped in the capital.

Before the peasant army entered the capital, Li Zicheng also ordered his soldiers not to forcibly seize the peasants, not to oppress the people, not to pay taxes for the people, and to treat the people as his own brothers.

Three days before entering the capital, he did exactly that, and even accepted the Ming officials who surrendered generously.

Who knew that three days later, the original form was revealed, Li Zicheng first set the amount of silver to be donated to him for each Ming Dynasty surrender official according to his grade, and if he couldn't hand it over, he would let people kill his entire family, and the women of the family were distributed to the soldiers for pleasure, which made the scholar class begin to separate from him.

After the search for officials, the peasant army extended its black hand to the rich merchants in the city, and finally forgot what to say about treating the people as brothers, five or six hundred thousand horses searched the capital poorly, and actually got 70 million taels of silver, which not only included the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but also the people of the capital.

That's not all, the soldiers of the peasant army found that there were a lot of beauties in the capital, and they had never seen such a beautiful woman before, so they began to forcibly occupy the Qinglou woman, and after finding that Shangguan did not pursue it, they became even more unscrupulous.

The most jaw-dropping thing is that Li Zicheng not only connived at his subordinates to do evil, but he himself was also a model example, first took more than 2,000 women in the palace such as concubines and palace maids for himself, and then he was not happy, so he simply joined the team of robbing the people's daughters, and included all the good-looking women in the Qinglou and the folk into the harem, and began to enjoy the rich and noble life of drunken dreams and death every day.

Three stupid things made the people lose their hearts, and the people in the city began to hope every day that the imperial army could come back as soon as possible.

There is no shortage of people of insight under him, seeing that this will not work, he advised: "King, now the gateway of the capital Shanhaiguan is still in the hands of the Ming army, the guard will be Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and there are more than 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry under his command, if once he surrenders to the Qing Dynasty outside the pass, it is quite unfavorable to us, we should persuade Wu Sangui to surrender on the one hand, and send a large army to capture Shanhaiguan, as long as Shanhaiguan is in hand, we can ensure that the capital is safe." ”

"You're right, are you willing to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender for the messenger?"

"My subordinates are willing to go."

"Good! Go ahead, and I'll lead the army on a journey, thinking it's a solution. ”

Wu Sangui returned to Shanhaiguan, thinking that Li Zicheng would attack soon, who knew that the left and other would not see the enemy, and the right would not see the enemy army, so he sent someone to inquire and found out that this group of people was drunk and dreamed of death in the capital.

Seeing the envoy sent by Li Zicheng, according to his previous plan, he still wanted to make a fool of himself, but now he has no such mood, so he directly killed the envoy, and ordered someone to put the envoy's head on the road that Li Zicheng must pass.

Li Zicheng, who personally led 100,000 elite soldiers to take Shanhaiguan, saw that his envoy was killed by Wu Sangui, and he was angry, and came to Shanhaiguan to take revenge, but found that the pass was empty.

After confirming the safety, Li Zichengcai boarded the Shanhaiguan with anxiety, and the vast sea was unobstructed, and the warship of Wu Sangui's men and horses who had evacuated from Shanhaiguan could be seen on the sea, and the sense of falling into the pit was even stronger.

"King, this Wu Sangui has a lot of elite soldiers and strong generals, how can he abandon the pass without a fight?" His subordinate general Liu Zongmin said.

"I'm also puzzled-" Li Zicheng from a grassroots, twice rebelled, and finally established the Dashun regime, naturally he is not a fool, and soon he figured out some taste: "Could it be that they are trying to get rid of the situation of being attacked on both sides, let us fight against the Qing Dynasty outside the Guan, and he can reap the benefits of the fisherman?" ”

"Retreat without a fight, isn't he afraid that his suspicious emperor will take the lives of his whole family?"

"You can see the first five edicts of the Ming Emperor's army, the temperament has changed greatly, making people scratch their heads, we still have to be careful, although we have strong troops, but compared with the Qing Dynasty, there are not many soldiers who can fight, and now we have to guard Shanhaiguan."

"That's all it has to say now."

The changes in Shanhaiguan not only made Li Zicheng confused, but also made Dolgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty who had been paying attention to Shanhaiguan in Shengjing, a little confused.

At this time, Shengjing, Chongzheng Palace, and Dolgon gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

Dolgon said: "How did the defenders of Shanhaiguan become the men and horses of Dashun, and Wu Sangui, who had contacted him before and borrowed soldiers and horses?" What happened in the South? Who can tell? ”

Hauge came out and said: "Whatever, we just need to see the opportunity, take advantage of the situation, go south, and capture the Central Plains." ”

"Bastard!" Dolgon reprimanded: "We only have a few men, and we are only more than 200,000 when we are full, and Dashun has a large population of soldiers and horses, if we rush to war with them, it will give the Ming army an advantage." ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what do you say?"

"Send people into the customs and listen to the truth, the key is to understand what happened in the Ming Dynasty? In addition, it will take one to two years to purge the remnants of the Ming army outside the Guanwai. ”

In this way, because Wu Sangui feinted to defeat Shanhaiguan and confused the Qing army, Dolgon, who was about to move, did not dare to venture south. History turned around, and the Dashun regime, which was supposed to have collapsed after 42 days in the capital, miraculously survived temporarily.