Facing the menacing Zhu Yousong, Emperor Chongzhen was extremely angry.

On the spot, he ordered all of Li Xianzhong's relatives to be sent to prison.

and confiscated all of Li Xianzhong's properties.

Li Xianzhong's two sons-in-law had long been placed under house arrest by Chongzhen, and they were imprisoned in Jinyiwei's edict together with the Duchess Hazia and the 77-year-old Li Rubai.

More than 60 members of the Li family were arrested in Beijing.

However, compared to arresting people, raiding the house is not so smooth.

Li Xianzhong's Liao State Mansion hardly has many silver taels, and some furnishings are worth tens of thousands of taels.

And some of the well-known industries, such as the heaven and earth of Jingshi, the crystal garden, as well as the glass shop and perfume shop, are no longer under his name.

These industries had been transferred to Zhu Chunchen and Zhang Weixian, the powerful people in Beijing a few years ago.

Jin Yiwei commanded Luo Yangxing and said: "Your Majesty, the property of the traitor Li Xianzhong in Beijing has been secretly resold several years ago, and now there is no other property to copy except this Guogong Mansion. ”

Chongzhen's mouth was almost crooked, and he scolded angrily: "Li Xianzhong, a chaotic minister and thief, it seems that he has been prepared!" ”

Luo Yangxing continued: "Actually, Weichen has another worry, since Li Xianzhong has already transferred the industry, he will not be without action against the hostages in our hands. Those two sisters-in-law, I'm afraid they were already dropped when they were born! ”

Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It's okay, Li Xianzhong is still young, and it is impossible for me to kill all his heirs." Whether it's true or fake, he will eventually bear the notoriety of affecting his wife and children! ”

In addition to Li Xianzhong, Chongzhen naturally hates Zhu Yousong the most.

Soon he worshiped the Taimiao, officially removed Zhu Yousong's clan registration, and announced it to the whole country!

The two great sons officially tore apart, but they gave everyone a lot of talk after dinner.

Although the Jingshi is relatively tightly controlled, and basically no one dares to talk about these things publicly, but the places outside the Jingshi are different.

Especially Xuanda and Jizhou, the three important nine-sided towns facing Liaodong.

In order to stabilize these areas, Chongzhen gave Liang Tingdong, the governor of Xuanda, the title of military secretary and prince Taibao.

At the same time, the border army was also paid.

The cavalry was paid 2 taels a month, and the infantry was 1 tael and 5 cents.

Liang Tingdong has a good relationship with Shoufu Wen Tiren, and there will be no risk of defection for the time being.

But the original Liaodong Army had more than 100,000 horses, and now it has won the four towns in the northwest, what if Li Xianzhong's main force goes south and goes straight to the Beijing Division?

Chongzhen looked at the sand table in front of him without saying a word.

This sand table was originally given to the Wanli Emperor by Li Xianzhong, and it was beautifully made, including the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty, as well as Korea and part of Mongolia.

Looking at the large blue flag representing Zhu Yousong outside the Great Wall, Zhu Youzhen looked a little angry.

Li Xianzhong should have been preparing for this day for a long time, it was really a good means, and he made himself so passive in the blink of an eye.

To be honest, he had thought that Li Xianzhong would raise troops and go south.

But he was not afraid, even though Li Xianzhong's Liaodong army was powerful, he was a rebel after all, and the gentry and people in the world would not support him.

As long as you raise your arms and shout, countless Qinwang armies will go north.

Even if it is consumed, the Ming Dynasty will consume Liaodong to death.

This is also the reason why he agrees with Yuan Chonghuan's "five-year Pingliao strategy".

But he never thought that Li Xianzhong actually had the edict of Emperor Wanli in his hands.

I didn't expect that Zhu Yousong, a fool, would actually make Zhi faint, publicly slander himself for killing King Fu, and actually lure a wolf into the house in order to ascend the throne.

Just by virtue of him, how can he restrain a powerful minister like Li Xianzhong, who holds heavy troops?

You must not lose, otherwise the Ming dynasty will change hands!

Under the urging of Wen Tiren's eyes, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "Your Majesty, now that the Central Plains provinces are raging with thieves, it will take a while for the soldiers and horses of King Qin in the south to go north, but now the plan is to let Yuan Dudu lead the main force of Shandong to the north, otherwise the thief army may come to Beijing at any time!" ”

Chongzhen said: "How many soldiers and horses are there in the Jingshi at present? ”

Zhang Fengyi said: "The three battalions of the Beijing Division have 90,000 people, and the Yulin Battalion also has 30,000 new troops just recruited this year, plus the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, and the Palace Guards Beijing Division has a total of 130,000 troops. ”

"At present, there are 40,000 soldiers and horses in Jizhou Town, and You Shiwei, the general soldier of Jizhou, requests that the 10,000 people from Yongping Mansion be withdrawn to Jizhou in order to concentrate troops to defend the Beijing Division!"

Chongzhen said to Wen Tiren: "What does Shoufu think of Jizhou's request?" ”

Wen Tiren said: "Now that the traitors have occupied Shanhaiguan, it is no longer necessary to stick to the line of the Great Wall, and the minister thinks that he should take advantage of Li Xianzhong's not yet going south, and quickly shrink his troops, and should withdraw Yongping's soldiers and horses to Jizhou." ”

Chongzhen pointed to the sand table and said: "Since Shanhaiguan is already in the hands of thieves, then we can only rely on the line of Yanshan and Luanhe to prevent the Liaodong Army from advancing to Beijing. ”

"Therefore, Zunhua and Yongping along the Great Wall must be defended, and the loss of Yongping is equivalent to giving the Luanhe River directly to Li Xianzhong!"

The two of them looked at the sand table, it was really like this, Yongping City was located in the center of the Luanhe River, once they gave up Yongping Liaodong Army, they would inevitably drive straight into the Beijing Division.

So he hurriedly said: "The ministers almost missed a major incident by neglecting their duties, and I ask Your Majesty to punish them!" ”

Chongzhen suddenly opened his mind, naturally there is a reason, that is because Yang Sichang gave him a "Anti-Liao Shu", these are all Yang Sichang and Chongzhen said.

Now it seems that this Yang Sichang is still very insightful.

Yang Sichang is the son of the criminal minister Yang He, who died of illness last year.

It stands to reason that Yang Sichang should continue to worry at home, but now Daming is the time to employ people.

Chongzhen has decided to reinstate Yang Sichang as appropriate and let him serve as the left attendant of the military department!

However, Yang Sichang is still on his way to Beijing.

At this time, Chongzhen said with a little pride: "Yongping City must be defended, and all the troops in Yongping Mansion can be ordered to concentrate on Yongping City, and how long can they hold on." Even if Yuan Dudu's soldiers and horses want to go north, it will always take a little time, and even if Yongping can't hold it in the end, he can always buy some time! ”

At this time, Wang Chengen hurriedly walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Tianjin Wei has sent an urgent report!" ”

As soon as they heard the emergency report, several people were a little flustered, could it be that Li Xianzhong landed directly in Tianjinwei?

Chongzhen hurriedly opened the newspaper and saw that it was Zheng Zhilong who expressed his willingness to return to the imperial court.

However, the premise is that the imperial court will assign Qingzhou to his jurisdiction and let him rule the three states of Qingdenglai.

The three states of Qingdenglai together are half of Shandong, Zheng Zhilong is taking advantage of the fire to rob!

Could it be that the previous information was wrong, Zheng Zhilong and Li Xianzhong were only a cooperative relationship, and the two sides were not subordinate.

Otherwise, Monan, Korea, Ryukyu, and Taiwan will all fall directly to Hongguang, and there is no reason why Zheng Zhilong will not fall to Hongguang!

At this time, Wen Tiren said: "Zheng Zhilong and other Haikou are generally sold at a price, and whoever pays the highest price will work for him. ”

Although Wen Tiren did not explicitly let Chongzhen accept Zheng Zhilong's request, it was obvious that if Chongzhen rejected Zheng Zhilong, then he would fall to Hongguang in a blink of an eye.

And with Zhu Yousong's urine, he will definitely give Qingzhou to Zheng Zhilong's jurisdiction, after all, this is generous to others, using Chongzhen's territory to buy Zheng Zhilong.

If a warlord now says that Liaodong will be placed under his jurisdiction, and he will surrender himself immediately, Chongzhen will also be happy.

Although he also felt that Haikou Zheng Zhilong could not be trusted, at this time he needed to transfer Yuan Chonghuan's men and horses to assist in the defense of the Beijing Division!

Originally, Qingzhou was also difficult to hold, and at present, part of Qingzhou has been actually occupied by the pirates.

After much thought, Chongzhen decided to take a risk.

In the end, he decided to recruit Zheng Zhilong, and named Zheng Zhilong as the governor of Denglai, and the land of Qingzhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou was empty.

King Heng of Qingzhou was temporarily placed in Baoding Mansion.

and allocated 100,000 taels of silver to Zheng Zhilong, which can be regarded as a bereavement pension from the imperial court.

After learning that Chongzhen was deceived, the monarchs and ministers of Liaodong laughed.

Laizhou itself is relatively narrow, and the Ming army was originally able to confine them to the narrow Jiaodong region by holding Qingzhou.

Now that Qingzhou is lost, the whole of Shandong is completely exposed to their attack.

Although Yuan Chonghuan still left Zuo Liangyu's 20,000 Yulin battalion to guard Jinan, and arranged for Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier of Shandong, to lead an army of 20,000 to guard Yanzhou.

This point of people and horses wanting to hold Shandong is tantamount to a fool's dream!

However, he is not in a hurry to let Zheng Zhilong slap Chongzhen in the face, anyway, there are many things that can slap Chongzhen in the face.

First let Zheng Zhilong use the name of Haikou to implement "spreading the land into the mu" and "the gentry pay for grain in one" in Qingzhou, and clean up the gentry in Qingzhou.

Now that it was a wartime state, Li Xianzhong felt that the cabinet was too troublesome.

So he personally served as the prime minister, overseeing all military and political affairs, and the cabinet obeyed him, the prime minister.

Of course, the right to use the seal is still in the hands of Emperor Hongguang, and Chang Yun serves as the master of ceremonies.

After all, he is still the emperor, and all appointments and decrees in Liaodong must be stamped with the jade seal of Emperor Hongguang before they can take effect.

However, the military situation is urgent, and all military transfers and appropriations can be implemented as long as Li Xianzhong agrees, and then confirmed by Emperor Hongguang with a jade seal.

Yan Mingtai, the governor of Liaodong, served as the first assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the ministry, and Li Sanshun, the chief soldier of Liaodong, served as the deputy assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the military department.

There are only two people in the cabinet, in principle, Yan Mingtai is in charge of Wen, and Li Sanshun is in charge of Wu.

In addition to the two of them, Fan Wencheng, the political envoy of Liaodong, served as the secretary of the household department, Mao Yuanyi, the envoy of Liaodong, served as the secretary of the criminal department, and Zhang Wenbing, the governor of Liaodong, served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

The Ministry of Rites is temporarily vacant.

Mao Yuanyi and Tian Ergeng respectively served as the chief and deputy commanders of the Intelligence Department, and the Intelligence Department was only responsible to Li Xianzhong himself.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had also returned to Liaodong in advance, and he was appointed by Emperor Hongguang as the left squire of the military department and the governor of Jizhou, and led the 15,000 Yulin battalion that had originally surrendered as the vanguard of this southward march to attack Yongping City.

And Li Xianzhong personally led an army of 60,000 to sit on the front line of Shanhaiguan, ready to go south to support at any time.

Hearing that Hong Chengchou led the army south, Chongzhen's old face was really beaten red.

At the beginning, the thief said that Hong Chengchou was killed in battle, and he also wrote the sacrifice himself.

Now Hong Chengchou is not only alive and well, but even led the original Yulin Battalion as the vanguard of the Liaodong Army to the south.

How can this make him embarrassed?

Needless to say, Zheng Zhilong is also a "big liar", not only deceived Qingzhou, but also deceived the court of 100,000 taels of silver!

The angry Chongzhen locked himself in the warm pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, and was furious, and actually smashed the utensils in the house rarely!

For several hours, no one was seen.

Whether it is Wang Chengen or Queen Zhou, he is gone.

In the end, Empress Zhou had to invite Zhang Yan, the Empress Dowager of Yi'an, and when she saw her imperial sister-in-law coming, Chongzhen was willing to let her in.

In the eyes of others, Chongzhen is a high-ranking emperor, but at this time he is only 20 years old.

Since he succeeded to the throne, he has worked hard and never slackened off on the government, but the Ming Dynasty has been sinking day by day.

He doesn't understand what he's doing wrong?

He was so wronged that after seeing his imperial sister-in-law, he couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes anymore.

He hugged Zhang Yan and then cried.

Although Zhang Yan was very shocked, she quickly calmed down.

To be honest, she hasn't been hugged by a man for a long time.

At this point, she even enjoyed the feeling a little.

She gently stroked Chongzhen's back and said, "This palace knows that Your Majesty is wronged, so cry out loud if you want to!" ”

Chongzhen is actually very lacking in love, and he has not had parents to care about him since he was a child, which has also caused his mean and unkind character to a certain extent.

Zhang Yan has always taken good care of him, and he felt a little maternal love from Zhang Yan that he had never had.

At this moment, he also realized that their uncle and sister-in-law were so inappropriate.

So he let go of his hands, and then cried and said, "Imperial sister-in-law, am I a faint king? ”

Zhang Yan said: "Your Majesty is diligent in government and loves the people, how can he be a faint king? ”

Chongzhen said: "If I wasn't a faint king, how could I fall for Li Xianzhong again and again? ”

Li Xianzhong, Zhang Yan also hated this person, no matter how stupid she was, she now figured it out, behind the mysterious organization that coerced her into the palace election must be Li Xianzhong.

She actually wanted to tell Chongzhen that Li Xianzhong had started the layout as early as ten years ago, and even she was just a chess piece in Li Xianzhong's hands.

In this palace, Cao Huachun, the master of ceremonies, Dorgon, the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, who is trusted by His Majesty, Duoduo, the eunuch who is the steward of Cining Palace, and many slaves and maids who are in the open and in the dark, are actually Li Xianzhong's people.

But when the words came to her mouth, she couldn't say anything, Li Xianzhong hadn't asked her to do anything hurtful over the years, and even gave her fewer and fewer orders.

The last time was 4 years ago, when she helped Chongzhen ascend the throne.

And those slaves and maids around him have also been trying their best to protect themselves all these years, although Cao Huachun once threatened himself once, but if it weren't for them, he might have been killed by Wei Zhongxian and the Ke clan a long time ago!

Looking at Chongzhen, who was already crying in front of her, how could she bear to tell him that in fact, His Majesty was Li Xianzhong who wanted to support him on top.

Forget it, she has already made up her mind to draw a line with the mysterious organization behind her, and he, Zhang Yan, will never do anything for Li Xianzhong again!

Zhang Yan said: "Li Xianzhong is like a traitor, don't say that it is Your Majesty, the three emperors of Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi were also deceived by him!" ”

"Now that Your Majesty has seen the true face of these people, naturally he will not be fooled again!"

Chongzhen said: "But I was deceived by them to take away a state, a big Qingzhou; There is also Hong Chengchou, Li Xianzhong, a traitor, deliberately released the news of his death, and now he uses Hong Chengchou to slap me in the face! ”

"I'm going to be a laughing stock for this matter!"

"If he dares to hit me in the face, I will dare to beat his wife and children!"

"That's right, Li Xianzhong, the traitor's wife and children, are still in my hands!"

"Pass the order down, and fight Li Xianzhong's wife and those two little cubs 40, but don't kill them, I have to torture them slowly, hahaha!"

Although Chongzhen was very naïve at this time, Zhang Yan didn't stop him, His Majesty needed to vent too much!

But she couldn't watch this Chongzhen sink like this.

She said in a loud voice, "Your Majesty, do you remember what she said in front of your imperial brother?" ”

"Could it be that because the thief's temporary trick succeeded, His Majesty will sink because of this and give up the Ming Dynasty?"

"As long as His Majesty does things with a clear conscience, why not be afraid of others behind his back?"

"As long as Your Majesty finally turns things around, who will dare to talk nonsense?"

Zhang Yan's meaning is very clear, as long as His Majesty himself is not embarrassed, then it is someone else who is embarrassed!

Encouraged by Zhang Yan, Chongzhen quickly cheered up again.

He hurriedly ordered reinforcements from all walks of life to enter Beijing, and martial law began in Beijing.

Then he used his own money to procure arms from the Dutch and the Portuguese.

But that won't change his predicament!

At this time, Hong Chengchou's men and horses had already killed Yongping City!

Fighting a war is naturally to attack the heart, Hong Chengchou said: "Wang Governor's Mansion, His Majesty Hongguang is the destiny of heaven, Li Xianzhong, the king of Liaodong County, is loyal to the edict of the first emperor of Wanli to rebel, and I hope you don't help the abuse, do fearless resistance!" ”

Wang Yaozong, the prefect of Yongping, was a member of the Donglin Party, and he inherited the characteristics of the Donglin Party with a hard mouth.

said loudly: "Emperor Taichang has long been the recognized prince of the world, even if His Majesty Wanli favors King Fu, he should not leave this edict." Didn't Governor Hong die in Dengzhou a long time ago, Your Majesty personally wrote a memorial for you, what an earth-shattering crying ghost and god. ”

"Hong Pifu, a minister of the two lords, what face do you have to persuade you to surrender in front of this mansion!"

Hong Chengchou scolded with a dark face: "Old horseman, I don't know how to lift!" ”

Then the order was given to fire!

At this time, thirty eighteen-pounder Hongyi cannons were already lined up outside the city.

As the gunner lit the fuse, soon the cannons let out a roar.

The Hongyi cannon of the Liaodong Army is equipped with a crosshair and a cover door at the tail, and it can even adjust the firing range.

In addition to the daily work and ideological classes, the Yulin Battalion has also carried out systematic training for the Liaodong Army.

At this time, he was already familiar with the firearms with better performance in the hands of the Liaodong Army.

Even with the first round of fire, nearly half of the shells still landed on the city.

The sound of the explosion set off a huge wave of air, and the bricks and trees of the city were blasted towards the defenders.

Wang Yaozong, who was still hard-mouthed just now, was already frightened at this moment.

How can the rebels' artillery be so powerful?

In just one round of shelling, the city suffered nearly two hundred casualties.

Yongping City was also equipped with Hongyi cannons, and Wang Yaozong hurriedly ordered the cannons to fire back, but their twelve-pounder Hongyi cannons had a range of more than 3 miles, only half of the Liaodong army.

After a few rounds of shelling, the city's artillery was gone.

And the city tower and the city wall are already scarred.

Soon the Liaodong Army launched a charge towards Yongping City.

I saw that 3,000 firecrackers began to suppress the defenders of the city with Lumi guns at a distance of 110 steps from Yongping City.

A group of heavily armored pioneers held their shields high and pushed ladders to begin the siege.

At this time, the morale of the defenders of the city was completely demoralized.

The first camp went directly to Yongning City.

The army of Yongping Mansion is not the main force of the border army, and the armor rate is less than 3 percent, so naturally it cannot be compared with the first battalion with all the armor, and they will soon be at a disadvantage!

At this time, the Liaodong army shouted: "Brothers, everyone is the Ming army, let's not kill each other, and you don't want to die for the faint king anymore, Liaodong's military salary is high, taxes are small, put down your arms!" ”

I don't know who was the first to throw away the weapon in his hand, and soon the Ming army in the city collapsed directly.

Soon after, the Ming army kidnapped Wang Yaozong, the prefect of Yongning, and came to surrender.

At this time, he can't be hard at all!

Hong Chengchou snorted coldly and said: "The king of Liaodong County has an order, all the local officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty will take the initiative to abandon the secret and still retain their original positions, and those who resist will not be forgiven!" ”

Then he directly dragged Wang Yaozong down and cut him!

In the end, Yongning's Ming army suffered 1,500 casualties and surrendered 8,500.

Li Xianzhong didn't have so much food, he knew that there would be a large number of Ming troops in the south this time, and he stipulated that the main force of the border army should be retained as much as possible.

The local soldiers and horses selected the elite to keep 20%, and the rest are registered and released!

In the end, only 2,000 people were retained to stay in Yongning Province, and the rest were released.

After conquering Yongping City, the Liaodong Army easily broke through the Luanhe River.

And the Luanzhou, Kaipingwei and Funingwei around Yongping were all lost.

Soon Hong Chengchou controlled the entire territory of Yongping Province.

Hong Chengchou won the first battle, so he led the army into the territory of Jizhou.

After all, Jizhou is one of the important towns on the nine sides, with 40,000 elite border troops, and the cities of Zunhua, Yutian, Jizhou, and Pinggu in its territory are also quite strong.

Hong Chengchou's 15,000 people are a bit thin.

At this time, Li Xianzhong's 60,000 main forces had also come to Yongping.

After entering Jizhou, they decided to divide their troops into three routes, the northern route was led by Li Huaizhong, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, with 20,000 people to attack the important town of Zunhua, the middle route was led by Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Yingkou, with 15,000 troops to attack Yutian, and the southern route was led by Hong Chengchou to continue to lead 15,000 men to attack Liangchengsuo.

You Shiwei, the general soldier of Jizhou, is also a battlefield general, and he understands that although there are many cities in Jizhou Town, only Jizhou City has real defensive value.

Because Jizhou is between Jingshi and Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, he only left a small number of men and horses in Zunhua, Yutian and other places to contain the Liaodong army, and Liangcheng in the south was simply abandoned by him.

Soon, the three-way Ming army won one victory after another.

Li Xianzhong didn't expect You Shiwei to give up so completely, and directly gave up all the gates of Jizhou to himself.

Instead, he had to disperse his forces to defend the newly captured city.

You Shiwei wanted to fight him in Jizhou City, but he didn't let him get his wish.

So Li Xianzhong directly bypassed Jizhou and went straight to Tongzhou, the gateway of the Beijing Division.

This time it was You Shiwei's turn to be dumbfounded, Li Xianzhong actually didn't fight Jizhou, and went straight to Tongzhou, isn't he afraid that his back road will be cut off?

Only five days after the start of the war, the cavalry of the Liaodong Army reached the city of Tongzhou, which was only 40 miles away from the Beijing Division, which caused an uproar in the capital!

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