"I'm going to fuck Zhu Chunchen's eighteenth generation ancestor!"
Li Zicheng stood in the middle of a large hall of the Diaoyutai Palace, beating the floor tiles with his long sword hatefully. He was so angry that his left eye socket, which had lost his eyeball, also felt vague pain.
His left eye was shot blind when he attacked Kaifeng City. Although it has been a long time and the wound has completely healed, sometimes he still experiences severe pain like a bayonet cut. And every time there was severe pain in his left eye, he would think of the bloody battle that unfolded three times!
And will the city of Beijing be more difficult to fight than the city of Kaifeng?
Thinking of this question, Li Zicheng suddenly fell silent. The silence was a bit terrifying!
"Your Majesty, the losses of our army today are negligible," Niu Jinxing, a scholar of Dashun Tianyou Palace, stepped forward and consoled him warmly, "and the officers and soldiers in each battalion were aroused by the cunning of the Zhu Thief. Everyone wants to fight, and their military morale can be used!"
Song Xiance also said: "Your Majesty, I have already asked Tang Tong and Du Zhizhi. Zhu Chunchen, who is designing us today, is the most trusted general of the Emperor of the Zhu family. He has been given the title of Duke of the country, and he has been worshiped as the commander-in-chief of the capital camp. He has a distinguished background. , the general Zhu Neng who fought during the Battle of Jingnan, our ancestors. I never expected that among such a noble and dandy boy, there would be a capable general."
Li Zicheng's anger calmed down a little, "What a pure minister! He actually saw through Jun En's plan and almost plotted against me... If the emperor of the Zhu family had used him to suppress us from the beginning, we might not have made it to where we are today!" It seems that we thought entering Beijing was easy before!"
"Your Majesty," Gu Junen, whose plot was discovered, felt a little sluggish, but still tried his best to plan for Li Zicheng, "I have also asked Du Zhizhi and the Zhu thieves generals who took refuge in Changping. Beijing is indeed empty, with a shortage of soldiers and pay. Even if Even with a good general like Zhu Chunchen, we can't hold on for long. What we need to pay attention to now is Wu Sangui's headquarters in the east. We may not be able to capture Beijing in time before Wu Sangui arrives to help!"
Li Zicheng frowned and scanned the conspirators in the palace with his one eye, finally landing on a strong man with a beard and a yellow face and a short beard with an elegant demeanor.
"Can you win?" Li Zicheng asked casually without naming anyone. But all eyes were cast on the strong man with the beard and yellow face and the short beard.
The strong man with the beard and yellow face was also wearing iron armor, a phoenix-winged helmet on his head, and a waist knife hanging on his belt. His eyes were like fire, and he said decisively: "We will win!"
"It's not easy to fight..." Short Beard gave a different answer.
"Huang Hu, you speak first." Li Zicheng looked at the strong man with a yellow face and beard. "Huang Hu" was this man's nickname. His real name was Liu Zongmin. He was Li Zicheng's most trusted general. He was worshiped by General Quan and commanded Zhongquan. Pro-military.
Liu Zongmin touched his curly beard and said with a smile: "The emperor of the Zhu family does not have many elite soldiers in the capital, so he is not allowed to fight in the field. Wu Sangui is just a lone army, so why be afraid of thirty or forty thousand soldiers? My old camp here has more than fifty thousand people, how can we defeat him?" ?”
"Tian Jianxiu, what do you think?" Li Zicheng asked the short beard again. "Tian Jianxiu" is also a nickname. His real name is Tian Jianxiu. He is the admiral of all the generals in the camp. He is handsome and talented, and is Li Zicheng's most trusted general. .
"The Guan Ning border army has been fighting the Manchurian soldiers for many years. Naturally, it is not comparable to the Zhu Thief soldiers and horses elsewhere." Tian Jianxiu said, "Besides, the Guan Ning army has many cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and it is not easy to capture. If the capital is difficult to attack, Guan Ning's cavalry won't fight me decisively, but only cuts off our food route, what should we do?"
Li Zicheng's army also needs to eat! The area around Beijing has been ravaged by war and has long been a desolate scene. How can it afford an army of 100,000 or more?
Therefore, Li Zicheng had to mobilize grain and grass from places such as Xuanfu, Datong, and Taiyuan to support the army in protracted operations.
If Beijing cannot be captured for a long time and Wu Sangui uses Guan Ning's cavalry to cut off Li Zicheng's logistics, then his soldiers will have no choice but to retreat in despair.
"No way?" Liu Zongmin shook his head and said, "Wu Sangui dares not to save the capital? Aren't you afraid that Emperor Zhu will chop off his head?"
Tian Jianxiu shook his head and said: "If he forces us back, the Zhu family emperor will only reward him. If we break the capital first, haha... The Zhu family emperor himself is dead, who else is going to chop off the head?" ?”
Li Zicheng nodded, "That's right! Suo Tianyao, if you have any ideas, just tell me, don't keep showing off."
Tian Jianxiu thought for a while and said: "If the capital is difficult to defeat for a while, it is better to surround three palaces."
"Surrounding three towers?" Li Zicheng thought for a while, "Are you trying to leave a way for the Emperor of the Zhu family to survive, lest he seize the city and defend it?"
Liu Zongmin interjected: "The Emperor of the Zhu family will not run away. If he wants to run away, he should run away early."
Tian Jianxiu said with a smile: "Yes, he won't run away, but he will transfer Wu Sangui to the capital! As soon as Wu Sangui's troops enter the high walls of the capital, they will be in a cage...or they will be forced to leave the city to fight in the field. Or be trapped in our long trench! No matter what, it’s a dead end!”
"Okay! Haha," Li Zicheng laughed, "Suotian Harrier, you are indeed like Xu Da and Chang Yuchun... That's it! Surrounding three towers, but I can't let Wu Sangui easily enter the city.
Huang Hu, reorganize the troops of Zhongquan's pro-army and march to Shahe to garrison them. Once you discover Wu Sangui's troops, let go of the front and middle troops and only attack their rear troops. Give me a hard beating!
Sky-locking Harrier, you come to fight here in the capital... Set up the camp head tonight, start building siege equipment tomorrow, and then send people to attack the city tomorrow night. This heart attack strategy must continue to be implemented! "
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Li Zicheng was frightened by the "famous general Zhu Chunchen" and withdrew his troops back to the camp. There was no movement for the time being. Zhu Cixiang on the Fuchengmen side let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Li Zicheng did not get angry and attack the city on a large scale, otherwise the capital's defense and his overcoming camp would have been exposed.
Behind the tall and seemingly inviolable walls of Beijing City, there are less than 1,000 troops who can actually fight. Even these 1,000 people are no match for Li Chuang's old camp.
It can be said with certainty that as soon as Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers climbed onto the city wall of Beijing's inner city, Zhu Cixiang would have no choice but to flee for his life in embarrassment.
Now, of course, Zhu Cixiang still has to prepare to escape, but he can escape in a less embarrassing way...
"Mr. Cheng Guo, you have to be more open-minded. Money is something external to the body. How come you don't know how the defense of Beijing is? Sooner or later, you won't defend it. How can you take all the money you have to Jiangnan? I don't want it either. With all your wealth, you can carry away as much gold and silver as you can find in carriages. What you cannot take away will be presented to me. When you get to Jiangnan, I will let you be the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp."
It was already getting late, and Zhu Cihong and Zhu Chunchen had arrived at the Duke Chengguo's Mansion. The two of them were sitting in the outer hall, setting out wine and food, and watching boxes of money being moved out of the mansion while they ate.
This is all the money of Duke Chengguo! Seeing this, Zhu Chunchen's heart felt like a knife piercing his heart, and his face was filled with tears. Zhu Cihong was kind-hearted after all and couldn't bear to see him sad, so he tried to persuade him with kind words.
"Master Qiansui, please don't joke with me," Zhu Chunchen said with tears in his eyes. "I know myself well. I went to Jiangnan and became a rich man. How can I dare to think about the official position of the general in the capital camp?"
"Why can't you be a general?" Zhu Cixi picked up a juicy piece of fat, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and then swallowed it whole. "You can cut off people's heads now! Zhao Zhilong and Xu Hongji in Nanjing have such ability?"
When Zhu Chunchen heard about beheading, he felt sick, and when he saw his money being taken away, he felt sad. Sad and disgusting, I really have no appetite at all.
Zhu Cixiang continued to lie: "Don't refuse... When we get to the south of the Yangtze River, the nobles in this palace will all be from the north. You, Li Guozhen, and Zhang Shize are all the pillars of the country, and Biliudu's Those people are much more reliable. When the time comes, the commander-in-chief, garrison, and admiral will all be yours."
His words were not completely deceptive. Compared with the group of nobles who stayed in Nanjing, the nobles from Beijing were certainly more reliable. Because the nobles in Beijing have been embezzling land in the Beizhili area, they all became proletarians after arriving in Nanjing... just like those people who followed Chiang to Taiwan in history! If you don't show your allegiance well, you won't even get anything to eat!
