"What? The emperor of the Zhu family borrowed 20,000 Manchu soldiers, and in return, he asked the prince to marry the daughter of the Manchu auxiliary king Duo Sha Ge? Is this really possible?"
In the Diaoyutai Palace, King Li Zicheng was awakened by his adopted son Li Shuangxi at night. In his palace, wearing pajamas, he summoned Tang Tong, Wang Chengyun, Bai Guangen and Du Zhizhi, as well as the military advisor Song Xiance who came after hearing the news. and Second Military Advisor Gu Junen, and listened to their report on the "false statements" from the Guangning Gate Tower.
Zhu Cixiang really dared to boast, and he even had a nose and an eye when he boasted, and he actually bluffed Li Zicheng.
Originally, he thought that the reinforcements were Wu Sangui's 30,000 to 40,000 Guan Ning troops. Even in a field battle, Li Zicheng was sure of victory. Yesterday, some of Liu Fangliang's old battalion soldiers also arrived. Now he has 60,000 old battalion soldiers on hand, which is enough to defeat Wu Sangui's 30,000 to 40,000 Guan Ning army - the situation was almost the same in the historical battle of a stone. If the Manchurian soldiers had not suddenly attacked, Wu Sangui would have lost all his capital.
But now there are suddenly 20,000 more Manchurian soldiers... If this is true, it is still quite a headache.
"Are you guys deceiving others?" Li Zicheng looked at Tang Tong, Wang Chengyun, Bai Guangen and Du Zhizhi in front of him, frowned and asked again.
"Your Majesty, how can you not believe this!" Du Zhizhi knows the situation in Beijing best, so it is up to him to report back, "The Zhu Thief is on the verge of death now... Is there anything else he can't do? ? As the saying goes, a rabbit will bite when he is anxious, and a dog will jump over the wall when he is anxious, let alone the emperor?"
This guy is really good at figuring things out. On the way back to Diaoyutai, he just figured it out on his own. I felt that Emperor Chongzhen was desperate and could borrow troops from the Manchus. Even if we cede territory, pay compensation, and make peace, it is still better than losing the country!
Anyway, if he, Du Zhizhi, were to be the emperor, let alone ceding territory, paying indemnities, and getting married, he would not hesitate even if he recognized the Emperor of Manchuria as his father... The emperor's job has people who are above and below him, so he has to bear it to the end. ah!
Otherwise, the whole family will die!
"Come on, Jun En, what do you two think?" Li Zicheng asked his two military advisors again.
Song Xiance likes to play tricks, and he just pinches his fingers to figure it out. Gu Junen was more sincere than him, so he said: "Your Majesty, if you and the Zhu family emperor changed, would you be willing to borrow Manchu soldiers? Would you marry Dorgon's daughter?"
Li Zicheng said without thinking: "We will definitely borrow it! If you don't borrow it, you will die... As for marrying someone else's daughter, that's just a matter of words!"
Gu Junen nodded, "In that case, we'd rather believe it."
Song Xiance had already made the calculation and said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, our Dashun country does have a hurdle to overcome in Manchuria... Now the king's spirit in the world is not in Guanzhong but in Liaodong. Although your Majesty has the upper hand, Liaodong We can’t underestimate that side either. If we can’t seize the initiative, I’m afraid the good situation will be wasted!”
Li Zicheng stroked his beard and narrowed his one eye, "Great Military Advisor, do you mean that if the Manchus are allowed to enter Beijing first, Dashun will suffer a loss?"
Song Xiance nodded.
"Then we can't ask them to take the lead!" Li Zicheng's face darkened, "It's not easy for us to come all the way from Guanzhong to the capital. No matter what, we have to break into the city and pluck Emperor Zhu from the Golden Palace!"
In fact, Li Zicheng did not take the city of Beijing very seriously. He and his men were a bit out of date in their thinking. They were still stuck in the era of the Han and Tang Dynasties when they ruled the country through Guanzhong. They did not realize that Guanzhong was no longer able to support an army due to the depletion of land in Guanzhong. Go and sweep the world.
However, the "gold and silver" in Beijing was what Li Zicheng wanted to get. Because the Dashun regime put forward the political slogan of "no conscription for three years" in order to win people's hearts. This made it difficult for the Dashun regime to obtain enough food and wages from the existing base areas to support the increasingly large army.
Therefore, in Li Zicheng's eyes, Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, was more of a cornucopia filled with gold and silver treasures. As long as he can defeat it, he can earn a lot of gold and silver, and his army will not have to worry about food and drink in the next few years.
"Call Suotian Yao to come over!" Li Zicheng had already made a decision. The battle in Beijing must be accelerated.
"Sky Harrier" Tian Jianxiu was quickly called to Li Zicheng's bedroom.
"Tiansuo Harrier, how are you preparing?" Li Zicheng asked his general, "When can we attack the city?"
Tian Jianxiu replied: "Your Majesty, we have built a lot of ladders. We haven't built other equipment yet, and the cannons haven't been brought. There are only some squatting tiger cannons and fire guns."
"We can't delay it any longer!" Li Zicheng said, "There are rumors that the Zhu thieves have borrowed troops from the Manchu Tatars... We must step up our actions and seize Beijing before the Manchu troops arrive! We cannot let the gold and silver in Beijing be The mountains swept away the Manchus.”
"I obey the order!" Tian Jianxiu asked again, "Your Majesty, which battalions should you command to attack Beijing?"
Li Zicheng pointed to the four surrendered generals in front of him and said: "You can deploy the four generals here, plus Liu Xiyao's front camp and Li Guo's rear camp. Is it enough?"
"That's enough!" Tian Jianxiu patted his chest, "Your Majesty, don't worry, we will capture Beijing within ten days!"
"Okay!" Li Zicheng laughed loudly, "Uh, let's hear the good news at Diaoyutai!"
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Zhu Cihong never expected that bragging would lead to disaster - there is no China Securities Regulatory Commission to punish him these days, but Li Zicheng can't stand it!
He was so happy that he even boasted that Dorgon's six-year-old daughter Dongguo Gege was his wife. However, Dorgon didn't settle the score with him, but Li Zicheng would rather believe that she had.
In the early morning of the 19th, when the sky was dim and bright, the Dashun soldiers of the brigade were divided into three groups and began to deploy outside the south, north, and west walls of Beijing.
Among them, Tang Tong's 8,000 men were responsible for attacking the north wall of Beijing. They were not the main attack, but a feint attack. At the same time, they also detached a cavalry unit to monitor the west side of Beijing.
Wang Cheng'er and Bai Guangen were responsible for attacking the west side of Beijing's inner city and the west side of Beijing's outer city respectively. The two armies totaled 10,000 people.
And Chen Yongfu was the general who blinded Li Zicheng in his left eye while guarding Kaifeng! However, Li Zicheng is indeed tolerant, and he still reuses such people! Therefore, Chen Yongfu was also very grateful and sincerely worked for Li Zicheng.
Today, he commanded 10,000 people, specifically attacking the south of Beijing's outer city - this is also the main direction of attack. Tian Jianxiu took more than 20,000 people under Li Guo and Liu Xiyao and spread out between You'anmen and Yongdingmen to serve as supervisors and backup. In order to allow Chen Yongfu to make achievements in the first battle, Li Zicheng also ordered Tian Jianxiu to mobilize a team of "child soldiers", that is, an elite group of teenagers who followed Chuang Wang, for Chen Yongfu to use. Because the boy is flexible and light, he is very useful in the battle of climbing the city!
On the morning of the 19th, more than 30,000 people launched a battle formation in the south of Beijing!
These more than 30,000 people are all elites. Among them, Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers are all wearing white felt hats and blue robes. They are in strict formation, each holding a sword and spear. They are very imposing!
Chen Yongfu's men were mainly surrendered soldiers of the Ming army, but their skin color and uniforms were the same as those of Li Zicheng's old camp soldiers. They wore white felt hats on their heads and blue shirts on their bodies.
Zhu Cixi also moved to the tower of Yongding Gate at this time. He only had a gun bureau and his own East Palace Guard Battalion around him, as well as more than a hundred soldiers who were originally guarding Yongding Gate. There were less than 1,000 people in total, which was really not enough. Look.
The outer city of Beijing cannot be defended, and there is no need to defend it. According to the plan drawn up by Wu Xiang and Li Ruolian, the outer city must be abandoned, and the limited troops should be concentrated in the inner city, the imperial city, the Forbidden City, or used to protect Zhu Cihong and his son as they fled.
"Let's go!" Zhu Cixiang patted the crenellations of Yongding Gate, smiled and said to Wang Qi, Luo Xiushen, and Wang Yong who were standing beside him, "Retreat to Zhengyang Gate and take away all the gatekeepers on the Yongding Gate side. Right... By the way, leave all the flags."
Wang Qi is now Zhu Cihong's foreman guard, and the original foreman Zhu Chunjie has been sent to the Beijing camp to serve as Qianzong. There are also elites in the Beijing camp who can fight, so Zhu Cihong asked Zhu Chunchen and Li Guozhen to sort it out, and stuffed some new ones into it. The brave men recruited formed three battalions, left, middle and right. The left battalion was given to Zhu Chunjie, the right battalion was given to Li Ruolian, and the middle battalion was given to Zhu Guoyong, a Beijing general from the Xungui family.
At the same time that Zhu Chunjie left, Zhu Cilang's East Palace guards were also reorganized and expanded, absorbing a large number of noble disciples and forming a guard camp of about a thousand people, which was given to Wang Qi and Luo Xiushen to command.
Wang Zhou, who was born in the Yongwei camp, was promoted by Zhu Cixiang to serve as the commander-in-chief of a new fire gun bureau. This fire gun bureau is composed of people from the Beijing camp and newly recruited heroes who can use fire guns. The fire guns used are inferior products distributed to the Beijing camp, but they can also scare the thieves and add to their appearance. .
