The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 755 The Perfect Strange Man
At this time, the Ming army blocked the south of the capital, and they only ran east or west.

To the north is outside the customs, and to the east is Tianjin. The Ming army coming from Tianjin must not go there, and there may be a large number of Ming troops in ambush.

Li Zicheng would send a large number of sentry cavalry around every battle, just because he was afraid of being attacked by the Ming army.

Back then Gao Yingxiang was not vigilant enough and was ambushed by Sun Chuanting.

Now it is determined that the south and the east cannot go, then they can only go west, go to Juyongguan, enter Shanxi through Xuanfu, and then retreat from Shanxi to Shaanxi.

In Shanxi, there was no Ming army, and Ding Yi gathered them all to beat them.

Just do what he said, Li Zicheng ran to Changping while gathering soldiers and horses.

When passing under the capital city, Niu Jinxing and others who stayed behind were waiting for them at the edge of the city.

Li Zicheng was also horrified to see that there were a large number of carriages outside the city, and Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others were carrying more than a dozen carts of wealth and wanted to go with them.

"Time is in a hurry, so I can only bring these." Niu Jinxing said with a wry smile.

Li Zicheng immediately thought of the more than 7000 million silver, and suddenly felt a heartache.

Ding Yi couldn't be biased, he looked around and said sharply, "Where is Li Yan?"

"Brother Li Yan seems to have died in battle. He is still behind and did not catch up." Someone said.

Li Zicheng was about to say something when suddenly a large group of cavalry quickly caught up with him.

He took a closer look and found that it was Liu Zongmin.

He asked Liu Zongmin to lead the troops and retreat while fighting. Unexpectedly, Liu Zongmin ran so fast that he came back with him.

He frowned slightly, obviously unhappy, but he couldn't say anything now. It's normal for everyone to want to survive, and Liu Zongmin definitely didn't want to die behind.

"The cavalrymen of the Ming army are catching up. Their cavalrymen are too fierce to beat them. Go away, Your Majesty." Liu Zongmin exclaimed.

Damn it, Li Zicheng hurriedly summoned a soldier: "Let Li Yan lead the troops from the headquarters to defend the capital and hold back the Ming army."

"Let him send someone to set the capital on fire, and all the gold and silver will sink into the river in the capital. Ding Yi cannot be favored."

"No." The soldier turned and left.

When Niu Jinxing and others heard that all the silver had sunk into the river, they also had heartache.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng looked at them at this moment: "What are you waiting for, push all the carts into the moat."

"Ah" Niu Jinxing had a sad expression on his face.

"Running for your life now, what's the use of all this? Go away." Wang Weiguo roared angrily.

Li Zicheng didn't care about them, and with a big wave of his hand, he took more than 4 remnants of the defeated generals, all cavalry, and ran to Changping.

When Niu Jinxing and the others saw it, they quickly patted their horses to keep up, and at the same time ordered all the belongings on the cart to be pushed into the moat.

The intruders had no choice but to think that survival was the most important thing. They each grabbed several handfuls of gold, jewelry and silver from the carts, stuffed them in their bosoms, and hid them on horseback. Then they pushed the carts into the moat one by one, Everyone's heart is bleeding.

Before the dozen or so carts had finished pushing, a group of defeated soldiers in the distance ran frantically to this side. It was Liu Zongmin who was in charge of breaking the rear.

Liu Zongmin ran away by himself, but his subordinates stayed there.

"The Ming army is coming." The defeated soldiers shouted in confusion, some ran to the capital, some were smarter, asked the people at the gate of the lower city, and went directly to Changping.

Li Yan is now near the capital, not far from the gate of the capital.

In front of several battalion soldiers Li Yan, Li Yan asked loudly, "Where is Li Nian?"

The camp soldiers cried, "He's trapped in the formation, and he doesn't know if he's alive or dead."

Li Yan's face was pale, angry and hated.

At this time, there were defeated soldiers all around, running towards the capital, and behind Li Yan there were about 1000 cavalry, motionless, and they were his subordinates.

At this moment, a messenger came galloping in the distance.

"Your Majesty asked you to lead troops to garrison the capital, sink the silver into the river, and burn the capital to the ground." After the orderer finished speaking, he turned and ran away without waiting for Li Yan's reaction.

This order was tantamount to sending Li Yan to his death, and it didn't call Li Yan to break out, which was very unreasonable.

Li Yan's expression suddenly twisted.

Li Zicheng didn't trust himself and didn't listen to his advice. When he was in Shaanxi, he told Li Zicheng not to trust Ding Yi. In the end, he was really deceived by Ding Yi.

I advised him to guard the capital, but he didn't, insisting on going out to fight Ding Yi in the field.

I told him that the Ming army's blunderbuss soldiers were powerful, but he didn't believe it, so he gave way to the infantry battalion to rush into the blunderbuss formation.

Not only killed my brother, but also made me defend the capital?

The more Li Yan thought about it, the angrier he became.

"Big—Big Brother—" At this moment, Li Yan's confidant Duan Jinshan came over.

"King Chuang, it's over—" Duan Jinshan whispered: "Ming army, Ding Yi's troops are irresistible, stronger than any Ming army we have seen, so make plans early."

"He killed my brother." Li Yan was furious.

"It was King Chuang who killed Li Nian." Duan Jinshan said in a deep voice, "Li Nian shouldn't have been charged first."

"King Chuang still didn't listen to your persuasion, and insisted on going out to fight in the city. He didn't regard you as his own at all."

"Brothers don't want to die." Duan Jinshan finally gritted his teeth.

Li Yan's expression slowly changed.

The Li Yan brothers rebelled angrily because they saw that the people were dying. After entering the capital, Li Yan dissuaded Li Zicheng many times, strictly enforced military discipline, treated the people well, and appeased Wu Sangui, all of which were ignored by Li Zicheng.

Yuan Shi was killed by Niu Jinxing sent by Li Zicheng, and he will be left to defend the city again.

In his heart at this moment, he was very desperate and even angry with Li Zicheng.

Hearing Duan Jinshan's words, he looked back, and there were more than 1000 confidants behind him, all of them were staring at him. Obviously, everyone wanted to survive.

"Come on, come back to the capital." Li Yan rearranged his armor and mounted his horse.

The outside of the capital is very chaotic now, and the mountains and plains are full of their defeated soldiers.

Li Zicheng's more than 4 fine riders have not finished running yet, and they are still heading towards Changping one after another, and a small number of them are running towards the capital.

More infantry fell behind, and there were defeated soldiers everywhere within dozens of miles outside the capital city.

Some defeated soldiers even ran in the direction of Tianjin, panicked and desperate.

Li Yan stopped a group of cavalry and asked, "Where is the Ming army?"

The team of cavalry cried out: "The forward of the Ming army is within one mile, and they are killing people everywhere."

After all, regardless of Sanqi 21, he desperately patted his horse and ran forward.

Without saying a word, Li Yan waved his hand: "Go back to the city."

He rushed into the city of Beijing with more than 1000 men. After entering the city, he immediately ordered the city gates to be closed, and at the same time gather the soldiers and horses in the city, especially his own soldiers and horses and those he could control. will come.

He suddenly closed the city gate, and a large number of defeated soldiers gathered outside the city could not enter. Everyone cursed, but the city gate was not opened from above, and the defeated soldiers had no choice but to run around.

By the time the forwards of the Ming army arrived at the foot of Beijing, Li Yan had gathered more than 5000 soldiers and horses in the city.

After he deceived some generals who were not his cronies, he killed them directly and gradually controlled all the sects in the capital.

Chen Yang took [-] fine cavalry and hacked and killed all the way, and he was the first to catch up to the city of Beijing.

When I came to the city, I saw that the city gate was closed.

He rode on the horse and ran a few steps left and right, and he was not in the mood to care about it: "Go, continue to chase Li Zicheng."

After speaking, with a big wave of his hand, the cavalry of the Ming army chased in the direction of Li Zicheng.

Li Yan was standing at the top of the wall at this time, just about to shoot a written letter to Chen Yang, but Chen Yang had already pulled out his horse and left.

Li Yan's face was dark, with a bow in his hand, he didn't know what to say.

Not long after, another large group of cavalry arrived outside the city.

This time there were [-] cavalry, but the Ming army barely stopped and swept past the city.

Li Yan knew that they were also chasing Li Zicheng.

He stood at the top of the city, watching the cavalry of the Ming army passing by, with a very complicated expression on his face.

The Ming army is all armored, and they are all tall and powerful horses. Whether it is armor or horses, they are far better than Chuangjun.

What's more important is that the Ming army is so powerful that it can be seen as the elite among the elite.

Li Zicheng's [-] old battalion of cavalry is considered the elite of today's world. In the original history, the Qing army and Wu Sangui lost in the two battles. If you fight against one of them, it is not certain who will win.

Now Li Yan saw that the cavalry of the Ming army were several times more elite than their old battalion.

Just when his mind was in a daze, there was another rumbling, and there was another landslide and ground crack on the horizon.

Another [-] cavalrymen of the Ming army rushed in like a black cloud.

Ding Yi has [-] soldiers on horseback this time, divided into three parts.

Except for Xu Bicheng's [-] for the front, each of the [-] behind, each less than five miles apart.

The [-] cavalry didn't stop, and just swept past the city.

Li Yan looked even more shocked.
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The Chuang army was defeated, and people in the capital also heard about it.

Under the ground of a rice shop in Beijing, there is a huge, hollowed out kiln.

The underground kiln is reasonably constructed, and there are ventilation holes leading to the outside. There is everything below, and it is more than ten meters deep underground. After the army entered the city, they plundered everywhere and snatched the merchants' silver, but they did not find it here.

This is a stronghold of Lushun Intelligence Division, Fang Junshan Song Xiaomei's rice shop.

At this time in the basement, several people were present, the consort's captain Gong Yonggu, several sons and daughters of Gong Yonggu, his wife Princess Le'an Zhu Huiti, Princess Kunxing Zhu Yuxi, and the princess' personal maid Zeng Rou.

Several people hid below when they broke into the city, and had stayed below for several days.

There are backgammon and mahjong below, and it is not very boring at first.

Every day, Song Xiaomei or Fang Junshan brought food down.

There is still a lot of food and water stored below, even if no one comes down from above, they can survive below for more than half a month.

Fortunately, Song Xiaomei and Fang Junshan can come down every day and report to them what happened above.

Gong Yonggu and the others gradually heard many things.

The army entered the city and plundered tens of millions of silver. No matter how noble the officials were, the couple couldn't help secretly rejoicing. If they hadn't hid here, the family's wealth would be a trivial matter, and even they would be insulted.

In the past few days, the two princesses have been crying with tears every day. After crying for several days, they calm down a little, and they have no intention of playing chess.

Chongzhen died, Queen Zhou died, and the Ming Dynasty was about to die.

"Princess, don't worry. Shopkeeper Fang said that King Zhenbei is approaching the capital, and he will definitely come to protect you." Zeng Rou persuaded Princess Kunxing every day.

In the past few years, she has been brainwashing Ding Yi every day in front of Princess Kunxing, and Auntie Zhu has subconsciously heard Ding Yi, and she feels much more at ease in her heart.

What's more, she has been married to Ding Yi by her father.

Thinking of this, Zhu Wei's face turned red. She has never seen Ding Yi until now, and she doesn't even know what he looks like.

But Zeng Rou often said that it was rumored outside that the king of Zhenbei was handsome, but powerful.

Almost a perfect odd man.

(End of this chapter)