Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 33
Another night passed, and Li Zicheng had already marched eastward for five days.

Li Yan brought Gu Kecheng to inspect the city defense early in the morning.

Passing through Chengtianmen Street and coming to the outer city of Beijing, Li Yan could clearly feel that the atmosphere in Beijing became more oppressive.

I remember that when the Dashun Army first entered the city, the people in Beijing lined the road to welcome them, and the joy on their faces was from the bottom of their hearts. But now, almost all the people looked indifferent, and many people even turned to them The color of hatred.

This is the sequelae brought about by chasing stolen goods and subsidizing payment.

People in Beijing no longer trust or welcome them.

When passing by an alley, a child even threw stones at Li Yan.

"Hey, you little bastard!" Gu Kecheng was furious, and pulled out his waist knife with his backhand.

"General Gu, forget it, it's just a child." Li Yan said sadly.

The child quickly disappeared into the alley, but Gu Kecheng scolded with lingering anger: "These people really don't know what to do, we help them beat corrupt officials and kill subordinates, let them live a good life, they Not only was he not grateful, but he actually beat us back, how can there be such a reason.”

Did the Dashun Army really make the people live a better life?
Li Yan was silent and didn't even bother to argue.

What's the use of saying more?

After patrolling all the way to Chaoyang Gate, nothing happened.

Just as Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief, a rush of horseshoes came from outside the city.

Looking back anxiously, he saw a fast horse galloping towards him, and the messenger on the horseback who was still far away shouted: "Reverse, Miyun is reversed, Miyun is reversed!"

Li Yan's face instantly collapsed, Miyun reversed?
In the past few days, what Li Yan is most worried about is not Beijing, but Gyeonggi.

Because Beijing still has Gu Kecheng's standard of [-] elite soldiers, but there are only a small number of Dashun troops stationed in the prefectures and counties of Gyeonggi Province, and they mainly rely on the puppet Ming troops to maintain order. This is undoubtedly very dangerous.

As a result, they come here for whatever they are afraid of, and Miyun County is really reversed!

Li Yan is even more worried that this is just the beginning, and more states and counties will follow suit.

"What's going on?" Gu Kecheng stepped forward and grabbed the rein of the messenger's horse, and forcibly reined in the horse and asked.

"General Guoyi, the right army division!" The old soldier of the Dashun Army who came to report the letter recognized Li Yan and Gu Kecheng at a glance, and said pantingly, "Yesterday evening, I don't know where to kill a fake gun!" The cavalry, Wang Yinglong, the former puppet commander of the Ming Dynasty who stayed behind in Miyun, immediately led his men and horses to rebel."

"A cavalry suddenly appeared?" Li Yan's face changed drastically, "How many people are there?"

"It was dark at the time, so I couldn't see clearly." The old soldier of the Dashun Army shook his head and said, "But judging from the momentum, there are at least thousands of cavalry! There are puppet cavalry outside the four gates of Miyun County."

"Thousands!" Gu Kecheng shouted, "Could it be Chongzhen?"

"It must be him!" Li Yan said in a deep voice, "There is no one else but him!"

"It's really him? This dog emperor is really good at timing!" Gu Kecheng said with a dark face, "Master You, how about this, you stay in Beijing, and the last general leads two thousand Qingqi to intercept and kill the dog emperor."

Gu Kecheng's "Shuaibiao" has a total of [-] horses, including [-] cavalry.

But the [-] people are all old soldiers (soldiers), not including the children who are supporting children (logistics), nor the civilian husbands, strong men and family members who are ensnared.

Shuaibiao is one level below the "battalion" of the Dashun Army.

The main general is General Guoyi or General Mighty.

The specific number of troops is not fixed, there are tens of thousands more, and thousands less.

"No, you are not his opponent." At this time, Li Yan was not in the mood to take care of Gu Kecheng's face, but said bluntly, "You stay and guard Beijing, and I will intercept and kill Chongzhen."

"Don't go out of town no matter what happens while I'm away."

"If the hypocritical officials and gentry in the city dare to make trouble, they will all be killed!"

"Yes." Although Gu Kecheng felt uncomfortable, he didn't argue with Li Yan.

Li Yan thought for a while, and then ordered the accompanying followers: "Go and bring the false Ming prince, King Ding, and King Yong, and take them to wait outside Chaoyang Gate."

Here, the trajectory of history has changed slightly.

Because Chongzhen was still alive, the value of the three brothers Zhu Cihong was greatly reduced.

So this time, Li Zicheng did not bring the three Zhu Cihong brothers with him in the Eastern Expedition.

Because it is useless to bring it, Wu Sangui will not change his mind because of the prince.

……

About 150 miles from Beijing to Miyun County, the light cavalry along the official road passed through Shunyi County to Huairou County and then to Miyun County, and it took three hours to arrive in three hours.

However, Li Yan did not follow the official path.

Instead, cross the canal from Tongzhou to the east, and then rush north along the east bank of the Chaohe River.

Because his intuition told Li Yan that Chongzhen would definitely lead his army southward along the east bank of the Chao River.

The reason is very simple, because you can go all the way to Tongzhou along the south of the tide, and after arriving in Tongzhou, you can go south along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Going by water is much easier than going by land.

The time chosen by Chongzhen was really tricky.

At this time, the main force of the Dashun Army had arrived at Shanhaiguan and was confronting the Guanning Army.

Although Gu Kecheng's commander has [-] old soldiers, there are only [-] cavalry, and enough troops must be left to guard Beijing. Otherwise, if Chongzhen kills his carbine and takes back Beijing, the Dashun Army will be in trouble.

Facing Chongzhen, I really dare not take it lightly, anything can happen.

Among other things, the people's sentiments in Beijing have undergone tremendous changes. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, almost everyone in Beijing called for beatings, and the civil and military officials in Beijing almost completely abandoned Daming. But now, the situation has completely reversed. , many officials and gentry in the city are missing Daming again.

Therefore, Gu Kecheng's [-] veterans really dare not move lightly.

Therefore, at this time, the Dashun Army who stayed in Beijing basically could only watch Chongzhen go south.

Li Yan took the three brothers Zhu Cihong to intercept and kill, but he just wanted to fight for the last time.

Just after noon, when the Dashun Army had just reached the border between Tongzhou and Shunyi County, the scout cavalry who were in charge of exploring the road ahead hurried back and reported, "Master Right, we found false Ming cavalry!"

Li Yan stopped the horse and asked, "How many people are there?"

The scout captain panted and said, "There must be at least four thousand horses."

"What? Four thousand!" Li Yan's heart shuddered suddenly, how did he get four thousand horses?

Half a month ago in Hara Hetao, the Ming army clearly only had a thousand cavalry, even if the one thousand barbarians of the Guanning army were annexed, it would only be more than two thousand cavalry, how could there be two thousand more cavalry?
Could it be that Chongzhen surrendered the Gongtu tribe?
The question is, how could the Gongtu tribe surrender to the hypocrisy?

Unless the leader of the Gongtu tribe is crazy, he will never surrender to the Ming court.

Just when Li Yan was in doubt, smoke and dust billowed up on the northern plain.

As soon as he saw the dust, he knew that a large-scale cavalry was heading south quickly, so Li Yan immediately ordered the two thousand cavalry under his command to form a cavalry formation.

……

To the north on the east bank of the Chao River, more than [-] Ming troops were marching southward.

In fact, these [-] cavalry are only superficial, and there are only [-] barbarians who are really capable of fighting, and the [-] cavalry brought by Chongzhen from Beijing can barely fight.

The remaining [-] or so riders are just the guards of Miyun County anyway.

The two thousand guard soldiers were nothing more than tenant farmers on horses, and it was okay to pretend to be a bluff, but if they were really sent to the battlefield, they would definitely be defeated at the first touch.

Daming's Guards Army is scumbag in terms of combat effectiveness.

This time riding beside Chongzhen is Wang Yinglong, the governor of Miyun County.

"Your Majesty, Tongzhou is not far ahead. The final general is willing to lead the bidding of fifty family members to attack Tongzhou first, or he can grab ten or twenty tank boats. In this way, the Holy Majesty will not have to work too hard on the way south."

To be honest, Wang Yinglong was really flustered at this time because of his dark history of surrendering thieves.

Because Chongzhen was not a magnanimous emperor, on the contrary, he was very vengeful, and he was mean and ungrateful, so the probability of being settled by him after autumn was very high.

That is to say, I didn't know that Chongzhen was outside the city last night, but I thought it was the Guanning Army.

If he knew, Wang Yinglong would rather be chased by thieves and tortured for money than betray the truth, because the loss of being chased by the thief is only money, but betrayal will kill him.

However, once the city gate is opened, it will be too late.

Therefore, Wang Yinglong was eager to show off, to atone for his crime with as much merit as possible.

Of course, Wang Yinglong also had a different thought in his heart, that is, in case the surprise attack on Tongzhou fails, and the idea of ​​atonement for his crimes is in vain, he should simply go to Wu Sangui.

Anyway, the world is in chaos now, as long as you have soldiers in your hands, no matter who you turn to, you can make a living.

"I can understand Wang Dusi's mood." Chongzhen looked at Wang Yinglong with a smile, his eyes seemed to be able to see through Wang Yinglong's deepest thoughts, and said, "But there is no need to do anything extra, I am not afraid of hard work."

"Ah?" Wang Yinglong was stunned there, but his heart was even more flustered, it was going to be over, it was really going to be over.

At this time, Yi Ding's horse, Yebushou, galloped back from the front and reported to Chongzhen: "My lord, there are rogue cavalry about [-] cavalry found ten miles ahead."

"Understood." Chongzhen waved his hand, "Explore again."

Immediately, he turned back and shouted: "Pass my will, spread out the formation, and prepare to fight."

Immediately, the sound of horns and trumpets sounded at the same time, and more than four thousand riders slowly formed a formation, forming a huge horizontal formation with four rows in front and back, each row of about a thousand riders.

The first row is almost a straight line.

The second row can barely see.

You can't see the last two rows at all.

The quality of soldiers can be seen from the queue.

After forming up and walking south for a quarter of an hour, a black line appeared on the horizon ahead.

As the distance approached, the black line gradually became thicker and extended to the two wings, and finally turned into a huge cavalry, but it was heavily lined up with neat knives and guns.

(End of this chapter)