Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 5 Where to go?
At [-]:[-] pm, Li Zicheng finally personally led the Chinese army into the city from Zhengyangmen.

Looking around, I saw that both sides of Zhengyangmen Street were already crowded with welcoming people.

Seeing Li Zicheng meandering on a green barge horse, the hundreds of thousands of people in Beijing and wealthy servants who crowded both sides of the street cheered hysterically.

"Open the city gate to welcome the king!"

"Chuang Wang came and didn't pay the food!"

"Long live King Chuang! Long live King Chuang!"

Amid hundreds of thousands of people's servants shouting long live, Li Zicheng led Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan, Liu Fangliang and other civil servants and generals to urge their horses forward with confidence.

From Zhengyangmen to Chengtianmen is about [-] steps,

[Note: 1 step in the Ming Dynasty = 5 feet = 1.6 meters]

Li Zicheng and others left for more than a quarter of an hour.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Zicheng finally stood under the gate of Chengtian.

I saw civil and military officials of Ming Dynasty already kneeling on both sides of the gate.

Many of them were first-rank officials wearing bullfighting suits or even python robes.

Li Zicheng looked past these demoted officials and looked at the plaque of Chengtian Gate.

Looking at the three gilt characters "Chengtianmen" on the plaque, Li Zicheng was filled with emotion.

In the second year of Chongzhen, when he and his nephew Li Guo killed officials and rebelled, did they ever think that there would be today?

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang gathered 10 soldiers and defeated the rebel army with the strategy of "four positives and six corners, and ten sides to spread the net". When he fled into Shangluo Mountain with only 17 cavalry including Liu Zongmin, did he ever think that he would have today?

Even last year, when he led the army to defeat Sun Chuanting and broke through Tongguan Dingdingguanzhong, he only thought about cracking the soil and becoming the king, so why did he ever think that there would be today?

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it.

The city of Beijing was really taken down.

Huanghuang Daming actually died!
Thinking of this, Li Zicheng could no longer hold back the surging emotions in his heart.

"Bring the bow." As soon as Li Zicheng stretched out his hand, Dashun Military General and Ruhou Liu Zongmin immediately offered a carved precious bow and a carved feather arrow.

"Good bow." Li Zicheng weighed the bow in his hand.

"Everyone, just watch me shoot an arrow through the sky of Ming Dynasty!"

Immediately, he drew the bow and set the arrow, and shot the arrow at the plaque on the Chengtian gate.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Liu Fangliang and other civil and military officials opened their mouths at the same time, waiting to congratulate loudly, but the words got stuck in their throats before they could come out.

Because Li Zicheng shot the arrow low.

Li Ziben intended to shoot the sky.

But in the end, it shot in the middle of the word "天" and the word "下门".

It was only twenty steps away, but the shot missed, which is really embarrassing.

Seeing this, Liu Zongmin and other confidant generals showed constipated expressions, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh.

Dashun Zuojun Song Xiance hurried to Niu Jinxing's ear and whispered a few words, Niu Jinxing immediately said loudly: "The Lord shot an arrow into the sky, so it can be seen that it is God's will that the Li family replaces the Zhu family. "

After a pause, Niu Jinxing emphasized his tone and almost roared: "The lord is the destiny, otherwise our Dashun army would never have captured Beijing and wiped out Zhu Ming so quickly!"

Song Xiance immediately followed suit and said, "My lord, congratulations!"

Now Liu Zongmin and others also reacted, and congratulated Li Zicheng one after another.

Li Zicheng was in a good mood, looked sideways at Niu Jinxing and said with a smile: "The prime minister is always right."

After a pause, Li Zicheng threw the carved bow at Liu Zongmin and shouted loudly, "Enter the imperial city!"

Liu Zongmin laughed, and yelled, "Come on, send me troops to seal up the Forbidden City, the Taikuang of the Puppet Ming Household Department, and the Chongzhen Children's Inner Court Secretary's keystore immediately!"

There are two main things when entering the city, one is to arrest people, and the other is to steal money.

The person to be arrested is Chongzhen, and what is being robbed is the money from the Daming treasury and Chongzhen's internal funds.

But as soon as Liu Zongmin finished speaking, a fast horse galloped to Song Xiance's side.

Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "Military Master, is there any news from Chaoyang Gate?"

After Song Xiance listened to the sentry cavalry's report, he immediately bowed his head and said, "Return to the Lord, there is news."

"Really?" Liu Zongmin's expression moved slightly, and he rushed to ask, "What happened to those loud noises just now?"

Song Xiance said solemnly: "Pseudo-Emperor Chongzhen personally led the forbidden army to break through from Chaoyang Gate. The loud noises just now were made when the pseudo-ming forbidden army detonated the gunpowder."

"Huh?" Li Zicheng was a little surprised.

Chongzhen children actually have the guts to lead the forbidden army to break through Chaoyang Gate?
However, Li Zicheng wasn't too worried about this. Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, except for Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army, who could barely stand up to a battle, the rest were nothing more than chickens and dogs.

Chongzhen children want to break out?What an idiot!
Liu Zongmin also laughed and said, "Is Chongzhen's child in such a hurry to get on the road?"

In addition to Li You's [-] elite soldiers, there are more than [-] Beijing soldiers outside Chaoyang Gate.

Even if so many people can't stand still and let Chongzhen chop, they still have to chop until the year of the monkey.

"Decree to the mighty general, don't kill Chongzhen." Li Zicheng specially warned.

Although Li Zicheng hated Chongzhen to the bone, he didn't want to bear the infamy of regicide. Besides, in order to strengthen the legitimacy of the Dashun Dynasty, it would be best to force Chongzhen to abdicate, let alone let him die.

……

There is no need for Li Zicheng to be merciful, because Chongzhen has already led his army out of the encirclement.

Reining in his horse and turning his head, Chongzhen was a little dazed looking at the majestic archery tower of Chaoyang Gate.

Chongzhen expected that there would be a great chance to break out, but he never expected it to be so smooth. During the whole process of breaking out, there was almost no decent resistance.

The six hundred riders before the breakout turned into seven hundred riders after the breakout.

Because many soldiers robbed or picked up the war horses abandoned by the bandits on the battlefield, although the number of soldiers was small, there were more than a hundred horses.

And Gong Yonggu and other honorable officials feel as if they have been separated from each other.

escaped?They actually escaped from the siege of hundreds of thousands of thieves?

Wang Chengen pinched his thigh even harder, to make sure if this was just Huang Liang's dream?
After making sure it wasn't a dream, Wang Chengen couldn't help but exclaimed inexplicably in surprise: "My lord, we have broken out!"

Wang Chengen's voice also awakened Wang Jiayan and the others, and they all burst into tears of joy: "Taizu Chengzu has a spirit in the sky, the Holy One is blessed in the sky, Da Ming is saved, Da Ming is saved! Haha!"

Looking at the noble officials who were weeping with joy, Chongzhen felt nothing in his heart.

"Don't get too excited." Chongzhen said coldly, "Getting out of the siege is only the first step, and then the bandits will definitely send a large cavalry to search the mountains and seas to chase you and my monarchs."

The complexions of Wang Jiayan and other noble officials immediately collapsed.

Then they suddenly remembered that the bandits claimed to have [-] cavalry.

The [-] is definitely fake, but most of the [-] cavalry are real.

Since the establishment of the regime in Xiangyang, the bandits have won many battles on the battlefield and robbed a large number of horses from the Ming army. It is not impossible to build a cavalry force of [-].

Thinking of the [-] cavalry overwhelmingly chasing after us,

Searching mountains and seas with hundreds of people in their area,
Honorable officials such as Wang Jiayan gave birth to first-class despair again.

Could it be that he couldn't escape the ending of being captured after all?

Chongzhen knocked a little, and then continued to comfort: "However, everyone should not be discouraged. Hundreds of thousands of thieves have surrounded the capital tightly, and we can easily break out."

"The pursuit and suppression of tens of thousands of bandit cavalry is not to mention."

"What's more, the thieves can't determine our whereabouts in a short time."

"So at least for the next few hours, we're safe."

Hearing this, Wang Jiayan and other honorable officials breathed a sigh of relief, and first-class hope was born again deep in their hearts.

These honorable officials didn't realize that Chongzhen controlled their emotions with just a few words, and easily controlled the command of this army.

If they obeyed Chongzhen before this, it was only because he was the emperor,
So now, they are willing to obey Chongzhen because of his leadership.

Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan, who knew the soldiers, were especially impressed. They really didn't expect that the Holy One had never experienced a battle, but he actually had such a sophisticated commanding skill.

Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting and other supervisors are probably no more than this, right?

At that moment Wang Jiayan asked: "My lord, are you going to Tianjin Wei next?"

"No, we're not going to Tianjin Wei." Chongzhen shook his head and said, "That's a dead end."

"Then take the dry road to Zhuozhou." Wang Jiayan said with deep conviction, "Dry roads are safer than waterways."

"We can't go to Zhuozhou either, that's also a dead end." Chongzhen said with a flash of his eyes, "Let's go to Changping!"

"Ah? Going to Changping?" Wang Jiayan wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. The army of thieves came all the way from Xuanfu, Juyongguan to Changping. Going to Changping is not a sheep's mouth?
Taichang Shaoqing Wu Linzheng also said: "Since Shengjia wants to tour the capital in the south, wouldn't it be the opposite to go north to Changping?"

"It's nothing to be in the opposite direction, it's just taking more wrong paths." Wang Jiayan said, "The problem is that Changping has already fallen into the hands of thieves. Isn't this a self-inflicted trap?"

Jin Xuan frowned and said: "If you go directly south, it is indeed easy for the thieves to perceive their intentions and send cavalry to intercept and kill them in advance, but even if you don't go directly south, Shengjia can go to Yongping to join Ping Xibo's Guan Ning army."

"Yes." Wang Jiayan said with deep conviction, "Ping Xibo still has [-] iron cavalry under his command, and the Guanning Army's combat strength is unparalleled. If we can go east and join them, we will be able to protect the holy cavalry."

When Chongzhen heard the words, he just smiled.

Go to Yongping to find Wu Sangui?Do I think my life is too long?
This is a master who can strangle Emperor Yongli to death with a bowstring, a real kingslayer!
Even if the current Wu Sangui is not the Wu Sangui of twenty years later, perhaps he still has a bit of nostalgia for Daming, Chongzhen dare not take this risk, he is not afraid of ten thousand in everything, just in case.

After all, Wu Sangui had already transformed into a warlord at this time.

A warlord, can you expect him to be loyal and patriotic?nonsense!
Immediately Chongzhen said: "I have made up my mind, so please don't talk too much."

Wang Jiayan and others could only shut up and follow Chongzhen to the north.

(End of this chapter)