Capital.

Palace.

Emperor Li Zicheng of Dashun wore a dragon robe and sat in the Fengtian Palace.

"Report, Your Majesty, the Ming army sent 400,000 troops from the north to the south and the west!"

"Report, Shunde Mansion and Baoding Mansion have been conquered!"

The courtiers below, it's a mess.

"Calling so soon?"

"It's only been a year, how can there be 400,000 horses!"

The ministers exchanged heads and ears, and it was very chaotic.

"Silence!"

The eunuch next to the dragon chair reprimanded twice, and then everyone quieted down.

Li Zicheng looked at the Manchu Dynasty and asked in a low voice.

"Now, how can we resist the Ming army?"

After the formal establishment of Dashun, the rebel army also became an official army and became a Shun army.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the army of 800,000 is enough to guard the northern Zhili according to the city and passes. "

The person who spoke was a scholar, or the prime minister, Topaz.

From a cloth showman, he turned into the prime minister of a country.

It can be said that it is not a carp jumping over the dragon gate.

It's just that now Dashun is a bit of internal and external troubles!

"Your Majesty, the household food is already insufficient.

A maximum of one month's military pay will be paid, and another two months' ration will be paid. "

Tobe Shangshu stood up and arched his hand and said.

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding generals glared angrily.

"What, last year it was equivalent to more than 17 million taels!

Why is it gone in a year, are you embezzling!"

As he spoke, a group of people also ran directly in front of each other, pulling their collars as if punching each other.

"Stand down, what a system!"

Li Zicheng looked at the arrogant soldiers below and couldn't help but have a headache.

It's been a year, although the other party will kneel, they will salute.

But every time I was discussing in the main hall, I was as presumptuous as I was in the mountains before.

After a brief period of confusion, Prime Minister Huang Yu arched his hand.

"Your Majesty, in order to resist the Ming army, you might as well send out all the money, silver, and food of the household department.

If you can win, the world is yours.

If you lose, it's useless to keep it. "

Li Zicheng on the dragon chair didn't like the last sentence, but the truth was right.

"Yes, the household department will reward the soldiers with all the things. "

"Yes!"

Liu Zongmin and others patted their chests to assure.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, this time the Ming army is divided into many routes, each way is only tens of thousands, 100,000 people.

Our 500,000 men, plus 300,000 horses stationed on the periphery, can easily resist. "

18 "Yes, those cities have been arranged with several times as many men and horses, and they will definitely be able to defend them!"

There is nothing else in the Shun army, but there are many people.

The army of 800,000 shrank in Beizhili, and each city was defended by tens of thousands or 100,000 troops.

"Scattered. "

Li Zicheng was very satisfied, and felt that the Shun army had a good deal and would definitely win.

After the dispersal, everyone went to do things.

It's just that half a month has passed.

The Ming army marched steadily from the border and marched towards the Beijing Division.

One city after another was captured, the rebels were defeated and captured.

Because the Ming army was attacking like an encirclement, the rout could only run to the Beijing division.

Liu Chan used 400,000 horses to tie a big pocket for the Shun army.

Over time, keep tightening your pockets.

Capital.

The Shun army was defeated and retreated.

Li Zicheng frowned and looked at the civil and military officials in front of him.

"The Ming army has already reached Shuntianfu!

The next step is Jingshi, and this is your easy defense?"

Liu Zongmin and the others standing below couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Arch said.

"Your Majesty, the periphery is full of those 300,000 people, each with its own leader.

They did not listen to our commands, and each of them defended the city, and did not cooperate well.

That's why the Zhending Mansion was conquered.

Now the 500,000 horses of Shuntianfu are obeying orders.

Joint defense and linkage, we will definitely be able to hold it!"

Listening to the other party's assurance, Li Zicheng could only believe the other party.

"So, I'll give you another chance. "

"Yes!"

The Great War continues.

Prime Minister Huang Yu found Emperor Shun Li Zicheng with a sad face.

"Your Majesty, the Ming army is too sinister.

They brought the families of the soldiers from Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, and other places to persuade them to surrender.

What is said that the hometown has been Juntian, and it is exempt from three years.

Let them lay down their weapons and titles, and the middle and lower class soldiers will not be to blame for the past!"

Li Zicheng, who heard the words, couldn't help but be surprised.

"How's it going?"

"Of the 300,000 people, almost all of them deserted.

Every day, soldiers fled and surrendered to the Ming army, and there were even those who took the head of the leader as a vote.

Seeing it, it's almost over. "

"And our side?"

"It's okay on our side, the reward is always the greatest.

There is a little less desertion. "

Li Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said.

"There are many treasures of gold and silver in the inner treasury, and all of them will be rewarded!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

After more rewards, the will to fight of the Shun army has indeed become stronger.

But the Ming army still encroached step by step, and the pockets became tighter and tighter.

Yuan Chonghuan attacked from Xuanfu in the northwest, and Mao Wenlong landed in Liaodong and attacked from the northeast.

The formation of a coalition of the Beijing Division.

The territory of the Great Shun Kingdom shrank from Beizhili to a hundred miles around Jingshi.

Fengtian Temple.

The number of civil and military forces was significantly reduced, some were defeated and killed, and some escaped.

The rest of the people had panic on their faces.

There is no such thing as a previous oath.

"Now, what to do!

Do you want to go out and have a big battle with the Ming army?"

Li Zicheng, who was on the dragon chair, said impatiently.

"Your Majesty, we still have an army of 400,000!

Gathered within the scope of the capital division, according to the city, we are almost invincible!

As long as the Ming army suffered heavy losses in the siege, it would naturally disperse.

When the time comes, we will go out of the city to pursue, and we will definitely win a big victory!"

Liu Zongmin and others arched their hands and said.

"Can you hold it?"

Li Zicheng hesitated.

He wants to lead the army and go out of the city to have a decisive battle with the Ming army!

It's a game!

However, the pampering of the palace over the past year has made it more and more reluctant to leave.

and the people below will not be able to bear the mansions and treasures of the city.

He stroked the dragon chair beside him and nodded slowly.

"Well, defend the city. "

The time has come to the tenth day of the fourth month.

Liu Chan's army of 300,000 surrounded the Beijing division.

The Shun army stationed outside the city fled and surrendered every day at night.

Li Zicheng could only gather the remaining 200,000 people into the city and close the gate.

"Hum~"

At that time, someone opened the Desheng Gate.

Thousands of people ran out of it.

Apparently the person guarding the city gate, he couldn't bear the pressure to open the gate and run away.

Shunjun kept discovering it, and then, he ran away with it.

10,000, 20,000, 30,000.

After forty or fifty thousand people ran out, the angry Liu Zongmin ran over and took the city gate.

Kill hundreds of people to vent your anger!

"Your Majesty, Deshengmen has been brought back!"

Prime Minister Huang Yu said with two dark circles under his eyes, looking a little haggard.

This month, he was exhausted, and he couldn't find the possibility of winning the Shun army.

The gap between the two sides is too big!

"Alas!"

Li Zicheng, who was wearing a dragon robe, couldn't help but sigh long.

"Scholar, do you think we are lying to ourselves?

occupied a northern Zhili, picked up a cheap and captured the Beijing division, and felt that he was invincible in the world.

The emperor of Jiangnan recovered almost all the lost land in this year.

Only we stay in Beijing and sit in the well and watch the sky. "

Hearing this, Prime Minister Huang Yu was silent.

Perhaps.

Everyone, including Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, has been dreaming for the past year.

Immersed in the prosperity of Jingshi and Beizhili, I can't extricate myself.

In the past year, everyone has lived a life of glory and wealth that they never imagined before.

The soldiers did not train, but drank for fun.

The same is true of the generals, each of whom married a group of wives and concubines, and some of them married a dozen!

It's just that now I woke up from a dream.

The Ming army was already in the city.

Even though he didn't attack once, he was attacking everyone's minds all the time!

April 20.

The Ming army besieged the city for more than half a month, and still did not attack.

But the Shun army in the city will collapse without a fight!

On the Fengtian Temple.

Prime Minister Topaz's hair is about to turn white.

"Your Majesty, there are still 100,000 soldiers in the city.

But there was not enough food and grass, and there was no silver for the reward. "

Li Zicheng, who had just passed his fortieth birthday on the dragon chair, seemed to be twenty years older.

"Ladies and gentlemen, give a little bit to the soldiers.

Otherwise, Jingshi won't be able to hold it!" (If you read a violent novel, you will go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Li Zicheng really has no money, in order to improve the morale of the last 100,000 elites.

He gave out almost all that was in the palace what could be rewarded.

Even his concubine's hairpin and other jewelry were given out without exception.

But in the main hall, only a third of the people were silent.

There was no response to this Emperor Dashun. []

"There is also gold and silver equivalent to eight thousand taels of silver in the minister's mansion, and you can take it all out!"

Seeing this, Prime Minister Huang Yu took out all his rewards and savings.

When everyone heard this, they were embarrassed to piece it together.

made up 100,000 taels.

When the money was paid, Liu Zongmin and others were extremely heartbroken.

This is my own savings, and now I only have ninety percent left!

It's killing them!

Next time, you won't be able to pay a penny!

"Ladies and gentlemen, it depends on you whether the Jingshi can hold it or not!"

Li Zicheng has high hopes for everyone in front of him.

"The last general will definitely repay Your Majesty with death!"

"The last general must defend it!"

Seeing that, the 100,000 elites of the Shun army have recovered a lot of combat strength.

Liu Chan, who was outside the city, sent someone to give an ultimatum.

The last five days!

If you don't surrender after five days, then the Ming army will attack the city.

When the time comes, all the recalcitrant rebels will be killed from top to bottom!

Yi three clans!

What is more difficult than death is the process of waiting for death.

100,000 Shun troops, Li Zicheng went south and north to the elite.

was frightened by this ultimatum and lost his will to fight.

The five-day period has passed.

April 25.

Palace.

Li Zicheng looked at the dragon robe on his body and finally figured it out.

He angrily tore off his noble dragon robe and replaced it with a suit of armor.

did what he should have done two months ago.

"Come on, gather the army out of the city, and fight a decisive battle with the Ming army!"

The torment of five days made Li Zicheng figure out a lot of things.

The wealth in front of you is all fake.

The palace was a place of golden splendor that he had forgotten.

How did he go from an unknown man who farmed land and sold horses to a famous king.

And even become the emperor of Dashun!

"Your Majesty. "

In the empty palace, only Prime Minister Huang Yu was alone.

Compared with the high spirits of a year ago, the thirty-year-old is even a little rickety.

"What about the others?"

Li Zicheng looked at the hall in disbelief, no one came to the court!

"Your Majesty. "

Topaz shook her head bitterly.

The latter words were not spoken, but they could not have been clearer.

Now Li Zicheng has become a loner.

As if thinking of something, the emperor of Dashun shouted.

"Go, go ring the bell!

As long as the bell is ringed, the civil and military officials will come to the court!"

Facing the dancing emperor, Huang Yu sighed and arched his hand.

"Yes!"

Then, he dragged his sick body to Jingyang Bell and used his last strength to ring the bell.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Li Zicheng, who was sitting upright on the dragon chair in armor, seemed to see it a year ago.

The scene of hundreds of officials kneeling on the ground and chanting.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

"Zhong Aiqing is flat!"

Li Zicheng's face bloomed with joy, and he waved his hand below and said.

However, a gust of wind blew.

Blowing in front of Li Zicheng made him sober up a lot.

The civil and military officials kneeling at the bottom disappeared one after another.

Yes, it's just an empty hall.

Deserted.

Yes, it's just the Dashun Emperor who has been on the throne for 400 days.

Poor and pathetic.

"Your Majesty. "

Topaz stood at the door of the main hall, shouting.

"The north gate is guarded by Liu Zongmin, and he hasn't run yet.

It's better to go to Shengjing, Huang Taiji is dead.

They said they would accept it if they didn't move. "

Halfway through the words, Li Zicheng angrily reprimanded.

"Even if I die, I will not surrender to the Tartars!

I'd rather die in battle!

As he spoke, he tightened his grip on the saber at his waist.

Walked down from the dragon chair.

"Go, scholar, follow me to kill the enemy!"

"Yes!"

Topaz had no choice but to follow the other party in the palace.

However, it took a quick stick of incense.

The two had not yet left the palace.

I just circled inside, and I didn't go out.

The palace is too big, and Li Zichengping was riding on the dragon when he was 843 years old.

For a while, I couldn't tell the way.

I don't know how to leave the palace and go outside to fight the Ming army!

Going around and around, the two came to the coal mountain.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Zicheng sat on the ground dejectedly.

"Alas, I can't get out, I can't get out!"

He was saying that he couldn't get out of the palace.

Or maybe it's a strange circle that the rebel leader can't get out of.

No matter how wise you are at first, you will be corrupted as quickly as you become corrupt in the later stage.

A year ago, Li Zicheng was still thinking about strengthening the army to counterattack Jiangnan.

Within a few months, I began to think about maintaining the status quo.

In the end, he coveted wealth and completely lost the will to fight.

Walk into the inevitable defeat.

"Your Majesty. "

Topaz looked around, a somewhat unfamiliar place.

"Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent. "

Topaz fell to his knees and burst into tears.

Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin are corrupted, is his topaz not corrupted?

There are more than a dozen big mansions in the city that are three in and three out.

Who took the four or five concubines in the house?

"No, you can't be blamed.

Blame me, blame me!"

Li Zichang sighed, removed the armor from his body, and threw it on the ground.

Looking at the locust tree in front of me, I felt a little more determined to die.

"I just hate, I hate that I can't get out.

What if it could have been earlier, even a few days earlier?

I will be able to take my soldiers and die on the battlefield.

Instead of being in this palace, you can't get out of it. "

From the side room, Li Zicheng found a rope.

Found a wonderful place.

Among the many locust trees, the one with a crooked neck.

He hung the rope on it and squeezed it hard.

It's sturdy.

Seeing this, Topaz hurriedly crawled over and shouted.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!

Why don't we disguise ourselves and retreat to Shaanxi and Gansu.

No matter where we can't move, we can still make a comeback.

If it's the worst, it can divide one side!"

The proposal was good, but Li Zicheng just shook his head and took out a letter from his arms.

"This is a letter that Chongzhen wrote to me, he said that the people in Shaanxi and Gansu.

Now the land has been divided, and taxes are exempt for three years.

The local government officials are all literate villagers.

returned to me Li Zicheng, and also divided five acres of fertile land.

If you surrender, you can spare my life and let me go farming. "

After reading this letter, Topaz's heart was completely cold.

He knew that Shaanxi and Gansu couldn't go.

There is no soil for Emperor Shun or King Chuang to survive.

As long as the people want to farm with peace of mind, they can live and work in peace and contentment.

No one will raise their arms and go with them.

"Alas, it's all my fault, it's all my own fault!"

As he spoke, Li Zicheng hung his head on a rope.

"Your Majesty!"

Topaz knelt on the ground and looked at the corpse swaying in the wind.

I couldn't help screaming, lost my life, and didn't move.

Next.

Looking at the two corpses under the crooked neck tree, Liu Chan frowned.

Why is it still this hellish place?

What bad luck!

"Come on, cut down this tree for me!".

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