Li Zicheng was in Beijing for the first time, but before the twelve months of the Jiashen year, good luck was on Li Zicheng's side. It was really necessary to have the wind and rain. Well, if there is a country, a beauty, a beauty, money, a high hat, a majesty, a majesty, in short, what should you want, what should you want in life?

Li Zicheng was ambitious. After the victory of Zunji, he prepared his troops and mobilized a large army, preparing to go north to pacify Liao. However, before he could take action, the Qing soldiers took a sneak attack and took down the important town of Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop, and gave Emperor Dashun a heavy blow.

But this is nothing. Li Zicheng's biggest gain in many years of war was to practice the zombie fraud kung fu. Once upon a time, the Ming Dynasty's official army defeated the zombie army many times without the ability to fight back. The worst time was when the zombie army countered the ninth anti-encirclement and suppression. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting surrounded the zombie army layer by layer, and defeated the entire zombie army. They all thought that the zombie army should have died this time! No! Although Li Zicheng only had eighteen cavalry left, if ordinary people had finished playing, Li Zicheng had practiced the "zombie flow" technique and could not beat it.

He was cheated. At this time, the Ming Dynasty court thought that the rebel army would never have any more storms, so he ignored the rebel army. Then Emperor Chongzhen transferred all the main forces of the rebel army to the north, preparing to fight with the Qing army, hoping to take off the hat of "a civil war, an outsider in foreign war" in one fell swoop. As you know, the Ming Dynasty's 130,000 troops were defeated by Songshan, and the troops were half lost. Li Zicheng resurrected his soul by replacing hundreds of thousands of rebel army in a year, but the limelight was even better than before. He was out of control and climbed straight to the Dragon Court.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's struggle history is the most powerful legendary and inspiring story in history, and it is even more legendary than the difficult journey of the Red Army's Long March in later generations. The Red Army had at least 30,000 people in northern Shaanxi, and there were still stars in various places. Li Zicheng was so embarrassed that only eighteen cavalry left, and he could turn over and even win the world in one fell swoop! On the one hand, this proves Li Zicheng's character of fighting repeatedly and prospering in adversity, and on the other hand, it proves that this is indeed the favor of God.

In Li Zicheng's opinion, that was nothing! If you lose it, you will fight back. The rebel army has become accustomed to capturing it and then throwing it away. Of course, after Li Zicheng became emperor, he considered the problem differently. Losing face is one of the first and losing people's hearts is the second. Besides, there is a public debt exchange, which is the barometer of the people's hearts. If you lose Shanhaiguan, the public debt suddenly fell by 20%. Li Zicheng was angry, Liu Zongmin became angry, and Dashun Army mobilized 130,000 Dashun Army.

The army later increased to 150,000 and attacked Shanhaiguan. But it could not be captured for a long time, so it had to wait for another attack. Originally, the new round of arms sales provided by the Ming Dynasty in the first month gave Li Zicheng the hope of capturing Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop, because there was a killing weapon called a rocket launcher. It is said that this rocket launcher destroyed the iron birds flying in the sky. Since the legendary iron birds that could kill people could be destroyed, it was used to attack the Tartars who could not reach the sky and the earth in Shanhaiguan. That was a piece of cake!

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng miscalculated again, and the Qing soldiers took action first. It was so sad! The 150,000 elite soldiers brought by Liu Zongmin finally escaped from more than 20,000. Although Li Zicheng possessed the "zombie flow" skill, he was hurt after all, and he was heartbroken! But even if he was heartbroken, he still had to comfort Liu Zongmin:

"Your dear, don't be sad! In the past, the defeat was much worse than this. I won't survive it! I even made a comeback! There are more than 100,000 soldiers near the capital, plus the withdrawn old camp soldiers, a total of 140,000 to 150,000, and the Qing army had only 100,000 troops. Where did he be afraid of him? I wish he would not dare to attack Beijing for a while!"

After hearing Li Zicheng's comforting words, Liu Zongmin finally felt better, but he still had to apologize. Now it was the minister who was against the emperor, and he lost so much. No matter how arrogant Liu Zongmin was, he had to apologize in front of the emperor:

"Your Majesty, I deserve to die! The elite soldiers and generals under my command are invincible. It is because I am not able to lead the troops, and I am even taking advantage of the Qing army. I ask the emperor to sue him!"

After saying that, he couldn't kneel down for a long time. That kind of virtue really made people feel sincere. Li Zicheng thought to himself that General Liu is unruly in daily life, and even my emperor's words are often in the blink of an eye. This time, the Tartars defeated you, so he developed this routine of carrying out accusations. Alas! It's hard for him to do this! The play between the king and the ministers must be done enough, so Li Zicheng personally came down from the throne, helped Liu Zongmin up, and said:

"My dear is a hero, and victory or defeat is common to military strategists. We have not hurt the roots, so we have fought with the Tartars again. Now the new weapons have arrived, and the Tartars are still three hundred miles away. The information from Liu Tichun shows that the Tartars do not seem to continue to advance. Our army seizes the opportunity to reorganize the army and re-arrange defenses, familiarize themselves with new firearms, and practice new tactics. Chongzhen also sent ten staff members this time to help our army practice firearms and practice new tactics.

What I see is that the defeat of Shanhaiguan this time, the other party used a new firearm, and the second is that the Qing army used a new tactic. Chongzhen once sent someone to remind the new firearm to use a new tactic. I heard that Chongzhen's methods of training the new army in Nanjing were very different. I didn't care at that time. Now it seems that our army cannot use the new firearms freely. I want to ask the staff sent by Nanjing to take a detailed look. Oh, dear friends, what good strategies do you have to express your opinions."

Niu Jinxing originally had the idea of ​​becoming the prime minister of peace, but this defeat in this battle made Prime Minister Niu frightened. It turned out that Dashun was far from being ruled by the throne. Prime Minister Niu said:

"Our army's unfavorable battle was because Dorgon colluded with the Japanese pirates and bought a lot of new firearms from the Japanese pirates, such as flowering cannons, machine guns, and mortars. These are all evil firearms. According to my opinion, they are probably even sharper than the firearms in Nanjing. I think there are iron birds in the sky and iron fish at the bottom of the sea. These are things that have never been heard and never seen. However, Dorgon colluded with the Japanese pirates and got a batch of powerful firearms from the Japanese pirates. Therefore, General Liu did not expect this season and was caught off guard when he was about to fight, so he was defeated. However, if I expected it, there should be some broken soldiers who had returned to the team one after another. These scattered soldiers might be able to gather 20,000 to 30,000 troops after returning to the team. In this way, there will be 170,000 to 80,000 troops in the capital, and with the new firearms transported from Nanjing, there will be no problem in defending Beijing."

As soon as Prime Minister Niu said this, Liu Zongmin slapped his thigh and said:

"Thanks to Prime Minister Niu's reminder, why didn't I think of this section? Most soldiers raised funds to buy Pingliao's public debt. If they didn't return to Beijing, the public debt would be wasted. So they couldn't even be deserters! Haha! Haha!"

Seeing Liu Zongmin like this, he laughed wildly, thinking that he needed to vent after a big defeat. Although everyone looked at each other, they felt a little sympathy and regretful. Li Guo suddenly thought of something and said:

"Emperor, since the Qing army can buy firearms from the Japanese, can we also try to buy some firearms from the Japanese?"

Li Guo didn't have so many concerns. He relied on his emperor's nephew, and he would say wherever he thought. As soon as he said this, the hall was terrifyingly quiet.

Song Xiance always felt that he was controlled by others when buying firearms from the Ming Dynasty at a high price, so he said:

"Report to the Emperor, General Li said, I think it would be better to give it a try. If we can buy new firearms from the Japanese, there will be no way to lose. Just imagine, whether we destroyed the Qing army or the Ming army, will we fight and reconcile next? The peaceful reunification mentioned in the Treaty of Tianjin is probably too unrealistic. At that time, I, Dashun and Daming, will inevitably fight for the world. Now we buy firearms from Nanjing at a high price, and Nanjing has not sold the latest firearms to us, so they will make money.

Fight, we can only be controlled by others. This is too much loss! It is too passive! I suggest you contact the Japanese as soon as possible and try to see if you can buy Japanese firearms. Even if you can buy some Japanese weapons, even if the Japanese are usually firearms, they will not be hanged from a tree in Nanjing. At least, let Nanjing not think that we can only buy firearms from Nanjing. Besides, buying from two companies will make it easier to negotiate the price, so that they will not always be priested by Nanjing. This is my foolish opinion. Please let the emperor decide! "

When Li Yan heard that Song Xianke wanted to take two boats and stored the idea of ​​comparing the stores, he immediately said:

"Report to the emperor, I think this matter should be cautious. The Japanese pirates colluded with the Tartars, and had ulterior motives. I thought that when the Japanese pirates invaded the Ming Dynasty, they invaded Korea and then invaded Korea. The Wanli Dynasty repeatedly aided Korea several times, and then drove the Japanese pirates out of Korea. Whether the Japanese pirates invaded the Ming Dynasty or invaded Korea, it only shows that the Japanese pirates are ambitious and have been coveting our China for a long time. The Japanese pirates may think it is not easy to directly attack China, so they support the Tartars and try to make the Tartars militant and disrupt China. Their purpose is nothing more than 'the fisherman fights against the snipe and clams'. The ambition of the Japanese pirates is to enter China, never forget the past, and the army of the subsequent affairs, and the ambition of the Japanese pirates is even more than that of the Tartars! This is one of them. This is the failure of Dashun this time, the Japanese pirates are actually the mastermind behind the scenes, and they are my Dashun enemy. How can you bow your head in front of the enemy!"

Li Yan directly called the Japanese pirates, which was actually a hatred of the Japanese pirates:

"Secondly, if I am Dashun and the Japanese pirates, what do I think when I hear this? The Ming Dynasty and the Japanese pirates had already fought on the sea, and the Japanese pirates were not known to the assassination incident on the Lantern Festival. As I see, the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese pirates are already in the same power. If the Ming Dynasty learns that the Japanese pirates are in communication with each other, they will be in a grudge and no longer supply firearms or perfunctory manner, will our army not be passive? What I am worried about is that both ends will not rely on them at that time. If they can really take two boats, they will only

I am afraid that neither side will be settled by that time. If the Japanese are jealous of money, it would be fine. The profiteering businessman will sell both the Qing army and the Dashun. As long as there is money, it is enough to make money. The problem is that the Japanese pirates are not profiteering businessmen who only care about making money. His support for the Tartars is a plot to the whole of China, and there is no reason to sell the firearms to Dashun. If he is willing to sell, he will not know that Dashun is rich. Why don’t the Japanese come to Dashun to sell, but they go to the Tartars whose financial resources are far less than Dashun to sell them!"

At first, Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin thought that what Song Xiance said was reasonable, and even Li Zicheng was a little moved by Song Xiance. Now, when he heard Li Yan's words, he realized that it was wishful thinking.

Li Yan continued:

"The emperor is wise and must have already seen this. I think that the only way to not be controlled by others is to make firearms by yourself. I suggest that you attract a lot of money to recruit talents and vigorously set up a military weapon bureau so that you can catch up with and surpass the Ming Dynasty. Even if you start a war with the Ming Dynasty in the future, this is the only feasible military plan. This is my bad opinion, so please correct me."

Li Zicheng nodded and said:

"What Li Aiqing said is reasonable. Now the Tartars are rampant, and they rely on the firearms of the Japanese pirates. After seeing the rocket launchers transported from Nanjing, their power may not be lost to the Japanese pirates. I and Chongzhen agreed to jointly destroy the Tartars, and I will be irreconcilable with the Tartars. Chongzhen will not let me down, and I will not let Chongzhen down. In short, let's talk about destroying the Tartars! As for the destruction of the Tartars, even if they fight with Chongzhen again, they will always fight against brothers. At that time, they will fight to the death and there will be no complaints between each other."

Li Zicheng said with great sound, but he had to do so. Even if the Japanese agreed to sell it to Dashun Firearms, contact it, and order it to ship it to Beijing, it would take three months in less than half a year. At this time, only the banner of unanimous external relations and unite with Ming and anti-Qing. If they had two intentions and had their own thoughts, they would probably not be able to defend themselves if the people dispersed. Therefore, Li Zicheng's strategy was to simplify the process, strive for the support of the Ming Dynasty to the greatest extent, and then talk about everything when they overcome the current difficulties.
Chapter completed!