historical royal courier

Chapter 40
"Your Majesty, how much gold and silver have you received?"

"Report to the emperor, those corrupt officials are all soft bones, they all handed over the money after being frightened by the ministers, and now we have received about 4000 million taels of silver and 200 million taels of gold."

"Well, not bad, but we still have to speed up as much as possible. We won't be able to stay here for long."

"Yes, then the subordinates will send someone to search their house directly and grab all his money."

After taking a sip of wine, Li Zicheng did not object to Liu Zongmin's rude approach.

"Anyone who dares to injure others or rob women of their property will be killed without mercy."

This order was given by Li Zicheng himself when he first entered the capital, but now that everyone else is about to leave the capital, he has so much control over him, of course it is the most important thing to grab a sum of money!
During this period of time, Li Zicheng was at the peak of his life. He just drove away Emperor Chongzhen a few months ago, and then captured Beijing City. Now he lives in Zhu Youjian's palace, playing with Zhu Youjian's woman, these days It's been a good time.

If historical developments followed, he would then lead his troops to attack Wu Sangui, and then force Wu Sangui to surrender to Dorgon, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, and then be defeated by the two of them together, kicked out of the capital, and then he would go into exile all the way until the fall of Dashun up.

But because of Li Yi's appearance, he had to leave Beijing early.

Why do you want to quit Beijing city?
Because he has no soldiers now!
Yes, that's right, Li Zicheng has no soldiers right now.

Li Zicheng has hundreds of thousands of troops, but those troops are spread all over the Dashun regime, and at the same time his most important troops are in Datong.

When he first entered Beijing, he brought only [-] soldiers. If Cao Huachun and Zhang Jinyan, Minister of the Ministry of War, hadn't helped to open the door, he might not have entered the Daming Palace so early.

"Military division, how long can we hold off the opposing army?"

Looking at Niu Jinxing, who has now been named a bachelor, Li Zicheng is still used to calling him a military adviser.

"Your Majesty, although I don't know where the people are coming from, but with the people I arranged, I don't think it is possible for them to attack Beijing so quickly. Our people will definitely delay their pace along the way, but We still have to leave as soon as possible, go to Datong, and call back when the time comes."

Hearing Niu Jinxing's words, Li Zicheng showed a tangled expression on his face. He was still a little reluctant to part with the Daming Palace here. After all, he used to be a postman, and he might not be qualified to step here for the rest of his life, but now he is the master here. .

"Your Majesty, keep the green hills here. We are not afraid of running out of firewood. Our top priority is to save our lives. When we arrive in Datong, we can gather troops and fight back immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty, what you said is correct. There are tens of thousands of people on the opposite side, and they seem to be elite soldiers. We can only retreat first."

Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin have been here to persuade Li Zicheng, because they are afraid that Li Zicheng will be overwhelmed and want to stay here to fight head-to-head with each other. They know their own affairs, and they know exactly who their 2 people are.

"Okay, then let's go back to Datong first. Tomorrow night, we will sneak out of the city. Don't let the enemy know. If we are chased, we will be in trouble."

"Okay, the minister will go and get ready."

After they left, Li Zicheng sat here drinking alone. The more he drank, the more annoyed he became, and finally he slammed the wine bottle to the ground.

"Damn it, where did these ghosts come from, and they are so close to Beijing. I am going to send people to find out clearly, and then I will take revenge on you all."

After swearing a few words here, Li Zicheng went back and asked someone to pack up his things.

"Open the door, open the door quickly, or we will hit you if you don't open the door."

A group of militiamen stood in front of a gate holding their spears, and inside they even saw several very excited children who were only twelve or thirteen years old.

With a creak, the door opened a crack, and before the people inside poked their heads out, the group of refugees immediately smashed the door open, and all of them rushed in.

"Hey, you all stop, stand up, who let you in, do you know whose house this is? This is the house of Mr. Li, the official department, have you eaten the bear's heart and leopard's guts?"

Seeing the group of refugees rushing in, the old housekeeper hurriedly stopped them, but was easily pushed and fell to the ground.

At this time, Li Shilang, who heard the movement in the inner court, came out and said to the headed refugee:
"Whose subordinates are you? I just had a drink with Ru Hou a few days ago. We are friends with Ru Hou. If you don't leave, don't blame me for filing a complaint."

A few days ago, Li Shilang gave Liu Zongmin [-] taels of silver privately, and escaped being investigated. Why did someone come again now?

"Hey, Master Li, it turns out that you and Ruhou are friends. That's just right. We received Ruhou's order, and I hope that all the lords will contribute some money, [-] yuan for the Zhongtang, and [-] or [-] yuan for the brocade clothes of the Ministry Academy. , [-] for the Dao Ke official department, [-] for the Hanlin, Mr. Li, give me the money."

"I have handed it over to you personally."

"That's it, then you just issued another order today, saying that there are many people who don't even know that Dashun is thinking about it and don't even pay the salary, so let's search for ourselves and see who those people are. If it’s true, those people are fake, Master Li, let me give it a go.”

Hearing this, Li Shilang's face was ashamed, and those who paid the money came to search. This reason is too ridiculous, what are you searching for?Searching your vacant house?It was obvious that Liu Zongmin wanted to grab it again!

Pushing away Li Shilang, the group of refugees rushed in happily. After a while, screams came from everywhere in the house.

"General, it's impossible to make a detour ahead. If we do, it will take us two more days."

Meng Tian and the others had already bypassed a forest just now, and did not give the opponent a chance to launch a fire attack.

But now in front of Meng Tian and the others is a low mountain range, although small, but the radiation area is large, so it is impossible to go around now.

"Then don't go around, send the order down, and the whole army is ready to attack forward."

"Yes."

"General Meng, I have an idea."

"Oh, what does General Zhang think?"

"General Meng, shall we try new weapons?"

Looking at Zhang Han who suddenly pointed at the cannons, Meng Tian thought for a while, and immediately realized,
"Okay, let's try this new weapon."

After a while, someone pushed several cannons over and lined up facing the hills.

"Centurion, can you use this thing?"

"Report to the general, no."

"No, it doesn't matter. Let's give it a try today. We have enough gunpowder here. See those hilltops. If you bombard them hard today, when you attack the city tomorrow, I hope to get your affirmative answer."

"Yes, General."

After explaining, Meng Tian and the others stood aside, watching the centurion and his men manipulate these iron bumps.

These soldiers moved the muzzle slowly, aiming at the opposite hill as much as possible based on their feeling, and when they felt that it was almost the same, they lit the gunpowder together.

Boom, boom
Looking carefully, only two of the dozen or so cannons hit the opposite hill, and several more hit the mountainside, and the most outrageous thing was that one guy's cannon was shot more than 60 degrees, scaring the cavalry on the flank of the army into a riot.

The centurion's face darkened, and he came over and kicked the guy who was crooked, and then changed to another person to continue.

Slowly, after dozens of rounds were fired, the barrel of the gun began to heat up, and all the militiamen who were ambushing on the opposite hill also ran out.

Let them hide in the grass and still be beaten by cannons. If they had this perseverance and discipline, they would have unified the world long ago.

"Okay, not bad, I look forward to your performance tomorrow, charge."

After boasting to the centurion, Meng Tian led his soldiers to chase and kill those refugees.

(End of this chapter)