At the end of the Ming Dynasty, I freely traveled through Yangshen

Chapter 158
This thing is different from what he thought. Wasn't it promised that millions of people would welcome King Chuang with cheers and words?

Why haven’t I heard about it for so long? Beijing is so busy?

Like a ghost town.

"Your Majesty, those people from Zhengyang Gate surrendered and brought this with them."

At this time, Du Xun, who had been responsible for recruiting surrenders, had returned and brought back a three-point loyalty certificate. King Chuang originally wanted to question the surrendered Ming troops, but he was so surprised that he was speechless.

"This, this, this!"

"Special girl!"

Does this surrender come with a certificate?Surrendering under orders, what kind of operation is this?Isn't this the entry into "The Legend of Loyal Officials"? Originally, Li Zicheng wanted to press these people for specific information about the people in Beijing, but looking at it this way, this Prince Zhu has already arranged everything properly.

Fortunately, I thought that these people at Zhengyang Gate were guarding to protect Emperor Chongzhen. These people were still protecting millions of people in the capital from leaving, so wouldn't I be unable to touch these people if I did this?

Forget it, the evacuation of millions of people in the capital is a big goal no matter what. Didn't the Zhu Thief Prince give the order to move south? Then these people must be on their way south to Tianjin Wei, so he just sent people to intercept them.

"Your Majesty, millions of people in Beijing should have secretly moved to Tianjin with the Zhu Thief Prince. Why don't we send people to intercept them now? Now that they have entered Beijing, and there are only so many people in Beijing, brothers still want to stay in Beijing. The inside is roaring, but it seems that the biggest officials are the only ones with certificates of loyalty. Even with the certificates of loyalty, they can’t move!"

Gu Junen on the side reminded Li Zicheng, "Your Majesty, you can't let the Zhu thief prince go to Nanjing. These people must take tens of millions of taels of silver with them, and they must not go fast. We have to stop them!"

"Well, I think so too!"

Li Zicheng's face was gloomy, and he ordered to the people around him, "Send a yellow tiger, a tiger over, and tell them to seize the red prince and the millions of people who are going south no matter what, and give E Dashun any money." Come after me!"

"In addition, send someone to look for Wu Sangui outside the pass. We must first stabilize Guan Ning's army with the title of marquis."

Now Li Zicheng is also afraid that Guan Ningjun will come to fight with him regardless of the Tatars. His Guanzhong piece is now waiting for him to go to Beijing to get money to fill it. If Guan Ningjun comes to Beijing with the Tatars at this time, even if he can To save Beijing, most of the old soldiers would have to die, which would make the situation in Guanzhong very difficult.

……

Zhu Cixiang's 2000 people have already passed through Tongzhou, which is close to Beijing after all. The people inside have also been taken to the fairy world. They have arrived at Wang Qingtuo at this time.

It's an escape!
Wang Qingtuo is the hometown of the eunuch Cao Huachun, and the Cao family spends a lot of money here. Wang Qingtuo is now a strong fortress, and even several battles at the entrance of the Tartars have not suffered.

Therefore, the rich and powerful households with a radius of hundreds of miles have placed their belongings here, making this place quite prosperous.

On this day, Cao Huachun, the head of the Cao family, was ordered to welcome distinguished guests here. They had already issued a martial law order throughout the city, and also asked all wealthy households and servants to organize their staff and pack all their belongings. Of course, among them Elites must also hold firearms.

Their firearms are all fine turtledove-footed fire blunderbuss, which Cao Huachun got from Zheng Zhilong when he was on duty. Now under Cao Huachun's call, more than 3000 strong men are here holding guns and lining up. Dozens of rows.

The people below still didn't understand what was going on. Cao Huachun's adopted son was holding a telescope imported from the West on the wall and looking at the skyline in front of him.

Everyone knew about the palace change in the capital and the decree to move south, but because everyone was not very optimistic about the Ming Dynasty in the first place, and everyone with a discerning eye knew that the Ming Dynasty would be pilled sooner or later, so no one took it seriously.These people went down in rows like this, thinking they were preparing to welcome King Chuang. They didn't know that Beijing was evacuated by Prince Zhu. After all, Beijing was still more than 150 miles away from here. After entering the world, Some news couldn't spread at all, so everyone only knew that Beijing residents were moving south, but they didn't know where they went.

"Here comes a team of Ming army cavalry!"

Looking at the image from the telescope, Cao Huachun's adopted son Cao Wenbao said, "There are not many people coming, only more than 2000 people. Dad, do you think we should gather in the city and defend it?"

Cao Huachun frowned and asked, "Have you seen the incoming flag?"

"I saw it. They are from the Tianming Army."

Cao Wenbao was born in the second year of Chongzhen. He was about the same age as Zhu Cixiang, both 16 years old. Looking at these people with only about 2000 people, he immediately thought, "Dad, there are only more than [-] people. We have to defend the city." , or do you want to welcome it?"

"What do you think?"

Cao Huachun looked at his adopted son with a half-smile, "Could it be that you want to present these 2000 people as a pledge of surrender to King Chuang? Are you sure we can eat them?"

"No, no, I don't dare, but there are only 2000 people, and we don't know what happened. According to the latest rumors, some people from King Chuang have gone to Tianjin Wei, and they must have already arrived in the capital. Now that two thousand Ming troops are coming to Wang Qingtuo, does that mean the capital has fallen?"

"The Tianming Army is an army formed by the Crown Prince to protect Nan Xing."

Cao Wenbao's tone became a little cautious, "I don't mean anything else, I just think that if we don't take sides carefully now, our entire Cao family will suffer disaster."

Cao Huachun was sent back to Prince Zhu to pack his things after the Huangji Gate Incident. Although he knew that the imperial court was moving south, he still didn't know too many secrets. After all, Wang Qingtuo was more than 150 miles away from the capital, and Zhu Cixiang himself didn't even bother to organize the capital. When I understand, I don’t care about them.

"Then send some people to ask about the origin." Cao Huachun paused, and then said, "If there are important people inside, then call someone to inform, and the old man will go to meet him in person."

"The child takes orders!"

...

Downstairs of the city gate, Zhu Cixi's two thousand crested Tianming commandos were riding horses here, facing the thousands of men on the city gate.

"The officers and soldiers below, who is your commander!"

Wang Qingtuo's city wall was built by Cao Huachun's own family, and the person who shouted the message was 26-year-old Cao Wenlu, the eldest son of Cao Huachun's second brother Cao Huayu.

"I am Cao Wenlu, a student of the Imperial Academy. I dare to ask the capital master, what is the situation now?"

The people above held their breath, and the atmosphere on the city wall was also frozen. If these people brought the bad news that the capital was occupied by Li Zicheng, the people in Wang Qingtuo would have to consider whether they should let the three thousand people in their family general These more than 2000 people from the Ming Army kidnapped King Chuang and sent them to surrender. After all, they didn't seem to have many firearms in their hands, so they probably weren't very good at fighting.

　The main character is about to start acting.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)