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"Alliance?" Li Zicheng frowned and subconsciously wanted to deny it directly.

It's not that he has any national interests in mind, it's purely out of his personal disgust towards the Qing captives - this disgust is due to the fact that he was driven out of the capital by the Qing captives before, and also because in the previous ten years, he had repeatedly heard about slaves joining the invaders and plundering Han people. Because of the common people.

People are often contradictory.

For example, Li Zicheng was forced to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, then determined to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and finally successfully invaded Beijing and forced Emperor Chongzhen to hang himself.

But before he took the throne, he always regarded himself as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. He didn't even have much hatred for Chongzhen. He believed that most of the responsibility for the Ming Dynasty's decline to the level it was a few years ago lay with the treacherous ministers and traitors of the dynasty. mediocre officials, as well as corrupt officials filling local government offices.

Therefore, the thought of alliance with Qinglu was emotionally difficult for him to accept.

But reason told him that the Wei army was now the dominant force and would dominate the world. If he did not want to be forced to leave his hometown and flee to the Western Regions, it was necessary to form an alliance with the Qing captives.

When Li Zicheng hesitated slightly, Niu Jinxing on the other side said: "Your Majesty, if Qinglu really comes to the alliance, it will undoubtedly be a good thing for us in Dashun.

Now we, Dashun and Qinglu, both regard the Wei army as their great enemy. If they can form an alliance, on the one hand, they can communicate with each other through the grassland, and on the other hand, they can agree on a time to attack the Wei army together.

Even if it doesn't work, we can also form a false alliance and let the Qing captives disperse some of the troops of the Yi army for us. "

Li Zicheng nodded involuntarily as he listened.

He was about to agree when he heard Li Yan say with worry, "Based on military strategy, we should indeed form an alliance with the Qing Dynasty, but if the matter spreads, I'm afraid our reputation will be ruined.

It should be noted that the Qing captives invaded many times and even massacred cities. Most of the people in the north hated them. Our alliance with them will definitely make the people reviled. "

Niu Jinxing sneered, "Zuo Military Advisor filtered it out - the people are ignorant. As long as we pay a little attention to our alliance with the Qing Dynasty, it will be easy to hide it from the people.

In addition, if the people in Hebei may hate it to the core, the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi may not. Now that Hebei is under the rule of Liu Sheng, what does Dashun have to do with us? "

Li Yan actually didn't have a firm stance on the Qinglu Alliance. Hearing Niu Jinxing's retort, he remained silent for a while.

Li Zicheng said: "Let's wait until the Qing captives come."

Immediately, Li Zicheng returned to the "Imperial Palace", which was the former Qin Palace, and ordered the Yulin garrison to let the Qing captive envoys enter.

Before the Qinglu envoys arrived, Li Zicheng received the good news from Li Guo and Liu Fangliang from Gansu, saying that Yongchang Guard had been defeated, and the gloom in his heart suddenly disappeared.

He only returned to Shaanxi last spring. After taking Xi'an, he wanted to capture Hanzhong, completely destroy Sun Chuanting's Ming army, and then take advantage of the situation to invade Sichuan.

As a result, Sun Chuanting blocked him from Hanzhong.

So he had to change his plan and turn east to attack Shanxi and Hebei.

In the intervening few months, there were two or three months of hot summer, so he only had time to capture Yan'an, Yulin, Qingyang, Pingliang and other places. Not only was Gansu unable to control it, but he also had no time to attack Ningxia.

Later, it was not until the autumn attack on Shanxi and Hebei progressed smoothly that the troops were divided and captured Ningxia Town (border town).

After returning to Shaanxi from the capital, Li Zicheng failed to attack Hanzhong again, so he turned his attention to Gansu.

I learned that there were not many Ming troops left in Gansu, and the people's livelihood was in decline, and they were short of money and food.

Seeing that the Yi army had no intention of heading north to Xi'an after the autumn harvest, Li Zicheng asked Li Guo and Liu Fangliang to lead tens of thousands of troops to attack Gansu - this was not only to expand Dashun's territory, but also to prepare for retreat to the Western Regions in the future. Although the Shun army could not defeat the Wei army, it could still defeat the Ming army, especially with an absolutely superior force.

No, according to a series of successful reports sent back by Li Guo, the Shun army had successively captured Xining, Liangzhou, and Yongchang, and the participating Ming armies had retreated to the westernmost garrison stations of Ganzhou and Suzhou.

For Dashun, winning several big victories at this time not only boosted the morale of the army, but also helped to discuss the alliance with Qinglu in the future...

A few days after Li Zicheng inspected the Guns and Artillery Bureau.

Chengyun Hall.

Two men with money rattails bowed to Li Zicheng.

"Sony/Obai meets His Majesty the Emperor Dashun!"

These two people, one is of medium height and slightly thin, about forty or fifty years old, are none other than Sony, the envoy sent by the Qing Dynasty.

The other man was slightly taller, but extremely majestic, and looked to be in his thirties. He was the guard commander of this Qing envoy team, Obai.

Seeing that the two men were only bowing to each other instead of kneeling, Gao Yigong, who was also standing in the hall, immediately shouted: "Why don't you kneel down when you see me, Emperor Dashun?"

Sony said in fluent Chinese: "We are officials of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty and Dashun are not vassal relations. Why should we kneel?"

Gao Yigong didn't know anything about vassal relations. He just felt that except for the emperors of Wei and Qing, anyone who saw Li Zicheng, who was the emperor of Dashun, should kneel down.

Besides, he didn't have a good impression of the two slaves, so he continued to shout: "What a mess, I think you two are deliberately disrespecting His Majesty!"

Sony looked directly at Li Zicheng and said: "We are sincere in forming an alliance, but Emperor Dashun allows this person to mess around. Why?"

Gao Yigong wanted to shout a few more words, but Li Zicheng stopped him.

Li Zicheng looked at Sony and Obai with one eye, and said coldly: "Making peace? Previously, you colluded with Wu Sangui's three family slaves to force me to withdraw from the capital. Several generals were killed in battle, and countless gold and silver treasures were lost. Then Liu Sheng got a big deal, and now he just 'makes peace' and wants to end it?"

Although there were Li Zicheng's guards in the palace, and Li Zicheng's one eye was filled with murderous intent, Sony had no fear.

He raised his voice and said, "Before, we were hostile to each other. Shouldn't we each be responsible for winning or losing? We didn't start fighting after forming an alliance."

Li Yan spoke up at this time, "If you hadn't accepted the traitor Wu Sangui, how could we in Dashun send troops to Shanhaiguan? If we hadn't fought with you first, the Wei army might not have been able to easily invade the capital."

Sony said: "Your Excellency, you are Dashun Zuo Military Advisor Li Yan, right? What you said just now is too far-fetched - but we are here to make peace and alliance, and have no intention of settling old scores.

Of course, if the Dashun monarchs and ministers are confident that they can fight against the Yi army alone and do not want to form an alliance and just want to settle accounts with me, they can order us to be captured now. "

After saying that, Sony put on a fearless look.

Obai stared at the guards and generals in the palace with his eyes as big as copper bells.

"Hahaha," Li Zicheng suddenly laughed, "Your Excellency, you are a little brave - well, let's not mention the old scores for now. Today we will only talk about peace talks and alliances.

Speaking of which, our current border in Dashun also intersects with your Qing country, right? If it is a peace negotiation, how should the border be divided? "

Sony was actually very nervous. After hearing this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, saying: "This is easy to talk about." (End of Chapter)