Hearing that Li Yan would not return to the northwest with him, Wang Shuo was worried that history would repeat itself again.In the end, he still decided to keep Li Yan first, and then talk about it, regardless of whether he was a talent or not.It's better than letting Li Zicheng kill him in the end, and his own bamboo basket is empty.After thinking for a long time, Wang Shuo said: "I have also heard of Song Junshi, and I have admired his name for a long time.However, if such a major event is taken away from today's saint, King Chuang will definitely be investigated, and it is easy to find out about the son.Looking down, it is too dangerous for Gongzi to stay in the army of King Chuang.It's better if I go to Beijing to get Chongzhen out, and the son can pack up at this time, and when I get out of the city, we will return to the northwest together after we meet, and achieve a great cause As for the Song Army, we will have a way to contact him in the future, and it will not be too late to persuade him to work with me at that time. ”Li Yan shook his head and said, "I can't go back with the general for the time being."
First, I want to say that the Song military division will go with me; Second, after King Chuang broke through the Beijing Division, the upper and lower levels must become more and more arrogant, and there is no way to talk about military discipline.The prosperous land of the capital will be looted.The family of Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, is in Beijing, and I should try to protect it from being injured or damaged.Then he tried to assist King Chuang, surrendered Wu Sangui, made the border pass unharmed, and spied on the heart of the dead Tartar.Otherwise, if Wu Sangui has two hearts, once he is used by the Tartars, the consequences will be unimaginable" Li Yanguo was prescient.It's a pity that Li Zicheng didn't listen to Li Yan's advice, otherwise, a catastrophe that lasted for nearly three hundred years would not have happened in history, Li Yan should have been killed after Li Zicheng failed and withdrew from Beijing, and he was in no danger during his time in Beijing.Seeing that Li Yan could not be persuaded to do so, Wang Shuo had to think of another idea.After deceiving Chongzhen from Beijing, they asked Shi Dazhu and Lu Xiaoyu to take twenty guards and take Chongzhen back to Lanzhou first.Under the banner of General Li Yan, all the way through Li Zicheng's territory, it is estimated that there will be no major trouble.He stayed behind with the other half of the guards and waited for Li Yan on the outskirts of Beijing.Li Zicheng was defeated, Li Yan went out of the Beijing Division, no matter whether Li Yantong agreed or not, he had to get him to the northwest to make up his mind, so he said to Li Yan: "In this way, everything will be arranged by Gongzi." ”Then asked, "I don't know when it is appropriate to enter Beijing to see Chongzhen" Li Yan said: "At present, the soldiers of King Chuang are still under Juyong Pass, so there is no urgency in this matter."
When King Chuang surrounds Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen is embattled, and there is no hope at all, let's persuade him to leave Beijing, and if the half-general has no intention of entering Beijing, it is best to pretend to be my entourage and rush back to Juyong Pass with me.In this way, when the time is right, the person who sees Chongzhen enters Beijing with him, so as not to arouse the alarm of others.I don't know what the general wants" This is exactly what Wang Shuo wants, and he immediately agreed.The two also discussed Wang Shuo's identity when he followed Li Yan.Li Yan's personal guards all died in the pine forest just now, and Wang Shuo appeared in the name of the captain of the personal guard, and his guards naturally became Li Yan's personal soldiers.Li Yan belonged to the staff officers of King Chuang, although he was named a general, he did not have troops in his hands, only the 3,000 old troops brought by him when he was working alone in Henan in the past, which was used as the defense of the family battalion, led by the Red Lady.King Chuang's army marched and fought, all with their families.Wherever it hits, the family battalion will follow.In the early years, King Chuang suffered the loss of leaving his family in the rear, but Sun Chuanting broke through the rear and slaughtered the family camp.This has something to do with the fact that King Chuang does not pay attention to laying down the territory and establishing a solid base.But instead of trying to face it head-on and solve this problem, King Chuang took the negative method of taking his family battalion to the expedition.Li Zicheng fought the battle, putting the surrendered troops at the front, then the soldiers who followed his leaders, then his infantry, then the cavalry, and then the old battalion of the old and weak and women.What are the advantages of this method of warfare, what are the know-how, and why it can defeat the Ming army is really debatable.Li Yan belonged to Li Zicheng's old battalion, and the families of his subordinates were of course also in the camp, and they were taken care of by the red lady when they marched and fought.When the army is stationed, a separate camp is established according to the old camp garrison assigned by King Chuang.The same is true for other officials, such as Niu Jinxing, Liu Zongmin, etc., who all have their own separate camps in the old camp.The red lady has her own women's guards, and Lu Xiaoyu can stay in the women's guards first.With their own camp, others will not easily come in, but it is more convenient for Wang Shuo and them to blend in.The two of them discussed and decided on a big matter, and they had the heart to drink and talk.Li Yan is in his thirties, and Wang Shuo actually has a life experience in his thirties, but his body is in this era, and he looks young.They were of the same age, their personalities were somewhat similar, and they talked very speculatively, and the wine was drunk from noon to evening.Both of them were a little drunk, and under Lu Xiaoyu's constant urging, they finally couldn't drink, so they took everyone out of the hotel, found an inn to live in, and waited for dawn tomorrow to go to the old camp of King Chuang in Juyong Pass.Early the next morning, the people got up and packed up their ropes and hurried all the way north.As soon as he arrived at the border of Fangshan County, he ran into a large group of Dashun soldiers.Li Yan hurriedly dismounted and asked the passing soldiers, only to learn that Liu Fangliang, the commander-in-chief of the Shunjun South Road, had ordered to march to Beijing.A former military lieutenant knew Li Yan and jumped off his horse to meet him.Li Yan asked: "King Chuang has a military order, when he breaks through Juyong Pass, General Liu can enter the army, how to drive over now In case the Ming army in the south who was ordered to Qin Wang comes, who will resist" The captain said: "Gongzi doesn't know, King Chuang has passed Juyong Pass, and the commander of my family is under the order of King Chuang in Beijing, and he will be under the command of King Chuang, and he will join the army under King Chuang" Li Yan couldn't help but be surprised, the terrain of Juyong Pass is dangerous, the city is majestic, and the city is equipped with large-caliber artillery, which is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.How was it so quickly broken through him, but he didn't know that on March 15, the day before Wang Shuo met Li Yan in Zhuozhou, Li Zicheng had already led his army to Juyong Pass.At this time, Juyong Pass was guarded by Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Changping, and the eunuch Du Zhizhi supervised the army.These two didn't think about how dangerous the pass was, let alone how to defend, but how to save their lives.As soon as they saw the shadow of Li Zicheng's army, the two of them had already led the army out of the customs and stood on both sides of the avenue waiting for King Dashun to come.Li Zicheng dropped out of his hand and got to Juyong Pass, the army crossed Changping, Shahe, on the 17th, went directly to Gaobeidian, besieged Xizhimen.The last barrier of the Jingshi is over.Under the command of Liu Fangliang, the general of the left battalion system, the Shun army of the South Road received an order from Chuang Wang to encircle the Beijing Division, and attacked Baoding from Zhending.Li Jiantai, a bachelor guarding Baoding, also surrendered without a fight, and the southern city of Beijing was also directly exposed to the attack of King Chuang's army.When Li Yan learned the details, he hurriedly changed his route and rushed to the west of Beijing with Wang Shuo and others.But I saw that along the way, the Jingnan Plain of Guangrou was full of Dashun soldiers, lined up in a column that could not be seen, and marched north.The soldiers talked and laughed all the way, not at all like they were going to war.Wang Shuo couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, this is the Jingshi, the heart enemies of the Ming Dynasty have arrived at the door, and he is stunned that he has not seen an army come out to defend the Ming Dynasty, and it is really strange if he does not fall: