After Li Zicheng occupied the Prince Qin's Palace in Xi'an, he was limited to the people of Shaanxi and did not make much expansion of the palace. He only repaired some palaces in the backyard of the palace to accommodate his dozens of concubines.
Most of Li Zicheng's concubines were maids stolen from Beijing.
Li Zicheng was inspired by the thought that these palace maids were once Chongzhen's women.
But it is a pity that no matter how hard Li Zicheng plowed the land, there was still no movement among the dozens of concubines, and gradually Li Zicheng stopped thinking about her.
That night, Li Zicheng stayed in Dou Meiyi's room.
When she was sleeping and lost in the lake, she heard Dou Meiyi whispering to others outside.
"Who is it?" Li Zicheng asked with a frown after being woken up, "It's so late at night and you're not letting anyone sleep?"
"Long live the Lord." Dou Meiyi quickly returned to the couch to report, "This is His Highness the Crown Prince. Yin Ye has come to the palace to report important matters."
"Who are you talking about, Double Happiness?" Li Zicheng's single eye revealed a fascinating cold light, and he looked at Dou Meiyi for a moment.
Dou Meiyi was so frightened that her face turned pale and she did not dare to say anything, lest Li Zicheng would behead her if she disagreed with him.
Fortunately, at this time, Li Shuangxi's voice sounded outside the palace gate, coming to Dou Meiyi's rescue: "Father, something big has happened!"
Li Zicheng casually put on a straight jacket and walked out of the gate of Meiyi Palace. He saw Li Shuangxi pacing back and forth outside the door with an anxious expression.
Seeing Li Zicheng coming out, Li Shuangxi quickly reported: "Father, something bad has happened. The four cavalry groups that came out from Huangyu Pass, Tumen Pass, Daoma Pass and Zijing Pass to the east were completely destroyed. Li Yan's army was completely destroyed."
This traitor even surrendered to Nanming with 30,000 cavalry!"
"What?" Li Zicheng was furious when he heard this.
"I know this thief Li Yan, I know it."
"I knew that this thief would bite the master sooner or later! Sooner or later he would bite the master!"
"I shouldn't have listened to the military advisor's advice in the first place. I should have killed him with one knife."
Li Shuangxi sighed, and then said: "Father, the main force of the rear camp has been completely destroyed. There are only less than 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers left in Shanxi Province. It is extremely empty. If the Ming army takes advantage of this opportunity to rebel, it will be in big trouble."
"Yes, we must take precautions against this matter. We must quickly mobilize troops to Shanxi to strengthen our defense."
Li Zicheng woke up from a dream and continued: "There are still Hetao and we need to send troops."
"But the problem is, there are no troops to send now." Li Shuangxi said helplessly, "The front camp is far away in Gansu, the main force of the right camp is confronting the Ming army near Zhongxiang, the left camp has less than 20,000 people, and the central army has already
Advance to the vicinity of Kaifeng."
Li Zicheng thought for a while and then ordered: "Summon the military advisor and Zuo military advisor to the palace to discuss matters quickly!"
After such a big incident happened, Li Zicheng was a little confused. He wanted to listen to Song Xiance and Gu Junen's ideas, mainly Gu Junen's. After Li Yan's incident, Li Zicheng no longer believed in Song Xiance.
However, misfortunes never come singly. As soon as Li Zicheng changed into Yanjufu and arrived at Chengyun Hall, another piece of bad news came.
After Li Shuangxi read the Tang newspaper, his face suddenly turned pale, and for a moment he did not dare to report to Li Zicheng.
"What did the newspaper say?" Li Zicheng's face immediately fell, "Liu Zongmin also lost?"
"It was defeated, and it was..." After a slight pause, Li Shuangxi said again, "And it was still a disastrous defeat. The 100,000-horse infantry army was defeated by Du Yinxi's 100,000 Ming army in Kaifeng Mansion!"
"A disastrous defeat?" Li Zicheng said blankly, "How disastrous was it?"
Li Shuangxi secretly said: "Of the 100,000 horse and infantry army, less than 10,000 people fled back to Tongguan. The other 90,000 people either died in the battle or surrendered to the Ming army. Even Liu Zongmin did the same..."
"What happened to Liu Zongmin?" Li Zicheng shouted, "He also surrendered to the Ming army?"
"Liu Zongmin died in battle." Li Shuangxi said secretly, "During a charge, he was shot into a sieve by the Ming army's Crouching Tiger Cannon. It is said that he was no longer human."
Li Zicheng slumped down on the throne.
Liu Zongmin actually died, actually died?
The blacksmith from Lantian died?
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became depressing and dull.
In this atmosphere, Song Xiance and Gu Junen arrived one after another.
"Your Majesty Song Xiance/Gu Junen kowtows to the Holy Spirit Jin'an." Song Xiance and the two paid homage with great ceremony.
However, Li Zicheng, who was sitting on the throne, showed no reaction, as if he didn't hear anything.
Song Xiance and Gu Junen looked at each other and paid homage again: "I will bow to the Holy Spirit, Jin An."
Li Zicheng's thoughts were finally brought back to reality, and he waved his hand and said: "The two military advisors are here, please get up."
After finishing speaking, Li Zicheng said to Li Shuangxi with some trepidation: "Prince, please tell the two military advisors separately."
"Yes." Li Shuangxi agreed, and the entire army in the rear camp was destroyed. Li Yan led his troops to surrender to the Southern Ming Dynasty. Zhongquan's pro-army army was defeated in Kaifeng. The bad news of Liu Zongmin's death in battle was told to Song Xiance and others in full.
"Ah?" Song Xiance was stunned when he heard these two pieces of bad news.
Gu Junen also looked shocked, obviously not expecting such a result.
After a moment, Gu Junen suddenly shouted: "No, something bad is happening!"
"Commander Zuo." Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "Have you thought of anything?"
"The main force of the right camp!" Gu Junen said eagerly, "Your Majesty, the Zhongquan pro-army suffered heavy losses, and the rear camp was completely wiped out. The front camp only has 50,000 people, so the 100,000 main force of the right camp is already our Dashun."
The only remaining elite soldiers, if one of these 100,000 old soldiers makes another mistake, my Dashun will really be doomed!"
"Scare words are horrifying." Song Xiance retorted sternly, "Chen Yongfu is brave, good at fighting and loyal, and the right battalion is even more battle-hardened. In addition, the Ming army in Huguang is just a town soldier adapted from local soldiers, so there cannot be anything."
accident."
Gu Junen said angrily: "The rear camp of 80,000 cavalry and the new army of Zhongquan with 100,000 elite troops came out in multiple directions. Did the military division think that they would suffer such defeats in Beizhi and Henan? Especially Li Yan, did you ever think of him?
Will you turn traitor?"
"There must be something fishy about Li Yan." Song Xiance looked around and told him, "Don't make any hasty judgments."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just as the two were arguing, another messenger hurried in and handed a Tang newspaper to Li Shuangxi.
Li Shuangxi pulled out a knife, scratched the paint and took out the letter. After reading it in a hurry, his face turned pale again.
Seeing Li Shuangxi's expression, Li Zicheng's heart skipped a beat and he asked anxiously: "What? What happened again?"
"Father, it's Youying." Li Shuangxi's voice began to tremble as he spoke, "The day before yesterday, in the afternoon of the day before yesterday, the main force of Youying fought with 40,000 elites commanded by Chongzhen himself outside Zhongxiang County. After half a
We fought fiercely for hours, and finally suffered a disastrous defeat. Only 20,000 of the 100,000-strong army were defeated and returned to Hanzhong. Xiangyang and Xunyang were all lost."
"What? Only 20,000 of the 100,000 troops in the right camp were defeated and returned to Hanzhong? Xiangyang and Xunyang were also lost?"
Hearing this, Li Zicheng felt bad all over. He felt as if a huge stone weighing ten thousand kilograms was pressing on his chest. He couldn't breathe and was about to suffocate.
"Father?"
"Father?!"
"Father, are you okay?!"
Li Shuangxi shouted several times before finally calling Li Zicheng's soul back.
When Li Zicheng came back to his senses, his heart was as sharp as a knife and his intestines were filled with regret.
Why send troops? Zhang Xianzhong will die if he dies. What does it have to do with him?
Well now, in order to save this piece of shit Zhang Xianzhong, more than 200,000 horse and infantry troops were put in.
What made Li Zicheng want to cry even more was that without the more than 200,000 horse and infantry troops, the entire Dashun had become empty. If Ming took advantage of the victory to pursue, what could he use to resist?
However, what is the saying?
The more you fear something, the more it will come.
Li Zicheng was just worried about the Ming army's revolt, but messengers arrived one after another.
Tongguan was in emergency. Du Yinxi, the governor of Nanzhi in the Ming Dynasty, led an army of 100,000 to approach Tongguan.
Hanzhong was in danger, and Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty personally led tens of thousands of elites to Xunyang County, the east gate of Hanzhong Prefecture.
What made Li Zicheng even more frightened was that Taiyuan actually fell. The Ming army general Yan Yingyuan took advantage of the emptiness in Shanxi and led an elite group of Ming troops to launch a surprise attack and captured Taiyuan in one fell swoop.
The successive bad news directly shattered Li Zicheng's mentality.
In the past, when Li Zicheng was at his worst, there were only seventeen knights left around him, but Li Zicheng never lost confidence, because the Ming Dynasty was in a state of decay, and as long as he persisted, he would be able to turn around.
But this time was different. Li Zicheng knew that he had no chance.
Song Xiance was also dumbfounded, and even Gu Junen, who prided himself on being resourceful, was at a loss.
Faced with such a situation, Gu Junen could not think of any countermeasures. Dashun was really doomed.
Originally, he just wanted to put some pressure on the Ming court to force the Ming army to return to save themselves and help the Daxi Army overcome the current difficulties. However, in the end, more than 200,000 elite Dashun troops were lost. This was something Gu Junen never expected.
Just when the monarch and his ministers were relatively speechless, the great eunuch Du Zhizhi walked into the Chengyun Hall with small steps.
"Long live my lord, today is the first day of July, the first day of the lunar month. Do you want to ring the bell now to summon all the officials to attend the dynasty?"
"What kind of officials are you summoning? Why are you going to court?" Li Zicheng was furious, "You are a dog eunuch who rebels against your master and seeks glory, get out of here, get out of here, as far away as possible! Get out of here!"
"This, this, this, this..." Du Zhizhi was completely stunned by the scolding.
Seeing Du Zhizhi standing there stupidly without moving, Li Zicheng grabbed the inkstone on the royal eucalyptus and threw it at Du Zhizhi. As a result, the throw was extremely accurate, hitting Du Zhizhi right on the forehead.
Du Zhizhi was hit on the spot until his brain collapsed.
This dog eunuch probably never dreamed of it.
In the end, he was actually beaten to death by Li Zicheng with an inkstone.
Seeing Du Zhizhi lying dead on the ground, Song Xiance and the other three remained silent.
Gu Junen plucked up the courage to admonish: "Your Majesty, the top priority is to stabilize the situation..."
Before he could finish his words, Li Zicheng interrupted him arrogantly: "Get out of here, get out of here, get out of here, all of you! Go and surrender to the Ming army. Chongzhen, this dog emperor, will definitely give you some high officials."
Do it! Get out!"
After saying that, Li Zicheng grabbed the celadon penholder on the royal eucalyptus, threw the ink jade paperweight and even the seal, and finally overturned the entire royal eucalyptus from the eucalyptus.
Li Shuangxi, Song Xiance and Gu Junen had no choice but to flee.