Shanxi, Datong City.

A war just ended, the city gate opened, and many corpses were being transported out of the city continuously, and then abandoned in the wilderness, allowing all kinds of scavenging animals to eat.

Dorgon stood on the city wall of Datong and looked at the scene from a high place, with a very pleasant expression on his face.

It took only three days to conquer Datong City!

Beside Dorgon, a group of people dressed in businessmen were in a panic and bent down, looking like a group of pugs.

"Congratulations to Prince Rui for bringing Datong City under the command of the Qing Dynasty!" The fat merchant in the lead said respectfully.

Dorgon glanced at the merchants around him and smiled and said, "Fan Yongdou, your eight families have done a good job this time. I remember your contributions. Now, let me tell you about the information from Taiyuan!"

Fan Yongdou hurriedly said, "When you come back to the king, Taiyuan is actually quite similar to Datong. Li Zicheng has already drawn all the local defenders, and the only ones are left are only three thousand soldiers. After hearing that the king led his army to fight south, Taiyuan garrison Li Ping had already urgently arrested the strong men in Taiyuan City. The latest data is to form an army of 30,000 people."

Dorgon smiled disdainfully: "Thirty thousand people? With such an army, I can destroy it with only three thousand people!"

Fan Yongdou hurriedly said, "Who is not? Please rest assured, the servants have already installed their spy in Taiyuan. Just need an order from the Lord at that time, then Taiyuan City can be included in the Qing Dynasty!"

Dorgon became more and more happy and laughed, "Very good, very good! After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, I will be my Emperor Shang of the Qing Dynasty!"

Fan Yongdou and others naturally became more and more happy when they heard this, and hurriedly said, "I'm sure you don't hide it from the king. The servants have discussed it. I am willing to donate 100,000 taels to the Qing Dynasty as their military posture!"

Dorgon's laughter became louder and louder.

After a while, Fan Yongdou and others left, and Duoduo, who had been standing beside Dorgon, spoke: "Brother Wang, I don't understand, why are you so kind to these spineless things?"

Dorgon snorted and said coldly: "What do you know? I just want to give these backless things benefits so that everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows that being a traitor can get the kind treatment of our Qing Dynasty. In this way, more and more people in the Ming Dynasty are willing to be traitors, do you understand?"

Duoduo shook his head and said, "But they can be traitors today, and will they also be traitors in the future?"

Dorgon laughed: "The battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties is to die, but now, that's the future!"

Dorgon looked at the lush forests and grasslands outside Datong City in front of him, and was filled with passion for a moment.

For a long time, the Qing Dynasty had always dreamed of entering the pass.

Today, this dream finally began to take the first step.

This is a small step in the Qing Dynasty, but it is definitely a big step in history!

With the first step, is it still far from conquering Ming Dynasty step by step in the future?

While speaking, a spy suddenly rushed up to the city wall and reported the news to Dorgon.

"King, the news I just received was that Li Zicheng had already gone north to Yongnian City, Guangping Prefecture. After he heard that we entered Shanxi, he sent someone to protest!"

Dorgon sneered disdainfully: "Protest? What a joke. Duoduo, go and let the envoy go back and tell Li Zicheng that the king's assistance will of course be a price, and the whole Shanxi is the price! If he is not convinced, let him lead his troops to find me to see if he can go back to Shanxi from me to give him!"

Duoduo laughed and walked away ready to go.

Dorgon was in a good mood and returned to a very magnificent mansion in the city. This was originally the house of King Dengku of the Shanxi Shang Dynasty in Datong. Wang Dengku and Fan Yongdou were usually smuggling food and weapons with Manqing. After the Qing Dynasty broke the city, he presented the house to Dorgon as a temporary palace.

Not only that, Wang Dengku also found ten famous prostitutes from Jiangnan to serve Dorgon.

Dorgon looked at the six stunning women in front of him and frowned and said, "Didn't you say ten people?"

The manager of the Wang family, who was standing in front of Dorgon, smiled and said with apologies: "Qi, Qi, the other four women suddenly fell ill and died suddenly."

Dorgon slapped the handrail and shouted, "It's just nonsense. Yesterday was fine, why did he die suddenly today! If I don't say anything, I will take your life now!"

The Wang family was helpless and could only come from the real tricks.

In fact, the answer is very simple. The four famous prostitutes originally thought they were here to serve some of the Ming nobles, but they didn't want to see them were Manchu nobles. Although they were frightened by Dorgon's power, they did not dare to do anything at that time, but after returning to the room this morning, the four girls committed suicide in shame and anger.

Dorgon never expected that this was the reason and could not speak for a while.

After a while, Dorgon sighed and said, "Although these four girls are in the dust, I admire them a little. Let's bury them well."

The manager of the Wang family hurriedly smiled and said, "Please rest assured, my master has ordered someone to search for famous prostitutes from other places as quickly as possible. They can be delivered soon, so the king will be satisfied."

Dorgon waved his hand and said, "I am not in that mood now, get out!"

The manager of the Wang family and six women came out in panic, fearing that they would go slowly and were killed on the spot. This is not without precedent.

Dorgon's mood suddenly became very bad.

Just as he raised a vase and wanted to smash it hard, Duoduo suddenly came in a hurry.

"Brother Wang, the situation is not good... Hey, Brother Wang, what are you doing?"

Duoduo looked at the vase in Dorgon's hand, a little confused.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.

Dorgon put down the vase calmly and said coldly: "What's the matter?"

Duoduo stared at the vase for several seconds, until Dorgon coughed impatiently, then he came to his senses and said, "It's such a brother, the news I just received, Li Zicheng's general Li Yan was ambushed by the Ming Dynasty prince Zhu Cilang when he led his troops to rescue Jinan, and Li Yan was also captured by Zhu Cilang!"

When Dorgon heard this, his face changed: "Zhu Cilang, why is it Zhu Cilang again!"

Duoduo said in a deep voice: "Now it seems that Li Zicheng's Jinan can no longer be saved. In this case, the capital of Ming Dynasty will be connected with the south again, which is not good news for our Qing Dynasty."

Dorgon's face changed and he said in a deep voice: "It's okay, the main battlefield of Li Zicheng and Ming Kingdom is the Central Plains, which has nothing to do with Shanxi for the time being. They cannot cross the Taihang Mountains to fight us at this time. Let's take Taiyuan first!"

Duoduo nodded and smiled, "Let these Han dogs bite the dogs. Our Qing Dynasty slowly erode their land. One day, they will know that the Qing Dynasty is the real master of the world!"

...

"Damn Jiannu!"

After hearing the messenger's reply, Li Zicheng threw the table on the spot.

Li Zicheng's eyes were full of anger. He really didn't expect that he originally planned to find the Qing Dynasty to help and delay the Ming Dynasty's offensive, but now it's fine. The Qing Dynasty actually robbed Li Zicheng's territory in turn!

In front of Li Zicheng, several of the most confidant generals were speechless for a while.

They all knew very well that the reason why Datong was so easy to break was not that the city defense in Datong City was not good, but that the Dashun defenders there were not good.

If it were the Ming army who had been stationed before, it would be impossible for the Qing Dynasty to break through Datong in three days, or even three months.

But...who made the Ming army surrender to the Dashun army a few months ago?

A general said angrily: "Your Majesty, these Jiannu are indeed too much. Otherwise, we will go north to recover Datong first, drive these Jiannu away, and then fight the imperial court again!"

Li Zicheng snorted and said, "What do you know? Shut up!"

What a joke? Although the Qing Dynasty is abominable, it is Li Zicheng's biggest backer now. How dare he turn against the Qing Dynasty?

Someone asked again: "Your Majesty, what should I do now?"

The news that Li Yan was defeated and captured had already reached Li Zicheng's side a few days ago.

Once Li Yan loses, Jinan will definitely be gone, and even Kaifeng may be attacked by the Ming army.

Originally, Li Zicheng didn't care about Kaifeng or something. Anyway, he had already transported all the things he could loot in Kaifeng back to his nest Xi'an.

For Li Zicheng, who was used to fighting guerrilla warfare with the Ming Dynasty, the loss of a city and a place was acceptable.

Li Zicheng went north because he received news from the Qing Dynasty and planned to form a situation of attacking the capital north and south with the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, the Qing Dynasty did go south, but the direction to go south was not Zhangjiakou near the capital, but Shanxi occupied by him, Li Zicheng!

Li Zicheng pondered for a while and said, "Let's do this, let's hold our troops here first and see what the court's reaction is!"

After these things, Li Zicheng did not dare to continue north.

The main force of the Ming army is now in Shandong, which is very close to Li Zicheng, but is far from Datong where the Qing army is located.

This means that if Li Zicheng continues to move north to approach the capital, he will inevitably become the first target of the main force of the Ming army.

On the other hand, if Li Zicheng remained unmoved and the Qing Dynasty continued to invade the capital after conquering Datong, the main force of the Ming army would most likely ignore Li Zicheng and go north to rescue the capital.

Let the main force of the Ming army fight against the Qing Dynasty to the death, this is what Li Zicheng is most willing to see.

After Li Zicheng sent away the generals, he immediately picked up a pen and wrote a letter, and then found a confidant.

"Go, give this letter to... well, let's give it to the Prince of Ming Dynasty, Your Highness Zhu Cilang!"

While saying this, a strange light flashed on Li Zicheng's face.
Chapter completed!