Beijing City, Ming Dynasty Palace.

Chongzhen looked at the British Duke in front of him and smiled rarely.

"Duke of England, you are finally back, I feel relieved!"

Not only Chongzhen, but other Ming ministers present also showed a sense of peace of mind.

The British Duke arrived with an army of 100,000, and the capital was safe.

The British Duke smiled and said, "Your Majesty is so serious. I have just done what I should do."

Chongzhen laughed and said, "It's not that I'm serious about it, but that there are too many ministers in the Ming Dynasty who can't do what they should do."

As the emperor, Chongzhen was very satisfied with the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise he would not have said such words as "The king is not a king who has destroyed his country, but his ministers are all ministers who have destroyed his country."

The British Duke hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, now there are capable ministers in the palace who help His Majesty to support the country. Don't worry."

After hearing what the British Duke said, the other ministers looked much better and nodded, thinking that the British Duke was indeed good at being a human being.

Chongzhen did not continue this topic, but asked: "Is there any new news about Jiannu Dorgon?"

No matter when, Jiannu was the enemy that Chongzhen was most concerned about.

Fan Jingwen said: "The news I just got was that Jiannu was still besieging Taiyuan, but that was already ten days ago."

Chongzhen frowned and said with some dissatisfaction: "Ten days? The timeliness is too low."

Fan Jingwen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Taiyuan was occupied by Li Zicheng before, and now it is besieged by Jiannu. It is indeed difficult for our Ming Dynasty to penetrate there, and the speed of information transmission will be greatly affected."

After hearing this, Chongzhen's expression became better and said, "So, Jiannu shouldn't come to the capital to harass him for a while?"

Fan Jingwen did not speak, but looked at the British Duke.

This kind of military matter naturally makes the Duke of England, the first place in the Ming Dynasty, answered in the future.

The British Duke said without hesitation: "I will tell you that before you set off, the old minister had a discussion with His Highness the Crown Prince. We all think that Dorgon may not actually attack the capital."

Chongzhen was stunned: "Dorgon won't attack the capital, really?"

The other ministers also had surprises on their faces.

For these great wise rulers and ministers, their subconscious mind was that "the Qing Dynasty went south = attacked the Ming Dynasty", and they had long formed thinking inertia.

The British Duke smiled and said, "It's true. Please think about it. If Jiannu really wanted to attack the Ming Dynasty, why didn't they go directly to Shanhaiguan, but to go around such a big circle to Shanxi? You should know that except for the troops of the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Mongolian, the Eight Banners of the Manchus and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were mainly infantry. The longer the supply line was pulled, the more unfavorable it was for them."

Chongzhen pondered for a moment and said, "So what you mean is that Jiannu is actually just coming from Shanxi?"

Britain said justice: "To be precise, it was for the two cities of Taiyuan and Datong. As long as Jiannu could control this place, the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided defense line could not be taken into consideration from the beginning and end, and the capital was even more attacked on three sides. They could arrange their offensive calmly without rushing for a moment."

Chongzhen said: "What should we do? It's impossible to watch Jiannu achieve his goal, right?"

Chongzhen was actually relieved. In the years as emperor, Huang Taiji surrounded the capital once, and Li Zicheng surrounded him again not long ago. If Dorgon did it again, his heart would really be a little unbearable.

The British Duke smiled and said, "The old minister and His Highness the Crown Prince agreed that we must take the initiative to counterattack and take back Taiyuan and Datong."

Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "It should be taken back, but isn't Feng'er still fighting against Li Zicheng?"

The British Duke slapped his thigh and smiled, "So, Your Majesty just needs to sit here and wait for the news of His Royal Highness' victory!"

Yongnian City.

Li Guozhen looked at the cannon in front of him with a puzzled look on his face: "Your Highness, you are..."

Zhu Cixuan patted the cannon barrel made of black iron and smiled and said, "Your Madam Xiangcheng, have you heard of the word "attacking the heart"?"

Li Guozhen nodded subconsciously and said, "Of course I have heard of this."

Zhu Cixuan said: "So, this time we are targeting Li Zicheng, but in fact we are not targeting him personally, but Dashun Army in the entire Yongnian City."

Li Guozhen hesitated and said, "Is this really useful?"

Li Guozhen actually rarely opposes Zhu Cixuan's opinion, but he still thinks that Zhu Cixuan's idea may be too...why? It's strange?

Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Just wait and see!"

After learning the news, Li Zicheng rushed to the city wall as soon as possible.

"The Ming army is about to start the attack?" Li Zicheng asked Li Guo who was greeting him in front of him.

Li Guo hurriedly said, "The cannons are pushed up. Your Majesty, this place is too dangerous. Please ask Your Majesty to go back and wait."

Li Zicheng snorted and said, "No matter how accurate the Ming army's cannons are, can they still fall directly on my head?"

After saying that, Li Zicheng pushed Li Guo away, walked to the edge of the city wall, and stared at the Ming army's position outside the city.

Suddenly, Li Zicheng frowned and said, "It's not right."

Li Guo hurriedly said, "What's wrong?"

Li Zicheng said slowly: "These cannons are not red cannons, but ordinary cannons."

Li Guo was stunned for a moment, walked quickly to Li Zicheng, looked at the scene outside the city, and then found something wrong.

"It seems that the Ming army does not intend to attack the city?"

Under normal circumstances, if you plan to siege the city, there should be a large group of infantry gathering outside the city, and there must be a lot of siege equipment such as rushing cars and ladders.

But the problem is that the Ming army showed up nothing except for dozens of cannons.

Li Zicheng and Li Guo looked at each other, with obvious doubts on their faces.

"What exactly does Zhu Cixuan want to do?" Li Zicheng said to himself.

Outside the city in the distance, Zhu Cixuan patted the barrel of a cannon and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, everything has been corrected. Let's listen to my orders, 3, 2, 1, fire!"

With Zhu Cixuan's order, many artillery soldiers immediately lit gunpowder.

A few seconds later, with a bang, the cannon vibrated violently and fired the things in the barrel.

As of this point, everything is still normal.

Next, something strange happened.

After Li Zicheng noticed the cannon fire, he subconsciously dodged for a while, but after a few seconds, the expression on his face gradually became.

Throwing papers fell from the sky, falling on the city walls like snowflakes, and every corner of the city.

Li Guo was a little nervous and pulled Li Zicheng to leave: "Be careful, Your Majesty, the Ming army may be poisoned!"

Li Zicheng shook Li Guo's hand away: "What a poison, this is ordinary paper!"

Li Guo was stunned for a moment, and reached out and grabbed a piece of paper falling from the sky. He smelled the ink on it, and became more confused: "It's still warm."

Li Zicheng also caught a piece of paper and found that as Li Guo said, it was full of words.

At first glance, this character is a woodblock printing style. The square characters are exactly the same horizontally and vertically, and are densely filled with a piece of paper.

There are a few lines of characters that should be the title, placed in front of each paragraph, and the font is also particularly large, so it attracted Li Zicheng's attention at once.

"Toutiao: Shocked, Gao Jie, as a minister, had an affair with his mistress Xing, and Li Zicheng had a green grassland above his head!"

"Science: On the feasibility and correct probability of recognizing relatives through blood, and how to perform practical operations."

"Interesting News: Zhang Xianzhong likes to eat human flesh, and he doesn't like human flesh for three meals a day. Is it a moral depravity or a human depravity?"

"Solid Declaration: Li Zicheng's rebels burned, killed, plundered, and committed crimes against humanity, which will inevitably fail and perish.

"Policy Interpretation: Surrendering the imperial court to be leniently dealt with, resisting the power of heaven and beheading him.

"Niu Jinxing, Li Yan's Repentance: How did I turn from a sinner who betrayed the court and the people and get forgiven by the court and become a new person."

There is no need to even read the detailed content. Just the titles make Li Zicheng feel that his blood pressure is constantly rising.

Li Guo, who was standing beside him, was also stunned when he looked at these things: "This, this is..."

Li Zicheng had a gloomy face, and he used force on his hand to tear the paper to pieces in an instant, and then cursed: "Damn Zhu Cilang, he actually made such a thing to slander me. It was simply despicable and shameless, extremely shameless!"

Li Guo woke up from his dream and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, we have to destroy these things quickly. I will do it now!"

After saying that, Li Guo stuffed the paper in his hand into his sleeves, and then hurried down to the city.

Li Zicheng looked at Li Going far away, turned his head, and shouted at the guards around him: "What are you looking at? Whoever looks again, I've chopped his head!"

The guards who were originally staring at the paper hurriedly looked up and each of them quickly destroyed the paper in their hands.

But for some reason, Li Zicheng suddenly felt that the eyes of these guards looking at him became very strange.

That so-called "headline" is obviously very lethal!

At this moment, Li Zicheng suddenly wanted to vomit blood.

As a man who started his career in the peasant army, he certainly knew how inciting rumors were to the people at the bottom.

Most people in this society are illiterate. Because of this, they often believe in things written in black and white!

There was another fire of cannons in the distance, and countless pieces of paper fell down again, and several pieces fell on Li Zicheng's head and shoulders.

Li Zicheng: “…”

How can I prevent this?

When everyone thought that he had been cuckolded, everyone knew about it. Li Zicheng was anxious and angry, and he roared to the sky.
Chapter completed!