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Chapter 46 Sending troops to Shanhaiguan

The two broke into Zhou Kui's bedroom and saw Zhou Kui lying on the sickbed. Princess Kunxing asked, "Grandpa, did you send someone to sue the thief and tell me that General Zhao wanted to save the prince's brother from the south?"

Zhou Kui slowly sat up from the sickbed and admitted readily: "It was indeed me who asked me to tell the King of Chuang!"

Princess Kunxing asked in pain: "Grandpa, why did you do this? You betrayed us before because you were afraid of death. This mother could understand, but now that the thief has killed all his grandmother and uncle, you still want to inform him?"

"Hmph! Humph!" Zhou Kui said hummingly, "A thief is not a thing! I thought I could make great contributions to him and he could return part of my property no matter what he said. Who knew that the thief would not lose a penny!"

"The real person who is not shy about it is you, old guy!" Zhao Peng pointed at Zhou Kui's nose and cursed, "Liu Zongmin put the knife on your wife and your son's neck just to ask about the whereabouts of the money, but you would rather watch them die tragically than hand over the money!"

Zhao Peng pulled Princess Kunxing out of Zhou Kui's bedroom without saying a word. When he left Zhou's mansion, Zhao Peng once again held Princess Kunxing in his arms and said movedly: "Princess, let's go back. Tomorrow morning, you will disguise yourself as a man and follow us to Shanhaiguan! Let's wait and see if it's time to save His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I will take you to Nanjing!"

"But no matter how bad he is, he is my biological grandfather after all. My grandmother, uncle and cousin are all dead, leaving him alone and seriously ill in bed, with no one to take care of him. My mother left, feeling uneasy." Princess Kunxing felt very conflicted.

"That was all his own fault! He refused to recognize his relatives for money. If it weren't for him, the late emperor asked for fundraising at that time, and he could have taken the lead in calling on civil and military officials to raise funds, so he would not have let the thieves enter Beijing! When the thieves entered Beijing, it was because he was silent that he killed his relatives! At this point today, he still never repents and wanted to harm your prince brother!" Zhao Peng said angrily.

Princess Kunxing hesitated for a long time and finally made up her mind: "Okay, my mother will follow you!"

Early the next morning, Princess Kunxing and Fei Zhen'e had already changed into blue flying fish suits, wearing wingless black gauze hats and embroidered spring swords, and turned into two Jinyiwei Guards. The two women followed Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng, who were wearing big red flying fish suits and wingless black gauze hats, left Gao's house and went to Desheng Gate to meet with other Jinyi Guard brothers.

At the same time, Gao Wencai and his family also left the capital, left the east gate, and boarded a ship that had already been parked by the canal, and drove eastward.

"Dad, where are we going?" the young girl asked Mr. Gao.

"We are going to go very far and far away." Mr. Gao gently stroked his daughter's little head.

"Then when will we come back? Our house is here." The little girl asked again.

"I don't know, maybe soon, maybe a few years later, maybe more than ten years later, grandpa will bring us back."

The ship arrived in Tongzhou for a short time and was secretly transferred to the Wu Sanfu family of Jinyiwei Farm in Tongzhou, Wu Sanfeng's family, Wu Xiaomei, Chen Yuanyuan and others boarded the ship, and then the ship sailed to Tianjin.

Outside the Desheng Gate of the capital, flags were waving, drums were rumbling, and horns were roaring. The neatly arranged Shun Army soldiers had already lined up to wait for Li Zicheng to appear on the general stage.

The elite old camp of Shun Army, 20,000 people and horses, all of them were black armored cavalry, riding tall and strong Hequ horses, wearing black armor, and six-pound pointed iron helmets. The bright red cloak corresponded to the red tassels on the helmet, making them look majestic; the murderous aura on the old camp cavalry showed a sense of oppression. However, these old camp cavalry were the most elite core forces of the Shun Army. Although Li Zicheng had defeated more and more in battles with the Ming army in the fourteen years since the rebellion, no matter how he was defeated, his old camp cavalry always survived. Even though Li Zicheng almost lost all his books in the Battle of the Carriage Gorge and only a few dozen cavalry left to escape, the core was still there and it still developed soon.

Those who escaped from the battlefield again and again naturally accumulated rich experience on the battlefield and were also elites in a hundred battles. Needless to say, their hands were naturally filled with blood from others, so these people showed a murderous aura, which made people shudder.

The Shun Army's iron armored grenadiers, whose number has increased to two thousand horses, were also in the team of the cavalry of the Shun Army's old camp. The elite of these elites were carefully selected by Li Zicheng, and tall and strong soldiers were responsible for each soldier. The outermost layer of each soldier was red armor, and the innermost layer was a white cotton armor full of bubble nails. There was also a chain mail, wearing a six-petal steep iron helmet, and under the helmet, a pair of iron masks, only two eyes were exposed. There was a round shield on his arm, and this shield was placed on his arm and integrated with his left arm, which did not affect the use of two-handed weapons at all. Each iron armored grenadier had a Mongolian horse under his crotch, and a long-handled axe or a turtledove gun was placed on the back.

Although the horses of the iron-armored grenadiers are Mongolian horses, and the red and white armor is not as powerful as those of the black and red armor, these people are the elite among the right elites. When fighting, they will dismount and fight in the field, but they are actually heavy infantry riding horses.

In fact, the elite old camp of the Shun Army met the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry wearing a lightning rod helmet and could fight. In history, the Shun Army was defeated in a battle of stones. On the one hand, the number of elite troops was far less than that of the Qing army. On the other hand, the Shun Army had been fighting fiercely with the Guanning Army for a long time, which made the Qing army who suddenly rushed into the pass and gained a big advantage.

Zhao Peng and Gao Wencai's 1,800 new army in the brocade were arranged on the right side of the Shun Army's old camp. Although they were equipped with excellent armor, sharp spears, sharp Lumi guns and powerful turtledove guns, with excellent weapons, they were just a group of new recruits who had only been trained for twenty days, and their sharpness was at a disadvantage compared with the Shun Army's old camp soldiers.

In addition to the 1,800 New Army of Jinyi, there were also firearms and soldiers composed of 500 craftsmen apprentices, carrying baggage vehicles, Franchise aircraft, general guns, tiger squat cannons, swarms of rockets and other firearms.

A long shout came from inside Deshengmen: "Your Majesty is here!"

Li Zicheng, wearing a twelve-tale crown crown and a black crown garment, walked in the front, behind him were Wang Dehua and Wang Xiangyao, and there were a large group of guards on both sides. Li Zicheng, wearing a crown garment, looked a bit emperor-like, but unfortunately his one-eyed reduced him a lot of points. Therefore, there was a saying among the people that Li Zicheng had one-eyed, which was destined to be unsteady.

Li Zicheng walked up to the station and sat on the dragon throne that was placed in advance. The civil and military officials (including former Ming officials) under the stage bowed and shouted long live the mountain.

Chen Yan, who was extorted for five million taels of silver a few days ago, was also among them. Liu Zongmin squeezed five million taels of silver from Chen Yan and then put him home. Although he lost five million taels of silver, Chen Yan still came. As long as he could continue to serve Dashun, the lost silver could still be made up. If he retreated to the people, then the five million taels of silver would be thrown into the water in vain.

Just when Chen Yan was dreaming of continuing to work for Dashun, Li Zicheng shouted "All the Lords are calm", and suddenly gave an order to the Jinyiwei on both sides: "Take the criminal Chen Yan!"

The two Jinyiwei dragged Chen Yan out of the crowd of ministers and pulled Li Zicheng to the point where he sat upright.

Li Zicheng sneered repeatedly, his one-eye shone brightly, and he stabbed Chen Yan so hard that he didn't dare to look up. Only Li Zicheng shouted angrily: "Chen Yan, the traitor who was wronged! If it weren't for Ru Yinduo, he wouldn't be able to take him away, so he stopped the advanced emperor from going south, and the advanced emperor would not die. Haven't you been in love with him to repay the emperor's kindness? Today I'll send you to the advanced emperor!"

"Give me your life, your Majesty, please spare me! I am not guilty of your contributions to Your Majesty!" Chen Yan begged bitterly.
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