Hong Chengchou brought 5,000 Qing army light cavalry and only took seven days to arrive at Zhangjiakou. After arriving in Zhangjiakou, it took only three days before Xuanda two prefectures fell into the hands of the Qing army. Two Shun army generals were killed. At the same time, Hong Chengchou's troops also quickly expanded to more than 20,000 troops, including 5,000 Qing troops in the Eight Banners, 5,000 Mongolian soldiers in each unit, and more than 14,000 Green Camp soldiers.

Moreover, the number of soldiers in the Green Camp is still expanding. Wherever our Qing Dynasty King's Army passed, the gentry and civil servants who were tragically poisoned by the King of Breaking the King all brought food to the pot and welcomed the enemy. A large number of landlords and armed forces naturally joined the Green Camp Qing army.

Hong Chengchou, who succeeded in cutting off firewood from the cauldron, led 25,000 Qing troops and marched out of Zhangjiakou and headed straight for the capital.

The Qing army rushed to Juyong Pass, and Hong Chengchou ordered the franchise aircraft stolen from Xuanda to bombard him. As a result, after hearing the sound of cannons, the three thousand Shun troops stationed here voluntarily opened the city gate and surrendered to the Qing army. The Shun army in Juyong Pass was originally the former Ming army of the Ming general Tang Tong's unit. These Ming troops had been beaten by the Qing army long ago, and it can be said that they surrendered in sight.

Hong Chengchou immediately shaved the three thousand former Ming soldiers who surrendered and woven into the green camp. It's strange that these former Ming soldiers who were not worth mentioning had their heads and braids, immediately became like they had changed their own people, with their combat effectiveness.

It seems that there was a curse in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. As long as the Ming army shaves their hair and keeps their braids, they will become the Qing army in the Green Camp, and their combat effectiveness will be doubled. Once the Qing army in the Green Camp cut off their braids and becomes the Ming army again, their combat effectiveness will immediately decline. The most famous examples are Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong. Jin Shenghuan's army was originally Zuo Liangyu's garbage soldier. After shaves his hair and keeps braids, they immediately become extremely brave and helped the Qing court conquer Hubei and Jiangxi continuously. However, after Jin Shenghuan's army cut off his braids, they immediately couldn't

He fought; so did Li Chengdong. He was originally a general under Gao Jie, and Gao Jie's army was also a garbage soldier, no different from the refugees. However, after Li Chengdong joined the Qing army, his green camp soldiers fought from Jiangsu to Guangdong, invincible, and even went to Guangxi to suppress the anti-Qing army. But after Li Chengdong, his army became Ming army again, so it became vulnerable. Li Chengdong and Jin Shenghuan attacked Ganzhou from north to south, and could not even take down a small Gao Treasury. In the end, both of them were defeated and died.

Niu Jinxing, the Prime Minister of Dashun who stayed in the capital, received shocking news: the Qing army had even lost Zhangjiakou, Xuanfu, Datong and Juyong Pass, and nearly 30,000 Qing troops rushed towards the capital.

Wu Ruyi, the general of the Shun Army who was responsible for guarding the capital, asked: "Prime Minister, Jiannu's army has invaded, how should we deal with it?"

Niu Jinxing snorted and said disapprovingly: "That guy Hong Chengchou has advanced quickly and must have never carried a cannon! He still wants to capture the capital city without cannons?"

Li Zicheng had few defenders left in the capital, and most of them were infantry composed of refugees, and a small number were the Ming army in the capital that originally surrendered, all of which were a group of mobs.

However, the capital city wall is the capital city known as the third strong city in the world (the first strong city Xiangyang, the second strong city Nanjing). More than a month ago, the Shun army attacked the capital, but it was completely sold out to get in. Because the capital was plague at that time, there were very many casualties, and there were not many people who could fight. Moreover, there were also civil and military officials and eunuchs in the city who surrendered and opened the city gates to easily attack the capital. Now most of the defenders of the city are the original Shun army soldiers. Although these soldiers were all refugees, they were much stronger than the Ming army, which was already completely decayed.

Therefore, Niu Jinxing believed that as long as the Qing army did not have cannons, they would not want to capture the capital.

In the former Ming Dynasty, Wu Weihua sat on the chair of the Grand Master in the middle of the lobby. A middle-aged scholar wearing a headscarf and dressed in Confucian outfit bowed respectfully to him: "Student Fan Wencheng will meet with Master Bo!"

"Fan Wencheng, you are so brave! You dare to come here to die!" Wu Weihua yelled.

Fan Wencheng sneered, took out the folding fan from his sleeve calmly, opened the fan and shook it leisurely for a few times, then took off the headscarf on his head, revealing the rat-tail of the money behind his head: "Brother, it is already angered by the thieves who have entered the capital to torture the wages. I, the King of the Qing Dynasty, all the gentry and people welcomed him. Bo Ye, you should think about it carefully. Grand Secretary Chen Yan and Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Chunchen, have they surrendered to the thieves? But have the thieves let them go? The thieves also have to divide the land of the world to the mud legs. Where did he get the land? He is not going to divide the land of the gentry and the nobles of the Ming Dynasty? If the Regent defeated the thieves and entered the capital, your land will be yours, your gold, silver and treasures will be yours, where will you go? You can choose it yourself!"

Wu Weihua hesitated for a moment and finally nodded: "Okay! I am willing to welcome the Regent to Beijing!"

At the same time, in Feng Quan's mansion, a young man dressed in a scholar walked into the mansion under the guidance of his servants.

"See Lord Feng!" The young man saluted Feng Quan.

"From the north?" Feng Quan immediately reacted when he heard the man calling him Lord Feng.

The young man took off the square scarf on his head, revealing the big bald head in front and the rat-tail of the money behind. Then he bowed respectfully to Feng Quan and said, "Sir Feng, the villain is Li Lutai, the second son of Li Yongfang."

"Li Rutai? Li Yongfang's second son?" Feng Quan sneered, "Do you know how valuable your head is in the Ming Dynasty? Are you not afraid that this official will cut off your head and receive the reward?"

Li Lutai said calmly: "Master Feng, if the villain is afraid of death, he dare not come! The villain came here and was ordered by Grand Secretary Hong to recruit righteous men! He broke into the rebellion and seized the capital and poisoned the people. Grand Secretary Hong really couldn't bear to suffer, so he led the King of Qing Dynasty into the pass and expelled the bandits. The Qing Dynasty and the gentry in the Central Plains shared a peaceful and prosperous era!"

"Can Qing dynasty help us get the land that was stolen by mud legs?" Feng Quan was moved.

"If the Qing Dynasty had obtained the Central Plains, everything would be based on the old rules of the Ming Dynasty, and all the privileges of gentry and officials would be the same. The Regent would not plunder the money of gentry and merchants like Wanli Tianqi, nor would he torture the salary and share the land like Li Zicheng." Li Ruitai said.

"What about the hair dress?" Feng Quan continued to ask, "I heard that after Guan Ning army surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he shaved his hair and changed his clothes."

Li Rutai laughed: "Can Wu Sangui be the same as you? He surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and entered the Han army flag. After entering the Eight Banners of the Han army, he would be on par with the Manchus. He naturally had to shave his hair and change his clothes. Otherwise, how could the Manchus dare to give the military power to Wu Sangui with confidence? If you want to enter the banner, you have to see if the Regent agrees or not. If you don't enter the banner, why should you shave your hair and change your clothes?"

Feng Quan asked again: "But I heard that Grand Secretary Hong formed some green camp soldiers, and the green camp soldiers also shaved their hair and changed their clothes. Could it be that they have entered the flag like Guanning Army?"

Li Rutai said: "They are soldiers. If the soldiers don't shave their hair and change their clothes, can the Regent use them with confidence? What's more, shave their hair and change their clothes, and going to the battlefield is also conducive to distinguishing the enemy and us. As long as the soldiers on the battlefield do not shave their hair and change their clothes, they will try their best to fight to the death and are unwilling to be captured by the enemy. Naturally, they will work harder to fight to the death because they shave their hair and change their clothes. They will naturally fight even harder."

"Han people really don't shave their hair?" Feng Quan asked worriedly.

"Of course I won't shave my hair." Li Shutai smiled.

"Then what else is there to hesitate! We are willing to serve the Regent!" Feng Quan agreed in full.

At the same time, uninvited guests came to visit Chen Mingxia, Wang Aoyong, Tang Yu and others in the capital. All visitors took off their hats and exposed their rat tails of money.

Hearing that the Regent Dorgon restored everything to the Ming system and restored the preferential treatment of the Ming Dynasty to the gentry, he would not only not impose levies and taxes on the gentry like Wanli Tianqi, but also help the gentry to take back the land they had stolen by mud legs. The gentry was moved to tears: Saint and wise monarch! After expelling the bandits, he could return to the era of the rituals in the Chongzhen period!
Chapter completed!