The new gunpowder thunder created by Zhao Peng helped the Shun Army play a huge role in the assault of the Shun Army's Iron Armored Battalion. The new gunpowder, which is several times more powerful than black gunpowder, is a power that people of this era cannot bear. Each thunder of the sky fell into the Qing army crowd. The cast iron shell could explode eight to nine pieces, and forty iron beads were loaded in the bullet body. When it exploded, nearly fifty projectiles shot in the air, with an explosion range of seven steps. The Qing soldiers within this range were all blown away by flesh and blood.

In this era, the formations of both sides of the battle were dense, which greatly increased the killing effect of the thunder. Each thunder that fell into the Qing army could knock down at least ten people. However, this was impossible. If the formations of the battles in this era were not dense, then the loose formation would be slaughtered one-sidedly before the opponent's dense formations.

When encountering the resistance of the Eight Banners archers, the Shun Army Grenadier was in front, blocking the shooting arrows with his thick armor on his body, and charging forward in the rain of arrows. The turtledove gunners, light Franchise and tiger squat gunners behind were spraying rounds of heavy rain-like shotguns at the dense formation of the Qing army archers, knocking down the Eight Banners archers.

Then the grenadiers rushed to the Qing army's formation within thirty steps and threw rows of thunders.

"Boom boom boom" accompanied by violent explosions, the most elite Eight Banners archers were like harvested wheat, blown up in pools of blood.

No matter how brave the Eight Banners are, they are still flesh and blood. When facing the explosion of thunder and seeing the pieces of companions falling down, the brave and invincible Eight Banners soldiers finally collapsed.

"Kill!" Li Zicheng took the lead and rushed to the first place. The cavalry of the old camp of Shunjun followed closely behind, galloping and trampling on the camp. The Qing army camp tent was trampled by galloping cavalry and turned into rags on the ground. The Qing soldiers who had no time to run away were either knocked away by war horses or chopped off their heads by sabers.

The iron armored soldiers of the Shun Army, who were two horses, also rode on horses. One horse was used to place heavy weapons such as shields, big axes, and the other horse was used to ride on it. The iron armored soldiers who had blown up the Eight Banners soldiers galloped and followed the heavy cavalry of the Shun Army.

The Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalry rushed out and tried to intercept the Shun Army who broke through, but what greeted them was the thunder that struck the sky.

It was Li Zicheng who discovered the Mongolian light cavalry who came to intercept. He ordered the armored grenadiers to move forward and attack the light cavalry and horses of the Mongolian Eight Banners with thunder.

The iron-armored grenadiers riding on the horse rushed to the Mongolian light cavalry against the rain of arrows shot by the Mongolians. Just as the Mongolian light cavalry turned around and tried to leave with Manguda tactics, countless thunders lit up in flames flew over.

The thunder of the sky exploded into the formation of the Mongolian Eight Banners light cavalry with the spinning thunder. The violent explosion sounded around him, which shocked the horses of the Mongolian Eight Banners frightened the crowd. The screams of people and the neighing of the horses were mixed together. The shocking horses were not controlled by the riders at all, colliding with each other in chaos and trampling on each other. The Mongolians on the horses were all caught off guard, and they were trampled into meat paste by the horses in a blink of an eye. The horses in front turned back and ran in horror, and the horses behind did not know the situation ahead, so they continued to rush forward.

At this time, the Mongolians' superb riding skills, horse control ability at will, and other unique skills lost their power. They could not control the shocking groups of war horses. Groups of Mongolian light cavalry collided with each other and immediately squeezed into a group.

The three heavy cavalry walls of the Shun Army rushed up and crashed into the chaotic Mongolian light cavalry formation. The shaped cavalry directly crushed the Mongolian light cavalry.

Zhao Peng, standing on the hill, was shocked by this amazing scene. He finally understood how the Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry of Senggelinqin was defeated by the British and French coalition forces in the Battle of Bali Bridge. It was the British Kanglif rocket that caused the Qing cavalry to shock the group and trampled on each other. After the formation was in chaos, the heavy cavalry of the British and French coalition forces took the opportunity to attack and defeat Senggelinqin in one fell swoop.

A red sun rose from the east sea, and soon the golden sun hung in the sky more than one person high. When the golden light shone on the ground by the sea, the fog quickly dissipated.

Li Zicheng, who successfully broke through, led the old camp cavalry and quickly disappeared from the sight of the Qing army.

"King, our army has won a great victory, why don't we take the opportunity to expand the results?" Yuan Zongdi asked.

Li Zicheng replied: "Although our army wins, the main cavalry of Jiannu still exists. Our army defeated only one of Jiannu, most of which were Mongolian Tartars. The main force of the real slave is still there, and our army has exhausted the thunder of the sky. How can we fight against the real slave?"

After talking about the thunder of the sky, Li Zicheng suddenly regretted: he said regretfully: "Everyone, we have made a big mistake. We shouldn't have let General Zhao stay. This thunder of the sky is probably only Wen Feng can make. Now the thunder of the sky has been exhausted, and Wen Feng may be unable to escape under the heavy siege of Jiannu, alas!"

Hao Yaoqi said: "King, the last general is willing to kill him and rescue General Zhao!"

Li Zicheng turned his head and looked at the dense Qing army formation that was endless at first sight, and sighed helplessly: "Yongzhong, forgot, going back can only be a futile death. Wen Feng is a smart man. Since he is willing to stay, he must have a way to escape. Maybe Zamu can escape for a raft."

Niu Jinxing, who followed behind, heard Li Zicheng saying that Zhao Peng might have escaped for a raft, immediately stepped forward and spoke to Li Zicheng: "But king, if General Zhao escapes, wouldn't the prince also escape back to Nanjing? Once the prince ascended the throne, he would definitely avenge Chongzhen! If the Ming Dynasty united with Jiannu to deal with us, wouldn't we be in danger?"

Li Zicheng smiled and said, "If the prince can escape back, General Zhao will definitely be the prince consort. Gu knew that General Zhao was a wise man, and he would definitely dissuade the prince! Gu can also see that General Zhao hated Jiannu very much and would do his best to convince everyone in the Southern Dynasty."

Gu Junen stepped forward and asked, "King, where are we going now? The capital has fallen into the hands of Jiannu, and our army has no weapons to attack the city, so we will definitely not be able to retake the capital. According to the students' opinions, it is better to withdraw Shanxi."

"Yes, go to Shanxi!" Li Zicheng nodded.

The Shun Army, which broke through the Qing army's encirclement, galloped all the way to Shanxi, and did not dare to stop after passing through the capital area. He entered Shanxi without stopping from Niangzi Pass. Datong, Yanmen Pass and other places were lost. Li Zicheng had to occupy Taiyuan, Pingyang Prefecture and other places, and controlled Fenglingdu, connecting Shanxi and Shaanxi.

After Li Zicheng arrived in Shanxi, the first thing he did was to kill all the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants. Except for Fan Yongdou and his son who escaped in the capital, the entire family of the Fan family was destroyed; Wang Dengku, Liang Jiabin, Huang Yunfa and others did not escape, and the entire family was destroyed; Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang and others' families were destroyed except for a few people who went to Beijing to wait for the Regent to receive him.

The Shun Army destroyed the Shanxi merchants, and the amount of silver collected from the families of these eight major families was as high as 50 million taels! However, so much silver was not entirely owned by the Eight Great Masters. Many of them were the silver in the bills of the Eight Great Imperial Merchants, such as the Shanxi merchants and salt merchants in Lianghuai. But Li Zichengcai didn't care so much, as long as the silver was found in the Shanxi merchants' houses were confiscated.

Li Zicheng copied the Shanxi merchant's home. In addition to collecting more than 50 million taels of silver, he also had a large number of valuables such as gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy, paintings, and antiques. After estimating that the value of these valuables was more than 30 million taels of silver.

Many of the gold and silver treasures also had black blood stains on them. It is obvious that these gold and silver treasures were gold and silver treasures that were robbed from the Han people when the Later Jin invaded several times. The Shanxi merchants collected these gold and silver treasures from the Jurchens, and then sold important materials such as grain, iron and other materials to the Later Jin.
Chapter completed!