Tongzhou.

This city is about 50 miles away from the capital and is the gateway to the eastern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Many days ago, this place was occupied by the rebels. The bodies of many Ming officials were hung on the flagpole of the city gate, swaying in the wind.

After many days of poisoning by the rebel army, this city has become an extremely quiet city, until today.

Above the city wall, a soldier who broke into the army yawned in vain, and showed off with his companions how he casually broke into the home of a civilian last night, facing the wife doing whatever he wanted in front of her husband.

As victors, the other soldiers of the trench soldiers laughed out loud after hearing this and made an appointment to go to the cowardly house again today and play with the cowardly woman.

At this moment, a rebel soldier accidentally looked out of the city, and then was stunned.

The next moment, he shouted directly.

"The official army is the official army!"

The other soldiers of the rebel army even thought this person was a joke and laughed and scolded: "The government army has been killed by us for a long time, where is the government army?" "Is it so confused when I played with women yesterday?"

But when these trespass soldiers looked at each other, their expressions also solidified.

A cavalry rolled towards Tongzhou under the sunlight, and behind them were a large group of infantrymen, holding the Ming Dynasty flag and following.

Tongzhou City sounded the alarm.

"The government army is here, hurry up, send someone to notify the King of Chuang!"

Where did the official army come from?

In fact, there is no need to guess. At this time, only the general of Liaodong, Wu Sangui, who had just been crowned as the Pingxi Bo by Chongzhen.

This year, Wu Sangui was 32 years old.

He stared at Tongzhou City in the distance with deep eyes.

Beside Wu Sangui is his confidant, Zheng Jiaolin, the Songshan Metropolitan Commander of the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Jiaolin whispered: "Sir General, the capital has been conquered now, why should we march here?"

Due to the years of war in Liaodong, there was actually a faction that was very influential in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Liaodong warlord family.

These warlord families were led by Li Chengliang, and their marriages were passed down through generations. Their forces were deeply rooted in the Guanning Army in Liaodong. Wu Sangui and Zheng Jiaolin both came from these warlord families and belonged to the true "people".

The appearance of Guanning warlords made Chongzhen very alert. Coupled with Yuan Chonghuan's death and Hong Chengchou's surrender, Chongzhen was furious and suppressed the Guanning army from many sides, which led to the Guanning army's hearts being quite resentful towards the court.

As early as Li Zicheng's momentum of threatening the capital, Chongzhen had already sent an imperial edict to Wu Sangui at the first time. If Wu Sangui set out at the first time, he could even arrive in Beijing before Li Zicheng.

But after so many days, Wu Sangui had just arrived in Tongzhou. This place is fifty miles away from Beijing. It takes two days to march normally, which shows Wu Sangui's hesitation and slowness.

Wu Sangui said calmly: "Jiaolin, you don't understand this. The news just came from the capital that Li Zicheng's multiple attacks had been repelled. Even Li Zicheng's number one general Liu Zongmin died at the city, and Li Yan was seriously injured and unable to fight."

Zheng Jiaolin was shocked when he heard this and said, "Just with the smelly fish and rotten shrimps in the capital, can Li Zicheng defeat Sun Chuanting?"

Wu Sangui touched his beard and said, "It was made by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zheng Jiaolin said in disbelief: "Is it the prince who is only fifteen years old?"

Wu Sangui nodded slowly.

Zheng Jiaolin was stupid.

After a few seconds, Zheng Jiaolin said, "How is this possible? He is just a fifteen-year-old child."

Wu Sangui smiled and said calmly: "So what if I was fifteen? When I was fifteen, I was not much worse than today."

Zheng Jiaolin hurriedly said, "The general is a military and martial family, so he is naturally brave. How could the prince be so arrogant just being kept in the deep palace? If I want to tell me, there must be something wrong with it."

Wu Sangui's eyes flashed and said, "No matter whether the crown prince is really brave or not, since the capital has been guarded, we must behave like this. Otherwise, how can we ask the court for military pay in the future?"

Zheng Jiaolin sneered and said, "Military pay? The court has already owed us two or three months of military pay."

Wu Sangui shook his head and said, "Okay, let's camp."

Zheng Jiaolin said: "Aren't we attacking Tongzhou? Judging from the intelligence, the Dashun Army has only arranged thousands of people here, so it should not be our opponent."

Wu Sangui smiled slightly and said, "If Tongzhou is captured, what reason do we have to stay here?"

Zheng Jiaolin suddenly realized.

Now there is only one Tongzhou city left between Guanning Army and the capital. If Tongzhou is really captured, it will continue to advance to the capital for rescue, both reason and reason.

Zheng Jiaolin was convinced and praised: "The General is indeed tall!"

Wu Sangui smiled and stared at Tongzhou City in front of him, saying: "In this chaotic world, the only hope is..."

Speaking of this, Wu Sangui turned his head to look at the tens of thousands of Guanning soldiers behind him, with a look of satisfaction.

The army is hope!

Outside the Changhua Gate of the capital, there is a large camp of Dashun Army.

"What, Wu Sangui's main force of Guanning Army has arrived in Tongzhou?"

After hearing this, Li Zicheng's face changed drastically.

After defeating Sun Chuanting and Zuo Liangyu, the only army in the Ming Dynasty who could continue to fight against Li Zicheng was the Guanning Army.

Now that Beijing City has not been able to capture for a long time, the Guanning Army has arrived, and the situation has changed instantly.

Although Beijing is still an isolated city, it already has foreign aid!

Li Zicheng took a deep breath and said to the many ministers in front of him: "Tell me what to do now!"

Niu Jinxing's eyes turned around and suddenly spoke, "Why don't your Majesty surrender Wu Sangui? You can add him to the prince and let him still guard Shanhaiguan to resist the Qing Dynasty. If he can really surrender, Beijing City will be completely out of reinforcements. Even if the guys in the city can jump around, we can't conquer him for a year or two?"

When Li Zicheng heard this, he suddenly turned angry and said, "This plan is very wonderful! Military advisor, let's take action yourself and have a good talk with Wu Sangui."

Niu Jinxing's face suddenly froze.

Wu Sangui's position is not yet determined, and it is not impossible for him to lose his life when he goes to a peace talk rashly.

Li Zicheng was a little impatient and said, "What, is the military advisor unwilling?"

Niu Jinxing had no choice but to agree.

After sending a mission to Niu Jinxing, Li Zicheng turned to look at all the ministers present and said in a deep voice: "Wu Sangui has arrived in Tongzhou, but we still have hope. We will launch an attack tomorrow and invest enough troops to fight to defeat this Beijing city at once!"
Chapter completed!