Zheng Zhilong brought a total of ten battalions of troops, that is, 12,500 people. The number of troops (just the army) of Zheng's troops (just the army) was less than 20,000. But if Xiao Yuan's camp was added, it would be more than 20,000.

Such military strength is definitely not comparable to the new army in Zeng Ying's hands, or the Liu Zeqing army who had returned to southern Shandong.

Even if Zheng Zhilong had to take tens of thousands of people to the capital with such a large military force, it would not be easy.

The march of a 10,000 army, from the supply of food and supplies to the various military supplies that accompany the army, requires a large amount of manpower and material resources to transfer them in time.

It’s not that Zheng Sen had already made a lot of preparations in advance in Denglai, but Zheng Zhilong didn’t take a break for a second after arriving at Zhifu, and it would take some time to prepare!

Now, Zheng Sen has prepared all the military and civilians, livestock, carriages, and food and military supplies.

Five thousand military and civilians, tens of thousands of large livestock such as cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, and four thousand large horse and hundreds of carriages, donkey carriages, ox carriages, and mule carriages.

"Not half of the flatbed carts, the rest are all small cars." Zheng Sen plundered the entire Denglai, and pulled horses, ox pulls, and people pulls. No matter what, the cargo carts are two thousand powerful, and the rest are small carts.

That kind of car is not as heavy as a flatbed car.

For this reason, Zheng Sen even dismantled some of the carriages that were in the trouble, but the chassis was small, so no matter how much it was changed, it would be useless.

Zheng Zhilong had received reports on this before. Before the New Year, Zheng Sen had already plundered livestock vehicles, and the number now has not changed much.

There is no way, disasters and wars have already drained the people's livelihood here.

Zheng Zhilong's army arrived at Zhifu Island, and the news reached Zeng Ying's ears. He rushed to Qishan Site with a quick horse. He was filled with emotion when he saw Zheng Zhilong.

The earth tiger, the Minhai King, and the current pillar of the imperial court, are now going to enter the capital to defend the king and save the emperor. Who can imagine this opportunity?

Emperor Chongzhen did not issue an order for Zheng Zhilong to transfer troops to Beijing, but as long as there was no explicit order for Zheng Zhilong to stop or return the same way, Zheng Zhilong could ignore it.

When is it now? Li Zicheng's progress in western Shanxi should not be too smooth.

"I didn't expect it either. I was just planning ahead at the beginning, but who knew now..." Zheng Zhilong said obediently after getting the advantage.

Zeng Ying did not reveal it. He is now in close contact with Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian Province. Zhang Kentang, passed on a lot of words to him.

"In just a few months, the failure of the Northland has come to this point. Who could have thought of it a year ago?"

In the blink of an eye, Li Zicheng had already swept across Gansu and Shaanxi, and immediately took down Jinxi. Zeng Ying didn't know at this moment that Taiyuan had been lost, Governor Cai Maode committed suicide, King of Jin Zhu Qiugui was captured alive, and Li Jiantai, the right assistant minister of the army, fled in panic. Ying Shisheng and Cai Maode attacked the bandits at the same time, and also committed suicide to the country.

But what he knew now was enough to make Zeng Ying frown.

"Don't worry, the Chief Secretary. Although Taiyuan is difficult to defend, there are Datong in western Shanxi, Zhou Yuji, and Xuanfu in Xiangdong..." As a time traveler Zheng Zhilong knew very well that these places were unreliable, but Zeng Ying didn't know.

The soldiers and horses of the two towns suffered heavy losses due to the Songjin War, which can be said to be a great disaster for elite troops. However, the lean camel was bigger than the horse, and there were all the children of military households around him, and most of them were young. After two years of young age, although the two towns were far from recovering their strength, they could not ignore it.

Zeng Ying thought of this and felt a little more at ease.

The two agreed that when the sea ice melted, the Zheng army naval army would be dispatched to bring Denglai troops. Zeng Ying had few new troops under him, and Dengzhou General Huang Yinen had very few warships under him, but Denglai had a sand ship from the Shen family, and Chen Tingyang was also present. When Zeng Ying mentioned that he was coming, he immediately clasped his fists and said, "It is the time of national crisis that I am lucky to work hard and dare not die."

The Chen and Zheng families have close relationships. During this period, Chen Tingyang was not in vain. He used his financial resources and influence to recruit a group of young and strong people from Chongming and Songjiang Prefecture. With Zheng Zhilong's strong help, both firearms and swords, spears and armor were first-class.

With these two men and horse-riding helpers, plus the Zheng army and sea transportation supplies, Zheng Zhilong felt that Li Zicheng could not win Tianjin by joining forces with Dorgon and Wu Sangui.

I swear to send troops and tell you a note.

With the cooperation of four or five thousand horses, ox carriages, donkey carriages and mule carriages, the Zheng army advanced towards the capital.

"Master, Zheng Zhilong has really invested a lot. The long convoy is invisible at first sight, at least thirty or twenty miles long. The soldiers are all sitting in the car, and grain, straw bundles, medicine powder, shells, tents, black beans, etc. are all piled up in the car, and cannons are tied to the car, and there are also large groups of livestock behind..."

Liu Zeqing told everything he saw in an envious and jealous tone.

"It's the alert man named Zheng who is very cautious. There are horse patrols in front, back and left and right. He is really a pirate."

There was an indescribable pity in the officer's voice. It was a real pity. Look at the people here, who were not moved? If you seize the opportunity and fuck Zheng Zhilong hard, wouldn't you be sent?

As for the reason?

I haven't seen the imperial court issue an edict to serve the king. Zheng Zhilong dared to march into the capital without orders. He was going to rebel.

This reason is very open and upright.

A touch of heartbeat flashed in Liu Zeqing's eyes, but he suppressed it in a flash. Zheng Zhilong, he couldn't afford to offend him.

"What nonsense is it? Zheng Zheng's army entered the capital to guard the capital, and he was loyal. How could you speculate?" Liu Zeqing said righteously, "I will give me instructions and tell the little boys below that they will light up my eyes. Whoever dares to violate the taboos should not blame me for being ruthless."

The crowd bowed their heads and obeyed the orders.

They have been old people for many years, but they still don’t know what Liu Zeqing is. What kind of thing is the latter? It can’t be washed away.

Everyone understands the subtle meaning of his words. Since there is no chance, don't show a salivating look, which angers Zheng Jun. That kind of threat is not something they can resist.

Zheng Zhilong can even do anything with the Tartars, and Liu Zeqing is not his opponent.

Although he was a greedy person, he valued his power more. At that time, Shandong had a severe drought and famine, and disaster victims in various places revolted one after another, especially in Caozhou and Puzhou. At that time, Zhou Yanru was resurrected. Even though Zhou Yanru was on the way north, he rushed from Linqing to Yangzhou and sent 20,000 taels of gold as travel expenses, which made Zhou Yanru very unhappy. In August, after Zhou Yanru entered the capital, Liu Zeqing was immediately re-appointed as the general of Qi and Lu.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong really can't afford to offend him, he can't afford to offend him.

Zheng Zhilong was hoping for the imperial edict to be responsibly received when he arrived in Jinan. It had been ten days since he set out, and the journey had already reached more than one-third. The time was also on February 22nd.

It's really two.

Zheng Zhilong was not at all interested in the imperial edict for the king. Zheng Zhiguan from the capital had already sent him a message. However, the news of the defeat in western Jin Dynasty had arrived.

Zhou Yuji is dead.

Taiyuan fell, and after Li Zicheng rested in Taiyuan for several days, he captured Xinzhou and then rushed to attack Daizhou. Zhou Yuji stayed in Daizhou for a few days, and had no food and aid, and led his army to retreat to Baoning Wu Pass.

Ningwu Pass is located in the central western part of Shanxi. It is said to be transformed by Phoenix, so it is known as "Phoenix City". It is a major transportation route from Taiyuan to Datong. During the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, Guancheng was built. Together with Panguan and Yanmen Pass, it became one of the three passes in Shanxi to defend against Tatar cavalry, and its strategic position was extremely important.

But no matter how dangerous the terrain is, no matter how Zhou Yuji prepares for war, other troops cannot compete with Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of troops. Even if Zhou Yuji set up an ambush in the city, he went out to lure the enemy into the city, and quickly went down the gate to kill thousands of civilian vanguards, causing Li Zicheng to suffer heavy losses.

As soon as Zhou Yuji died, the door to the civilian army to run to Datong was already opened.

In fact, the discerning person in the capital had no hope for Jiang Yan. Because this guy never sent a reinforcement to Zhou Yuji from beginning to end. Can such a person still expect him to die loyally for the Ming Dynasty?

Only then did Emperor Chongzhen issue an edict to serve the king, and issued it to Zheng Zhilong, Wu Sangui, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Huang Degong, who was far away in Fengyang.

The army did not rest for one more day in Jinan, but immediately marched across the north of the city to Dezhou.

When he arrived at Yucheng, he camped in the evening. Zheng Zhilong received two letters. He touched his beard and asked someone to send Zheng Sen.

"Father."

Zheng Sen, dressed in military uniform, opened the curtain and strode forward. Zheng Zhilong handed him the urgent report he had just received, and along with the news that he had just heard from Dongchang Mansion.

"Shameless, shameless-" Zheng Sen trembled all over after looking through it, and his hair was angrily rushing.

"Don't be angry in a hurry, there are even more shameless things. Let's look at the one below."

Zheng Sen only watched one scene in the capital, but had not yet watched Liu Zeqing's performance.

The news sent by the magistrate of Dongchang was just transferred from the governor Wang Guobin. The edict of Emperor Chongzhen to serve the king was delivered to Liu Zeqing, and the man fell off his horse and was injured.
Chapter completed!