In early April of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Shengjing.

The war disaster in August last year brought a catastrophe to the "Manchukuo" and also turned all the imperial palaces and main buildings in Shengjing into ashes. Later, although Dorgon and Haoge carried out large-scale cleaning and repairs of Shengjing, it was impossible to restore the previous scene.

On the afternoon of that day, in the "Chongzheng Hall" that was temporarily repaired, Fu Lin, who was only five years old, was wearing a Qing dragon robe and a Jiannu dragon crown, and sat on the dragon throne tremblingly, looking at the two squads of civil and military ministers standing beneath the steps with fear. He also looked back from time to time behind him. Empress Zhezhe, who was sitting Huang Taiji through the pearl curtain behind Fu Lin, but she was now the empress dowager.

Fulin's ability to ascend to the throne was entirely the result of the compromise between several major forces within Jiannu.

Originally, Haoge was the most qualified to succeed the throne. He was Huang Taiji's eldest son, and he held the army of the three flags of Zhenghuang, Huanghuang and Zhenglan in his hand, and the power was very powerful. However, Dorgon's power was also very powerful. He also held the army of the two flags of Zhenghuang and Huanghuang. In addition, many noble relatives of the two flags of Zhenghong and Hong also secretly supported Dorgon.

It can be said that the forces of Haoge and Dorgon are equally matched. If the Eight Banners Army is forced to come, there will be a bloody battle. Maybe both sides will suffer losses. Therefore, Haoge and Dorgon did not dare to act rashly. The two of them wanted to win the support of Jirgalang and Yuetuo. Jirgalang is the leader of the Inlaid Blue Banner. Yuetuo had just inherited the Zhenghong and Inlaid Red Banners. Whoever got the support of these two people would gain an overwhelming advantage.

Dorgon tempted Jirgalang and Yuetuo's tone and found that the two insisted on choosing one of Huang Taiji's descendants to succeed the throne. This discovery made Dorgon very discouraged. He knew that he had no hope of becoming the emperor, but if Haoge was allowed to become the emperor, he would definitely not have a good end.

So Dorgon made a big fuss about Haoge's not Huang Taiji's legitimate son and proposed the order of succession of the throne of "the legitimate son is established, but no legitimate son is established." This proposal was strongly supported by Jirgalang and Yuetuo. The ministers who had firmly supported Haoge's succession in the two banners of Zhenghuang and Huang were speechless. As long as the successor was Huang Taiji's descendants, it was the same for them who would be the emperor, and it was not necessary for Haoge.

At this time, Haoge's situation is hopeless, and it has become a trend to select the legitimate son from Huang Taiji's many descendants to succeed the throne.

The so-called legitimate son is the first to be the son of the queen, then the descendants of the four noble concubines, and then it is the turn of the son born to the concubine, such as Haoge, who was born to the concubine of Huang Taiji, Wula.

Huang Taiji had one queen and four concubines, and the ranking was Queen Zhezhe. The concubine Hailanzhu of Guanju Palace, the concubine Namuzhong of Linzhi Palace, Batma of Yanqing Palace, and Bumubutai of Yongfu Palace. Among them, Empress Zhezhe and Yanqing Palace had no sons. Although the concubine of Guanju Palace was most favored by Huang Taiji, she gave birth to a son and Huang Taiji was crowned the crown prince. Unfortunately, she died before she was two years old. Therefore, there were only two people who could be the legitimate son of Huang Taiji. One was Fulin, who was born by Bumubutai of Yongfu Palace, who was just four years old at the time, and the other was Bomuboguoer, the son of Namuzhong of Linzhi Palace, who had just been born at that time.

In terms of identity, the status of Linzhi Palace is higher than that of Yongfu Palace, so Bomuboguoer's status is higher than that of Fulin. More importantly, Fulin's biological mother Bumubotai has become a prisoner of the Ming army, which is very unfavorable for Fulin. However, Bumubotai's mother's power, that is, the Mongol Korqin tribe, played a crucial role in this power competition. Fulin finally squeezed out Bomuboguoer and successfully ascended the throne.

Empress Dowager Zhezhe ruled the country from behind the curtain, Jirhalang, Dorgon and Yuetuo became the regent, and his power was temporarily. Haoge, who had the most hope of succession, was excluded and suppressed by almost everyone. Zhenghuang, Yinghuang and Zhenglan were successively seized by Fulin, Bomuboguoer and Jirhalang, becoming the most frustrated person among the Jiannu.

At the court meeting today, the ministers of Jiannu gathered in Chongzheng Hall for a major event. That is, should they raise an army to attack Ming Dynasty? Where did they break through the pass and enter?

There was almost no different voice within Jiannu. Shengjing was destroyed. Tens of thousands of Jurchens were killed, Chen Fei and Zhuang were captured, and the late emperor Taiji and Prince Li Daishan were executed by Lingchi at Caishikou, Beijing. These deep blood hatreds must be revenged.

But there are two different voices in which direction to launch an attack.

Chief Regent Jirhalang insisted on breaking the pass from Datong because Wang Pu was in Datong! Empress Dowager Zhezhe also supported Jirhalang for the simple reason, because Wang Pu used troops to Mongolia in the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, not only wiped out the Tumot tribe, but also attacked the Sanbulachuan Khan of the Korqin tribe. The Korqin tribe suffered heavy losses, and Zhezhe's elder brother Ukeshan also died!

However, the second-ranked Regent Dorgon and Yue Tuo believed that the Eight Banners army should break through the pass from the direction of Miyun and directly attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The two believed that the real enemy of the Qing Dynasty should be the Ming Dynasty, and it should be Emperor Chongzhen. The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry should use his own way to control the person, and attack Beijing with a thunderous force, and kill Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to Shengjing Lingchi. Only in this way can we clean up the great shame and humiliation that Wang Pu had added to the Qing Dynasty.

In the end, the opinions of the Chief Regent Jiergalang and Empress Dowager Zhezhe took the lead. The Eight Banners Army chose to break through the pass from Datong, first swept Datong and captured Wang Pu alive, then rushed to the capital, then captured Emperor Chongzhen alive, and finally took Emperor Chongzhen and Wang Pu to Shengjing Lingchi to execute him.

The dynasty meeting was decided to lead the chief regent Jirhalang to stay in Shengjing, and the second regent Dorgon, Yue Tuo led the Zhenghuang, the inlaid yellow, the inlaid red, the inlaid red, the inlaid blue, the inlaid white, and the inlaid white seven flags to go to war. Li Yongfang, Tong Yangxing, Shi Tingzhu led the 30,000 Han army Eight Banners, Man Zhu Xili and others to lead the 80,000 Mongolian cavalry to go to war.

The Eight Banners Army will go on the sacrificial flag on the eighth day of April, then join the Eight Mongolian Banners in Sanbulachuan, and then destroy the border from the Yanyehai direction to enter the pass, sweeping Datong with a thunderous force.

Just as the Jiannu army was busy preparing to go south to attack Datong and Daming, the rebel army led by Li Yan launched the first attack on Datong Prefecture.

Jing Maocheng's arrival not only strengthened the strength of the rebel army, but also brought extremely important information to Li Yan!

Zhen Youcai and Wang Ju once bought 100,000 stones of grain in Beitongzhou and escorted it back to Datong in batches. The transportation of this batch of grain required a huge convoy. Such a large transport convoy obviously could not hide it from the eyeliner of the bandits along the way. Many bandits and horse thieves tried to rob. As a result, they were all attacked by the Wang Family Army who was escorted by the accompanying Wang Family.

A bandit in Shanxi once invited Jing Maocheng to rob the Wang family's transportation convoy because of his lone force. Although he failed in the end, Jing Maocheng knew a lot.

Jing Maocheng told Li Yan that the Wang family not only bought more than 100,000 stones of grain from Beitongzhou, but also bought more than one million cattle, sheep, camels and more than 100,000 war horses from the border army, and made all the cattle, sheep, camels and camels into bacon, at least 20 million kilograms! There was also the Wang family's silver warehouse, with at least two or three million yuan in silver!

This news is undoubtedly very important to Li Yan. The grain and bacon in the Wang family’s warehouse are urgently needed by the rebels, and the tens of thousands of war horses purchased by the Wang family from the border army are even more strategic materials urgently needed by the rebels. If these tens of thousands of war horses are available, the rebels’ mobility will be greatly increased!

Of course, Jing Maocheng didn’t bring all good news. Jing Maocheng also told Li Yan that Wang Pu was in Datong.

As long as Wang Pu is in the Ming Dynasty, he will not be unfamiliar with Wang Pu. Wang Pu led a thousand cavalry alone to Liaodong and attacked Shengjing to capture Huang Taiji alive. He also had the deeds of refusing to marry the fireworks woman Chen Yuanyuan after returning to the capital, and resisting the imperial edict to rob the court for his subordinate Qian Zong.

Li Yan is particularly familiar with Wang Pu. Because the two of them had fought a battle in Jining. Although Li Yan lost in the end and lost a very badly, this did not scare Li Yan! Li Yan was very smart. He was very good at summarizing experiences and lessons in wars and learning about wars. He believed that if he and Wang Pu fought a war with each other again, the result would be completely different from the battle in Jining. He had this confidence.

Mizhi and Li Yan's tent.

Ma Shouying, He Yilong, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, and Lin Yangsheng were invited to discuss matters. These five people were all rough people who could not read a few words. They also believed that they were veterans in the uprising army and did not take Li Yan seriously, a white-faced scholar, seriously. They did not take politeness after entering the tent, and they didn't even make a noise, so they found a seat to sit down.

Li Hu was about to have an attack while standing next to him, but Li Yan stopped him with a wink.

Instead of taking the rude behavior of the five leaders of the Fifth Battalion of the Left, Li Yan stood up and bowed to the crowd, and said loudly: "Li Yan meets with all the generals."

This made Ma Shouying and the other two feel embarrassed, and hurriedly stood up and said, "I will meet the Grand Marshal."

In terms of qualifications, Li Yan naturally could not compare with Ma Shouying and the other five. However, in terms of authority, Li Yan was the Grand Marshal of the Shaanxi Rebel Army, Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion. Ma Shouying and others were just five generals under Li Yan's tent. Therefore, Li Yan's humble behavior made Ma Shouying and others feel embarrassed.

Although Ma Shouying and the other five were rough people, they did not take Li Yan seriously, but they were not ungrateful people.

Li Yansu said, "Please sit down, several generals."

"Master Xie."

Ma Shouying and the other five folded their fists and thanked them, and sat down one by one.

Li Yan did not sit down, but signaled Li Hu to take out all the seal and sword that had been prepared long ago and put it on the table in front of him. The seal and sword were rewarded by Li Zicheng when he was in Jia County. The seal was the seal of the Grand Marshal and the sword was the Grand Marshal's sword, which represented the identity and power of the Shaanxi rebel army.

Ma Shouying and the other five looked very ugly immediately. They thought Li Yan was going to use the sword seal to suppress people.

"My generals." Li Yan's eyes slowly flew over the faces of the five people and said, "You should also know that the rations in the army are less than ten days away. If we still cannot raise food in ten days, the brothers will starve, and our army will be in danger of collapse. The good situation in Shaanxi will be destroyed, which no one wants to see."

"It's not just you, Li Yan, are you alone, anxious." Ma Shouying said angrily, "You're anxious, why don't we be anxious? But the problem is that Yan'an, Qingyang and Pingliang's three prefectures can be grabbed, and almost all the things that cannot be grabbed are snatched. Only these ten days left, where can we get food?"

Li Yan said: "I know there is a place where there is food."

Ma Shouying asked, "Where is the food?"

"Datong!" Li Yan said in a deep voice, "I have received reliable news that at least 200,000 stones of grain were stored in Datong City, and more than 10 million kilograms of bacon. In addition, the richest man in Shanxi, Wang Family and Dai Wangdi are in Datong. The deposits of these two banks have at least more than 5 million taels of silver!"

Ma Shouying and the other five were moved, but when they thought that Datong was a town in Datong, there would inevitably be a large number of elite border troops there, they immediately became angry again. Although the Shaanxi rebel army has now grown to nearly 100,000, but there are only more than 30,000 people who can actually go to the battlefield. If they want to attack Datong with these few people, it would be a death sentence.

Ma Shouying said coldly: "Li Yan, aren't you going to force us to attack Datong?"

Liu Xiyao also said: "Who knows whether this news is reliable? What if this is a trap set by the government army?"

"That's it." Lin Yangcheng also said in a bad tone, "If you want to die, let your own people go, my brother will not go to die for you, Li Yan's empty words."
Chapter completed!