"Did the Liao army catch up?" Li Zicheng rode on the war horse in panic and looked at the rolling smoke and dust behind him.

"Your Majesty the King of Chuang, they probably haven't chased after you. We have so many people, and they will stop them from chasing!" Liu Zongmin, who followed Li Zicheng to escape, said.

When Li Zicheng heard Liu Zongmin's words, his mouth twitched. This was a bit sarcastic. They had so many people, but they were even defeated by the joint attack of the Fu Liao army and the Ming army.

"Liu Zongmin, why did you escape in the battle? You can see that once the central army collapses, the Liao army and the Ming army can attack on the whole line." Li Zicheng said dissatisfied.

"King Chuang, you can't say that. The left and right wings have collapsed. If my central army has not retreated, then the central army I led will be jointly made by the Liao army and the Ming army. Where is the King of Chuang going to place me!" Liu Zongmin said with a dark face.

Before the Shanhaiguan defeat, Li Zicheng's prestige was at its peak because of Ningwu's massacre of the city, capturing the capital, and placing all officials. Therefore, Liu Zongmin and other generals should respectfully call him His Majesty the King of Chuang.

However, after the defeat of Shanhaiguan, it is unknown where Li Zicheng's power will go next, and the status of the King of Chuang has been shaken. Liu Zongmin believes that it would not be impossible for him to replace him at this time. Of course, because of the existence of the Restoration Liao Army, even if he had such an idea, he would not put it into practice.

But if Li Zicheng forced him to force him, he might not be too anxious to jump over the wall.

Li Zicheng obviously realized this, so he lowered his posture: "Since the matter has happened, I will no longer hold you accountable. For the sake of the present, it is to join forces with Zhang Yuan's Southern Army to fight the Liao army and the Ming army under the Forbidden City! We must defend the Forbidden City with our determination to die, so that every brick and stone will be dyed red with blood!"

"We lost 200,000 of us, and we also have the most elite musket battalions and cavalry battalions. Zhang Yuan has only 100,000 people. Can we defeat the Restoration Army that landed in Tianjin Wei?" Liu Zongmin said suspiciously.

"If Gao Yigong served as the commander, I am not sure. But Zhang Yuan was a general who defected from the Refuge Liao army. He told me how he hated the Refuge Liao army, and he was also very familiar with the tactics of the Refuge Liao army. If he was resourceful and personally took action, the more than 10,000 Refuge Liao army landed in Tianjin Wei will definitely not be Zhang Yuan's opponent." Li Zicheng, who didn't know that Zhang Yuan was a chess piece arranged by Chu Yun in the peasant army, was full of confidence in Zhang Yuan and also promised Zhang Yuan.

Li Zicheng gathered more than 10,000 peasant troops along the way, and the troops were still growing. These fleeing peasant troops were not locals, and they would die in a foreign land after leaving the main force of the peasant army. So they were like seeing open flame moths, trying their best to gather around Li Zicheng. Seeing that there were more and more soldiers around him, I believe that tens of thousands of people would soon gather to form a powerful force again, Li Zicheng felt a little relieved.

"Go!" From the direction of the Forbidden City, a light cavalry unit galloped unstoppably.

The horse's hooves rolled up smoke and dust on the ground, and the knight on the horse's back had red eyes, full of fear and panic.

"Stop the horse! This is the troops of the King of Chuang!" The generals gathered by Li Zicheng reorganized the morale of the troops and promptly stopped the light cavalry running from the Forbidden City.

"It's good that it's the King of Chuang! Take us to meet the King of Chuang! This matter is urgent. If there is a delay for a moment, today will be the day of our Dashun Army!!!" The leading cavalry general burst out with blue veins and his eyes were bulging.

It seemed that if the general who stopped him dared to say no, he would trample over on his horse.

The general of the Dashun Army who stopped him saw that the cavalry general was saying it seriously. If it weren't for something urgent, he wouldn't have looked like a desperate man. He immediately became timid: "Follow me."

The cavalry general led his cavalry to take off his horse and followed the Dashun generals to meet Li Zicheng with great strides.

"Your Majesty the King of Chuang, why do you look like this?!" The cavalry general was surprised when he saw Li Zicheng in dust, "Can he be..."

Li Zicheng was eager to lead his troops to escape, but he still didn't have time to sort out his appearance, so he exposed the fact that he ran away in panic.

"That's right, I suffered a small loss at Shanhaiguan, but it's not a problem at all. I heard that you brought something urgent about the Forbidden City, but what's the matter?" Li Zicheng narrowed the defeat slightly "reasonably" a little.

"The big thing is not good!" The cavalry general clapped his hands, scaring Li Zicheng and the others, who were all soldiers, "Your Majesty the King of Chuang, Zhang Yuan and Gao Yigong betrayed us. They not only surrendered without fighting, but also led the Fu Liao army to attack the Forbidden City!"

This amazing news was like a bolt from the blue! Almost all the Dashun Army generals present, including Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and other military officials, were stunned and shocked!

Gao Yigong was Li Zicheng's wife's brother, and Zhang Yuan was the first think tank and the first commander under Li Zicheng. He would even betray the Liao army together! The loss of these two people by the Dashun army is no different from falling half of the sky, and it is even more serious!

"Impossible, it's impossible. Zhang Yuan hated the Restoration Liao army so much. He had committed the death penalty in the Restoration Liao army before fleeing to our musket camp. How could he surrender to the Restoration Liao army? Besides, he helped us unify the 36th battalion in the past two years and conquered most of the north with us. There were no millions or hundreds of thousands of people killed. It's impossible. I don't believe it!" Li Zicheng's tone gradually rose, as if he wanted to convince everyone and himself, so that they could believe that Zhang Yuan was loyal.

But his expression gradually became stiff because he saw the horror in the eyes of the cavalry general. It was definitely not the expression that a lie should have.

Liu Zongmin and other generals looked at each other. Compared with Li Zicheng who was unwilling to believe that Zhang Yuan betrayed, they were more rational and realized the seriousness of the matter. However, there was a news that the cavalry generals misrepresented, that is, Gao Yigong was hostage by Zhang Yuan, rather than voluntarily surrendering to restore the Liao army. This misrepresentation further shook the generals of the Dashun Army.

"Tell me what's going on in the Forbidden City now!" Liu Zongmin took the lead in grabbing the armor of the cavalry general and asked sternly.

"Zhang Yuan's group of traitors... led the Fu Liao army to attack the Forbidden City... There were also rebels in the city... traitors, they opened the city gates to welcome the Fu Liao army... Now our loyal people are engaged in a tragic street battle with them! If the King of Rebellion and you all do not return to the rescue quickly, the Forbidden City will be lost and our retreat will be broken!" The cavalry general said breathlessly.

Rescuing the gradually lost Forbidden City? All the generals of the Dashun Army chose to remain silent at this time. Even Zhang Yuan and Gao Yigong surrendered to the Refu Liao army. Wouldn't it be very likely to die when they go back?
Chapter completed!