The secret spies of the Jinyiwei discovered the movements of the Qing army and made great sacrifices to send this important information back. A total of six Jinyiwei lurking outside the pass died, and one Jinyiwei near Shanhaiguan was also killed by the Guanning army.

Zhao Peng walked to the baggage cart that Princess Kunxing was riding and whispered: "It's obvious that Wu Sangui surrendered to Jiannu. The Jiannu vanguard had already arrived in Ningyuan, but the King of Chuang didn't know about this at all. I have to inform the King of Chuang immediately."

Princess Kunxing looked beautiful and frowned slightly: "How could General Wu surrender to Jiannu? The Guanning Army is no different. Jiannu has a deep hatred in the sea of ​​blood, so how could he work with the Tartars?"

"Didn't the Sanshun King have had a deep blood hatred with Jiannu? Now? They are not the Sanshun King of Jiannu!" Zhao Peng sneered.

"Impossible!" Princess Kunxing shook her head, "Although I am a daughter, I know a little about the military situation in Liaodong. I heard that the Ming people surrendered to slaves need to shave their hair and keep their hair and skin. They dare not hurt their parents. This is the beginning of filial piety. Chang Bo is a filial son who is always praised by his father and emperor. Why did he shave his hair and keep his braided son and surrender to slaves? "

Zhao Peng thought for a moment and tried to search for the pitiful historical memory in his mind. After thinking for a long time, he could not figure out that his pitiful historical knowledge was not enough. He only knew from the book that Wu Sangui was angry for the beauty, but he didn't know the truth at all. Now his news relies entirely on spies and Ye Wubu's rewards, and he really couldn't figure out what was going on. So he could only say: "Maybe Changbo was controlled by others and wanted to use the enemy to suppress the enemy, but if things continue to develop, he was not able to control him. If Jiannu occupied Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui had no way to heaven and had no way to go to the ground, so he could only surrender to Jiannu."

"If you can pacify the enemy with the enemy, and restore the capital, what's wrong with revenge for my father?" asked Princess Kunxing.

Zhao Peng sighed with emotion: "Princess, you don't know the ambition of Jiannu! If the thief is defeated and the Crown Prince falls into the hands of Jiannu, you will definitely die! If the thief wins, it will not harm the Crown Prince! The thief slave wants to annex my Ming Dynasty! The ancients said that the intentions of this thief are not the same as that of Jiannu! Besides, why the Jiannu cannot be pacified is also caused by Jiannu! The Jiannu in Liaodong is unable to quell the salary, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are burdened by the Liao salary, and they can only rebel! Then Li Zicheng was originally an official army, but because of the Jisi change in the second year of Chongzhen, the court was unable to allocate military salary, so Li Zicheng killed the officials and rebelled! To this day, Jiannu was one of the culprits!"

"Then you go." Princess Kunxing nodded.

Zhao Peng said goodbye to the princess and rode his horse and went to find Li Zicheng more than ten miles ahead. Because Li Zicheng personally led the cavalry, Zhao Peng and others were in a formation of infantry and baggage troops, so they naturally fell far behind.

After a while, Zhao Peng caught up with Li Zicheng's central army. When he saw Li Guo, Zhao Peng caught up with him from behind and clasped his fists to him on the back of the horse: "General Li, General Li, I have something to do to see the king. I will introduce him to the general!"

"Okay, please follow me!" Li Guo was happy and asked Zhao Peng to follow him to see Li Zicheng.

When passing by the Shun Army, Zhao Peng looked around from time to time, trying to find the carriage of the prince Zhu Cilang, but he neither found Zhu Cilang's carriage nor saw Liu Zongmin's banner. He didn't know where they were hiding. In addition to Li Zicheng's elite cavalry in the old camp, the Shun Army who went to Shanhaiguan also had the troops of surrendered generals such as Bai Guangen, Zhang Xiong, and Wang Chengyin. The Shun Army stretched for dozens of miles, and it was really not easy to find Zhu Cilang among so many people.

In fact, Zhu Cilang was in Liu Zongmin's army, and Liu Zongmin's tribe was behind. Because Li Zicheng had become alert to Wu Sangui, he was worried that Wu Sangui's men would steal the crown prince Zhu Cilang, so he asked Liu Zongmin's troops, who had brought the crown prince, to slow down and follow the army. Liu Zongmin handed Wu Xiang to Li Zicheng, preparing to let Wu Xiang go to the front of the formation to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender.

Li Zicheng also sent Wang Zeyao, the former governor of the Ming Dynasty Miyun, to Shanhaiguan with Wu Xiang's handwritten letter. Until this time, Li Zicheng still felt that as long as Wu Xiang was in hand, he would have the opportunity to surrender Wu Sangui.

When Zhao Peng saw Li Zicheng, he immediately informed Li Zicheng of the information obtained by the spy at the cost of his life: "King, the elite cavalry of Jiannu's vanguard have passed Ningyuan Fort! It is very close to Shanhaiguan! Wu Sangui is likely to surrender to Jiannu! Our military supplies are very fast, so he will arrive at Shanhaiguan in front of Jiannu!"

Li Zicheng said: "The Wu bandits wanted to stop all our troops. There were no more rivers along the way through Yongping (now Tangshan City). The Wu bandits blocked the wells and stopped my water source! Our army was thirsty and made people come from the car behind, which may delay their trip."

This is Wu Sangui's implementation of a strong wall on the Shun Army. The situation is already very clear. Wu Sangui is determined to hold the Shun Army so that the Qing army can come to attack the Shun Army and rescue Shanhaiguan.

Zhao Peng said: "King, the most elite iron-armored grenade should not be easily exposed, and should be used to block Jiannu. Good steel needs to be used on the blade. To deal with the Guanning Army, the old camp cavalry with the king is enough."

"This lonely king naturally understands that our army did not carry heavy artillery with him. If the Wu thieves stayed at Shanhaiguan and did not leave, what should we do?" Li Zicheng asked worriedly.

"Please rest assured, the last general will bring two sky-surge cannons, which can break through the red cannons of Shanhaiguan!" Zhao Peng replied.

After Wu Sangui gave up Ningyuan Fort, two original 24-pound red artillery cannons originally arranged in Ningyuan Fort were also transported to Shanhaiguan. The two original cannons salvaged from British shipwrecks had a range of three miles, far exceeding the various artillery carried by the Shun Army. However, Zhao Peng tested his two mortars modified from short-barrel cannons. Because they were original, they could add enough gunpowder to shoot. The maximum range of these two mortars could exceed three miles, and the farthest one shot had been five miles away!

Accuracy is not a problem. Zhao Peng was able to master the ballistic curve of the mortar in his previous life. He also improved the launching medicine and changed the original powdered gunpowder into granular gunpowder, increasing its power and range, and using fixed-packed gunpowder for loading, which was much faster.

Those two original English artillery basically don’t need to worry about the problem of blowing the chamber. Unless the gunpowder is filled with the entire barrel, it will blow the chamber. However, if you fire a normal gun, who would fill the entire barrel?

At this moment, the Shunjun in front of him did not take him back at night and reported that he had found a large number of Guanning troops stationed in Qixing Village fifteen miles ahead of Shanhaiguan, blocking the way Shunjun was leaving.

The vanguard troops of the Shun Army were also intercepted by the Guanning Army, but the Guanning Army was not the real Guanning Army, but the landlord armed forces formed by local gentry. After encountering the Shun Army, the mobs were vulnerable and easily defeated by Li Laiheng's three-wall cavalry charge.

Because after passing Yongping, the water source in front was cut off by Wu Sangui, Shunjun could only wait for the water truck coming from Miyun, so the marching speed was very slow. It took him four days to arrive from Yongping to Qixingzhai.

"Soldiers are very fast. I hope the king will attack immediately after a little rest!" Zhao Peng suggested.

Because during the siege of Lijiacheng Village in Zhangjiawan, Zhao Peng's superb artillery skills shocked Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others. Therefore, Li Guo proposed that Zhao Peng temporarily serve as the commander of the Shun Army artillery team, responsible for artillery attacking the Guanning Army defenders of Qixing Village.
Chapter completed!