The army camp in the Lianpengshan Mountain, the central army tent.

Niu Jinxing, dressed in tattered clothes, rolled and crawled into the Shun Army camp. After the Shun Army soldiers confirmed their identity, they introduced Niu Jinxing into Li Zicheng's central army tent.

"I just said it was strange. Why didn't Jiannu attack us for ten days? It turned out that he was giving me a pot to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot!" Li Zicheng was furious, and his one-eyed one-eye flashed with a heart-wrenching cold light. "Prime Minister Niu, you have an army of 50,000 to guard the capital, while Jiannu only has 25,000, most of them were surrendered in the previous Ming Dynasty. However, the capital that was as solid as a god, easy to defend and difficult to attack could be lost within half a day! And you are also an unworthy person!"

Niu Jinxing quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Good king, please spare me! You are not the students who are incompetent, but the civil servants and gentry in the city organized family slaves to attack our army, and opened the city gate and put them in Jiannu. The students lost the capital!"

"Those dogs! Gu Zhen should have cut off all the dogs and things that are so heartless!" Li Zicheng angrily swept all the wine pots, documents and maps on the table to the ground.

Zhao Peng, who was standing aside, said, "The king is still soft-hearted. If Mo is in the position of the king, all these gentry who are harming the country and the people should have been cut down long ago! Keeping them is a disaster!"

Li Zicheng sighed deeply: "But cut them all, who dares to surrender to the Lord in the future?"

"Cut down all the unhonest people, and the rest are honest and obedient." Niu Jinxing, who was kneeling on the ground, said gritting his teeth. This time he lost too badly. The capital was strong, but the Qing army could not defend it for half a day before the city was broken by the Qing army! Just like Li Zicheng attacked the capital two months ago, the people in the city opened the city gate from inside.

Li Zicheng sighed: "Wenfeng, you said it right at the beginning. Since these dogs would betray Emperor Chongzhen, they would also betray the orphans! This time, they opened the door to welcome Jiannu like Gu, just like Gu, who went to Beijing two months ago!"

At this moment, a noise came from outside.

"Who is making noise in the middle of the night?" Li Zicheng roared angrily.

Li Guo came in from outside: "When the king returned to the army, the soldiers in the army learned that the capital was lost, our army was about to lose food, and the morale of the army was unstable."

"How many days can our army's surplus grain be spent?" Li Zicheng asked.

Gu Junen replied: "Only three days left in excess of food, I hope the king will make a decision early and withdraw his troops as soon as possible."

Niu Jinxing said: "King, the elite troops of our army's old camp are all cavalry. If you retreat as soon as possible, you can retreat to Shanxi as soon as possible. With several passes in Shanxi, you can defend Shanxi without losing it!"

"Our cavalry ran away, but what should we do with those infantry?" Li Zicheng asked. He was still reluctant to leave the infantry and could not make up his mind to withdraw as soon as possible.

The news of Niu Jinxing's escape and the capital was lost quickly spread throughout the army. The morale of the Shun Army was unstable. Some former Ming army surrendered soldiers had already begun to move, and many people were making small plans to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The former Ming army did not accept the night, Wang Fuchen and three were wandering in the hilly areas of the Yanshan Mountains. Wang Fuchen was originally a servant from a wealthy family. His surname was Li, and he was a slave. Later, he followed his brother-in-law to join the peasant army. This person is good at gambling by nature, with more losses than wins. After losing 600 miles of silver overnight, his angry brother-in-law wanted to kill him, but was killed.

After killing his brother-in-law, Wang Fuchen fled to Datong and defected to Jiang Xiang. He recognized Wang Jinchao, the general of Jiang Xiang's tribe, as his adoptive father and changed his name to Wang. This man is handsome and has great martial arts skills. He is called Little Lu Bu, but his character is similar to that of Lu Bu. He is also a slave of the three surnames, but he will soon become a slave of the four surnames.

"Stop! Who! Don't run!" Wang Fuchen found a sneaky guy hid in the grass not far ahead. He roared, pulled the arrow and was about to shoot the arrow.

"Don't shoot arrows! I'm here to discuss with General Jiang!" The man hugged his head with both hands and walked out of the grass.

"Peace talk?" Wang Fuchen was stunned. He lowered his bow and arrow and walked forward, pulled open the turban on the man's head. He saw that the man showed a big bare bald head, and a rat-tailed braid with money hanging behind his head. So Wang Fuchen asked the two Ye Bushe to search the man carefully, but did not find any weapons. Then he wrapped the turban on the man, and asked Ye Bushe to tie the man and take him back to Jiang Xiang's camp.

Wang Fuchen escorted the Qing army spy into Jiang Xiang's central army tent and saw Jiang Xiang leaning against the table to drink. Wang Fuchen pulled off the Qing army spy's headscarf and exposed the man's rat-tail of money.

"Spy Jiannu?" Jiang Xiang put down his wine glass and sat up straight.

"No, I am Wu Guogui, the general under the command of General Wu of Guanning Army." The man replied.

"Guanning Army? Why did Guanning Army shave a Tartar hair style? Are you not afraid of insulting your ancestors?" Jiang Xiang asked.

Wu Guogui replied: "People are under the eaves, so I have to bow my head! The general's commander borrowed troops to suppress the enemy, but Jiannu took the opportunity to occupy our Shanhaiguan. Our Guanning army fought with the thieves for several days, and the troops were insufficient. How could they defeat Jiannu? He had to shave his head and tie his braids. When we have another chance in the future, we will definitely twist his braids and grow his hair again!"

"Then what's the matter with me?" Jiang Xiang asked.

"The tyrannical thieves caused the late emperor to collapse in Coal Mountain, and torture and harm the people. It was a pity between the humans and gods. The general had no choice but to borrow troops from Jiannu to combat the enemy. Although the captive chief Dorgon was blocked outside Lianpeng Mountain, Jiannu had already entered the pass, and the defense line of the rebel army was full of loopholes. Grand Secretary Hong led a light cavalry to attack Zhangjiakou, General Jiang, Xuanda, Xuanda had fallen into the hands of Jiannu, but the general's family was in Xuanda, right?" Wu Guogui asked with a smile.

"So what?" Jiang Xiang sneered, "How can those who have great talents be indecisive? They must not be kind to women! The King of Breaking is kind to us, not only to repay me, General Datong, but also to hand over all the government affairs of Datong to Jiang! Let me collect taxes on my own in Datong, and the civil servants and gentry in the capital are also blamed! The soldiers of the Breaking Army are at the city, but they are not worthy of being tortured! Whoever lets me make money to support soldiers will be the one who is the main person, regardless of whether he is a thief or an official!"

Wu Guogui laughed: "Jiang Junmen, what's the point of being a great man? The thief just gave you a small Datong, but we can even give you Taiyuan Prefecture, Daizhou (now Xinzhou) and Pingyang Prefecture!"

Jiang Xiang was moved, but he still asked suspiciously: "Can you give me Taiyuan? I don't need too much. It's enough to get Datong, Daizhou and Taiyuan. Can you really do it in Wu Junmen?"

Jiang Xiang was already very satisfied to be able to take over Daizhou and Taiyuan. After all, Datong was just a small border town. Although it was well-business, in the ancient times when agricultural tax was the main income, especially in the Ming Dynasty, where the commercial tax was outrageously low, commercial tax could not collect much money. To make money, it had to rely on agricultural tax. There was almost no farmland around Datong, which could be said to be entirely subsidized by the Ministry of Households. In Daizhou and Taiyuan, there was a lot of land around. Although Shanxi suffered from bandits and soldiers for many years, the Fenhe Valley was still a relatively wealthy place. At that time, Shanxi did not mine a large amount of coal mines like later generations, and the land was fertile. The Fenhe Valley was a good place suitable for cultivation.

Wu Guogui smiled and said, "The general has surrendered to the regent. The regent has appointed the general King Pingxi. When he defeated the rebels, the Ming Dynasty will always make a brotherly country with the Qing Dynasty, with the Jianghuai as the boundary."

"But do we shave our hair and braids?" Jiang Xiang asked worriedly.

"The people should not shave their hair, but those who serve in the army must shave their hair and change their clothes! Jiang Junmen, shaving their hair and braids is a temporary measure. Once the time is ripe, the master will expel the Tartars and restore the northern land!" Wu Guogui said.

"But shaving this hairstyle really insults our ancestors. How can we enter the ancestral grave in the future?" Jiang Xiang's lips trembled a few times and hesitated.

Wu Guogui gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Okay, the villain will go back and report to the Regent. Xuan Dajun will not shave his head for the time being!"
Chapter completed!