The Ming Dynasty's Greatest Menace

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen, seventh month

Dorgon: "Elder Brother was right. Taking Yanjing is like felling a great tree: you first cut away at both sides, and then the tree falls on its own. That's how we broke into the Central Plains, isn't it? Li Zicheng, you little runt, don't you run away!"

The first year of Hongguang

Duo Duo: "Wang Yetai, can you stop chasing me? Elder Brother, save me!"

Li Zicheng: "Good thing he went after you. I've run so far I'm exhausted."

The first year of Longwu

Dorgon: "Wang Yetai, come out and let's talk. I won't enter the pass. Let us go back, and we don't even want Liaodong. Just open the gates of Shanhai Pass."

Li Zicheng: "Wang Yetai, I'm going to Jinling to beg His Majesty's forgiveness. I won't rebel again. Let me go, please!"

(This is not a transmigration novel. My first attempt at writing about people native to the setting.)