The battle of Zhending City was not as fierce as imagined, there was no need to fill trenches, dig bricks, and there were no bullets and arrows, rolling wood and stones, ash bottles or anything, and after fighting for less than an hour, the city took the initiative to open the city gate.

It turned out that in the face of the huge army of thieves all the way, Qiu Maohua, the prefect of Zhending, had the psychology of fear and escape, and he had sent an old thief out of Zhending City for refuge long before the army attacked Zhending City.

This move was discovered by Governor Xu Biao, who immediately sent someone to arrest Qiu Maohua and put him in prison.

Yang Sichang after the defeat not long ago, he couldn't afford to be ill, lying on the bed all day long waiting for death, the defense of Zhending City fell on the governor Xu Biao, he killed the messenger to persuade the army to surrender, and continued to actively prepare for war to resist the siege of the army.

However, under the current situation and the strong offensive of the breaking army, the defenders of the city secretly tended to surrender to Li Zicheng, and when Xu Biao landed in the city to deploy defensive operations, the guerrilla general Xie Sufu suddenly launched a mutiny, tied up the governor Xu Biao, and surrendered Kaicheng.

The army drove into the city of Zhending, and when it arrived in the east of the city, it was already crowded with people, especially in front of the Dragon King Temple, it was crowded with people, all of whom came to welcome Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang.

"Seeking ascension in the morning, seeking harmony in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently, open the door early to worship the king, and the discipline is happy for everyone big and small."

"Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine syrup, open the gate of the city to meet the king, and the king will not pay for the grain when he comes."

"Eat his mother, eat her mother, eat not enough to break the king, don't be bad, don't pay food, everyone has a happy ......"

The people on both sides of the street cheered and sang this ballad of "Chuang Wang", and many of them were landlords and businessmen who were also singing excitedly.

They all saw the notice posted by King Chuang, who made it clear: advocate righteousness in heaven, seek tyranny, act in heaven, do not be poor, do not pay food, soothe exiles, and trade with Jia......

"How good is it that we don't pay for food, and we support trade and trade? With King Chuang here, the days to come are comfortable! ”

In the crowd, the rich man Wu in the east of the city laughed heartily, quite proud, and he ordered the left and right family members to break through the crowd and squeeze to the front, wanting to witness the majesty of King Chuang.

In front of the wide governor's yamen, there is a silver-white flag several feet high, on which is embroidered with the word "Chuang" in black satin.

There are two fierce family sticks to open the way, the rich man Wu is very easy to squeeze to the front, he looked fixedly, only to see a middle-aged man wearing a white felt hat and an arrow jacket standing on the steps of the yamen, from a distance, this person is hanging a sword, high nose and deep eyes, full of beard, and is mighty.

Around him, there was a large group of generals in iron armor, as well as a few smiling scholars.

"The one in the middle is King Chuang?"

The rich man of Wu was a little surprised, and secretly said in his heart that the king was not the master of the three heads and six arms, why was he so powerful, with a million troops in just a few years, sweeping the Central Plains?

Although he was a little disappointed, the rich man Wu did not treat people with his appearance, he suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Long live King Chuang!" When King Chuang comes, he doesn't pay for food! Hooray! ”

Seeing this, the noisy crowd also knelt down and shouted long live.

Li Zicheng on the steps saw this scene, his heart was happy, he smiled and said: "As the saying goes, Huahua Zhending Mansion, splendid Taiyuan City, Zhending Mansion is not only prosperous, but also the people are simple, not bad!" ”

Niu Jinxing, who was beside him, stroked his beard and smiled, and heard the voice outside the strings: King Chuang intends to be the emperor!

Under the shouting of a group of intruders, there was a commotion in the crowd, and I saw Yang Sichang, who was covered in blood, tied up and escorted, and a large group of officials and gentry behind him.

The rich man Wu glanced at it, and saw Xu Biao, the governor of Zhending, he snorted, and said to himself: "This dog official tax has been levied on Wu Ye and me, what kind of bullshit 'tax is levied by edict, regardless of the gentry and nobles or the three religions and nine streams', I can't imagine that you also have today!" ”

Rich Master Wu couldn't help but feel relieved for a while, and continued to look at it.

A cadre of civil and military officials was brought to the front of the steps, and immediately an intruder shouted: "Kneel!" ”

Qiu Maohua, the prefect of Zhending Prefecture, Xie Sufu, a guerrilla general, and others hurriedly knelt down obediently, shouting that the king was mighty and the righteous army was benevolent.

Yang Sichang, Xu Biao and others stood tall and disdainful.

Liu Zongmin shouted: "Those who are willing to surrender to my righteous army will kneel on the left!" ”

Qiu Maohua, the prefect of Zhending Prefecture, and Xie Sufu, a guerrilla general, hurriedly knelt down and walked to the left, lest they would be too late to lose their coffee seats, and other civil and military officials also ran to the left.

Xu Biao, the governor who was like a dumpling with a cloak and tied up with five flowers, glared angrily at the person on the left, and said bitterly: "If you are an official of the imperial court, how can you be willing to be a thief?" ”

The officials were silent, and the generals of the army looked at each other coldly, and they had seen a lot of this situation, and there were always some officials with integrity who jumped out and scolded them with righteous words.

Li Zicheng waved his hand and ordered him to be killed on the spot.

"Good!" Rich Master Wu couldn't help but cheer, his face was full of joy.

Yang Sichang, who had been incorporated, was silent for a long time, looking up to the north with dull eyes, he remembered that when His Majesty resigned to the emperor, the saint practiced it for himself on the platform that day, and gave him a poem.

"Yanmei is now temporarily used as a dry city, and the general is majestic and fine willow camp, sweeping away the atmosphere of Kou from now on, and returning the period to educate and improve the people's livelihood."

Yang Sichang softly read out the poem written for him by Emperor Chongzhen, staggered and knelt facing the north, crying and worshipping, and shouted in his mouth: "Your Majesty, the minister can't live with you, and with all the people in the world!" ”

Liu Zongmin was about to put him to death, but Li Zicheng stretched out his hand to stop him, and looked at the Heaven-Shaking Tiger Wang Zhen not far away, and said, "Wang Zhen, you go and kill him!" ”

Liu Zongmin put the knife into the sheath, probably understood what King Chuang meant, King Chuang had asked himself to investigate this Wang Zhen.

This Wang Zhen is a native of Ye County, Henan, seven or eight years ago in the Central Plains drought, Wang Zhen's whole family of 12 starved to death, only 14 years old remained, he followed the refugee brigade to flee everywhere, Chongzhen fled to Beijing in nine years.

There was no news in the next few years, two years ago, Wang Zhen suddenly fell into the grass in his hometown of Ye County, killing the gentry and corrupt officials for the way of heaven, and King Chuang suspected that Wang Zhen had been in contact with the government when he was in Beijing, and it was a fine work sent by the imperial court, and it was very likely that Yang Sichang sent it.

After all, when Wang Zhen fell into the grass, it coincided with Yang Sichang supervising Henan, and Old Man Yang had sent a lot of fine works to break into the camp, mainly literati, to divide the army.

Liu Zongmin nodded and retreated to the queue, King Chuang used Yang Sichang to test Wang Zhen, it was really wonderful!

"Yes!"

The Heaven-Shaking Tiger Wang Zhen was still expressionless, replied lukewarmly, and walked straight to Yang Sichang.

He walked fast, with a touch of his wrist, a short knife appeared in his hand, stepped forward in a few steps, walked past Yang Sichang, and then a head appeared in his hand, and Yang Sichang's body fell in response.

The onlookers exclaimed, and even the rich man Wu was so frightened that he couldn't help but take a few steps back, his eyes were full of incredulity, is this Chuang General a demon? Just walked past the big official, and instantly harvested his head, and his face did not change.

Li Zicheng was slightly stunned, he didn't expect this Heaven-Shaking Tiger to be so decisive, and most of the doubts in his heart disappeared at once.

The strength of the Sky Shaking Tiger, as well as the more than 10,000 men and horses under his command, especially his 1,000-person Fire Gun Battalion, if he can use it all for himself, it is undoubtedly a help, and the most important thing is that this person is cold and obedient, and it is best to use it to clean up the opponent, just like the emperor's brocade guard......

Li Zicheng put away his thoughts and said with a smile: "Brother Wang is good!" ”

Wang Zhen casually threw Yang Sichang's head aside, didn't look at it, and walked straight to the officials who surrendered on the left, walking all the way, the short knife in his hand waved quickly and powerfully, and killed several officials who surrendered in the blink of an eye, all of them were killed with one knife.

Forward general Liu Fangliang pointed at him and shouted: "What are you doing!" They are all people who have surrendered! ”

Wang Zhen plunged the short knife from the neck of Qiu Maohua, the prefect of Zhending, straight to the end, then gently pulled it out, and said lightly: "I came to ask for my life, the court dog officials, they can all be killed!" ”

After speaking, he walked up to Xie Sufu, a guerrilla general who took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender to the Chengyi Army, and killed him on the spot with a punch.

Liu Fangliang was furious, and was about to come over to make a move with him, only to hear Li Zicheng wave his hand and say: "A few dog officials, don't hurt your brother's harmony." ”

Li Zicheng had been staring at Wang Zhen's movements before, and when he saw that he was so decisive and happy to murderous court officials, his heart was even more determined, if this was the meticulous work of the imperial court, it would be hell!

Li Zicheng looked at him with a cold face, and liked it even more in his heart, such a person who hated the court and had the ability to use it was a sharp sword if he used it well!

Subsequently, Li Zicheng ordered all the gentry to be hung on the flagpole, so that the intruders could be shot to death with arrows, and the bodies of those officials were also hung on the flagpole, and they were also shot with arrows as whipping corpses.

The people around were densely packed, some frightened, some shouted loudly, and some looked numbly......

(End of chapter)