Chapter 81: The Fall of the Town

Li Yan outside the big tent stood with his hands in his hands, but the red lady next to him was nervous, in case these two people refused to turn back, it would be dangerous in this enemy camp with thousands of troops!

An hour passed, and finally there was a result, and Liu Youyi invited Li Yan and his wife into the account.

"Please Gongzi Li go back and reply to King Chuang, my brothers and I are willing to surrender to the rebel army, but we have a few conditions." Liu Youyi stared at Li Yandao.

"Human nature, the two of you say it." Li Yan saw that he finally won the two of them, and said happily.

"After we passed, the original troops were still in the hands of the two of us, and they could not be disrupted."

"That's fine."

"Second, we demand the same treatment as other people under King Chuang's account, and we can't favor one over the other."

"This is natural, King Chuang has always been generous to others, and will not discriminate against the army." Li Yan assured.

"Thirdly, we want to take the lead in the siege of the city, and allow us to plunder the city for a day!" Liu Youyi threw out a difficult question.

"This is a bit difficult, you must know that King Chuang has always governed the army with benevolence and righteousness, if you let the army plunder the people, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?" Li Yan frowned.

"Li Gongzi misunderstood, we have also been officials and soldiers of the imperial court, and we dare not harass the people, just ask some Luoyang officials and gentry to find some military salaries, you see that our department has not been paid for half a year." Liu Youyi hurriedly explained.

"Well, it's okay not to harass the people, I can promise you for King Chuang, but I also have one condition, that is, King Fu's Mansion is not allowed to move, and the rest is casual." Li Yan thought for a while.

"It's easy to say, King Fu's Mansion belongs to the king, and our brothers don't dare to think about it. In return, we will bring our artillery battalion over. ”

"That's great, with artillery, my righteous army should be like a tiger with wings, haha, the two generals are really the king's blessing generals!" Li Yan said happily, of course he knew the power of artillery, and he was worried about how to develop firearms, and good things were delivered to the door.

The two sides discussed some details and agreed to attack tomorrow.

Li Yan returned to the camp of the rebel army and reported the matter to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng was a little dissatisfied with Li Yan's unauthorized agreement to Luo and Liu's public plunder, but as soon as he heard that artillery was coming, he immediately became happy again. He has suffered a lot from the firearms of the Ming army over the years, although he has also established a firearms army in the past few years, but the number is small, they are all old-fashioned birds, and they can't exert their power without artillery. Now with these cannons of the Ming army, it will be twice the result with half the effort in attacking the city in the future.

Li Zicheng encouraged Li Yan again, which made Niu Jinxing and Liu Zongmin on the side even more jealous.

On the nineteenth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant army began to attack Luoyang City on a large scale, and countless righteous soldiers shouted and flocked to the Ming army camp under Luoyang City. The two sides immediately scuffled together.

Wang Shaoyu's troops had more than 10,000 soldiers, thinking that they could block several rounds of attacks by the righteous army, but who knew that the front army would flee one after another as soon as it came into contact, and the peasant army easily occupied the forward position of the Ming army.

Wang Shaoyu after the formation was furious, and pressed his subordinates one after another to prevent him from retreating, but it was so easy to stop the defeated troops when they retreated, so he had to line up the pro-army as a supervising team, and slashed and killed hundreds of people one after another to stabilize his position a little. At this moment, a bad news came, 3,000 soldiers and horses from Luo Tai and Liu Youyi on the left defected to the peasant army, and took away the only dozen cannons of the Ming army!

This news was like five thunderbolts, knocking Wang Shaoyu to the ground. Originally, the number of peasant troops was several times that of the Ming army, but now they have 3,000 people with large killing weapons to join the enemy, and this battle is even more unfought.

"Luo Tai and Liu Youyi mistook me! These two bastards! Quick, hurry back into the city! Wang Shaoyu reacted and shouted angrily.

As soon as the military order was given, the rear team of the Ming army Wang Shaoyu hurriedly opened the city gate and retreated into the city, and the Ming soldiers who had not had time to enter the city in front of them either hugged their heads or surrendered on their knees in the face of the powerful offensive of the peasant army. The entire Ming army did not have much time to collapse.

The surrendered Ming soldiers took off their military hats, privately marked the Ming army, turned into righteous soldiers, and attacked Luoyang City! Wang Shaoyu, who was watching the city, was in a hurry and was almost stunned.

The matter outside the city has not yet ended, and the Ming army that retreated into the city began to mutiny again, and some soldiers grabbed Wang Yinchang, the defender of Henan, to ask for salary, forcing Wang Yinchang to almost commit suicide. At first, there were only a few defeated soldiers in chaos, and later even Wang Shaoyu's own soldiers joined the ranks of the defeated soldiers, Wang Shaoyu couldn't hold it down at all, and there was chaos near the city gate, and the original defenders of Luoyang City also looked at the good show under the city and didn't know what to do.

The people of Luoyang were also anxious, there were chickens and dogs jumping everywhere, the cry shook the sky, countless people ran to the street to burn, kill and loot, and the entire outer city of Luoyang was in chaos.

The news soon spread to the Fu King's mansion in the city. Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, was shocked, and under the persuasion of Lu Weiqi, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, he hurriedly ordered to allocate some money to reward the soldiers defending the city, and ordered his son Zhu Yousong, the son of the king of Fu, to recruit young and strong people in the city to form a death squad to guard the palace.

This drunken and fat-brained mediocre prince only opened his blurry eyes at this moment, trying to use money to eliminate the disaster, but when Zhu Yousong took the 10,000 taels of silver he gave, he couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly recruited more than a thousand young people, and they were all ruffians who were greedy for money!

Just when the internal turmoil in the city was inextricable, Li Zicheng ordered artillery to attack the city.

Boom, boom, a huge cannon sound carrying more than a dozen shells went straight to the city wall, and in an instant the rubble was splashed, half of the city gate tower was blown down, and several Ming soldiers who could not dodge were hit and shattered.

Li Zicheng rode on a horse and watched it, which is called a cool! Your Ming army will also be bombarded by me one day!

"Hit, hit me hard!" Li Zicheng's excited face gradually distorted.

"King Chuang, it's almost over, there is no decent resistance in the city, you can enter the city!" Li Yan saw that he was about to lose his mind, and hurriedly reminded.

"Oh, cheap bastards, come on, herald siege."

Li Yan glanced at Luo Tai next to him, Luo Tai understood, commanded his three thousand men and horses, and ran towards the city gate with a roar.

"Childe, do you really want to let these two people enter the city to plunder?" Li Zicheng asked unwillingly.

"King Chuang Mingjian, as long as these two people can really keep their promises, they might as well let them go, in the name of showing King Chuang's benevolence and righteousness, and their subordinates will send people to monitor them." Li Yan persuaded.

"Hmph, it's cheaper for them, pass on my order, and the army will enter the city when the time comes."

When Li Zicheng led the army into Luoyang City, the rebellion in the city was basically quelled, Wang Shaoyu fled, Wang Yinchang committed suicide, Luo Tai and Liu Youyi were considered to have some skills, not only annihilated the recalcitrant Ming army, but also recruited thousands of people, and the people in the city were also coerced by the two on both sides of the street to welcome Li Zicheng into the city.

Seeing that these two people were quite sensible, Li Zicheng's anger was mostly gone, and after a few words of encouragement, he led the army and couldn't wait to walk towards King Fu's mansion.

The surroundings of King Fu's mansion have been surrounded by peasant armies, and after Li Zicheng entered the mansion, he did not see Zhu Changxun and his son except for countless gold and silver treasures and a large number of domestic slaves, so he ordered people to search for them.

However, it is said that Zhu Changxun took his son and other descendants to leave the palace and hide in the Ying'en Temple not far away after the Luo Tai Department entered the city, Zhu Yousong was unwilling to hide, and took advantage of the fact that the peasant army had not yet found the temple and fled under the protection of several family members, and Zhu Changxun could not escape because of the inconvenience of movement, and finally hid in a dry well in the temple.

After the peasant army took control of the Ying'en Temple, they searched several times and did not see any suspicious persons, so they planned to give up, at this time, King Fu who was hiding in the well couldn't help but complain that the well tasted bad, and was heard by a small man in the palace who surrendered to the peasant army, and this little guy had been beaten and scolded by it, and he held a grudge, so he exposed it on the spot. It took a lot of effort for more than a dozen members of the peasant army to pull the fat prince weighing hundreds of catties up from the well and bring him to Li Zicheng's seat.

Zhu Changxun, who was kneeling in front of Li Zicheng, trembled and kept begging for mercy.

Li Zicheng smiled: "I have no enmity with you, but it is imperative to kill you today to realize my determination to fight against the imperial court." "Dozens of boards were hit left and right, and then he ordered to be beheaded publicly.

Later history said that after Li Zicheng killed the Fu King, his body was chopped up and mixed with venison to make a Fu Lu banquet, which is actually a slander in Qing history. Li Zicheng still cared about his own image, and buried Zhu Changxun's body, and most of his family members were able to save their lives except for their relatives.

As for running away from the son Zhu Yousong and Li Zicheng, he didn't care, what is there to worry about this son and Lao Tzu's virtue? And Lu Weiqi, who was worried about Ding Wei at home, Li Zicheng knew that it was impossible to persuade him to surrender, so he did not let it go and put him to death.

Li Zicheng, who was worried about it, began to liquidate the Rushan property of Fuwangfu, and it is said that it took five days just to make an inventory list! The financial strength of the Fu Wangfu can be seen.