"Father, this is Taigu County, it's very safe," Li Guo held Li Zicheng's hand and said with grief.

Taigu? Li Zicheng was slightly stunned, and then came to his senses: "The east road you go, good, very good!" However, it is not advisable to stay for a long time, and leave as soon as possible, so as not to chase after the officers and soldiers......"

"Father doesn't need to worry, there are no officers and soldiers chasing within twenty miles, and there is a Luo Hu Hall in the rear, my father can recuperate with peace of mind!" Li Guo comforted.

After hearing about the Luohu Palace, Li Zicheng's heart was a little relieved, at this time, the men and horses of the various departments fled in confusion, exhausted, and the only one who could maintain combat strength and confrontation with officers and soldiers was probably the well-trained and disciplined Zhenshan Battalion.

"If you don't see the officers and soldiers pursuing, it means that they are also tired, but you can't be careless, and you need to leave quickly when you deal with the affairs here," Li Zicheng said lightly.

"General Liu is mobilizing those rich families in the city to donate food and money, and we will leave early tomorrow morning after the matter is over," Niu Jinxing said in a low voice beside him.

The so-called mobilization is torture.

"Father, among the sons and ministers, we still care so much at this time, just slaughter the city! Otherwise, it will be difficult to understand the hatred in my heart." Li Guo suddenly said hatefully.

Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others were silent, Li Zicheng's eyes flickered, and his breathing became turbid.

"No, the Lord must not" Li Yan stood up: "If the Lord slaughters the city, our efforts for so many years will be in vain, once it spreads, there will undoubtedly be no way back in the future!" ”

"Just a small town slaughtering light, God knows who will spread it!" Li Guo roared, in fact, he proposed to slaughter the city when he defeated Taigu, but Li Yan and Gu Junen resisted it, so they had to wait for Li Zicheng to wake up and make a statement.

"There is no impermeable wall in the world, if people don't know, unless they don't do it" Li Yan's expression was firm, he and Li Guo were friends on weekdays, knowing that he was now stimulated, and he was ruthless in his heart and needed to kill to vent, but he had always been benevolent and resolutely did not allow this kind of thing to happen.

"Lord, we don't need more than grain and grass, let them donate it, why do we have to slaughter the city and provoke the anger of the heavens and people, what good is it with us?" Li Guo saw Li Zicheng swaying from side to side, and knew that he also had hatred in his heart, and like Li Guo, this father and son had the same thoughts.

"Lord, what General Li said is extremely true, think twice" Gu Junen stepped forward and seconded it.

Li Zicheng glanced up at Niu Jinxing, Niu Jinxing looked at Song Xiance, and the two of them exhaled a long breath: "Lord, there is no need to be too much."

"The decree is that the people of Taigu should devote all their capital to the army, and those who remain will be killed, and the city will be burned after the matter is finished, and it will be opened early tomorrow morning." Li Zicheng's tone was light, but the murderous intent in his eyes was monstrous

Li Yan took a long breath and sighed slightly in his heart, although Li Zicheng gave up the slaughter, he plundered the people's property and burned their homes, what is the difference between this and the massacre, but he can only do this step.

Is this still the righteous army who holds high the banner of righteousness to make a living for the people? A voice whispered in his heart.

Walking out of the door, to the courtyard was blown by the cold wind, Li Yan looked up at the sky, there was no starlight under the twilight, at this time it should be around the hour (seven o'clock in the evening) It should be just after dinner, but the protruding crying and howling sound of the four sides, he knew that Liu Zongmin had made a move, and a line of tears fell in an instant.

In yesterday's battle, the thief army lost its armor and fled in all directions, and there were countless casualties, and finally fled to Taigu to gather only more than 50,000 people, and most of the original officers and soldiers surrendered to the army, as for the rest, they were either killed by the officers and soldiers, or fled to the mountains or other places to become a guerrilla scatter.

With such heavy losses, Li Zicheng of course urgently needed replenishment, but it was not troops, too many troops were a burden to him, what he needed was grain and grass, gold, silver and jewelry.

Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the arrival of the officers and soldiers to plunder Taigu and Qi County to the south, Pingyao and others, and then burn them all down.

It is said that the fire in Taikoo County can be seen ten miles away this night, and I don't know how many people died this night.

Chang Yu, who came out of the courtyard, went straight to the military camp in the north of the city, which was the largest military camp in Taiyuan City, and it was also where his silver car was, but at this time there were wails everywhere, because there were too many wounded.

Master Fu Qing is leading a group of doctors to be busy, it is said that he has hardly rested since the morning, although Cai Maode mobilized all the doctors in the city to come to volunteer for treatment, but there are many wounded soldiers.

After Chang Yu arrived at the barracks to offer some condolences, he went to the northwest corner of the camp, where several barracks were where the silver car was located and the dormitories of his subordinates, and Hu Ling, who was seriously injured, was here to recuperate.

Hu Ling had woken up, but his head was injured, and he was so swollen that he couldn't speak for a while, Chang Yu carefully checked him, and after a few words of comfort, he called a meeting.

There were no outsiders present, all of them were brought out by him from the capital, the four commanders of the government army guard Tang Poshan, Teng Xiang Wei Cheng Ming, Jin Wuwei, and of course, Tu Yuan and Jia Waixiong who he single-handedly promoted, as well as his henchmen Tiezhu and Fan Jiaqian.

"Let's report the casualties first" Chang Yu flicked the oil lamp, seemingly absent-minded, but in fact, he was so nervous.

"Factory father, our brother still has two hundred and thirteen left" Tie Zhu held back tears, his eyes were red, and Fan Jiaqian lowered his head and sobbed.

Chang Yu's eyes were closed, his breathing became heavy, and the more than three hundred strong men he had carefully selected from the palace had lost one-third of them at this time, nearly a hundred lives!

Subsequently, Fu Junwei and Teng Xiangwei each reported injuries, and they both lost a lot, and the only thing that surprised Chang Yu was that the rookies Jin Wuwei, who was a novice out of the city, had the least losses.

Is the Royal Cavalry really not to be underestimated, or is the newborn calf really awesome?

"The pension for the aftermath of these brothers, our family can be used as a guarantee" Chang Yu opened his eyes and let out a breath of turbidity: "There will be no loss of a penny, and there will be no deduction."

Silence from all men.

"We should be back to Beijing in a few days," Chang Yu added.

Everyone was shocked, looking at each other with joy on their faces.

"Has the emperor summoned us back to Beijing?" Li Tiezhu was overjoyed.

"How can it be so fast?" Chang Yu smiled: "The emperor will know about the Taiyuan victory as soon as tomorrow, and the holy decree will not arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest."

Everyone came to their senses

"Why is the factory governor sure that we will definitely return to Beijing, it is difficult to guarantee that the emperor will not give an order for us to pursue the thief army" Tang Potian touched his chin and short beard, and his face was solemn.

Chang Yu shook his head lightly: "Feeling"

This feeling is grounded, Chang Yu has been away from Beijing for nearly a month, and there are too many things happening in the middle, and everything can be provoked by the shock of the government and the opposition, although he almost all reported to Chongzhen in the form of a secret letter in the first time, but he believes that Chongzhen will definitely let him go back to Beijing to talk about it in person.

In addition to tracing the root of the matter itself, there is also Chongzhen's suspicion.

The crowd gossiped again and then dispersed.

Chang Yu didn't feel a trace of sleepiness because he slept for a day, and he wanted to go to the city to inspect it, but suddenly thought of something, so he asked someone to notify Tu Yuan, Jia Waixiong and others to gather, and he wanted to patrol the streets.

According to the usual practice, Chang Yu traveled with a minimum of no less than 30 people, led by a henchman, who were iron pillars on weekdays, and more than 1,000 people from the Fan family were on duty, and later Tu Yuan also joined the ranks, and then after the assassination, the tough archery team also accompanied him.

However, at this time, Chang Yu was going to patrol the streets, and he didn't bring a Dongchang fan or eunuch henchman, but Tu Yuan, Jia Waixiong, Cheng Ming, Tang Potian, and even Duan Wuhu and Zhou Tianpeng also came.