Chapter 604, Tears of Heroes 8

Li Dang was so sad that he couldn't stop shouting his brother's name, and tears rained down. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

Zhang Xianzhong didn't lose his breath for a while, he grabbed Li Kang's arm and laughed a few times:

Twenty years later, Lao Tzu will come back and kill a person who is turned upside down, killed a river of blood, and killed a person with a rolling head...... Heaven gives all things to man, and man has nothing to heaven, kill, kill......

After saying seven killing words in a row, Zhang Xianzhong opened his eyes and died.

This is the end of a generation of heroes.

Zhang Xianzhong started the army in the second year of Chongzhen, and has been the main force in the peasant army for eight years, and his men and horses have strong combat effectiveness, but the military discipline is lax, and he does not know how to sympathize with the people. Because of his slightly yellow complexion, he is known as the Yellow Tiger, and his people are also called ** by the people. Zhang Xianzhong surrendered to the court several times, but it didn't take long for him to rebel, and he seemed capricious, but this was also a common practice of the peasant army at that time.

Due to the huge disparity in combat effectiveness and armament strength, the peasant army was encircled on more than one occasion, and fake surrender was also a way to preserve its strength. Among the officials and soldiers at that time, except for a few commanders such as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, who retained a clear understanding and knew that Zhang Xianzhong and others could not be sincerely appeased, most of the court generals were deceived by them, so that they let the peasant army escape again and again, which was also a scene of quite a black comedy in the armed uprising struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xianzhong is cunning and moody, and has always been disrespectful to his allies, such as Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, but he has a good relationship with Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng once asked him for help in the most difficult time, when Zhang Xianzhong had been nominally appeased, but he didn't care about the suspicion of the officials and soldiers around him, he entertained Li Zicheng very warmly, and also funded Li Zicheng's military horses and weapons when he left. And when he suffered setbacks, Li Zicheng was also very generous and reciprocated the favor. So these two are still allies in the true sense of the word.

And Zhang Xianzhong's most pleasing brother is Li Kang.

No matter when, Zhang Xianzhong never betrayed Li Kang, when the Qin army was in difficulty, Li Dang asked him for help, although Zhang Xianzhong was powerless, but he did not kill Li Kang to report to the official army, but secretly let go, this practice is a great risk. This is why Li Dare later disobeyed the will of King Qin and came to rescue Zhang Xianzhong.

It can be said that these two brothers, in the troubled times at that time, when people's hearts were in turmoil, they really took care of each other.

Before Zhang Xianzhong died, he didn't have a trace of hatred for Qin Jun, hatred for Li Kang, he only hated a little, he could no longer dominate the world, and kill people for fun.

At the end of his life, he spat out seven killings, showing his despair of this world, his despair of human nature, and his despair of providence.

Desperate people are always crazy.

Li Dang looked up to the sky and wept bitterly, and finally ordered to cut down trees, make a stretcher, carry Zhang Xianzhong's body on a horse, and carry it back to Chengdu.

Later, the king of Qin issued a decree to bury Zhang Xianzhong in a valley west of Chengdu, and Li Dang erected a monument for him, which was engraved with Zhang Xianzhong's last words: Heaven will give all things to people, and people have nothing to give to heaven, kill!

This monument is called the "Seven Killings Monument" by later generations!

Besides, since Zhang Xianzhong fled, Chengdu was immediately in chaos, and the soldiers of the Great Western Army were disheartened, their morale was lost, and they no longer had the fighting spirit to resist, so they began to flee. The Qin army attacked the head of the city and entered the city.

Before Bai Qi attacked the city, he issued a strict order, and after entering the city, it was strictly forbidden to kill and rob the people. Therefore, after the Qin army entered the city, it did not break into people's houses, but only stormed the barracks and garrisons of the Great Western Army.

The whole Chengdu was full of Qin troops shouting and killing, and the desperate soldiers of the Great Western Army surrendered one after another, and a few fled out of the city and scattered into the four fields.

Two hours later, the whole of Chengdu was under the control of the Qin army.

In this battle, the Great Western Army suffered thousands of casualties, and thousands of people were taken prisoner, and only a few escaped. But there was no shadow of Zhang Xianzhong, Bai Qi was about to give the order to chase everywhere, someone came to report, General Li Kang carried Zhang Xianzhong's body and came to hand over the order.

Bai Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, his original intention was like this, as long as Zhang Xianzhong died, Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others would inevitably have infighting. Compete for the position of leader, then the Qin army will have time to calmly prepare its men and horses and consolidate Sichuan.

When Li Dang came to the front, Bai Qi saw Zhang Xianzhong's corpse, and he was happy, but he saw that Li Kang was very sad, and the tears on his face were not dry, he understood Li Kang's mood very well, but at this time, in order not to affect the morale of the army, he immediately ordered Li Dang to go back to rest, and at the same time ordered someone to find the best coffin and bury Zhang Xianzhong.

After doing these things, Bai Qi wrote down the recital and sent someone to fly to report to the King of Qin in the customs.

At this time, Bai Qi was more concerned about the situation in Hanzhong, Li Yan was ordered to guard Hanzhong, whether he could withstand Sun Kewang's attack was very important.

As soon as he sent away, a messenger came to deliver the letter, which was sent by Li Yan.

It turned out that Li Yan was ordered to guard Hanzhong, he led his men and horses to hurry day and night, and finally arrived in Hanzhong before Sun Kewang, at this time Sun Kewang had already entered the territory of Hanzhong and was heading towards Nanzheng. Li Yan went straight to Nanzheng and confronted Sun Kewang.

Besides, Sun Kewang was ordered by Zhang Xianzhong to lead more than 20,000 men and horses to attack Hanzhong, but he himself did not think so.

The reason is simple, this is the idea that Tang Sayer came up with.

Sun Kewang and other generals have always been unconvinced by Tang Sai'er, firstly, Tang Sai'er is an outsider, and secondly, he is a woman, many times in front of Zhang Xianzhong, these generals are not Yang to Tang Sai'er, and after Zhang Xianzhong became the emperor, he actually named Tang Sai'er as the prime minister, which made Sun Kewang and others indignant.

At this time, the Qin army suddenly tore its face, and the soldiers rushed straight to Chengdu, at this time, not gathering troops to resist Bai Qi, but to divide the men and horses to attack Hanzhong, Sun Kewang was very puzzled.

He vaguely felt that Bai Qi was not as Zhang Xianzhong and Tang Sai'er expected, he would return to the army to rescue Hanzhong, and Bai Qi was likely to be desperate and storm Chengdu. Once Chengdu falls, Sichuan will be difficult to protect, and even if he occupies Hanzhong at that time, he will only be sandwiched between Guanzhong and Sichuan and become a rat in the bellows.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was extremely firm in this plan and did not allow him to say anything, so Sun Kewang had no choice but to raise troops in anger and go straight to Hanzhong.

When his men were about to arrive in Nanzheng, someone came to report that Li Yan had entered Nanzheng, strengthened the city defenses, and was ready to defend it.

As soon as Sun Kewang heard the word Li Yan, he was angry. If it weren't for this kid playing with his tongue in front of Zhang Xianzhong, how could the Sword Pavilion be lost, and how could Ai Nengqi die?