Ji Feng and the soldiers of the Ying Long Army under his command looked at Shang Kexi and the other surrendered troops chasing and killing the defeated Qing army, and they couldn't help twitching the corners of their mouths one by one, these traitor soldiers who had worked hard for the Manchurians were still working hard, worthy of their current name as the Ming army.

Zhu Ci knew the performance of Shang Kexi and others, and nodded with satisfaction, Shang Kexi did not disappoint him, he was beaten by dozens of military sticks, and he dared to take the lead with injuries in just a few days, which was enough to fight, but after the end of this war, he was afraid that he would have to lie down for half a month.

In fact, there is no way for Shang Kexi, who let him wear a guilty body, not work hard, can he stand out in front of Zhu Cijiao, the emperor, and be reused.

Anyway, with the protection of the soldiers around him, he can't die, and at most he will suffer a little crime. This is what Shang Kexi thinks in his heart.

"My lord, the army is defeated, I can't resist it, my lord, run!" The Qing army continued to rout, Hong Chengchou and the Manchurian Commander could not control the situation, and some Qing army generals came to Hong Chengchou to report the situation.

"Poof!" Hong Chengchou spurted out a mouthful of blood and staggered, if it weren't for the support of the people next to him, he would have fallen to the ground.

"Destiny, destiny! Hehehehe, who is the destiny in the end! Hong Chengchou roared sadly.

Back then, he had taken more than half of the elite of the Ming Dynasty to fight in the north and south, and he had been an important minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he had also seen the ** of the Ming Dynasty, he had always thought that the Ming Dynasty's luck was exhausted and could not be saved, which made him finally surrender to the Manchurians, and has always believed that the Manchurians are the destiny of heaven, and he wants to rely on the Manchurians to achieve his revenge, prove his talents, and return the people of the world to a stable life.

How strange the traitor's thinking is.

Hong Chengchou's ideal is very good, but it's a pity that he ignored one point, that is, what the ancestors often said, if it is not my race, its heart must be different! Since the Manchus are aliens outside the Guan, they are aliens, if they win the world, how can they really treat the Han people well, and the end will only be tens of millions of Han people being slaughtered, several times more than the people who died in the civil strife in the entire Central Plains for decades, he Hong Chengchou is a Han Chinese, even if he is disappointed in the Ming Dynasty, he should not help the aliens, let alone help the aliens to enslave the Han people as their own responsibility, this is not a complete traitor.

"My lord, let's go, the Ming army is coming!" The Qing army general ignored the confusion in Hong Chengchou's heart at the moment, and persuaded again.

"Let's go? Where to go? "Where else can he Hong Chengchou go? The Ming Dynasty regarded him as a first-class traitor, and he was eager to divide his five horses, and half a month ago, he swore in front of Dolgon and many Manchus that he would hold Shandong for at least two months, and hit the Ming army hard, but now, the Ming army is like a bamboo, and the three lines of defense he worked hard to build collapsed in less than ten days, and the 500,000 army was defeated, what face did he have to see Dolgon.

Hong Chengchou was in a trance, he didn't know where he was going.

"No, you guys go, I'm going to stay and continue to block the Ming army!" Hong Chengchou was powerless to stop.

The city of Jinan has been broken, the 500,000 army has been defeated in his hands, Hong Chengchou he knows that he has reached a dead end, not only failed to achieve the revenge in his chest, but changed his reputation in disrepute, the Ming Dynasty regarded him as a traitor, and the Manchurians would treat him as a waste from now on, and he had no way out.

The sound of the Ming army's shouting and killing was getting closer and closer, the Qing army general gritted his teeth, Hong Chengchou didn't leave, and he couldn't continue to stay here and die with Hong Chengchou, so he shook it, left Hong Chengchou, and fled for his life first.

The defeat was like a mountain, the rout of more than 100,000 troops, and the thousand-man supervision team with more than 100 people as the backbone could not stop it.

"Shandong can't keep it, withdraw!" The Manchus did not want to fight to the death with the Ming army in Jinan City, and the place of their decisive battle with the Ming army should be in Hebei, the place of clouds in the vicinity of Beijing City.

"Lord Zhang Jing, don't we care about Hong Chengchou?" A man looked in the direction where Hong Chengchou was and asked.

"An incompetent waste, burying the 500,000 army of the Qing Dynasty, can't even stop it for ten days, don't care about him!" The Manchurian general said with an iron face, in vain the regent looked at him like this, he was so incompetent.

After the defeat of Shandong, Hong Chengchou has become synonymous with incompetence in the eyes of the Manchurians.

Even the Manchurians are gone, and there are only a dozen loyal generals left around Hong Chengchou to protect him.

"Kill" As soon as the Qing army was defeated, they beat the water dogs, and Shang Kexi and the other surrendering troops rushed faster than anyone else, and they were the first to appear in front of Hong Chengchou.

"It's still gratifying!" Among them, there is Shang Kexi's figure, Hong Chengchou recognized it at a glance, there was resentment in his eyes, he thought that it was because of Shang Kexi's rebellion, and he gave up the second line of defense, otherwise the three lines of defense in Shandong that he had built with all his heart could not be defeated so quickly.

Even so, Hong Chengchou still refuses to admit his defeat.

"Haha, it's Hong Chengchou's old dog, hurry up, it's a great achievement to catch him!" Shang Kexi also found Hong Chengchou, pointed at Hong Chengchou and laughed.

Shang Kexi wanted to rush over and capture Hong Chengchou by himself, but after being the first soldier to rush and kill for so long, the injuries on his body had recurred, and without the support of his own soldiers, he couldn't even walk, but seeing Hong Chengchou at this moment, Shang Kexi was overjoyed for a moment, and even forgot the pain in his body, and only cared about laughing.

"Kill!" The soldiers of the surrendered army around Shang Kexi were all like hungry wolves pounced on food, and their eyes glowed with green light and rushed towards Hong Chengchou.

They couldn't help but be excited, after all, there were only a dozen people around Hong Chengchou at this moment to protect him, which was like a great merit for nothing.

Soon, more than a dozen people around Hong Chengchou were hacked to death with knives.

When more than a dozen of them were put on Hong Chengchou's neck just now, Shang Kexi was overjoyed and limped with the support of his own soldiers, but the speed was dissatisfied.

"Shang Kexi, if I didn't want to see the current emperor, I wouldn't be captured by you!" Hong Chengchou stared at Shang Kexi and said.

Shang Kexi was stunned for a moment, and then snorted coldly, but he saw the will to die in Hong Chengchou's eyes and knew that what Hong Chengchou said was not a lie, but so what, Hong Chengchou was not caught by him.

In a moment, Ji Feng and his Ying Long army also arrived here.

Looking at Hong Chengchou, who had been captured, Ji Feng's face was a little unpleasant, if it weren't for Shang Kexi and others who blocked the muzzle of Ying Longjun's gun, it must be them Ying Longjun who rushed to the front, and not let Shang Kexi and others pick up a bargain.

"Shang Kexi, what about the other Qing troops, why don't they pursue?" Ji Feng looked at Shang Kexi and the countless soldiers of the surrendered army around him with an unkind face.

The corner of Shang Kexi's eyes twitched, just now he was only concerned about capturing Hong Chengchou alive, and he actually forgot to pursue the defeated Qing army, damn it!

Shang Kexi smiled awkwardly, and immediately ordered his subordinates and the surrendered army to pursue and kill the defeated Qing army.

Ji Feng and other soldiers of the Ying Long Army were not idle, and also went to chase and kill the defeated Qing army.

Hundreds of thousands of Ming troops entered the city one after another, half an hour later, all the Qing troops in Jinan City were wiped out, except for a part of the escape from the city, most of the 150,000 Qing troops were strangled or captured, and Jinan City was completely controlled by the Ming army.

Zhu Cijiao also entered Jinan City, and Hong Chengchou was quickly pressed in front of Zhu Cijiao.

"Hong Chengchou, you are guilty!" Zhu Ci stared at Hong Chengchou coldly and shouted.

"The old minister is guilty!" Hong Chengchou fell to the ground, and although he said so, his eyes kept staring at Zhu Cijiao.

"Humph! Guilty? Zhu Ci sneered: "The first emperor treated you well, handed over more than half of the elite of the Ming Dynasty to your hands, with the expectations of the Ming monarchs and the people, you were defeated in Songshan, and even surrendered to the Manchus, helped the Manchus to give advice, and persecuted the Ming Dynasty in turn, do you know, even if Li Zicheng killed the first emperor, even if he had beaten the Ming Dynasty to pieces, but I didn't hate him as much as I hated you!" ”

Zhu Ci didn't tell a lie, what he hated most was the traitor, although Li Zicheng was hateful, but in the end it was a Han person, and the rebellion was also because the Ming Dynasty couldn't give him and the people a way to live, if the Ming Dynasty was really hopeless, he could rebuild a new dynasty, although Li Zicheng was defeated in the end, it only proved that he didn't have that ability, but Hong Chengchou was different, not only surrendered to the Manchus, but also hoped that the Manchus would get the world more than the Manchus, and help the Manchus enslave their own nation!

It is said that the Central Plains is in turmoil, and the people are eager for a stability, but Hong Chengchou pinned his hopes in the hands of the Manchu Qing aliens, and really thought that the Manchus really got the world, and the Han people would be fine? If you don't look at the staking in history, arresting and enslavement, shaving orders, etc., countless Han people have died because of this, their heads have fallen to the ground, and the Han people who died in the hands of the Manchurians are many times more than the civil war of Daming and Li Zicheng and other rogues for decades!

If Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Manchus just because he was afraid of death, he would eat and wait for death in the Manchu camp, as long as he didn't wholeheartedly help the Manchus deal with the Han people, Zhu Cicheng would not hate him. But he is the same as another big traitor Fan Wencheng, as a Han Chinese, he actually wholeheartedly helped the Manchus enslave the Han people, and his crime is unforgivable!

Hong Chengchou didn't speak, and after staring at Zhu Ci for a while, he suddenly looked at the sky and exhaled.

"Hong Chengchou knows that he is a sinner, and he is not wronged when he loses in the hands of the emperor, and I hope that the emperor will treat the people well in the future! After Hong Chengchou finished speaking, he suddenly bit off his tongue and killed himself by biting his tongue.

Zhu Ci looked at all this indifferently.

"Hmph, it's not a pity to die! As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, do I still need you, a traitor, to treat the people well? Zhu Ci snorted coldly, thinking that Hong Chengchou was not qualified to say this.

Although Hong Chengchou simply bit his tongue and committed suicide, there were still soldiers of the Ying Long Army who stepped forward to check if he had lost his breath.

When Hong Chengchou really lost his breath, the soldier of the Yinglong Army knelt down on one knee and reported to Zhu Ci: "Your Majesty, Hong Chengchou has lost his breath!" ”

"Heh, Hong Chengchou thinks it's so cheap? Since he has become a traitor, he has to take responsibility for it, wouldn't it be cheaper for him to die like this! Zhu Ci sneered, and didn't think that Hong Chengchou would let him go just like that.

"Spread my will, cut off Hong Chengchou's head, send him back to Nanjing, and enter the traitor pit, so that he will never be able to live forever! In addition, take his blood, dye the military flag, and boost the morale of the army! Zhu Ci hesitated and ordered.

Soon, Hong Chengchou's head was cut off, and the blood that flowed out was picked up and sprinkled with the five-clawed golden dragon flag that had been stained with the blood of traitors!

"Expel the Tartars, kill the traitors!"

Hundreds of thousands of troops are in high spirits and roar to the sky!

"Kill"

On November 1 of the fourth year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the vanguard army of the Northern Expedition, the first army of the Yinglong Army and the seventh army attached to it captured the last city of Shandong, Dezhou City.

At this point, the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty recovered Shandong on all fronts, preparing to march into Hebei and recover Beijing!

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