Under the city of Nanyang, Duoduo led more than 100,000 iron horsemen to appear here.

"General, hundreds of thousands of Qingyu iron horsemen suddenly appeared outside the city, and the city has been surrounded!" A soldier of the defenders of Nanyang City came to the General's Mansion and reported to Xu Changlongyu, the general of the Dashun Army who was guarding Nanyang.

"What!" Xu Changlong stood up abruptly and exclaimed.

"Follow General Ben to the castle tower!"

Nanyang has 10,000 Dashun troops to guard, Xu Changlong had been Li Zicheng's personal soldier in his early years, and he was quite loyal to Li Zicheng, although he was shocked that Nanyang was besieged by more than 100,000 Qing army iron cavalry, but there was no idea of surrender in his heart.

"Whew!"

As soon as Xu Changlong went up to the city tower, before he had time to walk to the edge to watch, an arrow flew up from outside the city, and it was inserted into a wooden stake on the city tower with a ding, and the feathers of the arrow tail were still trembling.

"General, the Qing Lu has shot a letter, please take a look at it!" A soldier takes the letter from the arrow and presents it to Xu Changlong.

Xu Changlong opened it and looked at it, and after a moment, Tie Qing crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it to the ground.

"Qinggou deceives people too much, when I Xu Changlong is greedy for life and afraid of death, I can't do it! I want Xu Changlong to surrender and dream! Xu Changlong scolded.

It turned out that this letter was shot up by Duoduo, the prince of Yu in the Qing Dynasty, and he wanted to open the city gate and surrender to Xuchanglong, the great shun guard who was guarding Nanyang, otherwise after the city was broken, he would kill the entire Xuchanglong clan! This is a naked threat, if he doesn't take Xu Changlong in his eyes, Xu Changlong is naturally furious.

Nanyang's deputy Zhou Shouxin followed behind Xu Changlong, and curiously went up to crumple Xu Changlong's letter and threw it on the ground. Immediately, an inexplicable discoloration appeared on his face.

"General, you can't help but think about it." After Zhou Shouxin groaned slightly, he whispered next to Xu Changlong.

"What to consider! Do you want to make General Ben a traitor and betray Your Majesty! Xu Changlong had a calm face, his eyes stared at Zhou Shouxin with hidden anger, and he regarded Zhou Shouxin as a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

"The general's words are wrong, has the general ever thought about it, a few days ago, there was news from the fast horse, Xijing City has been broken by the Qing army, His Majesty led the remnants of the army to withdraw to Henan, guessing that it must be our Nanyang as the final destination, but now His Majesty's figure has not been seen, and the Qing Dynasty has more than 100,000 iron cavalry appeared under the city, what does this mean? It means that His Majesty is likely to have been! Even if the general wants to avenge His Majesty, but our Nanyang is only 10,000 horses, and there may be more than 100,000 or 200,000 Han Banner soldiers behind the Qing captives, and the purpose should be very clear, that is, to take the entire Henan, in the face of these hundreds of thousands of Qing captives, it is by no means something that our Nanyang can stop. The general may not be afraid of death, but the general is originally from Nanyang, and the whole clan is here, and the Qing Yu must have discovered this, so he threatened the general so much, does the general really want to disregard the lives of his entire clan. Thinking about the nursing children and the group of beautiful wives and concubines, I am afraid that they will be ravaged by animals before life and death, how miserable it is, and the general can bear it? . ”

Zhou Shouxin persuaded Xu Changlong, but noticed that Xu Changlong was slightly hesitant on his face, knowing that Xu Changlong was afraid that he was moved by his own words, Zhou Shou was secretly happy in his confidence, and continued to increase his efforts to persuade him: "In fact, if the general insists on avenging His Majesty, he doesn't have to fight with Qing Lu here, and it is better to pretend to take refuge in Qing Lu first, and when the time comes, he is waiting for an opportunity to give Qing Lu more fatal damage, wouldn't it be more effective!" ”

Zhou Shouxin's words gave Xu Changlong another step down, as for whether it was false or true when he surrendered, it was a matter later. In the case that Li Zicheng does not know life and death, Zhou Shouxin does not intend to be loyal to Li Zicheng, he also has a group of beautiful wives and concubines, especially the fifteenth concubine just accepted a few days ago, she is really charming and lovely, and her skin can be pinched out of the water, Zhou Shouxin has only enjoyed the joy of fish and water for less than three days, how can he be. Zhou Shouxin didn't want to die yet, as soon as he thought that if he died, the little concubine Fang Xiaomei would very likely be hidden, and was crushed by others, Zhou Shouxin couldn't bear it at all, in order to avoid all this, he naturally could only find a way to move Xuchanglong to open the city gate and surrender, so that he could also have a credit to the Manchu Qing, even if the Manchu Qing did not give him a promotion, at least he could still be a deputy general.

Xu Changlong was already a little moved, but at this moment, Zhou Shouxin helped him find a step where he could lie and pretend to surrender, and immediately frowned, and hesitated even more, in fact, he was making a difficult choice in his heart.

Just when Xu Changlong was hesitating, under the city, several messengers with white flags came to see Duoduo with Dolgon's generals.

"Newspaper"

"His Royal Highness Prince Qiyu, the regent has an order, and the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng will be entrusted to the king of Pingxi with full authority, and the main force of the Eight Banners will immediately withdraw its troops, and the whole army will retreat to Beijing City to standby!"

"Li Zicheng is about to be destroyed immediately, why did the fourteenth brother order this king to withdraw his troops and go north at this time?" Duoduo couldn't think of a reason, reached out and took the edict from the messenger of the Zhengbai Banner, and found that it was indeed the handwriting of the Fourteenth Godolgon, and not only the main force of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, but even the main force of the Han Banner Army had to withdraw to Beijing City with the main force of the Eight Banners.

Dorgon pondered for a moment, but he couldn't disobey Dorgon's orders, and then spoke to the herald beside him.

"Order, the Han Banner Army can mobilize 30,000 to come to Nanyang, and it will be under the jurisdiction of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and the king of Pingxi will take over the matter of destroying Li Zicheng, and the rest of the people will immediately go north with the king and withdraw to Beijing City!"

"Wow!" The herald immediately went to deliver Dodor's order.

Duoduo looked at Wu Sangui beside him and said, "King Pingxi! You also heard what this king said just now, the regent has an order, this king has to lead the main army north to Beijing City, leaving the king of Pingxi with 30,000 Han banner troops, and the king of Pingxi can have the confidence to exterminate Li Zicheng and take the whole of Henan at the same time! ”

Wu Sangui's face was expressionless, but a different color flashed in the depths of his eyes, and he arched his hand at Duoduo and said, "Wu Sangui will definitely not disappoint the regent!" ”

"Good! In that case, this is handed over to the king of Pingxi! Dodor said with a smile.

After a stick of incense, Duoduo led the main force of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to retreat, and more than 20,000 Guanning troops of Wu Sangui were left alone under Nanyang City.

With the departure of the main force of the Manchurian Eight Banners led by Duoduo, the generals of the Guanning Army at all levels came to Wu Sangui's side, and they were all overjoyed, as if the shackles on their bodies were gone, and their whole bodies were relaxed.

"Hahahaha! Dashuai, Qinglu is finally willing to take charge of the handsome alone, from now on, I don't have to worry about Qinglu, you can let go and do a big job! A general of the Guan Ning Army laughed.

Wu Sangui shook his head expressionlessly, and sighed: "I have already boarded the thief ship of the Manchu Dynasty, there is no way to retreat, after all, I still have to give my life to the Manchu Dynasty, this time it is said that it is to let the commander take charge alone, and the full agent to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng, but once the commander is unable to make contributions, Dolgon will inevitably be soft." ”

The generals at all levels of the Guanning Army listened to Wu Sangui's words, and suddenly fell silent one by one, and their families were arranged by the Manchus to live in Beijing City, realizing this, the hearts of the generals at all levels of the Guanning Army tightened again, it turned out that the shackles on their bodies were not removed at all, for the safety of the family, they could only go to the black one way, and work hard to help the Manchus conquer the country.

Nanyang City Tower, Xu Changlong hesitated for a long time, and was about to make a decision, when suddenly a thousand general manager excitedly pointed to the city and shouted to Xu Changlong:

"General, there is a change in the Qingyu Iron Cavalry, as if it is about to retreat! Great joy, General! ”

"Oh!" Xu Changlong hurriedly came to the edge of the city tower to watch.

"That's true!" Sure enough, most of the Qing army's iron cavalry withdrew, and as for the more than 20,000 cavalry under the city, looking at the outfit of the more than 20,000 cavalry, there is no doubt that it is Wu Sangui's Guanning army.

Xu Changlong was overjoyed, but at the same time, he was also a little puzzled in his heart, and he couldn't think of a reason, but he was ready to surrender just now. Even Zhou Shouxin, who was bent on surrendering, saw that the most important Manchu and Mongolian iron cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had retreated, and he was silent, and he temporarily dispelled the idea of surrendering, intending to wait and see what happened.

After all, it is also possible that the Manchus will only withdraw temporarily, and it will not be long before they will come to the city again, Zhou Shouxin has the intention of surrendering to the Manchus, but it is also necessary for the Manchu generals to be here, after all, there is a big difference between surrendering to the Manchus and surrendering to Wu Sangui, a Han traitor. Moreover, Dashun fell into such a situation, because Wu Sangui let people into the customs, how many generals were eager to eat Wu Sangui's flesh raw, how could they surrender to Wu Sangui, just looking at Xu Changlong's expression staring at Wu Sangui under the city at this time, full of anger and murderous intent, Zhou Shouxin would never dare to open his mouth to say it even if he dared to have such a mind.

Not only under Nanyang City, but also the thousands of Eight Banners that were originally left at the foot of the mountain by Duoduo to monitor Li Zicheng were also withdrawn.

"Your Majesty, there is news from Tanma that the Qing captives have withdrawn, and all of them have withdrawn!"

"What! It's true! Li Zicheng was originally wearing a disheveled hair and sitting on a stone in embarrassment, and when he heard the news, he immediately stood up in shock.

"No, this is probably a trick by the Qing Prisoner, trying to lure me out of the mountain!" Li Zicheng frowned and said categorically.

"Your Majesty, if you want to know whether the news is accurate, you can send more people out of the mountain to investigate, Your Majesty will rest here for a while, and it will not be too late to make a decision when the news comes back." Li Guo said.

Li Zicheng nodded thoughtfully, and immediately sent more people out of the mountain to investigate.

Two hours later, after learning that the Manchu Iron Cavalry had really retreated, and was preparing to withdraw from Henan, only Wu Sangui's more than 20,000 Guan Ning troops remained in Henan, and they were under Nanyang City at the moment, Li Zicheng's heart was suddenly relieved.

"Only Wu Sangui stayed in Henan?" Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and said with a smile, his face was a little flushed, and his expression was very weird.

"Hey, hey! Wu Sangui, Lao Tzu's whole family! Finally, I have a chance to seek revenge on you! Count the new hatred and old hatred together, if you don't cut you with a thousand knives, Lao Tzu will not be called Li Zicheng! Li Zicheng can be said to be very thorough about Wu Sangui, thinking that it was because of Wu Sangui that he fell into such a miserable situation, plus all the way down from Shanhaiguan, it was Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry who rushed to the front, and chased him the most desperately, Li Zicheng couldn't wait to eat Wu Sangui's meat raw, and Wu Sangui was definitely an endless situation.

Li Zicheng is full of confidence, thinking that he is still destined for heaven, look, when he was about to reach a desperate situation, the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty actually retreated, this is not God helping him! In the near future, he Li Zicheng will be able to make a comeback, and when the time comes, he will catch Wu Sangui, a dog thief, and not torture Wu Sangui, who is better than death, he vows not to give up!

Li Zicheng is ambitious, and he is ready to lead the army out of the mountains to fight Wu Sangui in Nanyang!

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