Chapter 47: The Siege 2

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The rest of the three city gates saw that Gao Yingxiang had already attacked, and the first to attack was the men and horses led by Zhao Deliang, after all, Zhao Deliang and Gao Yingxiang could be said to be both a loss and a glory.

After Zhao Deliang's attack, Xu Liang, who broke up the southern city and the northern city, slowly began to attack the city. Xu Liang's approach made Gao Yingxiang, who had already begun to attack the city and suffered heavy casualties, feel hatred in his heart.

"Brother Li, the big boss has begun to attack the city, what should I do next?"

Somewhere hidden in Lin'an County, an obscene-looking young man was asking Li Wei with an anxious face. There were also forty or fifty people gathered around it, all armed with weapons in their hands.

"What else can I do, find the right direction and kill directly under the city gate, open the city gate, and welcome the big boss in."

Li Wei glanced at the young man with contempt, and really couldn't understand why he would ask such a speechless question.

The night before.

Li Wei, who was going to talk about life and talk about ideals with the woman he had just snatched, was secretly called aside by Gao Yingxiang.

"Our attack on the county seat this time will definitely not be too smooth, especially with Xu Liang, it is very likely that we will not be able to fight together, so Mr. Zhao and I plan to send you to bring some brothers into the city first.

When we attack the county seat, you will suddenly attack him again, and he will be caught off guard by internal and external attacks."

Gao Yingxiang and Zhao Deliang informed Li Wei of the overall plan, and they originally planned to refuse this task, after all, no one knew what would happen when they entered the county, and if the attack on the city gate did not go well, they would inevitably suffer the biggest impact.

However, looking at Gao Yingxiang's bland eyes, Li Wei couldn't help but make up his mind to do this, because he had already found that he couldn't understand Gao Yingxiang.

Especially after Gao Yingxiang let himself secretly kill his mother-in-law, he pretended to be nothing, which made Li Wei's heart even more frightened. is afraid that if he does not obey Gao Yingxiang's arrangement, he will end up like his mother-in-law, and he will disappear completely inexplicably.

"Brother Li, I have a plan.........

A voice suddenly came from among the people who took up their weapons one after another and wanted to follow Li Wei to the city gate.

This person has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a slightly wild beard, and a tall and mighty body, but the messy hair makes me a little unbearable to look at.

Li Wei turned his head and looked in the direction where the voice came from, with a hideous face on his face.

"Li Hongji, you want to die, don't you, if it weren't for the fact that you also killed the official, Lao Tzu would have brought you to my team."

In Li Wei's opinion, what Li Hongji said was a naked slap in the face to himself, after all, he had already set a tone, that is, he directly rushed to the city gate with his family work and killed him restlessly. Now it's good that you still say that you have any plans, don't you seem to be brave and unplanned, just a simple-minded guy with developed limbs.

The middle-aged man named Li Hongji heard Li Wei's scolding, and his face showed a flattering expression, but there was a trace of disdain in his eyes.

"If it weren't for Lao Tzu being wanted for murder and being cornered, he would have run to your place."

If you know something about the history of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, you will definitely exclaim when you hear the name Li Hongji. However, even if people who don't know mention his other name, it will be the same, and in later generations he has a resounding name, King Chuang Dashun, Emperor Li Zicheng.

Originally, according to the development of history, it should not have been until the second year of Chongzhen's invasion of the Jin soldiers that Li Zicheng, who had killed officials and rebelled in the post station, actually killed officials in advance at the instigation of this butterfly such as laughter.

According to Fei Mi's "Book of Waste", when Li Zicheng was born, his father dreamed that a man in yellow entered the earthen kiln, so Li Zicheng's nickname was Huang Wazi (Huang Lai'er). The first name was Hongji, and he was born with small characters, and he liked guns, horses, and sticks when he was a teenager.

During the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, there were many famines in northern Shaanxi, and the difference between government grain and government was not reduced. Life for the Li family was very difficult. When Li Zicheng was a child, he was given to the temple as a small monk, named Huang Lai Monk, and shepherded sheep to the landlord surnamed Ai in Benyi. [7] He lost his mother as a teenager and his father died soon after. At the age of twenty-one, he was helpless and recruited to Yinchuan Post Station as a post man. Soon, because he was unable to repay the debts of the wealthy gentleman Wenjuren, he was severely tortured with shackles, and later, with the help of poor partners, he killed Wenjuren, and fled to Gansu with his nephew Li Guo to serve as border soldiers. At that time, the life of the border soldiers was also very difficult, the food and salary were insufficient, the officers were corrupt and deducted military salaries, and the soldiers often starved and froze.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the post station system had many drawbacks, and Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty carried out reforms in the first year of Chongzhen (1628) to streamline the post station. Li Zicheng was dismissed for losing official documents, returned home unemployed, and owed debts. In the winter of the same year, Li Zicheng was sued by Ai Juren to the Mizhi County Ya because he couldn't pay the debts of Ai Zhao. The county ordered Yan Zibin to "swim in the city with weapons and put him to death". After being rescued by relatives and friends, at the end of the year, he killed the creditor Ai Zhao. Then, because of the adultery between his wife Han Jin'er and Murakami's name Gaihu, Li Zicheng killed his wife again. With two lives in his body, the government can't help but ask, and he can't afford not to die if he eats a lawsuit, so he and his nephew Li Taichongzhen went to Ganzhou, Gansu (now Ganzhou District, Zhangye City) to join the army in February of the second year of Chongzhen.

At that time, Yang Zhaoji served as the general soldier of Ganzhou, and Wang Guo served as a general. Li Zicheng was soon promoted to the rank of general in the army by the kingdom. In the winter of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the Houjin soldiers marched south, and the Beijing division was tight. In order to keep Beijing, the imperial court urgently transferred troops from all sides to Beijing for defense. The troops of Li Zicheng, a border soldier in Gansu, marched to Beijing with the general kingdom, passing through Jinxian (now Yuzhong, Gansu), and the soldiers asked for pay, but the general kingdom refused to pay it. As a result, in Yuzhong (present-day Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu), the general kingdom and the local county commander were killed, and the soldiers and civilians launched a mutiny.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng had no experience in the army, and fled his hometown after killing people. As a result, he went to Laojun Mountain in a daze, perhaps because he was burly and powerful, so he was picked by Li Wei and lurked in Linyang County.

"Don't you have a plan? Say if you don't make it clear, Lao Tzu will kill you first today."

Li Zicheng saw such an expression, and just sighed in his heart and said secretly. "Such a good person can even be a leader."

I could only comment on my mood and say the plan in my heart.

"Brother Li, if we have such a large group of people, if we rush directly to the city gate, we will inevitably be discovered, and it is very likely that we will be intercepted by everyone before we reach the city gate.

Brother Li must also know the importance of the city gate, if the dog officers and soldiers see it, we will inevitably send heavy troops to surround it, but I am afraid that we will die on the battlefield before we rush to the city gate."

Li Wei frowned and looked at Li Zicheng with a displeased expression.

"To get to the point, Lao Tzu knows what you said."

"Let's spread out and set fire to the entire East Gate city. In this way, they can disperse their forces and let them come to fight the fire, and reduce the pressure on the big bosses to attack the city.

Then we will rush out and kill them, because the people guarding the city gate are all young men who are now recruited, so those who are in charge must not know us, and we can divide into two parts, one part rushes directly to the city gate and the other part is chasing the previous part, and at the same time shouting that the west city has been breached, and the enemy army has entered the city, so that the other party's military spirit can be disturbed and its will can be broken."

Li Zicheng told all the plans in his heart, Li Wei was going to listen to it, so he continued to act according to his previous plan, and he didn't care about Li Zicheng at all, but everyone around him nodded after hearing Li Zicheng's plan.

"Brother Li, Li Hongji's plan is okay, after all, our number is too small, if we use this method, it can not only reduce the pressure on the big boss, but also make it easier for us to rush to the city gate."

Li Wei looked at the people around him, nodded his head in praise one by one, and could only pause in his heart when he wanted to go his own way. After all, their lives are their own, and since this method can reduce their own casualties, everyone is naturally willing to do it. What's more, Li Wei himself is also a person who cherishes his life, but he can't save face. I secretly thought that I would find an opportunity to do it in the future.,To relieve the hatred in my heart.。。

Marching and fighting may not be too good for Li Wei and others, but arson, something that is inherently natural to us, can be said to be handy.

After a while, Dongcheng District was instantly filled with flames and thick smoke.