After half a pillar of incense, most of the Ming army had been killed, and the soldiers of the Shun army were still attacking the city with cloud ladders one after another, and the murderous Dashun Ruhou began to order: "The whole army listens to the order and takes the head of the commander of the Ming army, and the reward is ten taels of silver!" After the order was issued, the soldiers of the Shun army broke through the city tower, went up and slashed together with the soldiers of the Ming army, and the general soldiers of Linfen of the Ming Dynasty waved their knives and braved the artillery fire to fight with the rogues, and cut down one after another to climb the city tower.

However, the Ming army defending the city is getting fewer and fewer! A small number of Ming troops who did not die fled in all directions, resulting in the successful northern expedition of the Liukou army to break through Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, Huozhou, Lingshi County, the four regions of the rear team of the Dashun Emperor came to Linfen County, he immediately began to order the Dashun left battalion general: Liu Fangliang, led 60,000 people to the east into the Zezhou area, and some of the Liukou soldiers went north to invade Lu'an Mansion and rushed into Shenyang to rob the materials of Prince Shen's mansion, and also killed Prince Shen Zhao in public: Zhu Zhenhong, and seized the women of the clan and their property to supplement their salaries.

At this moment, Wu Junzhen and his party, who went down the mountain to prepare their horses and prepared to flee back to Fushan County, saw in the woods that soldiers and civilians were constantly fleeing along the way? He immediately realized that the situation was serious, and Ma Wei quickly rode after him, grabbed a soldier and asked, "Are you the Ming army?" Why did you run away in a hurry? ”

The Ming army who was questioned said arrogantly: "Quickly dodge, don't delay Lao Tzu to escape!" Seeing that he was a little arrogant, Ma Wei pulled out his knife and put it on his neck and continued, "It wants to ask, I don't know if it can be?" ”

At this time, the threatened soldier replied honestly: "I am the defender of Taiping Pass, because of the large-scale attack of the rogues, I continue to kill the soldiers and civilians of the nearby states and counties!" I advise you to hurry up and run for your lives! After saying that, the soldier saw Ma Wei put away his knife and ran away quickly, and the disappointed Ma Wei thought to himself; Li Thief is really crusading eastward! It seems that it is really difficult to save Daming!

At this time, Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin also rode up and asked, "What's wrong with Brother Ma?" Ma Wei told them about the Liukou Eastern Expedition, and Wu Junzhen was very sad to hear this sudden news! And Ma Wei proposed, "Everyone, please listen to me, the north may not be safe!" The Liukou Eastern Expedition is bound to fight with the Xuanda Ming Army, and we can only escape the catastrophe by going east to Henan Chengxuan Political Division! ”

For this reason, the captain of the Jinyi Guard, the county lord of Ming Tai'an: Zhu Youlan, also thinks that this matter is feasible, after all, Wu Junzhen is now the quasi-[guest of honor] of His Royal Highness the county lord; His Royal Highness the county lord's future husband, Jun County, so it is the duty of the captains of the Jinyi Guard to ensure the lives of Wu Junzhen and Zhu Youlan, so everyone escorted the general of the right battalion of the Liukou to the east quickly, and the Red Lady led the bandits to pursue them in the back, and even the commander of the birds also pursued.

On the 5th of February, the governor of Ming Shanxi, who was sitting in Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture, Chengxuan, Shanxi: Cai Maode, heard that the Liukou army was menacing, and captured most of the cities one after another, and it seemed that it was approaching Fenzhou and endangering Taiyuan Mansion! Therefore, the governor of Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty ordered the soldiers to hurry up for 200 li, and ordered the commander of the Ming Luzhou Guard: Niu Yong, the general of the Ming Qin Prefecture: Wang Yongkui, and the general of the Ming Liao Prefecture: Zhu Kongxun, and the three generals each supervised 5,000 soldiers, a total of 15,000 people, and quickly went to battle.

In Jiexiu County, Fenzhou, they encountered the main force of the Liukou, and the two people who led the Dashun Ruhou and the Dashun Governor laughed at the Ming troops who came to meet them, "Hehehe! Unexpectedly, this Eastern Crusade was killed all the way, and it was the first time that the Ming army dared to take the initiative. After speaking, Dashun Ruhou turned to look at the generals behind him and asked, "Who dares to go out to meet the Ming army?" ”

I saw that no one from the generals of the Shun army answered, but the Dashun Infantry Cavalry Brigade: Xie Youke, took the initiative to ask Yingdao, "The last general is willing to go to challenge the Ming army!" This made the Marquis of Dashun very happy, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to beat drums and cheer (bang, bang, bang, bang), accompanied by the sound of drums, and the Dashun Infantry Cavalry Brigade led 2,000 Shun troops out of the ranks, of which 300 were archers, 500 were sword players, and the rest were all heavy cavalry.

The first to find out that there was an enemy situation on the other side of the mountain was the general army of Mingqin Prefecture, he immediately ordered the soldiers to stop advancing and began to set up artillery on the spot to avoid losses, just when the soldiers were nervously deployed, the Ming Liaozhou General and the Ming Luzhou Wei Commander of the two Ming armies also arrived one after another, occupied the favorable terrain and observed the enemy situation with monoculars.

The Dashun Infantry Cavalry Brigade of the Light Enemy first let the archers draw their bows and shoot arrows, and then charged with infantry swordsmen and heavy cavalry, completely exposing their strength to the Ming army and giving the Ming army a chance.

The commander of the Ming Luzhou Guard here ordered the soldiers to hold shields on the hillside and line up in a line, all squatting, holding the shields obliquely to resist the arrows on the opposite side, and the Ming Liaozhou staff general ordered the fire fighters to press the fire and aim, and when the Liukou approached the firing range, he quickly pulled the trigger (bang, bang, bang) and rows of white smoke shot the Liukou with heavy casualties, and under the bombardment of the Ming artillery, this Liukou was defeated.

The soldiers of the Shun army in front hurriedly ran to the back to inform the Dashun Infantry Cavalry Brigade and said, "Report, Lord Qiqi Infantry Cavalry Brigade, our army was killed and wounded by the Ming Army, more than half of them were killed and wounded!" There are less than a thousand people left, so please give the order to retreat quickly! ”

But still unwilling to be defeated, the Dashun Infantry Cavalry Brigade continued to rush forward and rushed to a hundred meters, until he was shot by the Ming army's gunners and fell to the ground on a war horse, and the Liukou soldiers hurriedly picked him up and retreated.

Seeing that his generals were defeated, Dashun Ruhou was a little depressed, but in order to save face, he decided to cheer up the soldiers, so he pulled out his saber and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order, the left and right cavalry are responsible for assaulting the Ming artillerymen, the archers suppress the musketeers, and the rest of the people charge with the cuckoo ~ kill!" ”

In order to successfully break the formation, the Liukou cavalry shot the Ming army with crossbow arrows to kill the Ming army who ignited and reloaded, and interrupted the artillery bombardment by slashing the Ming infantry waiting next to the artillery with their sabers.

The frontal fire of the Ming army was also interrupted by the dense arrows of the Liukou archers when they were loading gunpowder, so the Liukou army successfully killed in front of the Ming army, and in the fierce battle, the Ming Liaozhou general was first killed by three swords! Then the general soldiers of Mingqin Prefecture were dragged off their horses by Liukou with a horse rope around their necks and dragged to death! Only the commander of the Minglu Prefecture Guard, who was left alone, led the remnants of the army to evacuate north.

Immersed in joy, the Liukou army directly pursued the Ming army Sanli Road with victory, and also shot many Ming troops with crossbow arrows, so that the commander of the Ming Luzhou Wei had no shame to face the soldiers, so he had to draw his sword and kill himself! The fleeing 3 hundred Ming troops had no choice but to surrender to the Shun army, and the Marquis of Dashun Ruhou entered Fenzhou City with victory.

At this moment, the two vassal kings of Ming Qingcheng in the city: Zhu Qiudi, Ming Yong and Zhu Min, the two feudal kings hurriedly fled from their respective county kings' mansions and tried to escape on the streets with their families and the honor guards, but they were blocked by the rogue army and captured the front and back doors, and brought them to the Marquis of Dashun Ru and the governor of Dashun.

Looking at the two county kings in front of him wearing red clothes, Dashun Ruhou said with a smile: "Where are the two county kings, Your Highnesses, going to go?" Don't even want the county king's mansion? Ming Yonghe, who was trembling with fright, replied, "The military master, the military master, let the widow go!" Whatever you want, no one can say yes. ”

Another king of Ming Qingcheng County said, "If the military master can release the little king, the widow is willing to reach an in-law relationship with the military master!" As soon as these words came out, the lustful Dashun Ruhou smiled and stepped forward to pick up a beautiful county lord, turned around and said to the Shun army: "The women of the clan will be handed over to the brothers to choose, at least these two vassal kings and princes, Zhenguo generals, auxiliary generals and others have all been cut down, saving waste of food!" ”

The Governor of Dashun, who was standing on the side, watched everyone compete for the women of the county king's clan, so he persuaded him, "Uncle Liu, can we do this well?" But the Marquis of Dashun Ru, who has always been rude, didn't feel inappropriate at all, but said, "Nephew Li, these vassal royal clans are not worthy of sympathy!" How many people have they plagued? This is the punishment they deserve. As soon as the words fell, I saw the soldiers of the Shun army with knives walking over, escorting the county kings and clans to slash and kill at will on the street, the scene was very miserable!

At noon, the soldiers of the Shun army walked through Qingyuan County and approached the city of Yangqu County, the governor of Dashun ordered the soldiers to go to the drawbridge to draw a bow and shoot an arrow (whoosh) at the city, and the arrow was quickly inserted into the city tower, the Ming army guarding the city saw this and quickly pulled out the arrow and ran to report the situation, the governor of Ming Mountain in the county government took the arrow and saw the secret letter, he was very surprised, and hurriedly convened the generals to discuss how to resist the enemy.

First of all, Mingyang Qu Counselor: Zhang Xiong, proposed: "Lord Governor, the rogues are menacing, as long as we strictly guard and wait for reinforcements to arrive, we will have a glimmer of life?" ”

After listening to the words of his confidant general, the governor of the western Ming Dynasty handed over all the garrison tasks of Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture to him for command, and entrusted him with the heavy responsibility of defending the city, and said, "If General Zhang needs anything?" You can put it forward, and we will do our best to meet your requirements. ”

After gaining the trust, General Mingyang Qu was very happy and immediately took the order to retreat, and when he just walked out of the door, he followed Mr. Mingyang Qu Qian: Xing Jiantian, so he leaned up and asked, "General, you are now the most powerful military general in Taiyuan Mansion, and even the commander of the Taiyuan Sanwei is not as beautiful as you, I don't know how the general plans to deal with the Liukou?" ”

However, General Mingyang Qu was afraid that others would accuse him of defending the city if they knew that he had no strategy, so he pretended to be in his hands and said, "This matter is already under the control of this general, you don't have to worry!" Let's get busy! ”

After the retreat of the Ming Yang Qu Qian, the Ming Yang Qu Shen General was actually afraid in his heart, so he asked the soldiers to strengthen the defense, and buried stone mines, ceramic mines, pig iron mines around the suspension bridge, etc., and covered them with a small amount of soil and grass, leaving only a long lead wire ready to pull the ring at any time, and the front front gate and side gate were set up with heavy troops to close the city gate, and anyone who approached would be killed.

At the same time, Wu Junzhen's side quickly crossed the Udon Ridge and came to the Qinshui County area of Zezhou, and the captains of the Jinyi Guard escorted the Liukou generals to the county office, and when they saw Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin's officials again, they were very surprised and quickly asked, "Hey! Haven't you lived here before? ”

Wu Junzhen nodded and introduced: "Before, I went to Ningshanwei with the county magistrate to participate in the flag sacrifice ceremony, and I passed by here to stay for one night, but I didn't expect you to have an impression, by the way, the magistrate can be inside?" ”

After hearing this, the officials hurriedly led Wu Junzhen to the backyard to meet the Mingqin Shui Zhi County, and when they saw it, everyone saluted one after another: "I'll wait to see the Zhi County, Qi Zhi County, we caught a rogue general this time, and now it's handed over to the adults!" Mingqin Shui Zhixian glanced at the rogue general behind him and thought; Does this guy have fine skin and tender meat, does he feel better? Let the officials escort the general of the right battalion of Dashun into the cell and detain him, and then look at the two women next to him and ask, "Who are they?" ”

The captains of the Jinyi Guard replied directly: "She is the daughter of the king of Tai'an County, His Royal Highness the Lord of Tai'an County, and this one next to her is Miss Yao!" Knowing that one of the beautiful and beautiful women was His Royal Highness the county lord, Ming Qinshui Zhixian hurriedly saluted and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know if His Royal Highness the county lord drove to the distance, please forgive me!" But Zhu Youlan didn't like to put on any clan prestige, so she said, "Hurry up!" The lord of this county forgives you for your innocence. ”