Chapter 116: The Twenty-third of the Lunar Month

The seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the first year of Shunzhi, the second year of Yongchang, the twenty-third day of the lunar month. Light snow.

The snow was sprinkled on the Yangtze River, sprinkled on Wuchang City, and sprinkled in the south gate of Wuchang City and outside the gate.

It seems that the snow color renders the sky white, and the world is pale, but the snow is not big after all. The dark Wuchang city wall will not be completely covered, and from a distance, it looks like a black tiger lying on the ground.

Outside the Wuchang Zhonghe Gate, I don't know how many people are waiting in the snow.

On both sides of the official road, there are almost three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and each soldier is like a sculpture, holding a spear, and the tip of the spear emits a cold light, even in the snow, it is also extremely bright. The only thing that is not beautiful is that each armor is different, there seem to be traces of repair, traces of knives and guns.

However, this is not a guard of honor, but a camp in Linying, which was temporarily pulled over to make a cameo as a guard.

There is no other reason, I don't know if it is the reason why Zhang Xuan attaches great importance to the queue, anyway, Zhang Xuan's subordinates look better than the other departments.

Didn't keep these gentry waiting.

Listening only to the sound of horses' hooves trampling on the thin snow, the group came from far away from the south.

Dozens of horsemen took the lead, did not stay in front of the city, but went straight into the city, and the guards led by the black cloud dragon set up a protective ring again outside the city gate.

After that, after a while, Luo Ru arrived.

Luo Rucai was wearing a suit of armor, a golden helmet on his head, and a little red tassel fluttering up and down on the top of his head, which was very powerful. Only occasionally a trace of white hair from Luo Rucai's helmet, as well as Luo Rucai's wrinkles that can't break even with a straight face, illustrate one thing.

That is, Luo Rucai is really old.

"His Royal Highness King Wu has arrived." Li Guofu's male duck throat came from somewhere.

In the midst of this shout, the gentry in Wuchang City knelt on the ground and said, "Meet His Royal Highness King Wu." ”

Luo Rucai turned over and dismounted, helped the gentry led by him to his feet, and said, "Hurry up, please get up." ”

Only then did these gentry get up one after another, and the person at the head presented a letter and said: "The past is not clear, cruel to the people, Your Highness started from recklessness, and the righteousness is in the world, and now it has been more than ten years. The merit is greater than His Royal Highness, and the virtue is higher than His Royal Highness, when the name is corrected, the score is stopped, the heaven and the earth are sacrificed, and the great treasure is ascended to meet the hope of the world. ”

"Your Highness, please correct your name, set the points, sacrifice to heaven and earth, and ascend to the great treasure to meet the hopes of the world."

For a while, these Wuchang gentry knelt down one after another.

This is persuasion.

Luo Rucai immediately looked at Zhang Xuan, and Zhang Xuan's face changed greatly. He didn't arrange it. He immediately looked at Wang Jincai, and Wang Jincai's face also changed, and he shook his head at Zhang Xuan again and again. Zhang Xuan also knew that Wang Jincai was determined to make decisions without concealing it.

"It must be the gentry in Wuchang City, who calls the shots without permission." Zhang Xuan thought to himself, and then secretly sneered: "They're finished." Who doesn't want to have the merit of persuasion, many old people in Cao Ying are waiting crazy, they actually want to grab this credit, I don't know if they are smart but they are mistaken by cleverness, or they are too greedy. ”

Maybe because of today's persuasion, Luo Ru will protect them for a while, but after this matter has passed, the old man Cao Ying will naturally settle accounts with them.

Zhang Xuan didn't think that his gentry could resist the power of the old man Cao Ying.

However, in this way, a piece of window paper was also pierced, and that was Luo Rucai's accession to the throne.

If it weren't for the westward expedition, Luo Rucai would have ascended the throne long ago. And now that Wuchang has been down, the army has been fighting for half a year, and it is time to repair. It was the right time to ascend the throne, but I don't know where Luo Rucai ascended the throne, whether it was in Wuchang or Nanjing.

Luo Rucai looked at Zhang Xuan's face, and knew that it was not arranged by Zhang Xuan, so he immediately said: "Lonely virtue is shallow, and I dare not risk the disapproval of the world." ”

The matter of persuading this time can be regarded as the end of appeasement.

Immediately, the Wuchang gentry sent the Wuchang Yellow Book, the White Book, and even the Wuchang Mansion Great Seal and the Governor's Great Seal together, and Luo Rucai asked people to take it over. It can be regarded as taking over the power of Wuchang.

Then a large group of people entered Wuchang City, one by one.

This time the entrance ceremony into the city carried some demonstrations and military parades.

The team entered Wuchang City from the south gate of Wuchang, followed the central axis avenue, arrived in front of the gate of the Chu Wangfu, and then made a detour and walked around the city.

Although he did not have much training, the morale of the soldiers and the strict queue also suppressed the people of Wuchang. From now on, there will be several chaos in the land of Huguang, but Wuchang City is firmly in the hands of Cao Ying. Never wavered.

It became Cao Ying's bridgehead in Huguang and set the needle of the sea. Maybe it has something to do with this action.

However, Zhang Xuan did not participate in the parade, but was called over by Luo Rucai.

"You've done a good job." Luo Rucai saw Zhang Xuan and shouted.

"The child is guilty." Zhang Xuan immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Luo Rucai frowned slightly and said, "It's not your handiwork to enter the matter of persuasion. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "The child does not dare to deceive the king, although I also think that my father will ascend to the treasure early and take peace of mind, but I will never dare to hide my father's unauthorized action." ”

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Luo Rucai stared at Zhang Xuan, and seeing that Zhang Xuan didn't seem to mean to lie, he said, "Then do you think it's appropriate to ascend the throne in Wuchang?" ”

Zhang Xuan pondered for a while, and he felt that Luo Rucai seemed to have a heart that couldn't wait. said: "The new place of Wuchang is still more justifiable in Nanjing. ”

"It's okay, it's not too late to talk about it after you return to the teacher, but you have to prepare now, the country name, the year name, etiquette and other things." Luo Rucai said.

Zhang Xuan was taken aback and said, "These things can't be done by children." ”

"I know you can't do it." Luo Rucai said: "Qian Qianyi and others must be allowed to come, but I don't feel at ease if I don't let one of my own people go." Prepare more now. ”

"Yes." Zhang Xuan said helplessly.

No, Zhang Xuan perfunctory Luo Rucai, but he really doesn't understand this.

He is a modern man, although he has read a lot of ancient books. But he still doesn't understand this kind of special place.

For a while, Zhang Xuan was a little confused.

Here, Zhang Xuan is worried about the future country name and year name. All the troops of Cao Ying were rewarded, and the months of conquest were here, which was considered to be over, except for a few troops still fighting outside, the rest of the army was ready to spend a good year in Wuchang City.

It was also on this day, under the city of Tongguan.

The battle of Tongguan, which had been brewing for several months, finally kicked off.

Tongguan is the hero of the world.

This has always been a military location, and it has been arranged in all dynasties, and Li Zicheng has prepared a lot of things, large and small artillery is covered with the city wall, not to mention all kinds of ravines.

Even though Duoduo has always been bold, after watching the Tongguan formation, he didn't dare to make an unauthorized move. Instead, they set up camp and waited for the arrival of the follow-up Hongyi cannons before deciding to attack the city.

And Li Zicheng didn't want to confront Duoduo in meditation, after all, Li Zicheng no longer had the capital to confront him, so he gave an order. When Liu Zongmin's army came out of the pass, it did not directly attack the Qing army camp, but occupied an unnamed hill outside Tongguan City and achieved a condescending advantage.

Seeing this, Duoduo did not show weakness, and immediately sent Tuhai's elite cavalry to attack the infantry in the formation first, and then ordered Nushan and others to lead the elite Eight Banners to climb the mountain on the flank. The terrain on the flanks is relatively dangerous, but most of the Eight Banners soldiers are trekking in the deep mountains and old forests, and these dangers are difficult for them.

After the Qing army climbed the mountain, they immediately pressed down with heavy bows. He then rushed down from the mountain and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the breaking army.

Many of the camps were established by the Ming army, and the rear of the Ming army were all crossbowmen who were weak in hand-to-hand combat, and the same was true for the camp, which suddenly gave the Qing army an advantage.

And this advantage made Liu Zongmin not get it back in the end.

The two sides fought fiercely, and with the defeat of the camp, Li Zicheng had to withdraw his troops and return to Tongguan. The Qing army also suffered a lot of losses, and did not dare to storm in the face of the iron walls of Tongguan. The two sides resumed their confrontation. It's just that Duoduo has repeatedly urged the artillery team.

When the Hongyi cannon arrives, it will be the time when the war between the two sides will start again.

It was just the silence before the Great War.

The wind and rain in the north are thick, and there is a group of people who have no intention of celebrating the New Year, it is the Tang King and his party, hundreds of galloping on the vast land of the lake, trekking mountains and wading rivers to Yuezhou.