Baoding.

"Where is Choi Chengxiu?"

King Shin roared with a pale face.

He never thought that his dream would collapse in an instant.

Is this a conspiracy?

He was actually tricked by Yang Xin, a thief?

His ambitions, his ambitions, his dreams, are just a trap, at this moment, he simply has a feeling of indignation, he can't rush to the capital to bite that thief, he never thought that his life would be ruined in the hands of this man he has known since childhood.

Pity that he had known this thief since he was eight years old, how could he not have imagined that this thief was so insidious and cunning......

In other words, he is still too simple.

His Royal Highness King Shin, who is still a high school student, has finally tasted the sinister of the world at this moment, but this price is really a bit big, but fortunately, this price does not have to be borne by the entire country and the entire nation as in the original history.

"Don't panic, Cui Bingbu has led reinforcements to Xincheng, want to come to Xincheng for the time being, Zhang Yudu is a protégé of the minister, he has always been loyal and courageous, and he will not surrender to thieves, my father has also said that he swears to live and die with Xiongxian, and he can still withstand it, as for Zhuozhou, there is also Feng Gong in charge, which Baoding wants to come within three or five days without worry. For today's plan, the king should quickly prepare to go west to Taiyuan, there are still more than two million taels of silver in the city, and take them away for military use, and then stick to Shanxi with the danger of Taixing, waiting for the time when the world's loyalty and righteousness will rise.

Although Yang Wei is strong and strong, he is no match for 800 miles. ”

Lu Shanji said.

At this time, Cui Chengxiu presided over military affairs under King Xin as a former official......

It is equivalent to the military department of King Shin.

After all, he is also the original soldier of the army, his reputation is notorious, and his ability is still there, he has led a group of newly arrived Shanxi troops in Baoding City to Xincheng, where it is being attacked by Zhou Yujibu, Zhang Guozhong led the regiment to hold the Xincheng The situation is critical.

Lao Cui is still very worthy of King Xin.

Of course, the main thing is that the broken jar is broken.

His family is from Jizhou, Zhou Yuji has done it, so of course Zhang Shenwu will not be idle, that is to say, the gentry of Jizhou is finished, and the sad and indignant Cui Chengxiu simply let it go, the Shanxi cavalry under his command was organized by Jin merchants, and most of them are actually horse bandits, and the combat effectiveness is still there, although it is impossible to really beat Zhou Yuji, at least it can be contained.

As for Baoding, there is no other choice at this time.

What else can you do if you don't run away?

Anyway, Lu Shanji has also followed Sun Chengzong for many years, and he is not ignorant of military affairs, but now on this northern plain, let alone the rabble of regimental training, even the officers and troops in the past can't stop the sweep of these tens of thousands of cavalry.

What's more, the group training has run away.

The wisest choice is to run away, hurry up and take advantage of the temporary safety, leave Baoding and go to Shanxi.

The stretch of the Taihang Mountains will provide a reliable barrier, the lofty mountains and the inner Great Wall can offset the advantage of the cavalry to the greatest extent, and the difficulty of the mountain road will also lengthen Yang Xin's logistics line, which is now full of guns and cannons, and logistics is crucial. What's more, the gentry from all over the country will not be arrested, now they are just stunned, once they react, they will definitely not be killed, Yang Xin wants to solve the chaos in Beizhili, it will take at least a few months, and King Xin can get a few months of respite when he arrives in Taiyuan.

During this period, it can only be seen that the governors of other provinces are applied.

If these people are brave enough to choose a decisive battle with Yang Xin, then King Xin still has a chance to achieve a final victory.

They also have the strength.

In the final analysis, what Yang Xin can control at present is Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even if Fujian and Guangdong will not oppose him, they will not help him, at most, they will make a fortune by the way, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi have no choice, and those gentry will fight hard with him for the land. Sichuan Yungui will join the Yang Dynasty, but they don't have the ability to go out, at most they will maintain mutual vigilance with those Tusi, and Huguang and Jiangxi will also join......

May join.

Lu Shanji is not sure.

In fact, the performance of these two provinces is not positive, although they are indeed very active in preventing Yang Xin's outward expansion, but to say that they take the initiative to attack Yang Xin's territory, it is a lack of motivation, mainly because they have attacked before, but the results are quite miserable. It is said that the gentry of Jiangxi suffered a lot of losses in the last war, and this year, relying on the soaring consumption power of Jiangsu and Zhejiang after the war, they suddenly tasted the benefits brought by Yang Xin.

They're not so loyal anymore.

Of course, if these people choose to succumb to Yang Xin's obscenity, then King Xin will have to wait for death.

In fact, it has reached this point, and it can only be to survive in death, no matter what choice these provinces will make, they can only coax themselves to believe that they will join the Yang downfall, otherwise they will also die, and it is good to be able to fantasize about it. It is said that Lu Shanji also wants to cry without tears at the moment, he is a good and decent waiter, he abandoned his official position with loyalty, and ran here to fight the traitorous ministers to the end, how did he end up in this kind of field, and he had to rely on his old father to change his life in front of him.

But......

He is loyal and courageous, but it is difficult for others to say.

"The king can't go!

Now the northern loyalty and righteousness are regarded as the king's master, if the king abandons it, this generation immediately collapsed, the city of Baoding is strong, the city is abundant, Ding Zhuang can get 100,000 troops, enough to hold, the king sticks to Baoding, then the world's loyalty and righteousness are naturally firm beliefs, Yang Cheng after all, he is helpless, but he is just a surprise to me, once blocked under the Baoding strong city, the world will naturally swarm, at that time not only the king is worry-free, but also can turn the tide of the war.

But as soon as the king leaves, the big thing will go! ”

Zhang Fengxiang said.

If the king of faith runs away, the northern gentry will be finished.

Of course, in fact, it's over, and it's too naïve to believe that the tide of the war will be reversed, but there is a letter king in Baoding, and he can attract firepower after all, which is very important, and even if the gentry from other places surrender, even if they escape, it will take a little time.

This situation is eroding so fast that everyone is caught off guard!

It's too late to surrender!

At this time, it is better to have a firepower to buy some time.

And Xinwang is the best candidate, as long as Xinwang sticks to Baoding, even if it lasts here for three or five days.

To put it mildly, that is, to go to Yang Xin to kneel down and beg for mercy, it will take some time, at this time Zhang Fengxiang has already determined, he should hurry up to kneel and beg for mercy, Yang Xin is nothing more than to divide the land, at this time, it is obviously impossible to resist, and the points will be divided, but continue to let those cavalry and the rebellious people toss, and the entire northern gentry will be finished.

These people not only want money, but also death!

Zhang Fengxiang didn't care about anything else, he just wanted King Xin to stick to here and buy time for the gentry in his hometown of Shandong.

"It's all, it's all about me!"

King Shin roared like an outburst.

After speaking, he walked out angrily, and he didn't say whether to run away or stick to it, but it was very Chongzhen's demeanor, but at the moment when he just stepped out of the door, the shopkeeper Xu, who had been promoted to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, ran in a panic......

"King, the thief army has arrived at Yingxun Gate!"

He shouted.

King Xin and Lu Shanji behind him, Zhang Fengxiang were dumbfounded at the same time.

"W-how did this come so quickly?"

King Shin said in a panic.

The intelligence on their side is actually very chaotic, the gentry from all over the country are patronizing and running away, how can they be interested in running to deliver a letter to him, although the Yuankou front line is not far, but the detailed calculation is also two hundred miles, and the three-way army is all cavalry, and the speed of pursuit is not slower than the speed of reporting, the exact news that is currently known here, that is, Wen'an was captured, but the rest they still don't know.

"Elder Sun Ge, Elder Sun Ge didn't stop it!"

Zhang Fengxiang said immediately.

"This old horseman!"

King Xin said indignantly.

Then his gaze showed determination......

"Bring a gun, this king will personally go to the city to fight side by side with all the soldiers!"

He shouted.

"King, you'd better go!"

Wang Chengen grabbed him and said.

"Yes, the king, the little protector of the king goes to Taiyuan, goes to Xi'an, our people of Qin and Jin have always been loyal, as long as the king raises his arms and shouts, a million troops will not be a problem!"

Shopkeeper Xu instantly perked up, and then said impatiently.

King Shin immediately hesitated.

"Nonsense, now the soldiers outside the city are in chaos, bandits are rampant in the Taihang Mountains, what if the king hastily leaves the city and has misfortune?"

Zhang Fengxiang said angrily.

"Yuan Penggong, what is your intention to obstruct the king from leaving the city?"

Lu Shanji said angrily.

"Enough!"

King Xin shouted angrily.

Then everyone looked at him in amazement.

"Is this king a man who flees in fear of the enemy, but this king wants to see what these traitors are capable of!"

King Xin shouted.

After speaking, he pulled out a short gun from the waist of the shopkeeper Xu and walked outside proudly.

At this time, the south smoke gate was outside.

"Bring me a chair!"

Li Zicheng said contentedly.

He ended up being the champion of this race.

In the north, because of Zhang Guozhong's stubborn defense in the new city, and Cui Chengxiu joined the battlefield with a Shanxi cavalry in the north, Zhou Yuji had to stop temporarily, after all, he also ran for more than 200 miles, and he also ransacked Yongqing in the middle and delayed some time. Luo has always been also blocked in Zhuozhou, his side has been running wild for three days in a row, starting from Tianjin has been a rapid march, also sacked Gu'an on the way, there is really no strength to continue to run, and finally although the volunteers detoured, but one was all light cavalry, and the other was not hindered along the way, but arrived at Baoding first.

Li Zicheng alone led the Guard Brigade and became the first of the volunteers to arrive, because this purely mounted infantry carried the lightest load.

In this kind of long-distance run, the same horse with light weight is the fastest one, so he is the first to arrive in the volunteer army.

One of the soldiers immediately brought him a chair......

There are still quite a few people living outside the city.

In fact, the periphery of Baoding has also fallen into chaos, this army went there, and burned the fire of fighting local tyrants, and all the gentry outside Baoding who did not have time to enter the city were unlucky.

Li Zicheng sat down on this chair that had just been moved out of a gentry's house, just like in the original history, he sat outside the capital facing Guang'anmen and looked at the Nanxun Gate opposite, and the soldiers of the guard brigade on both sides of him had already dismounted, and quickly under the command of the brigade commander, these actual mounted infantry could act as line infantry, and their weapons were also flintlock pistols, but slightly shorter than those of line infantry.

It is also equipped with bayonets.

And there were grenadiers, armed with mine-guns and grenades.

There are even cannons.

Howitzer.

Those artillerymen are removing the gun body and gun carriage from a special horse, respectively, the copper nine-pound howitzer body weighs less than 200 catties, which is basically equivalent to a fully armed cavalry, but the Mongolian horse can't run fast, so the horse is deliberately used. The dismantled parts were quickly assembled, and soon a stubby howitzer was raised to its muzzle, and the whole howitzer added up to only four hundred pounds of outcropping, and the ammunition was also carried by horses.

As for the defenders of the city......

How can there be any defenders, the only group of Shanxi cavalry who just arrived was taken away by Cui Chengxiu, and the city was a locally recruited regimental training, and because Cui Chengxiu also took away a batch of regimental training, the number was seriously insufficient, and in the face of the surging cavalry, it could not even form a substantial block.

Li Zicheng held the teacup and looked at the city gate opposite, where the regimental training was firing.

But no shells were fired.

They were also shooting outside with empty cannons, just as they had done when the defenders of the capital faced him in the original history......

Forgot to reload.

Don't ask, if you ask, you forgot to pretend.

The gentry on the city wall scolded angrily, begged and even howled, but the 100,000 young men who Zhang Fengxiang claimed just now were there silently firing empty cannons outside, or simply loading cannonballs, but the muzzles of the cannons were all aimed at some inexplicable places. In short, the artillery fire on the entire Nanxun Gate city wall was constantly sprayed, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and it seemed to resist stubbornly, but in fact, the volunteers lined up outside the city were unscathed.

Soon the cannon assembly on this side was completed, and twelve nine-pound howitzers quickly pushed forward.

The gunner began to reload ammunition.

The regimental exercises on the city walls immediately began to appear sporadically fleeing.

The gentry desperately tried to stop them.

This side is reloaded.

The battalion commander of the artillery battalion looked at the brigade commander, and the brigade commander looked at Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng held the teacup in his right hand and waved his hand with his left hand.

"Fire!"

He said casually.

The next moment, twelve cannons erupted in flames at the same time.

The cannonballs whistled through the air, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into flames on the Nanxun Gate, and the next moment as if they had received some order, all the regimental training on the city wall screamed in horror and scattered, and those gentry screamed like they collapsed, but then they were swept down by these routs, and even some regimental training thought they were in the way, so they simply threw them out of the city wall......

"It's a boring battle!"

Li Zicheng said speechlessly.

In other words, it is estimated that this is also the case when he entered the capital in history.

"Let's go, let's go into town!"

He stood up and said.

And at this moment, King Xin was also carrying a short gun, with Wang Chengen, who was still constantly dissuading, and walked proudly towards the city gate in front of him......