Chapter 42: Fu Zonglong's Last Words

Officers and soldiers can only put up shields to block, but how much can the shield cover? When he marched, he didn't carry many shields.

Under the rain of arrows, a large number of officers and soldiers have come to the end, I am afraid that there will be three or five times, and the army will collapse without fighting.

Fu Zonglong slowly closed his eyes, he didn't understand that the current situation was irretrievable. Fu Zonglong said to Yang Congyi: "Congyi, I have something to ask you. ”

"Your Excellency, though commanded, do everything from righteousness." Yang Congyi already had a premonition in his heart.

"I begged for a thief for the minister of state, and I was defeated and died, and I had no luck. It's a well-deserved death, but there are one or two things that I don't want to do for me? First, it is my seal and order flag, which is a gift from the emperor, I have a humiliating mission, I cannot destroy the thief, and I should not let him fall into the hands of the thief. When Fu Zonglong said the word "saint", there was a kind of happiness in his tone.

Fu Zonglong was reused by the Emperor of the Apocalypse to quell the An's rebellion, but when he met Chongzhen, the Ming monarch, he was idle for more than ten years. Didn't he really have any complaints about Chongzhen?

It's just that because of the monarch and the ministers, it can't be said, but when he is dying, he shows it.

However, Fu Zonglong has read sage books all his life, so he has no more expressions.

"Yes." Yang Congyi bowed his head and said, "I will definitely do it." ”

Fu Zonglong took out a manuscript from his bosom and said: "I thought I had no physiology in prison, so I bribed the Jinyi guards with the jade belt on my body, and asked them to bring me paper and pencils, and I wrote down all my experiences of marching and fighting. The world is the time to use force, and it can be regarded as a thought. Now I'm going to die, and there's nothing left for my family, that's all. Only this "Jade Belt Weaving" will be given to you. As long as it can be passed on to the world, it will be considered the fulfillment of my wish. ”

"Yes." Yang Congyi's eyes were red, although he had the heart of martyrdom, he also knew that Fu Zonglong let him deal with the aftermath, which was also a kind of trust.

Fu Zonglong continued: "Wait a while, don't follow me." The things in your arms are more important than my Fu Zonglong's life. ”

"My lord, if there is anything to pass on to the family, or to the saint, I will definitely pass it on to the adults." Yang Congyi said with tears in his eyes.

Fu Zonglong was silent for a while and said, "I have nothing to say. ”

I don't know if Fu Zonglong is ashamed to have nothing to say to his family, or if Fu Zonglong has nothing to say to Emperor Chongzhen. However, the changes on the battlefield made Fu Zonglong careless about these details.

Because the thief army has arrived.

The black-pressed cavalry rushing from the west couldn't see exactly how many people there were, so they could only decide to look at it and see that it was full of cavalry. The cavalry from all directions slowly stopped more than 100 paces in front of the official army, and Li Guo hurriedly stepped forward and reported the situation to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng snorted coldly and said, "However, with thousands of remnants, I don't think Fu Zonglong is cast in copper and iron." The whole army marched, leaving no armor behind. ”

There is no suspense about the matter at this point.

More than 10,000 iron horsemen rushed over, even if Fu Zonglong didn't fight with Li Guo just now, he couldn't stop it. Not to mention that he has already fought with Li Guo once, and was surrounded by Li Guo with cavalry, bows and arrows for a long time, just as Li Zicheng said, no matter how strong a person's will is, it is not cast from copper and iron.

A day later.

Zhang Xuan finally came to Xiangcheng with difficulty, and more than 100,000 people surrounded Xiangcheng.

And the most eye-catching place facing the gate of Xiangcheng City, there is a bamboo pole, and on the high bamboo pole, there are human heads, which are Fu Zonglong's heads. And Zhang Xuan's camp is in this place. It is right in front of the city gate. It was because of Zhang Xuan's ability to build siege equipment that Li Zicheng was impressed, so Li Zicheng asked Luo Rucai to let Zhang Xuan supervise the construction of siege equipment.

However, attacking Xiangcheng is not a matter of importance, first, the army has been fighting for several days, and has not rested much, so it is necessary to slow down and not force too hard, and second, it is Li Zicheng's defeat of Fu Zonglong's battle, Li Zicheng's prestige has been greatly boosted, and the local rogues in Henan have taken refuge in Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng's power has skyrocketed, but this incident has also had a great impact on Luo Rucai.

Although in the previous battle, Luo Rucai also made a lot of efforts, but so people will remember the first place and forget the second place, at this moment Li Zicheng's reputation has completely suppressed Luo Rucai, so that Luo Rucai has a sense of crisis, but a large number of local gangsters in Henan defected to Li Zicheng, so that Luo Rucai saw the opportunity.

He knew too well what his rogue was thinking. Even if he defected to others temporarily, he was not completely prepared for others to be subordinates.

Therefore, Luo Rucai contacted these people, there was no need to do anything at all, these leaders were very transparent, they always thought that in the army, Luo Rucai was the leader, because Luo Rucai was there, they would not be directly annexed by Li Zicheng. However, Luo Rucai also knew that these rogues couldn't do it at all, no why, most of them were just hungry people who couldn't eat, and they defected to Li Zicheng just to eat a mouthful of food, and they didn't have to think about combat effectiveness or anything, after all, the Shaanxi homeless uprising was also destroyed by the official army many times before they learned how to fight.

So the help these people provide is nothing more than a name. Luo Rucai came up with the idea of luring other rogues into the army. However, there was no suitable candidate for a while.

Zhang Xuan naturally didn't know, the twists and turns between his father-in-law and Li Zicheng, at the moment he was honestly camping and building siege equipment, Zhang Xuan first rode a horse around Xiangcheng, Xiangcheng is a small county town, there is nothing surprising, there is no too powerful cannon on the city, but the soldiers are not very strong, although the city wall is much stronger than the walled wall of the fire shop, but after the battle of the fire shop, Zhang Xuan fully understands one thing, the most important factor in determining whether a place is strong, It was never the walls, but the people. Or the will of man, depending on the spirit of the people in the city.

Zhang Xuan felt that as long as he was prepared, even if the city would not fall in one go, it would not last for a few days. In this way, Zhang Xuan was also relieved.

However, when Zhang Xuan returned to the camp, he found a thief, a thief who stole people's heads. And this thief was not discovered by Zhang Xuan first, the person who discovered it first was Luo Dai, Luo Dai shouted, drove forward, and said loudly: "What person? ”

was shouted by Luo Dai, this person ran faster, and Luo Dai immediately stretched out his hand and bent the bow, which was an arrow. Luo Dai's archery skills are a must, although this arrow is hand-fired, but it is fast, ruthless and accurate, but this person does not turn his head, just a slight tilt of the head, and he dodges this arrow. Luo Dai's eyes lit up.

As soon as the so-called connoisseur makes a move, he knows if there is one, Zhang Xuan can't see it, but Luo Dai can see that this person is a powerful character. He was immediately overjoyed by the hunt, and chased after him, leaping from his horse and pounced. fought with this person, but was taken down by Luo Dai in just two clicks.

It's not that this person can't do it, but he is protecting a package with one hand, even if he is hit by the vital point, he doesn't protect it, if it weren't for Luo Dai's subordinates, this person would have died here.

Immediately, Zhang Xuan's personal guards stepped forward, held down this person, and without saying a word, tore open the package in his hand, and while pulling the package, this person moved like a madman, and said, "Stop, stop." ”

"My lord, it's a human head, like the one hanging on a bamboo pole." The guards showed Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan waved his hand and asked him to put it away. Didn't want to see it.

Although Zhang Xuan is accustomed to seeing life and death, he has not yet observed the fetish of a human head. However, when I heard that it was Fu Zonglong's head, I felt a little emotional, and said, "Return the head to him." ”

Although Zhang Xuan had never seen Fu Zonglong with his own eyes, and he was not even Fu Zonglong's direct opponent, he felt that among the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty he had met, Fu Zonglong was the most difficult, and he felt that Fu Zonglong was a character. Therefore, he is willing to give Fu Zonglong a respect. Don't investigate who this person is and why he came to steal Fu Zonglong's head.