Xiangcheng is just a small city, with a circumference of less than three kilometers and an area of less than one square kilometer. Wang Qiaonian summoned his generals and all the beings in the city to gather in the city god temple, and swore in front of the city god that when the time was in mourning and the courtiers were fighting, they swore to serve the country and were willing to have one heart. Everyone was touched by this tragic spirit, and his generals were very moved, and they all expressed their desire to cooperate against the enemy. The generals led the soldiers and civilians in the city, divided the division of defense, and were willing to work together to defend the lonely city, and even dug up the stones on the street as stones......

The walls of Xiangcheng have fallen into disrepair and have been dilapidated, and although they have been temporarily reinforced and repaired, they are still in danger. So Wang Qiaonian convened the gentry in Xiangcheng in the City God's Temple, and discussed that the people with prestige among the people would take the initiative to stand up and take care of the work in sections.

At this time, Zhang Yongqi stood up, and he arched his hand and said: "Everyone, I, Zhang Yongqi, am willing to guard the east wall." "This person is Zhang Yongqi, who invited Wang Qiaonian to enter Xiangcheng, the second son of Zhang Ning, the deputy envoy of the Sichuan military garrison. Influenced and educated by Zhang Ning, the young Zhang Yongqi had a upright character. After his father passed away, Zhang Yongqi served his mother, eating three meals a day, conditioning soup, greeting him in the morning and evening, and never dying. Liu Hanchen, a student of Xiangcheng School who has an excellent reputation in Xiangcheng, said: "Zhang Juren understands the righteousness, and we are not people who only cherish their own money and ignore the overall situation. ”

The big families in Xiangcheng also stood up one after another and said: "The rest of the three walls in the west, north and south, we share it with each family!" ”

Wang Qiaonian got up and bowed to the gentry of Xiangcheng, "When you are in trouble, you will show your true heroic qualities, Wang Qiaonian has thanked the princes~~ If you don't die, you must give your righteousness to the emperor." ”

After the assignment was completed, Zhang Yongqi immediately summoned the young and strong men of the family and the servants of the family to repair the collapsed and defective places on the east city wall during the day, and slept on the city wall at night, so as to keep abreast of the police situation outside the city and defend against the incoming enemies. At that time, there was a long period of war, all industries withered, the people in the city lived in poverty, their families had no money to spare, and the government office was also empty, so it was impossible to raise the cost of repairing the city, casting weapons, and defending the city day and night. Zhang Yongqi contributed the surplus money from his family for public use.

Liu Hanchen actively participated in the regimental training and armed drills, and was assigned to take on the defense task of Xicheng. At the same time, Liu Hanchen was also appointed by Wang Qiaonian as a military gate praise officer, which is equivalent to a senior staff officer, following Wang Qiaonian's side, helping to make suggestions, dispatching the army and civilians, and assigning officers and generals to cooperate with Xiangcheng Zhusheng to defend the four cities of the city.

Due to Zhang Yongqi's exemplary role, the big families in the city are also generous, and some take out the bronze and iron tools at home to make weapons and arrows. Some dismantle the pillars and rockeries at home as stone rolling wood.

On the 14th day of the first lunar month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng's peasant army marched westward from Yuncheng. In the afternoon, the soldiers came to Xiangcheng.

In the second half of the night, there were snowflakes floating in the sky like flowers, and when it was dawn, the snowflakes were dancing charmingly. Liu Hanchen accompanied Wang Qiaonian to patrol the city. Wang's face was sad, worried that the weather would be cold and the city would be difficult to defend. And asked Liu Hanchen worriedly: "Is the heavy snow in the sky beneficial to us?" Or is it good for the thieves? ”

Liu Hanchen replied: "The heavy snow is good for us, not good for the thieves. After that, Liu Hanchen explained: "Our army is on the city wall, the enemy army is under the city wall, the city wall is frozen and indestructible, this is a benefit; Our army has people in the city to bring water and food, and the enemy army relies on plundering the people's food for food, which is a second benefit; When the enemy comes to attack, we respond, the enemy retreats, and we rest to wait for the tired enemy. ”

Hearing Liu Hanchen's analysis, Wang Qiaonian smiled. Liu Hanchen said: "Now we should have people pour water on the city wall, and the water will freeze, so that the city wall will be stronger." ”

Wang Qiaonian was slightly relieved and said: "I heard that when you were twenty-one years old, you went to Kaifeng Mansion to take the government examination, and the exam topic was "What You Don't Want", and the article ranked first. Since then, he hasn't participated in the imperial examination, has he? ”

Liu Hanchen bowed and said: "This is indeed the case." ”

Wang Qiaonian said with a smile: "If we can not die this time, I will recommend you to the court as an official, are you willing to be my protégé?" ”

Liu Hanchen said with a smile: "It is my honor for Liu Hanchen to be able to stand tall for the adult's disciples." In fact, every time the superintendent envoy goes to Xiangcheng to supervise the school, he usually has to take an exam, and the score of my test paper is always high, but I like to swim in the mountains and rivers, and I am under the forest and springs. I entered the official career for the imperial examination, but I didn't care much, and I could only live up to the good intentions of adults~"

Wang Qiaonian was slightly disappointed and smiled awkwardly, "Everyone has their own ambitions~~~"

Li Zicheng ordered the siege army to dig a cave in the city wall, fill it with gunpowder, and then ignite it, and the "boom......" city wall collapsed in response. Xiangcheng is a small city, and the city wall is far less thick than the city wall of Kaifeng, so this kind of violent destruction method is a great threat to Xiangcheng. However, due to the desperate resistance of the defenders and civilians, the invading army was unable to enter the city. Li Zicheng ordered the soldiers of the Chuang army to find many door panels to resist the random arrows shot from the city, and a large number of soldiers followed closely and carried out a strong attack. Wang Qiaonian ordered the defenders to bring some boulders to move to the city, and threw the door panels with boulders, and many siege soldiers fell in response, and were killed by random arrows and artillery fire up to 8,000 people. This made Li Zicheng very annoyed, so he attacked even more. And Wang Qiaonian's defense is becoming more and more tight. Wherever the city wall was breached, the soldiers and civilians defending the city flocked to it, fighting the intruders and fighting the intruders, and at the same time building with earthen bags and bricks, and holding on as before.

Li Zicheng saw that this Xiangcheng could not be attacked for a long time, so he accepted Niu Jinxing's suggestion, opened the net, and ordered the soldiers of Gu Kecheng's department besieging the southwest to evacuate into the distance, intending to let Wang Qiaonian escape from here, and then annihilate outside the city.

Wang Qiaonian's subordinate Li Kecong saw that there was a way to escape, so he said to Wang Qiaonian: "Your Excellency, our army can take advantage of the slack of the thief army to withdraw from here!" ”

Wang Qiaonian said resolutely: "The head can be broken, the blood can flow, I, Wang Qiaonian, will never escape." We should live and die with this city! If anyone dares to say goodbye, I will kill him! He may also have fantasized about reinforcements coming to his aid. But as the days passed, the city ran out of food and grass, the horses were killed and starved, and the reinforcements he hoped for were nowhere to be found. Some of the soldiers defending the city died of hunger and cold.

Li Zicheng was determined to win, and he ordered the besieging soldiers to attack the city with artillery fire. The siege rebels shouted loudly: "Enter Xiangyang City and capture Wang Qiaonian alive!" "On February 17, Xiangcheng was finally broken by the rebels. When a large number of rebel soldiers entered the city, Wang Qiaonian also supervised the street fighting. In the end, he was captured by several of Li You's soldiers.

When Li You ordered his subordinates to escort Wang Qiaonian to Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, Li You ordered Wang Qiaonian to kneel, and he said sharply to Wang Qiaonian: "Kneel!" This is King Chuang and Luo Shuai, kneel, kneel quickly! ”

Wang Qiaonian said: "I am a minister of the court, how can I kneel to the traitor? After saying that, he deliberately held his head high, and stood there with his legs straight, motionless.

Li You stepped forward and shouted to him, "Kneel! As he spoke, he kicked him hard in both legs, kicking Wang Qiaonian forward, and kneeling down in front of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

Wang Qiaonian got up from the ground again and stood straight.

Li You scolded him: "Dog, kneel!" And kicked him to the ground again.

Wang Qiaonian stood up again and said, "I, Wang Qiaonian, am a dignified minister of the court, and I will never kneel to a thief!" Never a thief! ”

Li Zicheng said: "Wang Qiaonian, tell you, I have killed many courtiers who are older than yours, don't be ignorant."

Wang Qiaonian scolded: "Thief, Cao thief, you can kill me and scrape me, but you can't ask me to kneel!" ”

Li Zicheng's face turned red with anger, and he said to Li You: "Kill him!" ”

"Yes!" Li You responded, raised his knife and was about to cut at Wang Qiaonian's head.

"Slow!" Luo Rucai shouted at Li You, "Kill him all at once, it's too cheap for him, I'm going to let him die slowly!" ”

Wang Qiaonian gritted his teeth and scolded Li You: "Dog thief, kill if you want to kill, cut if you want to chop, do it quickly, Lao Tzu is not afraid of death!" ”

Li You was so angry that he rushed forward, kicked him down, put the tip of the knife into his mouth and stirred it hard, and saw Wang Qiaonian's mouth spit out half of his tongue. Blood and saliva also flowed out of his mouth. However, he still whimpered and continued to scream.

Li You was too lazy to do it himself, so he ordered his subordinates to cut off Wang Qiaonian's nose and ears first, and then chop off him, his hands, and his feet......

Just after killing Wang Qiaonian, I saw Liu Rukui and his soldiers escorting the rebel general of the rebel army to shoot Li Wanqing.

Li Zicheng hurriedly saluted Li Wanqing and said, "Oh, it's Brother Li, you have suffered!" ”

Li Wanqing scolded Li Zicheng: "Thief, I, Li Wanqing, have been attached to the imperial court, how can I call you a brother and a brother?" ”

Li Zicheng smiled and said: "If you vote again, you and I are still good brothers, why can't you be called brothers?" ”

Li Wanqing said: "Everyone has changed their ways, how can I correct them? The thief Hugh wants to be wordy, kill me quickly! ”

Li Zicheng looked at Luo Rucai and asked, "Brother Luo, I want to shoot him a way to live, but he is obsessed, what do you say to do with him?" ”

Luo Rucai sneered and said, "What are you talking about with him, kill him quickly!" He said to Liu Rukui again: "General Liu, do it quickly!" ”

Liu Rukui shouted at his soldiers: "Kill!" Kill him! ”

I saw that the two soldiers under Liu Rukui raised their swords and fell, and the two sharp knives swung down at the same time, and the head of Li Wanqing, who shot the sky, rolled to the ground.

After the rebels of Chuang and Cao Erying captured and killed the governor Wang Qiaonian in Xiangcheng, their prestige was greatly enhanced, and many prefectures and counties in Henan fell without a fight. In the following time, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai led the army to occupy Shangcai, Xihua, Chenzhou, Ningling, Guide, Xiayi, Jiaxian and other prefectures and counties.

On May 2, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng ordered the army to go to Kaifeng and besiege Kaifeng for the third time. This time, the "Xiao Yuan Battalion" of Chuang and Cao's second battalion, which had just returned to Henan, was defeated by the official army in Anhui and had just returned to Henan, and changed their strategy, no longer attacking by force, but carrying out a long-term siege, with the intention of making it self-defeating. At the same time, it is also necessary to "encircle the point and send reinforcements". Because of the siege of Kaifeng, there must be officials and soldiers to help, and the righteous army can take the opportunity to gather reinforcements and annihilate them.

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