[219] The defeat was like a mountain

Wu Sangui looked at the soft sedan chair on the ground, the curtain was lifted, the familiar figure flew over lightly, and threw himself into his arms, Yuanyuan raised a pair of teary eyes and looked at Wu Sangui stupidly, only called "General" and couldn't cry, Wu Sangui gently patted her back and took her to board the incense car together.

The car entered the old house of the Wu family, and everyone welcomed Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan into the living room, and the generals hurriedly stepped forward to salute Yuanyuan, and Yuanyuan returned the salute one by one, and then retreated into the back room.

Wu Sangui was in a very good mood, haha, and said: "Hurry up and put on the wine, I want to get drunk with everyone." ”

In a few moments, several sumptuous tables were set up. Everyone saw that the boss was happy, so they let go of their courage and shouted to guess the boxing order, so it was not lively, where was Wu Sangui in the mood to drink, he drank a few glasses perfunctorily, and then got up and left his seat and walked into the back hall.

Wu Sangui pushed the door in, saw Yuanyuan sitting alone at the table, stunned by the red candle in front of him, he walked over gently, hugged Yuanyuan from behind, Yuanyuan turned his head, and saw a crystal teardrop hanging on her smooth cheek under the candlelight, Wu Sangui felt pity, wiped the tear away gently, and said, "What's the matter, madam, why are you depressed?" ”

Yuan Yuan sighed and said: "The concubine can see the general today, it is like a different world, the concubine was captured by the Liu thief, she should have repaid the general with death, and the reputation of the whole general, but I am always reluctant to see the general, I always want to see you again, today I see the general treat me so affectionately, I am very satisfied, let the concubine die in front of you today, in order to show my heart." After that, there were tears in my eyes, and my clothes were wet.

When Wu Sangui saw her say this, he couldn't help but feel anxious, and hurriedly said: "Yuanyuan, you are so confused, how can you not know my heart for you, Guanshan thousands of miles, isn't it all for you?" In fact, it should blame me, I can't even keep my sweetheart, how can I be called a man, I often blame myself for not taking you with me, today we finally got together, how could you be ruthless and give up me? If you die, then what's the point of me living, just let me die in front of you first. With that, Wu Sangui pulled out his sword and slammed it on his neck to death.

Yuan Yuan's face turned pale with fright when she saw this, she hurriedly grabbed the sword in Wu Sangui's hand, threw it on the ground, threw it into his arms and cried: "General, don't do it, the concubine is looking for death, just afraid that someone will point you behind your back, why are you doing this?" With that, he burst into tears.

Wu Sangui gently pulled his round hair, his tone eased a lot, and said: "Yuanyuan, don't worry too much, it's not easy to think about you and me meeting again today, we should cherish it, I will never let you leave me half a step in the future, okay, don't cry anymore." ”

Wu Sangui helped Yuanyuan up, found a hot towel, wiped the tears from her face, and under the candlelight, she saw that Yuanyuan's plump posture was still the same, and the two sat hand in hand, and couldn't help but look stunned.

After a long time, Yuan Yuan broke the silence and said, "General, it's not early, you better rest early." ”

"I haven't seen enough, I really want to watch it forever."

Yuan Yuan smiled slightly, helped him to the bed, picked up his feet to untie his white robe, Wu Sangui smelled the warm fragrance of Yuan Yuan's body, he didn't feel drowsy, and suddenly felt that Yuan Yuan's soft and elastic ** was on his body, Wu Sangui couldn't bear it anymore, and hugged Yuan Yuan tightly in his arms.

Not wanting to touch Yuanyuan's injury, she frowned, and called out with an "ah", Wu Sangui was stunned, hurriedly let go of Yuanyuan, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yuan Yuan forced a smile and said, "It's nothing." Wu Sangui didn't believe it, gently removed the round blouse, and untied her corset, under the candlelight, the two crossed whip scars on the round white and smooth chest were very red and distinct.

Wu Sangui's heart ached, and he said angrily: "Who got this: is it the Liu thief?" Yuanyuan blinked with tears in his eyes and nodded.

"It's annoying!" Wu Sangui was angry, he picked up the sword from the ground, raised the sword in his hand, split a chair in two, and said hatefully: "If I can't kill that thief, I will be like this." ”

Yuan Yuan couldn't be shy, and rushed over naked, hugged Wu Sangui and cried: "The general is angry!" The general is angry! If you don't get angry, kill me. Wu Sangui sighed and said, "You have suffered." After that, he hugged Yuanyuan to the bed, and Yuanyuan untied his wide clothes and took off his skirt himself, and got into the brocade quilt together.

The two lingered all night, and when they woke up, it was already noon.

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After Li Zicheng withdrew from Beijing, Song Youliang immediately led a large army to take full control of the city of Beijing, and took his old father-in-law, Zhu Youshu, the Hongde Emperor, from Liaoyang.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, a grand and solemn ceremony of sacrificing Chongzhen was held with the Huangji Palace. Song Youliang set up a mourning hall for Chongzhen, and ordered the ministers in Beijing to cry for the first emperor for three days, and Emperor Hongde personally guarded the spirit, and determined that Chongzhen was "Emperor Duan", and the temple name was "Sizong".

On the tenth day of the first month of May, Emperor Hongde Zhu Youshu held an enthronement ceremony in the Imperial Palace in Beijing, and named Song Youliang as the Duke of An Guo, and led the world's soldiers and horses to continue to pursue Li Zicheng as the general of the world's soldiers and horses. Sun Chuanting was Wu Yibo, and he was the chief of Shaanxi and Shanxi to suppress bandits with the title of scholar of Wenhuadian University and Zuo Shangshu of the Ministry of War. Fang Kongzhi is Wen Yuanbo, and he is a scholar of Wuyingdian University and the right secretary of the Ministry of War to lead the suppression of bandits in Hebei and Shandong. Song Xuezhu was the governor of Hebei, He Tengjiao was the governor of Shandong, Qu Shiyun was the governor of Shanxi, and Han Chengxuan was the governor of Liaodong. The rest, such as Lu Xiangsheng's three younger brothers, Lu Xiangguan, Lu Xiangjin, and Lu Xiangtong, as well as some officials who had served as magistrates in eastern Liaodong from the Dengzhou University Hall, were all sent to Guannai to enrich the strength of grassroots cadres.

He also named Wu Sangui as Pingxi Hou and Zu Dashou as Weiyuan Hou, and continued to pursue Li Zicheng under Sun Chuanting. The rest of the generals also offered, Pan Yuzhu, Xu Erduo, Gan Hui, Deng Youyang, Su Zixing, Li Yue, Liu Wenming, Wu Tingbin, Zhang Guang, Zhang Yuliu, Li Jiyu, Li Xin, Li Mou, Tian Jianxiu, Zhang Nai, Liu Tichun, Gu Junen, Chen Wangting, Jiang Fa, Zhang Wanteng, Zhang Zhiyan, Zhou Guoqing, Wei Daheng, He Mingwei, He Guoxian, Gao Jinku, Dong Xueli, He Yong, and the newly surrendered He Jin and others also had rewards.

After the reward was completed, Sun Chuanting and Fang Kongzhi set out for a few days, while Song Youliang led a part of the soldiers and horses to join the reinforcements sent by the three Mongolian kings, and the troops pointed directly at the Central Plains - Henan.

In addition to the frontal military strike, Song Youliang also sent three teams of men and horses to fight to "maintain stability". The first team led a large number of Langzhong led by Wu Youxing, who followed the army with medicines for the treatment of plague, malaria, and dysentery. There are countless people living in this move, and the people have passed it on from mouth to mouth, praising the benevolence and virtue of the horse master and loving the people like a son. Emperor Hongde's imperial grace was vast and widespread

The second group of men and horses, led by Yan Yingyuan, brought a large number of wheat, corn, and potatoes produced in eastern Liaodong to set up disaster relief porridge shops in Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong, providing free winter food for the people on the one hand, and promoting fine crops such as potatoes, corn, and high-yield wheat on the other

The third team of people and horses was led by Luo Yangxing, Wu Mengming and others, they sent Jinyi Wei to dress up as peddlers, pawns, monks and Taoists, etc., they carried leaflets, on the one hand, to publicize that Li Zicheng was a bandit and robber who killed people and overlooked goods, and raped ** women, and on the other hand, they publicized how Emperor Hongde and Song Youliang, the master of the horse, loved the people like a son, and was benevolent and wise. Such propaganda, coupled with all kinds of evil deeds when the Shun army was defeated and retreated, soon made the hearts of the people inclined to Song Youliang's side.

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Li Zicheng's abandonment of Beijing caused great repercussions in the north, and quickly spread to the whole country, and the Ming Dynasty officials who had already surrendered to Li Zicheng in various places killed the officials sent by Dashun one after another, or surrendered to the Ming Court in Beijing, or surrendered to the Ming Court in Nanjing. Since the retreat from Beijing, the morale of the Shun army has been extremely low, and Li Zicheng himself has given up on himself, began to indulge the misdeeds of the soldiers, and returned to the rogue style that roamed all over the country in the past. In addition to being disappointed, the common people began to distrust the Shun army led by Li Zicheng

On the fourth day of the first month of May, Li Zicheng came to Zhending.

Liu Zongmin's injuries were not very serious, but when he was hit by an arrow, he happened to miss the horse's front hoof, so he was planted from the horse, and after two days of treatment, the injury has begun to improve. He could not ride a horse, but he also did not want to sit in a sedan chair, so the soldiers tied two poles with a circle chair, and tied a horizontal pole at each end, which was carried by four people like a sedan chair. When it was close to the outside of Zhending City, it was rumored in the city that the holy car was coming, and the generals and officials hurried out of the city and waited for the car. But seeing that the yellow dust was misty, from north to south, the team was very untidy, and almost every ten soldiers were mixed with two or three wounded.

On the same day, an emergency military meeting was held in a hurry in the temple of Emperor Guan, and in addition to Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Hao Shaoqi, Liu Fangliang, Gu Kecheng and other generals were also called to participate in the meeting. At the meeting, they analyzed the situation of the enemy soldiers. Now it seems that the pursuers are indeed numerous, and they are very capable of fighting. Moreover, new men and horses were added to the battle at Shanhaiguan, indicating that Song Youliang had used almost all his forces to chase the Dashun army, and wanted to wipe out him Li Zicheng in the area from Qingdu to Zhending. Fortunately, he retreated quickly and was not trapped. Now that he has arrived in Zhending, going west from here, the road is rugged and the terrain is treacherous, as long as the solid pass can be defended, Song Youliang wants to eliminate him, it seems that he can't do it.

Now they are most worried about northern Henan. If the Ming troops attack Henan in the next step, they will besiege Shaanxi on two routes, all the way from Guguan, all the way from Huaiqing Mansion across the Yellow River, and from the south, the relationship is very important. What's more, if northern Henan and Shanxi are lost, the enemy can occupy Hedong, and the general situation will not be easy to clean up. What to do? Do you want to send Liu Fangliang to defend northern Henan? The result of the discussion was not to let Liu Fangliang go. He had no choice but to ignore the affairs of northern Henan, and first asked Liu Fangliang to immediately bring more than 1,000 of his own people, and another more than 1,000 people from the defeated army, a total of 3,000 men and horses, quickly went from Guguanxi to wait north of Pingyang. After discussing, Li Zicheng ordered someone to quickly send an urgent secret message to Chen Yongfu, ordering him to quickly send a part of the soldiers and horses around Taiyuan to come out of Guguan, and prepare to defend the city in Guguan, lest the enemy take advantage of the chaos to enter Shanxi.

After the meeting, Li Zicheng went to patrol the camp, and during the patrol, Li Zicheng saw that many soldiers did not bring bows and arrows, so he asked the generals next to him: "What, where are these people's bows and arrows?" ”

The generals told him that some of their bows and arrows had been lost in battle, while others had thrown them away because they had retreated in a hurry. Li Zicheng was furious and immediately ordered to cut off his left hand to all those who had lost their bows and arrows and fled back. After this decree was issued, the small leaders and soldiers without bows and arrows were arrested, their left hands cut off, and the cries of pain could be heard everywhere. Li Zicheng's punishment has been a habitual method for many years, but he didn't expect that these people would lose their left hand, how would they fight in the future?

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, thinking that now that his morale was so low, how could he fight the enemy again? At this moment, an urgent report was suddenly received that the pursuers of the Ming army had already passed the deer and rushed west. Li Zicheng saw that his morale was so low and knew that he could not cope with the battle, so he had to urge his own soldiers to speed up and rush to Guguan. But one after another, reports came one after another, saying that the enemy was in a hurry. He ordered Wu Ruyi to take some of his men and horses to break off, and then sent people to chase Liu Fangliang and let him come back to save him.

But Liu Fangliang has already gone far and entered the solid pass. Wu Ruyi brought more than 1,000 people to the back to resist the pursuers, but before the men and horses were ready to be deployed at the mountain intersection, suddenly someone ran away and shouted: "The pursuers are coming, the pursuers are coming!" So many people ran away.

Li Zicheng was very angry, and immediately ordered the person carrying the circle chair to stop, and ordered the fleeing colonel to be beheaded by two, so that the army's heart was slightly calm, and then continued to hurry. Who knew that just after walking a short distance, there was chaos behind them, and they all shouted, "The chasing soldiers are coming!" ”。 Li Zicheng had never been defeated so badly, and his morale was so low, but there was no choice but to urge the pro-army to speed up and move towards Guguan.