Chapter 48 Li Zicheng went to Luoyang at night

He Ying picked up a mouthful of elbows and swallowed his stomach in a few bites, pointed his stomach to the palace, and then picked up the white porcelain wine jug, with a slender spout, drank a pot of wine, and immediately someone hugged the wine jar and put on the coarse porcelain bowl, He Ying used it smoothly and said: "King Chuang went to break Yongning on the 22nd day of the lunar month, killed the vassal kings of various places, opened warehouses and released grain, and the people around the country were attached, from the 22nd of the lunar month to the tenth day of the first lunar month, within half a month, even under Yiyang, Yanshi and other places, the barrier around Luoyang was swept away by King Chuang. Kill all the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the people welcome the king, rely on it to live, in the next, it is for the king to sacrifice Baofeng County, only to break the king's blue eyes. “

"On the nineteenth day of the first month of this year, King Chuang soldiers came to Luoyang. Besieged on all sides, but Luoyang is a strong city in the world, and there are quite a lot of dead and wounded brothers, but they can't be attacked. That night turned around. He Ying said.

"But someone surrendered?" Zhang Xianzhong said coldly.

He Ying arched his hand and said, "The Eight Great Kings are wise. ”

"Hmph." Zhang Xianzhong secretly said in his heart: "Only in this way did Li Zicheng pick up a bargain." ”

He Ying said: "The general soldier Wang Shaoyu surrendered to King Chuang, King Fu is extremely stingy, full of gold and silver, countless grains, but not a dime, Wang Shaoyu was originally stationed outside the city, but there is no food and clothing, the soldiers are freezing and starving to death, Wang Shaoyu can not suppress, can only be before the army comes, rush into Luoyang City, he thought that he was so troublesome, should be able to get some food, but did not expect that even if he made such a scene, it still did not send him a big word.

The soldiers under his command, everything is freezing and starving to death, plus a big battle, the rebels killed him a lot, Wang Zongbing knew that the court had no hope, that night abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, defected to the king, after a night of fighting, the king of the first month of the twentieth day of the first month of the night into Luoyang City, in the twenty-first day of the first month of the day to control the entire Luoyang City.

Zhang Xuan said silently in his heart: "Li Zicheng is Li Zicheng, he is completely different from Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong attacking the city, the two of them attacked Xiangyang and Nanyang, it is not enough to exploit the loopholes of the official mansion." And Li Zicheng's means of attacking Luoyang City is basically the regular routine of the army attacking the big city, first clearing the periphery, and then attacking the city. After Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong defeated the city, they didn't dare to stay for a long time, because the reinforcements from the imperial court followed behind their butts. But Li Zicheng was able to stay in Luoyang for a while, and before the next round of troops and generals in the imperial court, Li Zicheng had no enemies around Luoyang at all. ”

Luo Rucai continued to ask: "Can you catch King Fu?" ”

He Ying said: "I caught it." ”

"The Fu King is also clever, as soon as he sees that he can't do anything, he runs away wholeheartedly, but he is covered in fat, weighs hundreds of pounds, and is not supported by others, he can't walk at all, how can he run around, they are hiding in the temple, and they are recognized at a glance, but the little Fu King took the time to escape. I heard the brother of King Fu say that when King Fu came to see King Chuang, he met a minister surnamed Lu, who seemed to be the secretary of the military department. He said to King Fu, 'Let King Fu take care of the country's body, and don't lose the face of the Son of Heaven.' Then the blessed king should not be frightened to pee at once. The official surnamed Lu was also stubborn, and when he saw King Chuang, he scolded and was executed by King Chuang. And when King Fu saw King Chuang, he immediately relented, and wept and said, 'You must sacrifice all your gold and silver treasures to redeem your life.' Then the king said; 'Your gold and silver are mine.' Why should you give? As a vassal of the imperial court, you amassed millions of grains and allowed your people to starve to death, and you were a miser. ’”

King Fu didn't say anything, just cried and begged for mercy. King Chuang asked someone to take the gold and silver in the treasury of the blessed king's mansion, and smashed the king of Fu, the gold was extremely heavy, and ordered someone to smash it more than 40 times, and the king of Fu was already dead. ”

"When the people of Luoyang saw the death of King Fu, they hated it to the bone and wanted to eat King Fu. King Chuang ordered someone to scrape the fat of King Fu, kill the deer raised by King Fu, cook it together, and distribute it to the people of Luoyang, and the people of Luoyang cheered. The king commanded: 'Princes and nobles, strip away the people, and die of hunger and cold, and I will kill them for you.' The people near Luoyang flocked to King Chuang, and there were millions of people for a time. ”

There was silence in the field, and I don't know who said first: "Okay." ”

Everyone was applauding, and even Zhang Xuan heard someone say: "I can't wait to see King Chuang." ”

"The Ming Dynasty has come to this day, and it is about to finish the game." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "Before Li Zicheng entered Henan, there were only more than 1,000 people, not even as good as Cao Cao and Luo Rucai's headquarters, but with these more than 1,000 people, he captured the city near Luoyang City and won the world's famous city in one fell swoop. No, it's the times. The officials of the Ming Dynasty forced the people to rebel, and this is the case. ”

Zhang Xuan looked at Cao Zongyu and also found the wavering in Cao Zongyu's eyes.

King Fu was not an ordinary vassal king, but the emperor's own uncle. King Fu has only been divided for a few decades, and the older generation still remembers Emperor Wanli's favor for King Fu, and the wealth of the Fu domain is in the world.

And the Son of Heaven can't protect his uncle, has this big tomorrow really come to an end?

What Cao Zongyu shook was this.

However, Zhang Xuan's eyes swept over Zhu Er, but he saw that Zhu Er's face was pale and trembling, as if he had seen something extremely terrible, he thought about it slightly, and understood a little, he felt a little pity for Zhu Er, so he didn't see it.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't want He Ying to talk any more, and said: "General Chuang sent you, what is the matter?" ”

He Ying got down to business and said: "King Chuang learned that Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, was not in Kaifeng, and Kaifeng only had thousands of soldiers, and he was about to lead his troops and horses to raid Kaifeng, so he specially sent the small ones to the south to find the two kings, and wanted to camp with the two kings and conspire with the two kings. But I don't know what the two kings mean? ”

Zhang Xianzhong snorted coldly in his heart, and said secretly: "Li Zicheng is going to become the second leader of the Righteous Army after becoming Boss Gao. ”

Since the uprising of the rebel army, there have been two recognized alliance leaders, one is Zijin Liang Wang Jiayin. However, he was killed by Cao Wenzhao in Shanxi, and the second was Gao Yingxiang, but he was also killed by Lu Xiangsheng in the ninth year of Chongzhen. After that, the rebel army was scattered in all directions, fighting separately, and there was no longer a recognized alliance leader, but in terms of momentum, Zhang Xianzhong was far above Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng even suffered defeat, so much so that the imperial court thought that Li Zicheng was dead. And Zhang Xianzhong was the focus of the imperial court's response, first he was appeased, and after being appeased for less than a year, he rebelled again and sent Xiong Wencan to the guillotine. Then he moved to Sichuan, fought a defeated battle, fought a winning battle, and even asked Emperor Chongzhen to say, "All thieves in the world can be forgiven, but thieves are not forgiven." words.

Although Zhang Xianzhong has already decided that he is the de facto leader of the rebel army. But now that Li Zicheng is on top, the momentum is still above him, so how can Zhang Xianzhong be a confidant?

It is important to know that the reputation of the rebels is never useless. Most of the rebels were not too tightly organized, and it can be said that whoever is famous, many people who want to raise troops will go to him. How Li Zicheng swelled from more than a thousand people to a million people, isn't it because of fame.

Zhang Xianzhong did feel threatened. He peeked at Luo Rucai and was a little moved, and immediately spoke first: "This matter is very important, not for a while, it can be said clearly, so we have to think about it in the long run, today we will celebrate Cao Ying's capture of Nanyang, and second, to celebrate the capture of Luoyang, we will drink this cup together." ”

Zhang Xianzhong raised his glass, and everyone had nothing to do, so he immediately raised the wine bowl in his hand and said, "Dry." ”

Luo Rucai glanced at Zhang Xianzhong slightly, and drank by himself, as if he didn't see Zhang Xianzhong's prevarication.

He Ying knew very well in his heart that his mission was not so easy to complete.

After He Ying said his mission, everyone was not interested in eating and drinking for a while, everyone here is Cao Ying, and the elite backbone of the camp, for a meal, they are more concerned about the movement of the army, where to go, whether to join forces with Li Zicheng?

Even Zhang Xuan peeked at Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong, as if he wanted to see something from their faces. But what kind of people the two of them are, naturally, is not revealed at all.