December 23, 17th year of Chongzhen, Xiao Nian.

In the past year, there have been natural and man-made disasters and wars everywhere. Especially when the spring of the first month was about to be cultivated, Li Zicheng set out from here with a million troops to capture Beijing. As a result, the time for the return of the peace was already past the time of sowing. Then Li Zicheng raised troops to rebel when he was busy with farming, and returned defeated. The harvest of the people of Weinan this year is pitiful!

The people of Weinan City are still thinking about this small year, there is a team outside Weinan City galloping towards Weinan City, the soldiers guarding the city think that this is the general of Tongguan to go back to Xijing (Xi'an) to spend the New Year, and do not take it to heart, because this team is cavalry, and now Dashun, only the above have horses to ride. The one who came from Tongguan must be General Li Guo.

It's almost the New Year, I heard that the emperor led two armies to attack Xi'an, Dashun King Li Zicheng divided the army into two roads, all the way to support Yan'an Mansion, all the way to garrison Tongguan, this Weinan is located in Tongguan and Xijing must pass through the road, so the general will sometimes come and go often, the defenders of Weinan are not vigilant.

It's just a little strange, there are too many cavalry people, there are five or six thousand people, these five or six thousand cavalry, these generals, have all flown into the sky when they have gained momentum, and they pay special attention to pomp, before they only brought a few hundred cavalry, and now they even want thousands of cavalry when they return to Kyoto!

To be powerful is to be capricious!

Although the soldiers defending the city in Weinan had noticed something abnormal, they did not light the beacon fire, because they still felt that this was their own army. Because the battle in Tongguan has not yet come, who else can someone who is not his own?

What surprised the soldiers defending the city in Weinan was that this swaggering team was none other than Chongzhen's Tianziwei!

After Chongzhen's Tianziwei arrived at the mouth of the pot, he let Tianziwei listen to the songs of the female soldiers of the art troupe and relax for a night, of course, he also found Liu Ru and enjoyed the service of this famous prostitute known as the head of Qin Huai Bayan for a night.

Then, he led the army directly down the Yellow River, quickly captured the small counties of Hancheng, Heyang, Baishui, and Pucheng, bypassed Tongguan, and went straight to Weinan!

In fact, it was not Chongzhen who captured these, but just passing by, Chongzhen's Tianziwei army had not yet attacked the city, and these small counties had surrendered one after another.

After all, there are only two or three hundred people, and they are all inconspicuous small county townsmen, if they stick to it, I am afraid that they are all dead Li Zicheng still doesn't know that they are dead, and the news must go back and forth, and it will take ten days and half a month, they are just an inconspicuous small county, whether Li Zicheng sends troops or not, how many they send is another matter, and who would believe that Chongzhen's Tianzi Wei came to their small counties!

Moreover, many of them are still the old soldiers and former ministers of the Ming Dynasty, they have long seen the holy decree of Chongzhen to the world, and the emperor said that as long as Li Zicheng and others have the right to take the head of the general, the rest of them will not be held accountable, and the official will be reinstated.

When they saw the holy decree, they laughed at Chongzhen at first, this emperor is afraid that he is crazy, and the five thousand Tianziwei will drive the expedition in person, whimsical!

As a result, Chongzhen's Tianziwei is really in front of him.

The emperor's Tianziwei is like a heavenly soldier descending from the gods, so what else can be done? Surrender, in Daming or Dashun, the officers are not all officers!

Of course, you can't be too ostentatious on other people's territory, Chongzhen ordered Tianziwei to take down the flag, and waited until he got to the bottom of the city before raising the flag.

If you don't open the city and surrender, then shoot!

That's it, in one day, four small county towns have been taken in a row, and now they are coming towards Weinan, one of the largest counties in Shaanxi.

In fact, Weinan is a big county, but it is only a little larger than other counties in Shaanxi, and the defenders are only 1,000 people.

The soldiers guarding the city saw that there were many people coming, and they did not raise the flag, so they hurriedly closed the city gate, and Chongzhen also asked Tianziwei to raise the imperial flag at the same time.

When these thousand guards looked at it, the person who came turned out to be Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, could it be that Tongguan was lost? I didn't hear it, there are 200,000 troops in Tongguan, and these cavalry are only six or seven thousand!

"Listen to the soldiers defending the city, we are Emperor Chongzhen's personal soldiers of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, open the door and surrender quickly, otherwise we will attack the city immediately!"

When the guards of Weinan heard this, they did not dare to open the door, they had a thousand people, and Tianziwei only had five or six thousand people, although I don't know where this Tianziwei came from, but there were 200,000 troops in Tongguan, and there were 5,000 troops in Xi'an. It only takes a day to come and go, and if they surrender, then Li Zicheng will not spare them. If you don't surrender, 1,000 to 5,000 people, at least you can hold out for a few days and wait for reinforcements. It's hard to say whether these 5,000 people can even capture Weinan City. In the era of cold weapons, the number of people besieging a city was about four times more than the number of people defending a city.

Soon, the soldiers defending the city knew that they were wrong, and they found that their bows and arrows could not hit the Tianziwei, and after the sound of the Tianziwei, most of them were killed and wounded, and the rest of the people did not dare to come out.

Then there was another round of gunfire, and even the soldiers at the top gate of the city gate were beaten into a sieve!

In less than a quarter of an hour, the gates of Weinan City had been broken, and there was no longer a single defender in the city.

Although it was only less than a quarter of an hour, this battle was the longest battle that Tianziwei had fought, and the guns crackled, unlike other times, sometimes less than two shots were fired, and the battle could not be fought, and the other side surrendered!

In fact, Chongzhen wants to enter Xi'an, and there are many ways, and they have already passed two levels. Tianziwei is like entering a no-man's land in Xi'an.

Chongzhen had to take Weinan because Weinan was the only way for Tongguan, and he planned to stay in Weinan with two hundred soldiers as blockers, once he could not quickly capture Xi'an, the blockers could also delay the reinforcements of Tongguan. Buy time for the retreat. It would be great if Xi'an could be defeated quickly.

Chongzhen's strategy has already allowed Li Zicheng to send troops to garrison Yan'an Mansion and Tongguan, Li Zicheng will not have many troops left in Xi'an, but how much, Chongzhen does not dare to guarantee that if Li Zicheng can't defend it, Xi'an City is hard and hard, not like Weinan. It is also difficult for Tianziwei to be defeated. So be prepared!

A year ago, Li Zicheng adopted Gu Junen's suggestion of "first taking Guanzhong, establishing a foundation, investing his troops, capturing Shanxi, and then going to Beijing, advancing and retreating, and nothing was lost", and waved his army to Guanzhong. However, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, connected to Zhu Youzhen with hundreds of holy decrees, urging him to go out of the customs to fight Li Zicheng. In the end, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to send troops, and was defeated by Li Zicheng, and Sun Chuanting, the last military god of the Ming Dynasty, was killed! Then Li Zicheng made the capital of Xi'an, supervised the army of one million rogues in February, besieged Beijing on March 16, and sent a peace table on the 17th. It was at this time that Qin Yi replaced Zhu Youzhen and became the owner of this "shell".

A year later, Chongzhen took Tianziwei to regain everything he had lost!

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