Due to being delayed by Shi Kefa for a few days, Huang Degong and Zhu Yousong, who were originally close to Hangzhou, fell behind Li Zicheng, and when they arrived in Lin'an, Li Zicheng had already arrived at the city of Hangzhou. The princes and dignitaries who took refuge in Hangzhou also fled south early, including Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng, King Lu, King Tang, King Lu, etc., after learning that Li Zicheng went straight to Hangzhou, they fled early.

Although Huang Degong and Shi Kefa sent someone to inform them that Emperor Hongguang was leaving Huang Degong and was about to come to Hangzhou, it was not that he had not come yet. Moreover, the emperor did not have a will, and asked them to stick to it in Hangzhou, and even if there was a will, no one obeyed it. Because this time it was Ma Shiying who took the lead in escaping, the emperor was not there, and the first assistant ran away, so the others naturally would not die in vain.

Fang Guoan, who was stationed in Zhejiang, originally wanted to guard Hangzhou, after all, he had more than 10,000 men, and Hangzhou also had Liu Zeqing's nearly 30,000 troops, plus Zheng Hongkui's army, which should have the strength to resist Li Zicheng. But when Ma Shiying left, he called Liu Zeqing, and Liu Zeqing naturally obeyed orders and immediately led his troops to leave with Ma Shiying. And Zheng Hongkui's navy actually made a fuss, and also sailed out to sea and returned to Fujian. Fang Guoan could not support it alone, so he had to cross the Qiantang River east to avoid the edge for the time being.

Li Zicheng arrived at the city of Hangzhou, the gate of Hangzhou was opened, and the gentry in the city led the people out of the city to surrender. Although Li Zicheng's reputation is not good, the soldiers of the imperial court are gone, and they dare not resist. If they resisted, they would definitely not be able to resist, and they would anger Li Zicheng and give Li Zicheng an excuse to slaughter and loot the city. Therefore, the gentry in the city chose to surrender the city with a fluke mentality.

Li Zicheng was very satisfied with the interest of the gentry of the people of Hangzhou, and announced before entering the city that the people in the city had their own livelihood and work, and the Dashun army had not committed any crimes. As for the issue of food and salary, in this prosperous and rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, are you still worried about the lack of food and salary?

However, his attention was not in the city of Hangzhou, but on Zhu Yousong, the emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the city. When I entered the city, I found out that Zhu Yousong was still on the way to Hangzhou. So he immediately ordered to send out all the scouts, and he must find Zhu Yousong.

Judging from the current situation, he feels that his strategy is still right. Without news of the emperor, even in a big city like Hangzhou, he could go down without a fight. If Zhu Yousong is caught, other places will also fall to the wind, and what he wants now is a place to recuperate. Li Yan's troops did not chase after him, he still had time.

Huang Degong knew in Lin'an that Li Zicheng had arrived outside the city of Hangzhou, and immediately turned around and prepared to return to his garrison. But unfortunately, as soon as they left, they were discovered by Gao Yigong and others. Huang Degong had to take Zhu Yousong all the way and rushed to Yuqian County before Gao Yigong's brigade was encircled, and he was finally not surrounded in the wild.

This matter is also fate, even if he has more than 3,000 people, he will not be stared at by Gao Yigong. It was Zhu Yousong who didn't bring anything with him last time, and he was intercepted and attacked by township soldiers from all over the country along the way, which made him really afraid. So this time he went to Hangzhou, he asked people to catch up with the emperor's guard of honor, and also issued a notice to pick up the car from all over the way. This time it was safe along the way, but it encountered an army of 50,000 with high merit, which was much worse than the township soldiers who didn't know the truth.

Gao Yigong led his troops to catch up with Zhu Yousong, and at the same time sent someone to inform Li Zicheng. They were relatively easy at this time, because Li Yan did not catch up, and Huang Degong, who protected Zhu Yousong, only had a few thousand people. Although some artillery was lost in Dangtu, they still had a psychological advantage over the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

After Li Zicheng received the news, he left Tian Jianxiu in Hangzhou and went to Yuqian County with more than 10,000 troops.

Although Huang Degong only has 3,000 people, he is a great general. He did not retreat all his troops into the county town to defend it, but personally stayed outside the city with a thousand troops and fought behind the city.

However, he didn't have many opportunities to show his bravery. Gao Yigong and the others were not in a hurry, first surrounded the county seat, and then slowly contracted and surrounded. Moreover, the sandbag bunkers are layered over, even if the artillery at the head of the city has a slightly longer range, it will not affect the advance of people at all.

Huang Degong couldn't help it, and he was sweating anxiously. Li Chuang's troops were too many, and even if they entered the city and defended it, they wouldn't be able to hold out for long. Even if he wanted to send someone to report to his subordinates, there would be no chance to get out of the three layers inside and the three layers outside the besieged area.

He let the cavalry charge once, but was beaten back by Li Chuang's artillery fire. The shotguns fired by the cannons, as well as the flowering shells fired by the tiger squat cannons, blocked their impact route to death, and the firepower was even stronger than Zhang Xianzhong's. He didn't understand, why were thieves so willing to use artillery?

He had no choice but to withdraw all his troops to the city and defend the city to see if there were any variables. But he was disappointed again, Li Chuang's troops concentrated dozens of cannons to bombard the city wall, and in just one day, the city wall of the eastern city was blasted out of a gap more than two zhang wide. Then Li Chuang's troops rushed up like a tide.

Huang Degong led his troops to close the gap. He stood at the forefront, the iron whip in his hand was impenetrable, and all the approaching intruders did not have a single general, either the brains of the beaten bursts, or the mouth spat blood.

Suddenly, more than a dozen bombs with sparks were thrown by the intruding army, and the surrounding intruding troops all hid back in horror, and Huang Degong also hurriedly retreated. But the bomb exploded when it landed, and there was no time for him to dodge. After a rumbling explosion, he felt his head buzz and couldn't stand.

With the fall of Huang Degong, his troops instantly lost their spiritual support, and they were scattered by the intruding army. Then the escape of the escape, the surrender of the surrender, completely lost the spirit of fighting to the death just now.

A small soldier who broke into the army was ordered to cut off Huang Degong's head, pick it on a bamboo pole and enter the city with the army, and shouted loudly "Huang Degong has been awarded the head, and the rest of the soldiers surrender to avoid death". Without much effort, the resistance in Yuqian County stopped, and some of Huang Degong's own soldiers committed suicide, and all the rest surrendered, including the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong.

When Li Zicheng came to the city, Zhu Yousong was already kneeling outside the county yamen to greet him. He held the jade seal in both hands, and his entire fat body trembled uncontrollably.

"Sin, sinner, Zhu Yousong, knock to see His Majesty the Emperor Dashun. Today, offer the jade seal," Zhu Yousong said tremblingly.

Without waiting for Zhu Yousong to finish speaking, Li Zicheng interrupted disdainfully: "It's even worse than your old man." Back then, I left a whole corpse for your Lao Tzu because he had a loyal guardian of the Lord's service. Do you still have a loyal servant today? ”

Zhu Yousong's body trembled even more, and in addition to a few eunuchs who were waiting around him, they were his concubines. Moreover, this idea of kneeling down to surrender and praying for forgiveness was given by them, and where are the loyal ministers?

Li Zicheng saw Zhu Yousong trembling, and suddenly said with a smile: "However, as long as you can recruit all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, I will ensure that you will be rich and worry-free for the rest of your life." ”

When Zhu Yousong heard that there was hope for his life, he hurriedly kowtowed and promised: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the criminals will do their best to share your Majesty's worries and solve problems, so that the world will be unified." ”

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