The beheading of the Zhu clan was carried out publicly, and the location was at the entrance of the vegetable market in Nancheng, which was the largest vegetable market in Nanyang City, and the flow of people on weekdays was also the largest.

The soldiers had already built a simple high platform, removed three chairs and several square tables, and placed them due north of the high platform.

Just after noon, Li Zicheng, accompanied by Xie Junbao and Ma Shile, slowly climbed the stairs.

It stands to reason that Xie Junbao should sit on the wooden chair in the middle, but Li Zicheng came to the scene in person, Xie Junbao said nothing, and simply pulled Li Zicheng to sit in the middle, and then he sat on the right side, and Ma Shile also sat on the left side.

Li Zhiqiang was also invited by Xie Junbao to participate in the beheading, but he did not have a seat, so he could only stand aside and watch.

The people already knew that the Mandate of Heaven Army was going to behead all the members of the Zhu clan, and they were so excited that some people came to watch early, especially those families who had married in the past and the bride was robbed by the palace to try it, and they cursed the palace while walking, and some ladies secretly hid in the crowd and came to watch.

A quarter of an hour later, the prisoner cart loaded with the members of the clan, under the protection of the soldiers, slowly entered the entrance of the vegetable market, and in the front of the prisoner cart was Zhu Yuqi, the king of Tang, more than a dozen prisoner carts, which continued to line for dozens of steps.

Li Zicheng found that it was messy, turned his head to look, and his face was full of smiles, it turned out to be the people around, spitting on the prisoner car, throwing stones, etc., on the first few prisoner cars, there were already a lot of mud and stones, rotten vegetable leaves, the prisoner stretched out the head of the prisoner car, the egg yolk mixed with blood slowly flowed down#, red and yellow, like wearing a pair of colored helmets.

Zhu Yuqi wore long hair, closed his eyes tightly, and remained silent, living until now, he finally understood that sometimes silence is golden!

The soldiers who escorted the prisoner cart opened the prisoner cart, and all the clan members were pulled up to the high platform one by one, waiting to be executed, and the people who were excited were scolded, and many people scrambled to climb the high platform, punching and kicking these usually very expensive clan members, and several young descendants even broke through the human wall set up by the soldiers, and used the short stick prepared in advance to draw Zhu Yuhu and Zhu Yulu to the point of blood.

The soldiers were half-pushing, but Xie Junbao really couldn't stand it, so he signaled to the soldiers, and the soldiers pushed away the people and isolated Tang Wang and them from the people.

The three brothers Zhu Yuqi, Zhu Yuqing, and Zhu Yuqi took the lead, and all the members of the clan were pressed down, kneeling facing south, and behind each of them, there was an executioner with a ghost-headed broadsword.

The executioners were waiting for the sacred task, and their proud faces were extremely cold, forming a sharp opposite to the prisoners kneeling in front of them, they had cut off many heads, but this was the first time to cut off the heads of the Zhu clan, and they had never dared to think of it before!

Li Zicheng looked at the members of the Zhu clan on the high platform, the original white prison clothes were already dirty, the mud was mixed with vegetable juice, pale yellow fluid, and there were faintly some broken eggshells......

He sighed secretly, these clan members may not all be capital crimes, it may not be their sin to eat and wait for death and live a saprophytic life, but "the husband is not guilty of his crimes", in the future of Huaxia, this kind of parasite will never be allowed to exist!

They must die, and only by confiscating the palace can the Heavenly Mandate Army get a large amount of money and food, which may be their only contribution to Huaxia!

On the high platform, solemn, under the high platform, the people are shouting and cursing, if it is not for the soldiers to stop them, there are still many people who want to throw stones.

The members of the clan are mixed into this part, not only their sorrow, but also the sorrow of the Ming court, standing on the opposite side of the people, becoming the enemies of the people, the Ming Dynasty will eventually end its own curtain like the previous dynasties!

Xie Junbao was panicked, looked up at the sun, and a soldier stepped forward and whispered: "My lord, it's already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's time!" ”

Xie Junbao thought silently, took out a handful of bamboo sticks from the wooden tube on the square table in front of him, raised his hand still on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Execution!" ”

Then some soldiers shouted: "The prefect has an order, start the execution!" ”

The executioner, who was originally shaky and sleepy, immediately widened his eyes, pulled out the ghost head knife in his arms, raised it up to the sky, and then struggled to pull it down, and the neat knife light reflected a dazzling brilliance!

Click, click......

The vertebrae were broken, making a crisp sound, despite the countless hatred, the people under the high stage, there were still many people who closed their eyes, they really couldn't bear to look at it, the crowd fell silent for a while, only the faint sound of blood spurting out of the sky......

Li Zhiqiang took advantage of the only opportunity for the audience to be quiet, but he walked to the front desk, arched his hand to the people, and said: "The Mandate of Heaven Army adheres to the will of God and takes it as its mission to save the people of the world...... The Wuhou Temple in Wuligang outside the city will be changed to a Catholic church from today on......"

The crowd froze for a while, and asked Li Zhiqiang questions, the soldiers silently cleaned up the corpses on the high platform, and Li Zicheng quietly left the vegetable market under the escort of his own soldiers.

Li Zicheng stayed in Nanyang for another day, left 200,000 stone grain and 100,000 taels of silver for Nanyang City, and hid 500,000 stone grain in the city, and then left Nanyang.

Xie Junbao, Ma Shile, Li Zhiqiang and a group of civil and military officials went outside the city to see them off, Li Zicheng wanted to wait for the horse, but he stopped, handed over the reins to He Xiaomi, turned around and came to the officials, bowed slightly, glanced over, and finally looked at the three people, "Governor Xie, General Ma, Pastor Li, I will hand over Nanyang Mansion to you!" ”

"Don't worry, the Metropolitan Governor is in the city!" The three of them hurriedly fell to the ground.

Li Zicheng helped the three of them up, nodded slightly, and finally looked at Li Zhiqiang, and whispered: "Pastor Li, the affairs of Catholicism can gather the hearts of the people, don't wait to ignore it!" ”

"The subordinates understand that the subordinates will inherit God among the people as soon as possible," Li Zhiqiang bowed and said: "Not only the Wuhou Temple, but also the Xuanmiaoguan has been changed to a Catholic Church." ”

Li Zicheng gave an appreciative look, paused slightly, and said, "Please!" He bowed his hand to the officials, then turned back, stepped on his yellow-maned horse, and whipped away.

Leaving Nanyang, Li Zicheng did not follow the original official road, after passing between Baizhong Mountain and Fangcheng Mountain, he went to Kaifeng in the northeast direction, along the way, he went to the prefecture and passed through the county, and along the way he was mostly to preach God to the people and publicize the Mandate of Heaven Army, but he did not attack the city, and the Mandate of Heaven Army is not short of food now, and even because of too much food, it affected the marching speed of the army.

Along the way, many people asked to join the Mandate of Heaven Army, Li Zicheng understood that they only took a fancy to the food of the Mandate of Heaven Army, and had no actual combat effectiveness, plus the Mandate of Heaven Army traveled all the way and had no time to train soldiers, so he refused all.

After Xuzhou (Xuchang), Li Zicheng prepared to go around Kaifeng along the official road, but the Han Qing Bureau sent a message that Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, already knew that the Mandate of Heaven Army had entered Henan, and sent the famous general Hu Dawei from Baoding to lead the troops to Xuzhou, and had already passed Zhuxian Town.

Li Zicheng opened the marching map, Zhu Xianzhen was also on this official road, but it was still far away from Xuzhou, and Hu Dawei was only a few thousand soldiers, so there was no need to worry too much.

It's not good, Li Zicheng came to Henan this time, not to fight, but to attract the attention of the imperial court, just the thousands of soldiers of Hu Dawei, it is too few, according to the current strength of the Mandate of Heaven Army, it can be completely annihilated.

Li Zicheng thought about it and decided not to annihilate this Ming army for the time being, maybe it would not be difficult to annihilate the tiger might, but it would definitely take a lot of time, and the combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Mandate Army would be prematurely exposed under the noses of the imperial court, which was not conducive to the mobile operation of the Heavenly Mandate Army in Henan.

Unlike Nanyang, Xuzhou is already the hinterland of the Central Plains, whether it is Henan Province or the eyes of the imperial court, they are all staring closely, the Mandate of Heaven Army enters the central part of Henan, it should be under the nose of the imperial court, it is best to hide the strength temporarily, if it must be fought, the Mandate of Heaven Army should be taken by surprise.

Li Zicheng immediately left the official road and went east instead, heading to the direction of Yanling, making a momentum of eastward expansion to deter Fengyang, the capital of China.

When Li Fengxian got the news, he was immediately stunned, Fengyang is where the emperor's ancestral mausoleum is located, Zhang Xianzhong once broke Fengyang, how many high-ranking officials fell to the ground, he subconsciously touched his neck, and then sent a message to Hu Dawei, asking him to quickly go east, and then go south, be sure to stop the Heavenly Mandate Army from going to Fengyang.

After the news came out, Li Fengxian was still not at ease, and prepared a fast horse to warn Zhu Dadian, who was stationed in Fengyang, that he must not let the Heavenly Mandate Army advance eastward, neither let the Heavenly Mandate Army go to Fengyang, nor let the Heavenly Mandate Army converge with the Liukou in the area of Huoshan and Dabie Mountain.

In Henan, the Mandate of Heaven Army is only a lone army, it is easy to exterminate, once it enters Huoshan and Dabie Mountain, and merges with the local Liukou, it is bound to be like a fish returning to the sea and wolves walking on the grassland, and then want to exterminate it, but it is even more difficult.

Whether Zhu Dadian can stop the Heavenly Mandate Army from going south, Li Fengxian can't care, he has already warned that if Zhu Dadian can't stop the Heavenly Mandate Army from advancing east and south, the blame can be borne by Zhu Dadian, and it has nothing to do with him Li Fengxian.

As soon as Hu Dawei turned to the east, the Han Qing Bureau used a flying pigeon to transmit his movements to Li Zicheng, who received the message and laughed unconsciously, leading the Ming army in Henan by the nose, which was the goal of his trip.

The Mandate of Heaven army first slowly marched eastward, marched to Fugou, and saw that Hu Dawei had already marched in a hurry to detour through Qixian County, and was rapidly moving south, Li Zicheng went north along the Shahe River, and when he arrived at Tongxu County, he had already thrown Hu Dawei away.

Hu Dawei realized that he had been fooled, and while scolding the Mandate Army for being as cunning as a rogue, he immediately returned to the north and chased closely behind the ass of the Mandate Army.

Li Zicheng went east again, straight into Qixian, and made a situation of leaving Beijing and Shandong, and when he arrived in Qixian, Li Zicheng was not ready to attack the city, but when Hu Dawei passed by Qixian, he did not expect that the Mandate of Heaven army would march to Qixian and take away all the soldiers.

If you don't take it, you will suffer from it!

Li Zicheng immediately ordered Liu Zongmin to attack the city, in order to reduce the difficulty of the siege, this time the Mandate of Heaven army did not besiege the city, Li Zicheng and Li Ji were stationed at the west gate as a response, only Liu Zongmin all the way, from outside the southern city storm.

The officials and officials in the city could not resist, so they secretly threw their weapons and fled from the east and north gates, and then the officials and gentry in the city also fled one after another, and the Mandate of Heaven army only entered the city, and did not chase after the fleeing personnel, allowing them to escape.

After Li Zicheng entered the city, he appeased the people in the city on the one hand, and publicized the Mandate of Heaven Army to the people on the other, and prepared to stay at the county government that night.

He Xiaomi took his own soldiers to check the entire county office, and found that there was a dark room in the second hall of the county office, and when someone opened it, it turned out to be a prison with three prisoners in it, so he immediately reported to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng had been in the Mizhi County prison, and knew that the so-called prisoners were often wronged by the government, and the people locked up in this kind of hidden prison must be very special, either the unforgivable thief, or the government had some shady deeds, he dropped the tea cup in his hand and slowly came to the dark room.