The army marched to Lexian Bridge, has entered the boundary of Chengtianfu, the Han Qing Bureau and the rangers found out that Zuo Liangyu's army had already left Chengtianfu and went south to Wuchang, Li Zicheng decided to divide the troops and quickly take the entire Chengtianfu.

The 100,000 troops of the Mandate of Heaven Army went south, originally for Zuo Liangyu, but after Zuo Liangyu escaped from Xiangyang, he had already gone south, and the Mandate of Heaven Army had lost its target, and ordinary states and counties did not need 100,000 troops at all.

Zhuo Guangyu of the first regiment of the Chengtian Battalion, along the official road, went south, attacked Jingmen Prefecture and Dangyang, a subordinate county, and if necessary, could meet the eastward advance of the naval army near Yiling; Xia Tingyou, the second regiment of the Chengtian Battalion, first traveled along the official road to Jingmen Prefecture, and then turned eastward, aiming at Jingshan and Jingling counties; Gao Ligong personally led the 3rd and 4th regiments of the Chengtian Battalion to the south along the Han River, aiming at Qianjiang County and Chuyang Prefecture.

The Fourth Battalion Li Jibu also moved south along the Han River and was stationed near Chuyang Prefecture, while the Fourth Battalion had no combat mission but only assisted Gao Ligong's troops in relocating Chuyang Prefecture.

Li Zicheng personally led the first battalion, the seventh battalion, and the Fengtian battalion, with more than 40,000 people in nine regiments, leaving the official road and going straight to Chengtianfu City.

Chengtianfu, formerly known as Anlu Prefecture, was the fief of King Xing of the Ming Dynasty.

However, when Emperor Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty died, because he had no heirs, he was headed by Empress Dowager Zhang of the Inner Court and Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the foreign minister's cabinet, and unanimously supported Zhu Houzhao's cousin and Zhu Houxi, the son of the king of Xingxian, for Emperor Jiajing.

After Zhu Houxi entered the Great Unification, Anlu Prefecture was regarded as the "land of dragon diving", and compared with Taizu, Haozhou, the birthplace, was promoted to Fengyang Mansion, the central capital, and Anlu Prefecture was also promoted to the state as the mansion and was the Chengtian Mansion.

The name "Chengtianfu" is still the name of Zhu Houxi, which is to compare with the Shuntianfu of the Beijing division and the Yingtianfu of Nanjing.

Zhu Houxi also ignored the opposition of the ministers, posthumously awarded his father Xingxian Wang Zhu Youqi as the "Emperor", the temple number is "Ruizong", Zhu Youqi's cemetery in the northeast of Chengtianfu is also upgraded to "Xianling", and the pine forest mountain where the cemetery is located was named Chunde Mountain.

In order to protect the Xianling, Chengtianfu and Xianling each have a garrison.

The message of the Mandate of Heaven army coming to the city reached Chengtianfu, and Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, immediately made corresponding arrangements, he returned to the city from Xianling, assisted Shen Shouchong, Zhong Xiangzhixian Xiao Han to guard the city, and sent out the patrol according to the imperial history Li Zhensheng and the chief military officer Qian Zhongxuan to garrison Xianling.

Song Yihe's measures to divide the troops, Li Zicheng liked the most, and they could be broken individually, but he also had questions, why did Song Yihe only think about defense, why didn't he take the initiative to attack and have the courage to fight a decisive battle with the Heavenly Mandate Army?

Li Zicheng personally took the soldiers, shuttling back and forth between Chengtianfu City and Xianling, ten miles to the northeast, and after careful observation, he felt that the defense of Xianling was obviously not as good as Fucheng, at least there was no tall city wall.

He decided to attack Xianling first.

Although Chunde Mountain is not a high mountain, the terrain is not open, not suitable for cavalry combat, Li Zicheng left the first battalion stationed in the Pumen Temple outside the north gate of Chengtianfu, cut off the connection between the city and Xianling, and personally took the seventh battalion and Fengtian Camp to surround Xianling.

At this time, it was the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, although there was no ice, but the Chunde Mountain was too short, and the trees were only bare branches, which could not stop the cold current, and the mountain was very cold.

The Ming army cut down trees and built a wooden fence city wall on the periphery, and the soldiers inside the city wall were nervously observing the Heavenly Mandate Army on all sides.

Xianling is not on the top of the mountain, but in a southeast and northwest valley in the Chunde Mountain, backed by the ancestral mountain, facing the Ping Mountain, facing the south, half of the road hovering, the Jiuqu River meanders from the valley under the tomb.

Li Zicheng saw that the city walls were all dead wood, so he set up the 7th Battalion 40 mountain cannons at both ends of the valley road, and under an order, all the cannons fired in unison, although the soldiers guarding the tomb suffered no heavy casualties, but the wooden walls were beaten into a sieve.

The valley was filled with smoke, and as far as the eye could see, it was dark and unclear, and it was impossible to tell whether it was morning or dusk.

Li Zicheng did not leave time for the Ming army to think, as soon as the cannon stopped, the soldiers of the Fengtian battalion rushed to the broken wooden wall, and Ma Shouying dragged his weakened body and personally went to the front to supervise the battle.

The soldiers quickly took down the wooden wall with a bang.

The soldiers of the 7th Battalion also followed through the wooden wall and entered the front of the Tomb.

After Li Zicheng entered the city wall, the first thing that caught his eye was the pink wall, the yellow glazed tiles, the magnificence of the tomb, it was simply a scenery of Chunde Mountain, and after decades or hundreds of years, it was entirely possible to open up as a tourist resort.

At this time, the soldiers of the Fengtian battalion were attacking the city, and the soldiers of the seventh battalion were also standing with loaded guns, and from time to time they shot at the Ming troops who appeared on the city wall.

Li Zicheng waved his hand, asked the soldiers to pause the attack, and came to the main gate of Xianling by himself.

The stone slabs are paved into a delicate, smooth Shinto, all the way to the main gate of the red wall, there is a royal bridge, it is an arch bridge paved with stone slabs, there are white marble pedestals on both sides, the left and right sides of the door stand down the horse tablet a pass, there are words on the tablet, because the distance is far, it is not clear for a while.

The gate is a masonry structure, which is now tightly closed, and almost seamlessly fits into the red wall except for the color.

Through the top of the city gate, I saw that there was a huge stele pavilion erected high inside, and I don't know what the function was.

This is simply a city wall, just slightly shorter than the real city wall, but more chic, although Li Zicheng wants to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but he can't bear to destroy the imperial tomb.

He recruited a personal soldier and whispered a little, and the personal soldier slowly walked to the city gate and said loudly: "The Governor of the Heavenly Mandate Army, please listen to Lord Li of the Imperial History!" ”

There was silence in the city, but no arrows were fired outside the city.

The soldiers waited for a while, frowned, and raised their voices: "The Governor of the Metropolitan said that if you refuse to come out and surrender, we will bombard it with artillery, and once the tomb is destroyed, you can explain it to the court yourself......"

After a while, a slightly old voice came out from inside the wall, "What do you want to do?" ”

"It's very simple," the pro-soldier said loudly, "surrender, as long as you surrender, we will withdraw our troops, and the tomb will not be damaged." ”

"Surrender to you?" The old man's voice was very disdainful, "What's the difference between that and destroying the Xianling?" ”

"Yes!" The pro-soldier said resolutely: "If it is surrendered, the court will only hold you responsible for the defeat, the Mandate of Heaven army is going south, and there are countless civil and military officials who surrendered, and the court may not be able to take care of you, in case the tomb is destroyed, it will be a raid on the family and the nine clans, you can weigh it yourself!" ”

There was silence again within the walls, apparently in thought.

The soldier said again: "On such a cold day, we are outside...... The Metropolitan Governor said, give you a pillar of incense, after a pillar of incense, if you don't come out, we will bomb Xianling! After finishing speaking, he did not wait, but returned to Li Zicheng's side.

Li Zicheng nodded, took the Xianling, he was full of confidence, there was only one guard of soldiers in the Xianling, even if it was full, it was only five or six thousand, and the attacking Heavenly Mandate Army reached thirty thousand.

The Mandate of Heaven Army concentrated its forces, and in local wars, it was already in a superior position in numbers, and if we count morale, confidence, equipment, etc., the combat effectiveness of the Mandate of Heaven Army far exceeded that of the Ming Army.

Zuo Liangyu's 200,000 troops were all defeated without a fight......

Before a pillar of incense burned out, the main gate of Xianling was opened, and a military general in armor and nearly fifty years old stood at the door, looking at the dense Heavenly Mandate Army outside, without the slightest panic on his face, and said in a deep voice: "Who is Li Zicheng?" ”

Li Zicheng took two steps forward, He Xiaomi followed closely behind Li Zicheng's side, Li Zicheng waved his hand, signaling He Xiaomi not to be nervous, glanced at the general, and said lightly: "You are the chief soldier Qian Zhongxuan?" ”

"It's Ben Jiang!" Qian Zhongxuan glanced at Li Zicheng and shouted lightly: "You are plotting rebellion, aren't you afraid that the imperial court will raid your family and exterminate the clan?" ”

"More than ten years ago, the governor of Pontus wanted the court to raid the family and exterminate the clan, but unfortunately, before the court raided the family and wiped out the clan, the people in the family starved to death," Li Zicheng's face faintly showed a trace of bitterness, paused, and said: "Now I have a family, the court does not want to raid my house all the time, and the former governor of the three sides, Wang Qiaonian, even picked up my ancestral grave ......."

"This ......" Qian Zhongxuan was speechless for a while, beating people without slapping his face, insulting people without digging graves, but he didn't expect Wang Qiaonian to be more despicable than Liukou.

"Don't talk about this," Li Zicheng pointed back and said: "You can see clearly, the 30,000 army of the governor of Pondu has surrounded Xianling, and the entire Chengtian Mansion is full of the Mandate of Heaven army, surrender, don't do meaningless things." ”

Qian Zhongxuan was silent, but he tried his best to think about it in his heart, and after a while, Fang said: "I heard that Zuo Liangyu's army was defeated at the hands of the Heavenly Mandate Army?" ”

"Rumors, it's all rumors," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The Mandate of Heaven Army went south to Huguang, Zuo Liangyu directly gave up Fancheng and Xiangyang, and didn't fight a single battle, so there is no question of defeat!" ”

"You ......"

"Zuo Liangyu has an army of 200,000, and in the entire Huguang, I'm afraid no one is stronger than Zuo Liangyu's department," Li Zicheng muttered: "If it can't be stronger than Zuo Liangyu, how can the Heavenly Mandate Army dare to go south to Huguang?" Zuo Liangyu understands people......"

Qian Zhongxuan swallowed hard and spitted hard, and said: "The Mandate of Heaven army is only 100,000, why did Zuo Liangyu flee without a fight?" ”

"This kind of thing, when you surrender to the Heavenly Mandate Army, the Governor of Pondu will tell you slowly," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The Governor of Pondu will not force you, whether you want to surrender or not, you decide for yourself, however, the time of the Governor of Pondu is very precious, if you are not willing to surrender, you can go back now, and the Governor of Pondu will immediately attack Xianling." ”

A trace of unwillingness flashed in Qian Zhongxuan's eyes, but after all, he still knelt on the ground, "The villain is willing to surrender!" ”

At this time, a middle-aged man in official uniform walked out of the main gate, glanced at Qian Zhongxuan who was kneeling on the ground, and said helplessly: "If we surrender, can you guarantee that we will not destroy the Xianling?" ”

"Pontus Governor speaks, naturally counts, Xianling was built by Jiajing with countless efforts and silver, and it should be a good tourist attraction in the future, why did Pontus destroy it?" Li Zicheng glanced at the person who came, and said slowly: "You are Li Zhensheng, the inspector of the imperial history, right?" ”

The person who came only said that he looked at Li Zicheng, but neither admitted nor denied it.

"Fu Jun, speaking of which, we are still fellow villagers, come here, the Heavenly Mandate Army welcomes you," Li Zicheng saw Li Zhensheng's indifferent look, and said: "Of course, for the sake of fellow villagers, the governor of Bendu will not force you, if you think it is better to return to the imperial court, even if you go back, the entire Chengtian Mansion and the entire Huguang are mine, and no one can stop it!" ”

"This ......" Li Zhensheng was taken aback, this Li Zicheng really has a lot of appetite, but it is not very strange to think that the Heavenly Mandate Army has already occupied Longyou, Sichuan, and Henan, and then wants to go south to Huguang.

Could it be that the Mandate of Heaven really wants to overthrow the imperial court?

"The reason why I invited you to join the Mandate of Heaven Army is not only because you are a fellow villager of the Governor of Pontus, but because although you are a civil official, you are decisive, all-round in civil and military affairs, and loyal to your duties, there are not many such characters," Li Zicheng raised his hand, let Qian Zhongxuan get up first, and said: "It's still Huguang Patrol, go and destroy the Tusi in the south of Huguang, and the people will be naturalized as Han," paused, and said: "You don't have to answer now, give you five days!" ”

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