Liu Jianyi saw that the soldiers in the city were all looking around, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and hurriedly ordered someone to push Fu Zonglong over.

Fu Zonglong was bound by ropes, and he was gagged with cotton cloth, and covered with a white robe, so that he couldn't see the ropes on his body at all.

Liu Jianyi hoped that someone in the city would know Fu Zonglong, so he asked the soldiers to step forward and shout: "We are the personal guards of the governor of Shaanxi, please open the city gate and let the governor in." ”

When the governor of Shaanxi came to Henan, many people knew that the governor was under the city, and the people at the head of the city were suddenly stunned.

Is it really the Governor-General?

There are thousands of men and horses under the city, and if it is really the governor, he can help defend the city......

These people are all armor and weapons of the Ming army, they look very similar, besides, who dares to pretend to be the Governor?

I'm afraid that in case......

Recently, the officers and soldiers fought in Runing Mansion, and it is said that the officers and soldiers fought unfavorably, and several groups of officers and soldiers fled north, so it can't be that the Liukou are following, right?

Fu Zonglong's body couldn't move, his mouth couldn't speak, but he knew in his heart that the rogue wanted to use himself to earn the city gate, and he was very anxious in his heart, the officers and soldiers in the city, maybe someone knew him, how could they not open the city gate when they saw themselves, the governor of the three sides?

I have been captured, do I still want to help the abuse?

Fu Zonglong saw that Liukou's attention was on the city, and there happened to be a captured Ming soldier by his side, so his heart moved......

The soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army shouting towards the city, knowing that the defenders at the head of the city were hesitating, shouted: "The governor of the three sides of Shaanxi is here, how many heads do you have, and you dare not open the door?" ”

Among the officers and soldiers defending the city, there was a lot of discussion, and some people wanted to open the city gate and let the governors of the three sides enter the city.

"I am the governor of Shaanxi," Fu Zonglong, although he was tired and hungry, his voice was as loud as a bell, "I have fallen into the hands of thieves, and all the people under this city are thieves, don't open the city!" ”

It turned out that Fu Zonglong glanced at the Ming prisoners of war beside him, and stretched out his mouth again, the soldier understood, and took out the cotton cloth in Fu Zonglong's mouth with his teeth, just when the defenders in the city were preparing to open the city, Fu Zonglong hurriedly spoke to stop it.

The defenders of the city saw Fu Zonglong appear and speak, whether he was Fu Zonglong or not, the city gate must not be opened, the soldiers picked up their bows and arrows one after another, and the soldier of the Heavenly Mandate Army who shouted was immediately shot into a hedgehog.

Liu Jianyi saw that he was about to open the city gate, he was secretly happy in his heart, and was thinking about what military merits he could get, but he didn't expect Fu Zonglong to spoil his good deeds, and couldn't help but be furious, his temper was committed, so he pulled out his waist knife, grabbed it to Fu Zonglong's side, and slashed it on Fu Zonglong's head.

The pro-soldiers couldn't stop it, so they could only watch Fu Zonglong fall.

Fu Zonglong's face was bleeding, and he had a smile on his face, "I am a minister of the imperial court, I will kill if I want to, how can I open the city gate for you in order to survive?" ”

Liu Jianyi was even more angry, if Fu Zonglong won the battle, such words were acceptable, even if he killed him, his heart would be more happy, now he is a defeated general, he has been defeated and captured, and he dares to say such high-sounding words?

He raised the waist knife in his hand and slashed at Fu Zonglong......

The soldiers hurriedly came over and hugged Liu Jianyi, "The general is angry, the metropolitan governor has always treated prisoners of war preferentially, if you have anything to say, you will talk about it when the metropolitan governor comes!" ”

Only then did Liu Jianyi remember that he was already a member of the Mandate of Heaven Army, and the Mandate of Heaven Army had many military laws and regulations...... Fu Zonglong is the governor of the three sides, once he is captured, the governor will definitely make a lot of articles with him, if he is killed like this, it is really cheap for him.

However, it's too late now, Fu Zonglong has been stabbed so much, he can't live now!

Liu Jianyi regretted a little, why didn't the soldiers explain it earlier, and hurt himself......

For today's plan, the only way to do this is to take Xiangcheng and apologize to the earth, he used the white robe on Fu Zonglong's body to wipe the blood stains on his waist knife, and then he wanted to attack the city.

The soldiers hurriedly stopped him, "General, we don't have a ladder to attack the city, how can we attack the city?" ”

Liu Jianyi shouted: "Stupid, can't you cut down trees to build ladders?" ”

"Yes, General!" The pro-soldiers are very aggrieved, first cut down the tree, and then build a ladder, so when will it be? It's to rush overnight, at least tomorrow morning before the city can be attacked, right? However, he was used to Liu Jianyi's foul language, and he didn't dare to say much, so he was busy going down to deliver the order.

Without a ladder, it is naturally impossible to attack the city, so Liu Jianyi can only let the soldiers temporarily camp and rest.

When it was dark, Luo Tai led his troops to Xiangcheng, and Liu Jianyi joined forces, Luo Tai carried a small number of siege ladders, Liu Jianyi seemed to get a treasure, and he was going to attack the city overnight.

Luo Tai pulled Liu Jianyi to a corner where no one was, pondered for a moment, and said, "It's okay to attack the city, I have a good idea!" ”

"General Luo, say quickly, between you and my brothers, what else can't be said?" Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, before they defected to the Mandate of Heaven Army, were colleagues, and in his heart, he always regarded Luo Tai as his brother.

"Since we want to attack the city, we will definitely die," Luo Tai said: "Now we have hundreds of prisoners of war, it is better to let the prisoners of war attack the city, no matter whether we win or lose, we will not die, it is the prisoners of war who die, but save food." ”

"Siege with prisoners of war?" Liu Jianyi was overjoyed, "Just let their own people fight!" ”

"General Liu is wrong, it's not his own people," Luo Tai glanced at the prisoner of war camp in the distance, and said: "Since they are prisoners of war of the Heavenly Mandate Army, they are the people of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and if they want to join the Heavenly Mandate Army, they have to make meritorious contributions to the Heavenly Mandate Army." ”

"General Luo Gaojian!" At this time, Liu Jianyi understood what Luo Tai meant, let the prisoners of war go to attack the city, and if they die, they will die, and if they can survive, they have already slaughtered the Ming army, and there is only one way to take refuge in the Mandate of Heaven army.

The two were very compatible, and gathered the seven or eight hundred Ming army prisoners of war captured in one place, and first forced them to express their stance that anyone who was willing to join the Mandate of Heaven Army would be able to eat a hot meal immediately, and those who hesitated a little, or refused to defect to the Mandate of Heaven, could only continue to stay in the prisoner of war camp and starve.

The Mandate of Heaven army has no food to feed the idlers.

If they continue to starve, they will most likely starve to death, at least their lives are in the hands of the Providential Army; Joining the Mandate of Heaven Army, you can eat a full meal, although you may lose your life in the siege, but it is also possible to make meritorious contributions, get a promotion or a reward, at least the Mandate of Heaven Army will treat it as your own.

More than 600 prisoners of war were directly surrendered to the Mandate of Heaven Army, and the rest of the Ming army continued to be locked up in prisoner of war camps, and they would not receive food until the battle continued.

The Mandate of Heaven army attacked the city from the north and south, Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai each led the troops to supervise the battle in the back, and the first person to climb the head of the city will have a reward of fifty taels of silver, and if the city is taken, the whole army will have three hundred taels of silver.

More than 600 prisoners of war of the Ming army who had just eaten a full meal, either holding swords, guns and shields, or carrying ladders to attack the city, rushed forward as if they had been beaten with duck blood.

Maybe it was to make meritorious contributions to the Mandate of Heaven Army, or maybe it was for the reward of white flowers, the prisoners of war were very brave, and they didn't need Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai to worry about at all, they were automatically divided into siege soldiers and archers.

The archers fired arrows at the head of the city, covering the siegers as they climbed the ladder.

Liu Jianyi and the soldiers of the Luo Tai Department, although they did not need to participate in the battle, they were not idle, they were all shouting and cheering, the Ming army in the city, but three or four hundred people, in the afternoon, they knew that there were thousands of Heavenly Mandate troops outside the city.

The night is not real, the Ming army thought that the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven who shouted were involved in the siege of the city, under the panic, the morale of the soldiers was low, and there was no determination to defend the city to the death.

After only an hour of fighting, the Ming prisoners of war ascended to the top of the city.

Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai learned that there were many deserters at the east and west city gates, and they divided their troops to chase them for ten miles, so they collected their troops and returned to the city.

After entering the city, the two of them accepted a lesson, and did not dare to rob the people, they all followed the example of the Mandate of Heaven Army, beating gongs and drums in the city, appeasing the people, publicizing the military laws and regulations of the Mandate of Heaven, and warning the people not to come out at home before dawn.

When the city of Luoyang was broken, the soldiers of Liu Jianyi's department raped the people's girls in the city, and were beheaded by Li Zicheng in public, and he was also beaten with a military stick.

When Li Zicheng led his troops to Xiangcheng, it was already the second day, and when he heard that Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai had taken Xiangcheng, he not only laughed, "These two generals are really humming two generals!" ”

Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai welcomed Li Zicheng into the city, reported the situation of chasing Fu Zonglong and capturing Xiangcheng, Li Zicheng pointed to Liu Jianyi's head and said with a smile: "It is said that General Liu is a tiger general, I didn't expect to come up with such an idea, Ao, it's General Luo, but the idea came from General Luo?" ”

Luo Tai smiled, but did not dare to speak.

Li Zicheng expressed his position in public, and the two were promoted to guerrilla generals and continued to command their respective soldiers.

Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai were busy bowing to Xie En, the generals of the Mandate of Heaven Army, it has always been difficult to be promoted, unless there is a big military merit, it is generally replaced by a reward of silver, this time Liu Jianyi grabbed the belly of the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and united with the Luo Tai Department, using prisoners of war to take Xiangcheng, both of them are indispensable.

It's a pity that Fu Zonglong is dead, otherwise, you can do something to him, or exchange some benefits with Kaifeng, or persuade him to surrender and increase the influence of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Li Zicheng is not worried that Fu Zonglong is loyal to the imperial court, as long as he sees the development trend of the Heavenly Mandate Army, after a long time, there will always be a moment to change his mind!

defeated Fu Zonglong and Yang Wenyue's troops, and captured Fu Zonglong, Li Zicheng's heart fell for a while, and he didn't know what to do next.

Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai captured Xiangcheng, but provided a new idea, which may be the reason why Li Zicheng promoted the two, right?

The Mandate of Heaven army opened up a good situation in Henan, and sooner or later it would attack Kaifeng, taking advantage of the opportunity of the retreat of the Ming army, first collected the prefectures and counties in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, and gradually made Kaifeng an isolated city.

In the south of Kaifeng, close to Luoyangfu, Nanyangfu, and Runingfu, which were part of the Mandate of Heaven Army, Xuzhou in the west and Chenzhou in the east, respectively, these prefectures and counties did not have heavy troops.

Li Zicheng immediately divided his troops into two routes, and the four regiments of Li Xinbu's independent battalion went to attack Xuzhou, as well as the four counties of Xiangcheng, Linying, Yuncheng, and Changge, to which Xuzhou belonged; He personally led the fourth battalion of Li Ji's department to attack Chenzhou, and the three counties of Xihua, Shenqiu, and Shangshui to which Chenzhou belonged.

Chenzhou, like Xuzhou, originally had four counties under its jurisdiction, but Xiangcheng had been taken by Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, and only three counties remained at this time.

If Chenzhou, Xuzhou and the counties under their jurisdiction are taken, plus Yuzhou, which already belongs to the Mandate of Heaven Army, and the Mi County to which it belongs, the southern part of Kaifeng Mansion will be completely controlled by the Mandate of Heaven Army.