The Mongols have already arrived in the city, and Liu Jinzhong wants to run at this time, which not only shakes the heart of the Guazhou army, causing the people in the city to flee first, but also may not be able to escape.

His behavior is completely harmful to others and not self-interested.

Just like the battle of Songshan in the Ming Dynasty, the general soldier Wang Pu did not act according to the agreed time because of cowardice, regardless of the main force and the brigade, and took the lead in escaping, so that the Ming army was in chaos and caused panic, resulting in Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Li Fuming and other departments, horses and horses galloping, trampling on each other, bows and armor all over the field, corpses all over the ground.

As a result, Hong Chengchou and others failed to break through the siege, retreated to Songshan City, and rushed out of the Ming army, which was intercepted and suffered heavy casualties.

When Wu Sangui, Wang Pu and others fled along the seaside, the Qing army volleyed head-on, tens of thousands of Ming troops, there was the sea in the east, there were chasing soldiers in the back, the armor was all over the field, and the army could not be defeated, "the dead who went to the sea were invincible."

Although the responsibility for Songshan's defeat cannot be fully attributed to these soldiers, they are undoubtedly one of the important reasons why more than 100,000 Ming troops collapsed and were no longer able to fight the Manchus.

In order to survive, Liu Jinzhong directly surrendered to Haoge and led the Qing army into Sichuan, but now the situation is not right, and he immediately ignores the life and death of the people in the city and wants to escape alone.

He is a military leader, he does not have any overall situation to speak of, only for himself, although Sun Kewang also has selfish intentions, but he wants to ensure that the general trend of the entire Jin Kingdom will not collapse, but Liu Jinzhong has no such consideration.

"Are you sure?" Sun Kewang's eyes were cold.

"We're already gathering people!"

Sun Kewang nodded, the Mongols had just arrived, they wanted to garrison and make equipment, and they would not attack for a while, so he immediately called a general and told him to take care of Beicheng, and then ordered Zhang Sheng to bring five hundred henchmen to Dongcheng.

Sun Kewang has coveted Hexi's military power for a long time, and he has already ordered someone to monitor Liu Jinzhong's every move, if it weren't for the reaction of the Jin court, he would have taken action against Liu Jinzhong a long time ago.

Soon after Sun Kewang and Zhang Sheng came to Dongcheng, they saw a group of people on the street rushing to Dongcheng.

"King, do you want to kill with one arrow?" Zhang Sheng said hatefully.

Those who turn their backs on the Lord and seek glory are always unlikable, and Zhang Sheng has already seen Liu Jinzhong unpleasant.

Sun Kewang shook his head, "He is the chief soldier of Hexi, the imperial court does not give me the power of life and death, I have no right to kill him, you let him go, and then put down the fence and stop all 10,000 soldiers and horses!" ”

While the two were talking, Liu Jinzhong led the soldiers and horses and had already arrived in front of the city gate, but because the Mongols were approaching the city, the city gate had already been closed.

"Open the city gates and let Ben go out!" Liu Jinzhong took the lead, rushed to the city gate, pulled the reins of the horse, and shouted loudly.

The little colonel at the door hugged his fists and said: "Liu Junmen, the king has an order, without his token, no one can go out of the city!" ”

Liu Jinzhong was furious when he heard this, and whipped him fiercely, "Sun Kewang wants to die, Ben Jiang can't die with him, and he can't control my head, open the door!" ”

The little colonel was pumped, and a team of Liu soldiers immediately rushed forward, pushed the soldiers guarding the city gate away, and then lifted the beam and pushed the city gate open with a creak.

"Little Guazhou City, how can it resist the attack of the Mongols, you are looking for death, but the general can't accompany you!" Liu Jinzhong scolded angrily, pulled the reins of the horse, and rushed out of the door.

Several generals behind him, followed closely behind, rode out of the city.

The infantry army behind was about to pass, and Zhang Sheng at the head of the city suddenly slashed down, cutting the rope that was pulling the fence, the winch was suddenly released, and a fence made of iron bars in the doorway suddenly fell down.

Before a soldier could dodge, he was hit by the fence, and the iron bar immediately pierced his body, and blood flowed all over the ground in an instant.

At the head of the city, Zhang Sheng immediately led five hundred soldiers to rush down and blocked the Liu soldiers who had not yet reacted in the street.

Liu Jinzhong, who rushed out of the city, heard a loud noise behind him, and found that Buzu did not follow, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran back to the city, just in time to see Sun Kewang standing on the head of the city with a smile, and the door was blocked by an iron fence, trapping his 10,000 people in the city.

After Liu Jinzhong returned to Guazhou, he always thought about evacuating, so he didn't care about the defense of Guazhou City.

This iron fence was used for the second defense after the Mongols broke through the city gate to prevent the Mongols from rushing through the door, and it took two days to rush out.

Craftsmen hollow out a piece of the doorway, drill a hole from the city wall, put it down from the eye with a rope, tie the iron fence, and when not in use, pull up the iron fence with a winch and hide it inside the wall, which is difficult to find without paying attention.

Liu Jinzhong was instantly furious: "Sun Kewang, let Lao Tzu's men go!" ”

Sun Kewang looked at him, but smiled contemptuously, and then said loudly: "The matter of asking for help from the imperial court, there is General Lao Liu!" ”

Liu Jinzhong's 10,000 horses, Sun Kewang has coveted it for a long time, but there is no way to annex it, he needs a suitable reason, and now in this situation, he is just right, Yu Yin and the court are not good to say anything about him.

"Sun Kewang, aren't you afraid that the general will sue the court?" Liu Jinzhong scolded under the city.

Sun Kewang ignored it, and directly let the city release arrows in front of Liu Jinzhong's horse, while he turned around and walked to the other side of the city wall.

At this time, the 10,000 officers and soldiers of Liu's department who were blocked in the city were already in chaos, and many people wanted to storm the city gate, but because most of the officers followed Liu Jinzhong out of the city, and the soldiers were leaderless, so although the call was fierce, they did not really dare to storm the city gate.

Zhang Sheng pressed his sword and pestle in front of the city gate, glaring angrily, and Liu's soldiers did not dare to move forward.

At this time, Sun Kewang stood at the head of the city, looked at the soldiers crowded at the city gate, and suddenly said loudly: "General Liu went to Guanzhong to ask for help, the road is far away, this king has thought twice, you should not go with him." ”

The soldiers below heard the sound and saw Sun Kewang standing on the city wall, and they all fell silent, but someone still shouted: "Why, we want to go out of the city with Liu Junmen!" ”

Sun Kewang stared at the person who spoke and said in a cold voice: "The Mongols have arrived in Guazhou, from here to Jiayuguan, hundreds of miles away, can you run past the Mongols' war horses?" Liu Jinzhong has horses, you don't have them, now out of the city, the Mongols rush, you all have to be finished, only stay in the city to be safe. ”

The soldiers below discussed it at once, how many soldiers still know a little about the soldiers, from Guazhou to Jiayuguan is hundreds of miles away, if they really encounter the Mongols chasing and killing, then they must be floating corpses for thousands of miles.

"But can Guazhou hold on? There is still a glimmer of life now, and once the city is breached, it will be a dead end! ”

In the face of the Mongols, many soldiers had little confidence.

Sun Kewang heard this but said loudly: "This king's life is not worth more than yours, Yu Fantai and the officials of various divisions are not more expensive than you, we are the people who are most afraid of death, but we choose to stay in the city, you say that you can keep it!" Today, the king is still in the city, and the officials of Yu Fantai and the political envoys are still in the city, what are you running? ”

When the people and horses in the city heard this, they immediately quieted down, and there were many generals and officials who left their soldiers and fled since ancient times, but there were not many soldiers who left their commanders and fled.

Oh, yes! King Guiyi and Yu Fantai are still in the city, they haven't run, what are we running? After leaving the city, I met the pursuit of the Mongols, how did I run to Jiayuguan with two legs?

The soldiers below were discussing, and when Sun Kewang saw this, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay! All returned to the camp, and the officers of more than 100 households went to the Beicheng Tower to participate in the discussion! ”

The city gate was blocked, the main officers had already rushed out of the city, and the remaining soldiers, listening to Sun Kewang's words for a while, discussed for a while, and finally turned around and retreated to the camp.

Outside the city, Liu Jinzhong saw that the city was gradually quiet, and knowing the situation that Sun Kewang had controlled, he was greatly annoyed and scolded angrily: "Sun Kewang, you wait, I will go back to Chang'an to join you and report your wolf ambitions!" ”

After speaking, as soon as he pulled out the horse's head, he led nearly a hundred knights and galloped eastward.

Sun Kewang saw it and instructed Zhang Sheng to manage the soldiers of the Liu Department and prepare to install the old man of the Western Army to accept the army, and he went to the political envoy to explain the situation to Yu Yin.

Even if he completely controlled Hexi, he could not break away from the Jin State, let alone go against the will of the Jin court, and he had to explain the matter clearly so that no one would attack him.

Sun Kewang brought out more than 1,000 people from Luzhou, basically the essence of the Western Army, and most of them were old people who had followed him for many years. Among these people, if you pull out one person, you can command at least ten people, so Sun Kewang can easily pull out an army as long as there are people.

(End of chapter)