This time, in order to rush to Lintao City as soon as possible, the guards under Wang Tingchen did not carry relatively heavy artillery.

However, after entering the city, the explosion of the grenadier battalion thunderbolt was continuous, and under the leadership of Wu Ruyi, they were invincible and went straight to the West Gate.

The sound of explosions, which were getting closer and denser, made Zhang Xianzhong mistakenly believe that a large number of artillery pieces of the official army were also advancing rapidly.

It is said that the failure of the breakthrough outside Jingle City left a great shadow on Zhang Xianzhong, and he was stunned from the bottom of his heart when he thought that he might face the new musket artillery of the official army with his flesh and blood.

As a result, before he saw the grenadiers under Wu Sangui charging in front of him, Zhang Xianzhong evacuated Lintao from the west gate first.

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong left, nearly 20,000 people in the Daxi Camp in Lintao City suddenly became a mess.

Some people obeyed the orders of the Eight Kings before they evacuated, and followed their immediate bosses, Wang Fuchen and Zhang Xianbi, to desperately resist the official army.

However, there were many old thieves in the Daxi camp, and as soon as they heard that the eight kings had escaped, they immediately chased them out of the west gate and followed them.

Of course, when the elite standard battalion of the Guards led by Liu Xingzhi, Hu Dawei, Mengruhu and Wu Sangui, a total of more than 7,000 cavalry armed with muskets, sabers or thunderbolts, rushed to the Marshal's Mansion in Lintao City, more soldiers of the Daxi Battalion who gathered here chose to surrender on their knees.

Although the number of thieves in the city was more than twice that of the official army, they lacked food and clothing, and they were not at all the opponents of the elite soldiers and powerful firepower of the Fourth Town of the Guards.

In this way, after the battle in Lintao City broke out suddenly in the morning, it only lasted until noon that day.

Zhang Xianbi, one of the fierce generals of the Daxi Battalion who was left behind by Zhang Xianzhong, died at the hands of Wu Sangui, while Wang Fuchen, another fierce general, was captured by his own men and then sacrificed to Hu Dawei, who was the first to charge forward.

At noon on the same day, the whole city of Lintao fell into the hands of the soldiers of the fourth town of the Guards, and the courtiers of King Wu Anbo asked Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft to report the news to Pingliang, on the one hand, and let the fierce adopted son Meng Xianjie lead a team of men and horses, escorting Luo Rucai, Wu Ruyi, Ji Qi, Wang Kesheng and others back to Anding, and handed them over to Ni Yuanlu, the fourth town supervisor of the Guards Army, who stayed behind to take care of them.

Ni Yuanlu is one of the civil officials who has been deliberately cultivated and promoted by Emperor Chongzhen since his accession to the throne, and has the power to perform secret affairs.

For this, the courtiers of King Wu Anbo knew, and the governors in the northwest also knew it.

This time, the courtiers of King Wu Anbo directly led the army to attack Lintao City, and the time was urgent, and he did not ask Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who was sitting in Pingliang, to report to him.

And the reason why he dared to do this was because he had the firm support of Ni Yuanlu, the imperial historian of the prison army.

Including accepting the unconditional surrender of the bandit leader Cao Cao Luo Rucai, before Lintao City fell into the hands of the Fourth Town of the Guards, Wang Tingchen did not report to Li Banghua.

This is not because the courtiers of King Wu Anbo are unruly, arrogant and domineering, and do not obey Li Banghua's command.

In fact, no matter how arrogant and domineering Wang Tingchen was, he did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Li Banghua, the Minister of Military Aircraft.

He did this because he didn't really believe that after he put forward such harsh conditions, Luo Ru would choose to surrender unconditionally.

And when Luo Rucai was desperate and sent Ji Jue and Wu Ruyi to contact Xiancheng to surrender again, the time to seize Lintao City became extremely urgent.

So after obtaining the firm support of Ni Yuanlu, the imperial historian of the prison army, he simply didn't do anything, didn't even say hello, and led the army directly to Lintao City.

For Wang Tingchen, if this matter is done, then a handsome man covers up all the ugliness, no matter whether he acted without permission at first, no one can say anything about him.

If it doesn't work, then it should be regarded as personally leading the army to the Lintao direction to spy once.

Speaking of which, this is still a beautiful story, and outsiders don't know the truth about it, and the Fourth Town of the Guards doesn't lose face.

Of course, if Luo Rucai set a trap, or Zhang Xianzhong was alert, killed Luo Rucai in advance, and then led the army to defend the city and fight, then whether the fourth town of the Guards Army could easily take Lintao is also two words.

After all, the fourth town of the Guards was short of ammunition, and this time it concentrated almost all the ammunition, and it was just right to seize the door and quickly take Lintao City.

It's just that the details of this are not known to Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings who were beaten into a frightened bird by the new musket bubbles of the official army.

However, it is precisely because of this that after Zhang Xianzhong fled to the direction of Hezhou, the courtiers of King Wu Anbo did not send the main force to pursue, but stopped in the city of Lintao, while cleaning up the mess left by Zhang Xianzhong's scourge in Lintao City, while waiting for the will of the imperial court and the ammunition supply that was being transferred from Yan'an Mansion.

After the war, Lintao City was like a ghost town, full of frozen corpses, and piles of white bones left over after being eaten everywhere.

Those Musuman two-legged sheep that were captured from the surrounding areas by the Daxi Camp had already been slaughtered by all the departments of the Daxi Camp, and they were all decapitated and skinned, and their hands, feet and internal organs were removed, and they were made into a jerky that could be steamed and barbecued at any time.

At this time, it coincides with the cold winter, and they are not afraid of rotting.

After Liu Xingzhi, the deputy commander of the fourth town of the Guards, led the army to occupy the camp of the Daxi camp in the city, he found those dried meat that had been stored in the warehouse for an unknown amount of time like salted fish, and had been frozen hard.

Even Liu Xingzhi, who has always been known for his ruthlessness and ruthlessness, suddenly saw this scene, and he couldn't help but feel numb and frightened.

Those who have eaten people, of course, can't stay.

After the courtiers of King Wu Anbo personally inspected several such warehouses, in the early morning of the 22nd day of the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, he ordered the former Cao Ying Department to lead the surrendered Cao Ying soldiers led by Wang Yuncheng to rush into the former Daxi Camp camp full of surrendered soldiers, and killed those Daxi Camp soldiers who had surrendered and were waiting for an explanation.

Behind Wang Yuncheng's subordinates were the cavalry that were as fierce as a tiger and as fierce as a tiger, and one by one they killed those fish who escaped from the slaughter and scurried around.

Wang Fuchen, the fierce general of the Daxi Battalion, who had already surrendered, was also beheaded by Hao Jingchun, a general of Wang Yuncheng, who was in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, and lost the opportunity for him to abandon the darkness and turn to the Ming to resist the Qing Dynasty in later history.

In Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi camp, there are many such characters, who followed Zhang Xianzhong to do all kinds of bad things in the first half of his life, but in the second half of his life, he suddenly changed his sex, as if his conscience had been discovered, and he became the mainstay of the southwest region to resist the Manchu invasion.

It's just that in this life, they are afraid that they will not have the opportunity to change their minds and become new people.

Killing them, of course, is not the original intention of the current Emperor Chongzhen, for the father and son of Li Dingguo in history, as well as the characters such as Wang Fuchen, the current Emperor Chongzhen is also very respectful in his heart.

It's just that things in this world are so fickle, and they don't depend entirely on someone's will.

After more than half a month of the events in Lintao City, Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City learned about the situation from the good news from the northwest.

This good news from the northwest was not sent to Beijing by Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Si first, but directly from Li Banghua, who had been sitting in Pingliang to supervise the encirclement and suppression of thieves in the northwest.

Li Banghua, the Marquis of Dongsheng, the Minister of Military Aircraft, reported many matters to Emperor Chongzhen in the good news, but the most important one was the fact that Luo Rucai, the leader of the bandits, led the rest of his troops to the fourth town of the Guards to disarm and surrender the courtiers of King Wu'anbo.

Luo Rucai can be said to be one of the most capricious figures among the thieves in history, and now his surrender value is not trustworthy, and Emperor Chongzhen certainly has a bunch of question marks in his heart.

However, no, no matter what you say, Cao Ying fell, Daxi Ying ran away, and Lintao City was under the rule of the Fourth Town of the Guards, which is good news after all.

Let's say that on February 18 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, after Emperor Chongzhen received this good news from the northwest, he quickly sent Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft in Beijing, and Nan Juyi, the secretary of the military department.

These two people are both working in the Military Aircraft Department, so naturally they have already read the good news sent by the northwest, and they both agree with the opinions of Li Banghua and other ministers in the northwest.

Emperor Chongzhen, after summoning these two men, inquiring and listening to their opinions, said to them:

"I have heard that among the thieves in northern Shaanxi, there are Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, who are very cunning and capricious.

However, now, Wu Anbo has promised him first, and Dongshenghou and other ministers in the northwest of Xinjiang also think that they should be left to watch the after-effects.

"I think, now that Luo Rucai and his cronies have defected in front of the battle, and have surrendered their weapons, and have been controlled by Wu Anbo, they are held in the camp in Anding City, forgive them for their powerlessness, and let them spare their lives."

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen paused for a moment, thought for a moment, sighed, and finally said: "The military aircraft department quickly spread my will, and Luo Rucai's troops are allowed to surrender!"

"Feng Luo Rucai himself is General Mingwei, and he actually gave the commander of the Jingshi Jinyi Guard, and he lived in the Jingshi Ci Mansion!

"And gave Luo Rucai the account of Ji Jue, and experienced the governor of the eight products of the Jingshi Jinyi Guard!

"Its subordinates Wang Yuncheng, Wu Ruyi, Wang Kesheng and others can be given the post of participating in the tour as appropriate, and enter the fourth town of the Guards Army as battalion officers and team officers.

After hearing the emperor finish saying these words, Sun Chengzong, Minister of Military Aircraft, and Nan Juyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, were about to bow down to receive the order, but they heard the emperor say:

"Spread the edict, take Dongsheng Marquis and Wu Anbo, quickly send the appropriate people, lead the army to escort Luo Rucai and Ji Jue, and enter Beijing to take up a post!"