Chapter 165: The Ultimate Duel
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It is also the city of Taipingfu.
Li Zicheng stood on the wall of Qingyuanmen, looking ahead expressionlessly.
On the north bank of the moat, a huge army was lining up with its back to the Xiangcheng River, countless soldiers in red uniforms lined up in a line, carrying a bayonet on their shoulders and adjusting their positions with neat steps, and behind these soldiers were the black hole muzzles of countless cannons, all of which pointed to Dangtu City, although I didn't see the Shenwei invincible general cannon that had already been mythical, but the deterrence brought by nearly two hundred cannons still made Li Zicheng feel heavy oppression.
In front of the formation, under the cover of twelve dragon flags and a yellow umbrella, a figure riding a rhinoceros was slowly moving forward, and soon stopped less than half a mile away from the city wall.
"Li Zicheng!"
Yang Feng on the back of the rhinoceros shouted.
He has completely blocked Li Zicheng in this small city.
He didn't expect Zheng Chenggong to be said to be like a bamboo, two cavalry brigades and two infantry brigades have already crushed the Shun army, in fact, just a heavy cavalry brigade counterattack, it was easy to defeat Hao Shaoqi's attack on Tianmen Mountain's Shun army, when the main force of the Ming army completed the river crossing, even Yuan Zongdi and others led the subsequent reinforcements of the Shun army was also defeated, not only forced nearly 10,000 Shun troops to surrender in desperation, but also took advantage of the situation to seize the bridgehead on the south bank of the Guxi River.
This is a strategic point.
Going down the river from Nanjing, you must cross the Nanjin and Rainbow pontoon bridges across the Guxi River in the south of Dangtu City, otherwise you can't fly across the two or three hundred meters wide river, the upper reaches of the Guxi River are stretches of lakes and swamps and can't be bypassed, the Taiping army has been in this area and the Qing army has fought many bloody battles in history, Zheng Chenggong's soldiers are on the Guxi River pontoon bridge, which is equivalent to completely blocking the passage of Li Zicheng's southward escape, blocking him and the remnants of less than 40,000 troops in Dangtu City.
When the army led by Yang Feng landed at Quarry Rock and crossed the Xiangcheng River in the south, the last elite of the Shun army was completely trapped in a cage.
And outside them were 70,000 Ming troops.
All that's left is the siege.
And this is the easiest for the Ming army, wait for the Shenwei invincible general's cannon to arrive, just blast open the city wall and rush in, so far there is no city wall that can stop them.
But Yang Feng didn't want to do that.
"Li Zicheng, so that the northwest famine and others have no way out to rebel to survive, I do fail the people, but Er and other disasters in the world for more than ten years, so that millions of innocent people were killed, it can also be said that the crime is serious, today has come to this, you have no way out, why bother to create more killing! I hereby promise that if you lay down your arms and go out of the city to surrender, you will be pardoned except for Li Ziyuan himself, and everyone will move to Liaodong and be given land to earn their own livelihoods. ”
He yelled.
The horn on the rhinoceros brought his voice clearly to the city walls.
"Your subjects, in the past, I was deceived by traitors, and I did not know the sufferings of the people, so that you were hungry and cold, and it was indeed my sin, and I have issued an edict to blame myself! Now I have decreed to divide the fields of the world among the people, so that the cultivators have their fields and those who work hard to get their food, and the Taizu gave immortal seeds, planting and harvesting in the north several times the old, I will never have the worry of famine, and the prosperity can be expected. ”
Then he shouted again.
At this time, the vast majority of the Shun troops on the city wall were already whispering.
Even the generals looked at each other.
Only Li Zicheng still stood there expressionless and looked at him.
"Li Zicheng, where are the sons of me?"
Yang Feng shouted.
On the city wall, Li Zicheng beckoned.
Immediately after Chongzhen's four sons were pushed forward, the four of them did not suffer, Li Zicheng was good to them when he was in Beijing, originally in history he was a rout, so he didn't care about these little things, and finally two of Chongzhen's four sons died in the chaos, Zhu Cihong went to his grandfather Zhou Kui, and then let Zhou Kui betray Dolgon, only the fifth escaped to hide in the world until he was turned out by Kang Mazi and Ling Chi was executed. But this time Li Zicheng had already withdrawn from Beijing in an organized manner, and because of the special situation of the three parties, their brothers were very useful to Li Zicheng, after all, the situation at that time was a three-legged stand, Yang Feng tossed Dolgon in the north to ensure his safety, so he would not kill them to stimulate Yang Feng, and he had been taking it with him since he withdrew from Beijing, Zhu Cihong was still the king of Song who he feuded, and the other three also had titles, anyway, they were kept in a small courtyard on weekdays, and they were just pulled out for fun when they were bored.
At this time, they are all carrying.
"Send them out, I promise that even if you don't wait, I won't implicate your family."
Yang Feng said.
A group of generals beside Li Zicheng looked at him cautiously, and the latter waved his hand lightly, so then the four Zhu Cihong brothers were sent out of the city, and the escorted Shun army after crossing the moat retreated into the city, and the four brothers immediately ran towards Yang Feng, knelt down in front of his rhinoceros together, crying and kowtowing to the ground and shouting their father.
It's a pity that their father has already been occupied by the magpie's nest dove.
Yang Feng has no feelings for them, but being able to bring them back alive is worthy of his own skin.
"Have I forgotten all the teachings of the past? How can the descendants of Taizu have the reason to surrender thieves? You are a brother and a model of brothers, even if you die in battle, you are worthy of the temple! The position of Prince Er has been abolished, and he will not be reinstated in the future. ”
Yang Feng said to Zhu Cihong.
The latter cried thanksgiving.
At this time, Yang Feng's son was already born in Beijing.
Although it is counted as Chongzhen's body, but psychologically it is still his own son, and of course the throne can only be passed on to this son, as for the four Zhu Cihong brothers, one prince per person is enough, and at this time, Daming still has enough places to be crowned king. This troubled era has almost cleaned up those clans of the Ming Dynasty to Yang Feng, and there are a lot of dead people, and the rest of those who are not dead as long as they do not resist the Qing army or Li Zicheng, they have also let Yang Feng use this as an excuse to simply scrap it. Although they are actually very innocent, but as the descendants of Taizu fell into the thief realm, the whole family committed suicide and did not resist with soldiers, this is completely disloyal and unfilial, the emperor abolished your title and abolished it is a matter of course, and there are few who survived in the end, that is, the three Tang Fulu who fled to Fuzhou plus King Gui.
In other words, Li Zicheng is also a great achievement.
Otherwise, the burden of the clan will always be on the back of the imperial court, so it will be much more comfortable to clean up.
As for the future......
In the future, Yang Feng is going to send all these princes to the colonies, such as Southeast Asia, Japan, India, in short, the farther away the better, give them enough privileges, and let them exploit the peace-loving people in the colonies.
Including the four in front of you.
Of course, the Zhu Cihong brothers would not know that their beloved father had already planned to exile them for thousands of miles, and at this time, they were in a state of emotion and didn't think much about it, so they hurriedly ran to the Ming army.
"Li Zicheng, make a decision on whether to fight or slow down!"
Yang Feng then shouted.
The generals beside Li Zicheng all looked at him with expectant eyes.
Li Zicheng sighed.
He knows that everything is over, the people's hearts have been completely dispersed, in fact, it was already over when Hao Shaoqi was defeated and returned to Dangtu, and the desperate situation coupled with the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Ming army had already completely destroyed the courage of these soldiers who had been in the world for more than ten years, and these old brothers could continue to stand here with him, even if they were righteous enough, this kind of place where they were all enemies, even if they fought down, it would be nothing more than a few days of survival, not to mention that the people in the city did not do it, and the generals and soldiers under him who had completely lost their fighting spirit did not do it.
But he was not reconciled!
He looked at Yang Feng outside the city.
"Dog Emperor, do you dare to step forward a little more?"
He suddenly shouted.
A group of soldiers beside him immediately shouted in unison.
"Why don't you dare!"
Yang Feng sneered.
Immediately after he urged the rhinoceros to step forward, when there were no cannons on the Tu city wall, there were originally a few, but they were collected to defend Yangzhou, of course, it was impossible for the Shun army to flee with thousands of pounds of cannons, only some small cannons and Franco, this thing was not the same in Yang Feng's eyes, he advanced to less than fifty meters away from the city wall, and then stopped to look at Li Zicheng on the city wall, at such a distance the two of them could see each other clearly, they just looked at each other quietly.
The air seemed to freeze at this moment.
Suddenly......
Uh, it's not the singing!
Li Zicheng reached out and snatched the revolver musket in the hands of his own soldiers, and did not hesitate to aim at Yang Feng and pull the trigger, in the crisp gunshot, a bullet hit Yang Feng's chest, and at the same time as a little spark collapsed, the bullet was instantly bounced away by the thick stainless steel, and Yang Feng only shook slightly. Li Zicheng did not hesitate to throw away the empty gun and snatch it from the hands of another personal soldier, and pulled the trigger with extreme speed, and then he didn't even look at the result, and continued to grab one gun after another, and also kept aiming at Yang Feng and firing.
The latter sat upright on the rhinoceros without any dodge, and the five-millimeter stainless steel and bulletproof mask made him immune to all bullets.
Ten shots later, Li Zicheng stopped.
"It's my turn."
Yang Feng said lightly.
Then he slowly pulled out the oversized hand cannon, pulled the trigger and aimed it at Li Zicheng, who was fifty meters away.
Li Zicheng held the arrow stack in his hand, and also did not dodge, just looked at him quietly.
The next moment, Yang Feng pulled the trigger violently, and as the gunshots rang out, a projectile with a diameter of more than thirty millimeters shot out and accurately hit Li Zicheng's left chest, and the huge impact force instantly shattered the gilded mountain armor on his body, and then pierced his heart. Emperor Yongchang of Dashun, who has been in the world for more than ten years, has continuously broken through the three capitals of the north, south and the middle, making Li Zicheng, the king of Daming mountains and rivers discolored, fly out upside down, hit the female wall behind him, and then slid down with his back against the female wall, lowered his head and immediately closed his eyes.
Countless cries rang out from the city walls.