On the morning of 22 May, the sun was shining again, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, knew nothing about what was happening in the city, because the news that the official army Lu Xiangsheng had taken Shennanyu was still on his way to Liulinbao urgently. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the fire that burned the city from yesterday afternoon to the night has made Hong Chengchou confident about taking the small county town in front of him.

Because Hong Chengchou knows the attitude of the current Emperor Chongzhen towards the thieves, since he started to suppress the thieves in Guanzhong, it has never been his choice to appease the thieves.

Moreover, even if the surrender of the leader of the thieves is accepted, he will be cut down after the surrender.

Hong Chengchou's approach is no secret in today's Guanzhong, but Wang Zuohang and others don't know this.

Wang Zuojiao only knew that Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, was a ruthless character, so he quickly went north to Wang Jiayin after the incident.

As for how the thieves who rose up at the same time in Guanzhong were finally destroyed, Wang Zuojiao was completely unclear.

If Wang Zuojiao or Wu Yangui knew about Hong Chengchou's glorious deeds of killing and surrendering prisoners in Guanzhong before, it is estimated that they would not have decided to surrender so easily.

Just after midnight, after a "full meal" of cornmeal potato cake and cornmeal sweet potato porridge, the officers and soldiers, under the command of Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, once again pushed the six meritorious catapults and slowly marched towards the north gate of Ningxiang County.

The north gate tower of Ningxiang County has been dilapidated, although after the fire was extinguished in the second half of the night yesterday, the thief army cleaned up the scorched and foul-smelling corpses at the head of the city, and some of the thieves defending the city were arranged at the head of the city, but Hong Chengchou and Wang Chengen believed that as long as the catapult was pushed out, at most a few rounds were thrown, the city's defense would be cleared out again.

In fact, if Hong Chengchou wanted to take Ningxiang County yesterday, he could take it last night.

Because Hong Chengchou already knew how Shimen Pass Jiancheng was blown up from the military report forwarded by Li Banghua.

If Hong Chengchou was willing to invest so much gunpowder, the north gate of Ningxiang County was blown up by the official army last night.

The Dias gunpowder produced by the Gunpowder Factory of the Armament Institute is a little less used for Hong Chengchou, and of course it is necessary to save it, like the Minister of Military Aircraft Li Banghua, he is indeed a little reluctant, after all, the most effective Fubiao Chinese musket team under his command is supported by these powerful gunpowder.

Having used up all the Dias gunpowder that had been brought over long distances, his musket team immediately became a pike.

Of course, Hong Chengchou was not in a hurry to break the city yesterday, and there is another point, that is, to try to consume the thief army in the city, there are 10,000 or 20,000 people in the city, and he has no more than 3,000 people in his hands, although he is very confident in the combat power of Shaanxi Fubiao, but what if those thief troops surrender?

Do you accept it or not?

If you accept it, 10,000 or 20,000 people in the city will surrender, and you can't afford to give them food!

Therefore, Hong Chengchou's idea is that before breaking the city, how many thief troops can be consumed, let's consume as many thief troops as possible.

However, when Wang Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, commanded six catapults and stopped for commissioning about 200 steps away from the county seat of Ningxiang, a white flag was suddenly raised above the north gate of the county seat of Ningxiang.

The thieves have surrendered!

Hong Chengchou was on the hillside two or three miles away from the front of the formation, waiting for the news that the city was on fire again, but suddenly heard cheers from the front of the army.

"The thieves have surrendered! The thieves have surrendered! ”

Hearing the cheers in the distance, Hong Chengchou hurriedly raised the monocular clairvoyant, only to see a white flag appear in his field of vision.

And a man who looked like the leader of a thief army holding a white flag, shaking the white flag vigorously at the head of the city, while faintly shouting: "We have surrendered!" We're down! ”

I saw the little leader of the thief army who shouted surrender at the head of the city, and then threw a package out of the city, and then still kept shouting: "We have surrendered!" We're down! ”

Seeing this scene, Hong Chengchou put down the clairspace in his hand with a gloomy face, rode on his horse with a complicated mood, and galloped towards the official and military positions in front of him under the escort of a group of relatives.

Of course, Hong Chengchou didn't know at this moment that the leaders of the thief army in the city would surrender, but he also knew that there must be something inside the city that he didn't understand, that is to say, there must be something strange behind the surrender of the thief army.

Because he only led the army to the city in the evening before yesterday, he built equipment yesterday morning, and only began to attack the city in the afternoon, and it was only a day to fight and count, even if the power of the fierce fire and oil bomb was amazing, it would not make the thief army in the city, which was several times larger than the official army, surrender so easily!

This doesn't make sense.

In the heart of Hong Chengchou, who has read the Four Books and Five Classics, if something goes wrong, he is a demon, and everything that does not conform to human nature is something worthy of vigilance.

Hong Chengchou rode to the front of the battle, and Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, quickly came to meet him and presented the things thrown by the thief army from the city.

This is a roll of yellow-brown papyrus wrapped in white cloth, and it is also the surrender letter that Wang Zuohang specially asked someone to write.

Of course, Wang Zuohang doesn't know a single big character, and most of the thieves under his command are like this, but these thieves loot all over the place and coerce the people, but there are many people who are coarse and literate.

Wang Zuohang found a few people, dictated the surrender letter, asked them to write it down, and threw it outside the city gate.

The content of the letter is very simple, it is said that Wang Zuojiao and others heard last night that the official army had captured Shennanyu, Wang Jiayin and Wang Er died, they thought that the big leader was dead, and they didn't want to resist, as long as the court agreed to pardon them, let them keep their subordinates, allow them to return to their hometowns, and settle properly, they were willing to open the city and surrender.

Then, there are the names and real names of their leaders who are ready to surrender:

"King of Liang" Wang Zuohang, "King of the Whole World" Wu Yangui, "Big Red Wolf" Du San, "Over the Sky" Hui Dengxiang, "Full of Stars" Zhang Tianshou, as well as "A Gust of Wind" Miao Mei, "Heavenly Dragon" Bai Wenbo.

And on each real name, there is also a blood-red thumb print.

Hong Chengchou was also taken aback when he saw the news of the deaths of Wang Jiayin and Wang Er on the scroll of paper thrown from the thief army to the city, but he was still indifferent on the surface.

Now that Shennanyu has entered the hands of the official army, and big thieves like Wang Jiayin and Wang Er have died, then the county town of Ningxiang in front of him will be in the bag sooner or later.

Hong Chengchou read the names written on the paper, corresponded each loud name with the real name that came with it several times, and finally stopped at the conditions put forward by Wang Zuohang and others, the corners of his mouth moved, and a contemptuous smile appeared on his face.

Because he knew very well that there was no need to consult Emperor Chongzhen for such a thing, and even Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who supervised the division in Shanxi, he could be very sure that such conditions were impossible to accept.

However, as the saying goes, soldiers are not tired of deceit, and Hong Chengchou, who is familiar with the art of war, plans to agree to come down first.

In the Ming official army on the front line of Ningxiang, it is naturally Hong Chengchou who says it alone, although the new Shaanxi commander-in-chief Wang Chengen is much older than Hong Chengchou, but in front of Hong Chengchou, there is not much weight to speak, as for Li Wenyun and Zhong Dewu, they are naturally the only ones who obey orders.

Although Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, still had doubts in his heart, even generals such as Li Wenyun and Zhong Dewu muttered in their hearts, thinking that when Hong Chengchou gave an order, these people were immediately banned.

However, although Hong Chengchou agreed to all the conditions proposed by Wang Zuojiao and others, Hong Chengchou naturally put forward his own conditions for accepting the surrender of the thief army in the city.

Since Wang Zuohang has sent people to wave the white flag on the head of the city and shout loudly to surrender, the thief army in the city must have lost their fighting spirit at this time, and they are not allowed to be kneaded by Hong Chengchou?

Hong Chengchou also wrote a letter and shot it at the head of the city with a bow and arrow.

In the letter, he agreed to all the conditions of Wang Zuojiao and others, but he put forward a demand: the court law, all those who gather a crowd to make rebellion, after the pacification, will implement the eleven killing law, and ten people will kill one person.

In other words, if you want to surrender and become an official, it's no problem if you want to keep your subordinates, and if you even want to go back to your hometown to resettle, it's no problem, as long as you agree to the conditions of the imperial court, everything is fine.

After yesterday, isn't there a total of 20,000 people under your command?

Well, very well, kill two thousand first, hand over two thousand heads, and see your sincerity.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou also limited the deadline to three o'clock in the afternoon, which was to force the thieves in the city to have no time to think deeply, so that they were in chaos.