Rongyang City, Lu Wangfu.

The decoration of the palace was still magnificent, but there was no longer any royal majesty, and many ladies and servants with large bags and small bags were shouting at the moment, and ran out regardless of it.

Even about eighty percent of the guards with knives in the palace chose to throw down their weapons and flee, as if this was no longer the Lu Wangfu that could give them shelter and make them fake tigers, but like a demon cave.

"The Qing soldiers are coming, the Qing soldiers are entering the city!"

"Run, run!"

"God, God, what about the Shandong Army?"

Zhu Yipai, the king of Lu, who was sitting in the lobby of the palace, looked at the people in the palace who were scattered with birds and beasts, and still muttered in disbelief:

"How come, how come, where did the Qing soldiers come from......" was silent for a long time, as if he suddenly thought of something, Zhu Yipai shouted:

"What about the people of the Shandong Army, go and call for a knife, go quickly!"

Indeed, this Qing soldier came too suddenly, didn't the city say that there was a Shandong army garrison, and even the torture knife was in the city, but why was the city broken so quickly.

said that the city was broken, but in fact, this was a situation set up by the Shandong army a long time ago.

Along the way, the Laizhou soldiers under Liu Xiong's command, disguised as Qing soldiers, did not encounter any resistance at all, and it was not until they arrived at the gate of the Lu Wangfu that they saw those panicked palace guards who were fleeing.

The "Qing soldiers" wearing white flag armor are of course facing them head-on, and after a short period of fighting, the rest is nothing more than a big killing, whether it is the royal children or the guards and daughters in the palace, but whenever they meet, almost all of them are in a different place without exception.

King Lu's mansion suddenly became a battlefield like Shura, and the palatial hall was full of miserable wails and blood stains.

These "Tartars" did not have any mercy at all, and most of the palace guards fled, and the remaining ones could not resist for long at all, and they were also the end of the crossbow.

A team of "Eight Banner Soldiers" held the standard equipment of Tartar infantry armor, armed with a tiger-headed broadsword, and a lightning rod and iron helmet on their heads.

Seeing a few men and women huddled in the palace, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, but then he remembered the military order.

didn't hesitate for long, these Qing soldiers stepped forward one after another, slashed to death a few palace maids, and saw that those servants were about to run, and chased after them with a few knives.

When the room was full of corpses, several Qing soldiers were about to turn around and leave for the next room, when they suddenly heard a low cry from under the bed.

"What to do... It seems to be a child. ”

A Qing soldier spoke Chinese, and several people around him were also unbearable, at this time, a sentry came from outside the door, looked at it a few times, and said coldly:

"The marshal has a military order, Lu Wangfu, no chickens and dogs left!"

Speaking of this, the sentry officer stepped forward, pulled out the young son in the gorgeous brocade robe hidden under the bed, closed his eyes, and raised his knife in his hand.

The Qing army of Zhengbai Banner who entered the city continued the previous style, and no one in the Lu Wangfu, including Zhu Yipai, survived, and there were dead bodies all over the ground.

That night, Liu Xiong, the head of the Laizhou Mansion of the Shandong Army, was holding a tiger-headed broadsword that was dripping blood, smelling the smell of blood coming from the Lu Wang's mansion, and breathed a sigh of relief.

He put the knife back into its sheath and said lightly:

"The secret report is that the handsome King Lu is dead, and he can be replaced."

On the afternoon of the next day, Li Yan, who was working in the office of the Military Affairs Department, received a secret report from Liu Xiong, and immediately sighed heavily and said:

"This is the one who can achieve great things!"

......

The bad news of Chongzhen's fifteen years came one after another, and after the Shandong army withdrew, Songjin still fell.

Emperor Chongzhen knew in his heart that the situation of leaving the Shandong army might be different, and after hearing the news, he didn't know how he felt in his heart, anyway, he didn't say a word about Wang Zheng.

The only thing to do was to set up an altar for the great loyal minister Hong Chengchou, and all the ministers came to worship, but at this time, the news of Hong Chengchou's surrender suddenly came.

All of a sudden, Emperor Chongzhen was stunned, and the ministers below looked stunned, followed by the unanimous joy in their hearts.

This is equivalent to slapping Emperor Chongzhen hard, and such news came before the memorial was over, so that Chongzhen couldn't get off the stage at all, and he felt like he had become a clown.

However, this slap also made Emperor Chongzhen wake up and realize that he could no longer trust anyone.

Since that day, Emperor Chongzhen has a cold face to the rest of the courtiers every day, dismissing at every turn, and getting angry at every turn.

For a time, everyone in the Beizhili ministers was in the rumor.

The thieves in the hinterland of the Central Plains intensified, but no one dared to speak at this juncture, and in the end it was Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, who strongly recommended Emperor Chongzhen to reactivate Sun Chuanting.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was extremely reluctant in his heart, he also knew that at the moment, only Sun Chuanting could call the loyal monarch the country and could clean up this situation.

Not long after, Chongzhen issued an edict that Sun Chuanting was the governor of Shaanxi after Wang Qiaonian, and he suppressed Li Zicheng within a time limit.

After Sun Chuanting arrived, he did not rush to send troops, but disbanded the originally weak guards under great pressure, and could reorganize the new army, which needed silver taels and food.

Chongzhen couldn't help in this regard, but he still gave Sun Chuanting four words and acted cheaply.

Sun Chuanting was so shrewd, he immediately understood the emperor's intentions, which meant that there was no money, but you could find a way to solve it yourself, and the court would not interfere.

Sun Chuanting, who had no worries, decided to be ruthless to the landlords, using a similar method to Wang Zheng, except that Wang Zheng "invited" people to the banquet, and Sun Chuanting directly surrounded the banquet of the landlords and gentry with heavy troops.

After this banquet, the landlords had no choice but to give a batch of food to save their lives, but they hated Sun Chuanting's actions extremely much in their hearts, and they were planning to get back at any time.

Sun Chuanting's mind was not on fighting with them at all, and after getting the much-needed food and salary, he recruited the subordinates of the old Qin army as his own soldiers, and based on this, he quickly organized a new Qin army of tens of thousands of people.

The good times didn't last long, and before Sun Chuanting had time to train recruits, something happened in Shandong.

Shandong General Army, Zuodu Governor, Zhongliebo Wang Zheng suddenly went up and asked Yi to change the title, calling "Zhongliebo" inappropriate, Sun Chuanting immediately felt that the big thing was not good.

Sure enough, Wang Zheng's words greatly angered Chongzhen, and he did not hesitate to refute such unreasonable demands.

But this seems to have fallen into the hands of the other party, Wang Zheng took advantage of this to brazenly launch a war that affected the entire east, and decisively sent troops to take Cangzhou, an important town of Caoyun, and then controlled the entire Hejian Mansion with a thunderous force.

With 200,000 Shandong soldiers under his nose, Chongzhen felt a chill down his spine even when he slept, but who could he rely on at the moment?

Sun Chuanting, who had just been released from prison, took the last elite of the Central Plains to fight with the Chuang army, and Wu Sangui led the Guanning army to guard the Shanhaiguan to resist the Qing army.

But Zuo Liangyu was not having a good time, he was chased by Li Zicheng's generals Li Guo all over the mountains, and there was no Zuo Ping's demeanor left at all, so the left army was useless and could not be counted on at all.

Just when Chongzhen was at a loss, he heard two more bombshell news.

First, Wang Zheng really cut off the north-south Cao Yun, and Shandong and Haizhou also cooperated and seized a large number of Cao Yun goods.

Now the silver grain and goods in the south, as long as they do not go through Wang Zheng's nod, they will not be able to transport the slightest bit to the north of Zhili.

This is equivalent to choking Chongzhen's lifeline and forcing him to be soft, but there is more than one worrying thing, after Wang Zheng led the Shandong army to the north, it may be due to the emptiness of the place, so that the Qing army took advantage of the loophole.

Somehow, the white flag Qing soldiers under the command of Dolgon suddenly appeared under the city of Rongyang, when the Shandong army was still training, probably because Rongyang is the hinterland, so the precautions are not heavy, which is also reasonable.

It is said that there were not many Shandong troops left behind in Rongyang City, and it did not take long for the Qing army to break through, followed by Dolgon's bloody Lu Palace.

The final result was that the king of Lu, Zhu Yipai, hanged himself, and almost none of the men, women, and children in the palace, especially the relatives of Zhu Yipai, survived.

Although the north and south were shocked by the death of King Lu, at the same time, no one would associate this matter with Wang Zheng, and it was impossible to say that it was not the hand of Dolgon.

The people in the city saw it, and the people who came were wearing the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Qing army's white flag, wearing full body armor, holding a tiger's head sword, and some people were even saying Manchu that they couldn't understand at all, what kind of army could it be if it wasn't a Qing soldier.

Dolgon has always been cunning and treacherous, and the battle of Songjin is indispensable for his great efforts, and it is not surprising that this person can take advantage of Wang Zheng to make a move to draw salary, and want to implicate Wang Zheng with the crime of trapping the domain.