Zhang Chu's feelings for Li Zicheng are complicated, because of the education he received in his previous life, Zhang Chu has always regarded Li Zicheng as a hero, and has given Li Zicheng a lot of help before, which makes Li Zicheng's development and growth much faster than in history, but he still did not escape the fate of failure, and only escaped back to Henan after a few days of travel in Beijing. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info after fighting the plague tenaciously for a while, the strength is not as good as before. At this time, Zhang Chu was thriving, with a large piece of territory and a large number of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Chu consolidated his territory and began to pacify the forces in the north, in order to make it easier for people to accept, Zhang Chu played the banner of protecting the territory and the people, quelling the rebellion and controlling the chaos.

The security army coerced and eliminated the remnants of the Southern Ming Emperor who captured the Southern Ming Emperor in the face of small forces in various places, and the remnants of the large army, whether it was a small group of rebels or an official army, could only surrender. After continuous propaganda, the security army has gradually been accepted by the people, and everyone thinks that another change of dynasty has arrived, and this time it should be Zhang Chu of the security army who will reach the peak of power. People in many places are already looking forward to the arrival of the security forces to end the fighting and return to a stable life.

Of course, Zhang Chu didn't want to kill more, so he accepted the enemy's surrender as much as possible when sweeping the north, and only used force against stubborn opponents.

For an opponent like Li Zicheng, who still had strong strength, Zhang Chu also sent an envoy to urge him to surrender as soon as possible.

The reaction to Zhang Chu's solicitation of Li Zicheng was not enthusiastic, he was also a person who had been the emperor, and Li Zicheng was always ambitious, thinking that he was the last person to rule the world in this troubled world, and he believed in the legend of "Eighteen Sons Ruling the World". Even under strong military pressure from the security forces, it did not waver. He has experienced too many defeats since the uprising, each time the opponent is a hundred times stronger than him, and each time he rises again from defeat, so Li Zicheng decided to actively prepare for the war, and deal with the security army, if it is really not possible, he will take the elite away, and this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing. In order to prepare for the upcoming war, Li Zicheng led his entourage to inspect everywhere, observe the terrain and choose the preset battlefield, but he did not expect an accident during this period.

One day, Li Zicheng led a team of soldiers to a small mountain col to check the terrain, and as soon as they entered, they were discovered by Xiang Yong in a village in the mountain col. Xiang Yong immediately informed the rest of the village, and the villagers thought that bandits had come to the village to rob them. In order to protect their property, the villagers took their weapons and blocked the mountain pass into the village, because of the frequent harassment of thieves over the years, the people of this village tried to arm themselves, not only they had all kinds of knives and guns, but also some people bought muskets and bows and arrows.

He also hollowed out the trunk of an old elm tree in the village and put an iron hoop on it, filled it with gunpowder and iron sand, and made an elm cannon. The elm cannon was placed in the grass at the entrance of the village, and two daring villagers climbed there to prepare for the fire.

Li Zicheng and his own soldiers approached the entrance of the village and found the villagers holding guns there, the villagers had long been frightened that there were thieves coming, and when they saw Li Zicheng and his party from a distance, they did not wait for them to approach, so they shot the arrows in their hands and fired the muskets, and the villagers who were hiding in the grass and preparing to fire the guns also ignited the fuse of the elm cannon, they were afraid that they would leave the fuse for a long time, and after igniting it, they would run away, and they didn't even care whether the elm cannon could be fired.

Due to the distance, the villagers' bows and arrows and muskets could not cause harm to Li Zicheng and the others. The villagers panicked when they saw that the thieves on the opposite side were unscathed, and fled to the village shouting in terror.

Li Zicheng wanted to find a few villagers to ask about the situation, but he didn't expect the villagers to be scared away, so he had to take his own soldiers to walk slowly into the village, hoping to find one or two villagers who didn't run away.

Li Zicheng felt a shock in his chest, and fell off his horse at that time, and the accompanying soldiers were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly came to the rescue, but found that it was the iron sand shot by an artillery gun that hit Li Zicheng's chest, and blood was flowing out of the wound little by little.

Li Zicheng tried hard to sit up from the ground, he had been through a hundred battles and had been injured many times, this little injury should be nothing to him, but at this time he felt that the power was flowing away from his body, he couldn't make a sound when he wanted to open his mouth to speak, and a deep sleepiness hit, Li Zicheng felt sleepy for a while, and couldn't help but close his eyes, but he was never able to wake up with his eyes closed.

The soldiers looked at Li Zicheng, who was lifeless, helpless. It was so coincidental that Li Zicheng only had a wound on his chest, but this wound took the life of Li Zicheng, who had been in a hundred battles. The soldiers who reacted rushed into the village in a rage, killed everyone in the village, and set fire to everything in the village, but all this was to no avail. The mighty hero actually died in such a small village, and his death was unknown, and it was not even clear who killed him.

When the news of Li Zicheng's death came out, the men and horses under his command suddenly messed up the camp. They were united entirely by the prestige of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang. Li Zicheng's death was naturally a tree falling apart, and the various generals fought constantly for power, and the entire team fell apart. In the end, Li Guo led some of the men and horses to defect to Zhang Chu, and the others also fled.

This accident saved Zhang Chu a lot of trouble, and Zhang Chu no longer had to worry about whether to do anything to the rebels.

The security army quickly occupied the territory of the original rebel army, and selected the remnants of the rebel army that had been gathered, leaving only a small number of elite soldiers in the rebel army to enrich the security army, and most of the others were placed in the mines and factories of the security army to ensure that these people could have food. Years of war have been pacified, and all that is left on the land of Shaanxi and Shanxi is desolation.

The security army took over the territory of the rebel army and entered the territory of Henan, and joined up with the team from Shandong, forming a strong team and driving straight to the Jingshi area, which now came into direct contact with the Guanning army led by Wu Xiang.

Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou's situation is very difficult now, when they sent troops from Shanhaiguan, they did not expect that the security army could eliminate Houjin in such a short time, and the security army that went south easily occupied their Laochaoshan Pass, while the Guanning army that entered the Beijing division was defeated by the plague. Now the security army not only occupies a large area of land outside the Guan, but also takes the Jiangnan region and captures the Emperor of the Southern Ming, which has no hope of the real restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the security army has easily occupied most of the north during the civil strife of the thieves, Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou feel that there is no way out, and at this time people have no doubt that Zhang Chu will replace the Ming Dynasty. Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou discussed and finally decided that the whole army surrendered to Zhang Chu. (To be continued.) )