Shanxi, Taiyuan City

Taiyuan was known as Bingzhou in ancient times, also Jackie Chan City, as a famous literary meeting in northern China, a military city, compared with Luoyang, Kaifeng and other cities in the Central Plains, although from the fame, there is a slight deficiency, but it is indeed an important place for the Central Plains to communicate with the northwest.

"Lord Wang, Lord Cai, you guys quickly get an idea, now Li Thief's million-strong army is attacking Fenyang, Fenyang is in danger, and it will be taken by Li Thief every day, should we send reinforcements to the rescue, you know, Fenyang is the west gate of Taiyuan City, if Fenyang is lost, Taiyuan City will not be good!"

In Taiyuan City, inside the governor's yamen, a middle-aged man wearing the clothes of a scholar, and two people who wanted to sit on it were begging bitterly.

Hearing the pleading of the middle-aged man, the two people sitting at the top, one of them said, "Mr. Zhang, it's not that the official doesn't send reinforcements, but now Taiyuan City is also a small number of soldiers, a huge Taiyuan City, there are only less than 30,000 soldiers, most of them are incompetent, let alone let them rescue Fenyang, that is, whether they can hold Taiyuan City, is an unknown."

In this case, how can you say that this official can send troops to Fenyang, you know, Li Thief has an army of one million, if he takes advantage of the time when this official sends troops to Fenyang, come to attack Taiyuan City, how do you let this official explain to the emperor and the people of Taiyuan City! "The one who spoke was the current governor of Shanxi, Cai Minde, as the current governor of Shanxi, a big official on the ground in Shanxi, seeing that Li Zicheng's army was swarming and about to sweep the land of Shanxi in the blink of an eye, such a situation made him frightened and frightened in his heart, and now he can only rely on this Taiyuan City, the city wall is tall, and he can only defend Taiyuan City, as for other places, he can only resign himself to fate.

Hearing Cai Minde's words, the middle-aged scholar who originally spoke, Mr. Zhang thought of the promise he made to the soldiers and civilians in Fenyang City who were struggling to resist before he came, and suddenly knelt on the ground, and shouted loudly, "My lord, Lord Wang, now more than 100,000 people in Fenyang City are struggling to resist the army of Li Thief, in the past two days, he has repeatedly hit the army of Li Thief, Li Thief and said that if Fenyang is captured, he will definitely slaughter Fenyang, and please save Fenyang for the sake of more than 100,000 lives!" ”

Seeing Mr. Zhang's appearance, another fat man in a black python robe said, "Mr. Zhang, it's not that this king and Lord Cai are unwilling to send troops, but now it's useless to send troops, even if all the 30,000 troops in the entire Taiyuan City are sent over, they are not Li Thief's opponents at all, and so far, let's think about it in the long run!" "Fat is the king of Jin Zhu Qiugui, and he is the descendant of the third son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Hearing the words of Zhu Qiugui, the king of Jin, Mr. Zhang suddenly cried with sadness on his face, "I didn't expect that more than 100,000 people in Fenyang tried their best to resist the Li thief. ”

As soon as Zhang Ziqiu's words were finished, in the slightly ashamed eyes of Zhu Qiugui and Cai Minde, he suddenly jumped up from the ground, and then slammed into a thick pillar on the side.

"Boom"

With a loud bang, I saw Zhang Ziqiu, who hit the pillar hard, fall to the ground without humming, and in an instant, strands of blood slowly fell down the pitch-black pillar and slowly fell to the ground.

"Ahh

Seeing this miserable scene in front of them, the two people sitting at the top stood up in shock in an instant, and they didn't speak for a long time.

Jin King Zhu Qiugui is better, after all, he is only a vassal king of the imperial court, and according to the regulations of the Ming court, the vassal king has no rights, so for the scene in front of him, he has no other feeling except for being shocked, but Cai Minde, who is the governor of Shanxi, is different.

If Zhang Ziqiu didn't hit the pillar and died, it would be okay, he still didn't feel anything about the destruction of Fenyang City, after all, there are too many cities that have been broken by Li Zicheng's army now, one more and one less, it doesn't matter at all, but now Zhang Ziqiu committed suicide by hitting the pillar like this, if he doesn't send troops to rescue, then it will be very bad for his reputation, even if he survives this crisis, the court will not reuse him in the future because of his reputation.

The expression on his face changed uncertainly for a long time, and finally Cai Minde finally spoke, "Come on, pass my order, let General Li lead 3,000 troops to rescue Fenyang City, in addition, carry Mr. Zhang down and bury it well, it's a pity that such a strong man will die." ”

Zhu Qiugui, the king of Jin, who was still surprised, heard Cai Minde's words, and immediately said unhappily: "Lord Cai, now the troops in Taiyuan City are insufficient, and you still send 3,000 soldiers and horses to rescue Fenyang, not to mention anything else, what do you think can be done with 3,000 soldiers and horses in the face of Li Thief's million-strong army!" ”

Cai Minde didn't care about Zhu Qiugui's words, to be honest, these vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of these feudal officials, were not even a fart, if it weren't for the fact that he still had to rely on Zhu Qiugui's reputation to encourage the people, he would not have met with Zhu Qiugui at all.

"The prince forgives the sin, and the lower officials also know that this move is very inappropriate, but now is the critical moment to resist the Li thief, if this matter spreads, do you know that the people will think so, after all, Fenyang has resisted the Li thief army for several days, if we don't save it when we see death, if we don't say anything else, the morale of that person's heart will be completely dissipated, so, even if you don't want to, these three thousand soldiers will be sent, not for anything else, just to boost morale." Cai Minde said.

"It's broken, it's broken, the city gate has been breached, rush quickly."

Just when Zhang Ziqiu hit the pillar and died, outside Fenyang City, bursts of shouts resounded in the sky, an inconspicuous Fenyang City, actually blocked their million-strong army for a few days, this incident made everyone in Dashun Country full of anger in their hearts, and they wanted to kill everyone in the city now.

"King, now that the city is broken, do you see if it makes the children relaxed, so that everyone's anger can be vented for many days, and in addition, it can also give some warnings to those who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, you see!"

Three miles outside Fenyang City, when he got the information from the spies of the former army that Fenyang City had been breached, in the big tent of the Chinese army where Li Zicheng was, all the civil and military officials of Dashun State were overjoyed, and one of the generals even brought up the massacre that Li Zicheng said when he was angry a few days ago.

Hearing the general's words, the faces of everyone in the big tent changed, some became extremely happy, and some instantly frowned and remained silent.

In fact, for this kind of thing of slaughtering the city, Li Chuang's army has done a lot since the beginning of the army, but don't think that they are a peasant army, that is, what kind of righteous army, in history, at the end of the dynasty, those warlords from all walks of life who rose up killed people, not to mention killing people without blinking, it was also a rolling flow of people.

Otherwise, why are these people collectively referred to as rogues in the history books of any dynasty or generation?

And although Li Zicheng now has a million troops and is powerful, he can wander around, and when he attacks the city, in order to deter others, it is also very normal to slaughter some cities that resist strongly.

"The king, by all means, now our army is marching all the way east, and it seems that the Ming court will be completely destroyed, so as to replace it, and the people of the world are also full of hope for my Dashun country, at the same time, now that this Fenyang has been defeated, these will be the people of my Dashun country in the future, now, if the king slaughters Fenyang because of a momentary anger, then don't look at our army, but if we lose the hearts of the people, then our future will be difficult!" It was Li Yan who spoke.

One way is the army led by Li Zicheng himself, crossing the Yellow River, crossing Shanxi, so as to follow the Great Wall and directly attack the city of Beijing, while the other way is headed by Liu Zongmin, leading more than 100,000 troops, starting from Xi'an, passing through Longmen, crossing Henan, and attacking Beijing from south to north.

It stands to reason that the best commander of the other army is not Liu Zongmin, but Li Yan, not that Liu Zongmin is not as good as Li Yan, but that in the land of Henan, Li Yan's reputation is much better than Liu Zongmin, and even Li Zicheng, not to mention anything else, Li Yan helped Li Zicheng recruit more than 100,000 strong soldiers in Henan by himself, so that Li Zicheng has his current achievements.

It's a pity that it is precisely because of this that Li Zicheng is extremely jealous of Li Yan in his heart, and for this reason, even at the cost of losing some victories, he has to suppress Li Yan.

Hearing Li Yan's words, Li Zicheng's face, who was originally smiling on his face, changed instantly, in fact, a few days ago, Li Zicheng blurted out the words of slaughtering the city, which was nothing more than a moment of anger, rather than really wanting to slaughter the city.

The current Li Zicheng is different from the previous Li Zicheng, since the breakthrough of Xi'an, the former Li Zicheng, who wanted to take his brothers to fight out a person who could eat well and have clothes to wear, became a Dashun King with the world in mind.

For Li Zicheng, who is now looking at the world, he will definitely not slaughter the city because a city blocks him, because he no longer needs such a bloody thing as slaughtering the city to deter the enemy, because his enemy is already a lamb to the slaughter, presented in his plate, and what he needs more now is to show his fraternity, broadness, and heroism, because this is what an emperor needs.

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