After killing for a long time, Zhou Yuji's mount was cut down by Li Zicheng's soldiers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He didn't give in, he packed his clothes, took out two steel knives that had been curled, and continued to fight, slashing several people again.

Because Zhou Da's general soldiers were too brave, no one dared to approach within three feet of his body.

In the end, it was Liu Zongmin who went up with his wounds, and only with three or four soldiers did he reluctantly knock Zhou Yuji to the ground and capture him alive. As for the rest of the soldiers, they fled in all directions.

After so many days of stubborn resistance, Ningwuguan was finally conquered by Li Zicheng.

When Zhou Yuji was escorted to Li Zicheng, King Chuang also had a heart of love for talent and asked Zhou Yuji if he was willing to surrender? Zhou Yuji opened his mouth and scolded, spit a mouthful of bloody spit on Li Zicheng's face, and said: "Er is a thief, there is a negative grace to the country, I Zhou Yuji is a seven-foot man, a big husband who has passed through heaven and earth, how can I surrender to you." ”

Li Zicheng was annoyed and angry, and asked Zhou Yuji to be tied to a bamboo pole, and then drove into the air and shot him with arrows. King Chuang was angry, and he personally made up an arrow, which hit Zhou Yuji's eyebrows. Although General Zhou had already died when he was shot through by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng's archery still won a round of applause.

Listening to the compliments of the people below, Li Zicheng was not happy, he looked at the Ningwu Guan City in front of him with a gloomy face, his teeth were clucking, and he said: "Zhou Yuji dared to insult this king, and the people in this Ningwu City, they dared to resist so much, kill me, kill them all, and leave no one behind." ”

Liu Zongmin was Li Zicheng's most capable subordinate, and after listening to his words, he did not frown, and led the army into the city with blisters on his face, and began a large-scale massacre.

Zhou Yuji's wife, Liu, was also a martyr, leading all the old and weak servants and maids in the mansion to fight with the peasant army with kitchen knives in the office, and all of them were hacked to death with knives.

The sound of resistance in the city became smaller and smaller, but the bloodshed was more and more, until the last person was killed by Liu Zongmin. There was no living person in the whole city except for the peasant army. "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: Sui Tu Ningwu, infants and young people are not left behind!

When Liu Zongmin ran to Li Zicheng covered in blood, King Chuang asked, "Are they all killed?" ”

Liu Zongmin said: "Yes, big brother." Don't leave the chickens and dogs, kill them all! ”

"Well done!" Li Zicheng patted Liu Zongmin's shoulder and said, "Order all the soldiers to repair Ningwu Pass for a month." You go and count the soldiers and see how many of us are now? ”

"Yes!" Liu Zongmin bowed to Li Zicheng. Then he raised his head and wanted to say something, but saw that Zicheng had already entered the city with his relatives, and he didn't give Liu Zongmin a chance to advise at all.

"Alas!" Liu Zongmin sighed with emotion, and said secretly in his heart: Big brother, big brother, why are you becoming more and more timid, the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner, as long as we work hard, we will get these thousands of miles of splendid rivers and mountains. However, why do you always rest and recuperate, when will you be able to reach Jingshi?

I don't care about the tiredness of my body. Liu Zongmin began to count the soldiers on the same day. The more points are made, the more alarming they are, and the loss of soldiers in each battalion and each team is staggering.

It was not that they were killed by the defenders of Ningwuguan, but those soldiers with ideals and ambitions, after seeing Li Zicheng's inhumane slaughter of Zhou Yuji and the people of the city, spontaneously and quietly left.

Ningwu Guancheng was broken, and excluding those soldiers who died in battle and lost soldiers, Li Zicheng's troops had been sharply reduced to 500,000 people, which was half of the number of personnel when he first set out from Chang'an City.

This result. Liu Zongmin didn't know if he wanted to report it directly to Li Zicheng.

It stands to reason that if this kind of thing happened, the boss should be the first to know, but the current boss has no ambition and fighting spirit, in case he knows about this kind of sharp decline in soldiers. Will you be so scared that you don't dare to go to Beijing?

Just when Liu Zongmin was thinking about it and didn't know what to do, Prime Minister Niu Jinxing came to look for him, and as soon as they met, he asked: "Zongmin, I heard that the results of the soldiers' inventory are out?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Zongmin usually looks down on this prime minister, and feels that as a prime minister, this product is very unkind. There is no so-called virtue, but Niu Jinxing is a talented person who can really help Li Zicheng, so he didn't show his dislike for Niu Jinxing too much.

The relationship between these two people can only be said to be average.

"What was the result?" Niu Jinxing asked eagerly.

Liu Zongmin shook his head first, and then said: "There are still 500,000 people, half less than when we set off from Chang'an, and we can't supply the sick along the way, I'm worried about whether to tell King Chuang!" ”

"Don't!" Niu Jinxing also realized the seriousness of this problem, waved his hand and said: "Now that the lord is depressed, if he hears the news, he will definitely have no intention of competing for the world." ”

Liu Zongmin asked, "What should I do then?" ”

Niu Jinxing said: "Wait a minute, I'll go see King Chuang and persuade him to march into Datong!" ”

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After Li Zicheng listened to Niu Jinxing's suggestion, he paced around the hall with a cloudy face, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head and said: "Prime Minister, the widow doesn't hide it from you, the widow means that we have now occupied Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces, why don't you sit back and wait for Dolgon and Emperor Chongzhen to fight to the death?" ”

"The road to Jingshi is far away, there are still two important military towns of Datong and Xuanfu ahead, even if we conquer these two towns, the soldiers will almost die by then, how to attack Jingshi?"

What Li Zicheng said is very reasonable.

Niu Jinxing replied: "Your lord, you are wrong, although there are two important military towns of Datong and Xuanfu in front, but as far as the minister knows, some time ago, when Zhou Yuji was guarding Taiyuan, the troops of these two places were withdrawn at least fifty percent to support Taiyuan, and now we are going, the strength of these two towns is not to be feared, plus the king has just captured Taiyuan, and even the three cities of Kexinzhou, Daizhou and Ningwuguan, maybe our soldiers have not yet arrived in Datong Mansion, and the defenders of Datong Mansion will flee when they hear about the king's prestige!" ”

No matter how Niu Jinxing persuaded him, Li Zicheng disagreed.

As a result, 500,000 troops were stationed in Ningwu County.

King Li Chuang's ambition was worn out little by little, and every day he either asked people to look for folk girls to have fun, or he pulled a few close ministers to drink together, completely ignoring national affairs.

Sometimes Liu Zongmin got the opportunity to go up and advise, and Li Zicheng said: When the world is in turmoil, the widow will bring the courage of Qin to conquer the princes of the world, wouldn't it be a hundred times easier?

Liu Zongmin left speechless.

After another ten days, Li Zicheng not only did not have any intention of attacking Datong, but even looked for craftsmen everywhere and asked them to return to Chang'an to build a palace as his palace.

Liu Zongmin forcibly admonished, and as a result, Li Zicheng rewarded the 20th board.

At this point, no one dared to say half a word about attacking Datong Mansion in front of King Chuang.

However, even so, the heavens still favored this heroic man who had lost his will. Suddenly, news came: Datong Mansion had surrendered.

Moreover, Nima also sent a table of surrender with ingenuity, expressing his willingness to accept Li Zicheng to Datong.

At this moment, Liu Zongmin was so happy that he almost jumped up, and after getting the news, he ran to Prime Minister Niu Jinxing's residence as soon as possible, and said, "Prime Minister, look at what this is?" ”

The soldiers who were looking for them outside the city were all under Liu Zongmin's control, so he could see the drop table sent by Datong Mansion for the first time, but he didn't dare to open the specific content of the drop table and read it privately.

"Please also ask the prime minister to join me to go to the king of Shang, let him send troops quickly, the opportunity must not be missed!"

Niu Jinxing smiled and said to Liu Zongmin: "It seems that General Liu's last 20 boards have not been enough, and he wants to break into the king and reward you with 20 boards, right?" ”

Liu Zongmin said: "Prime Minister don't joke, come with me." Regardless of whether Niu Jinxing agreed or not, he dragged him out and pulled him into the mansion where Li Zicheng lived.

After Li Zicheng got the surrender table, he looked at Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing in surprise, and asked: "Jiang Xuan, the chief soldier of Datong Mansion, why did he surrender to the widows, and will there be fraud among them?" ”

Liu Zongmin's head darkened, and he sighed and said: "King, now I still think about whether there is fraud in life, can there be any mistake in sending this table?" If you really don't feel at ease, I will lead 10,000 people over first, and then control the entire Datong Mansion, you will not be too late in the past, foolproof! ”

Of course, Li Zicheng has no reason to oppose this method, so he can only agree to it.

So, Liu Zongmin led 10,000 horses, crossed Shuofang City overnight, went straight to Datong Mansion, and after controlling Datong Mansion in an instant, he sent someone to inform Li Zicheng and let him stay in it.

Jiang Liang, the chief military officer of Datong Mansion, personally knelt down to greet Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng almost beheaded Jiang Jiu pretending to behead him, the reason was: betraying the master and forgetting the country.

Fortunately, Niu Jinxing stopped it in time and said: "King, although this person is hateful, hateful and shameless, he can't be killed. If Jiang Jiu is killed, even if the chief soldier of Xuanfu has the heart to surrender in the future, he will definitely not dare to get close to you! ”

Li Zicheng spared Jiang Jiu's life this time.

Surrender is also a contagious disease, for example, not long after Jiang Xuan, the chief military officer of Datong Mansion, surrendered, Wang Chengyin, the chief military officer of Xuanfu, sent the surrender table to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng actually smiled bitterly and pretended to be forced, and said to Liu Zongmin: "This Jiang Jiu surrendered because he was a fellow villager with a widow, and I don't know why Wang Chengyin surrendered to the widow, and did not serve the Ming Dynasty who received the grace of the country in other worlds?" ”

Liu Zongmin said: "I'm afraid of your prestige." ”

In this way, Li Zicheng repeated his old tricks and quickly occupied Xuanfu, and at this moment, Beijing City had come under his nose.

Zhu Changyuan, who was thousands of miles away, was both angry and inexplicably happy in his heart after hearing the news that his subordinates had reported to him that Xuanfu and Datong's general army had surrendered to Li Zicheng. This complicated mood was finally summed up in one sentence, in his words: "Just invaded the opponent's wild area and beat a blue daddy scared Li Zicheng to death, and he was going to shrink back to defense, but unexpectedly the opposite side sent a wave violently, this is really Nima's super god." (To be continued.) )