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Niu Jinxing didn't know where he came out again, ran all the way to Li Zicheng, and offered him a plan.

"King, now that you have been attacking cities all over Taiyuan for a long time, it is better to follow the story of Tang Taizong leading troops into Chang'an!"

"What's the story?" Li Zicheng asked.

Niu Jinxing bowed down and said: "Back then, Li Shimin raised troops from Taiyuan, intending to take Chang'an directly, so he gave up the large and small cities along the way and did not attack, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chang'an. Then, with the power of a million heroes, he will definitely be able to decide the world in one battle! ”

Li Zicheng's eyebrows furrowed deeply, and he shook his head in disagreement.

"Prime Minister, your strategy is not bad, but unfortunately this time is different from the past, when Li Shimin entered Chang'anyi, now it is difficult for me to enter Beijing, it is true that I will win the world in a battle, but what if I don't win?"

Of course, Niu Venus knows what the result of not winning the battle is, it is nothing more than a different head. But if you don't fight it, just grind it little by little to go to Beijing, and sooner or later you will die.

But it's impossible for him to say this, he just gives advice to his master, he listens to it, even if he doesn't listen, as a political master who is mature enough to easily play his political opponent to death, Niu Jinxing still understands these truths.

Therefore, when Li Zicheng was timid, he could only give up his hand and say: "The king is wise".

Although Daizhou City is strong, there is an army of more than 600,000 people from Li Zicheng outside, which is destined to make it impossible for it to hold on for too long. This truth is not only understood by Li Zicheng, but also by Zhou Yuji, the last military general of the Ming Empire in the city!

While there were still 2,000 people left around him, he decided to break through.

Standing at the head of the city, looking at the corpses outside the city and on the city, full of stench of blood. Zhou Yuji held the cannon in one hand and put the other hand on the city, looking at the sky in the distance with a dark face, and said angrily: "Zhou has done his best. Now the only way to die is to die in battle. ”

The generals and soldiers around him, one by one, were mighty and unyielding, standing straight at the head of the city, looking at the corpses below and the black thief army in the distance, without the slightest fear.

It's not that they don't fear. But after a long time, they may be numb or forget, and they are already indifferent.

"Zhou Yuji!" After Liu Zongmin, who was far away under the city, saw Zhou Yuji, he didn't know where to get a loudspeaker sold by Zhu Changyuan from modern society, and shouted: "Hurry up and open the door and surrender, otherwise, when I break into the king and enter Daizhou City, I will definitely slaughter the city to vent my anger!" ”

Zhou Yuji raised his head and fired a shot in the direction of Liu Zongmin.

"How many people are there in the city?" Zhou Yuji asked his subordinates.

"Back to the general, there are only more than 2,000 soldiers in the city. There are more than 10,000 people, and countless people died in battle! The adjutant general in the back looked at Zhou Yuji and replied in a sad tone.

"Alas!" Zhou Yuji let out a long sigh and said desolately: "I, Zhou Yuji, am loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately the thieves are strong, I can't stop it, and now since I can't resist it left and right, why bother the people, tonight." Let him Li Zicheng enter the city, let's retreat to Ningwu County. ”

Zhou Yuji seems to be offering the city, but in fact it is not surrender, it is just a choice in desperation. In this way, it can not only save the lives of the people in the city, but also transfer the pressure to Datong Town behind, after all, Datong Mansion has a lot of soldiers and food, and Taiyuan Mansion is a military town of the same level, even if it is broken, it is still possible to resist Li Zicheng for two or three months.

When the time comes, consume some of the strength of the thieves. In the future, the pressure on the Xuanfu and Jingshi will be reduced, and the thieves will retreat by themselves.

It was based on this idea that Zhou Yuji did not defend Daizhou City brainlessly, but led 2,000 soldiers to break out of the siege overnight and run towards Ningwu County in the west.

Li Zicheng went to the next city and successfully entered Daizhou, at this moment, it is less than 200 miles away from Datong Mansion, which can be said to be far away.

Li Zicheng followed his usual style, and after entering Dai County, the 600,000 troops were stationed in place to rest, neither pursuing Zhou Yuji, who had fled to Ningwu County, nor having any idea of marching towards Datong Town.

Liu Zongmin and Niu Jinxing persuaded him many times, and he reluctantly raised troops to fight again.

However, the object of the re-battle was not to attack Datong, but to turn around and run to the west to pursue Zhou Yuji, who had fled to Ningwu County. At that time, many officials began to vomit blood.

Taiyuan, Xinzhou, Daixian to Datong behind, the four cities are connected into a line, and they are all on flat ground. To the west of the four cities is a large mountain that stretches from north to south, separating the four cities from the west, and Ningwu County is just to the west of the mountain.

Zhou Yuji's intention of running to Ningwu County is already obvious: Lao Tzu can't play with you, I won't play with you, what do you like, whether you go to fight Datong or attack Jingshi, there will be nothing to do with me in the future!

But now Li Zicheng actually gave up Datong to attack Ningwuguan, which is meaningless, and it can be said that it has no strategic value, and all the generals and civil officials under his command don't know what he thinks.

In fact, only Li Zicheng understood that he didn't want to really attack Jingshi at all, and he didn't want to gnaw on a Ming nine-sided important town that should be stinker than a stone, because he suffered an unimaginable blow in the same important town of Taiyuan.

As for chasing and killing Zhou Yuji, it is estimated that it is because Zhou Yuji is a soft persimmon to him now.

However, what he never expected was that this persimmon, which seemed to have been broken and softened, was still not easy to gnaw on, and it was still a stinky stone that could break people's teeth.

In history, Li Zicheng did not directly attack Datong Mansion, but went to Ningwu County to wave with the guy named Zhou Yuji, which also achieved one of the many failures in his personal career.

He ignored the geographical location and historical importance of Ningwu County.

To be precise, Ningwu County is easier to defend and more difficult to attack than Daizhou and Xinzhou, and it makes people feel more desperate.

There is a famous Xiongguan in this place, called Ningwu Pass, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Ningwu Pass is the main base of the garrison of Datong, Taiyuan and Ningxia, although the late Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to the use, but it does not mean that this pass does not exist.

Ningwu Pass is very large, with a circumference of four kilometers, and one kilometer long on each side, you can imagine how big this city is, Bimo Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City are more than one circle larger.

Four city gates, 16 arrow towers, more than 60 red-coated cannons, and more than 20,000 permanent troops were set up.

Another important place is that this pass is not located on the water's edge or flat ground like the usual castles, it is located in a mountainous area, backed by the mountains, facing the big valley, and it is an excellent place to defend and difficult to attack.

A vigorous war began here.

"Since we can't dodge it, let's meet the battle." Zhou Yuji climbed to the top of the city, looking at the black people three miles away on the opposite side, without fear, he only had the intention of repaying the country with death: "Brothers, defend Ningwu Pass to the death, as the last barrier of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Under the infection of Zhou Yuji's personal charm, the defenders of Ningwuguan were unusually tenacious. Although there were only 20,000 people, Li Zicheng's 600,000-strong army was stunned, and he almost couldn't find the north.

"Kill!" Liu Zongmin led the team and rushed to the city head of Ningwuguan more than once.

It's a pity that every time he was either smashed back by the rolling stones above the city, or he was persuaded to retreat by the cannon from a distance before he reached the pass.

On the fifteenth, there was no way to break the city.

Li Zicheng was about to give up the attack, Liu Zongmin persuaded him: "At first, your subordinates persuaded the king not to attack Ningwu Pass, but the king didn't listen to the advice and had to come, and now that you have come and done nothing, I am afraid that the people below will not be convinced by the king and will look down on you." Therefore, Ning Wuguan must be taken down. ”

Li Zicheng had no choice but to continue fighting.

However, after a long delay, there was no progress, and his troops suffered heavy casualties.

Compared with Li Zicheng, Zhou Yuji at the head of the city was even more uncomfortable, because although his own troops occupied the advantage of defending the city, they also suffered heavy casualties in the battles they had fought for several days.

There is not much food and grass left.

"If you don't die, you will be slaughtered immediately when you enter the city, and no babies and children will be left behind." Liu Zongmin held a loudspeaker and shouted in the distance at the risk of being bombarded by artillery fire.

The guards of Ning Wuguan gave in a little, and they all went to persuade Zhou Yuji, saying, "If the thief army slaughters the city after breaking the city, what should it do?" ”

Zhou Yuji said: "This kind of strategy can only be used once, if every time you use the slaughter of the city as an excuse, what war can you resist in the world, this time, don't fall into their trap." ”

Therefore, he ordered his soldiers to pretend to be old, weak, sick and disabled to go out to meet the battle, and finally they were outnumbered and broken by the enemy.

Then, Liu Zongmin's army attacked the city of Ningwu Pass in one go. But as soon as he entered the city, he found that the gate was inexplicably closed, and he did not see the houses in the city, all around which were full of walls.

"Urn City!"

Liu Zongmin thought of it for the first time, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to retreat, but the hot water in the sky splashed down at the same time, burning the thieves below one by one, and even Liu Zongmin's own face was burned with several big blisters.

"Rush!" Zhou Yuji personally put on the battle, led the soldiers in the city to open the city gate, and began to impact the soldiers who had just been scalded by boiling water, and a fierce battle killed nearly 10,000 enemy soldiers.

Liu Zongmin retreated to the gate of the city under the protection of his subordinates, opened the door to welcome the army outside the city, and the two sides launched a street battle with a huge disparity in power but extremely tenacious.

Zhou Yuji rode a tall horse, holding two steel knives in his hands, and the heads of people fell to the ground like a god descending from heaven to earth, and no one dared to approach within five feet.

"Brothers, fight for the world and fight for the Ming Dynasty. Even if I die, I have no regrets with the newspaper! While speaking, rush to the front of the army and fight again! (To be continued.) )