The rumbling sound of cannons sounded outside Yanjing City, scaring the defenders on the city wall into disarray.

At this time, the defenders of the huge Yanjing City are still at the head of the city, only the young and strong and some old and weak officers and soldiers who have been temporarily recruited, and the number is only seven or eight thousand, and it is really pitiful that there are few people scattered on the city wall for dozens of miles.

Therefore, when the Hongyi cannon sounded, the young soldiers who defended the city for the sake of three baked cakes immediately threw down the weapons in their hands and ran down the city wall, and let a few officers shout and curse behind without looking back.

Seeing the cannonballs hitting the city wall one after another, accompanied by countless Dashun army soldiers attacking the city, Li Zicheng was very pleased, and he smiled and said to the generals: "Everyone, it seems that this artillery is indeed very effective, and we will have to cast more artillery in the future." ”

When the generals heard this, they all moved their eyes to Li Yan, who had just come over with Song Xiance, because these cannons were all cast by Li Yan's craftsmen, and it took no less than 100,000 silver taels and hundreds of craftsmen to cast more than 30 cannons in more than a year. Li Yan was calm, without any pride, and slowly shook his head and said: "The praise of the generals is a shame for the students, because there are no skilled craftsmen, these artillery pieces that we have worked hard to cast are not only worse than the artillery cast by the Pseudo-Ming and Manchu Qing themselves, but also cannot be compared with the artillery in Shandong, and we still have a long way to go." ”

Liu Zongmin laughed and said: "That's not bad, you must know that when we were still a rebel army before, although we captured a lot of Ming artillery, but all of them were too heavy to carry, so they could only be discarded. ”

Liu Zongmin's impression of Li Yan was very good, and he praised him when he heard the words, but although Liu Zongmin praised Li Yan, none of the generals around him echoed him, and the scene became a little weird for a while.

Song Xiance, who was silently observing, saw Liu Zongmin praising Li Yan's merits, knowing that Liu Zongmin was supporting Li Yan, and recently, Li Zicheng had been a little dissatisfied with Li Yan, so that the generals were avoiding him intentionally or unintentionally, and this was especially felt by the Henan battalion under Li Yan.

As the name suggests, most of the soldiers in the Henan battalion are composed of Henan people, and they admire Li Yan, who is also a Henan person, and naturally support him very much, so although Li Zicheng is a little dissatisfied with Li Yan, he does not dare to immediately order the ban on the Henan battalion formed by Li Yan himself, but the supplies allocated to the Henan battalion every month have begun to slowly decrease, which also exacerbates the dissatisfaction of the Henan battalion with King Chuang.

At this time, Liu Zongmin praised Li Yan, which meant that he wanted to support him, but Liu Zongmin praised Li Yan, but none of the generals around him echoed him, and the scene became a little weird for a while.

In the end, Li Zicheng realized the strangeness of the scene, so he laughed and said to everyone: "Yes, Jie Xuan is right, we can have these artillery or Li Gongzi's credit, you must remember that when you enter the Forbidden City in the near future or tomorrow, you can pay a few more glasses to Li Gongzi." ”

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, everyone praised Li Yan one after another, and such a funny scene also made Song Xiance frown secretly, and Niu Jinxing flashed with a faint wisp of jealousy and murder in his eyes, but Song Xiance has been walking the rivers and lakes for more than 20 years, and what he learned is the ability to observe words and colors, although Niu Jinxing's murderous intention was well concealed, it still did not escape Song Xiance's eyes.

"This hasn't won the world yet, our own people are thinking about coaxing, can the Dashun Army really win the world?" At this moment, Song Xiance couldn't help but feel a little worried about the future.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers on the head of the city, Song Xiance followed the prestige, it turned out that the soldiers of the Dashun army had climbed to the top of the city, and they were driving the defenders on the city head like a sheep, and soon, a small number of defenders at the head of the city were either expelled or killed, and most of the remaining people knelt down and surrendered.

"The city is broken, the city is broken!"

Bursts of cheers rang out inside and outside Yanjing City.

"Good"

Li Zicheng and the generals danced happily, but they didn't expect that less than an hour had passed, and the strong and majestic outer city had been captured.

"Everyone!" At this time, Li Zicheng's deep voice sounded, "The outer city has been broken, everyone should enter the city with Lonely, as long as the inner city is captured again, the world will have to change its surname!" At this time, Li Zicheng was riding on his oolong horse, and the golden armor on his body was shining in the rising light, and the momentum was compelling for a while, and everyone was stunned.

"Long live King Chuang!"

I don't know who took the lead in shouting the slogan, and then the more than 100,000 troops all shouted, and the overwhelming crowd was worshipping one person, even Liu Zongmin and others were no exception, Li Zicheng rode on the back of a tall horse, like a god.

Looking at the surrounding soldiers who worshiped him, Li Zicheng only felt a strong momentum rushing into his heart, and he waved his hand arrogantly and shouted: "Soldiers, all enter the city!" ”

"The king has an order, enter the city!"

"The king has an order, enter the city!"

Li Zicheng's order was passed to the ears of the soldiers layer by layer, and groups of people and horses swarmed towards the nine city gates, looking at the rolling torrent of soldiers, Li Zicheng laughed and said to the generals: "Everyone, let's also enter the city!" ”

After speaking, Li Zicheng pinched the horse's belly, and the whip in his hand danced a loud whip flower in the air, making a crisp sound of "pop", and took the lead in running towards the west gate, and behind him were dozens of soldiers of the imperial camp.

When Niu Jinxing saw it, he hurriedly said to everyone: "Okay everyone, let's hurry into the city too!" When he had finished speaking, he did not wait for the people to answer, but he followed, and when they saw it, they had to ride after them

"Pimple Pimple"

A series of hurried and muffled horses' hooves came from the north, and soon dozens of horses appeared on the land, and more than a dozen horsemen were galloping in this direction on these horses, and when they came to a col, their speed gradually slowed down, and their figures gradually became clear.

This is a group of cavalrymen all wearing a gray-brown leather armor, with all kinds of weapons hanging around their waists, knives, swords, axes and other weapons, although the weapons are messy, but from the outside, these weapons are well polished and maintained, shining in the sun with a dazzling cold light, and behind them, they all carry a long fire gun.

A cavalryman who looked to be about thirty years old raised his hand, and more than a dozen cavalrymen immediately stopped when they saw this, just as the cavalry around them looked at the cavalry in confusion, the cavalry led by him stared at the hillside in front of him and said cautiously: "Brothers, cheer up, many of our brothers have not gone back these days, and it is estimated that they were knocked down, so Li Gongzi sent us out to investigate the reason, everyone must remember that we were all brought out by Li Gongzi, Even if you give up your surname, you have to do Li Gongzi's errand well, and let those who look down on us see that the people who came out of the Henan camp are not bad! ”

As soon as the leader's voice fell, more than a dozen horsemen around him said: "Liao Tou, don't worry, the outpost of our Henan battalion is the best in the Dashun army, and Li Gongzi has even equipped us with the tap firearms that have just been equipped, if we encounter an enemy, we will take care of them as soon as possible." ”

"I hope so." The leader, known as Liao Tou, shook his head solemnly, "I don't know why, when I get here, I always feel uneasy, as if there are a pair of eyes staring at us. ”

After Liao Tou's words came out, the faces of the surrounding cavalry began to become solemn, maybe for ordinary people, it feels like something is just a joke, and only those sentimental wives will believe it, but for these detectives who often lick blood on the knife edge, no matter how ridiculous these intuition are, it is better to believe it, because maybe this inexplicable intuition will save your life when it happens.

Therefore, as soon as this Liao Tou's words came out, the surrounding cavalry consciously dispersed around, at least more than ten steps from the front and back, left and right.

In this way, they slowly touched the side of the col, and when they turned the bend of the col, the face of the leading detective suddenly turned pale, and the whole person stiffened for a moment, and after a long time he pointed his finger forward, and his arm trembled with the panic of his master.

"Wang Tianzhu, what did you kid see?" The leader surnamed Liao, who was five or six paces behind him, followed and asked in a deep voice, and then his gaze also turned around, and just like that, a scene that almost frightened them appeared in front of his eyes.

At the bend of the mountain pass, there is a big open space, a big military camp is stationed there, the overwhelming military camp fills their sight, black flags flutter around the barracks, countless soldiers wearing black helmets and black armor are constantly patrolling in and around the barracks, a murderous aura comes out of the barracks, and what makes them feel shocked is that this barracks seems to have no end, all over the mountains and fields.

"Then that's the Great Zhou Army!"

The leader surnamed Liao recognized it as the banner of the Great Zhou Army at a glance, and Rao was proud of his well-informed and courageous appearance, and he was almost frightened. After the shock, he turned around and shouted in a low voice: "Don't say anything now, go back immediately and report to Li Gongzi, the Great Zhou Army is on our side, please report to King Chuang immediately to be prepared, and return quickly!" ”

After saying that, he immediately transferred the horse's head and prepared to return backwards, I have to say that the quality of these sentry posts is still very high, as soon as he saw the situation in front of him, he immediately made a decision without saying a word, showing the excellent quality of a sentry, if it is according to the normal situation, it will not take a cup of tea, they will disappear outside this mountain col.

But at this time, there were dozens of cavalrymen wearing black light armor around for some reason, and their figures slowly appeared about two hundred steps behind the Dashun army outposts.

"It's not good, that's the firearm of the Great Zhou Army!" Seeing this situation, the mournful voice of the leader surnamed Liao, who had long heard of the Great Zhou Armament, suddenly sounded, "Brothers, all rush over, only by rushing over can you live!" ”

That's what he said, that's what he did, as he spoke, he also lifted the reins, and the whole person immediately lay on the horse's back, the whip in his hand was hard on the horse's buttocks, the war horse neighed in pain, spread its hooves and galloped forward, and behind him were more than a dozen Dashun army sentinels and dozens of horses.

"All attention, aim!"

In front of those outposts, dozens of Great Zhou soldiers sat on their horses at night, the Minnie rifles in their hands were firmly in their hands, and the Dashun army sentry sentry that was galloping towards them was enclosed in the improvised aiming ring, and they all aimed very carefully, because they knew that with the speed at which the Dashun army's outposts were galloping now, they only had a chance to shoot, and then they could only fight hand-to-hand.

A man of the Great Shun Army saw from the ring of Minnie's rifle that the detectives of the Great Shun Army were getting closer and closer to him, and the one who was left at the front was obviously an experienced man, and his whole person was tightly attached to the horse's back, and the exposed area of the whole person was very small.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang"

With the sound of fried beans sounded, suddenly more than a dozen horses lowered their front hooves, and their huge bodies couldn't hold back the strength of going forward, and they rolled on the ground several times in a row to stop the momentum of advancement.

Although dozens of people did not put away the platoon of guns at night, forming a barrage, but because the speed of the opponent's cavalry was too fast, and they were experienced before this, they had already lowered their bodies before this, and they were one man and three horsemen, so the chance of hitting them was too small, and only a few detectives were hit by the horses and fell off their horses.

Seeing such a situation, the leader of the night does not be surprised, but shouted again: "Everyone draw their swords, rush!" ”

With the order of the leader, dozens of Ye Bushu drew their sabers one after another, and also rushed forward, after half a pillar of incense, everything had been settled, and the leader of the Dashun Army's detective post surnamed Liao lay quietly on the ground, his pupils dilated with a saber inserted in his body, and he stared at the sky in a daze

More than 100 miles away from Yanjing, there is a place called Chestnut Town, this Chestnut Town has lost its previous peace, originally Chestnut Town has long been left after years of war, and it is as quiet as a ghost. But today it is full of people, the sound of the neighing of war horses comes and goes, and from time to time there are men and horses wearing black clothes and black armor holding fire guns walking in the town, they are the Great Zhou army that has arrived as early as the day before yesterday.

In the largest house in the town, Pang Gang was sitting on a temporary table made of rough wood, looking intently at the latest battle report from the front, and under Pang Gang sat Wang Zhi, Bin Shiqian, Cheng Kai and other generals.

"I didn't expect Daming to rout so quickly, more than 100,000 Beijing camps were scattered all at once, no wonder everyone in the world said that Daming's luck was exhausted."

Pang Gang looked at the battle report while shaking his head with some sighs, although he didn't have any good feelings about this long-decaying imperial court, and he had known how Li Zicheng entered Yanjing from the history books before, but after seeing it with his own eyes, he was in a different mood, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Seeing that Pang Gang seemed to have some pity for the fate of the Ming Dynasty, Da Zhuang couldn't help but say: "Lord Wang, why do you feel sorry for Da Ming." Have you forgotten, what kind of life did we live when we were in Lingshanwei? At that time, we couldn't even eat enough wild vegetables, and at that time, the court didn't even let out a fart, and let us fend for ourselves. ”

Listening to Da Zhuang's words, Bin Shiqian was a little embarrassed, when Pang Gang came to Lingshanwei, although he was only a hundred households, but the standard of living was much better than Pang Gang and Da Zhuang, speaking of which, he and the dead ghost Qianhu He Zhengnan Deputy Qianhu Zhao Daxian, all belong to the exploitative class, and poor military households like Da Zhuang Pang Gang will naturally not be looked at by him. But five years have passed, the poor [***] silk of the past has changed, and it is expected to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Honor, the former Da Zhuang, Wang Zhi, who was originally looked down on by him, has become Pang Gang's henchmen at this moment, this matter makes him feel very embarrassed in the market, at this time, listening to Da Zhuang say this, he is also a little embarrassed to face Wang Zhi Da Zhuang them.

Listening to Da Zhuang's scratch, Pang Gang just smiled slightly and said nothing, he was not sorry for Da Ming, but just a little emotional, after all, it is not easy to witness the fall of a dynasty that has lasted for nearly three hundred years.

Seeing that Pang Gang seemed to be a little uninterested, Bin Shiqian stood up and said: "Lord Wang, since the spies in the capital have sent the news, can we set off, otherwise if we wait for those rogues to capture the inner city, we will all be disappointed." ”

In the past two days, Pang Gang's 100,000-strong army has been stationed in Lizi Town and dozens of miles around it, not to mention those ordinary soldiers, even Bin Shiqian and other generals are a little impatient to wait.

Pang Gang couldn't help but laugh after hearing this: "Okay, this king knows that you are already impatient, and now everyone obeys!" ”

"Whoa!"

All the generals stood up in unison.

"The whole army set up camp and marched towards Yanjing City, and it is necessary to arrive in Yanjing City tonight!"

"Obey the prince's generals!"

(To be continued)