"Pang Gang is here!"

This news hit everyone's hearts like a thunderbolt from the blue.

Li Zicheng's face immediately changed, and he shouted at Niu Jinxing: "What the hell is going on? Prime Minister Niu, haven't you been in charge of the defense outside the city? How could Pang Gang suddenly come to Yanjing, and we didn't even notice it? ”

"This, this"

Niu Jinxing's head also oozes beads of sweat, since he took the position of prime minister, he is extremely greedy for power, he monopolizes a large part of the power in the army, such as external reconnaissance is one of the contents he is responsible for, today he actually let the enemy touch the city to know that it is a very serious dereliction of duty, such a serious dereliction of duty even if it is a behead.

At this time, Li Yan stood up and said to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, now is not the time to hold Prime Minister Niu accountable, the most important thing for us at the moment is to defend the capital, and we must not let the Great Zhou army enter the city!" ”

Looking at Niu Jinxing, who was speechless for Ai Ai during the period, Li Zicheng snorted coldly and ignored it, he turned to the generals behind him and said: "Li Gongzi is right, now pass on Gu's order, immediately close the nine gates, and all the soldiers immediately go to the city wall to defend against the enemy, what we have to do is that we must not mess up!" ”

"Yes!"

The cavalryman was about to receive the order but he was about to receive the order, but another knight rushed to the horse, and shouted loudly in the distance: "King Chuang, generals, no, the Great Zhou army has arrived outside the city gate, is storming the city gate, the drawbridge outside the south gate has been put down, the enemy army is storming the city gate, General Li Guo is struggling to resist, and it seems that he will not be able to stop it!" ”

"If you can't stop it, you have to do it, otherwise Lone will take off his head!"

Listening to the knight's words, the angry Li Zicheng made a rare gaffe, he waved his horsewhip and shouted at the generals: "What are you all doing around Gu, stop the siege immediately, you all lead the people of the headquarters to go outside immediately, all go to the city wall, and you must defend the outer city!" ”

"Yes!"

All the generals were a little at a loss by this sudden situation, until they heard Li Zicheng's roar, and then they dispersed like waking up from a big dream.

After driving away the generals, Li Zicheng said to Niu Jinxing, Li Yan, Song Xiance and others: "You all go to the south gate with Lone, and Lone wants to see if the soldiers and horses who haven't seen Pang Gang for two years have become stronger!" ”

"Yes!"

When the soldiers of the Dashun army receded like a tide, all the defenders on the inner city wall, including Chongzhen, couldn't believe that all this was true.

Chongzhen, who had been moving the stone for a long time, leaned on the battlement mouth exhausted, at this time he only felt that his heart was so happy that it seemed to jump out of his chest, and he gasped like an old cow who had been plowing the whole day and asked Wang Chengen, who was already lying at the battlement, "Da Companion, have those thieves really retreated?" ”

Wang Chengen smiled, and the tears of the bean kept flowing: "Your Majesty, the huge people are here, the thieves have withdrawn, we are saved!" ”

"Yes, yes!"

Listening to Wang Chengen's words, Chongzhen could no longer support his tired body, and he didn't care about the emperor's face at all, he sat on the ground, unable to speak anymore, and smirked in his mouth.

At this time, a few figures ran out from the city gate tower, those figures were big and small, and they were running towards Chongzhen desperately, led by Queen Zhou, who almost drank poisonous wine, and they stumbled and ran without regard to the image. Soon, Queen Zhou threw herself into Chongzhen's arms and cried: "Your Majesty, the huge man is here, we are saved, we are saved!" ”

Chongzhen weakly hugged his wife and children in his arms, took a long breath and muttered softly: "Yes, Pang Gang is here, we are saved, don't worry anymore, I won't have to be so tired in the future."

After Li Zicheng captured Yanjing, there were about 100,000 soldiers who entered the city, and there were nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Dashun army outside Yanjing City, which were stationed outside the southern city.

As the forward, the five thousand Great Zhou cavalry used the Mini rifles in their hands to bombard the defenders who stayed in the camp in the distance, and the Great Zhou sergeants were constantly shot and fell to the ground with blood flowers in their chests.

At noon today, after the capture of Yanjingcheng, everyone was excited, what kind of place is Yanjing City, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Since Zhu Di set the capital of Yanjing, Yanjing is a place where the rich and powerful get together, but any family in it is richer than the rich people in Shaanxi, and everyone finally followed King Chuang to capture Yanjing City, and I am too sorry for myself if I don't take the opportunity to go in and make a big profit.

In the evening, the military camps that were originally stationed at the two gates of the south gate, but all the officers with a little identity or those who had a little way of being secreted into Yanjing City, and the only ones left were those who had no way or had just joined the Dashun Army and were relatively small, although the number of soldiers in the barracks was still quite large, but in the case of those who could call the shots, the only thing they could do when they were suddenly attacked was to rush to the city.

As the vanguard, the 5,000 cavalry did not rush to attack the city, they took advantage of the speed advantage to continuously expel the Dashun army outside the city into Yanjing City. Whenever any of the officers of the Dashun army organized a counterattack against them, they would inflict heavy casualties on them from a distance with their Minnie rifles, and they would fight the enemy who dared to take the lead.

The dense flow of people blocked the three gates of the south gate, and the soldiers on the city wall could not close the gates even if they wanted to, so crowding and trampling were inevitably born.

"Quick, get up to the wall! All go up the walls! ”

"You fools, don't come in, hurry up outside and defend against the enemy!"

"Bastard, let Lao Tzu die outside, are you a fool to be Lao Tzu?"

When Li Zicheng led the generals to the south city gate, he saw that the city gate was crowded with dense sergeants, everyone was in a mess, Li Guo was hurriedly directing the soldiers to go up the city wall, but because there were too many people at the city gate, the screams, shouts and cries were endless, and the noisy people's ears were buzzing, and it seemed that the city gate could not be closed at all for a while.

Seeing such a scene, Li Zicheng and the faces of the others immediately changed, what is the biggest role of the city wall? Its function is to resist the enemy's attack, but if the city gate is not closed, then even if the city wall is thick, it is useless, but now tens of thousands of people are crowded behind the three city gates.

Li Yan looked a little anxious, and said to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, you can't let the soldiers crowd at the door, otherwise the Great Zhou army will take advantage of the situation to rush in, and Yanjing City will be lost!" And we have to move faster, otherwise things will be even more difficult when it gets dark! ”

Looking at the crowded crowd in front of him, Li Zicheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Now the soldiers are crowded at the door, and the city gate really can't be closed." ”

"If you can't close it, you have to close it, now it should only be their forwards, if we wait until their rear team arrives, we can't close it even if we want to!" Li Yan's tone was unprecedentedly resolute.

Hearing Li Yan's tone, Niu Jinxing on the side said with some dissatisfaction: "Li Gongzi's words are also wrong, now the city gate is full of soldiers of our army, we can't close the door even if we want to, is it possible to shoot all the soldiers at the gate to death?" ”

Since becoming the prime minister, Niu Jinxing's heart has gradually risen, although Li Yan used to be friends with him, but with the gradual change of the status of both parties, coupled with jealousy of Li Yan's talent, Niu Jinxing looked at Li Yan day by day more and more unpleasant, but out of friendship in the past, Ping said that he had never spoken ill of Li Yan, but today seeing Li Yan speak to King Chuang in such an unprecedentedly strong tone, Niu Jinxing could no longer help but refute it.

Li Yan glanced at Niu Jinxing with some consternation, although Niu Jinxing had a lot of opinions about him in the past, and he was still secretly beating his small report, he didn't know it, but the two sides at least remained polite on the surface, and Niu Jinxing didn't want people to say that he was not measured as a prime minister, so he had never said anything to Li Yan, but today the situation was urgent, and he couldn't care about anything, so he directly pushed Li Yan's words back.

Listening to Niu Jinxing's words, Li Yan glanced at him in astonishment, and then retorted: "What does Prime Minister Niu mean by this? Li, this is also for the sake of my Dashun army, if we let the thieves outside the city rush in, our hard work will be ruined in one fell swoop. ”

Regarding Li Yan's worries, Niu Jinxing scoffed, "What are you afraid of, if that Pang just came in, let's just come to catch turtles in an urn, I don't believe that our 200,000 army can't deal with them!" ”

"You!"

Li Yan glared at the other party angrily, this Niu Jinxing didn't understand military affairs at all, but he was an expert, if he let the enemy rush in so casually, then what else would the city wall do.

Looking at Li Yan, who was so angry that he was silent, Niu Jinxing sneered in his heart, bowed down and said to Li Zicheng: "King Chuang, those thieves are coming in a hurry, and the ones outside the city at this moment must only be in front of them, and the number of people is not more than thousands, not weak, let's send a large army out of the city to annihilate this vanguard in one fell swoop, and it can be regarded as dispelling their arrogance so that they don't dare to act rashly, isn't it good?" ”

"Are you going out of the city to fight?"

Li Zicheng muttered a few words, with a hint of hesitation on his face, and turned his head to ask the generals around him: "What do you think?" ”

Before everyone could answer, Li Zicheng's righteous son Li Shuangxi stood up and hugged his fists and said: "King Chuang, what are you waiting for, hurry up and give an order, the child is willing to lead two thousand cavalry and five thousand foot soldiers to exterminate the thief army outside the city!" ”

Li Zicheng thought about it, and finally nodded slowly, although according to common sense, it is an idiotic act not to rely on the city wall to defend against the enemy, but there is no absolute surname in the matter, he has 200,000 heavy troops in his hand at the moment, occupies the superior force, and has just captured the capital of the Ming Dynasty, if he is frightened by thousands of cavalry to close the nine gates, he will be ashamed to die!

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng finally nodded, and gave an order that was enough to make him regret it for the rest of his life: "Okay, Shuangxi, Lone will allow you to lead a thousand horse teams and three thousand foot soldiers to attack, and you must annihilate the thief army outside in one fell swoop." ”

At this time, Li Zicheng has been carried away by today's victory, in his opinion, the Ming regime has been destroyed by himself, and he has become the new true dragon emperor, and the Great Zhou army outside is naturally a thief, so he confidently calls the army outside a thief army.

"Yes, yes!"

Li Shuangxi was happy to protect him, and immediately went to mobilize troops and horses.

Li Yan was shocked and persuaded hard: "King Chuang, no, for the sake of today, it is right to close the city gate as soon as possible, and use the city to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible!" ”

In the face of Li Yan's admonition, Li Zicheng became angry: "Enough, Li Gongzi, when Lone decided to march to Yanjing last time, you tried your best to stop it, saying that you should occupy Henan and Hubei first and then plan slowly, but now Lone is still here, and Yanjing City has also been defeated, and it turns out that Lone is right!" Now that you want to fight a decisive battle with the thief army outside the city, you still have to stop it, what are you doing with your intentions! ”

Looking at Li Zicheng who lost his temper there and Li Yan who was scolded so much that everyone was silent, no one dared to speak out, even Song Xiance and Liu Zongmin, who were very sympathetic to Li Yan, also consciously closed their mouths.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Li Yan secretly sighed and bowed down and said: "Since King Chuang has made up his mind, the students can't say more, in that case, let's go to the city together to watch the battle!" ”

"Humph!" Li Zicheng didn't speak anymore, waved his sleeves, and walked towards the city wall by himself.

"Okay, let's go up to the wall together!"

Everyone followed behind Li Zicheng and walked towards the city wall, but they all widened the distance between Li Yan and Li Yan as if they were nothing.

When they arrived at the city wall, Li Shuangxi had already assembled his team and used his longbow and sword to drive away the routs at the city gate.

"Hurry up, everyone get out of the way, if anyone intercepts the military formation, there will be no mercy!"

It took Li Shuangxi and the sergeants nearly two quarters of an hour to split a passage with their swords, and then they went out of the city, and when they arrived outside the city, the ruthless fact taught Li Shuangxi a lesson.

At this time, the Great Zhou army outside the city had stopped three hundred steps outside the city, forming a rectangular battle array, this battle array was divided into three rows, the front row dismounted, the second row and the third row rode on horses, in a cross formation, constantly attacking the Dashun soldiers at the gate of the city with firearms. Countless Dashun soldiers fell to the ground like lambs to the slaughter, and every time a row of guns rang out, hundreds of their own soldiers fell in a pool of blood, but the soldiers of the Dashun army outside the city did not have an officer to command, so they could only run around like headless flies.

Li Shuangxi's eyes were shattered when such a tragic scene was seen, and he shouted loudly: "Brothers, instead of being beaten to death by them here, it is better to fight to the death, brothers, kill me!" ”

After speaking, Li Shuangxi brandished a long knife and charged forward with a group of cavalry, and behind him were the foot soldiers who had just come out of the city gate, they were aroused by the tragic death of their companions outside the city, and they rushed forward with the cavalry.

Seeing the enemy army coming out of the city gate, the guerrillas of the Dashun army led by the city did not panic at all, but sneered: "Okay, you thief, we didn't go in, but you came out to die. Come, all of them mount, and cover the retreat one by one in a ladder formation to consume the enemy's troops! ”

As soon as the guerrilla general's order was given, the cavalrymen in the first row all mounted their horses, and when they mounted their horses, they pulled the trigger on the cavalry that was charging at them.

"Bang Bang Bang"

In a dull burst of gunfire and white smoke, the front row of the Dashun army's horse team, which was struggling to charge forward, immediately fell in large pieces, and hundreds of cavalrymen were hit by lead bullets, and then they were trampled into flesh by their companions who came out from behind.

After the cavalry of the Great Zhou Army in the first row finished shooting, they immediately pulled a dock through the gap in the second row of cavalry, and then ran straight back for hundreds of steps before stopping and starting to reload.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry of the second and third rows fired, and the gunshots rang out like a talisman, and the cavalrymen who were rushing forward fell to the ground one by one, and the heavy casualties of the cavalry made Li Shuangxi, who was in the middle of the team, lose his mind. At this moment, there was no one else in his eyes, but only those Great Zhou soldiers who were shooting, he slapped his horses and rushed forward desperately, there was only one thought in his mind, that is, to rush over and kill all the despicable villains who would only hide in the distance and let go of their guns!

"Brothers, all rush forward, just rush to them and we will win, kill them!"

Li Shuangxi, holding his long knife aloft, shouted wildly in the formation, and beside him was a cavalryman who had almost lost his mind, and they rushed forward with Li Shuangxi, whose head was already filled with anger.

It's just that the soldiers of the Great Zhou army on the opposite side are very cunning, they did not fight hard with the cavalry of the Great Shun army, but after each fired a round of guns, they rode their horses back.

Li Shuangxi didn't know what to do, and led the remaining cavalry of less than 1,000 to chase over, and in the eyes of everyone watching the battle on the city wall, they slowly turned into small black dots, and behind them were thousands of foot soldiers who ran sparsely and scattered.

Seeing such a situation, Li Yan's face changed slightly, and he said hurriedly: "It's not good, King Chuang, there must be an ambush in the Great Zhou army ahead, and General Shuangxi is in danger!" ”

After speaking, Li Yan was about to go to Li Zicheng to speak, but was stopped by Song Xiance, who had already prepared on the side, Song Xiance grabbed Li Yan and hurriedly whispered: "Li Gongzi, if you don't want to anger King Chuang again, don't go over to ask for fun!" ”

Li Yan was stunned, and then lowered his head melancholy, yes, just now he had already said to Li Zicheng that he would not let people go out of the city to pursue, but Li Zicheng was sent instead, and now if he goes to speak again, Li Zicheng must think that he is laughing at him, can he have his own good fruit to eat in the situation?

(To be continued)