The city of Baoding is wide and the wall is high, but there are only two gates in the east and west.

The East City Gate is the Water Gate, where the canal wharf is.

Liu Fangliang's army was an infantry cavalry, and it came from the direction of Zhending Mansion, so it was the West City Gate that naturally entered.

The West City Gate is mostly a private house, with many houses, and the streets are narrow and it is easy to bury tens of thousands of troops.

At this time, the 80,000 guards were ambushed under the houses around the city.

Not only in the city, but also on the city walls at this time, there were 10,000 firearms and 20,000 archers.

But on the surface, the city walls were nothing more than thousands of Ming troops guarding them.

Zhu Youzhen was also sitting in the city tower at this time, watching Liu Fangliang, who was wearing a Fan Yang felt hat and a red scarf, riding a white high-headed horse into the city.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen's face sank like water, and he didn't smile, but his slightly sweaty forehead still couldn't hide his nervousness at this time.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know if his 80,000 guards could eat or scare this Liu Fangliang.

But he had to.

Zhu Youzhen's decision to adopt Li Mingrui's suggestion to deal with Liu Fangliang's department by fraudulent means was not a whim of Zhu Youzhen.

Instead, Zhu Youzhen realized that once he succeeded in doing so, he could deal a heavy blow to the arrogance of the intrusive army that was chasing all the way!

In this way, these invading troops can also realize that their Ming army is not vulnerable, and it can also make these invading troops have scruples, which will also be conducive to their more calm retreat to the south and development in the south in the future.

In addition, this can also restore the confidence of the ministers on their side.

Don't run away at the sight of an intruder.

Once you get into the habit of running away when you see an army, it is undoubtedly a terrible thing.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen wanted to show his fist.

The main force of Liu Fangliang's 20,000 troops had just entered Baoding City.

Suddenly.

The drawbridge was put down!

And the two thousand iron horsemen who were ambushed in advance at the city gate rushed out first!

Liu Fangliang's 20,000 troops were caught off guard and hurriedly moved closer to Liu Fangliang's Chinese army, which was their experience in many actual battles, and they moved closer to the commander in case of emergencies.

In this way, the two thousand cavalry of the Guards quickly captured the city gates and immediately closed them.

Before Liu Fangliang could come back to his senses, 10,000 firearms and 20,000 archers suddenly appeared on the city wall and began to attack the intruding army.

Liu Fangliang's 20,000 troops suddenly fell into chaos, and countless people were killed and wounded.

At the same time, 50,000 infantry flanked from the left and right flanks.

The incident was urgent, and Liu Fangliang didn't realize that he would fall into the trap of the Ming army, but at this time he realized that he had become a trapped beast.

His 20,000 cavalry elite cavalry is no match for 80,000 even if he is good at fighting.

But at this moment, Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in a bright yellow robe, appeared on the city tower, the man in brocade clothes was holding a yellow Luo umbrella, Li Banghua and a large group of officials appeared behind him in python clothes and red robes, and hundreds of brocade guards took out embroidered spring knives and stood left and right.

This scene made Liu Fangliang's army suddenly extremely surprised.

Liu Fangliang also realized that he had been tricked, and it was not a scholar who surrendered at all, but the Ming Emperor who appeared with a large army.

Now that the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule has not been completely lost, most of the people still default to the Ming Dynasty as orthodox, even the officers and soldiers under Liu Fangliang's command are subconsciously fearful and shouted

"This, this is the emperor? ”

Even Liu Fangliang himself was a little dazed, although his own king Li Zicheng had already been proclaimed emperor, but he thought in his heart that this was His Majesty the Emperor.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand at this time, stopping the further movements of the Ming Guards, and instead shouted at Liu Fangliang: "The white horse is sitting on the thief left battalion general Liu Fangliang?"

I am the Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, today I have asked 80,000 heavenly soldiers to be buried around, I advise you to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise I will not spare you! If you join the Ming Dynasty, change your evil and return to righteousness, and serve the court from now on, I will grant you a high-ranking official! ”

Liu Fangliang was originally a peasant, and he followed Li Zicheng to fight everywhere over the years, even if Li Zicheng established Dashun and made him a general, he did not fully have the consciousness that he was a new courtier, and he fought all the way from Henan, thinking more about how to plunder money, and now seeing the real emperor Zhu Youzhen appear, he was a little afraid.

Seeing that there were Ming officers and soldiers all around, and his heavy firearms were outside the city, and now he heard that the Ming Emperor wanted to allow him to be a high-ranking official, and he was even more pleased to hear that he had not changed his habits of thieves, and he really knelt on the ground and was willing to surrender.

Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that he, the emperor, would really have such a deterrent power, and when he stood on the city wall in a yellow robe, the officers and soldiers not only had momentum, but even the 20,000 troops who could have been a station directly followed Liu Fangliang to kneel down and surrender.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly ran down the city tower and came directly to Liu Fangliang.

He Xin, the imperial horse supervisor, and Zhou Yuji, Ning Wubo, were afraid that Liu Fangliang would take the opportunity to sneak attack Zhu Youzhen, so they hurriedly ran in front of Zhu Youzhen and arrested Liu Fangliang first.

"What are you doing, don't let go of General Liu!"

Although Zhu Youzhen was very sure of He Xin and Zhou Yuji's approach, on the surface, he still deliberately made a very angry appearance, and hurriedly ordered the two to let go of Liu Fangliang.

Then, Zhu Youzhen personally helped Liu Fangliang up: "General Liu has been wronged. ”

Liu Fangliang didn't know how to reply to Zhu Youzhen, and he was even a little scared now, just as scared as he was when he saw the county master.

Especially when he was at a disadvantage and the army was surrounded by officers and soldiers, his fear of the government, especially the Ming Emperor, was more obvious.

"Your Majesty just said that as long as you surrender, you will give me a high-ranking official and a good fortune, I don't know if it's true? And these brothers of mine, I don't know if Your Majesty can give them a bite to eat, they follow me from birth to death, and they also want to try to be officials. ”

Liu Fangliang was relatively upright, and directly said what he wanted to ask the most.

"I am the king, the king has no jokes, understand, as long as the general takes refuge in the Ming Dynasty, not only the general can get high-ranking officials, but these brothers of yours, I will not be treated badly!"

When Zhu Youzhen entered the city from Liu Fangliang and saw that many of his 20,000 invading troops were still holding hoes as weapons, he suddenly had such an idea to appease this invading army.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, these so-called thieves are actually just a group of peasants in essence, and even if these peasants have experienced actual combat and combat experience, they have no ambition or ambition in their bones, and they only pay attention to tangible interests, so it is easy for such people to be recruited and subdued.

Back then, Cao Cao surrendered 300,000 yellow turban thieves and trained into Qingzhou soldiers to become a hero, and now as an emperor, why can't he surrender tens of thousands of thieves for his own use?

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen took advantage of the people's instinctive reverence for the emperor since ancient times and suddenly stood up with hundreds of officials, and thus successfully deterred Liu Fangliang and his 20,000 young and strong main forces.

When Zhu Youzhen saw Liu Fangliang asking this, he secretly laughed at the fact that this dignified general still hasn't changed his habits in the rivers and lakes, and he is still full of words like brothers.

It is no wonder that the historical Chuang Army will be defeated after meeting the Jiannu Eight Banners who entered the customs, because the current Chuang Army can only be regarded as a rogue in nature, at least most of them, it is not a regular army with strict military discipline and a complete system, so it is not enough to reach the Eight Banners with a complete military system.

Of course, the invasion army was able to defeat the Ming army and occupy Beijing, because the Ming Dynasty was too corrupt internally, not because the invasion army was too strong.

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Liu Fangliang smiled: "That's a good dare!" ”

When Zhu Youzhen saw this, he couldn't help but smile, this general who insisted on Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty later was actually a simple person.