Section 15 Xi'an
"Come on, take down this thief!" Sun Chuanting's shouts echoed in the lobby, and only this lonely voice echoed in the lobby.
Xu Ping held the reins in both hands, looking both leisurely and confident, he listened to Sun Chuanting shout three times in a row and did not respond, at this time the others in the hall saw that outside the main gate that was kicked open, a team of black-clothed knights were waiting quietly outside the door - the posture of these intruding cavalry was as if they were waiting outside their general's tent, they looked respectful and polite, and they stayed outside the door line as if they were afraid of trespassing.
"Why don't you go and take down this thief!"
Sun Chuanting shouted hoarsely again, but just like the generals who woke up from a dream, not only did they not rush up to Xu Ping, but they hung down the weapons in their hands one after another, and these people no longer continued to retreat, but stood in place one by one, lowering their heads and looking at the ground under their feet.
"Inspector Sun," the mount snorted impatiently, and Xu Ping stretched out his hand to gently caress the nape of its neck, his tone calm and slow, "Your subordinates know more about current affairs than you do. β
Sun Chuanting grinned and couldn't spit out any rebuttal words, and Inspector Sun, who was draped all over, pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, which was originally decorative for him, unless it was to scare people and show his official authority, Sun Chuanting never thought that he would really need to hold a sword one day.
"Tongguan has been broken, this is already my lobby, and you are all my prisoners," Seeing Sun Chuanting's hand tightly clenched on the hilt of the sword, a smile appeared on Xu Ping's face: "If Inspector Sun wants to be loyal to the faint monarch, I won't stop you." β
Sun Chuanting gasped heavily, the hilt of the sword seemed to be a thousand pounds, and he couldn't pull it out, and at this moment, there was a sudden pain in his waist, and at the same time, an exclamation sounded in his ears.
Xu Ping, who was riding on a horse, looked down coldly at the man who pounced on Sun Chuanting's side, who raised his leg and stepped on Sun Chuanting's back, and jerked his sword out of his waist, Sun Chuanting's life spurted out of the wound along with his blood. The murderer didn't care to speak, he cut off Sun Chuanting's head with a knife in his hand, got up from the ground and knelt down in front of Xu Pingdi's mount with both hands, and tried his best to raise his head, accompanied by the continuous roar of cannons, the murderer shouted loudly: "Tongguan has not been broken yet!" Weekend...... Villain, this can be regarded as abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, right? General, the villain should be considered to abandon the dark and turn to the light, right? β
Xu Ping looked at the desperate general in front of him: "Who are you?" β
"Villain, villain Bai Guangen."
"It turned out to be General Bai." Xu Ping remembered that Bai Guangen was also a general of the peasant army in the past, and later accepted the recruitment of the imperial court, and after the Qin army was destroyed several times outside the pass, Sun Chuanting was no longer available, so he had to reuse such generals, Xu Ping nodded lightly: "General Bai is indeed abandoning the dark and turning to the light." β
As Xu Ping said this, the people in the hall seemed to come to life in an instant, and four or five people swooped down on one of the people at the table, pressing the person to the ground with all hands and feet, and the shouts and shouts sounded almost at the same time:
"General, this is Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, and the villain has also abandoned the darkness and turned to the light!"
"General, the villain captured Yang Wenyue and dedicated it to the general."
There was already a mess in the hall, and the two Ming generals were rolling in front of Xu Ping's horse in their arms, and they shouted with all their strength while fighting:
The first person shouted: "General, this thief is the commander of Xi'an Wei and Sun Chuanting's henchman." β
And the other shouted: "General, the villain has commanded the soldiers and horses in Tongguan for you...... He is the beloved general of the Sun thief. β
Xu Ping stretched out his hand to Bai Guangen: "Present Sun Chuanting's head." β
"The villain obeys." Bai Guangen immediately stood up and ran in front of Xu Ping's horse.
"General Bai is hard." Xu Ping said in an accentuated tone.
"General Xie, the last general, General Xie." Bai Guangen was overjoyed and hurriedly responded.
Xu Ping asked another Ming general who abandoned the darkness to turn to the light, took a spear, picked Sun Chuanting's head on the tip of the spear, and then walked out of the hall with this spear in his hand.
Bai Guangen and the others were stunned, and hurriedly chased out, and the two Ming generals who were still fighting saw that Xu Ping was gone, and they also stopped their hands, got up and glared angrily, and then patted the dust on their bodies and rushed out of the door together.
"Sun Chuanting conferred the head!"
Xu Ping raised the spear in his hand, where there was the sound of battle, he would move forward, after seeing the human head on Xu Ping's spear, the officers and soldiers who were still resisting lost their last fighting spirit, discarded their weapons and surrendered to the invading army.
In this way, Xu Ping walked all the way, and the remnants of the resistance of the Ming army melted away without a trace like ice and snow encountering charcoal, until the last tower still stood with the banner of the Ming army.
Xu Ping stood under the city tower with a spear, stretched out his arm and raised it as high as possible, so that the officers and soldiers above could see it clearly: "Tongguan has been broken, don't make senseless stubborn resistance." β
The general on the tower of this city has fled for a long time, and the remaining Ming army also stopped firing guns and cannons after seeing Sun Chuanting's head, and all the people turned their eyes to the current leader - this is a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a hundred households of the Ming army. From the time he got the command to the time Xu Ping came to the city tower, it may have been less than a quarter of an hour.
Baihu was also stunned, there was no sound of fighting in the city, he looked around, and the flags of the camp were changed as far as the eye could see, and at this time Bai Guangen and the others had already caught up with Xu Ping, and they were tightly hugging around Xu Ping to protect him like a pro-ding. Seeing that the hundred households on the city tower had not yet answered, Bai Guangen shouted: "Don't you come down early? β
The commander of Xi'anwei was a loud voice, and he hurriedly played to his strengths, raising his head and shouting at the Baihu and his subordinates: "Don't you want to live anymore? Tongguan has been broken! β
Seeing that all these well-known generals in Tongguan City were gathered around Xu Ping, no one still doubted his words. Some of the soldiers around the hundred households had already thrown down their weapons, and even the other one who had just fought side by side with this hundred households, trying to urge the soldiers to stick to their posts and encourage them to persevere to the end, also whispered: "Surrender, there is nothing to fight." β
The middle-aged Baihu looked sad, he looked around at the hundreds of partners left and right, and it was obvious that no one still wanted to fight.
"My lord, it is useless to die."
The middle-aged Baihu sighed and lowered his head, and his colleagues shouted to the city: "General Xu, do you promise to save us from death?" β
"As long as you surrender, I promise not to harm your lives."
After hearing Xu Ping's words, the middle-aged hundred-hundred-household raised his head again, held the battlements with both hands and shouted to Xu Ping: "General Xu, the villain knows that you will do what you say and never kill prisoners." But ......" The hundred households suddenly straightened their chests, and their tone returned to the firmness of the past: "But since the ancestor of the villain, since the emperor became the ancestor, he has been a hundred households of the Ming Dynasty for more than 15 generations. β
After speaking, the middle-aged man took out his saber and put it on his neck, and at this moment, Xu Ping shouted loudly: "Strong man and slow!" Then Xu Ping Zhengse asked: "The strong man's surname?" β
The blade of this hundred households had already penetrated the skin on his neck, and after he heard Xu Ping's question, he hesitated slightly, and shouted vigorously: "Nameless, I am afraid that it will insult the name of the ancestors!" β
After saying that, Baihu swiped the saber sideways, and after the blood splashed everywhere, the others fell straight back.
After the fall of this hundred households, the last banner of the Ming army in Tongguan City also fell, and Tongguan changed hands.
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"Who is defending Xi'an now?"
After Xu Ping'an pacified the surrendered Ming army, he immediately summoned the surrendered Ming general to inquire.
"General Qiyu, Xi'an is now an empty city."
"In that case, then I'll go to Xi'an." Xu Ping ordered Bai Guangen to stay in Tongguan to take charge of the aftermath and at the same time shoulder the responsibility of transporting Tongguan's inventory to the front. Xu Ping hurried to report to Li Zicheng, and on the other hand, let the guards battalion and the armored battalion rest for a while, and waved his army to the west early tomorrow morning.
A few days later, the advance of the camp arrived on the outskirts of Xi'an, and the Qin prince of the Ming Dynasty was the commander of Xi'an, and the civil and military officials of Xi'an should kneel on both sides of the road. After the loss of Tongguan, the King of Qin found that he might not even be able to gather the guards to defend the palace, let alone defend Xi'an, and the only remaining army was still very unreliable, no one knew whether they would use the heads of the King of Qin and the civil and military officials of Xi'an to make a greeting to surrender Xu Ping, and in desperation, the King of Qin simply surrendered without a fight.
Soon after entering Xi'an, Li Zicheng's army also entered Guanzhong through Tongguan, and after arriving in Xi'an, Li Zicheng lived in the palace of the Qin king, and he planned to turn this place into his headquarters. When greeting Li Zicheng at the city gate, Xu Ping met Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan, beside King Chuang.
Li Zicheng had imagined countless times before that he would catch this Ming general who took away one of his eyes, but when Xu Ping really sent Chen Yongfu to Li Zicheng, he finally decided to pardon this enemy.
In front of the generals who broke into the camp, Li Zicheng ordered Chen Yongfu to be untied, saying that he would not care about the matter.
But after Chen Yongfu saw Li Zicheng's one-eyed, he was still frightened, worried that Li Zicheng was playing cat and mouse tricks.
At that time, Li Zicheng comforted Chen Yongfu and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, if General Chen does not shoot me, he is a disloyal and unrighteous person, and my eye is lost on the battlefield, what resentment is there?" β
Seeing that Chen Yongfu still didn't seem at ease, Li Zicheng could probably guess what the other party was thinking.
"I know that General Chen is worried that I am trying to buy people's hearts now, so that the Ming army can see that I don't even care about General Chen, and naturally I don't care about other people, General Chen is probably worried that I will be the master after the big thing has been decided?" Li Zicheng broke an arrow in front of Chen Yongfu in front of his subordinates in front of the full battalion: "If I bring up the old things again in the future, add a finger to General Chen's body, there is such an arrow, this oath can be learned from heaven and earth." β
When Li Zicheng settled down in the Qin Palace, Xu Ping had already learned the ins and outs of this matter from others, so he congratulated Li Zicheng and said: "The king is massive, so General Chen will definitely be used by the king in the future, and other Ming generals will also come to the wind." β
"How can a man who does great things care about personal vendettas? I want to dominate the people in the sea, and even one Chen Yongfu can't tolerate that, is that still like words? Hearing Xu Ping say this, Li Zicheng laughed, he glanced at Xu Ping, and said meaningfully: "Brother Xu should encourage him with me." β
Seeing that Xu Ping was silent, Li Zicheng asked strangely, "What else is wrong with Brother Xu?" β
"There really is one more thing." Xu Ping only found out about this matter after entering Xi'an, although he felt unspeakable, Xu Ping finally gritted his teeth and said: "The mausoleum of the king's parents seems to have been disturbed? β
"What?" The smile disappeared from Li Zicheng's face all of a sudden, and then Xu Ping saw a terrifying anger surging up on Li Zicheng's face: "What did you say? β
"Here's the thing......"
In the past three years, Li Zicheng has been invincible in the Central Plains, and he offered advice to the court as a fellow countryman, saying that the feng shui of Li Zicheng's parents' graves was very good, so Li Zicheng became a big disaster for the court. None of the magistrates wanted to bear the charge of sympathizing with the traitors, so they reported this ploy to the capital division, and although the cabinet felt that the matter was very inappropriate, they were equally worried that it would bring trouble to themselves if they suppressed the matter.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw this report, he thought so, and immediately ordered to dig out Li Zicheng's parents, and the bones were washed into ashes by the Mizhi County Commander and then poured into the Yellow River, so as to ensure that the legacy given to him by Li Zicheng's ancestors was completely destroyed.
"My father kept to himself all his life, and he never had a short imperial grain, my father and mother had passed away when I rebelled, and death is greater, since I didn't rebel when my parents were alive, why did Chongzhen dig my ancestral grave?"
"The first is the villain's offer," Xu Ping sighed, Li Zicheng's rice fat fellow earned an imperial reward of about one hundred taels of silver by offering the plan: "The second faint monarch said that someone had dug up the Fengyang Emperor's tomb, so it is understandable for him to do this." β
"Fengyang is Zhang Xianzhong's planing, what are you doing with me? When did I dig their Zhu family's mausoleum? Li Zicheng was furious: "Can these traitors Brother Xu take it?" β
"Take it all."
After surrendering and breaking into the camp, in order to excuse themselves, the officials in Shaanxi arrested the county order responsible for directing the matter, the specific execution group that dug up the grave and burned the corpse, and the person who offered the plan, and handed them over to Xu Ping.
"Bring these traitors here," Li Zicheng didn't care about resting and was about to deal with the matter immediately, only to hear him grit his teeth and say: "I haven't killed anyone in Xi'an, these guys have sent them to the door by themselves." β
There were about 50 people involved in this matter, and Xu Ping locked them all in the cells of the Qin Palace, and Li Zicheng gave an order, and these people were brought out.
After seeing Li Zicheng, the Mizhi County Commander had no hope of survival, so he simply turned his heart sideways: "King, this thing was done by the villain, and the king should have killed the villain." But these villagers of the king, they are acting on the orders of the villain, and this matter has nothing to do with them. β
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