Chapter 579: The End of the Hero
The mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way out, and the desperate remnants of the Shun army crashed into the slowly opening town gate.
Xinghuaying is not small, but it is not big, and a bluestone road connecting the north and south connects the town together.
Along this bluestone road, there are dozens of shops large and small, teahouses, restaurants, and carriage and horse shops, which can only be seen in the county, and there are a few storefronts that can only be seen in the county, and the most important thing is that Li Zicheng knows that there is a small dirt mountain not far from this town.
As the old saying goes, as long as he enters the mountains and forests, Li Zicheng believes that he can still hold out for a while, and once the situation changes, he can't say that he still has the possibility of breaking out of the encirclement.
But what he never expected was that after entering the town, he was greeted by the hideous faces of Ma Shouyao, Liu Rukui and others, as well as the cold long knife.
The moment the unsuspecting Shun army entered the town, it was covered by a dense rain of arrows, and Li Zicheng, who bore the brunt of the attack, was caught off guard by a flying arrow that pierced his right eye, and he was directly planted off the horse in pain.
Gao Yigong, who was loyal to the Lord, was shot into a hedgehog by countless arrows and died on the spot.
"Husband...... ...... work! ”
Gao Guiying was shocked, hurriedly turned over and dismounted, hugged Li Zicheng, who was bloodied, and wailed heartbreakingly.
"I ...... I'm fine, you go! ”
At this time, Li Zicheng finally knew that Liu Rukui and others had also turned against the water, and he knew that his end was coming.
"Let's go? Can we still get away? Don't worry, husband, if you die, the concubine will never live alone. ”
Gao Guiying's heart is like ashes, although she married Li Zicheng as a widow, but she has the bearing of a child of the rivers and lakes, so it is naturally impossible to be wronged and surrender to the official army for her life.
"Well, you help me up, so lonely that you want to see who dares to take me?"
Li Zicheng was relieved a lot by his wife's inseparability, he was the king of the rebel army and the lord of Dashun State, and he didn't want to die like this.
"If you are willing to join the prime minister, then the general will spare you, if you want to accompany Li Zicheng to the funeral, then you will have to send you on the road."
After a round of arrow rain, Liu Rukui, Ma Shouyao and Ma Chongxi led their own personal troops to surround the remnants of the Shun army.
The frightened remnants of the Shun army did not expect that these companions would draw their swords against them, and when they reacted, the miscellaneous soldiers in the army who used to be subservient in front of them appeared to the left and right and around them with swords and spears in their hands.
"Drop ...... We will surrender. ”
Li Zicheng fell from his horse with an arrow, Gao Yigong died on the spot, and the remaining more than 600 Shunjun cavalry finally lost the courage to resist and knelt down in front of Liu Rukui and others, leaving only twenty or thirty personal soldiers still guarding Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying's left and right.
"You get out of the way, Lone wants to see who dares to take Lone, Brother Liu and I have been friends for ten years, Lone's head is here, you can take Lone's head to ask Li Xingzhi for credit, so Lone is also our brother's righteousness."
"Ma Shouyao, it's not thin for you to ask alone, you want to find a way out, you have no opinion, but you never expected that you would actually point a knife at Lone and Lone's wife."
The tiger died and the aftermath was there, and Li Zicheng went from a general to a king in the peasant army, and then from a king to the lord of Dashun, not in vain, but earned on the battlefield with a knife and a gun.
Liu Rukui, Ma Shouyao, and the Shun army who were surrounding saw that Li Zicheng was so powerful, and they couldn't help but take a few steps back, and they didn't dare to question Li Zicheng.
"Li Zicheng, don't call us brothers here, aren't you and Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and He Yilong also blood alliance, aren't you carrying a knife behind your back, in Zhuxian Town, you don't let your own rear battalion soldiers attract officers and soldiers, but let me Ma Chongxi carry your banner to break through, do you treat us as brothers? Except for your five battalions, who do you really consider as brothers? ”
Ma Chongxi is not afraid at all, he and Ma Shouying are fellow villagers, Li Zicheng has always been prepared for him, after the establishment of Dashun, it is constantly in Ma Chongxi's subordinates to add people to their own army, in order to suppress Ma Shouying's influence in the army, now is a good opportunity to take revenge and redress grievances.
"You're ......!"
Li Zicheng was speechless, Ma Chongxi was telling the truth, if you don't treat others as brothers, how can others treat you as brothers.
"Driving...... Drive......! ”
At this time, outside the south gate of the Xinghua Camp, there were bursts of rapid horses' hooves and shouts one after another, and the chasing soldiers of the official army had already been killed.
"Hahaha...... Since Brother Ma is so resentful of Lone, then Lone's good head, even if you take it to the court to ask for merit and reward, it can be regarded as Lone's compensation for Brother Ma. ”
Li Zicheng, who knew that he could not be spared, laughed loudly, glanced contemptuously at the rebel generals around him, and then suddenly raised the long knife on the pillar and cut his throat.
"Puff ......."
A stream of blood arrows spurted out, and Li Hongji, a great Kou who had been in the late Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, finally fell heavily on the solid stone road of Xinghuaying.
"Husband......
Looking at Li Zicheng, who was lying in a pool of blood, Gao Guiying roared heavily.
"Madame...... King Chuang is dead, you better surrender to the court with us! ”
Looking at Gao Guiying, who was crying blood, Liu Rukui couldn't bear it, and persuaded him in the future.
"Surrender? Surrender to the court like you? Surrender Li Xingzhi? You can surrender, you surrender to him, you are still a high-ranking official, maybe I can give you a little military power, and I can be a founding father in the future, if I surrender? What will Li Xingzhi do to me, let me Gao Guiying sell her body for my life, I can't do it, the king, the concubine is here! ”
Gao Guiying, who had a strong personality, like Li Zicheng, who killed himself, slowly pulled out the sword on his body and stabbed it towards his chest.
"Chuang Wang ......."
"Madame......."
The remaining 20 or so pro-soldiers, seeing that Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying were both dead, were furious one by one, raised the swords and spears in their hands, and rushed towards Ma Chongxi, who had forced their master to death.
After a rapid exchange of gold and iron, the remnants of the Shun army who fought back were all killed and wounded, and in front of them were the corpses of more than a dozen Shun rebels.
"Qi Yu Prime Minister, the last general will not be dishonored, and Li Zicheng will be killed in battle, and this battle will be fully successful, all by virtue of Prime Minister Tianwei, and the Central Plains thief atmosphere will be clear from now on!"
Qinglong carried the official army camp, Gao Jie, Jiang Xiang and Wang Fuchen and other Jingbei army generals fell down triumphantly in front of Li Xingzhi one by one, and behind them were the cold corpses of Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying.
Liu Rukui, Ma Shouyao and other generals looked at Li Xingzhi who was sitting on the main seat with nervous expressions, for fear that this Ming Prime Minister Zuo would suddenly turn his face and send the heads of himself and others to the Jingshi together with Li Zicheng's body, so as to show off his martial arts.
"Generals, please hurry up, this battle can eliminate Li Zicheng, you are all hard work, this is quite a performance of the imperial court, and you will be rewarded, and I hope that all the soldiers will not slack off, and drive directly to Shaanxi with a victorious army, which can be determined by Sanqin."
Li Zicheng and his demise, Sun Chuanting's officers and troops will inevitably lose courage, and it is advisable to chase after the poor and bring Shaanxi into the scope of the Jingbei Army's rule, which can already be put on Li Xingzhi's agenda.