Volume 1 Chapter 5: The Whistle

As soon as he thought of the white and tender bodies of the women in the kiln, his lower body was excited for a while, but unexpectedly, three people followed him, he quickly pulled out a sharp knife, looked at Ling Jingyang, and scolded: "Where did the waste come from, is it here to give the grandfather a head?" ”

Ling Jingyang said as he walked: "Hmph, isn't it painful to use the bloody silver?" ”

The thug burst out and stabbed Ling Jingyang with a short knife, his speed was the same as slow motion in Ting Yang's opinion, a dodge, the thug's sharp knife stabbed into the air, and Ling Jingyang slammed the thug's wrist with his elbow.

The elbow is a hard part of the human body, and when it was smashed down, the thug's wrist made a clicking sound, which was obviously broken by Ling Jingyang, and the sharp knife also fell to the ground, and Ling Jingyang smashed his fist on the thug's temple, and the thug's temple was hit mercilessly and he fainted instantly.

Ling Jingyang dragged the thugs out, and put the five hundred taels of silver snatched from Zhang Jinyan's house on the thugs, and after waiting here for a while, a group of Dashun soldiers walked here.

Ling Jingyang shouted with a warm expression that he had never had in his life: "Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine and syrup, open the city gate to welcome the king, and the king will not pay for food when he comes." ”

This is a very popular proverb in North China, and it is also a manifestation of many ordinary people supporting Li Zicheng from the bottom of their hearts, these soldiers of the Dashun Army are also stunned, hearing familiar words, their hearts are also hot, and seeing Ling Jingyang and the other three people pressing one person to the ground, they are a little curious, and they stepped forward and asked: "Who is this person?" ”

The language of the soldiers of the Dashun Army is also varied, Wang Chengen stepped forward at this time and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this person bullied men and women, killed several people, robbed hundreds of taels of silver, and killed a soldier of our Dashun Army. ”

Wang Chengen turned his gaze to Ling Jingyang, which meant that Ling Jingyang killed the thugs, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army saw that the thug's wrist was broken, and there were hundreds of taels of silver near him, some of which still had blood stains, and these three people were able to press the thug to the ground, and they thought that they had some ability, and they did not take away the silver that the thugs robbed, they should have thought about the Dashun Dynasty.

A headquarters in the Dashun army came out and said to Wang Chengen: "You are a well-known man, capture this thug, and avenge the soldiers killed in the battle of my Dashun army, I thank you here." ”

After the headquarters finished speaking, he was a little unsatisfied, and continued: "When I am in the Dashun Army to rectify and employ people, you have such skills, why don't you seek wealth together?" ”

Ling Jingyang waited for this sentence, pretended to be reluctant, and said: "This general, the villain is also angry for a while, and he can't get used to seeing this person doing evil, but this army..."

The headquarters is an eight-rank officer of the Dashun Army, which belongs to a low-level officer, and the same level as the general banner of the Ming Dynasty, there are only more than 40 people under his hands, which is not enough for the standard of 120 people, and he needs to supplement the soldiers and horses, he and Ling Jingyang and others said: "Heroes, come to us, there is food and drink, is it not better than being starved to death by the Zhu family?" ”

Ling Jingyang gritted his teeth, but in five seconds, he nodded and agreed to join the Dashun Army, this Dashun Army is Li Zicheng's Central Army Unit, which belongs to Liu Zongmin's subordinate Deputy Mighty General Dang Shousu Unit, and it is also the old unit of the Dashun Army, and its combat effectiveness is very strong, but in previous wars, it has lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and it is urgent to replenish the new army.

This headquarters is very fond of Ling Jingyang, he has long seen that Ling Jingyang's spirit is different from others, his eyes exude bloodthirsty murderous intent, and his body is also very generous, at first glance, he is a practitioner.

This thug is also ferocious, in the suppression just now, he actually saw that this thug slashed the throat of a boss Shunjun soldier as soon as he arrived, which was really cruel, fortunately Ling Jingyang came to help, otherwise with the combat strength of his subordinates, if he wanted to kill this thug, he would lose several people.

And the thug's wrist was broken by Ling Jingyang, which made him admire Ling Jingyang very much, regardless of whether Ling Jingyang and others were in the Ming Dynasty official army, as long as he joined the Dashun army and became his subordinate, he would be stronger in the army.

The name of this Dashun Army headquarters is Zhang Shun, and Zhang Shun is the same name as Zhang Shun in the water margin and the waves, but he is not a Jiangnan man, but an authentic northern Shaanxi man, a spear is his weapon, he is very happy to get three soldiers, but only three soldiers joined, which is still not enough for the total strength of the standard department, and he will continue to recruit the Ming Dynasty officers and troops to supplement the troops.

In order to encourage Ling Jingyang, he directly gave Ling Jingyang a sentry, that is, the lowest-ranking officer of the Dashun Army, and there were ten soldiers below, which gave Ling Jingyang a lot of face, Ling Jingyang didn't care, he just stayed in the Dashun Army barracks for a while, and when Li Zicheng went north to Shanhaiguan, his opportunity came.

At that time, the Dashun army was defeated, and a large number of surrendered Ming troops turned against each other, killing tens of thousands of soldiers in the old battalion of the Dashun army, which made the Dashun army even worse.

When Ling Jingyang was in the fugue, Zhang Shun killed the thugs, cut off the thugs' heads with a knife, and then kicked them away, this is the end of the thugs, the army of King Chuang is a benevolent and righteous army, how can he let the thugs kill the people.

Chongzhen silently watched the performance of the soldiers of the Dashun Army, and sighed again in his heart, this Dashun Army seems to be indeed a little stronger than the Da Ming Army.

The crowd continued to be robbed by the surrender of the Ming army and the suppression of the mob in the capital.

On the road, Ling Jingyang and Chongzhen whispered: "From now on, you will be my subordinate." ”

Chongzhen's face was expressionless.

"And what's my name?"

Wang Chengen on the side was also curious, it was impossible for the two of them to use their real names, wouldn't that be chopped into corpses by the Dashun Army on the spot?

Ling Jingyang had already thought of names for the two of them, one was called Leng Pang and the other was called Wang En, Chongzhen and Wang Chengen silently acquiesced to this name, and the three followed behind Zhang Shun to maintain order on a street in the east of the capital.

Some of the soldiers of the Ming army are still fighting, they are maintaining the last dignity of the Ming Dynasty, and they are fighting a tragic battle against several times the Dashun army.

Zhang Shun took his subordinates to the east of the city, where the battle continued, Chongzhen watched his loyal subordinates, who were killed by the Dashun army to the point of blood, and the heads of the forbidden army soldiers were constantly cut off, and dozens of forbidden soldiers were captured, pressed to the ground by the Dashun army, and their heads were chopped off one by one.

Ling Jingyang also saw the scene of the ancient battlefield for the first time, he saw a forbidden army general carrying a big knife, surrounded by dozens of Dashun soldiers in the middle, during which the soldiers of the Dashun army persuaded him to surrender, but was rejected by the general of the forbidden army, and finally was cut into several pieces by a group of Dashun army soldiers.

His death in battle frightened more soldiers of the forbidden army to throw away their weapons and squat on the ground obediently, waiting to be absorbed by the Dashun army, and the battles in other areas of the east of the city were gradually coming to an end, and more and more soldiers of the Ming army in the capital threw away their weapons and surrendered to the Dashun army.

Chongzhen and others were mixed in the Dashun army, he saw his Jinyi guard commander Luo Yangxing, with hundreds of Jinyi guards surrendered to the Dashun army, Chongzhen sighed in his heart, maybe the backbone of the Jinyi Wei had already died on the battlefield, and most of the rest were soft bones, he wanted to surrender it, it was impossible to let them give their lives in vain because of their incompetence, this was the first time Chongzhen thought that he was incompetent, but it was only a moment, he still thought that the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs had misled the country.

Unlike the army, the Ming court's civil and military ministers in the capital assembled at the gate of the palace, and they were ready to welcome the new emperor.

Li Zicheng was supported by his subordinates, and led the elite soldiers to enter the capital as victors, and the Dashun army entered the city, announcing the end of the Ming Dynasty's rule in the north.

In the past ten years, he has gone from a down-and-out pawn to the Emperor of Dashun, almost like the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, he became a new generation of emperors from scratch, and his subordinates supported him to the palace, where a large number of civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty had long gathered.

These people used to be high, where is he a little post man can look up, and now, in the past, people who were high in the past have to look up to him to snort, it is really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, he Li Zicheng finally smiled proudly in China.

This is his biggest victory, finally overthrew the Zhu family more than 270 years of rule, the Dashun Dynasty is about to become the new ruler of the land of China, at this time not only the Ming army defected, a large number of gentry in the north, also threw themselves to Dashun, the gentry from all over the country have been killed, expelled unwilling to surrender Dashun officials, scrambling to return to Dashun, want to seek a good position in the Dashun Dynasty.

Li Zicheng enjoyed the fruits of the victory very much, since he started the army, smoothly unexpectedly, all the way forward, in just one year, to break through the capital, this is a great joy he did not expect, but also the military miracle that the minister of civil and military affairs of the Great Shun Dynasty did not expect.

After entering the city, he first appeased the minister of civil and military affairs, and then led his subordinates into the palace, at this time some subordinates found the corpses of Empress Zhou and others, Li Zicheng ordered not to insult the corpse, he ordered his subordinates to find Emperor Chongzhen at all costs, to see people in life, to see corpses in death, to bring Chongzhen back, whether it is a living person or a corpse, Li Zicheng wants to take another look at this old opponent, his subordinates turned over the mountains and seas in the palace, stunned that Chongzhen was not found, and tortured the eunuchs in the palace, the palace maid and others, and they did not know Chongzhen's whereabouts.

Li Zicheng is not in a hurry, his sphere of influence from the west to the northwest, south to Huguang, east to Shandong, north to Shanhaiguan, almost the entire Yellow River valley is the territory of the Dashun army, all of which are the sphere of influence of the Dashun court, Chongzhen, a person who lives in the deep palace all the year round, how can he have the ability to escape from North China.

Some subordinates told him that there were still some remnants of the Ming army in Baoding Mansion, and whether he wanted to lead troops to pull out this nail, Li Zicheng didn't care, those remnants of the Ming army in Baoding Mansion were defeated, and they had no strength to resist the attack of the Dashun army.

Although Li Zicheng and the Dashun army reached the pinnacle of the highest power in China, but the vision did not follow the advance, at this time in North China, he thought that only Shanhaiguan Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry, he was still a little threatened to him, the group of waste Ming army in the Jiangnan region, was pinned down by the 70,000 army of Bai Wang, the general of Guoyi under his command, and his nephew Li Guo led the main force of the rear army to guard his hometown in northern Shaanxi, and he had enough time to enjoy the fruits of victory in the capital.

Many high-ranking members of the Dashun army, including him, ignored the Qing army that was eyeing the outside of the Guan, which was the strongest army in combat effectiveness of the era and his biggest enemy in the future.

After his number one general, Liu Zongmin, entered the city, he led a large army to capture the palace, and replaced all the garrison forces in the capital with Dashun soldiers, and the ministers of civil and military affairs were also sent by him to look at it, so as not to have bad intentions and counterattack the Dashun army in the city, causing unnecessary casualties.

"Your Majesty, that cub Chongzhen doesn't know where to go, do we want to torture these bitches one by one, and get some silver to pay the soldiers?"

Li Zicheng did not agree with Liu Zongmin's plan, but said to him: "To appease the hundred officials and the people, do not kill indiscriminately." ”

Speaking of silver, Li Zicheng is also a little contradictory, he is already the ruler of half of China, to a certain extent, replacing Chongzhen as the new son of heaven, can no longer be like before, every time he fights a place, he will kill the Zhu Ming royal family and local eunuchs in the local area, and use the stolen silver to pay the military salary.