Volume 1 Chapter 10: The Archer

Wang Chengen didn't know the little Jiujiu in Ling Jingyang's heart, he continued: "Mr. Ling, as long as you send Your Majesty to the Guanning Army, the old slave fought for his life, and let His Majesty reward you as the chief soldier of Beizhili." ”

Ling Jingyang was also angry with Wang Chengen and wanted to laugh, the chief officer and soldier of Beizhili was the commander of a provincial military region, or the commander of the army at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and scolded with a smile: "The chief officer and soldier of Beizhili, what a big breath, this Beizhili is Li Zicheng's sphere of influence, you let me be in Beizhili, leading Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses as the commander-in-chief?" ”

Wang Chengen also pulled the tiger skin to make a big banner, and when he saw that Ling Jingyang didn't eat this, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Ling, then you want to continue to follow Li Thief's soldiers in the capital?" ”

"That's not it, I want to go to Shanhaiguan, will Wu Sangui recognize Your Majesty?"

Ling Jingyang is not a fool, he escorted Chongzhen and Wang Chengen to Shanhaiguan alone, so that Wu Sangui could not surrender easily, but he also forced Wu Sangui to death, forced Wu Sangui to be anxious, and killed the three of them on the grounds that they were pretending to be the Son of Heaven.

He told Wang Chengen what he meant, how shrewd Wang Chengen was, agreed with Ling Jingyang's statement, the two did not continue to communicate, but went to other stores to buy hundreds of steamed buns, and came back with a few large bags of steamed buns.

Everyone saw Ling Jingyang and Wang Chengen coming back with steamed buns, their eyes lit up, Ling Jingyang generously distributed the steamed buns to everyone, and then looked at the courtyard, when he went to buy steamed buns, all the valuable things on the corpses were taken away by the soldiers, and the five big pits were basically dug up, just waiting for the corpses to be thrown in and buried.

Ling Jingyang looked at more than a thousand corpses, and subconsciously said, "I don't know if there are any ones in there who have not lost their breath?" ”

No one answered him, he worked for a long time, tired and hungry, including Chongzhen and others, all of them were chewing steamed buns fiercely, and the boss Shunjun old steamed buns were even more white-flowered steamed buns in one hand, feasting happily, Ling Jingyang paid special attention to the three rogues under his command, these three people had a lot of silver, and their arms were bulging, Ling Jingyang snorted coldly, three miscellaneous pieces, sooner or later I will send you to the underworld.

After everyone finished eating the steamed buns, they began to bury the corpses, some of the corpses began to rot and became stiff, and everyone from noon to evening, finally finished burying the corpses, and was about to leave, when suddenly a group of Dashun soldiers with blue cloth scarves tied to their heads rushed in from outside the door.

The leader is also a captain, and his rank is much higher than that of Ling Jingyang and the others, and he said to everyone with a gloomy face: "Your Majesty has an order, from now on, search the mountains and check the sea to catch Chongzhen, to see people in life, and to see corpses in death." ”

Du Wei conveyed the order and left, he never dreamed of Chongzhen, who he had been looking for. In the group of soldiers in front of him, after he left, Ling Jingyang's face did not change and the other sentinels said: "Thank you brothers today, go back tonight to rest, capture Chongzhen alive tomorrow, and enjoy ten thousand taels of gold." ”

The other outposts and the soldiers under their command earned a lot of money today, and they all regarded Ling Jingyang as a good brother, and took their subordinates back to the camp, Ling Jingyang also led his subordinates back, and the three rogues and the four Ming soldiers wanted to go out to have fun, after all, the capital is so big and so prosperous, and it is not easy to come to have a trip, and it will definitely be a pastime.

Ling Jingyang nodded, let the seven people leave, and then he asked the old steamed bun to take Chongzhen and Wang Chengen to the military camp, he was going to solve the three rogues, killing the rogues was not only their murder and robbery, but Ling Jingyang buried the corpses during the day, and saw the killing intent in their eyes, it was a kind of killing intent from the lower-level officers and soldiers who hated the higher-level officers, and if they didn't kill these three people, they were all potential deadly threats to him and Chongzhen.

The four Ming soldiers went to the restaurant in the city to eat, and the three rogues went to visit the kiln, they were not familiar with the capital, but they believed that as long as they were in the remote alleys, there must be rogue warblers and secret prostitutes, sure enough, the three of them found a place for fireworks in an alley, and the three of them showed a lewd smile, and were about to take a step forward, but they heard Leng Bangbang's voice from behind.

"Are you going to the underworld to be reincarnated?"

The three of them heard that it was Ling Jingyang's voice, and they all pulled out their knives, anyway, they had already plotted to kill Ling Jingyang, it was better to hit the day than to choose a day, and kill Ling Jingyang tonight, Ling Jingyang slowly came out of the darkness, he quickly drove the bow and pulled the string, and shot three arrows in one breath, two of the three rogues were shot head-on with three arrows, all of which were shot at the vital point, two fell to the ground and died, leaving one person to kill with a big knife, although it was very brave, but the courage of the horseman was not enough evidence.

Ling Jingyang saw the right time, a roundabout kick, kicked him in the stomach, and was kicked out several meters away in an instant, before he could stand up, Ling Jingyang stepped forward, and an elbow fell to the ground, smashing on the chest of the rogue, and the chest of the rogue deflated a large piece, but he had not yet lost his breath, Ling Jingyang smiled and said: "My soldiers, you can't kill innocents indiscriminately." ”

He kicked hard, kicked off the neck of the rogue, and then took all the things that the rogues snatched out of his arms, this shaking, what fell out was not silver, there was even a bag of human ears, a jar of human eyeballs, from the number of eyeballs, these rogues killed at least a dozen people, Ling Jingyang was even more angry, pulled out the clothes of the three rogues, pulled out the arrows on the corpses, and let the corpses be exposed.

After killing the three people, Ling Jingyang calmed down his anger a little, and returned to the barracks with the silver, as soon as he returned to the gate of the barracks, he felt that something was wrong, and at the gate of the barracks, a team of strange soldiers suddenly appeared.

These soldiers looked at him deadly, but they did not step forward to stop him from entering the barracks, after returning to the barracks, Chongzhen and Wang Chengen hid in the room without saying a word, and Ling Jingyang hurriedly asked those strange soldiers outside the barracks what was going on?

After Chongzhen and Wang Chengen came back, they never went out, how could they know about the soldiers outside the barracks, Ling Jingyang had no choice but to come to the old steamed bun room, the old steamed bun was polite, and told Ling Jingyang generously that the team of soldiers outside the barracks was His Majesty's old camp soldiers, and there were different numbers of veterans stationed in each barracks, especially in the barracks where a large number of Ming troops were surrendered, almost there were more than 100 old battalion soldiers.

Ling Jingyang's battalion army, there are not many Ming troops who have been surrendered, so there are only more than 20 soldiers in the old battalion, Ling Jingyang sighed in his heart, fortunately he didn't come to find Chongzhen, but the old steamed bun continued; "These people came to the barracks for another purpose, which is to urge everyone to go to Emperor Ming, your eyes should be bright, don't annoy them."

Although the old steamed bun is also the boss of the Shun army, but compared with the old battalion soldiers, the quality is still a little worse, Ling Jingyang thanked the old steamed bun, said goodbye to him, and before leaving, he specially told him that he had wiped the neck of the three guys who killed people and oversold goods, and asked the old steamed bun not to be angry about this matter again.

The old steamed bun was hot in his heart, and Ling Jingyang's image in his mind suddenly became taller, and in an instant, he thought that Ling Jingyang was the resurrection of the general of the Dashun Army who died before entering Beijing, and the old steamed bun and Ling Jingyang said: "Mr. Ling, good job, my old show has old arms and legs, and it will be yours in the future." ”

Ling Jingyang turned his back to him, shrugged his shoulders, left the room and went back to his bedroom, the bedroom was very small, Ling Jingyang returned to the room, Chongzhen and Wang Chengen had already fallen asleep, he also lay on the bed and fell asleep soundly.

On the night he slept, there was an inconsistency in the high-level of the Dashun army in the capital, Liu Zongmin and other military generals, Niu Jinxing and other civil servants have been asking for torture and payment of military salaries to the soldiers of the Dashun army, even though a few people objected, but the opposition was invalid, Li Zicheng agreed to torture the military salary, and set up a new yamen, called "Bi Salary Zhenfu Division", which was specially used to torture and ask for the property of the Ming Dynasty civil and military officials in the city, so as to help the salary.

Although the Dashun army captured the capital, but the high-level also paid close attention to the situation in other places, stationed in Shanhaiguan Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang was in the capital, Li Zicheng persuaded Wu Xiang to surrender, let Wu Xiang write a letter to Wu Sangui, and let Tang Tong and Zuo Shilang Zuo Maotai go to Shanhaiguan.

Li Zicheng recruited Wu Sangui, and he also made a bloody promise, promising Wu Sangui and his son to be the marquis, these things happened to Li Zicheng in the capital, and he was also full of confidence that Wu Sangui would surrender to Dashun, instead of surrendering and Jiannu, the sworn enemy who had fought with the Guanning army for many years.

On the other hand, Li Zicheng is still not satisfied with the performance of his subordinates, which is that Chongzhen himself has still not been found, several of Chongzhen's princes have been captured, but Chongzhen is nowhere to be found, he once again ordered that Chongzhen must be found, even if it is three feet into the ground, Chongzhen's body must be dug out.

Some ministers of the court, guards, palace maids and people who have had many contacts with Chongzhen have been taken to the streets by the soldiers of the Dashun army, as long as they are somewhat similar to Chongzhen, they will be met by more than three people one by one, and in the end they are not, Chongzhen seems to have evaporated from the world, no one is alive, no body is dead.

In order to find Chongzhen, Li Zicheng raised the bounty to 20,000 taels, the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren were all marquis, Beiping City suddenly set off a climax of capturing Chongzhen alive, the middle-aged man in the city, in this capture of Chongzhen was beaten for no reason, there were a few middle-aged men who were a little similar to Chongzhen, they were beaten on the street and their heads were bleeding, the beaters took a closer look, it was not Chongzhen himself, they dispersed in a hurry, and the beaten people lay on the ground and wailed in pain.

The soldiers of the Dashun army who passed by were kind-hearted and threw some broken silver to these people as compensation for being beaten.

The activities of searching the mountains and inspecting the sea in the capital are huge, and they are in full swing, but no one would have thought that Chongzhen is under Li Zicheng's nose, Chongzhen's battalion, which belongs to Liu Zongmin's Zhongquan battalion, is Liu Zongmin's descendant troops, stationed near the west gate of Bauhinia City, with more than 2,000 people, Captain Li Daowei is the right-hand man of Xin Sizhong, the general of Zuo Weiwu, Xin Sizhong is the confidant of the party, this army bears the heavy responsibility of defending the west gate of Bauhinia City to a certain extent, and belongs to the forbidden army of the Dashun Imperial Court in Beijing.