After the miscellaneous soldiers gave the thatch to Ling Jingyang, they turned around and left, with these thatch, everyone finally did not have to worry about being frozen, and happily spread the thatch on the ground one by one, and covered the body with a thick layer, and it was not cold at all.

Zhu Youzhen has never experienced the suffering and desolation of the world, it is so simple, but it makes people helpless, these soldiers of the Dashun Army are also people, a bundle of thatch makes them smile, and he, as a son of heaven, can't even do this.

He was given two bundles of thatch, Wang Chengen also had two bundles of thatch, he laid the thatch near Zhu Youzhen, and went to the ground, Zhang Luofu intentionally or unintentionally wanted to get close to Zhu Youzhen, but was taken by Ling Jingyang, so that Zhang Luofu had to look at His Majesty, but he couldn't come forward to show his loyalty.

Ling Jingyang's drowsiness struck, he fell asleep in a daze, and he didn't know whether he was awakened by freezing or urine, but he woke up in the middle of the night, looking at the starry sky, and fell into a burst of blind thoughts, thinking if he had the ability to turn the tide and revive the rivers and mountains with this waste?

Zhu Youzhen didn't fall asleep, he slept on the hard ground, although there was a layer of thatch, but he still didn't fit in, Wang Chengen on the side slept lifelessly, he felt empty in his heart, at this time, Daming Jiangshan, Jiangshan Sheji, Zhu Dynasty, as well as the queen and the prince, these have nothing to do with him, he just wants to continue to sleep, but he can't sleep.

Ling Jingyang got up from the ground and went to urinate at the other end of the alley, Zhu Youzhen saw him get up, and he also had some urge to urinate, and followed Ling Jingyang to urinate together, the two old men began to boo one after the other, and suddenly a huge explosion sounded from the city, and the sound was so loud that it woke everyone up.

Fortunately, Ling Jingyang and Zhu Yousong got it, otherwise they would have been exhausted by the explosion, Ling Jingyang looked at the sound of the explosion, and it turned out to be an explosion in the grain depot, and a fire was ignited.

Ling Jingyang and Zhu Youzhen said: "It's grain and grass, it seems that someone wants to fight grain and grass." ”

Zhu Youzhen numbly watched the grain and grass catch fire, these grains and grasses had nothing to do with him, they burned Dashun grain and grass, it was best to burn them all, he felt comfortable.

At this time, the others had also woken up and came to Ling Jingyang's vicinity, begging Ling Jingyang if he wanted to take a look, or help extinguish the fire to protect the grain and grass from secondary injury.

"No, the grain and grass have been burned, and now the enemy and I are unknown, we are so reckless in the past, the people in the right battalion will mistakenly think that we are here to sneak attack the grain and grass, so they all let me sit here, without my order, whoever goes, will never come back."

He spoke in a cold tone, everyone sat on the ground obediently, and the old steamed bun also endured a heart that wanted to see the excitement, raised his neck, looked at the granary on fire, and scolded the people in the right camp for eating, how could they let the grain and grass catch fire?

Ling Jingyang faintly felt that among the thousands of militia groups that surrendered today, there must be soldiers loyal to the Ming Dynasty, could it be these who mixed into the Dashun army, waiting for an opportunity to burn the grain and grass, and dealt a fatal blow to the logistics of the Dashun army.

Everyone was silently watching the fire, but the soldiers of the right battalion who lived on both sides of the alley hurriedly rushed out of the room, Ling Jingyang looked at these soldiers with great interest, thinking that they would go to fight the fire, but they rushed towards the location of the cellar that Zhang Luofu told him.

There was a courtyard above the cellar, as if there was something more important than grain and grass, and not only that, but many troops in the city were moving closer to the cellar, but in the direction of the granary, there was the sound of fierce fighting, mixed with the screams of human beings after being stabbed by sharp blades.

"Enemy attack, guys."

Ling Jingyang was the first to hold the big knife in front of his chest, and the others also held their weapons one after another to prevent them from being scattered by the enemies and rebels in the city.

Sure enough, the raging fire at the granary managed to attract the attention of most of the city's defenders, and although some of them protected the buildings above the cellar, a larger number of armed men came out of the city, targeting the large courtyard above the cellar.

The soldiers of the right battalion near the courtyard resisted desperately, but they were caught off guard by the enemy, these sneak attacks were very ruthless, almost one for one and the Dashun army desperately, under their crazy attack, the soldiers of the right battalion near the compound were constantly cut down to the ground.

The gate of the courtyard was closed, and the people inside kept sending out a plea for help, and there were also soldiers from the right battalion who rushed to support, but the enemy besieging the courtyard fought hard and wanted to break through the courtyard, Wang Peiru shouted even more, break the courtyard, and the family of the deceased was rewarded with a thousand taels of silver.

When he said this, his subconscious was that he didn't want to go back alive, even if he died tonight, he would kill the important person in the courtyard.

More than 500 armed men who hated the Dashun army gathered near him, and they were going to shed a drop of blood for Da Ming tonight, and some people banged on the door while shouting in the loudest voice, and the sun and the moon were together.

The meaning of the sun and the moon is clear, Zhu Youzhen burst into tears, Zhang Luofu and Wang Chengen were surging in their hearts, and they wanted to rush up to help, but they were surrounded by soldiers of the Dashun Army, and they rushed up to help at this time, which would only drive Li Rufeng and others to join the battle group and eliminate this group of Daming loyalists in the fastest time.

Wang Peiru watched the steady stream of Dashun troops rushing to support, and ordered half of the people to arrive outside, as long as possible, he took the remaining soldiers and horses to storm the gate, even if he died tonight, he wanted to let this Dashun army taste the taste of life and death.

Because he concluded that the important person in this place may be an important adviser, or a relative of a big man, as long as he kills this person, it is possible to make this general of the Great Shun Army commit suicide, or make Li Zicheng and other high-ranking officials of the Great Shun Army angry and behead him.

But the gate was blocked from the inside, Wang Peiru tried his best, he had never been so depressed in his life, obviously with all his strength, the gate did not move at all, as if there was a boulder behind it, seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers who resisted the Dashun army outside, Wang Peiru looked up to the sky and roared.

I'm exhausted

Daming will last forever, after speaking, carrying a big knife to resist the attack of the Dashun army, the remaining soldiers are still trying to hit the gate, this time not only hit the door, but also a few people climbed the wall, wanted to climb over the wall into the fight, and were indeed shot by the people inside with bows and arrows to kill several people.

Ling Jingyang was also a little moved, Rao is Li Rufeng, Lao Mantou and other strong men who regard Daming as their mortal enemies, seeing Wang Peiru and others fighting bloodily, they are also a little unbearable, they used to be Daming scholars, Daming military households, but now they have become Daming gravediggers, as if they have been awakened to the slightest trace of the soul in their hearts.

Although I couldn't bear it, I still watched Wang Peiru and others being compressed by the Dashun army layer by layer, and finally Wang Peiru and other ten people were left in the corner of the wall by the Dashun army, and the others were either killed or captured.

The captives didn't live for more than three seconds, because Bai Minghe was carrying a big knife, one by one, and scolded these people for daring to sneak attack his precious daughter, it was really innocent.

He ordered that no one should be left alive, and at this time, a general came to report to him, saying that the enemy had been eliminated at the grain depot, and he subconsciously asked: "How many people have been killed in the grain depot?" ”

The subordinates were a little embarrassed, and told him that there were not many enemies in the grain depot, only dozens of people, and most of the enemies were surrounding the eldest lady here.

Bai Minghe was about to kill the next captive, the big knife stopped in the air, he felt that he couldn't kill everyone, and ordered all the remaining captives to be taken away, and then came to Wang Peiru and others, and saw that it was Wang Peiru, he was a little shocked, wasn't it the militia county that surrendered during the day? He said, "How are you?" ”

Wang Peiru looked indifferent and said: "It is under the ground, a group of rebels, there are Jiannu outside, but you are digging the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and today I will die with you." ”

He regarded death as home, Bai Minghe sneered, and said to his subordinates: "Everyone else has been killed, this person stays." ”

The soldiers of the Dashun army immediately launched the final blow, killing the surrounding Ming warriors one by one, only Wang Peiru was dragged out of the crowd, first served with an old fist, the nose was blue and the face was swollen, and the previous captives were still together, and another violent beating, almost interrupted Wang Peiru.

The fire in the city was quickly extinguished, Bai Heming hurriedly took his own soldiers, came to the compound, saw his daughter jumping around, smiling as usual, and praised his daughter fiercely, this is the tiger father and no dog girl, the enemy killed in front of the gate, still not moving like a mountain, such a small cotton jacket, Bai Minghe doesn't like it.

"Lushui, didn't you scare tonight, did you?"

"Daddy, it's just a little thief, I shot a few of them, and I still couldn't break through the door, but I have to thank Bai Dun tonight." ’

Bai Lushui said that Bai Dun is a subordinate of the Bai family, not tall, but very stocky, just now he was the one who resisted the gate, so that the number of people outside the door was not enough to crash open the gate, Bai Minghe and his own soldiers said: "From today on, Bai Dun is the flag, and the reward is five hundred taels of silver." ”

Bai Dun stood aside like a fool and was happy, Bai Lushui Bingxue was smart, he said to his father: "Father, there is a fire in the granary tonight, will there be people who go to fight the fire?" ”

A word woke up in the dream, Bai Minghe's focus was on his daughter, and the granary fire was also extinguished, and when his daughter said this, he hurriedly asked the deputy general Dane to go to the granary to take a look, what were the troops guarding the granary doing tonight when it was on fire, and which troops rushed to the granary after the fire?

Dane was puzzled and said, "My lord, do you want to put out the fire?" ”

He made a gesture, meaning to kill the general of the firefighting unit, Bai Minghe hated iron and steel, and said to him: "Let you have more eyes, not let you kill people." ”

Dane showed a look of sudden realization, turned to leave, and Bai Minghe said again: "Quietly, do you know? ”

Dane was still striding forward just now, suddenly shrunk his head, and slowly retreated like a turtle with a shrunken head, Bai Minghe said to his daughter again: "Lushui, you are smart when you are young, if it weren't for you, your father would still be in the dark, and it won't take long for your father to chop up all the fine work in the army." ”

Bai Lushui saw Bai Minghe's temples half a hundred, and couldn't bear to let your father run around, and said: "Daddy, it's not too early, I have to go to the capital tomorrow, hurry up and rest." ”

Bai Minghe waved his hand and went back with his own soldiers, Bai Lushui also asked Bai Dun to close the door, and returned to the room with the maid, after returning to the room, she covered her chest with her little hands like a different person, and said to the maid: "I was scared to death just now." ”

The maid was the same as him, her legs trembled with fright, she admired Bai Lushui's bravery very much, there was an enemy who climbed the wall, and she was about to turn in, the eldest lady didn't say a word, she shot this person with a bow and arrow, this was also the first time that the eldest lady killed someone, and then the eldest lady shot several people one after another, so that the enemy could dispel the attempt to climb the wall in.

She was thinking about how the eldest lady had become so bloodthirsty now, Bai Lushui looked at her trembling legs, and scolded: "I'm afraid that my father will say that I don't look like a daughter's family, do you think I'm afraid of those thieves?" ”

The maid was still trembling, Bai Lushui patted her on the shoulder gently, the maid relaxed a little, and her legs were not trembling, Bai Lushui asked her to blow out the candle and prepare to sleep, but the maid said: "Miss, I heard that the soldiers near us have come to the rescue, but the sergeants in that alley are indifferent, will they be meticulous?" ”

Bai Lushui was immediately full of interest in this alley Dashun Army, she asked the maid to inquire about the origin of this army after dawn, or the soldiers and horses of the left battalion, it is reasonable for them not to come to the rescue, after all, the soldiers of the left battalion do not know that she lives in this courtyard.

After dawn, Ling Jingyang went to have breakfast, last night's fire burned some grain, but also cooked some grain, this morning the head of the army to the whole army is no longer the same as before, are gruel and the like, the whole army came to a dry breakfast, sturdy buckwheat steamed buns, choked everyone rolled their eyes, busy to scoop a bowl of gruel at the other end, swallow the buckwheat steamed buns.

Ling Jingyang endured the discomfort in his throat, and insisted on eating four buckwheat steamed buns to store energy, but Zhu Youzhen swallowed three bites, ate one steamed bun, and couldn't eat it anymore, such an unpalatable thing, a delicacy in the mouth of the Dashun army, some soldiers ate it in their mouths, held it in their hands, and still carried it in their arms, as if this buckwheat steamed bun was gold.

Wang Chengen asked him to eat a few more, from Baoding City to the capital, there is not much city for the army to rest, I am afraid that I will have to spend the night in the field, eat more to carry hunger, Zhu Youzhen really can't eat, but he still obeyed Wang Chengen's words, swallowed another steamed bun, and stuffed four steamed buns in his pocket.

After breakfast, everyone fed the horses some forage and continued to serve as a grain guard, and the maid Wanqing began to inquire which unit was sleeping in the alley near the cellar last night, and she found Du Feng, who was a good friend and served as a lieutenant in the rear army.

Du Feng told him that the troops who spent the night in the alley near the eldest lady last night were basically the soldiers of our right battalion, and only one army was not our own army.

Wan Qing asked him which battalion this unit was?

Du Feng secretly touched her buttocks and said with a smile: "It's the troops of the middle battalion, but they follow the left battalion." ”

"What? The people of the middle camp, but they are with the left camp? ”

Du Feng said again: "It's not all, there are also rear battalions, the leader is a sentry general, although the level is low, but they are all cavalry, in short, they are a miscellaneous soldier, by the way, what are you asking them for?" ”

Wan Qing glanced at him and said, "Eldest Lady, did you fool around with other women in the rear army?" ”

Where does Du Feng dare to fool around with other women, this Wan Qing is the eldest lady's maid, and she can become a good friend with Wan Qing, Du Feng is Gao Pan, if she messes with other women, Wan Qing cries and complains at the eldest lady, he Du Feng will not live to tomorrow, and he will be cut into two pieces by General Bai that night.

|“ Auntie, my flesh and skin are all yours, you have to say a few more kind words to the eldest lady, let me also be promoted, and when I mention the mighty general, I will marry you in a sedan chair. ”

"That's pretty much it."

After Wan Qing heard the information of this unit, he returned to the Chinese army and told Bai Lushui that the unit that could not be saved last night was a miscellaneous unit of the middle battalion and the rear battalion, led by a sentry general, and there were not many soldiers and horses, which was not very rare.

After Bai Lushui heard this, he was a little disappointed, just a sentry chief, maybe he was afraid that the troops were not enough last night, or he was worried that he would not be able to defeat the thief, so he would not save him, right?

She was a little lost, swaying in the carriage, Ling Jingyang and others were still riding war horses, guarding on both sides of the grain cart, this road was peaceful, there were no robbers, no Ming army, the army was smooth all the way, and it took three days to arrive at Zhuozhou City.

After arriving in Zhuozhou City, Zhang Shun, Li Daoli and others had already retreated, Ling Jingyang looked confused, and it was only a few days before he returned to Zhuozhou. These days have been going around, from the capital to Baoding, and from Baoding back to the capital.

This time, Zhu Youzhen quit, and when there was no one, he swore to Ling Jingyang that he would not return to the capital.

Ling Jingyang only said one sentence, have you forgotten your son, and the daughter who was cut off by you?

Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly had all kinds of complicated expressions, ashamed, Ling Jingyang asked Wang Chengen to follow him well, and Mo had to find a place for everyone to hang himself, and he died.

In Zhuozhou City, the defenders followed Li Daoli and others to withdraw, only more than 100 soldiers gathered the nearby people, rebuilt Zhuozhou City on the ruins, Bai Minghe let the army have lunch in Zhuozhou City, take a nap for a while and continue to hurry.

On the way back to the capital, Ling Jingyang noticed that it had only been a few days, and the number of Dashun troops near the capital was increasing, and many civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were transported to the capital by the Dashun army in prisoner cars.

This is the most unsuccessful move by Li Zicheng and his ministers of civil and military affairs, bringing direct consequences, forcing the rebellion against the strata that have fallen to Dashun, especially the Ming Dynasty's gentry and Jin group in the north, they collectively abandoned Dashun, and the Ming army that has surrendered to the Dashun army is also waiting for an opportunity to rebel, Li Zicheng did not digest and absorb these surrendered troops, nor did he have time to digest and absorb the surrendered army, but just let part of the old battalion of the Dashun army and the surrendered army be stationed together.

Now as long as there is a tinder, the surrender of the Ming army and the landlord armed forces in the north will not hesitate to attack Dashun, Li Zicheng will not know these things, Liu Zongmin also knows, Niu Jinxing, and Zhu Youzhen and others will not know that the days of the Dashun army in the capital will be so short.

But there is only one person in the whole world who knows, that is Ling Jingyang, the Dashun army is about to fall from the peak, not only the military force has suffered heavy losses, but their emperor Li Zicheng will also die inexplicably soon, like a meteor crossing the sky at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen saw that his former subordinates were beaten to death by the Dashun army, and there were civil and military officials of the imperial court who were killed along the way, and there were some generals who had blood feuds with the Dashun army, and they were pressed by the soldiers of the Dashun army on the side of the road, cutting off their heads with a knife, and the corpses were in the wild.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't bear to look at it, Zhang Luofu became more and more angry, he was a martial artist, he was a Ming martial artist, he couldn't wait to burst out, the army was about to arrive in the capital, he saw with his own eyes a martial artist, who was killed by the Dashun army like a dog, he lowered his head and silently underestimated in his heart, sooner or later one day he would send all these traitors to the underworld.

After Bai Minghe's grain team arrived at the outskirts of the capital, he was not allowed to enter the capital, because the Shanhaiguan in the northeast of the capital was related to whether the Dashun army could gain a foothold in the capital.

At this time, the high-level of the Dashun army almost gathered in the capital, only Tian Jianxiu stayed in his hometown, and Zhang Tianlin led the troops to garrison Datong, which was a fatal military mistake, Li Zicheng still did not take the Qing army to heart, thinking that the Qing army was not enough, and thought that Wu Sangui could not surrender to the Qing army for half his life.

He executed Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, in the capital, beheaded more than 200 hereditary nobles of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, and gradually smoothed out the traces of the Ming Dynasty in the capital, but there was one thing that made him very unhappy.

Tens of thousands of troops occupied the capital, but they couldn't find Chongzhen, and their subordinates were in the capital for more than ten days, digging up all the alleys, interconnections, and even stinky ditches in the capital.

Li Zicheng was dissatisfied with the incompetence of his subordinates, so he was furious and ordered the whole army to dig three feet into the ground, and also to find Chongzhen, so the city was a bloody storm again, and the general Liu Zongmin continued to torture the Ming Dynasty's civil and military ministers, according to the size of the official position, tortured silver, there were many officials who could not take out the silver, and were tortured to death, the most famous is Wei Dezao, the first auxiliary minister of Chongzhen's cabinet, who regretted not giving Chongzhen loyalty before he died.

At the same time, there is Chongzhen's father-in-law, Chongzhen begged him to take out the silver to reward the soldiers who defended the city, but he was a miser, pretending to symbolically donate some silver, after the Dashun army entered the city, almost all his belongings were snatched away, and he was so angry that he was dying.

These two people are only the Ming Dynasty civil and military officials, died in the torture of military salaries of the representative figures, more civil and military ministers were forced to use silver to buy their lives, the Great Shun Dynasty in the capital to obtain tens of millions of taels of silver, at least in the military salary can be paid in full, but the more fierce the torture, but the surrendered Ming court civil and military officials, as well as the gentry and Jin forces disappointed, many people to become the founding ministers of the Great Shun Dynasty, but were brutally tortured by the Great Shun Army, and the beating was chilling.

The movement of the Beijing Torture Bank continued, and news came from Shanhaiguan one after another, some people said that Wu Sangui was still interested in Dashun, but then Tang Tongbing sent information, saying that the soldiers and horses were rejected by Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui was determined to surrender to Jiannu.

This time Li Zicheng no longer hesitated, ordered the armies to go to Shanhaiguan, on the one hand, he had to resist the northern expedition of the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River, but also to lead the troops to Shanhaiguan to surrender Wu Sangui, he was racing against time, if he could win, he would win the world, and if he couldn't win, the newborn Dashun would be destroyed by Xuan.