Chapter 302: Killing the Four Towns

"Hand over the military power and follow me to Yangzhou to face the saint!" Liu Zeqing sneered.

"Forgive me!"

Huang Degong could see that Liu Zeqing was not good, so he immediately went back to prepare for the war.

How could Liu Zeqing give him a chance, and immediately commanded the army to attack.

The 50,000-strong army quickly charged with great momentum.

Huang Degong's troops were defenseless, and they were broken in half an hour, and Liu Jun rushed into the camp and shouted, "Those who go to Yangzhou to join Emperor Chongzhen will not only not be killed, but also rewarded!"

All the soldiers heard about Ma Shiying, and immediately put down their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

Huang Degong fled from the back of the camp with Hongguang, but was surrounded by his own soldiers.

"Yasukuni Gong! Surrender!" Liu Zeqing rushed over and laughed at Huang Degong, who had betrayed his relatives. "Huh, hahaha...... God help me, Zhu Youxiang, follow me to Yangzhou to face the saint!"

Hearing this, Hiromitsu's legs trembled, and he could barely stand on his feet.

"Bold Liu Zeqing, he dared to call the emperor by his name!" Huang Degong was furious.

"Your Majesty? Zhu Youxiang deceived us for a year, and now that Emperor Chongzhen is going south, he Zhu Youxiang still dares to call himself the emperor? It's a joke!"

When the words fell, Liu Zeqing stretched his bow and shot at Hongguang.

Huang Degong was shocked and subconsciously blocked in front of Hongguang.

"Hiss......"

The pain in the heart came, and Huang Degong was hit by an arrow in his left shoulder.

"Yasukuni Gong, let's surrender......" Hiromitsu burst into tears.

"The emperor treats me with the grace of knowledge, and the minister will definitely protect it to the death!"

"If you fight to the death to protect me, Chongzhen will definitely think that I am unwilling to surrender, and I will not be spared in the future, you are small to die, I, no, no, no, the lone king can't die!" Hongguang cried miserably.

When Huang Degong heard this, he immediately forgot the pain in his body, and looked at Hongguang in a daze: "Your Majesty, are these words your true words?"

Hongguang was already so frightened that he lost his ability to think, so he didn't speak, just nodded.

Huang Degong laughed, raised his knife in front of his neck, and shouted, "I am a manly man, how can I be like you!"

With that, he twitched the hilt of his sword, slit his throat, and collapsed.

Liu Zeqing was overjoyed, sent someone to cut off Huang Degong's head, escorted Emperor Hongguang, and marched towards Yangzhou.

On the third day, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo arrived one after another, and camped separately on mutual beware.

Chongzhen sighed that those who didn't want to kill didn't come to surrender, but those who wanted to kill came.

Historically, when the Qing soldiers crossed the Yangtze River and approached Nanjing, Zhu Yousong abandoned the city and fled, and secretly came to Huang Degong's military camp. Huang Degong burst into tears of surprise and said, "If Your Majesty is guarding Nanjing to the death, we can still resist as much as we can, why did you listen to the words of the female thief and come here in a hurry? Besides, I'm fighting against the enemy, how can I protect your car?" Zhu Yousong said, "I have nothing to rely on except you." Huang Degong said with tears in his eyes, "I am willing to die for Your Majesty."

Later, the Qing soldiers came to attack, Huang Degong fought to the death, his arm was injured and almost broken, he hung his arm with a cloth belt, sat on a small boat with a waist knife, and commanded his subordinates to fight.

has already surrendered, Liu Liangzuo took the Qing soldiers to greet him on the shore, and he wanted to surrender with merit. Huang Degong angrily shouted, "You would surrender to Jianju!" Suddenly, an arrow flew and struck him to the left of his throat. Huang Degong knew that everything was over, so he threw away the knife, picked up the arrow he had just pulled out and stabbed his throat and died.

Chongzhen knew that among the four towns, only Huang Degong was a loyal minister, as for Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, they did not have the slightest courage to resist the Qing soldiers in history, and Duoduo's army immediately led the whole army to surrender, contributing nearly 200,000 new troops to Duoduo.

Especially Liu Liangzuo, in history, not only killed Huang Degong, but also killed Yan Yingyuan and other famous generals, and the crime was monstrous.

Chongzhen was originally going to kill Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing, leaving Huang Degong alone to continue to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Huang Degong failed to escape the fate of history and died to protect Hongguang.

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Chongzhen looked at the so-called surrender book, sent Mo Dacheng to send a reward for silver, and summoned Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing to Yangzhou for canonization.

Naturally, the two did not dare to enter the city at will, and they swore to die and not to be sealed.

Chongzhen didn't care, he went out of the city in person and entered the barracks in person to be canonized.

Early in the morning, I went to Liu Liangzuo's camp.

Liu Zeqing looked frightened, but he actually laughed wildly in his heart, "As long as I have soldiers, Chongzhen has to condescend."

When he saw Chongzhen enter the camp, he put away the smug look on his face, and took all the generals in the camp, knelt 50 meters in front of Chongzhen, and shouted long live.

Chongzhen was not verbose, and stretched out his hand.

Mo Dacheng immediately sent a rifle.

Chongzhen was sharp, aimed with the gun, and pulled the trigger in three breaths.

Before Liu Zeqing could get up, he heard a bang, and then his brain splashed and he lost consciousness.

The 200 riflemen behind Chongzhen immediately raised their guns to shoot, and after 600 gunshots, most of the generals and personal soldiers beside Liu Zeqing were killed and wounded.

"Those who surrender now, avoid death!" Hu Guozhu shouted as he commanded his soldiers to step forward and disarm.

Where did the soldiers who had lost their generals dare to resist, they laid down their arms one after another and accepted Hu Guozhu's rule.

Emperor Hongguang was also taken out, trembling and kneeling in front of Chongzhen.

"Brother Huang spares his life, this king thinks that the emperor is funeral, so he is the emperor in Nanjing, and now he knows that the emperor is still in charge of the Ming Dynasty, naturally, naturally, naturally he is at ease to be his own king......

Chongzhen had already known about the battle between Liu Zeqing and Huang Degong just now, and he was a little depressed in his heart, and he was even more upset when he saw this cowardly begging for mercy in a low voice, "Locked up in the Zongren Mansion and waiting for the fate."

"Your Majesty."

Seeing that Chongzhen did not kill himself immediately, Zhu Youxiang was overjoyed and shouted long live.

Subsequently, a piece of news came out that Liu Zeqing plotted against Yangzhou in a vain attempt, and was attacked by the emperor in one fell swoop, killing more than 300 generals and officials in the battalion!

An hour later, Chongzhen rushed to Liu Liangzuo's camp and shot a group of generals and officials as concocted, and Guo Yunlong took over the town's soldiers and horses.

At this time, Gao Jie also arrived at the junction of Fengyang Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion.

was stopped by Gao Di and the elite soldiers of the Fire Dragon Army.

"Gao Jie, dismount and surrender!" Gaodi's face was shiny, and he drank with a lot of energy.

Although Gao Jie had 50,000 horses, he did not dare to confront Gao Di head-on, let alone go out to surrender, so he sent envoys to communicate.

"Elder Gao Ge, in our military camp, there are officials from various states and counties in Fengyang Prefecture, and we want to go to Yangzhou with this official to meet the saint!"

Gao Di seemed to laugh: "Gao Jie rebelled, and there is no forgiveness for killing!"

Gao Jie's envoy was stunned, what's the matter, I just said a word, why did I rebel?

The 10,000 Fire Dragon Army was not a large number, but the firearms were sharp, and they quickly advanced to 200 steps in front of Gao Jie's army.

Gao Jie was shocked and prepared to evacuate first, and then surrender.

No, there was a loud earth-shattering noise, and his array was immediately engulfed by countless explosions.

It turned out that Gao Di ordered more than 2,000 mortars to bombard with all their might, trying to defeat Gao Jie's army in three rounds of bombardment.