Li Zicheng has fought in the south and north for so many years, and many famous generals of the Ming Dynasty have fought against him, although he has been wandering most of the time, but even if he is wandering, his command ability has also been greatly improved in the case of being beaten by famous generals all year round.

This time he fought with Sun Chuanting, he attached great importance to Sun Chuanting, first sent troops to block Sun Chuanting's Chinese army, and then spared no expense, sent Yuan Zongdi to lead his troops to defeat, wanting to lure the enemy deeper.

Under Li Zicheng's careful layout, at the beginning of the first year, he did have some upper hand, and Sun Chuanting's soldiers began to have casualties one after another.

But when Li Zicheng introduced Sun Chuanting's army into the encirclement, Sun Chuanting showed his fangs that had been hidden for a long time.

Tens of thousands of musketeers armed with Migne rifles, divided into six battalions, adopted a three-stage attack method, which instantly caused huge casualties to Li Zicheng.

In addition to casualties, the Minne rifle, which made its first large-scale appearance on the battlefield, brought Li Zicheng more of a morale blow.

A rifle with a range of more than 500 meters, for them, this is simply an inexplicable artifact, and if they are against them, they will only be beaten in vain.

No one wants to die in vain, and even more so the rebel army under Li Zicheng.

After being stunned by the Mine rifle, these rebels, who were originally ordinary peasants, had their first thought of escaping.

Although Li Zicheng's army also has a team of warlords, compared to the butcher's knives of the warlords, the Mine rifle on the opposite side, which has a very long range and can shoot them in line, is obviously more deterrent.

After all, they rebelled against the Warlords, and they could still take action against the Warlords.

And if they continue to attack, then they have no value except to die in the way of the charge.

Therefore, this battle ended after Sun Chuanting showed the hole card of the Migne rifle.

Although Li Zicheng is now at his peak, in addition to these routs, there are many soldiers who are loyal to Li Zicheng who want to attack Sun Chuanting's army with flesh and blood.

But under the suppression of equipment, the sacrifice of these people is destined to be meaningless, and those who charge will soon die on the road, while the rest of the people will undoubtedly flee faster when they see this situation.

With the roar of rifles and artillery carriages, the army under Li Zicheng was defeated.

This time, Sun Chuanting did not deliberately pursue these rebels, but just stared at Li Zicheng's main force and chased after them.

Because he knows that with His Majesty's rectification of the rule of officials and the improvement of people's livelihood, the Ming Dynasty now has no soil for the survival of these rebel armies.

After these thieves broke and fled, they either honestly and incognito to be good citizens, or they just found a place to fall into the grass and wait to be eliminated one by one in the future.

In short, these people no longer pose any threat to Da Ming, and it is not interesting to kill them quickly.

But Li Zicheng is different, as the leader of this anti-thief team, others can escape, but Li Zicheng must die.

Even if Li Zicheng does not have the capital to make a comeback after this defeat, Sun Chuanting will never let him go.

Although the remnants of Li Zicheng were covered by cavalry, Sun Chuanting had already anticipated the outcome of this war before the battle, so he arranged several ambushes to block Li Zicheng's retreat.

Under the obstruction of these ambushes, Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of elites were beaten and scattered.

In the end, Li Zicheng, who fled for seven days, and only had more than 10,000 people left, was blocked by Sun Chuanting in the Sleepy Dragon Gorge and completely walked into a dead end.

The remaining more than 10,000 people are all Li Zicheng's diehards, and after Sun Chuanting's surrender failed, he directly ordered to open the road with artillery, and then compressed Li Zicheng's living space in it little by little.

And these more than 10,000 people, who actually used their flesh and blood to block the three-day attack of artillery, and in the end, Li Zicheng took the initiative to protect these soldiers and surrendered, and this battle came to an end.

Seeing that Li Zicheng, who had fought with him many times and almost succeeded, was tied up and brought to him, Sun Chuanting did not humiliate him, but said: "This battle is not a crime of war, but the sky will kill you." ”

This time, Li Zicheng is commendable in both the use of troops and the dispatch.

However, the gap in equipment cannot be smoothed out by the art of war and the strength of troops, and under the unreasonable suppression of the formed Minne Rifle Army, no matter who comes, they will only end up with hatred.

"Victory is victory, defeat is defeat, where is the saying of destiny."

Although he was defeated and captured, he knew that his life would definitely be short, but Li Zicheng did not have the slightest fear on his face.

In the face of Sun Chuanting's words of consolation, Li Zicheng laughed a little heroically, "A certain Li Zicheng was originally born as a post soldier, because there is no way in the imperial court, and there is no way to live, so he will raise troops to revolt." ”

"Over the years, there have been defeats, and more than once, and even the most downtrodden one was due to the Overseers, when only eighteen horsemen fled in disarray."

"But after losing so many times, I never believed in any destiny."

"Everywhere you go, the people's hearts are on the same side, all the people are respectful, and the people are facing the army in every household, what does this have to do with the destiny of heaven? This is the court without a way! ”

Li Zicheng, who was reduced to a prisoner, not only did not have the slightest decline, but was still full of arrogance.

"No matter how good the weapon is, it is difficult to win the hearts of the people, although this battle is lost, but after the death of a certain person, there are descendants."

"There is no way to be clear, and the time will not be too long!"

Looking at the rebellious Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting shook his head and only said one sentence, "Does King Chuang still feel that there is no way to be enlightened now?" ”

Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Li Zicheng's proud expression on his face froze, and he was directly speechless by Sun Chuanting's question.

If Sun Chuanting asked this sentence half a year ago, he would definitely refute Sun Chuanting without hesitation.

But now, with the imperial court reducing taxes, providing relief to the victims, distributing farm products, and even buying grain for the people from overseas by sea, the people's will has long since shifted.

Da Ming, who had already lost the hearts of the people, had gradually taken back the hearts of the people, and the reason why he was in such a hurry to fight Sun Chuanting was because of this.

It's not that he wants to fight a decisive battle with the imperial court, but now he has no choice.

Moreover, he had an army of 300,000 in this battle, which was three times that of Sun Chuanting, even if Sun Chuanting had new firearms, it stands to reason that he would never be defeated so quickly.

Even if it was half a year ago, even if he was defeated, he would not have hurt his vitality, at most, he would flee with the elite under his command, and it wouldn't be long before he could raise a large army again and fight with the imperial court again.

But the result of this battle was that Sun Chuanting had no strength to fight back, and only showed a slight defeat, and the army had already begun to disperse.

And on his way to escape, after the army was dispersed, not many of his soldiers were willing to follow him anymore.

In this battle, he had an army of 300,000, and very few were really annihilated by Sun Chuanting, and the vast majority of them chose to leave the army and become deserters.

And the reason why this situation has occurred is that he has lost the support of the people.

In other words, the people's hearts are no longer towards him, and the soldiers under his command are unwilling to fight with the court for him anymore.

So in this case, it is indeed a bit ironic that he talked to Sun Chuanting about the court's unreasonableness.

Because if the court was really unreasonable, the soldiers under his command would not have dispersed so quickly.

"Becoming a king or losing a king, there is nothing to say."

Li Zicheng was silent for a long time, and said with a somewhat lonely face: "I just hope that the Inspector will be true to his words and be able to sentence these brothers lightly." ”

He rebelled at the age of twenty-three, and it has been a full thirteen years now.

If it could be said at the beginning that he rebelled to overthrow the corrupt Ming Dynasty and return the people to a prosperous future, then now he has already changed his original intention.

So at this moment, let him be cheeky and say that Daming won the hearts of the people, which can be regarded as his victory, and he can't say this kind of thing.

"What to do with your subordinates is something Your Majesty has to consider."

Sun Chuanting looked at Sun Chuanting with complicated eyes, and he didn't mean to cross the river and tear down the bridge, "But what this official says counts, he will definitely intercede for them in front of His Majesty." ”

"So, thank you, Inspector."

Li Zicheng barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and then didn't say more, and turned around directly and wanted to leave.

It's just that after he turned around, Sun Chuanting suddenly remembered something, so he spoke again and stopped him: "Luoyang City is still under the control of your subordinates, and now that you have been defeated, it is useless for them to resist stubbornly, it is just to increase casualties." ”

"Can you write a letter on this matter and persuade them to surrender?"

According to Sun Chuanting's knowledge, Li Zicheng's defenders in Luoyang also had at least 5,000 people.

If these people are bent on defending and forcibly knocking down Luoyang City, there will be great casualties.

And if he kept besieging it, Sun Chuanting was worried that the soldiers under Li Zicheng's command would harm the people in Luoyang City, so he wanted Li Zicheng to write a letter to persuade the defenders in the city to surrender.

Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Li Zicheng, who had just turned around, paused.

He suddenly remembered Li Yan who was stationed in Luoyang City, and remembered some strange words and some abnormal behaviors that Li Yan had said before he set out on the expedition.

At this moment, as if he had suddenly figured out something, he turned his head to Sun Chuanting with a strange expression, and then said, "Luoyang City should be in Li Yan's hands now." ”

"What he has planned, I don't know, but I know, what he wants to do will definitely not be affected by it."

"Therefore, if you want to take Luoyang City, you have to ask the superintendent himself about his conditions."

After saying this, Li Zicheng didn't say anything more, and walked directly in the direction of the prisoner car.

"Li Yan?"

Looking at the back of Li Zicheng's departure, Sun Chuanting showed a thoughtful look on his face.

For this think tank in Li Zicheng's army, Sun Chuanting has long heard of it.

Looking at Li Zicheng's appearance at this moment, it seems that Li Yan had already calculated that Li Zicheng would be defeated, but he didn't open his mouth to remind him?