Chapter 831: Li Zicheng's Death (1st Update)
Chongzhen just planned to visit Sichuan privately.
There was also a shocking news from Jinyiwei that Li Zicheng was killed by the squire in Jiugong Mountain, Tongzhou!
Wang Chengen couldn't believe it, he knew everything about Li Zicheng's fierce Wang Chengen, Chongzhen had been the emperor for 17 years, and he had suppressed bandits for 14 years.
But these thieves are becoming more and more popular, and the biggest bandit is undoubtedly Li Chuang, the court has suppressed it, this thief has fallen into the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor almost hanged himself on the coal mountain.
Now he was killed in Jiugong Mountain?
Wang Chengen was a little incredulous, because he felt that Li Zicheng was too cunning, and he had used deception to play the imperial court several times, and when Shangluoshan was defeated, the whole army was wiped out, and in the end, there were only a dozen people left to make a comeback.
How could such a bandit be killed?
And he died at the hands of local regimental training, Li Zicheng is strong in martial arts, brave and good at fighting, and has thousands of horses and thousands of troops under him, and there are many generals who can fight like cattle hair, and the regular army of the imperial court is not his opponent, how can he die in local regimental training?
To put it bluntly, local regimental training is a private armed force organized by some ordinary people.
Can they kill Li Zicheng?
Not only did Wang Chengen not believe it, but even these generals around Chongzhen, martial arts masters and Jinyiwei's personal guards, also questioned it.
Chongzhen also wanted to hear the specific reason, and the brocade guard who reported the incident kowtowed......
Two months ago, when Li Zicheng walked around Wuchang with the remnants of the defeated army, Chongzhen knew that Li Zicheng was exhausted, so he sent a group of Jinyi guards to collect information about Li Zicheng.
It is also to verify Li Zicheng's historical fatalism, and now there is news.
Jin Yiwei told the truth about what he had heard......
Li Zicheng was defeated all the way and took a fancy to the place of Wuchang, but Zhang Xianzhong also took a fancy to this place, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in Wuchang.
This time, the Dashun army performed well, Liu Fangliang fought bloodily, and finally beat Zhang Xianzhong's many horses away and won Wuchang. But Wu Sangui's chasing troops arrived, and the disaster was not a one-way street, and Chongzhen also arrived near Wuchang with a large team of men.
Li Zicheng did not win a battle in front of Wu Sangui and Emperor Wu Chongzhen's men and horses, and had already become a frightened bird, Li Zicheng complained bitterly, in the face of two strong enemies, Li Zicheng did not dare to stay in Wuchang at all, abandoned the city and fled, all the way to Jiugong Mountain in Tongzhou, Hubei.
For Li Zicheng, of course it is safe in the mountains and forests, not to mention that he still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command. It's just that at this time, the two teams that he stayed behind did not catch up.
One was a 10,000-man horse led by his nephew, Li Guo. The other is the team of generals Liu Zongmin and Hao Shaoqi. He was more relieved about Li Guo, but Liu Zongmin was hit by an arrow in Shanhaiguan, and he has been fighting for more than a year, and he has no fixed place to live, and he has not recovered yet. Therefore, he asked Hao Shaoqi to assist Liu Zongmin.
Li Zicheng occupied a hill and set up camp, waiting for the two teams to meet, but a few days later, Li Guo and Liu Zongmin still did not come. Li Zicheng was a little restless, and sent people to investigate, and the army was short of food and grass.
There is no food in the army, and the morale of the army is unstable, originally they lost all the way, and now Li Zicheng also knows that his brother is no longer the brother of the year, he is no longer the god of war Li Zicheng in people's hearts, but the leader of the defeated army who has been defeated again and again, and it is easy to cause mutiny among the soldiers at this time.
Li Zicheng planned to raise food in person.
He left the camp with forty or fifty men, and walked twenty or thirty miles out of a village in front of him.
From a distance, lush, this village is not small, the wall is tall, the gate is relatively wide, like a city gate, there are three words "Chengjiazhai" written on it.
There are five-color flags on it, and there seem to be patrolling villagers on the wall.
Li Zicheng restrained his war horse and ordered his subordinates to go and investigate.
Soon his soldiers will come back, this big village, heavily guarded, with a population of more than 10,000, there is money and food in the village, and there is their own regimental training and armament, they dare not approach.
His generals suggested that Li Zicheng lead a large army to loot the stockade.
Li Zicheng did not allow it, so he decided to go to the village in person and meet their village
Lord, buy some food, borrow some more, and make do with it.
Who knew that at this moment, a villager with hundreds of people rushed over menacingly.
Li Zicheng's personal guards were ready to fight, the bow was wound, the sword was unsheathed, and the sword was tense.
Li Zicheng stopped them, turned over and dismounted, and greeted them, Li Zicheng treated these villagers with courtesy, but these villagers treated Li Zicheng as a thief, and when they met, they couldn't say anything, and they gave Li Zicheng a guy.
Li Zicheng dodged left and right, did not fight back at all, explained that he wanted to see their village owner, and said that there was no malice not to misunderstand, but these townsmen did not listen at all, and finally the two sides started a scuffle.
Li Zicheng is brave and good at fighting, and the dozens of personal guards under his command are also long-standing enemies and have strong combat effectiveness, but they are outnumbered after all, and hundreds of casualties on both sides have been killed and wounded in the blink of an eye.
Li Zicheng didn't want to fight like this anymore, this was not his intention, and retreated with more than 20 personal soldiers. But they were unfamiliar with the ground and soon jumped into a river of silt.
The war horse was deeply trapped, and Xiang Yong chased after them with a random arrow, at this time, although Li Zicheng was a master of the 8th layer realm of the day after tomorrow, if it was a fight, let alone these hundreds of Xiang Yong, he was not afraid of thousands of troops.
But now, Li Zicheng's great ability can't be displayed. As a result, Li Zicheng was hit by several arrows and scattered the silt river, and only two or three of his personal guards were lucky enough to climb out of the silt river and run back, and the rest were all shot.
The bad news came, Li Zicheng's wife, Empress Gao cried to death, Li Zicheng's subordinate generals Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang and Li Guo, who had just returned to the camp, Li Laiheng and other generals were like the sky had fallen, and a generation of heroes and emperors fell, and tens of thousands of horses and horses were all crying.
Then they spread all their anger to Cheng's village.
At this time, Cheng Jiazhai didn't know that the catastrophe was coming, they only felt that they were killing a small group of bandits, and they didn't expect them to kill the powerful Li Zicheng.
Tens of thousands of Dashun troops walked and flattened Chengjiazhai, and then carried out barbaric slaughter activities, men, women and children, chickens and dogs were not left.
After avenging Li Zicheng, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Dashun Army in the whole army all wore linen and filial piety for Li Zicheng. But the army cannot be without a master for a day, and the Great Shun Dynasty cannot be without an emperor for a day.
Soon, the generals in the army, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi and Gao Yigong, all nominated Li Zicheng's nephew Li to inherit Li Zicheng's throne.
At this time, Liu Zongmin took Hao Shaoqi, Dang Shousu, Liu Tichun and other more than 10,000 Dashun troops to join them, and when they heard that Li Zicheng was killed, these generals all shed tears, but they had a dispute over the issue of inheriting the throne.
Hao Shaoqi, Dang Shousu, Liu Tichun and others felt that there should be Liu Zongmin, the second-in-command of the Dashun Army, to carry the banner of breaking the word.
Seeing that there was going to be a split, Li said, "Don't fight, the emperor should be this person."
Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen