Li Zicheng did not let the remaining 1,000 soldiers rush to the city gate, but let them stay here, and he and the party guards rushed to other city gates.

After an hour of walking, Li Zicheng found that only the south gate had no enemy troops, and the city towers on the east and west sides had been occupied by the enemy.

When Li Zicheng returned to Xiangwang's Mansion, Li Laiheng and Song Xiance had also returned.

"King Chuang, our three military camps have suffered heavy losses, there are wounded soldiers everywhere, and there are only a hundred thousand soldiers in front of us who can continue to fight." Li Laiheng saw that Li Zicheng was back, and hurriedly stepped forward to report.

"Can you find out who attacked us?" Li Zicheng asked with a sinking face.

Li Laiheng said with some thoughts: "The enemy seems to have dropped bombs and fire oil on us in the air. ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and Dang Shousu exclaimed: "How can the enemy attack us from the sky? Is the prime minister mistaken? ”

"There is no mistake about it, some soldiers saw dozens of fire points suddenly coming over the barracks, and then they saw bombs and fire oil thrown from the fire points, you see, they can still be faintly seen now." Li Laiheng pointed to the fire point in the sky and said.

Everyone looked up, and sure enough, they could see some fires flashing in the sky.

"Now our east and west gates have been occupied by the enemy, only the south gate has not been occupied, do you have any suggestions?" Li Zicheng said in a deep voice.

"King Chuang, we should now take advantage of the fact that the south has not been occupied by the enemy, escape from Xiangyang City from the south gate, and go out of the city, so that these enemy troops in the air will have no way to threaten us anymore." Li Laiheng suggested.

"King Chuang, I think we should defend in the city, and when it is dawn, we will not be afraid of them." Dang Shousu said.

"King Chuang, we can't lose Xiangyang City, we have to defend Xiangyang City, King Chuang sent someone to transfer General Li Guo back, we have a front and back attack, and the enemy army will be caught off guard." Song Xiance also spoke.

Li Zicheng didn't want to lose Xiangyang City like this, so he said: "Okay, then we will defend Xiangyang City, and immediately send someone to send a message to Guo'er from the south gate, so that he can lead the soldiers and horses back to support us." ”

After receiving Li Zicheng's decision to defend Xiangyang City, his subordinates immediately arranged for the soldiers to no longer rush to the city gate, but to defend in their original positions to prevent the enemy from attacking.

Daniel Zhang stood on the hill and watched all this with a telescope, turned to Xiang Shaoyun beside him and said: "Li Zicheng did not flee from the south gate, but began to defend, it seems that Li Zicheng feels that we will only defend the city tower and dare not enter the city to fight them." ”

"If we fight in the city, I'm afraid we will suffer casualties." Xiang Shaoyun said worriedly.

"I didn't want to start a war in the city, that would cause many innocent people to suffer unjustified disasters, but this Li Zicheng didn't know what to do, so he ordered the artillery regiment to bombard them with artillery." Daniel Zhang said with a sigh.

After Zhou Zhan received the order from above, he hurriedly brought his artillery regiment to the city tower, and then began the bombardment of Xiangyang City.

I saw that the heavy artillery could collapse several houses with just one shot, and the mortars quickly bombarded the place where the Dashun army was.

When the Zhou army began to bombard Xiangyang City with artillery, the dense explosion immediately reached the Xiangwang Mansion.

The faces of Li Zicheng and his subordinates became ugly, and Li Zicheng asked with some concern, "Are they going to attack?" ”

"King Chuang, they actually have such a dense artillery fire, it seems that the enemy army has a lot of people, so we should stay away for the time being." Li Laiheng persuaded.

When Li Zicheng heard Li Laiheng's words, he was also a little hesitant whether to retreat or defend.

At this time, Dang Shousu said: "King Chuang, how many cannonballs can they have, at most they will be finished after a while, and when the time comes, we will fight with them in the city, and we will not be afraid of their firecrackers." ”

When Li Zicheng was about to say something, he suddenly heard a soldier shouting outside: "Oh no, the fire in the sky is flying towards us." ”

When everyone heard this, they walked outside the hall and looked at the sky, and sure enough, they saw dozens of fire points floating towards Xiangwang's Mansion, and it seemed that it would not be long before they came to the sky above Xiangwangfu.

Everyone panicked, and Song Xiance said, "King Chuang, let's get out of here quickly." ”

When everyone heard Song Xiance's words, they also spoke in favor of letting Li Zicheng leave here.

Li Zicheng sighed and said, "That's it, let's evacuate Xiangyang City, and in the daytime, they will enter the city." ”

No one insisted on staying this time.

Soon the people returned to their mansions, took their families and their gold and silver, and withdrew to the south gate.

Li Laiheng first arrived at the south city gate, and saw that there was no enemy here, but he was still not at ease, so he asked a hundred soldiers to go to the city gate first to see if there was an enemy ambush outside.

A hundred soldiers went out of the city, looked around, and when they found that there was no ambush, they returned to the city.

Li Laiheng breathed a sigh of relief when he got the news that there was no ambush outside, and he couldn't guess whether the enemy deliberately let them live or if the troops were insufficient.

To say that the troops are insufficient, Li Laiheng still doesn't believe it, thinking of this, Li Laiheng shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

Soon Li Zicheng and Song Xiance rode horses and led the soldiers and horses to the south gate of the city, Li Zicheng asked: "Prime Minister, how is it outside?" There is no enemy ambush. ”

"King Chuang, I have asked people to check outside the city, but no enemy has been found." Li Laiheng said.

"Then let's get out of the city quickly, I'm afraid it will change later." Li Zicheng said happily when he heard this.

Song Xiance led a thousand soldiers and horses to the outside of the city, and when Song Xiance walked for a while, seeing that he did not encounter an ambush, Li Zicheng no longer hesitated to take his own soldiers to the outside of the city, and soon the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Dashun army behind him also hurriedly followed out of Xiangyang City.

Li Zicheng walked outside Xiangyang City, looked back at Xiangyang City, and heard the continuous roar of cannons in his ears, Li Zicheng sighed, turned around and hit his horse and went south.

As soon as Li Zicheng's Dashun army left the city, Daniel Zhang got the news.

Daniel Zhang hurriedly ordered the artillery regiment to stop the shelling and let the soldiers enter the city tomorrow morning to take over Xiangyang City.

At this time, Xiang Shaoyun said: "This Li Zicheng is finally gone, if he doesn't leave, tomorrow at dawn, we will be able to enter the city and capture him alive." ”

"The president doesn't want to kill Li Zicheng, otherwise we will block all the city gates and make it difficult for him to fly." Daniel Zhang said with a smile.

"I don't know what the president thinks, why did he let Li Zicheng go." Xiang Shaoyun still didn't understand Zhou Xian's intentions.

"What is the president's mind can we fathom, I can only guess one intention." Daniel Zhang said.

"What is the purpose? Please also ask the commander to make it clear. Xiang Shaoyun looked at Daniel Zhang expectantly and said.

"If we capture or kill Li Zicheng alive, then the court will have no internal troubles, and the court will do something to us, although we are not afraid of the court, but now is not the time to go against the court." Daniel Zhang analyzed.

"The commander is really thoughtful, Shaoyun admires." Xiang Shaoyun suddenly realized.

"I didn't come up with this, I was reminded by the president, and as for the deeper intentions, I don't know." Daniel Zhang laughed bitterly and laughed at himself.

"The president is really a man of God!" Xiang Shaoyun sighed.

Early the next morning, the Zhou army began to surround the south gate, and began to enter the city of Xiangyang, due to the hurry, there are more than 10,000 Dashun troops did not have time to escape from the city, these Dashun troops in the resistance to the Zhou army not long after, after the death of more than 1,000 soldiers, have surrendered in despair.

Soon the Zhou army officially took over Xiangyang City, and the soldiers gathered all the surrendered Dashun troops, counted the number of people, and there were more than 16,000 people, and more than 30,000 wounded Dashun troops.

Daniel Zhang ordered the soldiers not to disturb the people, pulled the corpses outside the city of Xiangyang to burn and bury, and the military doctor went to treat the wounded Dashun soldiers.

The people of Xiangyang City were frightened by the sound of Zhou Jiajun's cannons last night, and they were all extremely frightened when they saw Zhou Jiajun entering the city today.

I thought it would be robbed again, but I didn't expect that the soldiers who entered the city were all smiling and greeted them, and there was a team of soldiers walking around to publicize that the Zhou family army would not harm the people, so that everyone should not be afraid.