Rout, complete rout!

Lu Xiangsheng's left flank, General Li Chongzhen and Deputy General Liu Qin could not resist the peasant army, and they were the first to leave the battlefield.

After crushing the left flank, the peasant army quickly turned around and formed an encirclement of Lu Xiangsheng's Ming army on a wide field.

Bad news followed, Lu Xiangsheng looked up to the sky and sighed, and then regained his composure:

"It's impossible to destroy the enemy. I am deeply favored by the emperor and will die here, but the soldiers who go with me should not die here.

Herald! The right flank quickly broke away from the battlefield, and the Chinese army Sun Yan led the Chinese army to retreat."

When Sun Yan heard the military order, he was anxious: "My lord, we are all leaving, what should you do?"

"I said, I will die for my country, you go quickly!"

"Your Excellency! Let's go together."

"You go! Even if I make it back alive, it won't end well."

As he spoke, the peasant army had already surrounded him.

Lu Xiangsheng pulled out his knife and said to Sun Yan: "Hurry up!"

Sun Yan left in tears.

The former army was destroyed, and the guerrillas Li Ke, Chang Qi, and the thousands of commanders Lan Tingfang, Liu Jingming and others had already fought to their deaths.

Lu Xiangsheng was holding a steel knife and was about to personally step forward to fight the peasant army, when several wolf tooth arrows came to his face.

He desperately pushed away a few wolf-tooth arrows, but the rest were shot through the armor and died a heroic death.

"Your Excellency!" A pastor named Yang Lukai was heartbroken when he saw this scene.

He saw that the cavalry of the peasant army was still charging, and he was worried that Lu Xiangsheng would be trampled by the cavalry, so he desperately ran to Lu Xiangsheng's body and pressed Lu Xiangsheng with his body.

On the battlefield, arrows rained down, and more than 40 wolf's tooth arrows pierced Yang Lukai's body, and this loyal man died in blood.

Li Zicheng rode a horse to inspect the battlefield and saw the corpses of the Ming army everywhere, and he was quite emotional.

The Ming army encountered before was all about to collapse at the first touch, and only this Ming army fought to the death and did not retreat.

"Your Majesty, Lu Xiangsheng's body has been found." Li Shuangxi rode his horse and arrived.

"Take me there."

Li Zicheng sandwiched the horse's belly between his legs, and rode the horse with Li Shuangxi.

The Shun army had already found Lu Xiangsheng, who was in a peaceful state of death, in a pile of corpses, and placed them side by side with Yang Lukai who was pressed on Lu Xiangsheng's body, waiting for the emperor to arrive.

After Li Zicheng saw it from afar, he took the initiative to get off the horse and walked in front of Lu Xiangsheng on foot.

Glancing at Yang Lukai who was pierced into a hedgehog again, he said, "Lord Lu, you are a rare good person, a good official. It's a pity that Chongzhen hurt you, he has been scared into a madman, and let such a good courtier die so meaninglessly."

Li Zicheng sighed with emotion, and ordered his subordinates to bury Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Lukai and the soldiers of the Ming army, and sent people to a nearby market town to buy some paper money.

The burial was done early, but the purchase of paper money did not have to be done.

Because he learned that Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, the people of Pingyang Mansion, which was the closest to him, rushed to his funeral, and paper money rained down.

Some even died because of their weeping.

Among the many characters of the Crying Spirit, there is one person who stands out in particular.

This person is Liu Qin, the deputy general of the standard battalion.

He originally ran away with Li Chongzhen, but he felt guilty in his heart, entangled a group of deserters, and returned to the battlefield to find Lu Xiangsheng's body.

Unexpectedly, the bodies were not found, and they were captured by the Shun army.

Li Zicheng generously allowed them to cry, and said that it is human instinct to be greedy for life and afraid of death, but people who can not forget the old favor and venture back to find the old master are also heroes.

Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, and the news of the loss of Pingyang Mansion reached Taiyuan.

Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi who guarded Taiyuan, ran out of ideas.

He thought about it, it costs money to recruit troops and garrison, who is the richest in the huge Taiyuan?

Of course, it's the King of Jin in Taiyuan!

So, he ran to the palace of the king of Jin and begged Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, to give him some silver.

King Jin refused.

Cai Maode also let go this time, and said bluntly: "If Your Highness refuses to pay the money, then the lower official has to sit in the empty city and wait for the thief army to come to the door. To get there

At that time, King Jin, your fate will definitely not be better than that of Xia Guan."

King Jin was frightened, so he picked out three thousand taels of silver.

It's called Hanako.

Cai Maode was helpless and returned to the governor's yamen.

What is the only 3,000 taels to do!

At this time, there was a "genius" named Li Zhicheng who stood up, and he offered advice to Cai Maode and said, we don't have enough silver, so we can make up paper money.

He proposed that the yamen make 3,000 taels of silver banknotes, and that anyone who killed the thieves could receive the banknotes by virtue of their merits, and when the thieves retreated, they would receive money from the governor's yamen with the banknotes.

The biggest advantage of this is to write blank checks, anyway, what happened afterwards, Cai Maode may not be able to see it as the governor.

Cai Maode actually thought that this idea was good, and implemented it immediately!

The barracks suddenly fryed.

Treat our wages as bonuses, and give them back a piece of fucking waste paper, and really want to repel the thieves, the governor pats his ass and leaves, who to find to redeem the money!

Li Zicheng's troops approached the city, and the officers and soldiers of Taiyuan surrendered smoothly.

Cai Maode hanged himself, and Li Zhicheng, who gave him a bad idea, surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Because Li Zhicheng was born as a jinshi, he was very popular here in Li Zicheng, and his official fortune has been prosperous since then.

The king of Jin, who refused to pay the money, was naturally captured, and the granary and silver cellar were all returned to Li Zicheng.

After resting in Taiyuan Mansion for a few days, Li Zicheng began to continue his crusade eastward.

On June 29, Li Zicheng marched to Datong.

Unlike Li Zicheng's thoughts, he thought that Wang Pu, who was strong and strong, would defend the city, but he never expected Wang Pu to choose to surrender.

Under the joint guarantee of Guan Fumin and Zheng Jiadong, Wang Pu went out of the city and surrendered that night.

Li Zicheng was even more shocked, Wang Pu sent people to persuade Jiang Xuan and Jiang Xuan under his command to surrender, and directly opened the door to Jingshi.

In this way, it is not easy for Li Zicheng to attack Wang Pu directly.

Before leaving, he sent his friend Zhang Tianlin to guard Datong, and at the same time monitored Wang Pu and Jiang Pai and others.

Continuing the eastward crusade, first entering Xuanfu, and then arriving at Juyong Pass, the eunuch Du Zhizhi and the chief soldier Tang Tong surrendered without a fight.

At the same time, Liu Fangliang's division of the Southern Route Army did not encounter any resistance, and drove smoothly all the way to the outskirts of Beijing.

On July 18, the Dashun army surrounded the Beijing division again.

Since Chongzhen was the Son of Heaven in the end, Li Zicheng didn't want to bear the infamy of killing the Son of Heaven, so he sent someone to persuade Chongzhen to surrender.

Jingshi, Qianqing Palace.

Chongzhen looked at the dark sky and wanted to cry without tears.

He recalled what the thief had done in more than a month since he set off from Xi'an to Beijing, and sighed.

Surrounded by anti-thieves, he is now unable to fly. If you don't want to be the king of the dead country, it seems that you can't do it.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of one thing, was there his instigation behind the betrayal of Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao!

Damn, Yang Chengying is a traitor.

Chongzhen was so angry that he knocked the music on the table to the ground.

Due to the ferocity of the Dashun army's offensive and the fact that some people were behind the scenes, Li Zicheng set off on the 8th day of the first month of June and arrived in Beijing only on the 18th of July.

In other words, in more than 40 days, Li Zicheng went from Xi'an to Beijing.

Nearly 2,000 miles away, except for Lu Xiangsheng, there was no threat to stop him.

So in the next chapter, we will pull the perspective back to Lu Xiangsheng's defeat in Pingyang Mansion, and take a look at what Emperor Chongzhen has done in more than 40 days from Chongzhen's perspective.

and what the officials are playing.