"The Wu family soldiers inside listened, I am Xia Guoxiang, the son-in-law of the Great Zhou Zhaowu Emperor. The Great Zhou Kingdom is almost over! ”

"The Great Zhou soldiers have just been defeated in the Laodao River outside Changsha City, the Great Zhou Chu King was defeated and captured, the Great Zhou Qin King and the Qin Wang Shizi led their troops to flee back to Hengyang, learned from Li Shimin to launch a mutiny, killed the emperor's grandson, and forced Zhaowu Lao Tianzi to give way to him. Woo."

"The Great Zhou is over, the imperial grandson is gone, and the throne of the Son of Zhaowu has also been taken away by the disobedient and unfilial King of Qin, what are you still keeping? Surrender now! ”

Outside the Great South Gate of Jiujiang City, early this morning, Xia Guoxiang, who was defeated and captured in the previous Yangtze River Xiaogushan Water Battle, had already changed into the official uniform of a second-class military attache of the Ming Dynasty, and under the protection of a group of rattan soldiers under the command of Lin Xingzhu, who also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, he approached the Great South Gate, and then opened his throat and began to spread rumors and persuade him to surrender with tears in his eyes.

It is said to be a rumor, but it is not a "full rumor", but a "half rumor" with a certain degree of authenticity, for example, Xia Guoxiang's claim to be Xia Guoxiang is true - he is the real Xia Guoxiang who is like a fake!

It is also true that the Great Zhou soldiers were defeated on the banks of the Laodao River outside Changsha - although Li Laishun was still on his way to Jiujiang, the "chicken feather letter" he gave to Li Zicheng had already been delivered first.

This Li Laishun is too good at being a man, he is not only Li Zhongshan's good nephew, but also Li Zicheng's good grandson, and both sides have to deal with it.

He knew that Li Zicheng was unwilling to let go of Wu Yingxiong, and it was impossible for Li Zicheng to catch Wu Sangui and kill him now. His old man is thinking about it like this, can he still stop it?

But he also promised Li Zhongshan that he would let Wu Yingxiong run away, so he himself was going to Jiujiang Mansion, so he couldn't allow Li Zicheng to kill Wu Yingxiong, because he promised his uncle that the general must be done!

He is General Li's most reliable nephew!

So Li Laishun rushed to Jiujiang day and night, and at the same time sent his subordinates to send a letter to Li Zicheng at an expedited speed of 600 miles, and he had to move quickly to kill Wu Yingxiong, and when he, King Li Zhong, arrived, it would be difficult to kill.

In order to send Wu Yingxiong on the road as soon as possible, Li Laishun also suggested to Li Zicheng very intimately to use a trick to deceive the stubborn Wu family generals in Jiujiang Mansion City. Let them open the city and surrender and hand over Wu Yingxiong.

And Xia Guoxiang is now helping Li Zicheng to pit Wu Yingxiong with a plan!

However, what he said about Wu Yingqi, the king of Qin, fleeing back to Hengyang, is actually true. Although on September 24, Wu Yingqi has not returned to Hengyang, but he will be able to return to Hengyang in a few days, this is a half-rumor, right?

As for the defeat and capture of Wu Guogui, the king of Chu in the Great Zhou, it is also a half-rumor that is about to be realized, Wu Guogui has been defeated and surrounded, but he has not been captured, let alone surrendered, but is seriously considering this matter.

And Wu Yingqi ran back to Hengyang to launch a mutiny, killed the emperor's grandson Wu Shifan, and forced Wu Sangui to abdicate to him.

Although these two things are imaginary, they are heard by a group of Wu family soldiers and generals who have confidence in the old Wu family's father, son, filial piety, brothers, friends and brothers, but they are so real......

This is the eldest brother and the crown prince, and the second brother King Qin, and an old emperor who started a rebellion...... Isn't this the next step to make trouble with Xuanwumen?

And the eldest brother is still trapped in Jiujiang City, how can Wu Yingqi, the king of Qin, be willing to live under Wu Shifan, who looks like a girl's family?

Therefore, this old Wu family's version of the change of Xuanwumen has long been in the expectation of the big guys.

Now listening to Xia Guoxiang's shouting, it seems to be true.

After pondering along this line of thought, everyone felt that they could no longer follow Wu Yingxiong. Wu Yingqi is now plotting to usurp the throne, how can he send troops to save his brother again? It's almost the same to kill your own brother!

And Wu Yingxiong, who climbed the Dasheng Pagoda at this time, also met Xia Guoxiang on the tower of the small south gate just now, and also listened to what Xia Guoxiang said was true and false.

And he basically believed it!

He originally felt that his good brother Wu Yingqi had bad intentions, but in fact, he didn't think so, even his father, Emperor Wu Sangui, was worried that Wu Yingqi was too powerful, and there would be some changes in the Xuanwu Gate or the Battle of Jingjing in the future.

Therefore, in this battle of the Eastern Crusade, Wu Sangui did not bring Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong from the beginning, just to prevent them from making meritorious contributions and prestige!

As a result, the battle of the Eastern Crusade failed miserably, Wu Sangui played himself as Wu Youliang for life, and Wu Yingxiong, the crown prince, was trapped in Jiujiang City again!

Even Wu Yingxiong vaguely felt that his father Wu Sangui no longer "loved" him, and he had the idea of changing the prince! Replace him with Wu Yingqi as the crown prince.

After mistakenly believing the rumors of Xia Guoxiang, Wu Yingxiong, who was already discouraged about his future, was even more discouraged. I didn't have the heart to stay on the front line of Xiaonanmen anymore, and I didn't even have the heart to arrange my subordinates to refute the rumors, but I climbed the Dasheng Pagoda of Nengren Temple as if I had lost my soul...... It seems that by climbing this pagoda, he can see a little farther, and if his father Wu Sangui comes to save him, he will be able to see it from afar.

It's a pity that there is no Wu Sangui on the Yangtze River, no Wu Sangui on the official road in the west of the city, and no Wu Sangui in the mountains in the south of the city and Poyang Lake in the east of the city!

That's right if you don't. Wu Yingxiong thought to himself: Hong Chengchou couldn't look forward to my father in Songshan City, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't look forward to my father on the coal mountain, and now I can't look forward to my father on the Dasheng Pagoda in Jiujiang City!

Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong was already in tears, and when he was crying, the floor of the highest floor of the Dasheng Pagoda under his feet suddenly shook violently, and he didn't pay attention, so he fell into a, and a face full of tears just hit the floor, and it was hurting, and there was a "boom" explosion in his ears!

What blew up?

As soon as Wu Yingxiong thought of this, he heard one of his own soldiers shouting: "The city wall next to the Xiaonan Gate seems to have exploded!" ”

"What? The walls blew up? Wu Yingxiong was shocked: "How can the city wall be blown up?" ”

Wu Yingxiong said this to himself, and he supported the floor with his hands and tried to get up. Then he looked like a small south gate near Norenji Temple. Smoke billowed from the right side of the small south gate!

"It's ...... The one surnamed Li buried gunpowder? The surname Li is really despicable! When Wu Yingxiong said this, he was gritting his back molars.

He was not confused, and immediately figured out that the city walls would not explode for no reason...... This must be Li Zicheng's bad work.

It must be the despicable and shameless Li Zicheng who buried the gunpowder!

He really guessed right.

It turned out that there were some miners and soldiers recruited from Daye County, Xingguo Prefecture, Wuchang County, Huanggang County and other places under Li Zicheng - there were many iron mines and coal mines in that area. But after Wu Sangui called, Wuchang Mansion and Huangzhou Mansion were in chaos, and these mines were gone, so many unemployed miners went up the mountain to join the king.

These miners can't do anything else, digging well and digging the soil is an old job, and they do it quickly and well.

Also, they use gunpowder when mining, so it's good to blow up something.

In addition, there was already a class of engineers in the Ming army, so Li Zicheng organized these professional excavators into his own engineers.

Before, when Li Zicheng attacked Jiujiang and the auxiliary ministers were not defeated, he began to have bad thoughts.

He had his miners dig for several days, digging a tunnel to the city wall near the small south gate, and then the miners put black powder into a coffin and smuggled it into the tunnel.

Today, taking advantage of the opportunity for Xia Guoxiang to spread rumors and persuade him to surrender outside the Xiaonan Gate, which attracted many people to listen, he lit the gunpowder fuse buried under the wall of the Xiaonanmen.

With a "boom", the city wall several zhang wide collapsed, and dozens of people rushed into the sky, at least half of whom were still backbone officers under Wu Yingxiong. This is really a lack of virtue and smoke!

On the Ming army's position outside the small south gate of Jiujiang City, Li Zicheng was lying behind a bunker made of sandbags, holding a monocular, staring at a one-eyed, carefully looking at the place where the smoke and dust rose in front of him. With a gust of river wind blowing, most of the smoke and dust finally dissipated.

At this time, Li Zicheng finally saw clearly the section of the city wall that had collapsed by gunpowder. A large section of the city wall in the east of the small south gate of Nanchang is gone, the city bricks have collapsed and become a slope, and the rammed earth layer inside has also been blown down and shattered, and the large pieces are piled up there, as if the whole has been turned over.

Li Zicheng put down the binoculars, opened his throat and shouted, "Drumming!" Advance to the forehead! rushed in and slaughtered Wu Sangui's son Wu Dog Bear for E! ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers behind Li Zicheng agreed in unison, and then rushed along a trench crowded with elite soldiers of the Zhongwang Mansion in white hats and green clothes, shouting all the way: "The old prince has an order, beat the drum!" Enter! Rush."

Li Zicheng's general, who is also the main general he has cultivated with great difficulty in recent years, heard the shouts of Li Zicheng's own soldiers, so he held a command flag, jumped out of the trench one by one, and then shook the flag from side to side, and pointed forward with the flag in one hand, and at the same time raised his arms and shouted: "Loyal to the Wangfu Army, advance and kill Wu Dog Bear!" ”

Behind him, the soldiers of the Zhongwangfu poured out in an endless stream, and the shouting voice resounded throughout the battlefield in a blink of an eye: "The Zhongwangfu army, rush!" ”

Thousands of soldiers from the Zhongwang Mansion who were armed with flintlock pistols and spears and resisted the bamboo ladder shouted loudly forward. Their starting position is a circle of trenches that form a three-sided encirclement of Jiujiang Mansion City, and the straight-line distance from Jiujiang City is only three or four hundred steps. The outer trench of Jiujiang City itself has been filled in most of the previous urban offensive and defensive battles, and the attacking infantry can directly rush through the filled outer trench.

The defenders of Jiujiang City had already reacted, and one by one flintlock pistols and arquebuses stretched out and began to shoot, but under the suppression of the sharpshooters of the Zhongwangfu army, they did not appear to be very dense. The officers of the Chung Wangfu Army rushed to the gap with their soldiers in one breath. The officers and soldiers under Wu Yingxiong have been besieged for a long time, and they have long been panicked. Coupled with the "rumors" released by Xia Guoxiang, they are now on the verge of collapse.

If Wu Yingxiong can come forward at this time, he may be able to lead his Wu family soldiers to beat out the elite soldiers of the Zhongwang Mansion. But at this time, Wu Yingxiong disappeared. He himself collapsed!

And the soldiers of the Wu family, who couldn't see Wu Yingxiong, thought that their main general was on the city wall by the small south gate just now, and now he had been collapsed into the sky! What else do they have to do now? Either drop your weapons and flee in all directions, or kneel on the ground and ask the soldiers of the Zhongwang Mansion to surrender!

Of course, there are still some die-hard Wu family generals. Most of these people now follow Wu Yingxiong's sworn friend Guo Zhuangtu, and they didn't go to block the hole in the city wall, but flew to Nengren Temple, where Wu Yingxiong lived.

Guo Zhuangtu learned from several of Wu Yingxiong's guards that the prince of the Great Zhou had gone up to the Great Victory Pagoda again, so he gasped and went up to the top floor of the pagoda, where he found Wu Yingxiong, who was sitting on the floor crying.

"Prince, the city is broken, minister"

Guo Zhuangtu just wanted to say that he wanted to protect Wu Yingxiong and rush out, but Wu Yingxiong waved his hand and said: "It's over, it's over, it's over, Shifan has been killed by the second child!" How much am I going to live? ”

"Prince, don't listen to Xia Guoxiang's nonsense!" Guo Zhuangtu shook his head desperately, "He fell into Li Zicheng's hand, the knife was on his neck, didn't he want to say anything?" ”

Wu Yingxiong shook his head: "Xia Guoxiang was not arrested by Li Zicheng, he should have been captured by the Ming army's sailors. Looking at his official robe, he should have voted for the Ming Dynasty and been awarded the title of second-grade military attaché! Why did Li Zicheng put a knife on the neck of a second-grade military attache of the Ming Dynasty? ”

This question really stopped Guo Zhuangtu.

Li Zicheng is not King Chuang now, but Li Fengtian, who is in charge of the military affairs of the Zhongwang Mansion, what method can he use to force Xia Guoxiang, who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and was crowned a second-rank military attaché? Xia Guoxiang is the uncle of Wu Xiaosu and Wu Xiaogang! If you don't look at the monk's face, you have to look at the Buddha's face, so he can't go too far.

In fact, Xia Guoxiang was borrowed from Liu Guoxuan by Li Laishun, and the second-grade official uniform was borrowed by Li Zicheng from his officers.

Just when Guo Zhuangtu didn't know how to explain to Wu Yingxiong, the shouts of the soldiers of the Zhongwang Mansion had already reached the outside of Nengren Temple from far and near.

"Kill."

"Kill, capture Wu Dog Bear alive."

"Whoever gets the head of Wu Dog and Bear will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and he will be crowned the chief military officer!"

Wu Yingxiong trembled and got up, Guo Zhuangtu hurriedly went up to help him a little, and the two of them looked under the Dasheng Pagoda together, only to find that there was no longer any of Wu Yingxiong's personal soldiers!

And the soldiers of the Zhongwang Mansion in white hats and green clothes have already smashed open the mountain gate of Nengren Temple and rushed into the courtyard of Nengren Temple like a tide!

Wu Yingxiong knew that he was finished, and said to Guo Zhuangtu with a long sigh: "Hongzhi, today is my death."

"Prince!" Guo Zhuangtu knelt down with a plop.

Wu Yingxiong shook his head, sighed again, and then unbuckled his trouser belt, shook his head and said: "Hongzhi, in the hands of Li Zicheng, I have no way to live, I'm afraid I can't die a good death, I have to walk decently."

Guo Zhuangtu was speechless, because Li Zicheng would indeed not let go of Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingxiong fell into his hands, and he didn't know how much torture he would have to suffer!

He could only kowtow to Wu Yingxiong, and then watched Wu Yingxiong walk step by step to the railing of the stairs in the tower, firmly tied the two ends of his trouser belt to the railing, and put the trouser belt around his neck, and finally climbed over the railing, crying and mourning, and jumped down in despair!

WU Yingxiong. Hang!

September 30, northeast of Changsha City, Yongan City.

After being hungry for several days, Wu Guogui hung his head, dragged his steps, carried a broken bamboo gun, and slowly walked into Yong'an City, where the Ming army was garrisoned, with a group of Wu Zhou officers with a similar temperament to him.

He had come to surrender to his son-in-law, Li Yat-sen. If you don't surrender, you can't do it! Hungry! That Wu Yingqi just ran away by himself, trapping him and his 20,000 or 30,000 defeated soldiers in a river bay east of Yongan City.

Although I was trapped, and I had to eat or drink. The cold water of the Laodao River seems to be enough. However, Wu Guogui did not surrender at the first time, because Wu Yingqi could leave him and run, but he couldn't be uninteresting enough not to involve the army of Li Yat-sen and Li Fuchen for Wu Yingqi.

So I was hungry for several days, and finally I couldn't stand it anymore, and the soldiers below had crawled out of the camp in large numbers to surrender to Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen.

"Father-in-law, old Taishan, my son-in-law has finally looked forward to you!"

"Third Brother Wu, the banquet has been prepared for you. Come on, let's have a good meal. ”

Wu Guogui, who was so hungry and panicked that he was thinking about eating a big meal, suddenly heard two rather loud voices.

He looked up and found that Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan had already come out of the tent, which must have been quite large, to greet them.

Wu Guogui, the general of the defeated army, was quite calm, he just stood there with a big grin, and did not kneel down and kowtow to beg for mercy, but he didn't scold and beg for death, just sighed faintly: "It seems that the eighteenth prince of the world should be on you two!" ”

Li Zhongshan smiled when he heard this: "The people of the world, the monarch of the world is the guest, the world is the master, and the people are the foundation of the world!" Father-in-law old Tarzan. Your defeat to your son-in-law is not a crime of war, but that the Wu family is too small in the world, and the world is too big. Lord Zhou is known as a million soldiers, and my republic really has a million soldiers, how can Wu Zhou win? ”

Li Fuchen waved his hand and said, "Second brother, don't chant the scriptures. Your father-in-law has been hungry for several days and has lost weight, so let's eat and talk! ”

"Eating and talking? What to talk about? Wu Guogui asked.

"Of course, it's about you being the king of the West!" Li Zhongshan said with a smile, "Old Taishan, the old king of the west who has your share in the republic doesn't want to do it, then you can be the new king of the west!" ”

Li Fuchen took Wu Guogui's arm and said to him with a smile: "Third brother, don't shirk the title of the king of the West does not belong to you alone, but to the thousands of Yungui, Huguang, Sichuan, and Shaanxi-Gansu righteous people who killed Shengren in order to defeat the Manchu Dynasty!" ”

Li Zhongshan immediately took over the topic and said to Wu Guogui with a sincere face: "Yes, old Taishan, you don't want their blood to be shed in vain, right?" ”

Wu Guogui had a straight face: "Of course I don't want to, how can the blood of a righteous man be shed in vain?" ”

"Yes!" Li Fuchen said, "So you are not being the king of the west for yourself, but the king of the west for them!" ”

(End of chapter)