Although Li Zicheng used the water of the Fen River to trap Liang Tingdong's cavalry in a quagmire and successfully crossed the Fen River, it was still very risky for them to attack Taiyuan at this time.

Li Zicheng said: "Song Junshi, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to attack Taiyuan at this time, right?" ”

"The cavalry of the Ming army is only temporarily trapped, and they will come to support soon!"

Song Xiance said with a smile: "The cavalry of the Ming army is indeed a great threat to us, and we will not be able to attack Taiyuan with all our strength without defeating them!" ”

"So we have to attack Taiyuan and force them to come and relieve the siege!"

Li Yan also said: "According to the information provided by the captive, Emperor Chongzhen is in Taiyuan City at this moment, if we can capture Chongzhen, then the great cause can be accomplished?" ”

The generals also said in unison: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, this is really God bless me Dashun!" ”

Li Zicheng was forced to rebel at the beginning, but he didn't expect that now he has not only become the emperor of Dashun, but even has the opportunity to capture Chongzhen, the real emperor!

At this time, he couldn't help but be a little proud!

He said: "Now Li Xianzhong is busy seizing Zhili and Shandong, and the soldiers and horses of Liaodong have not yet entered Shanxi. As long as we take Shanxi, we can use the terrain here to gain a firm foothold in the north of the Yellow River! ”

"If you can capture Chongzhen, you can subdue Jiangnan faster, and when the time comes, with Jiangnan's financial and material resources, you can finally defeat Li Xianzhong's Liaodong Army, overthrow the puppet emperor Zhu Yousong, and thus dominate the world!"

Under the encouragement of Li Zicheng, the Dashun army shouted: "Conquer Taiyuan, capture Chongzhen alive" The slogan appeared under the city of Taiyuan!

The Dashun army suddenly appeared under the city of Taiyuan, which made Emperor Chongzhen completely panicked.

He said: "Could it be that the combat power of these thieves is so terrifying that they have already wiped out the elite cavalry under the command of Liang Tingdong? ”

As the secretary of the military department, Yang Sichang still understands the situation outside the city.

He said: "Previously, after Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, defeated tens of thousands of thieves, he really attacked the ambush of the thieves! ”

"However, Liang Tingdong, the governor of Xuanda, and the general soldiers of Xuanfu still led 15,000 horsemen to confront the thieves in the Fen River, and the minister guessed that the thieves only temporarily used the water of the Fen River to trap the soldiers and horses of the governor of Liang."

"Please don't worry, Your Majesty, there are still 23,000 defenders in Taiyuan City, as long as we hold on to the city, it won't be long before Governor Liang's cavalry will come back!"

Hearing that there were still 15,000 riders outside the city, Chongzhen was also a lot more relieved, after all, there are only 3,000 riders in Taiyuan City now. If the cavalry is gone, how can he retreat south to Jiangnan?

No matter how fast the two-legged infantry runs, they can't outrun the "four-legged" of the Liaodong cavalry!

However, it was still very terrifying for the hundreds of thousands of peasant troops to take down the battle in Taiyuan City.

At a glance, the southeast, west, and west sides of the city are surrounded by dense crowds of people and horses, as if boundless.

The soldiers of the Dashun Army were dressed in all kinds of armor and held various weapons, shining coldly in the sun.

Determination and determination were written on their faces, and a desire for victory flashed in their eyes.

There was an atmosphere of tension and slaughter in the air, occasionally interspersed with the neighing of horses and the whispers of soldiers.

The Ming army on the city wall of Taiyuan was on standby, watching every move of the invading army with vigilant eyes.

As time passed, the besieging army began to attack.

Countless arrows rained down on the city, accompanied by the deafening sound of war drums and shouts.

The siege engines and ladders under the city slowly advanced towards the city walls, trying to open a breach.

The siege of the Dashun army is naturally to facilitate Chongzhen to ask Liang Tingdong for help!

Looking at the sentinels in Taiyuan City who kept running out to deliver letters, Li Zicheng showed a satisfied smile.

Soon after, Liang Tingdong and Yang Guozhu received an order from Chongzhen to hurry back to Taiyuan!

Yang Guozhu said worriedly: "Although the water level has dropped a lot, the movement of the cavalry is still quite restricted, and we are afraid that we will encounter the interception of thieves when we send troops at this time!" ”

Liang Tingdong is also very helpless, this kind of thing is more to show a position and attitude.

If they didn't send troops in time, it was likely to make Chongzhen doubt their position.

As long as Li Zicheng is not a fool, he will definitely send troops to intercept him, but at this time, Liang Tingdong has no better choice.

Because there are only 2 hours left before dark, it is impossible to hide your whereabouts in this quagmire environment.

They had no choice but to march into Taiyuan.

If you can quickly break through the blockade of the breaking army, you may be able to take advantage of the darkness to sneak attack a wave of thieves outside Taiyuan City.

So Liang Tingdong divided the Ming army into two groups, led by Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, with 10,000 Xuanfu cavalry taking the lead, and he leading the remaining 5,000 cavalry to break the rear.

However, it is clear that Liang Tingdong underestimated Li Zicheng's determination.

At this time, although the Dashun army under Taiyuan City was covered with flags and seemed endless, it was only 100,000 people.

Their purpose was to create momentum and force Chongzhen to order Liang Tingdong to return to Taiyuan.

At this time, Li Zicheng's main force was already waiting for the Ming army.

He didn't want to stop Liang Tingdong's return to the division, but to completely eat this cavalry.

Soon Yang Guozhu and the others stopped their advance, because the Dashun army in front not only set up a rejection of horses, but also arranged a large number of soldiers.

Yang Guozhu still despised these peasant troops in his heart at the moment, although there was still some stagnant water under their feet at this time, but it was already very shallow, and it only drowned the horse's hooves.

Although it had some influence on the cavalry's charge, it was naïve for the thieves to want to stop themselves with infantry just because of this!

With his order, the cavalry of Xuanfu began to urge the war horses to charge towards the Dashun army.

Although the splash of water somewhat affected their vision, they still quickly rushed in front of the Dashun army.

At this time, the artillery crews in the rear of the Shun army began to fire their guns, and their Franc machine guns fired solid bullets, although they caused some damage to the dense cavalry, but did not disrupt the overall formation of the cavalry charge.

Then the musketeers of the Shun army also began to shoot.

"Bang, bang, bang"

As a puff of white smoke rose up, three or four hundred of the cavalry who charged at the forefront were shot and fell off their horses.

Soon the subsequent cavalry returned to the formation of the shock.

Yang Guozhu also had a smile on his face, although he paid a certain price, they were already close to the thieves.

Once the cavalry has reached this distance, it can complete the crushing of the infantry.

However, surprisingly, there was no cavalry from Yang Guozhu's imagination to storm the enemy formation and crush the thieves.

Instead, a large number of splashes suddenly appeared in front of the enemy formation, as well as the neighing of war horses!

These cunning thieves actually dug a lot of traps in front of the position, but these stagnant water covered the traps, causing the charging cavalry to be defenseless and constantly attacked.

At this time, Li Guotong and Liu Fangliang, who were ambushed on the left and right sides, also led the cavalry to kill from both sides of Yang Guozhu.

Looking at the number of cavalry, there are at least 20,000 cavalry, and Yang Guozhu secretly said that it is not good.

The front was blocked by the trap of the thieves, and the flanks were killed by large cavalry.

But at this time, he could only barely fight.

The cavalry of the two sides fought together, and the entire battlefield was filled with the shouts of soldiers and soldiers, as well as the sound of metal crashing from the collision of weapons, and the neighing of war horses.

The Xuanfu cavalry is worthy of being the elite of the nine sides, they not only have to face twice their own cavalry from both sides, but also have to beware of the sneak attack of the thief Kou Huojiao.

Even if he was so calculated by the Dashun army, he still did not fall behind on the scene.

Yang Guozhu was also extremely depressed at the moment, the reason why he was defeated and did not retreat was because he still had Liang Tingdong's five thousand cavalry behind him to rush to reinforcements!

As long as he persists, he may turn defeat into victory!

But why hasn't Liang Tingdong's men arrived yet?

At this time, Liang Tingdong was not much better than Yang Guozhu.

Li Zicheng and Li Yan used 200,000 people, 170,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry, in order to destroy them.

At this time, Liang Tingdong's 5,000 men were being blocked by 10,000 cavalry led by Tian Jianxiu and tens of thousands of foot soldiers.

He couldn't even break through.

After trying a few times, in order to avoid falling into the encirclement of the Dashun army, Liang Tingdong could only reluctantly withdraw his troops.

This is equivalent to sentencing Yang Guozhu to death!

Li Guo saw that the official army was so difficult, so he decided to capture the thief and capture the king first.

Soon, he carried a spear and killed Yang Guozhu directly.

Li Guo, nicknamed "a tiger", has always been known for his bravery and fearlessness in war, and he is a tiger general.

I saw that he led a group of old battalion cavalry to kill Yang Guozhu.

Yang Guozhu was commanding his men and horses to block Liu Fangliang's attack at the moment, and he didn't notice Li Guo at all.

When he reacted, Li Guo was already close to him!

I saw a little cold light flying by, the gun was like a dragon, and Li Guo's spear directly pierced Yang Guozhu's chest.

Although he was unwilling, Yang Guozhu's body still fell off the horse.

In the end, the leaderless Xuanda cavalry was surrounded and annihilated by the Dashun army, 10,000 horses and 5,000 were killed, and the remaining half surrendered to Li Zicheng.

Although this battle failed to completely annihilate the cavalry of the Ming army, it was a huge gain to be able to collect 5,000 enemy troops.

Especially the imperial nephew Li Guo, who was extremely brave, directly killed Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Ming army, which made Li Zicheng happy!

Li Zicheng named Li Guo as the "Champion Hou", which shows that he is full of expectations.

The next thing they have to do is naturally to conquer Taiyuan Mansion and capture Emperor Chongzhen alive.

At this time, Chongzhen didn't know about the cavalry being defeated by Li Zicheng, and the first thing he received was bad news from Xuanda.

Li Xianzhong, who has been secretly fighting for a long time, finally made a move.

Li Xianzhong sent Zu Dashou and led 30,000 troops to attack Xuanda.

The main force of Xuanda had already followed Chongzhen south, and only 30,000 infantry were left behind.

In the face of the menacing Liaodong Army, they can be described as helpless!

With the blessing of the 18-pounder Hongyi cannon, the Liaodong Army conquered the East Gate of Xuanfu Juyong Pass in just one hour!

Zu Dashou appointed Wu Sangui as the vanguard, and the defenders of Baoan Prefecture surrendered to the wind!

At this time, Xuanfu Town was simply leaderless, and in the end, all the three guards of Xuanfu surrendered to Wu Sangui!

Seeing that the Xuanfu army had surrendered, Datong Town naturally had no confidence to resist!

In the end, Datong Town surrendered to the Hongguang Imperial Court under the leadership of Zhu Dingwei, the acting king!

Acting King Zhu Dingwei is also the second vassal king to declare allegiance to Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong after King Qing of Yinchuan!

Chongzhen was even more furious when he learned of the rebellion of the acting king, which means that Zhu Yousong has been recognized by more and more Ming clans, and the recognition of him, the real emperor, is getting lower and lower.

He regretted it a little, he should have taken the king south with him, even if he was killed by thieves and robbed of his family, it was much better than taking refuge in Zhu Yousong!

Li Zicheng had killed a total of ten vassal kings, and he had never been as angry as he was now.

Fortunately, after taking Xuanfu and Datong, Zu Dashou did not directly lead the army south to besiege Taiyuan.

They only occupied Ningwu Pass and Yanmen Pass, which were subordinate to Taiyuan Prefecture.

But even so, their situation is not easy.

After defeating Liang Tingdong's troops, Li Zicheng's army of nearly 300,000 has besieged Taiyuan City like an iron pass!

At this time, Taiyuan City was not the "Land of Longxing" during the Five Dynasties, and the original Taiyuan City was destroyed by Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong as early as the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Two years later, although Zhao Guangyi ordered it to be rebuilt, the Taiyuan City in the Northern Song Dynasty was only a small city with a circumference of less than 8 miles.

The current Taiyuan is built in the ninth year of Hongwu on the basis of the Song Taiyuan City to the east, south and north to expand.

The circumference is 24 li, and there are a total of 8 gates.

The city wall is 11 meters high, 13 meters wide at the bottom, and 7.95 meters wide at the top.

There are 4 castle towers, 4 corner towers, 36 watchtowers, 1 Kuiguang tower, 1 watchtower, and 6 wall openings (12 holes in total).

It can be said that it is a fortified city!

Yang Sichang said with relief: "The city wall of Taiyuan is tall, there are still more than 23,000 soldiers in the city, and the food is enough to eat for more than half a year, please rest easy!" ”

It is true that Taiyuan is strong enough, but what is the use?

Now they have no reinforcements outside, trapped in the lonely city, and it is only a matter of time before the city is broken!

The only suspense is nothing more than whether he falls into the hands of Zhu Yousong or Li Zicheng?

Li Zicheng was extremely brutal, and he killed the Ming clan, and everyone, including Yang Sichang and Wen Tiren, naturally hoped to fall into the hands of Zhu Yousong.

After all, for them, it is nothing more than the Ming Dynasty changing an emperor, although their career is basically over, but their lives can always be saved.

If Li Zicheng broke into Taiyuan Mansion, with Emperor Dashun's attitude towards the gentry, they would basically be dead.

So Wen Tiren had sent an envoy to Datong secretly to send a letter to Zu Dashou before Taiyuan was surrounded, asking him to send troops south as soon as possible, and expressed in the letter that they were willing to respond internally.

Wu Sangui was quite excited after hearing the news.

He said excitedly: "Uncle, capturing Chongzhen is a great achievement, let's hurry up and send troops south to Taiyuan!" ”

Zu Dashou said lightly: "What's the matter, the king of Liaodong County just promoted you to a deputy general, and you are not satisfied?" ”

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "Our generals can be regarded as catching up with a good time now, and they no longer have to suffer from the anger of those civil officials." We have caught up with the change of dynasty, of course, we are seizing the opportunity to strive for the knighthood, and in the future, we will glorify our ancestors and seal our wives and sons! ”

Zu Dashou said: "It seems that your ambition is not small. ”

"But I only saw the benefits, but did you know that this was not Wen Tiren's conspiracy?"

Wu Sangui said: "Why, he still dares to yin us?" ”

This nephew of his own, who is both civil and military, is not a mortal, but unfortunately his utilitarian heart is a little too heavy, and he still needs to be sharpened!

Zu Dashou said: "Now Li Zicheng's 300,000 army will be unable to drain the water of Taiyuan. Wen Tiren asked us to lead the troops south at this time, obviously because he wanted us to fight with Li Zicheng, so that he could sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman. These literati have evil intentions, and you must not underestimate them. ”

Zu Dashou thought that after his own reminder, Wu Sangui would give up this idea.

Unexpectedly, he said: "Uncle is still too careful, the 300,000 thieves are just a rabble, are we still afraid that they will not succeed?" ”

"If my uncle is worried that the 30,000 soldiers and horses in our hands are too few, and the 30,000 troops of Xuanda are unreliable, we can also ask the Governor Xiong Tingbi of Mo Nan for help."

"There are tens of thousands of Mongolian elite cavalry under his command, as long as the Mongolian cavalry goes south and joins our Liaodong cavalry, these thieves will not be wiped out soon!"

Wu Sangui thought he was proud, but unexpectedly, Zu Dashou reprimanded: "Bastard, you actually dare to let the Mongolian cavalry go south!" ”

"The king of Liaodong County has repeatedly said that the Mongolian cavalry alone is only allowed to contain the Ming army along the Great Wall, and must not let them go south into the hinterland of the Central Plains, so as not to plunder the people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"This is the reverse scale of the king of Liaodong County, if you dare to touch it, then your road to the army will come to an end!"

Wu Sangui also knew that he had lost his words, and he hurriedly said: "Uncle reminded me that this matter is indeed something that Sangui did not consider!" ”

Seeing that Wu Sangui took the initiative to admit his mistake, Zu Dashou's face softened a little, and he said again: "Do you think the king of Liaodong County really wants to arrest Chongzhen?" ”

"With the prince's eloquence, there is no last resort. If he really wants to catch Chongzhen, I'm afraid that Emperor Chongzhen will not have a chance to get out of Beijing City at all! ”

To be honest, Wu Sangui has never thought about this, it seems that Jiang is still old and spicy!

He said to Zu Dashou: "What Uncle said is that Sangui has been taught, go to his mother's Wen Tiren!" ”

Zu Dashou said: "This matter can't be handled like this, you personally send Wen Tiren's letter to Jingshi, and see what the king of Liaodong County means!" ”

Li Zicheng's army of 300,000 besieged Taiyuan day and night, and Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang, who had not waited for Zu Dashou to go south, were also extremely disappointed.

This matter was indeed done behind Chongzhen's back, and they also had two plans.

If Zu Dashou's men and horses were really defeated by Li Zicheng, then they would take Chongzhen to break through and escape from Taiyuan.

If Zu Dashou's Liaodong Army occupied Taiyuan, then they would hand over Chongzhen and surrender to Zhu Yousong, so they could be regarded as having made a great achievement.

It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes.

For now, they can only stick to Taiyuan first, in order to wait for the situation to change.

At this time, Li Zicheng was also very depressed, there were a large number of red-coated cannons in Taiyuan City, and his Dashun army suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, Song Xiance said: "Your Majesty, don't disturb, we can use the water of the Fen River again!" ”

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