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Chapter 436 Meeting Dengfeng Li Jiyu

Zhang Cheng knew very well that there were many reasons for the collapse of Luoyang City. As early as when the bandits ravaged the land of western Henan, Lu Weiqi, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, who was still in Luoyang City, felt the seriousness of the situation.

He hurriedly said to King Fu: "Three years of strange famines have never been heard of in ancient times. The villages and towns were starved to death, and the cities were all killed and eaten. Local thieves are entrenched everywhere, combined with tens of thousands of thieves, even breaking Lushan, Jiaxian, In the three counties of Yiyang, within six days, the two counties of Yiyang and Yongning were broken.

The thieves are raging, and they are very anxious to see Luo.Nothing can be broken, nothing can be conquered.Moreover, the minds of hungry people may be disturbed, and the disintegration of people's hearts may be feared.Kuang Futai didn't have a single soldier, although there were Cao Cao and Yi soldiers, there was no food and pay, and the men on the top of the city were all ghost-shaped dove faces and were dying.There is nothing to rely on in the city, and there is a danger of laying eggs in the morning. "

Lu Weiqi hoped that Fu Wang Zhu Yousong could urge Henan Governor Li Xianfeng to send troops to Luoyang to strengthen the city defense, and also suggested that Fu Wang should think about his own wealth and life, and use money and food to solve the problem of the arrears of the defenders in the city, so as to motivate the sergeants.

Lu Weiqi even used the fall of Yongning City as a reference, saying that the clan officials and gentry in the two cities were carefree and flickering, relying on the sky to live their lives, not planning, not giving up any money, and not listening to a word. What benefit?

He hoped that Zhu Changxun would not act as a short-sighted miser, and finally fell to the point where he could not catch his navel.

However, how can Zhu Changxun, who is famous for his greed and stinginess, who wants money but not life, listen to it?

It wasn't until the intruders gathered their troops outside Luoyang City that they almost besieged the huge Luoyang City, Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune who was used to domineering in daily life, knew he was in a hurry.

He had no choice but to let go of his arrogance and inspect Luoyang's defense in person, encouraging the soldiers and common people to defend the city, and reluctantly took out some silver taels of food and rice to motivate the morale of the people and encourage the city guards.

Although Fu Wang had no choice but to spend money to recruit death squads to resist desperately, but how could such a group of mobs stop Li Zicheng's tiger and wolf army.

As for Fu Wang's death, there have always been three more famous versions in history.

However, the third theory is the most widely circulated, that is, King Fu was cooked and eaten by Li Zicheng and venison, and it was also called "Fu Lu Banquet".

Zhang Cheng, on the other hand, thinks this kind of statement is simply nonsense. This kind of statement is only popular in unofficial history, and it is also widely popular in contemporary novels and folklore in the early Qing Dynasty.

It was only because it was more interesting and could slander Li Zicheng and the vassals of the Ming Dynasty that it was connived by the officials of the Qing Dynasty, so it was widely circulated, and it did not worry about the few but the inequality. Hatred of the rich was the mainstream at that time. The statement is more hateful.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine how this rumor of "Fu Lu Banquet" came about.

At that time, the Qing army had just entered the customs and occupied Beijing for the first time, and the war had not yet subsided. The Southern Ming Dynasty was powerful in Nanjing, and the remnant forces of the trespasser Li Zicheng were also fighting fiercely with the Qing army in various places in Huguang.

Out of the original intention of dividing the two anti-Qing forces, the Qing army quickly spread the story of Li Zicheng's stewed King Fu for the "Fu Lu Reception" in the form of novels and legends across the country, hoping for Nanming and The disagreement between the two anti-Qing forces in Dashun.

In this way, a rumor carefully fabricated by the invaders has gradually been accepted by people habitually, and it has been poisoned to this day!
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Zhang Cheng is more inclined to the second version!

After the city of Luoyang was broken, Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune who was too fat, had trouble moving, so he had to hide quietly in the Ying'en Temple, but was tested by a young monk in the temple and became a prisoner of the thief Li Zicheng.

At the same time, more than [-] officials and gentry including Lu Weiqi, Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department of the Ming Dynasty, and Kang Menghui, the prefect, were also captured. All officials and gentry beheaded in public.

For example, Sun Tingsheng, a squire from Mengjin County, Wang Chaoshan, a squire from Xin’an County, and Wang Yiming, a squire from Song County, all fled to Luoyang City with their families before, and fought hard to organize resistance.

According to historical records: After the death of King Fu, the corpse was violently placed in front of the Zhougong Temple. Two servants in the palace cried and cried: "The king died and refused to live. He begged for a coffin to collect the king's bone. The fans have nothing to hate. "

Li Zicheng highly praised his righteousness, and promised him to collect Fu Wang's body for burial. The two servants used a one-inch paulownia coffin to carry Fu Wang's body on a broken cart, and they hanged themselves beside the cart.

This fact is more in line with Li Zicheng's current situation. After he acquired Luoyang City, he did not implement the strategy of shoveling the city as before. Instead, he left Shao Shichang to lead five hundred new troops to guard Luoyang City.

At this time, both Niu Jinxing and Li Yan had attached themselves to Li Zicheng, and even Song Xiance had become Li Zicheng's counselor, and Li Zicheng also changed his style of bandit and became determined to defend the land.

It is precisely because of the intention to fight for hegemony that Li Zicheng is busy gathering the hearts of the people, so how could he cook and eat the living people? That would be cast aside by the world. With such a record, how will he dominate the world in the future.

It is true that Li Zicheng is a bandit, but he is not a fool!

After weighing the pros and cons, he will definitely not be able to do such an unsightly thing as the "Fu Lu Banquet"!

After a long time, Zhang Cheng also felt tired. Today's history is changing, and everything in the future is unpredictable.

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On the second day, at noon, the sun was shining brightly, which made Zhang Cheng and other officers and men feel a little warm as they rode their horses.

The distance in front was less than ten miles away. Zhang Cheng personally led more than a thousand elite cavalry to rest behind a dense forest, surrounded by sentry cavalry, and the front was already covered by the fine cavalry from the ranger department sent earlier.

Chen Zhong personally led the three-sentry rangers of the ranger department to check in the direction of Yanshi in the north, while the two-sentry rangers in the south were responsible for the checks in the two directions of Dengfeng and Mixian respectively.

Under the leadership of the sentry chief Ma Sanzhuang, more than a hundred elite riders from the outpost of the Ranger Department are in charge of the sentry in the direction of Mi County. They may be in groups of five or ten, and they gallop back and forth, almost covering the area from Zhengzhou to Mi County. Direction to the entire battlefield.

"Marshal, report back from the sentry cavalry. There are nearly 5000 thieves outside the city of Mi County. There are also [-] elites. The inner horse thieves are nearly a thousand, and the rest are all step thieves." Ma Sanzhuang was squatting beside Zhang Cheng. Reported before.

Zhang Cheng didn't say yes or no, and was smoking Yunzhou brand cigarettes. Ma Sanzhuang continued: "The thieves surrounded the north and south of Mi County on three sides, leaving only the east side empty. Looking at the formation, the camp should be set up West of Mi County."

Zhang Cheng had just finished his last cigarette at this time, he dropped the cigarette butt, Ma Sanzhuang hurriedly stomped it out, and heard Zhang Cheng say: "Go, let Quanda and the others come over, we should meet Li Jiyu !"

(End of this chapter)