Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 285
Li Zicheng said: "But Chongzhen's messenger didn't say anything."

Niu Jinxing said: "Although Chongzhen's messenger was vague, but combined with the news Niu Quan obtained from the Jiannu camp, it can be basically confirmed that the Ming army really launched a large-scale counterattack in Xuzhou, so Jiannu's return to the division is probably Forced to return to the teacher, otherwise Xuzhou's farmland would not be able to be kept."

Song Xiance immediately sneered: "Prime Minister, didn't you say that the army will not fight back?"

"I really didn't expect Chongzhen to be so stupid!" Niu Jinxing said without blushing, "But it is also because of Chongzhen's stupidity that we have a good opportunity for the Dashun Army to expand the land."

"At present, Jiannu is forced to return to his teacher to save himself. We just took this opportunity to seize Shangqiu."

"By the time Jiannu regains control of Xuzhou's blockade, we must have captured Shangqiu City. Even if Jiannu is unwilling, he can only smash his teeth and swallow it."

"As long as you take Shangqiu City, you will also take the entire Guide Mansion."

"As long as Guide Mansion is seized, Runing, Nanyang Second Mansion and Ruzhou will be sandwiched between my Dashun's territory, and local tyrants like Liu Hongqi, Li Jiyu and others can only submit to my Dashun."

"In this way, the entire Henan province belongs to Dashun."

After a pause, Niu Jinxing said again: "Your Majesty, if you don't take it from God, you will be blamed instead. The establishment of slaves gave us the opportunity of the Dashun Army to capture Beijing, but the Holy Majesty has already missed it. This time, the establishment of slaves gave us Dashun again." The opportunity to seize the whole of Henan must not be missed, otherwise it will be punished by God!"

Song Xiance naturally firmly opposed it: "My lord, absolutely not."

After a pause, Song Xiance said again: "I dare say that Jiannu will not retreat easily, there must be fraud in it."

Of course Song Xiance didn't know if there was any fraud in it, but as long as Niu Jinxing supported it, he had to oppose it.

Immediately, the two started to quarrel again. Li Zicheng felt that one head was bigger than the two, so he asked Liu Zongmin, "Ruhou, what's your opinion? Should we fight Guide Mansion?"

"First send scout horses to scout for Jiannu's whereabouts."

"If it's a fake retreat, it will definitely not escape the eyes of our detectives."

Liu Zongmin said: "But if Jiannu is really withdrawing troops, what's the point of taking the Guide mansion? Why don't you eat the meat that has been brought to your mouth, right?"

Li Zicheng said: "Success, then send more scouts."

In the evening of the same day, some scouts reported that Jiannu had already marched towards Xuzhou in a hurry.

Li Zicheng immediately said to Liu Zongmin: "Ru Hou, you can take [-] troops, no, [-] troops to capture the Guide Mansion, and guard there for me after taking the Guide Mansion. If the Ming army is found to be unable to hold back Now, you will send troops to respond. If Jiannu sends troops to retaliate, you can say something nice to Jiannu. I can see that Jiannu has already identified Chongzhen and Daming as the number one enemy, so before destroying Daming and capturing Chongzhen I wouldn’t attack Dashun before.”

"Yes." Liu Zongmin cupped his hands and said, "I know how to do it."

It was night, and Liu Zongmin mobilized an army of [-] to go to Guide Mansion.

……

Time soon came to midnight.

A round of bright and clear sky hangs high in the night sky, and the moonlight shines down like practice.

In the night wind, unknown insects chirped cheerfully in the night.

At a certain moment, a rush of horseshoes suddenly sounded from a distance, approaching the Kaifeng East Gate rapidly.

Under the bright moonlight, one could clearly see that the knight was wearing a felt hat. This was a scout cavalry from the Dashun Army, and he was galloping towards the east gate of Kaifeng at the moment.

Behind the Dashun cavalry, there are still dozens of cavalry chasing desperately.

Moreover, these dozens of cavalry did not gather together, but spread out to both sides. It seemed that they were trying to outflank from the two wings, and then formed an encirclement. From this, it can be seen that this is not a group of ordinary cavalry.

At a certain moment, the scream of a sharp blade piercing through the void suddenly sounded.

Immediately, the Dashun cavalrymen galloped down from their horses.

The war horse that lost its master ran for a while, then stopped in a daze.

Soon the dozens of riders came from all around, took the reins of the horses, and gently rubbed the necks of the horses to comfort them. The emotions of the horses quickly stabilized. After all, they were only war horses.

Immediately, a cavalryman jumped off his horse and walked up to the Dashun cavalry.

First, he chopped off the head of the Dashun cavalry with a horse, and then pulled out an arrow from the Dashun cavalry. This is a heavy arrow with four-edged arrow clusters, which can penetrate iron armor within thirty steps.

The leather armor of the Dashun scout cavalry simply couldn't bear it.

However, at this moment, the cavalry suddenly shouted: "Who?"

Accompanied by this roar, a black figure jumped up from not far away.

I saw this black shadow jumping up, and while running towards the east gate of Kaifeng, he started to roar, and at the same time raised a copper gong in his hand, and even brought a copper gong with him!
"Damn it, shoot him!" A low growl sounded.

There was an ear-piercing sound of piercing through the air, and several heavy arrows shot at the shadow at the same time.

These dozens of riders are not only proficient in riding and shooting, but also have extremely fast reactions!

Several heavy arrows shot through the black shadow almost at the same time, and one of them directly shot through the throat. The black shadow's roar was stuck in the throat, and the gong in his hand fell to the ground.

But after the gong hit the ground, it still made a muffled sound.

This muffled sound immediately alarmed the guards on the east gate tower.

Suddenly, two night guards came over with torches, climbed the battlements and looked out of the city.

One of the guards said: "Xiao Laosan, did you really not hear it just now? I seem to have heard the sound of a gong. Could it be that the ambush army outside the city found something?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Another sentry said angrily.

"If the Volunteer Army had discovered something, the sound of the gong would have been loud."

"Besides, in addition to the ambush army, there are scout cavalry on the periphery."

After a pause, he said again: "The most important thing is that the army of founding slaves has already retreated, who else will come to attack Kaifeng? Those native thieves from Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion? What are you thinking?"

"That's true." The sentry before said nothing.

Then the two sentries returned to the enemy building.

Silence returned to the city, as if nothing had happened.

After another half an hour, the dozen or so riders lying on the ground got up one after another.

The war horses who were appeased by them also got up one after another, snorting a few dull snorts from time to time.

One of the cavalrymen turned their head and waved lightly behind him, and countless black shadows emerged from behind him. They were hundreds of Jiannu, and they were all Ba Yala soldiers in triple armor.

Hundreds of Ba Yala soldiers quickly touched outside the east gate of Kaifeng.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, that is, three years ago, Kaifeng was flooded when Li Zicheng opened it.

At that time, several sections of Kaifeng's city wall collapsed. After Chen Qianfu was appointed governor of Henan by Chongzhen, he summoned Minzhuang to repair the city wall, but the almost gapped city wall was still damaged.

Jiannuba Yala chose a gap on the right side of the east gate.

The height of the city wall at this gap is only three feet, less than ten meters.

Accompanied by a muffled sound, dozens of flying claws clung to the battlements.

Immediately, dozens of Ba Yala cut their sabers first, and climbed up along the flying rope.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of Ba Yala soldiers climbed up the east gate along the zipline.

In less than a moment, more than two hundred Bala soldiers had already arrived at the east gate.

……

At this moment, Li Zicheng is having a sweet dream.

In his sleep, Chongzhen and Dorgon knelt down at his feet, shouting long live three times.

When Li Zicheng was about to step forward to caress the two of them, the Golden Luan Hall suddenly began to shake violently.

Immediately, Prince Li Shuangxi rushed up to the main hall in military uniform, shouting loudly: "Guard, hurry up!"

When he woke up from sleep, Li Zicheng realized that Li Shuangxi was not shouting in his dream, but was clearly shouting outside, and he was actually calling for escort.

Immediately Li Zicheng got up in surprise, and said sharply, "What are you shouting for?"

Immediately, Li Shuangxi, who was fully dressed and used to belt, rushed into Li Zicheng's company, and said anxiously: "Father, leave quickly! The east gate of Kaifeng has fallen, and the army of founding slaves has already entered the city!"

"What are you talking about? The east gate has fallen?"

"The slave-building army has entered the city?"

Li Zicheng couldn't believe his ears.

how is this possible?Hasn't the army of founding slaves already retreated?
Could it be that he killed a carbine?This is really unexpected.

"Yes." Li Shuangxi said anxiously, "Because the Jiannu had recently retired, the night guards inevitably slackened. As a result, in the middle of the night, Jiannu used flying claws to climb to the top of the city. After a fierce battle, the east gate fell."

"It's so easy for Jiannu to attack the city gate?" Li Zicheng said angrily.

"Didn't you ambush the road army outside the city? Didn't you send scout cavalry?"

"Father, the sons and ministers have sent, and even sent a lot." Li Shuangxi said with a bitter face, "But, but..."

Li Shuangxi couldn't say it clearly, he couldn't say that I didn't expect Jiannu to kill the carbine, so he only sent a small number of ambush troops and scout cavalry.

Moreover, the generals and schools below are estimated to have discounted it again.

"Damn it!" Li Zicheng was so angry that he was careless.

But Li Zicheng soon realized something was wrong, and asked, "No, where is the army of Marquis Ru?"

Jiannu pulled out his camp and returned to the division yesterday morning, and Liu Zongmin's [-] army marched out last night. Even if Jiannu killed his carbine and attacked Kaifeng, he would run into Liu Zongmin first.

Liu Zongmin has an army of [-], even if he is ambushed, it won't be impossible for even a messenger to get out, right?unless……

Li Zicheng quickly thought of another possibility, unless it was just a trap from the beginning, and it was just a cover for building slaves and returning to Xuzhou. In this case, Liu Zongmin is also in danger!

Thinking of this, Li Zicheng's lungs were about to explode.

This is all due to the father and son Niu Jinxing and Niu Quan!
It must be Niu Quan, an idiot, who let Jiannu play tricks!

Li Zicheng said sharply, "Where are Niu Jinxing and Niu Quan?"

"Father, I didn't see Niu Jinxing and his son just now." Li Shuangxi said in panic, "Father, let's go!"

While the father and son were talking, Song Xiance and Zuo Maodi also hurried over, and when they met, they shouted: "My lord, hurry up, Jiannu is coming along Dongmen Street!"

Immediately afterwards, the sound of the impact of weapons was heard.

At this time, Li Zicheng's personal soldiers brought the horse over.

"Damn it, let's go!" Li Zicheng stomped his feet and got on his horse.

Song Xiance and Zuo Maodi also got on their horses, and under the protection of Li Shuangxi and Yibiao Dashun cavalry, they left the city in a hurry from the west gate of Kaifeng.

After some melee, Jiannu Yebushou was repelled.

The Dashun cavalry also lost more than [-] cavalry.

……

At dawn, Dorgon returned to Kaifeng.

At this time, the slave building army had already captured Kaifeng City.

He Luohui, drenched in blood, came to Dorgon's horse and said, "Master, Kaifeng has been taken!"

Being able to win Kaifeng was already expected by Dorgon. Dorgon was more concerned about whether Li Zicheng was captured or beheaded: "Where is Li Zicheng? Have you caught it?"

"Li Zicheng ran away." He Luohui said, "Only Niu Jinxing and his son were caught."

"Looking at these two fathers and sons may be useful in the future." After finishing speaking, Dorgon turned his gaze to the majestic East Gate of Kaifeng, and said word by word, "Pass down the order and let the Eight Banners warriors enjoy it to the fullest. Seal the knife!"

"Long live the Nine Kings!" Hearing this, the accompanying Eight Banners nobles cheered sky-high.

Dorgon's order was conveyed to the city, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were sitting and resting in the streets and alleys of the city suddenly became excited. The bloody looting, the Han people in Kaifeng City are really unlucky.

Kaifeng was originally a big city in the Central Plains, with a population of nearly [-] at its peak.

After Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng City, the population dropped sharply to less than [-].

However, after Chen Qianfu's governance, many fleeing civilians were collected one after another, and many gentry returned one after another, and Kaifeng's population also recovered to more than [-].

But this time, a catastrophe in Kaifeng City cannot be escaped.

……

Let's talk about Li Zicheng later.

He fled all the way to Sishui before he dared to stop.

At this time, the cavalry led by Li Shuangxi had only a hundred or so left.

Because on the way to defeat and escape, they encountered several batches of Jiannu's night refusal. Jiannu's night refusal was really good at fighting, and the five Dashun cavalry might not be able to fight overnight.

Immediately afterwards, Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Fan Mongolia caught up again.

After repeated fierce battles, only a hundred of the three thousand cavalry remained.

Fortunately, Chen Yongfu, who stayed behind in Luoyang, led his troops to Boshui.

Li Zicheng didn't dare to stop and gather the defeated soldiers until he entered Sishui Pass.

Although he suffered another unprecedented defeat, Li Zicheng's mood is still stable.

Li Zicheng survived such a big defeat at Lianshan Customs, so what is the defeat in Kaifeng?
By the morning of the next day, defeated soldiers came back one after another, not only the defeated soldiers from Kaifeng, but also many defeated soldiers under Liu Zongmin's command fled back, and brought back a sad news that Liu Zongmin was captured.

Now Li Zicheng was finally angry, it was a broken arm.

Since he became a merchant in Luoshan, Liu Zongmin has been the number one general under his command.

Liu Zongmin did not die in Shanhaiguan's defeat, but he never thought that he would be defeated in Kaifeng.

So Li Zicheng hated Niu Jinxing even more, and said in his heart that he would not spare Niu this time.

However, until returning to Luoyang, Li Zicheng failed to wait for Niu Jinxing and his son.

(End of this chapter)