The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 616 The sky has changed (first update)
"I tell you, I will not surrender even if I die. I, Li Zicheng, have killed countless people for half my life. Why haven't I gone through such a storm? Yuan Chonghuan was so powerful back then, and I hid in the mountains for half a year. But in the end, didn't I Did Lao Tzu die?"

"Want to kill me? It's not that easy. He Jiang Chuan wants to kill me, wants to destroy my Dashun Kingdom, it depends on whether he has such a good tooth!"

"I'm going to put my words here today. I'll be the first one to kill that son-in-law who said the word surrender, and even kill his whole family!"

"Remember, you are born as people of my Dashun country, and you are the ghosts of my Dashun country when you die. Even if I am going to die, you have to be buried with me!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Li Zicheng stood there, facing Manchu Wenwu and laughing wildly, holding a flagon in his hand and pouring two mouthfuls from time to time.

The officials below were silent, but except for a very few people, expressions of anger, unwillingness, struggle, and hesitation began to appear on the faces of others.

They looked left and right, their eyes wandered around the faces of the people around them, and they saw the same expressions on each other's faces.

Song Xiance was silent for a while and then said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, I have a word of advice."

Li Zicheng stared at Song Xiance with drunken eyes for a long time before he recognized it. He laughed and said, "So it's Lao Song, you want to talk? Okay, you say it, you say it."

Song Xiance shook his head secretly, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, now that millions of Ming troops are besieging the city, I wonder if Your Majesty has a plan to retreat from the enemy?"

Li Zicheng was taken aback, and staggered and shouted: "Millions of troops? A plan to retreat from the enemy? No matter how many he comes, it's tens of millions of troops. I just use one word - kill! Kill kill kill, kill one counts as one, Killing two counts as a pair, I don't believe that I can't kill them all. Lao Song, dear friends, you have to follow me to kill the enemy, even if we get to the king of Hades, we will rebel against him..."

While talking, Li Zicheng fell silent, fell headlong on the collapsed floor, and fell asleep soundly.

Seeing Li Zicheng's appearance, many people shook their heads secretly, the disappointment on their faces was undisguised.

"My lords, Your Majesty has fallen asleep, please go back." The old servant quietly walked over from a corner.

"The ministers are waiting to leave." Song Xiance led the officials to retreat.

When he got outside the hall, Song Xiance felt a chill on his face, and when he looked up, a snowflake fell on his face.

It was snowing, and it was getting bigger and bigger soon, and the square in front of the temple was covered with a white layer of snow.

But everyone did not leave, they all stood at the entrance of the main hall, their eyes were on Song Xiance, the head of civil servants, and Niu Jinxing, the prime minister on the right.

Although Li Zicheng built Dashun with martial arts, there are naturally many generals under his command, and there are not a few of them who are capable of fighting.

However, after several battles with the Qin army in Beizhili, many generals withered. Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, Li Yan, Hao Yaoqi and more than a dozen generals were either killed or captured, or their whereabouts were unknown. , there is no news.

This also directly led to the fact that the Dashun Army did not have any generals at all when the Qin Army attacked in two directions. This allowed the Qin Army to conquer the state capital at a very fast speed, and finally surrounded the city of Xi'an.

Although he was promoted a lot later, he took up the positions of the original veterans.But these people have too little qualifications and lack of ability, which is better than nothing.

Therefore, the leaders among the hundreds of officials in the court are naturally Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing, the heads of civil officials.

The backgrounds of these two people are not considered to be from the right path. Song Xiance was a fortune teller who traveled around the world before, and Niu Jinxing was just a private school teacher before.

Both of them belonged to the bottom of the society. After Li Zicheng came, he followed Li Zicheng.

Relying on their qualifications and flexible minds, they advised Li Zicheng, and the two made great strides all the way, and were very trusted by Li Zicheng, and finally became the prime minister and the right prime minister after the establishment of Dashun Kingdom.

However, these two people who rely on their mouths to make a living are not good people to follow Li Zicheng to do this rebellious thing.

Millions of enemy troops besieged the city, and they were limited to surrender within twelve hours. If they did not surrender, they would be slaughtered indiscriminately.

But at this time Li Zicheng looked depressed, as if he was drinking to drown his sorrows.

The most hateful thing is that he keeps saying that he will never surrender. The meaning behind the words is that he would rather die than drag the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to be buried with him.

This undoubtedly drove everyone to a dead end.

Song Xiance stretched out his hand to let the snowflakes fall on his hands, and then rubbed his hands vigorously on his face, as if to make himself more awake.

Then he turned around and looked at Niu Jinxing who was silent at the side and said, "Your Majesty has the ambition to die for the country. As subjects, we should follow and share your worries. If Prime Minister You is free, you might as well go to the old man's house. Let's discuss how to defend against the enemy together." Of the policy."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Niu Jinxing with piercing eyes.

He believed that Niu Jinxing understood what he meant.

He has already decided to take the initiative to find a way out for himself, and by the way, make another big contribution.And Niu Jinxing in front of him is the person who is most likely to affect his action.

Looking at Song Xiance's gaze, Niu Jinxing knew it all.

Besieging the city with millions of troops is already a dead end, so there is no way to discuss how to defend against the enemy.

What needs to be discussed can only be a strategy for survival.

Niu Jinxing didn't want to die either, and didn't want to be buried with Li Zicheng, a doomed man.

He just hesitated for a while, then nodded and said: "What the prime minister said is very true. Since you are a minister, you should be loyal to your majesty. Let's discuss this strategy of resisting the enemy. Liu Shangshu, Xie Shilang, Lord Jin, if you have time, why don't you Let's go to the Prime Minister's Mansion together to discuss strategies to defend against the enemy."

The few people Niu Jinxing invited are currently the most powerful people in Dashun Kingdom.

Song Xiance also smiled when he heard the words: "Exactly, the adults are the pillars of the imperial court, so naturally they have to discuss together."

The few people who were named knew it in their hearts and were excited, but they all restrained themselves as much as possible, and said calmly: "The officials and others will follow the words of the two prime ministers."

After a few people made up their minds, they soon got into their respective carriages and went back and forth to Song Xiance Prime Minister's Mansion.

Of those who stayed where they were, some looked thoughtfully at the backs of the receding carriages, while others were still at a loss.

After a while, these people also slowly dispersed.Some of them went home alone, ready to die with their families.There were also people in groups of three or five, whispering, and also went to a certain mansion to gather staff.

Soon, the square in front of the hall was empty, and the footprints left in place were quickly covered by heavy snow, turning into a vast expanse of whiteness, as if no one had ever walked here.

The old servant came out of the hall slowly, stood on the imperial steps, raised his old and muddy eyes to look at the empty square in front of the hall, and then looked at the snowflakes falling in the sky, and murmured:

"The sky has changed, the sky has changed."

(End of this chapter)