Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 362 Wu Yingxiong hangs himself on the stairwell!Wu Guogui has no choice but to be the king of the West! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

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

"The soldiers of the Great Zhou were just defeated at Laodaohe outside Changsha City. King Chu of the Great Zhou was defeated and captured. King Qin of the Great Zhou and his son fled back to Hengyang with his troops. They followed Li Shimin's example and launched a mutiny and killed the grandson of the emperor. , and forced the old emperor Zhaowu to give up his seat to him. Woooo"

"The Great Zhou Dynasty is over, the emperor's grandson is gone, and Emperor Zhaowu's throne has been taken away by the rebellious and unfilial King Qin. What are you still defending? Surrender quickly!"

Outside the Great South Gate of Jiujiang City, early this morning, Xia Guoxiang, who was defeated and captured in the Xiaogu Shanshui Battle on the Yangtze River, had already changed into the official uniform of a second-rank military officer of the Ming Dynasty. Under the protection of the rattan soldiers under his command, he approached the Great South Gate, and then began to spread rumors and persuade him to surrender with tears in his voice.

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

This Li Laishun is too good at being a man. He is not only a good nephew of Li Zhongshan, but also a good grandson of Li Zicheng, and he has to handle both sides well.

He knew that Li Zicheng would not let Wu Yingxiong go. It was already impossible for Li Zicheng to catch Wu Sangui and kill him. Wouldn't it be okay to catch Wu Yingxiong and kill him?The old man just thinks so much, how can he stop it?

But he also promised that Li Zhongshan would let Wu Yingxiong run away, so when he himself arrived in Jiujiang Mansion, he couldn't allow Li Zicheng to kill Wu Yingxiong, because he had to do what he promised his uncle, the general!

He is General Li's most reliable nephew!
So Li Laishun rushed to Jiujiang day and night, and at the same time sent his men to send a letter to Li Zicheng at an expedited speed of six hundred miles to kill Wu Yingxiong.

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

And Xia Guoxiang is now helping Li Zicheng to trick Wu Yingxiong!

However, what he said about Qin Wang Wu Yingqi fleeing back to Hengyang is actually true. Although Wu Yingqi hadn’t returned to Hengyang on September 24th, he will be able to return to Hengyang in a few days. Rumor?

As for the defeat and capture of Wu Guogui, king of Chu in the Great Zhou Dynasty, that is also a semi-rumor that is about to come true. Wu Guogui has been defeated and besieged, but he has not yet been captured, let alone surrendered, but is seriously considering this matter.

And the fact that Wu Yingqi ran back to Hengyang to launch some kind of mutiny, killed the emperor's grandson Wu Shifan, and forced Wu Sangui to abdicate to him, is pure fiction.

Although these two things are not true, but to the ears of a group of Wu family soldiers who have confidence in the old Wu family's father, son, filial piety, brotherhood and respect, it is so true...

This is the eldest brother, the prince, the second younger brother, King Qin, and an old emperor who started a rebellious family... Isn't this the next step in the Xuanwu sect?
Besides, the elder brother and the crown prince were still trapped in Jiujiang City, so how could Qin King Wu Yingqi be willing to live under Wu Shifan who looked like a girl?

So this old Wu family's version of the change of Xuanwumen has long been expected by everyone.

Listening to Xia Guoxiang's yelling now, it seems to be true.

After thinking about it along this line of thought, everyone felt that they could no longer follow Wu Yingxiong.Now that Wu Yingqi is planning to usurp the throne, how could he send troops to rescue his brother again?It's almost as if he came to kill his own brother!

And now, Wu Yingxiong, who was on the Dasheng Pagoda, also met Xia Guoxiang on the Xiaonanmen tower just now, and heard the true and false words of Xia Guoxiang.

And he basically believed it!
He originally thought that his good brother Wu Yingqi had bad intentions. In fact, he was not the only one who thought so. Even his father, Wu Sangui, was worried that Wu Yingqi was too powerful, and there would be some changes in the Xuanwu Gate or the Battle of Jingnan in the future.

That's why Wu Sangui didn't bring Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong with him at the beginning of this Eastern Expedition.
As a result, the Eastern Expedition was defeated, Wu Sangui played himself as Wu Youliang, and Wu Yingxiong, the crown prince, was trapped in Jiujiang City again!
Even Wu Yingxiong vaguely felt that his father, Wu Sangui, no longer "loves" him, and is thinking of changing the prince!Replace him, the prince, with Wu Yingqi.
After misbelieving Xia Guoxiang's rumors, Wu Yingxiong, who was already discouraged about his future, became even more discouraged.He didn't even bother to stay on the front line of Xiaonanmen any more, and he didn't even bother to arrange his subordinates to refute the rumors. Instead, he climbed up the Great Victory Pagoda of Nengren Temple as if he had lost his soul... It seemed that he could see Farther away, if his father Wu Sangui came to rescue him, he would be able to see it from a distance.

It's a pity that there is no Wu Sangui on the Yangtze River, there is no Wu Sangui on the official road in the west of the city, and there seems to be no Wu Sangui in the mountains in the south of the city and Poyang Lake in the east of the city!
That’s right. Wu Yingxiong thought: Back then, Hong Chengchou couldn’t expect my father in Songshan City, Emperor Chongzhen couldn’t expect my father in Meishan, and now I can’t expect my father in Jiujiang City’s Dasheng Pagoda. up!

Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong was already in tears. When he was crying, the floor of the highest floor of the Dasheng Pagoda under his feet suddenly shook violently. Just as the tearful face hit the floor, it was hurting, and there was a "rumbling" explosion in my ears!
What exploded?
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 city wall exploded?" Wu Yingxiong said in shock, "Why did the city wall explode?"

Wu Yingxiong talked about this to himself, then put his hands on the floor and tried to get up.Then he looked over like the small south gate near Nengren Temple.The right side of the Xiaonanmen is really thick with smoke!
"This is... Li buried gunpowder? Li is really despicable!" Wu Yingxiong gritted his molars when he said this.

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

It must be the despicable and shameless Li Zicheng who buried the gunpowder!
He really guessed right.

It turns out that Li Zicheng now has some miners recruited from Daye County, Xingguo Prefecture, Wuchang County, Huanggang County, etc. There are many iron and coal mines in that area. When Wuchang Prefecture and Huangzhou Prefecture were not fighting, The miners were relatively well-fed, and not many of them were willing to serve as Li Zicheng's soldiers.But after Wu Sangui called, Wuchang Mansion and Huangzhou Mansion were in chaos, and these mines could not be operated, so many unemployed miners went up the mountain to join King Chuang.

These miners and soldiers can't do other things. They are good at digging and digging, and they do it quickly and well.

Moreover, they also use gunpowder when mining, so they are quite good at blowing up something.

In addition, the Ming army already had engineers as a unit, so Li Zicheng organized these professional soil diggers into his own engineers.

When Li Zicheng was unable to attack Jiujiang Fuchen for a long time, he started to think badly.

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

Today, taking advantage of the opportunity that Xia Guoxiang went outside Xiaonanmen to spread rumors to persuade many people to listen, he lit the gunpowder lead buried under the Xiaonanmen city wall.

With a "boom", the city wall several feet wide collapsed, and dozens of people were rushed to the sky, at least half of them were the backbone officers under Wu Yingxiong.This is really wicked and smoky!
On the Ming army's position outside the Xiaonan Gate of Jiujiang City, Li Zicheng was lying behind a bunker made of sandbags, holding a telescope, staring at one eye, 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 cloud of smoke and dust finally dissipated.

Now Li Zicheng finally saw clearly the section of the city wall that had been collapsed by gunpowder. A large section of the city wall to the east of Xiaonanmen Gate in Nanchang was gone. Now, the big and small pieces are piled up there, as if the whole thing has been turned over.

Li Zicheng put down the binoculars, opened his throat and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum! The troops march in and charge! Charge in and kill Wu Sangui's son Wu Gouxiong!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers behind Li Zicheng agreed in unison, and then rushed along a trench full of elite soldiers from the royal palace in white caps and green clothes, shouting: "The old prince has an order, beat the drum! Come on! Come on!" "

Li Zicheng's general, and the chief general he has cultivated with great difficulty in the past few years, Hu Yiqiang, holding a command flag, was the first to jump out of the ditch when he heard the shouts of Li Zicheng's soldiers. Pointing forward with a flag in his hand, he raised his arms and shouted: "The army of Zhongwangfu, go ahead and kill Wu Gouxiong!"

Behind him, soldiers from Prince Zhong's Mansion poured out in an endless stream, and the voice of shouting resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant: "The army of Prince Zhong's Mansion, charge!"

Thousands of Zhongwangfu soldiers holding flintlock guns and long spears, resisting the bamboo ladder, marched forward with loud shouts.Their starting position is a circle of moats that surround Jiujiang City on three sides, and the straight-line distance from Jiujiang City is only three or four hundred steps away.The outer trenches of Jiujiang City itself had been mostly filled in the previous city offensive and defensive battles, and the attacking infantry could rush directly through the filled outer trenches.

The defenders of Jiujiang City had already reacted, stretched out flintlock guns and matchlock guns, and started shooting, but under the suppression of the firepower of the sharpshooters of the Zhongwang Mansion Army, it did not appear to be very intensive.The officers of the Prince Zhong's Army led the soldiers and rushed to the gap 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 could stand up at this time, he might be able to lead his soldiers from the Wu family to beat out the elite soldiers from the Zhongwang Mansion.But at this time, Wu Yingxiong just disappeared. He himself collapsed!
And the soldiers of the Wu family who couldn't see Wu Yingxiong thought that their general was on the wall next to the Xiaonan Gate just now, and now he has been crushed to the sky!Why would they want to fight now?Either throwing down their weapons and fleeing in all directions, or kneeling on the ground and begging the soldiers of Zhongwang Mansion to surrender!

Of course, there are still some stubborn Wu family generals.Most of these people followed Wu Yingxiong's best friend, Guo Zhuangtu, and did not block the openings in the city wall, but rushed towards Nengren Temple where Wu Yingxiong lived.

Guo Zhuangtu learned from several of Wu Yingxiong's guards that the prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty had gone to the Dasheng Pagoda again, so he went up to the top floor of the pagoda panting heavily, and found Wu Yingxiong sitting on the floor crying .

"Prince, the city is broken, minister"

Guo Zhuangtu just wanted to say that he would save Wu Yingxiong and rush out, but Wu Yingxiong waved his hands and said, "It's over, it's over, it's over, Shi Fan has already been killed by the second child! How can I live?"

"Prince, don't listen to Xia Guoxiang's nonsense!" Guo Zhuangtu shook his head desperately, "He fell into Li Zicheng's hands with the knife resting on his neck. Didn't he want to say something?"

Wu Yingxiong shook his head: "Xia Guoxiang was not captured by Li Zicheng, he should have been captured by the navy of the Ming army. Looking at his official robe, he should have been voted for the Ming Dynasty, and he was also named a second-rank military officer! Why did Li Zicheng use the sword? On the neck of a second-rank military officer of the Ming Dynasty?"

This question really stumped Guo Zhuangtu.

Li Zicheng is not King Chuang now, but Li Fengtian, who is in charge of the military affairs of King Zhong's residence. How can he force Yi to surrender to Ming Dynasty and make Xia Guoxiang a second-rank military officer?Why is Xia Guoxiang the uncle of Wu Xiaotu and Wu Xiaotang!If you don't look at the face of the monk, you have to look at the face of the Buddha, so he can't go too far.

In fact, Xia Guoxiang was borrowed by Li Laishun from Liu Guoxuan, and the second-rank official uniform was borrowed by Li Zicheng from the officers under him.
Just when Guo Zhuangtu didn't know how to explain it to Wu Yingxiong, the cries of the Zhongwangfu's soldiers had already reached the outside of Nengren Temple.

"Kill."

"Kill it, capture Wu Gouxiong alive."

"Whoever gets the head of Wu Gouxiong will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and will be appointed as the commander-in-chief!"

Wu Yingxiong climbed up trembling, Guo Zhuangtu quickly went up to support him, and the two of them looked under the Dasheng Pagoda together, only to find that there was no one of Wu Yingxiong's best friend at the bottom!

And the Zhongwangfu soldiers in white hats and green clothes had already smashed through the gate of Nengren Temple, and rushed into the courtyard of Nengren Temple like a tide!

Wu Yingxiong knew that he was doomed, he sighed and said to Guo Zhuangtu: "Hongzhi, today is my death day."

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

Wu Yingxiong shook his head, sighed again, then untied his waistband, shook his head and said: "Hongzhi, in Li Zicheng's hands, I have no way out, I'm afraid I can't even die, I have to Walk decently."

Guo Zhuangtu was speechless, because Li Zicheng would not let Wu Yingxiong go, and Wu Yingxiong fell into his hands, and he didn't know how much torture he would suffer!
He could only kowtow to Wu Yingxiong, and then watched Wu Yingxiong walk towards the railing of the stairs in the tower step by step, fastened both ends of his trouser belt to the railing, and put the belt around his neck, Finally, he climbed over the railing again, with a sad face, and jumped down in despair!
Wu Yingxiong. Hang up!
September [-]th, northeast of Changsha City, Yongan City.

Having been hungry for several days, Wu Guogui was dejected, dragged his feet, leaned on a broken bamboo spear, and led a group of Wu Zhou officers who were similar in temperament to him, and slowly walked into Yong'an City where the Ming army was stationed.

He came to surrender to his son-in-law Li Zhongshan. It would be impossible not to surrender!I'm hungry!That Wu Yingqi just ran away, trapping him and [-] to [-] defeated soldiers in a bend in the east of Yong'an City.

Although I was trapped, and I had to eat or drink, the cold water from the Laodao River seemed to be enough.However, Wu Guogui didn't surrender right away, because Wu Yingqi could leave him and run away, but he couldn't be dissatisfied and didn't drag Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen's army for Wu Yingqi.

So I kept starving for several days, and finally couldn't take it anymore. The soldiers underneath had crawled out of the camp in large numbers to surrender to Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen. Come to Daying in Yong'an City to surrender to Li Zhongshan.

"Father-in-law Lao Taishan, my son-in-law is finally looking forward to you!"

"Wu Sandi, the reception banquet has been prepared for you. Come, let us have a good meal."

Panicked by hunger, Wu Guogui, who was thinking about having a big meal, suddenly heard two rather loud voices.

He looked up and found that Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan had come out of what must have been a huge tent to welcome them together.

Wu Guogui, the defeated general, was quite calm, he just stood there carelessly, he didn't kneel down and kowtow to beg for mercy, but he didn't curse and beg for death, he just sighed quietly: "It seems that the eighteen sons will rule the world with you two body!"

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "The people of the world, the people of the world, the monarch of the world is the guest, the world is the master, and the common people are the foundation of the world! Father-in-law Lao Taishan. Your defeat by your son-in-law is not a crime of war, but Wu's crime." The world of family is too small, but the world of people in the world is too big. The Lord of Zhou claims to have a million soldiers, but our Republic really has a million soldiers. May I ask how Wu Zhou can win?"

Li Fuchen waved his hands and said, "Second brother, stop chanting. Your father-in-law has been hungry for several days and lost weight, so let's talk while eating!"

"Talk while eating? What are you talking 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 Republic who has your share in this republic doesn't want to do it, so you come and be the new King of the West!"

Li Fuchen took Wu Guogui's arm, smiled and said to him: "Third brother, don't deny that the title of King of the West does not belong to you alone, but to thousands of Yungui, Huguang , Sichuan and Shaanxi-Gansu martyrs!"

Li Zhongshan immediately took up 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, do you?"

Wu Guogui looked serious: "Of course not, how can the blood of a righteous man be shed in vain?"

"Yes!" Li Fuchen said, "So you are not being the Western King for yourself, but for them!"

(End of this chapter)