There is a space for passenger planes in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 266 There is still an eagle behind

Luoyang City, Prince Fu's Mansion.

Li Xiongzhen, with a battalion of the Shanxi Combat Brigade, had taken advantage of King Fu's flight to occupy the palace, and quickly deployed troops to build a simple defense line.

Prince Fu's Mansion was the place that Lin Feng repeatedly told Li Xiongzhen to occupy before setting off from Jiazhou. The treasury of Prince Fu's Mansion was comparable to the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, and contained a huge amount of wealth.

According to historical records, before Zhu Changxun went to the feudal land, Shenzong gave him 40,000 hectares of farmland. Because the fertile soil in Luoyang was insufficient, fertile lands on the borders of Shandong and Huguang were selected to supplement it.

Zhu Changxun also petitioned to obtain the family property of Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng after his death, as well as miscellaneous taxes from Jiangdu to Dizhou along the Yangtze River in Taiping, tea taxes in Sichuan, and salt well monopoly rights. Shenzong agreed to him.

Therefore, Prince Fu's Mansion receives huge amounts of land tax, after-tax and commercial income every year. After more than 20 years of accumulation, the amount of money is astonishing.

I think back then, Li Zicheng occupied Luoyang and plundered Prince Fu's Mansion, then quickly expanded his army to one million, reaching the pinnacle of his rebel career.

Although the first Shanxi combat brigade has entered the city, one battalion has been divided to guard the government office. Lu Jun led a battalion and is still clearing out the defenders in the city.

Li Xiongzhen brought only one battalion with about eight to nine hundred troops to capture Prince Fu's Mansion.

According to the original setting, these eight or nine hundred people are enough to control Prince Fu's Mansion, but now Li Zicheng's men have also entered the city. If they attack Prince Fu's Mansion with all their strength, it will be difficult to say.

"The west gate of the palace is relatively short. I think we should attack the west gate." Liu Zongmin said first. He was the oldest among the generals and never worried about Li Zicheng's speeches.

"Brother Li, I heard that Prince Fu was the most favored back then. There was a mountain of money in the palace. As long as we capture Prince Fu's palace, we will have money to recruit troops and horses." Yuan Zongdi followed on horseback and said.

"The main purpose of our attack on Luoyang City is Prince Fu's Mansion. You guys will take people to the various gates of the Prince's Mansion to investigate and see how to attack it more appropriately. Once the Prince's Mansion is captured, we will naturally have money and women." Li Zicheng arranged. .

"The concubines of the Ming dynasty kings are even more tender-skinned." Liu Zongmin's eyes were filled with lust, and he was licking his lips with saliva.

Therefore, Li Xiongzhen did not dare to neglect. He did not even have time to take a look at the property in Prince Fu's palace, so he led a battalion of officers and soldiers to quickly build fortifications and organize defense.

"Okay, let Zong Min lead people to attack Ximen." Li Zicheng agreed.

It's just that I'm afraid of what will happen.

Soon, several generals came back. Liu Zongmin shouted: "Prince Fu's Mansion has been occupied by a Zhenming army, but judging from the fact that they don't have many troops, we can definitely capture it if we focus on one gate."

"Which door is easier to attack?"

Just as Li Xiongzheng was worried, Li Zicheng's men rushed to the main entrance of Prince Fu's Mansion.

Liu Zongmin immediately took his men and horses, demolished two nearby houses, pulled out the beams to make a simple ladder, and began to attack Prince Fu's Mansion.

"General manager, Li Zicheng's men are attacking the west gate in a big way. The brothers can't stand it any longer." A sentry officer came to report.

"Go to Ximen immediately for support!" Li Xiongzhen said, and rushed to support with two hundred soldiers and horses. At this time, many of Liu Zongmin's troops had climbed to the top of the city, and the officers and soldiers of the 1st Shanxi Combat Brigade were struggling to resist.

Li Xiongzhenyi's more than 100 Zhenming troops guarding the city had already suffered more than half of their casualties, and most of the rest were injured. He immediately commanded the 200 people he brought to the battlefield, and barely managed to drive Liu Zongmin's peasant army off the city wall. ,

Taking advantage of the interval to do an inventory, they found that of the more than two hundred people they had brought, another forty or fifty people had been lost. It seems that the veteran soldiers of this wave of peasant army are still very effective in fighting. If they attack again, they may not be able to hold on.

Seeing that the first attack on the west gate of the palace failed, Liu Zongmin became very energetic, took off his shirt, and personally led the death squad to charge forward.

He rushed very quickly, stepped on the ladder with one foot, and rushed up to the city wall in two steps. Using two large axes and firing his bow from left to right, he chopped down three or four Zhenming officers and soldiers in an instant, and captured a small piece of the city.

Upon seeing this, Li Xiongzhen led a group of elite troops from the 1st Shanxi Combat Brigade without giving in. The two sides launched a life-and-death fight on the narrow wall of the palace. Liu Zongmin was tall, long-armed and extremely powerful, and he quickly gained the upper hand in the fight.

Li Xiongzhen was also chopped to the ground by Liu Zongmin with an axe. Fortunately, he was wearing a stab-proof vest given by Lin Feng, so there were no wounds on his body, but he was shaken by the huge force of the shock and vomited a mouthful of blood.

The Zhenming troops on both sides immediately came together to protect Li Xiongzhen, and they worked together to resist Liu Zongmin's attack.

Seeing that Prince Fu's Mansion was about to fall, suddenly, "Bah, bang, bang!" a burst of intense gunfire came from behind Liu Zongmin's siege army.

The peasant soldiers who had climbed up the city wall were shot down and fell to the ground. Although Liu Zongmin was brave, he was not stupid. He immediately fell down and rolled to avoid a few bullets.

"Boss, the firepower of the Zhenming Army is too fierce. I don't know what kind of musket they used to hit it. It can hit so far. We should retreat first." A leader of the Peasant Army quickly ran to Liu Zongmin to report.

Liu Zongmin observed the situation and saw that Li Xiongzhen and others had gathered again, preparing for a counterattack. He could only spit bitterly and said: "Withdraw!"

Reluctantly, he led the defeated peasant army and jumped off the low palace wall, preparing to evacuate first. Now their capital is limited, only two to three thousand people in total, so they can't just save them all here.

Li Zicheng, who was still holding down the formation two or three miles away from Prince Fu's Mansion, saw that the situation was not good and led more than a thousand remaining cavalry to rush forward, covering Liu Zongmin and others as they retreated.

At this time, a group of cavalry with bright armor rushed out of the darkness. It was Lin Feng's Xiaolong Guards Brigade.

It turns out that since Li Xiongzhen and others started to carry out Operation Nestlé, Lin Feng asked Tingfeng Wei to pay close attention to Li Zicheng's movements. Recently, he detected signs that Li was leaving the mountain and going to Luoyang.

Considering that on the Jiazhou side, Fang Xiaoyu has already begun to sweep Yan'an Prefecture with the Second Mobile Combat Division, and the entire Yan'an Prefecture Ming army is empty of troops, it is estimated that it will not be too difficult to capture.

On the northern front, Lu Xiangsheng has led the First Cavalry Division to Datong Mansion. Lin Feng was most worried about the direction of Luoyang, so he immediately rushed over with the Xiaolong Guard Brigade, day and night.

As soon as they arrived outside Luoyang City, they met Fang Xiaolin and said that Li Zicheng had led people to attack the city. Lin Feng immediately felt that the situation was not good, and feared that Li Xiongzhen would suffer a loss in the hands of Li Zicheng, so he immediately rushed into Luoyang City with his personal guard brigade.

At the critical moment when Prince Fu's Mansion was about to fall, Governor Lin finally made a grand appearance and organized the Guards Brigade to fire a volley of Type 39 breech-loading rifles, giving Li Zicheng's peasant army a painful lesson.

This is the mantis catching the cicada, followed by the oriole, and behind the oriole there is an eagle.

(End of this chapter)