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Chapter 611 Moving to Kuizhou City

Liu Jinzhong received a report that Chunshuwan, the chief general of the Fourth Army, suffered heavy casualties from the Ming army's strategy, and returned in a big defeat. A large number of Ming troops had already killed the city.

Liu Jinzhong was shocked. The battlefield was really changing rapidly. It wasn't that the Daxi army had invaded the Ming army's camp just now, and the Ming army was defeated. How could there be such a disastrous defeat in the blink of an eye?

Soon, Liu Jinzhong understood.Li Zicheng created a mutiny, and the food robbery on Jiming Mountain would definitely not succeed.It has become an extravagant hope to make the Ming army difficult to care about. The Ming army camp in Chunshuwan was originally a flaw that Zhu Yousong deliberately exposed.

Liu Jinzhong didn't dare to chase and kill Li Zicheng anymore, and now all the troops he mobilized were soldiers defending the city.

According to Zhang Xianzhong's division of labor beforehand, Liu Jinzhong's main task was to guard Kuizhou City and protect the imperial palace. Now that such a big incident happened in the imperial palace, Zhang Xianzhong hadn't settled with him yet. If Kuizhou was lost again, Zhang Xianzhong would have to dig his ancestral grave.

The Daxi army in charge of guarding Kuizhou totaled 5. Excluding the 4 troops guarding the palace, the actual city defense force was only 2. Li Zicheng created the Kuizhou mutiny and entered the palace, and Liu Jinzhong urgently mobilized more than 2 troops. In this way, the number of people defending the city is less than 1. How can such a large city of Kuizhou with more than [-] people be able to defend it?

What's more terrible now is that the main generals of the four armies came back with the remnants of the defeated generals, and the Ming army followed closely.

Also, the North City Gate has not yet been taken back, and Li Zicheng's thousands of troops are not easy to deal with. Although they only have about 4000 people, Li Zicheng is fierce, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu, all of them Enemy of all people.

Therefore, after Liu Jinzhong weighed the pros and cons, he decided not to pursue Li Zicheng, but must gather troops to defend Kuizhou City.

Therefore, Liu Jinzhong commanded the troops to go to the city to defend the city.

Now the commander of the Fourth Army has brought back an unknown number of troops. In the camp of the Ming army in Chunshuwan, the former commander Wang Dingguo met Ma Jinhua. Wang Dingguo was shot and died in the chaos.At present, only the leaders of the Fourth Army fled back to Kuizhou City, Wang Shangli, the leader of the Central Army, Ma Yuanli, the leader of the Left Army, and Zhang Hualong, the leader of the Right Army.

By the time the three chief generals gathered the remnants behind Liu Jinzhong's men and horses to defend the city, it was already too late.

After Li Zhushi's artillery battalion suppressed the firepower of the city head city, the defenders came back and forth, increasing and decreasing. , I don't know who to listen to, many generals are swearing and huddling together, and they were bombed to pieces before they reached the designated place, and some simply took advantage of the confusion and fled for their lives.

Therefore, after Li Zhushi's artillery battalion stopped attacking, a large number of Ming troops attacked the city in one go.

The Great West Army had just suffered a defeat at Chunshuwan, and I don't know how many Ming troops rushed up again, because it was dark, there were torches everywhere, and the shouts of killing shook the sky. A large part of these defeated soldiers were fleeing for their lives, so the Ming army quickly entered the city.

It only took one meal from the time when the Ming army began to attack the city to when a large number of troops entered the city.This can be said to be the fastest attack by Zhu Yousong's army. It can be called a blitzkrieg, and it is a kind of irony for the impenetrable Kuizhou city.

At this time, there are not many Daxi troops in the city. If you count them, it should not be less than 10. Without the spirit of the army, he can only suffer defeat and let others slaughter him.

Liu Jinzhong saw that Kuizhou couldn't hold it any longer. With a team of troops, he withdrew from the top of the city, and came to see Zhang Xianzhong in a hurry: "Your Majesty, the city is broken, and the humble minister is guilty. It is wrong to let the humble minister escort you out of Kuizhou first." land, and then the minister will accept the crime."

Zhang Xianzhong was furious when he heard the words, the imperial doctor is now saving his beloved concubine Li Na, Li Zicheng's rebellion disrupted his overall plan, he also knew that Chunshuwan would be defeated in the first battle, and the robbery of Jiming Mountain would have no result, But I didn't expect that Kuizhou Cheng would go bankrupt so quickly, and he was worried that he had no place to vent his anger. At this time, Liu Jinzhong became his punching bag.

"Trash, what's the use of keeping you?" Zhang Xianzhong chopped Liu Jinzhong to the ground with a single knife.

The soldiers behind Liu Jinzhong were so frightened that they almost wet their pants when they saw this scene at the gate of the palace. bad luck.

But Zhang Xianzhong didn't take them under the knife, so this is the law that does not blame the public. In addition, Zhang Xianzhong can't kill all his own people. He is employing people in an emergency, so who will escort them?

It is enough to kill Liu Jinzhong, the chief culprit, and vent his anger. In fact, it is not wrong for Liu Jinzhong to be a scapegoat. He can't defend the palace, and he can't even defend Kuizhou City. No wonder Zhang Xianzhong wants to use him.

But Liu Jinzhong in history didn't die like this.

According to records, after the demise of Emperor Hongguang's regime, the Qing army marched south and entered Sichuan soon after. The Qing court persuaded Zhang Xianzhong to surrender, but Zhang Xianzhong ignored it and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty.Zhang Xianzhong personally marched to Fenghuang Mountain in Xichong to set up an imperial camp. Liu Jinzhong, the general of Guangning, led his troops to surrender to the Tartars. He betrayed Zhang Xianzhong and became a shameful traitor.

Liu Jinzhong offered advice to the Qing court, leading to the Battle of Phoenix Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, Zhang Xianzhong fell from the horse with an arrow, and ended his all-powerful life.

Now because of Zhu Yousong's time travel, not only changed the fate of Li Zicheng, but also changed the fate of Zhang Xianzhong. In this way, Liu Jinzhong not only had no chance to betray Zhang Xianzhong and surrender to the Tartars as a traitor, but was killed by Zhang Xianzhong instead.

After Zhang Xianzhong killed Liu Jinzhong, he knew that Kuizhou City could no longer be defended, so he asked the Chinese army chief Wang Shangli to escort him, and fled from the south gate with Li Na, who was out of danger.

Ma Yuanli, the leader of the left army, and Zhang Hualong, the leader of the right army, were left to lead their respective headquarters to defend the city.He let them defend the city even though he knew he couldn't hold it, but Zhang Xianzhong actually asked them to stay as cannon fodder, otherwise he would have no chance to escape.

Ma Yuanli and Zhang Hualong did not dare to disobey orders. In the battle at Chunshuwan, the two generals were defeated and lost their troops. Zhang Xianzhong did not punish them. The two generals were grateful for the great grace of the emperor. Now that they are cut off, it is undoubtedly a trust in them. It is also an opportunity to make amends.

Therefore, the two generals had no complaints, led more than 4 people to fight desperately, and launched a street battle with the Ming army in Kuizhou City to cover their Majesty Zhang Xianzhong's retreat.

The fierce battle in Kuizhou lasted until dawn, and it was not until the two main generals, Ma Yuanli and Zhang Hualong, both died in the chaos, and the remaining ten thousand Great Western Army surrendered, that the battle was declared over.

After six o'clock in the morning, Zhu Yousong drove into the city of Kuizhou under the protection of the imperial guards.

(End of this chapter)