Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 379 Zhang Xianzhong Arrested

Zhang Xianzhong led [-] soldiers from the Beijing camp, and several of his best imperial physicians, out of his Xijing. He was so anxious that he whipped his whip tightly. The curly-haired jade lion soared into the air like clouds and fog, and its ears were whistling like wind. .

But he still thinks the horse is slow. Firstly, he is impatient, and secondly, he has not ridden a horse like this for a few days. Like racing a drag racing car, the faster he gets, the more excited he is. The BMW Liangju was in so much pain that he wanted to throw Zhang Xianzhong off his horse, and ran wildly, with an instantaneous speed of 30 meters per second, and the mountains and forests on both sides moved backward rapidly.All of a sudden, the soldiers around him were thrown far away.

"Slow down, Your Majesty, the dragon's body is important..." The soldiers under his command hurried behind, but they still couldn't catch up.

Zhang Xianzhong is worthy of being the emperor on a horse. He rode on a horse to conquer the world. He has fought for many years. Only on a horse can he find the feeling of being the emperor. It is different from the feeling of being the emperor in the palace. However, he has been lazy these days and only ran for a while. Panting and sweating all over, he had to slow down, and after running for a while, the horse started sweating, and the soldiers under his command gradually caught up.

But this king of Daxi is still very anxious. In Zhang Xianzhong's eyes, his four-year-old son is closer than his own son, especially the second son Li Dingguo, who has been liked since childhood and is now the pillar of Daxi. He must not have any accidents !

Zhang Xianzhong watched Li Dingguo grow up. It can be said that father and son love each other deeply. Although his own birth is better than his own, Li Dingguo has been extremely smart since he was a child, and he looks good. Because he looks white, Zhang Xianzhong gave him a nickname Xiao Yuer. , because he is smart and eager to learn, he can learn what he is taught as soon as he is taught, he is also very clever, and can understand a little bit, so Zhang Xianzhong adopted him as his adopted son and taught him art. Good skill.

When he was ten years old, when others were playing and crying, he joined the army and killed the enemy. At the age of 17, he grew up to be a rare general under Zhang Xianzhong, commanding thousands of troops on the battlefield. Repeated military exploits won Zhang Xianzhong's respect.

Zhang Xianzhong took him by his side and fought in all directions. Because he had no failures, Zhang Xianzhong named him General of Pingxi. see.

This time, the big traitor Fan Wencheng mediated through it. Daxi and Daqing formed an alliance to deal with Daming, which was in line with Zhang Xianzhong's wishes. Now he has feuds with Daming and Lin Yi. This time Zhang Xianzhong sent four godsons The leader led the army to expand the territory for him, and Li Dingguo did not want to be captured. He led an army of 5 troops out of the plank road to the north and then to the east. , and now his troops have reached Junzhou, which is also the place where Zhang Xianzhong's Gucheng uprising was.

Good news spread frequently, and when Zhang Xianzhong was proud of having a godson like Li Dingguo, he did not expect that extreme joy would turn into sorrow, and Li Dingguo suddenly fell ill.

Originally, it is normal for people to eat whole grains, and it is not a big deal. Everyone will get sick, birth, old age, sickness and death are purely natural phenomena. What kind of terminal illness does a young man in his twenties have?God has no eyes!
His son is still young, but he has such a serious illness, and the suicide note has been written, how can Zhang Xianzhong not be in a hurry?
Could it be that he was tired from this battle?Because Zhang Xianzhong knows very well that straddling horses to fight and charge into battle is the most tiring, and Li Dingguo is different, because he is not an ordinary general, he is the commander of the three armies, commanding thousands of horses and thousands of troops to fight on the battlefield. Strategizing and winning a thousand miles is really laborious and exhausting. There is probably no more tiring job in the world. These Zhang Xianzhong have a deep understanding. After more than ten years of fighting in the army, some soldiers fought alone, and some troops marched thousands of miles. There are victories and defeats, and he is an expert in marching and fighting.

Could it be that the remnants of Li Zicheng's eradication this time exhausted him?

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly thought of this point. Of course he knew that although Li Zicheng was gone, Gao Guiying and the group who came to join him this time were not easy to save money, especially that Li Yan, even though he was a young man, he was Li Zicheng's think tank. There is nothing worse than Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance. There are also Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Li Laiheng, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang and so on. A few days later, they were able to sweep the Central Plains and invade Beijing, forcing the faint emperor Chongzhen to hang himself, all thanks to this group of people.

Now that the Dashun Banner has collapsed and Li Zicheng is dead, these remnants of the party have come to surrender to Zhang Xianzhong on the surface and plan a great cause together, but in fact they have come to take refuge at most, taking advantage of their own big tree to enjoy the shade. Going far away and setting up another mountain, Zhang Xianzhong will have another enemy in that case, and he must not do anything to nourish the legacy of carbuncle!

Zhang Xianzhong knew that these people couldn't be of the same mind with him, King Daxi, even though they fought together with Li Dingguo's soldiers to make the Ming army dizzy and win every battle, they will be their formidable enemy in the future, which has been proved a few years ago.

Therefore, we must take this opportunity to wipe out these people in one go, so as to avoid future troubles, but he is also afraid of being stigmatized as narrow-minded, unkind, and revengeful, so he passed a secret decree to let Li Dingguo design to get rid of them quietly, so that people do not know who they are. Feel right when they die in battle.

But how easy is it to get rid of these people?Although Wuer Dingguo is superior in literary and martial arts, he is young and energetic and inexperienced. It is not easy to deal with Gao Guiying and Li Yan, who are both wise and brave. Have a serious illness.My son is too difficult... Being a father has made you tired...

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong's nose got sick and he felt like crying.

Zhang Xianzhong hurried forward anxiously, thinking wildly in his mind,
I can't wait to fly to the Junzhou military camp with both wings, see the baby and ask the imperial doctor to heal him immediately, then the father and son will reunite, and after Li Dingguo recovers, he can gallop on the battlefield as usual, killing the enemy and making meritorious service.

It took Zhang Xianzhong only five days to travel more than 1000 miles from Daxi Jingshi to Junzhou, with an average of more than [-] miles a day. The means of transportation in the cold weapon era were very backward. The march was mainly measured by horse legs and human legs, and the march A certain period of time must be rested, eating, drinking, and resting to restore physical strength before continuing. In this way, excluding eating, drinking, and necessary rest time, their marching speed is simply amazing.

The reason why Zhang Xianzhong can run so fast is firstly because he was very anxious, and secondly because his marching speed was tempered. He was chased and intercepted by the officers and soldiers. The army's nose went away, leaving behind the reputation of "what a Yangge department, three days away from me!", which made the officers and soldiers exhausted.Now he has brought out the ability to escape back then.

Li Dingguo's military camp was in sight, Zhang Xianzhong breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still hanging, he didn't know his son's good or bad luck, he prayed silently in his heart, may God bless his son Li Dingguo to be safe Get through this.

Li Dingguo's generals greeted him at the gate of the camp, and they knelt down in a large group to offer gifts to him, the Great Western King. Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about the fatigue of the pommel horse and the dust all over his body. After asking a few words, he learned that Li Dingguo hadn't After dying, he recited Amitabha Buddha in his heart, and then hurriedly led the people inside.

But when he got to Li Dingguo's big tent, Zhang Xianzhong was dumbfounded, there was no Li Dingguo in it, but Gao Guiying and Li Yan.

Zhang Xianzhong felt as if he was going to see a ghost in broad daylight, and his mind suddenly froze like an electric shock.Not only him, but also the civil and military officials and imperial physicians who accompanied him all looked confused.It seems that they have seen the most impossible things to see in this life. The mountains without edges, the sky and the earth, the rivers flowing backwards, and the snow in June probably won't make them so incredible.

Li Yan laughed loudly: "Eight Great Kings, don't come here unharmed!"

"You... you?..." Zhang Xianzhong couldn't say a word, the yellow beard on his big face was trembling, he knew he had been fooled in an instant, and rushed out with a knife drawn by someone, but there was no time.

Ambushes were everywhere inside and outside the camp, and countless knives, guns, bows, arrows, and muskets were all aimed at them, especially those new muskets, which did not have long gunpowder fuses, but he knew that they were very powerful. It can be launched, and it has lethality within a range of 300 meters. This is a big weapon of the Ming army. This guy Lin Yi does not know where he got it. It is their patent, but how did he get to his Daxi military camp? Could it be...

Zhang Xianzhong didn't have time to think about it, and wanted to use his bravery to rush out like he was in a desperate situation back then, but this time he couldn't, because as soon as they moved, Gao Guiying and Li Yan's soldiers raised their swords and guns at the same time, fired arrows at random, and fired muskets. Qiming, the people around Zhang Xianzhong fell down in a blink of an eye, some were smashed into sieves by muskets, some were pierced by random arrows, some were hacked and stabbed by knives and guns and fell to the ground, blood spattered the tent.

Originally, not many people came into this big tent, because he came to see Ganer's illness and let the imperial doctor treat his illness, not to fight, but he never expected such a thing to happen, after what happened just now , there are not many people around, and there are two wounded grinning.

Then Li Yan said something, Zhang Xianzhong was like a deflated ball, he had to grab it with his hands, he completely understood what was going on, and after a long time of trouble, it was fake that his precious son Li Dingguo had an emergency, it was nothing like that at all , This is just a bait, a trap set by Gao Guiying and Li Yan for him, and this big deep hole was dug for him as early as when they came to run to him.

Not only did Li Dingguo not follow the secret order to catch all these people, but he fell into the conspiracy of these people, causing him to fall into the trick in front of his eyes.

Lin Yi was able to capture him alive thousands of miles away, he was really angry from embarrassment.

He wanted to fight out, but he had more energy than he wanted. The life in the palace these years, the three palaces and six courtyards, the feasting, singing and dancing, was a paradise on earth.Bows, knives, stone horses and arrows, these things have degenerated, and there are no horses, knives, or armors in front of you, only dragon robes and a self-defense Tianzi sword, but this Tianzi sword is useless in front of these people ?
Soon Zhang Xianzhong was tied up.But while he was tied up, he scolded people like Gao Guiying and Li Yan for surrendering to Daming, turning against each other, accepting a thief as his father, willing to be the eagle dog of the court, not only betraying him Zhang Xianzhong, but also betraying Li Zicheng. Loyalty without filial piety, kindness will be revenged, conscience lost... people like Gao Guiying and Li Yan were scolded.

When he was exhausted from cursing, Gao Guiying smiled, "Eight Great Kings, you are wrong, our King Chuang died not at the hands of Daming, but at the hands of traitors and tartars. Wu Sangui and Dorgon were fooled, thanks to Lin Yi, the governor of the country, who led the army to drive away the traitors and tartars, and pardoned us for our innocence. And the Tartars are our enemies. It's not that we repay our kindness ruthlessly, but you, Zhang Xianzhong, are willing to be a thief all your life, even if you don't want to collude with the Manchu Tartars. Both you and your precious son Li Dingguo have been fooled. But if it weren’t for this, I’m afraid I’ve been killed by you long ago, and now you scold us instead, do I dare to be loyal to your Eighth King? Are you worthy?”

Zhang Xianzhong rolled his eyes straight after these words, especially the last few words, which made him feel ashamed. This is what hurts others instead of himself!
At this moment, Li Yan spoke again, "Although your father and son have sinned deeply and deserve to die, we, Mr. Lin, have the virtue of being good at life. Let us spare your lives and not kill you for the time being. Otherwise, you, Zhang Xianzhong, would have had the same fate as them. !” Li Yan said, pointing to the dead and wounded on the ground.

Now Zhang Xianzhong is so regretful that his stomach is green, the emperor who left the capital was wrong, he marched in a hurry for five days and five nights, and he died in such a hurry, this will make him regret it for eight generations!
After Zhang Xianzhong was captured, the [-] soldiers from the Beijing battalion he brought with him also knew that they had been duped. These Daxi generals who were loyal to Zhang Xianzhong planned to sacrifice their lives for the savior, but Gao Guiying and Li Yan had already laid a net.

Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Tian Jianxiu and others came out with their troops, and Zuo Liangyu, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie and others led a large number of Ming troops to charge from all directions. When they came over, the [-] Daxi Army was surrounded by tens of thousands of Ming troops. As a result, some of the hard-headed soldiers wanted to resist, but soon they fulfilled their wish of sworn allegiance to Daxi, and they were all beheaded on the spot. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, thousands of people surrendered and became prisoners of the Ming army.

In this way, Zhang Xianzhong was captured. Of course Gao Guiying and Li Yan were very happy, and hurriedly repaired the book and sent people to hurry five hundred miles to report victory to Lin Yi outside the pass.

These Ming soldiers, no matter Gao Guiying's subordinates or Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, that is, the new and old Ming soldiers, including the exiles, there are a total of [-] Ming soldiers.

Especially Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie and others, they couldn't believe it. Zhang Xianzhong, the famous chief thief, was arrested like this?Is this true?Wouldn't it be Zhang Xianzhong's double who came?I also feel that this is absolutely impossible, can people like Gao Guiying not know each other?Once upon a time they used to be the same breed.

But this battle was fought too easily. This is the king of Daxi who is as famous as Li Zicheng. Two kingdoms within a kingdom, after you sang, our side came on stage, and finally played Emperor Chongzhen to death.

But Zhang Xianzhong, who is so famous, is just playing around like this?This battle ended before it was fought. You must know that Emperor Chongzhen couldn't sleep because of him day and night. Regardless of the high-ranking officials, including Ministers of the Ministry of War, such as Yang Sichang, Zheng Chongjian, etc., countless people were imprisoned or even lost their heads. They racked their brains and mobilized the whole country to encircle and suppress them for more than ten years, but there was no result. These high-level generals such as Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, etc. have a deep understanding. They have fought each other, and at most they have won and lost each other.

But Zhang Xianzhong was caught in such an easy battle today?This battle was fought too proudly!

With the arrest of Zhang Xianzhong, wouldn't it be a matter of time before Daxi Kingdom would be leaderless like Dashun Kingdom?
Think about how all these soldiers cheered and jumped for joy, what a credit this is!While celebrating the victory, they all admired Gao Guiying and Li Yan, but they also thought that this battle was planned by Lin Yiyuan thousands of miles away. Lin Yi made the decision, and Gao Guiying and Li Yan were at most the executors. In addition to being in awe, he also admired this great Ming's supervisor.

After Gao Guiying and Li Yan planned to capture Zhang Xianzhong, they immediately wrote a letter to report victory to Lin Yi, who was fighting outside the pass, and packed Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo into a prison cart with wooden cages, and sent Li Guo and his son with 2000 troops to escort them to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. , pending processing.Because this is a serious crime committed by the imperial court, no one would dare to make the decision without Lin Yi's oral instructions. If something happens in the barracks, he will not be able to bear this responsibility, and he will be sent to the capital to be locked up in death row.

In the prison car, Zhang Xianzhong saw Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo never dreamed that he would see his father here. He was so shocked that his mouth was wide open and his eyes were wide open. He couldn't believe his eyes.

Li Dingguo has also regretted it these few days, why did he fall into the trap of Gao Guiying and Li Yan?He also hoped that his father and emperor would quickly send troops to rescue him, but unexpectedly, the father and son sat in the prison car together. After Li Dingguo knew the truth, the father and son looked at each other speechlessly, and fell into the hands of these people together. It is a fallen man from the end of the world...

Then Gao Guiying and Li Yan, as Marshal Ma and military adviser of the rebellious army, led generals Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu, etc., to mobilize Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and other troops. The Ming army went from Junzhou to Sichuan.

Now Zuo Liangyu, Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, etc., who used to be the invincible figures of the Ming Dynasty, are also honest in front of Gao Guiying and Li Yan, so that they dare not go east and west, and make Dagou dare not Chasing chickens is all because of awe of a person.

Gao Guiying commanded [-] Ming troops and released news that Daxi King Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo had been captured by Daming.

Under this kind of public opinion, a mighty [-] Ming troops came from northwestern Hubei to Sichuan...

(End of this chapter)