Li Zicheng said: "But Chongzhen's messenger didn't say anything."
Niu Jinxing said: "Although Chongzhen's messenger was vague, combined with the information Niu Quan got from Jiannu's camp, it can be basically confirmed that the Ming army really launched a large-scale counterattack in Xuzhou, so Jiannu's return was probably
We are forced to return to the army, otherwise the farmland in Xuzhou will not be preserved."
Song Xiance immediately sarcastically said: "Prime Minister, didn't you explain that the army will not counterattack?"
"I really didn't expect Chongzhen to be so stupid!" Niu Jinxing said without blushing, "But it was precisely because of Chongzhen's stupidity that we gave our Dashun Army a good opportunity to expand their territory."
"Now that Jiannu is forced to return to his army to save himself, we just took this opportunity to seize Shangqiu."
"By the time Jiannu re-stabilizes Xuzhou's blockade, we will definitely have captured Shangqiu City. In this case, even if Jiannu is unwilling, he can only break his teeth and swallow it."
"As long as Shangqiu City is captured, the entire Guide Prefecture will also be captured."
"As long as Guide Prefecture is captured, Runing, Nanyang Prefecture and Ruzhou are sandwiched in the middle of our Dashun territory, Liu Hongqi, Li Jiyu and other local thieves will have no choice but to submit to our Dashun."
"In this way, the entire Henan Province will belong to me, Dashun."
After a pause, Niu Jinxing said again: "Your Majesty, if God doesn't take it, you will be blamed for it. Previously, Jiannu gave us the opportunity for the Dashun Army to seize Beijing. Your Majesty has already missed it. This time Jiannu gave us Dashun again."
The opportunity to seize the whole of Henan must not be missed again, otherwise you will definitely be punished by God!"
Naturally, Song Xiance firmly opposed it: "Your Majesty, this is absolutely not allowed."
After a pause, Song Xiance continued: "I dare to say that Jianu will not retreat easily. There must be fraud in it."
Of course Song Xiance didn't know if there was any fraud, but as long as Niu Jinxing supported it, he had to oppose it.
At that moment, the two started arguing again. Li Zicheng felt that one head was bigger than two, so he asked Liu Zongmin: "Ruhou, what do you think? Should we attack Guide Mansion?"
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"First send out detective horses to explore the whereabouts of Jiannu."
"If it is a fake retreat, it will definitely not escape our spying spies."
Liu Zongmin said: "But if Jiannu really retreated, what's the harm in taking the Guide Mansion? Why don't you eat the meat that's already been delivered to your mouth, right?"
Li Zicheng said: "Sure, then send more scouting horses."
In the evening of that day, a scout reported that Jiannu had marched towards Xuzhou in a hurry.
Li Zicheng immediately said to Liu Zongmin: "Marquis Ru, take 30,000, no, 50,000 troops to capture Guide Mansion. After capturing Guide Mansion, guard it there for me. If you find that the Ming army is about to be unable to withstand it,
If Jiannu sends troops to retaliate, just say a few good words to Jiannu. I can see that Jiannu has identified Chongzhen and Ming Dynasty as the most powerful enemies, so before annihilating Ming Dynasty, he captured Chongzhen.
I would never attack Dashun before."
"Yes." Liu Zongmin cupped his hands and said, "I know how to do it."
That night, Liu Zongmin mobilized 50,000 troops and headed for Guide Mansion.
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The time soon came to midnight.
A bright clear sky hangs high in the night sky, shining like moonlight.
In the night wind, unknown insects chirped happily in the night.
At a certain moment, a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats suddenly sounded from a distance, rapidly approaching the east gate of Kaifeng.
Under the bright moonlight, you can clearly see that the knight is wearing a felt hat on his head. He is a scout cavalry of the Dashun Army, and he is running towards the east gate of Kaifeng at this moment.
Behind the Dashun cavalry, there were ten more cavalrymen who were chasing after them.
Moreover, these dozen cavalry did not gather together, but spread out to both sides. It seemed that they were trying to outflank them from both wings and then form an encirclement. From this, it can be seen that this is not an ordinary group of cavalry.
At a certain moment, a sharp scream suddenly sounded as a sharp blade cut through the void.
Immediately, the Dashun cavalryman, who was galloping away from his horse, fell down from his horse.
The war horse, which had lost its master's control, ran for a while and then stopped in a daze.
Soon, dozens of horsemen surrounded him from all sides, held the reins of the war horse, and gently rubbed the horse's neck to comfort him. The horse's mood quickly returned to stability. After all, it was just a war horse.
Immediately, a cavalryman jumped off his horse and walked up to the Dashun cavalrymen.
First, a horse chopped off the head of the Dashun cavalry, and then pulled out an arrow from the Dashun cavalry. This was a heavy arrow with a four-edged arrow cluster, which could penetrate the iron armor within thirty steps.
The leather armor of Dashun's scout cavalry couldn't bear it at all.
However, at this moment, the cavalryman suddenly shouted: "Who?"
Along with this roar, a black shadow suddenly jumped up from not far away.
I saw this black shadow getting up, running towards the east gate of Kaifeng, and started shouting. At the same time, I also raised a gong in my hand, and even brought a gong with me!
"Damn it, shoot him!" A low roar sounded.
There was a harsh sound piercing the air, and several heavy arrows shot at the black shadow at the same time.
These dozen cavalrymen are not only skilled in riding and shooting, but their reactions are also extremely fast!
Several heavy arrows shot through the black shadow almost at the same time, and one of them shot directly through the throat. The black shadow's roar was stuck in the throat, and the gong in his hand fell to the ground.
But the gong still made a muffled sound after it hit the ground.
This muffled sound immediately alerted the sentries on the east gate tower.
At that moment, two sentries on guard came over with torches, climbed on the battlements and looked outside the city.
One of the sentry soldiers said: "Xiao Laosan, did you really not hear it just now? I seemed to hear the sound of a gong. Could it be that the ambush troops outside the city discovered something?"
"What are you talking about?" another sentry asked angrily.
"If the Army of the Army had discovered anything, the gongs would have made a huge noise."
"Besides, in addition to the ambushing troops, there are also scout cavalry on the outside."
After a pause, he continued: "The most important thing is that the slave-building army has retreated. Who else will come to attack Kaifeng? Those bandits from Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion? What are you thinking about?"
"That's true." The sentry guard fell silent.
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Silence returned to the top of the city, as if nothing happened.
After another half an hour, the dozen riders who were lying on the ground got up one after another.
The war horses that they had comforted on the ground also stood up one after another, and snorted a few dull times from time to time.
One of the cavalrymen turned around and made a slight move behind him, and countless black shadows emerged from behind him. They were hundreds of slaves, and they were all Baya soldiers wearing triple armor.
Hundreds of Baya soldiers quickly arrived outside the east gate of Kaifeng.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, three years ago, Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng when he opened it.
At that time, several sections of Kaifeng's city wall collapsed. After Chen Qianfu was appointed as the governor of Henan by Chongzhen, he convened Minzhuang to repair the city wall, but the nearly gapped city wall was still damaged.
Jiannu Baya chose a gap on the right side of the east gate.
The height of the city wall at this gap is only three feet, less than ten meters.
With a dull thumping sound, dozens of flying claws clung to the battlements.
Immediately, dozens of Baya Lakou cut their swords and climbed up along the flying rope.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of Baya soldiers climbed up the east gate along the zip line.
In less than a moment, more than two hundred Baya soldiers had arrived at the east gate.
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At this moment, Li Zicheng was having a sweet dream.
In his sleep, Chongzhen and Dorgon knelt down at his feet, shouting long live.
Li Zicheng's face was filled with joy, and when he was about to step forward to lift the two of them up, the Golden Palace suddenly began to shake violently.
Immediately, Prince Li Shuangxi rushed to the hall dressed in military uniform and shouted loudly: "Escort me, protect me quickly!"
When Li Zicheng woke up from his sleep, he was shocked to realize that Li Shuangxi was not shouting in his dream, but was clearly shouting outside and was actually shouting for escort.
At that moment, Li Zicheng stood up in surprise and shouted sharply: "What are you shouting for?"
Immediately, Li Shuangxi, who was in full attire and accustomed to leading the army, rushed into Li Zicheng's place and said urgently: "Father, leave quickly! The east gate of Kaifeng has been lost, and the Jiannu army has already entered the city!"
"What do you mean? The east gate has been lost?"
"The slave-building army has entered the city?"
Li Zicheng couldn't believe his ears.
How is that possible? Hasn’t the slave-building army already retreated?
Could it be said that he killed a carbine? This is really unexpected.
"Yes." Li Shuangxi said in panic, "Because the Jiannu had recently retreated, the night watchmen inevitably slacked off. As a result, in the middle of the night, some Jiannu climbed up to the top of the city with flying claws. After a fierce battle, the east gate fell."
"It was so easy for Jiannu to sneak attack the city gate?" Li Zicheng said angrily.
"Didn't you ambush the road troops outside the city? Didn't you send out cavalry scouts?"
"Father, I have sent many of my sons," Li Shuangxi said with a bitter face, "But, but..."
Li Shuangxi couldn't explain it clearly. He couldn't say that I didn't expect Jiannu to kill him, so he only sent a small number of ambushes and scout cavalry.
And the officers and generals below were probably discounted.
"Damn it!" Li Zicheng was so angry that he almost died. He was so careless.
However, Li Zicheng soon realized something was wrong and asked, "That's not right. Where is your army?"
Jiannu left camp and returned to the army yesterday morning, and Liu Zongmin's 50,000-strong army set off last night. Even if Jiannu made a surprise attack on Kaifeng with his carbine, he would hit Liu Zongmin first.
Liu Zongmin has an army of 50,000. Even if he is ambushed, not even a messenger can get out, right? Unless...
Li Zicheng quickly thought of another possibility, unless this was just a trap from the beginning, and the return of the slaves to Xuzhou was just a cover, in which case Liu Zongmin would also be in danger!
Thinking of this, Li Zicheng's lungs almost exploded with anger.
It's all Niu Jinxing's and Niu Quan's father and son's fault!
It must have been the fool Niu Quan who let Jiannu fool him!
At that moment, Li Zicheng said sternly: "Where are Niu Jinxing and Niu Quan, father and son?"
"Father, I didn't see Niu Jinxing and his son just now." Li Shuangxi said in panic, "Father, please leave quickly!"
While the father and son were talking, Song Xiance and Zuo Maodi also hurried over. As soon as they met, they shouted: "Your Majesty, hurry up, Jiannu is coming along Dongmen Street to kill!"
Then the crash of weapons was heard.
At this time, Li Zicheng's soldiers brought the horse over.
"Damn it, let's go!" Li Zicheng stamped his feet and got on his horse.
Song Xiance and Zuo Maodi also mounted their horses. Under the protection of Li Shuangxi and Yibiao Dashun cavalry, they hurriedly left the city from the west gate of Kaifeng. However, as soon as they left the city gate, they encountered a group of Jian slaves who stayed overnight.
After a scuffle, Jian Nu was repulsed without stopping at night.
Dashun's cavalry also lost more than twenty cavalry.
…
Near dawn, Dorgon returned to the outside of Kaifeng.
By this time, the slave-building army had already captured Kaifeng City.
He Luohui, covered in blood, came to Dorgon's horse and said: "Master, Kaifeng has been taken!"
Being able to capture Kaifeng was already within Dorgon's expectation. Dorgon was more concerned about whether he had caught or killed Li Zicheng: "Where is Li Zicheng? Have you caught him?"
"Li Zicheng ran away." He Luohui said, "Only Niu Jinxing and his son were caught."
"It may be useful to keep an eye on these two father and son in the future." After Dorgon finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the majestic east gate of Kaifeng and said word for word, "Send the order and let the Eight Banners warriors enjoy themselves.
Seal the knife!"
"Long live the Nine Kings!" Upon hearing this, the accompanying nobles of the Eight Banners cheered wildly.
Dorgon's order was conveyed to the city. The Eight Banners soldiers who were sitting and resting in the streets and alleys of the city suddenly became excited. While shouting long live the Nine Kings, they broke into the house and carried out comprehensive, cruel and brutal attacks in Kaifeng City.
After the bloody looting, the Han people in Kaifeng City were really unlucky.
Kaifeng was originally a large city in the Central Plains, with a population of nearly 400,000 at its peak.
After Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng City, the population dropped sharply to less than 50,000.
However, after Chen Qianfu's governance, many fleeing people were gradually collected, many Jin gentry also returned one after another, and Kaifeng's population returned to more than 100,000. This time the Dashun army entered the city with a peaceful handover, and the people did not suffer military disasters.
But this time, Kaifeng City could not escape the catastrophe.
…
Let’s talk about Li Zicheng later.
They fled all the way to Sishui before they dared to stop.
At this time, there were only a hundred cavalry left under the leadership of Li Shuangxi.
Because they encountered several groups of Jiannu's Night Guards on their way out, they were really capable of fighting. Even five Dashun cavalrymen might not be able to fight them for a whole night.
Immediately afterwards, the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Mongolia caught up.
After a series of fierce battles, only a hundred cavalry remained from the three thousand cavalry.
Fortunately, Chen Yongfu, who stayed in Luoyang, actually led his troops to Sishui.
It wasn't until he entered Sishui Pass that Li Zicheng dared to stop and gather the defeated troops.
Although he suffered another unprecedented defeat, Li Zicheng's mood was relatively stable.
Even Li Zicheng survived a big defeat like Shanhaiguan, so what does the defeat in Kaifeng mean?
By the morning of the next day, defeated soldiers fled back one after another. Not only the defeated soldiers from Kaifeng, but also many defeated soldiers under Liu Zongmin's command fled back, and brought back the bad news that Liu Zongmin had been captured.
Now Li Zicheng finally became angry, which was a loss of an arm.
Since the establishment of Shangluoshan, Liu Zongmin has been his number one general.
Liu Zongmin was defeated in Shanhaiguan and did not die. Unexpectedly, he was killed in Kaifeng.
So Li Zicheng hated Niu Jinxing even more, saying that he would not spare Niu lightly this time.
However, Li Zicheng could not wait to see Niu Jinxing and his son until he returned to Luoyang.
