A woman's frightened screams rang out from the camp.
Zhang Dingguo, who was patrolling the camp with his helmet and armor on, heard it, and his expression changed drastically. The voice came from the imperial tent, and it seemed to be the Queen's voice.
As soon as he heard that there was a police officer at Lao Wansui, Zhang Dingguo quickly led his troops and rushed over.
On the way, he was still guessing what happened, but he did not suspect it was a Tatar assassin. After all, Dingjun Mountain was besieged, but there were still more than 30,000 Western Army soldiers on the mountain.
Could it be that Lao Wansui is killing the queen again?
Zhang Xianzhong didn't serve as emperor for long, but he had four queens, but the first three were killed by Lao Wansui not long after. As for the countless concubines he snatched, few of them really liked him.
of.
When he first became emperor, he felt that the concubines he had snatched were not of high status, and wanted to find a noble daughter from a well-known family to be his queen. Yan Ximing, the Prime Minister of the Left who had been demoted, made suggestions to please Zhang Xianzhong, saying that folk women were not enough.
She is worthy of saintliness, and the Chen family has a woman who is both talented, virtuous and beautiful, and can be married as a queen.
The Chen family this person is talking about is actually the daughter of Chen Yan, a great scholar of the Chongzhen Dynasty.
After Chen Yan broke into the capital, he was tortured and forced to pay 300 taels of gold and 40,000 taels of silver to save his life. However, Li Zicheng still killed him when he was defeated and left the capital.
His hometown was Jingyan, Leshan, Sichuan, not far from Chengdu. In order to please Zhang Xianzhong, Yan Ximing sold the daughter of fellow villager Chen Yan. Yan also personally led troops to Jingyan to snatch the Chen family to Chengdu. He suggested that Zhang Xianzhong organize a grand canonization ceremony
Queen ceremony.
In the end, Zhang Xianzhong said disdainfully, "Why does the queen need to pay tribute? As long as I make her happy, she is just a piece of queen. What's the use of a lot of gifts?"
In this way, the daughter of a bachelor was kidnapped. If it weren't for the fact that the ministers felt that the queen would be in disgrace if there was no etiquette for the canonization, they reluctantly agreed to hold a beautiful ceremony, and set up a lottery five miles away from the south gate of Chengdu.
The road leads to the West Prince's Mansion, where the colorful pavilion and brocade pavilion look like a rainbow across the sky, blurring and dazzling.
He even named Chen's brother the uncle of the country and a bachelor of Hanlin.
But how could Mrs. Chen tolerate the vulgar old man Zhang Xianzhong? No matter how elegant the etiquette was, he couldn't please her, so Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to fight hard.
On the ninth day after the wedding, when Ms. Chen refused to go to bed with her again, Zhang Xianzhong scolded her directly, saying that you are acting like a filthy daughter, as if I owed you a debt in my previous life.
Come, drag this stinky woman out and strangle her to death, and kill all the uncle Diao Guo's family who was awarded Hanlin Bachelor's degree.
Chen Yan's family was wiped out.
After that, Zhang Xianzhong married three more queens. The first two were killed soon after angering him. Now this queen is very sensible and knows how to please Zhang Xianzhong. She is even quite satisfied with her status as queen and becomes powerful and blessed.
Unexpectedly, she was screaming again and again now. Could it be that Lao Wanzai was in a bad mood, so he killed the queen?
When Zhang Dingguo arrived, he found that the imperial tent was indeed filled with blood.
The rather pretty queen fell in a pool of blood, dead long ago.
And His Royal Highness, the young Crown Prince of Lao Wansui, also died tragically.
Old Long Live Zhang Xianzhong smelled of alcohol, his eyes were bare, and he was still hacking with a sword in his bare hands. Several concubines were lying on the ground.
"Long live the old man?"
Zhang Dingguo was also confused. Why did he even kill the prince?
Zhang Xianzhong is such a single seedling.
"Go to hell..." Zhang Xianzhong waved his sword, and Zhang Dingguo carefully grabbed it.
"Long live the old man, please calm down first, calm down."
Zhang Kewang and others also came after hearing the news.
Seeing the scene in this tent, they were all stunned.
Zhang Xianzhong had disheveled hair, smelled of alcohol, and his eyes were red, "Go to hell..."
"Long live the old man?"
After a while, Zhang Xianzhong regained some consciousness. He looked at the four eldest sons and the two prime ministers, and then looked at the prince and queen who were hacked to death by him.
"Fuck everyone, get me Bai Ling, I won't play anymore."
"When I die, you burn me, and then go down the mountain to surrender to the Tatars."
Zhang Dingguo felt sad and said, "Long live the old man!"
"Stop talking, the matter has reached this point and is hopeless. I think I, Zhang Xianzhong, can be regarded as a tycoon for a lifetime. I have dominated the world. Now I am not willing to fall into the hands of the Tatars, so I will end it myself."
"Had I known this, it would have been better to have agreed to Wen Anzhi and returned to Long'an to rest. At least you would have had a way out."
"Your Majesty, this is not the case." Everyone tried to persuade him.
Zhang Xianzhong, however, could no longer listen and went crazy.
Although everyone said that the situation has not yet reached its worst, everyone has already become desperate. Lao Wansui even killed his son, which shows that he has given up completely.
"Long live the old man, the Ming army is around and will come to rescue at any time. We still have hope!" Zhang Kewang persuaded.
"Ming army? I have been rebelling against the imperial court for more than ten years. Will the officers and soldiers help us? They would like to see the Tatars kill us all so that we can avoid future troubles. They don't even have to get their hands dirty. Why do they want to save us and watch the tigers from the mountain?
Wouldn't it be better to fight?" Zhang Xianzhong said disdainfully.
"They don't understand the meaning of death and coldness. They will definitely come to the rescue. Moreover, they also lent us food and roads before."
"Huh, that just makes us fight the Tatars."
Zhang Dingguo became anxious when he saw that he could not be persuaded. He shouted directly, "Since the left and right are just dead, why bother to commit suicide? Let's fight with the Tatars. Killing one will be enough, and killing two will earn one. Even if we die, we will die."
Being here is better than committing suicide.
I ask Lao Wansui to issue an order to bring out all the food in the camp so that the brothers can have a full meal. Then tonight, we will set fire to both sides of the southern and eastern sieges. At that time, we will pretend to attack the eastern siege and lure the captives to come to rescue. I will take the lead and dare to
The dead brothers attack the south. If the thieves cannot be saved, we will change the feint attack into a strong attack. If we can kill a bloody road, we will go downstream along the Han River. Hanyin and Xing'an are all clear, or we can retreat to the northwest, over there
There is Zhang Dapeng, a man who has formed a sworn relationship with me and is a very good person. You can stay away for a while and rest."
Zhang Kewang, Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu also knelt down and begged to fight to the death with the Tartars.
"Long live the old man and let the brothers fight to the death with the Tartars!"
"Fight!"
Seeing this scene, Zhang Xianzhong actually cheered up a little bit. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's fight with them. According to what Dingguo said, Dingguo led 10,000 people to lie in the south. It is expected that they can be astonishing and literary.
The three of them led ten thousand people to pretend to attack the eastern siege, and I personally led ten thousand people on the mountain. Wherever there is an opportunity, I will lead my army to kill them."
This hero in troubled times has aroused a ferocious fighting spirit, which is also very terrifying.
The 30,000 trapped soldiers were also aroused at this time.
All the last bits of food stored in the army were taken out.
Even the corpses that were killed and snatched back from the battle with the Tatars during the day were directly slaughtered and stewed in a big pot.
The fight between trapped beasts is very powerful.
These desperate Western troops gnashed their teeth and finished what might be their last meal, sharpening their knives before the battle, with the hope of death.
Night falls.
The Western troops who had slept for a long time during the day were all in high spirits. These people had a rare meal today and even added some "meat", so they were particularly energetic and their eyes were shining.
Zhang Xianzhong also put on armor and personally took command of the Chinese army.
"Let's do it!"
After giving the order, Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Dingguo each led 5,000 men and launched an attack on the two camps in the southeast at the same time. Without probing, they charged with all their strength from the beginning.
Aiming at the relatively weak fortress antlers, attack with all your strength.
Objects that could ignite the fire were also collected, and they were constantly thrown and set ablaze.
A shrill horn sounded.
The Qing army sounded the alarm at the same time and began to intercept.
It's just that today, the Western bandits' breakthrough was obviously more violent.
Within a moment, he felt very tired. The Qing generals on duty had to urgently wake up the coach Li Guohan, Ma Ke, Bai Guangen, Xu Yong, Zhang Yong, Ao Bai, Tun Qi, Han Dai and other Manchu and Han generals.
be awakened.
"It seems that the Western thieves are going to go all out. Move all the troops up and block them. Since they don't want to live anymore, let's deal with them tonight. Let them charge and kill them all."
Li Guohan said fiercely.
This battle has been going on for too long, and he has long since become tired of it.
However, this Western bandit was very capable of holding on and managed to hold on for so long without being defeated. This made the Qing army almost unable to hold on.
Especially when the Ming army began to press forward, he was secretly frightened. A group of Ming army troops came out of Jinniu Road, passed through Yinping Trail, detoured to Wuzhou, then took Qishan Road, and then arrived at Chengcheng County and Lueyang.
Enter Chen Cang Road.
After going around seven times and eight times, they finally got behind them. Not only did they cut off the Qishan and Chencang main roads connecting Guanzhong and Hanzhong, they might even be able to kill them behind them at any time.
In the lower reaches of the Han River, the Ming army defeated generals Wang Guangen and Bai Guangen in the Battle of Xing'an last year, and captured Xing'an. They continued to advance upstream, accumulating small victories into big victories, and successively captured Ziyang, Hanyin, Shiquan, and reached Ziwu.
town, constantly approaching Hanzhong Fucheng.
Now that the Qing army in Hanzhong is out of strength, it will be difficult to defeat Zhang Xianzhong. If the Ming army kills him again, they may have to make dumplings.
So actually Li Guohan was also very anxious, but he couldn't be anxious at the same time.
The Western bandits in Dingjun Mountain were surrounded, but they had defended for so long and built many fortifications. It was not easy to storm the mountain.
After Wu Sangui and others left, the Qing army did not have enough troops. If there were too many casualties, the network would be broken.
He could only hope that the Western bandits would run out of food soon, or that they would take the initiative to go down the mountain to break out of the siege, so that if they occupied the camp, they would have the advantage to kill the Western bandits and end the siege as soon as possible.
Li Guohan assigned generals Ma Ke, Bai Guang'en, Zhao Guangrui, Liu Fangming, and Ma Ning to guard the southern perimeter, Xu Yong, Zhang Yong, and himself to guard the eastern perimeter. Ao Bai still led an elite Eight Banners cavalry on standby to mobilize reinforcements at any time.
Once the battle started, it was extremely fierce.
After Zhang Nengqi took the lead in launching an attack on Dongwei with 5,000 troops, he followed them regardless of casualties. It didn't take long before hundreds of casualties were lost, but there was no sign of stopping.
Even soon Zhang Wenxiu led 5,000 people to fight out to follow.
Soon, Zhang Kewang also led 5,000 people to fight out.
In the eastern camp, the Western troops broke through several antlers and penetrated like sharp swords.
Those Western thieves were particularly fierce today, and many of them were desperate for their lives, regardless of casualties.
In a short period of time, several antlers of the Qing army were broken.
Generals Xu Yong and Zhang Yong, who were known to be brave and capable of fighting, could not withstand this wave of offensive. They quickly pressed the soldiers behind them, but they still could not suppress the Western offensive.
"You're all desperate for your life. With this skill, two or three thousand of the Western thieves will be dead. Why are you still rushing forward?"
"It is probably a last-ditch effort. I saw that several of the adopted sons of the traitor were rushing to the front with flags raised. In the past, they were supervising the formation at the back, but now they are leading the most elite servants, the old battalion, in the front. It looks like they are indeed
You have to fight hard and be careful, but don’t be careless and let them rush out and escape!"
Li Guohan kept a close eye on the battlefield, sending troops flying to and fro, gathering intelligence from everywhere.
In the dark night, there are shouts of killing everywhere, but they are never as clear as during the day.
This made Li Guohan think that the Western bandits were trying to break out from the east. Especially when another messenger came and said that Zhang Xianzhong's flag had appeared in front of Zhang Yong's position, Li Guohan couldn't sit still.
"The thief is trying to escape, block him."
"The Western bandits' attack is too fierce. They have broken through many fortifications. They can no longer withstand it. Please ask for reinforcements."
Li Guohan asked about the situation in Nanwei.
"There are also west bandits charging in the south, but they are not as fierce as in the east."
Li Guohan judged that the south was a feint attack and the east was the main attack.
"Hurry up and send an order to Bai Guangen, asking him to lead five thousand troops to reinforce the eastern siege. We must not let them escape. After such a long siege, we must not fail in our success!"
"be quick!"
The Tatars have more than 20,000 troops, with 10,000 each in the southeast and southeast, and Obai's motorized cavalry has several thousand more.
At this time, the 10,000 troops in the east were already somewhat unable to withstand them, especially since it was dark and they couldn't see clearly. They saw flames soaring into the sky, shouts of killing shook the sky, and even Zhang Xianzhong's banner and a man wearing gold were seen in the flames.
When Zhang Xianzhong from A appeared, everyone thought they were going to run away from the east.
