Han Yuchang, the son of Xunhua Salar Tusi, has the same relationship with the Li family in Xining as Nuer Hachi, the son of the leader of the Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou, and the Li family in Tieling.

Among the Salar people, he was of noble birth and high status, but in front of the Li family in Xining, he was like a house slave.

And he was taken hostage since he was a child and sent to the Li family's mansion in Xining City, where he was raised by the Li family in Xining.

This is also a relatively common practice adopted by the generals who guarded the border areas in the Ming Dynasty to treat foreign families.

This is done in order to cultivate the heirs of those foreign tribes from an early age, and cultivate their loyalty and filial piety.

It stands to reason that people like this, such as Han Yuchang, should be grateful to the Xining Li family who raised him and promoted and reused him.

Even if you can't be grateful, at least you have to remember a little incense.

However, it turned out to be the opposite.

This Han Yuchang, like the slave Hachi who was treated as an adopted son by Li Chengliang back then, is a white-eyed wolf who turns his face and doesn't recognize people.

Although Han Yuchang won the trust of Li Hongsi, after leading the army to break through and return from failure, it also caused the dissatisfaction of Li Hongsi, Li Zhensheng and others.

Especially in the later battle to defend the city, Li Hongsi, Li Zhensheng and others received reports from some soldiers defending the city, saying that they were suspected of being lost in the formation of the bandit army outside the city, and participated in the siege of Xining City by the bandit army outside the city.

Therefore, soon after Han Yuchang returned from the failure to break through the city, he was shelved by Li Hongsi.

Han Yuchang was not allowed to participate in the defense of the four gates of Xining City, and only let him lead his men and horses to maintain the increasingly chaotic order in the city.

Although Li Hongsi had some doubts about Han Yuchang and his Salar people, in the absence of ironclad evidence, he could not dispose of his generals at such a critical moment just because of ineffective combat.

Just as ten return to nine horses, under the Xining guard, there are ten Sarah and nine Han.

The meaning is the same as that of ten Hui Hui Nine Horses, and ten Salar and nine Han are talking about the status of the Han family among the Xining Salar people.

Among the Salar people, almost all of the large and small positions of the local officials of the guards, such as the Thousand Households, the Deputy Thousand Households, the Hundred Households, and the General Banner, were in the hands of the Han family.

The most important thing is that after the local Huimusuman rebellion, Xiningwei was left with only the Salar cavalry, which was relatively strong.

Although the number of people is not very large, it can decide the outcome of a war at many critical times.

Under such circumstances, Han Yuchang and his Salar people, who have always been very loyal and reliable, whether it is Li Hongsi, who has strict military law, or Li Zhensheng, who is even stricter than Li Hongsi, cannot deal with Han Yuchang recklessly.

Therefore, in the month after Han Yuchang broke through and returned, although he made up his mind to surrender the city, he never had a chance.

By the end of February, food had been completely cut off from the city, and cannibalism was openly occurring in Xining.

Han Yuchang took the initiative to sacrifice the war horse of the Salar people, who had been regarded as his life for more than a year, to redeem Li Hongsi's trust.

At this time, the defense of the city for a month also caused heavy losses to the officers and soldiers in the city, and the Salar people were not allowed to participate in the defense of the city, which also caused the dissatisfaction of other soldiers defending the city.

In this way, on the first day of the third month, Li Hongsi transferred Han Yuchang back to his side, and at the same time, his Salar people were scattered among the various teams defending the city to participate in the defense of the city.

Li Hongsi's approach was already very thoughtful, but he never expected that this would strengthen Han Yuchang's determination to rebel.

On the night of March 2, Li Hongsi took a group of cronies and entourage to inspect the city defense and came to the south gate.

As a result, the defenseless Li Hongsi was stabbed in the abdomen several times on the spot, and died in the city before he could be carried down from the city for treatment by his cronies.

After Han Yuchang and his entourage assassinated Li Hongsi, they were immediately besieged by the officials and troops in the city who were in chaos for no apparent reason, but Han Yuchang himself, who had been prepared, fled from the city under the protection of several henchmen, and gathered the Salars guarding the south gate to open the city gate from the inside.

The already precarious situation in Xining has since taken a sharp turn for the worse.

Although Li Zhensheng, the leader of the regimental training in Xining City, guarded Xining City side by side with the commander Li Hongsi for more than a year, his prestige in the army was still far inferior to Li Hongsi, who was born in the Li family in Xining.

Therefore, the news of Li Hongsi's serious injury and death immediately caused chaos in the city.

That night, in the face of the surging army of thieves from the south gate, the officers and troops in Xining City quickly collapsed, and a large number of officers and soldiers who were originally defending the city turned against each other and joined the ranks of the thieves.

Soon the east gate of Xining City also

Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings who have always been bloodthirsty and murderous, naturally showed no mercy to Xining City, which had insisted on resisting for more than a month, and immediately issued an order to slaughter the city after following the men and horses of Han Yuchang and Han Chengen into the city.

And the originally low morale of the various departments of the Daxi Camp also rose in an instant.

In fact, even if Zhang Xianzhong did not give such an order, the various departments in the Daxi camp, which were already hungry and cold, would not be polite to the people in the city.

Although the soldiers and civilians in the city lost a lot in the month-long defense of the city, there were still more than 20,000 people, and in terms of numbers, it was still far more than the thief army that entered the city.

It's just that after more than a year of defending the city, the city has run out of bullets and food, and the people's hearts have been lost.

Not long after Li Hongsi was seriously injured and died, Li Zhensheng, who had always been strict in governing the army, was also killed by the township Yong Tuanlian who rebelled in the city, and Xining City completely lost the opportunity to resist.

The large-scale fighting and massacre in the city continued until noon on March 3, when it came to an end.

The search and killing carried out by the teams under the command of Zhang Xianzhong, Lin Yangyang, Han Yuchang and others continued until three days later.

The Li family's mansion in Xining became the mansion of Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, and the Li clan in the original mansion was killed by the Salar led by Han Yuchang and Han Chengen's brothers.

More than 100 men, women, and children, including Li Hongsi's younger brothers, Li Hongyuan and Li Hongzuo, were all killed.

More than 60 members of Li Zhensheng's family, who also presided over the defense of the city, were also found by the defective township warrior regiment and beheaded in public, and made a petition for the surrender of the township warrior army to the thief army.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered the city for a few days and nights, Xining City soon became like hell.

Originally, there were 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and civilians who had held the city for more than a year, but by this time, most of them had become lonely ghosts and ghosts in the wilderness of Hehuang, some died of defending the city, some died of starvation, and most of the rest died of this massacre.

Only a very small part, at the last moment, chiseled open the east gate that had been sealed before, crossed the mountains and mountains to the east, and finally escaped from Shengtian, and spread the news of the destruction of Xining City to the east.

By the time this news was passed through the hands of Li Banghua and others to the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, Xining City was already calm.

Although there have been no edible things such as grain and livestock in Xining City for a long time, there are still a large amount of gold and silver in the Li family's mansion in Xining City.

Now, the considerable amount of gold and silver wealth accumulated by the Li family's Shizhen Xining for hundreds of years can be regarded as falling into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong.

And after entering the city, the thieves who slaughtered and looted everywhere in the Daxi Camp were the same, although they did not grab the scarce military rations, but they grabbed what they dreamed of before, a group of silver hidden in the people and groups of hidden women.

After the Daxi camp lost Lintao, the morale that was close to collapse several times because of the non-stop and hasty flight to the west all the way, after this massacre, it also quickly recovered.

"Luo Rucai, this bastard! Lao Tzu saved him Cao Ying several times! Unexpectedly, in the end, it was he Luo Rucai who was the first to betray Lao Tzu! Sooner or later, one day, Lao Tzu will call him Luo Rucai to regret not being at the beginning!

"Now Lao Tzu has God's care, lost Lintao, and got Xining, which is called a blessing in disguise! Daxiying, Daxiying, now that Xining has been obtained, Lao Tzu can be regarded as worthy of the name! Hahahaha! ”

Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings who were quite complacent after winning Xining, gathered all the leaders of his subordinates on this day to discuss matters.

The place of discussion is in the front yard of the Li family's mansion, and this place is also the former Xining Wei Command Envoy Yamen.

Han Yuchang, the deputy Qianhu of the Salar Tusi appointed by the Li family in the past, was exactly the same as before Xining City changed hands, and he still sat in the second position on his left hand as always, listening to the Eight Great Wang Zhi, who was not a few years older than him, laughing proudly in a complicated mood.