Chapter 185: Escape
Li Zicheng hurriedly turned around and rushed to the city wall, there were indeed soldiers and horses coming outside, but the number was still not too much, only a few hundred cavalry, and soon these people arrived at the city, led by a general to rush forward, Li Shuangxi, who was standing next to Li Zicheng, looked at him and immediately shouted in surprise: "Your Majesty, it's General Hao." ”
"Open the door!"
Li Zicheng immediately shouted.
Hao Shaoqi is a general who can gain his trust, even more than Liu Zongmin, otherwise he would not have been sent to Liu Zongmin's subordinates as a general, and his hundreds of cavalry can be regarded as a living force, and he can also know what happened to Liu Zongmin's department.
That's enough.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the last general is incompetent, and the last general deserves death!"
As soon as Hao Shaoqi entered the city, he lay at Li Zicheng's feet and cried, Hao Shaoqi used to be a very glorious figure, and he had a pivotal position under Li Zicheng.
To use a very inappropriate analogy, if Li Zicheng is compared to Liu Bei, then Liu Zongmin is Guan Yu, and Hao Shaoqi is Zhang Fei.
Of course, this analogy is inappropriate, but no matter what, from this analogy, it can be known that Hao Shaoqi is a very important general in Li Zicheng's camp, and in Li Chuang's army, he is listed as one of Li Zicheng's five tiger generals along with Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu, and Gao Yigong.
Hao Shaoqi is not only a fierce general under Li Zicheng, but also shines after Li Zicheng's death, and even can be called a famous person in history, leaving footprints in the late Ming Dynasty.
Hao Shaoqi was the old king Gao Yingxiang personally raised up the fierce general, in a battle, Li Chuangjun in the Ming army under the siege of heavy casualties, the position shaken, Hao Shaoqi was angry, the tiger's eyes were round, snatched the flag of the flag officer next to the king of Chuang, the word "Chuang" word flag, waved the flag and shouted, regardless of his body, rushed into the official army.
In this way, the morale of the righteous army quickly stabilized, and they rushed forward with him, and immediately reversed the situation on the battlefield, killing the officers and soldiers to the ground, and the nickname of "Hao Shaoqi" resounded throughout the army from then on.
After the death of Gao Yingxiang, the king of Lao Chuang, the power was taken over by Li Zicheng, Hao Shaoqi was rude, and like Zhang Fei, he was as good at drinking and greedy as cups, and repeatedly made mistakes, Li Zicheng did not dare to entrust him with a big responsibility, so he was appointed as the flag officer.
And when the righteous army was trapped in the southern plains of Tongguan, Hao Shaoqi learned from the famous generals in ancient times in order to break through lightly, and wanted to kill his wife.
Li Zicheng mostly uses him as a fierce general who charges into battle, with a high position, but his authority is not heavy.
This time, after Liu Zongmin lost the enemy army, Hao Shaoqi really did not make the right choice, first divided the soldiers and horses in the army into the old battalion and the new annexed army, the new annexed army is those Ming army generals who surrendered to the army, and used these people as cannon fodder in a vain attempt to attack Jizhen, but he is naturally not Zhang Shixian's opponent, even if the soldiers and horses are better than the number of soldiers and horses in Jizhen, but it is only after a day of fighting, he was lured by Zhang Shize to surrender those Ming troops and generals, and with a counterattack, his soldiers and horses were crushed for thousands of miles, and now he has escaped the difficult pursuit.
"Let's get up first, it's me who didn't use people properly!"
Li Zicheng helped him up at this time and said.
If this had sent the military advisor to assist Liu Zongmin, or let Li Guo or Gao Yigong or others attack Jizhen, he would not have come to this point, but there is no regret medicine to take.
"Your Majesty, where are you going to make a tour?"
Liu Fangliang prepared the soldiers and horses in the city at this time, came up and asked, now there are about 1,000 people, and more than 300 cavalry, which can almost escort the safety.
"General Hao came just in time, you should go to Zezhou with me immediately, it is estimated that the Ming army has arrived at this time, and then defend Zezhou first, gather the soldiers and horses, and then see the opportunity to counterattack."
Li Zicheng said that he still didn't want to give up the Daming Jingshi at his fingertips, but he didn't know that the world was fighting for the dragon, and the changes in the current situation were actually in just one or two years, and the past two years were critical moments.
If Li Zicheng can defeat the Ming Jingshi, then naturally the current situation in the world is naturally him, if he can't beat it, he can compete with the Ming Dynasty in this area, if it is entangled for two or three years, then the world belongs to someone else.
Zezhou is a good place, since ancient times for the soldiers to fight for the place, known as "Hedong Pinghan, the throat of the Central Plains, the gateway of the three Jin" reputation, Li Zicheng vainly tried to retreat here, regroup, naturally also has a strategic vision.
However, this is also really afraid of death, and it is actually closer to the west, but Li Zicheng is afraid that the Ming army has already chased to the west at this time, and can only go south, and the time to fight down in the south is actually longer, and there is no need to think about anything along the way, just need to go directly to thousands of miles away.
"The Last General."
The few remaining generals were busy saying at this time, Song Xiance and Gu Junen were already missing at this time, and they were in a hurry, and there were no Wenchen under Li Zicheng, and only these generals were left.
At this time, with the nearly 300 cavalry brought by Hao Shaoqi, more than 100 cavalry from Baoding, and more than 20 remaining guards from Li Zicheng, so that a total of almost 500 cavalry, plus hundreds of infantry, Liu Fangliang, who commanded the troops, Hao Shaoqi, the striker, and Li Shuangxi, the general of the army, left Baoxiang and went straight to Zezhou.
They knew very well that after the pursuing Ming army ran back, the Ming army's army would soon arrive, in fact, Hao Shaoqi bumped into the remnants of the defeated Ming army, and only after arresting a person and interrogating him did he know that Li Zicheng had run out, but he also wanted to come to Baoding to defect to Liu Fangliang.
As for how the capital is, in fact, after the rout, they no longer dare to go over there, which can be regarded as an escape, at this time the soldiers and horses in the capital are going around to catch the thieves, Yang Yi allowed those soldiers to make meritorious contributions, but all the generals were beheaded, and most of the soldiers were handed over to Xungui to take out to pursue the thief army.
At this time, Wang Chengen had been ordered to take more than 10,000 troops to Shanxi to appease, not only his way, but also Yang Yi sent people from all directions in the east, west, south and north.
The soldiers from all walks of life in the capital and around were all taken back by Yang Yi, and Yang Yi was also afraid that at this moment, she would capsize again, and she had already done this, at this time, she only needed to ask for stability, and after ten days, the world would collapse and turn into her own power of faith.
This is her pursuit, otherwise why gamble with fate, although this illusory world has no concept of time, even if it has been thousands of years, it is an instant in the outside world, but it takes a lot of mental effort.
One hundred levels, this first level copy is ordinary, and it also takes a month, this concept of time on the soul is not counting the power of faith that fate has not bet on and regulating, it is enough for several years, plus the power of faith that has not been invested in the hands of fate, it is definitely more than twenty years, although it has no impact on the outside world, but the soul is going to age for these twenty years.
This cost can't be without gains, Yang Yi also needs to adjust his behavior, so that the power of faith in the hands of fate is wasted as soon as possible, and the next level will definitely not be this ordinary and easy.
Send all the eunuchs who have been brainwashed by themselves as the prison army, and the nobles will be the main generals, all of them will go to subdue the lost city and hunt down the remnants of Li Zicheng, at least Li Zicheng will not be able to have a chance to return to the sky.
The treacherous and cunning Li Zicheng actually knew very well that no one dared to trust him at this time, including the generals around him, so he didn't stop in Baoding and went straight to Zezhou.
As for Li Shuangxi wanting to get him some Son of Heaven honor guard or something, Li Zicheng refused, at this time, he dared to talk about what kind of pomp, this is the time to escape.
"I can still fight on the battlefield, I was able to start from scratch back then, and now the family business is at least much stronger than a few years ago, right?"
Li Zicheng said very confidently, compared to a few years ago, it is naturally much stronger, and even at this time, if you count the population on the territory alone, in fact, he is still the No. 1 anti-king of Tianzi, and he surpasses the Dongnu people in Liaodong, Liaodong is also a lot of land, but that bit of land is nothing.
But only a day later, he was already sitting in a carriage, because of yesterday's trauma, which caused him to suddenly fall into a coma this morning, surrounded by a temporary capture of a Jianghu Lang Zhong carefully served, there were a large number of cavalry guards in front of and behind the carriage, and it was a bit of a public opinion, in fact, at this time his subordinates were still reliable, at least before the enemy army arrived, they were still able to show enough loyalty to Li Zicheng, after all, Dashun was also a founding system!
If you want to say how loyal Liu Fangliang, Hao Shaoqi and others really are, this is not necessarily, how majestic can Li Zicheng be a grass coward, the current appearance of the Dashun Dynasty is actually much worse than a joke, but there is still a hope, if it is safe to go to Zezhou all the way, it is good to say, if not, it is completely possible for them to tie up Li Zicheng and surrender, and how many of these cavalrymen will fight for Li Zicheng at that time?
At night, when he was camping and resting, Liu Fangliang thought about it, then found Li Zicheng and said:
"Your Majesty, there will be a plan to play out."
Li Zicheng said dizzily at this time: "Say it." ”
He felt a little at the end of the road, but he was unwilling, thinking that there was still a big industry in the northwest.
"Your Majesty, at present, the closest Ming army to the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Division is none other than Liu Zeqing's department, but Liu Zeqing is also thousands of miles away, according to the current intelligence, although the Ming army in Liaodong is only a few hundred miles away from the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Division, it has never sent troops.
The time we have been here is not short, even if we add the message transmission time, it is enough for the Ming army in Liaodong to go back and forth a few times, I am afraid that Wu Sangui and the others may not be loyal.
Liu Zeqing's strength is also limited, the last general expected that the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty within three months may be hopeless, the strength of the Ming Jing Division is quite limited, the last general thinks, at this time, you might as well take advantage of the elite of the Ming army to pursue us, we might as well collect the departments, if there are ten thousand five, they will drive straight into the Ming Jing Division, when the Ming Jing Division can be captured. ”
Although Li Zicheng was groggy, he also felt that Liu Fangliang's advice at this time had a good chance of winning, but he was still a little uncertain.
"Then what if the Ming army from Liaodong comes to help this time?"
"Then let the Dongnu people go south, and we will promise a lot of profits to make them attack the Ming army in Liaodong."
"What if the Donnu and Mongols take a detour?"
"A little bit of thieves, but they contain the Ming army of all departments."
"What if the Dongnu people occupy the Ming Jingshi and don't leave?"
Li Zicheng thought about it and said again.
"Your Majesty, I can't take care of these at this time, and if it doesn't leave, then just wait for the army to gather in the world, nothing more than to expel it again, the Dongnu people are at most just looting, it's not a big deal, at that time, the Ming Dynasty has lost the Beijing Division, and His Majesty has to sit in this world."
Liu Fangliang said at this time.
"What if the Dongnu people were bribed by Chongzhen?"
Li Zicheng said.
"Your Majesty, we have taken Guanzhong Shanxi, and if we get Zhili, half of the world will be owned by it, and if we don't advance at this time, we will retreat, and the grand cause will be empty in a blink of an eye."
Liu Fangliang is after thinking about it, he feels that there is really no future now, and he regrets yesterday's impulsive move, yesterday he did let a team of cavalry of the Ming army enter the city, and the eunuch contacted various families in the city, he was treated as a prisoner, quite humiliated, and then he did not do it again.
He was embarrassed to say that it was like this now, so he just broke the jar and broke it, anyway, it was a knife to stretch his neck and shrink his neck, so he simply went out and gambled.
It's best to turn him upside down, after all, it's too late to regret it now, today and one day, the gates of all the cities passing by are closed, and even some cities dare to shoot arrows, you know, these are the cities that have been defeated.
It has been repeated in such a short period of time, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached the time of the death of the country, this point is not for him to think of a way, he still doesn't want to die, at least he doesn't want to die so simply.
At this time, of course, running south for your life is actually suicide, the county town along the way has been repeated, Zezhou can have some hope, the Ming Dynasty is estimated to be the loss of land, and now the road they are taking seems to be a dead end, and there are not many ways to survive......
The method he is thinking about now is theoretically feasible, although he still doesn't know that the army of the Dongnu people has set off and is ready to capture Shanhaiguan, which is also the reason why Wu Sangui did not dare to come to the south.
In the bitter cold land of Liaodong, the families of the Ming army who were plundered away were basically used as slaves of the Dongnu people, half of them were killed and injured in a year, and after two years, they were frozen and hungry, and basically there was no one in ten.
Wu Sangui did not have any objection at this time, at most he was a warlord, but when the situation in the world was like this, Yang Yi actually didn't want to deal with him, and after receiving the battle report from Jizhen, he immediately sent a eunuch army to escort tens of thousands of taels of military salaries and prepare some grain and grass materials from Jizhen and bring a holy decree to appease Wu Sangui.
Around the Beijing Division, after the ban was lifted, it was basically carrier pigeons flying all over the sky, Yang Yi released part of the ban in the capital, and also let those big families, if they did something wrong, quickly repent, and this part of the people naturally joined the force of chasing and killing Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng's escape route was also quickly noticed, after all, Li Chuangjun's organizational strength was actually not very good, and there were not many people who could gather thousands of people at this time.