Chapter 230: Three Arrows
"King Chuang, King Chuang!"
The surrounding generals were shocked one by one, and hurriedly helped King Chuang up.
The current government has collapsed, and there is no way to be in Zhigong, so everyone can only temporarily arrange the camp of King Chuang in the command yamen and call the military doctor to treat Li Zicheng.
"Li Guo, Li Guo......"
Li Zicheng's heart is like a knife, he has just taken Nanyang Mansion, and he hasn't been happy yet, Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi are already dead! Lose two of your generals in a row!
"Someone, send an order, behead all the people who were in the government at that time, and all the officials and officials in the government will be beaten to death with sticks, and no one will be left!"
Li Zicheng let out a hysterical roar as if he was crazy.
"Break the king, break the king, calm down, calm down!"
On the side, Li Yan persuaded again and again, although Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi died, which was heart-wrenching, but they must not anger others because of this matter, if this spreads, it will not be beneficial to the reputation of King Chuang, then wouldn't he become a demon king who loves to kill indiscriminately?
"Shut up!"
Li Zicheng was furious and shouted: "I absolutely can't let Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi die in vain!" The order will be executed immediately, and all the people in the guards and the government will be killed! ”
Someone had already run out to give orders, and the unlucky 100 guards and officials were all executed by the intruding army, and the unlucky officials were beaten into pulp by sticks!
Li Zicheng in the rage has no intention of turning a blind eye, Li Yan and other important generals have to arrange for the army to take over the city defense of Nanyang Mansion, and at the same time post notices to appease the people, at this time, only to find that the entire Nanyang City, has already been panicked, the streets are full of sick people, and the valuable things that can be taken away were swept away by the Ming army, all taken away!
A day later, Li Zicheng woke up from his grief and convened the generals to discuss the matter.
"Damn Sun Chuanting, Lao Tzu is inseparable from you!"
Li Zicheng hated himself and focused all his anger on Sun Chuanting.
"King Chuang, I thought we should not stay for a long time, we should take advantage of the victory to continue to advance towards the territory of Henan, and go straight to Kaifeng Mansion, as long as we occupy the entire Henan, then we will occupy the complete initiative, and the next day is completely in our bag!"
Li Yan said in a deep voice.
Li Zicheng nodded and replied: "Yes, not only do I want to take the whole of Henan, but Lao Tzu also wants to capture Sun Chuantingsheng alive, and then kill Ling Chi to relieve the hatred in my heart!" ”
Li Yan opened his mouth, and the words behind him were not said after all, and Sun Chuanting was cut to death? As for it? You must know that Sun Chuanting is both civil and military, that is a rare talent in the Ming Dynasty, Wen Ke can put pen to peace in the world, Wu Ke can go to Ma Dingkun, where to find such a character? The best thing is to take it under its umbrella, with Sun Chuanting, the career of King Chuang will be like a tiger!
However, the current King Chuang was completely blinded by hatred, and he wanted to cut Sun Chuanting with a thousand knives, wouldn't that push all the officials and gentry in the world into the arms of the imperial court? It's just more than worth the loss!
However, now Li Zicheng's anger has burned the top beam door, where can he still listen to opinions? Even Li Yan's words will definitely not change Li Zicheng's mind, so he can only persuade him in the future.
"King Chuang, I thought that we were still divided into two routes, one way General Liu Zongmin led the way along the eastern front all the way to the north, we led the army along the western front all the way to the north, now Sun Chuanting has been defeated, the whole of Henan has no troops to fight with us, the two armies advance at the same time, can complete the occupation of Henan in the shortest possible time! After occupying Henan, it was all the way into Shanxi, all the way through the Daimyo's Mansion to the hinterland of the Beijing Division, and in the end, the troops gathered in Beijing City, and Beijing City can definitely go down with one drum! ”
Song Xiance on the side said in a low voice.
"Not bad!"
Li Zicheng said hatefully: "Immediately give Liu Zongmin an order, let him lead the army from Runing straight to Xuchang, the army is approaching Kaifeng Mansion, Liu Fangliang, leading 60,000 troops, set off from Nanyang all the way west to Luoyang, after taking Luoyang, cross Mengjin in the north, go straight into Shanxi, and attack Beijing City from Shanxi!" Yuan Zongdi, you follow me to lead an army of 60,000 from Nanyang to Xiangcheng, we must bite Sun Chuanting tightly and capture him alive! Tomorrow, the army will attack immediately! ”
After only a two-day delay in Nanyang Mansion, Li Zicheng immediately issued an order to pursue Sun Chuanting.
Two days is not a short time, in normal times, the army naturally has no possibility of catching up with Sun Chuanting's army, but this time is different, in two days, Sun Chuanting's army also did not run far.
Not only Sun Chuanting, but even Zhu Jie underestimated the huge impact of the plague on the Qin army, the 100,000 Qin army except for those who died in battle and absconded, the main force of the Ming army was only 60,000, but among these 60,000 people, nearly 20,000 people were suffering from the plague and were seriously ill, and there were many grains and herbs to act with the army, where to run fast? What's more, there are still a large number of artillery in the army, which affects the speed of action of the Ming army even more.
Li Zicheng is different, in order to capture the entire Henan as soon as possible and capture Sun Chuanting alive, the army rushed all the way and chased after him from behind!
On the third day, he occupied Fangcheng, on the fifth day, he occupied Lushan, and on the eighth day, Li Zicheng's army pointed directly at Xiangcheng, and the most important thing is that with the advancement, along the way, Li Zicheng even the Ming army plus the common people, and collected 30,000 people in one go, all of them were incorporated into the camp of exiles, which is the tactic that Li Zicheng is most accustomed to!
With 30,000 homeless people as a shield, the main force of the army can be on the battlefield to reduce their losses as much as possible, and 30,000 homeless people are enough to stand on the battlefield and consume a lot of the Ming army's sharp energy.
At this time, Sun Chuanting's army had just arrived in Xiangcheng.
Sun Chuanting was chased too miserably, and in order to speed up the march, he even had to give up some of the grain and grass, but even so, he still couldn't run past the advance of the invading army, and Gao Ruli, who ran at the rear, was unlucky this time, and was caught up by Li Zicheng's cavalry, and was bitten hard in the back.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Ruli took the lead in escaping, throwing behind the nearly 10,000 main forces under his command, without the main general, the unfortunate Qin army's right army camp was beaten by the breaking army, and was defeated, and only 3,000 people fled into Xiangcheng!
As soon as Sun Chuanting rested, the scout ran in, "Lord Qiyu, the rear army camp of Lord Gao Ruli behind us was pursued by the intruding army, Lord Gao Ruli escaped from the battle, and put the rear army camp in disregard, but was defeated by the thieves in one fell swoop, and only about 3,000 people retreated into Xiangcheng!" ”