Chapter 6 Rewards
Seeing that Li Zicheng was dead, Liu Hongjian carried the AKM and turned around and ran into the city from the broken wall. Li Zicheng's personal soldiers were shocked and even forgot to pursue the assassin.
Li Zijing looked at his brother whom he was relying on to die at his feet in horror. He was scheming and timid, and fell off his horse with a broken heart. He looked around and shouted to kill the cannons overwhelmed the gunshots of AKM.
Except for the few soldiers who were close to him who saw the fire flashing under the city wall several times, almost no one noticed where the bullets were fired. Li Zijing was afraid that the mysterious assassin would fall in love with him, so he immediately set out to protect him from retreating. In his opinion, his brother and the leader of the uprising army were dead, so how could he fight this battle?
The city was in chaos and the peasant army, which had no discipline, could not receive the order from its superiors. They saw Li Zicheng's tragic death spear and ran backwards. When the others saw Li Zijing, who was supervising the battle, retreated first, and they all ran away.
Tian Jianxiu, who captured Dongbianmen, saw the abnormal situation in Zhengyangmen, hurriedly drove his horse to check the situation. He was also shocked to see the tragic situation of the leader of the rebel army, Li Zicheng.
"Who can tell me how the king died? Who can tell me?" Tian Jianxiu was the old brother of Li Zicheng who raised an army. He followed Li Zicheng to fight south and north more than ten years ago (oh, it can be said that he was hiding from all over the world). He was deeply trusted by Li Zicheng. At this time, he saw that the spiritual leader who had always died tragically on his horse, and his heart was suddenly broken.
"Who killed the king? I want to avenge him! Can anyone tell me where the assassin is?" Tian Jianxiu knelt under Li Zicheng's body and screamed loudly, but except for the dozens of people from his direct guard, the rest of the civilian army only ran back, and no one was blind to touch this bad head.
In the distance, Li Zijing was running away with the guards and hurriedly drove his horse to chase him.
"Li Zijing, who killed the king?" Tian Jianxiu was about to break his teeth, with tears in his eyes staring at Li Zijing fiercely, and Li Zijing felt a sense of fuzzy when he looked at him.
"Tian Jianxiu, my brother is dead. Before he died, I ordered me to take over the remaining troops of the rebel army. Now I order you to protect me back to the camp. Let me make the rest of the matter back to the camp and then make the long-term plan!"
Tian Jianxiu's personal soldiers carried Li Zicheng's body on the horse's back, revealing his head with only half of the back of his head. Li Zijing was frightened. He hid among the many guards and dared to stick his head out to scold Tian Jianxiu.
"General Li, the king was killed by a villain. Now the city gate has been broken. We should take advantage of the victory and avenge the King of Breaking!" As a subordinate, Tian Jianxiu was sad, but he still retained his rationality as a general.
"My brother is dead. Now the morale of the army is unstable, and the morale of the Ming army is greatly boosted, and the other is growing. To prevent accidents, we should retreat to the military camp and make plans for the long term! Let me say again, I order you to protect me and return to the military camp. Do you dare to disobey?" Although the discipline of the peasant army is not very good, it pays more attention to blood ties than the court. This uprising army was brought out by Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng has no son. In the concept of the civilian army, Li Zicheng died. His brother Li Zijing is naturally the new leader of this uprising army.
It was precisely because of this that Li Zijing was able to order Tian Jianxiu to openly.
Tian Jianxiu turned over and got off the horse, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to Li Zicheng's body.
"Mr. Chuangwang has the kindness of knowing me. He is dead, and I want to avenge the king!" Then he bowed to Li Zijing and led the dozens of brothers who followed him to rush towards the gap in the city gate.
In the wave of civilian troops running back, Tian Jianxiu's dozens of troops went upstream. Tian Jianxiu tore off a white cloth from her underwear around her waist, wrapped it around her head, and her eyes rushed straight towards Zhengyangmen.
However, Wang Chengen on the city wall naturally saw the abnormal situation under the city. The eunuch Wang, who was planning to jump to the city to sacrifice his life, immediately drove the only archers and shield soldiers to block the blown-up section of the city wall and the Zhengyang city gate.
On the 18th, Tian Jianxiu's army led people to attack Zhengyang Gate, and Wang Chengen led the remnants of the defenders to fight fiercely with Tian Jianxiu's army. Tian Jianxiu was extremely brave and fearless. She killed more than ten Ming troops in one breath, but she was outnumbered and died in her body. Dozens of arrows in her body were killed. Tian Jianxiu's dozens of guards were fighting hard and were eventually wiped out. The three days and three nights of Beijing offensive and defensive battle came to an end.
The words were divided, but the Emperor Chongzhen also said that he had never sleep all night. When Li Zicheng's cannon began to roar in the early morning of the 18th, Emperor Chongzhen, who learned the news, knew that the big thing was not good, so he ordered Wang Erxi to ring the bell in front of the palace to summon ministers to discuss matters, but no one came. Chongzhen was so angry that he smashed the exquisite teacup in his hand to pieces.
"All the ministers are wrong. The king dies in the country. Once the world is abandoned for 277 years, they will be misled by treacherous ministers. So much so that I am not the king of the country that has been destroyed, but all the ministers are the ministers of the country that has been destroyed! I hate... I hate..." After saying that, I vomited blood and fell to the ground!
It was dawn when Chongzhen woke up again, and there was no sound of shouting for killing outside the city. Chongzhen opened his eyes and saw that beside Wang Erxi, the admiral of the Beijing camp, Wang Chengen, also knelt in front of the Yu collapse, and Empress Zhou lay in front of the window and was already crying.
"Wang Cheng'en, since the thief army has broken the city, why don't you learn from those ministers to go there?" Emperor Chongzhen stared at the ceiling with his eyes blank and said helplessly. He was a failed emperor. Even though he was wearing patched imperial robe for the Ming Dynasty, even though he was only 34 years old and in his year of fighting, he was already gray in his temples.
No one knows how many sleepless nights he has experienced, no one knows that he has worked hard for the Ming Dynasty. How much he hopes that the stormy Ming Dynasty can revive in his hands.
"Emperor, the thief army has been repelled! The Ming Dynasty... The Ming Dynasty has been guarded!" Wang Chengen's face was gray, his old battle robe was covered with traces of being cut by a knife, and there were two shocking wounds on his legs. Blood flowed from his thighs to his knees, staining the spotless bedroom red.
"What? Keep it? Are you lying to me?" Chongzhen held the back of the bed with both hands tightly, and sat up in shock with his eyes wide open.
"Emperor, I dare not deceive the emperor. Beijing City is guarded, Beijing City is guarded!"
Then Wang Chengen told Chongzhen about the fierce battle last night. When talking about the mysterious man sniping Li Zicheng, he not only showed a horrifying look. Although he was not close to the city wall at that time, he clearly saw a fire flashing in the crack near Zhengyang Gate. Then a few deafening sounds came. Li Zicheng fell down and said that half of Li Zicheng's head was beaten away.
Emperor Chongzhen listened to Wang Chengen's narration blankly, and even said that when he fought against Tian Jianxiu at Zhengyang Sect, Chongzhen was already in a daze. Seeing that Chongzhen had no time to listen to his heroic deeds in fighting against Tian Jianxiu, Wang Chengen shut up and knelt on the ground without saying a word.
"Reward!" Emperor Chongzhen suddenly sat upright and his stiff body. Wang Erxi next to him immediately knelt down and drafted an order.
"Wang Chengen made great contributions to defending the city, promoted Wang Chengen's admiral of the Beijing Camp, and his annual salary was increased to 300 stones. He was given a gold medal and a python robe and jade belt!"
Chongzhen was known for his 17th year of dynasty, and he was actually a little wrong with Chongzhen. In his opinion, the ministers either disobeyed the matters he had in the past, or directly fought with him to the death, and called death advice. Nothing could be done well, so he naturally would not give the reward to these people.
Now that the Ming Dynasty is in crisis, the actions of those ministers are indeed extremely disappointing. On the other hand, the eunuch Wang Chengen, who has followed him for many years, was ordered to fight to the death and never retreat. Who would he reward him if he didn't?
"Reward!" Chongzhen shouted again, and Wang Erxi, who had planned to get up to write the order, immediately knelt down again.
Chapter completed!