Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

Several Rangers were chasing after these deserters. I don't care how good your escape skills are. Can your warhorse be turbocharged? Even if you have a blown cylinder like the AE86, you can't beat me climbing a tree and running.

Thousands of cavalry formed a dense triangular charge formation and charged forward again. The heavy sound of horse hooves and roaring engines seemed to cause the hillside where the Shun army's flag was located to collapse!

Zehou Tian Jianxiu, a Confucian general of the Dashun Army who was fond of Buddhism, was standing there blankly, watching the Dashun Army in panic. He truly experienced what it meant to be defeated like a landslide.

He composed himself, lifted his red cloak, mounted his horse and prepared to head north back to the capital. Suddenly, his body shook and he felt a chill in his chest as a bullet pierced through him from behind.

Tian Jianxiu covered his chest, galloped a dozen steps on his horse, and fell off the horse with a loud bang.

His body twitched slightly, and in his last consciousness, the ground rumbled, and a huge steel monster stepped past him. The volunteers, still in strict formation, followed the monster and advanced slowly, stepping on the blood on the ground and passing by him...

Military officer Song Xiance followed closely behind, and a stray bullet happened to pierce his head directly. This old charlatan who had been fortune-telling for his entire life finally died in an accident.

Liu Zongmin was the most unlucky one. This nemesis of intellectuals was targeted by AA-02 on his way to escape. Because of his bright armor, it allowed AA- to distinguish him from the other enemies around him at a glance. AA- raised his hand and fired a shot at him. Poor Liu Zongmin had great horse skills and ran left and right in the crowd. As a result, he and his horse were blown into a ball of dust in an instant.

The volunteer soldiers followed behind the mecha, and when they saw someone still alive on the ground, they would go up and stab them with bayonets. Seeing this, a large number of Shun army soldiers knelt down and surrendered.

The wide river was now a sea of ​​red, with bodies of Shun soldiers floating everywhere on the river, as well as some scattered wooden planks and other objects, which were obviously caused by the floating bridge being sunk by the army.

On the river bank, surrendering Shun troops were squatting everywhere. They looked at the armored army that had surrounded them with horror, fearing that the volunteers would shoot them.

Li Zicheng fled northward, and the patrolmen in the rear and the dragoons led by the 191st were chasing him. The enemy could not get far.

There were no less than 100,000 Shun troops who surrendered. The number of Shun troops killed in this battle cannot be counted for the time being, but hundreds of Shun generals were killed, such as Ze Hou Tian Jianxiu, Ru Hou Liu Zongmin, Bo Hou Li Guo, Mian Hou Yuan Zongdi, Qi Hou He Zhen, and Guangshan Earl Liu Tichun.

Marquis Ci Liu Fangliang and others were captured, and military advisor Song Xiance was shot in the head. It can be said that 70% of those who were granted titles by the pseudo-Shun court were finished off in this battle.

Looking at the dense crowds of surrendered Shun soldiers beside the Yishui River, Cai Liangzhe, the general person in charge of this operation, thought for a moment and began to issue orders: "Set up a temporary camp by the river and keep all these prisoners together for detention until they are arranged for reform after the war. When the time comes, ask the master to give them a place to go."

If nothing unexpected happens, these guys will either do civil engineering work or carry hoes to reclaim wasteland and work like oxen and horses. Of course, I don't mean to imply that all of you civil engineering guys are oxen and horses, because there is no need to imply that.

Afterwards, Cai Liangzhe issued a series of orders: "Order to continue to pursue Li Zicheng and make sure to capture him, dead or alive!"

"Clear out the remaining bandits in Shandong, those who refuse to surrender, and encircle and destroy them with all our might, leaving them with nowhere to go!"

"Please ask sir to transfer a group of intellectuals to Shandong to take over the administrative work and recruit a group of temporary administrators to appease the people..."

Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong.

Dongchang City was first built in the third year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was originally an earthen city. It was covered with bricks in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. The city wall has a circumference of seven miles, is nearly twelve meters high, and has a foundation thickness of nearly twelve meters.

Dongchang City is also called Phoenix City. Its inner walls are built with rammed earth and its outer walls are built with bricks and stones. During the Wanli period, more than 2,700 battlements and 27 watchtowers were built on the city walls.

Most importantly, Dongchang City is surrounded by water! Located in the vast Dongchang Lake, it is a city completely in the lake. The city is tall and solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is said to be "the Phoenix City that can be captured without losing".

On the Wangyue Tower in the northeast corner of the city, Shandong General Liu Zeqing was entertaining his friends. A head with a scholar's hairstyle was placed on the table.

Before, when fighting a decisive battle with Li Zicheng, Liu Zeqing was the first to flee, causing the Ming army of more than 100,000 to collapse and be defeated. Han Ruyu, the military official, once wrote a letter to impeach Liu Zeqing, He Renlong and other generals for harming the country.

Liu Zeqing is a vicious and cruel person who will never let go of any grudge and has been holding this grudge ever since.

Not long ago, he happened to learn that Han Ruyu was preparing to go south through Dongchang, so he immediately sent someone to kill him and took his head to eat with his wine.

After surrendering to the Dashun regime, Liu Zeqing was granted the title of Earl of Dongping. He lived a very happy life, spending his days in debauchery and drunkenness. His swollen old face was enough to show that his kidneys were in very bad condition.

"These days are so happy. It's not in vain that I joined the King of Rebellion!"

Liu Zeqing held the wine glass in his left hand, hugged the beautiful prostitute and servant with his right hand and laughed out loud. He felt light all over, as if he was in heaven. This was because he had followed King Chuang. He couldn't do this or that with that basket Chongzhen, so he could only use monkeys to entertain himself. How comfortable is it now?

His deputy general Zheng Longfang hesitated and said, "My Lord, the Dashun Army and the Jiang thief should be in a decisive battle. If we don't help now, will the King of Chuang blame us in the future?"

Liu Zeqing said nonchalantly: "What are you afraid of? I have nothing to do with them. Besides, they have 500,000 against 30,000. How can we not win? I'm just afraid that if we go, they will think we are vying for credit..."

Zheng Longfang nodded and thought to himself, that's right, let alone hundreds of thousands of people, even if it were four or five hundred thousand pigs, they would be able to defeat a mere few tens of thousands of Jiang's bandits.

At this time, a personal soldier ran in and reported: "My Lord, the Emperor of Dashun sent someone to deliver a military order, asking you to lead the troops out of the city immediately to stop the enemy army."

Liu Zeqing lay in the beauty's arms, talking in his sleep, mumbling: "Stop... stop what bandit army? Where are the bandit armies? Isn't Li Zicheng a bandit army? Can you speak human language?"

"The Dashun army was defeated, and the rebel army is chasing the Dashun emperor..."

"What? Lost?"

Liu Zeqing suddenly woke up. He hurriedly climbed to the top floor of Wangyue Tower and looked at the wilderness outside Dongchang Lake.

Sure enough, a cloud of dust rose in the distance, and a horse team hurried northward. Behind the smoke and dust, there was an even larger cavalry army. The red flame flag was looming, and it was the elite cavalry led by 191!

Liu Zeqing's flushed face gradually turned pale, and when he blinked his eyes his face turned pale, and he became a little dazed.

He murmured: "How could it be... How could the Dashun Army be defeated so quickly..."

I heard that the battlefield was in Qufu, and Dongchang is nearly 400 miles away. Was King Chuang being chased all the way from there?

Thinking of this, Liu Zeqing shuddered, and something in his DNA began to awaken, and he staggered away.

Deputy General Zheng Longfang said, "My Lord, we can't run away. Dongchang is our base, we can't just throw it away. The Jiang bandits are only a few thousand men chasing us. I request your permission to lead the troops to intercept them!"

Liu Zeqing hesitated for a moment and said, "Then...you go and try..."

"The general will get the order!"

Zheng Longfang clasped his fists and immediately gathered his troops to teach the invading Jiang bandits a lesson. He had just taken office as deputy general and had not yet been beaten by society, so he was still very ambitious.

However, his ambition does not mean that everyone else has the same ambition. While everyone was playing mahjong in the camp, they were notified to go to the front line to fight. A group of cursing and procrastinating soldiers kept gathering at the west gate and began to form a battle formation.

However, while they were still posing slowly, 191 had already led the cavalry to attack them.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and thousands of cavalrymen came rushing in like a tide. The dust in the sky was like a raging sandstorm, spreading towards this side in an overwhelming manner.

Liu Zeqing on the Wangyue Tower saw with horror that the thief Jiang's cavalry, like an angry red dragon, rushed into the sparse army formation of Dongchang soldiers with unstoppable momentum in an instant and broke them into pieces.

From the formation of more than 10,000 Dongchang soldiers, only some sporadic sounds of musketry and some flying arrows were heard, and they collapsed after just one encounter.

From afar, there were a lot of screams and howls. The Dongchang soldiers' formation was arranged neatly like plowed ground, and the ground was covered with bloody things.

The remaining soldiers desperately ran towards the city. The deputy general Zheng Longfang, who had just volunteered to fight, had long disappeared. No one knew whether he had been trampled into a pulp by the horses.

Liu Zeqing's face was as pale as paper, and his body was trembling. He was sobered up by the shock. He shouted to the stunned general beside him: "Hurry up and prepare your horses to run for your lives!"

As the world's best escaper, Liu Zeqing had plenty of tools for escaping. He kept many war horses. No matter where he was, there was always at least one war horse ready within thirty steps! It was comparable to Batman's Batmobile. Of course, his parents did not walk alone in the dark alley.

Even though he was drunk, Liu Zeqing, who had mastered the skill of running, still climbed onto the horse with extremely skillful and graceful movements. With a flick of the whip, man and horse immediately became one, and they took off and disappeared in an instant.

"Uncle is heading to the north gate!"

Liu Zeqing's personal guards searched for a long time before they determined his direction from the raised dust and immediately followed him.

Outside Dongchang City, 191 led thousands of Longwu soldiers to charge forward, hacking and killing people, and the sound of screams and fleeing filled the air.

At the west gate of Dongchang City, countless Dongchang soldiers wearing "Shun" uniforms rushed to the city gate. All of them were crowded together, slashing at each other, and many were pushed into the nearby Dongchang Lake.

Dongchang City is surrounded by lakes, and there are only four long bridges leading to the other side in the directions of the four city gates. The bridges are only ten meters wide and can not accommodate many people, so they are soon crowded with people.

In front of the west gate, more and more Dongchang soldiers were defeated, all running madly to get into the city to escape the pursuit of the Longwu Army.

The bridge was filled with shouts and roars in various Shandong accents, and it was so crowded that no one knew that the volunteers behind them were not chasing them at all.

191 had a clear goal. After defeating the mob that was blocking his way, he immediately led his troops northward to continue chasing Li Zicheng.

Firstly, Li Zicheng is a big fish, and he is also the target that the commander had ordered her to pay special attention to. This man can turn 17 cards into , which shows that he has certain abilities. Such a talent must be crushed to ashes to prevent future troubles.

Secondly, Liu Zeqing’s soldiers are so damn good at running that their two legs can actually run faster than four-legged war horses!

You have to know that the volunteers are all wearing armor, and although their combat effectiveness is strong, their mobility is actually slightly insufficient. If they go to chase them, it would be a waste of physical energy. If they fail to catch up, it would be even more uncomfortable.

At the north gate of Dongchang City, Liu Zeqing saw the iron wave of thousands of elite cavalrymen gathering behind him. The hairs on his body suddenly stood up and he ran wildly for his life.

He was anxious and thought to himself, "I have already abandoned all the gold, silver, treasures and beauties that I had worked so hard to collect in Dongchang City. Why the hell are you still chasing me?"

After running for a long time, Liu Zeqing finally figured out that the bandit army was going to chase Li Zicheng, and he was on the way...

Without saying a word, he ran towards the northeast. Sure enough, the cavalry behind him did not catch up with him and continued to head north.

Liu Zeqing breathed a sigh of relief and was about to let out a long cry when he heard a "bang" and was hit on the head by a huge force and fell off his horse involuntarily.

In a ravine in the distance, a figure wearing a pure white cloak, who seemed invisible in the snow, slowly ejected the shell.

It was Mosin-Nagant, who had come specifically to cover the rear for 191. She had seen the figure madly turning the drainage ditch on the battlefield from a distance. Realizing that it might be a big fish, she shot it without saying a word. The ultimate sniper's shooting skills made Liu Zeqing's head directly hit by the bullet and he was killed on the spot. After confirming the opponent's identity, Mosin-Nagant blew a whistle, and a Ranger came all the way from a distance and stopped next to the Mosin-Nagant.

Mosin-Nagant jumped up, hung beside the Ranger, and slapped the opponent's steel shell twice. The Ranger understood and immediately set off towards the cavalry unit in the distance.

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Baoding Prefecture in Northern Zhili is more than a thousand miles away from Qufu, Shandong, and more than three hundred miles away from Beijing.

The elite cavalry of the Volunteer Army kept roaring and galloping, like the King of Hell who was urging Li Zicheng to die, for seven consecutive days and nights, chasing Li Zicheng for more than a thousand miles.

Li Zicheng fled desperately towards the capital, and all the old camps ran for their lives, eager to reach Beijing as soon as possible and get the protection of the remaining Dashun Army.

Along the way, Li Zicheng was horrified to find that wherever he went, no one welcomed him in the surrounding area.

When they were carrying the banner of the King of Rebellion, the people from all the villages and villages came out to greet them, waving sticks and hoes. At first, he thought that the villagers came out to help intercept the bandits behind them, but he didn't expect that they were all coming for him...

Li Zicheng was very surprised. Half a year ago, the Dashun Army was still here heading north to the capital. At that time, there were welcoming people along the way. They were carrying food and drink, and everyone was singing the song of the King of Rebellion. How come now, the roads in the countryside have become slippery and people's hearts have changed so much?

Thinking back to his high spirits back then, Li Zicheng never thought that this day would come.

Passing by Hejian Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture, just as the old camp was galloping with the flag of the Dashun Army flying, a large group of villagers surrounded them with weapons in their hands, throwing bricks and tiles from afar. Li Zicheng and others did not dare to stay, and could only cover their faces and continue to run away, desperately fleeing to the north.

There were pursuers behind them, and civilians kept intercepting them and shouting to kill along the way. The number of people and horses around Li Zicheng was getting smaller and smaller, but there were too many pursuers, at least three thousand elite cavalrymen were chasing them closely.

Every time Li Zicheng saw the volunteer cavalry chasing him from afar, he would feel a surge of despair in his heart. According to the current situation, he was afraid that after he arrived in the capital, there would only be a few hundred old camps left.

Moreover, most of his generals have died! Even if he returns, it will be extremely difficult to make a comeback.

Li Zicheng was in great pain and full of despair about the future.

At this time, all the old camps in front stopped.

Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "What's going on ahead?"

An old camp general said, "Prince Chuang, the scouts reported that there is the Daqing River ahead, but it is too wide to cross, and there are no boats within a few miles."

"Go look for it again!" Li Zicheng ordered.

At this moment, he thought of the King of Western Chu who committed suicide at the Wujiang River. Would his own ending be the same as Xiang Yu's?

He shook his head. He had been on the battlefield for a long time in his life and was brave and strong. He would rather die in battle than commit suicide!

Suddenly, a soldier from the old camp shouted, "Prince Chuang, the enemy troops are chasing us again! Run!"

The soldiers in the old camp immediately panicked and rode their horses in circles, not knowing where to run, and all looked at Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was unfamiliar with the place, so he had no idea where to run. He could only run west along the Daqing River, maybe he could run to Shaanxi...

However, he was not familiar with the road, while 191 was too familiar with the environment here. You know, the electronic maps of all the dolls are completely shared. The dolls who were responsible for picking up Chongzhen's family and silver had already completely explored the terrain around Beijing City. Such terrain was very familiar to 191.

With a wave of his hand, the various volunteer troops immediately divided into several groups to encircle Li Zicheng.

It didn't take long before the old camp, which had been running around like a headless fly, was finally caught up by the volunteers.

Looking at Li Zicheng who was blocked by the river and his old camp of less than a thousand people, 191 rushed forward without saying much, vowing to take Li Zicheng's head!

Li Zicheng looked at the rebel general who was like a god of death. The enemy had chased them for more than a thousand miles, and countless of his best men were killed by the enemy. There was no room for reason. Li Zicheng knew very well that he was not Cao Cao, and the enemy was not Guan Yu. Money could not buy life from the enemy. He roared and ordered a breakout.

Under the dying counterattack of the old camp, the two sides launched a brutal fight, which was extremely fierce.

There was the ear-piercing sound of weapons clashing, and less than half of the nearly 1,000 soldiers in the old camp were killed. Li Zicheng was also covered with wounds.

In a flash of cold light, 191 suddenly rushed towards Li Zicheng, and stabbed the long halberd in his hand fiercely into his chest, leaving the halberd blade stuck outside.

Li Zicheng turned pale instantly, blood gushing out from the corner of his mouth. He stared at 191 intently, laughed miserably, and said, "Can you please tell me your name? I don't want to die at the hands of an unknown person."

191 After a moment of silence, he slowly said: "Great Yan General Mu Tao"

Li Zicheng's smile froze, and he said weakly: "General... not bad at all, at least he didn't die at the hands of a soldier."

He used up the last of his strength to pull out the halberd that had pierced his chest, and stumbled back a few steps, spitting out mouthfuls of blood. His heart and lungs had been shattered, and he finally fell to the ground with a loud thud. Blood continued to flow out of his body, taking away his vitality.

He killed officials and started an uprising, and followed King Gao Yingxiang to fight in all directions. The more he was suppressed by the government soldiers, the more powerful he became. After several ups and downs, he came out to fight again, led hundreds of thousands of rebel troops to fight in the Central Plains, and finally swept across the world to establish the Dashun!

Recalling his past, Li Zicheng slowly closed his eyes and left his last words before his death: "My life is worth it..."

After Li Zicheng's death, the old camp that was still resisting desperately lost the will to fight. They threw down their weapons, dismounted, knelt down beside Li Zicheng's body, and cried loudly.

Volume 411: Chapter Chapter , Niu Jinxing surrenders to the Qing Dynasty

The volunteers, who hardly needed to stop for rest, marched all the way from Shandong to Beijing. In Tianjin, they encountered the toughest resistance during the Northern Expedition.

The one stationed in Tianjin was Li Guo's adopted son Li Laiheng, a capable general. After hearing that Zhu family members had fled from Beijing, he ordered 50,000 Shun troops near northern Zhili to be concentrated on the banks of the Hunhe River (Yongding River) in Tianjin and blocked all possible escape routes. What he didn't expect was that Zhu family members did not arrive, but the enemy army did.

However, Li Laiheng was not too panicked. Instead, he decided to fight to the end tenaciously.

Hunhe River (not the Hunhe River next to Shenyang in Liaodong) was collectively called Zhishui before the Western Han Dynasty, called ?shui in the Eastern Han Dynasty, called Lugou River in the Jin Dynasty, and called Hunhe River in the Ming Dynasty.

The Hunhe River Basin passes through Shilipu in the north of Gu'an, Zhujiazhuang in the southeast of Yongqing, and merges with the Lancheng River in the east. It flows out of Liucha Sanjiaodian in Bazhou. It is 145 miles long and reaches the sea at Xigu, which is a good interception position.