Chapter 169 Sleepy City

Just when the Dazhong Dynasty discussed the capital, Li Zicheng was trapped in the city of Hanzhong. Since mid-February, a large and medium army has launched a comprehensive attack on his last territory, the Hanzhong Mansion. At this time, the Dazhong army was strong, while his Dashun army became a fright bird.

In just a few days, the prefectures and counties of Hanzhong Prefecture were defeated by the Dazhong army one by one, and the remaining Dashun soldiers surrendered to the Dazhong army one after another.

In the past few days, the generals under Li Zicheng's command fell under the knife of the Dazhong army one by one. First, Liu Zongmin died in Lizhou, and then Liu Tichun, who finally escaped back to Hanzhong, was killed in Feng County by the Dazhong army. Then Li Shuangxi was defeated by the Dazhong army in Hanyin. He was captured by the Dazhong army on the spot. After he slaughtered the people and captured Li Shuangxi alive on that day, he immediately ordered his sering to show his sering to the public. After these months, the important generals under Li Zicheng's command withered one after another, and only Li Guo and Tian Jianxiu remained with him.

Before the war, the 300,000 Shun army fought at this time, the death, the escape, and the surrender. Now Li Zicheng has less than 30,000 soldiers left, and Chen is stationed around Hanzhongfu City.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer soldiers and horses, and fewer and fewer generals, Li Zicheng had to re-activate Tian Jianxiu as his guard and lead him to station troops and horses in the two gates southwest of Hanzhongfu City, while Li Guo was responsible for the defense in the northeast.

The morale of the Dashun army has already fallen into the crotch by now, and all the soldiers are panicked and waiting for their doomsday.

Li Shuangxi and Tian Jianxiu both proposed that Li Zicheng simply abandon Hanzhong Fucheng and escape into the mountains and forests to find a place to recover, but Li Zicheng did not agree to their demands and resolutely defended Hanzhong Fucheng.

In fact, it's not that Li Zicheng doesn't want to escape into the mountains and forests to seek another revitalization like in those years, but now Li Zicheng has also seen that the Dazhong Dynasty has a solid foundation and the people have returned to their hearts, while his Dashun has been in Shaanxi for the past two years, and has long lost the hearts of the people. Now the people in Shaanxi are thinking about peace. The flag was thrown into the Dazhong Dynasty, and more Dashun soldiers abandoned their weapons and surrendered to the Dazhong army. They turned around and became his enemy.

Li Zicheng knows very well that even if he gives up everything again and escapes into the mountains and forests, now people's hearts are no longer on his side, and there is no possibility of recovery at all.

What's more, according to the return of the horse, now the Dazhong army has surrounded the Hanzhong Mansion. Almost all the passages from Hanzhong to the outside have the soldiers and horses of the Dazhong Army, firmly surrounding the Hanzhong Mansion in the middle. Even if he gives up the Hanzhong Mansion, he may not be able to escape as in those years.

What's more, he is now the "Dashun Emperor". His identity is different. Li Zicheng himself can't put down his airs and become a bandit like in those years.

Moreover, the Dazhong Army was not the Ming army in those years. Those responsible for suppressing him were all the generals of the Dazhong Army, and there were no civilian participation. As many civil servants in China and North Korea were responsible for the logistics supply of the following military, and the generals of the Dazhong Army did not cherish the soldiers or were greedy for money like the generals of the Ming Army, which made him deal with the Ming Army before. Those bribery methods are not feasible, so they can only sit in the Hanzhong Mansion and wait for death.

At this time, Li Zicheng really regretted it. If he had known that there would be today, he might as well surrender to Xiao Tianjian like Zhang Xianzhong. At least with their relationship, Xiao Tianjian would not kill him. At worst, he was like Zhang Xianzhong. Now he is in Shanxi. A rich man in a certain place, although freedom is limited, at least there is no worry about life.

But everything is sold in the world, but there is no regret medicine to sell. Li Zicheng knows that even if he surrenders now, Xiao Tianjian will not keep him alive.

So now the result is the same for surrender or not, so Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and stayed in Hanzhong Mansion, trying to fight with the Dazhong army.

Just as Li Zicheng was sitting in his temporary "gong" in Hanzhong Mansion, Tian Jianxiu looked nervous and asked for a meeting outside the palace. Li Zicheng was in a bad mood, but he had to call him to meet him.

"The opening of the Holy, it's not a big deal! The Dazhong army is divided into three ways, and it is close to about ten miles away from the city. Now General Li is leading troops to fight with it. It is estimated that it will not last long. I hope that the emperor will leave the city quickly and leave here! Weichen is willing to defend the Holy Top to break out of the siege, and I hope the Holy Top will not hesitate any more!" As soon as Tian Jianxiu saw Li Zicheng, he immediately reported to him.

Li Zicheng smiled bitterly, looked around at the dilapidated royal palace, and asked Tian Jianxiu, "Go? Where else can I go now?

"Holy King! As the saying goes, it is better to leave the green hills without worrying about firewood. Instead of sitting in this place, it is better to leave and find another way out first. If the soldiers of Dazhong come to the city, even if the emperor wants to leave, I'm afraid it will be too late! I hope you don't hesitate any more!

Weichen has summoned 3,000 elites and is waiting at the west gate. He can escort and break through at any time. It's really too late!" Tian Jianxiu persuaded Li Zicheng with a sad face.

At this time, Li Zicheng suddenly heard a faint sound of gunfire in the east direction of the city. The sound of gunfire can be heard here, which means that the Dazhong army is not far away from here. Although he did have the idea of dying with the city a few days ago, now when he hears the sound of gunfire, his heart is still shaken.

Looking at Tian Jianxiu, he couldn't help bursting into tears and sighing, "I think that you and I rebelled in order to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, but now I don't think about it, but I have come to this point. The old brothers have left me one by one, and only you stay with me!"

Seeing the show, am I really wrong? Why can he do better than me?

"Son of the Holy, don't think about these things at this time! The thief was just a villain. If it hadn't been for the emperor to help him, how could he be today?

Now I don't think he is rampant, but as long as the emperor takes a temporary stay, he will definitely be able to revive the vigor of the past. Now please clean up quickly and evacuate here quickly!

There is now Li Guo dragging the Dazhong army outside the city. If the emperor wants to leave now, it's not too late, but it must not be delayed again! To tell the truth, now that the soldiers outside the city have lost all their will to fight, and the ministers are unable to control it. They are already unbearable. There are only the last 3,000 soldiers left, and there has been no mutiny. If they don't leave now, it will be really every opportunity! Please make a quick decision!" Tian Jianxiu didn't bother to say more to him, and even urged him.

Li Zicheng has no ambition until now. When he learned that most of the soldiers and horses outside the city had mutiny, he panicked. He had forgotten everything in the city, so he said to Tian Jianxiu, "Now, I can only hear you. That's it! Unexpectedly, you were the only one who stayed with me in the end! I'm sorry for you!"

A trace of strange color flashed in Tian Jianxiu's eyes, but he was immediately covered by him and bowed his head and said, "Why did the emperor say this? Weichen was the first to follow the emperor. How could he be unfaithful to the emperor? As for the others, Weichen has never complained about the saint. I hope the saint to leave quickly!"

Li Zicheng nodded and agreed. At this time, even Hanzhong City began to be in chaos. There were adults everywhere, children crying, and some Dashun soldiers and generals in the city not only did not go out of the city to help fight. Instead, they took advantage of this time to plunder in the city. Listening to the cries in the city, Li Zicheng was in a hurry. Take the bodyguard and start to pack up.

Over the years, Li Zicheng has collected a lot of gold and silver treasures in Shaanxi. When he abandoned Xi'an Mansion, Li Zicheng basically brought all these things out, but now he has run out. Even if there are so many gold and silver treasures, it is too late to take them all away, so at the urging of Tian Jianxiu, Li Zicheng ordered his 500 bodyguards to ship a batch of gold and silver. As for his concubines, Li Zicheng could not take them away. If he took them, he was afraid there would be no chance to escape at all. So Li Zicheng was cruel and ordered these concubines to let them to suicide.

Some concubines didn't want to die, but Li Zicheng didn't want to leave them to the Dazhong Army. He was really cuckolded and scared, so he ordered the bodyguards on the spot to kill dozens of concubines, and only took his high queen to follow Tian Jianxiu out of the palace.

At this time, the inside and outside of the city had already been in chaos. Knowing that the Dazhong Army had arrived, a considerable number of Dashun troops immediately collapsed when they heard it. Except for Li Guoshang, who controlled a group of soldiers and tried to block the Dazhong Army, the rest of the Dashun Army had already scattered birds and beasts, leaving only the 3,000 people and horses beside Tian Jianxiu.

Because the situation was very chaotic, Li Zicheng did not know what was going on with Li Guo, so he sent someone to tell Li Guo, which made Li Guo find a way to delay the Dazhong army for a little more time. As for himself, under the escort of Tian Jianxiu, he hurried out of the west gate and fled in the direction of Ningqiang Prefecture.

Li Zicheng looked around these Dashun soldiers and saw that they were all yellow, thin and panicked. Even his bodyguards became like frightened birds at this time, surrounding him and running hurriedly along the road.

In order to prevent these defeated generals from mutiny, Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and ordered the bodyguard to carry a few boxes of silver out of the car, and immediately distributed them to the generals. Each of them was rewarded with 20 taels of silver, but these generals just numbly took over the silver, even without Xie En. After picking up the silver, they hurriedly Keep going.

Nowadays, silver is no longer their favorite thing. Twenty taels of silver is not as good as everyone giving them a bucket of millet, which may make them more grateful.

Under the strangulation policy of the Dazhong Army, Hanzhongfu has not been able to get any foreign aid for several months, and the remaining grain was quickly consumed by the Dashun Army. At this time, the Dashun Army in Hanzhong City has killed all the war horses and eaten them as military food, and even some Dashun. The military generals began another organized man-eating operation to survive.

Not long after Li Zicheng was escorted from Hanzhong Mansion by Tian Jianxiu, the Dashun army led by Li Guo fled back to Hanzhong Mansion under the attack of Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao. When Li Guo returned to Hanzhong Mansion, he knew that Li Zicheng had escaped from Hanzhong and fled to Ningqiang Prefecture. It turned out that Li Zicheng sent to inform Li Guo. The bodyguard did not go to the army at all, but ran back to the city. After grabbing some gold and silver, he fled out of the city, so Li Guo did not get the news of Li Zicheng's escape outside the city. When he fled back to Hanzhongfu City with more than 2,000 soldiers, the city was already in chaos.

Li Guo has the intention to defend the city and delay the Dazhong Army for a period of time to create more opportunities for Li Zicheng to escape. However, the Dazhong Army came too fast. Before Li Guo's deployment in the city, the vanguard of the Dazhong Army had already killed outside the city.

Seeing that the situation was not good, some Dashun troops immediately abandoned the city. Some people even opened the gate and surrendered to the Dazhong army, so that Li Guo could not persist in Hanzhongfu City for a long time, and the whole Hanzhongfu City was occupied by the Dazhong Army.

Li Guo learned that the city gate had been broken, so he tried to escape from the west gate with hundreds of soldiers, but he was blocked by a small group of large and medium-sized troops. After a good fight, Li Guo finally failed to break through and escape, but was injured and captured on the spot. So far, Li Zicheng's last stronghold, Hanzhong Mansion, was also declared to be defeated by the Dazhong army.