Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 140 Chapter 140, The Ming Army successfully attacked at night, Zhu Cihong forced Li Yan to surrender
The news is still very exciting.

Li Yan is one of Li Zicheng's several great military advisers. Now that Niu Jinxing has stayed in the capital prison and Song Xiance has disappeared, Li Yan is actually Li Zicheng's number one military adviser.

Such a number one military division actually wants to surrender to the imperial court, and the condition is only to ask the imperial court to pardon him and his relatives of the three clans for their capital crimes. His attitude is also very sincere.

Zhu Cilang pondered for a while, then looked at Li Guozhen: "Uncle Xiangcheng, do you think Li Yan's surrender is true or false?"

Li Guozhen spread his hands: "This humble minister really doesn't know, and is asking His Royal Highness for help."

Zhu Cihong didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You are the main general."

Li Guozhen was sincere and frightened: "In front of His Royal Highness, Li Guozhen will always be just a humble courtier."

Zhu Cihong was speechless, why didn't he see that this guy was a fool before?

Zhu Cixiang waited for a moment, hoping to wait for a system prompt or something.

However, it does not.

It seems that you can't rely on the system for everything, Zhu Cihong started to use his brain seriously.

For Li Yan, there are not many records in the history books. We know that he was originally a Juren of the Kaifeng Mansion of the Ming Dynasty, and he should belong to the gentry class. Received the support of many gentry.

People like this are actually similar to the powerful landlords in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. They just felt that the court was not good enough, and then quickly found a warlord who raised troops to join him, and prepared to be a founding hero.

So is Li Yan's stance firm?Li Zicheng must have been very determined when things were going smoothly, but now that Li Zicheng has declined, he may not be so determined.

Zhu Cihong made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "This Li Yan, the heart of surrender should be dishonest, and there is a high possibility of deceit!"

Li Guozhen was stunned: "Huh?"

Zhu Cixiang sneered and said: "If he wanted to surrender, he should have surrendered as early as two days ago when you came outside Feicheng, or he would have surrendered late after being defeated and exhausted. Now he happens to be neither sooner nor later." It’s time to surrender, it’s obviously a deception!”

When Li Guozhen heard it, he was immediately convinced, and said: "What His Royal Highness said is very true, so I would like to ask, what exactly does Li Guozhen want to do?"

Zhu Cihong chuckled, and said: "There are only two possibilities. The first is that he wants to use this surrender to make us paralyzed, so as to find a chance to defeat us!"

Li Guozhen snorted and said, "It's just wishful thinking! What about the second one?"

Zhu Cihong said: "The second one, it's nothing more than that he wants to run away, so he played a flag of surrender to make us numb, and then ran away quietly!"

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"This time, we can only succeed, not fail!" Li Yan said to the group of people in front of him with a serious expression, "Do you understand?"

In front of Li Yan, everyone nodded.

Li Yan let out a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "Then open the city gate!"

After a while, with a creaking sound, the east gate of Feicheng was opened.

Then, people began to slowly walk out of the city gate, holding torches, with a loud and dazzling sound.

"We surrender!"

"Surrender to the court!"

The shouts were very conspicuous in the night.

Li Yan stood on the city wall, watching these people with a look of unbearable expression on his face.

Li Yan's deputy general came over and said softly: "General, the attention of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court should have been attracted, and we should retreat."

Li Yan sighed and said, "I don't know how the Crown Prince will treat them after knowing that he was deceived by them. I feel sorry for them."

The lieutenant general shook his head and said: "These are all of their own free will. If you want the army to retreat safely, how can you do it without any sacrifice? General, please retreat faster and don't waste the time they delay!"

Li Yan gritted his teeth, quickly stepped down the city wall, and headed towards the west gate.

The big fanfare at the east gate is actually a cover-up, and the gate to the west of Feicheng has also been quietly opened. At this moment, Li Yan's main force is quickly retreating from the west gate in the dark.

This is the experience Li Yan learned from Liu Bang's fight against Xiang Yu near the chasm. This is how Liu Bang escaped luckily from Xiang Yu's hands, and only then did he have a big counterattack later.

Li Yan also wants to be Liu Bang!

In the dark night, Li Yan quickly left the west gate.

The moonlight tonight is very good, which is a good thing for Li Yan.

As an orthodox general, Li Guozhen faithfully implemented the encirclement policy of "encircling three ques and one", and the west is the only entrance and exit of Feicheng.

Under normal circumstances, the Ming army should have discovered that the Dashun army had escaped, but now it is different. Most of the Ming army's attention will be concentrated on the east side of the city gate.

run!

Li Yan rode his horse and galloped, thinking of leaving early.

Suddenly, Li Yan seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly raised his head.

"boom!"

With a gunshot, Li Yan fell off his horse in an instant.

The huge pain and the heavy impact of his body on the ground made Li Yan lose all consciousness in an instant.

This scene shocked several guards around Li Yan. They subconsciously tightened the reins, wanting to rescue him.

"Bang bang bang!" More gunshots rang out, and the guards were also shot and fell off.

Then, gunshots like fried beans rang out wildly.

Daming had musketeers. Although these muskets were actually behind the contemporaries of Western countries, they were still invincible weapons when used to deal with Li Yan's fleeing peasant army!
There is a saying that goes well, when you shoot a man, you shoot a horse first, and when you catch a thief, you catch the king first.

When Li Yan fell to the ground, the entire Dashun army completely lost its backbone.

In the forest on both sides of the road, the sound of countless guns kept ringing, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army were shot one after another.

In the dark night, there is no way to judge how many gunmen are hidden in the forest!
Fortunately, the Dashun Army no longer needed to judge.

Countless torches suddenly gushed out of the forest, and countless soldiers of the Ming army rushed out, shouting loudly and waving their weapons.

"Surrender without killing!"

"Stubborn will die!"

"Don't move around, kneel down!"

This loud shout shocked the Dashun army, they seemed to be caught in a net of heaven and earth, unable to extricate themselves.

When the soldiers of the Ming Army chopped down the first batch of soldiers of the Dashun Army with their knives, the rest of the soldiers of the Dashun Army woke up like a dream.

Some people jumped directly into the farmland next to the road, the grass and even the river, trying to escape for their lives.

Some people knelt down on the spot and shouted loudly to surrender, hoping to survive.

More people are still running around like headless chickens.

It's a very messy battle, but it's also a one-sided one.

A total of [-] Ming army elites ambushed here, just to deal a fatal blow to the fleeing Dashun army!
I don't know when Li Yan woke up.

The body is still in severe pain, coming from the left shoulder.

But not dead.

Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief just now, and suddenly narrowed his eyes again.

"I found it, here it is!"

A torch shone on Li Yan's face, and then more footsteps followed the torch, surrounding Li Yan heavily.

"I found it first, it's my credit!" A young and immature voice cheered.

Li Yan sighed, and put his half-raised head back on the ground.

He knew that he was already a prisoner now.

The only thing that made him curious was whether he was captured by the young prince himself?
"No, but I fired that shot." Zhu Cihong answered Li Yan's question.

The occasion for answering was not on the battlefield, but among the officials of the Feicheng Order.

It was already the morning of the second day, and the battle had long since ended.

About 3000 of the soldiers and horses led by Li Yan were killed, more than 3 were taken prisoner, and the rest were missing.

And Feicheng was taken back by Daming as a matter of course.

As a victor, Zhu Cihong looked at Li Yan very happily: "Don't you know that Liu Bang has used this escape strategy in history?"

Thanks to the help of the system, Zhu Cixiang became a wise man who knew everything about historical data.

Li Yan, whose shoulders were already bandaged, pulled the corners of his mouth and showed a very ugly smile: "Are there any strategies that have not been used by the ancients? As long as the enemy general does not judge this strategy, no matter whether this strategy is used No matter how many times you do it, it's still a very useful ruse."

Zhu Cilang paused, and then agreed: "I have to say, what you said is quite reasonable. So, do you want to surrender, or choose to die?"

Li Yan chuckled, and knelt down with a plop: "The sinner, Li Yan, please spare your life, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhu Cixiang looked at Li Yan and tutted: "I didn't expect you to be quite capable of changing the situation."

Li Yan said seriously: "The sinner was originally a Juren of Daming, so naturally he has a heart for Daming."

"Then why did you join Li Zicheng's army?"

"It was really coerced by Li Zicheng, so I had to do it."

"How come I remember that you are the commander-in-chief of all the rebels in this fat city? Who else can coerce you?"

"The sinner's family members are still in Kaifeng, under the control of Li Zicheng!"

Zhu Cixiang lost his patience: "Don't talk nonsense. I will give you a chance to say a word. If you can impress me with a word, then you can survive."

For Zhu Cihong, if a guy like Li Yan can't confide something of value, it would be better to chop him up with a knife.

Li Yan was shocked, hesitated for a moment, and said through gritted teeth: "Li Zicheng has already crossed the Yellow River and went up!"

Zhu Cihong frowned, took out a pistol from his waist, pointed at Li Yan and said with a smile: "You think I don't know about this matter? Then, you really have to go..."

Li Yan's heart sank, and he shouted in despair: "Li Zicheng's dog-headed military advisor, Song Xiance, is in the south of the Yangtze River, and is planning some shady events!"

The air suddenly became quiet, Li Yan closed his eyes, and beads of sweat fell from his forehead.

Zhu Cixiang's voice sounded again: "It's interesting, let's talk about Song Xiance."

(End of this chapter)