This group of horses caught Shunjun's horses and brought them back.

Li Dingguo was too surprised by the news of Li Zicheng's death, so he personally interrogated it.

"I heard that the Northern Army led by King Chuang and Ruhou was ambushed by the Qing army in Xinyang Prefecture. Ruhou was captured on the spot. King Chuang retreated to Zhenlei Mountain, but was killed by mountain people."

I don’t know if the Shun Army’s probe was born to be afraid of death or had no hope for Dashun, but when he saw Li Dingguo, he said what he knew was like pouring beans.

Li Dingguo and his generals were surprised to hear the news, and when they came to their senses, they couldn't help but sigh.

Wang Xianbi, a battalion general who was relatively old and joined the peasant army almost the same year as Li Zicheng, sighed: "I really didn't expect that a hero like Li Zicheng would die at the hands of mountain people."

Xu Youze shook his head and said, "He died so cowardly, it would be better to die with the Qing emperors in battle."

Another battalion genius general Qi Sansheng smiled and said, "I guess Li Zicheng didn't expect to die at the hands of mountain people. Eighty percent thought he could survive by escaping into the mountains."

Tong Shuo was a new general of the camp, and was an official army and not a peasant army before, so he did not comment on this matter.

Li Dingguo continued to interrogate, "Did you leave the city after hearing the news of Li Zicheng's death? What are you going to do? How many defenders are there in Xiangyang City now? Who is the chief general?"

Shunjun explored horses and said, "The king's will be revenge, and the lord Yi and his men led their troops to Xinyang Prefecture, and the lord Ze gave them three thousand people..."

Li Dingguo frowned when he heard this and interrupted: "Don't use your fake title to grant titles, just talk about the name of the person."

"Yes." Shunjun responded, and then said, "Zhang Nai, Luo Hu, Hao Yaoqi and others are going to Xinyangzhou to avenge the King of Chuang. It is said that Tian Jianxiu disagreed at first, and he had no choice but to give three thousand people.

Now the head of Xiangyang City is Tian Jianxiu, and there are also party leaders, Zhang Shijie and He Lan.

There were more than 3,000 soldiers in the war, and there were more than 5,000 civilians who had been trained for more than ten days."

There are more than 5,000 people's courage?

Li Dingguo exchanged glances with several generals under his command, and was quite surprised.

In their opinion, Xiangyang experienced wars in a short period of time. First, the Qing army attacked in March, and the Qing army retreated not long ago. With the virtue of the Qing army, it would be nice that the Xiangyang city was not completely destroyed.

Can you still create a bravery for the people?

"Where did Minyong come from?" Li Dingguo asked again.

Shunjun explored horses and said, "Before, the Qing army occupied Xiangyang, and many people fled into the mountains and fields. When they learned that we had taken Xiangyang back, they came back."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo could only sigh that the foundation of pseudo-shun rule among the people of Xiangyang was really good. In the future, the Ming Dynasty recaptured Xiangyang, it would be not so easy to govern.

But this is not something that a general should worry about.

He said again: "What other important news do you have reported? If so, you will be considered as guilty and meritorious."

Shunjun's probation was speechless for a moment and thought to himself: Isn't it considered a meritorious service after saying so much before?

He did not dare to make a case with Li Dingguo, so he said again: "I heard a news that I don't know whether it is true or false. It is said that before the death of King Chuang, he had ordered everyone to listen to Zehou, well, Tian Jianxiu.

Join with a tiger, Li Guo, and then let Li Guo inherit the throne of Dashun."

Hearing this, a gleam flashed through Li Dingguo's eyes and said with a smile: "This is indeed the most important news, even if you have committed a crime, you have made meritorious service."

After saying that, he asked someone to take the Shunjun probe down.

Then he asked the generals around him, "What do you think?"

Wang Xianbi said: "Min Yong, who has been training for more than 5,000 for more than ten days, is nothing. Uh, you can use the light cannon to bombard them for a few formations, and maybe they can be defeated.

So I think that if you don’t have to wait for reinforcements, the Xiangyang City people can take it down.”

Qi Sansheng said: "We have all seen it from a distance. Xiangyang City must have been bombarded by the Qing army's red barbarian cannons before. There are no gaps in many places. It is not difficult for us to attack for a strong attack."

"What do you think of Zhaoxian (Tong Shuo's word)?" Li Dingguo looked at Tong Shuo.

"I think we can try to persuade the surrender." Tong Shuo said in contemplation, "Xiangyang City is still a strong city no matter what. Even if we have a great advantage, there will still be a lot of casualties when fighting.

Since Li Zicheng is dead, the pseudo-pass is already at the end of the road. I believe that many people on the pseudo-sun side understand this, so we may succeed in persuading surrender.”

After listening, Li Dingguo made a decisive decision, "Then we will persuade the surrender first, and if we fail, we will fight!"

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The situation in Xiangyang City was actually worse than Li Dingguo and others expected.

Although the Qing army did not destroy Xiangyang City when evacuated, they also snatched away everything they could. It can be said that no grain was left.

Now there are about 20,000 to 30,000 people returning to the city.

These people did not bring much food, and they could not supply Shunjun food and grass, but they might also need Shunjun to help them - if Shunjun was willing.

The Shunjun also brought not much food and grass.

It is estimated that in ten days and half a month, there will be no food or grass in the city.

Compared with the food shortage crisis, what is more serious is the defeat of the Northern Route Army. The news of Li Zicheng's death has spread, and the morale of the army and the people have been dispersed.

Fortunately, Tian Jianxiu has always been the top three figures of the Shun Army, and can even be said to be the chief logistics manager. The leader of the Party Su is also a long-time general. They all have prestige in the army, so they barely gathered the soldiers and civilians in the city.

In the "Palace" of Yuan Xiangjing, which was burned by the fire, Tian Jianxiu sat opposite Dangshousu, with his brows tightly wrapped around him.

Seeing Tian Jianxiu not speaking for a long time, the Party leader Su said, "Zehou, you can't be so desperate to guard Xiangyang City, you must find a place to fetch grain.

Otherwise, if the food shortage is leaked, the hearts of the army and the people in the city will be completely dispersed."

Tian Jianxiu sighed: "It's not that I don't agree to collect grains - I have only more than 3,000 soldiers now, and there have been traces of Ming army's horse exploration nearby. It is very likely that there is a Ming army near me.

In this case, why do you dare to divide your troops and take them out for you? Are you not afraid of going out and not coming back?

What's more, Xiangyang has almost become white land within dozens of miles. Where can you go to collect grain?"

Dangshou Su said in a muffled voice: "You know what you said, but staying in the city will definitely be a dead end. If you have good luck, you can find a way out."

Tian Jianxiu wanted to say something else, and saw a flag-holder running in panting and saying, "Marty, a Ming army comes from outside the city."

Upon hearing this, Tian Jianxiu stood up and asked, "Can you see how many people are there?"

"It's estimated that there are more than 10,000."

Tian Jianxiu asked again, and the Party leader Su said, "Zehou should go to the city wall first to stabilize the morale of the army, and then go to the people to come to the city wall to support it."

At this time, Tian Jianxiu was too lazy to care about the actions of the party leader Su, so he nodded and followed the flag to quickly walk to the west wall.

"The Fourth Town of the Border Guard?"

Seeing this group of Ming army flags, Tian Jianxiu frowned even tighter.

Through the previous battle of Li Zicheng's attack on Wuchang and the subsequent major and large battles between them and the Ming army in Hubei, the Shun Army had roughly understood the new military system of the Ming army and knew that there were imperial guards, border guards, and garrison troops.

Dividing.

Among them, the border defense forces are not only well-equipped, but also have elite soldiers with high quality, and can be called elite troops.

This fourth town of the border defense army was established significantly earlier, and it is probably more powerful.

‘It seems that this Xiangyang City can’t be defended anymore.’

Tian Jianxiu sighed in her heart, feeling extremely confused.

Dashun has come to this point today, and he really doesn't know what to do.

At this time, a team of cavalry came out of the Ming army and came to more than a hundred steps in front of the moat.

Then the leader took out a strange horn and made a loud noise.

"Listen to the pseudo-Shun military and civilians in the city, we are the fourth town of the Ming border guards, and now we have learned about Li Zicheng's defeat.

At the same time, I would like to tell you another news that Huguang Governor Du Yinxi will lead hundreds of thousands of official troops north soon.

It can be said that you have reached the end of your journey. If you resist stubbornly, you will surely perish with the false sushi.

Surrender today will not only save your life, but also have the opportunity to be rich if you can be reorganized into the army.

Give you an hour to consider it. If we don’t surrender, we will attack the city with cannons.”

After shouting, the Ming army riding horse retreated.

Then, Tian Jianxiu saw the Ming army forming a formation, and one cannon reflecting the sunlight was pushed out, arranged one or two miles away from the city wall, with twenty gates.

Tian Jianxiu, a new artillery suspected to be cast in fine iron, heard Li Zicheng say that its power is comparable to the Red Cannons of the Qing army, and its range is longer and its firing rate is faster. It can fire iron bullets or open flower bullets.

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Seeing this formation, Tian Jianxiu felt that Xiangyang had no possibility of defending it.

He looked at the sparse Dashun soldiers on the left and right city walls and found that many of them were afraid and panicked.

Tian Jianxiu knew that these soldiers were scared by the Qing army's artillery before, and now they want to run away when they see the cannons.

Otherwise, they would not have been chased by Ajige for 30,000 to 40,000 people, and they would have been defeated again and again, just like a dog that was stranded.

Thinking of this, Tian Jianxiu had only one thought left in his mind - this battle cannot be fought at all, so it would be better to surrender.
Chapter completed!