Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three: One Eye Has to Beat Daming
When the bandit Ren Rongguang led a team of one thousand cavalry and was still 300 steps away from the west gate of King Chuang's camp, he saw a group of hundreds of cavalry galloping out of King Chuang's camp and heading east.
They were all dressed as officers and soldiers holding open fires and holding staffs. There were about seven or eight hundred cavalry officers and soldiers running in a loose formation towards Xiguan, Kaifeng.
Ren Rongguang hurriedly commanded the cavalry to chase him. When he was approaching the west gate of the camp, he encountered Liu Tichun riding out to chase him. Ren Rongguang hurriedly asked loudly: "General Liu, how are you doing with King Chuang!"
"There's no serious problem with Chuang Wang, hurry up and chase that old thief Chen Yongfu..."
Ren Rongguang was filled with joy when he heard that Chu Wang was innocent. He shouted and ordered the cavalry to turn to the east and pursue him.
Liu Tichun galloped up to meet him and said loudly: "General Mingyuan is intercepting in front, but the official cavalry is fierce, and Liu Fangliang is full of infantry. I don't know if he can stop him."
Ren Rongguang also said: "Uncle Erhu, take a rest while I lead the cavalry team to assist in the battle."
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Liu Zongmin ordered Li You, Zhang Li and Tong Shoushan to each lead a cavalry of more than 300 horses to pursue the attack in the direction of the west gate of Kaifeng. He then rode his horse straight towards King Chuang's Chinese army's tent.
I saw King Chuang Li Zicheng lying on his back on the couch in the inner tent, his left chest was blood red from work, and a light arrow was stuck in his left eye socket, and the arrow feathers were still trembling slightly.
Niu Jinxing looked anxious and didn't know what to do. He just said: "Why hasn't the old god arrived yet?"
Song Xiance looked at Li Yan next to him, and saw that he was as anxious as himself, but he knew that no matter how anxious he was, he could not help.
At this moment, an old man with white beard and hair hurriedly walked into the tent. Also coming in with him was Liu Zongmin, the general sentry. Everyone in the tent seemed to respect the old man, so Niu Jinxing said hurriedly: "
Shang Ziming, you are finally here!"
Liu Zongmin hurried to the bed, looked back at Shang Ziming and said, "Old god, do you think there is hope?"
After Shang Ziming carefully inspected King Chuang's arrow wound, he said: "It's not serious, and his life is not worried. I just don't know if the eye can be saved."
Li Zicheng had been holding back the pain, and then he said: "Don't be afraid, I can still conquer Kaifeng City and defeat the Ming Dynasty with one eye!"
Shang Ziming said with great concern: "King Chuang, please endure the pain and I will help you deal with it."
"Okay, I can bear it, let's do it."
Then Shang Ziming said to everyone: "Master Liu, gentlemen, please exit the inner tent first. I want to remove the arrows for King Chuang. No one can come in to disturb me."
Liu Zongmin asked: "Old immortal, do you need to prepare anything else?"
"Yeah. Just ask the boys outside to come in and help and prepare hot water for boiling."
Everyone followed the instructions and retreated to the big tent outside. The charcoal stove set up here was boiling hot water, and several of Shang Ziming's apprentices had already entered the inner tent to help.
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According to the original history, after Chen Yongfu returned to Kaifeng to aid Chen Yongfu and entered the city, Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuang Dynasty, prepared to withdraw from the siege, but was unwilling to do so. Finally, he led more than ten of his own horsemen to watch the city of Kaifeng in Xiguan.
His eye was injured by random arrows fired from the city, and he became the "one-eyed king" from then on. Although his left eye was not completely blinded, the vision of this eye has significantly declined since then. In fact, it is also related to
One eye is no different.
Ancient China has always paid attention to the king's appearance. There has never been a blind emperor who could sit firmly in the Dragon Court. Perhaps this arrow in history changed Li Zicheng's imperial destiny. Because he was eager for success, he failed to successfully attack Kaifeng.
On the contrary, it ruined his own luck.
But how can we make these things clear? The fate of the country is like this, and so is the fate of individuals. Maybe there is a certain destiny for each, maybe Li Zicheng is destined to make wedding clothes for others, and it has nothing to do with this arrow.
But this time, due to Zhang Cheng's unexpected intrusion, it's hard to say whether Li Zicheng's wedding dress was made for Huang Taiji and Dorgon, or for Zhang Cheng. There must be variables in this.
In fact, it was difficult to tell clearly whose arrow hit Li Zicheng in Kaifeng City in the chaos. Afterwards, Chen Yongfu insisted that it was his son Qian Zong Chen De who shot it.
He was the deputy chief military officer of Henan, so naturally no one would argue with him on this matter, and everyone who participated in the archery shooting at that time also received silver rewards, so naturally no one would compete with Chen Delai for this military merit.
Chen De was eventually promoted to guerrilla general because of the success of this arrow.
But this time, Zhang Cheng's unexpected arrival may have caused some unexpected chain reactions. Li Zicheng suffered much greater losses under Kaifeng than in real history.
And this arrow was shot in advance when Chen Yongfu attacked the camp at night. There was no dispute in front of everyone. It was really Chen De who blinded Li Zicheng, the king of the camp.
God's way, Li Zicheng's fate of being blind was doomed after all, and even Zhang Cheng couldn't change it!
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In Xiguan, Kaifeng, Chen Yongfu did not know until this moment that the west gate had been sealed by the soldiers and civilians in the city. He led his Qianqi company to rob two camps of the invading army. After a bloody battle, he broke through the interception of Liu Fangliang and broke into Xiguan.
However, they were told by the city's defenders that they had to go to the north gate to enter the city. However, the outside of Xiguan was tightly surrounded by bandits. Liu Fangliang's camp was not disturbed, and his army was intact.
At this time, he also learned from Ren Rongguang who came running that the officers and soldiers in Xiguan actually shot and wounded King Chuang.
This made him very angry, and he commanded his three thousand bandits to surround Xiguan, and more than two thousand cavalry including Ren Rongguang, Li You, Zhang Li, Tong Shoushan and others were galloping around the outside.
Chen Yongfu led the exhausted army after the battle, and it was impossible to break out from now on. He stood on a roof and observed the surrounding situation with the faint light of the rising sun.
If there were only rebel infantry outside, even if there were three to five thousand more people, Chen Yongfu would not be afraid. He would still be able to lead his servants to break through the encirclement.
But now there are only one or two thousand people in the bandit cavalry outside, and the horses of the cavalry under his command have been exhausted for a long time, so it is really difficult to fight with the bandit cavalry.
Now he can only arrange for the officers and soldiers to dismount and defend, and use the houses in Xiguan to defend, hoping that the city gates can be opened in time, or there may be a glimmer of hope.
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"Commander Father, look over there, there is a group of officers and soldiers coming!"
Just when Chen Yongfu felt desperate, Chen De reminded him loudly from the side. Chen Yongfu turned around and saw smoke and dust rising from the trench to the north under the weak sunlight.
He said to Chen De: "Chen De, you have good eyesight. Do you think they are officers and soldiers?"
"It's hard to see clearly, but there are red clouds in the smoke and dust. It should be caused by the sunlight reflected by the mandarin duck's battle coat or red cloak."
Chen De looked at the smoke clouds to the north carefully and said: "Commander Father, didn't Mr. Chen Qian from Xuan Town say that Zhang Cheng's army is near Kaifeng? Could it be that he sent an army to meet us?"