Chapter two hundred and fortieth: refused to call the door, the governor died
Outside Nanguan, Xiangcheng County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan, a group of cavalry appeared, numbering between four and five hundred, each riding a tall horse, slowly approaching less than two miles away.
By the light of the rising sun, the sergeant guarding the pass also saw the cavalry in the distance. During the battle, without distinguishing between friend and foe, a small colonel shouted orders and immediately closed the door that had just been opened again.
What the guards at Guanmen Primary School didn't know was that the 500 cavalrymen marching in the distance were exactly the same troops that were waiting for Fu Zonglong, the governor-general of the three sides.
At this moment, Fu Zonglong was also riding his horse at the head, with several capable knights on his left and right guarding him. Even the reins of the horse under his crotch were held in the hands of the knights next to him.
Looking at the guards with bows and arrows on the south gate tower and the gate wall, Liu Tichun, the general of the intruders, turned to look at Tong Shoushan beside him, and then said to Fu Zonglong, the governor of the three sides of the Ming Dynasty: "Governor Fu, in front of you is the south gate of Xiangcheng.
Please open your mouth and open the door for us. When the army enters the city, I will treat Governor Fu and the people in the city well."
Fu Zonglong, however, sat on his horse without saying a word.
Liu Tichun had no choice but to step forward in person and shout loudly at the door: "We are the governor of Shaanxi Biaoying's personal troops, escorting the governor to break out from the fire shop. Please open the door quickly and welcome the governor into the city!"
The gate at the south gate of Xiangcheng is not as tall as the city gate, but a row of sergeants can also be stationed for defense. The guards above did not answer, as if they were discussing something.
Tong Shoushan also rode forward at this time. He waved his riding whip and pointed it at Fu Zonglong. He shouted to the guards at the door: "You guys, please take a closer look. The governors of the three sides are here. Don't blind your eyes. Do you want to eat today?"
Isn’t it possible that the Shangfang sword given by the Holy Emperor can be used?”
After hearing what he said, the door seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then the colonel loudly replied: "Masters, please wait a moment. We don't know the Governor, and now the thieves are nearby again."
In and out, opening and closing the door, this is a serious matter, and I will wait until I report it to the superior officer for decision."
Tong Shoushan turned to look at Liu Tichun, and when he saw him nodding slightly, he replied: "Go quickly and ask the magistrate of Xiangcheng to come quickly and welcome Governor Fu into the city in person. If you are a little slow, he is just a magistrate, but
You can’t afford it.”
Immediately afterwards, there seemed to be fewer people at the door. They must have gone to the magistrate of Xiangcheng to report the matter.
At this time, Liu Tichun turned his head and looked at Tong Shoushan, and then gave a secret wink to the thieves on the left and right. Then nearly half of the horse thieves got off their horses and started moving about fifty steps outside the South Pass.
After they waited for a while, several bandit soldiers came forward and helped Fu Zonglong off his horse. They sat down on a stone nearby to rest, and gave him a few more drinks of water.
At this time, Tong Shoushan rode forward for more than ten steps, and there were only about twenty steps left before closing the door. He shouted: "Listen up, guards. The governor is on his way from the burning shop at night. It's already time.
Extremely tired.
Please open the door immediately and prepare some food. Please go to the South Pass to rest. When your magistrate arrives, you can then open the city gate to welcome the governor into the city."
Finally, he threatened loudly: "If you really neglect the governor, even if the magistrate of Xiangcheng can escape death, how can you escape the death penalty?"
On Guancheng, the primary school teacher also felt a little worried after hearing this. After a while, he poked his head out and shouted loudly: "Then I will ask the Governor to go to Nanguan to rest. You are waiting for the military master, but you have to wait for the county magistrate."
Order, you can come in now."
Tong Shoushan cursed in his heart, "What a fool", and then replied loudly: "That's right! It's enough that only the governor's servants and personal soldiers will accompany you. I'll be waiting outside the closed door."
After he finished speaking, he waved to where he came from, indicating that the Governor Fu Zonglong who was guarding him should go into Guancheng to rest first.
It is said that Fu Zonglong, the governor of the three sides here, also heard the conversation between Tong Shoushan and Guanmen Shang, and he even saw someone walking downstairs on Nanmen Gate with his own eyes, guessing that he was going to open and close the door.
Suddenly, Fu Zonglong felt that his body was light and airy. It turned out that the thieves here saw Tong Shoushan's gesture and hurriedly got up to lift Fu Zonglong up and headed towards Nanguan.
The servant Lu San was shocked when he saw this, but before he could scream out, he was surrounded by a group of thieves, and a ball of rags was stuffed into his mouth, making him unable to make another sound.
Not only him, but the other two servants who followed Fu Zonglong and the dozen or so soldiers were also held by the bandits with knives between their necks, and they did not dare to make a sound.
Only General Li Benshi was the most loyal to Fu Zonglong, and he was also the only Ming general who followed Fu Zonglong to the last moment!
However, although he dared to resist, after all, with the number of thieves and soldiers, how could Li Benshi, who was already hungry and exhausted, be their opponent? In the blink of an eye, he was knocked down by the thieves and fainted with a punch and hammer.
Fortunately, the thieves spared him the pain and made no noise, but did not use knives or spears to stab him. Although the old punches on his body caused unbearable pain, they were not life-threatening in the end.
Here, Li Benshi, who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, was punched to the ground. On the other side, outside the gate, the rebel general Tong Shoushan also had mixed emotions in his heart.
From the bottom of his heart, he did not want the bandits to attack Xiangcheng, but at this moment, as a member of the bandits, he could not reveal his inner thoughts at all.
In that case, not only would he completely ruin his master's plan, but he and the eighty-year-old brothers who joined the gang at the beginning would also die on the spot.
"If you want to be a thief, then you have to be a beard and tail thief, be the alpha wolf among the robbers, and make your own name!"
These were the words that Zhang Cheng asked team officer Bao Jiqiang to guide him when he ordered him to infiltrate the gang of thieves and act as his undercover agent.
For more than half a year, he always remembered and dared not forget that he did exactly what Zhang Cheng ordered. With Chen Zhong's secret help, in just over half a year, he became a powerful member of the army.
A very capable leader.
"Listen to the truth in the city. I am Fu Zonglong, the governor of the three sides. Unfortunately, I fell into the hands of thieves. There are thieves on both sides. Don't be fooled. Don't open the city... Don't open the city..."
Just when Tong Shoushan was distressed, Fu Zonglong roared out, causing chaos everywhere.
Especially the wall on the Nanguan Pass turned into a mess in an instant. They were running up and down shouting wildly, and sparse bows and arrows were fired at the bandit soldiers outside the Nanguan Pass.
Liu Tichun, known as the "Two Tigers" in the bandit army, was furious when he saw this. He rode forward fiercely and spat in Fu Zonglong's face with a "poof" sound.
He immediately waved his hand and led all the thieves and cavalry to retreat beyond the range of the defenders' crossbows. Liu Tichun yelled at Fu Zonglong: "You old dog, you don't know how to show appreciation!"
Fu Zonglong already knew it at this moment. He successfully blocked the thieves' trick of using him to make money from Xiangcheng, and because of this, he preserved his reputation after death. It can be said that he has no regrets in this life.
At that moment, he was not angry but happy, and said to Liu Tichun: "Hmph. You must know that you are a thief who has brought harm to the country. Everyone will kill you. I am indeed an important minister of the imperial court. How can I call the city for a thief? What a wishful thinking!
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When Fu Zonglong burned down his shop, he had already thought of sacrificing his life for the country to repay the emperor's kindness. Now that he was trapped in the hands of thieves, he knew that there was no hope of escape.
Originally, he was still worried that if he died in such an unknown manner, his body would be used by bandits to ruin his family's reputation, bring shame to his family, and make him feel ashamed of his ancestors.
Now, just now, I stood up and shouted like that at the south gate of Xiangcheng, but many people have witnessed it. In the future, if it is spread, it will reach heaven to hear it. After hearing about it, the emperor will definitely give him a gift, grant him a favor, and even give him a gift.
We will build temples and ancestral halls to pay tribute to you forever!
Fu Zonglong thought about this and had no scruples. He just wanted a quick death. He then shouted loudly: "Kill if you want. I have been a soldier for half my life. I have already put life and death aside. How can I gain a city for thieves to delay death?"
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"Two Tigers" Liu Tichun tilted his big mouth. When the soldier holding the reins of Fu Zonglong's war horse saw this, he immediately pulled Fu Zonglong off the horse.
Tong Shoushan admired Fu Zonglong in his heart when he saw that although Fu Zonglong was captured alive by bandits, he would rather die than surrender.
However, at this time, he also knew that Fu Zonglong had cut off his own way of earning money from others, and at the same time, he had cut off his own way of survival. Seeing Liu Tichun's murderous intention, he was afraid that Fu Zonglong would be inhumanely tortured before his death.
He immediately drew out the steel knife from his waist, galloped forward on his horse, raised the knife with a very agile hand, and cut off the head of Fu Zonglong, the governor of Shaanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty.
He stopped on his horse, looked back and saw the head of the loyal Ming Dynasty general rolling to the ground, and then rolled forward very stubbornly for a while before stopping, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Liu Tichun himself was indeed murderous, but he did not want to kill Fu Zonglong with one knife. Instead, he tortured him to death in order to relieve the hatred in his heart.
This time King Chuang must have sent him here to gain Xiang Cheng, but this damn Fu Zonglong messed him up. How could he endure it?
But seeing that Tong Shoushan had already ended Fu Zonglong's life with one blow, he could not say anything else, so he had to gallop forward, gave Tong Shoushan a thumbs up, and praised: "Master Shan, your sword skills are so good!"
Tong Shoushan stretched out his hand to pull back his beard, grinned widely and said, "Hey, I don't dare to show off my sword skills in front of 'General Flying Tiger'."
He then continued: "Master Liu, we can't make money from this city. We don't want to waste time here. Why don't we return to the camp and see what Master Hu gives us."
Liu Tichun nodded after hearing this, but he still seemed to be unwilling to accept it. Looking at Fu Zonglong's body lying in a pool of blood, he shouted angrily: "Come here, cut off this guy's ears and nose."
Leah!"
Tong Shoushan was shocked, but it was inconvenient to stop him. Although destroying the body of the deceased was a bad thing, it was a common thing among the intruders.
However, fortunately, he killed Fu Zonglong with a knife first. Even if the body was destroyed and insulted by the thieves at this moment, at least Fu Zonglong could no longer feel pain.
A group of thieves rushed forward and cut off Fu Zonglong's ears and nose one by one. Feeling that they still couldn't forgive their hatred, they slashed his body several times with a knife.
At this moment, the fire on the wall at the south gate of Xiangcheng suddenly became brighter, and at the same time there was a lot of noise, as if many people and horses were coming.
Then, they heard someone shouting on the wall: "Where is Governor Fu? You and other thieves, don't hurt Governor Fu at all, otherwise we will kill them all to avenge Governor Fu!"
“Damn, it’s true that the powerful tiger is stationed in the city.”
Liu Tichun cursed, but he also knew that with his current 500 cavalry, it was really impossible to compete with the Baoding army led by Hu Dawei in the city.
Since he could no longer gain the city, he was unwilling to continue to ink here, so he quickly retreated with his troops, left the South Pass of Xiangcheng, and hurriedly retreated towards the way he came.
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Seeing the bandits galloping on horseback, the servant Lu Sancai hurriedly ran out from a hiding place. He took advantage of the chaos to escape when the bandits were taking over the city, but he did not want to go far and still wanted to find an opportunity to kill his master.
rescued.
But things developed so fast that before he had time to react, he saw with his own eyes that his master was killed by a bearded thief.
At this moment, Lu San came to Fu Zonglong's body with tears in his eyes. He first picked up Fu Zonglong's head, then carried his body on his back, and walked towards Nanguan.
Only then did he burst into tears, and several other Fu Zonglong's soldiers also took advantage of the chaos to escape and were not killed by the bandit soldiers. They also ran back behind Lu San.
When they saw that the governor was dead, they couldn't hold back the tears. However, they did not rush to close the door, but ran to find Li Benshi, the general of Biaoying.
Li Benshi still fainted on the ground and never woke up. He was also lying on the ground covered with wounds and dying. Several soldiers, regardless of life or death, directly lifted his body and ran away through the door, fearing that the thieves would return.
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When they ran to the door, it was already wide open and a group of cavalry was galloping out of the door.
The general in front was none other than the Ming Dynasty’s True Protector General Hu Dawei. He recognized Lu San, and when he saw a headless body on his back, he couldn’t help being frightened. He quickly rode on his horse and asked, “Lu San, what’s on your back?”
who?"
Although Lu San hated He Renlong, Li Guoqi, Yang Wenyue, Hu Dawei and others for abandoning his master and fleeing first, he also knew that Hu Dawei was a soldier in Baoding, so he naturally had to obey the military orders of the governor.
And this was not the time to discuss these rights and wrongs. He cried and choked out: "Hu... Hushuai, my master... he..."
Although Hu Dawei had guessed it in his mind, he was still very shocked when Lu San confirmed it in person. After all, Fu Zonglong was the governor of the Ming Dynasty.
He quickly dismounted and ordered all the soldiers behind him to dismount as well, clearing the middle road so that the body of Governor Fu Zonglong could enter the city.
How Fu Zonglong's funeral was organized here, how he worded it, and how everything that happened here was reported to the court will not be described for the time being.
But when the bandit generals Liu Tichun and Tong Shoushan led five hundred cavalry and rushed back to the Huoshao shop, the fighting here had already ended, and they reported the story of their trip to Li Guo.
Li Guo didn't say much, and praised the two of them for their worthwhile trip. Although they didn't win Xiang Cheng, they didn't let Fu Zonglong escape, and even killed him in front of the formation. This was very morale-boosting.
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Then, he told the two of them: "King Chuang came to tell us that after we eliminate Fu Zonglong, we should immediately take up our troops. We still have a big battle to fight."
Liu Tichun was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately asked: "Wang Chuang, do you want to open the seal again?"
Li Guo smiled and said nothing, and only said: "We won't know until we meet King Chuang. You should go and have a rest first!"