Chapter 230 When enemies meet, they become extremely jealous
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, King Chuang had to take out all the money in the treasury and reward it to the army. This barely calmed the panic of the ordinary soldiers.
However, money can make ordinary soldiers temporarily feel at ease, but it cannot make the civil and military ministers and knowledgeable people in the city feel relieved.
Anyone with a little knowledge can see that the ship of King Chuang is about to sink, the Ming Dynasty will be resurrected, and the world will be brought to peace. Anyone who doesn’t want to die at this time will definitely find another way out!
This is what is called the general situation is over and the people's hearts are gone.
No matter how many soldiers and horses the Ming army has outside the city, it doesn't matter. What matters is that King Chuang is finished.
This is also the reason why wherever the Red Lady leads her army, she looks for the wind and surrenders.
"My Lady, it seems that there are no powerful people in the city. It may be difficult for them to take the initiative to open the city. What should I do?"
Seeing that it was getting late, it was getting dark soon, and there was still no movement in the city, Liu Liangzuo became a little anxious.
After all, they only had 10,000 people in total, and there were 50,000 defenders in the city. Although Tongguan was unlikely to be able to mobilize more troops to come to the rescue, who knew if Zhang Xianzhong from the southwest would come to the rescue if time went by.
The red lady also knew that she could not delay. When she heard this, she frowned and said in a cold voice: "Send people to shout again. If we don't open the city before dawn tomorrow to surrender, after the city is broken, everyone in the city will be killed."
Light!"
"hiss!"
"Mother, will this happen..."
Liu Liangzuo took a breath and opened his mouth, feeling a little worried.
"What are you afraid of? All the consequences will be borne by me and have nothing to do with you." The red lady said angrily. She didn't really want to massacre the city, she just wanted to force the people in the city.
"That's not what I meant, I just..."
Liu Liangzuo was a little embarrassed and hurriedly explained, but the Red Lady waved her hand and interrupted: "Don't be verbose, go quickly! Tell the person who shouted, just say that I, the Red Lady, told me to massacre the city. I don't believe that everyone in the city is willing to do so."
Buried with the intruder."
"yes!"
Liu Liangzuo didn't say anything more. He finally let go of his worries. With the words of the Red Lady, he didn't have to worry about taking the blame.
Otherwise, if they don't surrender and the city of Chang'an is really massacred, His Majesty's love for the empress will probably put the shit basin on his head afterwards.
Sure enough, the people in the city were frightened when they heard that if they didn't open the city and surrender tomorrow morning, the Ming army would massacre the city. The red lady had said it herself.
Even the most ordinary soldiers can't sit still, after all, everyone's life is at stake.
The civil and military ministers and a group of generals and generals in the city finally abandoned all worries and took their people to Kaicheng in person.
As for Chuang Wang's life and death, no one cares about it, and basically no one will listen to Chuang Wang's words.
There was no way. If ordinary Ming army generals came and said that they wanted to massacre the city, they would naturally not believe it. It wasn't that they couldn't massacre, but that they didn't dare.
But here is the Red Lady, the imperial concubine of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's favorite woman, and the Red Lady is notorious, no one can say whether she will actually be slaughtered when the time comes, not to mention that as long as there is even the slightest possibility of such a thing, it cannot be done.
tried.
As the city gate was opened, all the defenders in the city put down their weapons. Seeing that the situation was not good, King Chuang had to escape through the south gate with a dozen of his henchmen.
This time, let alone Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing, I didn't even have time to bring a lot of concubines and children.
Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance had already been prepared to escape. However, everyone knew that they had a big grudge against the Red Lady, not to mention that the Red Lady also named them. Chuang Wang Hu's power was still there, and ordinary people
Not daring to add insult to injury, they no longer had so many worries about the two of them. They only fled to the city gate, where they were kidnapped by the soldiers guarding the gate.
"Where's the intruder?"
The red lady paid no attention to the crowd of civil and military officials kneeling at the city gate. After entering the city, she led her men directly to the palace. When she learned that King Chuang had run away, she immediately led her men to chase after him personally.
After chasing him all night, he finally caught up with King Chuang.
"Your Majesty, no, the Ming army is catching up. You can leave first. My brothers will follow you to conquer the world in the next life!"
"kill!"
It has to be said that the dozen or so knights who protected King Chuang from escaping were all loyalists. Seeing the Ming army's pursuers approaching, in order to cover King Chuang's escape, they turned around and rushed forward with their swords drawn, preparing to fight to the death to hold off the pursuers.
Two years of drunken living and dreaming, King Chuang no longer had the same courage as before. One night of running wildly made him extremely embarrassed and miserable. But when he looked back, he saw that the woman in red in the Ming army seemed to be full of strength again.
, gritted his teeth and continued to run forward.
In order to catch up with King Chuang, the Red Lady only brought more than a hundred cavalry. The official road was narrow, and she was entangled by more than a dozen cavalry who rushed forward desperately.
The red lady was also very anxious. Seeing that the horse galloping in front of her was about to disappear, she knew that it must be King Chuang. With a sudden thought, she controlled the horse and jumped off the official road. She took a detour to the official road again and chased after him alone.
The Ming army cavalry who followed were equally anxious when they saw that the empress had not cared about her and pursued her alone. However, the official road was too narrow. More than ten cavalrymen also controlled their horses and jumped off the official road. They wanted to take a detour to catch up, but their horses stumbled.
It was smashed to pieces.
Both of them were riding on rare good horses, one behind the other. After chasing for half an hour, the red lady finally came within a hundred steps behind King Chuang.
"Intruder, let's see where you are going today, why don't you get off your horse and die!"
"You stinky bitch, if you hadn't turned against me in battle, how would I have been defeated by Wu Sangui and reduced to this situation now? Today is the day to settle old and new grudges with you!"
King Chuang also knew that he couldn't get rid of the red lady. Seeing that she was alone, he was equally angry. He simply reined in Ma Jiang, drew his knife and killed her, preparing to kill the red lady and then escape.
"Okay, I finally look like a man. Either you die or I die today."
The red lady also drew her sword and rushed forward with a murderous look on her face.
Immediately, the two of them fought in a massacre, from the horse to the horse, from the official road to the fields below. They were all covered in mud and looked miserable.
"Intruder, we were so blind back then that we took refuge in a despicable person like you. Today, I, the red lady, will cut your body into thousands of pieces and make your life worse than death to pay homage to my husband."
The red lady pointed her sword at him with red eyes.
King Chuang, on the other hand, was striking the ground with his sword and gasping for air. He was obviously exhausted, but he was unwilling to die under the sword of a woman named Hong Niangzi.
So while taking the opportunity to regain his strength, he said: "Commander Hong, Li also mistakenly believed the slander of those two beasts Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, and then accidentally killed Brother Li. He still regrets it..."
"Bah, you are obviously afraid of my husband and I, and you have been murderous for a long time. Fortunately, my husband is still wholeheartedly advising you... You thief, you die!"
The red lady didn't give him a chance to breathe at all, she raised her sword and rushed forward again, and King Chuang had no choice but to parry with difficulty.