Chapter 198 How can the mountains and rivers be stable for thousands of miles·XVI
The spring chill has ended, the wild grass has turned green, this longest and shortest night has passed, and the long-awaited spring breeze has finally arrived in the capital.
The people in the city ran wildly in the streets, cheered, and celebrated. They returned to their dilapidated homes, crying and laughing, and straightened out the doors, tables, chairs, and furnishings that had been looted by bandits, and restored them to their former glory.
This is a sleepless night for countless people, and it is also a night of eternal sleep for loyal souls.
The spring breeze blows for ten miles, and lights are on in thousands of houses.
Xiao Hao stood at the gate of the palace and looked along the main street. There was a Tiance soldier stationed at the door of each house to prevent the remnants of Li Zicheng from sneaking in and counterattacking.
Although the world is different, the layout of the capital is similar. When he was writing Changge, he had passed through this palace gate countless times, looking back at this prosperous or dilapidated capital.
The prosperous times that were given to Wanli in the past will sooner or later reappear in this similar world.
Xiao Hao returned the letter to Hong Niangzi. When Hong Niangzi saw that he came back alone, she already understood everything. Although she was very sad, she had nothing to say.
They all knew that Li Yan had no intention of living when he persuaded Xiao Hao to leave.
He felt guilty.
Be loyal as a minister and be righteous as a friend. These eight words ruined his life and also ruined those people who believed in him wholeheartedly.
It was not Li Zicheng who won the hearts of the people, but Li Yan. It was because he was the "Master Li" who represented salvation in the hearts of the people that his words could attract so many supporters for Li Zicheng.
After Xiao Hao left, Liu Zongmin fought fiercely with Tiance several times. Li Yan set up ambushes in the alleys and used gold and silver to disrupt the enemy's formation, and succeeded repeatedly. The Haoqi Guards also fought with the Chuang Army in many places, but the Chuang Army was outnumbered. Although they resisted for a while, they could not withstand the fighting day and night.
Li Yan knew that Liu Zongmin would get angry if there were too many harassments and ambushes. It was not wise to use any strategy over and over again. Liu Zongmin led his army to crush the Haoqi camp. Without the city wall, the righteous men of Haoqi soon couldn't hold on. It was Hong Niangzi who led the Tiansha camp to defend with all her might and forced back the frightened invaders.
Li Yan calculated the time and knew that Xiao Hao would be back soon. He also knew that with the current situation of Haoqi, if Liu Zongmin came again within a day, they could defend, but it would be a tough battle.
The only way was to take the initiative to attack and stop them inside Chongwenmen.
A cup of dirty wine and a dream, the breeze dispelled his sorrow. He had no face to see the people of the city again. Every face was a knife cutting into his heart, a regret and whip that came from the top. He was asked to show his courage and fight to the point of bloodshed, which was also a worthy death.
Xiao Hao nailed Li Zicheng to the Yongding Gate with a dragon arrow as he wished. For three whole days, no one went to collect the body.
The people in the city who passed by the city gate would spit on the corpse. If Xiao Hao hadn't nailed it high, they would have rushed up to cut Li Zicheng into pieces.
After Li Zicheng's death, his subordinates scattered like birds and beasts. The elites of the Haoqi Zhengyi Hall marched forward on the road to pacifying the country without any effort.
Taiyuan, Xi'an, Pingyang, the Haoqi League won battle after battle, and was unstoppable.
At the same time, Xiao Hao's previous precautions were indeed correct. Wu Sangui heard about the great changes in the capital and entered the pass overnight to try to take advantage of the great battle between Tiance and the Chuang army to seize the capital. However, he was caught off guard by Shi Zhixuan who had been waiting behind them, and Emperor Cang fled back to Shanhaiguan.
When Xiao Hao learned the news during a private chat with Shi Zhixuan, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Shanhaiguan is only 600 miles away from the capital. If Xiao Hao and his men were attacked by Wu Sangui's army during the fierce battle with Li Zicheng, the consequences would be disastrous.
Shi Zhixuan has always been particularly reliable in this regard.
Wu Sangui did not expect that there was a group of elite Tiance soldiers lying in ambush inside the pass. He could not tell whether they had planned this or had already planned to kill him. After fleeing back to Shanhai Pass, he was worried all day long. Finally, he decided to speculate everywhere and sent a tentative letter of surrender to the Qing army and Haoqi at the same time.
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he not only occupied his concubines, but also killed his family. Wu Sangui was afraid that Xiao Hao would be the second Li Zicheng, so his attitude towards the Central Plains was mainly to delay, but he got along well with the Qing army.
While Shi Zhixuan was keeping a close eye on the situation at Shanhaiguan Pass, Xiao Hao began to clean up the world with great force during this period. He established branches of the Haoqi League in various places, wiped out the remaining forces of Li Zicheng, and the leaders of the local rebels came to join him. The Tiance iron hoof quelled the civil strife in one fell swoop. In
August, the country was initially settled.
Unlike the previous rebel armies, neither the Haoqi League nor the Tiance raised the banner of the dynasty, which was mostly puzzling to the people. Except for
Yuan Chengzhi, who was called the "Golden Snake King" and had many former subordinates of Yuan Chonghuan, most of the people in the Haoqi League were gangs and famous heroes. It seemed that they did not conquer the country for the purpose of becoming kings and ministers, but really just to quell the war and give the people a stable world.
There were many people in the alliance who advised Xiao Hao to establish a country and become emperor, but Xiao Hao rejected them all and pushed them all to Yuan Chengzhi.
Xiao Hao knew very well that he could conquer this country, but he would not sit on it himself.
For a wanderer like him, every world is destined to be hurried. It is better to leave the worries of the afterlife that need to be worried about for a hundred years to the people who were born and raised here.
Half a month later, there was new movement in the northeast.
Wu Sangui and the Qing army cooperated from inside and outside, lured the wolf into the house, and killed them in Shanhaiguan.
Xiao Hao had already sorted out the country, entrusted the daily affairs of the Haoqi League to Jiao Wan'er, and led the elites of the Zhengyi Hall to Shanhaiguan to meet with Shi Zhixuan.
Jiao Wan'er is young, but she is surprisingly capable. She is meticulous and can handle any complicated matter. In addition, she is considerate and gentle. With her in charge of the logistics of the Haoqi League, everything can be run in an orderly manner.
Yuan Chengzhi is also full of ambition. They are about to recover the Liaodong area that his father Yuan Chonghuan once guarded. For him and Yuan Chonghuan's former generals, it is not only a place where Yuan Chonghuan once shed his blood, but also a place where the Guanning Iron Cavalry became famous.
They have been called the Shanzong for so many years. It is time to take back the land engraved with their glory and re-raise the reputation of the Guanning Iron Cavalry.
For this place, Yuan Chengzhi's Golden Snake Camp can be said to have forgotten honor and disgrace, life and death, and rushed to the front every time.
The banner of Haoqi quickly broke through Shanhaiguan, and entered Ningyuan and Jinzhou in one fell swoop, and approached Shengjing.
The Qing army and Wu Sangui were in a bitter battle. Wu Sangui was under too much pressure and had to surrender to the Qing army completely and work together to resist Haoqi.
When they arrived at Songshan City, Huang Taiji finally could no longer tolerate the defeat along the way and launched a desperate counterattack.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a protector of the country named Yu Zhenzi. In his early years, he was the junior apprentice of Master Mu Sang of the Iron Sword Sect. He was highly skilled in martial arts, and since his master's death, no one was in charge. He changed from a decent disciple to a thief who committed all kinds of evil. He didn't know where he learned the evil martial arts, and even Master Mu Sang couldn't subdue him.
After breaking up with his senior brother Master Mu Sang, he joined the Qing army. Because of his unrivaled martial arts, he was deeply appreciated by Huang Taiji, who even made him the chief coach of Buku.
Hearing that most of the elites of the Righteous Alliance were gathered from martial arts masters, Yu Zhenzi took the initiative to ask for a chance to teach them in person.
Huang Taiji was overjoyed, but still very cautious. He set up tricks and ambushes along the way, luring Yuan Chengzhi and others who were driven by blood into the trap, and then Yu Zhenzi led the elite to surround them in one fell swoop.
Yu Zhenzi really had the capital to do whatever he wanted. He didn't even take Yuan Chengzhi's master, the sword fairy ape Mu Renqing, seriously, let alone the young Yuan Chengzhi.
He killed and killed in the Haoqi Army, as if he was in a place without anyone. His one-handed dust-wiping skills were even more bizarre and unpredictable. Yuan Chengzhi had never seen such martial arts, and he couldn't cope with it for a while.
Seeing that many brothers died, Yuan Chengzhi angrily used all his life's knowledge to delay Yu Zhenzi, leaving the Haoqi people with a chance to retreat.
However, Yu Zhenzi was a skilled martial artist. Even though Yuan Chengzhi had the Golden Snake Secret Manual, Huashan Orthodoxy and Iron Sword Sect martial arts, he could not gain any advantage. Instead, he was entangled by the Buku warriors, and was captured and tied up by Yu Zhenzi after pressing his acupoints.
Just when they were about to take the captured Yuan Chengzhi and the Golden Snake Camp to call for the withdrawal of troops, Shi Zhixuan came with the Tiance reinforcements.
Shi Zhixuan only scanned the battlefield and saw that Yu Zhenzi was strange, and immediately entangled him tightly. Yu Zhenzi became more and more frightened as he fought, and realized that he was restricted everywhere and in a desperate situation.
Huang Taiji was watching him from behind the army. Yu Zhenzi didn't want to lose face. Face was extremely important to him. However, Shi Zhixuan's martial arts were unpredictable and unprecedented. Yu Zhenzi was no match for him.
It was said that the sword-wielding immortal ape Mu Renqing was the best in the world, but Yu Zhenzi had never been defeated. He always wanted to fight with that old monkey one day so that the world would know who was the real best in the world. But
when he met Shi Zhixuan today, Yu Zhenzi was really shocked and felt something was wrong.
Who is this guy? !
The Tiance Army quickly reversed the situation. In a hurry, Yu Zhenzi simply played his trump card.
This thing was found by him inadvertently in Kunlun when he went to Tibet to look for the Iron Sword Gate's talisman, the Iron Sword. It contains the pure force of heaven and earth. He usually relies on this thing to practice martial arts, and his progress is rapid. He cannot fully control the powerful force in it, but it is enough to save his life.
He held the snow crystal in one hand and sneered at Shi Zhixuan: "I don't care whether you are the wolf of Dongdu or the dog of Dongdu. Since you have angered me today, don't even think about going back alive!"
In this hot summer weather, he used the snow crystal in his hand to cause the frosty sky to change color, the temperature on the battlefield dropped sharply, and snow flew in an instant.
Huang Taiji was surprised and delighted to see him show such a skill, and was deeply impressed by his cultivation.
Yuan Chengzhi and the Golden Snake Camp thought that Shi Zhixuan's arrival would help them out of trouble, but they didn't expect that Yu Zhenzi had such an amazing thing. They immediately said to the Tiance people: "Master Shi! Something is wrong! Go!"
Shi Zhixuan didn't recognize the thing in Yu Zhenzi's hand, but it could change the color of the sky and the earth, which was definitely not something that the warriors of this world could achieve. So he determined that there was something strange in Yu Zhenzi's hand.
He was already a person who had broken the void, so how could he take the flying snow seriously? He immediately used his surging internal energy to fight Yu Zhenzi to death. With the ten feet in front of him as the boundary, behind him was the bright sunshine, and in front of him was the raging wind and snow. The air
waves rolled, and everyone on the battlefield couldn't open their eyes. The two energies between heaven and earth collided into a ball, causing the wind and clouds to change color in all directions.
There was a loud bang, and outside Songshan City, there was no cloud in the sky, and the ground was covered with crystal clear ice.
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