Ding ding ding!
The sound of gongs was heard behind the Ming army.
Everyone had the same idea: call it a day!
The Loyalty Battalion stopped charging and looked behind the Ming army.
The Ming army did not retreat, but took a defensive posture and took the opportunity to look back.
I saw a rider running towards me from behind.
This man was wearing a brand new suit of armor, holding a gong in his left hand and beating it continuously with a gong hammer in his right hand.
Li Shunzu urged his horse forward and asked, "Mrs. Hong, do you know that according to the law, if you blow the horn without reason, you will be executed?"
"I know," Hong Niangzi nodded gently and said, "Killing these people will only add a few more heads of credit, but if you subdue them, the surrounding cities will surrender without a fight. Recovering the lost territory is a great achievement. What do you think, General Li?"
After listening to Hongniangzi's analysis, Li Shunzu waved his hand to signal the Ming army to retreat a dozen steps and be on guard at the periphery.
Before Lady Hong began to persuade them to surrender, Gao Yigong took the lead and said, "Lady Hong, you really have surrendered to the Ming army!"
Lady Hong asked back: "What do you mean I surrendered to the Ming army?"
"Niu Zuofu said that Li Yan and you both wanted to seize power, and he was planning to kill you both, but you ran away." Having said that, Gao Yigong glanced at the Ming army behind Hong Niangzi, "Now it seems that what Niu Zuofu said is true!"
Hong Niangzi laughed indignantly: "Gao Yigong, do you believe what Niu Jinxing said? Dashun is already like this, why do we want to seize power? Even if we seize power, we must produce evidence to convict, right? Where is the evidence?"
Gao Yigong stammered and was unable to speak.
Of course he had no evidence. Not to mention him, even the instigator Niu Jinxing had no evidence.
Gao suddenly said, "Go ahead, I won't surrender."
Lady Hong walked forward a few steps, and when she was still ten feet away from Gao, she stopped and whispered, "I understand how you feel, but there's no need to drag Gao Yigong down with you, right?"
"If he dies, your Gao family will be extinct! How can you face the ancestors of the Gao family?"
Gao stood there in silence for a while, "Yigong, put down your weapon."
"Sister, you...I..." Gao Yigong was very embarrassed.
"Alas!" Gao sighed, "Li Zicheng has already abandoned you, why are you still loyal to him and Dashun? Lay down your weapons and surrender!"
Faced with Gao's order, Gao Yigong finally laid down his weapon reluctantly.
"What are you going to do with us?" Gao asked.
"How to deal with you is Governor Qin's business. My mission is to capture Li Zicheng and avenge him." Hongniang replied.
Gao pretended to nod casually, and a very complicated expression appeared on her face the moment she lowered her head.
"Report!" A Ming soldier ran up to Li Shunzu, "Li Chuang thief first fled westward, then fled northward. They ran too fast, and I...didn't catch up with them."
"Waste, all of them are fucking waste!" Li Shunzu cursed angrily.
If Li Zicheng was captured, his official position could be promoted to the second rank at least.
Unfortunately, the duck that was close to our mouth flew away.
Gao suddenly raised her head and said, "If I tell you where Li Zicheng is, would that be considered a great achievement?"
A gleam of light flashed before Hongniangzi and Li Shunzu's eyes at the same time.
"Yes, it definitely counts!" Li Shunzu said quickly.
"Well, I'll give this credit to Gao Yigong."
Li Shunzu hesitated for a moment and said, "No problem."
"Sister..." Gao Yigong was completely dumbfounded.
He thought surrendering was enough, but he didn't expect to betray his brother-in-law Li Zicheng.
The brother-in-law abandoned the sister, and the sister betrayed the brother-in-law. Are they still husband and wife?
"Yigong," Gao Shi didn't seem to take this matter to heart at all. She said to Gao Yigong seriously, "You have the ambition to travel far and wide. You should serve the country, build meritorious careers, promote benefits and prevent disasters. Instead of staying in a bandit's nest and being unknown."
"What people pursue in their lives are nothing more than fame, fortune and wealth!"
"I am just a woman with no special abilities, so I can only help you in this way."
"Sister, please stop talking. I..." Gao Yigong was about to refuse.
"Shut up!" Gao said sternly, "Our parents died a long time ago. As the eldest daughter of the Gao family, I have the right to make the decision for you."
In the face of Gao's unquestionable voice, Gao Yigong shut his mouth.
"Please lead the way, sister!" Hongniang came to Gao and bowed.
"Okay," Gao jumped on the horse and led the way.
"Stop!" Li Shunzu asked everyone to stop as soon as they set off. He came to Gao and asked, "Isn't that right? Li Zicheng ran to the northwest, why are you taking us to the northeast?"
Gao smiled faintly: "Before leaving the city, Li Zicheng told me that if we were ambushed and separated on the road, I should wait for him in Liujiapan Village on the bank of the Yellow River."
Although Li Shunzu was somewhat skeptical, he had no other choice but to continue following Gao.
The team marched very quickly and covered a distance of nearly 200 miles in just a day and a half.
After arriving at Liujiapang Village, Hongniangzi and Li Shunzu began to observe the nearby terrain and prepared an ambush.
One day later.
Li Zicheng led more than fifty Shun troops disguised as civilians to Liujiapang Village.
"Your Majesty," Niu Jinxing looked at the village in the distance with some uneasiness, "I always feel that there are shadows of the Ming army everywhere."
Song Xiance closed his eyes and counted on his fingers for a while.
When he opened his eyes, everyone looked at him.
Li Zicheng asked first: "What is the result of the military advisor's divination?"
Song Xiance frowned and replied: "All phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows. They are like dew and lightning. You should view them in this way."
"What do you mean?" Niu Jinxing asked with a dark face.
"Everything before was a dream, it's time to wake up now..." Song Xiance said while looking at the sky in the distance.
The sky on the Loess Plateau in July is clear and cloudless.
Their group seemed very small in the wilderness.
Li Zicheng swallowed his saliva and said, "Military Advisor, what you mean is... there is an ambush in the village ahead?"
Boom!
As soon as Li Zicheng finished speaking, the sound of violent horse hooves came from behind them.
Looking around, they saw two hundred Ming cavalrymen charging out from behind them.
They rode their horses at full speed and fired their guns at the same time.
Bang!
A dense rain of bullets fell from the sky.
Before the shot soldier fell to the ground, the rain of arrows came again.
"Run!" Niu Jinxing was the first to react. He pulled the reins of his horse and fled to the east.
The Ming army did not pursue them immediately, but drove the Shun army westward.
As they were running, a Ming army appeared from the north and south sides of the road.
The Shun army had no choice but to speed up and run eastward.
Soon, they were forced to stop.
The turbulent Yellow River lay ahead, cutting off their escape route.
Li Zicheng turned around with a cold face and drew his sword as he looked at the Ming army that surrounded him.
Other Shun army generals and soldiers also drew their swords and prepared to fight to the death.
Hongniangzi and Gao walked forward side by side and stopped five meters away.
"You..." After seeing Gao's figure, Li Zicheng stood there in a daze.
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