"Stop, Your Majesty. We are surrounded by Ming troops!" Gao said very seriously while riding on a horse.
Li Zicheng stretched out his right hand tremblingly and pointed at Gao: "You... I trusted you so much, you... you dare to betray me?"
Gao smiled slowly and said, "Your Majesty, what you said really hurts me! You were the first to abandon me, and then I told the court about your whereabouts. So, we are even now."
Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and stared, unable to accept what he saw.
"Stop talking nonsense and start!" Li Shunzu was about to move forward to attack.
"General Li has already secured victory. Can't he give my wife and I some time to say goodbye?" Gao looked at Li Shunzu with pleading eyes.
Li Shunzu was broken by this look. He took a half step back and said, "Please help yourself."
"Okay," Gao dismounted from her horse and walked towards Li Zicheng despite Gao Yigong's obstruction.
"Your Majesty, do you remember when we first met?" Gao asked Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng's eyes widened with anger as he said, "Of course I remember, the first year of Chongzhen."
"When did you get married?"
"The second year of Chongzhen!"
"So the Emperor remembers..."
Hearing what Gao said, Li Zicheng became even angrier.
He thought he had a deep relationship with Gao, but he didn't expect that Gao would betray him.
He wanted to go up to her and kill her with a knife, but the feelings they had for each other over the years prevented him from doing it.
At this time, Gao was less than ten feet away from Li Zicheng. She suddenly took a few steps forward and came to Li Zicheng's side.
Just when Gao Yigong thought his sister was going to assassinate Li Zicheng, Gao turned around and said to them: "I am the Queen of Dashun, how can you persuade me to surrender?"
This sudden change shocked everyone.
Gao Yigong stuttered, "Sister...what...what are you doing?"
Red Lady's eyes widened: "What...what's going on?"
Li Shunzu clutched his sword and cursed: "Gao Guiying, Gao Guiying, you actually took advantage of the court's trust to betray the court."
Li Zicheng was happy at first, but then he realized the seriousness of the problem.
They had been surrounded by the Ming army and had no chance of escape.
All that awaits them is death.
Whether Gao Guiying surrendered truly or falsely, the court would not do anything to her as long as she did not make her attitude clear.
Now she calls herself the Queen of Dashun, and it is clear that she wants to die.
Li Zicheng grabbed Gao Guiying's shoulders and asked, "You...you could have survived, why did you actively seek death? And why did you betray me?"
Gao Guiying smiled faintly: "I am the emperor's man, and I must stand on the emperor's side no matter what. This was the case when the emperor started the rebellion, and it is also the case when the emperor is in trouble."
"As for the betrayal..." Gao Guiying sighed, "Your Majesty, I am tired of this life of fighting and killing. I wanted to retire to the mountains, but the Ming court will not let us go. Since we are going to die anyway, it is better to die on the battlefield and leave our name in history."
Li Zicheng sighed and said nothing.
"Come on," Gao Guiying drew the scimitar from her waist and said to Li Shunzu and Hong Niangzi, "Dashun will only die standing up, not kneeling!"
Seeing Gao Guiying's determination, Hongniang's eyes became moist.
She saw in Gao Guiying the integrity that a queen should have!
Li Shunzu was also moved by Gao Guiying's integrity, but he did not soften his heart. Instead, he ordered: "Liaodong Army!"
"Here!" The surrounding Ming troops responded in unison.
"Put away your bows and arrows, draw your swords! Let's fight them with real swords and guns today!"
"Yes, sir." The Ming army put away their bows and arrows and drew out their magpie swords with a swish.
The sharp magpie knife exudes the breath of death under the sunlight.
Li Zicheng was not to be outdone. He drew his sword and pointed it at the sky: "Where is the Shun army?"
"Here!" The momentum unleashed by dozens of Shun troops was no weaker than that of the Ming army.
They dragged their weak bodies, their armor was mostly damaged, and the weapons in their hands were no longer sharp because they had no time to sharpen them.
but...
They did not back down, but stood there with their heads held high and an air of pride.
"Dashun will last forever!" Li Zicheng shouted and rushed forward first.
Li Shunzu drew his sword to fight.
The other soldiers found their opponents at the first opportunity, and both sides started hacking at each other with their swords.
Only five people did not take action.
Gao Guiying, Gao Yigong, Hong Niangzi, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance.
Gao Guiying had other things on her mind, so she wasn't in the mood to do it.
Seeing that his sister didn't move, Gao Yigong didn't move either.
He didn't know who to help...
Hongniang stared at Niu Jinxing intently.
The battle started quickly and ended quickly.
Except for a few important generals, the remaining soldiers were quickly killed by the Ming army.
The physical fitness, individual combat effectiveness, weapons and equipment, and morale of the soldiers on both sides are not at the same level at all.
Li Shunzu led his men to retreat a few steps to rest temporarily, and Li Zicheng also stood there gasping for breath.
At this time, Hongniang came out, holding a knife, and walked quickly to Niu Jinxing.
Niu Jinxing had already been frightened. Seeing Lady Hong coming straight towards him, he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "Lady Hong, spare my life!"
Lady Hong smiled coldly: "Spare his life? When you killed my husband, did you ever think of sparing his life?"
Niu Jinxing was choked and felt very uncomfortable. He knelt on the ground and thought for a while before saying, "I am just following orders."
"Speak clearly!" Hongniang pointed the tip of the knife at Niu Jinxing.
"It was the emperor...it was Li Zicheng who asked me to kill him!" Niu Jinxing knelt on the ground and moved away from Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng was so angry that he laughed at Niu Jinxing's words.
He questioned: "Niu Jinxing, do you dare to do it but not take responsibility for it?"
"It is true that I killed the man, but it was you who gave the order to kill," Niu Jinxing defended himself.
"I admit that I gave the order, but you are at least 70% responsible for Li Yan's death. You opposed everything Li Yan said, and you slandered Li Yan whenever he achieved something. I was deceived by you and gave the order to kill him."
"You are slandering me!" Niu Jinxing retorted, "These are all your excuses. The reason you killed Li Yan was because you were afraid that he would seize power, right?"
"You..." Li Zicheng was speechless after being asked.
He was not good at speaking, and his mind went blank when his inner thoughts were spoken of.
Hongniang nodded and turned to walk towards Li Zicheng.
Just when Niu Jinxing thought Hong Niangzi had let him go, Hong Niangzi suddenly turned around and swung her knife.
The knife was fast and fierce, and it directly cut Niu Jinxing's shoulder.
The flesh was turned out and blood spurted out.
"Ah!" Niu Jinxing let out a painful wail.
"This blow is for Li Yan!" Hongniang burst into tears as she spoke.
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