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Chapter 368 Qing Army Captures Xi'an

The Shun Army soldiers who wanted to save their master rushed towards Luo Hu's mansion and tried to rescue Luo Hu. However, after Zhao Liangdong killed all Luo Hu's personal soldiers in the mansion, he closed the door. All the loyal slaves in the mansion were killed by the rebels.

The general of the Shun Army, Bai Wang, led his soldiers to attack the rebels in Luohu's mansion.

At this moment, a person appeared on the top of the city wall, leaving a head behind, and only someone in the yard shouted: "The bandit leader Luo Hu has already given him the head. Now Luochuan City has no leader. How can you resist the Qing soldiers? If you follow me to the Qing Dynasty, you will only have wealth and glory!"

Bai Wang general Wang Deren cursed: "Zhang Yong's dog thief! The king treats you very well, why should he surrender to Jiannu?"

"Prepare the rockets, set the rockets in, and burn these traitors to death!" Bai Wang shouted.

Before he could finish his words, a sharp goose-feathered sword stabbed from behind and pierced Bai Wang's body.

Bai Wang turned his head and saw his general Wang Tiren standing behind him with a grin, with blood dripping in his hand.

"You! Why did you betray me?" Bai Wang pointed at Wang Tiren and asked.

Wang Tiren sneered: "General Bai, why are we going to raise an army with the king? For the sake of glory and wealth! But the king would rather share the land with those mud-legged men than to you, and you are not allowed to greedy for money. Why are you trying to follow him to conquer the world? The powerful and powerful do not annex the land, and those who are officials do not talk about money, so what can you do as a powerful and powerful official? But the Qing Dynasty promised us to be a wealth and wealth, and the fools would fight against the Qing Dynasty soldiers to the end!"

After saying that, Wang Tiren pushed it gently, and Bai Wang's body slowly fell down.

Although Wang Deren was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, at this time, there were rebel generals such as Zhang Yong, Wang Tiren and others inside, and there were 100,000 troops of the Qing Dynasty outside. Wang Deren was a smart man, and he thought to himself: A hero would not suffer any loss. So Wang Deren knelt on the ground: "I am willing to surrender!"

Wang Tiren helped Wang Deren up: "Hahaha! We are all good brothers, and we are all our family. Since brothers are willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, they are just knowing the current affairs!"

The gate of Luo Hu's mansion opened, and Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong and others walked out of the mansion. Zhang Yong walked to Wang Tiren, patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "General Wang abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, he is really a hero! Let's go and welcome the Qing Dynasty's Invincible Heavenly Army!"

The main general Luo Hu and the general Bai Wang in the city were killed, and the remaining Shun Army had no leader and could not organize resistance at all. Except for a few Shun Army officers and soldiers, all the others chose to surrender.

The Shun army in Luochuan City surrendered, and Ajige and Haoge led a large army and occupied Luochuan City without bloodshed. The 50,000 Shun army and 30,000 Yuan Ming army in the city also surrendered. Ajige and Haoge not only obtained Luochuan City for nothing and opened up the gateway to Xi'an, but also obtained 80,000 elite troops for nothing.

Haoge took Goshha to the bastion, and saw that the bastion was complex and amazing. What surprised Haoge even more was that the cannons arranged in the bastion were a new type of cannon that they had never seen before.

Haoge has only heard of this kind of artillery before. It is said that it is called the Red Armor Cannon. It weighs only five or six hundred kilograms, but it can fire shells of more than three kilograms. It is much more powerful than the general cannon of the same weight.

More than 3,000 Shun Army gunners responsible for operating new artillery also surrendered. The Qing army obtained 3,000 gunners, 120 four-pound field guns, 20 twelve howitzers, 60 24-pound mortar guns and forty six-pound field guns. In addition to these new artillery, the Shun Army originally had 52 red barbarian cannons and more than 200 500 kilograms of Franchise, which all became the trophy of the Qing army.

Fortunately, Zhao Peng was careful when selling artillery to Dashun and did not sell twelve-pound field artillery to the Shun army. Therefore, the most powerful twelve-pound field artillery did not fall into the hands of the Qing army.

Although the Shun Army lost so many cannons, it was equivalent to strengthening the strength of the Qing army, in fact, Zhao Peng did not lose money because these cannons were bought by Li Zicheng from Zhao Peng with real money. Although these cannons have fallen into the hands of the Qing army, Li Zicheng's silver has long been in the hands of Zhao Peng, and Zhao Peng has more powerful cannons to deal with these cannons.

Azig stood on the fort, stroked the pianxin cannons, and exclaimed: "The thief is so rich. These cannons are actually copper cannons! How much money does it cost to cast so many copper cannons?"

Zhang Yong said with a flattering smile on his face: "Prince, these cannons were bought by the thief Xiang Minggou, and they were not cast by himself."

Ajig turned around and shouted to his Goshha: "Come on, send one of these new cannons back to Yanjing so that our Qing Dynasty can imitate these new cannons!"

After the Qing army captured Luochuan, there were 10,000 Eight Banners of Manchus, 10,000 Eight Banners of Mongolian Eight Banners, 20,000 Han Army of Eight Banners, 60,000 Green Camp soldiers brought by Ajige, and the newly recruited Shun Army to be reorganized into 80,000 Green Camp soldiers, plus the 40,000 auxiliary soldiers recruited from Shaanxi, a total of 220,000 troops heading south along the Baishui River Valley and heading straight to Xi'an.

From Luochuan to Xi'an, it took 380 miles to reach 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers to reach the city of Xi'an in just three days.

In Xi'an City, a personal soldier hurriedly came to report: "General Liu, something is wrong, and the army of Jiannu has already reached the city of Xi'an!"

Liu Zongmin was shocked and stood up quickly: "Hurry, when did Jiannu come? It came so fast! What did Luo Hu and Bai Wang do for dinner? He actually put Jiannu in! Quick! Organize defense!"

Some time ago, Li Zicheng had been in charge of defensive wars at Hangu Pass. The one who stayed in Xi'an was Liu Zongmin who was injured in the Battle of Yibishi.

Liu Zongmin's arrow injury has not been completely cured, so Li Zicheng left him in Xi'an to guard.

Because Luochuan City was lost too suddenly, the defenders in Xi'an City were completely unaware of it, and the Qing army had already arrived at the city of Xi'an.

Liu Zongmin and his personal soldiers climbed to the city, shouting at the soldiers and the people: "There are wooden and stone winches arranged here, iron pots are set up here to cook gold juice, turbulent oil cans are brought, and all the enemies are brought to the city!"

The Shun Army guards in the city were very few, only three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled. They were all disabled soldiers in previous battles and were sent back to guard Xi'an City. There were dozens of yamen runners, hundreds of white soldiers and five thousand strong people, as well as 10,000 militia groups organized by local gentry.

Just as Liu Zongmin was nervously dispatching troops, Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guang first took dozens of personal soldiers to the top of the city.

"See the Grand Commander!" Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guang bowed first.

"Prime Minister Niu, General Zuo, are exempted from courtesy. Jiannu's troops are at the city. Let's set up defense together!" Liu Zongmin said.

Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guang stood up straight first. Who knew that at this moment, they suddenly pulled out two short muskets from their waists almost at the same time and pointed them at Liu Zongmin.

"You? What are you going to do?" Liu Zongmin asked with wide eyes.

Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guang pulled the trigger at the same time, and only two loud "boom" sounds were heard. The pistol shot at close range within three steps pierced Liu Zongmin's chest, and the huge impact force rushed Liu Zongmin backward and fell down.

"Thief!" One of Liu Zongmin's generals drew his sword and rushed towards Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guangxian.

Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guangxian's personal soldiers rushed up and chopped the general into meat paste.

In the city gate cave under the city, Zuo Guangxian's soldiers had already killed all the Shun army soldiers in the city gate cave and opened the city gate. Niu Jinxing and Zuo Guangxian at the top of the city asked him to put down the suspension bridge.

"Kill!" Ajige and Haoge drew their swords at the same time and pointed forward. Groups of Qing soldiers rushed into Xi'an City.
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