Fourth General Ai Nengqi held a sword in his left hand and took out a rhinoceros horn edict from his right hand. Surrounded by his own soldiers, he shouted loudly to the gathered soldiers:
"According to the edict of the Grand Emperor of Qi, kill the traitor Zhang Zicheng, eradicate Zhang's party, and leave the rest alone! Those of you who help me take over the city of Xi'an will be promoted to officials, have good land and beautiful houses, and have women and money. Yes! If anyone dares to stop it, the nine clans will be killed for the same crime as the Zhang family members!"
All the soldiers held their arms together and shouted:
"Boss Zhang, the opportunity has come! Seize it, follow the four generals to kill thieves! You will have a rich future!"
"Xiao Daya, what about you! Your wife, children and the whole family are in northern Shaanxi, do you want them to survive?"
"Wang San'er, once the north gate is broken, the debt you owe to the gambling house will be settled by the Emperor of Da Qi for you!"
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There was one person taking the lead, followed by the second and third. More and more people knelt down. Thousands of soldiers knelt down in the middle of the street. Only a few hundred people were still standing there. The streets on both sides had been blocked. Ai Nengqi's men and horses blocked the way and could not escape for a while.
One of the burly officers brandished a knife and roared: "You don't want to get rid of your mother's hair! Don't believe this bitch! The city is high and the pond is deep. The Tatars can't get in. There are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in southern Shaanxi." , you are too afraid to fight with these dog Tatars! Daxi Kingdom will still give you wealth!"
Whoosh.
The sharp arrow shot through the air, flew over the heads of the crowd, and hit the officer's throat, causing his agitation to stop abruptly.
Wu Xiao put down his big bow, led two imperial guardsmen, and strode out from behind Ai Nengqi.
Thousands of Western troops were attracted by the black jacket he was wearing, and the crowd became commotion.
Seeing Wu Xiao walking up, Ai Nengqi and Pan Du'ao quickly bowed and saluted. Wu Xiao nodded to them, took a wooden trumpet from Pan Zhan'ao, looked at the dark crowd, and said without changing his expression:
"Tens of thousands of troops from the Imperial Second Corps have surrounded Xi'an. There are also our people in the city. Northern Shaanxi has surrendered, Weinan Ankang and Hanzhong have surrendered. No one is here to save you. Only you can save yourselves! The Supreme Emperor is kind and will not kill everyone. , as long as you surrender immediately, it will be fine if you keep it! Surrender or not!"
Thousands of Daxi troops were frightened by Wu Xiao's momentum. Those officers who were still hesitating fell to their knees one after another. Thousands of people shouted in unison:
“Down! Down! Down!
"
The sound was deafening.
The last dozen or so Yulin guards, each holding a sword, looked around in fear.
Some of them who were smarter had already dropped their weapons and ran away to report the news, while those who were slow to react were still standing there stupidly.
Ai Nengqi ordered his soldier Wu Zhichong to wrap up Zhang Zicheng's head and put it away. Then he waved his sword forward and pointed in the direction of the north gate of Fucheng, and said to the soldiers:
"follow me!"
Upon seeing this, Yu Linwei, one of Zhang Zicheng's confidants in front, also raised his sword and waved his hand towards the thick Daxi Army behind him.
"follow me!"
After saying that, he ran towards the north gate. After just a few steps, his own soldier Wu Zhichong had already caught up with him.
Wu Zhichong picked up Zhang Ziren's head and hit the Yu Linwei on the back of the head like a hammer.
Peng!
Habayashi Wei, who had been shouting "Follow me" just now, fell to the ground and was immediately trampled by countless pairs of feet.
"follow me!"
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Poor Zhang Zicheng, a powerful man who occupied several provinces, ended up with his head missing and his head chopped off to be used as a hammer to hit people.
This is exactly:
"When the hegemony is achieved, he will become an emperor and step on the bed of the dragon. It is a pity that he will die and the country will be destroyed. The Hammer King of Liaodong is stronger."
On that day, Ai Nengqi opened the Anyuan Gate and led the Qi army into the city.
The first battalion of 300 gunners quickly boarded the ruined Furong Tower, controlled the commanding heights, and covered the grenadiers and spearmen entering the city.
The follow-up soldiers and horses quickly advanced toward the south of the city along the main road, Chaotian Street.
The streets were strewn with corpses of the Daxi Army. Some injured soldiers who were not dead were wailing on the ground and were immediately killed by the Qi army that rushed up.
The fire gun soldiers on the ruins of Furong Tower, after covering the soldiers entering the city, began to expand north and south along the city wall, with Anding Gate as the center, and hundreds of steps of city walls on both sides were quickly occupied by the Qi army.
The auxiliary soldiers boarded the city top one after another, pushed the destroyed Hongyi cannon off the city wall, drove the mules and horses, and transported the field artillery battalions to the city head.
Fifteen Type 36 field guns were loaded, the muzzles were raised, and they were aimed at the Chaotian Street barricade.
The commander of the artillery battalion raised his command flag and shouted loudly:
"Set up and shoot Zhuyuan! Azimuth angle 27-00, shooting angle 06-80! - Release!"
The shells passed over the flaming Chaotian Street and roared in. More than a dozen shells grazed the barricades and landed behind the street. The iron balls hit the bluestone slabs hard, and the slabs suddenly cracked into pieces, and raindrops of stone debris were sprinkled along the street. houses.
The barricade suddenly burst into flames, and lead mixed with arrow feathers poured like a wave onto the attacking grenadiers a hundred steps ahead.
At the same time, several Fran cannon barrels protruded from the barricade sandbags.
boom! boom! boom!
Dozens of the three hundred grenadiers who rushed at the front suddenly fell down. The surviving general blew his bamboo whistle as hard as he could and ordered the grenadiers to evacuate to both sides of the street.
The first battalion messenger rushed to the ruins of Furong Tower, pointed at the artillery battalion, and cursed Commander Zhou Tiexi:
"Mom, you've got a gun. How can your artillery battalion shoot artillery? Quickly knock off the turtle shell on Chaotian Street!"
Zhou Tiexi's face turned pale.
The artillery battalion scout put down his telescope and loudly reported the impact point of the bullet.
Zhou Tiexi shouted with all his strength: "Correct the trajectory and continue the test firing!"
"Azimuth 27-02, angle of attack 06-85 - put!"
boom! boom! boom!
The city was instantly shrouded in thick white smoke, and a fierce explosion was heard from Chaotian Street.
The second round of artillery had a remarkable effect. Two shells fell into the middle of the barricade, detonating the defenders' ammunition. The barricade was instantly swallowed up by the explosion and fire.
The grenadiers guarding the barricades swarmed forward and quickly occupied the entire Chaotian Street.
The auxiliary soldiers pushed the field artillery up the city wall along the war horse wall, and bombarded the stubbornly resisting Western Army in the city from a high position.
As six thousand soldiers from three battalions of the Second Corps entered the main city, there was no doubt about the final outcome of the battle.
Fires broke out all over the city, and shouts of killing continued.
In order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly forces, the artillery has stopped shelling, and the Shenhuo Feiyang no longer fires.
The last remaining resistance against the Great Western Army was still setting fires everywhere, trying to block the Qi army's offensive with fire. They set up towers on the streets.
The training officer of the first battalion rushed to the front, holding a lance and a blunderbuss, braved the hail of bullets, rushed through the sea of fire, and loudly said to the soldiers:
"Brothers from the first battalion, follow me!"
At the same time, Ai Nengqi led his soldiers to pursue the defeated soldiers behind the Qi army, and their morale was like a rainbow.
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Seeing that the situation was over, the defenders in the city fled towards the south gate one after another. The Daxi generals weighed the pros and cons and were forced to surrender to the Qi army. The generals shouted "Follow me" and led the Qi army to attack the south gate.
The person guarding the south gate is Tao Dingbang, Zhang Zicheng's second adopted son.
Jin King Tao Dingbang was born in a poor family. In the third year of Chongzhen, he joined Zhang Zicheng's command.
He had an extraordinary appearance and was adopted as an adopted son by Emperor Daxi.
In the third year of Tianqi, following Zhang Zicheng's attack on Sichuan and Chongqing, Tao Dingbang disguised himself as a Ming army and galloped through the night with twenty Qingqi to capture Mianyang and obtained more than 100,000 military supplies stored by the Ming Dynasty.
The Battle of Mianyang was the most important battle after Zhang Zicheng entered Sichuan, laying a solid foundation for Zhang Zicheng to later establish Daxi.
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Tao Dingbang was famous for his kindness in the army. He was a brave leader in battle and was known as the "enemy of ten thousand people."
He was also the most favored adopted son of Emperor Daxi.
The city of Xi'an was about to be destroyed. There were hundreds of civil and military officials from all over the country. Only the King of Jin still tried to turn the tide and defend the city, preferring death to surrender.
On the 21st, all eighteen gates in Xi'an fell, but the south gate guarded by Tao Dingbang still held firm.
Forty thousand Qi troops and 20,000 Daxi troops surrounded the south gate. Many Daxi generals wanted to personally kill the King of Jin and use Tao Dingbang's head as a token of surrender to win the favor of Qi.
Deng Changxiong admired the talents of the Jin king and admired Tao Dingbang as a man. He sent three groups of demoted officials to Nanguo Gate to persuade them to surrender, but they were all killed by Tao Dingbang.
"In that case, let's fulfill his name of loyalty and filial piety."
In the early morning of the 22nd, the Second Corps and the Twelfth Corps fired thousands of artillery pieces, and Nanguo Gate turned into a sea of fire.
Tao Dingbang and his three thousand soldiers and horses, none of them surrendered, and they all died in the battle.
The day before Xi'an was pacified, Weinan, Hanzhong, and Ankang had already surrendered to Daqi under Pan Duao's persuasion.
The disintegration of various prefectures and counties in southern Shaanxi is also reasonable.
Three years after arriving in Guangde, the situation for the Daxi Liu bandits in Shaanxi was extremely critical.
In the battle, they were no match for the Qi army. They were already running out of food and grass to defend the city.
The most terrible thing is that Zhang Zicheng has been unable to come up with a feasible strategy for governing the country - if Emperor Daxi had one.
After more than ten years of operation, Daxi officials all have their own property. Sitting on fertile land, beautiful houses, and charming wives and concubines, Daxi officials are no longer the pure thieves they were before.
Facing the overwhelming attack of the Qi army, surrender was undoubtedly the best solution before them.
With the fall of Xi'an Fucheng by the end of February in the third year of Guangde, the entire territory of Shaanxi belonged to Daqi.
The Second Corps' war in Shaanxi came to an end, and Deng Changxiong's goal began to shift further north to Gansu.
