The cold wind was fierce, and the dead leaves were swept up in the cold wind. Crows and vultures came, crossing the broken earthen walls, hovering in the sky, looking down at the dead bodies on the ground.

Under Guancheng, among the dead bodies everywhere, countless crows and vultures were greedily devouring the corpses. These birds falling from the sky flapped their wings in the middle of the pile of corpses, tearing and pecking at the corpses, and then swallowing in a hurry. The pile of corpses under Guancheng seemed to have become a living bird mountain, the sky was dark and the dust was rolling. And more crows and vultures hovered in the air and then fell from the sky, and finally the **s had disappeared in their belly.

At this moment, a sudden sound of cannons came from afar. Amid the sound of cannons, thousands of crows and vultures were flew into the air. The broken Guancheng trembled again in the cannon. For a moment, the rammed earth collapsed and the loess flew...

When bricks and soil collapsed in pieces and shells, hundreds of Ming soldiers scattered behind broken arrow bushes on the city wall. They were dressed in shabby standing on the wall. They either sighed long and closed their eyes and waited for death. Some even prayed to the sky, their eyes were filled with despair.

At this moment, someone shouted.

"General Zhou is here!"

The soldiers who were originally numb and sighed all stood up and saluted the general who was walking over.

Zhou Yuji, wearing a broken armor, smiled at the soldiers on the city.

"Thank you for your hard work, brothers."

While speaking, the blood-filled eyes in his shriveled sockets looked at everyone, and he said again as everyone returned the greetings.

"Brothers, don't worry, I have sent a messenger and asked the court to send reinforcements. The court's reinforcements will arrive at Ningwu Pass soon, and the Pinglu General has already wiped out the bandits. I will soon lead the Northern Expedition to defeat Xiangyang and take straight to the Central Plains. At that time, the bandits will definitely be attacked from both sides..."

Are these words true?

All are fake!

But now Zhou Yuji needs these lies to calm the morale of the army and to let them see hope. He has only a few thousand people under his command, many of which are ordinary people and strong. He can defend until now, because the city of Ningwu Pass is almost difficult to attack. But now, how many days can the city wall last?

Listening to the rumbling sound of cannons and feeling the tremor of the cracks in the bricks in the city of Chengguan, Zhou Yuji's eyebrows were locked into a ball. He looked to the northeast again, thinking in his heart.

"When will the reinforcements from the court arrive?"

At this moment, he saw the dust suddenly flying outside the city, rolling up quickly, and he saw the shadow of the horse flying in the dust, and the sound of thousands of cavalry running was very intimidating!

The one who came must be the thief!

Zhou Yuji guessed it right. All the soldiers who were sure to break the thief protected by the thousands of horses were wearing armor. Although the armor was covered with dust, their faces were clean and without any fatigue. The leader led the person to rush up to the slope more than one mile away from Guancheng, and stared at Guancheng with bright eyes and majestic dignity, which made people dare not look at them. However, there was a hint of worry in this bright gaze.

Five days!

A small Ningwu Pass blocked hundreds of thousands of troops for five days!

In the past five days, the army suffered tens of thousands of casualties!

Even though he claimed to have a million troops, Li Zicheng was shocked by the bitter battle in front of him. If the generals of the Ming Dynasty were like this, the capital would definitely not be able to be taken down!

Even yesterday, there was another crushing defeat. Zhou Yuji opened the city gate and sued more than 10,000 Dashun troops into the city, then closed the gate gate, killed four brave generals of the Dashun troops in the urn city, and killed all the Dashun troops into the city.

"This Zhou Yuji! It's really amazing! If you don't kill him, how can you vent my hatred!"

While Li Zicheng was talking to himself, Sun Kewei, who was beside him, whispered.

"Your Majesty, I think you can spare Zhou Yuji's life."

"Oh? Why is this? Zhou Yuji killed more than 10,000 Dashun troops in Daizhou, and refused to surrender at Ningwu Pass. I have said that if I don't go down for five days, I will slaughter the city, and if I don't keep the chickens and dogs, why should I keep Zhou Yuji's life?"

Massacre of the city!

For Li Zicheng, it is no big deal to issue such an order. After all, this is the "smart weapon" of the bandits. The purpose of massacre is not to slaughter, but to "intimidate" it, and to tell others what the price to pay for stubborn resistance.

Since we said that we would like to slaughter all Ningwu Pass, we naturally cannot give up easily.

"Emperor, Zhou Yuji may not know the current affairs, but the emperor, Zhou Yuji was born in the Liaodong generals. Although the Zhou family is not a tribe in Liaodong, they always have relatives with Liaodong generals. If the emperor can spare him, he may be useful when he surrenders to Liaodong generals in the future."

The Prime Minister's words made Li Zicheng say a little unhappy.

"What the Prime Minister means is to let me spare his life?"

"I want the emperor to buy bones with a thousand gold coins. The Liaodong generals hold 200,000 powerful soldiers, all of which are elite border troops. If they can surrender, they can use them to attack the Pinglu Army. Zhou Yuji may not know the current affairs. However, when the generals of Liaodong see someone like Zhou Yuji who does not know the current affairs, the emperor can spare him and die. Naturally, they are willing to surrender to my Dashun. With the help of the Liaodong 200,000 border troops, the Pinglu Army will naturally not be afraid!"

Sun Kewei's persuasion made Li Zicheng fall into deep thought. He is not yet a few months later, and Li Zicheng can listen to others' advice at this time.

However, when Li Zicheng thought of Zhou Yuji killing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, he still said unwillingly.

"What about Ningwu Pass?"

Sun Kewei replied.

"You should slaughter all the people, and don't leave a single bite of the young and old."

Li Zicheng asked again.

"What if Zhou Yuji doesn't surrender?"

"He will definitely not surrender. The emperor just imprisons him in the prison cart. In my opinion, as long as I conquer the capital, he will surrender at that time."

Zhang Tianlin, who was beside him, also said.

"Emperor, we are attacking Ningwu Pass this time to cut off the Ming Dynasty emperor's army to seize the king. After conquering Ningwu Pass, General Datong and General Xuancheng, if they see that the emperor can spare him, they will surrender to me. In this way, we can conquer the capital east and avoid worrying about Xuan Daming's army returning to the capital!"

When he was in Taiyuan, Li Zicheng, Song Xiance, Sun Kewei and others had a very strategic vision of the offensive route. If he conquered Taiyuan and went directly to Zhending to attack the capital, there would inevitably be Xuancheng and Datong's powerful troops returning to Kyoto, and first took Ningwu Pass and then annihilated Xuan and the main force, which cut off the main source of the king-supporting army, and the aid troops in other places would be beyond the reach.

However, the bones of the Ningwu Pass were too hard. In the past fifteen days, with the vital strength of Ningwu Pass, he killed tens of thousands of troops. If the heavy casualties were far beyond his expectations, if he fought with the Xuan Daming Army like the Ningguan Army, he would probably have been greatly injured before he could reach the capital. What else would he do to fight eastward?

"Will they surrender?"

Li Zicheng asked back.

"Ningwu has not yet been defeated, and our army has suffered too many casualties. Since then, we have arrived in the capital, including Datong, Xuanfu, and Juyongguan, and hundreds of thousands of troops. If they are all like Zhou Yuji of Ningwuguan, even if they have a million troops, they will probably be greatly injured. If so, it is better to go back to Shaanxi and guard Tongguan to plan for the future."

Once again, a trace of retreat arose in Li Zicheng's heart. As soon as he finished speaking, Song Xiance said.

"Why do you have to do this? Ningwu Pass is now broken, and the city is broken in the next two days. As long as Ningwu Pass is captured, Xuan Daming's army will surrender..."

After saying that, Song Xiance said again.

"Whether they were Datong Jiang Guan or Xuanfu Wang Chengyun, they did not kill the messenger we sent to persuade the surrender. Only Zhou Yuji killed the surrendered general Xiong Tong. This shows that they were already unfair. As long as they took Ningwu Pass, he would definitely surrender!"

After saying that, he looked at the city again.

"It's just that this Zhou Yu Ji. When the emperor sent Xiong Tong to persuade him to surrender, he not only did not surrender, but instead killed him. It was really hateful. In the eyes of his ministers, he should kill him!"

"Emperor, what's the use of killing him to vent his hatred?"

Sun Ke hurriedly argued.

"Killing him is just to vent his anger. But keeping him can use him to convince everyone in the world, and use him to lobby the Ming generals to surrender to us, and keep one person to win the world. Emperor, is there any good thing in the world that is more cost-effective than this?"
Chapter completed!