Garrisoned at the head of Luoyang City is the former Ming Army Liu Youyi Department who surrendered to the peasant army, there is no war at the moment, several soldier leaders are lazily leaning against the city to fart and chat.

It should also be Li Zicheng's catastrophe, because he was concerned about the property that could not be moved away in the short term in the Fu Wangfu in the city, and there was also a reason why he was not at ease with the surrender of the Ming army, Li Zicheng deployed all the elite of the righteous army left in Luoyang City to the palace and nearby, leaving Liu Youyi's troops to defend the city. And where has Li Guo, who stayed behind, ever seen such a luxurious life! Lai spent all his time in the palace and didn't care about the defense of Luoyang City, which gave Zhu Hao an opportunity.

"Boss, look, there's a team of people outside the city!" A sentry soldier suddenly shouted.

"Where? I'll see, what the fuck is so bold as to attack blatantly. One of the leaders shouted.

Two miles from the city, a cavalry unit of hundreds of horsemen galloped towards the city gates, followed by a large group of infantry, and a few miles behind, a brightly armored force approached unhurriedly.

"Boss, these people seem to be General Liu's troops who are out of the city, I don't know why they look like this." The sharp-eyed sentry shouted.

"Really, wait for me to ask them. Tyre! What are you from? Seeing that the men were about to gallop to the city, the leader of the defenders shouted.

"Li Si'er, open your dog's eyes wide, it's Lao Tzu!" A leading man among the soldiers and horses in the city scolded.

"Hey, Captain Wang, it's your old man, forgive me for being clumsy, didn't you go out of the city with General Liu, what's wrong?" The leader of the defending army immediately recognized this man as Wang Han, the confidant and captain of the army general Liu Fangliang, and hurriedly accompanied him carefully.

"Less nonsense, open the door to Lao Tzu! Our department was raided by the Ming army outside the city, General Liu has been killed, and now the Ming army is chasing behind, I want to report to General Li, if you talk nonsense, Lao Tzu will die. Wang Han shouted.

"You know, you know, I'll open the door." The leader of the defenders saw that the Ming army brigade in the distance was not far from the city, although he was a little afraid that the enemy would come in, but when he saw the cold eyes of the gang of thieves below, he did not dare to disobey the order, and hurriedly ordered the city gate to be opened.

"Brethren, rush in!" Wang Han shouted, and hundreds of remnants of the peasant army whistled and rushed into the city gate in an instant.

Seeing that the last peasant army entered the city, and the Ming army outside the city was about to reach the city, the leader of the city defenders breathed a sigh of relief and secretly lucked. Just as he was about to order the city gate to be closed, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and a saber was put on his neck at some point!

"This is big brother, what are you doing? There's something to say! The leader of the defenders looked at the man in front of him who was wearing a peasant army uniform and had cold eyes and felt a little bad, and saw that the soldiers around him were also controlled by these big men who had just entered the city, and he was a little confused for a while, what was going on?

"If you dare to order the gates to be closed, I will call you to a different place!" The big man said coldly.

"The good man spares his life, the little one doesn't dare, he doesn't dare!" Even the most stupid people understand that this group of people is not their own people at all, maybe they are pretending to be Ming Jun! But now that my life is in the hands of others, it's better to be honest.

In this way, thousands of new troops outside the city effortlessly poured into Luoyang through the wide-open city gates!

In the flower hall of King Fu's mansion, Li Guo, a general of the peasant army, was watching singing and dancing. These singers left behind from the palace are really like flowers, so that a reckless man like Li Guo is tired of lingering in the gentle township.

"Report, the general is in a bad situation!" Just as Li was passing through the river of saliva, a little guy ran in in a panic to tell him.

"Damn, what are you panicking about, you messed up General Ben's good deeds!" Li Guo reprimanded with a straight face.

"Little damn it! General, just now I went to the city wall to deliver water, and I heard a group of men and horses outside the city return to the city to say that General Liu was ambushed by the official army and suffered heavy losses, and he himself was killed in battle. The little guy said in a panic.

"What? Liu Fangliang is dead? Is there such a thing? How many of them have fled and come to me! Hearing that his partner had died in battle, Li Guo couldn't sit still and shouted.

"General, it is General Liu's personal soldiers who have fled back, and the leader is Wang Han, there are about a few hundred people, and they are now running to the palace, they should be almost there." The little guy saw that Li Guo was about to have a seizure, so he hurriedly prayed.

"Prepare a horse for Lao Tzu, I'll go out and have a look." Li Guo shouted, and his subordinates immediately got busy.

It should also be Li Guo's fate, since he occupied the Fuwang Mansion, he saw that this little guy was clever and stayed in the mansion to serve, and was specifically responsible for dealing with the Ming army defending the city. Thanks to this little guy's extra heart, he reported Liu Fangliang's matter to Li Guo as soon as possible, giving him time to turn around.

It turned out that the remnants of Liu Fangliang were the captives that Zhu Hao accepted outside the city, Zhu Hao saw that these people were greedy for life and afraid of death, so he calculated and found a part of his own guards and new troops mixed in the surrendered peasant army, on the one hand, to monitor these prisoners, on the other hand, to open the city gate with these people, and to cooperate with the outside.

Wang Han, the leader of the peasant army who surrendered, was eager to make meritorious contributions, so he hurried to the palace with his men and horses, trying to capture Li Guo alive.

"That's not right! Something is wrong. How many remnants of General Liu did you just say? Li Guo, who had just stepped on the war horse, suddenly had a stirring spirit and hurriedly asked.

"About four or five hundred!" The little guy said truthfully.

"It's broken! These people are backwater! Li Guo patted his head and shouted.

"The general means that this group of people is pretending to be the Ming army?"

"No, they should be General Liu's subordinates, they must have been captured by the Ming army to earn the city! Otherwise, only Wang Han can report alone, how can there be hundreds of people? Li Guo frowned.

"Then what should I do, do you want to let the surrounding army enter the mansion to guard?"

"I'm afraid it's too late! I think now the Ming army has entered the city. Come on, immediately gather the nearby troops to meet the enemy at the north gate, pay attention, don't care if you meet General Liu's subordinates, don't worry about killing! ”

His own soldiers immediately took the order and left.

"Zhao Er, how does General Ben usually treat you?"

"The general didn't say anything to the little one, even if the general has anything to order, the little one will never give up." The little guy was also clever and hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

"Well, I didn't look at the wrong person! You pass my order, the soldiers in the house immediately pack their luggage, roll away all the valuable things, don't be bulky, gather here after a stick of incense, let's break through from the West Gate! Li Guo squinted his eyes and said coldly.

However, he said that Luo Yunqu led the main force of the new army to occupy the North City Gate and other key points effortlessly, and began to clear Liu Youyi's troops and scattered peasant armies. The two companies of the new army followed Wang Han's surrender army all the way and galloped towards the Fu Wangfu, but when the pavilion of the palace had come into view, countless peasant soldiers wrapped in sackcloth suddenly rushed out of the surrounding alleys, rushing towards the new army and the surrendering army, Wang Han had not yet reacted, and the battalion commander of the new army leading the army already knew that the other party must have seen through the intention of the new army. While organizing the soldiers to line up, he shouted: "Captain Wang, don't be stunned, Li Guo has already noticed something, now is your chance to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!" ”

After this reminder, Wang Han also reacted, and when he was hesitating, he suddenly saw the muzzles and cold eyes of several new army soldiers, and shuddered, since he has turned back, let's go back to the end, and even if he turns back now, Li Zicheng will not let himself go.

The soldiers of Li Guobu had only received orders from their superiors, and for these soldiers who were not usually highly disciplined, it was always difficult to wield a butcher's knife against their own people. Wang Hanbu didn't care about this, they went down the road and beat their own people very ruthlessly, and countless hesitant Li Guobu soldiers were cut down to the ground before they could make any moves.

In just one face, Li Guojun lost more than 100 people. The soldiers of Li Guojun, who were stimulated by the blood, also stimulated the fierceness, and they were not soft on Wang Hanbu, and began to fight desperately.

Although in the street battles, the New Army's musket volleys could not be brought into full play, but relying on their strong will to fight and their strength in white-knuckle warfare, the more than 2,000 peasant troops killed by the New Army, which had only more than 300 people, were defeated and retreated one after another.

Wang Han, who was commanding the battle on the side, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he saw the battlefield here, his own troops were about the same number as the new army, and it was still quite difficult to deal with the enemy with a close number. Fortunately, there was no reversal of the water again, otherwise there would really be no place to die!

The battle lasted for half an hour, and the peasant army defending the city had already lost all its strength and barely supported itself by relying only on the superiority in numbers. Suddenly, there was a trumpet sound from the north, and groups of soldiers in Ming army uniforms roared and rushed in, and the peasant army saw that the enemy was coming to reinforce the army, and their fighting spirit was completely lost, and they shouted and fled in all directions, and some simply knelt on the ground, holding their heads and lying on the ground.

Two other battalions of the regiment arrived, and within an hour the street fighting was over. More than 1,000 of the more than 2,500 peasant troops who entered the battle were captured, more than 1,000 were killed or wounded, and almost all of them were wiped out. On the side of the new army, more than 100 people were killed and wounded, most of them were the losses of the vanguard battalion, and more than half of the casualties of Wang Hanbu's army were killed.

After the two armies met, under the guidance of Wang Han, they rushed to the Fuwang Mansion non-stop, but found that the building was empty, and the huge mansion was empty except for a few old and weak servants, and it was empty.

"It's bad, Li Guo must have gotten the news in advance and escaped!" Wang Han said dejectedly.

"It doesn't matter, Captain Wang has already made a great contribution this time. Come on, go and ask those old people, where is Li in the past? Luo Yun said.

After a while, the soldiers came to report, and Li Guo took hundreds of henchmen to sweep away the gold and silver in the palace and fled to the west gate.

Seeing Zhu Hao rushing over, Luo Yunqu hurriedly stepped forward to report.

"Hehe, Li Guo is going to set up his own door, forget it, even if we don't look for him, Li Zicheng will not let him go. Lao Luo, you arrange it immediately, control the whole city as soon as possible, Zhou Da should be almost there, and be ready to meet the division. Zhu Hao didn't care about Li Guo, he was still thinking about Zhou Da's cavalry troops.

Luo Yunqu responded and left.

"Captain Wang, how is it, have you thought about it, where to go!" Zhu Hao asked with a smile.

"The villain is willing to join the new army and make contributions!" Wang Han could see that the young man in front of him had a high status in the new army, and hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

"You don't know who I am, I'm Zhu Hao."

"Shhh It turns out that you are..."Wang Han said dumbfounded. Zhu Hao's name is now known to the world, and it is quite a bit of a popular star, but he didn't expect this big living person to stand in front of him, Wang Han was surprised and delighted.

"In this way, I will organize you as the independent battalion of the first regiment of Division Commander Luo, and your subordinates will still be led by you, and when you return to Xuzhou, I will arrange for you to receive formal training at the training office." Zhu Hao was not worried about Wang Han's rebellion again, because he could see that Wang Han was both respectful and afraid of the new army, and the chance of having a different heart was very small.

"Thank you Dashuai, your subordinates should be loyal to Dashuai, if you have different intentions, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!" Wang Han was also wise, and knew that now was the time to show his loyalty.

"Alright, but you have another task, which is propaganda, to spread the policies and benefits of the Forces nouvelles to the centrists who are still in the camp of the rebels, and to dismantle them. How to do it will be discussed with you by the people of the Political Department of our army. Zhu Hao said other thoughts.

"Everything is subject to the arrangement of the commander!"

The new army repaired in Luoyang City for a day, and in the afternoon of the next day, it finally ushered in Zhou Da's cavalry brigade, escorting nearly a thousand carts, and drove into Luoyang City.

When the new army joined the division, the officers and men naturally rejoiced. Zhu Hao personally went outside the city to greet Zhou Da.

"The brothers of the cavalry brigade have worked hard, how is it, Zhou Da, tell me about your battle situation." After entering the city, Zhu Hao, Zhou Da, and Luo Yunqu walked side by side, and Zhu Hao asked about the battle situation of the cavalry.

"The marshal is serious, the war in our department is going very well, compared to Commander Luo, we can't talk about hard work."

Zhou Da blushed a little, and simply recounted the battle on the southern front.

The cavalry brigade arrived in Dengfeng three days earlier than Luo Yunqu's department, because it was cavalry, its combat effectiveness was strong, and it did not encounter decent resistance and interception along the way. It's just that there are many mountainous areas between Luoyang and Dengfeng, and the cavalry brigade did not dare to get too close to Luoyang before receiving Zhu Hao's order, and only wandered around the mountains south of Luoyang, waiting to intercept the convoy from Luoyang.

As soon as the southern convoy left Luoyang, it was detected by a large number of scouts sent by Zhou Da, and the combat effectiveness of the 2,000 peasant army escorted was not strong, and it was infantry against cavalry, less against more, Zhou Da did not arrange any tactics, but a few charges to solve the battle, and the new army had almost no losses.

It's just that the mountain road is difficult to walk, so although the cavalry brigade marched to Luoyang early, it arrived a day later than the infantry of the new army.

Zhu Hao was discussing the military situation with Zhou Da and Luo Yunqu, when suddenly a sentry came to report, and the reconnaissance troops outside the city learned that Li Zicheng's army was heading for Luoyang and would arrive in about three days.

"Hehe, as I expected, he really noticed it, but we don't have time to play with him now, Lao Luo, you immediately arrange to transport this batch of goods back, leave the empty city to him, and let him wipe our butts for us!" Zhu Hao smiled.

Zhou Da and Luo Yunqu couldn't help but laugh when they saw what he said funny.