Zhang Kewang and Liu Jinzhong led 5,000 elite horsemen and 3,000 horses to join the old Hui Ma Shouying, and immediately went straight to Yingchuan without stopping, and arrived at the outskirts of Yingchuan that night.

"The order goes down, and all the horses are tied up, scattered into the woods, and rest in place, without making a sound! Those who violate the order will be killed! Zhang Kewang gave the order, and then turned around and greeted Lao Huihui and Liu Jinzhong, "Uncle Ma!" Lao Liu! Let's go around the city together and explore the reality of the officers and soldiers. ”

Before leaving, Zhang Kewang called Dingguo and Wenxiu again, and instructed them: "Second brother, third brother, brother will go back when he goes, and I'll leave it to you here!" ”

"Big brother, don't worry, with our brothers here, nothing can go wrong." Dingguo pressed the excitement in his heart and whispered.

About half an hour later, Zhang Kewang hurriedly returned to the army, immediately gathered the generals, broke a branch with his hands, used the ground as a sand table, and let everyone come forward, using the moonlight to arrange the battle strategy.

In the early morning of the next day, the west gate of Yingchuan had just opened, and the city gate official rubbed his hazy sleepy eyes, and found in disbelief that a black oppressive cavalry was rushing towards the city gate from all directions.

"Thieves! The thieves are coming! Close the gates! Close the gates! Seeing that the rebels were about to rush to the city, the city gate official reacted. However, everything was only in an instant, and before the city gate was closed, more than ten prancing horses had already burst into the city, and the leader of the city gate officials had split the city gate officials in half with a knife in his hand.

According to last night's deployment, Zhang Kewang led 3,000 people to attack the north gate, Lao Huihui and Sweeping King led 2,000 people to attack the south gate, Liu Jinzhong and Taiping Wang led 2,000 people to attack the west gate, and Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu led 1,000 troops to ambush in the woods on both sides of the official road outside the east gate, only waiting for the official army to break through and intercept and kill.

Yin Mengao, the governor of Yingchuan, woke up from his sleep, had to report that the West Gate was lost, and hurriedly led people to supervise the battle. As soon as I ascended the city tower, I saw the righteous army outside the city surging up, and dozens of flags of various colors accompanied by deafening horns and thunderous shouts resounded in the sky. Yin Mengao recovered from the initial panic and immediately commanded the archers to intercept the rear of the rebels who had not yet entered the city. Every time he waved his hand, a large number of rebels were shot and fell. Although they suffered a lot of casualties, the morale of the rebels was still high, and they charged forward desperately.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Yin Mengao ordered the soldiers and civilians to roll stones from the city wall, and the large and small stones smashed towards the rebels under the city. Losing the support of the rear team, the rebel army that had previously entered the city gradually fell into disadvantage under the siege of the official army and was forced to withdraw from the city, and the official army immediately recaptured the west gate.

At the same time, the battle at the North Gate was also fierce. Since this was the direction of the main attack of the rebel army, Zhang Kewang invested the most troops here. Knowing that the north gate was crumbling, Yin Mengao had just stabilized the situation at the west gate, so he rushed to the north gate non-stop, and at the same time asked people to move the only cannon in the city from the office, and put it on top of the city tower. Yin Mengao hid behind the battlements, carefully observed the situation under the city, and saw that there was a person in the rebel army, with bright clothes and armor, surrounded by more than 100 horsemen, holding the command flag in his hand and giving orders. Yin Mengao expected that this person must be the main general, so he turned his head and shouted at the gunner: "Go there, put it!" The gunner held the incense, lit the fuse, and fired violently in the direction of Yin Mengao's finger.

Zhang Kewang was supervising the siege of the city at the moment, and suddenly saw a flash of fire at the head of the city, followed by a dull rumbling sound, and secretly said that it was not good in his heart, and just wanted to dodge, the cannonballs had fallen beside him, black smoke was filled, and a piece of flesh and blood flew around. Zhang Kewang was overturned by the shock wave of the explosion and fell off his horse, and the dust raised instantly buried most of his body, revealing only one head.

The surrounding soldiers who were lucky not to be killed by the bombing saw that the main general had fallen off their horses, and hurriedly rushed up, dug Zhang Kewang out of the soil, and carefully examined it, but it was only some skin injuries. Zhang Kewang lay on the ground and slowed down for a while, sat up suddenly, wiped the dust off his face, and scolded angrily: "Damn, careless!" Give Lao Tzu an order to go down, and no one is allowed to retreat! Those who are the first to enter the city will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver! ”

However, under the command of Yin Mengao, the rebel army stormed for a day but never broke through the city. They held out until dark, and then the rebel army retreated slightly. Yin Mengao was afraid that the righteous army would attack at night, so he ordered the army and the people to guard it strictly, and at the same time moved the office directly to the city tower.

In the first half of the night, there was nothing to do, but the time to see the ugliness had passed, and Yin Mengao's tense nerves gradually relaxed. The fierce battle all day made him tired, and he couldn't support it at the moment, so he wanted to take a break and take a nap.

"Before dawn, the thief army should not attack the city. The order went down, so that the soldiers could seize the time to rest. Yin Mengao commanded left and right, then turned around and walked into the city tower, and fell asleep with hazy clothes.

Not long after he fell asleep, he suddenly heard a loud bang, Yin Mengao couldn't help but sit up, hurriedly put on his shoes and walked out, not wanting to collide with the general who stumbled in to report it. I saw that the general looked panicked and panted and said, "My lord! Something is wrong! The thieves dug the foot of the city at night, and the city wall near the Oolong Pond collapsed several feet! ”

"Quick! Gather the soldiers and horses with me! Be sure to plug the gap, and don't let the thieves into the city! Yin Mengao grabbed the saber and tried to calm himself down, then strode out of the city tower and beckoned the soldiers and civilians to rush to the gap in the city wall to reinforce the wall.

Due to the looseness of the earth city, when Yin Mengao arrived, both sides of the city wall were still collapsing and collapsing, Yin Mengao hurriedly ordered to seal the gap with a soil bag, but unexpectedly there was another loud bang, smoke and dust rolling, many people could not dodge, and were buried by the earth city that collapsed again.

Seeing the city wall collapse, the rebels hidden in the woods outside the city immediately cheered. Zhang Kewang immediately turned over his horse, personally galloped out of the forest with a fine horseman, and rushed towards the gap. The defenders of the city were busy with bows and arrows, but the cavalry came too quickly and soon approached the city.

The situation was critical, Yin Mengao stood at the head of the city, pulled out his saber, raised his arms and shouted: "Ming soldiers! Kill me! The defenders of the city then abandoned their bows and arrows, raised their swords and spears, and scrambled to jump out of the gap, and the two sides fought on the periphery of the gap. The rebel army marched forward bravely under the leadership of Zhang Kewang, and the officers and soldiers had their backs against the city wall, but they also refused to take a step back, and both sides were killed and wounded, and the corpses under the city were pillowed, and the ground was covered with blood.

The people defending the city had never seen this kind of formation, first the city wall collapsed, and now they saw the fierce attack of the rebel army, and they became more and more frightened. They all dropped their weapons, turned around and ran, and the city was suddenly plunged into chaos. Seeing this situation, Yin Mengao hurriedly went down to the city to block the road, kneeling and begging the people to go to the city again to hold on, but where could he stop it with the strength of one person, and the people collapsed in an instant.

Yin Mengao knew that the last moment had come, he staggered to his feet, gently brushed the dust off his official uniform, straightened the black gauze hat on his head, climbed the gap with his saber alone, and stood with his head held high where the city wall had collapsed. At this moment, all the officers and soldiers outside the city had been killed, and Zhang Kewang gave an order, and the rebels dismounted one after another and went up to the city. Yin Mengao was condescending, wielding a knife to kill seventeen people in a row, but the righteous army was still swarming forward, Yin Mengao gradually lost his support, and fought and retreated, and when he retreated to the edge of the Oolong Pond, there was no way out. Looking around at the rebels, Yin Mengao closed his eyes and sighed, raised his hand and threw the saber to the ground, burst his feet, turned around and jumped into the pool, sinking to death.

The fierce battle in the city was in full swing, but Dingguo and Wenxiu nested idly for a day and a night in the woods on both sides of the official road outside the east gate.

"Second brother, this battle is almost over, but we haven't even seen the shadow of half of the official army, it's really infuriating!" The sky was getting brighter, listening to the fainter and fainter shouts of killing in the city, although Wen Xiu's heart was itching, he was helpless.

As soon as Dingguo wanted to speak, there was a sudden chaotic sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and he hurriedly signaled everyone to prepare for battle. After a while, I saw a group of hundreds of officers and cavalry appearing at the end of the official road, and the direction was towards Yingchuan.

It turned out that a few days ago, Yin Mengao sent Zhao Shikuan to Shouzhou on a business trip, this world is chaotic, Yin Mengao was afraid of losing on the way, so he sent two hundred cavalry to accompany the guard. Unexpectedly, when he was halfway there, he heard that the righteous army was besieging Yingchuan, and Zhao Shikuan was so anxious that he immediately turned his horse's head and galloped 300 miles back to Yingchuan in one day and night.

"His grandmother's, just a few people! It's not enough for us to stuff our teeth! That's it, no matter how small a sparrow is, it's still a bird! It's better to have meat than no meat! Wenxiu comforted herself, immediately clenched her fists, and was about to move, "Second brother, do you want to fight?" ”

Dingguo shook his head and whispered: "The terrain here is open, if you fight here, the official army will inevitably break up, and it will be troublesome to clean it up then." Send the order down, let them go, our army will follow and pursue, block the city gate, and give him an urn to catch turtles! ”

However, it was said that Zhao Shikuan rushed all the way to Yingchuan City, only to see that the city gate was open, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city had already fled completely. At this moment, Dingguo and Wenxiu suddenly led the army to kill from the rear woods, and the sudden enemy army caught Zhao Shikuan a little off guard, and hurriedly asked everyone to hurry into the city, and immediately closed the city gate and defended the city tower. When the Dingguo soldiers came to the city, they did not attack the city, but just blocked the city gate tightly.

The situation in the city is unknown, but seeing that the direction of the north of the city is full of fire, Zhao Shikuan thought that the safety of Lord Zhizhou was in danger, and saw that the rebels outside the city had no intention of attacking the city, so he divided the two hundred cavalry into two, leaving one hundred people to guard the city tower, and he led the remaining one hundred cavalry to rush to support.

All the way to the north, along the way are full of people scattered and fleeing with their burdens, and the further you go, the more chaotic and difficult it becomes. It was easy to walk a few streets, and seeing that it was not far from the office, but the road was blocked, the people who fled in front of them told them that the north gate and the west gate had been breached, and Yin Mengao, the governor of the prefecture, had also died in the chaos. At this point, Zhao Shikuan knew that the situation was irreparable, so he stopped moving forward, stopped on the spot, and said to the people around him: "The matter has come to this, wait and find your own way out!" ”

The guards were reluctant to leave with tears, and said in unison: "I wish to die with the adults!" ”

Zhao Shikuan waved his hand: "I am an official of the imperial court, I eat the imperial court, and it is my duty to defend the land. When your parents, wife, and children are in the city, go home quickly! After dismissing the entourage and guards, Zhao Shikuan thought that his wife and daughter were still in the city, and if they were captured by the thieves, they would inevitably be humiliated, so he immediately turned his horse and went straight to his home in the south of the city.

As soon as I stepped into the house, I looked up and saw that Mrs. Cui and her two daughters were all dressed in full costume, and they had already hanged themselves on the beams of the hall. Seeing this scene, Zhao Shikuan couldn't help but clapped his hands and laughed: "Okay! Good! Good! Wait and wait for the lord on Huangquan Road, and the lord will come later! With that, Zhao Shikuan stepped forward, hugged the corpses hanging in the air, carefully lowered them from the beam one by one, arranged them neatly in the center of the hall, and took torches from the stove room, lit the curtains around the hall, and the whole room was surrounded by raging fire in an instant.

He threw down his torch, walked out of the house without looking back, picked up his sword, got on his horse, and headed straight for the north gate. As soon as they arrived at Wulong Pond, they bumped into a group of rebels, and when the rebels saw that they were officials, they immediately surrounded them.

Zhao Shikuan was undaunted, brandished his saber and leaped forward, slashing three or four close rebels in a row, but after all, he was born as a civilian official, and soon he was stabbed several times and fell under his horse. If it weren't for the rebels' bent desire to capture them alive, I am afraid that they would have been in a different place at this moment. Zhao Shikuan was seriously injured, leaning against a big stone by the edge of the pond with a knife, and sat on the ground. Seeing the righteous army approaching step by step, he struggled with the only trace of strength in his body, turned to one side, and plunged his head into the pool, only to hear a plop and splash. Everyone rushed up, trying to fish, but there was no trace of anyone except a faint ripple on the water.