The so-called urn city, is outside the city gate, and then build a circle of city walls, the main city gate is enclosed, generally round, there is also a city gate, between the two city gates look like an urn, hence the name.

There are also soldiers guarding the urn city, and the city walls are connected, but within the urn city, there is no horse road to go up the city wall. Therefore, if you want to attack the Urn City, you can only climb the ladder outside. Even if you attack the city gate of the urn, because there is still the main city gate, you can't enter the city, and you have to be attacked by the defenders on the main city gate and the city wall of the urn city, which is really the meaning of catching turtles in the urn.

Because of this, generally speaking, the gates of the urn city are not strong and easy to breach, but no one will pay attention to the gates. With the urn city, it is guaranteed that the besieging army can only honestly climb the city wall.

Of course, Hong Chengchou understood this, so he had already blocked the inner city gate with sandbags, so that the peasant army could not quickly break through the inner city gate, and could only be attacked on all sides in the urn city.

Li Yan looked at the defenders on the head of the city, and knew that Hong Chengchou was determined to defend to the death, and this siege battle would be unprecedentedly tragic.

Luo Rucai also frowned: "Eight kings, this Xi'an City is not easy to attack." Zhang Xianzhong was a little indifferent: "Which city is easy to attack?" Let's rush to the state along the way, not to mention the small county seat, and the big county town has also been captured? As long as there is a ladder and a crossbow arrow is shot upward, the heads of those turtle grandchildren are not daring to be exposed, isn't there a stone machine, which is aimed at the city and smashed. ”

Luo Rucai shook his head lightly: "The accuracy of the stone machine is too poor, and if the stones are of different sizes, the distance is not accurate." Small stones flew directly into the city, hitting the common people, and large stones fell on the city walls, hitting our brothers who climbed the wall, alas, if only there were cannons. ”

Zhang Xianzhong scolded with a smile: "There are cannons, do you see them, they are in the city." We only have a stone machine, let's use it together, try to be on time, and if we can smash those battlements, at least let the officers and soldiers be unobstructed, and our arrows can be shot accurately. ”

Luo Rucai nodded: "Before attacking, you can come to him with a stone first, and then rush." ”

Li Yan said: "How many ladders do we have?" Luo Rucai said: "Hundreds of them have been made, which is enough." Li Yan said: "When the time comes, I will have to rush through the ditch outside the city, I think the ditch is also two zhang wide." ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "It doesn't matter, it's cold now, and the water under the bottom is already frozen, so everyone will fill the ditch while fighting, and it won't be troublesome." ”

Li Yan was a little worried: "At the moment, we must make a quick decision, once we can't take Xi'an within a few days, we will retreat, I think those officials and troops in Henan should be coming." ”

Zhang Xianzhong snorted: "This is natural, Hong Chengchou never wants to lose Xi'an, he must have already ordered to transfer troops to help." Li Yan groaned: "We have the Qin army behind us, we shouldn't be attacked by sneak attacks, and if the official army comes to help, the Qin army will definitely give us news." ”

Luo Rucai said suspiciously: "You can't count on them, I can't trust this Qin army." Be careful. ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "Where, people have captured Tongguan for us, which is enough to see its sincerity." You are so careful, don't offend people. Luo Rucai said: "If you offend, you will be offended, it is better than being eaten by others." ”

Li Yan looked at the two of them: "I'm still worried about the moment, as for the matter of the official army reinforcements, you can send out a detailed work to investigate." ”

Luo Rucai nodded: "I have already sent it." ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the lights on the city in the distance and took a long breath: "There's nothing to say, let's attack the city tomorrow." Lao Luo, according to the old rules, you and I will do it together, I will attack the northwest two gates, you will attack the southeast two gates, after the city is broken, the account will be divided into five or five. ”

The peasant armies that rebelled at the end of the Ming Dynasty had different positions and no subordinate relationship, and everyone fought together, and it was impossible to say who was the tribe and whom. But according to the number of men and horses of each man, he divided the looted property into equal parts, and took more of the more of the people, and less of the few of them. Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai are about the same, so everything is evenly divided.

Luo Rucai glanced at Li Yan: "Then how much does Li Gongzi take?" Zhang Xianzhong took care of everything: "You don't have to worry about this, I gave Li Gongzi's share." ”

He knew that Luo Rucai was greedy for money, and when the gold and silver were caught, he was generally reluctant to let go, except when his life was at stake, he was generally reluctant to let go, and now Li Yan only had more than 1,000 people, and Luo Rucai was unhappy if he shared more, and he was sorry for Li Yan.

Luo Rucai also understood, didn't say anything, and agreed.

Several people went down the high slope and returned to the camp to prepare.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Yan walked side by side, Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile: "Li Gongzi, this time to attack Xi'an, your soldiers are too few, and they are all young soldiers, you don't have to go up if you haven't fought a few battles." If you give me advice, I will succeed, and I will get Xi'an, how many things will I get, and we will divide the account in seventy and three points, how about it? ”

Li Yan smiled: "You can do whatever you say, it's just that my three-point account is too easy to take." ”

Zhang Xianzhong laughed: "That's not necessarily, the book says that in the midst of strategizing, the decisive victory is thousands of miles away." A good strategist is like Zhuge Liang, but it's not simple. Li Yan suddenly said: "Eight kings, I heard that you and Cao Cao's team, after breaking the city, often robbed good people and humiliated women, right?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong didn't care, and said bluntly: "This is there." Our rebellious team, all the people who came to defect are some landless bitter ha, one by one is illiterate, and they don't understand what the three outlines and five constants, benevolence, righteousness and morality, they know that they go into battle to kill men, go to bed and play with women, military discipline, naturally can't talk about it, but this is also stronger than the official army, those officials and soldiers not only rape and plunder, but also often kill good people and take meritorious deeds, good people, they are bumped into, nine times out of ten they can't keep their heads, our people's army can not do this. ”

Li Yan sighed: "I know this, but I think it's better to pay attention to military discipline." In this way, it can be supported by the people. It's also easy to recruit later. ”

Zhang Xianzhong snorted: "My old Zhang also knows this, but his brothers are not easy to restrain him." If you think about it, all of these people have eight and a half pounds pinned to their belts, and maybe one day they will be gone. Everyone is happy every day, and besides, it is not so easy to attack the city and break the village, and the survivors are holding a resentment in their hearts, and if they don't spill out, they will be suffocated. If you don't let them grab it and make a fuss, this anger will come at me. ”

Li Yan shook his head lightly, because he and Zhang Xianzhong were not lifelong friends, so it was hard to say deeply, so he had to sigh. He didn't want to see the scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping all over the city after the city was broken, raping and burning, so he said: "Since my more than 1,000 people and horses can't be used, let's take care of the back road for you, and let the red girl lead it, so as not to be caught off guard by the Ming army." ”

Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed: "With Li Gongzi's advice, the red girl will guard the backyard, and nothing will go wrong." ”

The next day, as soon as the sky dawned, tens of thousands of horses had already eaten a full meal and were ready to attack the city. The Ming army at the head of the city also knew that the peasant army would have a decisive battle after a night's rest, and Hong Chengchou also ordered the soldiers to eat a meal of Haisai, and everyone ate twice as much as usual, because this battle was going to start, and the next meal would not know when it would be eaten.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Yan stood two arrows away from the Xicheng City Gate, and Xu Yixian, Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others were on the left and right, and behind them were boundless infantry, carrying cloud ladders, holding crossbows, preparing to attack. In front of the crowd, twenty trebuchets stood out of the range of the officers' crossbow arrows.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the rising sun, blood red and blood red, although shining on the body, he didn't feel a trace of warmth, it was almost the moon at this time, but he was not cold at all, people who had been in battle for a long time were like this, as long as they were on the battlefield, the blood in the blood vessels boiled, the whole body was burning, and the blood flow was accelerated.

At this time, although Zhang Xianzhong did not have red eyes, he felt that the blood on his body began to accelerate, he raised the ghost head knife in his hand, and Sun Kewang on the side shouted: "Prepare to ......"

Zhang Xianzhong's knife fell down, and Sun Kewang shouted: "Release!" ”

The peasant army next to the trebuchet pulled the rope, the rope was connected to the barrier, and the gear lever was together, and the trebuchet's arm pulled by the leather rope bounced up violently, and the stones placed in the iron pot at the end of the arm flew out and smashed into the city.