The horse's four hooves were already wrapped, the horse's mouth was strangled with a chew, and it ran without a sound, and gradually approached the camp. Hong Chengchou instructed the archers: "Look at the sentries of the patrol camp and fire the ...... together" Dozens of archers shot feather arrows in unison, and those sentries fell in response.

Hong Chengchou shouted: "Light the torch and attack it!" ”

The soldiers lit torches, and then shouted in unison, and killed the camp, and they killed and cut down when they met anyone, and the torches in their hands lit the tent when they saw it, and the thieves' camp was in chaos for a while.

Hong Chengchou's sneak attack this time is not very lethal, but the army rushed in with a bloody courage to kill and slash indiscriminately. If effective resistance can be organized, these 600 or so people will not be able to overcome much of a storm. But these days, Wang Zuohang's civilian army is really too careless, they firmly believe that there will be no reinforcements on the Ming side, as for the defenders in Hancheng, it is possible to attack suddenly. Therefore, the defense of the people's army is fully oriented towards the city. Bows and crossbows were arranged, deer firewood, and ditches were dug where there was no deer firewood, and behind them, there was no fortification at all. In addition, the momentum of these 600 people rushing in was extremely fierce, and I don't know how many Ming troops came in the dark night, so everyone's psychology was almost collapsed.

There is only one group of exceptions, and that is Li Zicheng's team eight.

Li Zicheng served in the Ming army and led the team, he knew the importance of training in peacetime, so the eighth team became an alternative in this rebel army, others do not train, they train, this matter is often regarded as a joke by the civilian army of other teams.

And at this moment, the usual training has finally shown its effect.

All the soldiers of the Eighth Civilian Army got out of their tents and assembled on the spot, three or five people back to back, their weapons facing outward, and none of them panicked. Li Zicheng, Li Guo and others issued orders in succession: Those who are in chaos will be killed!

Therefore, the eight teams are ready to fight, as stable as Mount Tai.

The rest of the Nationalist Army was not so lucky. This siege of Hancheng, Wang Zuohang did not come, sent his brother as the leader, this brother has not seen any big battles, was rushed by Hong Chengchou, immediately the soul flew out of the sky, regardless of his subordinates, he rode on his horse, and fled like flying.

As soon as he ran, his dragons were leaderless, and the order could not be done, so he could only be slaughtered.

The six hundred Ming troops were rampaging through the camp, and the more they killed, the more energetic they became, and the more they killed, the more excited they became. Although a person who has never been on the battlefield has little experience, once he kills someone, he will immediately become like a mad dog, and his lethality will increase tenfold. So these 600 Ming troops turned out to be like 6,000 people, and no one could stop them wherever they went.

Hong Chengchou himself was also red-eyed, his horse had been stabbed, so he jumped off his horse to fight, his own soldiers protected him, desperately rushed to the camp, behind him was a wolf corpse.

However, there were too many civilian troops, and it was not easy to defeat them for a while, and one of the soldiers shouted: "My lord, there are too many thieves, it is better to retreat." Hong Chengchou laughed: "In one go, never retreat, as long as you kill for a while, there will be a large reinforcement coming." ”

When the soldiers heard this, their courage increased and they killed more fiercely.

Sure enough, at this time, Han Chengzhong saw the chaos in the thief camp and knew that reinforcements were coming, so the general in the city opened the city gate and led five hundred cavalry to rush out.

If the people's army did not encounter a sudden attack, they could still rely on the cover of deer firewood to fire arrows and shoot the cavalry back, but now it is already in chaos, where can it withstand the impact of the cavalry.

The five hundred iron horsemen were like a huge iron python in the camp, and they were killed instantly, either trampled to death by the hooves of horses, or pierced through the chest with spears, and everywhere they went, there was blood.

Li Zicheng looked at the formation in the distance and shook his head slightly: "We can't win." Retreat ......" he knew that if he withdrew a little later, the cavalry would rush to the front, and he would not be able to go if he wanted to.

As soon as the soldiers of the Eighth Team heard about the retreat, they were not in a hurry, and slowly withdrew, and Li Zicheng and Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi and others personally broke off and quietly withdrew.

Hong Chengchou saw from a distance that the Eighth Team was withdrawing, and he felt that this group of people's troops was extraordinary, they did not panic when they retreated, they walked calmly, and the last person behind the break held bows and arrows and retreated steadily.

The leader of this people's army is by no means an ordinary person, you must know that the army that can still maintain a tight formation in the defeat and retreat must not easily catch up.

So he commanded his Ming army with all his strength to pursue and annihilate the remnants of the enemy in front of him.

In this battle, Hong Chengchou became famous in one battle. With hundreds of newly recruited soldiers, thousands of civilian troops were broken, and their prestige was greatly shaken.

After the battle, Hong Chengchou specially interrogated a few prisoners, and asked about the team that was in danger and steadily withdrew, and the prisoners told him that the team was eight teams, and the leader was called Li Zicheng, known as the general.

Hong Chengchou firmly remembered this person.

Wang Zuohang was defeated in Hancheng, and for a time the people's army in Shaanxi was frightened, and Yang He was in the court, and Hong Chengchou was in Wu, and he was beaten with a two-pronged approach, and in less than a year, the whole Shaanxi stopped.

And such a situation also gives the developing Qin army an opportunity to take advantage of. There was no longer fighting in various places, so grain from other places was brought in, some county towns had regained their vitality, and there were more merchants.

The Qin army outside Huayin City, because of the silver in their hands, the whole village was in full swing, grain, cloth, horses, iron, silk, cattle and sheep...... A steady stream of them came in every night. In order to hide from the people, all sergeant training was carried out at night, and there was no fire, no sound, and no outsiders knew about it.

With horses, the cavalry of the Qin army began to develop, in the Warring States Period, the war horse did not have horse shoes, so the cavalry could only fight with bows and crossbows, and now equipped with horse shoes, the Qin army began to practice the ability to assassinate and slash on the horse, and the combat effectiveness rose sharply.

Besides, that young man Li Yan, because he showed his hand in front of Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi valued him very much, and took him with him in everything except to discuss important matters with King Qin.

Recently, Zhang Yi has been running to Huayin City more and more times, and every time she goes to buy some books, she goes to the old store of the Wu family to chat with the girl with a blue heart. Every time I go, I like to fight very much, and the girl with a blue heart naturally can't fight him, and in the end, it is almost a mess of punches, knocking Zhang Yi out of the door.

Zhang Yi is also a cheap person, she never remembers to fight, and every time she fights, she makes Li Yan and Miss Xinlan cry and laugh.

How did Li Yan know that this Zhang Yi likes to fight the most in his life, and he has been holding back for more than a thousand years, and when he comes to life at this time, where can he still bear it. But he didn't talk bare either, when the girl was not angry, he also begged for something about the blue girl. According to him, he is a new person, and the government may not be very at ease with them, in case there is any rumor in the county, which is not good for them, and hopes that Miss Xinlan will inform them, so as not to be defeated.

Of course, Miss Xinlan agreed, in the entire Huayin City, there are almost no more well-informed places than her, and usually the messengers in the yali often come to the store to eat and drink, and it is not difficult to inquire about the affairs of the government.

In this way, Zhang Yi successfully planted a secret agent in the county. You must know that although those sentinels can also hear the news, they are all on the periphery, and most of the news is chasing after the wind and shadows, and the people are passing it on by the people, and the accuracy is not high.

A few months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the land of Shaanxi has been calm, during which a few snowfalls have brought life to the dry land. After the beginning of spring, spring ploughing began in various places, and as the seeds were sown in the fields, the hearts of farmers were hopeful.

But this hope did not last long, because God did not want the suffering in the world to end so soon.

Thereupon...... In the third year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi was still in a severe drought.

The grain is still not harvested, and the appeasement silver brought by Yang He has been used up.

As a result, there was a thunder on the flat ground, and the land of Shaanxi rose again.

Shen Yikui took the lead in rebellion, and once again raised the banner of rebellion, and all parts of the country responded again, and a bigger storm hit than the previous year, flooding the land of Shaanxi.

The number of people involved in the rebellion this time was as high as hundreds of thousands.

Chongzhen was furious, believing that Yang He's strategy was a complete failure, that there was not enough success, and that there were more than enough failures, so he issued a decree to arrest Yang He back to Jingshi for questioning.

When Yang He was captured, he wrote a letter to Hong Chengchou, with four big words at the end: What a god!

He has always known that Hong Chengchou's attitude towards the thieves and rebels is different from his own, and he is mainly fu, while Hong Chengchou has only one creed, whoever rebels, he will kill whoever he wants, and if he kills all of them, no one will rebel. At present, Shaanxi seems to have to use Hong Chengchou's strategy.

Sure enough, after Yang He was captured, Hong Chengchou was promoted to the governor of Shaanxi. As soon as he took office, he devised a plan to exterminate the peasant army with a big slash.

At this time, his subordinates were no longer the weak brigade of only 600 people, but the newly recruited tens of thousands of horses. Hong Chengchou was very discerning, he knew that although pacification had a certain effect, this stable situation would not last long, so he did not stop for a moment and began to recruit and train people.

This team, like Hong Chengchou's character, is tough, bold, cunning, and fearless.

This is the "Hong Bing" under his command.

It was precisely because he had been prepared for a long time that after several months of attack, the results were remarkable, many peasant armies were annihilated, and the leaders were killed, including Li Zicheng's former commander, Wang Zuohang.

At this time, this breath of slaughter also began to blow to Huayin County.