At the same time, the eight kings also led the army to brave the heavy rain into the Jingwang Mansion, and the soldiers began to rummage around in the Jingwang Mansion to find items, and swept away all the valuable or things that could be taken away, and opened the treasury in Qizhou City to store food, and the Chuang army ransacked the city for a whole night.

The next day, as soon as the heavy rain stopped, bloodstained corpses could be seen everywhere on the street floor! Most of the people in the city surrendered to the army to save their lives, and the soldiers only rested in the city for two hours, and then went north to Huanggang County, the capital of Huangzhou, under the leadership of the eight kings.

Ming Huangzhou Tongzhi: Zhu Tongyu, when he went to the city to inspect the city, he found that a large number of soldiers and civilians had fled? Ming Huangzhou Tongzhi immediately went down to the city tower, grabbed a person at the gate of the city, and asked, "Why are you running away in such a panic?" The people stammered and replied, "Report, report, report, there is an invasion of the rogues!" ”

When the Ming and Huangzhou Tongzhi heard this, he decided to stick to the city and be loyal to the country, so he summoned all the Ming troops in the city to go up to the city tower and aim heavy artillery at the outside of the city to prepare for the battle.

At this time, the Ming army next to him persuaded him, "Lord Zhizhou, do you want to close the city gate to prevent the rogues from mixing in?" But he was rejected by the same knowledge of Ming Huangzhou! He believed that once the city gate was closed, the people under the city would not know where to run and would inevitably be killed by the bandits, so he refused to close the city gate and let the soldiers be responsible for evacuating the people and fleeing.

The eight kings of the army who marched to a mile outside the city sent soldiers to reconnoitre, and learned that the gate of Huanggang County was wide open, and the generals of the army felt incredible when they heard it? I guessed; The Ming army won't be inviting you into the urn, right?

But the Eight Kings didn't care about these things, and they didn't believe in these schemes, they only knew that they couldn't miss this opportunity.

It was decided to take 1,000 people from the left army of the Chuang Army: Ma Yuanli, and his subordinates to disguise themselves as ordinary people and blend into the city to do internal response, and he himself marched to about 300 steps to set up artillery, preparing to attack the Ming army with a combination of inside and outside.

In this way, the army dressed as ordinary people came to the city and mixed into the city, hiding the saber at the corner of the street, and the eight kings behind began to order the cannon, and more than a dozen shells exploded on the city wall, and the Ming army defending the city was suddenly shocked! Most of the residents of Huanggang County abandoned their homes and fled, Ming Huanggang Zhi County: Sun Ziyi, Ming Huanggang County Cheng: Wu Wenxie, Ming Huanggang General: Guo Yizhong, these three people heard the artillery fire and hurriedly organized soldiers to do a defensive offensive, and ran towards the city gate to close the city gate first.

Unexpectedly, on the way, he was hit hard by the intrusive army lurking in the city in advance, so that the Ming army couldn't tell which one was the people and which was the Ming army? Only indiscriminate slashing and killing caused large-scale chaos.

The intrusive army in the city took the opportunity to use iron chains to trip over the Ming army and capture the Ming general, and then changed into the armor of the Ming army and came to the city gate. The panicked intruders immediately showed their horses' feet, drew their swords and rushed up the ladder, and the Ming Huangzhou Tongzhi asked the Ming army archers to release their arrows.

Beat down a group of charging rogues, a small number of rogues saw this and went to the city gate to kill and cut down the Ming army under the city, pulled the bolt of the door and ran to the city gate to release a signal flare into the air (bang), only to see a big word scattered in the air.

The eight kings of the artillery battalion in the rear saw that there was a signal flare, so they let the cavalry rush to the edge of the moat, and replaced them with crossbow arrows to shoot the Ming army on the city tower intensively.

At this time, the Ming Huangzhou Tongzhi ordered a part of the defenders to block the Liukou, and personally went up to the city tower to direct the soldiers to fire the artillery, and the artillery on the city tower were all bronze Franky cannons, which belonged to the breech-loading artillery, so the Ming soldiers held shields and braved the rain of arrows to replace the flowering shells and ignited, (dong, dong, dong) to blow up to the Liukou army 300 steps away.

Just when the rogue in the city was about to be killed, the follow-up cavalry poured into the city, slaughtering the Ming soldiers under the city tower, and the eight kings also led the troops to rush over. His body was dragged outside the city by several Ming soldiers for burial.

At the same time, the 3,000 Qin army iron cavalry and the 7 guards garrison of Xi'an Mansion were respectively commanded by the Ming Yulin Guard: Wang Ding, Ming Shaanxi and Dong Hui, led to the Tongguan Acropolis, and the governor of Ming Shaanxi learned that reinforcements were coming and hurriedly went out to greet them, and the two Ming generals also saluted politely, "The last general is here, the governor is in command to make the affairs of the adults busy!" Now I'm still dealing with things in the Guyuanwei area! We were specially ordered to lead the troops to come to our aid. ”

On a whim, the governor of Ming Shaanxi instructed the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei to arrange the soldiers' accommodation and rations, and in addition, he took out some silver taels from the treasury as expenses, but he didn't want to be whispered by the commander of the Mingtong Guanwei, "Lord Governor, the treasury silver taels can only maintain the veterans of our army, and even the new soldiers have not been paid back and have been in arrears, so there is still a surplus of silver taels?" ”

Hearing this, the governor of Ming Shaanxi was not happy, he glanced at the commander of the Ming Tong Guanwei and said, "Don't you know how to find a way?" There are thousands of acres of fertile land in Tongguanwei, and there are nearly 100 wealthy businessmen According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the taxes of these people in previous years have been delayed again and again! This year's taxes have not been paid yet, and I will ask them for them, and everything will be borne by Ben as soon as possible. ”

Seeing that the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty said so, the commander of the Ming Tong Guan Wei had no choice but to go down to prepare the silver two to arrange a residence, and the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty held a banquet for the two Ming generals in the Wei command post.

At this time, the new Shun King who had just been crowned a prince in the south: Li Zicheng, felt more and more that his generals were starting to be disobedient? After all, most of us were peasants before, and they didn't have much culture, and they didn't need to obey any orders when they acted casually, but now it's different, King Xinshun has now been abandoned (the banner of King Chuang), established himself as the king, and was promoted to the "King of One Word" according to the title of Daming.

Therefore, he felt that it was time to teach a lesson, those disobedient and reckless generals, and planned to start with the general of the Shun army: Luo Rucai, and the commander of the left battalion of the Shun army: He Yilong, these two people started to do it (killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys).

He asked Shunjun Zuo Fu: Niu Jinxing, how do you think you should get rid of these two? Shunjun Zuofu proposed, "Great King, although you have now been crowned and established as king, the brothers are already accustomed to a life of robbery and are unwilling to obey the rules!" If the king is innocent or finds fault with them, I'm afraid people won't be convinced? I think that the only way to do this is to let them be the vanguard to kill the enemy, and we should withdraw the main army to the flank and feint the enemy at a critical time, if they are defeated, then the king can kill him for the crime of defeat, and if they win, they must also suffer heavy losses? It would never be easy to pursue the Ming army, so the king could use this as an excuse to get rid of them? What does the king think? ”

After listening to the words of Zuo Fu of the Shun army, the new Shun king immediately ordered to go north to attack the Hanzhong Mansion of the Chengxuan Political Division of Shaanxi, because most of the Shun army's hometowns are in the area of the Chengxuan Zhengsi of Shaanxi, and the Shun army will definitely work hard to recapture their hometown.

On the 8th day of the first month of March, the king of Xinshun summoned the generals of the Shun army to announce the Northern Expedition, with the general Weide of the Shun army and the commander of the left battalion of the Shun army as the vanguard, and the rest of the generals of the Shun army followed up with the left and right wings in the rear, from Huguang Xingdu Si Yunyang Mansion to Shaanxi Chengxuan Zhengsi Hanzhong Mansion Xunyang County.

Suddenly, Hanzhong Prefecture and County were in an emergency! The Shun army raided Xunyang County and came to Xing'an to defend the Qianhusuo and Jinzhou areas, and constantly invaded and robbed the grain and slaughtered the Ming army.

The army of the new Shun king behind it attacked by water by boat, bombarding the defenders on the moat city tower on the Hanjiang River, so that the Shun army of the vanguard quickly broke through the city defense, and sent troops to Hanyin County and Shiquan County and Xixiang County to attack, Shun Junquan general: Liu Zongmin, seeing the Shun army soldier Feng Zhengsheng, asked the Xinshun King to be willing to be the deputy marshal from Xixiang County to approach Han Zhongwei, intending to take Han Zhongwei in one fell swoop to control the entire Hanzhong Mansion, was allowed by the new Shun King but stipulated that the Shun army should not be rescued, and only allowed to go to Hanzhongwei alone.

At this moment, the prefect of the Ming and Han dynasties: He Zhimu hurriedly sent a fast horse to Xi'an Mansion to contact the local garrison to ask for support.

Immediately after the forward Shun army after the artillery bombardment of the wheel battle, the defenders surrendered to the Shun army, and the new Shun king who sat in the rear military camp was overjoyed to learn the good news one after another, not only sighed: "This Luo Rucai is still a member of the lone king, but it is a pity that he and Zhang Xianzhong are too close!" If he switched to Zhang Xianzhong that day, it would be very unfavorable to Lonely, so he would have to get rid of him. ”

He ordered the Shun army on the left and right flanks to keep a distance from the forward Shun army and retreat 300 paces, and cut off the ammunition support of the transport team, hoping to use this dilemma to get rid of the two generals by the hands of the Ming army.

General Weide of the Shun Army, who had just marched to Xiangxian County, received a report from the soldiers who rode quickly on horseback, saying, "General Qiyu, our army seems to have lost contact with the logistics troops!" General Weide of the Shun Army was surprised: "What? Was it attacked by the Ming army? Quickly go to find out the situation and continue to contact the logistics troops. ”

The commander of the left battalion of the Shun army on the side felt that something was wrong? Then he said, "General, the last general has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?" The king pointed you as the vanguard, and arranged the left and right wing armies, but why didn't the two wing armies be seen? Since entering the territory of Hanzhong Mansion, I have never seen any Shun army generals to help? Could it be that the king deliberately wants our army to die at the hands of the Ming army? ”

But General Weide of the Shun Army thought about it for a while and felt that it was unlikely, it should have been dragged by the Ming army, right? After all, now the eight kings: Zhang Xianzhong, he doesn't dare to easily suspect King Xinshun when he is not in the army.