Li Zicheng's three-way army stormed Nanyang City from three directions, and more than 20,000 people and horses were overwhelming, shouting all over the sky. A charge reached the bottom of the city wall, and at this time, the officers and soldiers in the city were already frightened, so they only dared to defend against the danger, and threw arrows, firecrackers, and red-clothed cannons from the city, but these things could not deter Li Zicheng's men and horses.

Especially firearms, firearms in the era of cold weapons have limited power, and the main deterrent effect is that if they can't be deterred, then these firearms have a very limited effect, and this is the case at present.

At this time, the defenders in the city were mainly Zhu Dadian's Nanjing soldiers, Hu David's Baoding soldiers, and the defenders in Nanyang City, but several groups of people and horses were now together and there were only more than 10,000 people left, and they held it strictly for three days, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. But on the night of the third day, Tiger David and his Baoding soldiers opened the east gate first and ran.

On the fourth day, Zhu Dadian also knew, he opened the west gate and slipped away, and on the fifth day, the defenders in the city surrendered directly, and opened the city gate to bring Li Zicheng into the city.

Li Zicheng was very happy, although he had thousands of casualties, but he took Nanyang within the plan, with this prefecture city, plus three county seats, and this vast mountain forest, he had more room for activity, a large number of officers and soldiers were coming, he was not afraid, he could defend if he retreated, he could attack when he entered, there were many people in Nanyang, there were many rich people, Wang Sun Guixuan, local tyrants and gentry, etc., these people could support his soldiers and horses, at least they could solve the urgent need.

Li Zicheng planned to take a two-day truce in the city, and then let Liu Zongmin take a group of men and horses to govern Nanyang here, open a warehouse to help the people, collect money and help salaries, and then he personally took a large team of men and horses to Danyang to clean up Lin Yi with Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi's men and horses.

How do you know that he just took Nanyang, and when he got to the city, his butt was not warm, and the reporter ran in: "It's not good to break into the prince's big business, and the commander of Li Guo is defeated and returns ......"

This time it was so unexpected that everyone was surprised. Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi were defeated so quickly, the ability of these two generals is in terms of bravery and resourcefulness under Li Zicheng, the combination of these two is definitely a strong general, but how did they come back so quickly? Everyone looked at Li Zicheng in amazement.

Li Zicheng stood up as soon as he heard it, his two eyes were wide open, let him hold on for ten days, what the hell, these days? In fact, even counting Lin Yi's pioneer battalion, Li Guo and Hao Shaoqi only barely lasted two days.

"Where are the people?"

"Go back to the prince, and you will be outside the city in more than ten miles."

"Let him come to me!" Li Zicheng was so angry that he couldn't kill this nephew, he was too disappointed. Their defeat so early along the way disrupted his plans. Therefore, Li Zicheng's brows were twisted into pimples, and the two sword eyebrows were tightly locked.

Mrs. Gao hurriedly persuaded: "King Chuang, there is a reason for the incident, Li Guo is not a child anymore, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and don't get angry when you meet." Gao Guiying said, and glanced at Li Laiheng next to him.

This is Li Guo's adopted son, the adopted son of Li Guo and his wife, he is also eighteen years old this year, the young man looks magnificent, born in the children's camp, taught by Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying, learned a good martial arts, this time did not go out with his godfather, as soon as he heard that his father was defeated and returned, his face was ashamed.

Don't look at Li Laiheng as adopted, this child has been sensible since he was a child, and Li Guo and his wife treat him as if he had come out.

Li Zichengjue felt that his wife was reasonable, and suppressed his anger.

More than half an hour later, Li Guo and Li Benying with more than 2,000 remnants of the defeated generals, came into the city to see Li Zicheng, as soon as they met, Li Guo knelt down in front of Li Shencheng to plead guilty.

"What the hell is going on? What about waving flags? ”

"Don't ask, King Chuang......" Li Guo told the story very aggrievedly, in private they are uncles and nephews, but in the army, they still have a relationship between superiors and subordinates. Especially in the face of military law, Li Zicheng never accommodated him.

Li Guo is not the kind of ignorant gentleman, he gives his uncle a long face on weekdays, follows Li Zicheng as a young man in the army, fights in the south and the north, blocks the east and kills the west, and now he is nearly forty years old, and he has long become a general under Li Zicheng who can block one side alone.

"What? You say that waving the flag and betraying us sentenced us, surrendered the official army, and became the eagle dog of the imperial court? Li Zicheng looked incredulous.

Not only was he unbelievable, but the generals Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun, Bai Minghe, Lan Yingcheng, Dang Shousu, Zhang Nai and Shuangxi, including Mrs. Gao, who was both wise and brave, and the two beauties of Huiying and Huimei, who followed Mrs. Gao, and so on, were all full of incredible.

Hao Shaoqi is a member of the old eighth team, earlier than Li Zicheng, and raised the banner of righteousness with King Gao Chuang, after King Gao Chuang's heroic sacrifice, he has followed Li Zicheng for so many years, if you want to count him as the oldest in terms of qualifications, the number of officials and corrupt officials who died in his hands is innumerable, how could he surrender to Lin Yi?

Li Guo saw that everyone didn't believe him, especially the suspicion on King Chuang's face, and it was not strange that Hao Shaoqi surrendered in his heart, there is only nothing to think of in the world, then Gao Jie and Xing's first fornicated and then eloped, and both sentenced us with their backs, who would have thought of it?

But I couldn't say this in front of King Chuang and Mrs. Gao, so I had to say again: "I didn't believe King Chuang at first, but the facts are there, it seems that he knows the face and doesn't know the heart, and it is difficult to draw the dragon and the tiger, who would have thought that he Hao Shaoqi could be a traitor, if it weren't for this sentence, would I Li Guo be defeated so badly?" It's not that I'm saying a big thing, just the fortifications at the tiger's mouth, let Lin Yi's men and horses attack, even if they bring in artillery to attack for ten days and a half, it will be difficult to capture, but no matter what, my Li is unforgivable, please break the king to punish the crime. ”

Li Zicheng pondered for a moment, "Hao Shaoqi...... Hao Shaoqi ...... "He said a few words in a row, his sword eyebrows were upside down, and his tiger eyes were round.

Liu Zongmin saw that Li Zicheng was angry, and persuaded: "King Chuang, it's not a big deal, isn't it just a sentence?" There are many traitors in these years, and I don't care about one more of his Hao Shaoqi, if he has the opportunity to kill him, it's not a big deal to fight back the defeat, but it's just to let Lin live for two more days, and now we have taken down Nanyang City, what can the soldiers surnamed Lin do when they come to the city, he doesn't come to calculate his cheapness, and he has no return to discipline him! ”

Li Zicheng didn't answer Liu Zongmin's words, paced back and forth in the house a few times, he felt that this Lin Yi was a little strange, he was thinking, Hao Shaoqi would be even more strange if he surrendered, the surname Lin used demon magic to make Hao Shaoqi, who had always been loyal, betray him?

He didn't sleep well one night, and the next day someone came to report that Lin Yi's men and horses had arrived in Yuxian, that is, the area of Dengzhou in the future.

"It's good to come!" Li Zicheng immediately stood up, he asked Liu Zongmin to sit in Nanyang, and he wanted to go out in person.

"King Chuang, kill chickens with a knife? Just one Lin Yi, can you go out in person? In front of us, not only Nanyang City is in our hands, Xichuan, Neixiang, and Xinye are all there, and the three counties are deployed, each other's horns, these three counties are his graves, and the person surnamed Lin can't go to Nanyang City! Specifically, we can send three elite troops to station in Xichuan, Neixiang and Xinye, and whoever surnamed Lin will fall into our encirclement no matter where they attack first, and then we will send troops from Nanyang to wipe out Lin Yi's men and horses in one fell swoop. ”

Of course, Li Zicheng believes in Liu Zongmin's ability, don't look at this excellent blacksmith background, but now among the generals under Li Zicheng, no one can stand out, whether it is on personal martial arts or leading troops to fight, Li Zicheng is the first, Liu Zongmin is undoubtedly the second, and no one else can do it.

A year ago, Li Zicheng was ambushed by the official army, Tongguan met a madman, Li Zicheng only left eighteen horsemen to flee into Shangluo Mountain, almost annihilated, it was Liu Zongmin who helped him build knives and guns, recruit troops and horses, expand the team, a year later just when he rebelled out of Shangluoshan, and encountered several forces of encirclement and suppression, at a critical moment Liu Zongmin killed his two wives, and then burned the baggage, and advanced lightly, so that Li Zicheng they successfully escaped, Liu Zongmin was called Liu Zongmin, is the second in command of Li Zicheng Group.

Therefore, Li Zicheng agreed, and after discussing with Liu Zongmin, he sent Li Guo and his son to lead 3,000 troops to guard Xichuan, let the generals Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi lead 3,000 troops to defend the inner countryside, and let Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu lead 3,000 troops to defend Xinye.

Li Zicheng's six generals led nearly 10,000 horses in the three counties in a three-legged situation, no matter which county was attacked, the other two counties would support, so it became an iron triangle.

As soon as they finished the subordinates of the centaurs, Lin Yi's centaurs arrived. Lin Yi first set up camp and went down to the village, while sending someone to Luoyang on a fast horse to deliver a letter to Yang Sichang, saying that he had arrived at the designated location, and then took out the military map, from the map he saw clearly, if you want to take Nanyang, you must take the inner countryside and Xinye, or Xichuan, because this is a natural barrier in Nanyang City. In order to take Nanyang, this barrier must be broken.

Lin Yi is now fighting a small war, experienced in a hundred battles, whether it is against the Tartars, against the thieves, or against the Ming army, if according to the principle of reading 300 Tang poems, he can't compose poems and can chant, Lin Yi can now be regarded as at least half a military strategist.

With the current situation in front of him, Lin Yi could see at a glance that at least one of the county towns must be taken first, but which one to attack first, the two places will definitely not stand idly by. Now it is inevitable that there are heavy soldiers of thieves stationed in the three counties, so Lin Yi did not act rashly, he found a suitable place to set up camp, and sent out the news of the three counties and Nanyang City at night.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated. For Li Zicheng, of course, Lin Yi does not dare to underestimate him, this is undoubtedly his strongest opponent.

Two days later, Lin Yi sent out the night to report the news, and found out the basic information such as the main generals of Nanyang City and the three county towns, as well as the number of soldiers and horses.

Lin Yi smiled, oh, it turns out that you want to finish this set with Lin!