All of a sudden, the originally lively camp became silent, and everyone had their own thoughts, but no one made a loud noise.

"Ugh..."

Suddenly with a sigh, everyone turned their heads to look and found that it was Song Xiance: "The method of flooding Xi'an is really not advisable, we still have to deal with the officers and soldiers in Xi'an, build the country and become the king, if it really floods Xi'an, what should the people think?" ”

Since Zhu Youhua flooded Luoyang and defeated the camp, Li Zicheng has always wanted to avenge the revenge of taking his wife and destroying the army, and he has always used the rain for days and days as the excuse of the failure.

Now that Zhu Youhua has established the Nanyang Battalion and defeated Tian Jianxiu's 40,000 army with 3,000 soldiers and horses, everyone is a little dull.

From this point of view, this Zhu Youhua really has the true ability to be not inferior to Sun Chuanting.

Although it is impossible for 3,000 people to defeat 40,000 people, Li Zicheng understands that the combat effectiveness of those officers and soldiers in Nanyang is really not very good, and the real main force has to be the Nanyang battalion.

Liu Zongmin scolded Tian Jianxiu very much, that was a personal attitude, but if anyone really thought that Suotian Harrier, who had an incident with Wang Jiayin in his early years, would be a waste of firewood, then there was something wrong with his brain.

"Is Tian Jianxiu back?" Li Zicheng asked.

Hearing this, the old battalion who reported the news replied: "I don't know about this, but there is news that he stayed in Nanyang and voted for Zhu Youhua......"

"This dog thing!" Liu Zongmin was furious, "Big brother, give me 20,000 horses, and I will go and pacify Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Shizhong and Zhu Youhua together!" ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "Now we can't divide the troops anymore, we only have more than 100,000 people left, Yang Sichang's men and horses are about to arrive, and you can't be missing if you want to capture Xi'an before Yang Sichang arrives." ”

Liu Zongmin knew his position in the camp, nodded and stopped talking.

"Today is mainly to discuss the siege of the city, the matter of Nanyang has been settled, don't say more, the spies sent by Mr. Song have already entered Xi'an City, what news have you found?"

After listening to Li Zicheng, Song Xiance stood up and said: "Now it has been found that there are not many officers and soldiers in Xi'an City, including more than 10,000 people in Wang Shizhong's headquarters, and five or six thousand Sichuan troops led by Kong Zhen, the eunuch of the prison army, plus the original defenders in the city and the young Zhuang temporarily recruited, it is about 20,000 people. ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone burst into laughter.

Although the camp was divided into 40,000 soldiers and horses to Nanyang, but now with Wang Ding's imperial court, there are still 1780,000 troops, and it is not more than enough to fight a Xi'an with only 20,000 defenders!

It's not last year, and there is no big river near Xi'an that can break the embankment of Wang Shichong, besides, this Wang Shizhong is just a new deputy commander-in-chief last year, how can he have the courage of Zhu Youhua.

Last year, Chai Shihua, the chief soldier of Xi'an, was caused to bomb the camp because of his greed for military salaries, He Renlong quelled the rebellion, embezzled the firewood department, and pushed a bunch of bad things such as killing good people and making meritorious contributions to Chai Shihua's head.

Emperor Chongzhen has always been said to only dare to punish civil officials, but he did not dare to attack the martial arts, after receiving this news, it happened that He Renlong did not have a conflict with Yang Sichang back then, so he has always been loyal to the imperial court.

On the other hand, Emperor Chongzhen also wanted to use this matter to show the people of the world, the generals broke the law, and I would punish them!

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to the Ministry of War, and Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, issued a document to dismiss the Xi'an General Soldier Chai Shihua Military Department, and instead of him, Wang Shizhong, who was born in Yulin.

Chai Shihua still has some ability, and he occupies some territory under his hands, but Wang Shizhong has no intention of confronting He Renlong, and as soon as he is in place, he will be the second in command and have no quarrel with the world.

However, Wang Shizhong, the miscellaneous name of the Xi'an General Soldier, is not yet available, he has been in office for more than a year, and he has not done anything practical, and he has always been just a Xi'an General Soldier.

The general soldier of Shaanxi is He Renlong, the name of this He madman is now known to everyone, no one knows it, and several miscellaneous general soldiers, including Wang Shizhong, can now control the soldiers, horses, money and food are not much.

The reason for this is naturally that He Ying, who is a madman, occupies the vast majority.

He Renlong is not as incompetent as Liu Zeqing in Shandong, at least, the soldiers and horses, money and grain and various guards in Shaanxi Province are still obedient to him, the chief soldier.

When everyone's discussion gradually subsided, Song Xiance continued: "The people in Xi'an City are panicked, and even Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, has the intention of surrendering, and it is said that because of this, he also had a big quarrel with Wang Shizhong and Kong Zhen. ”

"Haha, this is really interesting, it seems that this King of Qin is 108,000 miles worse than Zhu Youhua, the King of Nanyang!" Liu Zongmin laughed, "It's also defending the city, so Zhu Youhua can personally supervise the battle, but Zhu Cunji always thinks about surrendering?" ”

"Xi'an's general soldier Wang Shizhong and the prison army Kong Zhen both want to defend the city, but Qin King Zhu Cunji refuses, after the noise, the Qin Wangfu will not send a little silver and people to help the war, so it seems that Xi'an is already in our hands."

After listening to Song Xiance, Li Zicheng smiled heartlessly, this is one of the few good news in the past few days, he got up and said:

"Pass the order, the army will repair on the bank of the Bashui River for three days, and the northern expedition to Xi'an!"

......

The news of the surrender of Li Zicheng by Wang Ding, the general soldier of Lintong, on the bank of the Bashui River soon reached Xi'an, which made the city of Xi'an, which was already controversial about the surrender of the war, even more chaotic.

Kong Zhen and Wang Shizhong glanced at each other in the signing room of the political secretary, looked at the empty lobby, and sighed heavily.

Kong Zhen said: "Our family was ordered by the emperor to come here to supervise the army, but we found that there is really nothing to supervise in this army, but it is the Qin Wangfu and civil officials who need to be well supervised!" ”

"Mr. Wang, can Xi'an City be defended?"

Hearing this, Wang Shizhong smiled bitterly: "He Madman took most of the men and horses to help, Wang Ding voted for thieves again, the major yamen in the city are empty, and it is estimated that there are many people who are ready to surrender." ”

"Before the thieves arrived in the city, the hearts of the people were scattered, how could they hold it?"

"Our family is an angel, we must not sit idly by!" Kong Zhen was not depressed, he raised his sword and said to several celebrant eunuchs beside him: "In our life, we are just royal dogs, until we die, we will also contribute to Daming!" ”

"General Wang Bing, you command the city, and our family brings these 5,000 Sichuan troops, under your command!"

Looking at Kong Zhen's resolute face, for a while, Wang Shizhong didn't seem to have such a heavy dislike for these eunuchs.

He hugged his fists and said: "The last general, Wang Shizhong, the general of Xi'an, was originally a court servant, and he is willing to fight with thieves for the emperor!" ”

On May 7, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the violent gong suddenly sounded on the major city walls of Xi'an, and the officers and soldiers who held the heart of death waited for the day, looking at the endless sea of white people that appeared on the horizon, and still gasped.

The camp came prepared, pushing siege vehicles and rushing carts, as well as many shield carts, and as soon as they came, they attacked fiercely towards the east gate and west gate of Xi'an.

Because the chief soldier Wang Shizhong and the supervising army Kong Zhen fought desperately and personally landed in the city, the offensive and defensive officers and soldiers of the afternoon still fought back and forth with the camp.

The next day, Li Zicheng, who had already discovered the lack of strength of officers and soldiers, relied on his absolute superiority in troops to launch an attack on Xi'an from all sides, southeast, northwest, and west.

Before each charge, the rogues were first bombarded by the artillery of captured officers and soldiers from all over the country, then the crossbowmen and musketeers came forward to shoot at the city, and finally the infantry advanced.

Holding shields, pushing carts, and carrying ladders on their shoulders, the rogues braved the rain of arrows, guns, and bricks from the officers and soldiers of the city to rush towards the root of the city.

At the same time in the Qin Palace, Zhu Cunji was wearing gorgeous pro-dynasty clothes under the service of several princesses, planning to go out of the city to meet Li Zicheng with the courtesy of the prince.