Gao Yingxiang, Li Yan, Ma Shouying, Li Zicheng and other big leaders of the rogue were not hot-headed, and they calculated that it would take time for the "Red Banner Army" to level Liao.

Choose to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop and accumulate strength.

Two years have passed, and the rogues are no longer scattered, and a unified command has basically been formed.

After the autumn harvest of Chongzhen's thirteenth year, he thought that he had the capital to fight, Gao Yingxiang couldn't sit still, and mobilized 300,000 men and horses to attack Tongguan on both sides.

With many cities in Shaanxi and Henan in hand, the Liukou have been reborn and upgraded from a series of crimes to armed secession.

Everything has pros and cons, Gao Yingxiang's territory is large, and he naturally suffers from gains and losses, so he always has to leave people to watch his home and defend the city, and it is already the limit to dispatch 300,000 people.

The rogues need the common people to reclaim, so they naturally refuse to coerce a large number of ordinary people to participate in the siege of the city as cannon fodder, so this time the people who took the initiative to attack and dispatched were basically strong men with a training period of more than one year, and there were no old and weak women and children.

The rogues were disciplined, a small half even had armor, all the strong men had cold weapons, and thirty to fifty thousand of them used arquebuses.

Most of these equipment came from the capture of the more than 200,000 troops who eliminated Xiong Wencan and Hong Chengchou, and some of them were built by the rogues themselves in the past two years.

It is a pity that the eggs are not equal, the Liukou has made a step of progress, the "Red Flag Army" has not only made progress, Gao Yingxiang is vainly trying to fight for Tongguan, and under the guns of the "Red Flag Army", it is destined to run into a bloody head.

At this time, the Tongguan garrison had about 5,000 Ming troops from Sun Yingyuan's department, more than 5,000 regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army", more than 6,000 guards and thousands of Xiangyong with a training period of more than two years.

Everyone understands the importance of Tongguan, He Yongqing, Sun Yingyuan, Huang Huiwu and other generals have never slacked off for a day, and Tongguan has already been a deep ditch barrier in the east and west thirty miles.

On 9 September, Li Zicheng, the "general," led the Liukou men and horses who had gathered in the Luoyang area to attack the position of Tongguandong, and Gao Yingxiang, the "king of Chuang," personally led the men and horses assembled in the Xi'an territory to launch an attack on Tongguanxi.

Gao Yingxiang had a plan to seize Tongguan two years ago, but he couldn't do it at that time

For the arrival of this day, the Liukou made full preparations, Li Yan, Xing Hongniang, Ma Shouying, Li Zicheng, Tian Jianxiu and other Liukou leaders even peeked into the Tongguan defense line in person.

Because the Ming army has been captured after repeated defeats, and now the Liukou also has a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, but the number is too small to equip the scouts, and only the bones of big thieves like Li Yan and Li Zicheng can have them.

Liukou hid on the mountains south of Tongguan and peeked through a clairvoyant mirror, although he was often discovered by the "Red Banner Army", he could also ensure safety, after all, the "Red Banner Army" artillery fire could not reach.

Wangshan ran a dead horse, if he sent someone out of Tongguan to detour to the place where the rogue was found, it might not be able to catch up in a day, and He Yongqing and Huang Huiwu would not be able to do such useless work.

Therefore, the Tongguan defense line rogues still know better, and they also realize that it is quite difficult to bite, so this time they are prepared, and there are countless trench bridges, trench filling vehicles, shield vehicles, and rushing vehicles.

The rogues all thought that after more than ten years of trouble, there had never been a day when they were so well equipped, and they had never seen such a boundless number of people and horses, and their morale was okay when they were no longer hungry.

In addition, Li Yan organized a group of rogues who could write and calculate, compiled a lot of easy-to-understand nursery rhymes and sang them widely, too many rogues were deceived by the lie of "breaking into the king and not paying food", they really thought that they could live a good life with Gao Yingxiang to seize the world.

Therefore, it is very different from before, there is basically no phenomenon of escape in the Liukou army, and they are all shouting "eat his mother, wear his mother, open the door to meet the king, and the king will not pay food when the king comes." ”

Alas! In the final analysis, the vast majority of the outcasts are illiterate, and they have no possibility of reading books and newspapers, and they do not know that as early as five years ago until today, the "Red Flag Daily" has been publishing articles expounding on the deception of "not paying food."

Hooligans are not terrible, but they are afraid that hooligans are educated, and Li Yan, a cultural person, has become a bandit leader, which is particularly inflammatory and deceptive, which is really hateful.

The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and while Gao Yingxiang is planning to seize Tongguan, Qin Liangyu has long wanted to go out of Sichuan to recover Hanzhong and conquer Shaanxi, and has been fighting hard.

Qin Yanyi tried her best to delay time, but fortunately, Qin Liangyu knew that she put the overall situation first and did not insist on going her own way.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qin Liangyu saw the news published in the "Red Flag Daily" that the "King of Han" had completed the triumphant return of Pingliao, and immediately couldn't sit still, no matter how Qin Yanyi tried to dissuade her, she didn't listen.

Qin Liangyu issued an order to dispatch all the white pole soldiers who could maneuver to assemble in the direction of the Sword Pavilion.

Ma Xianglin, Qin Gongming, Qin Yiming, Ma Xianghe and other white-pole generals are actually itching their hands one by one, and no one is willing to lie dormant and wait for the opportunity this time.

They all believed that if they did not send troops to fight a few more battles, they might sit back and watch the "Red Banner Army" destroy the rogues, and they would face no major battles to fight in the future, which meant that there was nothing to be done.

Sichuan has been fully controlled by Qin Liangyu, Qin Yanyi, and Gu Zhun.

The white pole soldiers moved, and the Sichuan army of course followed, and the "Red Banner Army" could not stand alone, so they had to unite and act together.

Qin Liangyu, Qin Yanyi, Ma Xianglin, Gu Zhun, Qin Yiming, Yang Xiaohammer, Ma Xianghe, Shen Youluo, Qin Gongming, etc. gathered more than 50,000 men, including nearly 20,000 white pole soldiers and 15,000 Sichuan troops.

The 18,000 regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" basically poured out of the nest, and all the work stationed in the localities was handed over to the newly dispatched civil and military officials, and with the assistance of the guards and regimental training armies, there would be no major problems in Sichuan, which had been stable for three years.

Because of the light anti-aircraft artillery of the "Red Banner Army" to participate in the attack and advance, and because of the insufficient troops of the Liukou in Hanzhongnan, the army out of Sichuan progressed smoothly.

The cottages and fortresses garrisoned by the Liukou were as fragile as paper paste under the shelling mixed with the accurate fire of the Minnie gun, and Qin Yanyi's painstakingly trained women's barracks shone brightly, and the casualties paid were not worth mentioning.

In fact, the rogues are familiar with the "Red Flag Army", and they are a little apprehensive when they see the red flags fluttering all over the mountains.

The reason for trying to resist is not to try to fight to the death with the "Red Flag Army", but to prove that the other side is not raising a red flag to swagger and deceive.

Wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous to find out that the other party was not the "Red Banner Army" after choosing to surrender?

However, the result is ridiculous, they were beaten by a group of women and couldn't find the north, and had to surrender the city, I'm afraid it will also become a joke.

Qin Liangyu paid special attention to the soldiers led by his adopted daughter Qin Yanyi, and every time he and his daughter-in-law Zhang Fengyi came to Qin Yanyi's army to watch the battle.

Qin Yanyi's strength is not trivial, with three B battalions under his command with a strength of about 10,000 horses, and the shortcomings of the insufficient cavalry are harmless in mountain warfare.