However, it was said that this Wang Liuye had been carried away before, and pursued the rise of Liu Renjie's Jingbian Fort scouts, and did not beware of suddenly encountering a large number of officers and soldiers.

When the officers and soldiers fired a hundred arrows, from Wang Liuye down, all the thieves and cavalry thought that they were dead, and they didn't think that the archery skills of the officers and soldiers were really touching. This round of arrows was about to rain down, and none of the thieves showed up to be slightly injured, let alone killed.

Seeing that he was still alive, Wang Liuye, the leader of the thieves, hurriedly shouted: "There is an ambush, brothers, run away." ”

After Wang Liuye finished speaking, he took the lead and rode his horse in the direction of Yan'an. When the thieves who came to their senses saw that their leader had run away, they hurriedly followed the snow and fled.

When the thieves ran for a while, they looked back, but found that the officers and soldiers who should be pursued by victory were faint, and the roots did not come to chase them, and they were stunned again.

"Damn, I didn't expect to run into so many officers and soldiers, but fortunately we ran fast." Seeing that the officers and soldiers did not catch up, Wang Liuye stopped the horses so that he could rest for a while.

"Sixth Master, did you say that the archery skills of that guy were too bad, and he didn't kill us so closely. And you see, their scouts ran away when they ran into us, and now that we're running, they don't send anyone to chase them, why do you think that? ”

Xu Faxi felt that the behavior of the official army was too contrary to common sense, so he expressed the doubts in his heart and wanted to communicate with Wang Liuye.

Wang Liuye also felt that the officers and soldiers he met today were very strange, but he couldn't figure out the reason, but someone under him asked, and he couldn't help but give an answer, so as not to appear very ignorant, so he explained like this: "We have been in trouble since the first year of Chongzhen, and we have a great reputation in Yansui and Shanxi, and even the officials and soldiers are afraid of us, so they run away when they see us." Besides, the officers and soldiers we met were silver-like pewter gun heads, which were useless, and of course they didn't dare to talk to us. Gun fight. ”

After listening to Wang Liuye's words of exalting himself and belittling the officials and soldiers, combined with the actual performance of the officials and soldiers he saw with his own eyes, they all felt that what their leader said was right, so they echoed with some pride and pride: "What Liu Ye said is right, we haven't seen the officials and soldiers, and the soldiers brought by Hong Duye look like a little bit, and most of the others are fighting with us, which is useless." ”

"Well, that's what I meant." Wang Liuye listened to the words of his subordinates, first nodded, and then he continued: "Can anyone see how many officers and soldiers there are?" ”

Saying that it was so dangerous, who was still interested in counting how many officers and soldiers, so the thieves first looked at each other for a while, and then they each shook their heads and said, "Master Liu, I haven't counted clearly." ”

"That's not possible, if the official army appears, we have to find out how many people have come, and whether there are any follow-up people, so that we can go back and report to the king. Let me think so, Xu Faxi, you take 30 people to explore again and see how many people there are in this guy's army. I'll take the rest of the people to see if there are any other officers and soldiers behind this guy. After we finished investigating the enemy's situation, we met in Lijia Village, near Yan'an. Wang Liuye ordered.

"Yes, Sixth Master, the little one will take it to someone to see." Xu Fa was overjoyed to get the order, so he left the main road with 30 cavalry, and ran to the hill some far away from the official road to lurk, waiting to observe Liu Renyu's men and horses who were about to follow up.

Wang Liuye left the official road with another 20 cavalrymen and galloped towards Qingjian.

After a short time, Liu Renyu led his men and horses to slowly advance along the official road.

Xu Faxi and other thieves who were left behind by Wang Liuye didn't dare to get too close, so they could only watch from a distance.

Xu Faxi and his subordinates looked at it for a while, and found that Liu Renyu's department did not have many people, that is, hundreds of people. When Liu Renyu came over with his subordinates, he waited for a while, and found that there was no follow-up behind this group of officers and soldiers, so he knew in his heart that there were only a few hundred officers and soldiers who came to rescue Yan'an.

Sensing this news, Xu Faxi led his subordinates to avoid the main road and go straight to Lijia Village.

Xu Faxi came to Lijia Village and found that Wang Liuye had not yet arrived, so he had to wait a little.

But he said that this Wang Liuye led people around the path and walked out for more than 30 miles, but he did not see the follow-up officers and soldiers, and he only determined at this time that the officers and troops of Liu Renyu's department that had appeared were a lone army.

"Let's go, let's go back, there is no one behind this guy's officers and soldiers."

After Wang Liuye finished speaking, he led a group of his subordinates to ride their horses to Lijia Village.

When he arrived at Lijia Village, Wang Liuye saw Xu Faxi, who had been waiting for a long time, and asked, "What's the matter, can you find it clearly?" How many officers and soldiers are there? ”

"Master Liu, the little one didn't dare to get too close, but the small one saw it clearly, and the officers and soldiers were only seven or eight hundred people." Xu Faxi replied.

"Seven or eight hundred, just a few people? Can you see the difference? Wang Liuye felt that there were really a few people in the official army, so he strengthened his tone and asked again.

"The younger ones and the brothers can see very clearly, and there are indeed only seven or eight hundred officers and soldiers." Xu Faxi replied firmly.

"Damn, Hong Duye in Yulin City also underestimates us too much, we have tens of thousands of people, so he sent hundreds of officers and soldiers, and they are of this kind to fight us. It's not like we're muddy. ”

Wang Liuye felt that Liu Renyu dared to come and beat them with hundreds of people, and thought that Hong Chengchou looked down on them and treated them as mentally retarded, so he was very angry.

"Let's go, go back with our Lao Tzu and report to the king, and let the king kill all these officials and soldiers who don't know the height of the sky."

Wang Liuye, whose self-esteem was seriously bruised, took Xu Faxi and other subordinates to his own camp under Yan'an City in a huff.

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Under the city of Yan'an, 2 miles away from the city wall, gray-white tents stretch for 4 miles, forming a huge barracks, and outside the barracks, there are thousands of ground nests.

In the open space between the barracks and the city wall of Yan'an, tens of thousands of people dressed in ordinary people's clothes stood densely, these people were divided into several groups, a group of people carried wooden ladders to attack for a while, and were repelled by the defenders of the city with furlong machines, firearms, bows and arrows, and tiger squatting cannons, and then changed to another group, and went to attack the city again.

In the city, under the city, the shouts of killing, the sound of miserable howls, resounded.

There is no doubt that these people who used the wheel warfare method to storm Yan'an City under Yan'an City were the thieves under Wang Jiayin's department. At this time, Wang Jiayin's thieves had besieged Yan'an City for 6 days.

In the past 6 days, Wang Jiayin used various methods to attack Yan'an.

Long before Wang Jiayin's army arrived in Yan'an, he sent a large number of spies according to the custom, pretending to be various characters such as warlocks, beggars, and hungry people, and mixed into the city of Yan'an first, intending to wait for his army to arrive, and then join forces with the outside to capture Yan'an in one fell swoop.

However, he used this trick several times in northern Shaanxi, and although the effect was good, it made officials in Yansui immune to this trick. We all know that you will use this trick, will we not be on guard?

Obviously, the prefect of Yan'an, Zhang Ran, is a business-savvy person, although this prefect is a civil official, but he has a pair of courage, when Chongzhen was in the second year, there were thousands of thieves who just passed through Yan'an City, and they never thought about fighting Yan'an, a fortified city.

Unexpectedly, this Governor Zhang was very excited to take the capital division and 500 soldiers and horses in the city, chasing this gang of thieves all the way and beating them.

Such a fierce man is not trivial to deal with some small works, so when Wang Jiayin came to Yan'an City and planned to make trouble for the fine works he sent in, he found that there was no movement in the city.

He waited for a while, planning to send another signal to the city and urge the internal response, but he didn't think about it, but he waited for a sentence from Zhang Ran, the prefect of Yan'an: "Thief, all the fine works you sent have been put in prison by this government, and you can stop the idea of joining forces inside and outside." ”

When Wang Jiayin heard this, he had no choice but to make siege equipment and take turns to attack the city defense, so an offensive and defensive battle was launched between the defenders of Yan'an and the thieves.

But he said that Zhang Yin, the prefect of Yan'an, knew that those who came into the city during this period of time were very likely to be spies, and if they were all killed, they would definitely wronged good people. Although he is a fierce man, he is also a scholar, and he does not do anything to kill innocents, so he can only order that all outsiders be put in prison, and when the battle is over, he will be screened.

After Zhang Yin cleaned up the internal response, he began to arrange the city defense.

It is said that this Yan'an was the location of the Yansui Governor's Yamen before Ming Yingzong, of course, the city is high and the walls are thick, even if it is not as important as Yulin in the internal importance of Yansui Military Town, it is also garrisoned by heavy troops.

The military commander of this defense is one of Liu Renyu's benefactors, Sun Kuisheng, in addition to a member of the capital, there are a total of 1,000 soldiers in the city, plus more than 6,000 young and strong people defending the city, with various firearms such as furlong machines and firearms, although there are more than 30,000 thieves, but they can't help Yan'an for a while.

Seeing that waves of people on his side were bleeding under the city wall of Yan'an, Wang Jiayin, who had been watching the battle under the city, frowned, and said to the Zuo Prime Minister Wang Ziyong beside him: "Wang Zuocheng, how much grain have the brothers who went out to fetch food have brought back. ”

"King, there is not much food, and it is only enough for the army to eat for 5 days." Wang Ziyong replied with a worried face.

"Yan'an City is worthy of being a border city, the city walls are 3 zhang high, our army has suffered heavy casualties, and we can't attack the city. It seems that we can only continue to increase the number of people, so let's do it, now the people and horses sent out to collect food will coerce the people a lot, and then bring the people to Yan'an City to attack the city, can you write it down? ”

"Yes, my lord."

"Is there any news from the sentinels we sent out? Is there reinforcements from the official army to save Yan'an? ”

"King, the sentry we sent out hasn't come back yet, and when General Jiaxiang returns, there will be definite news."

"Well, we have been here for so many days, the imperial court should not care, if there are more officials and soldiers this time, we have to say that we have to go south and go to the rich Weinan to get food."

But it was said that Wang Jiayin was thinking about what to do when the reinforcements of the official army came, when he suddenly saw a group of cavalry in the east rushing towards him.

The leader of this group of cavalry is not the sixth brother Wang Jiayin in his clan.

When Wang Jiaxiang rode his horse to Wang Jiayin's side, he turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, and said loudly: "King, the reinforcements of the official army are here." ”

"Oh, yes, how many are coming?" When Wang Jiayin heard that the reinforcements from the official army were coming, he was immediately nervous, and he hurriedly asked how many officers and soldiers had come.

"My lord, here are about seven or eight hundred officers and soldiers." Wang Jiaxiang stiffened his face and said word by word.

"How much!? There are only seven or eight hundred people!? Can you see clearly? When Wang Jiayin heard this number, he asked in disbelief.

"The king, the little one saw it clearly, and there was such a force of soldiers and horses, just seven or eight hundred people." Wang Jiaxiang replied with a bitter face.

"If the imperial court only sent such a few people, it is expected that they must be elite soldiers, have you ever fought with them when you were investigating the enemy's situation?"

"Engaged."

"How is the combat strength of the officers and soldiers? Do you have many casualties? ”

"King, those officers and soldiers are really useless!" Wang Jiaxiang let out a long sigh, and then he told him what happened today, and when he said it, he described Liu Renyu's soldiers as extremely unbearable.

When he finished speaking, he didn't forget to say depressedly: "King, although we are unbearable, there are tens of thousands of horses, and thousands of former officials and soldiers have taken refuge, and Hong Duye only sent such a few hundred people to suppress us, he really despises us." ”

Wang Jiayin listened to the news reported by Wang Jiaxiang, and asked Wang Ziyong with some puzzlement: "If the reinforcements of the official army are as unbearable as Jiaxiang said, then what is the purpose of the imperial court sending them?" ”

"King, you were also a soldier in the past, don't you understand the Tao here? Thinking about it, the imperial court must be unable to rescue Yan'an, but the top is pressing, and Hong Duye can't send so many people, so he can only send these people to make up the numbers first and fool the court. Wang Ziyong analyzed with a smile.

"Hey, you fucking deserve to be Prime Minister Zuo, you have a good brain, since Hong Duye only sent such a few people, we can't live up to the favor sent by Hong Duye. Listen, Wang Zuocheng, you sit here and continue to supervise the war, let's Lao Tzu immediately order all the soldiers and horses we have to use, go and destroy this official army, and let the defenders on Yan'an City take a look, our Lao Tzu is not easy to mess with. ”

After Wang Jiayin finished speaking, he asked Wang Ziyong to continue to supervise the battle with 1,000 men with strong combat strength, and he himself took more than 5,000 cavalry, according to the posture of killing chickens and using dragon slaying knives, and swept away the reinforcements of Liu Renyu's officers and troops in one fell swoop.