Although Xiong Wencan also made a final effort after learning the news of Zuo Liangyu's defeat in Qixian, he wanted to transfer Zhang Xianzhong, who had been appeased in Gucheng, and Wang Guangen, Wang Guoning, Hui Dengxiang and others who had been appeased in Yunyang to send troops to deal with the Xingtian Army, but Zhang Xianzhong did not buy his account at all, but supported the troops in the Gucheng area and asked him for food, threatening that if he did not pay food, he would not be able to control these soldiers and horses under his command, if his old troops could not get food and then forced him to raise troops and make trouble, it would be no wonder to him. As for Wang Guangen and others, although they verbally agreed to send troops, they said that they were not able to act because of insufficient food, and they refused to move, and Li Guoqi was even more defeated in the Lu clan and his vitality was greatly damaged, and he did not have the strength to send troops to attack the Xingtian Army at all.

Xiong Wencan then sent people to Kaifeng Mansion again to transfer Chen Yongfu and Liu Zeqing's troops to rescue Luoyang City, but when these two people arrived here, where were they willing to jump into the fire pit in Luoyang! Although the new governor of Henan, Li Xianfeng, knew that once Luoyang was broken, he, the governor of Henan, would be to blame, and he would definitely be held accountable by the current saint, but because Henan now he can't organize a usable army and horses, Chen Yongfu is already the last guard of Kaifeng Mansion, once Chen Yongfu goes out of Kaifeng to rescue Luoyang, and then loses to the hands of the Xingtian Army, then even Kaifeng Mansion is estimated to be finished, so he can only report to the imperial court, ask Emperor Chongzhen, and send Beijing soldiers and horses south to rescue Luoyang, In advance, part of the responsibility for the loss of Luoyang was shirked, which laid the groundwork for the emperor to pursue after the loss of Luoyang in the future.

At this point, he was already poor in donkey skills, and there was no way to do it anymore, so he could only stare and watch the Xingtian army besiege Luoyang, but he was helpless.

After Yang Sichang and Chongzhen of the Beijing Division learned the news, they were even more angry and frightened, originally Chongzhen asked Xiong Wencan to solve the Xingtian Army within three months, but now it is good, the Xingtian Army has not been able to be solved, but the officers and troops from all walks of life have been solved a lot by the Xingtian Army, nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers under the Xingtian Army, did not play a role, but were beaten and disintegrated by the Xingtian Army, and now Luoyang City has also become the meat of the Xingtian Army, and it is about to be lost. So Chongzhen and Yang Sichang discussed to order Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to personally supervise the division and lead the Shaanxi army out of Tongguan to flank the Xingtian army again and strive to rescue Luoyang.

However, without waiting for them to make an order, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, sent a report, saying that Li Zicheng and Lao Huihui and the other Lu Yijun once again took advantage of the opportunity of Shaanxi's transfer of troops to Henan to regain their strength and began to carry out large-scale activities in southern Shaanxi again.

This time, even Yang Sichang and Chongzhen were dumbfounded, after pondering it, they also found that there are basically no adjustable troops at the moment, and it is impossible to transfer the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp around the Beijing division to Henan, with the arrival of summer, it also indicates that the Jiannu Tartars outside the pass are going to start the annual routine raid of the pass, and the Beijing camp is going south, so the troops around the Beijing division are empty, who will come to guard the Beijing division to protect them?

Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty knew that Luoyang was in danger, they were helpless, and they couldn't take out many soldiers and horses to rescue Luoyang City, so Chongzhen finally had no choice but to order the Zhangde Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion, and Weihui Mansion in northern Henan to gather a group of soldiers and horses, led by Luo Dai, the deputy chief soldier of Henan, and crossed the Yellow River south to aid Luoyang.

But Chongzhen's will was issued a little too late, and when he gave the order, Xiao Tianjian had already led his troops to surround Luoyang City, and Yanshi County had also been captured by the Xingtian Army. A little replenishment of Luoyang's troops.

On 20 May, Xiao Tianjian personally led Liu Yaoben, Situ Liang and other troops to march to a place fifteen miles south of Luoyang City and stopped, while Li Xuanzhu and Luo Li also began to march not far outside Luoyang City, and together with Xiao Tianjian, they formed a situation of encirclement of Luoyang City.

At this time, there were nearly 20,000 officers and soldiers outside the city who stayed in the camp outside the city, and when they learned that the Xingtian Army had arrived, the army's morale was even more chaotic.

The defenders in the Luoyang area, who doesn't know the power of the Xingtian Army! In the past two years, they have really fought with the men and horses of the Xingtian Army, but they have repeatedly fought with more defeats and fewer victories, so that they have watched the Xingtian Army gradually encroach on the states and counties around Luoyang step by step, and finally only they are left alone in Luoyang City. There is a shortage of salaries for soldiers in the army, and even the food for the soldiers cannot be helped, and the food is basically robbed, and the soldiers and generals in the army have long been complaining, and they have no determination to defend Luoyang to the death.

What's more, who doesn't know that the Fu King in Luoyang City is rich enough to rival the country, and his family wealth is more than millions of millions, but this damn Fu Wang has always been an iron rooster who does not pull out a hair, and he refuses to take out the food and pay to the officers and soldiers to solve the problem of the defenders' salaries and grains, but instead intensifies the hoarding of goods in the city to make a windfall, most of their officers and soldiers are recruits, who are not unable to survive to serve as soldiers in the government, they are all from a bitter background, how can they be willing to work hard for such a royal family!

Therefore, before Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Luoyang, a large number of officers and soldiers in the army shouted out the slogan that once the thief army came to attack, they would never fight to the death, and the army's morale was basically on the verge of collapse at any time at this time.

At this time, the prefect Kang Menghui and the officials in Luoyang City, and even the old officials of Zhishi have united to find King Fu, and even Lu Weiqi, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department who is resting at Zhishi's home in Luoyang, also came forward to ask King Fu to take out the silver and distribute it to the officers and soldiers of the defenders, and at the same time hang out a heavy reward, how much silver will be rewarded for killing a thief, and how much silver will be rewarded for a wounded thief, so as to win the support of these officers and soldiers and win them to defend the city of Luoyang to the death.

But after listening to their request, this fat pig-like Fu King flicked his sleeves or categorically rejected their request, and a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, insisting that he had no money and no food, and this responsibility of defending the land should have been the responsibility of the saints of the current court, how could they let these vassal kings take money to pay military salaries? What else does this violate the ancestral system, the vassal king is not allowed to buy people's hearts in the local area and collude with local civil and military officials, in order to shirk it, in short, he Fu Wang just said, if you want money, you have to die.

As a result, Kang Menghui cried and led his officials out of the Fuwang Mansion after hearing this, looked up to the sky and cried, staggered to the camp empty-handed to persuade the officers and soldiers to keep Luoyang City.

Things didn't change until Xiao Tianjian led his troops to arrive outside Luoyang City, when he heard that the thief army had arrived outside the city, and the Luoyang defenders were uncertain, King Fu didn't really panic until this time, and took the initiative to send someone to find Kang Menghui, telling Kang Menghui that he was willing to take out five thousand taels of silver to help the army's salary, and there was no more, let Kang Menghui find a way by himself.

Kang Menghui couldn't cry or laugh even more after hearing this, five thousand taels of silver, for twenty or thirty thousand defenders, even if everyone is divided equally, a soldier can't get five dollars of silver, just this bit of silver, you want to buy officers and soldiers to die for Luoyang City? Ha ha! Ha ha! Jokes!

What's more, the five thousand taels of silver were sent down, and they were casually deducted by the officers along the way, and when they reached the hands of the soldiers, I am afraid that there would be no more big sons left, and as soon as the news came out, the officers and soldiers of the whole city were even more uproaring.

In fact, these things have long been expected by Xiao Tianjian, the reason why he has not eaten this piece of fat in Luoyang for so long is to wait for the arrival of this day, once he sent troops to attack Luoyang City last year, the officers and soldiers in Luoyang City at that time have not been paid and cut off food, and they still have the determination to fight to the death, and his strength was not enough to capture a strong city like Luoyang, if he really forcibly attacked Luoyang, even if he could capture Luoyang City in the end, it could only be a miserable victory, and finally under the counterattack of the imperial court, Luoyang still could not hold, Even the entire base area in western Henan may be lost to the official army because of the consumption of his military strength, and at this time, it is really time for him to pick peaches.

On the day when he led his troops to arrive outside Luoyang City and just stopped, hundreds of Luoyang defenders outside the city fled to the camp of the Xingtian Army to serve, and the next day Xiao Tianjian did not point troops out of the camp to attack the official camp outside the city, so thousands of officers and soldiers became deserters and threw themselves to the side of the Xingtian Army.

Although the remaining officers and soldiers have not fled, they have long lost their fighting spirit, and the officials have asked to enter Luoyang City, but how dare Kang Menghui and the current Luoyang soldiers Wang Yinchang let so many officers and soldiers enter the city! They all know what kind of virtue these officers and soldiers are, and letting them into the city is basically the same as letting the thief army into the city, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers entering the city will definitely rob Luoyang City, not to mention that there is already a shortage of food and food in the city, and another 10,000 or 20,000 people will pour in, let them eat! It is even more nonsense to expect them to defend the city, it is simply impossible, but it only exacerbates the current situation of food shortage in the city.

So Kang Menghui finally refused the request of the officers and soldiers outside the city, and ordered them to continue to garrison outside the city to resist the attack of the thief army on Luoyang City.

When the officials and soldiers outside the city learned the news that Kang Menghui refused to let them enter the city, there was an uproar, and even the generals stopped this time, and rushed to the city to scold Kang Menghui and the officials in the city, and even scolded the Fuwang Zhu Changxun by name, scolding them for being inhumane, and treating the lives of these officers and soldiers as nothing, and deserving of death to the extreme.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian gave an order, several soldiers and horses marched together, towards Luoyang City, as the Xingtian Army approached closer and closer, these officers and soldiers who were clamoring under the city could not support it, and they scattered in a hurry, either fleeing in the north direction of the city, or simply surrendering to the Xingtian Army, and directly turned around gorgeously and became a member of the Xingtian Army, turned the knife edge, and aimed at Luoyang City.