A few dead wind lamps on the head of the city of Mianchi County emitted a dim light weakly, shining a little ghostly on the city, and a few old guards of the city yawned lazily against the battlement wall of the city tower, tightening their clothes from time to time, and stomping their feet to warm their bodies.

After the season entered October, the weather began to get colder day by day, and the work of keeping vigil on the city wall began to be unpleasant, and no one was happy to be pulled out of the hot quilt in the middle of the night, and several soldiers guarding the city gathered together, while scolding and chatting, while saying some meat jokes, arranging their commanders.

But no one noticed that outside the city, from the direction of the Yellow River crossing, there was a group of people silently stepping on the potholed road under the moonlight, rushing towards the county seat of Mianchi.

Luo Li, like his subordinates, walked at the front of the team sweating profusely, stopping from time to time to beckon his subordinates to speed up, so as to rush to the outside of Mianchi County before dawn and prepare for the attack.

The generals of the second battalion were all lightly armed, carrying only their armor and weapons, and only carrying a day's rations, and they were sweating profusely on the road shrouded in the night.

As the vanguard of Xiao Tianjian's southward movement, Luo Li led his troops to cross the Yellow River by boat by the Xingtian Army Water Battalion in the middle of the night, and almost without alarming anyone, he controlled the Yellow River crossing in his hands, and the limited dozens of officers and soldiers stationed at the Yellow River crossing were tied up by them without noticing it at all, and only a few people tried to resist, and when they were chopped into meat sauce and thrown into the Yellow River by the Xingtian army members who came ashore.

The dozen or so merchant ships docked at the ferry port were also unfortunately victimized, and they were immediately controlled by the Xingtian Army, forcing them to pull anchor and lift the cable with the Xingtian Army's fleet overnight, and sail in the direction of the ancient town on the other side of the river.

After Luo Li seized the ferry, he left a sentry manpower, controlled the ferry, and waited for Xiao Tianjian's follow-up main force to cross the river, and he straightened out his men without stopping, and rushed to Mianchi County, seventy miles away, overnight.

They did not raise torches on this way, but only hurried by the light of the moon in the sky, and some of the people in the villages and forts along the way, by this time, had already fallen asleep, and no one knew that such a team had appeared on their land.

Originally, Xiao Tianjian's order to Luo Li was to let him lead his troops to cross the river, and then lead his troops to Mianchi County early the next morning, but Luo Li was an impatient, and in his opinion, it was not beneficial for them to rest for a night at the ferry, so it was better to rush to Mianchi County immediately and catch Mianchi County by surprise.

So he made up his mind that he would launch an attack on Mianchi County early the next morning, striving to take Mianchi County one day earlier, and then wait for Xiao Tianjian's follow-up troops and horses to arrive.

After a rapid march in the middle of the night, just when the sky in the east began to turn white, Luo Li finally led his troops to the north gate of Mianchi County, and the more than 1,000 people in the battalion had already been fished out of the water at this time, and their clothes were completely wet with sweat.

Outside the north gate of Mianchi County, there is a deep ditch, Luo Li led his troops to arrive here, and sent an order to go down, ordering the mule and horse team with the army not to approach Mianchi County for the time being, and he only brought two sentry men, and collectively hid in this ditch less than three hundred steps away from the city gate, leaning on the edge of the ditch to breathe.

The team of five hundred people was crowded into this ditch, and the heat from the breath was a little foggy, and after rushing for seventy miles of mountain roads, everyone's legs were tired and a little stiff, but the spirit of these generals was still very high, and after each of them sat down, he straightened his armor and checked the weapons in his hands.

Luo Li lay on the edge of the ditch, looking towards the north gate of Mianchi County, the gradually brightening sky gradually illuminated the county seat of Mianchi, the city gate here has not yet opened, only a few defenders, lazily leaning on the top of the city, everything seems to be very quiet.

After he shrank down, he gasped and laughed quietly, beckoned his two company commanders to his side, and said to them, "See?" Our overnight march was not in vain! Hey! The people in the city didn't expect that we would be lying outside the city gate at this moment! You go down and make arrangements, so that the brothers don't make a sound, and don't expose our whereabouts, the pikemen fucking put the spears down for Lao Tzu, and put them upright for fear that people won't see them?

After a while, if the people in the city have not discovered us, they will definitely open the city gate and go out to the dung truck, and as soon as the city gate is opened, they will obey my orders and rush up to grab the city gate! As long as you take the city gate, it will be much easier, otherwise you will have to storm this county! ”

After hearing this, the two company commanders under his command nodded in agreement, turned around and began to tell their soldiers to hide their bodies and put their spears in the ditch, so as not to reveal their whereabouts, and at the same time let everyone take this opportunity to take a breath, and as soon as the city gate opened, they rushed out and took the city gate.

Sure enough, after waiting for a while, the sky became brighter and brighter, and the bell of the mule cart began to ring in the city, and the water truck pulling water was going out of the city to pull water, and the person who was responsible for pulling the dung water also drove the dung truck to the city gate early, and as soon as the city gate opened, he went out of the city.

A small flag officer guarding the door walked out of the gatehouse of the doorway, stretched out his waist, was blown by the cold wind outside the door, shivered, and after scolding, he looked at the waterwheels and dung trucks that began to concentrate at the city gate, covered his nose and scolded: "Grandma, I smell this smell every morning, it's really fucking unlucky!" Open the door, open the door, and let them get out of here! It's disgusting here! ”

Several soldiers in the city did not even notice the mist rising from the ditch outside the city gate, and one by one they folded their hands and bent their necks on the city wall, and one guy even stood on the battlements, unbuttoned his pants, and escaped and urinated on the city.

"Damn, aren't you going to fucking be careful? Don't be blown back by the wind and sprinkle it on Lao Tzu! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will have to castrate you! A soldier leaning on the battlements next to him scolded and stepped aside.

With the efforts of more than a dozen officers and soldiers, the city gate began to squeak and squeak from the inside, and the people who pulled the dung water immediately smiled at the officers and soldiers guarding the gate, and hurriedly pulled the donkeys and mules towards the doorway.

The soldier who was standing on the battlement to pee on the side of the soldier shuddered, put away the guy, fastened the belt of his trousers, and inadvertently glanced out of the city, but he seemed to have been shocked, and after his body shook a little, his eyes began to dilate, and after a while, he suddenly shouted: "Enemy attack!" Hurry up and close the gates! ”

A group of gray people appeared in the ditch outside the city gate as if they had come out of the ground, and then rushed towards the city gate like a tide.

There were more than a dozen soldiers in the city gate, who were completely opening the city gate, watching the first dung truck out of the city gate, not realizing what was happening outside the city gate, and suddenly they heard the exclamation of the soldier on the city wall, and then they began to turn their heads to look outside the city gate.

Then the eyes of the group of people suddenly began to widen, and the little flag officer in charge of the city gate exclaimed: "Hurry up and close the door!" Hurry up and close the door! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Sound the gong to warn! ”

Dozens of officers and soldiers guarding the gate in the city gate all saw the scene outside the city at this time, and they all panicked, and more than a dozen officers and soldiers who opened the door hurriedly began to pull the city gate, wanting to close the city gate again, but how could they close the heavy city gate when they said it was closed.

Luo Li rushed to the front of the team first, and several guards followed closely by his side, originally they wanted to stop Luo Li from rushing forward first, but the reaction was a little slow, so Luo Li ran to the front.

"Kill! Don't let them close the gates! When Luo Li saw that the city gate was about to close slowly again, he waved the big knife in his hand and sped up his speed, and roared loudly in his mouth.

The distance of three hundred steps is not a long time, but at this time, it seems so long, all the people of the Xingtian Army who rushed out of the city gate stared at the city gate, and seeing that the city gate gradually began to close again, they all shouted: "Kill! ……”

The roar of these hundreds of people, like rolling thunder, rolled through the open space outside the city, a few timid officers and soldiers inside the door, by this time they were already frightened and overwhelmed, seeing that the group of thieves of unknown origin rushing outside the city was getting closer and closer, they simply ignored the half-closed city gate, turned around and fled towards the city, these few people fled, the remaining officers and soldiers also panicked, dropped the city gate one after another, turned around and fled towards the city gate, Only the little flag officer was left alone in the city gate cave and scolded.

The officers and soldiers on duty in the city were also frightened, looking at the group of enemies who were shouting like a tide and rushing towards the sky, they didn't know what to do, but there were two smart guys, who immediately lost their guys and fled towards the city, taking off their uniforms as they ran, causing others to do the same, and turned around and fled off the city wall.

A knife light flashed in the city gate hole, and after the little flag officer who tried to flee stumbled for a while, he let out an extremely terrible scream, half of his body was almost split by Luo Li's knife, and the hot blood suddenly sprayed Luo Li's head and face.

Luo Li grinned and stood in the doorway, shouting to the subordinates who rushed past him: "Brothers, rush! Chaoxian Yachong! Zhang Tiancheng, you send two teams of subordinates to kill me towards the south gate and control the south gate! Jiang Erbao, you take someone to Lao Tzu to occupy the treasury! Li Xianliang, you take people towards the east gate! Hurry up for Lao Tzu! Can't make them react! ……”

One by one, the officers who rushed past Luo Li, while receiving orders, beckoned their respective subordinates, and after rushing into the city according to Luo Li's orders, they immediately began to act separately, and suddenly the city was full of exclamations and shouts of killing.

The officials and defenders in the city of Michi County did not have time to react at all, and they were overwhelmed by the torrent of Xingtian Army that rushed into the city.

The battle in the entire city of Mianchi County was completely subsided in just one morning, and important places such as the county office, barracks, and treasury were all controlled by the Xingtian army, and only at the south gate of the city, there were still 100 officers and soldiers who wanted to resist stubbornly, but after the arrival of the Xingtian army's gunners, a row of guns was fired, and these officers and soldiers immediately lost their guys and lay on the ground.

Luo Li took control of the county seat of Mianchi with lightning speed, and at noon began to issue a list to appease the residents in the city, and stationed his subordinates on various city gates, controlling the entire Mianchi County in his hands.

Only a small number of defenders on the side of the West Gate immediately abandoned the West Gate and fled after learning that a thief army had entered the city, so that they were not surrounded by the Xingtian Army, and almost all the rest of the officials and defenders in the city became prisoners.

And Xiao Tianjian led his troops to rush to Mianchi County on the night of the second day after Luo Li seized the county seat, and at this time, the entire county town had regained stability.

After Luo Li led his troops to capture the county seat, he strictly restrained his subordinates, and did not allow the soldiers to take any action to disturb the people, but only ordered martial law, and no one was allowed to walk on the street, so although the people in the city were frightened, they were not harmed, and they hid back in their homes, lying on the crack of the door and waiting outside to see the news.

But for the big landlords and officials living in the city is not so polite, after the Xingtian army entered the city to control the situation, they immediately raided the big households in the city, don't look at the small Mianchi County, just from these dozen families to steal the silver, it is enough to tens of thousands of taels, and at the same time, from the county treasury, copied out thousands of stone grain, the problem of grain after the Xingtian army crossed the river was completely solved.

Xiao Tianjian crossed the river later than Luo Li, and after he crossed the river, he waited for a day at the ferry, and then all the soldiers and horses crossed the Yellow River, so when he gathered his troops and rushed to Mianchi County, the overall situation here had already been decided.