Five miles west of the Daimyo City, a huge open space is full of busy figures of peasant army officers and soldiers.

There are those who drive mule carts and donkey carts to transport wood, there are those who take large saws, small saws, axes and planers to process wood, some make wheels, and some nail wooden rows, the division of labor is clear and orderly, at this time there is no shortage of veterans of a hundred battles in the peasant army, and it is naturally a common thing for them to build a siege machine.

Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong and other battalion leaders were also in this huge open space at this time, but they did not come to build siege equipment, but to inspect siege equipment.

A bunch of people walked around the clearing, and Wang Ziyong said with great relief: "This siege vehicle and ladder have also been built a lot, so they can launch an attack and consume the ammunition of the Ming army, right?" ”

No one answered, because at this time the leaders of the battalions of the peasant army were all thieves and thieves, and whoever answered, they would nominate them and let them take the lead in attacking the city.

Wang Ziyong is embarrassed, these guys, just don't work together, really have to work together, can more than 200,000 troops be chased by tens of thousands of officers and soldiers everywhere.

He reluctantly raised his eyes and glanced around, ready to order, anyway, everyone knows that this thing is coming in turn, and no one can escape, but the first wave of attacks will suffer a loss, because everyone doesn't know how the officers and soldiers in the city will deal with this siege vehicle.

Let Zhang Xianzhong take the lead again?

This seems a bit unfair, because Zhang Xianzhong has already attacked with him a few days ago, and the losses are relatively heavy, and it is a little unreasonable to let him go first.

So, who to choose?

The leaders of the peasant army also knew that Boss Wang was going to mess up the mandarin duck spectrum, so everyone was avoiding his eyes intentionally or unintentionally.

Some people look at the sky as if they are studying astronomy;

Some people look at the ground as if they are studying geography;

Some people stared at those who made siege equipment, as if they were studying how to make this thing;

Some people look at me, I look at you, full of affection, anyway, no one looks at Wang Ziyong.

Wang Ziyong looked at it for a while, and finally spoke: "Cao Cao, why don't you go up and try it tomorrow." ”

The Cao Cao he shouted was naturally not Cao Cao, the King of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, but one of the leaders of the thirty-six battalions, Cao Cao Luo Rucai.

Luo Rucai is different from other leaders, he is not only resourceful, but also more moral, and pays attention to things, unlike other leaders who do not give in to each other, do not save each other in defeat, only care about themselves, regardless of others, therefore, his popularity in the rebel army is the best, and everyone is willing to cooperate with him.

As soon as Wang Ziyong spoke, he didn't say much, and immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I'll try it tomorrow." ”

When Wang Ziyong heard this, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that this kid was righteous and asked for others, it was estimated that he would pass the buck, and he would be even more embarrassed at that time.

At about early the next morning, outside the west gate of the Daimyo's mansion, the peasant army began to assemble and prepare to attack the city.

This time, the main attack was Sai Cao Cao Luo Rucai's department, he still had a few brushes to govern the army, and his subordinates could discharge the basic queue, and the two hundred siege vehicles were also lined up neatly by them, ten people under each siege vehicle, followed by ten people carrying ladders, everything was so orderly.

Zhang Bin also had a bit of a headache when he saw so many siege vehicles, there was too little fire oil in the main city, and the siege vehicles were made of wet wood that was more difficult, and the volume was large, and he didn't know how many oil cans a siege vehicle had to throw on it before it could be lit.

He had already asked Cao Huayu, the treasurer of the Dongsheng Hall in the capital, to quickly inform him and ask him to find a way to collect the ignition oil as soon as possible and send it over, otherwise, he really didn't know if he could carry it.

There were more than 100,000 peasant troops outside the city, and if they were to build siege trucks with all their might, it would be easy to build a hundred or so in a day, and a thousand in ten days.

Because the height of the siege vehicle is almost eight feet, and the height of the city wall is only one zhang, people only need to hide under the siege vehicle and rush to the city wall, and then climb on the siege vehicle from the back, they can jump directly from the top of the siege vehicle to the city wall, as long as tens of thousands of people jump up, one city wall will be crowded by them, two thousand people can not hold it at all, and they can also attack at the same time from all sides, in that case, it is even more difficult to defend.

He was thinking about it, Luo Rucai had already ordered his subordinates to start charging, and four thousand people rushed towards the city wall with two hundred siege vehicles shouting trumpets, and the power was still quite terrifying.

Zhang Bin did not order the tiger squat cannon to prepare to fire, and it was naturally impossible for him to waste ammunition if it was obviously impossible to bombard, until the siege vehicle approached the city wall a mile in front of the city wall, he said aloud: "Musketeers prepare." ”

With a "bang", thousands of musketeers stepped forward with their guns raised, and lay neatly in the gap between the arrow stacks, until the siege vehicle was only about a hundred paces away from the city wall, and then he gave the order aloud: "Aim and shoot." ”

"Papapapa", a burst of gunfire rang out, and many of the peasant army foot soldiers who were pushing the cart forward were hit in the legs, and the blood flowed, but they did not stop their pace, and still gritted their teeth and pushed the siege vehicle to keep approaching the city wall.

In less than a cup of tea, the siege vehicle was only about thirty steps away from the city wall, and Zhang Bin ordered unhurriedly: "Throw oil cans, rocket salvo." ”

"Throw", five hundred Qi family army foot soldiers under the command of their respective squad leaders threw out the oil cans in their hands one after another, "crackling" sounded, each siege vehicle was almost hit by two oil canisters, and all kinds of oil juice were splashed everywhere at once.

Immediately after that, 500 rockets were ejected, and with a "boom", all the siege vehicles were on fire.

The peasant army infantry under the siege vehicle suddenly panicked, and many of them couldn't open their eyes because of the billowing smoke, and the whole formation suddenly became chaotic.

Zhang Bin held the binoculars and took a closer look at the burning effect, his brows couldn't help frowning, the moisture of this wood was too heavy, the smoke on the siege vehicle was getting bigger and bigger, but the fire was getting smaller and smaller, and the fire oil was not enough.

He gritted his teeth and ordered: "Throw another round of oil tanks." ”

"Throw", 500 Qi family army foot soldiers threw 500 oil cans again, and there was a "crackling" sound, and the fire on the siege vehicle finally burst out.

At this time, the siege vehicles were less than ten steps away from the city walls, but because the fire was so great, many peasant army foot soldiers had been forced to run out from under the siege vehicles and run behind the siege vehicles, and most of the siege vehicles stopped.

Seeing this, Luo Rucai, who was in the distance, had no choice but to order: "Mingjin, retreat." ”

There was no way, the siege engines were on fire, and it was useless to push them under the city walls, because there was no way to stand on them.

There weren't many casualties among his foot soldiers this time, except that some of them limped and were obviously shot in the legs.

Just when he was secretly rejoicing, a burst of artillery roar suddenly sounded on the city wall, two hundred tiger squatting cannons fired five rounds of salvo, 1,000 shells smashed down, and hundreds of peasant soldiers were smashed with blood, and they couldn't survive.

Seeing this scene, Luo Rucai's brows couldn't help frowning, seeing that his subordinates were about to run back, the officers and soldiers suddenly opened fire, and hundreds of people were lost at once, what a hell of a bad luck.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was in the distance, showed a faint smile, asking the officers and soldiers not to let go of a shot, then he was slapped in the face, and specially built siege vehicles to consume people's ammunition, but they didn't fire a shot, this doesn't prove that he is sick in the brain, fortunately, the officers and soldiers finally fired.

At this time, the king in the middle couldn't help but sigh and said: "This doesn't seem to have much effect, people know that the siege vehicles can't be destroyed, so they won't fire artillery at all, and when the siege vehicles are lit, they will only fire the artillery when the people retreat, isn't this still using human lives to consume the ammunition of the officers and soldiers?" ”

The leaders of the peasant army nodded their heads in agreement, and asked them to send someone to push the siege vehicle up for a turn, but it was not okay to let them force their men to eat cannonballs, and there were hundreds of casualties at a time, and they would be disabled after a few rounds.

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but remind: "Oil is more difficult to find than gunpowder, how much oil can officers and soldiers bring, let me see, this siege vehicle siege is the best choice, as long as the officers and soldiers run out of oil, we put the siege vehicle under the city wall, then the city wall will be wasted, when tens of thousands of people pile up, a city wall will be thousands of officers and soldiers to live?" ”

Anyway, he just insisted on fighting, not that he was so vicious that he insisted on killing all the other peasant armies, he really wanted to mobilize the Ming army from all over the country to enter the king of Jingqin, so that he could develop and grow rapidly, as for the other peasant armies, whether they could escape or not depended on their creation.

The leaders of the peasant army still don't know that this guy has such a bad heart, it is a fact that this oil is more difficult to find than gunpowder, and it is good that ordinary officers and soldiers can bring hundreds of cans of fire oil, and it is estimated that the officers and soldiers will run out of fire oil in a few days, in that case, they may really be able to take the Daimyo's Mansion City in one hand.

Zhang Bin didn't have much to do about the problem of fire oil, he desperately collected it for a few days, and only collected more than 3,000 cans of fire oil in total, and now he can only see how much Cao Huayu can send him.

At this time, the peasant army did not surround the city of the daimyo, because they did not dare to disperse, for fear of being broken by the officers and soldiers, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are quite terrifying for many peasant armies, only Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong and other bigwigs can withstand tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and the other battalions cannot withstand it at all.

Therefore, the peasant army was all assembled in the west of the Daimyofu City, and the other three directions were empty, so it was very convenient for Zhang Bin to contact the capital and Lu Xiangsheng in Wei County in the north.

At this time, Wei County, north of the city of Daimyofu, did not make a noise because of the arrival of the peasant army, but was as lively as a festival, because their "old prefect" Lu Xiangsheng Lu returned, and also issued a convening order, so that the township Yong, who had originally entered the king of Jingqin, came to Wei County to assemble quickly.

Lord Lu is famous for loving the people like a son, and he is also quite good to the townspeople who follow him to Qin Wang, basically, whatever the court sends down, he follows everyone to eat, and if the court does not send down food, he will starve with everyone, and when he fights, he rushes to the front, never hides behind to command, and lets others go to death.

Such a good official is naturally supported by all the people, and after he issued a convening order, the villagers who were originally unwilling to participate in the defense of the city rushed over, because the peasant army was not a slave, everyone was a common man, and many people were unwilling to fight with the peasant army who were also ordinary people for those corrupt officials or officials who were vegetarian in the corpse.

However, Lord Lu is different, Lord Lu is a good official who is dedicated to the country and the people, and even the common people of Guangping and Shunde know this big name, follow him to work hard, everyone is willing.

In this way, the speed of the new army's assembly was more terrifying, Lu Xiangsheng had already brought 2,000 Xiangyong, Zhang Bin supported him with 1,000 elite Qijia army, Wei County originally also gathered hundreds of Xiangyong, plus the Daimyofu City and the Xiangyong who rushed to Wei County after hearing the news, in less than three days, the new army gathered nearly 5,000 people.

Immediately afterwards, more than 2,000 Xiangyong gathered in Guangping Mansion also rushed over, and the Xiangyong of Shunde came a little later, because the city of Shunde Mansion was more than 200 miles away from Wei County, and it was impossible for Xiangyong to run a hundred miles a day like the regular Ming army, and it took time for them to assemble, until the fifth day, more than 2,000 Xiangyong in Shunde arrived in Wei County.

As soon as they arrived, the 10,000 new troops were assembled, and in five days, they "recruited" 10,000 new troops, which was terrifying, of course, most of these so-called new troops were actually Lu Xiangsheng's old troops, and because the peasant army was approaching, most of them were assembled, if it weren't for these, even if Lu Xiangsheng was here, I am afraid it would take half a month to assemble the new army.

After the new army was assembled, it was followed by drills, and Lu Xiangsheng's speed of training the new army was equally terrifying, because these townsmen had already undergone a certain amount of training, and this time there were thousands of elite Qi family army leaders, so the drill would naturally get twice the result with half the effort.

Weapons, most of them can be used, it's just a matter of proficiency, in fact, the basic movements are almost the same as a few days of practice, because most ordinary soldiers go back and forth on those few movements, and the army does not rely on individual martial arts, as long as you can listen to the command, the action is fast, and there is no need to train everyone to be a master.

The queue, they had also practiced originally, plus there were a thousand elite hand-in-hand teaching of the Qi family's army, almost every day.

The only difficulty is the cooperation of the Mandarin Duck Formation, however, there are 1,000 elites of the Qi family army in the middle, and the practice is relatively fast, and it will be decent in a few days.

Just as Lu Xiangsheng was hurriedly training the new army in Wei County, the offensive and defensive battle in Neihuang County also began, or rather, the peasant army was ready to start attacking the city.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng actually didn't plan to storm Neihuang County, they just wanted to make a show, if they could attract officers and soldiers to save them, it would be best to have one or two thousand officers and soldiers, and they would still be able to eat, if they couldn't attract officers and soldiers to rescue, they would not really attack the city.

Therefore, the situation in Neihuang County is quite weird, the peasant army seems to be desperately making siege equipment, but it has not launched an attack, if someone runs to Gao Yingxiang's array to investigate carefully, they will definitely be stunned.

What they built was not a siege cart and a ladder at all, but a wheelbarrow and a fork of the horse, where they were preparing to attack the city, they were clearly preparing to run away!