Lintong City was taken, and it didn't take a lot of time, and the casualties of the Fuguang army were not much, but Zhang Bin couldn't be happy, because the thieves burned thousands of his chariots.

These chariots are important auxiliary tools, and they all depend on it for rapid marching, carrying grain and grass baggage, blocking cavalry raids, etc., and a thousand chariots will be burned at this time, and the marching speed of 100,000 troops will be affected.

However, he couldn't care so much at this time, because he had to fight to Tongguan as soon as possible, so that he could transfer the prisoners to Dongfan as soon as possible.

This time, there are nearly 50,000 more captives, and it is even more urgent to take Tongguan, but fortunately, they basically brought a month's worth of grain and grass, otherwise they would really go crazy.

He had vaguely guessed that Li Zicheng wanted to consume his chariot, but he didn't expect that Li Zicheng mainly wanted to consume his ammunition, and then organize a large army to counterattack and defeat him in one fell swoop.

Consume it, anyway, there are only three cities in total from Lintong to Tongguan, at most he will consume 3,000 chariots, and he can still give him 4,000 left, and he can also keep the 50,000 army mobile at high speed, and the main force under Li Zicheng will be 50,000 at most, 50,000 chariots and 50,000 cavalry, and he can still eat him.

Zhang Bin was also ruthless, burn it, let you burn it happily, he repaired it in Lintong for a day, and at the same time ordered Zheng Chongjian to send 5,000 Shaanxi soldiers to take over Lintong, and then led the army to Weinan.

Weinan is also like Lintong with 50,000 thieves stationed, they may also have Tian Jianxiu's point, the gap in the city wall is blocked, and a lot of rockets and torches are also prepared, Zhang Bin attacked fiercely, the city was taken, and another thousand chariots were burned.

Li Zicheng seemed to be a foot soldier who didn't want money, and threw him another 50,000 foot soldiers, and the number of foot soldiers he captured then reached a terrifying more than 200,000!

For Li Zicheng, these foot soldiers are really like free, anyway, the officers and soldiers will not kill if they are caught, and they will be sent back to their hometowns soon, he just needs to recruit them again, which is what Xiong Wencan did last time.

He thought that Zhang Bin would be like Xiong Wencan, and he would dismiss these foot soldiers in a short time, but he never thought that Zhang Bin didn't have this idea at all, Zhang Bin just wanted to take Tongguan quickly and transport these prisoners to Dongfan as soon as possible.

After taking Weinan, he repaired for two more days, and when the five thousand Shaanxi soldiers sent by Zheng Chongjian received the city and the prisoners, he led the army straight to Huazhou City, which was not garrisoned by thieves!

What's going on, is the thief scared, or has he run away?

Of course, Li Zicheng was not afraid, nor did he run away, mainly because Huazhou City was too small and dilapidated and located on the plain, there was really nothing to defend, and he might as well concentrate on guarding Huayin behind.

Zhang Bin didn't care what Li Zicheng thought, in his opinion, there was nothing to defend in Huazhou City, just a small county town in tatters, and the city walls collapsed in some places, and no one repaired them, so he simply gave up Huazhou and went straight to Huayin.

This Huayin has another 50,000 foot soldiers waiting for him to check, but the price of the seizure is another thousand chariots, he attacked wildly for a while, and lost another thousand chariots, and Huayin City was also successfully taken by him.

Now, only Tongguan is left.

Li Zicheng also seemed to have lost confidence in using up his ammunition, and simply led his army back to Tongguan.

He is ready to rate 150,000 elites to defend Xiongguan, but Zhang Bin is disdainful of this, what if you are Xiongguan, wait for the two thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine guns to come, no matter how high the city wall is, it is fake.

In fact, at this time, he didn't need to be in a hurry, because he went to the Wei River north of Huayin to take a look, the river here is deep enough, there is no problem at all to cross the wheels, as long as a port dock is built, the prisoners can be quickly transferred to Dongfan.

However, this also has a certain danger, because Huayin County is more than 20 miles away from the Wei River, and Tongguan is only more than 30 miles away from Huayin, it is impossible for him to divide his troops to hold all the lines from Huayin to the Wei River.

Moreover, at this time, all the elites of Li Zicheng seem to be in Tongguan, he probably thought that he had no way to take this Xiongguan, and he was a little fearless, but he didn't know that this Xiongguan was a floating cloud in his eyes, he was cocooning himself, and Tongguan had actually become a Jedi at this time.

To the north of Tongguan is the Yellow River, and the Fenglingdu on the other side has been defended by the Shanxi army, and he should not even think of crossing the river unless he has a large number of warships;

To the south of Tongguan is the reckless Qinling Mountains, and he wants to lead an army of 150,000 to run in, and he must starve to death inside;

There are two exits to the east of Tongguan, and Lingbao and Hangu Pass are both held by the Henan army led by Qin Gongming, and it is basically impossible for him to break through;

As for the east side, not to mention, his own army of 100,000 is guarding here, and it is impossible for him to get out.

In other words, as long as he leads the army to break through Tongguan, then Li Zicheng can only escape into the Qinling Mountains, and he can't bring too many people, such a good opportunity is really not to be missed.

Zhang Bin simply left Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew to guard 50,000 prisoners in Huayin, and he himself led an army of 80,000 to Tongguan, he was ready to block the west gate of Tongguan, and when Yu Chenglong led the fleet of wheels to transport the two thousand catties of Buddha cannon over, he bombarded the west wall of Tongguan, and then swept the arrow battlements and the female wall above, and then waved his army to break through Tongguan, and directly forced Li Zicheng to flee into the Qinling Mountains.

However, when he came to Tongguan, he changed his mind, because there is a river in the north of Tongguan that flows into the Yellow River, and that river runs directly through the entire Tongguan City.

At the beginning, the people who built Tongguan probably thought that the city wall was so high, and they could throw big stones down at will, which were the same as cannonballs, no matter what kind of ships, as long as they hit the city wall, they would be smashed to pieces, but they didn't know that there were many wheels under their hands, but they were light ironclad ships, and the cannonballs couldn't be smashed, and they could be smashed by a stone!

When the time comes, as long as hundreds of wheels are organized to send the large army from the river into the interior of Tongguan City, it will not be very easy to break through Tongguan, and how can you use waste ammunition to bombard the city wall.

This Tongguan Guancheng was expanded in the ninth year of Hongwu, at that time there was no ironclad ship that could not be smashed by shells, the reason why the officials of Tongguan Wei included the Tonghe River into the Guancheng, mainly for the convenience of getting water, there are even more than 1,000 acres of land in the Tongguan City, that is to say, no matter how long the enemy is besieged, they will not be cut off from water and food!

Now it's good, it's cheap for nothing, Zhang Bin just needs to wait for Yu Chenglong to drive the light ironclad ship over, and he can easily break through this Xiongguan.

Therefore, he sent the army to the west gate of Tongguan, and did not build any siege equipment, but built a wharf on the south bank of the Wei River not far from Tongguan.

Li Zicheng wondered, what do the officers and soldiers mean by this, do they want to besiege themselves in Tongguan and starve to death?

This is not a joke, he has hoarded a lot of grain and grass in Tongguan, and it is not a problem for the 150,000 troops to eat for a few months, can the officers and soldiers carry it for a few months, he expressed serious doubts.

As for the move of the officers and men to build the wharf, he understood that the officers and soldiers wanted to transport grain and grass through the Wei River, and he did not pay much attention to it at all.

The two sides were at a stalemate, until more than ten days later, dense wheels appeared on the Yellow River, Li Zicheng's face finally changed, so many wheels, he saw it for the first time, if people don't want to rush into the Tong River, can he resist it?

This problem is really not good, throwing stones on the city wall can hit the ships on the river, the problem is that there are too many ships on the other side, how much he can smash, at this time he is not sure, he can only let people quickly move stones to the north city wall, hoping to smash as many officers and soldiers as possible.

When Yu Chenglong came up from the temporary dock, he immediately ordered him to unload all the grain, grass and ammunition on all the wheels as soon as possible, and then he gathered all the generals and explained the next plan of action one by one.

Early the next morning, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu led their 20,000 troops to start boarding the ship, while Zhang Bin ordered Ai Nengqi, Feng Shuangli and others to take their subordinates and push chariots to set up a formation one mile outside the west gate of Tongguan to prepare to attack the city.

It took nearly an hour for Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu to lead their 20,000 troops to board the light ironclad ships, and Zhang Bin immediately gave an order, and more than 500 light ironclad ships suddenly went down the river like a long dragon, straight to the entrance of the Tong River into the Yellow River, and then went upstream, rushing towards the city of Tongguan Pass.

Li Zicheng was naturally prepared, and as soon as the fleet came to the big arch under the city wall, the stones fell down like raindrops.

To his astonishment, the stones smashed like cannonballs on the roof of the wheels, but all the wheels were fine, and they rushed into the castle!

Of course, his preparations are not limited to these, in the Guancheng, both sides of the Tong River are already lined up with archers at this time, and the wheels have just entered the Guancheng, and the rockets are raining down.

What stunned him happened again, when the rockets hit the wheels, none of them could get in!

At this time, he saw clearly that the outside of these wheels was actually an iron shell wrapped in a layer of fish scale armor!

The rocket could not enter the shell of the wheel, but countless barrels stretched out from the wheel, and with a dense "pop" sound, the archers on both sides of the strait suddenly fell to the ground in rows, howling wildly.

When the archers were almost cleaned up, the officers and men suddenly opened the hatch of the ship and rushed out of it, jumped onto the riverbank, and rushed madly towards the western wall.

Li Zicheng hurriedly organized foot soldiers to intercept him, but it was useless, the leading general was like a killing god, and he couldn't even see the shadow of a spear dance, and where he passed, it was like a rain of blood, blood was flying wildly, and no one could stop him at all.

Li Zicheng looked at the slowly opening west gate, and could only pat his thigh in annoyance, then immediately summoned all the generals and cronies to manage the team, and escaped from the east gate in a puff of smoke.

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