Just when the main force of the peasant army and the Qi army were in full swing in the city of Daimyo's mansion, the two Ming armies quietly set off from Shanxi and rushed towards the peasant army's belly and back Zhangde Mansion.

Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, led 10,000 elite cavalry from Luzhou, passed through Shaxian, Wu'an and Cizhou north of Zhangde Mansion, went around a big circle, and touched the east of Anyang City, the junction of Zhangde Mansion and Daimyo's Mansion, and directly cut off the connection between the defenders of Anyang City and the main force of the peasant army outside Damingfu.

At this time, the main force of the peasant army had just begun to officially attack the city, using siege vehicles to consume the ammunition of the Qi army.

Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, led 10,000 elite guards from Zezhou, passed through Luzhou, passed through Lin County, and went straight to Anyang City.

Their whereabouts were soon discovered by the peasant army stationed in Anyang City, because the peasant army was afraid that the officers and soldiers of Shanxi would chase after them from the west, so they arranged a lot of sentry agents in the area less than 100 miles between Linxian and Anyang, and Xu Dingchen led the army to be exposed as soon as Linxian County.

At this time, the official roads leading from Anyang to the Daimyofu City have been cut off by Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, so all the fast horses sent by the Anyang defenders to report the news have been intercepted, and the main force of the peasant army does not know that the back road is about to be cut off!

Zhang Zongheng and Xu Dingchen's pursuit of the peasant army is still relatively effective, at least during their tenure, the 36th battalion of the peasant army could not gain a firm foothold in Shanxi, and had to move to Henan, but unfortunately, during this period, the loyal ministers and good generals generally did not end well, as soon as their three-year term expired, they were withdrawn one after another, and the peasant army was able to crisscross Shanxi.

Of course, this is all another period of history, and now, Zhang Bin is here, and the fate of many people has changed because of this.

Although Xu Dingchen is a civil servant, he is very fierce when he fights, although he does not have the name of Lu Xiangsheng "King Lu Yan", but the peasant army also saw him a little worried, he just led the army to Anyang outside the city, the king of the mixed world and the king of the whole world in the city were frightened.

Of course, no matter how fierce it is, if you want to attack the city, you still have to build siege equipment, a wall one foot high, and there are people defending it, no matter how powerful people are, it is impossible to climb it with bare hands.

Xu Dingchen knew that the time was relatively urgent, because Zhang Zongheng's 10,000 elite cavalry was unlikely to stop the main force of the more than 200,000 peasant army, and if all the main forces of the peasant army came back to help him and took down Anyang, it would be troublesome, so he only ordered the man to build a ladder for one day and start attacking the city.

At this time, the equipment of the peasant army was still relatively backward, like Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, they were better, after all, they were outnumbered, and they robbed more things, and there was no shortage of craftsmen who built weapons, and they were still relatively complete with general swords, guns, arrows and shields.

The small leaders of the king of the mixed world and the king of the whole world are different, they only have three or four thousand people, and they can't even fight a county town, and they can usually loot in the township, beat the landlords and squires, grab some food or something, and don't have the iron to grab some weapons to build weapons, so their weapons are very poor, the swords and guns are not complete, there are not many bows and arrows, and there are even those with wooden sticks.

Xu Dingchen is quite experienced in the face of these peasant troops, in fact, the weapons of the guards are not very good, and they only have swords, guns, arrows and shields, but he can come up with various ways to create a certain advantage, and the peasant army that fights has no temper.

For example, against the cavalry of the peasant army, he would use the grain truck to cooperate with the gun array, first use the grain truck to block the cavalry charge, and then use the advantage of the spear commander to stab the peasant soldiers on their backs.

For another example, this time he knew that he was mainly here to attack the city, so he brought 5,000 archers, and brought all the arrows equipped by the Shanxi garrison.

When attacking the city, people first went up the ladder or siege vehicle or something, but he first let a thousand sword and shield men discharge the shield array, and five thousand archers followed, rushing to the bottom of the city wall within a hundred steps, that is, a shot, there were not many archers under the king of the mixed world and the whole king, and the five thousand archers shot so violently that they couldn't lift their heads when they shot directly.

At this time, he ordered the pikemen and the sword and shield men to carry the ladder to attack the city, so that the rolling stones, sasswood, boiling water, and hot oil prepared on the city wall were basically useless, because as soon as the defenders left the protective range of the arrow battlements, they would be shot into hedgehogs, and there would be no chance to carry those things.

But there is one thing he can't help, when the pikemen and sword and shield men rush up the wall, the archers can't shoot anymore, and if they shoot again, they will shoot their own people together, and at this time, they have to rely on their real skills to fight hard.

Fortunately, it is the small leaders of the mixed world king and the whole world king who defend the city, if Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong and Gao Yingxiang are the leaders of the peasant army, 10,000 against 10,000, he estimates that he will not be able to take Anyang City at all.

It is precisely because of these two small leaders that the siege of Anyang City went very smoothly, Xu Dingchen built a total of one day of siege equipment, and stormed for less than a day, paying the price of nearly two thousand casualties, and then took the city wall west of Anyang, after the west city wall was taken down, the other sides were simple, and it took nearly a day to capture the north and south city walls, and the king of the mixed world and the king of the whole world finally couldn't resist abandoning the city and fled, and Anyang City was taken down in this way.

Xu Dingchen did not go to pursue the remnants of the King of the Mixed World and the King of the Whole World, because the order that Lu Xiangsheng gave him was to take Anyang City, some people may have other ideas for the sake of military achievements, but in the end they destroyed the overall layout of the commander, he did not have this idea, after taking Anyang City, he immediately sent someone to report to Lu Xiangsheng, and then began to strengthen the city defense, preparing to deal with the counterattack of the main force of the peasant army.

At this time, the main force of the peasant army also knew that something had happened in Anyang City, because there had been no news from Anyang City for a long time, and there was no news when they sent people to contact them, and even the people sent out did not come back.

Wang Ziyong once again summoned all the leaders of the peasant army to discuss.

This time, the atmosphere was not as harmonious as before, and everyone could guess that the officers and soldiers had recaptured Anyang City, and, most likely, it was their old rivals Zhang Zongheng and Xu Dingchen who came.

As soon as the people arrived, Wang Ziyong immediately said worriedly: "Everyone, there has been no news from Anyang for many days, it is estimated that Zhang Zongheng and Xu Dingchen's two old dogs have chased over from Shanxi, everyone said, what should we do next?" ”

What else can I do, hurry up and escape, the peasant army in the early days was like this, once the imperial army came, they would think about running away, until Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong slowly became stronger and could confront the imperial army head-on, they began to be tough with the officers and soldiers.

As soon as Wang's words fell, Hui Dengxiang immediately said eagerly: "What else are you talking about, hurry up and run, Zhang Zongheng and Xu Dingchen, the two old dogs, have tens of thousands of troops, once they surround us, we won't be able to escape." ”

The leaders of the peasant army nodded in agreement, and some were even ready to get up and run.

Zhang Xianzhong was determined to do something big this time, and when he saw everyone's reaction, he immediately said loudly: "Don't panic, everyone, if Zhang Zongheng and Xu Dingchen really brought all the people over, they would have rushed over long ago, and they didn't come here for so many days, which proves that they didn't bring many people at all." ”

Liu Guoneng couldn't help but complain: "Eight kings, what do you want to do, now there are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in the Daimyofu City in front, and there is no news in Anyang City in the back, we are already surrounded, do you know, it will be too late if you don't leave." ”

Zhang Xianzhong hated iron and said: "What do I want to do, didn't I say it a long time ago, we can't always think about running, we should think about how to overthrow the court and become the emperor ourselves, if we run like this, when will it be a head?" ”

Hui Dengxiang immediately retorted: "The problem is that we can't beat the officers and soldiers now, don't we run, stay here and wait for death?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong said with a little disdain: "Why can't we beat it, King Chuang is attacking Neihuang County, and the officers and soldiers in the Daimyo's Mansion City don't dare to save it, can't we beat them or can't they beat us?" Also, there has been no news from Anyang for so many days, and I haven't seen the officers and soldiers rushing over, our scouts have been sent to the west forty or fifty miles away, and we haven't even seen the shadows of the officers and soldiers, what are you afraid of? ”

Wang Ziyong shook his head and smiled bitterly: "So what, even if they don't come over, we won't be able to take the Daimyo's Mansion City, what's the use of spending it here, this is Beizhili, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the longer you stay, the more dangerous it is." ”

When Zhang Xianzhong heard this, he immediately agitated: "Who said that we can't fight it, we just didn't be ruthless, there are only a few officers and soldiers in the city, as long as everyone is willing to be ruthless, surrounded and attacked on all sides, it will be defeated in one day!" ”

is ruthless, that is, to pile up human lives, who is willing to do this, is it easy to pull up a little people.

As soon as he said this, no one echoed it at all, what kind of joke, if you want to be ruthless, you go to be ruthless alone, so we won't be ruthless.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Wang Ziyong couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "A mansion city, there is not much benefit to fighting down, there is no need to work so hard, there is no other way, if there is no us, let's withdraw, it is really not suitable to stay here for a long time." ”

These rat-eyed people regard the rebellion as a robbery, rob when they can, and run away if they can't rob it, without a little strategy, and if they continue like this, they will be cleaned up by the officers and soldiers sooner or later!

Everyone wanted to run away, they didn't want to fight hard, and he couldn't do anything, but this time he couldn't say anything, he simply wrote lightly: "Actually, it's okay not to be ruthless, it's just a little longer, as long as we attack on two or three sides in turn, the officers and soldiers are estimated to not be able to hold out for a few days." There is not much benefit after conquering the Daimyo's Mansion City, but as long as we take the Daimyo's Mansion City, we can go to the vicinity of the capital to make a circle, and the little emperor will be afraid, so he will transfer troops and horses from all over the world to King Qin, and then we will have more opportunities. ”

When Wang Ziyong heard this, he hesitated: "A few days, can it really work, if we can't take it down for a few days, what should we do?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong pretended to compromise and said: "Then let's do it, we will attack on both sides of the southwest for three days, if we can't capture it, we will retreat, how about it?" ”

Three days is not much of a problem, Wang Ziyong saw that everyone did not object much, so he nodded and said: "Okay, just take turns to attack for three days, and if we can't beat it, we will withdraw." ”

A group of leaders really regarded the rebellion as a robbery at this time, but they also knew that it was not a way to run like this, and they were chased from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and from Shanxi to Henan, they ran thousands of miles, and they also wanted to make a little change, three days for three days, if they could really lay down the Daimyo's Mansion City, and then go to the capital for a walk, forcing soldiers and horses from all over the country to come to King Qin, they may not be chased everywhere anymore.

Since a two-sided siege has been set, it is a question of who will go to the south, except for Wang Ziyong and Zhang Xianzhong, there is really no one here who dares to take charge alone in front of 10,000 officers and soldiers.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong volunteered and invited Cao Cao and Luo Rucai to attack the south together, and everyone dispersed satisfied.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Xianzhong pulled Luo Rucai to move the camp to more than ten miles south of the Daimyo's Mansion City, Luo Rucai actually faintly understood that it was convenient to escape from the south, and in case of an accident, they were definitely the fastest runners, so he didn't say anything, and immediately followed Zhang Xianzhong and camped south of the Daimyo's Mansion City.

Early the next morning, a group of peasant army leaders began to attack the city in turn on both sides of the southwest as agreed, this time, they did not just push the siege vehicle to consume the ammunition of the officers and soldiers, even the archers they threw in, the siege vehicle no longer pushed under the city wall, as soon as it reached about fifty steps from the city wall, the siege vehicle stopped, and then, the archers ran out from under the siege vehicle, hiding behind the siege vehicle and threw hard, then Zhang Bin suddenly doubled the pressure, and the soldiers of the Qi family army also began to suffer casualties.

Fortunately, the peasant armies on both sides were not very desperate, and rarely rushed to the bottom of the city wall to attack, usually after the rain of arrows was fired, and the defenders on the city wall still kept shooting back, they would retreat and replace with other horses and horses and start again.

This seems to be a bit like a return to the light, Zhang Bin estimates that they should not last long before they run away, because there is already news from Zhangde's side that Anyang City has been taken.

If you want to run, you can, but you have to leave most of the centaurs, he doesn't want to raise tigers for trouble, and when the time comes, it will be out of control.

Now that Zhang Zongheng and Xu Dingchen in the west are in place, Lu Xiangsheng in the north is missing, according to the news from Wei County in the past few days, the new army has basically been able to maintain a basic formation, so it is actually about the same, and fighting the peasant army is not a Houjin, and there is no need for a too strict formation, as long as it is not a straggler.

He simply sent a message to Lu Xiangsheng and was ready to attack, and at the same time sent someone to inform Zhang Zongheng that he was ready to volley.

Sure enough, as he expected, on the afternoon of the third day, after the peasant army stopped attacking, they suddenly began to rush to run, especially Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai in the south, they even demolished the camp tent during the siege, and as soon as the siege vehicle was lost, it ran away!

Not to mention Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, they even started to run away at noon on the third day, and even the men and horses of Ma Yingshou and the fifth battalion of Gezuo had already gone to the south of the Daimyofu City to "raise" grain and grass, leaving only Wang Ziyong stupidly and led the other battalions to hold on to the last retreat.