"Driving", "driving", "driving", at the Anyuan Gate in the north of Xi'an, a thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and thousands of Ming cavalry gushed out of the city.

At this time, there were more than 100,000 imperial court troops in the city, and they were not afraid of the thieves coming to attack the city again, so the main city gates of Xi'an were opened, but there were hundreds of officers and soldiers at each city gate to set up cards and check there.

In order to prevent anti-thieves and spies from entering the city, Zhang Bin made strict regulations, whether it is ordinary people, traders and pawns, or even soldiers of the Ming army, there is no restriction on going out of the city, but if you want to enter the city, you must prove that you are a resident of the city, or a garrison in the city, otherwise, please stay outside!

His regulation directly caused a large market to be formed outside the main city gate on all sides, but there was no way, the general traders and pawns were not residents of the city, they could not enter the city, and could only set up stalls outside the city gate.

Zhang Bin didn't prohibit this, as long as you don't enter the city, as for what you do outside the city, he doesn't care.

It was Zhang Bin's personal guards and more than 3,000 cavalry led by Li Dingguo who poured out of Andingmen, and Zhang Bin and Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, were among them, and the destination of their trip was the south bank of the Wei River, which was more than ten miles north of the city.

The Wei River, known as Weishui in ancient times, is the largest tributary of the Yellow River, originating from the Bird and Mouse Mountain in Weiyuan County, Longxi, and mainly flows through Tianshui in Ganzhou, Baoji, Xi'an, Weinan and other places in the Guanzhong Plain, and joins the Yellow River in Tongguan.

The reason why Zhang Bin came to see Weihe was mainly to solve the problem of the more than 100,000 captives in Lantian City, although Tian Jianxiu brought a little grain and grass when he led the army to set off, and a little grain and grass was originally stored in Lantian City, but the total was only enough for more than 100,000 captives to eat for a month, what to do after a month, this is a problem that needs to be solved urgently.

In less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of horsemen came to the south bank of the Wei River, and Zhang Bin frowned when he saw the flow of water in the river.

The Wei River is indeed wide enough, if the water is abundant, it is estimated that there will be no big problem for the lucky boat to come in, but at this time, the embankment has been exposed, and even, the sand dunes in the river are exposed, and the river is still flowing slowly, but it is indeed yellow and turbid, and he can't see how deep the water is.

He thought about it for a while, and simply ordered: "Zhao Ru, send two people down to see how deep the river is." ”

Zhao Ru said yes, and then waved his hand, and the two guards flew down from their horses, jumped off the river embankment three times and two times, and jumped into the river.

The river was still a few feet wide, but the depth of the edge was only up to the knees of the two men, and the two of them walked until the middle of the river, and the depth of the water was only up to their waists.

Zhang Bin couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Forget it, let them come up." ”

With that, he frowned and fell into deep thought.

100,000 captives, to be transported away by waterway, must be carried by wheels, because other such as centipede boats, Cangshan boats, etc., he does not have many under his hands, and the speed is not fast enough, at all, he can not quickly transport 100,000 captives away, it seems that only within a month to take Tongguan, take the Tongguan ferry, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River can still take wheels at this time, this point has already been investigated.

He thought for a while, and said to Zheng Chongjian on the side: "Dazhang, you quickly order General He to lead 10,000 Qin troops to Lantian to take care of the more than 100,000 anti-thief prisoners, and exchange the 10,000 Fuguang army led by General Cao to Xi'an." ”

This order seems a bit inexplicable, why didn't the more than 100,000 captives be dismissed quickly, what are you doing in custody, more than 100,000 people, how much food will be wasted that day!

Zheng Chongjian was a little puzzled and said: "My lord, my subordinates take the liberty to ask, now that there is a shortage of food in Guanzhong, why don't you dismiss those prisoners, more than 100,000 people, we don't have so much food to feed." If you don't have time to dismiss these captives, your subordinates are willing to do it for you. ”

He has experience, and he is responsible for the dismissal of the prisoners captured by Xiong Tingbi last time, 10,000 a day, 10,000 a day, and it will be dismissed in ten days.

Zhang Bin couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: "Dazhang, it is precisely because of the shortage of food in Guanzhong that we can't dismiss these captives on the spot, think about it, the drought is so serious, there is almost no harvest in the field, what will they eat after returning to their hometown?" If there is no food to eat, they will still rebel! ”

Of course, Zheng Chongjian knows this truth, and it is difficult for the imperial court to raise these hundreds of thousands of troops now, and where can he get the food to feed these prisoners, he can only sigh helplessly: "Alas, it's a pity that the imperial court has no money now, and it can't afford to support these prisoners." ”

Zhang Bin said confidently: "You don't have to worry about this, quickly send General He to Lantian quickly." “

With that, he turned his horse's head and led the way back.

Due to the tight time, he did not wait for Luo Ru to send the first batch of food and ammunition, and rushed straight to Lintong with 100,000 Fuguang troops.

Lintong is more than 60 miles away from Xi'an, set off in the morning, before the hour, the army has arrived in Lintong, he did not let the army surround the entire Lintong regiment, nor did he order the army to camp, after the 100,000 army arrived in Lintong, he ordered the army to set up a formation two miles west of Lintong City, ready to attack the city.

Obviously, he wants to take Lintong in half a day!

This Lintong defender turned out to be Tian Jianxiu, I have to say that Li Zicheng is really a good person, Tian Jianxiu just took 100,000 horses and wiped out the whole army, and he asked people to take 50,000 horses to guard Lintong City, there is only one reason, that is, he has fought with this group of officers and soldiers.

Li Zicheng did this very reasonably, and at this time, Tian Jianxiu made some careful arrangements for the city defense according to the characteristics of the Fuguang army.

In order to fill the gap between the arrow stacks, he didn't know how many brick houses of large families had been demolished, but the effect was also quite obvious, so that they didn't have to worry about the shells of the officers and soldiers, and all the soldiers defending the city could stand behind the female wall and shoot arrows!

Moreover, he also prepared a lot of rockets, and he confiscated all the lamp oil and lard in the city, and he also tried his best to light the chariots of the officers and soldiers.

Zhang Bin saw such a strange city, his brows suddenly wrinkled again, this guy, who is the guard in the city, if he is caught, he must be killed, he is doing this, it is equivalent to the tiger squat cannon is abolished!

The tiger squat cannon is not like the two-thousand-pound Franc machine gun, which can flatten all the arrow buttresses and female walls on the city wall, and the fist-sized cannonball can be used to smash people, but it has almost no effect at all when used to smash the city wall.

Fortunately, there are also flintlock pistols, and since the Tiger Squat Cannon is useless, then simply don't use it, saving you from wasting ammunition.

He carefully observed the situation on the city wall with binoculars, and then ordered Ma Yuanli and Zhang Hualong to lead 500 chariots and 5,000 musketeers to line up about 200 paces outside the city wall, and ten musketeers in each chariot aimed at an arrow hole and took turns to shoot without stopping.

Subsequently, he ordered Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew to lead 5,000 sword and shield men and 5,000 pikemen, pushing 500 chariots, to attack the city directly!

For a while, the sound of crackling muskets and the shouts of the soldiers of the Fuguang Army resounded together, and the entire west of Lintong City suddenly boiled like boiling water.

At this time, Tian Jianxiu also frowned, he was on the West Gate Tower at this time, because Zhang Bin did not order to shoot at the City Gate Tower, so he could still observe the situation outside the city through the arrow hole.

The officers and soldiers arranged it this way, and the arrow holes on the city wall were equivalent to being wasted, and it seemed that they could only shoot indiscriminately.

As soon as Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao led their troops to rush within a hundred steps of the city wall, he did not hesitate to order, all archers, throw rockets outward, no matter whether they shoot or not, they can't stop anyway.

There was a sudden rain of rockets on the city wall, and almost all the chariots had several rockets or even more than a dozen rockets inserted into the roof, but Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao did not stop the advance, but ordered all the chariots to speed up and rush towards the city wall.

Soon, there was a chariot leaning against the city wall, and at this time, countless torches were thrown down from the city wall, and the torches were obviously stained with a lot of oil, and when they still came down, they were splashed with sparks, and when they fell on the chariot, they were even more fire.

This guy is so shameless, not to hurt people, but to burn the car, Zhang Bin really didn't expect these thieves to do this, he stared at Cao Bianjiao's figure with a telescope, and his heart was full of anxiety.

At this time, almost all the chariots were on fire, and the thousand chariots were considered to be wasted, if Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew hesitated, these chariots would soon become big torches, and if they wanted to climb on the roof and jump into the city wall, they had to be burned into barbecue.

Fortunately, Cao Bianjiao did not hesitate, he seemed to yell a few times to the side, and then climbed the crossbar next to the chariot, and swished a few times before landing on the roof of the car.

At this time, more than a dozen rockets had been inserted on the roof of the car, and there were several torches, and the fire seemed to have risen, so I saw him squatting on the roof of the car and sweeping with a knife, sweeping all the rockets and torches, and then jumping into the city wall with a whoosh.

Zhang Bin is not very worried about Cao Bianjiao's safety, this goods can enter and exit freely among tens of thousands of Manchu elites, these tens of thousands of thieves are all surrounded by the estimated can't do anything to him, the question is whether the soldiers behind can keep up, after all, he alone can't kill all the thieves on the city wall, kill for a while, kill no strength, he can only jump off the wall and come back.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Fuguang Army were not afraid of the fire on the roof of the car, and they all followed behind Cao Bianjiao, climbed on the roof of the car, and jumped into the city wall.

It should be almost now, Zhang Bin sighed, and then ordered, ordering Wang Shangli and Bai Wenxuan to lead 5,000 sword shield men and pikemen each, pushing 500 chariots, to come forward to support.

Seeing this scene, Tian Jianxiu couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, and then took a few cronies and generals and the team down to the city gate tower, and went straight to the east gate with horses.

This Lintong City must be unbearable, being able to burn thousands of combat vehicles of officers and soldiers is already a good record, and there is no need for him to stay here and fight with the officers and soldiers.

As soon as he left, the thieves in the city suddenly lost the courage to resist and retreated in the direction of the east gate.

When Zhang Bin received the news, he immediately ordered Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi to lead 30,000 cavalry to catch up, the city was broken, and they still wanted to run, which was naturally impossible, unless they were cavalry, and if they were foot, none of them could escape.

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