Li Yan waited in Tongguan for a day, knowing that Li Zicheng's army had moved to Xi'an and had no plan to capture Tongguan, so he also drove west with his troops.

The road went smoothly, and no state or county could stop his troops for a day. It can't be said that Li Zicheng's troops defending the city are not tenacious enough, but there are only a few hundred or thousand defenders in a city, how can it be Li Yan's opponent of 20,000 troops.

Although Liu Zongmin was ordered by Li Zicheng to stick to the states and counties along the way, it was impossible for him to really confront Li Yan at the forefront. Li Yan came with more than 20,000 people this time, and those county towns would be attacked at once, and there was no chance to escape. So every time he waited for news in a county town in the back, knowing that after the county town in front was captured, he would evacuate west first.

"Brothers" Liu Zongmin was in Lintong County, and lectured the soldiers guarding the city: "Look at the surrounding fertile land, these are your property, when we rebelled, we just wanted to have a piece of our own land, and now we have it, but Li Yan called again, you all know, he will collect the land and divide it again, but you know the difference between ten acres and 100 acres and 100 acres." Li Yan is here to cut off our way of life, everyone says what should we do?"

"Kill, kill, kill," more than 500 soldiers shouted in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

Liu Zongmin said with satisfaction: "What I want is that this momentum is only forty miles away from Xijing, and the Xijing army is gathered, so you can rest assured that you will defend the city." As long as Li Yan comes to Lintong City, he will definitely be surrounded and annihilated by my hundreds of thousands of troops, we must protect our land and property, and avenge our dead brothers."

"Fight to the death," the soldiers shouted in unison again.

Liu Zongmin waved his hand: "Let's go to the city." ”

When the soldiers were heading towards the city walls, Liu Zongmin, who was still boosting morale just now, led his guards out of the city from the west gate and ran towards Xi'an. Huazhou has been lost, and the next one is Lintong, he can't stay here to die.

Lintong is close to Xi'an, so he did not leave any cronies to supervise the war. He had already folded in nearly thirty cronies, and Lintong didn't want to continue to defend the losses. He felt that he was already worthy of Li Zicheng, and let every county resist desperately, and bought them six days, which was already the best he had done.

And the soldiers, who were full of confidence just now, became listless after they got on the city wall. The land outside the county seat is not so much theirs as theirs. They were just temporarily given 100 acres of fertile land by Liu Zongmin, but these fields were originally all Dashun officials and nobles, who dared to really treat these lands as their own

Moreover, Huayin, Huaxian, Huazhou and other places in front were all broken by Li Yan, and none of them could hold on for more than a day. The field is not their own, and they are not the opponent of the enemy, how can they be as confident as they were on the school field just now

"Gone again," said a soldier dissatisfiedly, "the states and counties in the east have fallen one after another, but none of the Marquis of Ru have remained at the forefront. ”

"I want to die, don't talk nonsense." A small officer reminded coldly.

The soldier looked left and right, all of them were his own people, and said complainingly: "Shi Chang, there is no field here for you, all of them are from the Hou Bo above." It's Li Yan who is here, and each of us can get ten acres of land. ”

"People like us can only be prisoners." Shi Chang said in frustration: "You know what Li Yan let the captives do. ”

Another soldier whispered, "We can take the initiative to submit." If you use the heads of the garrison and the county order to make a vote, you won't be a prisoner. ”

Shi Chang shook his head: "This kind of thing, how can our brothers do it." ”

"I've heard that Mr. Ma is contacting this matter, let's go together."

Shi Chang's eyes lit up, and then he immediately said, "Okay, it's good to have a leader." Besides, Ma Tuo is still very reliable, and he will definitely not suffer a big loss if he follows him. ”

Mr. Ma is the homeless people near Chenliu back then, and Ma Tianhe, who was helped with grain by Li Yan. Although he was relatively close to Qixian County, Li Yan was still weak at that time, and it happened that Li Zicheng was besieging Kaifeng, so he took the villagers to Li Zicheng. But in the past few years, he has only mixed up with one general, because he usually always wants to protect the interests of his subordinates, and the relationship with his superiors and colleagues is not good, so naturally there is no chance of meritorious service, and there will be no chance of promotion.

He was guarding in Lintong, and when he met Li Yan, the engong of the year, he naturally wanted to go over. One is to repay the kindness of the year, and the other is that Da Shun is about to fall apart, and he also wants to give his brothers a good way.

Ma Tianhe patrolled the city, while his cronies liaised everywhere. Lintong's other general and general personal soldiers have just been secretly disposed of by them. They didn't contact at all, it was the relatives of the Marquis of Yue, no need to ask, they would definitely not agree to surrender.

A pro-soldier whispered a few words in Ma Tianhe's ear, and Ma Tianhe nodded. A group of patrolling soldiers approached this direction, and when they approached the group of soldiers standing together to discuss something, they suddenly stepped forward and surrounded the dozen or so people. The soldiers who were surrounded did not move, only the chief tried to resist, but he was restrained by the patrol, his mouth was gagged, his hands and feet were tied, and he was carried off the wall.

Seeing that this unwilling to cooperate Shi Chang was taken away, Ma Tianhe said to the other soldiers: "Don't worry, I won't do anything to him." You are not doing something wrong, you are saving him. Think about it, Generalissimo Li led his troops over, and if he resisted, he would be thrown into a prisoner camp even if he didn't die. Now that we are in battle, we will all be able to enter the command of Generalissimo Li, with ten acres of land per person and food and salary. Our families have a future, and we have a future. ”

The soldiers nodded silently. The Dashun army has been failing, and they have no confidence, so they have no resistance to defecting to Li Yan. Moreover, Li Yan is indeed much better to the soldiers, and they are also willing to serve under Li Yan's command.

Before dark, Ma Tianhe combed the defenders on the city, and those who were unwilling to cooperate were either arrested or quietly disposed of, and now the more than 300 defenders on the city were all their own people.

After that, they began to deal with the defenders of the city. He wanted to hand over Lintong to Li Yan completely, and also to reflect his value. They are in such a troubled era, and it is the time to make contributions, and he doesn't want to miss this rare opportunity to seal his wife and son.

At this time, Li Yan was also resting in Huazhou City. It's not that the troops are tired, on the contrary, his soldiers feel relaxed, but that their logistics are a little problematic. To be continued.

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