After the peasant army knocked on the Minzhou Wei and other cities, they officially started the pace of attacking the city and pulling out the village, and aimed the spearhead at the heavily defended Ming army.

When the peasant army, which was willing to lose countless troops, gave full play to the advantages of its huge strength, the officers and men of the Ming army, who had been limited by insufficient troops and lack of food and grass, could be regarded as really encountering a problem.

At the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army of nearly 200,000 people started from the county seat of Longxian, passed through Fengxiang, Qichuan, Fufeng and other cities, and gradually approached the most important city on Shaanxi Road - Chang'an Mansion.

And when Li Zicheng began to attack the city and plunder the land and other colleagues, the members of the Hongmen spy war station led by He Sanjiang and Bai Yushan made a lot of money and expanded their troops to more than 30,000.

This is also the advantage of actual combat training, otherwise the 30,000 officers and men, who have suddenly increased by a sudden surge, really have to follow the military drills that He Sanjiang and the others learned from Hongtang, without more than half a year of intensive training, they will basically have no combat capability.

However, correspondingly, these veterans who have been tempered through actual combat have become distorted and brutally killed because they have been impregnated by the killing atmosphere of the battlefield, and there is no gradual process, and their ideological will is not firm enough, and so on, and many soldiers have become distorted and brutally killed, which is also one of the reasons why the military discipline of the peasant army has always been bad.

However, at this time, He Sanjiang's identity was originally a peasant rebel army, where would they really care about these face-saving things, although Li Zicheng said it beautifully, but in actual action, the ordinary people who were persecuted by Li Zicheng and them were definitely much more poisonous than the Ming Dynasty army.

The peasant army was only more than 100 miles away from Chang'an City until it came to Xianyang, but Xiong Wencan could only sit back and watch their invasion at this time.

Even if he had the upper hand in several major battles, he still did not dare to desperately press his troops up, and pursued the current peasant army, and finally watched the other party escape from his pursuit range, but he gained little.

Xianyang City as the west gate of Chang'an, the ancient capital of thousands of years, Xiong Wencan also sent heavy troops to guard, more than 20,000 local garrisons under the fierce attack of Li Zicheng's peasant army, held out for more than half a month, and still standing.

But the external enemy is easy to block, and the internal thief is difficult to prevent, no one thought that even among the people living in Xianyang City, there are also people who are interested in the thief Li Zicheng, and there are many of them.

Among them, the local rangers and ruffians in Xianyang City were the most enthusiastic, and when they secretly acted at the bottom, the government and military in Xianyang City were still ignorant, and they were just anxious to deal with the peasant rebels outside the city who were attacking day after day.

When the peasant army attacked the city of Xianyang, He Sanjiang and Bai Yushan were once again reused, as a rare wise general in the peasant army, compared with Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu and other henchmen when they attacked the city, He Sanjiang and the command talent they showed when they were in Henan was once again valued by Li Zicheng at this time.

He Sanjiang sat in the center and commanded a huge peasant army to besiege Xianyang City in an orderly manner, and it was very difficult for the officials and troops in the city to slack off.

It's just that too much of the government and the military are attracted by the peasant army besieging them outside, but they pay less attention to the monitoring of this group of people inside, and then when the rangers and ruffian gang members in Xianyang City are connected from it, they finally suddenly burst out on a dark and windy night, and seized the most important west gate in Xianyang City, so that the Ming government stationed in the city was caught off guard.

By the time the government reacted and sent a large army to suppress this group of rangers and gang members who had suddenly erupted, it was already too late.

As a native of Shaanxi, the reason why Li Zicheng has been revolving around Shaanxi, a land of right and wrong, is also because Shaanxi was originally the place where he had the deepest roots, and various networks of relationships have long been dense in all aspects of Shaanxi.

When the gangs and rangers in Xianyang City launched a riot, the peasant army moved at the same time at night, and at the moment when the rangers occupied and opened the west gate, a group of carefully selected peasant soldiers went along the city gate that had been opened a gap.

In the end, after dozens of fierce battles for position, the officials and generals in Xianyang City had to admit that the peasant army had completely gained a foothold at the West City Gate.

After the West City Gate and other city gates were opened, a steady stream of peasant soldiers poured in from the city gates, and went to the rich households, important armament depots, granaries, county offices and other places in the city to cover the past.

After a day of fighting and struggling, Xianyang City completely fell into the hands of the peasant army Li Zicheng.

At this time, the only army that could rescue Xianyang was Deng Xi and other troops, but in Wugong County, which was dozens of miles away from Xianyang, they confronted the army of 80,000 peasants who were eyeing Wugong County, and watched in vain as Xianyang fell into the abyss step by step and fell into the hands of the peasant army.

Without the protection of the fortified city, how could the garrison of the Ming Dynasty, which had originally succumbed to an absolute disadvantage in numbers, be the opponent of the peasant army that had long sharpened its sword and exuded a strong desire in its eyes.

Suddenly, Xianyang City, which was originally peaceful and stable, became another city destroyed by the conservative peasant army.

Countless wealthy gentry homes have become important targets for the peasant army to vent their anger and loot property, and countless ordinary people who were originally stable and so on are just another little fat chicken who is not too rich, but it is better than nothing.

Countless wives and wives are separated, and there is only one way for those who are unwilling to submit to the peasant army, that is, to become the object of the peasant army's anger, and even if they join the peasant army, unless they are powerful beings like the rangers and gang members who have cooperated with the peasant army before, they will only hand over all the goods in their families to the leader of the peasant army, and they will only be spared.

In the face of all this, He Sanjiang and they have long been accustomed to it, and they don't have the leisure to care about the injustice in this world at night, although they know that all this is wrong, but where their duties and tasks lie, they can only watch from the sidelines, and even become a member of it in order to develop and grow their team.

(End of chapter)