After three days, more than 20 siege towers and 50 or 60 ladders were built, and Yang Lin decided to lead his troops to attack the city in advance to disrupt Zhang Xianzhong's plan to burn the city.

Everyone heard that Zhang Xianzhong was going to burn the city, and the whole army cried again.

Yang Lin pulled out his sword and said to everyone: "Tartar has entered the Kou, any hot-blooded man should abandon his past suspicions, defend our wives and children, defend our homeland, defend our ancestral tablets, and defend our clothes."

However, Zhang Xianzhong is murderous and stubborn, and since entering Sichuan, he has forcibly abducted our livestock, seized our grain, killed our people, and destroyed our homes.

Is it tolerable, or is it intolerable? We can only fight bravely to kill the enemy, expel Zhang Xianzhong, and protect the territory and the people. ”

Everyone choked up, and the whole school was crying, and the sound could be heard clearly for miles.

At the beginning of the siege, Yang Lin shot thousands of notes again, warning again:

Zhang Xianzhong lost all his conscience, in the past, he kidnapped my livestock, robbed me of rations, killed my relatives, destroyed my home, and today he is destroying my city and slaughtering my fellow villagers.

Zhang Xianzhong's momentum has been exhausted, and the 100,000 volunteers will work with the 500,000 Ming army to kill the thieves and their accomplices. I hope that all the soldiers and civilians who have a conscience will no longer help the abuse, so as not to burn the jade.

In addition to the more than 1,000 pieces of paper, it is also a simple horn that people shout loudly from a hundred meters away from the city, which can be clearly heard for miles from far and near.

Hearing that the volunteers did not pay attention to faith and righteousness and actually attacked the city in advance, Zhang Xianzhong was annoyed and ashamed, in the past, only he did not speak of faithfulness, how could he have encountered officials and soldiers who violated faith?

Now that the various departments are preparing to evacuate, the army has no heart to fight to the death, and if the volunteers attack the city, I don't know what the situation will be?

Zhang Kewang, Zhang Wenxiu, Zhang Nengqi and others persuaded hard, hoping that Zhang Xianzhong would not burn down the city and not forcibly abduct the people, so that everyone would withdraw from the capital safely.

But Zhang Xianzhong was quite annoyed, pushed away the desk in front of the table, and said angrily: "What my old Zhang can't get, Yang Lin can't even think of it."

Give me the order to withdraw from the capital immediately.

After Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu led their troops to break off, Zhang Kewang, Wang Shangli, Wang Ziqi and others led their troops to protect the money and grain, and Lao Tzu personally led the elite soldiers to meet Yang Lin, and everyone immediately withdrew from the capital. ”

Seeing Zhang Xianzhong like this, everyone had no choice but to hand over the execution, and there was no way to stop it.

After receiving the order, Zhang Nengqi, the general of Daxi Dingbei, was really nerve-wracking, the circumference of the capital of this city was more than 20 miles, and there were more than 8,000 arrow stacks alone.

Even in the direction in which the Volunteers might attack, the line from Yinghuimen to Bei'anmen in the east is seven or eight miles wide, and there are more than 3,000 light arrow stacks.

Zhang Nengqi is the youngest of the four righteous sons, although he is just over 20 years old, he has been quite brave and good at fighting in the army since he was a child.

After some discussion with everyone, Zhang Nengqi led his troops to guard Bei'anmen, and Feng Shuangli, the military governor, led his troops to guard Yinghui Gate.

When Zhang Nengqi rushed to the city tower, the situation was very critical, since the fifth watch, the volunteers began to attack the city, when Zhang Nengqi rushed to Bei'anmen, the whole city tower was in chaos, and everyone was even more panicked.

At the same time as the siege of the city, there were bursts of shouts from the city, and everyone shouted loudly with simple loudspeakers:

Zhang Xianzhong escaped, the Great Western Kingdom is finished, the brothers should stop helping the abuse, and all the brothers with a conscience should no longer accompany Zhang Xianzhong, a murderous demon, to be buried and humiliate their ancestors.

Brothers, Zhang Xianzhong, the thief, wants to burn the city, don't help the abuse, don't hurt the conscience.

Brothers, Sichuan is full of wasteland, as long as there is labor, why worry about not having food and clothing, why not be rich? ”

Everyone shouted loudly in Huguang official dialect, shouted loudly in northern Shaanxi dialect, heard the local sound, many people couldn't help but slow down, the eight generations of kings were thirsty for killing, everyone left their hometown to add swords to life, hungry every day, unable to eat and wear. ”

In addition to shouting, the siege curtain is also slowly opening.

The chariot had been pushed under the city gate, and hundreds of soldiers were hiding under the curtain, violently pulling the ropes on the chariot to hit the heavy city gate.

This car is ten zhang long, one zhang high, the roof is covered with a curtain, in order to avoid the attack of bows, arrows, and stones, and under the car this is the main body of the car, the front hit a heavy corner, after being pulled up and quickly released, the angle of impact hit the city gate heavily, in order to break through the city gate.

Behind the rushing car, there are more than ten siege towers.

The siege tower is fifteen meters high, also wrapped in cowhide, and at the top stands more than a dozen bird guns, constantly reloading ammunition, condescendingly aiming at the soldiers on the city wall.

On each of the two floors below the siege tower, there were more than a dozen archers, aiming at the walls from a distance and firing crossbows and killing each other.

The siege towers were surrounded by soldiers, with a mud wall erected in front of them, and behind the mud wall they were covered with soldiers, some of whom placed crossbows on the walls, and some of whom were constantly aiming with birds' guns.

On the two or three small hills 300 meters away were the Franc machine gun positions, each regiment with six Franc machine guns, and now suddenly fired the artillery, smashing iron balls on the towers.

Seeing the chaos on the city wall, Zhang Nengqi cut down two soldiers running around, and urged everyone to fight back with bows and crossbows with his hands on his waist, but there were curtains on the rushing car and the siege tower, and there were wooden fences in front of the soldiers under the city, and the counterattack effect was quite limited.

Listening to the mind of the staff, Zhang Nengqi ordered the soldiers to forcibly requisition tung oil and look for boulders, but just after moving two barrels of tung oil, they were put on the siege tower, and the observers on the watchtower car in the distance found that they had not moved to the front of the car and were ready to dump.

Hundreds of crossbowmen lit rockets and fired them at the walls, one barrel of tung oil was ignited and a raging fire, while another barrel was not poured on top of the chariot at all.

The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and seeing that it was difficult to give full play to the geographical advantages, the morale of the soldiers defending the city was even lower, and many people complained.

Zhang Nengqi was very annoyed, the Great Western Army is now withdrawing from the Qingyuan Gate in the west one after another, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, if you add grain, grass and baggage transportation personnel, there are more than 200,000 people, if the morale of the whole army is low, if it is attacked by the Volunteer Army, such a large Western Army will definitely lose its vitality.

At this moment, the northeast corner turned out to be quite strange, first there were bursts of shouts, and then there were bursts of explosions.

Looking at the smoke rising in the distance, Zhang Nengqi was quite surprised, of course, the siege of the city is to seize the city gate, and there is no city gate in the northeast corner, how can the volunteers spare no effort in the northeast corner?

The battle for the north gate has entered the white heat, Zhang Nengqi is powerless, in addition to sending two messengers to the northeast corner, he still focuses on the north gate.

After a long time of incense, soldiers stumbled and ran, claiming that the volunteers had now occupied the northeast corner and were now killing them in a steady stream.

It turned out that while shelling the northeast city wall, with the help of smoke and woods, Yang Cheng commanded everyone to push more than ten siege towers to approach the northeast corner.

The soldiers on the city wall were shocked, and one by one they desperately ran to the side of the battlement, ready to fire back with guns and arrows.

However, some experienced people felt a little uncomfortable, and found that under the city wall, in addition to the siege towers, in addition to the bird guns, crossbowmen, there were more than 30 Furlong cannons.

Now he suddenly appeared under the city wall and shot iron balls into the city wall.

The iron ball fell to the ground and tumbled, often rolling out more than ten steps, smashing on the wall next to it, splashing bursts of sparks.

The soldiers of the Great Western Army on the city wall are miserable one by one, and now Zhang Xianzhong has made people angry, and the news of his main force retreating north has already spread.

Although they were forced to break off by the generals, most of the soldiers did not have the heart to fight to the death, and everyone didn't want to do anything hurtful to the heavens and reason.

Many people were so frightened that they fled for their lives, and the few who were thrown at the defense did not dare to poke their heads out and release their guns and arrows to suppress the volunteer soldiers under the city.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the siege tower has been pushed under the city wall, some people stand on the top of the tower and desperately throw the burning earth-shattering thunder over, while others stand on the siege tower condescendingly and release arrows and fire to suppress it.

At the same time, more people carried the ladder to the top of the city wall, and although some people fell into the moat, many more people were not afraid to climb up the city wall desperately, and finally climbed the city wall with all their might, jumped in, and then fought back and forth with their broadswords.

Because the moat is four or five meters wide, it is impossible for the Great Western Army to defend it with heavy troops, and the volunteers who attacked the city wall were unstoppable, killing the panicked soldiers on the city wall, and now they were preparing to expand the results of the battle, and suddenly found that Zhang Nengqi led his own soldiers to arrive, and the two sides fought together.

Seeing that there were only more than 100 people on the city wall, Zhang Nengqi was still very confident, leading his troops to rush back and forth to kill, and on the other hand, he was anxious to Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of Daxi.

But now that Zhang Xianzhong will burn down the city, the news that the Great Western Army will withdraw from the city has already spread in the army, and the morale of the people is low, and they are not willing to fight and retreat at all.

And at this moment, a raging fire broke out in the city, which confirmed the news that the Great Western Army would burn the city.

Zhang Nengqi complained bitterly, the combat strength of the Volunteer Army was already above the Great Western Army, and although the strength of the Great Western Army was several times that of the enemy, the morale of the whole army was extremely low, and it was still difficult to win.

With the passage of time, especially the sudden change of tactics of the Volunteers, who concentrated the Fran machine guns under the city walls to bombard the Onishi Army behind them, the situation began to slowly reverse in favor of the Volunteers.

An hour later, after Yang Cheng built a pontoon bridge in the northeast corner and set up a ladder with a short gate under the city wall, the situation was completely reversed.

The two sides continued to fight, and at noon Yinghui Gate was lost, followed by Bei'an Gate in the north.

Hearing that Yinghuimen and Bei'anmen had fallen one after another, Zhang Xianzhong, who was commanding the various departments to set fires, was quite annoyed, the Great Western Army had 100,000 troops, and if you add 200,000 families, logistics, and baggage, if you are attacked into the city now, it will be even more difficult to withdraw safely.

Zhang Xianzhong put down the scheduled action of burning the city, and personally led his troops to block it, and the two sides fought fiercely in the alleys and alleys in the city, so that the plan to burn the city could not be fully implemented.

The situation is extremely critical, Yang Lin has taken the Bei'anmen City Tower as his Chinese army's big tent, and set up more than 20 Franc machine guns on the city tower, aiming at the streets in the distance and shelling the Great Western Army.

The streets were chaotic, full of people, some fled, some escaped from the control of the Great Western Army, and there were even more families and strong men of the Great Western Army who were constantly crowding to retreat to the West Gate.

However, the city capital was too big, and the volunteers had very few soldiers and horses, so they could not kill the obstructing Great Western Army for a while.

The two sides fought for a day and a night, and at noon the next day, the main force of the Great Western Army gradually withdrew from the city capital, and at the end of the day, Fang led his troops to firmly control the west gate, and since then all the gates of the city have fallen into the hands of the volunteers.

Since then, Yang Lin has relied on the favorable opportunity to grasp the historical development context, and took advantage of the psychology of the Great Western Army to withdraw from the city capital, skillfully took the famous city, and captured CD City, the largest city in the southwest.