Fifty miles outside Fengyang City, nearly 10,000 hungry Zhang Xianzhong's large Kou army is stationed here, originally with the style of the Kou army, has always been to fight if you win, run if you can't win, and fight for thousands of miles, but this time in Fengyang City was frustrated, completely aroused Zhang Xianzhong's ferocity, regardless of the opposition of the generals around him, vowed to break the city and slaughter, and never leave without digging the ancestral grave of the emperor's child. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Kou army cut down all the surrounding trees, used to make wooden planks erected on the moat and siege ladders, and in order to feed the nearly 10,000 people, the surrounding villages have been slaughtered, so that Fengyang City is inaccessible within a hundred miles, Zhang Xianzhong, who lacks food and grass, intends to make a desperate gamble, so he will all the stored grain, wine and meat, and all the gold and silver soft and soft to the soldiers, those women who have been robbed are also slaughtered in the wilderness after the Kou army is crazy torture, and the morale of the Kou army is high for a while, and the time to storm Fengyang has come.

On this day, Zhang Xianzhong, who has been fully prepared, is about to lead the troops to attack the city, and suddenly there are probes to come to report, Yan Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng led 100,000 people to come, at this time it is less than 30 miles away from the camp, a wave of his hand to retreat the messenger soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong who heard the news was mixed for a while.

The joy is that the three armies will meet, the main force is more than 100,000, and it is easy to conquer Fengyang, and the worry is that he will conquer Fengyang in the future, how to divide the gold, silver, grain and grass in this city equally, and even Zhang Xianzhong is a little hesitant to attack the city, as long as he attacks Fengyang first, it is expected that Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, will not be cheeky, as for Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong did not take him in his eyes at all.

Despite his reluctance, Zhang Xianzhong finally gave up the idea of attacking Fengyang alone, and immediately ordered the soldiers to rest for the time being.

Zhang Xianzhong personally went out of the camp and welcomed Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, who only brought more than ten personal soldiers, and Li Zicheng, who had an arrogant face.

"King Chuang, please, Li Shuai, please..."In front of King Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong didn't dare to hold it up, so he invited the two of them to sit down.

"Seeing that Zhang Shuai is burying the pot and cooking, and the siege equipment is neat, it seems that he wants to attack the city?" King Gao Yingxiang smiled heartily and said straight to the point.

"It seems that the rumors are true, Zhang Dashuai was defeated and retreated by the official army, I heard that the more than 100 officers and soldiers guarding the city are heavenly soldiers and generals, I really admire and admire!"

Li Zicheng's words were full of sarcasm, in his opinion, Zhang Xianzhong led more than 10,000 troops to take advantage of the night to sneak attack, and was actually repelled by the officers and troops of less than 100 people in the city, it was simply a stupid pig-like command, although the Ming army firearms were fierce, more than 10,000 people had already taken the city, and Li Ziyuan and Zhang Xianzhong had long been at odds because of the uneven distribution of looting and spoils.

"Li Zicheng, don't deceive people too much!" Zhang Xianzhong is also hot-tempered, how can he get this kind of bird anger, and he will draw a knife when he starts shooting.

"It's really funny, it's too much to deceive people, it should be a heavenly soldier and a general!" Li Zicheng sneered again and again, his cold eyes stared at Zhang Xianzhong, and his palm also clenched the hilt of the knife.

"Everyone is a righteous army, why should they be angry because of the battle of words!" Gao Yingxiang immediately got up and persuaded the two to sit down.

"The two marshals must not forget, the 'Hong Evil Ghost' is leading the army to this side, and there is not much time left for us!" Gao Yingxiang looked at Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng and said, "It's better to give this king a face, the three of us will immediately join forces to attack the city, and the things seized by entering the city will be divided equally among the three parties, what do you think?" ”

"It's all up to King Chuang!" Li Zicheng glared at Zhang Xianzhong contemptuously, got up and hugged his fists and said.

"Obey!" Zhang Xianzhong's grain and grass have been exhausted, and he is already desperate, so he naturally supports the suggestion of King Gao Yingxiang to attack the city immediately.

Although Zhang Xianzhong was very disgusted with Li Zicheng, but Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces who was called the evil ghost of Hong by the Kou army, at this time the orthodox army pursued the Kou army, the time was pressing, and personal grievances could only be put down, and it was the top priority to conquer Fengyang, the central capital.

The efficiency of the Kou army is still very fast, under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, the army after a short period of integration, soon with Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong as the main force of more than 100,000 troops, mighty towards the central capital Fengyang, the team is wide, stretching for more than ten miles at one time.

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At the Zhangjia Inn, there was an endless stream of guests who came to drink tea for a while, and the guests sat on the street under the overcrowding.

Different from the previous frequent visitors, since Zhang Tanghuai was in charge of Fengyang's military and political affairs, Fengyang officials, rich and powerful have become frequent visitors to the inn, and for a time formed a fashion, being able to sit in this Zhangjia inn and drink tea, has completely become a status symbol, these magnates who come to plan to tie up Zhang Tanghuai are usually respectful to Zhang Laozhang, how can there be the usual official authority, which makes the people of Fengyang amazed for a while, but no matter how generous these magnates are, Zhang's tea price is still the same as always, no more money.

No matter how lively it was outside, in the dim wing inside the inn, Han Yu, who seemed to be more withdrawn than before, was lying on his back, staring at the beams all the time, making Uncle Zhang sigh secretly, for fear that Han Yu's old illness would recur, but Lin Wan'er, the girl next door, often came to Han Yu's room and whispered to him.

Zhang Tanghuai was angry and killed Feng Ji, although he had a bad breath, but it completely disrupted Han Yu's plan, slaughtering the official family was already guilty, if it was an ordinary official subordinate, it would be fine, but the Feng Ji clan brother who was killed was Feng Ying, the secretary of the second-grade criminal department of the dynasty, such a big feud is not shared, Feng Ying will never give up, and what is even worse is that Feng Ying is still a party in Donglin, if the Donglin party speaks, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not affect Emperor Chongzhen's judgment on this matter, Han Yu knows very well that he has now been pushed to the cusp, and a disaster will come if he is not careful.

Frankly said that Han Yu was hesitant to choose who to operate, but every one of the lords in Fengyang City was either rich or expensive, and if he wanted to deter the powerful, only Feng Ji was the most suitable to pick and choose, and it was useless to regret it at this point, Han Yu decided to wait for the danger of Fengyang to be lifted, and then he could set off to ask for help.

Suddenly, the door of the wing room was pushed open, judging from this strength, it must not be the Lin girl next door.

Zhang Tanghuai, who was dressed in military uniform, came to the room, looked at Han Yu Zhengse and said: "The Kou army is in a joint camp, with more than 100,000 troops, and it has been stationed twenty miles outside the city, I am afraid that the siege of the city is today." ”

"What do you need me to do, Brother Zhang?" Han Yu got up and looked at Zhang Tanghuai, who looked resolute.

"Brother Han, my father will please!" Zhang Tanghuai took a step forward, held Han Yu's shoulder, and said earnestly.

The Kou army gathered more than 100,000 people, although most of them were with the army's families, but the soldiers who could fight were only 12 out of 10, but Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, who commanded the troops, were not easy to do, and the soldiers under their command had fought with the officers and soldiers for many years, and they were by no means a group of rabble, and the Kou army that came this time also had captured artillery and catapults, and even a few tall well rails that were dilapidated but could still be used, the Kou army had complete siege equipment, and would never be negligent, whether it could block the high morale of the Kou army with a large number of people, Zhang Tanghuai is not completely sure.

Although Zhang Tanghuai is optimistic, he is not unaware of the reality, the day of the city is the time when he dies in battle, he has no way to retreat, so before leading the troops to the city, he came to the inn by the way, it is to ask Han Yu, although it is clear that once the city is broken, the Kou army will inevitably loot and slaughter the city, but Zhang Tanghuai has a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"Brother Zhang, don't worry, Fengyang City can't be broken!" Han Yu looked at Zhang Tanghuai with burning eyes, and said confidently, "I believe that as long as we hold out for a few days, when the reinforcements of Lord Hong, the governor of the five provinces, enter the Anhui territory, then the Kou army will definitely be defeated and retreat due to food!" ”

Zhang Tanghuai looked at Han Yu meaningfully and chuckled: "With Brother Han's talent, he really shouldn't stoop here, and when the danger of Fengyang is lifted, Brother Han should go to take the talent test." ”

"Brother Zhang..."Han Yu was moved in his heart, at this time, the Kou army was pressing, and Zhang Tanghuai was still thinking about his future.

Zhang Tanghuai laughed and said: "As for me, I should go into battle with my own god, and the horse leather shroud, as long as my brother's breath remains, I will never let the Kou army enter the city for half a step!" His tone was resolute.