On the fifth day of the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Yangqu County, Shanxi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Jining Road was abolished, Taiyuan Mansion was replaced, and the Shanxi Command Division and Shanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division were set up, and the governance offices were all stationed in Yangqu County, called Taiyuan Mansion.

Taiyuan Prefecture is under the eight counties of a state, Yangqu County is the county of the prefecture, the county is located in the city, and the government is located in the back street of Yangqu County.

The current prefect's yamen is full of people coming and going, all of them are in a hurry, and above the lobby, a group of civil officials sit in a mess with sad faces, helpless.

At that time, Fang Hao, the prefect of Taiyuan, sat at the top of the lobby, listening to the earth-shaking shouts and killing sounds from miles away, his body trembled uncontrollably, and he looked like he was going to be defeated and waiting for death, and he couldn't give an effective order.

A broken imperial flag fluttered high above the city of Yangqu County, and below the city was an endless peasant army, a team of more than a dozen people drove the siege ladder or pushed the rudimentary equipment, and rushed towards the city wall without fear of death.

Yan Zhenghu led thousands of old camps, tens of thousands of hungry people from Jiaocheng and other places, plus growing all the way, known as 50,000, and came to Yangqu County the day before.

On the morning of the fifth day of the sixth month, the peasant army besieged Yangqu, and Dong Youniu, the then commander of the Yangqu garrison, did not take off his armor for several days, scattered his family wealth to recruit the people, and personally led the family Ding battalion to patrol the city wall all day long, desperately defending the city.

On the morning of this day, more than two hours after the peasant army had just attacked the city, the earth-shattering shouts and killing did not stop for a moment, and only one urn city was fought back and forth several times.

The garrison general Dong Youniu kicked an old thief battalion out of the city, and he didn't care about anything else, he roared and rushed to the side of the ladder, and pushed the ladder down with all his might.

"Boom!"

The seven or eight thieves on the ladder who were trying their best to climb the city suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when they looked back, the ladder actually fell directly towards the moat.

"Didn't I tell you to inform the prefect, why did you come back!" Dong Youniu looked at a general who had just run back and asked with a roar.

The person who just came back is Dong Youniu's most trusted subordinate, and Cui Wenyong, the commander of the Qianzong and the family team stationed in Yangqu.

"No, my lord, there are thousands of thieves at the north gate, and they can't rush out at all!"

Hearing this, Dong Youniu scolded angrily.

"thieves!"

At this moment, there was a sudden "whoosh" sound, and Dong Youniu's Adam's apple suddenly sprang out a feather arrow, bringing out a ball of blood.

The look in Dong Youniu's eyes quickly receded, and he stabbed headlong into the city.

"Your Excellency!!"

Cui Wenyong's eyes widened angrily, he couldn't believe this thunderous change, Shangguan, who treated him like a brother, was fine just now, and died in the hands of these thieves!?

At this moment, a thief in the city with a horned bow ran and howled with a horned bow.

"The court general is dead!"

"The court general is dead!!"

"The city is broken!"

As soon as Dong Youniu died, the city defenders and soldiers were leaderless, and they began to be afraid of the head and tail and did not know how to advance or retreat, while the thieves seemed to have a second spring, and they were even more fearless to rush to the city.

"Mr. Cui Qian, withdraw!!"

A family member with blood on his face almost shouted this sentence, and Cui Wenyong looked at the officers and soldiers who had begun to retreat and shouted hard.

"Nope! We will fight until the last moment for our lords, brothers in the family camp, kill the thieves! ”

As soon as Dong Youniu died, the rest of the thousand generals and generals were disheartened, and they all led their troops to flee first, and the hundreds of people led by Cui Wenyong were like stones in the sea in front of the tide-like peasant army, and they couldn't even turn over a wave.

There were more and more thieves rushing to the city, and the officers and soldiers who dared to fight fell one by one, Cui Wenyong just mechanically waved the waist knife in his hand in the end, and he didn't remember how many thieves he killed.

Cui Wenyong was exhausted, and all he could see was the thieves who surrounded him, and at some point, the thieves had rushed into the city, and the fire in the city broke out, and the miserable howls of the people even covered the earth-shattering shouts of killing.

Cui Wenyong was no longer able to support his strong body, he was supported by a knife, kneeling on one knee, looking up to the sky and crying.

"Reinforcements, if you don't come again, this yang song... But I lost it!! ”

At this moment, the thieves rushing from the tide under the city suddenly became chaotic, and the billowing dust and smoke came from the north, and thousands of Yong'an soldiers rode from the middle of the sword and leaped on horse, rushing out of the rush.

This is not all, from the black line behind these cavalry slowly came, a rumbling sound came, and the soldiers of the Yongan Army lined up in a neat military formation, taking neat steps, and they were in order.

"Hahaha, reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived!!"

Seeing this, Cui Wenyong laughed madly, and the few remaining family members also took this opportunity to gather around him, looking at the reinforcements, the surprise was overflowing.

"The Yong'an Army has arrived!"

The thieves in the city immediately began to panic, because they noticed the difference between the supporting army, except for the cavalry at the front, who were constantly wandering and killing, the peasant army was scattered and fled everywhere the neat army went.

Yan Zhenghu was staying with the old camp horse team, and when he saw that the city had been broken, Yan Zhenghu laughed.

"Who is the man who shot the court general, and bring him to see the king after entering the city, and the king will reward him heavily!"

As soon as the words fell, he suddenly saw that the formation of people and horses on his north side was in chaos, Yan Zhenghu didn't panic, and said with a frown.

"Send a horse team to see, aren't the imperial court's reinforcements still three or five days away, what's going on?"

A dozen old battalion horsemen galloped out from behind with their fists clenched, and it didn't take long for them to return, this time with frightened expressions on their faces.

"King, it's not the imperial court reinforcements, it's Xiao Yi who has arrived with the Yongan army!"

Yan Zhenghu almost didn't fall off his horse after hearing this, and asked a few more times in disbelief, and then saw the people on the north side who had been defeated, but after confirming that it was correct, he frowned and groaned.

"How many people are coming from the Yong'an Army?"

One of the horsemen of the old battalion who rushed back clenched his fists and said, "There are only more than 10,000 people!" ”

At first, Yan Zhenghu did not hesitate to order the evacuation after hearing the name of the Yong'an Army, this is not once or twice, preserving strength is the most important thing.

But after hearing that the Yong'an Army had only come with more than 10,000 people, Yan Zhenghu was a little reluctant to get the fat in his hands, and Yangqu had already broken the city.

Now the Yongan Army has only more than 10,000 people, but it has nearly 50,000 troops, and if the whole line is back to attack the Yongan Army, it will be destroyed in one fell swoop.

Then he Yan Zhenghu's prestige is afraid that he will directly overshadow King Chuang Gao Yingxiang, and it is not impossible to take King Chuang to sit by himself at that time!

Thinking of this, Yan Zhenghu's face was full of gloom, as if he was making a difficult decision.

It had been more than two years since the Yong'an army had last exterminated Wang Zishun, and the rest of the peasant army had only kept hearing about how the Yong'an army had defeated the Mongols and Jurchens, and had not really fought against the Yong'an army.

As for the Mongols and Jurchens, where have they heard of these leopards of the peasant army, many of them even think that the Mongols and Jurchens are weaker than the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

In the continuous siege of the city, the officials and soldiers of the imperial court fled when they heard the news, and the slightest resistance was minimal, which made the peasant army gradually overestimate its own strength.

After a while, Yan Zhenghu raised the machete in his hand fiercely.

"Order all battalions to encircle and suppress the Yongan Army!"

There are tens of thousands of thieves who have not yet rushed into the city, and after hearing the order, with the momentum of just victory, they are still rushing towards the Yong'an army without fear of death.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi, who was standing on Yuan Rong's car, curled the corners of his mouth, walked to the big red drum on the car in a few steps, and shouted.

"The soldiers of each battalion, great merit in the front, this commander should not hesitate to remember the merits, you need to fight bravely to kill, in order to become the military prestige of my Yong'an army!"

"Kill the thief!"

It's just that this short sentence has already made all the soldiers of the Yongan Army a little excited, and this is not over.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

As the commander of the whole army, Xiao Yi actually beat the drum in person to cheer, and the sound of this raging war drum was like a wildfire that burned the plain, spreading throughout the entire army at a very fast speed, and the soldiers who heard it all felt excited.

"Kill!"

"Kill the thief!"

It was the first time that the Yong'an Army had used an attack formation in a field battle, with rows of glittering tiger gunners standing at the front, flanked by giant shieldmen guarding them, and finally slowly advancing bird gunners and artillerymen.

With the sound of passionate war drums, the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded again, and the cannons rang out in unison.