Zhang Chu left in a hurry, and the team members were told that all the supplies except weapons and armor were left in Daning. The lightly armed team struggled on the rugged mountain road. Zhang Chu did not ride a horse and walked in the ranks like the team members, and the recruited mules and horses were hunched with weapons and armor.

Zhang Chu encouraged the team members loudly while walking, and the team members were inspired to fight and walk hard, and after a day of rapid marching, they finally arrived outside Xixian County when it was completely dark.

Zhang Chu ordered to camp and rest in a hidden place, and sent a sentry to cut off the road from Daning to Xi County. The tired soldier quickly fell asleep. Early the next morning, the birds in the mountains brought the morning sun, and the team members had recovered their strength after a night's rest, and after eating dry food, they sorted out their weapons and waited for Zhang Chu to give the order to attack. Zhang Chu watched nervously from a small hill, and saw that the gate of Xi County had been opened, and the number of people entering and leaving the city began to increase, and when the time came, he decisively ordered an attack.

Zhang Chu took the lead and rushed towards the city gate, and the team members followed behind and ran wildly, and the road was dusty for a while. The officers and soldiers guarding the city in Xi County found that a group of people outside the city gate were running towards them desperately, and they were all wearing the clothes of the people. The leader of the officers and soldiers who led the team immediately shouted to close the city gate, and at this time there were several villagers who pushed carts into the city to walk into the city gate hole, and the officers and soldiers shouted that they pushed the cart forward and blocked the city gate hole with a small cart, and the soldiers shouted to leave, but instead of leaving, they also took out their muskets, and several shots rang out, and several officers and soldiers close to the city gate were killed on the spot. As soon as the officers and soldiers in the city saw that the situation was critical, they immediately ordered people to gather together and advance to the city gate under the cover of shields. As soon as the officers and soldiers approached, a villager in the door hole pulled the rope at the handlebar of the trolley, and several iron boxes tied to the front of the trolley spewed out fire and smoke with a loud noise, and the flying iron sand swept all the officers and soldiers who approached to the ground, and those behind hurriedly found a place to dodge, not daring to step forward again.

Just when the officers and soldiers hesitated, the security guards who were running fast outside the city had already rushed into the city gate, pushed away the cart and rushed towards the city. The officers and soldiers shouted in terror and fled into the city. The security forces were in hot pursuit. The security army's entry into the city was described by the word irrigation, and the security army merged at the city gate like a rapid stream rushing down the valley and then poured into the city, stretching along the streets towards the city, drowning all the forces that dared to block it on the way, and finally gathering in front of the military camp and the county government.

The officers and soldiers in the barracks heard the sound of the city gate and knew that there was a change, and immediately reinforced in the direction of the city gate under the leadership of the hundred households, and collided with the security army that rushed over, and a burst of random guns came, and the hundred households were killed on the spot, and the security army rushed up and slashed wildly with knives, and the officers and soldiers who had not been paid for several months and could not even eat enough to eat had long since lost the strength to fight, and turned around and fled, and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy if they could not escape.

In the direction of the county office, the officials had closed the gate of the county office, but they could not stop the advance of the security army, and with the dust raised by the gate falling to the ground, the security army rushed into the county office, and the officials immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and surrendered.

The magistrate was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he didn't even have the strength to escape, so he was taken prisoner on the spot.

Zhang Chu ordered people to take care of the prisoners, and then occupied the treasury and granary, and the security army continued to patrol the city and publicize loudly, and recruited personnel to join the security army at the official warehouse, and they could receive food immediately if they joined. At this time, it was the beginning of spring, and many of the people in Xi County had broken off their homes, and more than 500 people joined the security army in half a day's work, and the security army was recruiting and reorganizing at the same time, and the new recruits were incorporated into the ranks of veterans. The grain and materials of Xi County have been concentrated, all kinds of carts of livestock and people have been recruited, and under the escort of the security army, they have driven to Jiaokou County, and the entire Xi County has been almost cleaned up, and along the way, there are people who continue to receive grain to join the security army, and the team continues to grow, and after two days of marching, the security army has grown to nearly 1,000 people.

When the security army drove to the city, the city gate was closed, the suspension bridge on the moat was pulled high, and the security army set up a camp outside the city.

The next day, the new recruits of the security army, led by the veterans, ran around the city, and the officers and soldiers in the city were so frightened that they kept reporting to the magistrate that the city wall was in danger and asked for additional manpower. However, the security army did not attack, causing the officers and soldiers to be nervous for a day.

A new day has arrived, the supplies behind have arrived, Zhang Chu ordered to start the siege of the city, the artillery of the security army sounded first, one by one the shells flew to the city, and the officers and soldiers in the city fired back. At the end of the first round of artillery fire, when the artillery of the official army was reloaded, the drums in the security army formation sounded, and the whole security army attacked, resisting the rain of arrows flying from the city, carrying siege equipment to the moat, and the pontoon bridge was erected. The officers and soldiers in the city were just about to set fire to the pontoon bridge, and the Franco cannons of the security army rang out continuously, and the officers and soldiers were hit by the flying shotguns above the city and could not raise their heads. The flow of people poured over the pontoon, and when they reached the city wall, the flasks were thrown up, and the flames rose in all directions over the city, and the towers were given special care, and the fire burned more vigorously than elsewhere. The ladder set up the city wall, the archers outside the city also approached the city wall and threw upwards, the siege explosives package advanced into the city gate hole, with a loud bang, the city gate was blown open, the security army rushed into the city, shouting and killing, and then gradually stopped, Jiaokou County fell, with the experience of occupying Xi County, everything went more quickly. Purging the remnants of the enemy, imprisoning prisoners, collecting supplies, recruiting new soldiers, and proceeding in an orderly manner. The ever-growing security army marched to Zhongyang County. When he arrived in Zhongyang, Zhang Chu already had more than 2,000 soldiers under his command and a large number of people transporting supplies.

Zhang Hong, the magistrate of Zhongyang County, looked at the thieves who were still driving outside the city, his legs trembled, and he almost fell from the city wall. I have lived for forty years, and it seems that I am about to usher in a hurdle in my life. Fortunately, the thieves did not immediately attack the city, but only moved around outside the city, not knowing what to do, and there were only more than 200 officers and soldiers in the city, and the thousands of thieves did not dare to go out of the city to fight. And so five days passed.

At this time, Zhang Chu had already led the elite of the security army and some people to build a battlefield in the north of Zhongyang County, facing the direction of Luliang. Zhongyang County is developed in a north-south valley, and it wants to enter only the direction of Jiaokou in the south and the direction of Luliang in the north. Zhang Chu was waiting, one was waiting for the arrival of the rear materials, the other was waiting for Lu Liang to send reinforcements to Zhongyang, at the beginning of the siege of Zhongyang, Zhang Chu deliberately drove some villagers out of Zhongyang, let them flee to the direction of Lu Liang, Lu Liang should have sent troops to reinforce Zhongyang, the official army did not let Zhang Chubai wait, five days later, there was a visit to Ma to report that Lu Liang sent troops.

Nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers drove towards Zhongyang under the leadership of Sun Qianhu. Some fleeing people reported that there was a group of thieves besieging Zhongyang City, and the officials at all levels in Luliang were unwilling to bear the crime of losing the city and land, so they gritted their teeth and took out money and grain, gathered more than 1,000 officers and troops, and drove to Zhongyang under the leadership of Sun Qianhu. Sun Qianhu didn't want to fight, but the military general had no status in front of the civil officials, so he could only set off after being reprimanded. After entering the valley leading to Zhongyang, his heart was even more uneasy, he didn't even know who the thieves were and how many they were forced to send troops, they were really a bunch of bastards who didn't understand. The horses sent forward have not yet returned, and the ruffians are becoming more and more reluctant to work. While he was thinking about it, there was a loud noise in front of him, and some soldiers hurriedly ran over to report that the road ahead was blocked by rocks, and the thieves were firing artillery at the officers and soldiers, and many brothers had been killed and wounded. Quickly retreating back from the valley, Sun Qianhu understood his dangerous situation. But as soon as the team turned around and retreated, many boulders on the mountain behind rolled down to block the way back, some soldiers wanted to move the boulders in the past, and there was an explosion far away from the boulders, and the ground was full of fire, and the soldiers were blown up and fell to the ground, screaming in pain on the ground, and the soldiers behind had intermittently wanted to step forward, but the explosion started again, leaving the wounded soldiers all over the ground and no one dared to save them. Advancing and not retreating, the sound of artillery and shouting of killing in the rear was getting closer and closer, and Sun Qianhu immediately ordered to raise the white flag.

The waiting fruit was eaten in his mouth, then Zhongyang was left, and Zhang Chu ordered to return to the army immediately to deal with Zhongyang.