Wang Ziyong was excited about the huge harvest after conquering the county seat of Qinxian County, and it seemed that this was definitely a lucrative thing, so he started a new round of recruitment in Qinxian County to enhance his strength and prepare for greater action.

At the same time that Wang used himself to attack the city and plunder the land, a greater threat to the government appeared, and Yang Biao, the commander of the Second Army of the Security Army, personally led the Second Army to set off from Zhongyang, and they went out of the mountains in the west of Shanxi and marched to the plains in the east of Shanxi, aiming directly at Taiyuan City.

The team led by Yang Biao has a total of more than 20,000 people, and they are all veterans who have been following the security army in the past few years, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

In order to ensure the strength of Yang Biao's remaining team, Zhang Chu led the team to the south to draw the backbone from the old army and the new soldiers, and a large number of old troops still stayed in Zhongyang. This is also to prevent Hong Chengchou from going to pursue Zhang Chu and attacking the hometown of the security army with all his might.

In the end, it was Zhang Chu's great attraction, and Hong Chengchou chased Zhang Chu with the main force of the official army, which was a good time for Yang Biao to act.

The speed of the security army's march this time was very slow, on the one hand, Yang Biao ordered the whole army to fight steadily and steadily, step by step, and another reason was that Yang Biao's team carried more than a dozen red-coated cannons weighing thousands of catties.

The artillery casting technology of the security army is now very mature, and there is no difficulty in casting large red-coated cannons, but although the power of this cannon is huge, the weight is also huge, and it is very inconvenient to act, if you want to reduce the weight of the cannon, only the production of high-quality alloy steel can be done, but this is a long process. At this stage, the security forces can only use this bulky cannon.

The men and horses of the security army walked on the road, with no head in sight and no tail in sight. The poor people watched excitedly from a distance as they watched the procession. They had heard about the security forces in the past few years, and they had long hoped that the security forces would come to their hometowns to reduce rents and interest rates, crack down on corrupt officials, and enable everyone to live in areas controlled by the security forces.

Some small and medium-sized landlords also opened the door of Zhuangbao, and the villagers in Zhuangnei greeted the arrival of the security army under the leadership of the head of the family, they did not want to resist, but they understood that the result of the resistance must be the death of the village, and the security army only sent people to collect the grain they offered for the surrendered Zhuangbao, and asked them to reduce the exploitation of the poor, so they let them go.

Along the way, the security army was very tight on the soldiers, and the various teams constantly emphasized military discipline, and also sent special inspectors to Yanlu to conduct inspections. Prevent the occurrence of disturbances to the people.

The strict self-discipline of the security army has had a very good effect, and the people's hearts naturally compare the security army with other rebel armies and official soldiers, and they are gradually willing to contact the security army. Yang Biao took this opportunity to send a propaganda team to publicize the policy of the security army with great fanfare, and the people experienced for the first time that there was such a fair and happy society in the world.

On the route of the security army's march, only the county seat of each county became the last fortress of the court, and the first county seat encountered was Wenshui County, Wenshui County in the county town made Wang Jing feel very bad, and the officers and soldiers stationed in the area all followed Hong Chengchou to the south to pursue the thieves, but how could the more they chased the thieves, the more they chased the thieves, where did this huge group of thieves come from?

As an official of the Ming Dynasty, he could neither abandon the city and flee, nor surrender to the thieves, with uneasy feelings, he had to order the city gate to be closed, and gathered the defenders and officials in the city to board the city to defend, which was the last struggle, and he had no confidence in being able to hold the city.

Wang Jing watched the security army arrive outside the city and set up camp in an orderly manner, and the black figures, even in broad daylight, seemed to him to be black and impermanent.

"Hurry up and carry the stones to the city, and you go to the city and catch some more people, men, women, and children, and all those who can move will be rushed to the city to defend the city." Wang Jing shouted hysterically to the officials beside him.

When the officials heard this, they hurriedly went to arrest the people, and after a while, there were more people in the city, which somewhat strengthened the king's courage. The captured people, escorted by the soldiers, carried rolling wood and stones to the city, and set up a cauldron on the city, in which the dung juice was boiling, and the city stinked for a while, but in order to survive, these stenches were nothing.

Wang Jing looked at the busy crowd at the head of the city, thinking to himself how he could resist it for a while. Although there are many of these thieves, they will only use human lives to attack the city or something, as long as the soldiers in the city are not afraid of battle, it is still possible to defend the city.

The security army outside the city did not surround the entire Wenshui county, and concentrated all the men and horses on the east side of the city, the county commander Wang Jing was very ridiculed about this, and the military book said that the siege was three and one, in order to leave hope for the people defending the city, and at the same time, the people in the city did not know the direction of the main attack, and dispersed the defensive forces, and these poor ghosts did not read the war book, and concentrated all the people in the area of the east gate, clearly to attack from the east gate, and the official army just concentrated all the troops at the east gate, This saved the number of troops guarding the other walls. Didn't this thief kill himself? It seems that the hope of holding the city has increased again.

According to common sense, the thieves should prepare siege equipment outside the city and march to attack the city, but this group of thieves did not drive the group out of the camp, only a team of people was busy quite far from the city.

Wang Jing thought, it seems that this thief's desire to attack the city is not very strong, at least today will not attack the city.

Wang Jing had just relaxed a little in his heart, when he heard a loud noise, which startled the people in the city, including Wang Jing, and followed the prestige, only to see a black dot flying rapidly towards the city wall.

"Cannon!" The experienced soldiers understood what was going on, and crawled on the ground while shouting, and the others followed and crawled around looking for a place to hide, and Wang Jing and his entourage also quickly hid under the battlements of the city wall.

Fortunately, the security army's artillery shot far away, flew over the city wall, flew into the city, smashed on the roof of a house, made a big hole in the roof, and then hit the wall, the house finally couldn't stand such a heavy blow, and collapsed all at once, and the whole street was suddenly dusty, and the people around ran out of their homes to check the situation. I don't know if the house that was destroyed was inhabited or not, and if there were, it must have been a lot of bad luck.

"The thieves have such powerful artillery, it seems that my life is at a loss." Wang Jing, the county magistrate, first thought of his own life.

The security army did not give them much time to think about life, after the first artillery verification, the second round of salvo of more than a dozen shells accurately hit the city, the huge cannonball hit the city wall and then shattered, the flying bricks and stones will kill a large number of the officers and soldiers who were waiting at the head of the city, ready to be used to pour the security army "golden juice" was overturned by the shells, and the hot officers and soldiers cried wolf one by one. Many of the captured people ran to the city screaming.

"Stop them, and those who escape from the battle will be killed, and they will be killed." Wang Jing gave a loud order, and several officers and officers brandished steel knives and forced the fleeing people back to the city, so as to stabilize their position. (To be continued.) )