Chongzhen 10th year of July 13 said that the sky in the summer of Luoyang City was very early, the time had just arrived, the sky was already bright, and soon a horn sounded outside the city, and the black crowd quickly surrounded Luoyang City, and tens of thousands of Liukou put on a posture of about to attack the city, and the city defender quickly made the situation clear at this time Luoyang's supreme military and political governor, Liu Yuliang, the governor of Henan.

Liu Yuliang, who had not slept all night, hurriedly led the officials up to the east city wall, if there were reinforcements, this was also the direction they came from, and it was also the only place where the Liukou did not surround it. When Liu Yuliang came to the city wall with two black circles under his eyes, but what he saw was the dense number of rogues under the city, Liu Yuliang was almost so frightened that he turned over.

As the saying goes, there are more than 10,000 soldiers who are boundless, and more than 100,000 soldiers who are tearing the ground to the sky, at this moment Liu Yuliang stood at the head of the city, and saw the countless figures below, only to feel that a flower in front of him was almost about to faint to the ground. Fortunately, Wang Yinchang, the soldier and horse garrison on the side, reacted quickly and immediately supported him.

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering cheer outside the city, and the dense rogues who had surrounded the eastern city wall parted a path, and the group rode their horses and trotted towards the city wall, and finally stopped more than three hundred paces away from the city wall.

Finally, a man on a horse stepped forward, and he sat down on a particularly tall steed with a shortened mane and tail, which was very eye-catching. On horseback sat a man of about thirty-one or twelve years of age, tall, broad-shouldered, with bulging cheekbones, a full heavenly court, a high nose, deep eye sockets, thick eyebrows, and a pair of large, piercing eyes that were staring and contemplating. This kind of eye often gives people a sense of perseverance, composure, and wisdom.

He wore an old gray pointed felt hat that was common to northern peasants, and the tip of the hat was folded down. He also wore a half-worn green cloth robe over his iron armor. This was to make it easy to take off in the event of a battle that could be encountered at any moment, and all the buttons on the robe were loosened, but it was fastened with a war belt. He carried a bow diagonally on his back, a sword and a cowhide quiver painted with vermilion lacquer and gold, and a dozen carved arrows stuck in it.

As soon as he saw the vermilion lacquer and gold cowhide quiver hanging from this man's waist, Liu Yuliang's eyes were condensed, this color quiver can only be used by the royal family, and it is a big sin for anyone to use it for the first time, Liu Yuliang's heart moved, could it be that this is which thief?

The facts quickly confirmed Liu Yuliang's conjecture, and the man immediately stepped forward and said loudly: "Listen to the people in the city, I am Li Zicheng, if you know each other, you should quickly open the city gate and surrender, if you are obsessed, I will kill you after my righteous army enters the city." ”

Li Zicheng's voice was very loud, and Liu Yuliang, who was standing at the head of the city, and the people around him could hear it clearly. As soon as his words came out, Liu Yuliang was so angry that although Liu Yuliang had no talent, his loyalty to Chongzhen was beyond doubt.

He pointed at Li Zicheng and scolded tremblingly: "You thief, the emperor was lenient and let you live, I didn't expect you to die and not change your surname, and come to Henan again to wreak havoc, aren't you afraid of repeating the mistakes of the last time again and ending up with the annihilation of the whole army?" ”

Liu Yuliang is talking about two years ago, when Li Zicheng also invaded Henan, but was soon beaten back to Shaanxi by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and then driven into the mountains step by step.

Li Zicheng pointed to Liu Yuliang on the city wall disdainfully and said: "Okay, you dog official, I guess you must be the new governor of Henan surnamed Liu, I see that you eat for nothing, and I don't know how much people's fat and ointment you have eaten." I also heard that the Fu King in Luoyang City has more than 300 catties, if this is the case, we don't mind attacking Luoyang and cooking this Fu King. ”

"Arrogant, too arrogant!" Liu Yuliang, who was trembling with anger, stretched out his trembling finger and pointed at Li Zicheng and shouted angrily: "You traitor, don't be arrogant first, when my army comes to help, you will all die and have no place to be buried!" ”

"Haha" Li Zicheng laughed, "I know that your reinforcements are coming, so let me see if the reinforcements you invite can withstand the attack of my rebels!" ”

After saying that, Li Zicheng turned his horse and walked back, and soon, this passage was surrounded by the rogues again.

Li Zicheng turned his horse and walked back, and asked Liu Zongmin behind him: "Jiexuan, did our spies find those reinforcements from Shandong?" ”

"Nope!" Liu Zongmin shook his head, "I sent more than a dozen spies before dawn this morning, but no one has come back yet, it seems that those Ming troops have not arrived for the time being." King Chuang, if the Ming army doesn't arrive, will we continue to wait here? ”

Li Zicheng shook his head, "No, we don't have much time, we can't waste it so much, wait another hour, if there is no news from the spies, you will immediately lead people to attack the city." ”

"Understood!"

Liu Zongmin nodded, he understood what his king meant, don't look at the 150,000 or 60,000 horses outside Luoyang City, it seems that there are many people, but these people can eat a hill just by eating horses and chewing every day, their food can not withstand such a big loss, if they can't capture Luoyang within half a month, and there is no need for officers and soldiers to fight, the righteous army that has run out of food will definitely disperse in a hurry.

It is also the sorrow of an army that does not have a stable rear, and sometimes they look strong, but this strength is like a fortress built on the sand, which cannot withstand any wandering, and if a strong wind blows, this fortress will collapse with a bang.

Liu Zongmin, who had been instructed by Li Zicheng, immediately returned to his headquarters and asked some of the old, weak and hungry people to begin to prepare siege equipment and prepare for the siege in half an hour.

The hungry people who received the order immediately got busy, and many of them were carpenters or peasants, and although they were not good at fighting, they were still capable of doing the work of carpenters.

Under the busyness of the hungry people, after an hour, hundreds of ladders had been prepared, and more than 20 hungry people stood next to each ladder, and their task was to erect the ladders on the city wall at all costs, so as to pave the way for the followers.

In fact, this is a post that is almost to death, and anyone knows that when the charge begins, the defenders of the city must be the ones who carry the ladder first. But there is no way, who let them eat this bowl of rice.

When the time came, a burst of horns sounded in King Chuang's camp, and countless homeless people began to shout again, and the shouts of hundreds of thousands of homeless people shook the faces of the defenders on the city wall a little pale.

Liu Yuliang sat on the tower of the city gate, lowered his head and just trembled and kept complaining, Li Xianfeng and Jie Rugong didn't come yet, and if they didn't come to Luoyang City, it would be over!

(To be continued)