If you don't pay for it, you don't pay for food, you meet the king, and when the king comes, you don't pay for food.

On the streets of Zhuxian Town, groups of children are bouncing all the way in the streets and alleys singing slogans to welcome King Chuang. These children who were dressed in tatters and looked like ordinary people were not ordinary people, they were children in the army of King Chuang, who were specially responsible for propaganda, and it was by relying on such shouts in the streets and alleys that King Li Zicheng's army was rapidly expanded.

A few days ago, Li Zicheng's troops, who were defeated in Kaifeng, retreated to Zhuxian Town for a temporary rest, preparing to wait until the time to make plans to attack the city.

This battle was a heavy loss for the peasant army Li Zicheng's department, Kaifeng was not captured, but a lot of troops were consumed.

Because there is a precedent of capturing Luoyang and killing King Fu to cook his meat to eat, the king of Zhou, who guarded Kaifeng, was very generous to scatter his family wealth, buy grain, and recruit people who dare to fight, and finally defeated Li Zicheng's many attacks and waited for reinforcements in the case of military and civilian cooperation.

And Li Zicheng was almost killed at this station, blind in one eye, so he had to retreat from Kaifeng, which had been unable to attack for a long time.

Now both morale and soldiers have been affected to a certain extent, which made General Li Zicheng see the crisis, and quickly dispatched a propaganda team to start the slogan of welcoming the king in the streets and alleys of Zhuxian Town.

Li Zicheng, who had woken up from his serious injuries yesterday, said the first thing he said was, if he does not take revenge, he will not be a man.

Although the ideal is very full, but the reality is very cruel, don't look at Li Zicheng's peasant army with hundreds of thousands of people, but after the attack on Luoyang, he officially ended the mobile combat method and began to implement a new strategic operation of the base area.

The attack on Kaifeng originally knew that the defenders were weak, so he led 30,000 people to gallop under Kaifeng City, but the actual situation was that the people of Kaifeng City swore to resist to the death. Not only did he not capture the city, but he also lost a lot of troops.

Now Li Zicheng has less than 10,000 people around him, and if he wants to mobilize troops from Luoyang and other counties to relieve the siege, I am afraid that there will be discord in time, so he has to recruit troops locally to supplement his troops.

In the days since he was recuperating from his wounds, his lieutenant general and the army of the Ming Dynasty had already exchanged hands several times, and neither side took advantage of it, and the war entered a state of confrontation.

Now if you want to win, it depends on whose reinforcements arrive first, and the better the chance of a comeback.

As early as ten days ago, according to historical knowledge, the first overseas sniper team of the Department of Homeland Security, which knew in advance that Li Zicheng would arrive in Zhuxian Town, had been lurking in the town, waiting for an opportunity to shoot Li Zicheng to death in one fell swoop.

According to the judgment of history, no matter from which aspect, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, which accelerated the time for the Later Jin to enter the Central Plains, and if it were not for him, the Ming Dynasty would not have collapsed so much, and whether the Later Jin could enter the Central Plains is still a question.

For this reason, the Australian Parliament specially ordered the Department of Homeland Security to send an assassination team to kill Li Zicheng, although this cannot save the trend of the Ming Dynasty, but at least it can alleviate the Houjin entry into the Central Plains.

Wu Ming was an ordinary sniper in the army before the crossing, and this time he was appointed by the Department of Homeland Security to carry out this important mission.

A group of six people, all of whom are currently the best blockers in the army, are also the first temporary blockade team formed in the history of Australia.

Their task was to kill Li Zicheng in the shadows when he appeared in the town, and this mission was actually very difficult.

There is not much infiltration of the intelligence services here, and basically they rely on the historical trend to judge, so they do not dare to guarantee the successful completion of the mission at all.

In order to successfully assassinate Li Zicheng, Wu Ming carried out many paper deductions, according to his plan, if Li Zicheng entered the town from the east of the town, he had to walk to the position of the first archway, which was the best place to block.

It is suitable for both hiding spots and ambushes, and the second place is to cross the torii and enter a section of intersection in the middle of the town. If Li Zicheng was not assassinated in the two locations, he would have no chance to act and could only retreat.

At noon, the workers in charge of collecting intelligence found Wu Ming and told him that he had confirmed that Li Zicheng had entered the town.

This time I entered the town, not only to recruit soldiers to replenish my strength, but also to raise military expenses and food and grass.

There will not be too many people entering the city, probably less than 100 people, and this is also Li Zicheng's first road after he was injured, so this opportunity is rare.

Sure enough, after about a stick of incense, one of Li Zicheng's eyes had been covered with an eyepatch made of a small cloth, and he rode a tall horse and entered the town with dozens of relatives straddle the horse.

And the people on both sides of the street are not very enthusiastic about him, after all, the people in Zhuxian Town can live a good life, and no one has thought of rebelling.

He didn't know what kind of scourge he was going to suffer, so it was strange that he could be welcomed.

However, Li Zicheng is quite talented as an actor, I saw him riding on a tall horse, constantly waving to the people, with a gentle smile on his face, which made people not see that this was a murderous devil.

Wu Ming saw that the other party had entered the sniper position, and immediately started shooting and aiming, but at this moment, an unexpected scene happened, Li Zicheng got off the horse and picked up the child in the hands of a woman on the side of the road, and the child's face happened to be attached to his face, covering his entire head overlappingly, which added great difficulty to the sniper, and if the sniper was successful, the child would be dangerous to a large extent.

Faced with this situation, Wu Ming decisively put down the finger that pulled the trigger, he didn't want to kill innocents indiscriminately, although the lives here were not worth anything at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but he couldn't convince the reason in his heart.

Wu Ming set up an ambush sniper point and did not shoot, which means that he could only enter the next sniper point, and without hearing the gunshot, the person in charge of the next sniper point knew that there was an accident, and the next thing to see was his own place.

The person in charge of the second sniper point quickly pulled the trigger after Li Zicheng entered the blocking circle, and a bang sounded. The bullet went towards Li Zicheng and did not hit, but only hit his earlobe.

At this time, the soldiers were also looking for the sound and began to search, and Li Zicheng's surroundings were already full of guards with big knives.

Half an hour later, the six members of Wu Ming's squad gathered in a ruined temple outside the town and announced that the assassination had failed.