The city walls of this county town have indeed been strengthened and heightened, but they have not been thickened at all, because no one would have thought that the peasant army would use the method of digging holes in the city walls to attack the city? So the strong men defending the city desperately poured boiling oil and gold juice on the heads of the displaced people who dug holes in several places, and fired fire guns and arrows, which was a completely one-sided massacre.

If, according to the general law of siege, there were such large casualties, it would be completely possible for the peasant army to make the besieging side stop the siege. But now Gao Yingxiang doesn't care at all.

For those displaced people, those who dig holes in the wall will die if they flee back, and digging holes in the wall will have a chance to live, after all, they only need to dig a bag of broken bricks and mud.

As for the casualties of the homeless, Gao Yingxiang doesn't care even more, anyway, there are many cannon fodder in the peasant army, and it is nothing to consume some. Even Gao Yingxiang has some faint happiness in his heart, after missing these cannon fodder, he can save a lot of food for himself.

And from the very beginning of the siege, Huang Long was dumbfounded to watch the movements of those homeless people. After a while, he finally figured out what method Gao Yingxiang wanted to use to attack the city. Huang Long couldn't help but mutter, "This method is simply not something that people have come up with. ”

At this time, the leaders of the peasant army had not yet mastered the knack of sycophancy, so Huang Long's words were very vulgar. But his demeanor and words were like the most flattering words, which made Gao Yingxiang's pores stretch all over his body, and he couldn't help but hahadaxiao.

Although the attack at the head of the city was swift, it could not stop the homeless people who dug holes in the wall like ants. The hole in the wall was dug bigger and deeper, and by Zuihou, the city wall was finally dug through.

After all, those who defended the city were recruited strong men, not well-trained soldiers, so they were when the walls were dug through. The psychological defenses have actually collapsed. Those strong men immediately jumped off the city wall and fled towards the city, without trying to block these holes while the holes in the city wall were still small, or fighting at the holes to prevent the peasant army from entering the city. It also lost Zuihou a chance to hold the county seat.

Don't blame those strong men, even the magistrate kept muttering to himself in distraction on the city tower: "How can this be? How so? ”

Gradually, the entrance of the cave was dug enough for one person to pass, and several peasant soldiers who had been prepared for a long time rushed into the county seat first to guard the entrances of the caves. However, they saw that all around them were strong men guarding the city, scurrying like headless flies. couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat with nervousness, for fear that those strong men would attack their lonely self. However, those strong men seemed to regard the entrance of the cave as a flood beast, and no matter how much they scurried, they did not dare to approach the hole in the city wall protected by peasant soldiers.

So the hole in the city wall was dug bigger and bigger, gradually. Two openings were connected, followed by three, four ....... Zuihou formed a large gap of more than 20 zhang long. And the displaced people are no longer digging. They moved out of the way and let the old battalion soldiers of Gao Yingxiang's department behind them rush into the county seat.

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"King Chuang! There's plenty of food in the city, enough for us to eat for a month. Huang Long said excitedly.

After breaking through the county seat, the peasant army routinely killed all the officials and large gentry, and plundered all the property of the official warehouse and the gentry.

But Gao Yingxiang was not satisfied with this, he then ordered: "Take all the food of the people in the city." and then drive them all out of the city. If they join our rebels, we are all welcome! ”

Huang Long was stunned for a moment, because in the previous looting, the peasant army always had to take into account the reputation of the righteous army. It doesn't touch the people's private wealth much. Of course, the people didn't have any personal property, so robbing them was worth the cost. But now Gao Yingxiang's order has forced the people in the county to a dead end. Those people had no food, and they were in the wilderness, so if they wanted to survive, they had to join the peasant army.

But Gao Yingxiang was also a little helpless to do so. The current peasant army does have a little less food, and there are too few displaced people in the wild, which makes it more difficult for the peasant army to be coerced, and the loss of siege cannon fodder just now is also quite large, these reasons make Gao Yingxiang have to act like this.

Sure enough, after doing this, the people in the county basically joined the peasant army. After a day's rest, the peasant army immediately slaughtered the next city like a swarm of locusts.

After receiving requests for help from several counties on the border, other Ming troops could passively avoid the war, but the responsibility of Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, was there, and he couldn't avoid it. After pondering everything, he asked Chen Yongfu to lead 3,000 men and horses to the border to support.

However, before Chen Yongfu set off, Li Xianfeng told Chen Yongfu thousands of words: Just make a rescue gesture. Do not be greedy for merit and engage the peasant army to prevent the main force of the Henan Ming army from suffering losses.

Chen Yongfu was a well-known honest man among the military attaches in the late Ming Dynasty, and his honesty was reflected in his special observance of the rules of the noble and the lowly, especially Chen Yongfu obeyed the orders of the civil officials. Therefore, successive governors of Henan have regarded him as their confidants.

But at this time, it's not good to be a confidant. When Li Xianfeng was about to send troops, all the military attaches of the Henan Ming Army were all shirked, and Li Xianfeng had no choice but to set his sights on the most obedient Chen Yongfu.

But Chen Yongfu's honesty is only reflected in officialdom, and he is not so honest when he fights. Seeing that it was impossible for him to shirk this dangerous task, Chen Yongfu asked Li Xianfeng for a large number of war horses, so half of the three thousand people he led were cavalry. And Chen Yongfu is prepared to slip his feet if the situation is not right.

And Chen Yongfu did not go straight to the rescue, he led the army along the banks of the Yellow River, preparing to withdraw into the cities along the Yellow River as soon as the wind blows.

However, as soon as he entered Henan Mansion, Chen Yongfu received a piece of information: the two county towns on the border of Henan were lost one after another, and the peasant army's method of attacking the city was actually to use the method of digging holes in the city wall.

In fact, when Gao Yingxiang adopted a new siege method, he also did a good job of secrecy, and thought that while the Ming army did not know this siege method, he would capture a few more county towns, so he had to surround the city before each siege, just to prevent someone from escaping and reporting the news.

But Gao Yingxiang Zuihou still made a mistake. Because there were only bandits in the wilderness of Henan, the people were concentrated in the city and the village. And many of those villages are places where the local gentry of the great clans and gentry set up villages to protect themselves.

Of course, many of these stockades were originally mountain bandit dens, and the Ming army would fight and kill them when they encountered them. But at this time, the common enemy of the peasant army bound them together. (To be continued......)