"Okay, I'll do what the king wants."

Zhang Liang hesitated slightly, but nodded heavily, his daughter-in-law had just added a big fat boy to him, and he didn't want to give his life to Kaesong like this.

The three of them had already made up their minds, and they knew that the officials and soldiers had only given one day to think about it, and they were afraid that it would change later, so they didn't delay any longer, so they each led their cronies to touch the city gate, but they happened to bump into Zhu Shouyi.

Zhu Shouyi is Zhu Chengju's nephew, and his family members were killed by the rebels in Huazhou, so he and his uncle refused to surrender, but they were afraid that the people in the army would be unstable, so they led his men to patrol the city gates everywhere.

"Leader Yuan is discussing things there, I'm afraid that some people in the city will be frightened by the officials and soldiers, you have to watch me closely, especially the city gate here, you must look carefully, don't let those guts open the city."

After discovering Wang Er Mazi and others, Zhu Shouyi didn't think much about it, because this Wang Er Mazi was also from the peasant army, and even had a big thief like Gao Yingxiang, so he called Wang Er Mazi and others over.

"Small ones are saved."

Wang Er Mazi nodded, and glanced at Zhang Liang and them, everyone was premeditated, and hurriedly led his subordinates to surround this side from the left and right

When Zhu Shouyi found that someone was leaning up around him, Wang Er Mazi suddenly pulled out his knife and shouted: "Don't do it yet!" ”

This sudden roar alarmed the soldiers under Tong Zheng, but before they could react, a group of peasant troops rushed up from all sides and disarmed them.

Zhu Shouyi was shocked, and when he was about to shout loudly, he found that a sharp knife was pressed against his back, even if he was wearing thick cotton clothes, he could feel a cold back.

"Leader Zhu, don't blame us, the brothers are just trying to find a way to survive."

Yuan Shizhong and they were discussing the surrender of the official army, and they couldn't say that they could work together in the Jingbei Army in the future, Wang Er Mazi naturally didn't dare to do anything about it, but he just ordered the cronies behind him to tie Zhu Shouyi and his subordinates into zongzi.

The defenders in the city looked at the scene in front of them dumbfounded, and Zhang Jicheng, the leader of the small Yuan battalion who was in charge of the guard, subconsciously wanted to report the news,

But after running a few steps, he was blocked by another group of peasant troops, and the time for Xiao Yuan's camp to rise was too short, so short that Yuan Shi and others had no time to win people's hearts.

Now that the imperial army is approaching the city, the people who want to lose their sincerity to the officials and soldiers are not just Wang Er Mazi and a few people.

"Open the gates."

After completely controlling the initiative, Wang Er Mazi was in high spirits and ordered his cronies to go up and open the gate of Kaicheng.

After the news of the opening of the east gate reached the ears of Yuan Shizhong, Zhu Chengju and others, who were still arguing and had not made a decision, everyone was concerned.

They knew that they could no longer tolerate what they could do, and the only way to remedy it was to quickly surrender together, otherwise Li Xingzhi would never let him go.

After the east gate of Kaicheng was opened, the Jingbei army outside the city was very surprised, after all, the prime minister gave the thieves a day to think about it, and no one expected that the city gate would be opened in just over an hour.

It was only after Wang Er Mazi and others in the city ran out and said that they wanted to surrender, that the officers and soldiers reacted, and immediately followed the rebels into Puyang City under the command of the officers.

On the third day of the third month of the first year of Yongli, the small Yuan camp in Kaesong surrendered without a fight.

From Yuan Shizhong, Zhu Chengju, Liu Yuqi and other big leaders, a total of 71 big and small leaders all expressed their sincerity to the officials and soldiers.

At the same time that Kaesong was attacked by the official army, Yang Biao, the governor of Huaiyang, led the first town, and Zhang Dabu, the general army of Nanzhili, had already entered the territory of Xinyang along the Huai River.

After Yang Biao was ordered to go out of the town of Huaiyang, he was ordered by Li Xingzhi to allow him to expand the army of 10,000 people, but Huaiyang was different from Henan and Shaanxi, which were poisoned by rogues and official troops, the world was relatively stable, and there were not many military horses recruited at all, and Yang Biao had to integrate the garrison military horses of Xuzhou, Huai'an, and Yangzhou into the first town.

It's just that the garrison officers and soldiers in Xuzhou, Huai'an and other places, except for the nine years of Chongzhen and the time when the Liukou entered Huaiyang, have never been on the battlefield at all, and their quality is inferior to that of the peasant army, and most of them are peasants who farm in the soil for the military leaders in various places.

Yang Biao had to be shorter and taller, and only 35,600 people were selected in the three prefectures, and the remaining vacancy was to recruit more than 1,500 miners in the Ma'anshan area, and it was not easy to replenish the headquarters to 10,000 people.

This time to send troops to Henan, Yang Biao, who was eager to make meritorious contributions, threw all the military and political affairs of Huaiyang to Huang Wenchang, and his own military horses were dispatched in a nest, counting Zhang Da's 5,000 soldiers and people, the total strength has reached 20,000.

Although Yang Biao has not fought any battles, he has been cultivated in the army for a long time, and when Wang Zhong's letter came, he guessed what Wang Zhong was doing, in fact, he wanted to block Li Zicheng's way to flee south, and force the army into Shaanxi to the point of ruin to fight Sun Chuanting.

If you want to cut off the way back from the army, you have to block the main road from Kaifeng to Benxinyang and Nanyang, so Lushan and Yuncheng have become the key to this battle.

Lushan is close to Kaifeng, more than 100 miles to the south is Yiyang Sanguan, the strategic position is extremely heavy, Nanyang as the first big city captured by the Shun army, Li Zicheng is to keep the henchman Tian Jianxiu to guard, Tian Jianxiu has been in battle for a long time, Yiyang Sanguan is such a military important place, it is impossible not to send troops to garrison, in order to achieve the complete cut off of the Shun army, so that the Dashun army that is almost an empty country becomes a lone army, Lushan this only eighty zhang of the mountain has become the most critical factor in this battle.

Compared with Lushan, the geographical location close to Shangshui Yuncheng is more important, because the Jingbei Army relied on the water transportation of the Huai River and its tributaries this time to reach the predetermined combat position before the Shun army retreated.

Yuncheng County is all Tucheng. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Li Zhensheng, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, in order to prevent the intensifying peasant uprising, paved the foundation with a stone stone, changed the earth city to a brick and stone city, and because the foundation was paved with a stone stone, it was commonly known as "the stone city".

Yuncheng city is nearly four zhang meters high, in addition to adopting stone stones, a total of 118 layers of bricks, the buttress is two feet two inches high, one foot five inches wide, every seven battlements are built at the enemy platform, the ground in the enemy platform is two feet and two feet, there is one zhang and three feet longitudinally, and the middle is tiled with bricks.

In addition, there is a moat outside the city, which is the so-called moat, commonly known as the "sea river", which is about one zhang and two feet deep and two feet and five feet wide.

Since the invasion of Kaifeng, the state and county passed, nine out of ten falls, only Li Zhensheng, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, after the army entered Kaifeng, he scattered all his wealth, mobilized the young and strong in the city to defend the city, relying on the high and deep pools of the city, after the peasant army tried to attack a few times, he put down the idea of storming Yuncheng, in Li Zicheng's view, as long as he took Kaifeng and Luoyang, Yuncheng became a lonely city, and if he wanted to take it, it would only be easy.

Li Zhensheng's efforts were not in vain, on the fifth day of the first month of March in the first year of Yongli, the Huaiyang Corps of the Jingbei Army arrived at Yuncheng along the Shangshui, after entering the city, Yang Biao ordered the deputy general Wang Deren and Jing Si to immediately order 5,000 troops to go straight to Lushan, in order to completely kill the node of Lushan, Wang Zhong even ordered all the artillery not to get off the ship, and continued to transfer to the Lushan area.