After the incident of bandits burning the Fengyang Imperial Tomb, Emperor Chongzhen did not take care of the edict to Yang Sichang to the Mongolian and Chahar tribes in the northern desert. Li Guodong, who was waiting for the caravan to arrive, could not wait for Wang Quan's caravan to arrive.

"Jiannu is back home for the New Year, and it's about to start spring. This is a great time for our caravan to travel to Mobei. Why haven't Wang Quan come yet?" It's February, and before the caravan arrives, Han Dashan is anxious.

Li Guodong was also extremely anxious. Once April came, Yuetuo was probably coming to Naturalization again. Guihua City was blocked from the passage between the west entrance and Mobei, which was the only way to Mobei. If Yuetuo came to Tumote's troops again, the caravan would definitely be affected when he went to Mobei, not to mention that the Ming envoy had to intervene in the caravan and take on the task of sending the three divisions of Mobei. If the Ming envoy and the Mongolian envoy in Mobei fell into the hands of the Later Jin, the consequences would be unimaginable.

He Xing said anxiously: "Brother, have the business encountered some trouble?"

Li Guodong nodded: "It seems that the bandits have attacked Fengyang, the emperor's dragon face is furious, and many people are in trouble."

"The soldiers come and the generals block the water and the soil!" Wang Quan stood on the platform and shouted loudly to the soldiers and civilians in the village.

There are also many gentry who escaped from the thief-occupied area, and they also took their families to escape to the city for refuge. Wang Quan was a kind and righteous man, so he would naturally accept them. However, the gentry who came to invest need to spend some money to buy rice, grain and cotton to donate them to Wang Quan, treating it as their money to buy lives, and also ask the slaves in the family to help the Ming army defend the city. When people are about to die, they will have to pay off the money to save their lives and will not feel sorry for the money. If they do not lose a penny, Wang Quan will drive them out of the city without hesitation.

Luzhou, Anqing, Hezhou, Chuzhou and other places were successively lost, and the bandits were in great power. The horse, thieves and water bandits who were originally scattered in the hills of Huainan came to surrender, which further enhanced the bandits' army's momentum. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong had already swept million refugees.

A branch of Zhang Xianzhong's bandit army arrived at the shore of Hongze Lake and set up camp by the lake.

"There is a city by the lake in front of it. I heard that it was built by Wang Quan, a merchant from Xikou. This man is rich enough to rival a country. If he can break through this village, he can get countless food, grass, gold and silver." Feng Shuangli offered advice to Bai Wenxuan.

Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son Zhang Dingguo advised: "All the generals should not attack this camp. Our army is trapped in Shanxi, with food and grass exhausted, insufficient weapons and few horses. Wang Quan once provided food and grass to his adoptive father with food and grass. How can we repay our grudges now?"

Zhang Kewang laughed: "Dingguo, you are the kindness of a woman, and you cannot become a great person!"

"I hope that Brother, Manager Wang has kindness to our army. He built a city to save the people of the world. How can our army attack him?" Zhang Dingguo persuaded him hard.

Zhang Kewang laughed and said, "That king is only a Shangjier. All the merchants in the world are annihilated and cunning and profit-making. Previously, Dadewang Shang gave us military food, grass, weapons and horses, all driven by interests. Now this person has donated a thousand officers and soldiers, which is an official dog. I should send troops to him!"

Zhang Dingguo advised again: "Shopkeeper Wang knew the tactics of war well, so this camp might be difficult to conquer."

Zhang Kewang suddenly shouted: "Dingguo! I am your eldest brother! My adoptive father is not by his side now, so he should regard his elder brother as his father! My order is a military order. How dare you not obey?"

"Forget it!" Zhang Dingguo saw that he could not convince Zhang Kewang, so he had to shake his head and retreat.

Zhang Kewang kept persuading the Prime Minister Zhang Dingguo, and led more than 100,000 bandit soldiers to kill Wang Quan's Douhu City.

After more than four years of construction, the Touhu City Village has already had 3,000 soldiers and more than 8,000 young and strong soldiers. A while ago, the bandits entered the Huai River and fled refugees came to join the country, with a total of 30,000 refugees seeking back. In addition, the original 20,000 refugees in the city wall, the total population of more than 50,000 in the city wall, including more than 14,000 strong men who could participate in the war. In addition, Wang Quan also formed a navy of 2,000 people, including more than ten large warships and more than a hundred small sampans.

After careful identification of the newly resigned refugees, more than 100 spies were found.

Wang Quan did not order all the bandits and spies to slash them with one blow, but imprisoned them first, and waited until the bandits retreated and then put them back, because he was unwilling to make enemies with Zhang Xianzhong, which was to leave a way out for himself.

Today, the Toutu City Village has surrounded a circle of earthen cities and three trenches have been dug out on the outside. Although the defenders in the city lack heavy weapons such as artillery, Wang Quan has created more than 100 seven-pin cannon trenchers. This weapon can be used even for women to attack the enemy. Don’t think that women are powerless. Most of the women in the city are big feet young and strong women from rural areas. These women are very strong. They only need to pull the rope and pull the catapult according to the orders of the soldiers. There are not many firearms in the Toutu City Village, only three hundred bird guns and eight hundred three-eyed guns, mainly cold weapons.

"The thief is here! The thief is here!" The Ming soldiers standing on the arrow tower shouted.

Everyone climbed to the top of the city. A young refugee man who had newly formed the Ming army looked at the dark heads outside the city and continued to the horizon. He screamed in horror: "How many thieves!"

The bandit army led by Zhang Kewang had arrived outside the city. After seeing the situation of Tucheng, he decided to be courteous and then the army, first ask Wang Quan for food, gold and silver, and at the same time ask for a group of young and strong people. If he does not follow, he will send troops to attack the city.

A loud thief walked to the city and shouted to the top of the city: "I broke into the city and arrived here. I came to borrow thousands of stones of grain and 100,000 taels of silver from the city lord, and another ten thousand taels of green and strong people to join the army. If the city lord agrees, my rebels will not offend the people, and they will naturally retreat. From then on, we will be at peace. If we don't agree, our army will attack the city."

"What a big appetite!" Wang Quan snorted coldly, "As soon as he opened his mouth, he would need a thousand stone of grain and a hundred thousand taels of silver! He would also give the people we rescued to them? Tell him that he would not borrow a grain of grain! He would beat him if he wanted to beat him!"

Hearing the Ming army's answer, Zhang Kewang was furious: "Where our army has been passing by, we have captured countless cities, so why are you afraid of a small earthen city?"

As the eldest among Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons, Zhang Kewang has rich combat experience. He has calculated the cost and knew that Wang Quan and Dadewang's business in the city were rich enough to rival the country. Even if they sacrificed more than 10,000 refugees who were forced to break the city, it was a good deal. Anyway, those refugees didn't want money, and they died and then brought a group from other places.

"Let someone prepare to build siege equipment and prepare to siege!" Zhang Kewang gave the order.

Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli took hundreds of elite old thieves to rush to the mountains southwest of the city to cut down wood and create various siege equipment.

The two sides confronted the city at the top of the city. Zhang Kewang, who had not yet built the siege equipment, was not in a hurry to attack the city. After five days of confrontation, Zhang Kewang's bandit army began to siege from east, north and west, leaving only a retreat route to the city walled area. The south is a retreat route on land. Once the city is broken, people in the city escape and flee on land, and they will definitely not be able to escape the bandit cavalry. The water routes to the north and east were cut off by the bandit army, making reinforcements and supplies unable to be sent into the city.

On February 8, the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Kewang's bandit army began to attack the city. Countless cannon fodders rushed in front. The refugees in the front row were holding a shoddy wooden sign, followed by refugees holding bamboo spears and bamboo ladders. Then there were collision cars, trench bridge cars and ladder cars built by the bandit army in the past few days.

In the city, all the healthy women were organized, with a group of two hundred people, with a total of more than 10,000 healthy women, responsible for traction of fifty seven-pin cannons, and young and middle-aged men and elderly children mixed with the elderly and children, responsible for traction of the remaining fifty seven-pin cannons.

The soldiers standing on the arrow tower shook the small flag and told the officers behind them the enemy's location, and the officers commanded the launch of the catapult.

The black crowd walked towards the city wall step by step, and the crowd was dense. When they reached a hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, someone screamed in surprise: "Stone Cannon!"
Chapter completed!