In the three-sided Governor's Office, a messenger rolled and crawled into the palace.

"Director Zheng, something is wrong! The thief has come out of the mountain! He has broken through more than ten county towns in a row and is attacking Nanyang!"

The three-sided governor Zheng Chongjian's face changed drastically. When Li Zicheng was beaten to the point where only eighteen cavalry were left, if Zheng Chongjian could strictly order He Renlong to search the mountains, Li Zicheng might have been completely destroyed. As a result, he was not sure whether his nerves were wrong or his brain was caught in the door, so he actually ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Now, Li Zicheng returns. Seeing the war report, Zheng Chongjian was very upset. If he had sent troops to search the mountains, Li Zicheng would have no time to collect the remaining troops and might have been caught. But now? Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan has severe drought, and the hungry people all over the mountains are all the best sources of soldiers.

Zheng Chongjian knew that he had caused a big disaster. On the one hand, he ordered Shaanxi Governor Ding Qirui and Sichuan Governor Shao Jiechun to be careful and resolutely prevent Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng from joining forces. At the same time, he personally led the troops to suppress the bandits. He also wrote a letter to Yang Sichang, asking Yang Sichang to divide the troops and assist him in extermination of Li Zicheng.

Xiangyang, the commander-in-chief camp.

"Pa" Yang Sichang finished reading Zheng Chongjian's letter and slapped him on the table in anger: "Zheng Chongjian! It's a disaster! If he hadn't withdrawn last year, the thieves would have been destroyed!"

Yang Sichang then submitted a memorial to the court and impeached Zheng Chongjian. Later, Zheng Chongzhen took the position of governor of the three sides by an edict, and was arrested by the Jinyiwei Tiqi and sent to Beijing and sent to prison. Later, Zhang Xianzhong defeated Xiangyang, Li Zicheng defeated Luoyang, King Xiang Zhu Yiming and King Fu Zhu Changxun were killed one after another, and Yang Sichang also died of serious illness. Emperor Chongzhen was furious and Zheng Chongjian was beheaded and abandoned the market. Of course, that was the next thing, and now Li Zicheng is attacking Nanyang.

Nanyang is the fiefdom of the Tang Dynasty King Zhu Yuyou. It was not originally the turn of Zhu Yuyou to become the King of Tang, but it was only because his brother Zhu Youjian was deposed as a commoner by Emperor Chongzhen and taken down. He was imprisoned in Fengyang Prison to face the ancestors and thought about his ancestors. It was then Zhu Yuyou's turn to become the King of Tang.

Zhu Yuyou's brother Zhu Youjian was the famous Emperor Longwu in history. However, now, the future Emperor Longwu is still in the Fengyang prison. He was tortured to death because he refused to ask for bribes from the eunuch of the tomb guarding the tomb. However, Lu Zhenfei became the governor of Fengyang, visited Zhu Youjian, and submitted a report to the court. Emperor Chongzhen ordered Shi Yingzhao to behead him and rescue Zhu Youjian.

Why did Zhu Youjian end up being deposed as a commoner and imprisoned in Fengyang Prison? It was because the Qing army invaded, and Zhu Youjian led his army to the capital to serve the king, which violated the ancestral system. The Ming Dynasty treated the vassal kings as pigs, and did not allow the vassal kings to leave the garrison without permission from the court. Zhu Youjian led his troops to leave the garrison to fight for the garrison without authorization, which was even more taboo. Even if he led his troops to the capital to serve the king, he would not allow it.

As a result, Zhu Youjian's younger brother Zhu Youyou became a blessing in disguise and became the King of Tang.

However, it is not a good thing that Zhu Yuyou became the King of Tang, because at this time, Li Zicheng was attacking Nanyang. This was the fourth time Li Zicheng attacked Nanyang. He did not break through the previous three attacks on Nanyang, but instead suffered losses.

Because of the severe drought in Henan, Li Zicheng gave Li Zicheng an excellent development opportunity, and his army already has more than 200,000 people.

Previously, he had broken through more than ten county towns and dozens of powerful cities and villages in succession, but did not bring strong shock to the court. In order to make things bigger, Li Zicheng targeted the Tang Palace in Nanyang. He wanted to conquer Nanyang, kill the Tang King, create momentum, and let more refugees surrender to him.

Under the city of Nanyang, Li Zicheng's 30,000 elite army was behind, and in front were ten thousand hungry people who acted as cannon fodder. These hungry people were all ragged and pale and thin, but in order to make a bite of food, they volunteered to act as cannon fodder for Li Zicheng.

"Kill!" The hungry people expressed their passionate expressions, holding various weapons, many of them just took a stick. After a war drum, they immediately shouted wildly, carrying simple and rough siege weapons such as simple trench bridges and simple cloud ladders, and rushed towards Nanyang City with desperate shouts.

The hungry people in front were holding simple shields made of wooden boards, some pushed simple siege and crash cars temporarily built, and some pushed simple siege siege machines built temporarily, approaching the city wall step by step.

The catapult stopped. Under the command of the soldiers of the rebels, the hungry women, children, and elderly, pulled the ropes, fired baskets of stones, then filled the stones into the basket, and then pulled the ropes again. The only thing these women, children, and elderly, and elderly, had to do was to fire the stones.

The strong man was placed in front, holding a variety of wooden sticks, hoes, iron forks, shovels, etc., and was not even considered weapons. Under the protection of the big shield hand in front, he launched a charge towards the city wall.

"Kill!" The hungry people were excited and rushed to the city wall.

There is almost no tactic required, and no one deliberately cut off wooden stakes and deer forts outside the city, nor do one go to land the moat. As long as you carry a simple trench bridge, build the trench bridge on the moat, then rush over, and then put a ladder on the top of the city, you can start ants attacking the city.

Li Zicheng didn't care how many refugees would die in the tragic siege. Anyway, they were cannon fodder, and they were the cheapest ones.

The hungry people rushed to the moat, and arrows were like rain on the city, and rows of arrows pierced down. The rain-like arrows fell from the heads of the refugees and pierced into the crowd. The hungry people who had no armor protection could be said to have shot through their bodies in one arrow, and a large number of refugees screamed and fell down.

The bodies quickly piled up under the moat, and the injured were trampled and screamed in terrible ways. However, the refugees in front fell down, and the refugees behind rushed forward regardless of their own wharf. They rushed to the moat, and they put the simple trench bridge on the moat, and shouted and rushed across the moat.

The arrows on the top of the city were as tiny as a rainstorm. Some hungry people were shot into hedgehogs the moment they put down the trench bridge, and they flipped into the moat one after another; some people were just put down the trench bridge, and they were beaten into hornets' nests as soon as they put down the trench bridge. Finally, all the simple trench bridges were put down, and groups of refugees shouted and rushed over the trench bridge.

The catapults of the hungry people also caused certain casualties to the defenders on the city. Cracks of stones flew up the city wall and smashed on the city. The soldiers and citizens who were guarding the city screamed and fell on the city. The undead soldiers pulled their bows and arrows, loaded ammunition, and continued to shoot under the city.

"Smash!" someone shouted at the top of the city. Rows of civilians poked their heads out of the city wall. Hail-like lime bottles fell down. The lime bottles poured into hot water often exploded in the air. Boiled lime, mixed with quicklime powder, flew and fluttered in the air. Only a scream was heard under the city. The hungry people hit by the debris flowed continuously, and the hungry people who were sprayed with quicklime powder into their eyes were crying and rolling on the ground.

But more hungry people rushed to the foot of the city wall, set up simple ladders, and began to separate and climb up to the top of the city.

At the top of the city, the wolf teeth were slapped, and the yakshas kept falling, smashing the ladders to break. The hungry people who were sieging the city rolled down from the ladder like dumplings.

Because the crowd was too dense, every wolf tooth patter and yaksha slap could knock down at least ten people.

The hot golden juice poured down his head and the air immediately filled with a disgusting stench. A large number of hungry people who were scalded and rolled on the ground. Some of them were scalded, revealing their white bones. Most of the hungry people who were scalded by the golden juice would not be able to survive.
Chapter completed!