And the Ming army is here, which is another reason. The polarization in the Ming army was very serious. For example, the army of the Nine Sides is a team that often fights with the Mongols, and it is quite elite and very capable of fighting. Therefore, in the early days of the battle with the rebels, a few thousand reinforcements transferred from the nine sides could catch tens of thousands of rebels!

However, the combat effectiveness of the other Ming soldiers was extremely low. Especially the soldiers of the Ming army who defend the city like this, their combat effectiveness is very low. To put it a little bigger, that is, it is better than the level of the thugs who play the line. So neither side is willing to attack first.

But the minds of officers are different. He had now judged that the people on the other side wanted to occupy the gates and break through the city. If you let the other party succeed, you will definitely have to fall to the ground.

So he struck the soldiers on the back with his sword and forced them forward. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Kill them quickly!" These people are outlaws! If the city is broken by the rogues, we will all die! ”

The Ming soldiers also seemed to understand their situation, and tentatively approached forward. When a Ming soldier was stabbed in the left shoulder with a spear, a battle really began!

The Ming side was trained in gun formations and understood how to cover and attack each other. But the long period of not training has caused their physical strength and tactics to drop dramatically. And the people on the side of the rebels have not learned the gun formation, and only rely on instinct to stab indiscriminately. But they have good physical strength and dare to fight and kill! Therefore, the gun formations on both sides can be said to be half a catty. However, the rebels gained the upper hand by relying on the will to dare to fight!

Spears poke at each other and strike at each other. Screams one after another! In the blink of an eye, seven or eight people were lying down in the gun arrays on both sides, and three or four people were injured and lying on the ground screaming! The guns on the rebel army's side really collapsed completely, but there are still many people on the Ming army's side who use spears! They're closing in!

Niu Bajin saw that the situation was not good, and rushed over with a loud roar! Niu Bajin grabbed a soldier who was wounded in the chest, and staggered back in front of him and rushed into the gun array!

Niu Bajin misses his shield very much at this moment! But the shield was too large to be smuggled into the city. All that can be brought in is a simple weapon like a sword.

Niu Bajin carried the wounded and rushed forward. Before he could take two steps, the wounded man was stabbed by three spears, screaming and completely motionless! Niu Bajin took advantage of the situation to push the corpse that was taken out, and the corpse that was carried out fell down, and the three spears on the corpse were pressed down together!

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Then Niu Bajin stepped on the corpse and jumped, and jumped into the gun array of the Ming army! Niu Bajin slashed left and right with a war knife in his hand, and cut down two pikemen in an instant!

Once the pikemen are out of distance, they are not capable of fighting! So the other pikemen had to back away and try to pull away. But Niu Mangu had already led people to rush in through the gap in the gun array! When they wheeled their swords and slashed and slashed, those Changming army gunners couldn't stand it, and directly threw away their spears and fled! Even the officer was pulled by the soldier and escaped in the crowd!

The panting crowd quickly retracted back to the city gate under the beckoning of Niu Bajin Niu, preparing to save their victory. As a result, as soon as he arrived at the city gate, he shouted: "Get out quickly!" Get out! The horse team has arrived! ”

Everyone was afraid of being trampled to death by the war horses, so they hurriedly ran out of the city gate hole and stood on both sides of the city gate hole. Then a large rumbling horse's hooves were heard, and a moment later, a large group of cavalry swarmed in! It was Li Zicheng who started the way! The crowd immediately cheered loudly!

Li Zicheng saw Niu Bajin's father and son also waved the war knife in his hand, and shouted: "Good job!" ”

Then he disappeared into the darkness of the night ahead. A moment later, the infantry of the brigade also arrived. They shouted into the city and attacked according to their plans.

Since the old battalion horse team entered the city, it was bumping into the Ming soldiers who were supporting from all over the city. The cavalry rushed into the crowd and slashed at them. The soldiers of the Ming army, whose morale was not high, saw that the Liukou had entered the city, and they were powerless to stop it, so they simply dispersed in a hurry! So let Li Zicheng easily control the four city gates.

Then the matter was simple, after the army entered the city, all those who dared to resist were killed, and the trembling county order was found in the county office, and they were directly hacked to death by Liu Zongmin! Then start the whole city! Crying and screaming in the county town! You must know that Li Zicheng's subordinates are not regular soldiers.

Adultery and plunder are indispensable!

Knowing that the sky was bright, the chaos in the county town completely subsided. Subsequently, Li Zicheng, who lacked supplies, searched everything in the county. Then "mobilize" the young men of the city to follow them away.

The people in the county town just can't help but follow him. In this cold winter month, you can't live for a few days without food. And all the grain was taken away by Li Zicheng. The people had to follow the rebels on their journey.

In the morning, Li Zicheng also met with Niu Bajin father and son, and last time they had 200 silver, ten horses of silk and a woman each. These two women were concubines and young ladies of a large family in the city. Their entire family was killed, except for the women.

Niu Bajin is very indifferent, but Niu Mangu is very happy! For Niu Mangu, he had never met such a young lady from a big family before. But today it was sent to him, which made him even more grateful to Li Zicheng.

Two days later, the group of rebels who had grown in a circle marched directly to the Lu clan along the official road. When they arrived, they found that the current city of the Lu clan was already on alert. After all, the county seat of Mianchi is so big, and there are still people who can escape. The surrounding counties already knew that the rebels were nearby, and they were all ready to fight.

However, these county towns have been peaceful for hundreds of years, and the county's military equipment is backward. Li Zicheng drove the old and weak forward again to consume the equipment and will of the defending army, and then climbed the city with his strength, and easily broke through the county seat.

Then repeat the same set in Michi, kill the local gentry, and seize money, food and materials. As for the number of people who died on the battlefield, the number of people who died on the battlefield was much larger.

Then Li Zicheng used the same method to conquer Yinyang County, and finally succeeded in meeting with Gao Yingxiang!

Since the convergence of several rebel armies, the rebel army has grown in momentum! It was so frightened that the Ming army did not dare to attack rashly, and only dared to look for fighters on the periphery, and did not dare to approach.

It's no wonder, although everyone knows that the hundreds of thousands of rebels are a rabble, but once they are wrapped up in these hundreds of thousands, they will never be able to escape! Therefore, the Ming army could only slowly assemble around the periphery and wait for the opportunity to fight.