The Ming soldiers suddenly found that the enemy's firepower was much looser at once, and the difficulty of rushing to the city wall was greatly reduced.

The arrows, birds, and artillery of the rogues suddenly became dumb, and many of the ladders were unguarded, and the officers and soldiers climbed the ladders as easily as they climbed the beams of their own houses. What they didn't expect was that after they climbed the city wall, they found that these rogues either ran faster than rabbits, or "died" at the slightest touch, and at most there were two or three out of ten who dared to resist desperately.

Only then did they know that the North Gate Gang was still collapsing!

Under the encirclement and suppression of the martial arts alliance and the top ten masters, the Demon Sect Five Elements Banner soon only had more than a hundred left. In the case of not being able to display the formation, to put it bluntly, they are just a group of third-class masters in the Xuantong Realm, and Qin Shuhuai and other masters aside, there are many third-class players in the Xuantong Realm in the martial arts alliance, and they don't take advantage of anything!

The Five Elements Banner of the Demon Sect watched these rogue soldiers who couldn't support the wall scatter and flee, and they couldn't help but sigh: It's really a shame that my dignified Sun Moon Divine Sect is in the company of these rabble!

But it has come to this, and now that they are under siege, they can't run even if they want to, and anyway, so many brothers have gone, so let's fight to the death, and go with them.

I, a disciple of the Sun and the Moon, have death and no surrender!

When the Five Elements Banner erupted with the last energy to fight to the death, a large number of rogue soldiers withdrew from the city and down the wall steps. The Overseers at the bottom of the city were able to kill a few to block them at first, but the rogue soldiers on the city walls rushed down like flowing water, scattering the Overseers. Why? Because the Warlords are scared too!

As a result, there was soon a spectacle of the warlords and deserters running together.

At midnight on 20 June, on the sixth day after the defeat in Weinan, the official army attacked Gao Yingxiang's old nest Shangluocheng from the west, north, and east.

At this time, Li Zicheng, Liu Guoneng and a group of rogues in Weinan City had just finished gathering and were preparing to rush to reinforce Weinan.

Gao Yingxiang in Shangluo City never dreamed that the official army would be able to attack Shangluo City overnight. In a panic, he immediately arranged for a large army to engage in street battles to block the surging officers and troops.

However, at this time, the morale of the rogues in the city had collapsed, and they were not opponents of the official army in the first place, so where could they still have the courage to fight to the death against the officials and soldiers? Throwing away the rogues who died at the head of the city, there were still nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses left in the city at this time, but only the more than 8,000 descendants under Zhang Miao's men were really fighting to the death.

But Zhang Miaoshou and these people, most of them are concentrated in the east of the city, and after He Renlongbu captured the city wall in the east of the city, it didn't take long to open the city gate, so that Zhang Miaoshou's more than 8,000 people had no time to deploy defenses, and they could only fight hard with the officials and soldiers, and it was conceivable that they took over. In less than two quarters of an hour, the wolf-like soldiers under He Renlong had already surrounded Zhang Miaoshou's troops and launched an encirclement and suppression with a devastating momentum. It didn't take long for Zhang Miaoshou to find that the general trend had gone, so he had to organize a team to break through.

The other rogue troops were even more indifferent, and often surrendered to the officers and soldiers without a few resistances!

Gao Yingxiang, who was somewhere in the city, knew that the general trend had gone, and hurriedly went out of the city from a secret passage, because the situation was urgent, he only brought out more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, but unfortunately, the officers and soldiers learned the lesson of Ankang City, and there were horse sentry posts all over the city.

Ma Sentry quickly ran to report to Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou didn't say a word, and immediately sent two thousand cavalry to chase after him. Fools know that Gao Yingxiang only has one city to go to after Shangluo, so it would be good for the cavalry to chase south directly.

Gao Yingxiang's department came out of the narrow secret passage, naturally there were no horses, because it didn't take long for the cavalry to catch up!

1,000 infantry meets 2,000 cavalry, and the result can be imagined. The officers and horsemen scattered Gao Yingxiang's troops with a single charge, and these people immediately scattered and ran towards the nearby hills.

Fortunately, it was not yet dawn, and the night facilitated their escape. Gao Yingxiang, under the protection of more than 200 loyal guards, also fled into a Zhongshan in a hurry.

The commander of the horsemen was Zhang Xiao, how could he let go of this good opportunity to make great contributions and avenge the brothers, and immediately ordered all the horsemen to dismount and go into the mountains to search, and at the same time sent people back to the city to report the news, asking Hong Chengchou to send more soldiers and horses to search the mountains!

Gao Yingxiang, under the protection of his guards, dragged his slightly fat body and ran lifelessly on the mountain. The officers and soldiers were also very experienced, although they couldn't see who he was when he entered the forest, but on the basis of the fact that he had the most guards around him, they decided that he was Gao Yingxiang, so they concentrated the main forces and chased him.

Catching the thief Gao Yingxiang is a great achievement, it can be said that whoever catches him will not have to worry about food and clothing in this life, so the officers and soldiers are desperate like wild dogs off the leash.

Gao Yingxiang's body was slightly fat, so he naturally couldn't run fast, so his guards had to run on his back.

But even so, the officers and soldiers still caught up. In order to delay the officers and soldiers, some of the guards stayed behind to block the officers and soldiers with the determination to die.

Relying on the desperate protection of the personal guards, coupled with the fact that Gao Yingxiang's troops have been entrenched here for a long time, and the terrain of this place is more familiar than that of the official army, Gao Yingxiang finally got rid of the pursuit of the official army. However, at this time, there were only forty or fifty people left around him!

The situation in Shangluo City quickly calmed down. Of the original more than 40,000 rogue defenders, more than 16,000 were killed in battle, more than 5,000 were missing or fled, and the remaining 23,000 or so all surrendered and became prisoners.

It was the first time that the officers and soldiers had captured so many surrendered soldiers, and they didn't know how to place them for a while. Later, Hong Chengchou ordered that these soldiers should first disarm, then tie their hands with ropes, and then gather under the city of Xicheng, surrounded by 10,000 officers and soldiers, and wait for their fall.

At this time, the fire in the castle was getting bigger and bigger, and since most of the castle was made of wooden buildings, it quickly spread to the houses, and fighting the fire became more urgent than looking for the fish that had slipped through the net. So Qin Shuhuai immediately ordered to allocate 20,000 soldiers to extinguish the fire. However, at this time, the method of extinguishing the fire with water was no longer feasible, so the method of demolishing the buildings on the edge of the burned zone and creating a separation zone had to be adopted.

For a time, more than 20,000 soldiers broke into the homes of the residents like wolves, and first took all the people inside out regardless of 3721. Then he began to pick up the house, and if he couldn't pull it out, he blew it up with explosives. The people in the city didn't understand the reason, and scolded the officials and soldiers for the heavens and the earth, but fortunately, Qin Shuhuai strictly ordered the officials and soldiers not to beat the people, otherwise these people would have to be beaten by the officials and soldiers.

After the "forced demolition", the fire was finally brought under control. In order to reassure the people, Qin Shuhuai quickly sent people to go door-to-door to count the losses, but all the households affected by the disaster were compensated according to 1.5 times the market price. After a rough calculation, how could this compensation cost three or four hundred thousand taels, which made him feel distressed again.

However, soon he was no longer distressed. Because Meng Wei came to report that he had discovered a huge secret room in Gao Yingxiang's mansion, which was full of silver, gold, and all kinds of jewels, which were worth at least one million taels when roughly calculated! In the silver vault of the city, about 300,000 taels of military salaries were also found. It turned out that Gao Yingxiang was in a hurry, and he didn't have time to move these heavy treasures, so he left them all to Qin Shuhuai.