Li Zicheng had been thinking about attacking Yingcheng for a long time, but he knew that Yingcheng was not that easy to fight. He retreated from Henan to Huguang and finally occupied De'an Mansion. He had less than 20,000 subordinates around him, and only 10,000 people could fight.

It is difficult to conquer these ten thousand people to attack Yingcheng, and Li Zicheng cannot afford to consume it. He has no extra military rations in his hands.

On weekdays, they rely on their brothers to rob the surrounding De'an Mansion to make a living. Yingcheng is a large granary. If Yingcheng is captured, it will make its team grow rapidly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity of refugees, the opportunity Li Zicheng was waiting for finally came. Outside De'an City, a large number of refugees gathered. Hundreds of thousands of refugees could use them for their own use.

Li Zicheng explained that he took action and attacked Yingcheng. The refugees outside the city began to get ready.

It was said that there would be steamed buns to eat when I arrived in De'an Mansion. After that, the hungry people realized that it was just a scam. Famines were everywhere, so how could there be food?

The King of Chuang just wanted to summon hungry people and start a joint cause. The hungry people also knew that they had no way out. They either starved to death or attack Yingcheng.

The next day, the gate of De'an Prefecture finally opened, and Li Zicheng led the way and rushed out with his subordinates. Compared with the half-dead and dying hungry people, Li Zicheng's team was considered to be highly morale.

Li Zicheng, who left the city, came out with his subordinates. He brought two things, two kilograms of millet, and a weapon to the hungry people outside the city.

This is Li Zicheng's entire family, and he took out all the food in De'an City. If he could not conquer Yingcheng this time, his team would starve together like the hungry people.

He was the true nature of a bandit. Li Zicheng didn’t think so much, and wanted to strengthen his team, so he could only do this.

Li Zicheng rode a tall horse, and looked outstanding among the hungry crowd. On his horse's back were bags of millet.

In each cloth bag, there are two kilograms of millet. This is food, life-saving food. When hungry people see the food, they immediately become uneasy.

Li Zicheng held up half a bag of millet in his hand: "Follow me to Yingcheng and give me two kilograms of millet. If you want to go, come and queue up to get millet and weapons!"

The fool didn't go, and everyone who could move flocked to him. After getting Xiaomi, he could save his family. All the young and old people who came here were breathless.

As a result, the hungry people signed up wildly, and the registration procedures were extremely simple, without any procedures, and they didn't even need a name.

As long as you line up and wait for Li Zicheng's subordinates to send each person a weapon and two kilograms of millet. Then, you will be carried into Li Zicheng's bandit army and become one of the bandits.

There is no organization or military order. However, every fifty or one hundred people are led by one of Li Zicheng. Now, in Li Zicheng's hands, there is a real group of mobs.

Attack Yingcheng, this group of mobs is enough. It is not too late to engrave these hungry people into their own army when they take Yingcheng. It is not necessary now, and it is actually too late.

How terrifying is Li Zicheng? His entire army can reach one million when it is at its peak. Since Li Zicheng's army does not impose taxes, this is the source of the slogan "eat and wear fuck, open the city gate to welcome the King of Chuang, and the King of Chuang will not pay food when he comes."

However, the consequence of not collecting taxes is that Li Zicheng has established complete logistics support. When the troops under his command grow rapidly, the supplies of these troops have become a big problem. He can only support himself by looting Ming Dynasty officials and landlords and tyrants' property. Therefore, Li Zicheng is destined to be unable to obtain the support of Ming Dynasty officials and landlords and tyrants.

Li Zicheng's short-sightedness is doomed to fail. You should know that most of his wealth is concentrated in the hands of landlords and gentry officials. Although the non-taxation has received certain support from ordinary people, the counterattacks of those landlords and gentry were also extremely strong.

Li Zicheng was a bandit in his bones, and he was used to robbery. It was just that current affairs created heroes, and he was forced to become the commander of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty. However, the limitations of his vision made this person only worthy of being a bandit that harmed the country and the people.

Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang were also from the grassroots, but they knew how to know people to use them well. They knew how to judge the situation and know that if they could rule the world, they would be able to dominate the world. Li Zicheng didn't understand, he only knew how to grab, grab, grab...

Yingcheng has a splendid and long-standing history and culture. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yingcheng belonged to Zhen, Yun State, and Chu State during the Warring States Period.

Thousands of years ago, there was still a swamp in the southeast of Yingcheng, connected to the ancient Yunmengze; the northwest was a hilly and high hill. The terrain was open, suitable for reclamation of fields and also for garrisoning troops to fight.

Later, the county was established in Yingcheng, and the city wall was built during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. The county was located just south of the ancient Pusau land. It was fabricated by literati, and the vassals were affiliated by the streets and alleys, so it was named Puyang.

The walls of Yingcheng were solid. At the same time, due to natural disasters, many large landlords and wealthy landlords who fled were hiding in Yingcheng. For a time, large residents of Yingcheng gathered, and the arrival of these landlords and tyrants also brought a lot of food.

Li Zicheng's first stop was to eat Yingcheng and replenish supplies.

In fact, as early as the sixth day of the 12th month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to the vicinity of Yingcheng, Hubei. At that time, the officials and the army of Yingcheng were so scared that they surrendered. The Ming Dynasty court at that time was extremely corrupt, and Zhang Xianzhong was strong at this time, so many of them chose to surrender.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen was too harsh and forced to officials, and once the officials failed, they would take responsibility, and then they were killed by Emperor Chongzhen without hesitation.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious and mean, and ruthless, which was also a large part of the reason.

With the help of some Yingcheng forces, Zhang Xianzhong led his subordinates to march from east to west quickly and bypassed the encirclement of the Ming army's pursuit and blocking. As a result, before the two sides had even fought, they broke through the siege of the official army.

"History of Ming Dynasty" records that Zhang Xianzhong and his warriors climbed the city wall with a ladder. The guards of the city were panicked when they saw someone suddenly climbing the city wall and rushed to the northeastern west gate. Zhang Xianzhong had already gone from southwest to northeastern, waiting for his work, killing nearly 10,000 officials, and the county magistrate who was guarding was also killed in battle.

Zhang Xianzhong stayed in the city for a total of eight days, resulting in countless casualties and injuries in the city, and his property was plundered until the 18th day.

After finally taking a breath in Yingcheng, landlords and merchants from all over the surrounding areas gathered in Yingcheng to take refuge. But now, they have encountered Li Zicheng's army again.

Li Zicheng led 20,000 subordinates to the nest, and then rushed to Yingcheng like a tide of zombies.

Those hungry people who got two kilograms of millet and weapons became bandits with certain combat effectiveness in a blink of an eye. If you want to survive, everyone wants to survive, and they have no choice.
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