Hunger will make people feel particularly sensitive. The Ming soldiers in the city have at least some food to eat. Although they say they don’t eat well, they can at least eat full.

Eating full is such a luxury for this era of hunger. People who have never been hungry cannot experience that feeling. The Ming army officers and soldiers on the city walls were filled with unprecedented satisfaction.

The bandits under the city were extremely miserable. Someone clearly smelled the aroma of meat and vegetables floating on the city wall. The smellers swear: "Pork is the smell of a big pot of pork. There is also the aroma of beef and beef bone marrow."

"I also smelled it. It was mutton, and it had no mutton smell at all. The thick mutton soup was served with pancakes, chopped green onion, salt, and pepper."

The speaker kept swallowing, and the listener kept swallowing. Hunger made them hallucinate, but in fact, there were no cattle and sheep on the city wall.

The bandits under the city were tempted by a huge temptation, and some people smiled foolishly: "When we conquer Xinyang City, I will eat a beef. Beef braised with braised beef, braised with oxtail sauce, and beef tendons and scallions..."

It's time to distribute the food. There is no porridge, no vegetables, no meat, no one only a piece of egg-sized coarse grain cake. Moreover, the coarse grains are black, so you'd better not think about what they made of.

Just the egg-sized rations were mixed with Guanyin soil. Because of the lack of food, Li Zicheng could not afford to consume so many troops. The surrounding towns had long been robbed by them and were cleaner than locusts crossing the border.

The bandits were the cancer of the Ming Dynasty, and they all harmed the people of the same land.

Li Yan didn't sleep all night, and he finally realized the hard work of Hong Niang. The soldiers who had been tired all day long fell asleep except those who were patrolling.

Just live by the way, who knows what tomorrow will look like? Maybe I will be gone tomorrow, but when things come, I will be calm.

Any war is hell. If possible, Zhu Cilang hopes that there will never be war in this world.

It is false to say that you are not afraid of death. Cold arrows fly above your head, swords appear in your crotch, and fighting on the battlefield is impossible. But you must also be afraid of death. You must overcome your inner fear. Only in this way can you have hope of survival.

After experiencing the battle between mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the soldiers can truly grow. Even if they face death again, although they are still afraid, they have accepted it calmly. If I die tomorrow, it is fate.

What to do if you think too much, it is better to save your energy and fight again tomorrow. The soldiers on the city wall fell asleep, but everyone held the weapons in their hands tightly when they were sleeping. Once the enemy situation occurred, they would quickly react and enter the state of preparation at any time.

Such an army is an army that can be fought. Li Yan was very satisfied. At least during the day, the thieves siege battles made many soldiers who had never been on the battlefield truly understand what the battlefield was.

Li Yan continued patrolling the city wall, occasionally leaning down and covering a soldier with a sliding blanket. Most of the soldiers were curled up under the marble, and they used everything they could use, sacks, blankets, and even thatch to keep themselves warm.

More soldiers are huddling together to keep warm.

The bandits under the city still did not disperse. When the sky was getting dark, Li Zicheng launched another wave of offensives. However, this attack was much smaller, probably Li Zicheng's test. Because Li Zicheng also knew that it was difficult to capture Xinyang City.

Both sides were engaged in a war of attrition, the difference was that Li Yan was much smaller. However, Li Zicheng had more people, dozens of times the number of officers and soldiers, so Li Zicheng was not afraid of casualties.

Li Yan's side is not good, and every fallen soldier makes him feel extremely heartbroken. They are all heroes of Xinyang City and deserve it.

The battle was repeated and cruel. Countless corpses fell down one after another outside the city. The corpses were piled up, and even covered the walls outside the city.

Li Zicheng had no intention of treating the corpses, and he continued to order the bandits to attack the city. In a few days, these corpses would rot and smell, which would cause the disease to spread.

The bandits lacked large-scale siege weapons, which was Li Zicheng's shortcomings. He was eager to rush to Huguang to seize territory. The transportation of large-scale siege equipment was troublesome, so he could only snatch it from the officers and soldiers.

Even so, relying on the advantage of the dense number of people, with wave after wave of uninterrupted attacks, Li Yan could no longer withstand the number of bandits outside the city. There were so many that it had even piled up a mountain of corpses outside the city.

It’s really a sea of ​​corpses, with corpses piled up with corpses. You can’t imagine the terrible situation where the bandits stepped on their companions’ corpses to attack the city. They stepped on them with one foot, and even broke their stomachs.

The bandits began to collapse. When they retreated again, they knelt in front of Li Zicheng: "King of Chuang, stop fighting, brothers are all dead. If we can't conquer, retreat, let's get the troops."

After saying this, Li Zicheng had already penetrated his throat with one arrow. However, even with hundreds of thousands of bandits, their offensive was already weak.

There are countless corpses outside the city, and there are countless corpses under the four gates of the east, west, south, north and north.

This time, no matter how Li Zicheng forced the bandits to attack, it would be useless. Even if we kill us, we can't capture the city. King Chuang, give up.

The army of 300,000 to 400,000 bandits did not capture Xinyang City. In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on Li Zicheng, but the whole people launched by Li Yan to be soldiers.

The population of Xinyang City has been more than twice as large as before. With the influx of people and refugees in Luoshan County, the population of Xinyang City has surged. Li Yan is taking advantage of the fact that everyone is soldiers, and everyone who can move will go to the city wall to defend.

Even though Li Zicheng had a large number of people, he still could not shake Xinyang City. After two consecutive days of attack, on the third day, the bandits could not even climb the city wall.

The hatred of Hong Niangzi and Li Yan has made Li Zicheng a little crazy, and he still wants to continue attacking.

Until Liu Zongmin from Xicheng brought people over: "Let's retreat, let's leave the green mountains without fear of no firewood. At present, Xinyang City is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so let's come again next day."

Li Zicheng was shocked. Even Liu Zongmin said so. It seemed that Xinyang City could not be captured: "Zongmin, if we can't take Xinyang City, where should we go?"

Liu Zongmin bowed: "King Chuang, my subordinates have thought about it. We can go to Guangzhou. The defense there is weak, so we can definitely take it down easily. Don't wait for King Chuang, we have no food anymore."

In Guangzhou, Li Zicheng's heart moved, looking at his retreating subordinates. If he continued to fight, he knew that it would be futile, and he could only order his troops to retreat helplessly.

The thieves retreated like a flood. Xinyang City was sensational. The soldiers shouted and jumped excitedly, and Xinyang City was defended...
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