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Chapter 437
Behind a dense forest less than ten miles northeast of Mi County, Henan, generals Zhang Guangda, Lin Fangping, Wang Tieren, Su Huhu, Mo Zhigen, and Ma Sanzhuang were gathering beside Zhang Cheng, listening to his military orders.

Holding a broken wooden branch in his hand, Zhang Cheng was drawing on the ground in front of him. He pointed to a circle and said to everyone: "This is the current position of our army. From here, we will go to Mixian County." There are three roads, and the detour to the north is too far to be considered.

Wang Tieren, lead five hundred Qingqi riders to the south, cross the east gate of Mi County, go straight to the south gate, and raid the bandits there. They are all thieves here. You don't need to fight with them. That's it.

I led Zhang Chengfang and Zhang Jintai's Boys' Battalion, Lin Fangping's Pro-Army Bureau B, and Ma Sanzhuang's Ranger Outpost, and took the middle road to the north gate of Mi County, and went straight to the bandit camp.

Guangda, you lead the heavy cavalry to accompany you. At the north gate, the men and horses put on armor and went straight to Ximen Li Jiyu's camp. Su Huhu and Mo Zhigen each led the meng cavalry to support the heavy cavalry's assault on the left and right.

Remember, the enemy must be defeated in one battle, let alone Li Jiyu, Yu Dazhong, Shen Jingbang and other thieves escape.

This is our first battle to suppress the bandits in Henan, and we must win this battle. This battle must show the prestige of our army, and we must not make the bandits in Henan look down on us! "

"Here!"

"Please rest assured, Commander, the first battle will be won, and I will never let the thieves underestimate my army on the North Road."

Everyone accepted the promise in unison.

Only one person stood up with a dazed face, and said, "Brother... Marshal, how should we arrange it?"

Zhang Cheng looked up and couldn't help laughing, he said: "You lead the cavalry battalion to guard the luggage and follow the commander's army, and also run to the north gate of Mi County. Remember, taking care of the luggage is your primary responsibility. Greed for merit and war."

Hu Dayou sang to accept the order, but his expression was slightly unwilling.

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In the north of Mi County, thousands of thieves are spreading rumors in the west of Henan. Under the organization of some small thieves, they formed a team and prepared to attack near the north gate. It has been the fourth day since they arrived at the city of Mi County.

Yu Dazhong led nearly a thousand old bandits and forced five or six thousand young and hungry people to attack the north gate of Mi County. There were only about two hundred horse bandits in Neili.

In fact, although this group of thieves is a rising star, most of them are joined by old bandits from the surrounding mountains and forests. Thousands of people even attacked and occupied Dengfeng County.

This group of bandits was formed by the gathering of small groups of bandits from various places, and the internal affairs and powers have not yet been fully unified. It was only because Li Jiyu was bullied by officials because of the people's request for food tax exemption, that he went to Jianshan to start a fight in a rage. A large banner, surrounded by bandit villages and hungry followers.

Although Li Jiyu is respected implicitly, Yu Dazhong, Shen Jingbang and others are also quite prestigious, especially Yu Dazhong is the leader of a village, and he is the strongest among the bandits who defected to Li Jiyu.

But he was greedy and cruel, and Li Jiyu had read books when he was young, he knew etiquette and righteousness, and he treated his subordinates kindly. Make meritorious deeds and show off your prestige, so the siege of the city is strongly urged!
He has been attacking the city for three consecutive days. Although there are hundreds of casualties, human life is the most worthless at this time. Once he takes the lead in breaking through the northern city of Mi County, not only his prestige will be greatly increased, but also money, food, and hungry people will be obtained.

Therefore, at Chenshi today, Yu Dazhong hurriedly urged the hungry people to attack the city, and also arranged for some hungry people to continue digging the roots of the city wall. He personally led a group of old bandits to supervise the battle.

However, Mi County is already dilapidated and lacks defenders. This is due to the rampant banditry, and a large number of hungry people hid in the city, so that many strong villagers can be organized to hold on until now.

However, the city was defended for three consecutive days, and the bandits attacked more and more day by day. Many gentry in the city encouraged Peng Yushu, the county magistrate, to escape from the east gate and go south to Xinzheng, all of which were blocked by Peng Yushu.

But throughout the morning today, Mi County was constantly being attacked by thieves from three sides. The defenders in Mi County were exhausted, and there were not enough defensive items such as rolling logs, rocks, gunpowder, etc. The city was difficult to defend.

The gentry in the city rushed into the county office together, and the leader of the family took Peng Yushu, the county magistrate, and ran out of the east gate. At that time, many horses and horses fled Mi County from the east gate, and the hungry people in the city followed behind with their old and young. The scene was once chaotic.

Even the county magistrates abandoned the city, and there was no one in charge of the city defense in Mi County. The soldiers, Min Zhuang, and Xiang Yong who guarded the city immediately collapsed.

Yu Dazhong's troops were the most urgently pressed. His bandits and hungry people climbed to the top of the city the moment the city defenses collapsed, rushing to defeat the defenseless guards.

Yu Dazhong saw that the north gate of Mi County was wide open, and he was yelling: "Kill, kill, go in, grab money, food, and wives!"

He faintly heard the "rumbling" hoofbeats coming from the northeast direction, and the exclamation of his subordinates sounded in his ears: "Official army, it is the official army..."

He also hurriedly looked back, and saw a large cloud of smoke rising more than three hundred paces to the northeast, dozens of riders were rushing forward, and he didn't know how many were behind, but looking at the smoke and dust, it was estimated that there were only two to three hundred riders.

Although Yu Dazhong had a look of panic on his face when he suddenly saw the cavalry of the officers and soldiers approaching, he calmed down immediately and shouted: "There are not many officers and soldiers, let me kill all the officers and soldiers with you. Let's go into town again."

The sound of shouting and yelling spread everywhere, and more than two hundred horse thieves who were scattered around to supervise the battle and attack the city immediately gathered around him. Guns come.

More than [-] of them spread out into a horizontal formation, three rows in front and back, each row of nearly [-] riders, and five or six hundred foot thieves in front of the horse thieves, each of them holding a knife and spear, formed a loose battle formation.

More than a dozen horse thieves were riding horses to force the hungry people to come here. There were more than 1000 people gathered on each side of the horse thieves, and they were moving forward under the urging of the little boss.

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Zhang Cheng rode his horse to the front, and he took out a Yunzhou pistol in each hand, and shouted: "Boys, follow me, break through the step thief, and hit the opposite horse thief directly."

"Tiger Tiger Tiger!"

Everyone roared in unison and rushed towards the horse thief on the opposite side. Zhang Chengfang and Zhang Jintai, two newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers, plus they were worried about the safety of their adoptive father Zhang Cheng, accelerated ahead of time by a horse faster than Zhang Cheng. head.

On the other side, Lin Fangping was also rushing forward. He jumped over Zhang Cheng's horse's head and shouted loudly: "Hand in hand, break through the bandits!"

A distance of [-] paces, riding a horse and galloping, arrived in an instant, Yu Dazhong also yelled: "Kill the officers and soldiers!"

In the formation of horse thieves beside him, a few people immediately rushed forward shouting at the horse thieves, but these horse thieves were no better than the army after all, they formed a loose formation and had no rules. .

Yu Dazhong was also extremely fierce. Seeing that there were less than [-] cavalry in front of him, he dared to charge straight at his cavalry formation, and shouted: "Come on, there are only two hundred officers and soldiers, kill them all!"

(End of this chapter)