The hungry people are not afraid, and they don’t even have the strength to run. In fact, Li Zicheng didn’t expect these hungry people to help much. He just created the illusion of a large number of people for the enemy, which was enough.

The weapons of the hungry people were mostly spears. It seemed that the formation was quite large, and it was a huge black area. Therefore, when Li Zicheng's army arrived at Yingcheng City, the officers and soldiers of Yingcheng immediately panicked.

At this time, there were only one or two thousand officers and soldiers in Yingcheng. In addition, the servants spontaneously organized by the landlords and merchants who came to take refuge. In total, there were only four or five thousand people.

Outside the city, there was a huge black area, all over the mountains and fields, with hundreds of thousands of people. How could such a team not make people frighten?

The county magistrate of Yingcheng was named Xiang Mao, who was a juren from the fifth year of Tianqi. A scholar who had no power to tie a chicken and had seen such a formation there. Since the former county magistrate was killed by Zhang Xianzhong, this person took office in Yingcheng.

At the same time, Li Wencong, the garrison transferred to Yingcheng, was also a fool. The two guys felt that they were a pair of brothers and brothers. They had originally expected Zhang Xianzhong to be defeated and left Sichuan, and they could make a big fuss after taking office.

As a result, Li Zicheng was chased by officers and soldiers in Henan and retreated to Huguang. After Li Zicheng arrived in Huguang, he occupied De'an Prefecture, which made Xiang Mao and Li Wencong frightened, fearing that one day Li Zicheng would return to Yingcheng.

Whatever they were afraid of came, but now Li Zicheng was really here. The two of them climbed up the city wall together, and after watching the dense bandits outside the city, they supported each other and collapsed on the ground.

"Then, where are so many bandits coming from?" The magistrate Xiang Mao asked stutteringly.

"No, I don't know, Lord Xiang, what should we do?" The guard Li Wencong's face was ashamed and he was trembling.

Xiang Mao came without any trouble: "You are the garrison of Yingcheng, why do you come to ask me?"

Li Wencong was not willing to be outdone: "You are Yingcheng's parents' official, so you should set an example."

It’s time to show your sister’s rate. At this moment, the two are still shirking each other and turning the blame on each other. This is not the time for the two to join forces and make money together.

Xiang Mao was a scholar after all, and he didn't want to argue with Li Wencong anymore. So he asked tentatively: "Or why don't we open the city and surrender."

Li Wencong said "Yes": "Good idea, let's surrender in the city. I think this thief will not make things difficult for you and me."

If you can't defeat it, surrender. Although you will become the traitor in the court in the future, at least you can save your life. Otherwise, when the thieves break through the city gate, no one of them will want to survive.

Having said that, Xiang Mao actually didn't want to surrender after all. As a magistrate, he knew what surrender meant. Once he surrendered to the bandits, he would have no way to turn around. Moreover, after they surrender, they would never be valued by Li Zicheng and would only become prisoners.

Xiang Mao was asking tentatively, and he hoped to get Li Wencong's opposition. As long as Li Wencong made up his mind to stick to the city, Xiang Mao was thinking of fighting to the death.

Unexpectedly, Li Wencong was a military general, more cowardly than himself. He had been thinking about surrendering for a long time. As soon as Xiang Mao spoke, he agreed immediately.

Xiang Mao sighed and knew that Yingcheng could not hold on anyway. Instead of waiting for the thieves to come in and kill all the people, it would be better to open the city and surrender and be a thief.

At this moment, under Li Zicheng, who was besieging the city, a general stood up. He came to Yingcheng City and shouted to the city wall: "Listen to Yingcheng, we said, "Heaven has good virtues. As long as you open the city gate and the king of robbery has an order, you will never hurt your lives. Listen to Yingcheng City, we said, "

The bandits under the city were promoting Li Zicheng's conditions. Xiang Mao and Li Wencong on the city wall looked at each other and said happily: "The King of Chuang said he would not kill us."

The two cowards who were afraid of death hit it off, and Li Wencong was impatient: "What are you waiting for? Let's open the city gate to welcome the King of Break."

The moment ago, the two of them were screaming at the thief. Now, they have become King of Rebellion.

In fact, Li Zicheng never thought that Yingcheng would surrender voluntarily. If these officers and soldiers refused to surrender, they would forcibly attack the city. Li Zicheng was sure that he had led so many people, and the Ming army officers and soldiers on the city wall were already in scattered state, and everyone was frightened.

The guards of thousands of people were still armed soldiers in the area with low combat effectiveness. When facing hundreds of thousands of bandit army, they were all so scared that they were urinated. This situation has long been common for Li Zicheng.

If Yingcheng is tough and cannot be attacked, then bypass Yingcheng and go to Yunmeng County. Anyway, he can always attack the next city.

Every time a city is captured, Li Zicheng's power will grow a little longer. When there are enough cities captured, his troops will be more. At that time, it will be easy to come back and deal with the few cities that he could not capture at the beginning.

To put it bluntly, these bandits are the cancers of the Ming Dynasty. If these cancers are not permanently eradicated, the Ming Dynasty will never have peace.

At this time, Xiang Mao and Li Wencong were impatient and wanted to seek credit in front of Li Zicheng. So, the two of them rushed to open the city gate and surrender.

At this time, several wealthy business landlords from Yingcheng joined forces to the city gate to block Xiang Mao and Li Wencong.

"Sir Xiang, General Li, you can't open the city gate, you can't open the city gate!" a rich businessman with a big belly shouted anxiously.

Another landlord Lao Cai followed up with a heartache: "Yes, you must not open the city gate to surrender. You have forgotten, how did the former county magistrate die?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Xiang Mao and Li Wencong couldn't help but shivered. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong was also at the city. The county magistrate at that time could not defeat him and finally opened the city to surrender.

As a result, even after surrendering, Zhang Xianzhong cut the county magistrate openly and cut out the county magistrate's heart and lungs and filled it with straw, and then hung the dead person at the gate of the city to expose the body.

Zhang Xianzhong's purpose is also very simple, to cruelly kill corrupt officials and unkind landlords and gentry to win the hearts of the people.

The reason why these wealthy businessmen, landlords and wealthy people prevented Xiang Mao and Li Wencong from surrendering was that they all knew that the bandits like Li Zicheng were specifically dealing with after entering the city.

Fighting the local tyrants, killing corrupt officials, and dividing land and food. This is the way for bandits to survive. Once the city is broken, the first one to be unlucky will be these people. Whether you surrender or be compromised, these people will eventually end up losing their families.
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