The effect was surprisingly good. As soon as the notice was released, the refugees in Xinyang City went crazy.

The streets and alleys are crowded with a large number of refugees. The government distributes porridge every day, and the refugees cannot hold a broken bowl. After eating the porridge, they stretch their legs in the corner of the wall and do nothing.

If you want to eat, you have to do it. There is no free lunch in the world, and the government has no obligation or ability to support you all the time.

Notices were posted everywhere in Xinyang Prefecture City, and those who were illiterate and illiterate were crowded together, whispering in front of the notice.

In the disaster year, people live worse than dogs, and everyone lives just by themselves. Many people are like walking corpses. The notices posted are immediately filled with people. Because everyone is looking forward to something different in the boring and helpless life.

The notice is very simple. Anyone who knows a few words will act as an adviser: the notice: The Hongniang recruits soldiers, each person will be rewarded with ten kilograms of millet, and military pay...

Ten kilograms of millet, this is ten kilograms! People who have not experienced famine do not understand what food means to them. Hong Niang ordered people to set up several conscription offices in the city, and they were immediately lined up.

How popular is the recruitment? In less than two days, the entire Xinyang Prefecture summoned more than 50,000 soldiers. The number of people was still increasing. In addition to the officers and soldiers in the city and the subordinates brought back by Hong Niangzi from Luoshan County, the entire Xinyang City had more than 70,000 troops.

Although most people have never fought and can't fight. It doesn't matter, Li Zicheng won't fight either. Except for the 30,000 elite soldiers under Li Zicheng, the rest of them are all refugees who are trapped in, and they are just as vulnerable.

The remaining refugees cannot be idle either. The porridge is being distributed, but this time, the porridge cannot be given in vain. Apart from the elderly, the weak, the sick, the pregnant and the disabled, do you want to drink porridge?

It doesn’t matter, drink it. If you want to drink porridge, you have to go to the city wall to protect it. Move stones, transport supplies, strengthen the city wall. If you want to drink porridge, you have to work. If you don’t work, you are hungry.

The entire Xinyang City instantly became a military zone, and it was no exaggeration to say that the whole people had soldiers. And Li Zicheng was preparing to attack Xinyang Prefecture in Luoshan County at this time.

He couldn't hold on anymore, and Li Zicheng could no longer hold on. He had no food in his hands, and blindly expanded his troops, the consequence was that he had run out of food. Although there were many people, he looked like a army of locusts everywhere he went. It seemed that he was really intimidating. It was easy to capture a small city. The tactics of the sea of ​​people alone were enough to make the opponent lose his life and surrender.

But the sequelae are also terrible. Once hundreds of thousands of troops have no food to support, they will fall apart in an instant. For example, his confidant Gao Yigong actually fought for food.

In the past few days, their troops were constantly dispersed. Many bandits found that there was no future with the King of Chuang, so they quietly took their subordinates in the middle of the night.

After all, there are a few who have slipped away, because even if the bandits who fight alone have nowhere to go even if they leave the large army, their fate is sometimes even worse.

So even if everyone is hungry, everyone will have a hard time. It is better for a group of people to starve than a few people to starve. So the bandits are like wolves with red eyes, following Li Zicheng to burn, kill and plunder.

Time could not be delayed, so Li Zicheng led his subordinates to continue northward. The army of 300,000 to 400,000 troops could not be taken away at once, so he could only disperse all over the place to Xinyang Prefecture and advance together.

They are really like a group of locusts, and they can be said to be a place where they pass by. Those outside Xinyang City who did not have time to escape were in trouble. Especially those wealthy families, they have become ghosts under the swords of bandits.

After several days, Li Zicheng's vanguard finally arrived at the periphery of Xinyang City. However, they did not rush to attack. Xinyang City was different from ordinary cities after all. The number of vanguards was the case. If the troops wanted to attack the city, they were looking for death, so they could only wait quietly.

The vanguard sent by Li Zicheng was led by Gao Yigong. This guy had sufficient food and supplies and was the richest in Li Zicheng's army.

It is said that he is rich, but in fact it is only three days of food. Because when Tian Jianxiu was attacking Hezhen, Gao Yigong robbed his spoils. Tian Jianxiu finally defeated the officers and soldiers stationed in Hezhen. When he turned around, he saw that Gao Yigong's people had already looted all the food in Hezhen.

It's no wonder that Tian Jianxiu was furious. I was fighting to the death on the front line. You picked up the spoils behind you, but you were still human.

This kind of thing is common among bandits, and whoever grabs it will belong to it. Big fish eats small fish and small fish eats shrimps, and the strong will prey on the weak. Some bandits even annex and kill each other just to strengthen their own team.

To put it bluntly, Li Zicheng was a butcher. He was far inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bang, because Li Zicheng had never thought of being an emperor. The times were just a hero. The Ming Dynasty was so bad that it made Li Zicheng.

If Li Zicheng occupied Beijing City in history and adopted Li Yan's suggestion to restrain the army and stabilize the government, his Dashun regime would likely create a new historical era.

But Li Zicheng did not do this. He only knew how to enjoy and kill. From this point of view, Li Zicheng deserved to die ten thousand times!

When Gao Yigong's advance troops arrived thirty miles outside Xinyang City to camp, he was stunned.

Hallucination?

What stands on the walls of Xinyang City is not the officers and soldiers, but the same uniforms as the bandits and the clothes of the people.

This gave Gao Yigong an illusion that Xinyang City was defeated by the peasant army. I just don’t know which army it was to be defeated. If he was an old acquaintance with King Chuang, he might still get a share of the pie.

But Gao Yigong soon discovered something was wrong. On the city wall were not only soldiers wearing ordinary people's clothes, but also soldiers of the Ming army. The officers and soldiers of the Ming army had uniform clothing, and the soldiers of the Ming army and soldiers of the peaceful people were mixed together. The entire Xinyang city wall was filled with people, and it seemed that the city was as solid as a god.

Like Li Zicheng, Li Yan learned his conscription model. Xinyang City recruited a large number of troops, but so many soldiers were expanded at once, so military supplies naturally could not keep up.

So, the refugees who participated in the Matchmaker's army still wore their own clothes. However, each of them issued a weapon, and the weapons were all kinds of. Many of them were weapons eliminated from the military camp. There were rusty spears, rolled blades, swords, guns, swords, and halberds.

But no matter what, everyone finally had a weapon. The refugees who picked up the weapons instantly felt that their lives were guaranteed, and their confidence also increased.

Gao Yigong outside the city was completely confused. What happened in Xinyang City? So he kept sending spies: "Hurry up, go to the city to see what happened!"

Xinyang City only enters and does not leave, and no one knows what happened in the city. The spy was walking around the outside of the city, and the walls on the four sides of Xinyang City were full of soldiers waiting to be on the ground.
Chapter completed!