Chapter 128 The Artillery Battalion arrives

After thinking for a while, Liu Yaoben opened his mouth and said to Xiao Tianjian, "The strength of the defenders in Ruzhou is about 3,000 people. In addition, the people who can be gathered in the city can organize 5,000 to 6,000 troops. According to the detailed exploration of these days, Ruzhou City has been strengthening the city defense for nearly half a year. At present, there are various kinds of people in the city. There are more than 60 cannons, and Zhao Tianci in Zhizhou is not a mediocre person. He has stockpiled all kinds of guard tools in the city early. According to their current preparation, if we don't have the help of the artillery battalion, I'm afraid it will be difficult to conquer Ruzhou City in a short time with the three-pound cannons of the battalions that we are not satisfied with!"

Xiao Tianjian looked at Liu Yaoben and nodded slightly and said, "That's right. It seems that you have prepared a lot of homework during this period! Get a thorough understanding of the situation in Ruzhou City! Ha ha! Very good! What else do you want to say?"

Liu Yao thought for a moment and then continued to say, "But in the humble position, if the artillery battalion of Camp Huang rushes here, as long as our cannon can suppress the officers and soldiers on the top of the city, it should collapse quickly with the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers. In addition, our fire as strong support, the siege time will be greatly compressed! If everything goes well, Ruzhou City can be broken by us in ten days!"

Ten days, after listening to this number, the generals nodded repeatedly and felt that what Liu Yao said was reasonable. Xiao Tianjian also nodded and said, "That's right. Within ten days, we must conquer Ruzhou!" Because we only have about ten days left. This time when we send troops, Xiong Wencan will definitely mobilized all the officers and soldiers to come to the rescue. If we can't open Ruzhou within ten days, we will be dragged here, so I can only give you seven days. I have to reserve two or three days as a buffer. The whole army!"

After listening to this, the generals immediately straightened their chests and shouted, "Yes! ......”

After Xing Tian's soldiers arrived in Ruzhou City, Situ Liang's cavalry battalion immediately surrounded Ruzhou City. With the high mobility of cavalry, it quickly swept several large villages within 20 miles around Ruzhou, and continuously cleaned up several places that were ordered by Zhao Tian to lead private armed forces to escape into Ruzhou City to help the war. Force, forcing the local gentry Wang people around Ruzhou City to give up the idea of entering Ruzhou City, either simply surrender to the Xing Tianjun, or fled to Luoyang City with soft dragging their families. A few people chose to close the gate of Zhuangbao, ready to die or show a posture of lying down and being beaten, so on. It cut off the possibility that Ruzhou City would continue to accept reinforcements.

And after completing this matter, Situ Liang then sent 500 cavalry to turn to the south and keep an eye on Baofeng County in the south of Ruzhou, threatened Baofeng County, entered Baofeng County to attack and harass, and restrain the defenders of Baofeng County to reinforce Ruzhou.

Two and a half days later, Huang Shengqiang led 800 soldiers of the first battalion of artillery under his command, dragged 30 six-pound guns and five eight-pound cannons newly cast by Gao Su in Shuangfengzhai this year to the outside of Ruzhou City.

Through more than a year, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng's activities in the northwestern part of the mountain have sent a lot of mules and horses to the base of the Xingtian Army in Jinnan, so that the number of mules and horses in the artillery battalion can meet the demand. Now the artillery battalion under Huang Shengqiang is not what it used to be. After Gao Su's continuous output of new cast artillery. It turned out that there was only one artillery battalion, which was divided into three after the New Year and expanded into three artillery battalions.

Huang Shengqiang is now a bird gun replacement. All of them are equipped with powerful six-pound cannons and eight-pound cannons. After this transfer, Huang Shengqiang personally led a battalion of artillery battalion to board the ship in the ancient town. It took two days to cross the Yellow River and land in Mianchi County. These days, he has been He led the team on the road non-stop, for fear of delaying the time set by Xiao Tianjian. Finally, he led his troops outside Ruzhou City within the required time and joined Xiao Tianjian's men.

After not seeing each other for such a long time, the generals naturally laughed when they saw Huang Shengqiang and some old acquaintances under his command. Huang Shengqiang now also swept away the obscene appearance when he first returned to Xiao Tianjian. He stood there with helmets and armor, and he had a trace of general demeanor, and he also had a sense of arrogance on his face. However, when he saw Xiao Tianjian, he immediately turned back to his old appearance. He rushed to Xiao Tianjian and straightened his legs and with a treacherous smile on his face. He saluted Xiao Tianjian and shouted, "Huang Shengqiang, the commander of the first battalion, was ordered to report!" See the general in a humble position!"

Looking at the three wisps of mouse beard on Huang Shengqiang's face, Xiao Tianjian wanted to laugh a little, but he immediately returned a bow and said, "Okay! After all, it was the old brother brought out by me. It really didn't let me down! I arrived on time!"

After Huang Shengqiang put down his hand, he immediately collapsed his shoulder and said with a smile, "I received the order from the general. How dare I delay! This is the brothers who supervised the brothers below. They almost spit out their livers and finally rushed over. Otherwise, it would be a charge of missing the fighter, and the small heads would not be enough to be cut by the general!"

The generals around also laughed. Xiao Tianjian punched Huang Shengqiang and said with a smile, "Okay! The body bones have recovered quite well now! How's it going? How many wives and concubines have you married now and how many sons have you have?

Huang Shengqiang scratched his head with an embarrassed face and said, "How can I have time to marry a few wives!" But it's just marrying a wife and a concubine, but just giving birth to a man and a woman! It's just that the general hasn't been in his hometown for a year and hasn't been able to catch up with my girl's full moon wine! Go back and make up for it! Hey hey!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately laughed and scolded. They followed Xiao Tianjian to fight in the south and north of Henan. They were so busy that Xing Tianjun had military rules. It was not allowed to carry women in the army, so that the wives and children of these guys stayed in Jinnan. On the contrary, Huang Shengqiang married two wives in his hometown and gave birth. A son and a daughter, so the generals immediately attacked him.

"How can you blame me for this? Conscience of heaven and earth, whoever didn't want to follow the commander-in-chief to Henan at the beginning, would be a bitch! The general left me in my hometown and didn't bring it. The officers and soldiers over there were disappointing. At first, they were making a little trouble. They were cleaned up by Brother Yan. Later, they all became turtles one by one. They didn't dare to come to trouble us. I listened to you fighting happily here every day, and I was still aggrieved! So I had nothing to do to trouble my wife, but I got two little ones out. Can you blame me? Huang Shengqiang jumped and argued with Luo Li and others. As a result, the generals laughed again.

Xiao Tianjian also smiled, then raised his hand to stop everyone's laughter, and asked Huang Shengqiang, "You and the brothers of the artillery camp have also worked hard all the way, so let me ask you, are you ready to start the siege tomorrow?"

Huang Shengqiang immediately patted his chest and replied loudly, "Marshal, don't worry. The brothers in the barracks have been suffocated for a long time. They thought there would be a good fight in Mianchi, but they didn't think about it, so they fired a few shots, and the gate was opened. It's really not strong enough. Now It's not easy to get a chance to fight. Don't worry, general! We can never lose the people of our Xing Tianjun! I want the dog officials in Ruzhou City to look good!"

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's so good! All of them!"

All the generals immediately tightened their bodies and shouted, "General, please order!"

"Liang Tietou!"

"The end will be!"

"Have you prepared the car, ladders and all kinds of big shields I asked you to prepare?"

"The marshal, as of tonight, the engineering battalion can build a total of 300 big shields, 150 rovers, 200 siege ladders, and 10 goose cart holes and 10 trench cars! In addition, the brothers of the Ruyang Preparatory Camp have also prepared all kinds of long wood, which can be used to pave the trenches at any time!" The drilling gopher is now the battalion commander, and now hundreds of carpenters and blacksmiths and nearly a thousand engineers who are good at local work are former miners, so it is his job to do this. Now even those who joined Xiao Tianjian with him have been basically promoted to the engineering camp. Officers, all of them are in full swing. In addition, for this war, the engineering battalion has already made full preparations in advance, not to mention all kinds of special tools, even wheel frames, which are built in advance. When they are used, they only need to use local materials and improve them, so the army arrived in Ruzhou for more than two days. So quickly completed the preparation of so many offensive tools.

The good thing is that at this time, many things only pay attention to the skin, not to look good. Although it is rough and ugly, as long as it does not affect the use, no one will be dissatisfied with it.

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand to let Liang Tietou be listed. Then he glanced at the generals and said, "Since Huang Shengqiang's artillery camp has arrived, we can't delay any longer. The detailed work has been repaid, saying that Luoyang has realized that the big thing is not good, and has sent someone to urgently report to the court and Xiong Wencan, please Rescuers come to help, we must capture Ruzhou according to the planned time!

From now on, all the artillery teams directly under the battalion will be gathered and distributed to Huang Shengqiang. If you don't fight, it will be done. Once the fight starts, you will be able to suppress the officers and soldiers in the city. For four days, I will only give you four days, and you must take Ruzhou City for me! Do you have the confidence to do it?"

After hearing this, the generals immediately shouted in unison, "Yes!"

On the morning of the fourth day when the Xingtian Army arrived in Ruzhou City, the officers and soldiers in Ruzhou City were frightened to see that it was on the open ground outside the south gate of the city. A team of Xing Tianjun stepped out of the barracks with high morale and began to array outside the city. All kinds of attack tools were also pulled out of the Xing Tianjun's camp and placed in the starting position.

(Ask for red tickets! It's time to fight again! Ha ha!)