Chapter 78 Kaifeng

In fact, how can there be so many troops in the Xingtian Army! It's true that after Yan Chongxi returned to Jinnan, he immediately began to mobilize soldiers and horses, split the original super battalions and supplement the soldiers, and prepare for pre-war training. However, the mobilization of troops in Lu'an Prefecture was just an illusion to contain the officers and soldiers in the north of Jinbei.

Of course, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, who were active in the Jinbei area, also began to join forces. They raised the banner of the Xingtian Army in Jinbei and once again captured Ningwu County. At the same time, they began to send troops to Shuozhou, which directly threatened Shuozhou. Therefore, Wu Yong in Shanxi was panicked at this moment. He couldn't take care of each other. There is no way to manage the north and the south, and there will be chaos in the south and north.

The direction of Tongguan is also a suspicious plan. Only two reserve battalions were gathered in Shanzhou. During the day, people and horses entered Shanzhou, and quietly left the city at night. The next morning, they entered Shanzhou City again. As a result, he confused the details of the court. After a few days, what he saw was at least 20,000 to 30,000 criminal troops gathered in Shaanxi. The state was mistakenly sentenced to attack Tongguan, so that Shaanxi did not dare to send troops to Henan at this time.

As for Xiangyang, although Luo Rucai and Li Shuanzhu, Zhao Erlu and others have led their troops to go straight to Xiangyang, their strength to fight Xiangyang is not as good as to contain the officers and troops in the Huguang area. Therefore, if they can fight, they will fight. If they can't fight, they will first sweep the area north of the Yangtze River in Xiangyang to be the next step. If you go south, lay a good foundation in advance.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the generals all laughed, and this time they were even more confident.

On the ninth day of March, under Xiao Tianjian's order, the 40,000 troops began to pull out of the camp and kill from Zhuxian Town to Kaifeng Mansion. It took Situ Liang to lead the leading cavalry for only a few days to sweep away the official and military forces outside Kaifeng Mansion.

Kaifeng City is one of the super-large cities in the north. Although it is not as large as that of Beijing, it is rarely comparable to it in the north.

In this era, if it is an ordinary county town, the perimeter of the city wall can be two or three miles, which is even a big county town. Even if the circumference of the city wall of a city such as the state capital is four or five miles is not small, but the circumference of the wall of Kaifeng City is more than 20 miles, which can accommodate hundreds of thousands of residents. Living, in this era, even in the world, it is a super-large city.

Moreover, the wall of Kaifeng City is very strong. The wall is three feet high and the bottom of the wall is two feet wide. In addition to the four gates, there is also a Bian River water gate that leads directly to the city. Each gate has a urn city. The city wall is full of towers, turrets and disks. However, there are nearly a hundred cannons of all kinds of the defenders in the city, among which There are even several sharp Hongyi cannons. After everyone looked at them, they couldn't help but take a breath. When they fought in Luoyang City, it was mainly because a large number of officers and soldiers in the city surrendered, so that the Xing Tian Army could easily take Luoyang City. However, the city defense of Kaifeng City was obviously much more than Luoyang City, and the officials in the city Obviously, the army's determination to resist was still very strong. After Xiao Tianjian looked at it, he also sighed. No wonder Li Zicheng failed to take off Kaifeng City when he opened the seal. In the end, he had no choice but to dig the Yellow River embankment and flooded Kaifeng City. Now he leads his troops to attack. Can he take down this strong city?

When Xiao Tianjian asked this question in his heart, Ma Shan was denied by him again. What is Li Zicheng? His so-called soldiers and horses are mostly rabble, and how can they be compared with the elite soldiers and horses armed to the teeth under his command now?

So Xiao Tianjian surrounded Kaifeng City under an order, but this time he did not order to surround Kaifeng City, but only arranged troops on the east and south of Kaifeng City, and released the south of the city alone. This is also the way to besiege the city. The provincial officers and soldiers finally fought a dead net. Broken.

As soon as the Xingtian Army arrived outside Kaifeng City, the whole Kaifeng City entered the martial law. A large number of officers and soldiers began to catch up with the city wall. And long before the Xing Tianjun came, Gao Mingheng had sent people to set up a lot of deer forts, refuse horses outside the city, dug a lot of trenches and traps, and spread a lot. Thistock is ready to defend Kaifeng City.

In the face of such a strong city that has not yet lost its fighting spirit and has strong walls, Xing Tianjun can be said to be facing the biggest test since they became an army.

After receiving the order, Yang Wenyue did not dare to neglect it. He immediately gathered 10,000 soldiers and horses in Baoding Mansion and began to go south day and night. At present, Weihui Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion in Huanghe North have been controlled by Xing Tianjun, so they can't cross the river by Weihui Mansion. They can only bypass Daming Mansion, enter the boundary of Shandong first, and then cross Yuncheng. The Yellow River moves towards Kaifeng Mansion.

When Yang Wenyue arrived in Dingtao, Xing Tianjun had already surrounded Kaifeng Mansion, which was very different from the time when Li Zicheng opened the Feng Mansion in history. At this time, Henan was basically in the hands of Xing Tianjun, and the officers and soldiers were consumed by Xing Tianjun in the past few years, so that Basically, except for Yang Wenyue, no other officers and soldiers came to support Kaifeng Mansion.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian besieged the Kaifeng Mansion this time. In terms of the periphery, he basically did not have many worries. He could try his best to open the Mansion.

When Xiao Tianjian led his troops to besiege the Kaifeng Mansion, in addition to the 40,000 soldiers and horses under his command, including the Gezuo Fifth Battalion, soon the surrounding Guide Mansion and the helpers of the counties also began to rush to Kaifeng Mansion. In just three or four days, 50,000 people gathered outside the Kaifeng Mansion City to help the war, and these people were more With a small amount of training brought to the reserve camp, it is no longer a strong man in the ordinary sense.

The siege battle officially started on March 16. In the face of such a strong city, Xiao Tianjian was also much more cautious this time. Instead of ordering elite soldiers to attack the three walls from the beginning, he took a safer but relatively cruel method, that is, to send the people to fight first. First of all, clean up all kinds of royal guards set up by the officers and soldiers outside the city, and clean up those things such as the Malu Fort and the Trench.

And how could the Kaifeng garrison led by Gao Mingheng sit and watch the Xingtian Army do such a thing? When they act together, the defenders in the city began to make cannons and opened fire on the people who swarmed outside the city. For a moment, the three walls of Kaifeng were rumbling with cannons, arrows like rain, and a large number of officers and soldiers lay on the piers of the wall. , desperately shooting arrows at the bottom of the city.

It's not that the people are not unprepared for it. In addition to rushing to work with tools, they also separated a lot of people. They used the boards, door panels and other things that were searched along the way to act as piers. They were led by the soldiers of the Xingtian army and arranged special people to hold these. Door panels and boards and other things are erected under the city to form shield walls to cover the people behind them.

The dense rain of arrows fell on these shield walls, and the nailed door panels sounded loudly. Soon some door panels were full of arrows, and it was like a reed flower everywhere.

Although there is a wooden shield to block the arrow, such a dense artillery and rocket rain is still a lot of casualties for the people. A large number of people who assisted the war fell into the pool of blood, making a sad scream.

But what can happen to this kind of thing in this world? They lived on the Xingtian Army. Now the Xingtian Army is on them. These people can only move forward desperately. More people carry all kinds of tools and begin to rush to the city, and crazily begin to demolish the various obstacles set by the defenders outside the city in advance.

Xiao Tianjian personally sat in the north of the city and ordered people to build a watchtower at a distance of about three miles outside the city. He climbed up the watchtower and constantly patrolled the battlefield with a telescope.

"If the order goes down, a medical camp will be set up on the east and west sides to arrange the people to grab the injured as soon as possible and send them to the medical camp for treatment. These ordinary people have handed over their lives to us. We can't help but treat their lives! Save as much as you can!" Xiao Tianjian put down the telescope and said to the iron head.

Tietou immediately nodded and conveyed the order. He turned his head and said, "Sarge, isn't it a little too close here? The Hongyi cannons of the city's officers can reach here! Let's step back a little bit!"

Xiao Tianjian continued to raise the telescope and sneered, "People dare to rush up. What am I afraid of? If they have the ability, just call them! I'd like to see how accurate their Hongyi cannons can be! Order the gunners of each battalion to control the speed of the launch, and try to save ammunition. In addition, they send some firearms to suppress the city's Shangguan army with firecrackers. They can't shoot the people so casually, and try to cover and help the people work!"

Sooner or later, the iron head in the distance saw a dazzling flash on the top of the city, and then a cannonball roared towards their eye-catching watchtower. The iron head immediately shouted, "Take care!"

As soon as the sound fell, the shell landed on the ground dozens of steps away from the watchtower. Suddenly, it smashed a big hole on the ground. After rolling forward for a distance, the shell stopped on the ground.

Outside Kaifeng City, there is mostly land and sand. Now it is March, and the ground is very soft, so the officers and soldiers' cannons seem to be fighting happily, but it is not easy to form jumps after landing, so the power of solid bullets is very limited.

After a glance, Xiao Tianjian sneered and said, "Three miles away! Uh-huh! This officer gunner did a good job! I don't know how far they will deflected from the next shot!"

As a result, after the second shot fell, it flew to the ground nearly a hundred steps away from the watchtower and smashed a big car. Xiao Tianjian laughed and said, "Just praised them for being a little early. They wanted to hit the watchtower under our feet so far away, basically dreaming! Leave them alone. If there are shells, let them fight at will!"

Xiao Tianjian has already learned the cruelty of the war. Although the people suffered a lot of casualties under the gunfire of the defenders, they can't touch him at all now. Is it possible to die in a war? His elite soldiers can't be used to do these things, but can only use this method to eliminate those defensive facilities outside the city, so no matter how much it costs, he will not change this method of warfare.

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