Chapter 79 Land Work

He always went back and climbed up the watchtower and said to Xiao Tianjian, "Great Marshal! The last general is willing to lead his subordinates to fight to cover these people! In this way, the casualties of the people will be smaller!"

Xiao Tianjian was very happy to take the initiative to ask, but in the end he shook his head and said, "No! These people are not ordinary people. They have received a certain amount of training, and the number of casualties is acceptable. Don't worry. When you attack the city, your soldiers and generals have strong melee ability, which is more suitable for street fighting! At that time, there will be your battle, and your credit will be indispensable!"

Lao Hui stood back and looked at the situation of the battle on three sides. He saw that the soldiers of Xing Tianjun were very calm. On the one hand, they were continuing to build all kinds of offensive tools, and on the other hand, they scattered some newly dug trenches and watching the battle far behind the chest wall. Only a few artillery arrays would continue to smoke, and there was a roar. Hit the flying shells on the wall.

There are continuous city turrets or gravel on the turrets and collapse. Compared with the artillery fire of the defenders, although the artillery fire on the side of the Xing Tianjun side is not dense, there is one shot at a time, which is very accurate. Nearly half of the shells hit the wall, and even overturned two defenders' cannons and hit the city. The Shangguan army rushed around with his head on the wall.

In addition, all battalions have drawn out some of the firemen and began to enter the battlefield, scattered among the people. With the cover of the big shield, they approached the city wall in the form of a cold gun, and opened fire on the officers and soldiers who leaned over the head of the city and released arrows. From time to time, some bold officers and soldiers will be knocked over, or simply a He hit the wall and fell at the foot of the wall.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, Lao Huihui was very gratified. The reason why he came up to fight was also the idea of He Yilong, He Jin and Lin to develop them. After all, they newly joined Xiao Tianjian's command. On the one hand, they also wanted to show their enthusiasm, and on the other hand, they also wanted to see how Xiao Tianjian was. They won't use these subordinates as cannon fodder to fill in the battlefield.

Now it seems that they are doing this a little bit like a gentleman. Xiao Tianjian didn't want to use their subordinates as cannon fodder at all, but knew where their strengths were and wanted to use their soldiers in the most useful place. In this way, he was quite ashamed to return, so he nodded. Lian said yes, which means that once the wall is opened, they will definitely move forward desperately!

Xiao Tianjian put down the telescope and said to Lao Hui with a little ridicule, "Brother Ma, now you and I have been united. You don't have to think too much about many things. What kind of person I, Xiao, will naturally you will know after a long time! I only have one request for you, that is, once you enter the city, you must strictly enforce military discipline, do not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and do not plunder. The reason why my Xing Tianjun has today depends on the strict military discipline. This is also the capital of our competition with the court for the world. Whoever gets the hearts of the people can laugh to the end! I hope Brother Ma will pass on these words to them!"

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, I always feel a little ashamed. I thought that this Marshal Xiao was really powerful and seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts. I could see their thoughts at once, and what Xiao Tianjian said was also very reasonable. Those who win the hearts of the people get the world. Everyone knows this sentence, but it's really happens. At that time, they often have a lot of concerns, so that military discipline has never been fully implemented, so that for so many years, although the people have also turned to them in large numbers, they have never been able to obtain a large area like Xiao Tianjian. If you think about it carefully, they often plunder every city. Although it is mainly aimed at those rich people and dignitaries, it is difficult to guarantee that it will affect the people. In this way, the people also hate them and are afraid of them, so it is difficult to gain a foothold in the same place.

Looking at what he has seen in the Xing Tian Army these days, the strict military discipline of the Xing Tian Army can be said to be the only thing they have seen in their lives, and the soldiers are also very strict in self-discipline. There are no ruffians like other armies in the army. It is difficult to be like an iron plate inside and outside. It's because they can win the hearts of the people so much. Without sending troops to force them, people from all over the world immediately flocked to help fight, and even went to the Xing Tianjun to remove these facilities outside Kaifeng City for Xing Tianjun.

"My old horse is taught today! Don't worry, Marshal! Then I went to tell them a few. If anyone dares to plunder the people after entering the city, there is no need for the general to take the lead. I, Ma Shouying, will be the first to cut him!" After saying that, Ma Shou punched Xiao Tianjian, turned around and strode down the building.

Although the Kaifeng garrison did its best to prevent the people outside the city from clearing the obstacles they set, on the one hand, the Xingtian Army kept suppressing the officers and soldiers in the city with artillery fire, which put a lot of pressure on the officers and soldiers, especially the cold gun of the gunners, which put a lot of psychological pressure on the officers and soldiers who fired arrows on the city. Often some officers and soldiers probed their heads. If you will be shot, you will be shot in the head, or you will be shot in the chest. As long as you get hit by the gunshot, there is basically no possibility of life. Although the fire shooting is not dense, it makes the defenders in the city much more honest. They dare not lean forward and shoot arrows at the city as unscrupulously as at the beginning. In this way, it also makes the city remove obstacles. The casualties of those people were much smaller.

Moreover, these people have also been warned in advance to disperse as much as possible, reduce the killing of the city's munitions and artillery to them, so as to avoid huddle together and become a significant target, which can kill many people with one shot.

Through these efforts, after paying hundreds of casualties, it took the people two days to remove the obstacles set by the officers and soldiers in the east, west and north outside Kaifengfu City, and successfully opened the channel for the Xingtian Army to attack the city.

Just when they all thought that Xiao Tianjian was about to attack the city, Xiao Tianjian did not seem to be in a hurry. Instead, he ordered to send the injured people to Zhongmu County for medical treatment, which they had just captured. There, Xiao Tianjian had ordered the logistics department to set up a large rear medical camp in advance, whether it was personnel. Whether it's hurting medicine or even the environment, the conditions of this large-scale medical camp in Zhongmu County are far better than those of these field medical camps on the front line of Kaifeng.

In order to open the seal, Xiao Tianjian has basically thought of all the problems that can be thought of. He has also prepared in advance. As for the people who died in the city of Kaifeng, someone specially gave them a registration list, and their bodies were buried on the ground, and a tree was set up on each grave. The cards recorded their names in case their families came to clean up their bones in the future. At the same time, the families of the dead will also receive twenty taels of silver pensions from Xing Tianjun.

Twenty-twenty taels of silver is a lot of wealth in the Central Plains of this era. In many places, it only takes three or four taels of silver, and even two buckets of rice may be exchanged for a girl. After all, human life is the most valuable thing in this era, so the family of the deceased can get such a pension. Not only will he not blame Xing Tianjun, but he will also be grateful to Xing Tianjun, which is also the main reason why when Xing Tianjun summoned the people, the people from all over the country came to help.

If you fight for financial resources, now with the reserves accumulated by Xing Tianjun for so many years of war, even if the financial resources of Zhou Wangfu in Kaifeng City and all the rich people in the city are added together, it may not be able to match the tenth of Xing Tianjun, so at this point, Xiao Tianjian will not be stingy. .

Seeing Xiao Tianjian treating these soldiers so kindly to help the people, Lao Hui, He Yilong and other soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution were straight. They were shocked and clicked one by one. They secretly shouted that Xiao Tianjian's financial strength and the generousness of buying people's hearts. If anyone does this, if the people don't fight with them, they will see each other. Ghost.

When many soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution saw that Xiao Tianjian did this, they said that if Xiao Tianjian could be so generous to the people who helped the war, how could he be worse for them? So all of a sudden, they rubbed their hands one by one and waited to fight desperately when they attacked the city. If they get credit, the reward will definitely be indispensable. As for death, they will die! Anyway, this life is worthless.

Therefore, the morale of more than 20,000 troops in the Fifth Battalion of the Left was almost soaring, but Xiao Tianjian still did not order to start a strong attack, but ordered the people who helped the war to start digging trenches outside the city according to a sketch drawn by him. These trenches were criscrossed, forming a net, which seemed to The whole Kaifeng City is in the center, leaving only a blank in the south, which is also full of various obstacles set up by the officers and soldiers themselves. However, at night, Xiao Tianjian sent people into these places, dug quite a lot of traps, and sprinkled a large number of iron thisbulus and other things at the same time. He disguised before dawn. On the surface, there is no abnormality in the south of the city, but in essence, if the officers and soldiers want to break out from here, it is estimated that they will be unlucky.

After tens of thousands of people got the order, they immediately copied the guy and invested in the project of digging trenches under the leadership of the Xingtian Army Engineer Battalion. Tens of thousands of people started to do it at the same time and started from a distance. The speed of the project was a little startling. A group of people took turns to fight. When they were tired, they retreated and rested with big cakes and bones. The soup provided them with a full meal, and there were ready-made trenches for them to rest. The officers of the Fifth Camp of the Revolution were a little warm-eyed and asked for help to do it together.

Originally, there were not many elite soldiers in the 5th Battalion of the Left, and most of them were the people who took the guy. It was their business to dig these trenches. Xiao Tianjian approved the invitation of the 5th Battalion of the Left this time and threw them into the battlefield.

The distribution of these trenches is not chaotic, but that there are enough channels between the trenches for siege equipment, which can be used for cloud ladders, cave cars and other offensive equipment built by the Xingtian Army to approach the foot of the city wall through these channels, while the rest of the trenches are trenches such as traffic trenches, some of which are quite deep ditrenches. The canal does not interfere with each other.

After all, Kaifeng Prefecture, as the governing body of the Political Secretary of Henan Province, not only makes full use of the high and strong wall, but also makes full use of the convenient water source near the Yellow River. Outside Kaifeng City, there is also a three-foot-wide moat. The moat is connected to the Bian River. Through the Bian River, it can replenish water for the moat, and sometimes on the Bian River. Boats can walk around the city through the moat.

So the biggest problem in Kaifeng is how to overcome this moat. Xiao Tianjian was determined to take Kaifeng in one fell swoop this time, so after arriving here, he first took a few subordinates who knew water conservancy around Kaifeng City, and finally decided to block the Bian River to dig. Deep trenches, take away the water of the moat and let go of the water of the moat to facilitate the strong attack on the city wall.

This project is very large, but the good thing is that there are enough people, and Xing Tianjun has also prepared a large number of tools such as picks and shovels in advance. In addition to the tools brought by the people who came to help the war, tens of thousands of people went to the battle in shifts very fast.

(Chapter 4 arrives on the 16th! Brothers, check it out! I hope to leave your precious flowers!)