Chapter 83 Staff Department

In fact, in order to deal with Xing Tianjun digging holes on the city wall, Gao Mingheng also thought of a lot of ways. He also dug trenches in the city, threw fire cans down on the city wall, threw porcelain thistles to blow up, threw fireballs with smoke, threw stones to grind, and smashed them. In short, he tried his best to stop Xing Tianjun from digging the wall, but the result was only It killed a lot of Xing Tianjun's cave carts (goose cart holes) under the city and injured some of Xing Tianjun's engineers, but they have never been able to completely stop Xing Tianjun from digging.

Even Yu Gao Mingheng hung a heavy reward and netted dozens of outlaws. He took the rope down the city wall at night and tried to take a surprise attack on these excavations to kill these thief soldiers who dug at the foot of the city wall. However, dozens of people came down the city, and half of them were not desperate in the city at all. Instead, he took this opportunity to get out of the city. As soon as he got to the foot of the city wall, he went straight to Xing Tianjun and quarreled for them to surrender! As a result, the remaining desperadoes were exposed, and they were quickly killed by the Xing Tianjun at the foot of the wall.

At present, a considerable number of officers and soldiers and the people in the city have lost their confidence. Listening to the rumble of artillery outside the city all day long, some people have not wanted to follow Gao Mingheng and the king of Zhou to die, so some of them secretly contacted to seize the next gate and open the gate to surrender to the Xing Tianjun, but unfortunately their plan He was discovered in advance by Gao Mingheng and sent troops to suppress their actions. Within a day, nearly a thousand people who tried to surrender to the Xingtian Army were arrested in the city, all of them pushed to the wall and cut off their heads, which stabilized the situation in the city.

However, seeing that the Xing Tianjun has besieged Kaifeng for nearly a month, there was a severe shortage of food in the city. By the beginning of April, the food in the city had basically been completely cut off. In order to raise food, the soldiers began to knock on the people in the city and directly broke into the homes of the people in the city to search. Whenever they found a little food, they immediately took it away. As a result, the people had no food at all. They could only eat some weeds and bark in the city. In the past few days, people began to starve to death. Even after the horses ridden by the soldiers in the city passed by, some people picked up the horse manure, took it back and put it in the pot and fried it until it turned yellow. Sex, and then swallowed with water, a large number of people were so hungry that they lay at home waiting to die.

On the night of April 3, the trenches on the east and west sides of the city were extremely busy. A team of soldiers of the Xingtian Army began to enter these pre-digged trenches, and a large number of soldiers carried boxes of things into the trenches, and finally filled these things into a deep and invisible. In the cave, even the lights in the cave are made of stingling wind lamps, and a grid for lights is chiseled not far away. These wooden boxes are carefully transmitted into these caves by boxes.

When the day was almost dawn, these caves were filled with a large amount of sand by the engineering camp, leaving only a open bamboo tube outside the entrance of the cave, and a long medicine twist was drawn in the bamboo tube.

A large number of soldiers of the Xingtian Army were dressed neatly, sitting and sleeping along the side walls of the trenches, including those elite soldiers selected from the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution, who also wiped their knives and guns brightly and polished them with extraordinary sharpness. Under the leadership of Lao Hui and others, they entered the trench and leaned against the ditch. Sleeping next to the trench, even if you can't sleep, you can close your eyes and refresh yourself. Only a few people look at the sky with their eyes open and don't know what to think.

Everyone looked very dignified. In addition to the officers whispering some orders, there was only the snoring and breathing of soldiers in the trenches on the east and west sides of the whole city. The moonlight sprinkled in the trenches, and large areas of gun tips and blades flashed with cold light, black armor. From time to time, the cold light flashes out on the film, and everyone enters the state of war.

A large number of artillery guns were also gathered in the distance. The muzzle of a cannon pointed to this wall. The gunners slept next to the cannon with their arms in their arms, and boxes of shells were placed at their feet.

Although the action at night is as secretive as possible, the officers and soldiers in the city still feel something. There is a depressing uneasiness spreading everywhere in the city. This atmosphere makes many defenders unable to sleep. They always feel that something big is going to happen, and the number of officers and soldiers in the vigil has also increased a lot, not only Chen Yongfu and his son. Zi Chende walked up to the city wall and tried his best to look at the appearance of the city. Even Gao Mingheng, who had not slept well for many days, came out of the house in the middle of the night and climbed up the wall to look at the outside.

But there is basically no movement outside the dark city, but invisibly, there seems to be a huge pressure on the city, which makes the defenders have an ominous hunch.

Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu both lie on the wall and listen to it. The sound of digging the wall for many days and nights stopped this night, which made them feel more nervous. The quiet outside the city is a little abnormal. What is Xing Tianjun going to do? They couldn't guess for a while, but they always felt that this quiet was not a normal phenomenon. Xing Tianjun must be planning a conspiracy.

Therefore, Gao Mingheng ordered more officers and soldiers to be sent to patrol the upper and lower parts of the city wall. The whole city of Kaifeng was under martial law, and no one was allowed to walk on the street. At the same time, he sent people to strengthen vigilance inside several excavation sites, always arranged people to listen to the sound on the wall, and buried many large cylinders on the ground of the city as urns. To monitor the sound underground.

In the middle of the night, under the order of the officers, a few shots were fired out of the city from time to time. The light from the muzzle lit up the battlefield outside the city, and the shells roared outside the city, but it did not cause anything **.

Moreover, the defenders also kept firing rockets outside the city, trying to illuminate farther away from the city, so that they could see the movement of the Xing Tianjun outside the city, but what they could see was only a dark area. What they could see was still those vertical and horizontal gullies, but they could not see any movement on the ground.

Overnight, he slowly passed under the strong uneasiness of the defenders. Xiao Tianjian personally came to the traffic trench in the east of the city and personally inspected his subordinates who were ready to attack.

This is a huge battle, which is only the arrangement of the offensive order of the generals, which is a very huge job. There are few differences, which may cause chaos during the attack, which is likely to affect the progress of the whole battle situation. If you are not careful, you may even succeed. Therefore, for this One day, both Xiao Tianjian and the generals were busy for a long time, constantly discussing this last blow.

However, the busiest people are not Xiao Tianjian and the generals. The busiest person is Li Xin. In fact, Li Xin is supposed to be busy. Through Xiao Tianjian's observation of Li Xin and Li Xin's own performance during this period, Xiao Tianjian has found that Li Xin is not only a general, but also his strongest It's not to lead troops to fight, but to be bold and careful, and he is very good at planning many things. Such a talent is also the one he needs most. If he doesn't let him do anything else, he will be a counselor.

A person has to take care of such a big deal of things. Since Xiao Tianjian occupied Jinnan, he has begun to feel that sometimes he will be too busy, and he often consumes a lot of energy in the military. He is not in the mood for civil affairs.

So from a long time ago, he began to consider the establishment of the staff headquarters. For this reason, he selected a group of people from various places in the guard camp, so that they began to do some staff work. As for the performance of these people, Xiao Tianjian was a little helpless. They are always used to obeying orders, but rarely Taking the initiative to consider the problem is just passively listening to the arrangement, so these people are qualified middle officers, but not qualified staff officers.

Xiao Tianjian has been looking for this kind of person. Niu Jinxing is smart, but after observation, this person is too utilitarian and it is okay to deal with civil affairs, but it is not appropriate to take care of military affairs as a staff. Li Jinde is also a candidate, but Li Jinde likes to consider problems from major aspects more often, but he always ignores details. In terms of section, he is not an inside person in the military, so he can't be a qualified staff officer.

It was not until the appearance of Li Xin that Xiao Tianjian found that the staff officer he had been looking for finally appeared. When Li Xin followed Li Zicheng in history, he had already shown a quite extraordinary command level, and he was also very forward-looking strategically. At the same time, he was also very good at controlling the army. Therefore, under Li Zicheng's command, Li Xin was A good general, and it is precisely because of this that Li Zicheng let Li Xin become an army, so that he later found that Li Xin's prestige was getting higher and higher, which threatened his status a little. In addition, Niu Jinxing was jealous of Li Xin and slandered Li Zicheng, which made Li Zicheng finally dizzy and chose to kill Li Xin.

However, it is not clear that Li Xin's strength is not to be a handsome talent, but to be a staff officer. Everyone has their own strengths. The key is that you can use people and can't use people. Li Zicheng is obviously far less than Xiao Tianjian in this regard. Although he can attract people, he is far from using people. It is even more impossible for him to know the role of a staff officer like Xiao Tianjian, so Li Xin is also doomed to the tragedy of his life.

Now that Li Xin has returned to Xiao Tianjian, then Xiao Tianjian will not let Li Xin make the same mistake again. He only needs to arrange him in the position he should do, and Li Xin can play a greater role. Therefore, after the return of the Northern Expedition this time, Xiao Tianjian clearly told Niu Jinxing in Luoyang that he would not interrupt about the military side in the future. The matter of face-to-face is all focused on civil affairs, so that this guy deliberately misleads him because of jealousy.

As for Li Xin, before Luoyang sent troops, he had publicly announced that Li Xin would be his chief of staff in the future. Except for being directly responsible for him personally, no one else had the right to mobilize him, so that Li Xin had a detached position in the army, but he would not directly control an army. More often, Li Xin had to accompany him. On the side of Xiao Tian's fitness, he made suggestions for Xiao Tianjian and planned and arranged details.

So this time to open the Fengfu, Li Xin is one of the busiest people. He not only has to plan all kinds of things according to Xiao Tianjian's ideas, but also care about many logistical matters for Xiao Tianjian. When the final battle comes, the compilation of the specific battle sequence Matching has also become Li Xin's business.

And Li Xin is very grateful to Xiao Tianjian's use so much. As the saying goes, the scholar died for his confidant. After being ordered, Li Xin devoted himself to his current work. It can be said that he was following him with a group of staff to make various plans and arrangements day and night. After this month, his eyes were dark and people were thin. A few kilograms of meat.

Therefore, although Xiao Tianjian is busy, because of Li Xin, the chief of staff, he is not as busy as before. More often, he can go to the army to inspect, cheer up the generals and mobilize morale. In this way, Xiao Tianjian's prestige in the army is even more like the sky. In this way, he has Li Xin. The appearance of people who worry about him.

Li Xin did not live up to his trust. Many things were only taken care of by him. The detailed plan was handed over to Xiao Tianjian yesterday. After reviewing it, Xiao Tianjian found that the plan was quite perfect, and the things that should be considered were basically taken into account, so even if the battle plan was approved, when That is, the generals were summoned to arrange the battle plan.

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