Therefore, he could only rely on Fu Zonglong's card to earn the city gate, and then defend it with 5,000 men and horses to welcome Liu Zongmin's 30,000 horses into the city. [Full text reading. As long as these 35,000 people enter the city, Kaifeng will be broken.

Li Zicheng was very thoughtful, Li Guo was brave in battle, Tian Jianxiu was resourceful, and sent these two people together, one article and one martial arts, cooperating with each other, and having a great grasp. After he sent these two groups of men and horses, he did not delay, led all the horses, and prepared to besiege Kaifeng City with grain, grass and military supplies.

This is the last move, if you don't get the city gate as you wish, you will enclose the whole Kaifeng City, at this time there is no mobile force of the official army in Henan, although Sun Chuanting is powerful, but there are no soldiers in his hands for a while, and he can't form a threat. Therefore, besieging Kaifeng, there is no worries.

Li Zicheng led 200,000 horses, of which 70,000 or 80,000 could fight, carrying all kinds of supplies, loading tens of thousands of carts, and heading to Kaifeng together. He made up his mind that Kaifeng City must be conquered, because as soon as Kaifeng is broken, the entire Henan will be in his control. Therefore, Li Zicheng even brought all the old camps with him, leaving no one behind, to show his determination.

Besides, Li Guo and Tian Jianxiu, the two of them took 5,000 cavalry, starry night, and went straight to Kaifeng, all the horses and horses changed into official and military uniforms, and Tian Jianxiu specially brought dozens of soldiers to let them be in front in order to answer questions. In addition, Li Guo and Fu Zonglong walked side by side, at this time, of course, Fu Zonglong could not be tied anymore, his hands were loosened, but he was not wearing armor, Li Guo secretly held a short knife, and more than a dozen peasant soldiers surrounded Fu Zonglong, preventing him from escaping. Li Guo had already said to Fu Zonglong, as long as you cooperate, you will never hurt your life, and there will be a reward, if you are disobedient, you will be slaughtered immediately.

Fu Zonglong didn't say a word.

Five miles behind them, Liu Zongmin with 30,000 horses, followed closely, this distance is not far and not close, once Li Guo and they entered Kaifeng City, they waved their own troops to reinforce, and they could kill the city without the kung fu of tea. Avoid excessive casualties among Li Guo and others.

When the sky was just dawning, Li Guo and others came to Kaifeng City.

Tian Jianxiu glanced at Li Guo, Li Guo nodded, and ordered those troops to call the city.

A few soldiers came to the moat and shouted: "Listen to the city, our Lord Fu Zonglong has arrived, hurry up and open the city." ”

The defenders of the city had already seen a group of men and horses coming from the city, all wearing the uniforms of the official army, but these people did not dare to be careless, after all, Chen Yongfu had already told them that the peasant army was used to using the method of deceiving the city to win the city gate. Therefore, no matter who comes, do not open the city hastily.

But when these people heard that Fu Zonglong had arrived, they didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran down to the city to report.

When Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng heard this, they were also surprised, they knew that Fu Zonglong led the army to fight a decisive battle with King Chuang's men and horses in the area of Zhuxian Town, how did they get to Kaifeng. Could it be that he defeated.

Because the battle of Sanguanmiao had just ended less than a day, the news of Kaifeng City was not very well-informed, and he did not know the news of the fiasco of the official army, let alone that Fu Zonglong had been captured.

The two hurriedly went up to the top of the city, and looked down, and the thousands of men and horses in the black pressure were all the color of official and military uniforms. At this time, the sky was already bright, and Chen Yongfu could see clearly that one person in the army was Fu Zonglong.

Chen Yongfu bowed his hand to the city and shouted, "Is it Master Fu who is here?" The end will be polite. ”

Fu Zonglong was under the city, without saying a word, the flesh on his face was jumping. Li Guo gently stabbed him in the waist with a short knife on the side, and said in a low voice: "Speak, let him open the city, dare to say a dishonest word, and I will kill you." ”

Listening to Li Guo's threatening words, Fu Zonglong suddenly opened his mouth and shouted towards the city: "General Chen, I am Fu Zonglong, I have fallen into the hands of thieves at this time, these people are all thieves, don't be fooled, you must guard Kaifeng ......"

When Li Guo heard this, he was so angry that he stomped his feet in the stirrups and scolded: "Fuck you......" Saying that, he raised a knife in his hand and stabbed Fu Zonglong in half, stabbing it under his left ribs, and the tip of the knife came out from his right ribs. Fu Zonglong's eyes spurted blood, stared at Li Guo fiercely, and slowly fell under the horse, so he was out of breath.

There was a great chaos in the city, and someone was shouting: "Oh no, Master Fu was killed by thieves......"

Chen Yongfu was also taken aback, although he recognized Fu Zonglong, he never expected that he would fall into the hands of King Chuang, and he was coerced to earn the city, if it wasn't for Fu Zonglong's life and breaking the matter, he would have to let Fu Zonglong in. Once these thousands of thieves entered the city......

Chen Yongfu was afraid for a while, and admired Fu Zonglong from the bottom of his heart. At this time, when he saw that the thief had killed him, he was so angry that he yelled: "Give me arrows......

Tian Jianxiu originally wanted to stop Li Guo from attacking, but after all, he was a step too late, Li Guo's temper flareed up, and he had already killed someone, and he sighed when he heard it: "Withdraw it......"

Li Guo was afraid that Fu Zonglong would not die, so when he left, he took a spear from his own soldiers, and squeezed a few shots in front of Fu Zonglong's heart, so he left with hatred.

The city began to release arrows, but at this time Li Guo, these thousands of men and horses, had already gone far, Chen Yongfu looked into the distance, the black pressure was all heads, it seemed that Li Zicheng's brigade had arrived, so he ordered the city to sound a golden drum and inform the whole city that the thieves were coming.

As soon as I heard the sound of drums and trumpets, the whole city moved, although the people in Kaifeng City had already thought that there would be this day, but when it really came, many people were still scared and trembled, especially those recruits and civilian soldiers who had not been in the battle formation, and they were so frightened that their whole bodies trembled and they were at a loss.

The officers and soldiers who rushed to the head of the city looked from afar, only to see a few miles away, there were countless men and horses, swords, halberds, swords and guns flashing in the rising sun, the horses were lined up in rows, the saddle bridles were distinct, the soldiers on the horses were divided into several teams, the spearmen, the broadsword soldiers, the crossbowmen moved forward in turn, and the infantry were shield soldiers, spearmen, hammer soldiers, and the horns of the formation were pressed down, and the people were really like tigers, and the horses were like swimming dragons.

Among these teams, there was a big flag flying in the wind, with the word "Liu" written on it, and Chen Yongfu knew that it was Liu Zongmin, the number two person in the thief camp.

Liu Zongmin was marching forward with the team, and suddenly a report from the front army came: "Master Liu, Li Guo and they are back." ”

As soon as he heard this, Liu Zongmin sighed: "It doesn't seem to have succeeded." At this time, Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo's Pegasus came and ran to him to restrain the horse, Li Guo's mouth was fast: "Uncle Liu, Fu Zonglong, this bastard who ate the scales, was iron-hearted, and as soon as he arrived in the city, he told our identity in one bite, I couldn't get angry, and I killed him with a knife." ”

Liu Zongmin shook his head lightly, and he didn't blame Li Guo, because if Fu Zonglong didn't cooperate with the city, it would be useless, and he would kill him. Therefore, he smiled at the two: "Forget it, you can't make money to open the city, so you have to move seriously, there are cannons behind King Chuang, and there are 100,000 horses, let's surround the city first." ”

So Liu Zongmin ordered 35,000 men and horses to be divided into four teams to surround Kaifeng City, and after besieging the city, they did not attack, but just set up Dazhai and dig a ditch to prevent the officers and troops from going out of the city to sneak attack. Liu Zongmin meant to set his feet first and wait for Li Zicheng's team.

Sure enough, before it got dark, Li Zicheng arrived, and more than 200,000 people were in a huge wave, covering the sky and the earth, and the people and horses together with the heavy vehicles were discharged for dozens of miles, and the momentum was huge.

After Li Zicheng arrived, according to Liu Zongmin's intentions, he sent Tian Jianxiu to surround the north gate, Li Guo to surround the west gate, Liu Fangliang to surround the east gate, and he and the rest of the generals focused on attacking at the south gate.

More than 200,000 people are under the city of Kaifeng, staring at them and delaying, and the murderous spirit is empty. At this time, it is the season of spring flowers, the earth is warm, neither cold nor hot, just fighting.

So the battle that decided the situation in Henan was about to start under Kaifeng City.

Not to mention that Li Zicheng is preparing for a decisive battle with the official army in Henan, let's talk about Fan Ju. He took hundreds of thousands of people from the fifth battalion of the left to kill Yangzhou, and there was no obstacle along the way, because in the past few years, there has been no harassment by thieves, the peasant army has not fought here, and there have been no natural disasters, so Yangzhou is still a peaceful scene, for Henan Guanzhong, it is like heaven.

After the fifth battalion of the left side was killed, Fan Ju took Ziyi as the vanguard and went straight to Yangzhou. Ziyi led 3,000 cavalry and slaughtered outside the city like a torrent. At this time, Yangzhou only got some rumors that the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo was coming to attack, but there was no specific information, and Ziyi came too quickly, and he had already killed before the city was prepared.

Yang Fang, the defender in the city, hurriedly closed the city to defend himself, and the people and assets outside the city did not have time to collect into the city, so they all belonged to Ziyi.

Ziyi also knew that his 3,000 cavalry would not be able to break through Yangzhou, so he camped outside the north gate and waited for the army to arrive.

After Fan Ju led more than 200,000 people to arrive, he first observed, and then among the captured refugees, he found a relative of Yang Fang, detained the person's family, and then sent him into the city to let Yang Fang dedicate the city.

How do you know that this relative went in and said it, but was driven out by Yang Fang, who had already made up his mind to live and die with Yangzhou. Fan Ju understood that he couldn't stay in Yangzhou for a long time, because it wouldn't be long before the court's reinforcements would arrive, Yangzhou was an important town in the southeast, and Chongzhen must not let it be lost here.

So Fan Ju ordered to attack the city immediately.

There are not many people and horses in Yangzhou, because no one expected that the fifth battalion of the left side would come so suddenly, Fan Ju's prior arrangement was rewarded, he sent people and horses to attack Xuzhou, the attention of the officers and soldiers was attracted, and then the whole army galloped, rushed to come, Yangzhou City was caught off guard, and was not able to transfer troops into the city from other places, so there were only six or seven thousand people in the city, divided into four gates, and each gate was one or two thousand people, where could withstand the onslaught of 200,000 horses of the fifth battalion of the left side.

Therefore, in less than a day, the peasant army attacked the city of Yangzhou.

Yang Fangning was unyielding to death, and led the remnants of the men and horses to fight in the streets, but he was killed on the spot, most of the rest of the men and horses were killed, and only more than 2,000 people escaped from the city.

Fan Ju entered and occupied Yangzhou City, which immediately shocked the world.

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