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Outside the south gate, the voices of people were boiling, and the sound of cannons was like thunder.

According to the tactics that Luo Hu offered to Li Zicheng, the method of combining reality and reality, and advancing from north to south, originally only thought that the strength of the official army was contained, and the progress here was much faster than people imagined.

The broken bricks and tiles under the city have long been frantically picked up by the hungry people, and they have been taken back for steamed buns. Later people struggled to carry large pieces of rammed earth to the rear with tattered clothes and baskets.

There was the young, strong, and bold homeless man, who had already made his third trip with his legs and feet. When they panted and threw the rammed clay in their arms to the ground, they were greeted with an even bigger surprise.

Oily flatbreads and chunks of stew were placed in front of them.

"All-you-can-eat! Eat your fill! ”

Moreover, from this moment on, they were the foot soldiers of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion. You can enjoy two full meals a day.

The power of example is endless. Watching others leisurely gnawing on meat and bones with pancakes, and oil soup flowing down their lips, suddenly aroused the enthusiasm of all the homeless people.

People frantically rushed towards the city walls, ignoring the arrows, firearms, and stones on the city's head, and struggling to pick up the rammed earth blocks on the ground and walls. In the blink of an eye, the vicinity of the city bricks that had been torn apart by the cannonballs became more and more tattered, like the ulcers of a person, and they grew bigger and bigger.

"Hunger, stop! Recruit on! ”

The so-called recruits are those soldiers and horses that were destroyed during the destruction of Xiao Yuan's battalion, and they are barely considered combat-effective compared to the hungry people. At this time, they had no knives and guns in their hands, only hoes and shovels, pickaxes, baskets, etc.

"Go up, dig a basket of earth on the city wall, and come back, you are my pawns in the camp." These people also remembered the words of the generals and shouted. The tide came up.

"Little Huzi, is this okay? Do you want me to send some cavalry to keep you in prison? Hao Shaoqi twisted his short hair like a steel needle and stared at the messy recruit team in the distance. He feared that these people would run away or not be able to work.

"Uncle Shake the Flag, no." Luo Hu's face had an expression that should not be at this age.

"Where did they flee when they fled? Can't work? The officers and soldiers at the head of the city will discipline them for us! ”

More than 10,000 soldiers of the small Yuan battalion rushed to the city wall and randomly found a place where they were shovels, pickaxes, and hoes. Raindrops fell on the rammed earth wall, struggling to dig the corner of the socialist wall, not the corner of the Ming Dynasty fortress in Henan.

Despite the constant rolling of stones on their heads, the shooting of arrows and firearms, and the occasional sparse cannon shot, there were constantly companions who were hit and fell to the ground, but people were always digging frantically.

There is only one belief in people's hearts, and when they go back with the city bricks, they will be able to eat well. Drink good.

It's been too painful to live in this life, and now there is a little pleasure, so even if you give up this life, it's nothing. If you die, you should have died a long time ago, and if you didn't die, you earned a meal and drink. This kind of pathetic thinking is incomprehensible to people today.

Because today's people worry about what to eat for three meals every day, the meat is easy to get fat, and the dishes have no taste. Spit on all kinds of food safety, chickens are fed with feed. Pigs are fodder-driven; It doesn't have its own flavor when you eat it. And not too early, our parents and grandfathers have always been worried about what to eat.

At that time of our fathers, we were poor and had nothing but ambition and bones, and we did have a little food, but it was for the materials that the country urgently needed. So our fathers had to keep tightening their belts. However, compared to their grandfather's generation, they are still happy. They can see the result of their belts, two bombs and one star and a powerful new China, and grandpa's generation. The belt of his trousers was broken, and he could only see the warlords fighting the Japanese invaded the Yellow River and flooded, the streets of Wuhan could be rowed, and then Tian Fu was pre-enlisted to the 100th year of the Republic of China. Even foreign missionaries and journalists have recorded that before the soldiers of the Nationalist army went into battle, the soldiers were reluctant to eat the biscuits issued to them, but carried them with them, hoping that if they were still alive in the battle, they would mix them with the next meal so that they could eat once full.

This can be used to cover up the national government with the hardships of material resources during the Anti-Japanese War, but during the Liberation War, countless soldiers of the national army actually said that the food on the communist side was better than that of the national army! And it is a descendant of the Central Army! Therefore, the soldiers at that time could only see hunger, hatred and despair in their eyes, and for them, the only time when their eyes could shine was when the officers occasionally gave them kind rewards and ate meat. Of course, often at this time, it is also the time for them to play with their lives, and their lives, even they feel themselves, are worth a bowl of broth.

And at this time, the same is true of these displaced people.

If you are killed, you will be reincarnated as soon as possible, and if you don't deserve to die, you will have a good life when you return to the camp. You can live the life you deserve!

The crazy actions of these people who were originally part of Xiao Yuan's camp were not afraid of death, and Gu Ying, who was ordered to come to watch the progress of the war, was shocked. It turns out that once a person goes crazy, the power that bursts out is so terrifying!

On the city wall, the bricks of the city that had been destroyed by the twelve-pound shells had turned from ulcers to festering, and there were black holes in the city.

"Brother Zijie, you wait here for a while, and then go back to report to King Chuang after my round of artillery fire is over!"

Thirty guns weighing more than eight pounds once again opened the muzzles of the black hole hole on the wall of the black hole.

"Aim! Take aim! "The officers of the artillery team ran around, correcting the firing of several base guns. Strive to make every shell hit the hole in the wall.

Cannonballs flew in droves into the holes that had been dug by the people, and the power of the gunpowder on them was harshly vented on the rammed earth of the city walls. The heavy impact force made the officers and soldiers and people guarding the city feel the shaking under their feet. The horror of this shock was far greater than the faint but firm tremor that came from the excavation of the walls.

"Quick! Go to the north gate to tell your lords! The thieves bombarded the south gate with hundreds of heavy cannons, and the city was about to be unsafe! Ding Qirui's supervising battalion general roared in a voice that almost tore apart, ordering a thousand generals to quickly deliver the letter.

Under the city, another round of excavation began.

The original concentrated artillery bombardment area has become several huge holes, and under the city, more than 1,000 musketeers are standing. There are also thousands of cavalry under Hao Shaoqi's command who held the horse bow in their hands. The people kept the hungry people in and out of the walls under the city, and suppressed the fire of the defenders at the head of the city with firearms and bows and arrows.

In Gu Ying's eyes, the siege position commanded by Luo Hu was nothing less than a powerful machine, shelling the city walls, and the hungry people digging up the city bricks and ramming the earth. After that, the soldiers of the small Yuan battalion stepped forward to dig the city wall, and then there was another round of shelling.

The whole process was connected like a smooth stream, and those chaotic teams of hungry people were also organized into a team of 80 to 100 people, who stepped forward in turn to dig, and those who dared to act without authorization or cowered and snatched the bricks and soil of others were discovered by the cavalry of the old battalion who patrolled and imprisoned, and immediately corrected the law.

This step by step. It seems to be several digging buckets of excavators, attacking in turn, and soon three holes that can accommodate more than ten people in and out of the Kaifeng city wall were dug out, and the holes continued to expand at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This little tiger went to Shandong for a trip, what did he learn and come back?" Gu Ying was a little puzzled in her heart. In fact, it was not only him, but the generals who broke into the camp. Anyone who is familiar with Luo Hu has discovered his great changes.

"What have you learned? Excavator! "If Gu Ying asked him in person. Luo Hu would probably reply like this.

When he was in Shandong, whenever he fought with the mixed brigade of Jingying or Liao Dongzhi, if it was a field battle, it would be fine, and if it was a siege of the city, most of the Nanyue troops would act as teachers and give the student of Jingying an explanation. Luo Hu and Wang Long. can only be used as an auditor to learn art from a teacher on the side.

The siege of the Nanyue army was carried out by mortar cannons and Kelon cannons together, and after a few cannons, the city wall collapsed and collapsed. Then a ramp is formed, and with another round of artillery, the ramp can probably be turned into a passage. At this time, the city is already lacking in morale.

"Let's attack the city in Nanzhong, attack the city in Taiwan, those soil kings, traitors who usurped the emperor, and Western red-haired cities, most of them were breached in this way!"

The teacher has mortars and krons, and the regular students also have twelve-pounder guns and ammunition that can be used regardless of the cost, but Luo Hu, an auditor of Lanxiang Technical School, does not have the good material conditions of teachers and regular students.

However, he also has his strengths. Human resources! Lots of people!

And people in this era are the most worthless consumables!

The defenders at the head of the city faced Luo Hu's unreasonable hooligan tactics, and in addition to being frightened, there was only one reaction: "Quick!" Go to the North Gate! Ask the governor for reinforcements! Hundreds of thousands of thieves are pounding on the walls, and we are about to be overwhelmed here! ”

The defenders here are not Kaifeng official soldiers, not even Henan official soldiers, but the superintendent battalion brought into the city by Ding Qirui, who has long been afraid of Yuan Zongdi. Now facing the crazy attack of the thieves under the city, it is more difficult to expect them to defend the city desperately than to ascend to the sky.

The news was once again sent to Gao Mingheng, Chen Yongfu and others.

"Liukou swooped down on the south gate with hundreds of thousands of horses? In less than half a day, three caves have been excavated in the city? This news made Gao Mingheng a little unbelievable. Li Zicheng mobilized the miners of Funiu Mountain, and it took more than half a month to dig more than 30 holes, and they were cracked by the officials and soldiers one by one today. How could the rogue at the South Gate dig three holes in half a day?

How did Gao Mingheng know that although the miners were professional in digging caves, when it came to the destructive power of the city wall, how could the steel drills and chisels in the hands of the miners compare to the ferocity of the cannonballs? What's more, there are more than 100,000 hungry people in Luo Hu's hands who are so hungry that their eyes are blue, and the combat power that erupts under the huge temptation of food is no less than that of Little Wukong seeing the full moon.

However, there is a problem in front of Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu, what should the South Gate do? Is it to send troops to reinforcements? sent, the city defense in the north gate, in the face of Li Chuang and Cao Cao's elite siege, what should I do if I lose? No, it's also Kaifeng's city defense!

If Chen Yongfu had also dealt with Jingying, he would have known that this was another immoral tactic of Ning Yuanbo when attacking fortifications and field battles. (This tactic is familiar to all readers, and it is the brainchild of Lin Dashuai.) Summed up in countless actual battles, it can be said to be invincible. In order to achieve such an effect, Li Zicheng ruthlessly handed over the most essential part of the artillery fire in the camp to Luo Hu, and also gave him more than 100,000 hungry people, as well as the power to command the entire Kaifeng siege battle.

"Wang Zhixian!"

Gao Mingheng gritted his teeth and called Wang Xie, the magistrate of Xiangfu County on the side. "You go down to the city and go to the upper temple, and transfer a thousand people from the Volunteer Shrine there to the south gate, and you will stay there to command on behalf of Benfu!"

Wang Xie took Gao Mingheng's Jun order to lead people down to the city to mobilize the people of the Volunteer Shrine, and just walked to the horse road, there was a hustle and bustle under the city.

A red flag waved on the position of the peasant army under the city, and several eight-pounder cannons sounded first. Immediately after that, various artillery pieces were fired. The sound of artillery is getting denser and denser, shaking the heavens and the earth. Cannonballs of different sizes were fired from the muzzles, many of them hit the city walls, and some of them crossed the city and entered the city from the air. The shells intertwined with each other and made a soul-wrenching sound. More shells hit the wall, causing it to fall and topple, becoming a steep slope. It becomes a slow slope again.

"Wang Zhixian! Wang Zhi County! The governor has an order, don't go to the south gate! Hurry up and transfer the soldiers and horses of the Volunteer Shrine to the city to defend! The thieves are going to storm the city! ”

After the cannon fire gradually subsided, the infantry of the Chuang and Cao camps swarmed, carrying long ladders, leaping over the moats and rushing up the slow slope. The city desperately fired cannons, cast crossbow arrows, and threw bricks and stones.

But the infantry of the two families attacked in turn. Without flinching, a number of the infantry who broke into the camp died. Cao Ying's climbed another batch. After attacking for a while, the infantry of the peasant army suffered many casualties in the gap in the city wall, temporarily stopped the charge, and retreated to the bottom of the moat. More than 100 cannons took advantage of this time to fire at the city again, and many shells continued to hit the gap. The city also returned fire with artillery fire, but not as much as the artillery fire outside the city.

Take advantage of the artillery fire at the head of the city to return fire. The artillery under the city began to look for the artillery in the city to clean up and suppress them one by one. Soon, after a hundred and ten shells, the sound of the city's cannons became sparse. The artillery fire under the city also stopped suddenly, and the Cao Ying infantry lying under the moat surged up like a tide.

"Uncle, King Chuang. In this way, the dog officials in the city could not figure out which side was the main attack and which side was a feint. Throw in troops to plug the mouth, be bombarded by our artillery, go to reinforce the south gate, and I'm afraid that we will take advantage of the loophole! Wang Lung proudly pointed at the panicked scene on the head of the city with his whip, and said that Li Zicheng and Cao Cao were powerful.

The defenders at the south gate waited for reinforcements to arrive. The progress under the city has only made them even more devastating.

Luo Hu commanded the artillery to no longer fire at the city wall, but aimed the cannon at the defenders at the head of the city, using cannonballs to suppress them. Time and space were bought for the construction of the three potholes under the city.

Baskets of rammed earth were carried out of the pits by the hungry people, and one after another of the timber used to support the pits was carried into them.

The three potholes that had been dug up could be heard waving each other's shovels and hoes, clearly and faintly through the earthen walls to the ears of the "next door".

"General Luo! The brothers in the city asked, "Did you dig up the city?" If they need to dig down the city wall, they can only send ten steamed buns and drinking water to each person! ”

The horse harrier rode a horse with a mouth outside the mouth and rushed from the city to the front of the Luo Hu horse.

"Uncle Shake the Flag, it's not too early, and the sun is about to set. We're not waiting to dig up the walls! Prepare gunpowder and let it go! ”

At the sound of an order, the subordinates of the Zhenshan Battalion and Hao Shaoqi began to prepare nervously.

Gu Ying, who was a spectator, also stared at the movement under the city with wide eyes.

In the three temporary caves under the city, the people who had been ordered were busy digging on the earthen walls. Hoes, pickaxes, and old pickaxes rained down on the rammed earth layer, and the outlines gradually appeared on the soil layer that had been extremely solid for hundreds of years.

Small holes that resemble small windows have been dug into the walls separating them from their next-door neighbors, and they are densely arranged like beehives on the rammed earth. Each small cavern is about the size of a powder keg. These beehives are lined up on the northern, east, and west sides of the city wall, and are hundreds of them.

"Get the powder keg in!"

There was another burst of cannon fire and gunfire under the city, which made the sand and stones fly on the top of the city, and the defenders all stuck their heads and faces tightly on the ground of the city wall, lest they be hit by the cannons if they were not careful.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, more than 2,000 people, carrying or carrying powder kegs, sent them into the three pits under the city and stuffed them into the beehives on the walls.

A gunner carefully connected the leads, one by one, and pulled them out of the hole, and the three thick leads were pulled dozens of steps away from the city wall.

"Uncle Shake the Flag, Brother Zijie, let's light the fire!" Luo Hu's face showed a childlike smile at the moment, as if he was setting off firecrackers and fireworks during the Chinese New Year.

In the city wall, there was an endless rumbling sound, and the people at the head of the city were surprised to follow the horse road from the city head, and even jumped down from the city head, everyone heard the faint rumbling sound under the city, and the city wall under their feet was also constantly shaking, shaking, and showing signs of collapse.

"Little Huzi, you tear up the opening here and pour it into the city immediately! I'll go back to King Chuang and ask him to oversee the onslaught!" Be sure to break the seal today! ”

In the rumbling explosion, Gu Ying couldn't hide the surprise on his face, whipped the horse's buttocks, and led dozens of personal soldiers to go.

The serial blasting of the powder keg, for the Kaifeng city wall, is like cutting the tendons and veins on the body with a small knife, digging out the bones, although the power of each powder keg is not great, the blasted rammed earth layer is full of the cave, dust and gray smoke, from the mouth of the cave constantly gushing out, so that the peasant army gathered outside the city feel the fear that the end of the world is coming, and the demon is about to come out of the hole.

After a long time, the sound of explosions from inside the city wall finally stopped, and in front of people's eyes, the Kaifeng city wall still existed.

"Alas! After being busy for a long time, Xiaohuzi, this kid is still busy in vain! Hao Shaoqi was about to open his mouth to comfort Luo Hu for a few words, but he didn't want to, and before he could think about what to say, a huge burst of dust rose up in front of him, and he only heard a loud rumble in his ears, and the city wall of the south gate of Kaifeng collapsed!

This tactic is actually nothing new. For Li Zicheng's subordinates, it's just a matter of letting go. Dig out a cave in the city wall, then put gunpowder in a large urn or porcelain jar, light the gunpowder and blow up the wall. However, no one would have thought that Kaifeng, which has been the capital for several generations, was actually used by Luo Hu in one day, hundreds of barrels of gunpowder, and exploded a gap of more than ten zhang!

That's amazing! Hao Shaoqi, who was so shocked that he went south and north to kill for half his life, almost opened his mouth to stuff two big steamed buns.

In fact, he didn't know that the Kaifeng city wall was not so much blown down by gunpowder as it was crushed by its own weight. Luo Hu drove the hungry people to dig the city wall and fill the cave walls with gunpowder, which was equivalent to placing explosives on the pillars of the city wall. One by one, the powder kegs burst continuously, blowing off the pillars that supported the city wall one by one, and the city wall that lost its support is not a reason not to collapse?

The officers and soldiers at both ends of the gap were stunned, and they didn't care about wiping the dust off their heads and faces, but they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

After the collapse of the city wall, the bricks and stones flew sideways, and some of the grinding discs that were placed under the city when the city was built many years ago were also carried everywhere by this huge force. These pieces of masonry and grinding plates flew towards the city, and the defenders who had just fled to the city were smashed to the ground on the spot before they could breathe, and some of those who did not repair in their previous lives were simply knocked to the ground on the spot by these pieces of masonry and stone.

From the city, you can see half a mile outside the moat, the infantry under Hao Shaoqi is ready to attack the city, and the cavalry is divided into two wings, and the troops are reorganized.

Li Jinbao, nicknamed Ma Harrier, led his cavalry to gallop back and forth among the hungry people, shouting loudly: "The destruction of the city is in front of you!" After entering the city, those who descend will not be killed! Whoever takes something in vain will be beheaded! Whoever commits adultery with a woman shall be beheaded! ”

"Little Huzi, your team is holding down the position of Uncle Banner Shaking under the city, and Uncle Banner is the best at breaking the city!" Hao Shaoqi had already peeled off his naked stripes, threw the original sheepskin aside, revealing his black chest, holding the big flag with the word "Chuang" in one hand and a big knife in the other.

"Sons, follow me!" With a low roar, Hao Shaoqi waved the big flag and rushed in front, and the smoke and dust rushed to the sky behind him, and the cavalry and infantry under Li Jinbao and Hao Shaoqi followed closely.

The crowd that had spread to the horizon began to lunge towards the breach.

There was a constant stream of low, loud voices in the crowd.

"We're not thieves! We are the heavenly soldiers who beg for thieves! ”

"Killing one is like killing my father, and committing adultery to another is like adulteration to my mother!"

"Kill the officers and soldiers! Punish the thief! ”

The slogan spread from the South Gate to the Song Gate, Cao Gate, and North Gate! (To be continued......)