Outside the city of Kaifeng, ten miles of joint operation. The Zhengzi flag flutters in the wind.

One cannon after another was placed directly in front of his infantry array by Zheng Zhilong, and the dark muzzles shimmered in the sunlight. Luo Jinxiu secretly glanced outside, looked at Zheng Jun who was neatly lined up, and secretly felt pain.

Uncle Zheng also thinks too highly of Kaifeng City's status in the eyes of Prince Ying, what kind of character is Prince Ying? How could they take a big risk in order to open the lockdown city?

"Bang-"

An iron bullet fell four or five feet away from Luo Jinxiu, smashing a city brick, and Luo Jinxiu couldn't help but shake his body.

"Let's go, let's go!"

Zheng Zhilong collapsed the walls of Kaifeng City, and the reason why he kept it was completely tempting Azig.

But the Azighs won't be fooled.

Kaifeng was lost, and the Eight Banners had been wandering outside, taking advantage of the cavalry to harass the logistics line of the Zheng army.

Although the Zheng army's military supplies were largely transported by water, the cavalry could not touch a single hair at all.

Yes, the Grand Canal does not go to Kaifeng, and it is now the end of the Ming Dynasty and not the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. But this does not mean that there is no waterway between Zheng Jun's territory and Kaifeng City.

Don't forget the Yellow River.

Since the Song and Jin dynasties, the Yellow River seized the Huai River into the sea - in the fifth year of Jin Mingchang (1194), the Yellow River burst at the Yangwu Ancient Dike, the flood engulfed the sealed hill, and all the way south to encroach on the Huai River below Huaiyang. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, every time the Huaishui is in full bloom, the west wind and waves, the white waves are like mountains, the Huaiyang is hundreds of miles, the public and private are panicked, and those who dare not sleep in peace have been carried out for hundreds of years.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's military supplies were mainly transported to Kaifeng by the Yellow River.

Azig led the Eight Banners Horse Team out to harass Zheng Jun's logistics, that's just how to say it. What they did was to break into the southeast of Yanzhou, burning, killing and looting.

"You go and get ready, don't panic." Returning to the governor's yamen, Luo Jinxiu instructed the chief. The latter was stunned when he heard this, "Does the master think this Kaifeng City ......?" ”

"Zheng Zhilong made the army kill outside the pass, and even broke a number to make a heavy town, and the local garrison suffered heavy losses, and Prince Li's urgent excerpts were afraid that they all flew to Yanjing. At this time, Prince Ying must have gone north, what is Zheng Jun still rubbing outside the city? ”

Luo Jinxiu said confidently.

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The east city wall, the Kaifeng city wall more than three zhang high, has been lying on the ground like a tumbling dragon, and the entire city wall is twisted, deformed, and collapsed.

In these days, although Zheng Jun left a lot of spare strength, he still carried out the blasting of the Kaifeng city wall, especially the east city wall and its urn city, which focused on the east city wall.

Luo Jinxiu and Zu Zerun also wanted to stop it. But they can't stop it.

And after the previous immersion of Kaifeng City, the firmness has been greatly reduced, and it is the shelling of these days, if the Zheng army is really ruthless, the city wall will have collapsed long ago.

The nearly five-mile-long eastern city wall is still standing with only two miles left and less than the city wall, and it is still divided into five or six long sections.

The moat has long since been filled.

Compared with Ningyuan City in the same time period, if the city defense fortifications of Ningyuan City that Wu Sanfu just lost were still a cake that was scraped off the cream and then cut several times, Kaifeng City was a cake that was grabbed and rubbed by someone with his hands for ten minutes!

Hundreds of cannons were lined up on the position directly east of Kaifeng, and the momentum was much greater than the battle of Ningyuan outside Guanwai that was taking place at the same time.

Artillery plus mortar cannons, solid shells and flowering shells.

The artillery bombardment of the Zheng army was very powerful. And the cannonballs were also relatively accurate, because the geographical length of Kaifeng City was all under Zheng Zhilong's control, and the Black Ice Platform had already reported a series of detailed figures, and then a very realistic sand table was formed.

The artillery of the Zheng army bombarded the city wall and the barracks in the city, and it was not all blind.

As for whether doing this will cause more killings and injure the people by mistake, it is really too underestimated Huang Shu's strategy of replacing soldiers with water.

At the beginning of the Kaifeng War, the Ming army in order to prevent Li Zicheng from seizing the city, and then went north to threaten the capital, so he listened to Huang Shu's strategy, digging the Yellow River embankment to replace the army with water, it was the height of summer, the rain in the north was the majority, and the rolling Yellow River water suddenly flooded the Kaifeng City. The city is hugely immersed from the inside, and the two floors of the bell and drum are seen, the ridge of the palace of the group of clans, the top of the Xiangguo Temple, and the city of Zhou Dizi.

The Kaifeng city wall, which is three feet and five feet high, is almost silted up, revealing only the battlements and the parapet wall. What is even more distressing is that after the flood, only 20,000 people remained in Kaifeng City, which is smaller than 400,000 people. Although this does not mean that the more than 300,000 people who are 'gone' are all killed, there is no doubt that Kaifeng's vitality is greatly damaged.

The water receded, leaving more than a foot of thick sediment. Kaifeng City is almost flat, and it is already "yellow sand and white grass, looking at the mounds and ruins." The sight.

That tragic scene is only a few years ago, Kaifeng City is far from recovering, a large number of vacant land and ruins, few people, can definitely say that the civilians are not as many as the green flag soldiers in the city.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's shelling, it is impossible to accidentally injure the people.

As long as the people in Kaifeng City, which is more than 20 miles around, want to hide, no one will be hurt.

The blue-black smoke columns rising from the ruined Kaifeng East City, this was not Zheng Zhilong's flowering bomb, but the use of arson bombs, which naturally hit the abandoned houses from time to time, and the flames rose and extinguished, nothing strange.

Just when Zheng Zhilong was besieging Kaifeng, God rained a hail + rain, but the new year added a touch of vitality.

Zu Zerun once again went to the front line, holding a telescope in his hand and watching the battle with a gloomy face. Zheng Zhilong is really powerful, as soon as he shoots, he has more than a hundred cannons, and he can see that he is drooling.

Because, there are only a few rotten cannons in the entire Kaifeng City? This is true, there is no harm without contrast.

Moreover, these cannons were still bombarded irregularly, sometimes in the dead of night, and suddenly dozens of artillery pieces bombarded in clusters, and the burst of fire seemed to turn the position into a thunder pool.

Zu Zerun was very sad.

Half an hour of artillery fire was ready to end in a blink of an eye, and the position was shrouded in gunsmoke, but everyone knew that after the artillery fire, the infantry charge would begin! Zu Zerun hurriedly gave the order and ordered all troops to enter the combat position! Zheng Jun is about to come up.

This Kaifeng City Azig has already ignored it, but he can't do it, not only can't, but he also has to keep Kaifeng as much as possible, so as to delay Zheng Jun. This is a great credit to the Qing Dynasty.

Two battalions of Zheng's army were thrown into the battlefield and divided into left and right wings. They've received orders and don't need to play anymore, fight! What a hit! Hit hard!

Battalion officers on the left flank shouted slogans. It was a battalion-wide offensive. The battalion officers, battalion deputies, staff officers, instructors, and officers of each team all walked in the middle of the formation with their heads held high.

"Take Kaifeng!"

Hearing the roar of their battalion officers, more officers squeezed the same cry out of their chests. Although they didn't know Zheng Zhilong's entire battle plan at all, Kaifeng City was the province of the Central Plains and an important town in the world. To be able to take such a city is an honor for them.

More than 1,000 soldiers of the entire battalion straightened up, each of them clutched their rifles with bayonets, and strode forward with the officers wielding their waist knives.

The soldiers were boiling like a tide. As he moved forward, he pulled out the formation and set up a standard five-column skirmisher line!

This time, the team cut in from the northeast direction of Kaifeng, using the two gaps there as a breakthrough, which was not a casual attack order issued by the commander, but was set by Zheng Sen himself. The reason is because of the general flag that was fired there two days ago.

The smoke and dust put a layer of cover for the attacking Zheng army, and the Qing army could not make a detailed observation of the attacking troops of the Zheng army. Zu Zerun, who was standing on the front line of the Qing army, and several equally experienced officers watched all this with frozen faces!

Ice is cold, heavy, but not solid.

Fragmentary gunshots rang out. This is a sniper shooting.

The Qing army outside Kaifeng City is also moving slowly, and now even when they are moving, they must watch the sky carefully, and pay attention to avoid the sudden cannonballs of the Zheng army, because a few days ago, a Qing army was hit by a cannon fire of the Zheng army when they were assembling. And then the ranks of two or three thousand people were torn apart by a sudden artillery strike! Even the generals who led the troops were shattered.

After suffering a loss, the Qing army did not learn the truth of being obedient.

In this way, it was not until the exact news was obtained that Zheng Jun had really fallen to the front, and a large number of Qing soldiers let go of their footsteps and blocked the gap.

On the remnants of the city wall, a few Qing musketeers had just begun to shoot. Zheng Jun kept his head down, and the attacking troops on the left and right only began to make the final charge under the loud orders of the battalion officer.

"Kill—"

There is no passionate and high-pitched shout, just a simple cry of killing, and then there is a shocking "Tiger!" Tiger! Tiger! ”

The Qing army, which crawled out of the ditch and stood up from the ruins, greeted it with swords and guns, and the sound of fighting between the two sides resounded through Kaifeng. However, a bit unexpectedly by Zheng Sen, the two sides had just clashed, and the Qing army guarding the gap was defeated and retreated, and the soldiers of the Zheng army, who were still stained with blood, were like tigers descending from the mountains and pounced into the flock, blocking the invincible.

"Shoot, shoot, shoot me!"

Zu Gui rushed over with the troops, as the son of the ancestral family, he was loyal to Zu Zerun a hundred times.

Holding a short gun in his hand, Zu Gui aimed at a Zheng Jun officer wielding a saber is a shot! But it didn't hit!

Then a wave of grenades was thrown. Zheng's attacking forces were hit head-on, and the soldiers fell in screams, although they were accompanied by more Qing soldiers.

This cruel style of fighting made Zheng Jun hate it so much that thirty or fifty soldiers fell to the ground, and the battle was going on so far, and the casualties of the attacking troops were at most this number. But this did not frighten them, but only aroused the fighting spirit and burning anger of the fighters. A bayonet to tell the Qing army the answer! At the same time, behind them, the second group of troops is rapidly advancing!

The Qing army behind Zu Gui was very heroic, mixed with the standard battalion green flag soldiers of the ancestral family, brandishing swords and guns one by one, and viciously pounced on the Zheng army.

The bullet grazed Zu Gui's cheek, leaving a blood mark, but Zu Gui in the battle didn't react at all, as if he didn't feel pain.

The second batch of Zheng Jun pounced from behind, and Zu Zerun also sent another gold medal fighter under him in due time-Xu Yong.

This person is one of the several generals of the left battalion who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty with Zuo Mengeng, a native of Liaodong, who was a good dog of the Tartars after the surrender of the Qing Dynasty in history, and finally the whole family was martyred for the Tartars. And now in time and space, he not only surrendered with Zuo Menggeng, but also put Zuo Mengeng aside very brightly, and was the first to flatter Zu Zerun.

Now Zuo Mengeng has gone to Yanjing, but the soldiers and horses he brought to eastern Henan stayed in Kaifeng.

"Kill......"

The fighting on the walls intensified.