Chapter 7: The Siege

Zheng Lian seems to be also from a scholarly family.

didn't know how to be in the rebel army, Luo Yujiao saw that he was literate and literate, so he sent him to Zhang Xuan. Zheng Lian is already fifteen years old, so Zhang Xuan treats him as a child. And Zheng Lian also has a habit, which seems to be the reason why Luo Yujiao sent him over.

That's the love of reading.

Zhang Xuan is not a person who loves to read at heart, but he is used to modern information intake. Back in the Ming Dynasty, the most unaccustomed thing was the lack of information in this era, and you could only make up for it by reading books. But Zheng Lian is different, he really loves to read, and even has to memorize some books.

Such a hard-working teenager, Zhang Xuan naturally values it more.

Zhang Xuan used Zheng Lian as a clerk, after all, the scribes under Zhang Xuan's command only had the three brothers Zhang Qian, and Zhang Xuan couldn't pull the three of them over to do some copying and writing work. It is very suitable to use Zheng Lian.

He won't give Zheng Lian to Yuan Shizhong.

The two of them haven't sighed yet, so they don't have time to sigh.

At this moment, Kaifeng City has really begun to fight.

The rumbling drums, the roaring cannons, the shouts of killing, and the sound of explosions form the background music of the battlefield.

Countless rebels rushed to the front with goose carts.

Because the goose cart is the lightest, it rushes the fastest.

"Knock knock knock." The two planks on top of the goose cart are like beating drums.

But it's not the drumsticks that strike, it's the arrows.

And most of these arrows are not shot from bows and arrows, but gunpowder arrows. In the Ming Dynasty, firearms were widely used, except for artillery, firearms, etc., the most was rockets. To be precise, it should be gunpowder arrows, all kinds of gunpowder arrows, countless.

Gunpowder arrows are also simple to make and not less powerful. After all, if you want to make artillery guns, you don't have any technical content, and you really can't play it, but if you get gunpowder arrows, it's much simpler, and a few carpenters can do it, and China has no shortage of carpenters at all.

Therefore, it is natural to use it in large quantities.

"Boom." I don't know what explosives were thrown from the city, and a wave of air rushed next to the goose cart, almost lifting the goose cart up.

"Steady, steady." A small leader of the rebels shouted.

Even now Yuan Shizhong only controls the leaders of the rebel armies, as for how they are arranged below, I'm sorry, there is no unified name at all.

This little leader knows that he doesn't look at them until now, and he doesn't have anything to do with them, it's all up to this turtle shell on their heads, and once this turtle shell is overturned, they are shot into a hornet's nest every second.

"Boom." With a bang, I don't know where a fist-sized cannonball was shot, and it went straight to the top of the goose cart to open a hole, but fortunately they were lucky, this cannonball only pierced through the two baffles, no

There were injuries, and the little leader looked out from the small hole where there was still green smoke.

Suddenly, it was found that the city wall was already very close. Behind them, many goose carts had been knocked to the ground. Most of them were hit by artillery. The roof of each goose cart is like long grass, and it is covered with dense arrows.

"Rush." The little boss had a hideous face and roared loudly.

In this situation, death can occur at any time. Everyone's emotions will be magnified to the extreme.

The goose cart was immediately accelerated under the supervision of the little boss.

The goose cart was low and fast, and it was close to the city walls, but it went into the shooting corner. After a while, "Boom." With a bang, the goose cart finally crashed into the city wall.

"Quick, dig the wall."

The baffle at the front of the goose cart was removed, and several people with shovels and hammers began to dig.

However, after a while, a big hole was dug out.

Because they had already been told before they set out that the only way to dig into the walls was the safest.

"Are you sure?" Directly above the goose cart, there is a thing, like a small wooden attic, that stands on top of the female wall and protrudes from the city wall. An officer and sergeant, standing on it, this thing is the hanging household.

"Sure. It's right at the bottom. The officer and sergeant said.

Immediately, on the city wall, a man waved a flag.

An iron cart was released.

It is not too accurate to say that it is an iron car, it should be said that there are two wheels on both sides of the iron plate. There is an iron chain pulling at the back. The head of the city gave an order. The iron cart fell down from a height of four or five feet. Slammed into the goose cart.

"Boom." With a bang, the goose cart fell apart in an instant.

This iron car is probably the prototype of the iron block in Peking Opera. It weighed about more than 100 catties and fell from a height of four or five zhang, but in fact, it was only a wooden stake goose cart that could be blocked.

Above the city, another wave of flags.

There were people in the city who pulled the iron chariot up the city again with all their strength, pulling the iron chains.

After all, iron is a valuable thing in these years, where is there a reason to use it only once.

At this moment, countless people came and went above the city, and they were extremely busy.

The defense of the head of the city is very layered.

The artillery is far away, attacking a target two hundred paces away, of course, this is the target of the artillery, such as a thousand pound Franc machine, a general cannon and other artillery. It's just that there are not many such artillery in Kaifeng City. Even if Yuan Chonghuan guarded Ningyuan at the beginning, there were only a dozen Hongyi cannons in Ningyuan City.

No, a dozen. Daming's cannon of more than 1,000 catties is calculated according to the position.

Within 200 steps, it is the killing range of rockets, firearms, and trebuchets. Of course, it also includes small cannons that can only be used to shoot scattered shells, and if they are closer, they will have to roll stones

Wood, oil, 10,000 enemies, and other types of explosives.

And this iron car is a variant of sasswood.

A sassal wood is a large piece of wood with various sharp points on it, and ropes are tied at both ends. Smash it down, then pull it up. A wide variety of offensive and defensive equipment.

At this time, Chen Yongfu was sitting upright, the soldiers around him had not moved, and Chen Yongfu's soldiers were still resting peacefully. Because he knew that at this time, this battle had just begun.

"Father." Chen De said: "The enemy ladder is coming. ”

Chen Yongfu said: "There are no fathers and sons in the army. ”

"Yes." Chen De's bow and arrows are used very well, so his eyes are also very sharp, and the place where he is is also selected by Chen Yongfu is the center of the attack surface of the righteous army, which is several miles wide, and can support the surroundings at any time. "My lord, the last general will ask for battle."

"Okay, I'll leave this ladder to you." Chen Yongfu said.

"Yes." Chen De said loudly: "Follow me." ”

Hundreds of soldiers followed Chen De and rushed in the direction of the cloud ladder.

And the place where the ladder is located is the place where the fighting is the most tragic.

"Boom." A cannonball came from under the city, right on top of the female wall at the head of the city. With a "bang", countless bricks flew wildly, and the officers and soldiers near the female wall fell to the ground one after another.

However, this is just a coincidence.

The strength of the rebel gunners could not accurately attack the city.

They stopped at about three hundred paces and bombarded the city walls to cover the approach of the ladder. However, the cannonballs they fired either hit the city walls or crossed the city walls and entered the city, and there were only a few that could really hit the city.

Same thing.

The artillery at the head of the city did not think about the meaning of suppressing the artillery under the city at all, without him, it was impossible to hit.

The targets of their shelling were always the following siege engines. Especially the ladder, Lv bus.

Because of the speed problem, the Lu bus fell behind, and most of the artillery fire was aimed at the ladder. As the ladders got closer and closer, the artillery was getting more and more accurate, and there were already two ladders, which had already been scattered on the road.

However, the density of firepower in this era is still not good. The ladder finally approached the city walls.

"Pull." On the lower level of the ladder, there were more than a dozen soldiers, pulling a rope and shouting, pulling back. The ladder facing the sky was suddenly pulled apart, and the long ladder smashed against the city wall, and the two iron hooks in front of the long ladder cut into the city like blades.

"Kill." As soon as the ladder was settled, the soldiers under the ladder rushed up one after another.

I saw the banner on the cart of the righteous army waved, and the soldiers who had been ready all the time rushed over with swords and shields in hand. But a moment to the bottom of the ladder. A shield covered it, armed with a steel sword, ready to ascend the city at any moment. But at this time, Chen De was already in place.

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