Chapter Thirty-Eight: Capture the Cannon

When Yuan Shizhong and Zhang Xuan came to Yan Li Village, they found that Luo Rucai had also arrived.

As soon as Luo Rucai arrived, he explained that this meeting was not just about Xiao Yuanying's defeat.

For any meeting, the bigwigs are long overdue.

After Yuan Shizhong and Zhang Xuan took the seats, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai came over together.

Li Zicheng simply said a few words, and said that the topic shifted to Xiao Yuanying's defeat.

"I heard that Xiao Yuan's battalion suffered a defeat under Kaifeng City, and even General Wang suffered misfortune, and I asked General Yuan to tell everyone, what happened?" Li Zicheng said slowly.

There seems to be no oppression in the words. It's just that Yuan Shizhong just lost a general, and at this moment, he asked him to break into the camp and talk about how he was defeated in front of the generals of Cao Ying. Li Zicheng did not give Yuan Shizhong any face.

Zhang Xuan was afraid that Yuan Shizhong would not be able to stand it and have some conflict with Li Zicheng, so he immediately said: "This matter, the last general is also here, let me tell you about it." ”

Then without waiting for Li Zicheng to speak, he preemptively spoke first.

First of all, he described the method of artillery blasting of Xiao Yuan's camp, how Hu Quede placed explosives in the city wall, and finally blew up a big gap in the city. How did Yuan Shizhong immediately decide to send Wang Xianzu to attack the city.

After Wang Xianzu rushed into the city wall, he found that there was a city in the city, how did he rush out desperately, and how did the four officers and soldiers use artillery to break up the bullets on the two city walls to block this gap.

In the end, Wang Xianzu was killed in battle, beheaded by the official army, and his head was sent to the Xiao Yuan camp.

Sentence by sentence, Zhang Xuan tried his best to consider the words, which was both objective and fair, and could not attribute the mistake to Yuan Shizhong's command.

It is full of a kind of not that our army does not work hard, but that the enemy army is too cunning.

But even so, Yuan Shizhong listened, his hands clenched into fists, and his teeth rattled.

For Yuan Shizhong, trapping his right-hand man in Kaifeng City is tantamount to heartache for him.

After listening, Li Zicheng did not speak. But there was a lot of talk among the generals.

"Why did the officers and soldiers move so fast?" Liu Zongmin said: "Could it be that they built a second wall in the city in the first place? ”

As soon as Liu Zongmin said this, all the generals nodded silently.

Build another wall from within the wall. You must know that the city wall of Kaifeng Mansion is more than 20 miles.

It's a big project, and it's a little incredible that it was built so quietly.

After all, before, everyone felt that the Kaifeng City Wall was indestructible, so why bother?

"This wall was not built in the last few days, but it is ready-made." Li Xin said.

If there is anyone among the high-level leaders of the righteous army, who is most familiar with Kaifeng City, it is none other than Li

Believed.

Li Xin is located in Qi County, just a stone's throw away from Kaifeng City, Li Xin has not come to Kaifeng City to study, and he is very familiar with every grass and tree in Kaifeng City. Almost by heart.

"Ready-made, how can it be ready-made?" Liu Zongmin said.

"It's the back wall of King Zhou's mansion." Li Xin said: "The Zhou Wangfu was built together with the city wall of Kaifeng Mansion, and the second city wall behind the north city wall must be with the help of the Zhou Wangfu city wall. ”

Li Xin said this, and Zhang Xuan suddenly realized.

In fact, the Zhou Mansion is on the central axis of Kaifeng City, and the north gate of Kaifeng Mansion is eastward, without him, is to avoid the Zhou Palace, all the north and south streets of Kaifeng City run through the east.

Zhang Xuan immediately estimated in his heart.

This section of the city wall that Xiao Yuan's battalion attacked head-on was the middle section of the north city wall. In other words, behind this section of the city wall is facing the back wall of the Zhou Palace.

Because the climbers broke the embankment, the camp of the righteous army was looking for a high place to stand, and the camp of Xiao Yuan's camp was a little west of Kaifeng City. And the city wall gate, the corner of the city wall, is the most solid, and there are corner towers on it.

The walls were already high, and the corner towers above could only be higher.

So Zhang Xuan naturally put the attack point on the city wall, and now it seems that it was a mistake.

Zhang Xuan thought of the people who died in order to break through Kaifeng City, and a sense of self-blame rose in his heart.

After the army turned back from Zhuxian Town, that is, at the beginning of June, it attacked the city for more than 20 days.

Although there were some adjustments to the intensity of the siege in the middle, when the siege method was tested, many times, it was only superficial. But even so, there are hundreds of casualties every day, not to mention the strong attack in the past few days, it is even more a mess, due to the organization of the rebel army, the detailed number of deaths cannot be counted at all, but Zhang Xuan himself estimates that there are about twenty or thirty thousand people.

Although even though there are people near Kaifeng who can't survive every day to join the rebels, Xiao Yuan's camp has not only become weaker, but stronger in a series of battles. But Zhang Xuan still couldn't forgive himself.

Even if it's just 20,000 people.

20,000, 20,000, just because of his own miscalculations, these 20,000 deaths have become meaningless.

"So to speak." Li Zicheng said: "It is not very suitable to attack from the north city. ”

Li Zicheng's words, even Zhang Xuan couldn't refute them.

After all, the situation is now here, and I want to attack the city from the north city. It takes too much manpower and material resources, and it is not cost-effective at all.

It is also impossible for Kaifeng City to pull up another wall behind the other three walls in just a few days.

Knowing that it is difficult to fight, it is not the work of a wise man to continue to fight.

"In this way, Xiao Yuan's camp has worked hard for half a month, so let's rest, and let me break into the camp for the main attack." Li Zicheng said.

"Please rest assured, brothers, recuperate

Rui for a while, he will definitely be able to conquer Kaifeng City in one fell swoop, but Xiao Yuan's camp is not the main attack, is it not to move the artillery in Xiao Yuan's camp to the camp. Liu Zongmin said with a hint of joy.

Zhang Xuan's mind suddenly came out of his guilt, and he accurately judged the meaning of breaking into the camp.

Xiao Yuanying's previous efforts finally found a way to conquer Kaifeng City, as long as he found a way to catch medicine, even if it took a little more time, he should be able to attack Kaifeng City. Chuang Ying didn't want to give up the honor of conquering Kaifeng City to Xiao Yuanying.

After all, conquering Kaifeng City is not just an honor, there are other things, such as the right to dispose of materials in Kaifeng City.

Another purpose, I'm afraid, is that there are more than 100 artillery pieces.

These more than 100 artillery pieces exhausted all the iron materials accumulated by the Cao camp. Even if iron was available later, it could not be supplied in large quantities.

So the cannon never went to more than 200 guns.

However, the ownership of this artillery is very problematic, according to the raw materials invested, there are about 20 pieces in the Xiao Yuan battalion, and the rest are in the Chuang battalion and the Cao battalion.

It's just that the thing is here in Xiao Yuanying, Cao Ying wants it, and Xiao Yuanying has no two words, but when it is placed on the side of the camp, when it is asked, I am afraid it will not be so convenient.

Yuan Shizhong said: "I have nothing to say about lending the artillery of Xiao Yuan's camp to Chuang Ying, there is only one condition, after King Chuang breaks through Kaifeng City, he can dispose of Chen Yongfu and his son to me, and I will scrape them with a thousand knives." to sacrifice the king's brother in the spirit of heaven. ”

"Okay." Li Zicheng said: "I agreed to this. ”

Zhang Xuan sighed secretly in his heart, obviously Yuan Shizhong hated Chen Yongfu very much, and the camp was very powerful, and Cao Ying was a little embarrassed to ask for artillery, but he thought that Luo Ru had the means to come over.

But Xiao Yuanying?

The things are in the hands of the camp, and there are countless reasons for the camp not to return, and Yuan Shizhong is helpless, which is obviously that Yuan Shizhong would rather lose twenty artillery pieces than breathe a sigh of relief.

However, from beginning to end, Luo Rucai did not speak, as if he had reached a deal with Chuang Ying.

Anyway, on the second day, more than 100 pieces of artillery were taken away by the camp.

As for the transaction between Cao Ying and Chuang Ying, Zhang Xuan vaguely guessed that it should be the distribution of materials in Kaifeng City, or the strength of the siege, the strength of Cao Ying's infantry team has never been strong. Used in the siege of the city, it seems to be twice the result with half the effort, so this time to attack the city, Chuang Ying sent a lot of infantry to assist Cao Ying in attacking the city.

It's just that which one it is, Zhang Xuan couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Third brother, I still want to attack the city tomorrow." Yuan Shizhong said: "I'm unwilling, I can't avenge Brother Wang, third brother, you are resourceful, please think of a way for Brother Wang." ”

"This ----," Zhang Xuan said, "let me think about it." For a while, Zhang Xuan had no choice.

"Report, there is an abnormality on the river." One night, when I didn't collect the rush to report, Zhang Xuan and Yuan Shizhong suddenly changed color.

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