Chapter 6: Before the Siege

On the north gate of Kaifeng City.

Gao Mingheng looked northwest.

Although Kaifeng City has four city walls, it is not a square, but an irregular quadrilateral, the north gate is naturally not on the central axis of the north city wall of Kaifeng, but a little easterly, as for the camp of Xiao Yuanying, because of the choice of terrain, to the west.

Therefore, Gao Mingheng saw the formation of Xiao Yuan's camp from the north gate tower, in the northwest direction.

Gao Mingheng shouldn't have been here.

As the highest official in the city, all the news about the thieves' siege of the city was continuously summarized to him, and he obviously felt that the camp and siege were weak, and Cao Ying was even more pretentious, and only Xiao Yuan's camp did not officially attack the city, but it seemed that there was thunder, and it was not released.

So, he paid special attention to the north side.

As soon as Xiao Yuanying came out of the camp, he was noticed by Gao Mingheng, but after a look, he suddenly felt bad.

In his eyes, the Lu bus in the army formation of Xiao Yuanying was extremely eye-catching, as if it was a giant in the wilderness, surrounded by countless soldiers, slowly and unstoppably moving southward, getting closer and closer to the city wall, and he could see more and more clearly.

"Someone." Gao Mingheng said: "Order General Chen to lead his troops to the north gate. ”

"Yes." One of Gao Mingheng's personal guards responded loudly, then turned around and left, running towards the city.

Gao Mingheng said again: "Raise my banner so that all the soldiers can see it." ”

"Yes."

A three-zhang high flagpole was raised high, with a row of small characters written on it: "The right capital of Yushi, the governor of Henan." And then there was a big "high".

The banner of Gao Mingheng was raised, and the momentum above the city was shaken, and the soldiers were immediately at ease.

Not long after, the sound of neat footsteps came from inside the north gate, and it was Chen Yongfu who arrived.

Chen Yongfu was dressed in armor, and the clanging sound of his walk seemed to be the collision of the waist knife on his body and his leg skirt, and it seemed to be the vibration of the armor on his body. He came to Gao Mingheng, bowed down and saluted: "The last general has seen Master Gao, but he is under armor and cannot perform a full salute." ”

That's not an excuse.

Chen Yongfu's armor, helmet, armor, sleeves, leg skirt, and iron boots add up to dozens of catties, plus there are many designs on the armor, which is inconvenient to kneel. Of course, between the upper and lower levels in the Ming Dynasty, it was not necessary to kneel. Chen Yongfu, as the chief soldier of Henan, is not much weaker than Gao Mingheng in terms of grade, but it is only the gap between civil and military, not in terms of grade.

Of course, there is also the time to use force now, and the status of military generals has improved a lot.

"Mr. Chen doesn't need to be polite." Gao Mingheng smiled slightly and said: "Now, the thieves are coming to the city, and General Chen is the iron-walled Great Wall of my Kaifeng. ”

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Adults win prizes. Chen Yongfu said.

Gao Mingheng pointed to the outside of the city and said, "This will be handed over to General Chen." ”

Chen Yongfu looked out of the city, his face sank slightly, and said, "Please rest assured, Chen is here, and this northern city is here." It's just that the soldiers here are in danger, so please move. ”

Gao Mingheng actually didn't want to stay in Beicheng either.

From Gao Mingheng's point of view, although he can't talk about being powerless, he can't fight in battle, which is not what a minister like him should do. It's just that seeing Xiao Yuanying menacing, coupled with the fact that the Lu bus is quite shocking, I can't feel at ease at this moment.

"Your Excellency." Chen Yongfu seemed to see Gao Mingheng's thoughts, and said: "You can't look at the battlefield here, please move to the top of the iron tower, and you can naturally have an unobstructed view of the battle outside the city." ”

"Okay." Gao Mingheng said: "I watched the success or failure of this place from the top of the iron tower. ”

In fact, the Kaifeng Iron Tower is very high, it is the highest point in the city, but the location is not very right, the iron tower is in the northeast corner of Kaifeng City, and now the place of the battle is a little northwest of Kaifeng City, whether you can have an overview of the battlefield, Chen Yongfu does not know.

He just doesn't want Gao Mingheng to be here, otherwise things are different, and he won't be happy to do things.

"Huang Tuiguan, Sang Tongzhi." Chen Yongfu said with a smile: "The two of you also went with Master Gao, right?" ”

"General Chen," Sang Kai said, "I will go to supervise the people under the city and listen to the general's orders." ”

"Okay." Chen Yongfu said: "Thank you Sang Tongzhi. Then he looked at Huang Shu

Huang Shu said: "Huang and Lord Chen are together in the city to defend against the enemy. ”

Huang Shu loves to be in the limelight, even though he knows that he is above the city, he can't actually help much, but he will never leave the city.

Chen Yongfu also had nothing to do with him, so he could only put it down temporarily.

At this moment, Chen Yongfu's subordinates, under the leadership of Chen Yongfu's son Chen De, had taken over the city defense. Prepare to fend off the attack of the rebels.

The rebels also stopped. Stopped two miles outside the city.

Although the camp of Xiao Yuan's camp was only about ten miles away from Kaifeng City, these siege equipment were too heavy, and they also walked for a while. After all, it is quite a matter of strength to walk for miles with such a heavy object. So stop and regain some strength.

Hope that the car is re-secured. Immediately a lookout stood up.

Yuan Shizhong and Zhang Xuan were under the watchtower.

"Boom." With a bang, on the Kaifeng city wall, a cannon roared, and a cannonball seemed to slowly shoot out from the city wall in Zhang Xuan's eyes, and hit the army formation far away, hitting two or three people, before slowly stopping on the ground.

Zhang Xuan said: "It seems that this tall man doesn't want us to stay here and forces us to attack immediately." ”

Yuan Shizhong sneered and said, "Then do what he wants." Yuan Shizhong turned to the side and said to a young man: "Immediately give the order, the whole army will attack." ”

The teenager immediately pulled out a note. Then he stuffed it into a bamboo tube, covered it, ran to the bottom of the watchtower in a few steps, tied it to a rope, and then pulled the other end vigorously, and this bamboo tube, like a good flag, flew to the lookout.

Immediately, the soldiers above opened the bamboo tube and waved the flags one after another.

The sound of the rapid war drums of "Knock ----" immediately sounded. This drum beat is different from the previous ones, from the beginning to the end, the rhythm is getting faster and faster, and the interval between the drumsticks is getting smaller and smaller, which makes people listen to the blood rush, and the drumsticks seem to be a phantom.

The flags in front of the formation immediately flickered, and the so-called corresponding flags indicated that orders had been received.

Immediately, a group of men and horses rushed forward with siege equipment.

This is the result of Yuan Shizhong's rectification of soldiers and horses during this period of time.

One of the important aspects of military training in ancient times was to see the golden drum and the flag. Because on the battlefield, this is the only chain of command. It's rough though.

The flag language is definitely not as rich as the current flag language, but it can express a few general meanings such as forward, backward, etc., and use different colors of flags to represent different armies. The drum sound is even simpler, and the drum sound with different rhythms represents different meanings.

But just after such systematic training, Yuan Shizhong was already excited.

Before, he could only control 10,000 people in his own headquarters, and the rest could not be controlled at all, but now he can command tens of thousands of people on the battlefield, divide the troops and arrange them in an orderly manner. Let Yuan Shizhong know how wild he was before, he said: "Third brother, you can lend me this kid." ”

"That's not going to work." Zhang Xuan said: "I know that there are few literate people here in the eldest brother. But I don't have many around me, this kid Zheng Lian is still what I asked for from my father-in-law. ”

"Hey, third brother, your method is good." Yuan Shizhong said: "It's just that there is no talent in my brother's hands." ”

Yuan Shizhong really has no talents in his hands, and this set of command systems, such as flags and the like, is too difficult for the leaders of the various righteous armies under the church. Most of these people are bitter people who can't read a single big word haha. These things are simple, but they can be difficult to learn in a few days.

So Yuan Shizhong gathered the literate people around him and sent them down, one in each team, responsible for holding the flag. Accept Yuan Shizhong's orders.

It's just that the literacy rate among the rebels is too small. Yuan Shizhong was a little hungry. Even the scholars around Zhang Xuan wanted to grab it.

Yes, Zheng Lian is Zhang Xuan's scholar, and Zhang Xuan reads tirelessly. And when the war was fighting, Luo Yujiao couldn't be by her side all the time, so she found a literate child from Cao Yingzhong and sent it to Zhang Xuan, who became Zhang Xuan's scholar and sorted out books for Zhang Xuan.

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