In fact, where could the Xingtian Army have so many troops! After Yan Chongxi returned to southern Jinnan, he immediately began to mobilize troops and horses, splitting the original supernumerary battalions and replenishing them for pre-war training preparations, but the mobilization of troops in Lu'an Mansion was just an illusion to contain the officers and troops in northern Shanxi.

Of course, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng, who were active in the northern Jin Dynasty, also began to join forces at the moment, provoked the banner of the Xingtian Army in the north of Jin, once again captured Ningwu County, and at the same time began to send troops towards Shuozhou, directly threatening Shuozhou, so Wu Fu in Shanxi was panicked at this time, the north and the south could not take care of each other, and if they could take care of the north and the south, they would not be able to manage it, and if they could manage the south and the north, they would be in chaos.

The direction of Tongguan is also a suspicious plan, just in Shaanzhou assembled two reserve battalions, during the day people and horses into Shaanzhou, quietly out of the city at night, the next morning again into Shaanzhou City, the result of the court to confuse the fine work, a few days down, he saw at least twenty or thirty thousand Xingtian army assembled in Shaanzhou, so he was misjudged that the Xingtian army was going to attack Tongguan, so that Shaanxi did not dare to easily send troops to Henan at this time.

As for Xiangyang's side, although Luo Rucai, Li Xuanzhu, Zhao Erdon and others have led their troops to Xiangyang, but their real purpose in attacking Xiangyang is to contain the officers and troops in the Huguang area, so if they can fight, they will fight, and if they can't, they will first sweep the area north of the Yangtze River in the Xiangyang area, and lay a good foundation for the next step of the main force of the Xingtian Army going south.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the generals all laughed, and now they felt more confident in their hearts.

On the ninth day of the first month of March, Xiao Tianjian gave an order, and the 40,000 army began to pull out the camp and start the village, killing from Zhuxian Town to Kaifeng Mansion.

Kaifeng City is one of the megacities in the north, although it is not as large as the scale of the Beijing Division, but it is rare to compare with the city in the north.

In this era, if it is a general county seat, the circumference of the city wall can be two or three miles, it is considered a large county seat, even if the circumference of the city wall of a city like the state capital is four or five miles, it is not small, but the circumference of the city wall of Kaifeng City has reached more than 20 miles, and the city can accommodate hundreds of thousands of residents to live.

And the city wall of Kaifeng City is very solid, the city wall is three zhang high, the bottom of the city wall is two zhang wide, in addition to the four gates, there is the Bianhe water gate that leads directly to the city, each city gate has an urn city, the city wall is on the city tower, the corner tower, the city dish is lined up, but the various cannons of the defenders in the city are reported in detail, there are nearly 100 guns, among which there are even several are sharp Hongyi cannons, when everyone looks at it, they can't help but gasp, Luoyang City when they fight is mainly because of the large number of officials and soldiers in the city surrendered, So that the Xingtian army can take Luoyang City lightly, but the city defense of Kaifeng City is obviously much more than Luoyang City, and the officers and soldiers in the city are obviously still very determined to resist, Xiao Tianjian After seeing it, he also sighed secretly, no wonder Li Zicheng failed to take Kaifeng City after opening the seal, and finally dug the Yellow River embankment in desperation, flooding Kaifeng City, and now he led his troops to attack, can he take this strong city?

When Xiao Tianjian asked this question in his heart, Ma Shan was denied by him again, what is Li Zicheng? His so-called soldiers and horses are mostly a rabble, how can they be compared with the elite soldiers and horses he is now armed to the teeth?

So Xiao Tianjian gave an order, and surrounded Kaifeng City, but this time he did not order Kaifeng City to be surrounded, but only arranged troops in the east and west of Kaifeng City and the north, and let go of the south of the city alone.

As soon as the Xingtian Army arrived outside Kaifeng City, the entire Kaifeng City entered martial law, and a large number of officers and soldiers began to be caught up on the city wall, and as early as before the Xingtian Army came, Gao Mingheng had already sent people to set up a lot of deer and horses outside the city, dug a lot of trenches and traps, and also spread a lot of thistles, ready to defend Kaifeng City.

Facing such a fortified city that had not yet lost its fighting spirit and was also well-walled, the Xingtian Army could be said to be facing the biggest test since they formed an army.

After Yang Wenyue was ordered, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately gathered 10,000 soldiers and horses in Baoding Mansion, and began to go south day and night, and now Weihui Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion in the north of the Yellow River have been controlled by the Xingtian Army, so they can not cross the river by Weihui Mansion, they can only detour to the Daimyo Mansion, first enter the Shandong boundary, and then take Yuncheng to cross the Yellow River towards Kaifeng Mansion.

And when Yang Wenyue arrived in Dingtao, the Xingtian Army had already surrounded Kaifeng Mansion, which was very different from when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng Mansion in history, at this time Henan was basically in the hands of the Xingtian Army, and the official army was consumed by the Xingtian Army in the past few years, so that basically except for Yang Wenyue, there were no other officials and troops to support Kaifeng Mansion.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian's troops besieged Kaifeng Mansion this time, and in terms of the periphery, he basically did not have much to worry about, and he could go all out to attack Kaifeng Mansion.

When Xiao Tianjian led his troops to besiege Kaifeng Mansion, in addition to the 40,000 soldiers and horses under his command, including the fifth battalion of Gezuo, soon the surrounding Guide Mansion and the counties of the people also began to flock to Kaifeng Mansion, just three or four days, 50,000 people gathered outside the city of Kaifeng Mansion to help the war, and most of these people were brought by the reserve camp and received a small amount of training, which is no longer considered a people's strong in the ordinary sense.

The siege battle officially started on March 16, in the face of such a strong city, Xiao Tianjian was also much more cautious this time, he did not order to send elite troops to attack the three city walls at the beginning, but took a more secure but relatively cruel method, that is, to send the people to the battle first, first clean up the various things set up by the officials and soldiers outside the city, and clean up the red deer and thistle ditches and other things.

And how could the Kaifeng defenders led by Gao Mingheng sit back and watch the Xingtian Army do such a thing, and the action was together, the defenders in the city began to fire cannons in unison, and fired at the people who flocked to the battle outside the city, and for a time the three walls of Kaifeng were cannon rumbling, arrows raining down, and a large number of officers and soldiers lay on the battlements of the city wall, desperately firing arrows and crossbows under the city.

The people were not without a little preparation, in addition to rushing up to work with tools, they also divided a lot of people, using the wooden planks, door panels and other things collected when they came along the way, acting as a oar, led by the Xingtian army generals, arranged special people to hold these door boards and wooden planks and other things, and erected a shield wall under the city to cover the work of those people behind them.

A dense rain of arrows fell on the shields, and the nails rattled on the panels, and soon some of the doors were full of arrows, and everywhere they were like a reed flower.

Although there were wooden shields to block the arrows, such a dense rain of artillery and rockets still caused a lot of casualties to the people, and a large number of people who helped the war fell into a pool of blood, letting out a terrible scream.

But what can happen when this kind of thing happens in this world? They relied on the Xingtian Army to live, and now that the Xingtian Army has them, they can only move forward desperately, and more people have begun to rush to the city with various tools, and they have begun to tear down and fill in the various obstacles set up in advance by the defenders outside the city.

Xiao Tianjian personally sat in the north of the city, ordered people to build a watchtower about three miles outside the city, climbed the watchtower and constantly inspected the battlefield with binoculars from afar.

"Send the order down, set up a medical camp on the east and west sides, arrange for the people, grab the wounded as soon as possible, and send them to the medical camp for treatment, these people have handed over their lives to us, we can't help but take their lives as lives! Save as much as you can! Xiao Tianjian put down the telescope and commanded the iron head.

Tietou immediately nodded and conveyed the order, turned his head and said, "Dashuai, isn't it a little too close here?" The Hongyi cannon of the official army in the city is completely within reach here! Let's go back a little distance! ”

Xiao Tianjian continued to raise the telescope and sneered: "The common people dare to rush forward, what am I afraid of?" If they have the ability, they can call it! I'd like to see how accurate their Hongyi cannons can be! Ordered the gunners of each battalion to control the speed of firing, to save ammunition, and to send some musketeers to suppress the officers and soldiers in the city with firearms. ”

As soon as it was too late, the distant Iron Head saw a dazzling flash of light rising from the top of the city, and then a cannonball whistled towards their eye-catching watchtower, and the Iron Head immediately shouted: "Be careful, big handsome! ”

As soon as the sound fell, the cannonball landed on the ground dozens of steps away from the watchtower, and immediately smashed a large crater in the ground, and after rolling forward for some distance, the cannonball stopped on the ground.

Outside Kaifeng City, there is mostly land and sand, it is now spring in March, the ground is very soft, so the official artillery looks happy, but it is not easy to form a ricochet after landing, so the power of the solid bullet is very limited.

After Xiao Tianjian glanced at it, he sneered and said, "Three miles away!" Well! This officer gunner fought well! I don't know how far their next shot will go! ”

As a result, after the second cannon fell, it flew to the ground nearly 100 steps away from the watchtower, and smashed a big car to pieces, Xiao Tianjian smiled and said: "I praised them just now for being a little early, so far away they want to hit the watchtower under our feet, basically dreaming!" Leave them alone, let them shoot whatever they want if there are shells! ”

Xiao Tianjian has long understood the cruelty of war, although the people suffered heavy casualties under the artillery fire of the defenders, but now they have long been unable to impress him at all, is it possible to fight without dying? His elite soldiers can't be used to do these things, but can only use this method to clear those defensive facilities outside the city, so no matter what the cost, he will not change this method of warfare.

(Chapter 3 arrives on the 16th, please check it out, brothers!) In addition, thank you for the reward of Jisufala, Sappy, and Dream Watch who didn't hesitate to reward this book yesterday! ）