After thinking for a while, Liu Yaoben said to Xiao Tianjian: "The strength of the Ruzhou garrison is about 3,000 people, plus the people in the city who can be summoned, and can organize 5,000 to 6,000 troops. With only the three-pounder guns of the battalion artillery corps that our battalions are not yet organized, I am afraid that it will be difficult to conquer Ruzhou City in a short time! ”

Xiao Tianjian looked at Liu Yaoben, nodded slightly, and said, "That's right, it seems that you have prepared a lot of homework during this time!" Understand the situation of Ruzhou City more thoroughly! Hehe! Very good! What else is there to say? ”

Liu Yaoben thought for a moment and then said: "But it seems that if Battalion Commander Huang's artillery battalion arrives here, as long as our artillery can suppress the officers and troops on the city, with the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers, it should collapse quickly, and with our firearms as a strong support, the siege time will be greatly reduced!" If it goes well, within ten days, Ruzhou City can be breached by us! ”

Ten days, after hearing this number, the generals all nodded again and again, feeling that what Liu Yaoben said made sense, Xiao Tianjian also nodded and said: "That's right, within ten days, we must conquer Ruzhou!" Because the time left for us is only about ten days, this time we will send troops to do it, Xiong Wencan will definitely mobilize all parties to come to the rescue, if we can't open Ruzhou within ten days, we will be dragged here, so I can give you only seven days, to set aside two or three days as a buffer, rest the soldiers and horses! ”

After hearing this, the generals immediately stood up together and shouted: "Obey! ……”

After the Xingtian army arrived in Ruzhou City, Situ Liang's cavalry battalion immediately circled Ruzhou City, and with the high mobility of the cavalry, quickly swept several large villages within 20 miles around Ruzhou, and successively cleared out several local forces that were ordered by Zhao Tianci to drag their families and lead private armed forces to flee into Ruzhou City to help the war, forcing the local gentry and Wang clan around Ruzhou City to give up the idea of entering Ruzhou City, either simply surrendering to the Xingtian Army, or fleeing towards Luoyang City with a thin and soft tug. A few chose to close the gate of Zhuangbao, preparing to defend it or showing a posture of lying down and being beaten, thus cutting off the possibility of Ruzhou City continuing to receive reinforcements.

Moreover, after Situ Liang completed this matter, he immediately sent 500 cavalry to the south to target Baofeng County south of Ruzhou, and made a posture of threatening Baofeng County, entered the territory of Baofeng County to attack and harass, and contained the defenders of Baofeng County to come to reinforce Ruzhou.

Two and a half days later, Huang Shengqiang led the 800 soldiers of the 1st Artillery Battalion under his command, dragged a full 30 six-pounder guns, and five eight-pounder cannons newly cast by Gao Su in Shuangfeng Zhai this year to the outside of Ruzhou City.

Through more than a year, Wang Chengping and Li Lingfeng's activities in the north of Shanxi, they each sent a lot of mules and horses to the base of the Xingtian Army in southern Jinnan, so that the number of mules and horses in the artillery battalion can meet the demand, and now the artillery battalion under the command of Huang Shengqiang is not what it used to be, after Gaosu continued to export new artillery, the original artillery battalion with only one battalion was divided into three years later, and was expanded into three artillery battalions.

Huang Shengqiang can now be regarded as a shotgun for a cannon, all equipped with powerful six-pounder guns and eight-pounder guns, after this transfer, Huang Shengqiang personally led a battalion of artillery battalions to board ships in the ancient town, it took two full days to cross the Yellow River, in Mianchi County landing, these days he is non-stop on the road to lead the team to run wildly, for fear of delaying the time Xiao Tianjian gave him, finally led the troops to Ruzhou outside the city within the required time, and came under Xiao Tianjian's men.

After not seeing each other for such a long time, the generals saw Huang Shengqiang and some old acquaintances under his command, naturally they had to laugh, Huang Shengqiang now swept away the obscene appearance when he first returned to Xiao Tianjian, and stood there with his helmet and armor, quite a general's demeanor, and with a kind of arrogance on his face, but when he saw Xiao Tianjian, he immediately changed back to his old appearance, pounced in front of Xiao Tianjian, and saluted Xiao Tianjian with a wicked smile on his face and shouted: " Huang Shengqiang, commander of the 1st Artillery Battalion, was ordered to report for duty! Humble to see the big handsome! ”

Looking at the three wisps of rat whiskers on Huang Shengqiang's face, Xiao Tianjian wanted to laugh a little, but he immediately returned the salute and said, "Okay!" In the end, it was the old brother brought out by Lao Tzu, and it really didn't disappoint me! Arrived on time! ”

After Huang Shengqiang put down his hand, he immediately collapsed his shoulders, and said with a smile: "I have received an order from the marshal, where do you dare to delay!" This is the brother below, who almost vomited out his liver, and finally rushed over, otherwise he would be charged with delaying the fighter, and the small heads would not be handsome enough to cut off! ”

The surrounding generals also laughed, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but punch Huang Shengqiang, and said with a smile: "Okay! The bones of the body are now quite recoverable! How's it going? How many wives and concubines have you married and how many sons have you had? ”

Huang Shengqiang looked embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "Where do you have time to marry a few wives!" It's just marrying a wife and a concubine, and it's just giving birth to a boy and a girl! It's just that Dashuai didn't stay in his hometown this year, and he couldn't catch up with the full moon wine of my children! Go back and make up for it! Hey! ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately laughed and scolded, they followed Xiao Tianjian to Henan to fight in the south and the north, and they were busy to death, and the Xingtian Army had military regulations, and they were not allowed to carry female dependents in the army, so that the wives and children of these guys stayed in Jinnan, but Huang Shengqiang, this kid, married two wives in his hometown and gave birth to a son and a daughter, so the generals immediately attacked him.

"How can I be blamed for this? The conscience of heaven and earth, if anyone didn't want to follow the handsome man to Henan at the beginning, he would have been raised by a bitch! The handsome left me in my hometown and didn't bring it, and the officials and soldiers over there were not angry, and they were still fighting a little at the beginning, and they were cleaned up by Brother Yan and us, and then they all became turtles with shrunken heads, and they didn't dare to come to us for trouble. So I had nothing to do with my wife's trouble, and I ended up with two little cubs, can I blame it? Huang Shengqiang jumped to his feet and argued with Luo Li and the others, but the audience burst into laughter again.

Xiao Tianjian also laughed along, then raised his hand to stop everyone's laughter, and asked Huang Shengqiang: "You and the brothers in the artillery battalion have also worked hard along the way, so let me ask you, are you ready to start attacking the city tomorrow?" ”

Huang Shengqiang immediately patted his chest and replied loudly: "Don't worry, the brothers of the artillery camp have long been suffocated during this time, I thought that there would be a good fight on the side of the pond, but I didn't think about it and fired a few cannons, and the city gate was opened, it's really not enough, and now I finally got the opportunity to fight, although the big boss can rest assured!" We will never be able to lose the people of our Heavenly Army! The dog officials in Ruzhou City must be good-looking! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction: "That's very good!" All of them! ”

The generals immediately tensed up and shouted, "Please command!" ”

"Liang Tietou!"

"The last general!"

"Have you prepared the cart, the ladder, and all kinds of shields I asked you to prepare?"

"Marshal Qiqi, as of tonight, the engineer battalion can build a total of 300 large shields, 150 oars, 200 siege ladders, and ten goose carts and ten trench cars! In addition, the brothers of the Ruyang Reserve Camp have also prepared all kinds of long logs, which can be used to pave the moat at any time! "The drill gopher is now also the battalion commander, and there are now hundreds of carpenters and blacksmiths and nearly a thousand people who are good at civil work who are sappers who used to be miners, so it is his job to do this, and now even those subordinates who followed him to Xiao Tianjian have basically been promoted to officers of the engineer battalion, and they are all in full swing, plus for this war, the engineer battalion has already made sufficient preparations in advance, not to mention all kinds of special tools, even such as wheels and frames, etc., They were all built in advance, and when they arrived, they only needed to be perfected from local materials, so the army arrived in Ruzhou for more than two days, and quickly completed the preparation of so many attack tools.

Fortunately, many things at this time are only solid and not good-looking, although rough and ugly, as long as it does not affect the use, no one will be dissatisfied with it.

Xiao Tianjian nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand to let Liang Tietou return to the line, then glanced at the generals and said: "Since Huang Shengqiang's artillery camp has arrived, then we can't delay any longer, and the detailed work has been reported, saying that Luoyang has realized that the big thing is not good, and has sent someone to report urgently to the imperial court and Xiong Wencan, asking for help, we must capture Ruzhou according to the planned time!"

From now on, all the artillery teams directly under the battalion will be concentrated and deployed by Huang Shengqiang, if you don't fight, you will have to suppress the officers and soldiers in the city, four days, I will only give you four days, you must take Ruzhou City for me! Can you be confident that you can do it? ”

When the generals heard this, they immediately shouted in unison: "Yes! ”

In the early morning of the fourth day when the Xingtian Army arrived in Ruzhou City, the officers and soldiers in Ruzhou City were horrified to see that on the open ground outside the south gate of the city, a group of Xingtian Army stepped out of the barracks with high morale and began to line up outside the city, and all kinds of attack tools were also pulled out of the camp of the Xingtian Army and placed in the starting position.

(Ask for a red ticket!) It's time for war again! Hehe! ）