Gao Mingheng had actually been waiting for the Xingtian Army to launch a strong attack, and these days he had put the ammunition that could be found in the city, as well as a swarm of rockets such as flying guns and arrows, on the city wall, just waiting for the Xingtian Army to attack, so he would give the Xingtian Army a ruthless blow and kill the prestige of the Xingtian Army.

At the same time, he also made people erect a lot of planks on the city plate, in order to resist the fire of the Xingtian Army, in short, he thought that he had made enough preparations, no matter how many people the Xingtian Army came, he could make the Xingtian Army pay a heavy price, this is not Luoyang City, it is the Xingtian Army can be beaten if they want to, he wants the Xingtian Army to suffer a major setback in Kaifeng City, and kill their prestige.

But when he waited for the Xingtian Army to attack, he did not wait to anticipate the brazen attack of the Xingtian Army, but saw that the people who helped the war not only did not stop, but instead stepped up their efforts and began to dig ditches outside the city, just one day, a series of trenches began to appear outside the city, and at a glance, he knew that these ditches were dug towards the city wall, and then he and the officials and generals guarding the city were a little dumbfounded.

What kind of tactics is this? Could it be that the thieves had to dig ditches and dig into the city? Impossible! There is a moat outside the city, and they are not afraid that the water of the moat will flood their tunnels?

So Gao Mingheng personally boarded the West Gate, ordered to transfer a heavy Hongyi cannon, aimed at the people outside the city to open fire, after the cannon sounded, the cannonballs flew out quickly, and fell in the trenches outside the city, but the result was very frustrating, a large number of people and the Xingtian army were hiding in the trenches, the cannonballs fell into the mound of soil they dug, and they didn't even see a movement, and it can be said that they did not cause any damage to the thieves outside the city.

So he sent a swarm of bees, and soon a swarm of rockets made a shocking whistling sound, and the locusts flew towards the outside of the city, and sprinkled them on the ditch outside the city, but the result was still discouraged, and there was the cover of the trench, and the thieves basically did not suffer much damage, only to see the trench continue to wind towards the city wall, unaffected, and gradually a large number of people disappeared under the ground, only to see the dust outside the city, but not a single figure.

The defenders in the city were a little panicked at this time, if the Xingtian Army dug it up like this, how should they deal with it? It was difficult to see that the Xingtian Army could not dig under the city, so in a panic, the defenders on all sides began to panic, and they bombarded with cannons and rockets, in short, they wanted to stop the Xingtian Army's trenching tactics.

But no matter what the defenders did, the effect was very pitiful, and it did not stop the thieves from digging under the city wall, not only during the day, but also at night, and continued to shout trumpets everywhere, carrying the bright pine, and digging forward at night.

Only three days passed, looking down from the air outside the city, I saw a spider web-like trench group on the ground, a large number of people hid in the trench group, laughing loudly, while stepping up the digging, everyone can see that this is done, the officers and soldiers in the city can only stare dryly, don't look at the past few days are guns and arrows, but basically do not threaten their safety, the people see it and then happy, this work is easy, there is food and drink The officers and soldiers can not beat them, so some people sing loudly when they work outside the city, Others laughed loudly at the defenders, and in any case no one was frightened anymore.

The Xingtian army was far away from resting, while continuing to train troops, hard practice siege tactics, one by one morale was high, just wait for the trench to dig under Kaifeng City, they can be put into the siege battle.

In the past few days, Gao Mingheng can be said to be sleepless at night, not thinking about tea and dinner, running to the city wall all day long to watch the thieves under the city continue to dig trenches, when the fourth day, he suddenly found that the thieves actually dug the trenches at night, and the water of the moat immediately rushed into several trenches, and immediately rushed to the distance, but these trenches were not connected with other trenches, and the river water would not be poured into other trenches at all.

What shocked him even more was that the water level of the Bianhe River suddenly began to drop at this time, and he immediately understood what the Xingtian Army was going to do, so he exclaimed that the Xingtian thief was too cunning to come up with such a way to attack the city.

A large amount of water from the moat was drawn out and flowed into a large depression in the southwest of Kaifeng City, where a piece of Ze was immediately formed, and the water level of the city river fell extremely fast, and in just one day, the city river bottomed out.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian finally waited for what he was waiting for, and with an order, he left most of the soldiers and horses, and marched towards the east of Kaifeng Mansion with two battalions of cavalry and two battalions.

The situation was basically the same as he expected, and Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, finally led more than 10,000 officers and troops, and at the end of March, he rushed from the direction of Dingtao to Kaocheng County towards Kaifeng, trying to attack the Xingtian army from the periphery and relieve the siege of Kaifeng.

Xiao Tianjian is waiting for them, otherwise he would not have wasted so much time outside the city of Kaifeng Mansion, he knows very well that the imperial court will not give up Kaifeng Mansion easily, in history, Ding Qirui came to aid Kaifeng, and now because Luoyang and Shaanzhou have all fallen into the hands of the Xingtian Army, they cannot enter from Shaanxi, and Nanzhili has Dongshan Tiger's men and horses staring at them in the southeast of Henan, and Lu Jiude can't lead his troops to catch up, as for Zuo Liangyu, not to mention, he ran back to Jingxiang at this time, and he didn't have a chance to come over. Only the official army of Jingfu and the official army in Yanzhou, Shandong may still come to help, but Shandong has just broken the Tartars into the Kou, and the soldiers and horses in Yanzhou are limited, even if they are ordered, they do not dare to come easily, this time when Yang Wenyue led his troops to Dingtao, the Yanzhou soldiers were in Dingtao and Yang Wenyue joined forces, and rushed towards Kaifeng.

So what he is waiting for is this time, if he doesn't take the opportunity to hit the official army again, the court will not be reconciled, since the seal is opened, then it is necessary to solve the reinforcements of Kaifeng Mansion first, which can be regarded as a standard example of besieging the city and sending reinforcements.

Just when Yang Wenyue led his troops to Kaocheng, the magistrate of Kaocheng watched so many officers and soldiers arrive on his territory, and he was frightened, but he knew what kind of virtue the officers and soldiers were, once these officers and soldiers were allowed to enter the city, the people of Kaocheng would be finished, and they would definitely be plagued and unable to live, so even if the magistrate of Kaocheng County was under Yang Wenyue's order, he refused to open the city gate and let him enter the city, but instead gathered the defenders in the city and a large number of people to enter the city, and made a posture of imperial guards. It was only the fact that ten pigs and more than 100 stone of grain were put down from the city wall, which was considered a labor army, and the officials and soldiers were not allowed to enter the city at all.

Originally, the officers and soldiers drove all the way from Baoding Mansion, wanting to rest in Kaocheng first, and take a good rest, but they didn't think that the Kaocheng Governor actually did not allow them to enter the city one by one, and even Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, refused to go out of the city to visit, and the angry Yang Wenyue almost ran away on the spot, and some officers and soldiers simply rolled up their arms and sleeves to send troops to fight Kaocheng first, and took down the Kaocheng Zhixian first, and then said, but Yang Wenyue did not lose his rationality, stopped the nonsense of the soldiers and generals under his command, and watched Kaocheng stomp his feet fiercely, Determined to go back to this account, he ordered to leave Kaocheng and continue to march towards Kaifeng Mansion, but even so, the officers and soldiers still plundered outside Kaocheng before leaving.

And when they just started their troops, a scout came to report that they had found that the Xingtian Army had sent a force to intercept them, and the officers and soldiers were extremely nervous, as if they were facing a great enemy, and made a posture of fighting to the death with the Xingtian Army.

However, Yang Wenyue's ability to control the troops was limited, Xiao Tianjian was not polite to him, and began to take the initiative to attack as soon as the troops arrived, just a face-to-face past, Yang Wenyue's right wing of the Yanzhou soldiers immediately collapsed, and the Yanzhou general who led the team turned around and ran, so that more officers and troops began to collapse, and then the cavalry of the Xingtian Army launched a cover under the command of Situ Liang, and this battle took only one day, and the only officers and soldiers who came to relieve the siege were scattered by Xiao Tianjian's troops.

Situ Liang was ordered to continue the pursuit, but more than 15,000 officers and soldiers did not even escape back from Dingtao, and they were wiped out by the Xingtian Army in the area of Kaocheng. How could they be the opponents of the Xingtian Army, so Yang Wenyue had to lead the standard battalion under his command after the defeat, desperately fleeing, but was blocked by Situ Liang to flee to Dingtao, and had to turn around and run to the west, and finally unfortunately was caught up by Situ Liang, and was blocked by Xiao Tianjian's troops.

What Xiao Tianjian didn't expect was that after watching the entire battle on the city wall, he led the officials of Kaocheng to open the city gate without saying a word, and went out of the city to take the initiative to find the Xingtian Army to surrender to the Xingtian Army, this magistrate also knew that he had offended Yang Wenyue to death, whether Yang Wenyue went back or not, he had done it as a magistrate, and if he didn't do it, he would be impeached and arrested, and then look at this huge Henan has basically fallen into the hands of the Xingtian Army, so he simply chose to defect and surrender to the Xingtian Army. The provincial city of Kao was once again hit by a military disaster.

Xiao Tianjian was very happy, personally met with this magistrate, and immediately ordered this magistrate to live in his original position, continue to be responsible for the management of Kaocheng County, and at the same time left 200 elite soldiers into the city, took over the city defense, and reorganized the troops in the city.

Xiao Tianjian ordered Yang Wenyue to surrender, but Yang Wenyue finally refused to agree to Xiao Tianjian's persuasion, but scolded Xiao Tianjian for being a traitor, Xiao Tianjian was not angry, and took Yang Wenyue outside Kaifeng City and tied him outside the north gate of Kaifeng City.

When Gao Mingheng heard the news, he climbed up to the north gate of Kaifeng City to watch, and what he saw was that a large number of officers and soldiers were captured by the Xingtian Army, and they were all escorted to the outside of Kaifeng City, and knelt down for a whole large area.

(Chapter 5 arrives on the 16th, let the flowers come more violently!) ）