When Xiao Tianjian led the fifth battalion of Gezuo to return to Zhuxian Town, at this time, the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army who had opened the city were already waiting to set off.

When Lao Huihui and the others arrived in Zhuxian Town, after seeing the barracks of the Xingtian Army and the soldiers of each battalion, they gasped one by one, although they also saw the majesty of Xiao Tianjian's guard battalion in Guide Mansion, but they still felt in their hearts that this might be the most elite men and horses in the Xingtian Army deliberately transferred by Xiao Tianjian to play prestige for them, and it was impossible for other soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army to have such a military appearance.

But after seeing the Xingtian Army assembled in the area of Zhuxian Town, they knew what the frog at the bottom of the well was, the camps of the Xingtian Army were neatly arranged, and the soldiers in the camp were even more military flags, with distinct armor, although there was indeed a certain gap with these guards around Xiao Tianjian, but the gap was not very large, and they were also neat and tidy, and the soldiers were strong and strong.

After a rough point, they found that the number of soldiers and horses gathered here by the Xingtian Army was more than 20,000 people, and the strength was not much, but these 20,000 people were all real elite soldiers, and they were by no means comparable to the so-called soldiers and generals under their original command.

Thinking about it carefully, these five people all feel a little discouraged, they all started as rebels, how did Xiao Tianjian get involved? Why can the soldiers under his command be so strong, and the equipment is so good, on the other hand, in the past ten years, they have pulled up a group of teams in the southern and northern wars, and they were scattered by the officials and soldiers, and they came again, and they were defeated again.

People are more popular than dead people! Lao Huihui and his generals secretly pondered.

Knowing that Xiao Tianjian ordered the return of the fifth battalion of the left battalion, Liu Bao, Luo Li, Liu Yaoben, Situ Liang, Li Xin and other officers above the battalion commander in the battalion all went out of the camp to greet each other from afar, Xiao Tianjian introduced them one by one to Lao Huihui and others, look at these Xiao Tianjian's generals, Lao Hui They are even more ashamed of themselves, look at the spirit of others, and then look at their soldiers, it is really incomparable!

After a long period of greetings, Luo Li, Liu Bao and others did their best to be the landlords, and invited the old man back to the Xingtian military camp, and arranged for people to help them arrange camping in the fifth battalion of Gezuo.

After entering the Xingtian military camp, they were eye-opening again, the Xingtian military camp was clean and tidy, all the horses and horses were arranged in an orderly manner, the stables and grain were arranged neatly and safely, and there was no slightest noise in the camp.

As a person in the army, Lao Hui saw at a glance that the soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army were practicing siege tactics, and there were special craftsmen in the camp to make all kinds of attack tools, just waiting to go to Kaifeng to launch an attack.

What surprised them even more was that there were special latrines everywhere in the Xingtian military camp, and there was no scene of sewage flowing and garbage everywhere in the camp.

When they followed Xiao Tianjian to a camp, Lao Huihui and the others' jaws completely fell to the ground, as soon as they entered this barracks, they saw a striking reminder that fireworks were strictly prohibited in the camp, and those things that were lined up in the open space of the camp made their saliva almost flow to the ground one by one.

I saw that in the open space in the camp, there were rows of neat and novel cannons, the swarthy cannon body was erected on the solid but easy to move gun carriage, they were not considered to be unopened earthen old people, so many years with the officers and soldiers, all the artillery has been seen, but these guns of the Xingtian Army, they are still the first time to see the official army's Furlong machine guns, general guns and other artillery, when operating, they are all using wooden blocks to pad the tail of the gun, adjust the direction of the muzzle, However, these guns of the Xingtian Army are all equipped with crank rod crank handles, and the pitch of the barrel is all operated by screws, so that it is not only easy to operate, but also aims quickly, and the accuracy is much higher than that of the cannons used by the official army.

The layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway, these people have been fighting for so many years, it can be said that they are all insiders, just a simple glance to roughly understand the mystery, can't help but applaud one by one.

At this time in the battalion, a large number of soldiers are orderly surrounding these cannons for maintenance or artillery training, and the sound of passwords fills the entire camp, just from their movements, it can be seen that these gunners of the Heavenly Army have also been trained for a long time, no matter what actions they do, they all seem to be skillful and standard, without the slightest chaos.

Roughly counted, in the entire artillery camp here, there are at least dozens of large-caliber cannons, and each cannon is polished by the gunners of the Xingtian Army, exuding a terrifying cold light.

Lao Huihui and the others were completely stunned at this time, while they were deflated, but on the other hand, they rushed to the side of these cannons like cats smelling fishy, and stroked these cannons lovingly, eager to swallow these cannons in one gulp.

"A few brothers, after walking in such a circle, do you think this Kaifeng City can still be defeated?" Xiao Tianjian asked them a little proudly.

"Yes! Absolutely! The Xingtian Army is a powerful army in the world, how can it not defeat Kaifeng Mansion! Besides, there are so many sharp Hongyi cannons in the army, how can they not open the Kaifeng City? Without waiting for the old man to speak, He Yilong, who was following behind, replied first.

After hearing this, the other people also nodded their heads again and again, and now they looked at Xiao Tianjian with much more awe than when they first saw Xiao Tianjian.

This time in Guide Mansion, Xiao Tianjian proposed to let the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo streamline the soldiers and horses, and at the same time let them leave the families of the army in Guide Mansion for resettlement.

And these old and weak people were not the material for war, when they learned that the Xingtian Army accepted them and arranged them for farming, they raised their hands one by one to welcome, and happily followed the people of the Xingtian Army, although they followed the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution as soldiers, in fact, they did not receive much training at all, and there were no decent weapons, many of them were carrying a long wooden stick, the big deal was to sharpen the front end of the stick, as a spear, the armor did not need to be considered, except for the cronies of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Left, It is impossible for ordinary people to have it, so these people are at best a rabble, following the strong momentum and mixing with food, and now the Xingtian Army has given them land, and they have also given them food for them to cultivate and grow in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, why don't they do it? Therefore, in the blink of an eye, there were only more than 20,000 of the more than 40,000 troops brought by the 5th Battalion of the Left Left.

And more than 20,000 people, if according to the selection requirements of the Xingtian Army, at least more than half of them will be cut, but Xiao Tianjian is not in a hurry, and temporarily left these subordinates of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution and came to Zhuxian Town with the army.

This time, in addition to the seven fully manned combat battalions, two artillery battalions, one baggage battalion and one engineer battalion, Xiao Tianjian also transferred five reserve battalions from all over the country, with a strength of about 20,000 people, plus the soldiers and horses of the fifth battalion of Gezuo, the strength of the army also reached 40,000 people.

And although Xiao Tianjian nominally let him set up five combat battalions, they themselves also understand that with the strength of a super-organized battalion under each of them, even compared with the reserve battalion of the Xingtian Army, they may not be able to be opponents, so their posture is lower.

After the soldiers and horses gathered, Xiao Tianjian convened the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss the matter of attacking and opening the blockade, and also conveyed the information collected during this time to the generals.

This time, the Xingtian Army swaggered through the city, did not do any strategic concealment, and swaggered to attack and open the closed city, so Kaifeng Mansion had already received the news, and also made a strong army in the city, making a posture of carrying to the end, and at the same time sent a grain team out of the city, robbing grain everywhere, and preparing for a long-term siege.

It's a pity that their food team was very unlucky, and as soon as they left the city, they were ambushed by a group of men and horses placed outside the city by the Xingtian Army, and they didn't catch anything except more than 100 corpses, so they fled back to Kaifeng City.

After Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, learned the news, he immediately sent people to cross the river and Pegasus to ask for help from the Beijing Division, and he knew very well that with their current strength in Kaifeng Mansion, it would be difficult to stop the attack of the Xingtian Army.

The main generals of Kaifeng Mansion at present mainly include Chen Yongfu and several other generals, and Chen Yongfu has the largest number of troops, with more than 4,000 officers and soldiers, and the rest of the officers and soldiers have about thousands of people.

But these horses are just on paper, except for the 4,000 officers and soldiers under Chen Yongfu, who still have a certain combat effectiveness, the rest of the soldiers and horses are basically a rabble, and they don't dare to kill them when they go out of the city to meet them, so they can only count on the imperial court to send reinforcements quickly to save the emergency.

Chongzhen of the Beijing Division learned the news at the end of February, when even if the ministers were summoned to discuss countermeasures, and now although the Tartars have begun to retreat outside the pass, they have only just arrived in Tianjin, neither Chongzhen nor the ministers of the court dare to let Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses go south to relieve the siege of Fengfu.

Discuss and discuss, in the end, they can only send Yang Wenyue, the governor of Baoding, to lead 10,000 officers and troops to the south, bypassing Weihui Mansion and going south to the Daimyo Mansion, crossing the river to support Kaifeng Mansion, and transferring 5,000 officers from Yanzhou, Shandong Province to Kaifeng Mansion to help in the war, and the other is to order Zuo Liangyu to step up the attack in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, even if it can't hit Kaifeng Mansion, at least it is necessary to contain a large number of thief troops, in addition, it also ordered the new governor of Shaanxi Ding Qirui to send He Renlong to find a way out of Tongguan to attack Shaanzhou and contain the strength of the Xingtian Army. In addition, Lu Jiude led the official army of Nanzhili, marched into Taihe, and flanked the jurisdiction of the Henan Xingtian Army, in short, in their opinion, the significance of Kaifeng Mansion is very significant, and it cannot be easily lost, once Kaifeng is lost again, then this Henan will be completely returned to the Xingtian Army in the future, I am afraid that such a thing will become a chain reaction in the future.

But what the court didn't expect was that the Xingtian Army was gathering troops to attack Kaifeng at the same time, and suddenly a series of ominous news came one after another, first Zuo Liangyu was defeated and retreated in Nanyang and gave up Nanyang, which had just been recovered, and then the Xingtian Army rushed all the way to Xiangyang, an important town in the north of the Yangtze River, and at the same time, news also came from Shanxi, saying that the Xingtian Army in southern Jin also began to move this time, and began to gather troops towards the area of Pingyang Mansion, and there seemed to be signs of attacking Pingyang Mansion, and more and more soldiers and horses began to converge towards Yicheng, Fushan and other counties, At the same time, there are also signs that the Xingtian Army seems to be in Lu'an Mansion and has the possibility of attacking in the direction of Taiyuan, and the strength of the Xingtian Army in Lu'an Mansion is also gradually increasing.

What made the imperial court even more alarmed was that there was still a group of Xingtian army gathering in Shaanzhou, and there seemed to be signs of going out of Henan to attack Tongguan and enter Shaanxi.

After Chongzhen and Yang Sichang learned about it, they were shocked, they couldn't think of how many troops the Xingtian Army had, and it actually blossomed everywhere, it seemed that there was a trend to sweep this Ming Dynasty, how much grain and grass they had to feed so many soldiers and horses! Could it be that all the people in Henan who are thieves have become soldiers?

In this way, Chongzhen and Yang Sichang don't know where to send troops to save first, looking at these directions, it seems that the imperial court has to save the place, Pingyang Mansion is lost, and the entire Jinnan including Xie Zhou and other more than ten prefectures and counties will be taken by the Xingtian Army, and to the north directly threatens Taiyuan Mansion.

Once Tongguan is broken, then Shaanxi, which has just stabilized a little, will be in chaos again, and once Xiangyang is lost, the Yangtze River will no longer be shielded, and Huguang will be in danger.

So for a while, the government and the opposition were shocked and panicked, arguing about how to deal with it.

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