Li Zicheng watched the continuous rain fall, and laughed happily: "Hahaha, God really help me!" With this rain, even if Li Yan has a gun shed, he will be affected. It would be better if it could be lowered for a longer time, the gunpowder was damp, and the strong bow and crossbow became powerless, and he Li Yan would die! ”

Gao Yigong asked, "Then do you want to wait any longer?" Attack again tomorrow? ”

Li Zicheng looked up at the sky and felt that the clouds did not seem to be as thick as just now. Shaking his head, he said, "It's still two quarters of an hour later." The rain will stop when it says, and who knows how long it will last. ”

After that, he asked, "What news does Cao Cao have there?" ”

"The news just came, and Chen Yongfu has been surrounded in Zhengzhou." Gao Yigong replied.

"He didn't run?" Li Zicheng frowned and said, "Didn't you say before that you had prepared the ship?" He doesn't know much about Kaifeng, but he still knows a lot about Zhengzhou.

Gao Yigong replied helplessly: "It should be Cao Cao's intention, our people said that he sent cavalry over first and burned all the boats at the ferry." ”

"Humph! He's been so painstaking! Li Zicheng said coldly.

Liu Zongmin also said dissatisfiedly: "I don't talk about the morality of the rivers and lakes at all, it is better to have him than not him." ”

This time, Liu Zongmin came to storm Xicheng, not only to break through the moat, but also to be able to hold on to Li Yan's counterattack, and the casualties would not be small. It is also easy to balance the teams, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi suffered a lot of losses in Yanling, so this time the work of attracting Li Yan's attention in the east was assigned to Liu Fangliang, and Yuan Zongdi and Dang Shousu were responsible for the containment of the north and south. He Jin and others were the reserves, and they were also allowed to take a break.

Two quarters of an hour passed quickly, and although the rain was light, it was still falling. Although Liu Fangliang was reluctant, he still started to act.

Although the bridges on the moat were still unblocked, they all knew that it was a dead end left by Li Yan for them, so Liu Fangliang still asked the homeless people to fill in the trenches. But the homeless people have also become wiser, and instead of rushing with their eyes closed, they are crawling on muddy ground, dragging sandbags to fill the moat. Although it was slower, it seemed to be able to dodge Li Yan's artillery projectiles.

Li Yan also made an adjustment here, as long as the thieves did not stand up and charge, they did not use artillery, but waited for the thieves to enter sixty steps and began to use crossbow arrows to kill and injure the enemy. Although their crossbow arrows were not weak at seventy or eighty paces, it was raining after all, so they could only be shortened to sixty paces.

But the effect is still good. The thieves dragged sandbags and were slow, and the soldiers could calmly aim and shoot. After a while, the moat was crawling with the corpses of the thieves at a distance of forty paces.

There were too many corpses, and the thieves behind couldn't continue to lie on their stomachs and advance towards the moat. But they didn't want to fill in the trenches either. In Yanling, they had already seen the power of these officers and soldiers, and now those who did not die were lying on the ground and did not move.

Liu Fangliang in the back didn't expect this result, but he didn't hesitate, called twenty archers, and ordered the same arrows to be released to the homeless people lying on the ground.

As the screams came from behind, the displaced people looked back and knew what had happened, whether they were moving forward or dying, not moving or dying. The difference is that their families are in the hands of the rebels behind, and if they don't fill in the trenches, not only will they die, but their families will also die.

The homeless people had no choice, and I don't know who stood up first, carrying sandbags and shouting and rushing over, and were soon shot down by the crossbow arrows of the official army. However, more displaced people stood up, because they knew that only by filling in a few passages quickly would they have a chance to survive.

After the thieves stood up, Li Yan's artillery here was finally fired, and the shotguns were fired with a bang, killing the thieves carrying sandbags one by one. The flowering bombs also rumbled through the crowd, knocking down the surrounding thieves.

The moat of Kaifeng is four or five zhang wide, two or three zhang deep, and it takes much effort to fill it up. So the thieves divided into six or seven routes, focusing on filling in a few paths. And Li Yan here, there are six three-inch cannons on each side, and at most, they can block three thieves. The other thieves can only be blocked by tiger squat cannons and crossbow arrows.

However, whether it is mainly artillery or crossbow arrows, when the thieves rush up to fill the trench in a frenzy, they cannot completely block it. Amid the rumbling sound of artillery fire and the explosion of flowering shells, the thieves slowly filled up the two moats with sandbags and the corpses of their companions. Although the other places were filled in more slowly, the thieves still rushed up wave after wave as if they had gone crazy, and they had no intention of giving up.

Li Yan watched the madness of the thieves from the top of the city. Sun Sifu suggested: "Dashuai, don't you want to transfer a few three-inch cannons, if the five or six passages of the thieves are filled, it will be difficult to block them." ”

Li Yan didn't speak, and under the cover of the umbrella, he carefully observed the arrangement of the thieves here with a telescope. He found that there were a lot of thieves on the east side, and although the other three sides were also filling in the trenches, they were not as fierce as on this side. Especially to the west, where there seems to be the least number of thieves.

He hesitated for a moment before ordering, "Transfer two cannons from the north and south to the east, and one from the west to the north and south." Six Tiger Squat Cannons were transferred from the city to the west to supplement the defensive loopholes. Let the battalions be vigilant and not slacken. ”

Kaifeng City is not a hollow phalanx, and it is much farther to mobilize artillery, so be cautious. If something happens, it's not so easy to remedy.

The soldiers ran to give the order, and Sun Sifu stretched out his hand to feel it, and after finding that the rain had stopped, he put away the umbrella he was holding for Li Yan.

Li Yan looked up at the sky, the clouds were already very light, and it should not fall again. "Inform the musket team in the city and let them be ready to go out of the city at any time." ”

In the big tent of Li Zicheng in the south of the city.

Gao Yigong reported: "The artillery in the south of the city has begun to move. ”

"Seongnam?" Li Zicheng frowned and asked.

Shi Jincai explained with a smile: "General rest assured, as long as there is a place where the artillery is mobilized, the artillery in Xicheng will definitely move." ”

After a while, Gao Yigong came in again and said, "There are also cannons in the north that are moving to the east of the city. ”

After a while, Liu Zongmin's personal soldiers came in and reported: "General outpost, the officers and soldiers have transferred two cannons. ”

"Only two?" Liu Zongmin asked dissatisfied.

Shi Jincai immediately interjected: "The general outpost, there are already a lot, let's hurry up and start the attack." If it drags on for a long time, Li Yan will find out. ”

Liu Zongmin stood up, glanced at Shi Jincai, and said with a smile: "If you can succeed this time, I think you can also be a military advisor." ”

Shi Jincai hurriedly clenched his fists and excused himself: "It's better for the villain to take my soldiers." The position of military advisor, the villain can't think of it. "He's not stupid, being a military advisor in the righteous army, that's the night pot, take it out when it's useful, hide it under the bed when it's useless, he doesn't do it.

Li Zicheng urged: "Zong Min, let's go get down to business first." ”

Only then did Liu Zongmin leave the big tent and go to the west to prepare for a strong attack.

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