Chapter 424: The Show Begins
The next morning, Li Jiyu and Liu Zongmin's troops came to Kaifeng City. Chen Yongfu's subordinates, who were stationed outside the moat, withdrew early into the moat and gave up the battle outside the moat, leaving only Li Yan's troops outside the moat.
And the thieves were also very smart, they only advanced three hundred steps beyond the moat and stopped, only a few men and horses patrolled the bridge, and the other brigades surrounded Li Yan's military camp from three sides. Of course, they seemed to know how powerful Li Yan was, and the troops stopped five hundred paces away, not daring to advance any further.
King Zhou and a group of civil officials on the tower of the city gate were all watching the battle, and they all wanted to take advantage of the fact that the thieves were not strong enough, far enough away from the city wall, and they were safe enough, to see Li Yan's combat strength. Chen Yongfu, on the other hand, is to accompany the guests and take them as a consultant by the way. Don't look at these civil officials who can talk endlessly about battle and defense strategies in front of the emperor, but when they really face the enemy, they can only hide from a safe distance and watch from afar.
"Oh," Liang Bu asked in surprise, "why didn't General Li's troops go out to line up?" Didn't he say that you can't stick to it? ”
Gao Mingheng asked Chen Yongfu: "Do you think General Li can live in the camp?" ”
Chen Yongfu didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he had to reply: "This, it's hard to say, you can't know until the thieves have beaten you." ”
King Zhou held the telescope at this time, and he didn't see the name for a long time. He asked puzzledly: "Chen Qing, didn't General Li dig a trench outside the camp, why can't Lone find it?" ”
Chen Yongfu replied: "It should be covered." The bags outside the camp contained soil dug up from a hundred paces away, and he probably wouldn't have brought soil from other places to fill it up. ”
King Zhou put his eyes on the huge telescope and looked at it for a while, but still found nothing. couldn't help but praise: "It's amazing, I can't find a flaw with this stargazing telescope, and this king is relieved." ”
Everyone was looking carefully, hoping to see the ditch that Chen Yongfu said. However, they didn't see anything, so they all followed King Zhou and began to praise Li Yan.
At this time, Li Yan also looked at the team of thieves with binoculars, and he saw countless carts being pushed out, on which were placed bags of dirt, which were more than four feet high. The seven or eight thieves pushing the cart behind shouted with difficulty, and with the screeching sound of the axle creaking, they pushed the dirt cart towards him.
Li Mu took Li Yan's telescope and looked in other directions as well. After that, he said with a smile: "Hehe, I'm afraid there are two or three thousand catties, and I can't run away this next." ”
Li Yan's soldiers lined up behind the bunker, and they all sat on the ground to rest, very relaxed. Only the artillerymen were more nervous, checking the arquebus, preparing ammunition, adjusting the artillery, and performing their duties.
At the head of the city, those civil officials have already blown up.
"This, this, it's two hundred steps, why don't you fire the cannon?" Huang Shu asked nervously.
Other officials also said anxiously: "Don't fire the cannon at this time, and deter the thieves." When the thieves swarmed up, General Li was in danger. ”
"It seems that General Li is entrusted to the great, and it still depends on General Chen to defend the city."
"Mr. Chen, what do you think?" Gao Mingheng asked Chen Yongfu again.
Chen Yongfu seemed to know Li Yan's intentions at this time, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, the good show is still to come." Although he was a little jealous of Li Yan's good luck, he also admitted that Li Yan was indeed a little smarter than him.
Li Jiyu kept smiling and watching those dirt carts move forward, followed by his men twenty steps behind. He wasn't nervous at all at this time, if Li Yan fought back, it would be the people who pushed the cart in front who would suffer first, and those people, along with the dirt cart, were Liu Zongmin's, and they had nothing to do with him.
Liu Zongmin and the others felt a little nervous as they watched the dirt cart get closer and closer. Li Yan's cannon is more powerful than theirs, and if he fires the cannon, he doesn't know how many shells he can withstand.
Their earththen carts were densely arranged, with only a little more than a foot wide in between. They attacked simultaneously from the east, south, and west, and there were 150 earthen carts on each side, forming a moving earthen wall of more than 100 paces, so that the contingent that followed behind was also 3,000 or 4,000 men. Their people are behind Li Jiyu's subordinates, and the reason is also very good, if they want the gold and silver hidden in the palace of King Zhou, they must have enough contributions.
Li Jiyu also understood that the trick of the white wolf with empty gloves could not be played in front of Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and other seniors, so he agreed to Liu Zongmin's arrangement.
Liu Zongmin and Li Guo both looked at the front nervously, they had already entered a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, and Li Yan's tiger squat cannon could also fire. If Li Jiyu's men retreated, their subordinates would act as the overseers, forcing Li Jiyu's men to continue to attack. The dirt cart in front of it was shouted by his subordinates and accelerated its speed.
"Why don't you fire yet?" Li Guo said suspiciously.
Liu Zongmin frowned and looked at the dirt cart that was still advancing smoothly. He was not at all happy about the smooth progress at this time, but deeply worried. Since being defeated by Li Yan in a row, he has become a little afraid of Li Yan, and he will feel that his side is in a passive position at any time.
"A hundred steps, if he doesn't fire, we have a sixty percent chance of winning." Liu Fangliang said excitedly and nervously.
But before he could speak, the earththen cart that was rushing in front of him suddenly disappeared from the ground. After that, the dirt carts suddenly disappeared one after another, and many people pushing the carts also fell down in panic shouting.
Liu Zongmin and the others rode on their horses, and after waiting for a while, they saw clearly that there was a trench on the ground, which was covered with something and covered with soil, so that people could not distinguish it. Thousands of pounds of uh earth-wheels pressed up, and immediately crushed the cover. And the dirt cart that rushed up couldn't stop immediately if it wanted to. The clever thieves immediately let it go, and the honest people tried to stop the dirt cart, only to fall into the wide ditch with the dirt cart.
After most of the dirt carts in front of the thieves fell into the trench, the artillerymen in Li Yan's barracks began to fire projectiles. Some of the cannons fired shotguns, while others fired solid bullets, inflicting full damage on the thieves from the front row to the depths.
"Boom", "boom" cannon sound instantly sounded outside Kaifeng City. The bands of thieves were left without the cover of dirt carts, and they were knocked down in groups screaming.
The explosion of "boom" and "boom" also exploded in the thieves' bushes, blowing up Li Jiyu's troops, who had already started to run backwards in a panic. Most of them had no armor, and the projectiles that flew out of the flowering bullets were a deadly threat to them. Countless thieves fell screaming in the explosion, or immediately lost their voices, or howled and rolled on the ground, causing their companions to panic even more.
"Run, the officers and soldiers are amazing."
"Run, run!"
"Fooled, run for your life!"
……
Under the blow of artillery, Li Jiyu's subordinates immediately revealed the essence of Xinding, and one by one they shouted to their friends and escorted them, and quickly fled in the direction they came. Even if Li Yan's troops were just firing artillery in place, they didn't dare to look back.
The next morning, Li Jiyu and Liu Zongmin's troops came to Kaifeng City. Chen Yongfu's subordinates, who were stationed outside the moat, withdrew early into the moat and gave up the battle outside the moat, leaving only Li Yan's troops outside the moat.
And the thieves were also very smart, they only advanced three hundred steps beyond the moat and stopped, only a few men and horses patrolled the bridge, and the other brigades surrounded Li Yan's military camp from three sides. Of course, they seemed to know how powerful Li Yan was, and the troops stopped five hundred paces away, not daring to advance any further.
King Zhou and a group of civil officials on the tower of the city gate were all watching the battle, and they all wanted to take advantage of the fact that the thieves were not strong enough, far enough away from the city wall, and they were safe enough, to see Li Yan's combat strength. Chen Yongfu, on the other hand, is to accompany the guests and take them as a consultant by the way. Don't look at these civil officials who can talk endlessly about battle and defense strategies in front of the emperor, but when they really face the enemy, they can only hide from a safe distance and watch from afar.
"Oh," Liang Bu asked in surprise, "why didn't General Li's troops go out to line up?" Didn't he say that you can't stick to it? ”
Gao Mingheng asked Chen Yongfu: "Do you think General Li can live in the camp?" ”
Chen Yongfu didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he had to reply: "This, it's hard to say, you can't know until the thieves have beaten you." ”
King Zhou held the telescope at this time, and he didn't see the name for a long time. He asked puzzledly: "Chen Qing, didn't General Li dig a trench outside the camp, why can't Lone find it?" ”
Chen Yongfu replied: "It should be covered." The bags outside the camp contained soil dug up from a hundred paces away, and he probably wouldn't have brought soil from other places to fill it up. ”
King Zhou put his eyes on the huge telescope and looked at it for a while, but still found nothing. couldn't help but praise: "It's amazing, I can't find a flaw with this stargazing telescope, and this king is relieved." ”
Everyone was looking carefully, hoping to see the ditch that Chen Yongfu said. However, they didn't see anything, so they all followed King Zhou and began to praise Li Yan.
At this time, Li Yan also looked at the team of thieves with binoculars, and he saw countless carts being pushed out, on which were placed bags of dirt, which were more than four feet high. The seven or eight thieves pushing the cart behind shouted with difficulty, and with the screeching sound of the axle creaking, they pushed the dirt cart towards him.
Li Mu took Li Yan's telescope and looked in other directions as well. After that, he said with a smile: "Hehe, I'm afraid there are two or three thousand catties, and I can't run away this next." ”
Li Yan's soldiers lined up behind the bunker, and they all sat on the ground to rest, very relaxed. Only the artillerymen were more nervous, checking the arquebus, preparing ammunition, adjusting the artillery, and performing their duties.
At the head of the city, those civil officials have already blown up.
"This, this, it's two hundred steps, why don't you fire the cannon?" Huang Shu asked nervously.
Other officials also said anxiously: "Don't fire the cannon at this time, and deter the thieves." When the thieves swarmed up, General Li was in danger. ”
"It seems that General Li is entrusted to the great, and it still depends on General Chen to defend the city."
"Mr. Chen, what do you think?" Gao Mingheng asked Chen Yongfu again.
Chen Yongfu seemed to know Li Yan's intentions at this time, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, the good show is still to come." Although he was a little jealous of Li Yan's good luck, he also admitted that Li Yan was indeed a little smarter than him.
Li Jiyu kept smiling and watching those dirt carts move forward, followed by his men twenty steps behind. He wasn't nervous at all at this time, if Li Yan fought back, it would be the people who pushed the cart in front who would suffer first, and those people, along with the dirt cart, were Liu Zongmin's, and they had nothing to do with him.
Liu Zongmin and the others felt a little nervous as they watched the dirt cart get closer and closer. Li Yan's cannon is more powerful than theirs, and if he fires the cannon, he doesn't know how many shells he can withstand.
Their earththen carts were densely arranged, with only a little more than a foot wide in between. They attacked simultaneously from the east, south, and west, and there were 150 earthen carts on each side, forming a moving earthen wall of more than 100 paces, so that the contingent that followed behind was also 3,000 or 4,000 men. Their people are behind Li Jiyu's subordinates, and the reason is also very good, if they want the gold and silver hidden in the palace of King Zhou, they must have enough contributions.
Li Jiyu also understood that the trick of the white wolf with empty gloves could not be played in front of Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and other seniors, so he agreed to Liu Zongmin's arrangement.
Liu Zongmin and Li Guo both looked at the front nervously, they had already entered a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, and Li Yan's tiger squat cannon could also fire. If Li Jiyu's men retreated, their subordinates would act as the overseers, forcing Li Jiyu's men to continue to attack. The dirt cart in front of it was shouted by his subordinates and accelerated its speed.
"Why don't you fire yet?" Li Guo said suspiciously.
Liu Zongmin frowned and looked at the dirt cart that was still advancing smoothly. He was not at all happy about the smooth progress at this time, but deeply worried. Since being defeated by Li Yan in a row, he has become a little afraid of Li Yan, and he will feel that his side is in a passive position at any time.
"A hundred steps, if he doesn't fire, we have a sixty percent chance of winning." Liu Fangliang said excitedly and nervously.
But before he could speak, the earththen cart that was rushing in front of him suddenly disappeared from the ground. After that, the dirt carts suddenly disappeared one after another, and many people pushing the carts also fell down in panic shouting.
Liu Zongmin and the others rode on their horses, and after waiting for a while, they saw clearly that there was a trench on the ground, which was covered with something and covered with soil, so that people could not distinguish it. Thousands of pounds of uh earth-wheels pressed up, and immediately crushed the cover. And the dirt cart that rushed up couldn't stop immediately if it wanted to. The clever thieves immediately let it go, and the honest people tried to stop the dirt cart, only to fall into the wide ditch with the dirt cart.
After most of the dirt carts in front of the thieves fell into the trench, the artillerymen in Li Yan's barracks began to fire projectiles. Some of the cannons fired shotguns, while others fired solid bullets, inflicting full damage on the thieves from the front row to the depths.
"Boom", "boom" cannon sound instantly sounded outside Kaifeng City. The bands of thieves were left without the cover of dirt carts, and they were knocked down in groups screaming.
The explosion of "boom" and "boom" also exploded in the thieves' bushes, blowing up Li Jiyu's troops, who had already started to run backwards in a panic. Most of them had no armor, and the projectiles that flew out of the flowering bullets were a deadly threat to them. Countless thieves fell screaming in the explosion, or immediately lost their voices, or howled and rolled on the ground, causing their companions to panic even more.
"Run, the officers and soldiers are amazing."
"Run, run!"
"Fooled, run for your life!"
……
Under the blow of artillery, Li Jiyu's subordinates immediately revealed the essence of Xinding, and one by one they shouted to their friends and escorted them, and quickly fled in the direction they came. Even if Li Yan's troops were just firing artillery in place, they didn't dare to look back.
The next morning, Li Jiyu and Liu Zongmin's troops came to Kaifeng City. Chen Yongfu's subordinates, who were stationed outside the moat, withdrew early into the moat and gave up the battle outside the moat, leaving only Li Yan's troops outside the moat.
And the thieves were also very smart, they only advanced three hundred steps beyond the moat and stopped, only a few men and horses patrolled the bridge, and the other brigades surrounded Li Yan's military camp from three sides. Of course, they seemed to know how powerful Li Yan was, and the troops stopped five hundred paces away, not daring to advance any further.
King Zhou and a group of civil officials on the tower of the city gate were all watching the battle, and they all wanted to take advantage of the fact that the thieves were not strong enough, far enough away from the city wall, and they were safe enough, to see Li Yan's combat strength. Chen Yongfu, on the other hand, is to accompany the guests and take them as a consultant by the way. Don't look at these civil officials who can talk endlessly about battle and defense strategies in front of the emperor, but when they really face the enemy, they can only hide from a safe distance and watch from afar.
"Oh," Liang Bu asked in surprise, "why didn't General Li's troops go out to line up?" Didn't he say that you can't stick to it? ”
Gao Mingheng asked Chen Yongfu: "Do you think General Li can live in the camp?" ”
Chen Yongfu didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he had to reply: "This, it's hard to say, you can't know until the thieves have beaten you." ”
King Zhou held the telescope at this time, and he didn't see the name for a long time. He asked puzzledly: "Chen Qing, didn't General Li dig a trench outside the camp, why can't Lone find it?" ”
Chen Yongfu replied: "It should be covered." The bags outside the camp contained soil dug up from a hundred paces away, and he probably wouldn't have brought soil from other places to fill it up. ”
King Zhou put his eyes on the huge telescope and looked at it for a while, but still found nothing. couldn't help but praise: "It's amazing, I can't find a flaw with this stargazing telescope, and this king is relieved." ”
Everyone was looking carefully, hoping to see the ditch that Chen Yongfu said. However, they didn't see anything, so they all followed King Zhou and began to praise Li Yan.
At this time, Li Yan also looked at the team of thieves with binoculars, and he saw countless carts being pushed out, on which were placed bags of dirt, which were more than four feet high. The seven or eight thieves pushing the cart behind shouted with difficulty, and with the screeching sound of the axle creaking, they pushed the dirt cart towards him.
Li Mu took Li Yan's telescope and looked in other directions as well. After that, he said with a smile: "Hehe, I'm afraid there are two or three thousand catties, and I can't run away this next." ”
Li Yan's soldiers lined up behind the bunker, and they all sat on the ground to rest, very relaxed. Only the artillerymen were more nervous, checking the arquebus, preparing ammunition, adjusting the artillery, and performing their duties.
At the head of the city, those civil officials have already blown up.
"This, this, it's two hundred steps, why don't you fire the cannon?" Huang Shu asked nervously.
Other officials also said anxiously: "Don't fire the cannon at this time, and deter the thieves." When the thieves swarmed up, General Li was in danger. ”
"It seems that General Li is entrusted to the great, and it still depends on General Chen to defend the city."
"Mr. Chen, what do you think?" Gao Mingheng asked Chen Yongfu again.
Chen Yongfu seemed to know Li Yan's intentions at this time, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, the good show is still to come." Although he was a little jealous of Li Yan's good luck, he also admitted that Li Yan was indeed a little smarter than him.
Li Jiyu kept smiling and watching those dirt carts move forward, followed by his men twenty steps behind. He wasn't nervous at all at this time, if Li Yan fought back, it would be the people who pushed the cart in front who would suffer first, and those people, along with the dirt cart, were Liu Zongmin's, and they had nothing to do with him.
Liu Zongmin and the others felt a little nervous as they watched the dirt cart get closer and closer. Li Yan's cannon is more powerful than theirs, and if he fires the cannon, he doesn't know how many shells he can withstand.
Their earththen carts were densely arranged, with only a little more than a foot wide in between. They attacked simultaneously from the east, south, and west, and there were 150 earthen carts on each side, forming a moving earthen wall of more than 100 paces, so that the contingent that followed behind was also 3,000 or 4,000 men. Their people are behind Li Jiyu's subordinates, and the reason is also very good, if they want the gold and silver hidden in the palace of King Zhou, they must have enough contributions.
Li Jiyu also understood that the trick of the white wolf with empty gloves could not be played in front of Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and other seniors, so he agreed to Liu Zongmin's arrangement.
Liu Zongmin and Li Guo both looked at the front nervously, they had already entered a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, and Li Yan's tiger squat cannon could also fire. If Li Jiyu's men retreated, their subordinates would act as the overseers, forcing Li Jiyu's men to continue to attack. The dirt cart in front of it was shouted by his subordinates and accelerated its speed.
"Why don't you fire yet?" Li Guo said suspiciously.
Liu Zongmin frowned and looked at the dirt cart that was still advancing smoothly. He was not at all happy about the smooth progress at this time, but deeply worried. Since being defeated by Li Yan in a row, he has become a little afraid of Li Yan, and he will feel that his side is in a passive position at any time.
"A hundred steps, if he doesn't fire, we have a sixty percent chance of winning." Liu Fangliang said excitedly and nervously.
But before he could speak, the earththen cart that was rushing in front of him suddenly disappeared from the ground. After that, the dirt carts suddenly disappeared one after another, and many people pushing the carts also fell down in panic shouting.
Liu Zongmin and the others rode on their horses, and after waiting for a while, they saw clearly that there was a trench on the ground, which was covered with something and covered with soil, so that people could not distinguish it. Thousands of pounds of uh earth-wheels pressed up, and immediately crushed the cover. And the dirt cart that rushed up couldn't stop immediately if it wanted to. The clever thieves immediately let it go, and the honest people tried to stop the dirt cart, only to fall into the wide ditch with the dirt cart.
After most of the dirt carts in front of the thieves fell into the trench, the artillerymen in Li Yan's barracks began to fire projectiles. Some of the cannons fired shotguns, while others fired solid bullets, inflicting full damage on the thieves from the front row to the depths.
"Boom", "boom" cannon sound instantly sounded outside Kaifeng City. The bands of thieves were left without the cover of dirt carts, and they were knocked down in groups screaming.
The explosion of "boom" and "boom" also exploded in the thieves' bushes, blowing up Li Jiyu's troops, who had already started to run backwards in a panic. Most of them had no armor, and the projectiles that flew out of the flowering bullets were a deadly threat to them. Countless thieves fell screaming in the explosion, or immediately lost their voices, or howled and rolled on the ground, causing their companions to panic even more.
"Run, the officers and soldiers are amazing."
"Run, run!"
"Fooled,
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