"Mr. Niu hasn't seen a cannon bombarding the city wall yet, has he?" Shang Yigong patted a bronze cannon beside him with his hand, feeling the faint coolness coming from the cannon, and said to Niu Juming on the side.

"I really haven't seen it before." Niu Juming said, "I heard that this thing has the power of opening mountains and cracking stones. There is also a kind of Hongyi cannon, which can erode dozens of miles with one shot. I don't know, if this is the Hongyi cannon. ”

Shang Yigong shook his head and said, "No, the Hongyi cannon heard from the Taoist chief that it came from Taixi, and it is bigger than this." The largest is said to be able to shoot more than 20 catties of iron bullets, and our iron bullets can only shoot more than 5 catties, which is far less powerful than the Hongyi cannon. However, to say that the Hongyi cannon can erode dozens of miles with one shot, it must be bragging. The entire Kaifeng City is only a few dozen miles away, if it can really be eroded dozens of miles with one shot, then if one shot goes down, won't Kaifeng be completely gone? Where in the world is there such a thing? However, the Hongyi cannon is too heavy, thousands of catties, it is completely impossible to march, the general road surface, a pressure is a deep pit, a careless will fall into the soil, if it rains or something, it is even more difficult to move an inch. It's not like our small cannon, which can barely move when pulled by oxen. ”

Niu Juming's mind was not entirely here, he raised his head and looked in the northwest direction again: "I don't know what happened to Marshal Huang." Are we going to storm the city today? ”

"Of course, if we don't attack the city, won't it be easy to show flaws?" Shang Yigong said with a smile, "Mr. Niu don't worry, my brother-in-law has been preparing for this battle for several months, and this battle will definitely be won." ”

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While Shang Yigong and Niu Juming were talking, Huang Zide and others had already arrived in Caojiazhai. At this time, the official army was still crossing the river, and it was still a little far away from Caojiazhai. Huang Zide asked the soldiers to eat in place and make some preparations, while the auxiliaries began to dig trenches, build breastwork, and set up the horses to resist the horses......

On Liu Jiadu's side, the cavalry led by Huang Guo was fighting with the official army. On the other side of the river, Fu Yuanxian and several general soldiers were looking across the Yellow River at the battle between the officers and troops on the opposite bank and Huang Guo's hundreds of cavalry.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the enemy has spotted us. I'm afraid I can't surprise them. He Dalong said, "Why don't we go back?" ”

Fu Yuanxian glanced at He Dalong, he knew He Dalong. I don't want to fight with Huang Zide at all. He even suspected that the reason why He Dalong's army fell behind and only the cavalry was actually deliberately arranged by He Dalong to avoid too much loss in the battle with Huang Zide. (In the event of a defeat, it is easy for the cavalry to run away, but it is difficult for the infantry to run away.) ）

"The enemy is fighting hard." Fu Yuanxian said, "Their main force must have been deceived by Governor Ding, and now the number of enemy troops under Kaifeng City is not much, otherwise why would their cavalry desperately block our army from crossing the river?" Hmph, if the whole army of thieves is here, they must hope that our army can cross the river immediately and crash into it. They are stalling for time now so that the thieves can escape! General He, there are still 1,000 cavalry by your side, so please cross the river first to disperse the enemy cavalry and cover the whole army to cross the river! If you can ensure that our army can cross the river quickly and finally defeat the thief army, it will be your first credit! ”

He Dalong thought about it, then bowed down and said, "The last general will listen to the order." Then he turned and went down, and took his thousand horsemen and got into the ferry.

At this time, Huang Guo's cavalry once again rushed towards the position where the officers and soldiers had landed. The officers and soldiers who had already gone ashore all raised their spears and at the same time fired their muskets at Huang Guo. Still, they made the same mistake as they often did – they shot too early. As a result, nothing hit. Taking advantage of the gap between the officers and soldiers' ammunition and the cover of the smoke from the musket shots of the officers and soldiers, Huang Guo and them rushed past the guns of the officers and soldiers, and threw a lot of bones and other things over. However, such a blow was not enough to defeat the officers and troops on the shore for the time being. However, if this situation continues, it is still entirely possible to defeat the infantry of less than 800 men who have just landed with more than 400 cavalry, as the muskets of the officers and soldiers gradually become red.

Huang Guo and the cavalry withdrew from the range of the muskets, and the soldiers jumped off their horses to allow themselves to rest their horses. Then Huang Guo took the lead and got on the horse and took a slender and long shuttle dart in his hand. This pike dart is slightly different from the usual pike dart, it is thinner, a little longer, and has a tail feather on the back, like an enlarged arrow. Huang Guo leaned the pike against the spear thrower held in his right hand, and used the crossbar at the back end of the spear thrower against the tail of the pike, while leaning the smooth pole of the pike against the smooth groove of the spear thrower.

The spear thrower is actually a very old weapon, almost as old as a sling. It works almost the same as the sling, which is to extend the length of the lever of the arm to make the thrown shuttle dart more velocity. In classical times, this weapon spread all over the world, but with the development of long-range bows and crossbows, this primitive weapon was gradually forgotten in China. But now, it has reappeared in the ranks of the revolutionary army, and has become the most important long-range weapon of the revolutionary cavalry.

Huang Guo and the other cavalry mounted their horses, and the horse team began to slowly accelerate towards the enemy troops at the crossing. The officers and soldiers over there made the classic mistake again, and fired in a panic when they were still a hundred paces away from the horse team.

Theoretically, muskets could indeed pose a threat to cavalry at such distances, but this refers to normal muskets that do not cut corners. And in my Dazhao, the most normal thing is that you can't find even a normal musket in the army that doesn't cut corners. So this time when shooting, it is naturally normal to only hear a little sound.

Huang Guo simply slowed down, and his mouth screamed. Sure enough, because of the influence of the gunsmoke, the officers and soldiers over there couldn't see the cavalry here, so they hurriedly kept shooting, and soon, there was a cloud of smoke near the ferry. Then came the sound of explosions and the screams of wounded officers and soldiers.

"It's time, their muskets are scrapped!" Huang Guo thought, so he raised the shuttle dart in his right hand high, waved it at the cavalry behind, and then urged the war horse to start accelerating.

The lethality of the shuttle dart is far greater than the bones thrown, but even if a spear thrower is used, its range is still relatively close, and it is not as good as the bone with a long handle, so the use of this thing requires the cavalry to get closer to the target than just now. This naturally increases the risk for the cavalry on this mission, and if it is not against the Dazhao official army who likes to shoot indiscriminately, this kind of thing is really not very useful.

The horse team was getting closer and closer to the gun array, and the smoke also blocked Huang Guo's sight, Huang Guo could only rely on his senses, threw a shuttle dart into the smoke, and then turned his horse's head and swept past the front of the official army again. Almost at the same time, he heard a scream coming from the smoke.

"Hit!" Huang Guo thought happily, but at the same time, a rain of arrows shot out of the smoke, and one of the arrows hit Huang Guo's arm at once, and blood flowed out at once.

However, this injury was not enough for Huang Guo's life, he stretched out his left hand, grasped the shaft of the arrow, broke the shaft with a click, and at the same time led the cavalry away from those officers and soldiers again.

On the way away, he heard another scream coming from the smoke. Obviously, the results of this round of pike darts are very good. Maybe two more rounds, and the officers and troops on the ferry will collapse. However, after running a little farther, Huang Guo looked back and saw that many ferries had gradually approached the pier. And those ships were carrying cavalry.

The yellowed horses have already rushed through several rounds, and the horsepower has been consumed a lot. Now the enemy's cavalry is about to come ashore, and there are more of them than on their own side. If you continue to stay here, it will probably not end well. These cavalry under his command are all treasures, and they can't just be left here.

So Huang Guo trotted away from the battlefield with the cavalry, and He Dalong, who went ashore, did not chase them, and he also had to reserve horsepower for the later battle or escape. Therefore, He Dalong only controlled the important position near the dock, and did not pursue Huang Guo. And when Huang Guo saw that He Dalong had no intention of pursuing him, he simply stopped in the distance and continued to monitor the officers and soldiers from afar.

Soon, more infantry began to come ashore, and by noon seven or eight thousand men had crossed the Yellow River. Fu Yuanxian crossed the Yellow River with Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi, and ordered He Dalong to expel Huang Guo's cavalry. At this time, Huang Guo's cavalry rested for a period of time, and the horsepower recovered slightly, but He Dalong's cavalry was more, and Huang Guo was unwilling to fight with the cavalry that was obviously more than himself, so he retreated in the direction of Caojiazhai.

Under Fu Yuanxian's constant urging, around the time of Shen Shi in the afternoon, Fu Yuanxian's remaining men and horses had completed the river crossing. Fu Yuanxian was worried that Huang Zide's troops had escaped, so he did not let the soldiers set up camp, but forced them to immediately advance to Kaifeng to pursue the "thief army".

"Today is fourteen, and the moonlight is good. Just enough to march. In this way, early tomorrow morning, we will be able to reach Kaifeng City, defeat the thief army, and then enter Kaifeng City to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival. Fu Yuanxian asked people to say this to the soldiers. Obviously, there is a basic rule that Fu Yuanxian does not know, that is, one of the most taboo words on the battlefield, that is, "After the battle, let the soldiers (children) go to such and such a festival" or "end the battle before such and such a festival". In this case, it has the ability to light up the death omen, and generally speaking, when the commanders say such words, there will basically be a big mess. For example, at that time in the later generations, the Führer said to his soldiers, "I hope to see you on Red Square during the October Revolution Festival of the Polar Bears." After saying that, he was beaten half-naked by the polar bear; For another example, His Excellency Big Wolf, the five-star general of the Bald Eagle family, also said in North Korea, "Before Christmas, let the children go home for the holidays", and as a result, they were beaten by a group of rabbits and their heads were full of bags. Of course, Fu Yuanxian can't be blamed for this, because, maybe this sentence has become taboo, but it actually starts with him.