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On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, Yang He went to the county seat.

Just a few days before the first month of this first month, in the far west, thousands of miles away, Kaifeng Fucheng.

The snow fell like hemp, and the wind and snow shrouded the majestic Kaifeng City.

Kaifeng is a famous ancient capital, to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is incomparably prosperous, the anonymous note "such as a dream" once said: "The city is full of markets, can not be counted, and the momentum is like two capitals." ”

In addition to the prosperity of Kaifeng, the city equipment is also very solid, Song Jin has two layers of earth city inside and outside, Ming Taizu set up the Ming Dynasty, abandoned the outer city, only used to prevent floods, called the earth embankment, five miles away from the city, and then in the inner city to build a large number of buildings, fully covered with bricks.

Kaifeng city wall in the Ming Dynasty, five zhang high, there are five enemy towers, all have arrow cannon holes, there are five big city towers, four corner towers, twenty-four star towers, all are arranged according to twenty-eight nights. There are 10 sample shops, 54 nest shops, 10 turrets, 4,702 zhang around, and 7,322 battlements.

Then there are five city gates in Kaifeng, the east gate is called Renhe Gate, commonly known as Cao Gate; The small east gate is called Lijing Gate, commonly known as Song Gate; The south gate is called the South Smoke Gate, commonly known as the South Gate; The west gate is called the girder gate, commonly known as the west gate; The north gate is called Anyuan Gate, commonly known as the North Gate.

Five city gates, a total of 50 iron wrapped doors, there is a moat outside the city gate, the mouth is five zhang wide, the bottom is three zhang wide, and the depth is two zhang.

It's a fortified city.

To attack the closed city, it has never been a worry-free thing.

However, at this time, there were more than one time people who attacked the idea of this fortified city.

The rustling of snowflakes, mixed with the rising smoke of gunpowder, is like a thick fog, and is accompanied by the rumbling sound of cannons.

The closed compartment of Caomen is in ruins.

This is the big east gate of Kaifeng, where the Bianhe River passes, the goods pass through the prosperity incomparably, the city tower of this place, the urn city has three gates, there is a water gate on the north and south sides of the inner part, the city gate, the water gate has about ten iron wrapped doors, and then the outside is the moat around the city.

Caomen Tong Caozhou gets its name, it is the east-west traffic throat of Kaifeng City, there are waterways, the gates outside the city gate are naturally lined up one after another, the houses and shops have been spreading to the outer city embankment, but at this time they are all pieces of broken bricks and tiles.

Many of the destroyed houses were still emitting smoke.

Not only that, from Caomen to the north under the city wall, the side of the ditch, there are also dense dead people and scattered blades and weapons, even in the cold weather, the smell of corpses is still overwhelming, mixed with all kinds of strange smells, people want to vomit.

These corpses, of various shapes, many of them killed by artillery and some burned with medicinal oil, were twisted and hideous, and it was obvious that they had experienced inhuman and unspeakable pain before they died.

But when the thieves attacked the city, the bricks and stones could not be hit, and the defenders were on the hanging tower, throwing them with "ten thousand enemies", or throwing them with reeds to the place where the thieves landed in the city, accompanied by baking medicine and oil, the flames filled the sky, and the thieves were burned alive countless times.

The siege of the city for many days, from Caomen to the north gate, the wall is more than ten miles, and the fire burns day and night.

Even the location of the North Gate Urn City was still scorched at this time, and the charred black corpses of various twisted shapes were visible.

But on the 24th day of the lunar month last year, the thieves attacked the north gate, and there were 3,000 soldiers under the command of the superintendent Ding Qirui outside the gate, and they went to Bian from Nanyang, and built a fortress on the side of Hao to defend, but the thieves arrived, and the soldiers were defeated, and the soldiers surrendered to the thieves, and the north gate urn city was immediately taken by the thieves.

There were even thieves who climbed from under the urn to the top of the city.

At the critical juncture, Li Yao, who was crowned the commander of the capital, led dozens of elite soldiers, each holding a big willow lol, and shot down all the thieves under the city, and then Wang Xie, the county governor, ordered a fire attack, and all the torches were thrown together, and all the people crowded in the urn city were burned to death.

At that time, there were many people crowded in the urn city, but whether they were officials or soldiers, they were all buried in the flames, and there were no less than thousands of dead.

These people were all burned alive, and the layers of charred corpses were still shocking to see.

At Caomen, beside the ditch, there were still many corpses of naked women.

Their bodies were either broken in half, their organs were drained, or their bodies were cut into large holes, their dead fish-like eyes were just looking at the sky, and their bodies were lying frozen in the snow, and the blood under them was even more condensed into ice, which was terrible to see.

But on the first day of the first month, the thieves used the Yin Gate Array to drive the women naked to the side, looking at the city and shouting, and venting the artillery in the city. The city hurriedly used the Yangmen array, so that the monks stood naked on the female wall and shouted, and then bombarded it with artillery, killing countless women who were expelled.

The eyes were full of misery, broken hair was all over the ground, corpses were all over the field, and black smoke was billowing.

There was a thick smell of blood and gunsmoke everywhere, as if it was about to envelop the land.

However, the footsteps were mixed, and countless footsteps came on the remnants of snow.

Countless hideous faces.

This is the twelfth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the twentieth day of the siege of the Liukou.

The Kaifeng defenders were also facing about 500,000 soldiers and horses jointly operated by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai.

According to history, the Li and Luo coalition forces this time had about 30,000 thieves and more than 400,000 coercions.

This is also Li Zicheng's second attack on Kaifeng.

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In July of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Luo Rucai had a discord with Zhang Xianzhong, and led his troops to Xichuan in southwest Henan to fight jointly with Li Zicheng's troops.

After Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai joined forces, they prepared to enter Huguang to capture Chengtian, but Chengtian was well guarded, and Fu Zonglong, the governor of the three sides, was afraid that the ancestral tomb of Chengtian would be lost, so he led the general soldier He Renlong and the deputy general soldier Li Guoqi to rush to Chengtian in early August.

Li and Luo changed their plans and returned to Yudi via Yingshan, Fu Zonglong mistakenly thought that the thieves were cowardly, and led the troops to chase after him, and then fell into an ambush, and Fu Zonglong was captured and killed.

Li and Luo seized a large number of armor and equipment, collected and surrendered a large number of Fu Zonglong's soldiers, and the momentum became more and more vigorous, and after capturing Nanyang, they attacked Zhenping, Xinye, Miyang, Wuyang, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Xinzheng and many prefectures and counties, and once again arrived under the city of Kaifeng.

On the 23rd day of the lunar month, after the combined forces of Li and Luo arrived at the city of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng set up the headquarters in the garden of the king of Yingcheng County outside the earthen embankment, and Luo Rucai set the headquarters in the Fanta Temple outside the city.

Drawing lessons from the first attack on Kaifeng, Li Zicheng focused his attack on the north gate and the Caomen area north of the east of the city, because the walls in these places were slightly thin.

And the second time he attacked Kaifeng, the strength of Li Zicheng and the others had swelled to an astonishing 500,000.

In February of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng had attacked Kaifeng, when its momentum was still weak, "3,000 elite soldiers, and only 30,000 coerced followers", but in less than a year, the strength of soldiers and horses swelled to this extent.

Even when the third attack was opened, it reached an astonishing level of "30,000 horse thieves, 100,000 foot thieves, and nearly one million coercions".

This is not for the time being, and because of the first attack on Kaifeng, Li Zicheng and others suffered a big loss due to the lack of artillery, but this year they switched to the north and south, captured a lot, and the gunpowder equipment obtained was greatly praised.

Kaifeng is a fortified city, and there are many artillery equipment, so both sides of this battle "attack and defend with artillery".

In the roar of artillery fire, both sides suffered heavy casualties.

But apparently there are a lot of outcasts who can afford to die.

Therefore, after days of bloody battles, today there are countless thieves brave the wind and snow, step through the ruins of the Guanxiang street, step on the messy fields and vegetable fields outside the box, avoid the dangerous land of dozens of reed cities in the north and south corners of Caomen, and cross the corpses all over the field.

They gritted their teeth, their faces hideous, and they roamed the mountains and fields, stepping on a mixture of blood and snow, and only pressed forward.

Then they will soon shout hoarsely under the cover of artillery fire and rush towards the city ahead.

This is already a daily routine.

In front, the Kaifeng city wall is still majestic, but after several days of attack, the city wall has been repeatedly scarred, and there are many wall sections near Caomen that are seriously damaged.

In the second attack, Liukou used a large number of artillery, causing great casualties to the defenders, and the city wall was also much weakened, and even a city wall in the northern section of Caomen was destroyed several zhang.

The Liukou artillery bombarded this section to cover the attack of the infantry and cavalry, while the defenders removed the door panels of the palace and the temples, added earth to them, and built a layer of additional walls, and so far, a total of seven layers of walls have been built.

There is also a city wall more than ten miles away from the second gate, and huge holes can be seen everywhere, but it is the thieves who try their best to rip the city, intending to dig through the city wall, go straight to the city or blow up the city wall.

This is also their main tactic for this attack.

The Kaifeng city wall is very high, and ordinary ladders are useless, and the shelves are overturned by forks and rods, unless a large ladder is used to hook it with a heavy iron hook.

However, when the first attack on Kaifeng, the thieves had a large cloud ladder with 48 people, and they would reach the city, and the officers and soldiers enlarged the artillery bombardment and died.

In fact, Li Zicheng's camp is also better at "digging the city" tactics.

“…… Self-become every siege city, do not use the ancient ladder rushing method, take the Ling, get a brick to return to the camp and lie down, retreat the latter must be killed. Take the bricks already, that is, through the cave cave city. At first, only one person was allowed, and gradually it reached one hundred and ten, and the second Fu Tu came out. After three or five steps, leave a pillar of earth and tie it with a giant rope. After wearing, 10,000 people dragged the rope and shouted, and the pillar collapsed. ”

In the past few days, countless thieves have been busy, and they have dug 36 holes from Caomen to the north gate, more than 10 miles around the wall.

Especially in the south of the northeast corner of Kaifeng City, the north of the land of Chen Zongbing, a huge hole is dug on the outer wall of the city wall, which is about more than zhang wide and more than ten zhang long.

In the past few days, all the thieves have transported gunpowder in cloth bags, and have transported dozens of stones of gunpowder, and have prepared two medicine lines, four or five zhang long, as thick as a bucket.

In addition, on the second day of the first month, the thieves were also 1,200 steps away from the city wall, facing some seriously damaged city walls, laying pine and cypress as platforms, building earth, and setting up many forts.

Each one is three zhang high, five zhang wide, more than ten zhang long, and can accommodate more than 100 people.

The forts continued to bombard the city walls with heavy artillery fire every day.

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"The thieves are coming."

The sound of the remnant snow being trampled on "rustling", probing outside the city, I saw the black and oppressive thieves spreading, all over the mountains and fields, and seemed to cover the earth.

Wrapped in a ball, the very tired defenders seemed to wake up one by one.

They lifted their blankets of blankets covered with snow and frost, shouted and reminded them to use the weapons beside them in an orderly manner, leaning behind the battlements or jumping into the dilapidated hanging towers to defend them.

The sound of the impact of the armor leaf weapons, the sound of running footsteps, the shouts of everyone, the dead silence of the city seemed to come alive at once.

After days of bloody fighting, the defenders were all very tired, and in the spare time they leaned on the head of the city to recuperate, silent, only letting the rustling snowflakes fall and cover them, like snowmen.

However, at this time, the felt blanket cotton *** weapon was lifted, and everyone's tired faces showed murderous and vicious aura, like a tiger waking up.

Most of the guards in Kaifeng are the new commander-in-chief Chen Yongfu's main barracks, as battalion soldiers, many of them have armor, at this time most of them are dark armor, iron leaves inlaid in the inner layer of cotton armor, they wear placket cotton armor, wearing iron helmets, fluttering red tassels on it.

The cotton armor nailed to each person with copper nails was crimson, and many people were covered with felt coats and cloaks, and at this time, whether the cloak or cotton armor, they were all stained, or blood, or mud, or residual snow, but it gave people a strong sense of slaughter.

The battalion soldiers are the most regular professional soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and if they dare to fight in their hearts, they are actually quite strong in combat.

In addition to the battalion soldiers, there are also cooperative social soldiers at the head of the city, after the first battle of Kaifeng, Wang Xie, the county magistrate, set up a social soldier, and selected the people to send one or two thousand gold producers, or two families to send one soldier, ten thousand gold producers to send two soldiers, and the same is true for giant merchants.

Eighty-four societies in the city, 50 soldiers in each society, choose Yin Shisu as the chief deputy leader, and select five people from the head office, according to the five institutes and five gates, and place one person in the name to unify them, a total of 4,200 unpaid soldiers.

The social soldiers are at least middle-class families, most of the gentry and merchants in the city, and they are led by students, and they are absolutely inseparable from the thieves.

They were dressed in different ways, but they all wore carefree silk around their waists, or they carried bows and arrows, or long knives, or short axes and spears.

Some of their equipment is given in the warehouse, some are their own weapons, the Ming Dynasty defaults to the people holding five soldiers, in fact, north of the Yangtze River, every household has bows, arrows, knives and spears and other weapons.

Each of them has a social ticket, and the banner is according to the five colors, and the battalion soldiers, bloody battles for days, the faces of the social soldiers are full of fireworks and black fog, many people have wounds on their faces, they hold weapons, and their demeanor is quite sharp.

This kind of life and death elimination, those who can survive until now, at least the skills and luck are very good.

Moreover, compared with many officers and soldiers, their courage to fight is also more resolute.

There are still many strong men busy in the city, carrying bricks and stones, carrying matches, carrying the wounded, although they are strong people, and their demeanor is quite strong, but they are bloody battles for days, and the garrison in the city is short of personnel, and the defenders temporarily recruit strong men in the city.

"The head office set up money to be placed in the city, and every time someone gave Qian Baiwen and four cakes, the people flocked to hire it."

The money hired and raised came from the gentry and merchants in the city, "the giant merchants and the giant clans, each sent thousands of cakes", and even the Shu firewood used by the defenders to bake the Liukou "strong half out of the society", and there was a cold day in the first lunar month, and the felt collected by the gentry of the head office was used by the defenders.

The king of Zhou in the city was wise, knowing that he could not follow in the footsteps of the queen, so he recruited dead soldiers to kill thieves, and even issued a million taels of gold, which was greatly inspiring.

Therefore, in the second Kaifeng siege battle, the army and the people were unprecedentedly united, regardless of class, and hated the same enemy.

The defenders also have no internal worries, so they can concentrate on dealing with the rogues.

At this time, they watched the thieves under the city, and under the orders of the officers, they entered the defense line one after another, especially many people jumped into the rather dilapidated hanging towers.

The people are also desperately trying to move the reeds, firewood, bricks and stones into the hanging building.

The hanging tower is a sharp weapon for the defense of Kaifeng City, and it has made great contributions to the defense of Kaifeng City.

When the thieves attacked the seal for the first time, because the thieves had firearms, they could not use the hanging households, and the defenders used table door panels to cover the artillery arrows at the battlements, but they still penetrated, and the officers and soldiers could not use their hands and feet.

Zhang Jianxian, a member of the hanging building type, with three large cypress wood, more than 10 horizontal logs in the upper row such as a raft, after being made, its width can span five stacks or three stacks, four or five feet outside the stack, each floor can accommodate ten people, after entering the inside, each thief is under the city, and the officers and soldiers can hit it with fire pot guns and stones inside.

The overhanging tower is so thick that the guns and stones cannot enter, and it can shelter themselves, so the officers and soldiers have to show their hands and feet.

At that time, Huang Shu supervised the construction of the official, and it became more than 15 in one night, when the thieves passed through the city and ambushed it through six holes, the officers and soldiers in the city could not hit it, but from the hanging tower, there was no one who missed.

This time, the thieves attacked again, and Kaifeng City built more hanging towers to defend.

However, in order to avoid the hanging building, the thieves have improved their digging holes, not digging straight holes, but also digging ** to avoid them.

Many thieves and artillery also bombarded the hanging towers, hitting the holes of each building everywhere, and many hanging buildings were damaged.

In order to convex the thieves' forts, the defenders also built forts in the city, each square of wood is more than two zhang long, two or three feet thick, and each square is more than three zhang higher than the thief's cypress platform, and the cannons are placed to bombard it.

Zhang Eryou, a member of the student, also offered a hanging cannon stone type, standing long cypress wood three such as a tripod foot, hanging a cannon on it, looking at Baitai and attacking, the thief of Baitai suffered heavy casualties.

The war tests people, and the offensive and defensive battles of Kaifeng City, both the offensive and the defensive, have shown extraordinary wisdom.

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In the wind and snow, dense thieves poured in, and they were like a tide, covering more than ten miles of city walls from the Great East Gate to the North Gate.

They are innumerable, but there are tens of thousands.

In front of them were groups of hungry soldiers, ranging from their teens to their forties, and those over fifteen years old and under forty years old were among the hungry soldiers, but in reality, it was very common for people in their forties and fifties to be among the hungry soldiers.

This is the coercion, taking away the young and strong men who have labor in each family, and the women and children of each family have no choice but to follow.

This is also the reason why thieves have hundreds of thousands, millions of people at every turn.

The black-pressed hungry soldiers walked in front, some with weapons and some without weapons, and they mostly wrapped their heads in turbans, and their bodies were covered with all the clothes they could find, whether it was their heads or faces, they were tightly wrapped to keep them out in the cold wind.

Many of them carried short pouts and hoes in their hands, and many of them carried burdens, but they were used to dig caverns and carry the earth, and then many of them carried planks to resist the arrows of the masonry and stones on the city.

Groups of hungry soldiers walked on the snow, each wearing cloth shoes, many even straw sandals, only wrapped in cloth and hay, walking in a mixture of blood and snow, that is, staggering, and extremely painful.

They pressed forward, all ragged and vegetable, with numbness, despair, and hideous expressions on their faces.

There was no turning back from the bow, and when he entered the thief's camp, he had only one black way to go down.

No matter what the reason for joining the occupation at that time, there is no possibility of breaking away now.

Now the patrols of the battalions are becoming more and more intense, and the fugitives are said to be falling into the grass and stumbling.

Military discipline has also become more stringent.

"Whoever hides a woman in a den will be beheaded."

"There's no turning back."

"The former dies, and the latter advances."

For each siege, the only way to do this is to dig up the required bricks and chisel at least three wall bricks.

Pick out the prescribed amount of soil, at least two loads, before you can go back to the camp to rest, and those who dare to hesitate to retreat will be killed.

In order to supervise them, behind each team of hungry soldiers, there will also be foot soldiers in battle, and those who are cowardly and backward will be immediately beheaded.

During the siege of the city for many days, a large number of hungry soldiers died not in the defenders of the city, but in the accompanying foot soldiers of the garrison.

For example, on the seventh day of the first month, there were dozens of foot soldiers with knives to drive hundreds of hungry people to bear the door, each holding a short pout into the original digging hole, but the officers and soldiers fought hard, everyone did not dare to approach, wanted to dig another, and was knocked away by the hanging building masonry, these digging and starving people retreated to the Haobian, and the thieves with knives were killed.

Driven and killed, no less than 10,000 starving people died all day long.

This is the Gu cultivation tactic of the rogue, to nourish the war with war, and eventually become an elite soldier.

When they fought in the field, they were mostly in five-fold battle formations, the hungry people were outside, the second foot soldiers, the second horse army, and the second horse army, and the old camp was inside.

The family is not to mention the women and children, the family of the old thief is small, the combat power is fourfold, the siege war, it is also a cavalry escort array, the horse team supervises the battle, and the infantry drives the hungry people to fill the trench and dig holes.

In the past few days, bloody battles have been fought again and again, from Caomen to the north gate, in the ditch of more than ten miles, most of the dead and wounded are from the hungry people who have been coerced from all over the place.

But they can't help it, they don't have the strength to resist, they can only hope that they can survive after a few siege battles, and then choose to join the infantry battalion, not only to eat and drink better, but also to control the lives of others and kill others happily.

Groups of hungry soldiers staggered along the door, or in groups of dozens, or hundreds, and then they were followed by the guards of the war.

These foot soldiers were armed with swords, shields, bows and arrows, and they had a strong murderous aura on their bodies, and their ferocity and ferocity were especially better than those of the Tongshan bandits.

After all, he was eliminated from the sea of corpses and blood, and the anger and combat skills on his body were incomparable to the hungry people who had newly joined the gang.

It is also an ordinary hairy thief and bandit that cannot be compared.

They also basically wore felt hats, thick cloaks, and boots, and their exposed skin was tightly wrapped, and they were full of thick white gas.

There are also many people wearing red hats, wearing armor or cotton armor, and felt coats, these people are all officers and soldiers, and they have been fighting for many years, and they have won several great victories, and there are too many officers and soldiers who surrendered in the infantry camp.

After the surrender of the officers and soldiers, they were basically selected into the infantry battalion, and those who had horses were at least horsemen.

They roared and shouted, driving the hungry soldiers forward, sometimes kicking and beating, and looking at the people in front of them as if they were pigs and sheep, and their eyes were full of cold and merciless taste.

They also control the lives of these people, and if they think that any of them is afraid to retreat, they can cut them down.

When the hungry soldiers looked at these people who controlled their lives, their eyes were full of fear.

The vast team of hungry soldiers was driven forward, and groups of foot soldiers in groups of three or five fierce and vicious soldiers were in formation, and then some distance away from the hungry soldiers, there were large groups of foot soldiers, forming a slaughtering military array, archers, sword and shield soldiers, and spearmen were densely packed.

There were still quite a lot of firearms in the military formation, and after the officers and soldiers surrendered, quite a lot of firearms soldiers, after entering the camps of the thieves, they were naturally still firearmsmen.

However, because of their poor three-eyed guns, except for a small number of elite firearms, the thieves' battalions paid more attention to artillery, and all gunners enjoyed the treatment of the old battalion.

They came in array, hunting and fluttering flags, all of them were full of characters, as well as Luo characters.

In the wind and snow, the military formation looms, but from east to north, you can see endless crowds.

This kind of sea of people makes people desperate at first sight.

In the face of the position of thieves, it is difficult for the city to escape unless it fights to the death.

If there is a war, the only way to fight is to fight desperately.

"The city will fall, the infantry will be surrounded by 10,000 people, and the horsemen will patrol, and no one will be spared."

"Siege the city, do not kill those who surrender, keep one day to kill three out of ten, two days to kill seven out of ten, three days to slaughter!"

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The defenders of the city silently watched as the sea of thieves approached, the gunners entered, and the fort began to prepare for a bombardment.

Above and below the city, there were still people who kept giving orders and shouting: "...... King Zhou ordered that if there is a person who can go out of the city to kill a thief, he will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver! Those who can shoot a thief will be rewarded with thirty taels of silver! Whoever shoots a thief or is wounded by masonry or stone, a reward of ten taels of silver! ”

In the sound of the gong, from time to time there are heroes holding bows and arrows and knives to the city, there is an official standing quietly at the head of the city, the snow in the coat and hat has been more than an inch, still not moving, he holds a big white flag in his hand, and the words "Bianliang Haojie is willing to stand this flag from my travelers" are written.

The snow rustled and fell, and sometimes a cold wind swept by, and the banner kept rolling, and beside this official, there was a steady stream of more and more people, including officers and soldiers with tired faces, wearing red hats, and long cotton armor, and people in the Great Shrine who wore carefree silk around their waists.

There are also folk heroes of all kinds of clothes and knives.

They held their weapons and looked at the thieves coming from below, their faces just resolute.

There is also a general in armor, surrounded by dozens of ironclad soldiers with gray and black blood stains, guarding the entrance of the big cave, which was defeated by the gunfire of thieves for several zhang, adding a layer, penetrating a layer, and building on the collapsed city wall of the seven-story Naizhi.

The banner of "Chen" rolled behind him.

The general silently watched the thieves outside the city get closer and closer, and the heavy sword at his waist was slowly drawn.

There are also many officers and soldiers who climb from the city and jump into the entrances of various caves, especially at a large hole next to the Xinzilou in the northern section of Caomen.

At this time, standing next to this cave and looking down, you can still see the dark and deep situation in the inner curve, and there are especially Zhu Shu on the wall next to it, and you can faintly see some vague words: "There is a reward of 2,000 gold for those who can win this cave." ”

But the thieves did their best to plunder the city day and night, so they dug holes in the middle of the city, and stabbed them with spears of masonry, so that the thieves could not survive.

Governor Gao Mingheng even dug a horizontal road in the city, listened to the sound below, poured poison on it, and died.

However, the hole dug under the heart of the building is quite large, the poison is useless, the guards dig through the hole in the city, but the thief is dead, and the soldiers can not enter.

So the governor hung 2,000 gold to put a reward at the entrance of the cave, there was Zhu Chengxiang, led more than 100 heroes, first hung half of the hole with firewood, plus the baking medicine, then filled with more firewood, extremely hot, the thief could not save, and poured more than 100 Hu, jumped into it with a short knife, and finally grabbed it.

This hole can accommodate more than 50 soldiers, all thieves dig 36 holes, all take it to defend it.

In addition to protecting the city walls, these openings can even be used for surprises.

Just like the eighth day and night of the first month, three times the snow was heavier, and the patrol selected 500 strange soldiers, which were drawn by the rank of Watergate, and the order was sent to the head office, about a code.

After the strange soldiers passed through Hao, the score cut into the thief camp, the thieves were alarmed, the strange soldiers retreated from the Hao, the thieves tiptoed after them, the cave soldiers came out together, the thieves returned to the road, the strange soldiers returned, killed one place, and beheaded the thieves seven hundred and eighty-three times.

In the bloody battle of Kaifeng for many days, the entrances of various caves are also the focus of meat grinding between the enemy and us.

In this battle, the thieves will seize the hole, and the officers and soldiers will also guard the hole.

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The snow was falling in a hurry.

The sea of thieves is still getting closer, they cover the land, behind their vast array of hungry soldiers, many healthy cattle are still pulling artillery, mostly big wolf machines, with three to five catties of ammunition, the effective range of one or two miles, very heavy.

Most of these cannons were originally used by various prefectures, prefectures and counties to defend the city, and they were also brought at this time, but there were not many, only a dozen.

More are small wolf machines, with a bullet weight of half a pound to one or two pounds, more than a mile, or less than a mile, the firepower is slightly lighter, better than light.

And also look at what target, slightly to the city wall, but to the shield car human body......

Qi Jiguang once divided his car battalion into multiple numbers, No. 1 Franc is nine or eight feet long, with a mouth of one pound of lead per pill, one pound of medicine, more than one mile, and people and horses have been holed.

No. 2 is seven or six feet long, with ten taels of lead per pill and eleven taels of medicine; No. 3 is five or four feet long, with five taels of lead per pill and six taels of medicine; No. 4 is three or two feet long, with three taels of lead per pill and three halves of medicine.

There is also No. 5, which is one foot long, with three dollars per pill and five dollars for medicine.

In addition to the No. 5, it is the No. 4 Franc cannon, each projectile weighs three taels and uses three taels and a half, which is more than the heaviest smoothbore gun in the West, the Great Turtledove.

The big turtledove foot needs to be supported by a tripod, shaped like a bird's foot, and its bullet weighs 128 coins (68 grams), which is famous for its terrifying firepower, but it is not as good as the No. 4 Franc machine.

Moreover, this kind of Franc machine, mostly a small falcon gun type, the angle of fire can be negative 20 to 45 degrees, the muzzle can be rotated at an angle of 360 degrees, very flexible and practical, during the Jiajing period, the military department Shangshu Wang Hong, please cast this kind of Franc machine more than 1,000, issued in the nine sides.

He believes that there is a wooden frame under this kind of Franc machine, and its machine activity can be low, high, left, or right, which is used in the city and is a sharp weapon for guarding the camp gate.

Therefore, there are a lot of small falcon cannon type Franc machines in the Ming Dynasty, not only nine sides, but also commonly used in the hinterland.

Over the past year or so, Li Zicheng and others have trapped many cities, especially Luoyang and Nanyang, and in addition to the very old-fashioned ones that have been seized in the interior, the "Weiyuan Cannon" and the "Ye Gongshen Gun Cannon" that have not been reformed have been discarded, and more than a dozen large wolf machines weighing more than 1,000 catties have been seized.

More than 100 guns were captured, including dozens of falcon guns, wheeled and very heavy four-legged wooden benches, but the muzzles were very convenient to rotate.

When the thief gunner used this kind of cannon, on the fort more than 100 paces and 200 paces away, holding a long handle, he constantly adjusted and bombarded the city, up and down, left and right, causing great casualties to the defenders.

They even hated the thief small wolf machine more than the big wolf machine, because the small cannon is more accurate and flexible, as long as the cannon hits the human body, it is the result of one shot and two pieces.

The shield cart is just waiting for nothing.

At this time, the thief artillery team was dispatched again, and in order to protect the artillery, it had always been sandwiched in the brigade.

Then behind the artillery convoy, there were countless galloping and whistling horsemen.

These people are also more elite, and many of them are skilled in riding, and they ride on horses every day, and their equestrian skills are not good.

Many of them wore blue coats, and in addition to their cloaks, they also wore red tasseled hats.

They galloped on their horses, but they were supervised by the infantry soldiers and horses around the front.

This is the system of the camps of the rogues, and the life is controlled layer by layer.

In the wind and snow, the tide of streams poured into the city ahead.

They were like a sea of soldiers and horses, and they spread all the way to the earthen embankment five miles from the city.

Then, there was a steady stream of people pouring in from behind the earthen embankment.

This earthen embankment, which was originally the outer city of Bianliang, was abandoned in the Ming Dynasty, and the original city wall was used as an earthen embankment to protect against floods.

Two miles away from the north of the earthen embankment, is the magnificent Yellow River embankment, counting the city of Kaifeng, seven miles away from the Yellow River in the north.

At this time, the Yellow River has become a hanging river, the mighty and turbulent river hangs on the head, and the vast plain below is staring at the tiger, and the south is not far away, the city is dozens of miles around, and the majestic and very Kaifeng Mansion City.

On the earthen embankment more than ten zhang wide, and even farther away on the embankment of the Yellow River, many horse teams are densely gathered at this time.

These horses were more elite, and most of them wore thick cotton armor of blue color, which was so thick that it seemed that the arrows could not penetrate.

Many horse thieves have more than one war horse around them, and even the hooves of each horse are wrapped in cloth to keep warm, but they are the old battalion horsemen in the thief camp, and they are also real cavalry, not as good as the horsemen of each battalion, and many of them are still mounted infantry.

They strategized their horses, indifferently looking ahead, and the aura of cruelty and murder spread.

Looking at it, the thieves also wore blue thick cotton heavy armor, but it was a sign of breaking into the camp at this time, and blue was precious.

"The clothes are still blue, so the army wears blue, and the official hat also uses blue."

This may be the result of the lobbying of Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and other literati after defecting, according to Wuyun, the Ming Dynasty was the virtue of fire, and the meaning of water and fire was taken, but Li Zicheng finally changed to Shang Lan.

In particular, after entering Huguang and even establishing Dashun, in addition to the civilian officials and generals still wearing blue clothes, the banners and uniforms of each battalion have changed.

For example, during the attack on the Beijing Division, local officials had different views on Li Zicheng's rear battalion and the middle battalion.

"The thieves counterattacked the city, and the roar shook the ground. The thief is dressed in yellow armor, and the four sides are like yellow clouds covering the wilderness. ”

“…… The army has white hats and green clothes, and the royal armor bears arrows, and the ranks run through. ”

After the general customization, Li Zi set up the flag clothing of each battalion, and set the front battalion as black, the rear battalion as yellow, the left battalion as white, the right battalion as red, and the middle battalion as blue.

However, among the dense horse teams on the earthen embankment, from east to north, the clothes on the horse thieves gradually turned from blue to red, but in Luo Rucai's camp, the horse teams mostly wore red clothes.

At this time, Li Zicheng called himself the "General of the Fengtian Initiative", and Luo Rucai called himself the "General of Weide on behalf of the heavens", which was the time of the honeymoon period.

However, Li Zicheng is developing, Luo Rucai is also developing, and even in the later period, Luo Rucai's strength is very impressive, "There are five horse soldiers, each post is 3,000, 30,000 infantry, and no less than 450,000 soldiers." ”

With so many soldiers and horses, even if Luo Rucai bowed his head and recognized Li Zicheng's leadership position, he still caused him to be killed, and in the end, the soldiers and horses he had worked hard to accumulate were all used as wedding dresses for others.

At this time, the two were still close, and they worked together to open the seal, one hit the east gate, and the other hit the north gate.

The dense horse team of the second battalion rode into the horse embankment, and behind the earthen embankment, a steady stream of foot thieves continued to enter.

Due to the consideration of blockading the city, the original relatively gentle, there is a loess avenue that can lead to the earthen embankment of the city gates, now it has been flattened like a wall, leaving only some small roads, the camp will go down to the sentinel to attack during the day, and the night will be plugged with grass to prevent people from entering and leaving the city.

On the earthen embankment, beside a small road, in the direction of Caomen, a large flag fluttered in the wind and snow in the distance.

The white-maned silver float, the flag is several zhang high, the flag is snow-white, all made of horsehair, and the flagpole is silver-white, all made of silver.

Near the banner, there are all horses, three or four horses, very strong.

In front of the banner, a group of blue-clothed drama thieves surrounded a man wearing a white felt hat, this man was burly, squinting, full of beard, wearing a blue arrow suit, a shabby red cloak, and a few people dressed as literati beside him.

He was blind in his left eye, but his right eye, which was intact, was full of sharp light.

He sat on his horse, his waist straight in the cold wind, hunting the cold wind, and from time to time rolling up his cloak.

His gaze was indifferent, just looking at the people who stepped in from the path.

The thieves around him watched with him, and in their eyes, they all had a cold and ruthless taste.

The man looked at it for a while, then turned his eyes to the back again, and the thieves behind the earthen embankment were like ants, and they were still pouring in.

The place where they come from is a few extremely vast and vast camps behind the earthen embankment, where the nests in the middle are boundless, and the camps with the banner of the word are floating alone, and the camp is eight or nine miles wide, and more than 20 miles long.

They shouted every night, and the fire was continuous, like a city that never sleeps.

After looking at it for a while, the man looked at the Kaifeng city five miles ahead, and his expression seemed to be thoughtful.

Snowflakes are flying, cold winds are hunting, and the tide of thieves is still surging.

They flocked to the city of Kaifeng, which was about to begin the twentieth day of the assault.

Today, I don't know how many people will die.

This is the situation when Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's allied forces surrounded and opened the seal by hundreds of thousands of people.