The speed of the death of the people in the city was too fast, Gao Mingheng was a little unbearable, frowned, and thought: There are too many people in the Heavenly Mandate Army, after all, they are rogues, and the military discipline will not be much better, they are all young and young men, if some women are released in the city, will the Heavenly Mandate Army fight for these women?

Anyway, if these women stay in the city, they will starve to death sooner or later, so it is better to let them make some contributions to Kaifeng City......

He immediately issued an order, opened the south city gate, and let women go out of the city to dig wild vegetables, this time only women, children and old people are not allowed to go out of the city!

Although the soldiers defending the city were a little reluctant, they thought that the governor had discovered their troubles at the southern gate, so they did not dare to disobey the order and let all the women out of the city.

At this time, it is late autumn, the grass and trees are beginning to wither, and there are no wild vegetables outside the city? Even if there are wild vegetables, they have long been dug up by the people who have left the city.

After the women left the city, they scattered outside the city and were brought into the camp by the Mandate of Heaven army.

When Li Zicheng got the information, he couldn't help frowning, and he immediately asked his soldiers to send orders to each battalion: This is a trick by the high names in the city, the purpose is to lure the brothers to violate military discipline, anyone who takes in women, let them have a full meal, and then escort them to the designated military camp, whoever dares to hide women privately, will be killed!

More than 30,000 women, except for those who died on the way, were all kept in a military camp in the southeast of Kaifeng, where they could get two bowls of gruel and two pieces of pancake every day, but they had to obey the orders of the Mandate of Heaven Army, and those who left the camp without permission would be driven out and left to fend for themselves.

With food, these women can stay alive and run away unless they are fools.

But Li Zicheng learned from these women that there was almost no food in the city, and even the soldiers couldn't support it!

The Han Qing Bureau also sent a similar message, not only did the people die in large numbers, but even the soldiers defending the city began to kill mules and horses to satisfy their hunger.

Li Zicheng felt that the last moment had arrived!

We can't wait any longer, the longer we wait, the greater the casualties in the city, and the more difficult it will be to build Kaifeng in the future.

Moreover, the Heavenly Mandate Army will also face the pressure of food, in addition to tens of thousands of soldiers, there are also 50,000 young and strong, tens of thousands of women, and the daily consumption of these people will not be less.

Take the opening seal, and there will be a complete disposal method.

Li Zicheng immediately sent an order to the battalions, and from tomorrow, the battalions began to attack the city: the independent battalion Li Xinbu attacked the East Gate and Cao Gate; The Chengtian Battalion Gao Meritorious Department attacked the North Gate; The 4th Battalion Li Jibu attacked the South Gate; The 7th Battalion of Song Wenbu attacked Ximen.

The first battalion of Liu Yunshui's troops were all cavalry and did not participate in the siege, but the first regiment of Lei Wan's army department patrolled outside the city gates, ready to intercept the fleeing Ming army at any time, and the second regiment Xu Yongsheng and the third regiment Gao Qian were patrolling on the embankment to beware of reinforcements from all walks of life in Hebei Province.

This time, Li Zicheng did not "encircle three queyi", and there were troops of the Heavenly Mandate Army outside the five city gates, but the fourth battalion outside the south gate and the seventh battalion outside the west gate were mainly contained, and the scale of the siege was not large, and it was intermittent.

The main forces of the real siege were the independent battalions of the East Gate and Cao Gate, and the Chengtian Battalion at the North Gate.

Zhu Gongyu, the king of Zhou, heard the news that the Heavenly Mandate Army stormed the East Gate, Cao Gate, and North Gate, and was very scared in his heart, there was no food in the city, and the army's spirit had already been weakened.

He offered a reward: for every one rogue killed, he would be rewarded with three taels of silver!

This kind of price has been much lower than the bounty offered by the guards in the opening of the seal the previous two times, and the price of grain in the city has skyrocketed, and these silvers can't even buy two buckets of grain.

But the soldiers are very welcome to such a reward, every morning, there will be many soldiers carrying their heads, to the Duanli Gate of the Zhou Palace, asking for acceptance, reward.

Zhu Gongqiao doubted in his heart, there are not many rogues who have climbed to the top of the city, why are there these heads? I informed Gao Mingheng: If you want to receive the reward, you can, you don't want the head, just a live thief!

The soldiers who received the reward are no longer gone, and it is quite difficult to capture the Mandate of Heaven!

After three days of siege, the soldiers in the city suffered heavy casualties, they could not eat enough for a long time, their physical strength was exhausted, and their morale was low, although they had the city wall to rely on, the casualties of the Ming army were far greater than those of the Mandate of Heaven army, especially Caomen, two thousand defenders, and the casualties were more than thirty percent.

Huang Shu, who was guarding Caomen, was in a hurry, there were no soldiers, and Caomen couldn't defend it anyway. He erected a big white flag in Caomen, on which Zheng Zheng wrote: "Bianliang Haojie, I am willing to set up this flag from my travelers." ”

Kaifeng may not be a hero, but the young and strong in the city have long been hungry and have no strength, even if they go to the city, they are only sent to death, so there are really few young people who should defend the city!

Huang Shu had no choice but to ask Gao Mingheng, who was guarding the west gate for help, and Gao Mingheng saw that the attack of the Mandate of Heaven in the west of the city was very weak, so he divided 2,000 soldiers to assist Huang Shu in defending the city.

The offensive of the Mandate of Heaven is becoming more and more fierce, and the women who have escaped from the city are also helping to shout to the city: as long as they leave the city, the Mandate of Heaven will give them food, and some women even shouted "Whoever helps the Mandate of Heaven Army open the city gate will marry him".

Huang Shu was very nervous, the officers and soldiers were already unstable, women, food, no matter which one, was a fatal temptation, he scolded the Heavenly Mandate Army in his heart for being despicable, and even used women.

Among the defenders at the head of the city, there were also women and men, and at night when it was dark, they sneaked out of the city with ropes, and joined the Mandate of Heaven with their women.

Gao Mingheng knew that this time Li Zicheng was determined to take Kaifeng City, and in the face of absolute strength, he was helpless, so he could only go to the city in person to cheer up the soldiers.

Li Zicheng was calm and light on the surface, and he was also a little anxious in his heart, if Kaifeng City did not fall for a day, the war in Henan could not end, and tens of thousands of Heavenly Mandate troops had been pinned down outside the city.

There was a shortage of food in the city, and it was the people who suffered the most.

On the one hand, he sent orders to the people of the Han Qing Bureau in the city, asking them to encourage the people who had no food to eat to go out of the city as much as possible, and on the other hand, he sent orders to Li Xin and Gao Ligong to increase the intensity of the siege of the city and take Kaifeng as soon as possible.

Kaifeng City was already crumbling, and soldiers from the Mandate of Heaven had already broken through to the city, but they were eventually driven out by the defenders.

Li Zicheng got the information, and then he turned his worries into joy, and the Heavenly Mandate Army grabbed the city, although he was finally driven out of the city, and he was only one step away from breaking Kaifeng......

He walked out of the big tent, stood in the shade of the tree, took a deep breath, and already thought about Kaifeng, and even the future of Henan, the entire Henan Province, the Mandate of Heaven Army for more than two years.

However, after the Mandate of Heaven Army came to Henan, not only gradually occupied the entire Henan, but more importantly, the number and strength of the Mandate of Heaven Army were greatly improved......

Does the Mandate of Heaven already have the strength to compete with the imperial court?

Maybe it has, maybe it doesn't have it for the time being, the imperial court is still huge, the enemy is not only the Heavenly Mandate Army, and the energy of the imperial court is not all on the Heavenly Mandate Army.

No matter how the soldiers despise the army of the imperial court, the upper echelons of the Mandate of Heaven army must pay enough attention to the imperial court.

The soldiers did have reason to despise the Ming army, the Mandate of Heaven Army came to Henan, and there were many battles, but they never encountered a decent army, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming Army was really far worse than that of the Mandate of Heaven Army.

Even in the battle of Zhuxian Town, the number of the two Ming armies was three times that of the Heavenly Mandate Army, but the result was still a complete defeat!

With the decline of the dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the army will become worse and worse, but Li Zicheng does not dare to take it lightly, the territory ruled by the imperial court is far greater than that of the Mandate of Heaven army, who knows if there will be an accident?

Soldiers can maintain high morale and confidence in victory, and the upper echelons of the Mandate of Heaven must keep a clear head!

Li Zicheng changed his posture, leaned against the big tree behind him, and looked at the Kaifeng city wall in the distance, and seemed to hear the sound of fighting in front of him, and the sound of fighting seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, until finally it was completely drowned out by the autumn wind......

If Kaifeng City is broken and the war in Henan is over, where will Henan's more than 100,000 Heavenly Mandate troops go?

Should he stay in Henan for rectification, or should he continue to expand outward and encroach on the territory of the imperial court step by step?

Li Zicheng once thought that once Kaifeng was taken, he would move the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion to Kaifeng, expand the influence of the Mandate of Heaven's Governor's Mansion, officially raise the banner of overthrowing the imperial court, and even establish political power, attract talents from all over the country, and gradually establish the legal status of the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Office.

The so-called legal status is determined by strength, and the Hongwu Emperor used his strength to drive away Meng Yuan and establish the legitimate and orthodox status of the Ming Dynasty.

Every time the grass is changed, it is an opportunity to reorganize, and strength determines the status!

Kaifeng is not the end, the Mandate of Heaven Army must not stop, and it cannot give the imperial court a chance to breathe.

The question is, whether the Mandate of Heaven Army will go south to Huguang or the Northern Expedition to Beijing.

The Northern Expedition to the Beijing Division, you can directly take the heart of the Ming Dynasty, once the Beijing Division is broken, the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty lose their allegiance to the royal family, maybe the world belongs to the Mandate of Heaven Army.

If you go south to Huguang, you can get food supplies on the Huguang Plain, gradually accumulate strength, accumulate steadily, and finally win the Jingshi in one fell swoop......

Whether the Northern Expedition or the South Expedition depends on the strategy of the Mandate of Heaven Army, whether it is a quick battle or a boiled frog in warm water, encroaching on the land of the Ming Dynasty step by step, consuming the prestige of the imperial court little by little, and shaking the orthodox status of the imperial court.

"Metropolitan Governor, message from the Hanqing Bureau!" He Xiaomi hurried over, holding a copy of the message he had just received in both hands.

Li Zicheng's first reaction was to take Kaifeng City, but after thinking about it, no, if Kaifeng City was broken, it must be the besieging army that conveyed the message, not the Han Qing Bureau, he opened the sealed paper, took a closer look, not only frowned, but he couldn't understand these contents on the message for a while:

"Li Guangli, president of the Caomen General Society, has been concentrating craftsmen on shipbuilding in the city, and has completed two, the ship is three zhang long and one zhang and two zhang wide, and it can carry at least 100 people, and the purpose of shipbuilding is not clear for the time being!"

At present, the attack and defense of Kaifeng City is entering the most critical period, and Li Guangli does not organize social soldiers to assist in defending the city, what kind of big ship will he build? If Kaifeng City is along the coast and along the river, it can also be understood that the civil and military forces in the city are preparing to break through from the waterway.

Kaifeng is close to the Yellow River, but the north gate of Kaifeng City is at least 20 miles away from the Yellow River, and the moat of Kaifeng is not open to the Yellow River.

Why did Lee Kwang Dai build ships?

Li Zicheng closed his eyes and fell into deep thought for a moment.

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