"My lord, looking at the speed of building the wall, it will take five or six days for this tunnel to be dug under the city, and as for hollowing out the city foundation, it will be even slower. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and the end of the general has been along most of the Kaifeng city wall, buried the water tank. And people have already been asked to dig cisterns behind this section of the wall. Once we have identified the location where the thieves are digging tunnels, we flood them and drown them. Chen Yongfu said.

"Most of the Kaifeng city walls?" Gao Mingheng frowned, "Chief soldier Chen, it should be that all the water tanks should be buried behind the city walls." ”

"Your Excellency." Chen Yongfu clenched his fists and replied, "Logically speaking, this is the case. It's just that in some places, there are houses against the city wall, and this water tank is not easy to bury. ”

"House? Isn't it okay to tear it down? Gao Mingheng didn't reply, and after a while, he noticed that Chen Yongfu didn't answer, and then he remembered something, "These houses are not ordinary people, right?" ”

"My lord, many of these houses are the property of some gentry in the city...... And some are weekly...... The property of the Zhou Palace. The young general didn't dare to assert himself......" Chen Yongfu leaned closer and replied in a low voice.

Gao Mingheng nodded and said, "Mr. Chen, you are thoughtful in doing things. However, the house still has to be demolished, and the water tank still has to be buried. Don't let a small be a big one. However, the thieves' tunnels can't be dug right away, so it's too late to delay for a day or two. In fact, His Royal Highness King Zhou, and other gentry are all reasonable and reasonable people, you wait first, the official goes to talk to them, and they have absolutely no reason to obstruct it. ”

* hurriedly said, "Thank you so much, sir." ”

"Thanks for what?" Gao Mingheng said, "Defending the city is a matter for you and me, and you and I should have worked together." When it comes to killing thieves, this official can't compare to Chen Zongbing, and in other things, as long as this official can help, how can he not help? Oh, by the way, yesterday Zhou Wangfu took out 10,000 taels of silver to labor the army, and this money fell into the hands of the soldiers? ”

"Don't worry, your lordship, it's all in the hands of the soldiers, and if you don't believe it, you can just ask a soldier in the city. At this time, where would the last general dare to ask for this money? Chen Yongfu hurriedly replied.

"It's not that this official is worried about you, and your vision is not so shallow. The officer is just worried about your subordinates. "Gao Minghengdao.

"The last general doesn't dare to say that his subordinates don't take it at all, but they are all people who know the severity, and everyone knows the story of Luoyang, and they won't lose a lot because of a small thing." Chen Yongfu hurriedly replied.

"It's good to remember Luoyang, there can't be such a thing anymore." Gao Mingheng nodded.

Li Zicheng's capture of Luoyang is almost a bit untrue. At that time, Li Zicheng's strength was quite limited, and after experiencing the loss of Shangluoshan, his strength was far from recovering. Although he claimed to have an army of 100,000, in fact, there were less than 20,000, and most of these people were new homeless people, and the number of veterans who could actually fight was even less than a thousand. And the so-called attack on Luoyang was originally just a claim to scare people and save those officers and soldiers from running out to make trouble. At the beginning, Li Zicheng didn't plan to take Luoyang at all, and his strength was far from enough to take a city like Luoyang. His goal was just to grab a handful outside Luoyang City so that he could recover his strength as soon as possible.

But he didn't want to, he shouted like this, but it reminded those officials and military leaders in Luoyang City, and let them see an opportunity to make a fortune. So these people clamored together, saying that the thieves were coming, but the army had not paid military salaries for a long time, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, so they could not hold Luoyang. If you want Luoyang to be safe and sound, you must let the people in the city come up with money to work the army. Of course, this mainly refers to letting the fiefdom here pay for the Fu King.

However, King Fu also knew that Li Zicheng had few people at all, and the army in Luoyang City was enough to hold the city, and even, if they were willing to fight seriously, it would be a field battle, and they didn't have to be afraid of Li Zicheng. King Fu also knew that what Luoyang couldn't hold was because these officials colluded together and wanted to hack his money. So Fuwang Chitose's first reaction was naturally to cover his wallet tightly, muttering in his mouth: "Hold tight, hold tight, don't let them steal my money!" ”

Originally, if His Royal Highness King Fu really wanted to be a grande, it might not be fine, but the problem was that the information between him and those military leaders and officials was not equal. So he couldn't resist those guys bragging to him every day about how strong Li Zicheng was, and Li Zicheng really launched several attacks on Luoyang for the purpose of training, although they were easily repulsed, but those officials deliberately said that the situation was very serious. So in the end, he was still scared and agreed to come up with a large sum of money to work for the army.

After this money was taken out of the Fuwang Mansion, it naturally went into the pockets of officials and military leaders at all levels, and as for ordinary soldiers, naturally they had never seen a single copper. However, when King Fu took the money out to work in the army, everyone knows that King Fu's silver was still carried out by the soldiers. Everyone was thinking about how much money each person would get this time. As a result, they didn't get a penny, the soldiers were naturally resentful, there were people who made noise, and the officials naturally suppressed it strongly, and then at night, there was a mutiny, and then someone opened the gate of Luoyang City, and then, His Royal Highness King Fu, and a large number of other officials were gone.

At this time, the thief army outside the city gathered a large number of auxiliaries - in fact, it was a group of outcasts who did not even have decent clothes and were so thin that they looked like skeletons. They didn't have any weapons in their hands, they were completely bare-handed. Behind them, there was a squad of archers, and a troop of cavalry. A little farther on a flat ground, there is a big flag with the word "Luo" on it waving in the wind, under the flag, there is a table, a bench, a man is sitting there, each with his left and right hands around a young girl to watch.

"This thief should be Luo Rucai?" Gao Mingheng pointed to the man in the distance.

"It's this dog thief. My lord, the thief army is about to attack, for the sake of all plans, please avoid it for a while......" Chen Yongfu said.

Gao Mingheng listened, but just smiled and said: "Now that no one in the moat has been completely dried, and the thieves on the opposite side don't have a ladder in their hands, they are just here to clean up the wooden stakes outside, what risk do I have here?" Where is the use of avoidance? Besides, is this official still afraid of a few rogues? I'm here to watch you kill the thieves! ”

In general, in order to increase the trouble for the besieging side, the defending side will drive a lot of wooden stakes into the ground near the city walls. These stakes can effectively block the approach of various siege equipment, such as shield carts, and at the same time, they will also restrict the movement of people on the besieging side. So in general, before a large-scale siege, the attacking side needs to send someone to pull out these stakes first.

However, these stakes are not easy to pull, not only because they are buried deeply, but also because they are under the cover of the city's fire. The cannons on the walls, as well as the bows and arrows, pose a great threat to thieves who try to pull out the stakes. Especially those thieves don't even have armor.

It's not that Luo Rucai doesn't have armor in his hands, it's just that his armor won't be used for those cannon fodder. Anyway, there is no surplus of food now, and it is too much food to raise these displaced people, so it is right here to consume them, first, to save food, second, to clear the obstacles before the siege, and third, to consume the gunpowder and arrows of the Ming army by the way.

So under Gao Mingheng's nose, a large group of skeleton-like homeless people staggered towards the city wall of Kaifeng. Chen Yongfu estimated the distance, then turned to Gao Mingheng and said, "My lord, now the thieves have entered the firing range of our cannons. However, the last general felt that it was too wasteful to use a cannon to fight such a thief. The last general felt that these people were afraid that they would die if they fell. Luo Rucai, this killer must be trying to waste our gunpowder with these useless guys. So, my lord, I think it's better to use shotguns and arrows instead of solid shells to shoot them from a distance, and when they get closer, we can use shotguns and arrows. ”

Gao Mingheng listened, nodded and said, "You are handsome, how to beat you up and decide for yourself, I'll see." ”

……

Beijing, Kaishen Carriage and Horses.

It was already night, and in a room in the backyard of Kaishen's carriage, a group of people were busy. The door of the house was closed, and the windows were hung with thick curtains, and although the house was lit with bright whale oil lamps, there was not a single light visible from the outside.

In the floor of this house, there was a large hole, and next to the hole were two rollers, and every once in a while, a basket of earth was pulled up from below. A few others also stood at the edge of the cave to help.

Suddenly, a cry of terror came from the cave.

"Damn, it's leaking, quick, pull people out!" A fat man said anxiously.

Several people began to turn a wheel rapidly, and in a few moments, one person was dragged out of the hole.

"Quick, control the water! Get the water out! As he spoke, the fat man rushed forward and lifted the man on his shoulder, so that his head was down, so that he could spit out the water. Several others were still patting the man on the back. The man spat out a lot of muddy water. They put him on a straw mat next to him.

"How? *, can't you die? The fat man squatted down and said.

* But he hasn't completely eased up, and he came over for a while before saying, "Don't worry, you can't die, and the king of Hades won't accept it." ”

"It is really a turtle that has plagued 10,000 years and a thousand-year-old king. I know that you can't die if you lack virtue. You said that this god really can't do it, like you, who doesn't know how many ancient tombs you have turned over and how many things you have done that damage yin morality, you just can't die. Hey,*, do you think this tunnel can still be dug? ”

"I can't dig it." * Shaking his head, he relented a little more and was able to say more, "We didn't dig through the moat, and the water didn't come from the moat. This is the spring water that is bubbling up. ”

This news immediately made the fat man frown. He knew that if the water came through the moat, there was no more room for remedy, and it was only to dig another tunnel, and dig a little deeper, but if it was a spring, then there was no way to dig any further, and the more you dug, the faster it penetrated. And if you dig a little shallower, the water from the moat will rush in. Therefore, the appearance of spring water almost means that it is impossible to dig a tunnel over the moat.

"Fatty, it looks like we're going to have to think of another way."