On the fourth day of the attack on Luoyang, Zhao led the sect to mobilize 10,000 troops and storm Luoyang for the first time. Zhao led the direction of the main attack to choose the direction farthest away from the rebels.

To the sound of war drums, the first troops carried planks and sandbags and shouted "Loyalty to the Empire, Loyalty to Your Majesty!" Come on! The first army was to pave the trenches on the way to the attack. The rebels' artillery, bows, and flintlock muskets opened fire in unison, desperately trying to stop the attack.

The first army paid hundreds of casualties before the ditches on the road were paved with planks or sandbags, leaving only the moat of Luoyang. Although the moat in Luoyang was not as wide and deep as that in Liaodong City, it also caused great trouble to Zhao Shujiao's army. Just by building a road out of the Luoyang moat, Zhao led the army's army to pay two or three hundred casualties.

Before the first batch of soldiers retreated, the second wave of Zhao Shujiao's offensive came, and the second wave of troops rushed up with ladders and other objects to climb the city wall.

The war is heating up. The tentative offensive a few days ago made the rebels relax somewhat, which led to the first wave of today's offensive, and some people led by Zhao led the sect to climb the city tower, but there were too few people who climbed the city tower, and they were driven down by the rebels before they could hold on for a while.

In the next few waves of offensives, although there were also people who occasionally climbed the city wall, the rebels were already prepared, and almost all of them were driven down by the rebels as soon as they stood up. On the fourth day, after more than 1,000 casualties, there was no progress.

After this strong attack, in the next few days, Zhao Shujiao entered a small-scale siege battle. At this time, the 30,000-strong army led by Lu Xiangsheng launched an attack on Tongguan. Lu Xiangsheng lacked heavy artillery support, so he did not think about relying on these 30,000 people to take Tongguan, but planned to surround the point and send reinforcements.

Su Wang Zhu Zhihong received the news that Lu Xiangsheng besieged Tongguan, he had to immediately send troops to rescue, the gains and losses of Tongguan are related to his back road, if he loses Tongguan, Su Wang Zhu Zhihong wants to return to Shaanxi, the difficulty is more than double. Zhu Zhihong, the king of Su, ordered the army outside the city to send 30,000 people to rescue Tongguan at night.

After Sun Chengzong received the news that Huang Taiji led 100,000 troops to attack Kaipingwei, he was discussing with the generals of Liaodong how to rescue Kaipingwei. The generals of Liaodong and the Houjin have been fighting for many years, and they still know very well about the Houjin's military habits. It is obviously difficult to send troops to rescue directly, and Huang Taiji will definitely send reinforcements at the Kaiping Wei encirclement point.

After discussion, Sun Chengzong and the generals of Liaodong decided to implement the strategy of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao. After receiving Zhu Youxiao's holy decree, Sun Chengzong took Yuan Chonghuan as the commander, You Shilu as the deputy commander, and Hei Yunlong as the vanguard to lead 50,000 troops to Shenyang.

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The name of the shopkeeper of Kaifeng Fengqiuhuang is Mao Yaoli, and he is one of the largest silk merchants in Henan. Xiaoxiao directly approached Mao Yaoli and asked him to help transport grain from Huguang to Henan.

"Little girl, the grass people transport some silk every day, like this large-scale grain transportation, the grass people are afraid that it will delay the little girl's business." Mao Yaoli said in embarrassment. The scale of silk transportation is far less than the scale of grain transportation, if the scale of his silk transportation can catch up with the scale of grain transportation, then basically the whole of Henan is his silk business.

"Shopkeeper Mao, do you know anyone who specializes in transporting grain?" Xiao Xiao asked.

"The little girl wants to transport grain from Huguang, she can only find someone from Huguang, you can't find someone here in Kaifeng, these people have close contacts with the local big grain merchants, they won't offend these big grain merchants for you." Mao Yaoli said.

"Huguang, do you have a way?" Xiaoxiao asked again.

"You need to find a little girl to borrow some talent." After Mao Yaoli finished speaking, he looked at Luo Yangxing, who was sitting opposite.

"Lord Luo, I still need to trouble you in this matter, and I hope Lord Luo will not postpone it." Xiao Xin said understandingly.

"You don't need Lord Luo to come forward in person, just borrow a few brocade guards to the grass people." Mao Yaoli didn't wait for Luo Yangxing to speak.

"That's fine, how many people do you need? I can assign it to you at any time. Luo Yangxing nodded and said.

"Ten people would be fine." Mao Yaoli said.

"Shopkeeper Mao, I still need you to release the news, just say that the emperor wants to transport grain from Huguang to help the displaced people." Trail.

"The grass people will do it immediately, and the grass people promise that within three days, the entire Kaifeng Mansion will receive this news." Mao Yaoli nodded and said.

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Huang Taiji's army had already arrived at Kaipingwei at this time.

On the first day of arriving at Kaipingwei, Huang Taiji was still persuading to surrender, which was Huang Taiji's usual method. In order to delay time, the defenders of Kaipingwei also negotiated with Huang Taiji. It's just that such negotiations are doomed to be fruitless.

The next day, Huang Taiji became impatient, and he ordered a strong attack on Kaipingwei. Kaipingwei used the fortress, which was the first official offensive and defensive battle of the fortress in the Ming Dynasty.

The bastion essentially turns the fort into a concave polygon, so that attacking any point in the castle will expose the attacker to more than one bastion face (usually 2-3), and the defender can use crossfire to perform multiple strikes. Huang Taiji faced the fortress for the first time, he didn't know the power of the fortress, he suffered a big loss, he was caught off guard by Chen Si, and thousands of casualties were killed and injured on the first day of the attack.

Houjin's generals really didn't know how to deal with the new thing of the fortress for a while, and the next few days were all tentative attacks, and Houjin tried to find the weakness of the fortress, but still found nothing. The Battle of Kaipingwei turned into a protracted war.

Just when the battle of Kaipingwei turned into a stalemate stage, the heavy artillery of Zhu Youxiao and others was finally delivered. The outbreak of the battle of Kaipingwei made Zhu Youxiao have to speed up the offensive on Luoyang, although Kaipingwei used the fortress, but Zhu Youxiao was also the first time to use the fortress, he didn't know how long Kaipingwei could resist, he needed to end the battle of Luoyang as soon as possible, and then lead a part of the army back to the Beijing division.

There were twenty heavy cannons sent, all of which were newly cast cannons from the Manufacturing Bureau. Although Zhu Youxiao's heavy artillery had an advantage in range, the rebels had a geographical advantage, which made the range of the two sides hardly much different.

"Concentrate all the heavy artillery and use it, and I will take Luoyang within three days." Zhu Youxiao said as he looked at Luoyang City from afar.

"No."

Twenty heavy artillery shelled Luoyang City at the same time, making Zhu Youxiao feel that the entire ground was trembling. The artillery first shelled the artillery of the rebels, and for so many days, Zhao Shujiao basically figured out the location of all the artillery fire in Luoyang City. Although the artillery of Luoyang City also wanted to counterattack, the difference in the accuracy of the artillery of the two sides was not half a star, and the artillery of Luoyang City was soon completely suppressed.

(End of chapter)