Li Qingshan looked at Kaifeng City, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Kaifeng was originally an important town, but when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, he dug a levee to release water, and this section of the Yellow River had already formed an above-ground hanging river, and the water poured down, so that the original Kaifeng was completely submerged in silt (there is doubt here, and there is a view that it was an embankment dug by the officers and soldiers themselves). Since then, although the water has receded, but only less than 30,000 people remain in Kaifeng City, although a lot of rectification has been done, in the past two years, Niu Jinxing has deployed heavy troops in Kaifeng in order to operate the eastern defense line, but this ancient city still looks dilapidated and withered.

"Tuanzheng, it's almost, can you attack the city?" Beside Li Qingshan, his subordinates urged impatiently.

Each unit has its own style, which in turn is similar to the personality of the commander-in-chief. Although the regiment led by Li Qingshan has not been commanded independently by him for a long time, this regiment already has his own style.

That's the sex fight, buddy righteousness, no big or small.

"Dog rammer, Lao Tzu is not in a hurry, are you in a hurry, hurry home to hug the big girl?" Li Qingshan opened his mouth to scold, but after scolding, he shrunk his neck, habitually looked around, and found no military police in the army, so he breathed a sigh of relief, scratched his head, and laughed happily.

"Alright, get the artillery battalion ready, and make a big noise." He said again.

"Directly bombarding this city is, I see this dilapidated city wall, I can't afford a few cannons......"

"You rabbit cub has returned to Lao Tzu as the master, is Lao Tzu Tuanzheng or are you Tuanzheng?" Li Qingshan raised his hand and wanted to slap it over, but the soldier pointed to the epaulettes. He stopped his hand: "Dog rammer, go and convey Lao Tzu's order, there is half a typo, military law is engaged!" ”

His herald ran away with a grin, and in a few moments the artillery battalion began to bombard.

Guarding in Kaifeng City is Liu Xiyao. As early as when the Huaxia Army organized a pontoon bridge to cross the river. He received a report of this, and sent troops to intercept it, but the soldiers sent were frightened by two shots fired by the Huaxia army from a distance—after defeating and destroying Jianyu. The prestige of the Huaxia Army has reached the extreme, and the Chuang Army has no courage to fight against it in the field.

In this case, Liu Xiyao could only restrain his subordinates. While continuing to send people to Luoyang to report the emergency, he stuck to the city. It's not that he didn't have the idea of surrendering, but he was also one of the big leaders of the Liukou who were rampant in Yinghuo Mountain, and he had a big enmity with Yu Guozhen, and followed Zhang Xianzhong to burn Yu Guozhen's fine willow courtyard twice, so he didn't dare to surrender.

Hearing the loud sound of cannons, Liu Xiyao was apprehensive, but when he heard that these cannons were only fired outside the trench, none of them hit the city wall. The apprehension in his heart turned to bewilderment.

"Yu Gou's soldiers are good at artillery, so if they don't hit like this, there must be something else." A general next to him whispered.

Liu Xiyao waited and waited, there is no doubt about it, but since the other party did not directly attack the city. is willing to waste shells and gunpowder, and Liu Xiyao has no opinion. He raised his binoculars and directly observed the layout of the Huaxia Army, and found that the number of the Huaxia Army was not large, far from the tens of thousands as reported by his subordinates at the beginning.

Look at the appearance. That's two or three thousand.

This made Liu Xiyao's heart flutter, the Chinese army of two or three thousand people, no matter how brave it was, it would be difficult to conquer its own Kaifeng City.

As for where the rest of the Huaxia army went, he could guess without thinking about it that it must be heading west, rushing to Luoyang in a hurry. Liu Xiyao didn't have the leisure to worry about Niu Jinxing in Luoyang City at this time, he had more than 50,000 and less than 60,000 people in his own hands, originally scattered around Kaifeng, and the main combat force was in Guide Mansion to guard against the Huaxia army coming from the east of the mountain, but he never thought that the Huaxia army would attack from Hebei!

"Damn, this river is frozen, it didn't block the Huaxia army, but it blocked its own messenger!" Liu Xiyao scolded again in his heart, if it weren't for this, as soon as the Huaxia army approached the Yellow River, he would get the news, and he would have time to recruit soldiers, but now, the troops in his hands were insufficient, no wonder the Huaxia army dared to leave only a few thousand people to attack the city, and the main force went directly west.

"Be careful!"

Just as he was thinking about how to deal with it, his subordinates suddenly shouted, pulled him over, and ran straight towards the city.

Then the whistling cannonballs fell on the city wall, and this kind of flowering bullet was not as destructive to the city wall as a solid bullet, but its shrapnel was far more lethal to people than a solid bullet. The solid bullet smashed all the way at most, but it exploded a large area, even if Liu Xiyao dodged in time, the fragments that collapsed still fell not too far from him, kicking up layers of dust.

The unhit artillery fire just now turned out to attract him to go to the city to take a look!

Liu Xiyao's heart was dark, the generals of the Huaxia Army were really cunning, and the leader of thousands of people played such a trick and almost killed him. He couldn't help but worry in his heart, with such artillery fire and such generals, Kaifeng City was not easy to defend.

"The general is worried that it will not be easy to defend the city?" A cronie next to him frowned and asked in a low voice.

"It's not easy, if the Huaxia army attacks with all its might, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend for a day, and we don't have many troops in the city."

"The general forgot one person." The cronie said: "At the beginning, it was difficult for me to break into the 400,000 army to attack Kaifeng, not to mention that there were thousands of Huaxia troops outside? As long as we deal with it properly, the defenders will always have an advantage over the attackers! ”

"Forgot someone?" Liu Xiyao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly patted his forehead: "Exactly, I forgot...... Only, is he willing to work for us? ”

"Why don't you want to, when his son shot and injured King Chuang, King Chuang still allowed him, and the reward was endless. Later, Prime Minister Niu and the general you, also gave him a reward, but now the matter is urgent, if he doesn't do it, where will he leave his family? ”

The words of his cronies gave Liu Xiyao some confidence. The person they are talking about, surnamed Chen Yongfu, was originally the defender of Kaifeng City in the Ming Dynasty, and made great achievements in Li Zicheng's repeated siege of Kaifeng, and his son Chen De even shot Li Zicheng in a glance. Later, before Li Zicheng entered the Beijing Division, he was originally under Sun Chuanting, but because Gao Qi seized Sun Chuanting's military power, the whole army was defeated, and he surrendered one after another, and he was one of the few who did not surrender.

Li Zicheng's courage is by no means ordinary, when the arrow swore an oath, so that Chen Yongfu finally surrendered, Li Zicheng even arranged him to Kaifeng City, until he was defeated and died, Niu Jinxing controlled Kaifeng, Chen Yongfu said that he was sick and returned home to recuperate, but the father and son still stayed in Kaifeng City.

This person is one of the few masters of defending the city in the world, and if he can help him, he can indeed offset the superiority of the Huaxia Army in terms of weapons to a certain extent.

"Send someone to ask for ...... Well, I'll go for myself! Liu Xiyao originally wanted people to invite Chen Yongfu, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was inappropriate, and now he is asking for help, how can he be so lazy!

He was originally from a rogue, and he didn't pay much attention to his identity, so he rode a horse and took dozens of personal soldiers to Chen's mansion. Chen's Mansion is in the southwest of Kaifeng City, the cannon in the north of the city is rumbling, but the south of the city is very quiet, in front of the Chen's Mansion, even faintly heard the sound of silk and bamboo.

This made Liu Xiyao feel a cloud of anger in his heart, and he had already made up his mind in his heart, if this Chen Yongfu did not help him defend the city, then he would kill his entire family one by one.

After reporting the name, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in Chen's mansion, and not long after, the middle door was opened, and a strong man appeared in front of Liu Xiyao: "My father heard that General Liu has arrived, and he is waiting for guests in the atrium, please come in, please come in." ”

This strong man is Chen De, the son of Chen Yongfu, and Liu Xiyao is not polite to him, he enters with pride, and the guards around him naturally follow.

However, Chen's mansion was small, and dozens of people crowded in, and suddenly it was so crowded that there was no place to stand in the courtyard. Chen De coughed and said with some embarrassment: "The house is small and there is nowhere to accommodate guests, so please settle in the courtyard, slack, slack." ”

Liu Xiyao saw that Chen Yongfu was greeting him in front of the normal door, and he was no longer arrogant in front of this general, but clasped his fists and saluted: "Chief Chen Bing, this has always been good?" ”

"Rare guest, why does General Liu still have time to live in the snail's nest at this time?" Chen Yongfu bent over: "The position of the chief soldier was a puppet position of the previous dynasty, and now it is a new dynasty, where do you dare to do it?" Inside please, inside please! ”

He said it politely and very politely, and Liu Xiyao was a little happy in his heart. followed Chen Yongfu into the house, and saw that there was still a troupe sitting in the house, looking like they were singing. Chen Yongfu waved his hand, and the troupe withdrew from the door, and Chen Yongfu invited Liu Xiyao to sit on the top seat, and he accompanied the prime minister.

"It's not a secret, presumably Mr. Chen also knows that Yu Guozhen's Huaxia army raided Kaifeng and is now attacking the city......" Liu Xiyao had something in his heart, and he didn't beat around the bush, he directly explained the situation, and added a sentence at the end: "When King Chuang was there, he was quite kind to General Chen, and Prime Minister Niu and the general were not lazy, and now it is the time for General Chen to serve the country, and please don't refuse General Chen." ”

Chen Yongfu brushed his beard and groaned for a while, Liu Xiyao's heart gradually became impatient, and the hand holding the sword became tighter and tighter. After waiting for a long time, Chen Yongfu said: "It's not a secret, when the king attacked Kaifeng, the last general defended the city, and there was only one military attache in the city, so the dispatch and command of the troops was paid to the last general......

"If Brother Chen comes out to help me, I will let you dispatch it!" Liu Xiyao immediately understood what he meant.

Chen Yongfu smiled, but did not speak, just looked at Liu Xiyao, Liu Xiyao understood what he meant, and casually took the seal tied behind his elbow and held it in front of Chen Yongfu.

He was not afraid of what tricks Chen Yongfu would play, because Chen Yongfu himself was in this house, and there were several of his cronies in the house, and Chen Yongfu only had one son by his side.

"That being the case, the last general will not shirk. General Fang Cai said that Yu Guozhen's subordinates were bombarding the north of the city, and the number was not large? ”

"Exactly."

"Oh no, the north of the city will be the east and the west, and its main force will be transferred to the south of the city, and the troops in our city are insufficient, if they are concentrated in the north of the city, the south of the city will be slack...... Chen De! ”

"Son!"

"I also ask General Liu to give a general order to my son, and let him bring people to reinforce the south of the city, so as to avoid the plan of Zhongyu Guozhen to attack the east and the west!"

Originally, Liu Xiyao was still a little skeptical, but when he heard Chen Yongfu say this, he pushed Jiangyin back, and he suddenly relieved his doubts in his heart, and said with a smile: "Thanks to General Chen, otherwise our Lao Tzu would be cunning in Yu Guozhen again...... Come on, go with General Chen Shao! ”

As he spoke, he took out a general order, but did not hand it to Chen De, but to his cronies. (To be continued)