The result of today's battle is really unbearable, originally I thought that Luoyang would be captured this morning, and the Ming army that came to help would be severely injured at the worst, or even annihilated, but the ideal and reality are always far apart, people are not beaten, but they were beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, it is impossible to say that Li Zicheng has no anger in his heart.

But today, Li Guo and Liu Zongmin also saw the battle between Li Guo and Liu Zongmin against the Qingzhou Army, and in all fairness, their commands were remarkable, and they did not make any major mistakes in command, but they were still beaten very badly, which cannot be blamed on their incompetence, but that the Qingzhou Army was too strong, and they opened a gap in the encirclement of the intruding army and drilled in.

This was really a resounding slap in the face to the remaining Chuang army, but this slap also woke up the whole army, and they realized that they were just a frog at the bottom of the well before, and Hong Chengji and Sun Chuanting, who beat them out of breath before, were not the most capable of fighting in the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army that beat them to a mess yesterday was their real nightmare.

The discussion continues, and now the generals of the army are discussing who should attack the city tomorrow, Liu Zongmin After yesterday's battle, the troops under his command have been greatly injured, and it is impossible to complete the task of reading the siege, and Li Guo is the same. Everyone argued for a long time and didn't come up with a result, and in the end, everyone set their eyes on Li Zicheng, expecting him to make a final decision.

Li Zicheng pondered for a long time before saying: "It's good, it's good that everyone can have this ambition, but it's not realistic to just let a team of men and horses attack the city, after all, everyone has seen the combat power of the Ming army today." In this way, there are four gates in Luoyang City, let's send four brothers to attack the city, which brother can take the lead in attacking Luoyang City, he will be credited, and after capturing Luoyang, he will share more of the property he gets, what do you think? ”

At this time, Li Zicheng was not as arrogant and arrogant as after becoming the emperor of Dashun in history, and he and his subordinates used a consultative tone to discuss military affairs.

"Okay, it's better to break into the king's justice, just do it, whoever climbs to the head of Luoyang City first will give the first credit, and no one will be greedy."

Hao Shaoqi was the first to agree, and then all the generals also agreed to this plan, and finally decided to attack the four city gates by Hao Shaoqi, Liu Fangliang, Gao Yigong, and Li Dingguo respectively, and the rest waited in line.

After finalizing Ming's action, everyone dispersed, and Li Zicheng also returned to his tent, when he entered his tent, he found that the tent was still lit, and his wife Gao Guiying was sitting at the head of the bed mending her clothes.

Seeing her husband come back, Gao Guiying smiled, showing a rare tenderness on her not beautiful but heroic face.

"King Chuang, you're back." Seeing Li Zicheng come back, Gao Guiying put down the needle and thread in her hand, stood up and waited for her husband to take off his coat.

Li Zicheng stood still, letting his wife serve him, but he was still thinking about his thoughts.

Knowing that her husband is not a wife, Gao Guiying saw Li Zicheng's expression and knew that her husband must have something on her mind, so she asked softly: "King Chuang, I see that you have a lot of worries, can you tell me about it." ”

Gao Guiying was originally the daughter of Gao Yingxiang, the king of the previous generation, she hadn't read any books, her surname was quite hearty, and her husband was also called you, me, and me, and she didn't use honorific titles to call her husband like folk women, and Li Zicheng didn't care.

After returning to his tent, facing his wife who was with him day and night, Li Zicheng's mood suddenly relaxed, he sat on the bed, sighed and asked without answering: "Gui Ying, do you think we can capture Luoyang City?" ”

Gao Guiying showed a look of surprise on her face: "Why is King Chuang so discouraged, we have worked so hard to lead the poor people to rise up, isn't it just to overthrow this corrupt court and fight the world for us poor?" Why are you discouraged? ”

Li Zicheng smiled bitterly: "Gui Ying, you have also seen the battle today, the Qingzhou army is so powerful, the firearms are sharp, it is really the only one I have seen in my life, don't look at our more than 100,000 troops, but today's battle has lost more than 20,000 people, this is still the case of a field battle with them, Ming said to attack the city, the other party is defending the city, we are even more passive, I don't know how many people will die, fortunately, the brothers of the old camp did not move, otherwise"

Li Zicheng didn't say anything, but Gao Guiying naturally understood what her husband meant, the old camp is the foundation of the army, and if the old camp is there, the army is there, and if the old camp is gone, then the consequences will be very pessimistic.

Gao Ruolan disagreed with her husband's happiness, she turned around and brought a basin of water from outside the tent and put it at Li Zicheng's feet, took off his shoes and socks and put him in the water, she said while washing her husband's feet: "King Chuang's words are so unreasonable, I think when we came out of Shaanxi, there were only thousands of people, and now we have also pulled up hundreds of thousands of troops." The old camp brothers are certainly our foundation, but aren't the hundreds of thousands of hungry people raised by their fathers and mothers? King Chuang shouldn't be so favoritistic, it's okay for our husband and wife to talk about it in private, but if it is heard by others, it is easy to be truthful. ”

Li Zicheng smiled when he heard this, "As the old saying goes, there are good wives and men in the family, and the ancients will not deceive me." ”

Although Li Zicheng was very dismissive of Gao Guiying's words, knowing that his daughter-in-law was soft-hearted, how could a person who had achieved great things be able to do the benevolence of a woman, and at this moment he also thought about it, no matter whether he could capture Luoyang or not, now the army of more than 100,000 people must "reduce swelling", otherwise if Luoyang cannot be captured, the pressure of grain and grass alone can crush the righteous army

The sky was dark, and a new day began, but it also meant the beginning of a new round of attacks.

Wang Zhi stretched his waist, lazily stood behind the battlement and looked out, this is the east gate, and it is also the focus of their attack on the Liukou, last night Wang Zhi and Pang Gang went up to the city gate tower of the east gate after the banquet from the governor's palace and began to perform his duties.

Looking at the still silent outside the city, Wang Zhi poked his head out of the battlement with interest, took out the clairvoyant mirror from his arms, and observed it carefully.

The clairvoyant mirror moved slowly, and what appeared in front of him was still desolate and silent, and when Wang Zhi slowly moved the lens to a forest farther away, there was a fog shrouded in it, and it was even more difficult to see things in a hazy way. Just as Wang Zhi cast the clairvoyant mirror farther away, his expression suddenly froze, and groups of figures emerged one after another from the woods shrouded in thick fog.

"Well, what's going on?"

Wang Zhi's originally somewhat lazy demeanor suddenly disappeared, and the remaining trace of sleepiness disappeared without a trace, and his eyes behind the clairvoyant mirror suddenly became sharp.

"Not good! The thieves are going to attack the city! ”

Wang Zhi shouted backwards: "Ring the alarm bell!" ”

"Dangdang Dang"

A bronze bell hanging on the tower of the city gate soon rang, and the sound of this bell specially used to send warning signals was unusually loud, and its sound continued to float in the air, and the people around the east gate were alarmed.

"Oh no, the thieves are attacking the city!"

As soon as the alarm bell rang, the first thing to mess up was the defenders of Luoyang on the east city gate, these demoralized soldiers were scurrying around the city wall like headless flies, and several officers with whips and hard whips could not calm them down.

In stark contrast to the soldiers and horses from Qingzhou, many people just glanced at the chaotic former Luoyang defenders, and then checked the guns to check the guns, and checked the artillery, as if all this had nothing to do with them, but their eyes all showed a light or strong look of disdain without exception.

Seeing such a situation, Wang Zhi also frowned, these Luoyang defenders couldn't see it yesterday, but now they are so panicked since the Liukou, no wonder Lu Weiqi and Li Xianfeng are busy asking their own adults to help them guard Luoyang, these defenders are scared like this when they see the Liukou, if the Manchu Tartars come, then they must not be scared to death.

However, Wang Zhi was quite restrained, knowing that these Luoyang defenders were not under his own jurisdiction, although he wanted to whip each of them twenty lashes, he still endured it alive.

Ignoring the panicked defenders of Luoyang, Wang Zhi ordered the young men on the city wall to hurry up and prepare all kinds of defense equipment. Wolf's tooth paddles, stones, rolling logs, and other items were piled up, and wood was piled up under the golden juice of the pot and began to light a fire.

Just when Wang Zhi was directing the soldiers to make preparations, Pang Gang, who heard the alarm bell, also quickly put on his armor and went up to the city wall.

Pang Gang divided the four city gates into two parts, the west gate was in charge of Heitie, the north gate was handed over to Cheng Kai, and the east gate and the south gate were respectively in charge of Wang Zhi and a thousand generals.

When Pang Gang came to the east gate, he happened to see groups of hungry soldiers carrying cloud ladders rushing towards the city wall.

They didn't have any formation, they just carried the ladder and ran forward desperately, in their opinion, as long as they could put the ladder on the wall, it would be half the victory, which had been verified in previous sieges.

Seeing those hungry soldiers rushing forward desperately without concealment, Wang Zhi was happy with a "pounce", "These thieves are really not afraid of death, even when the Tartars attacked the city, they knew how many shield cars to block the cold arrows, they were good, they just rushed bare-chested, I really don't know if they are ignorant or brave!" ”

Looking at the swarming Liukou Pang Gang, he couldn't help but shake his head with a dumb smile and said: "Come on, don't blame them, they want to make a shield car, but they also have to have a tree, and it is estimated that there are few people in the Liukou who can do this kind of thing." ”

Although Pang Gang spoke in a joking tone, he also sighed secretly in his heart, the nature of the rogue had already determined that they would not pay much attention to these craftsmen, and it was estimated that it was already their limit to be able to make a cloud ladder.

(To be continued)