At this time, looking from the city wall, the dense figures of the size of the fist under the city are rushing towards the city, although they can't see their appearance clearly on the city wall, but the crazy momentum still sees the people on the city wall one after another, especially Liu Yuliang, if it weren't for the soldiers and horses on the side Wang Yinchang to support him, he might have collapsed to the ground on the spot, not only Liu Yuliang was frightened, but even the defenders on the city wall became earthy one by one.

Although Wang Yinchang was very disdainful of Liu Yuliang's performance, he didn't show it, and still asked quietly: "Lord Governor, the thieves are attacking, I don't know how to deal with it, I hope you will show me!" ”

"Do you still need to ask, give this official to beat these thieves back, and beat them hard!" Liu Yuliang trembled, and while stretching out a trembling finger and shouting at the rogues under the city.

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, Wang Yinchang turned around and ordered loudly: "The gunner listens to the order and fires the cannon!" ”

"Boom"

With Wang Yinchang's order, the artillery placed on the city wall began to fire outside the city, and soon several projectiles flew out of the city.

Although the quality and morale of the defenders of Luoyang City are not very good, Luoyang is one of the few important towns in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no shortage of artillery necessary to defend the city.

The projectile, which weighed five or six pounds, flew through a flat arc and flew hundreds of miles away, hitting the chest of a rogue, who was desperately rushing forward before he realized anything, and his body was smashed in half.

Then the huge projectile continued to fly forward, drawing a blood-colored arc in the dense flow of rogues, until it fell to the ground and slowly stopped after knocking over six or seven rogues.

The astonishing power of the Hongyi cannon startled the hungry soldiers who were charging, and the bloody scene really scared some people, but for the vast majority of people, the deterrent power was not great, after all, there were only sixteen Hongyi cannons placed on a city wall, and a salvo could only shoot sixteen projectiles, which was almost negligible for the thousands of hungry soldiers outside the city, so the hungry soldiers were just stunned, and then charged again under the urging of their respective leaders.

Seeing that thousands of hungry soldiers flocked to the city wall like ants, and there were no powerful defensive measures on the city wall except for a few projectiles fired from time to time, Li Zicheng, who was standing on a high slope two miles away and watching the battle, was dazzled and smiled.

Li Zicheng praised Liu Zongmin beside him: "Jiexuan, you can still do it, according to my opinion, Luoyang City can be defeated today, and then we can expand our troops by 100,000 with Luoyang's money and food!" ”

Liu Zongmin, who was praised by Li Zicheng, was proud in his heart, and tried his best to put on a modest look, but the expression on his face couldn't help but reveal a smug look: "The king has won the award, it's not that my old Liu boasts, dealing with these officers and soldiers with wine bags and rice bags, my old Liu is three fingers to catch the snails, and nine out of ten are stable." Don't worry, after I capture Luoyang City, I will capture King Nafu in front of you and let you dispose of it. ”

Looking at Liu Zongmin, whose eyebrows were flying, the generals around Li Zicheng were very dissatisfied, although this Liu Zongmin can fight, but he is too arrogant, not only likes to eat alone, but also lacks even basic modesty, Ping said that he will always inadvertently offend people in his words, how can this convince you? However, because Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng are both Mizhi people, they have a close personal relationship with each other, and they are the first old people to follow Li Zicheng in trouble, Liu Zongmin unknowingly became the second person in the rogue group, and gradually developed the surname of Liu Zongmin's eldest and my second child.

Regarding this, Li Zicheng's wife Gao Guiying sees this, but she knows her husband's surname very well, and if she persuades, it will not have any effect. Now seeing Liu Zongmin's triumphant appearance, she can only sigh secretly.

At this time, Hao Shaoqi pointed ahead and shouted: "Look, the brothers have begun to attack the city!" ”

As soon as Hao Shaoqi's words fell, everyone looked into the distance, only to see that countless hungry soldiers had set up a long cloud ladder on the city wall, and many hungry soldiers had begun to climb up to the city wall, but the counterattack on the city wall was weak, but from time to time there was a burst of soft arrows shooting down, which was as weak as a mosquito bite for the dense locust-like rogues.

"Good!"

Li Zicheng clapped his hands violently and shouted: "Brothers, they have already begun to climb the city wall, maybe they can really capture Luoyang City in one go today." ”

Liu Zongmin was also happy to dance, desperately urging his subordinates to attack desperately in front.

"Attack, attack, whoever is the first to attack the city will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, and then five girls!"

Dozens of loud-voiced heralds quickly spread Liu Zongmin's words to the ears of the attacking Liukou, and under the stimulation of the heavy reward, the hungry soldiers attacked one by one as if their eyes were red with excitement, panting for breath

"Hurry, hurry, hurry up and throw the wood, you idiot, hurry up and release the arrows!"

On the city wall, some Ming army officers were urging their soldiers to defend. In a fit of rage, they kept punching and kicking the soldiers, but the demoralized defenders still couldn't muster much energy to defend the city.

Looking at the demoralized soldiers, Wang Yinchang was anxious in his eyes, he found Liu Yuliang and said: "My lord, the soldiers have no heart to fight at the moment, and it is only a matter of time before Luoyang is lost." ”

Liu Yuliang smiled bitterly and asked, "Is there any good way for the king to guard?" ”

Wang Yinchang gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, you have also heard the words of those thieves, they can give a heavy reward to reward the thieves, we can too, as long as the soldiers who defend the city make up the arrears of salaries and silver, and give some rewards to the soldiers, the soldiers will definitely work hard to kill the thieves." ”

Liu Yuliang couldn't help but be stunned, and said with some annoyance: "You still need to say this, but where did we get the silver?" ”

Now that the situation is critical, Wang Yinchang also let go, leaned into Liu Yuliang's ear and whispered: "We don't have it, but someone has it!" ”

"You mean"

"King Fu has it!"

"What, Fu Wang!" Liu Yuliang couldn't help but be taken aback, King Fu is indeed rich, but can King Fu take it? Everyone in Luoyang City knows that it is more difficult to get money from King Fu's pocket than it is for a sow to go up a tree, and Wang Yinchang is not doing this to swatt flies on the tiger's head!

Wang Yinchang said anxiously: "My lord, when is it now, if King Fu still holds on to that bit of silver and doesn't let go, will he still be able to keep these things after the Liukou enters the city?" ”

"That's what I said, but"

Liu Yuliang lowered his head in embarrassment, he understood the meaning of Wang Yinchang's words, and now that the governor Li Xianfeng and Lu Weiqi are not there, he Liu Yuliang can make King Fu sell a little face in the entire Luoyang City, and everyone else will go in vain.

And Liu Yuliang is not afraid of losing face, losing face is better than losing his life, after thinking about it, Liu Yuliang still decided to follow Wang Yinchang's words and go to King Fu's mansion, if King Fu can really take out the silver to reward the three armies, it is naturally the best, if he is really reluctant to take the silver out, he can be regarded as doing his best.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, Liu Yuliang also let go, "Okay, this official will take this old face and go to Fuwang's Mansion, whether he can get the silver depends on the will of God." ”

After speaking, Liu Yuliang was about to walk under the city wall, when he suddenly heard an explosion far away from the city in the east, followed by the sound of horses' hooves and fighting, this sudden sound made everyone stunned for a while.

Liu Yuliang, who originally planned to go to King Fu's Mansion, couldn't take care of it for a while, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately rushed to the battlement at a speed that did not match his identity, leaned out and stretched his neck to look east, but unexpectedly, an arrow shot from below, and flew over with his head. He didn't care about it, but he frightened Wang Yinchang, and quickly pulled Liu Yuliang back.

Wang Yinchang almost scared his soul away, and shouted loudly: "My lord, you don't want to die, don't you stick your head out and use it as a target for thieves?" ”

At this time, Liu Yuliang was also frightened, and his whole body shrank behind the battlement, but his face was frightened with a hint of joy, and he gasped and said: "Reinforcements, our reinforcements are coming!" ”

As soon as Liu Yuliang's words fell, the sound of explosions and fighting in the distance became louder, and even the rogues who were besieging the city noticed it, and many people turned their heads to look east.

Soon, a big banner appeared in the sight of both sides, and a big Ming character gradually became clear in the eyes of everyone.

"Reinforcements, it's our reinforcements coming!" For a while, both officers and non-commissioned officers on the city wall, as well as young men who were recruited to help defend the city, all cheered, and there was a sound of cheering and thunder everywhere.

Liu Yuliang was obedient this time, he secretly shrunk behind the battlement, only poked out a little head to observe, and when he looked east, he saw a long queue heading towards the east gate. At the head of this group was a cavalry of about 2,000 men, who galloped back and forth like a sharp knife in the rogues, and behind them were countless foot soldiers, and the overwhelming fiery red almost overwhelmed the whole land.

There were constantly puffs of white smoke accompanied by the sound of gunshots, and the originally dense rogue was like snow meeting the sun, and countless of them who wanted to step forward to stop them fell under the guns one after another.

Dull gunshots rang out one after another, and the foot soldiers advanced firmly and quickly towards the east gate with the fire guns in their hands

(To be continued)