At the same time that Li Zicheng sent Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang to organize the siege of Shangcai County, the officials and troops in Shangcai County were also full of confidence and admired Shen Shuren's strategy.

Because in the past two days, they have just learned the news that Li Zicheng sent more troops to Ye County. At that time, the invasion army had not yet launched a full-scale siege, and the scout war was still continuing, and the scout battle of the Shen family cavalry was extremely powerful, and it was naturally easy to explore the military situation within a radius of one or two hundred miles.

So after learning the news, several generals who stayed in Shangcai City came to congratulate Shen Shuren:

"My lord is really a god! It was unexpectedly possible for Li Zicheng to divide his troops to guard against Zuo Liangyu at this juncture. ”

"Zuo Liangyu, a disloyal and unrighteous person who raises thieves and respects himself and only knows how to divide the territory, still needs to be on guard, Li Zicheng was also deceived and blinded, or is an adult strategizing and playing with the thief!"

In the face of the praise of the generals, Shen Shuren did not stand up, but was kind and humble, and his posture was very refreshing:

"You don't have to be overrated, it's just a small trick, do it casually, do it casually. This official is a scholar, and he has no power to restrain the chicken, and he will rely on your lives to kill the enemy in the future.

Li Zicheng can't consume us, and yesterday he had already begun to put on a posture of all-out siege, so it may come at any time, and the preparations for defending the city must be strict. ”

Between the words, Shen Shuren could see that even Huang Degong, a new subordinate who was originally unruly and had not cooperated with him in depth, had become completely convinced.

Before the war, the living force of an enemy army was transferred away, showing his love for the soldiers, and the morale improvement effect was so obvious.

The Heart of the Army is available!

You must know that among the generals, Huang Degong is the easiest to have a pimple about the matter of "working hard for Shen Futai". It's not that Huang Degong is unruly, but because when he was in a high position, he came into contact with Shen Shuren, who was just a talent.

At that time, Huang Degong only felt that "this show has a backstage and can be received by Yang Gelao", so he didn't dare to offend, but he definitely didn't feel that "this kind of person should climb on my head in the future".

For a collaborator who was much lower than himself three years ago, but he has risen to become his boss, this is the easiest thing to leave a heart problem. And even such a person can be completely subdued, and other generals will not be a problem.

Shen Shuren and the generals were discussing eagerly in the county office, and the enemy was really cooperative, when suddenly a scout messenger rushed to the lobby and reported an urgent military situation to the generals:

"Retribution! The vanguard of the thieves has arrived outside the city, and there are ladders rushing to the entrenchment, and the general is waving the banner of Tianzi, as if he is planning to attack the city. ”

Shen Shuren was only stunned for a very short time, almost undetectable, and then immediately became excited, and greeted Huang Degong and the others: "Tianzi banner? Then it's time for Tami. Go, Huang Zongzhen, go to the city with this official, and today the city is guarded and commanded, and there will be Lao Huang Zongzhen. ”

Huang Degong proudly arched his hand: "Don't worry, adults! If Li Zicheng fought with us in the field with an army of 300,000, the last general would have to weigh and weigh, and now he dares to come to attack the city, and he will definitely teach him to come and go! ”

The army of the Shenshu people is divided into several parts step by step, so that they can have strategic depth and protect the grain route.

Therefore, he claimed to have a total of 90,000 troops, and in Shangcai County on the front line, it was only about 30,000.

The general army of the towns under his command was also at the forefront with Huang Degong, Zuo Zixiong's 30,000 people remained in Ruyang County in the center, and Liu Guoneng's troops, a little further back, formed a strategic reserve.

Of course, Huang Degong's headquarters did not have 30,000 soldiers and horses, so Shen Shuren also transferred a general and more than 10,000 men and horses from Zuo Zixiong, and temporarily controlled by Huang Degong.

In addition, because Shen Shuren had already done a good job of consuming and provoking Li Zicheng to rush in because of the lack of food, so in the recent period, in terms of urban defense in Shangcai and Ruyang County, Shen Shuren has also been temporarily reinforced.

Although the city wall can't be greatly changed, you can make some other small actions to make a look of loose on the outside and tight on the inside, so as to better seduce the other party to take the bait.

In addition, Shen Shuren also deliberately released rumors, saying that they would fight a dumb battle step by step and harden the village, and had already hoarded a huge amount of military rations in Shangcai and Ruyang City.

Only when this news is learned by Li Zicheng will he completely believe that "each other is consuming each other, and he will definitely not consume Shen Shuren with food", so he will attack. And the grain in the city is also a huge bait.

There are really not many strategists under Li Zicheng's command, and this level of strategy can't be seen through, and he can't be blamed. The thieves are not playing tricks in the first place, they are counting on one force to reduce ten.

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After a while, Shen Shuren and Huang Degong and others came to the North Gate Tower of Shangcai County.

Shen Shuren did not show up, just held a telescope, and watched from a distance through the observation hole of the city tower, tens of thousands of horses and horses outside the city were neatly arrayed, looking magnificent, and there were many large wooden siege equipment, but there was an obvious lack of artillery, which should have been consumed in the Kaifeng siege battle for half a year.

However, Shangcai is only a medium-sized county, and its defense facilities are even worse than those of Ruyang County. And Ruyang County is also lower than the Fuzhi Xinyang specification.

In addition, the edge of the Dabie Mountains is already poor, and the city here is even more inadequate than those core cities in the hinterland of Henan.

Luoyang and Kaifeng, which city wall should not be two or three times higher than Shangcai County?

At this moment, the height of the city wall under the feet of the Shen Shuren is less than two feet, no wonder the intrusive army dares to attack the city.

I can't take the five or six zhang high wall in Kaifeng, can I still take the wall that is less than two zhang here?

Even if there is a pile of corpses, even if five corpses are three feet thick, more than 20 layers of corpses are piled up, and they are level with the city wall! If those cannon fodder could still carry two sacks or earthen baskets to charge, rush to the foot of the city wall and die there, it would be more efficient, one on top of three ordinary corpses.

It's a pity that Shen Shuren observed it, but he didn't see a particularly high-level general, so he wanted to repeat his old tricks and let Huang Degong come forward to shout and find the other party's coach to scold him.

Shen Shuren beckoned: "Lao Huang, you go and show your face, scold the eighteenth generation of the ancestors on the other side, and then find a group of loud scolding players to spread it out, and see if you can force Li Zicheng to appear." Let's ambush a few hundred turtledoves here and see if we can give Li Zicheng a moment. ”

Of course, Shen Shuren has no martial virtues, and if you have the opportunity to decapitate in a war, you must use it, and you don't miss it when you pass by, and it's the coolest thing to shoot a black gun or something.

Huang Degong was a little embarrassed, and he was quite disdainful in his heart, but Futai had an order, so he did it, and stood arrogantly behind the female wall at the moment, patting the battlements with one hand and pointing at the city with a halberd in the other hand and scolding:

"The thief old dog, Anlu Chief Soldier Huang Degong is here! When Xiong Wencan Xiong was still there, the fifth battalion of Gezuo was beaten by Lao Tzu and begged for mercy and surrendered. If it weren't for Zhang Xianzhong's old dog who was coerced and surrendered, they would have been finished two years earlier! Li Gou didn't die fast enough, even though he came to attack Grandpa Huang's city! ”

Huang Degong has no culture, and it is nothing more than words such as a dog thief's grandfather and grandson, but it is enough to scold Tian Jianxiu to the point of smoke.

"Huang Chuangzi! You actually worked hard for a rich boy who didn't dry up, and you still boasted of your heroism. Back then, you followed Xiong Wencan to make meritorious contributions, it was just a fluke, and today I will teach you how powerful you are to break through the king's heavenly soldiers! Kill into the city, no chickens and dogs will be left! Tian Jianxiu also led a group of people to scold wildly.

Huang Degong secretly glanced back, and asked: "It seems that there are no famous thieves, do you want to fire?" Just kill Tian Jianxiu. ”

Shen Shuren's personal guard came over to give an order: "No need, this distance is not certain, let's get closer, the Chuang army has not fought with our army before, I don't know that our firearms are fierce, which scares them, and the first wave will not be effective." ”

Huang Degong didn't want to assassinate him, but he immediately accepted it when he heard this, and he still liked to put the enemy close and beat him hard.

……

"Kill!

！ Rush into Shangcai City, and don't seal the knife for three days! Grab whatever you want! ”

After Tian Jianxiu was enraged, the vanguard of the army soon rushed up with weapons and pushed the ladder flying ladder trench cart.

In addition to the regular soldiers, there were also tens of thousands of Henan cannon fodder strong men who had just been captured, who were forced by knives to carry broken sacks and earthen baskets, and rushed to the city with soil, preparing to fill in some gentle slopes that were convenient for storming the city.

Some cannon fodder were unwilling to be sent to death, and tried to retreat before the battle, but they were soon chopped up by the overseers who broke into the army, and after killing dozens of their own people, the remaining cannon fodder was afraid in their hearts, so they could only rush forward.

Tian Jianxiu also personally brandished his war knife and shouted in the distance behind: "As long as you carry three loads of soil to the city, and you can come back alive, you can be released immediately!" Finish the transportation early, release the people early, and never break your promise! ”

His slogan is also the usual rhetoric of the thieves, and the thieves and generals have also summed up their experience in the past ten years.

If you are too strict with the people who carry earth to fill in the trenches or pile up the slopes, and do not show the slightest way to live, these people, even if they have no weapons, will resist with a flat pole or even a fist.

Although this kind of force is insignificant, if there is chaos in front of the two armies, it may also lead to an opportunity for the officers and troops in the city to counterattack.

Therefore, it is best to promise to carry one load of soil or at most two or three loads of soil to the city wall and the river, according to the degree of difficulty, and if they can escape without being killed by arrows, they will be released on the spot.

In this way, the weak can have a fluke mentality, and rush up with their eyes closed, betting that they are lucky, and they will not be able to shoot to death during the three loads of soil.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot these earth-haulers back! Bird Gun Team Ready! Huang Degong was on the top of the city wall, also brandishing his sword and patrolling back and forth, shouting to encourage his subordinates to resist with all their might.

For a while, arrows rained down at the head of the city, killing some cannon fodder soldiers who were carrying earth, and forcing many cannon fodder soldiers to drop their earthen bags and baskets from afar out of fear. For a while, there was not much earth piled up under the base of the city wall, but it was spread out in a very even long line.

The slope of this temporary trip is gentle and long, and the height is insufficient. The only achievement was to fill in the trenches outside the city almost a few gaps, at least to be able to walk directly on the slope.

Tian Jianxiu saw that these cannon fodder soldiers were cutting corners, and the effect was greatly less than expected, and he was also angry in his heart, but it was not easy to attack at this moment. Because if you make a promise on the battlefield and then pick on the "completion quality", it is easy to provoke mutiny.

People are full of desire to survive and think that they can live after three times, and if the capitalists jump out and say that they want to rework, they will definitely be overwhelmed by anger.

Huang Degong at the head of the city saw that the situation was becoming more and more urgent, and was about to order all the firearms to fire to scare these cannon fodder soldiers away - Huang Degong knew that for those rogue veteran soldiers and bandits, the loud noise of firearms was intimidating, but for the newly captured cannon fodder, the extra sound of firearms could be more demoralizing than bows and crossbows.

However, as soon as he was about to give the order, Shen Shuren also personally went up to the wall, came to Huang Degong's side, and gave two orders: "Huang Zongzhen, I have no objection to you using firearms, but those cutting-edge firearms I transferred from the Wuchang Army should not be overused." These poor people who carry dirt can just be frightened away with firecrackers.

Let Tian Jianxiu feel hopeful, and when the soldiers rush up for a while, there will be enough suddenness and a large number of casualties. The first batch in front of us is just the people of Henan, unfortunately arrested, although they serve the thieves, we have to kill, there can be no women's kindness. But if the situation allows, it is better to prioritize killing more old thieves. ”

Huang Degong didn't think that Shen Shuren was acting on behalf of him, because Shen Shuren only made a request for the firearms troops he brought, and did not ask Huang Degong's headquarters to be a man. Hold the killer weapon and hit it closer, so that it can kill more suddenly and bigger.

So Huang Degong just used the old-fashioned firearm for a while, and the cannon fodder transporters below heard the sound of firearms repeatedly, and they completely ignored it and poured back like a tide. Ren is Tian Jianxiu's overseers frantically chopped off their heads and bullets, but they couldn't pull it back, but instead rushed down and trampled on dozens of old war thieves.

After all, the cutting off of the head with a knife can only be seen by people nearby, but the loud sound of the musket can be heard within a radius of a hundred steps, and it is self-evident which one can frighten people more.

Tian Jianxiu saw that it was impossible to completely pile up the dirt slope under the city wall and rush directly to the head of the city, and he was also a little regretful.

But at the same time, he also seized the opportunity to let the main soldiers take advantage of this opportunity when the earth-transporting cannon fodder soldiers have not completely retreated, fish in troubled waters, and carry the ladder to the city-if after a while, the earth-transporting cannon fodder soldiers have completely withdrawn and escaped, the officers and troops will be able to concentrate all the long-range firepower on the main soldiers of the thieves, and now they can still take advantage of the chaos to share the firepower.

A group of fierce old camp thieves brandished sabers and rattan cards, directly attached to the city, found those places that had been filled with dirt sacks more than half a foot shorter and set up ladders, and then quickly climbed up a few steps.

It is only a distance of more than one zhang, and the soldiers with good skills can go up the wall as long as they take three or four steps, and the morale of the thieves is bursting, and everyone is fighting bravely.

"Fire! The Franc Machine and the Turtledove are all fired! ”

But at this moment, on both sides of the protruding horse faces on the city wall, countless heavy turtledoves using shotguns, and even ordinary Franc machines of three or five hundred catties and heavy Franc machines of 1,000 catties, began to fire fiercely, and they fired at the angle of lateral side fire.

If the artillery fired at the enemy in front of it, it would at most plow a hole in the middle of the horizontal line, and with the low accuracy of the artillery of this era, the shells would not explode, and it really could not kill or injure a few people.

But if it is a horizontal crossfire, sweeping directly under the city wall, the killing effect is extremely terrifying. Because it is easy for people to gather under the city wall, it is possible to cover a whole row of shells on the longitudinal projection line.

Tian Jianxiu took advantage of the chaos to attack the city at the beginning, and the troops rushed too fast and lost their command, so he did not concentrate on attacking those horse faces protruding from the city wall, which can be regarded as a relatively low-level mistake.

But this mistake can't be blamed entirely on him, because in a small county town like Shangcai, the city wall is actually relatively dilapidated, and the number of horse faces on the wall is relatively small.

When usually covered with bows and arrows or ordinary firearms, the crossfire between the two horse faces and in the middle is often very weak, reaching the limit of range. Therefore, when attacking a city, in order to quickly deploy a large number of troops, it is also possible to choose to attack the equidistant point between the horse face and the horse face at the same time.

It's just that I didn't expect that the people of Shen Shu were so wealthy, and they directly used the Franc machine to provide side-fire firepower - you must know that the movement of the cannon is very clumsy, even if it is just the Franc machine, it will be fixed and set up at an angle before firing, and it is difficult to temporarily maneuver after the war.

The fact that the Sinking Tree Man was able to use all of the Franc Machines for side-firing fire meant that when the enemy rushed from the front, these Franc Machines would not be able to exert their firepower at all, and they had to wait to rush under the corner of the wall before they could suddenly burst out to the maximum combat effectiveness.

This tactic of sacrificing orthographic and pure side-firing brings the magic of trigonometric functions and geometric planning to the extreme, but it also exceeds the blind spot of the thief's IQ and scientific knowledge.

After being bombarded tragically for a long time, Tian Jianxiu finally realized the change of formation, and hurriedly ordered: "Order all armies to concentrate on attacking the horses defended by the officers and soldiers!" Don't attack the main walls! The heavy artillery of the Sinking Dog Officer is all swinging horizontally! ”

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