Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang discussed hard the excuse of exonerating the lost soldiers before they dared to go back to meet Li Zicheng.

Tian Jianxiu, who was directly responsible for the defeat, also specially took off his armor, got a few rattans, and asked Liu Fangliang to draw a few blood marks on his back in advance.

Li Zicheng had already heard that the siege had failed today, and he had lost a lot of men and horses, so he was originally angry. Seeing Tian Jianxiu's miserable appearance come in, he was like being splashed with cold water, and he calmed down all of a sudden, and changed his face with Paoze:

"Lao Tian, what do you mean, our own brothers, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, just be brave after being ashamed. When Kaifeng was attacked, there were many more dead and wounded than this, and Gu He had blamed his own brothers! ”

Li Zicheng's words are not necessarily true. There were indeed more people who attacked and sealed the seal than Shang Cai's side, and there were more than ten times more, but that was the cumulative casualties of more than half a year of bloody battles.

If it is compared with the "single-day casualty density" and casualty speed, then today's one-day fierce battle is definitely more than any single day of the Kaifeng siege.

It can only be said that Shen Shuren is too vicious, and he is very good at giving the attacker an opportunity, and sees that "if you work harder, you may win", so that like a gambling dog who wants to turn the tables and wants to turn the tables, he keeps betting and doesn't know how to stop loss.

However, since Li Zicheng put on the surface of his brother's righteousness, Tian Jianxiu's guilt was finally confused.

Li Zicheng simply asked about the specific number of casualties, and the latest figure reported to him by Tian Jianxiu had exceeded 5,000 - because in the more than an hour when he discussed countermeasures and excuses with Liu Fangliang, hundreds of seriously wounded people died, and the number exceeded the 5,000 mark from more than 4,000.

After Li Zicheng accepted the numbers, he quickly asked about the lesson again, and the two of them hurriedly poured beans into a bamboo tube, and said the lessons summarized before, and Li Zicheng was silent when he heard it.

Li Zicheng's side, Song Xiance, who was a roe deer, was also observing his words, although he was not good at fighting, he also had basic strategies and knew how to calculate.

Song Xiance thought about it, then became a peacemaker, and said: "King, in this way, General Tian's defeat is understandable. Officer Shengou used an unprecedented tactical deployment, and it was inevitable that our army would not notice it for a while, and it would suffer heavy losses.

Since General Tian can understand the disadvantages of Shen Gou Guan's method, in the coming day, we will besiege the city with heavy troops, attack from all sides, first test with a small number of soldiers and horses, and even only use the pile of soil and cannon fodder that we have just caught to test how many cannons there are and which wall sections lack artillery.

Then put the main force into the attack. Of course, the other sheep attack on several sides, can not be completely relaxed, there are many men and horses, but also to line up a strict formation, once the official army really transfer the artillery on the side of the sheep attack, our sheep attack men and horses can also be turned into the main attack at any time.

Anyway, our army has nearly 200,000 horses, so many soldiers were originally idle, and today it is indeed a bit of a waste of manpower to let the descendants of General Tian and General Liu prepare. ”

However, Song Xiance's words obviously could not win the trust of everyone in the army.

All the generals in the army knew that Song Xiance was trusted by Li Zicheng, but there were still some generals who didn't like him very much.

At this moment, Yuan Zongdi, a general in the army who was known for his disgust and pretending to be a ghost, went out to refute: "The king can't be reckless, the Song military division said that our army is nearly 200,000, how can there be 200,000 now?"

That's just the original plan, in fact, 350,000 people have gone to Ye County temporarily, and we don't know it. Now there are at most 150,000 or 60,000 people in Yuncheng, do you still have to go to Yexian County to transfer reinforcements over to besiege the city?

Secondly, although the Song military division is good at trickery, but regardless of the common sense of the art of war, although there is no moat in Caicheng, only dry trenches and pits, but after all, the city relies on Rushui, and it is quite difficult to besiege on both sides.

Although the city walls on both sides were not built directly to the Rushui River, the narrow place was only a white step from the river bank, and the widest place was only three or four miles, and the troops went deep into the siege on both sides, and they also had to avoid the range of the bow and crossbow artillery at the head of the city, and the depth of the formation was extremely insufficient, and once the enemy army went out of the city to counterattack, it was easy to cut off our army. ”

Yuan Zongdi is a typical example of the army who doesn't know much about the general strategy, but has good tactical knowledge, so he is always picking out the details of the geography of the battlefield.

Song Xiance couldn't help but be a little angry when he heard this, who made him a fortune teller and a face and never fought, although he became a strategist, but the tactical micro-manipulation was indeed his biggest shortcoming, and he couldn't refute it at all.

"Enough! What's so noisy! Fortunately, Li Zicheng still had infinite trust in Song Xiance, and finally personally opened his mouth to drink Yuan Zongdi.

Perhaps it is because for more than a year, Song Xiance has often instilled "Destiny Xiangrui" in Li Zicheng, and engaged in some mysterious prophecies that the Ming Dynasty is going to die and the new emperor will be prosperous, which makes Li Zicheng very happy.

Li Zicheng himself was fought in more than ten years of bloody battles and knew tactics very well, so he personally helped Song Xiance round out the details: "Mr. Song is reasonable, the location you are entangled in is a trivial matter.

Lone felt that since the siege of the Dog Officer's defense tactics relied on the lateral deployment of the Franc machine gun on every tower and horse, then when he did not have enough numbers, it was very likely that he would cut down the southwest side that was considered impossible to attack the city.

Then let's just do the opposite, when the time comes, we will prepare on both sides of the northeast, and on the day when we are really going to officially attack, we will suddenly extend the encirclement, transfer the troops to the southwest and launch them together, and even move and deploy before dawn, and attack when the sky is light.

In this way, the officers and soldiers could not see clearly the amount of our army's movement at night, and perhaps there were no artillery on the southwest side after dawn, and it was unknown if our army rushed up in one go! ”

Li Zicheng personally opened his mouth to help Song Xiance plug the leak, so naturally there would be no more generals questioning it.

And Tian Jianxiu also cast a grateful look at Song Xiance because Song Xiance supported his initial proposal.

Song Xiance enjoyed this state of being grateful to the general, and his heart was slightly drifting, and under the open mind, he came up with some supplementary strategies as soon as he had an idea, and then proudly patted his ass:

"The king is really like a god with soldiers, and he can come up with such delicate tactics so quickly, check and fill in the gaps, and build a commanding position, and his subordinates are really admired!

Inspired by the king's strategy, his subordinates thought of another detail, during the preparation of more siege weapons and the planning of a new wave of siege, we can let more troops patrol around the city with torches every night.

Let's not put on the appearance of besieging from all sides, as long as we pretend to prevent the officers and soldiers from abandoning the city and breaking through and not letting go of a dog official, if the officers and soldiers still have scouts who dare to go out of the city and are captured by our army, they can also accidentally leak this purpose to the other party, and then find a chance for the other party to sneak back to the city.

In this way, within a few days, the officers and soldiers will be paralyzed, thinking that our patrols are really only to isolate the inside and outside. On the eve of the general attack, when there is a mobilization of men and horses, it can be used to shoot fewer torches and deploy in the dark as much as possible. The officers and soldiers were accustomed to patrolling the city every night on all sides, and they would not notice the change in the number of people, so that there was enough suddenness in the general attack. ”

"Clever plan, this point will be done according to what Song Junshi said!" When Li Zicheng heard this, he also thought it was true, Song Xiance's cleverness and understanding people's hearts have always been very high.

The whole army finally learned a lesson, lifted the haze of the unfavorable initial battle, and began to wholeheartedly prepare for the next siege.

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Because of the fiasco on the first day, the siege equipment of the invading army suffered very heavy losses, and many wooden ladders and trenches were either smashed, burned, or abandoned.

Therefore, there will be at least three or four days of buffer period before the next full-scale offensive can be launched.

The officers and soldiers will also be able to take the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief, adjust defense arrangements, check for omissions, fill in gaps, and strengthen weak points.

On the evening of the victory, Shen Shuren prepared a little wine in the county government to celebrate the achievements of Huang Degong and other generals.

Shen Shuren also has no civil official shelf, and after drinking, he wiped his mouth directly on his sleeve, and shouted a vulgar wine order with the general.

is not like the other civil officials who were born in the two lists, even if they are willing to drink with the generals to celebrate, they are all very gentle. Even if you drink to the point where you want to carry out the alcohol order, the perverted ones will even be shot separately; Even if you are willing to play martial arts according to the customs, you must at least take an arrow and throw a pot.

It's like Shen Shuren, who makes a drinking order with the generals, and directly fights and punches, how rude and how to come, Huang Degong and other generals are of course very addicted, and they also regard Shen Shuren more and more as their own people, old buddies' bosses.

Originally, when he was mixed with Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa had already calculated it, and he would only throw pots.

The gap is as big as drinking with Xue Baochai and drinking with Shi Xiangyun.

And Huang Degong is a person who is addicted to alcohol, for him, who is willing to drink happily with him, that is an important condition for being an iron buddy,

If the boss who refuses to drink with him, he will respect the other party at most, but it is difficult to have a lifelong friendship with you.

Huang Degong's addiction to alcohol was very famous at that time, and it was also known in the army - as early as 20 years ago, in the early years of the Apocalypse, when Huang Degong was still a twelve-year-old child, he made a big sensation in his hometown in Liaodong because of drinking.

At that time, his father died young, and his mother made a living by making wine and selling wine alone. But Huang Degong was addicted to alcohol at the age of ten, and when he was twelve years old, he once took advantage of his mother's going out and secretly drank all the wine that his mother had borrowed money to brew.

When my mother came back, she saw that all the wine was gone, and not only could she not earn any money, but she was afraid that she would not even be able to pay off the loan shark capital, so she was so anxious that she cried. Huang Degong is a drunken madman, and he directly told his mother that it was not a dozen taels of silver, and I heard that Xiong Jinglu (Xiong Tingbi, five years before the Apocalypse, was Liaodong Jingluo) offered a reward, and killed a Tartar head to reward twenty taels, and we mixed into the official army to kill a few Tartars and pay it off.

Then Huang Degong, who was only twelve years old, really took advantage of a battle before he brought dry food and a long-bladed firewood knife, mixed into Xiong Tingbi's army, rushed to kill with the official army, killed two Jiannu cavalrymen, exchanged the heads for silver, paid off his mother's debts, and left a sum of capital to continue to make wine and sell.

In the past 20 years, no one has ever cared about Huang Degong's alcoholism. Several times when he was so poor that he had no money to buy wine, he rushed to kill the Tartars and exchanged the heads for bounties to buy wine, and he was so reckless that he killed the Tartars as soon as he lacked money, which led to the name of "Huang Chuangzi".

At this moment, Huang Degong was so drunk that he had no scruples about speaking, and he had no courtesy, so he clasped shoulders with Shen Shuren and complained:

"My lord! You're a cheerful person! We've never seen a few civil servants so bold as you. Thanks to your knowledge of the army, you even came up with the idea of swinging the Franc machine sideways and blasting the base of the city wall sideways!

It's really a pleasure to kill thieves today! We started killing the enemy at the age of twelve, and we fought for twenty years, and the battle we fought was not a crime of defeat or war, or the enemy ran away quickly, and there has never been such an enemy who is obviously no match for you, but he still stalks and refuses to run, so that I can always kill a happy one!

Next time there is such an opportunity, there can be an enemy who is clearly the enemy but does not know how to die, line up for Lao Tzu to kill, and let us be the pioneer! This refreshing opportunity can't be cheapened by others!

Hiccup, you say, such a useful trick, why no one thought of it in the first place, and it has been kept until today, which is cheaper. ”

Shen Shuren also drank a little too much, but he always remained sober, and in the face of Huang Degong's sincere consultation after drinking, he also immediately pointed out the other party's negligence.

"You think you just need to turn the cannon sideways? No one could use this trick before, and that's because their cannon itself was incompetent! Other cannons, but as long as the muzzle of the cannon is slightly downward, the cannonball will roll out, how can you hit the root of the city wall?

Our artillery and ammunition have been carefully polished and improved for several years, and as for this tactic, we also need some premise inspiration - we just thought of it a few months ago, during the water battle at Dongting Lake, our army's sailors fought with Zhang Xianzhong's son Liu Wenxiu's sailors.

At that time, the two garrisons in our army, Shen Lian and Li Yu, used a wooden barrel to set a columnar ammunition Franc machine, and the muzzle of the gun was lowered at a certain angle, specifically attacking the bottom plate of the boat, and the boat sank directly after a hole, killing thousands of Liu Wenxiu in vain!

It was after that war that we were inspired, summed up our experience in the army, and thought of a lot of wonderful uses of the characteristic of 'columnar fixed ammunition guns can shoot down', and the one used today is only one of them. As a general, if you can't draw inferences, it's just mediocrity. ”

Huang Degong touched his head, suddenly convinced, and patted his thigh: "When the civil officials and scholars in the world are pondering the method of battle formation, if they all go straight to the root with you, why worry about it!"

My lord, we're really convinced! You have studied and lived, you can read a little bit about everything, and you can think a lot about everything, we have followed so many civil officials, and we have never seen you like this. ”

The Sinking Tree Man waved his hand, signaling that this was nothing to be proud of, but it was just a basic operation.

At the same time, he did not forget to take the opportunity to encourage everyone not to let their guard down: "These are nothing, they should be." Such a ploy, just killing a few thousand thieves, what's the big deal.

My tactics also have drawbacks, and there are more back-ups, and when Tanami Hidemeng attacked those horses today, I could actually take out the back-up and make him lose faster, more miserable and more thoroughly.

But I don't think there's any need to expose too much, in addition, I also want to see Huang Zongzhen's heroic posture and strength in supervising the battle, so I acquiesced to you leading the team to kill Tian Jianxiu's first dead soldiers.

In this way, Tian Jianxiu must be unwilling to lose, and feel that 'the official army is like this, and we are not much behind', and in a few days, there will be a more ferocious offensive, and we must remain vigilant and see the moves. ”

Huang Degong roared and promised: "Don't worry, my lord! We can fight as much as you want! ”

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ps: Today's two watches are 4,000 words, which is similar to the previous few days, and the last 4,000 words are used to writing, so there are 8,000 today, so let's do it.

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