The Taiping Army's offensive was indeed quite smooth.

A large number of cannon fodder from the outer battalion continued to impact the city wall, and judging from the dense gunfire on the city wall, the firepower density of the Ming army was getting lower and lower.

Under the city wall, the musketeers of the Taiping army rushed to a place only thirty steps away from the city wall, and constantly shot at the top of the city wall with muskets, suppressing the Ming army musketeers on the city wall with a dense rain of bullets, and covering the cannon fodder soldiers of the outer camp climbing the city wall.

In this day and age.

Fighting a war has become a math problem.

Theoretically, as long as the density of firepower and troops exceeds that of the opponent, victory can be achieved.

As far as the current battlefield situation is concerned, the Ming army, which has the protection of the city wall, can obviously concentrate more powerful firepower with a small number of troops, and the firepower of the defender is quite strong.

The fierce man Nie arrived at a place only a hundred steps away from the city wall under the mutual assistance of his own soldiers, leaning on a breastwork, staring at the crackling battlements that had been beaten and bricks flying.

Right now.

The ground shook, and a city gate was blasted open!

This is a blasting with the cooperation of Kaifeng City.

With this trick.

Every time the Taiping army storms the city, it is invincible!

It is the first time that this trick has been used against the Ming army.

"The gates are broken!"

The fierce man Nie took a deep breath, pulled out his sword and waved: "Musket team!" Rush! Rush inside the gates! ”

Just rush into the city and win!

Under the leadership of this fierce man of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The morale of the Taiping army was extremely high.

Soon.

One by one, the old brothers of the government soldiers with flintlock pistols jumped out of the trenches, and rushed into the dull exploding with their muskets over their heads.

Soon the first musket teams rushed in, and a dense volley of guns rang out.

Immediately after the second group, the third group, a continuous stream of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers rushed in, and the dense platoon of guns continued to sound.

"Actually rushed in?!"

Yao Zhifu, who was watching the battle from the rear, couldn't imagine his eyes.

It took three days to capture this Kaifeng City/

It's also incredible.

10,000 Ming troops, why are they so unbeaten?

Wang Sanhuai and Nie Siju beside him laughed heartily.

Wang Sanhuai laughed and said: "King Wu, it seems that there is no fake, the city gate is open, can there be a fake?" ”

Really said.

I saw that the flag of the fierce man Nie had been erected on the tower of the north gate of Kaifeng City.

It seems that the castle tower at the north gate has been occupied!

"The gates have been taken! The gates are open!! ”

"Win! Win! ”

"The world is heavenly!"

The fierce man Nie was excited to the peak.

Throwing all the elites into it, it is bound to keep the results of the battle and control the walls of the north gate.

And Yao Zhifu in the rear did not hesitate.

This is indeed the best opportunity!

"Kill the thief, divide the land, long live the kingdom of heaven!"

Yao Zhifu drew his sword and shouted.

Then Wang Sanhuai and Luo Siju led more than 30,000 soldiers from the most elite old battalion.

Rushed towards the wall.

The gates of the city are opened.

At this time, it is necessary to invest in the elite, completely consolidate the results of the battle, and repel the enemy's counterattack with a thunderous blow!

And so it goes.

Kaifeng City is completely taken!

Yao Zhifu's heart is hot.

After taking Kaifeng, the supply problem that plagued the Taiping army would be solved in an instant, and the army could go south, in Lianghuai, and in Jiangbei.

The population density of these places is much denser than that of the Central Plains!

Wealth is also more dense.

Open it.

It's all alive!

The Taiping Army fought all the way, and always dared to make a desperate bet at a critical moment!

Now Yao Zhifu also decisively gave the order for the whole army to rush into the city, and even he himself rushed to the city gate with his personal guards!

"Military Gate, the old camp of the Taiping Army has entered the city from the north gate!"

Kaifeng City.

Luo Dingshan, who was responsible for commanding the Kaifeng City Guard and was the first time to lead the troops on the side of the town alone, showed a smile when he heard this.

"Good! It's not bad to be able to put tens of thousands of people in their old camp here! Gather forces immediately, close the door and fight the dogs! ”

Opening the door to lure the enemy was a strategy set after seizing the Taiping Heavenly Rebellion.

It's not too complicated, just open the city gate, wait for the other party to put the elite government soldiers into it, and then use the siege fortifications that have been arranged in the city a long time ago, and pit the other party.

Where did the Taiping army think that the Ming army would be so cunning.

They fought Hanzhong, Xi'an, and Luoyang before, but after the city gate was opened, the green battalions of the Qing army or the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers who guarded the city also raised their hands and surrendered, where would they say that they used the city to trap people.

So this one is to make the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Martial King bigger.

It was only discovered after he had rushed in with the old battalion soldiers, entered through the north gate, and rushed into the city along a wide street.

It's not a sunny avenue at all.

Ahead is a dead end blocked by a sandbag wall!

The spacious road was crowded with the soldiers of the Taiping army who were excitedly heading towards Kaifeng City to plunder the city.

Like a rushing river, it crashed against the embankment.

Immediately it was crowded.

Right now.

Explosives that had been planted long ago

There was a bang.

The artillery that had already been prepared to shoot Zhu Yuan was also pouring fire into this small area at the first time

Quang Binh Mansion, Handan City.

Since sending Yao Zhifu south, Liu Zhixie, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, transferred his Chinese army tent to Handan, and broke away from contact with Fukangan and Zhao Si.

However, before Liu Tianwang's ass was hot in Handan, news came from the south that shocked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The army of Yao Zhifu, the king of martial arts, who went south to attack Kaifeng and tried to mobilize the army of Emperor Zhu, failed to break through Kaifeng.

On the contrary, it was broken under the city of Kaifeng, and tens of thousands of troops in the old camp were killed by the artillery of the Ming army, killing more than 20,000 people, capturing more than 10,000 people, and the remaining thousands fled with the rich man Yao Zhifu.

In addition, the Hou Nie Jie of Zhijiang and the Hou Wang Sanhuai of Dazhou were all folded in Kaifeng.

More than 100,000 people in the outer camp scattered.

The inner camp and the old camp only ran back less than 20,000, escaped Chen Qiao, and fled all the way north to Tangyin County in Weihui Mansion.

And after King Wu settled down the rout, he traveled to Handan, and knelt outside the tent of the Chinese army to plead guilty.

"Tens of thousands of old battalion soldiers! With a total of 300,000 troops, he couldn't defeat the Kaifeng Mansion where only 10,000 soldiers and horses were guarding Ganggang, and he was killed and returned, losing his troops and losing all his baggage! ”

Liu Zhixie suddenly pulled out his sword and slashed it on the table.

At boiling point!

Before the war, even the most pessimistic predictions were just a futile attempt to open the Fengfu.

And now.

300,000 troops!!

Defeated by a mere 10,000 soldiers.

If this is spread out, what will be the face of the kingdom of heaven?

The princes below will not dare to speak when they see the angry appearance of the king of heaven. All of them drooped their heads, their faces fearful and difficult to execute.

They couldn't believe it.

Swept all the way from Hubei, Sichuan, Guanzhong, and Henan.

The Taiping army in almost every city actually suffered such a big defeat under Kaifeng Mansion!

The combat effectiveness of this Ming army is inevitably too terrifying.

Originally, everyone thought that with the numerical superiority of the Taiping army, it was enough to threaten the more than 23,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Emperor Zhu.

But now?

Now 10,000 soldiers have defeated the Taiping army of 300,000.

The more than 20,000 of the most elite Ming troops under the command of Emperor Zhu.

Isn't it worth the million-strong army of the Taiping Army?

"Heavenly King! Yao Zhifu should be damned, please quickly correct the law in front of the army to shock the hearts of the army! ”

A marquis of the Taiping Army suggested.

Liu Zhixie's eyes narrowed.

Yao Zhifu is his confidant, and even if he loses the battle, he can't be executed casually.

What's more, this Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a system of princes respecting the heavenly king.

The marquis, large and small, had their own territories and armies.

Liu Zhixie can be this king, relying on the army under his command to fight, and the strength is strong enough.

There will be no challengers below.

Therefore, it is impossible to kill Yao's wealth.

He snorted coldly and said, "King Wu is the king of the heavenly kingdom, so can you also discuss the life and death of the heavenly king?" ”

He stood up suddenly.

"What's more, the order that this king gave to King Wu was a fraud, and now King Wu has not completed the task very well?"

"Let King Wu shrink his forces and march eastward, and fight with me in the Daimyo's Mansion to attack the Ming Emperor's army in Lin!"

To this extent.

Liu Zhixie is already a little difficult to ride a tiger.

If he retreats like this, on the one hand, it is difficult to explain internally, and he will go south to Kaifeng and lose his troops, and then retreat to Guanzhong, which will be a huge blow to Liu Zhixie's prestige.

But if you don't retreat, if you stand up here in Henan, on the one hand, it will delay the agricultural time that will start in two or three months.

The soldiers of the kingdom of heaven are not professional soldiers.

They were peasants who had divided the land, although there were slaves and tenant farmers in their families.

But when you go out to fight, you have to go out with your slaves, and if there is no strong labor in the farm, and the spring ploughing is not easy to go down, the village will be deserted.

Therefore, for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the period from after the autumn harvest to before the arrival of spring ploughing is the time for war.

Therefore, Liu Zhixie at this time is faced with two choices: either retreat to Guanzhong now, don't waste national strength in vain, or, just before the arrival of spring ploughing, seize the time to fight!

Although the former choice is safe, it will reduce his prestige and greatly damage the morale of the Heavenly General.

The second option

It's an adventure!

And it's a gamble.

Once defeated.

It is no longer possible for the Kingdom of Heaven to organize troops that can spy on the Central Plains, and they can't even keep Guanzhong, so they can only pray that the Ming Dynasty can give the future of the king of Pingxi and settle down in the Western Regions

Liu Zhixie was able to pull up the White Lotus Sect across several provinces, so he was naturally not a person who was willing to accept it when he saw it.

So.

For him.

There is only the second option.

(End of chapter)