please make me king

Chapter 644
In this era, the regular battle of attacking and defending a city is a very boring but bloody thing.

Ever since the rebel army repeatedly destroyed the method of officers and soldiers digging holes to attack the city, the scheming Hong Chengchou had no other choice but to attack the city honestly.

He first built a mountain with soil, placed the artillery on it to suppress and shoot at Ziweixing Fort, and then ordered his soldiers to dig trenches to attack the castle.

Zhang Sanbai commanded the soldiers to fight back with artillery, and at the same time invited Feibiao guns to fight back.

This Feibiao blunderbuss was a wrought iron mortar that was trial-produced when the rebel army attacked Kangjiazhuang. After Zhang Shun occupied Luoyang City, he ordered Dudu Zhang to forge two more in order to deal with some targets that were prone to blind spots.

This so-called Feibiao is actually different from the data of Feibiao recorded in the late Ming Dynasty. It is only made of wrought iron, and its weight is only about a thousand catties.

Zhang Shun specially selected a few most experienced gunners from the flying midge gunners who surrendered before to operate the three flying blunderbusses, so that they could fully display the power of this kind of mortars.

Originally, the officers and soldiers hid in the trenches and dug the soil, and it was difficult for the Hongyi cannons, which used direct fire as the means of killing, to attack the enemies in the trenches.

As soon as the Feibiao blunderbuss came out, the projectile trajectory was used to shoot. The ignited flower bombs fell from the sky and exploded upon landing, causing great casualties to officers and soldiers for a while.

Hong Chengchou didn't have mortars in his hands this time, so he couldn't fight back.He couldn't help being very angry, so he had to order the Hongyi cannon on the earth mountain to attack the Feibiao gun.

It's just that in order to prevent the attack of the rebel artillery, the piled up earth hill was a little far away, so it couldn't accurately hit the targets in the city, and I don't know how much ammunition was wasted, but nothing was able to hit it.

Fortunately, the accuracy of the Flying Bullet is not high, and often because of the uncontrollable burning speed of the fuse, sometimes the explosive bomb explodes in the air, and sometimes it falls to the ground and extinguishes the fuse.

In this way, the two sides fought for four or five days, and finally the officers and soldiers communicated with the moat outside Ziwei Star Fort through the trench.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help being overjoyed, and quickly ordered the general Bai Guangen to lead [-] elite men, dressed in double armor, carrying swords, guns, ropes, and ladders, to advance along the trench and wait for an opportunity to climb the wall of Ziwei Star Fort, which was not very high.

When Bai Guangen and the others finally rushed to the moat outside Ziwei Star Castle out of breath, they still had no time to catch their breath.

There was only a loud noise, and the flood was rolling along the moat of Ziwei Star Fortress. The officers and soldiers were caught off guard and were submerged in the moat together.

In the cold winter of Lajiu, how can soldiers in cotton armor and iron armor withstand the cold?Immediately, many people struggled for a while, then drowned or froze to death in the water.

Only a handful of people with good physical strength managed to climb out of the water, and suddenly there was a burst of gunfire above the castle, and those people fell into the water again, with blood spraying out in patches.

Of the [-] people who dared to die, only Bai Guangen, who was blue from the cold and shivering all over, returned to the camp.Hong Chengchou couldn't help being out of breath and almost passed out.

After finally regaining his composure, Hong Chengchou opened the gate of the tent and looked from afar, only to see that not only the moat outside Ziwei Star Fortress had turned into a moat, but even the moat dug by officers and soldiers had become sparkling.There was not a single corpse floating above, and they all must have sunk to the bottom of the trench.

It turned out that when Ziwei Star Fort was first built, the rebel army specially set up gates, and at the critical moment they could open the gates to release water, and the river water from the Jianhe River could be used to submerge the enemies in the trenches.

In addition, Ziwei Star Fort was located on a relatively high ground, and when the water from the guard trench came in, it followed the trenches of the officers and soldiers and flooded directly.

In the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, not to mention that the trench is full of stagnant water, even if it is muddy, it will not be able to be used again for a while.

The poor officers and soldiers suffered five or six days of losses, and it was hard to dig these hundreds of steps of trenches with great difficulty, so they had to be discarded.

Hong Chengchou felt salty in his mouth and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.He didn't want to shout loudly with grief: "Kill me! What a thief, he is really vicious. Now not only the achievements of several days are ruined, but also the soldiers and generals are lost. It is shameless to see Jiangdong's elders!"

Seeing each other, they hurriedly helped him into the tent, and comforted him: "Master, please be patient, don't get angry. Since ancient times, victory or defeat has been a common occurrence in military affairs. Even if a traitor and a traitor win a game, it's just a moment of pride. .Only by achieving the final victory can you be proud for the rest of your life!"

After everyone comforted for a long time, Hong Chengchou finally stabilized his mood.But in the end, he was so angry that his chest hurt.

Left and Right hurriedly called the military doctor, prescribed a dose of herbal medicine, and poured it down for him without bitterness or sweetness, and let him lie on the bed for a whole night, and his condition was not relieved until dawn.

When the sky was just dawning, Hong Chengchou felt his head was heavy and was about to take a nap when he suddenly heard his personal guard rushing in, shouting loudly: "Master Supervisor, good news!"

Hearing the words, Hong Chengchou kicked off the quilt quickly, turned over and asked, "Where did you get the good news? Read it to me quickly!"

"Lu Mou came from Nanyang and arrived in Ruzhou on the [-]th. He gathered the remnants of the governor of Henan and the soldiers and horses in the hands of Henan Bingbei Dao, a total of [-] troops. On the morning of the [-]nd, he was ambushed by bandits. Fortunately, I fought hard and was seriously injured. The bandit general, Liu Cheng, smashed the bandit army."

"Then besieged Song County, and could not go down for a long time. There was the leader of the Lu clan, Chen Changji, who led the crowd to help. I broke it day and night, and beheaded the head of the bandit. Seeing that the reinforcements had been broken, and the bandits were broken, Song County opened the city to surrender."

"The leader of the bandit, Chen Changbing, is a brother who is married to the bandit. Now I enshrine his leader and the supervisor, and please ask for credit for the rest in time. In two days, I will lead my troops to Luoyang, join forces with the supervisor, and attack Luoyang together City. Xiangsheng worships again!"

"Okay!" Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, couldn't help clapping his hands and said with a smile when he heard the words, "I underestimated this person in the past, but I didn't expect him to be a civil servant, but he has such abilities!"

After finishing speaking, Hong Chengchou thought about it, and couldn't help laughing: "God helped me! Nasong County is only two or three days away from Luoyang City, and he wrote back to the governor of Yunyang, saying that I am going to invite thieves to fight on the [-]th. , Let him arrive in time to attack the thief from behind!"

"Hmph, no matter how scheming you are, Sun Monkey will not escape the palm of my Tathagata Buddha!" ​​Hong Chengchou was overwhelmed with complacency, and he couldn't help stretching out his palms, as if he was grabbing something, and then clenched them tightly.

The personal guard has taken the order and is about to hand it over to the left and right staff.Then Hong Chengchou suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly shouted: "Please show me the letter, this matter is of great importance, and you must not be negligent!"

"Yes!" The guard hurriedly presented the letter with both hands.Hong Chengchou opened it, looked at it carefully for a long time, and couldn't help laughing: "This handwriting is really Lu Jiandou's handwriting, and this seal is also really Lu Jiandou's seal, and everything is correct. This is really going to kill you, and you have to die, hahaha! "

(End of this chapter)