Win the Ding 1617

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Outside the south gate, there was a turmoil of people and the sound of cannons was like thunder.

According to the tactics Luo Hu presented to Li Zicheng, the method of combining the false and the real, and advancing from the north to the south, was originally thought to contain the strength of the army, but the progress here is much faster than people imagined.

The broken bricks and tiles under the city had already been frantically picked up by the hungry people, and they took them back to exchange for buns.Later people struggled to carry the large pieces of rammed earth to the rear with tattered clothes and baskets.

There was that young, strong and courageous refugee, who had already run for the third time thanks to his quick legs.When they threw the rammed earth blocks in their arms on the ground out of breath, what greeted them was an even bigger surprise.

Sheets of shiny pancakes and chunks of stewed meat were placed in front of them.

"Eat whatever you want! If you are full, forget it!"

Moreover, from this moment on, they were the infantry of Zhenshan Camp.You can enjoy the treatment of two full meals a day.

The power of role models is infinite.Seeing other people leisurely holding pancakes and gnawing meat and bones, oily soup flowing down their lips, immediately aroused the enthusiasm of all the refugees for war.

People frantically rushed towards the city wall, ignoring the arrows, firecrackers and rocks on the top of the city, struggling to pick up the rammed earth blocks on the ground and on the wall.In a blink of an eye, the city bricks that had been battered by shells became more and more dilapidated, just like human ulcers, getting bigger and bigger.

"Hungry people stop! Recruits come!"

The so-called recruits were those soldiers who were annihilated when Xiaoyuan's battalion was wiped out. Compared with the hungry people, they could barely be regarded as combat-effective troops.At this time, they had no swords or guns in their hands, only hoes, shovels, picks, baskets and other things.

"Go up, dig a basket of soil on the city wall and come back, you will be my pawns in the camp." These people also kept in mind the words of the generals just now, and shouted.It came up like a tide.

"Little Huzi, is this okay? Do you want me to send some cavalry to guard?" Hao Yaoqi twirled his short beard like steel needles, staring at the messy ranks of recruits in the distance.He was afraid that these people would run away or fail to work.

"Uncle Waqi, no need." Luo Hu had an expression that shouldn't be at this age.

"They fled, where did they flee? They don't work hard? The officers and soldiers at the top of the city will discipline them for us!"

More than 1 soldiers from the Xiaoyuan Battalion rushed to the bottom of the city wall, found a place at random, and put down their spades, picks and hoes.Raindrops fell on the rammed earth wall, struggling to dig the corner of the socialist wall, not the corner of this Ming Dynasty fortress in Henan.

Despite the continuous rolling of stones, arrows and firecrackers shooting down, and occasional cannon shots, and companions being hit and knocked down, people are always crazy. digging.

There is only one belief in people's hearts, and they can eat well when they go back with the city bricks.drink well.

This life has been too painful, if there is something to enjoy now, it is nothing to risk your life.If you die, you deserve to die a long time ago, and if you don't die, you earn a meal.This kind of sad thinking is incomprehensible to today's people.

Because people today worry about what to eat for three meals a day, meat tends to get fat, and vegetables are tasteless.Tucao all kinds of food safety, chickens are fed with feed.Pigs are stimulated by feed; they have no fragrance of their own when they are eaten.It doesn't need to be too early, our parents and grandfathers have always worried about what to eat.

At the time of our parents, we were so poor that we had nothing but ambition and bones. We did have a little food, but that had to be exchanged for the urgently needed supplies of the country.So our parents can only keep tightening their belts.However, compared to their grandfather's generation, they are still happy.They can see the result of their belt tightening, which is two bombs and one satellite and a powerful new China, and the grandfather's generation.The waistband of the trousers is broken, and you can only see the warlords melee. The Japanese invaded the Yellow River and flooded the Yellow River. The streets of Wuhan can be rowed, and then the land tax was pre-levied in the 100th year of the Republic of China.Even foreign missionaries and reporters have recorded that before the Japanese soldiers went into battle, the soldiers were not willing to eat the biscuits they were given, but took the biscuits with them, hoping that if they were still alive in the battle, they would be mixed with the next meal Eat like this to be full once.

This can be used to cover up the national government's shame with the lack of material resources during the Anti-Japanese War, but during the War of Liberation, countless Communist soldiers even said that the food on the Communist Army's side was better than that of the Communist Party!And it's a direct descendant of the Central Army!Therefore, the soldiers at that time could only see hunger, hatred and despair in their eyes. For them, the only time their eyes could shine brightly was when the officers showed kindness and rewarded them with meat.Of course, this is often the time when they are required to risk their lives. Even they themselves feel that their lives are worth a bowl of broth.

At this time, the same is true for these refugees.

If you are killed, you will be reincarnated earlier, and you will not suffer any more. If you don't deserve to die, you will have a good life when you return to the camp.You can live the life that people should live!

Gu Ying, who was ordered to come to watch the progress of the war, was dumbfounded by the frenzied actions of these people who originally belonged to Xiaoyuan's battalion.It turns out that once a person becomes crazy, the power that emerges is so terrifying!

On the city wall, the parts of the city bricks that had been destroyed by twelve-pound shells had changed from ulcers to festers, with black holes rotting out one by one.

"Brother Zijie, wait here for a while, and go back and report to King Chuang after my round of artillery fire is over!"

Thirty artillery pieces weighing more than eight pounds opened their black muzzles towards the dark city wall again.

"Aim! Aim!" The officers of the artillery team ran around, calibrated and fired at Zhu Yuan for several benchmark guns.Every effort was made to hit every shell in the hole in the city wall.

The artillery shells flew into the pits dug by the people in groups, and the power brought to them by the gunpowder ruthlessly vented on the rammed earth of the city wall.The heavy impact made the officers and civilians guarding the city feel the shaking from under their feet.The fear brought about by this kind of shock is far greater than the weak but firm tremors that come from the excavation of the city wall.

"Quick! Go to the north gate and report to your lord! The intruders bombarded the south gate with hundreds of heavy cannons, and the city is about to be lost!" Ding Qirui's battalion supervisor roared in a voice that was almost torn apart, ordering a Mr. Mingqian quickly went to deliver the letter.

Under the city, another round of excavation began.

The original concentrated bombardment areas became several huge holes, and there were more than a thousand gunners standing under the city.Even the thousands of cavalry under Hao Yaoqi held their horse bows in their hands.People provided security for the hungry people who kept filing in and out of the wall holes below the city, and suppressed the firepower of the defenders at the top of the city with firecrackers and bows and arrows.

In Gu Ying's eyes, the siege position commanded by Luo Hu was nothing more than a powerful machine that bombarded the city walls, and the hungry people dug up city bricks and rammed earth.After that, the soldiers of the Xiaoyuan Battalion stepped forward to dig the city wall, and then another round of shelling.

The whole process was connected in a smooth and smooth manner. Those messy teams of hungry people were also organized into a team of 80 to 100 people. They went forward to dig in turn. The old battalion cavalry patrolling the prison found out and executed him immediately.

This step by step.Several buckets, which seemed to be excavators, attacked in turn, and soon dug three holes on the Kaifeng city wall that could accommodate more than ten people, and the holes continued to expand at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This little tiger went to Shandong, what did he learn and come back?" Gu Ying wondered in his heart.In fact, not only him, but also the generals in the camp.Those who are familiar with Luo Hu have noticed the huge change in him.

"What did you learn? Excavator!" If Gu Ying asked him face to face.Luo Hu would probably answer like this.

When we were in Shandong, when we fought with Jingying or Liao Dongzhi's mixed brigade, it was nothing more than a field battle. If it was a siege of a city, the Southern Cantonese Army mostly acted as a teacher to explain to the student of Jingying.Luo Hu and Wang Long.It can only be used as an auditor, stealing lessons from the sidelines.

When the Southern Guangdong Army attacked the city, they used both mortar and kelong guns. After a few shots, the city walls collapsed.Then a slope is formed, and another round of artillery is fired, and the slope can probably become a passage.At this time, if you go up again, there are no people on the top of the city who have any fighting spirit.

"We attacked the city in Nanzhong, and attacked the city in Taiwan. Most of the cities of the earth kings, the rebels who overran the emperor, and the Western Red Maofan were attacked in this way!"

The teacher has mortars and cron guns, and regular students also have twelve-pound guns and ammunition that can be used regardless of cost, but Luo Hu, an audit student of Lanxiang Technical School, does not have as good material conditions as teachers and regular students.

However, he also has his advantages.human Resources!There are many people!

And people in this era are the least valuable consumables!

Facing Luo Hu's unreasonable hooligan tactics, the defenders at the top of the city had only one reaction other than panic: "Quick! Go to the north gate! Ask the governor for reinforcements! The bandits have 10 troops Constantly pounce on the city wall, we are almost unable to withstand it here!"

The defenders here are not the Kaifeng official army, or even the Henan official army, but the supervising battalion brought into the city by Ding Qirui, who has long been scared by Yuan Zongdi.Now facing the frenzied attack of the thieves in the city, expecting them to defend the city with all their might, is harder than going to heaven.

The news was sent to Gao Mingheng, Chen Yongfu and others again.

"The rogues rushed to the south gate with tens of thousands of horses? In less than half a day, three caves have been dug in the city?" Gao Mingheng couldn't believe the news.It took Li Zicheng more than half a month to dig more than 10 potholes by using miners from Funiu Mountain, and they were cracked by the officers and soldiers one by one today.How could the rogues at the south gate dig three holes in half a day?

How did Gao Mingheng know that although the mine soldiers are professional in digging caves, in terms of destructive power to the city wall, how can the steel drills and chisels in the hands of the mine soldiers be as fierce as the shells?What's more, Luo Hu still has more than a hundred thousand starving people whose eyes are blue from starvation. Under the huge temptation of food, the fighting power they erupted is no less than that of Little Wukong seeing the full moon.

However, Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu faced a difficult problem. What should Nanmen do?Are you sending troops for reinforcements?What should we do if we lose the city defense of the north gate in the face of Li Chuang and Cao Cao's elite siege?No, it's also Kaifeng's city defense!

If Chen Yongfu had also dealt with the Beijing camp, he would know that this was another unethical tactic used by Uncle Ning Yuan during his fortifications and field battles. (This tactic is very familiar to all readers, and it is the brainchild of Marshal Lin. It has been summed up in countless actual battles, and it can be said to be invincible.) In order to achieve such an effect, Li Zicheng made up his mind to use the most essence of the artillery fire in the camp Part of it was handed over to Luo Hu, and he was also given the power to command the entire Kaifeng siege battle at the same time.

"Wang Zhi County!"

Gao Mingheng gritted his teeth and called Wang Xie, the magistrate of Xiangfu County, who was beside him. "You go down to the Shangfang Temple, transfer 1000 people from the Volunteer Taishe there to the south gate, and you will stay there to take command of Benfu!"

Wang Xie took Gao Mingheng's order and led people down the city to mobilize the troops of the Yiyong Taisha. Just as he walked on the horse path, there was another clamor and shouting from the city.

A red flag was waved on the peasant army's position below the city, and several eight-pound guns fired first.Immediately afterwards, all kinds of artillery were fired one after another.The sound of the guns became more and more dense, shaking the sky.Cannonballs of different sizes were fired from the muzzle, many hit the city wall, and some shot over the city from the air and into the city.The shells intertwined with each other, making a soul-stirring sound.More shells hit the city wall, causing the city wall to collapse continuously and become a steep slope.It became a slow slope again.

"Wangzhi County! Wangzhi County! The governor has an order, don't go to the south gate! Hurry up and send the soldiers and horses of the Volunteer Taisha to the city to defend! The bandits are going to attack the city!"

After the gunfire gradually subsided, the infantry of Chuangying and Caoying swarmed out, carrying long ladders, leaping over the moat, and rushing up the slow slope.The city desperately fired cannons, released crossbow arrows, and threw bricks and stones to the outside.

But the infantry of the two families took turns to attack.Without retreating, a number of infantrymen who broke into the camp died.Cao Ying climbed up another group.After attacking for a while, the infantry of the Peasant Army suffered a lot of casualties at the gap in the city wall, temporarily stopped charging and retreated to the bottom of the city moat. More than 100 cannons fired at the city at this time, and many shells continued to hit the gap.The city also responded with artillery fire, but it was not as strong as the artillery fire outside the city.

Taking advantage of the artillery fire at the top of the city to fight back.The artillery below the city began to look for the artillery above the city to clean up and suppress them one by one.Soon, after a hundred and ten shells passed, the sound of the artillery on the city became sparse.The artillery fire under the city also stopped suddenly, and the Cao Ying infantry lying under the moat surged up again like a tide.

"Uncle, King Chuang. In this way, the dog officials in the city can't figure out which side is the main attack and which side is a feint. They throw in troops to block the opening, and are bombarded by our artillery. They go to reinforce the south gate, and they are afraid of being attacked Let's take advantage of the loophole!" Wang Long proudly pointed at the panic on the top of the city with his whip, pointing to Li Zicheng and Cao Cao.

The defenders at the south gate waited for reinforcements to arrive.The progress under the city made them even more heartbroken.

Luo Hu directed the artillery to no longer fire at the city wall, but aimed the cannon at the defenders at the top of the city, suppressing them with shells.Fight for time and space for the construction of the three potholes under the city.

Baskets of rammed earth were carried out of the pits by the hungry people, and logs used to support the pits were carried in one by one by them.

The three potholes that were ready to be used to make breakthroughs had already been dug, and the "dong dong" sound of shovels and hoes could be heard clearly and faintly passed through the earth wall to the ears of the "next door".

"Master Luo! The brothers in the city asked, did they dig the city down? If they need to dig down the city wall, they just need to send in ten steamed buns and drinking water for each person!"

Ma Yaozi rode a steed horse with head and tail chaotically rushing over from the city, and rushed straight to Luohu's horse.

"Uncle Waqi, it's getting late, and the sun is about to set. Let's not wait to dig down the city wall! Prepare gunpowder and let it go!"

With an order, the subordinates of Zhenshanying and Hao Yaoqi began to prepare nervously.

As a spectator, Gu Ying also stared at the movement under the city with wide eyes.

In the three temporary cave dwellings below the city, the people who received orders were busy digging on the earthen walls.Hoes, pickaxes and old picks fell like raindrops on the rammed earth layer, and outlines gradually appeared on those layers of extremely solid soil for hundreds of years.

Small holes resembling small windows were dug out on the wall separating them from the neighbors next door, and they were arranged densely like a honeycomb on the layer of rammed earth.Each small hole is roughly the size of a powder keg.These honeycombs are lined up on the north side and east and west sides of the city wall, and there are hundreds of them in size.

"Get the powder kegs in!"

There was another burst of gunfire and gunfire below the city, hitting sand and rocks flying from the top of the city. The defenders all pressed their heads and faces to the ground of the city wall tightly, lest they would be hit by the cannon if they were not careful.

Taking advantage of this time, more than [-] people either carried or carried the gunpowder barrels into the three potholes below the city, and stuffed them into the honeycombs on the wall.

A gunner carefully connected the lead wires, one by one, and pulled them out of the hole. The three thick lead wires were pulled dozens of steps away from the city wall.

"Uncle Waving Flag, Brother Zijie, let's light a fire!" Luo Hu had a childlike smile on his face at this moment, as if setting off firecrackers and fireworks during the Chinese New Year.

Inside the city wall, there were endless rumbles. The people on the top of the city screamed and walked along the horse path from the top of the city, and even jumped off the top of the city. Everyone heard the faint rumbling sound coming from below the city. , Moreover, the city wall under the feet is constantly shaking, shaking, showing signs of collapse.

"Little Huzi, tear your mouth open here and pour it into the city immediately! I'll report to King Chuang and ask him to oversee the attack! We must break Kaifeng today!"

Amidst the rumbling explosions, Gu Ying couldn't hide the surprise on his face, and slapped the horse's ass fiercely, leading dozens of soldiers to go.

The serial blasting of gunpowder barrels is like using a small knife to cut off the tendons of the body and dig out the bones for the city walls of Kaifeng. Dust and smoke spewed out from the entrance of the cave, making the peasant army gathered outside the city feel the fear of the end of the world and the demons coming out of the cave.

After a while, the explosion sound from inside the city wall finally stopped, and the Kaifeng city wall still existed before people's eyes.

"Hey! I've been busy for a long time, little Huzi, this child's busy work is still in vain!" His thoughts turned, Hao Yaoqi was about to speak to comfort Luo Hu, but he didn't want to. When he got up, there was only a loud bang in his ears, and the city wall of Kaifeng's south gate collapsed!

This tactic is actually nothing new.For Li Zicheng's subordinates, it was just letting go.First dig out a hole on the city wall, then put gunpowder in a large urn or a porcelain altar, ignite the gunpowder and blow up the city wall.However, no one would have imagined that Kaifeng, the capital city of several generations, would be used by Luo Hu for a day, hundreds of barrels of gunpowder, and a hole of more than ten feet would be blown open!

That's amazing!Hao Yaoqi, who was so frightened that he traveled all over the country and killed half his life, almost opened his mouth so much that he could stuff two big steamed buns into it.

In fact, he didn't know that the city wall of Kaifeng was not so much collapsed by gunpowder as it was collapsed by his own weight.Luo Hu drove the hungry people to dig the city walls and filled the cave walls with gunpowder, which was equivalent to placing explosives on the pillars of the city walls.The gunpowder kegs were blasted one after another, breaking the pillars supporting the city wall one by one. Without the supporting city wall, how could it not collapse?

The officers and soldiers at both ends of the gap were still in shock. They didn't care to wipe off the dust on their heads and faces, but they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

After the ten-foot city wall collapsed, bricks and stones flew across the sky, and some millstones that had been placed under the city when the city was built many years ago were also carried around by this huge force.These fragments of bricks and millstones flew towards the city, and the defenders who had just fled to the city were still panting before being smashed to the ground, and those who did not cultivate in their previous lives were simply overturned by these fragments of bricks and stones on the spot on the ground.

From the city, you can see half a mile outside the moat, the infantry under Hao Yaoqi is ready to attack the city, and the cavalry are divided into two wings, and the troops are purged.

Li Jinbao, nicknamed Ma Yaozi, led his cavalry to and fro among the hungry people, yelling loudly: "The broken city is in front of you! After entering the city, those who surrender will not be killed! Those who take anything indiscriminately, beheaded! Those who rape women ,cut!"

"Little Huzi, your team is holding the ground for you Uncle Waqi under the city. Uncle Waqi is the best at breaking the city!" Hao Yaoqi, who had already stripped his upper body naked, threw the original sheepskin cloak into the On the side, a dark chest was exposed, holding a "chuang" flag in one hand, and a big knife in the other.

"Boys, come with me!" With a low growl, Hao Yaoqi waved a big flag and rushed forward, with smoke and dust rising into the sky behind him, and Li Jinbao and Hao Yaoqi's cavalry and infantry followed closely.

The crowd that spread to the horizon began to rush towards the gap.

There were constant low and loud voices among the crowd.

"We are not thieves! We are the heavenly soldiers who seek thieves!"

"Killing someone is like killing my father, adultery is like adulterating my mother!"

"Kill officers and soldiers! Execute Ming thieves!"

The slogan spread from the South Gate to the Song Gate, Cao Gate, and North Gate! (To be continued..)