605 captured Kaifeng, and did not seal the knife for ten days

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"Li Guo, the 10,000 elites you selected have you rested?"

At this time, Li Zicheng turned his head to Li Guo below and asked.

"Back to King Chuang, the 10,000 elites I selected have already rested, and they haven't participated in the attack during the day, just waiting for tonight's operation!"

Li Guo stood up and said excitedly.

"Very good, let the soldiers eat and drink enough, and after the time is over, we will go around to the north gate of Kaifeng and launch a night attack."

Li Zicheng was also holding his breath in his heart at this time, and he had to take Kaifeng, so he decided to launch a night attack.

During the day, they were attacking the south gate of Kaifeng all day long, feintting to attack the east and west gates, but they didn't attack the north gate of Kaifeng.

Li Zicheng believed that the Ming generals in Kaifeng City during the day, in order to prevent their attack, would definitely take most of the troops from the North City Gate and go to the South City Gate.

In this way, the garrison force at the north gate at night should be relatively small.

Li Zicheng decided to take it by surprise and attack the north gate of Kaifeng at night, if he could successfully occupy the north gate, then the battle would be stable.

"Song Xiance, Li Guo, Gao Guiying!" Li Zicheng named the names of the three generals under him.

"The subordinates are here."

"Tonight, the three of you will lead 10,000 elites to attack the north gate of Kaifeng at night.

Once you succeed there, give a signal, and this king will immediately lead a large group of men and horses to storm the south gate of Kaifeng again, and take Kaifeng in a neat battle. ”

Li Zicheng commanded at the three of them.

"King Chuang, the soldiers have attacked for a day today, and they are very tired, and if they launch a night attack tonight, I'm afraid the soldiers won't be able to hold it!"

Niu Jinxing on the side reminded Li Zicheng.

"It doesn't matter, the soldiers have been attacking for a day, and they are indeed tired, but the generals in the city have been fighting for a day, and they will also be tired.

This king has long thought of this, and the order is passed down, and the king promised all the soldiers that as long as they can capture Kaifeng for this king, they will not seal the sword for ten days. ”

"King Chuangming, long live King Chuang!"

As soon as Li Zicheng finished speaking, the first to get excited was the many generals of the army in this military tent, who shouted excitedly one by one.

Li Zicheng has already thought of a countermeasure in his heart, that is, to use this kind of rich reward to arouse the fighting enthusiasm of the soldiers and soldiers and overcome fatigue.

'Capture Kaifeng, don't seal the knife for ten days', such a simple and crude slogan is indeed the most suitable way to stimulate the army under Li Zicheng at this time.

Immediately, Li Zicheng asked his generals to go down and prepare, this night was destined to be a night of killing.

In Kaifeng City, the soldiers of the Ming army, who had been fighting fiercely for a day, also got a rare opportunity to rest with the evacuation of the breaking army.

The Ming soldiers who came up in rotation later replaced all the Ming soldiers on the city wall, so that they could go down the city wall to eat a hot meal and sleep.

Although the defending side is more labor-saving, it can't stand the soldiers who attacked the city during the day today, which is five or six times that of the Ming defenders.

They took turns attacking, but the Ming army could not replace several defenders, after all, they had limited manpower.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the Ming soldiers who were responsible for defending the city were more tired than the soldiers who were attacking.

Fortunately, these soldiers of the Ming army also knew that once the army was allowed to enter Kaifeng City, not only the people of the city would suffer, but their families would not be spared.

This made the Kaifeng defenders at this time also have high morale and a firm will to fight, so they resisted such a fierce attack by the army during the day.

The night is dark, and the moon is not very bright tonight, which is quite suitable for night raids.

When the time came to the thirtieth, a group of 10,000 elite men and horses left the camp from the northwest corner of the camp that stretched for more than ten miles, and headed towards the north gate of Kaifeng.

The night was quiet, it seemed that everything had fallen into silence, outside the north city of Kaifeng, a black shadow was quickly approaching the north gate of Kaifeng.

What the soldiers didn't know was that at this time, on the north city wall of Kaifeng, in addition to more than 300 standing guards, there were also more than 1,000 Ming soldiers.

Chen Yongfu transferred a large number of quilts from Kaifeng City and sent them directly to the city walls, requiring the Ming soldiers to stay on the city walls for food and sleep, ready to fight at any time.

Because of the fierce fighting during the day, the north city gate was not attacked by the breaking army, and the Ming defenders here were indeed fewer than the other three city walls.

But from beginning to end, there were never less than 2,500 people, which was the limit of what Chen Yongfu could accept.

Unless, they couldn't hold the southern city wall at all and let Li Zicheng's soldiers kill them, Chen Yongfu would never move the 2,500 people guarding the northern city wall.

Guarding the north gate was a general named Chen Huayuan, who was also a member of the Chen Yongfu family.

This person has a dull personality and is not good at words, but he is old and serious, so Chen Yongfu will hand over the North City Gate to him to guard.

At night, Chen Huayuan left 300 soldiers to keep vigil, and the rest of the men and horses slept, and every two hours, a change of guard was carried out.

At the same time, the remaining 2,200 Ming soldiers were also divided into two by Chen Huayuan.

A thousand men slept on the walls with the help of quilts, ensuring that they could go into battle at any time in the event of a sneak attack.

The remaining 1,200 or so people slept under the city walls, where there was no cold north wind blowing, and a fire could be lit, which was warmer and allowed the soldiers to sleep more soundly.

"Damn, I'm freezing to death, why is the wind so strong tonight!"

On the north city wall of Kaifeng, one or two Ming soldiers leaned against the city wall, and one spoke.

At this time, it is the middle of winter, and recently there is a cold air in the north, and the north is blowing from the north, blowing on people's faces at night, like a knife cutting.

Even if these Ming soldiers are all wearing two layers of cotton clothes, they are still useless, and after a long time, they will still be penetrated by the cold wind.

That is, those Ming soldiers who slept on the root of the city wall, wrapped in thick quilts, happened to be able to avoid the cold wind with the help of the city wall, otherwise they would not be able to sleep at all.

"Who said it wasn't, it's been colder in the past two days, you said that in this cold day, those thieves outside the city are crazy, and they have to attack us."

Another Ming sergeant, holding a spear in the creaking nest, hugged his arm, turned around tremblingly, looked out of the city, and spoke.

"It's not simple, in this cold day, of course those thieves are short of food and clothing, so they want to rob us."

Just as the other Ming soldier was still leaning against the city wall and talking there, the Ming soldier who had just turned around and looked outside the city rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked at the dark ground outside the city.

Because, just now, he seemed to see a large number of figures moving outside the city.

Soon the Ming soldier barely saw clearly, there were indeed people outside the city, and there were quite a few, who had crossed the moat and touched their city wall, it was a thief.

"Thief ......"

Sou! Burst!

The Ming soldier was about to shout, but one of the generals under the city shot an arrow directly into his throat, making him make a sound, and he lay on the city wall and died.

"Hey, Lao Li, how are you ...... Yes! ”

As a result, the Ming sergeant next to him heard a hint of strangeness, and then turned his head to look.

Seeing that the Ming soldier next to him was already lying on the city wall and dying, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and then quickly squatted down.

Whoosh!

Immediately, two arrows flew past his ears, but fortunately they did not hit him, and at the same time, they also benefited from the strong wind at night and the dim vision.

"Damn, didn't shoot."

Under the city, the general who shot arrows was none other than Li Guo.

Even if his archery skills are very good, but at such a night, he can only rely on the faint light of the fire on the wall of the Ming army and the interference of the wind, and he has to rely on luck to shoot the enemy.

It was his luck to shoot the first Ming soldier, and the second one was obviously not so lucky.

"Hurry up, enemy attack, enemy attack, thieves are coming."

The crouching Ming soldier immediately shouted loudly to the other Ming soldiers patrolling around him, as well as those Ming soldiers who were lying at the base of the wall around him, still sleeping wrapped in quilts.

Hearing the frightened shouts of this Ming soldier, the Ming soldiers on the city wall in other directions around were immediately alarmed.

They looked down at the city, and saw that at this time the dense figures were crossing the moat one by one, carrying ladders and approaching their walls.

"Quick, go and inform the general, wake up the sleeping soldiers, the thieves are coming."

A Ming general Baihu, who was in charge of night patrols, commanded the surrounding Ming soldiers at this time.

"Hurry up, kill it."

Li Guo under the city saw that they had been discovered by the Ming army, and hurriedly urged the soldiers to erect a ladder and climb up the city wall.

Soon, a fierce shout of killing sounded on the north wall of Kaifeng, and a fire lit up.

The Ming army prepared a lot of fire oil on the city wall, on the one hand, for heating and lighting, and on the other hand, it could also be used against the enemy.

Song Xiance, Li Guo and Gao Guiying, the three generals, led by 10,000 soldiers, took advantage of the dark night tonight to successfully get close to the north city wall of Kaifeng before being discovered.

Then, they had to launch a strong attack, how to say that they also hit the Ming army by surprise.

Originally, Li Guo believed that they had all touched the city wall now, and by the time they rushed to the north wall of Kaifeng, it was estimated that most of the Ming soldiers had not yet assembled.

Regardless of Li Guo's idea, he will soon be disappointed.

I thought he found that with the many torches lit up on the city wall, the entire north city wall of Kaifeng was illuminated, and thousands of Ming soldiers quickly appeared on the city wall.

"What's going on? Why are there so many people in the Ming army, did they know that we were coming for a sneak attack from the beginning and prepared in advance? ”

When Song Xiance saw that there were only more than 100 patrols on the north city wall, he also had the same idea as Li Guo.

As a result, they had just erected the ladder, and when the soldiers were climbing towards the city wall, many Ming soldiers immediately appeared on the north city wall of Kaifeng.

Song Xiance and Li Guo never thought that Chen Huayuan would directly place more than 1,000 Ming soldiers on the city wall.

"Hurry up and kill, the Ming army will definitely not have enough troops at this time, hurry up!"

But at this time, it was already ready to be sent and had to be sent, and Song Xiance could only urge the surrounding soldiers to hurry up and kill the north city wall of Kaifeng and seize the opportunity.

"Shoot the arrows, fire the cannons!"

Whoosh! Boom Boom!

On the north wall of Kaifeng, the soldiers of the Ming army, who reacted quickly, immediately entered the battle, the archers released arrows downward, and the artillery also opened fire in time.

"you."

A soldier of the Ming army used the halberd in his hand to resist a ladder erected at the mouth of the city wall, and pushed it hard, directly overturning the ladder, and seven or eight soldiers on it were unlucky.

"Throw stones, stone these thieves to death." A hundred households were responsible for commanding more than 100 Ming soldiers around them to fight, shouting.

The originally silent Kaifeng North City Wall, almost instantly, fell into a fierce battle, shouting and killing, explosions, and wails sounded one after another.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the actions are all for Lao Tzu, go to the city wall to defend against the enemy."

On the city wall, Chen Huayuan, who learned that the thieves were attacking them at night, immediately gathered more than 1,000 soldiers of the Ming army who were sleeping under the city, and quickly led them across the horse road and rushed to the city wall to support.

"Someone, hurry up on horseback and report to the chief soldier, just say that our side has been attacked by a large number of thieves, the situation is critical, and we ask for support."

When Chen Huayuan climbed the city wall and looked towards the city, with the help of the light of the fire on the city wall, he saw the dense number of soldiers under the city, at least there must be seven or eight thousand people, and there were still those who could not see clearly in the distance.

With so many soldiers, it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold on to the 2,500 men under his command alone, so Chen Huayuan sent people to ask Chen Yongfu of the government for help in order to be safe.

"Where's the gun?"

In fact, just when the cannon sound just sounded at the North City Gate, Chen Yongfu was already awakened in Chen Yongfu's mansion, which was a few miles away.

This night, Chen Yongfu actually slept very lightly, and the slightest movement could wake him up.

Chen Yongfu quickly put on his armor under the service of the maid, and when he came out, there were already guards and generals waiting for him.

"Returning to the chief soldier, it was the sound of cannons at the North City Gate, and it is estimated that the thieves sent people to attack the North City at night."

One of Chen Yongfu's cronies reported to Chen Yongfu in a timely manner at this time.

"It turned out to be the North City Gate, this dog thief Li Zicheng is really cunning."

When Chen Yongfu heard the words of his cronies, he couldn't help but look north.

Chen Yongfu quickly led people to the mansion, and after a while, Gao Mingheng, Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue, Qi Wei and others also hurried over.

"Lord Chen, is it a night attack by thieves?" Yang Wenyue asked.

"Hmm."

Chen Yongfu nodded, looked at everyone, and said: "It was the North City Gate that was attacked, and it seems that the thieves have not attacked the North City Gate during the day, it is deliberate."

But rest assured, I didn't draw too many defenders from the northern wall during the day, and there were still 2,500 soldiers guarding there at this time.

And the person in charge of the defense of the north city gate is my clan brother Chen Huayuan, I believe that he will not let the thieves kill him so easily. ”

"Chief Chen, should we send a reinforcement to the North City Gate!" Gao Mingheng on the side spoke.

"Don't worry, wait a little longer, see if the Chen Huayuan faction sends someone to ask for help. If they send someone to ask for help, it means that there are a lot of thieves on their side, and the situation is serious, so they will send reinforcements at that time.

(End of chapter)