508 bombed the city and withdrew

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"General, Han Tong pleaded guilty."

Han Tong led his troops to the gate of Ruzhou City, and when he saw Li Zixiao personally greeting him, he dismounted directly and came to Li Zixiao, knelt down on one knee and said.

"Get up and speak." Li Zixiao picked up Han Tong and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Han Tong said with a look of regret: "General, although we intercepted it halfway, Song Xiance was a dog thief who fled in defeat.

But they couldn't kill it successfully, and those thieves died one by one, swearing to protect Song Xiance to the death, so that we couldn't get close.

However, during the battle, Song Xiance's dog thief was shot by my short gun, his life and death were unknown, and he was finally taken away by other thieves.

I led the men to chase for a day and a night, but I lost the chase and returned.

The Song thief was shot by me and passed out at that time, and I don't think it is very likely that he will survive. ”

After listening to Han Tong's words, Li Zixiao nodded slightly and said, "Well, even if Song Xiance's dog thief has a big life, you can just come back." ”

In the next few days, Li Zixiao did not order the White Dragon Army to have a new operation, but ordered the team to be reorganized, let the soldiers rest, and at the same time ordered the recruitment of new soldiers.

On the other side, Song Xiance was shot by Han Tong with a short gun, his life and death were unknown, and his personal guards protected the seriously injured Song Xiance and fled all the way.

And after being chased by Han Tong for a day and a night, Song Xiance had only three guards left around him, and they hid in a dry well in a village to escape Han Tong's pursuit.

And the news of Song Xiance's defeat only reached Xingyang a few days later.

At this time, it was Liu Fangliang, the general who sat in Xingyang for Li Zicheng, and Liu Fangliang was also pale with fright after receiving the news that Song Xiance was defeated and his whereabouts were unknown.

Liu Fangliang looked at a group of loyal thieves who fled all the way to Xingyang in embarrassment and reported the news for Liu Fangliang, and knew that most of this matter was true.

"If Song Xiance is really defeated, then the matter will be big, I have to send someone to inform King Chuang quickly!"

Liu Fangliang knew that the matter was serious, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately sent a fast horse to send the news to Kaifeng, because at this time Li Zicheng was leading the army to attack and open the blockade.

It's been five days since the battle of the Mt. Gui.

"Kill!"

At this time, outside the city of Kaifeng, the shouts of killing shook the sky, the cannon roared, and it was being attacked by Li Zicheng's army, which was extremely tragic.

Li Zicheng led the army all the way, but he hit a nail under Kaifeng City.

This is the third day of Li Zicheng's attack on Kaifeng, but they have not even attacked the head of the city at this time, and the defenders in Kaifeng have resisted extremely stubbornly.

However, Li Zicheng was not in a hurry, and he did not expect to capture the most prosperous city in the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time.

Just looking at the city wall dozens of meters high and the moat more than 20 meters wide, Li Zicheng knew that if he wanted to capture Kaifeng, it would take a lot of time and cost.

After all, it took more than half a month for Li Zicheng to capture Xi'an before, and it was more difficult to conquer Kaifeng, and it would inevitably take some time.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng had sufficient troops in his hands, and from the beginning of the attack to the present, for three consecutive days, his thieves were divided into more than a dozen waves of troops, relaying the attack, and did not give the defenders in the city a chance to rest and recuperate.

Even, after Li Zicheng fought with the White Dragon Army, he became more aware of the power of gunpowder.

In this attack on Kaifeng, he ordered his thieves to collect a large amount of gunpowder, dug more than ten holes under Kaifeng City, filled tens of thousands of catties of medicine, and tried to blow up Kaifeng City.

"King Qiyu, we have dug thirteen deep pits under the west wall of Kaifeng City, filled all the gunpowder collected into it, and we are here to ask for help, do you want to blow up the city?"

Li Zixiao's general Gao Yigong came to ask Li Zicheng for his life at this time.

"Okay, blow up the city immediately, once the city wall is blown up, let Li Guo lead the people to kill into the city immediately, but whoever stands in the way will be killed!"

Li Zicheng shouted excitedly.

He had seen with his own eyes the power of weapons such as the White Dragon Army's artillery and iron-clad mines, and he also knew that they were filled with gunpowder.

In Li Zicheng's view, the White Dragon Army's iron-shelled thunder was so big that it could explode with such terrifying power, and now he had collected tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder.

Every deep hole dug under the Kaifeng city is filled with thousands of catties of gunpowder, which is enough to easily blow up the Kaifeng city wall, once the Kaifeng city wall is broken, Kaifeng has already arrived.

After all, the reason why the officials and troops in Kaifeng City were able to hold Kaifeng mainly relied on the tall and sturdy city walls of Kaifeng City.

"Obey the king's orders." After Gao Yigong got Li Zicheng's order, he also left excitedly.

Soon, three huge explosions sounded under the city of Kaifeng, and the entire west city wall of Kaifeng was shaken.

Thundered!

"What's going on?"

On the city wall of Kaifeng, Gao Mingheng, the governor who personally went to the city to command the city, held on to the Ru wall at this time, felt the violent vibration, and asked the Ming general next to him with some uneasiness.

"Such a big movement, Lord Governor, it must be the thieves digging holes in the ground and trying to blow up the city walls." A general spoke.

"What? Dig a hole and blow up the city, you must not let the thieves blow up the city wall, otherwise Kaifeng will not be able to defend it. ”

When Governor Gao Mingheng heard this, he was anxious on the spot, and said with some panic.

"Don't worry, my lord, the thief's move is useless, the bottom of the Kaifeng city wall is ten steps (about thirteen meters), the thief wants to blow up the Kaifeng city wall, it's a fool's dream."

The Ming general obviously had disdain on his face, and said to Gao Mingheng, obviously not thinking that Li Zicheng's thief army would be able to blow up the Kaifeng city wall.

Sure enough, soon a soldier came over to report that the city wall had not been blown up, which also made Gao Mingheng breathe a sigh of relief.

"What's going on? Why didn't the walls fall? ”

Li Zicheng stayed a few miles outside the city, and after hearing a few loud explosions, he was also excited, but then he found that the Kaifeng city wall had not collapsed.

"Report, Qi Yu Chuang Wang, General Gao lit three gunpowders, but failed to blow up the city wall." A thief soldier quickly ran to Li Zicheng and reported.

"It didn't even explode, and the herald ordered him to ignite all the gunpowder in the cave, and he must blow up the city wall." Li Zicheng shouted hysterically.

Thundered!

It didn't take long for the west city wall of Kaifeng to sound several violent explosions one after another, and the smoke and dust were all over the sky, but the city wall of Kaifeng was still standing.

There were only a few cracks on the city walls, but it was not enough for the walls to collapse.

Kaifeng City did not explode, but it was Li Zicheng's thief soldiers, because of the operation error, the explosion caused many thieves to be injured, thwarting the offensive spirit of those thieves.

This is really in response to that sentence, stealing chickens is not a recipe for rice.

"How so? Why was the Kaifeng city wall not blown up! After Li Zicheng got the news, his face turned blue and ugly, and he roared angrily.

It's a pity that no one can answer him why, even the military bull Venus on the side is silent at this time.

If Li Zixiao is here now, he will definitely answer Li Zicheng's doubts, who let Li Zicheng collect the gunpowder, which is just old-style black powder, and the power is really average.

The gunpowder used by the White Dragon Army now is all under the guidance of Li Zixiao, and Wu Yao researched and configured the new gunpowder formula, which makes the gunpowder formula more reasonable and more powerful.

In fact, at this time, even if Li Zixiao attacked Kaifeng and used the gunpowder of the White Dragon Army, it would be impossible to blow up such a strong city wall in Kaifeng.

Kaifeng city wall is not other county seats, those county city walls that have been in disrepair for a long time, at this time the Kaifeng city wall of the Ming Dynasty, is second only to the capital and Jinling city wall!

Historically, when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, he also used gunpowder to blow up the city, but unfortunately it also failed.

This era is still the era of black powder, and it is difficult to blow up a strong castle.

Counting the high explosives that appeared in later generations, if you want to blow up a strong fortress, they have a lot of weight, and the black powder at this time is far less powerful than the high explosives of later generations.

In fact, at this time, there were many artillery pieces captured from the Ming army in Li Zicheng's army, and although many of the artillery pieces were old, the caliber was not small and the power was huge.

But the shells fired by these artillery shells bombarded the Kaifeng city wall, leaving only a black trace, and had no other effect.

Li Zicheng also failed to bombard the Kaifeng city wall with artillery, and turned to digging holes and filling gunpowder to blow up the city, but unfortunately it also failed.

If you want to blast through a strong city like Kaifeng City, you must at least need mortars with a caliber of more than 300 mm.

Like the artillery in Li Zicheng's hand at this time, the bombardment of the Kaifeng city wall at this time is no different from tickling.

You must know that the city walls of heavy cities like Kaifeng still played a huge role in resisting the attacks of the little devils during the Anti-Japanese War in later generations.

Even if the little devil wants to blow up the Kaifeng city wall, he has to take a lot of means.

At that time, in the hands of the little devils, whether it was gunpowder or artillery, they were too far ahead of the era of the late Ming Dynasty.

Soon, Gao Yigong looked depressed and came back to report to Li Zicheng: "King Qiyu, the plan has failed, the Kaifeng city wall is too strong, so it can't be exploded." ”

"Hey, forget it, since you can't blow up the Kaifeng city wall, you can only storm it, you go back and lead the army to continue the strong attack and replace Liu Zongmin."

At this time, Li Zicheng also calmed down, sighed helplessly, and said to Gao Yigong.

Although the plan to blow up the city wall failed, this did not affect Li Zicheng's determination to capture Kaifeng, and ordered Gao Yi's power department to replace Liu Zongmin, who had been attacking for a day, and continue to storm Kaifeng.

At this time, Li Zicheng had nearly 80,000 thieves in his hands, in addition to the men and horses who stayed in Xingyang and Zhengzhou, Li Zicheng brought 60,000 people to Kaifeng City.

In Kaifeng City, the defenders were less than 10,000 people, but fortunately, there was Governor Gao Mingheng in Kaifeng, which was properly deployed, and the general soldier Chen Yongfu also galloped to Kaifeng overnight at this time.

In addition, Henan is the place where the Zhu Ming Dynasty was established, and there are a total of seven kings here, and the wealth of the clan is concentrated, which can be described as rich in the world.

Fu King Zhu Changxun was in Luoyang, and Zhou King Zhu Gongxun lived in Kaifeng, and the two acted very differently in wartime, although they could not influence the situation of the war, but to a certain extent, they determined their own fate.

Fu Wang Zhu Changxun was arrogant, lascivious, and easy, and in the face of the thief army attacking Xi'an, he was reluctant to take out a tael of silver, and the soldiers who defended the city were not well paid, and they were not hungry, so how could they defend the city with all their might.

As a result, Xi'an was finally broken by thieves, and Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, also achieved a famous banquet 'Fulu Banquet'.

And Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou in Kaifeng, is much smarter than Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu.

On the day when the thieves came to the city, he did not hesitate to use his family property, "ordered the people to reward fifty taels of silver for those who can kill a thief, thirty taels for those who can shoot a thief, and ten taels for those who shoot and wound a thief, or those who are wounded by bricks and stones."

This move really worked, the people in Kaifeng City, each with a crossbow and a knife to the city for a while, another Zhou Wangfu Ding 800, also climbed the west city to guard.

It is precisely because of this that Kaifeng City was able to resist, and as soon as the army of thieves came up, it launched a fierce attack.

"Report, Qi Yu Chuang Wang, a hundred miles sent by Xingyang is urgent!"

And at this time, a thief rushed to Li Zicheng, knelt down and shouted.

"Xingyang's 100 miles are urgent, what the hell is Liu Fangliang doing? What else can he do on his side? Li Zicheng frowned and said.

"I'm afraid there is really something important, otherwise Liu Fangliang would not have used Baili Express without authorization."

Niu Jinxing was also puzzled in his heart, although he didn't guess what it was that could make Liu Fangliang in Xingyang so eager and use a hundred miles to hurry.

At this time, Niu Jinxing had already walked over and received a sealed letter from the thief's hand.

Li Zicheng took the letter handed over by Niu Jinxing, opened it and looked at it.

"What? That's impossible! As a result, a moment later, Li Zixiao stood up abruptly and roared angrily.

Because, it was really difficult for him to accept what Liu Fangliang reported in the letter.

It was Song Xiance's fiasco, the 50,000-strong army was lost in a battle, and even Song Xiance himself was missing, and his life and death were uncertain.

"King Chuang, what's wrong?" Li Zicheng's reaction made Niu Jinxing's heart skip a beat, and he asked.

But at this time, Li Zicheng ignored Niu Jinxing's inquiry, but the whole person was silent, standing there and thinking about something, the whole person was like a volcano that was about to erupt at any time.

After a moment, Li Zicheng raised his head suddenly, anger and strong killing intent flashing in his eyes.

He shouted coldly: "Summons Gao Yigong, Li Zongmin and Li Guo, let them immediately stop the attack and lead people to withdraw."

Summons the whole army, pack your bags, and prepare to withdraw! ”

In the end, Li Zicheng still chose to believe in Liu Fangliang, who was his henchman general.

Li Zicheng believed that if it weren't for Liu Fangliang who really confirmed the news of Song Xiance's defeat, it was unlikely that he would have sent someone to deliver the letter at this time.

Li Zicheng's sudden shouting of the withdrawal order made the generals of the thief army, including Niu Jinxing, feel puzzled.

At the same time, Niu Jinxing's eyes stared directly at the letter in Li Zicheng's hand, he knew that something big must have happened, otherwise Li Zicheng would never give the order to withdraw the army.

"King Chuang, what's wrong? Why the sudden withdrawal of troops? We finally hit Kaifeng City. Niu Jinxing asked again.

"Why do you want to withdraw the army, if we don't withdraw the army, our back road will be cut off, and if we can't beat Kaifeng City, we will become a turtle in an urn, and we will be allowed to eat mermaids."

Li Zicheng's tone was full of anger, and he said angrily, and at the same time threw the letter in his hand to Niu Jinxing, and then left in stride.

And after Niu Jinxing picked up the letter and read it, he was also incredulous, and said in a low voice: "How is this possible!" ”

(End of chapter)