Seeing this, Li Zicheng had no anger or joy on his face, and watched quietly.

He was thinking about the siege.

Kaifeng City has thick walls and many troops. If you want to break through, there are many difficulties.

Not to mention anything else, if the peasant army wanted to attack the city, it must first face a moat outside the city.

If a year ago, in the face of such a fortified city, unless there was an internal response or the official army was empty, Li Zicheng would not have thought about it.

The filling of the moat alone will cost me many brothers' lives.

But so far, for Li Zicheng, the most important thing is the troops. The thirteen-year drought in Chongzhen has pushed almost the bottom people of Henan to the brink of a dead end. It also provided Li Zicheng with an almost endless source of troops.

Li Zicheng's claim that there are 700,000 soldiers and horses is definitely false. But to say that there are tens of thousands of soldiers under his command is the minimum.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers from He Jin's department.

This burst of cheers even paid attention to Luo Rucai, who was looking at the situation on the platform.

Soon, a knight reported and explained to Luo Rucai: "It is the Hao Bridge built by King Chuang's subordinates!" ”

Hao Bridge is a special siege equipment used to fill trenches and moats. The length is subject to Hao, there are two big wheels in front of the bridge and two small wheels in the back, which are advanced into Hao, and the bridge is flat and crossable when the wheel sinks. If it is wide, then use a folding bridge, that is, connect the two bridges, and there is a hinge in the middle, and the usage is the same.

With this bridge, you can charge and kill it regardless of the obstruction of the trench.

At the same time, at the head of the city, Chen Yongfu, who rushed to hear the news, took his subordinates and stared closely at the city.

"Here we go again, look what it is! What a big guy, a straight thief, did he build such a powerful siege tower? ”

Chen De, the son of Chen Yongfu at the head of the city, couldn't help but be startled.

It turned out that Li Zicheng's subordinates actually built a Linchong Lu bus!

It is a five-story siege tower with eight wheels and a height of five floors. The lowest level is the soldiers who push the cart forward, and the other four layers are filled with siege soldiers. The history books upload that this Lu bus is about 12 meters high, 6 meters wide and 8 meters long.

The peasant army is obviously not so tall, but it is also worth the height of nearly two and a half zhang of Kaifeng City's eight meters!

This kind of rushing car can use its own height to directly hit the city ** from the car, and can also be used to approach the city wall, destroy the female wall (battlement wall), and directly attack the defenders on the city wall. In addition to being equipped with a variety of long weapons, the car can also be loaded with heavy weapons such as crossbows and stone cannons.

Sure enough, the counterattack of the official army at the head of the city suddenly became sharp. In just three hours, six Buddha machines were moved, and a whole afternoon passed, until the slow-moving Linchong Lu bus broke up when it was more than 50 steps away from the city wall, and the head of Kaifeng City cheered.

At this point, the sound of singing gold sounded in the peasant army.

The other peasant army of more than 3,000 ants carrying a ladder to attack the city also breathed a sigh of relief and retreated like a tide.

For a while, there was a strange silence on the battlefield.

The first battle did not have much success.

But when Luo Rucai went to Yan Li Zhai to see Li Zicheng, he saw that Li Zicheng looked very good, smiled quietly, and greeted him even more enthusiastically: "Brother Luo is here." ”

Luo Rucai saw Li Zicheng and said with envy: "The old brother has just created a big guy, which can be described as exciting, and it feels extraordinarily powerful." I just don't know if my brother is willing to give a hand to my poor relative and send a few bodies over. ”

"Hey, it is natural to be able to create it because of the hard work of the sons and daughters under him. Since Brother Luo has spoken, what is it worthwhile to give it? Wait for my order, Brother Luo just go and get four bodies to rush to the car. It's just that we didn't use these to break through the lockdown. Li Zicheng stared at the head of Kaifeng City and laughed.

Luo Rucai thought for a moment, and suddenly understood: "What the old brother said is true." Let's make a move, and those dog officials will be in a hurry. Even if it is transmitted to the Jingshi, it is enough for the emperor to be unable to hold his breath again! ”

"In Kaifeng City, the turtle king's eight shells, of course we have nothing to do. But in this flat field, hey...... I'm afraid that this group of dog officers will not bring troops! ”

……

Capital.

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

The court meeting began.

On Emperor Chongzhen's desk, stacks of Henan newspapers were piled up into a hill, especially the top few were puffed up, obviously read many times.

In the palace, the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhou Yanru, the second assistant, He Fengsheng, and Zhang Sizhi, a scholar of Wenhua Temple. Dongkaku University scholar Chen Yan and other cabinet elders stood quietly.

In addition, there is also Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, with a worried face, after listing a few people.

At this point, there is no one else in the six parts. As for the Zodiac Zhou of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, no one wants this straightforward old man to speak out on issues outside his profession.

Because, this is a court discussion about the war report in Henan.

Perhaps because the treasury was temporarily abundant, Emperor Chongzhen frowned, but his expression was much calmer than some time ago. I have money in my hands, and I don't panic in my heart.

The battle situation in Liaodong was so erosive that he gave up. Fortunately, before the autumn was high and the horse was fat, Jiannu was wreaking havoc outside Shanhaiguan, and it seemed that there was no spare strength to make trouble again.

Now, he has to deal with the civil unrest with all his might.

These days, Henan's recitals, the military department's discussions, and countless words and sounds converge into imaginary images that are constantly circulating in Chongzhen's mind. So much so that Chongzhen was so busy that he didn't have time to think about the addition of the cabinet.

Wei Zhaocheng was finally noticed by Chongzhen because of the affairs of the household department, and he lost the trust of the emperor. Soon, at the suggestion of Zhou Yanru, the official department impeached Wei Zhaocheng for being incompetent and deaf and unworthy of the position of minister.

Wei Zhaocheng wrote a book as usual to distinguish it, but found that the emperor impeached Buheng and sent the ministers to Mingfa. Soon, I heard that Wang Chengen had killed a eunuch named Chen Xian with a cane in the palace. At this point, Wei Zhaocheng understood that he was coming to an end, and suddenly turned to begging for bones again, saying goodbye to the old man and returning to his hometown, hoping to be decent.

It's a pity that the matter went against his wishes, after Emperor Chongzhen's Mingfa Buheng's recital, the officials of Kedao were impeached one after another, and some people even took out evidence related to Wei Zhaocheng's crime related to the right sentinel's rebellion in the country.

For this reason, Chongzhen was furious and sent Wei Zhao to prison, and ordered the three law divisions to deliberate and discuss the crime.

In this way, the scholar of Wuyingdian was also empty. It is said that if the scholars of Wuyingdian University are empty, the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion in the back can make up for it. But in fact, during a court meeting in early April, Xie Sheng, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, speculated in vain that Emperor Chongzhen had the intention of discussing and building slaves when he was discussing the current situation with Jin Zhijun, the squire of the military department, and Hu Shi'an, the young man of Zhan Shifu.

If Zhu Cihong hadn't crossed the original history, Emperor Chongzhen really had this idea. Otherwise, when Yang Sichang was there two years ago, he would not have advocated peace.

But now, because of the relationship between the prince leaving the palace and entering the household department, there are millions of taels of silver in the treasury, and Chongzhen has certainly extinguished the idea of seeking peace. Hearing Xie Sheng guessing so much and guessing wrong, he was naturally furious. Whether it is to prove that he does not want to make peace, or Xie Sheng is so vain in speculating that he has violated his resume, Xie Sheng will be punished. Not long after, Xie Sheng was cut off and returned to his hometown.