Chapter 1440
Li Chuang made both preparations.
Ying Yi's tyranny made him fearful, but the thieves were so poor that Kaifeng had to fight.
With a strong enemy at the side, according to Li Chuang's temperament, the first choice should be to run away. But after he has reached the current level and has stood at a considerable height, running away is a difficult choice. The key is the lack of materials. Once they run away, they must abandon most of the soldiers and horses and keep their cavalry simple.
This is not possible.
The higher you stand, the less likely you are to fall. Otherwise, the harder you fall, the harder it is to get up. Once he loses power here, no matter where he runs, the consequences are unpredictable.
As I said before, his reputation has been ruined, and it will be difficult to get him back.
Reputation this thing is false, but it is absolutely impossible to raise a flag to rebel without a reputation. A thief like him, when he was in Early-Stage, played the banner of the rebel army, and when his influence was small, it didn't matter if he messed around. Because most people in the world don't know whether he is good or bad.
And now the thieves are doing this in Central Plains, shaking the world, even the commoners, they all know that this guy is not a good thing.
This has always been the case, such as the Yellow Turbans, or the 'rebels' of other dynasties and generations, once their reputation is ruined and people see their true colors, they have already walked into a dead end.
To this extent, he cannot fall. If you don't fall, you can at least hold on to it, also variable. Once he fell, no one believed him, and he couldn't get up again.
First-hand preparation is to open the envelope. must fight.
Although I know a strong enemy is nearby, I still have to fight. After all, the number of wars cannot be determined. As long as there is a time difference and a space difference, there is a possibility of reversal. This is a fluke.
For Li Chuang, as long as they break through Kaifeng as quickly as possible, the situation may be improved.
Of course, he also knows that the chances of winning are really small. Therefore, it is necessary to make second-hand preparations - what to do if you can't beat it? run away.
That's all there is to it.
The Ming Army on the top of the city faced the swarms of thieves, and it was a little confusing at first. The overwhelming majority of Kaifeng's defenders are newly recruited young men. When Chen Yongfuce responded to Sun Chuanting, he took away almost all those with combat experience. Gao Mingheng had no choice but to raise a lot of young people and put silver as a reward as an incentive.
Fortunately, Kaifeng City has high walls and thick walls, and the thieves seem to be ferocious, but in fact it is difficult to hit the city head. Gao Mingheng is also a ruthless character. He is a governor, not afraid of arrows and stones, and runs around the city with silver. Gradually stabilize the situation.
There are thirty cannons at the head of Kaifeng City. When thieves come, they will bombard them first. Use solid bullets first, and hit the solid bullets far enough to reach within three-four hundred steps, then switch to shredding, and shoot out the shrapnel made of iron nails and rubble. blockbuster.
However, the thieves have been wandering for many years and have rich combat experience. Now that there is no vassal cannon fodder, the shield car is placed in front, and the thieves hide behind the shield car and slowly approach the city wall.
The current era is at a critical time for the replacement of hot and cold weapons. For example, in siege, generally speaking, equipment such as ladders and stairs are becoming more and more rare, and most of them are attacked under the city with gunpowder to blow down the city wall, and then directly hit it.
This is the most normal way to play.
In the past, thieves attacked the city by means of tricks - first bury some hidden pieces in the city, and then cooperate with the inside and the outside.
But Kaifeng is different.
It has been a year or two for the thief to open the seal, and such a small trick has long been useless.
Only attack.
And the attack at all costs——Kaifeng is a heavy city in the Central Plains, the height and thickness of the city wall are not much worse than that of the capital. One or two times, it is difficult to blow up the city wall. Only by pressing the same place multiple times to fry, will there be a chance to collapse the city wall.
But it is difficult.
The defending Ming Army impossible watched as the thieves madly bombed the same location.
The artillery roared and the smoke was steaming. When the thieves entered the city wall within a hundred paces, the top of the city cracked like a bean, and the guns opened fire. Intense.
There are also a lot of arrows mixed in between the fire guns.
5,000 thieves, according to the distance of seven or eight hundred steps, reached the city wall, and lost about 200-300 people. The role of artillery in this era on the battlefield is to deter more than kill.
The killing range of solid bullets is too narrow, and the penetrating power of shotguns is insufficient, shielded by shield vehicles, and cannot cause damage in pieces.
However, when the thieves get to the bottom of the city and form a certain elevation angle with the city head, the shield car's effect is not big. The Ming Army at the top of the city was condescending, shooting guns and arrows, and screaming in an instant.
But thieves don't just get beat and don't fight back. At this distance, standing under the city and using firearms and bows and arrows can also pose a threat to the Ming Army at the head of the city.
For a while you come and I shoot each other, and the natural city has more advantages. Although the Ming Army in the city is mostly new, there are thieves everywhere in the city, and there is no need to aim. If you hit a gun and just fire, you can always kill and injure one or two.
After a while, the thief couldn't take it anymore and retreated.
The ferocity of the thieves is well known, but the thieves' ability to attack and fight is extremely weak. A single thief fights fiercely and is much stronger than the Ming Army, but in a frontal battle, it is often difficult for a thief to persist for long.
The first batch of 5,000 thieves probably lost nearly 1,000 people, less than one-fifth, they couldn't bear it anymore. After this group of thieves went down, the thieves did not stop, and then 5,000 people were thrown into the battlefield.
One wave after another caused pressure on the city head.
Meanwhile, a thousand cavalry galloped out from each wing. 2,000 cavalry, of which at least fifty were carrying cloth bags.
The head of the city, Gao Mingheng, saw it clearly, and immediately ordered the fire gunmen to concentrate on the cavalry that came out of the two wings of the jet thief.
The gun flew past, and a thief blasted a hole in the forehead.
Warhorse's speed is extremely fast, and the distance of several hundred steps is only enough for one round of artillery and two or three shots of firearms. Most of the Ming Army at the top of the city were new recruits, with almost no accurate heads, and only caused less than 200 casualties to the thieves on the two flanks.
The thief cavalry arrived at the bottom of the city, and the thief carrying the cloth bag set it on fire, raised his arm and threw it to the city head mountain.
And Chengtoushan also fought back, throwing down things the size of the mouth of a bowl.
Boom, the city goes up and down, it explodes into pieces!
The Thief's Dynamite Pack has a number of seasonings added - like lime. The formidable power of the explosion was not strong, so it was supplemented with this thing of lime. Once it exploded, the lime rose up, and the city was suddenly full of coughs.
And what was left at the head of the city was a thousand enemies.
The so-called enemy of ten thousand people can be regarded as the hand grenade of this era. Or use a thin iron sheet or a crock pot, pour gunpowder, iron nails, iron pieces, ceramic tiles, etc., and after they are blasted, they will be shot in pieces, causing large-scale killing.
After the tens of thousands of enemies passed, another shrill cry rang out, and the flames fell down like meteorite fragments, causing bursts of explosions.
This is the rocket, or the God-fire Flying Crow.