Chapter 591 Hit a Nail (Part 1)
Li Guodong's words made Li Yan think of something that Li Yan had already thought of was simply unable to say. Li Guodong did not denounce the people for rebelling righteously, but said that it was understandable that officials forced the people to rebel. Moreover, he also wanted to change this evil system, but he had no hope for Li Zicheng at all, and he turned around to win over Li Yan.
"Wuweibo, I hope you can think carefully. The students observe the scale of your camp, but it can accommodate more than 30,000 people, but the King of Chuang has a million troops. The students know that Bo Ye, you are upright and hate evil. They just hope that you will not be buried with the King of Zhou and the court for the sake of this court. How can your 30,000 people resist the King of Chuang? "Li Yan's last persuasion seemed pale and powerless.
Li Guodong laughed: "Million-million Army? If the King of Chuang really wants to turn against Li, Li will not be afraid! He is coming to attack Uncle Ben, then let him come over!"
"Brother, the student will say goodbye." Li Yan bowed.
"Mr. Li, go slowly! When will I come in the future? The gate of my Jinyang Army will be open to you at any time!" Li Guodong stood up, "Come, send Mr. Li out of the camp!"
Li Yan left Li Guodong's camp and returned to the camp of the rebel army. He reported to Li Zicheng about his mission.
"What? Say you have no ambitions? Say you have no ability?" Li Zicheng's bull eyes were wider than the bronze bell. "This man is simply too bullying! There are millions of troops! After a few days, when the millions of troops arrive, he will take down his Li Laoer's camp first! Let him know who is more capable!"
Three days later, on February 13, the 14th year of Chongzhen, more than 500,000 Li Zicheng's follow-up troops arrived, and Luo Rucai's army was also accompanied by more than 200,000 troops.
There were more than 700,000 rebels, known as one million, and their momentum was huge, surrounding Kaifeng City into an iron barrel.
Luo Rucai was originally following Zhang Xianzhong. Some time ago, because he was disagreeing with Zhang Xianzhong, he left Sichuan and Shaanxi, entered Henan, and defected to Li Zicheng, which made Li Zicheng's troops truly reach more than one million. Before, Li Zicheng claimed to be more than one million, but in fact only more than six hundred thousand, of which more than 30,000 were truly able to fight, and the rest were refugee cannon fodder.
"Hahaha! The million-dollar army has arrived. Today I will teach you a lesson for the guy who is ignorant of the sky and earth in the north of the city!" Li Zicheng pointed to Li Guodong's camp in the north of the city and shouted.
Luo Rucai advised: "King Chuang, Li Guodong has kindness to us, and the king must not repay his grudges with grudges."
"This thief is too bullying. I ordered Li Yan to persuade him to surrender. Not only did he not appreciate it, he even scolded him for being unaware of his ambitions and being petty, and said that he was mediocre and incompetent!" Li Zicheng said angrily.
Niu Jinxing echoed Li Zicheng: "The king is right. The reason why such a person refuses to join you is because he has not hurt him. As long as he is afraid of being beaten, he will know who is more capable! At that time, he will be willing to follow you."
In Li Guodong's camp, the cavalry did not stop at night and reported to him the news that Li Zicheng's army and Luo Rucai, who had just joined Li Zicheng, had already reported to him the news that Li Zicheng had led his troops. However, Li Guodong did not expect that Li Zicheng would turn against him as soon as he came up. After thinking for a moment, he understood: "It turns out that the thief was unable to persuade him to surrender. I was scolded by me and was angry! OK! The thief army is coming, it's coming! If you don't let Li Zicheng hit a nail, you won't know Li's strength!"
The rebel army launched the first round of tentative attacks on the Jinyang army. The one who was responsible for the attack was the 50,000 refugees from the rebel army, followed by 5,000 elite veteran soldiers. Li Zicheng's style of fighting was to break a hole in the Ming army's camp, and more than 100,000 refugees would pour into the camp.
More than 20,000 engineers were stationed in the fortress. Li Guodong stood on a watchtower on the river bank, picked up a monocular telescope, and looked at the formation of the thieves in front of him. On the endless plain, there were large waves of smoke and dust rising from the southwest direction, and the red headscarves were densely filled with people. The crowds of people poured out into the sky, endlessly stretching to the sky.
"Kill the official dog! Kill the official dog!" A refugee like a crowd of people rushed over and shouted slogans.
The bandit army rushed to Li Guodong's camp and was only one mile away. The hard land in front suddenly disappeared, leaving only a narrow road entering, and the rest was muddy.
Many cannon fodders broke into the mud, and the refugees ran deeper and shallowly in the mud, but the people in front ran not far away and heard screams. Some people fell into the mud, and the more they struggled, the deeper they fell. The people around tried to pull them up, but they also brought themselves into the mud. Some people stepped on the bamboo knife in the mud, and the soles of their feet were penetrated. They sat in the mud, hugged their feet and made heart-wrenching screams.
"I can't get through the mud!" I found that there were organic traps in the mud, and no one dared to pass through the mud again.
Thousands of troops could only crowd through a small road. A path blocked by solid walls on both sides was suddenly filled with people. People could not even turn around. The people behind pushed the people in front and pushed forward little by little.
"Fire the cannon!" He Xing yelled.
Two roars of gunpowder swelling in the camp, "Boom" two twelve-pound field cannons spewed out flames, and two shells dragged white smoke and smashed into the passage with a width of only one meter.
Two shells smashed into the passage side by side, and a bloody storm suddenly rolled up. After the two shells penetrated more than ten bodies, the trajectory of the shells changed. They tilted to the side, and with splashed blood, they hit the hard wall. The shells bounced out again and continued to advance in the crowd. Wherever they passed, the body was broken, the arms and thighs were broken, and the blood mist sprayed wildly, and they screamed in a row. The two shells almost penetrated the formation of the army, taking more than a hundred lives, and then they lost their kinetic energy.
Seeing the passage turning into a bloody killing field, the refugees who acted as cannon fodder were scared. Although these refugees were afraid of death for a meal, they had never seen two shells that could cause such heavy losses. Many refugees were already scared and retreated, but were blocked by the people behind and could not move forward or retreat.
Two more shells roared and penetrated the road again, running from beginning to end, pulling out two crooked blood marks.
"Run over! The cannon of Guan Gouzi didn't have time to load it!" The old camp soldiers who were pressing the formation behind shouted.
The refugees took advantage of the Ming army's opportunity to load shells and rushed through the passage and entered a wide area ahead.
At this moment, two roars of artillery fire sounded in the Ming army camp. Two shells pulled a higher arc and flew out of the camp. The shells exploded in mid-air, and countless iron beads flew out of the shells, scattered among the refugees like rain. The people in front fell down one after another, and the blood mist sprayed on their bodies bloomed in the air.
Two twelve-pound howitzers shot overturned nearly a hundred trespassers in one round.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of cannons sounded above the fortress on both wings. The three-pound cannons and six-pound cannons sprayed out countless tiny shotguns, and fell into the crowd like rain. The refugees in front broke through blood holes with blue smoke, their bodies trembled, and fell into a pool of blood.
"Tiger squat cannon, turtle dove foot gun, prepare!" The officers of the general flags of the Engineers shouted.
"Prepare to ignite the fire!" The small flag officer in the fort opened the tinder pot, and the soldiers took off the fuse from their necks, came to the tinder pot, and lit the fuse.
The soldiers then clamped the fuse to the hook of the turtledog-footed gun, extended the gun from the fort shooting hole, and aimed at the rushing refugees.
"Let me go!" The little flag officer roared.
Chapter completed!