Li Chuang made preparations.

Ying Yi's power made him afraid, but the thief was poor and Kaifeng had to fight.

With a strong enemy on the side, according to Li Chuang's temperament, the first choice should be to run away. But after he reached this level and stood at a considerable height, running away was a difficult choice. The key is that there is a shortage of materials. Once he ran away, he must abandon most of the troops and horses and keep the light cavalry simple.

This is not possible.

The higher he stands, the less he dares to fall. Otherwise, the harder he falls, the harder he will get up. Once he loses his power here, no matter where he runs, the consequences will be unpredictable.

As I said before, his reputation is broken, and it will be difficult to recover.

Fame is a false thing, but it is absolutely impossible to raise a flag to rebel without a reputation. In the early days, thieves like him, when they were under the banner of the rebel army, they didn't care about making random things. Because most people in the world don't know whether they are good or bad.

Now that the thief is doing this in the Central Plains, it has shocked the world. Even the people of the country know that this guy is not a good thing.

This has always been the case. For example, whether it is the Yellow Turban or the "rebels" of other dynasties and generations, once they lose their reputation and make people see their true faces, they have already reached a dead end.

At this level, he cannot fall. At least he can persist if he doesn't fall, and there are still variables. Once he falls and no one believes him anymore, he will never get up again.

The first preparation is to open the seal. You must hit it.

Even though you know that a strong enemy is on the verge of your own, you still have to fight. In the end, you can't say the fixed number. As long as there is a time difference and a space difference, there is a possibility of reversal. This is a kind of luck.

For Li Chuang, as long as he breaks through Kaifeng as quickly as possible, the situation may be improved.

Of course, he also knew that the winning chance was not big. Therefore, he had to make second-hand preparations - what should I do if I couldn't fight? Run away.

That's all.

The Ming army on the top of the city was a little confused at first when facing the thieves who were swarming in. Most of the defenders in Kaifeng are newly recruited young and strong. Chen Yongfu took almost all those who had combat experience when he helped Sun Chuanting. Gao Mingheng had no choice but to recruit more young and strong young and strong, and hang silver as a reward to encourage him.

Fortunately, Kaifeng City has high walls and thieves seem fierce, but it is actually difficult to hit the city. Gao Mingheng is also a tough character, but he is not afraid of arrows and stones, running around the city with silver. He gradually stabilizes the situation.

There are thirty cannons at the head of Kaifeng City. When the thief comes, they will first bomb with guns. First use solid bullets. The solid bullets will hit farther. Within three or four hundred steps, they will be replaced with scattered pieces and smashed out a bag of shotguns made of iron nails and gravel. If there is no defensive means, a large area will be swept away.

However, the thieves have been wandering for many years and have rich combat experience. Now there is no cannon fodder, so they put the shield chariot in front. The bandit soldiers hid behind the shield chariot and slowly moved closer to the city wall.

In this era, it is at the critical moment of replacing hot and cold weapons. For example, siege, generally speaking, equipment such as ladders and tower cars are becoming increasingly rare. Most of them kill under the city and smash the city wall with gunpowder, and then directly kill in.

This is the most normal way of playing.

In history, thieves attacked cities, they often used tricks to take advantage of - first bury some secrets in the city, and then cooperate with the inside and outside.

But Kaifeng is different.

The thief opened the block and fought for a year or two, and such small methods have long been useless.

Only attack hard.

Moreover, the strong attack without hesitation - Kaifeng, as a heavy city in the Central Plains, is not much different from that of the capital, not only when it is said that the height and thickness of the city wall are as good as the capital. Once or twice, it is difficult to blow up the city wall. Only by pressing the same place multiple times can you have the chance to blow up the city wall.

But this is difficult.

The Ming army, who was defending, could not watch the thieves explode in the same position.

The cannons roared and the smoke evaporated. When the thief entered the city wall within a hundred steps, the city was like beans slashing and the muskets fired, and the smoke brought by the rows of guns was stronger than that of the cannons.

There are also many arrows mixed between the muskets.

Five thousand thieves, at a distance of seven or eight hundred steps, lost about two or three hundred people under the city wall. The role of artillery in this era on the battlefield is greater than that of killing.

The killing range of solid bullets is too narrow, and the penetration power of the shotgun is insufficient. It is blocked by a shield car, so it cannot cause fragmented damage.

However, after the bandits arrived at the city and formed a certain elevation angle with the city head, the shield cart would not be effective. The Ming army at the city headed down from a high place, fired guns and shot arrows, and screamed in an instant.

But the bandits did not just be beaten and did not fight back. At this distance, standing at the city and using muskets and bows can also pose a threat to the Ming army on the top of the city.

For a time, when you shoot back and forth, the city naturally has more advantages. Although most Ming troops on the city are newcomers, there are thieves everywhere in the city, and there is no need to aim. When you hit a gun and just fire, you can always kill and injure one or two.

After a while, the thief couldn't stand it and retreated.

The brute force of the bride is well known, but the bride's ability to attack and fighting will are extremely weak. A single bride is much stronger than the Ming army, but on the front battlefield, it is often difficult for the bride to last for a long time.

The first batch of 5,000 thieves lost nearly a thousand people, and less than one-fifth of them could not bear it anymore. When these thieves went down, the thieves kept throwing the thieves into the battlefield.

Wave after wave puts pressure on the city wall.

At the same time, a team of one thousand horses on each wing were galloping out. Two thousand horses, at least fifty of whom were carrying cloth bags.

Gao Mingheng saw it clearly at the front of the city and immediately ordered the musketeers to gather the horse team that came out of the two wings of the thief.

The gun flew past, and a thief exploded a hole in his forehead. Without a sound, he fell off his horse and was stepped into a meat paste.

The speed of the war horses was extremely fast, with a distance of several hundred steps, only enough for one round of cannons and two or three shots of muskets. Most of the Ming troops on the front of the city were new soldiers, with almost no accurate heads, and only caused less than two hundred casualties to the thieves on both wings.

The bandits arrived at the city, and the bandits carrying cloth bags ignited the cloth bags and swung their arms to throw them to the top of the city.

Chengtoushan also fought back and threw down the bowl-sized things.

Rumble, the city is blown up and down, and it is blown up!

The thief's explosive pack has added many seasonings - such as lime. The explosion is not powerful, so it is supplemented with lime. Once it explodes, the lime rises, and the city suddenly bursts out.

And what is thrown off the city is the enemy of ten thousand people.

The so-called enemy of thousands can be regarded as grenades of this era. They may be filled with thin iron sheets or clay pots, infused with gunpowder, iron nails, iron sheets, porcelain tiles, etc., and then exploded and flew into pieces, causing large-scale damage.

After ten thousand people were fighting, a sharp chirping sounded again, and the flames fell like meteorite fragments, causing explosions.
Chapter completed!