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Chapter 506 Is there anyone who is good at shooting?

Gao Mingheng was very concerned about the defense of Kaifeng City. He came to sit in the Ximen Tower early in the morning. He watched the bandits and hungry people outside the city busy building a ladder to attack the city, and removed the door panels inside and outside the Xiguan. When you get up, you will know that the bandits will attack the city today.

He ordered Huang Shu, the pusher of Kaifeng Mansion, to bring up boxes of silver, most of which were ten taels and a few ingots, and there were also a few boxes of 50 taels. Wait, but whoever wounds a thief will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, whoever kills a thief will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver, and whoever takes the head of a thief will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver."

The power of money is really infinite!

As the news continued to spread, there were bursts of cheers from the city walls, and the soldiers and civilians were all eager to try, wanting to kill the bandits, and even beheaded them in exchange for silver.

Wang Xie stood beside Gao Mingheng and said, "My lord, it seems that the thieves really want to attack Ximen's side."

Gao Mingheng nodded, which was consistent with everyone's previous guesses. Li Zicheng also felt that there was no urn on the Ximen side, and it was easy to attack. He only heard him say: "Wangzhi County, you lead a team of social soldiers to defend at the corners of the west and north walls. The city wall is slightly shorter than the other three sides, and the terrorists are attacking the north gate with all their strength, and if you stay there, both sides can support you."

Wang Xie hesitated a little, and said, "Then the defense on Ximen's side will be weak."

"It's okay. Cao Chengfeng and Li Changshi's [-] guards are stationed near the tower, ready to use at any time. You don't have to worry about me."

When Wang Xie heard the words, he led a group of social soldiers according to his order and went to the north gate.

At this moment, more than a dozen of the thieves outside the Xiguan formation galloped out on horseback. Each of them held a large flag in their hands, with the word "Chuang" on it, which was bright red and eye-catching.

They ran to a place within a hundred paces outside the city wall, rode their horses, and shouted loudly: "King Chuang told the soldiers and people in the city to tie up and detain the King of Zhou and the Fusan officials as soon as possible, and surrender the city quickly.

Chuang Wang's army is dedicated to saving the people, only killing corrupt officials and evil gentry, and not using knives on the people in the city.

Stubborn resistance in the corner is tantamount to suicide, quickly kidnap the officials, surrender the city, and the king of Chuang will have his own reward! "

These people are the loudest voices in the army, and they rode along the city wall, shouting loudly all the way.

Gao Mingheng looked at the contempt on their faces, he turned his head and said to Li Yingchun, the left chief of Zhou Palace, "Among His Royal Highness's guards, there are people who are good at shooting."

Of course Li Yingchun understood what he meant, and immediately turned around to order the guards not far away in a low voice. In a short while, more than a dozen guards in armor rushed out, chasing the dozen or so horse thieves along the city wall.

Those bandit soldiers outside the city didn't notice it, they still rode their horses and walked slowly under the city wall, shouting loudly the words of Chuang Wang Li Zicheng.

Gao Mingheng faintly heard the sound of bowstring vibrating a few times, and saw a cold light flash, and several arrows flew down from the city wall, and two horse thieves really rolled off their horses in response.

There were cheers on the city wall, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted. They happened to see that several horse thieves were also shot but did not fall off their horses. They rushed to snatch the fallen horse thieves back.

All of a sudden, the soldiers and civilians on the city wall raised their bows and arrows and shot at the bandit soldiers outside the city, but they still snatched back the corpses of the two bandit soldiers who were shot into hedgehogs.

"Reward, fast reward. Kill two thieves, each reward 30 taels; wound four thieves, each reward ten taels of silver."

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Before Li Zi set up the horse formation, he had a panoramic view of everything under the city wall, and said slightly angrily, "Zhang Nai, attack the city."

Zhang Nai rode his horse back to the main formation without making a sound, and within a short while, the bandit soldiers who formed the formation began to surge forward. They roared hoarsely, and drove thousands of hungry people slowly towards the city wall to the west of Kaifeng.

Li Zicheng saw that there seemed to be a few high-ranking officials and some armored sergeants on the west gate tower, and asked Song Xiance and others around him: "Military teacher, Mr. Li, you have known this Gao Mingheng before, what kind of man is he like?" people?"

Both of them said they didn't know this person, but Song Xiance didn't know about this person. He looked at Li Yan and motioned for him to speak.

Li Yan didn't shirk, just listened to him say: "I have never met Gao Mingheng, but I know a little about him. He was a Jinshi in the early years of Chongzhen. He started as a county magistrate. He has some skills. He helps the people and controls the water. Supervising all officials, strict political discipline, can also be regarded as loyal to duty, it is indeed one of the few officials in Ming Dynasty who dare to do things."

Li Zicheng didn't speak. He looked at the bandit soldiers rushing up like a tide and said, "Yesterday, the city wall on the north seems to be slightly lower than the other three sides, and the moat is also drier than the other three sides."

He turned his head and said again: "Shuangxi, go to the north and tell Uncle Erhu that he has to be more serious about attacking the city, not only to contain the guards at the north gate, but also to seize the opportunity and try to break into the city."

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Liu Chengzu was originally a middle-class family in Nanliujiaji, Zhongmou County. When the bandits crossed the border, he failed to escape, and was coerced to Kaifeng city together with all the people.

Fortunately, the thieves were not as brutal as before. Useless old and weak women and children were all abandoned, and only slightly stronger men were brought with them to serve as servants in the army, and they were not full.

Now that Li Zicheng had the ambition to conquer the world, he began to gradually win over the hearts of the people and cultivate his popularity. Although he still grabbed everything at the border crossings, the old and weak would also leave some rations to survive.

And the coerced people can more or less eat half full. After all, Lao Li is not a landlord who is short of money and food. Now he is almost the richest landlord in Henan.

Because of this, Liu Chengzu did not have to be separated from his family. Now his wife is bringing a 12-year-old son and a [-]-year-old daughter, and an old servant in the family is also kidnapped.

Liu Chengzu, who was originally a family of poets and books, had dozens of hectares of land in his family. His ancestors were the largest landlords in Liujiaji, but he was involved in a lawsuit in his father's generation.

The reason is also very simple. One of his father's concubines died violently at home, but there was an uncle in his natal family who was a gangster in Zhongmou County. Lethal form.

The county government didn't ask indiscriminately to come in and take people. Liu Chengzu was young and inexperienced at that time, and when he blocked him, he pushed and injured two yamen servants, and the situation got out of hand.

In the end, he sold the property of Zhongtian and spent a lot of money to settle the matter and save the old father from being imprisoned, but there was only less than a hundred acres of land left in the family.

His old father was also tortured terribly in prison, coupled with the fact that he was wronged because of this incident, he had nowhere to vent his anger, and he fell ill and died of depression. Within a few years, his mother also became ill because of missing his father. Passed away.

Liu Chengzu hated corrupt officials, and originally hoped that the rogues would kill him to avenge himself, but now he hated the rogues and Li Zicheng, the Chuang Wang.

He yelled in his heart: "What's the 'chuang king's coming and no food'? The thieves have robbed them all, so what's the food? Not only robbing food, the rogues even rob people. How can this be 'only kill officials, don't hurt'?" civil'?"

The old servant Uncle Wu bumped him lightly, and said: "My lord, you will be behind me later, you must not run around, the young lady and the children are still counting on you!"

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