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Chapter 519 Your Excellency... Rescue Comes

"...rescue...my lord...rescue is here..."

Upstairs in the west gate of Kaifeng City, inspector Gao Mingheng had just finished discussing with the pusher Huang Shu about the hanging tower, when he saw Li Guangxun from Ximen Headquarters and Wang Xie, magistrate of Xiangfu County rushing into the tower, and said hastily.

"reinforcement?"

Gao Mingheng asked eagerly with a surprised expression: "You mean rescue soldiers?"

Wang Xie still couldn't hide the excitement on his face. He reported excitedly: "My lord, a group of troops has arrived from the northwest of the city. The army is well-organized. There are hundreds of chariots in the river, and they have already fought with the bandits. .”

Gao Mingheng's eyes lit up, and he also asked excitedly: "Did you see the flag, did Xuanzhen Zhang Cheng's troops arrive?"

Wang Xie turned his head and glanced at Li Guangxun before replying: "Looking at the banner and the appearance of the army, it must be the army horse of General Zhang of Xuan Town!"

Gao Mingheng also excitedly said after hearing the words: "Go, go and have a look!"

All the officials followed him and left the West Gate Tower. On the city wall, they met Cao Kun, the minister of Zhou Wangfu, and Li Yingchun, Zuo Changshi, who rushed over on the city wall. They also came after hearing the news.

Cao Kun asked head-on: "Master Gao, but did Zhang Cheng lead the army to rescue Kaifeng?"

"I just got the news, and I'm waiting to take a closer look. How about going with Cao Chengfeng?"

"Okay, it is precisely to go with Mr. Gao to find out the truth, so that we can play His Royal Highness and make Qiantui feel at ease."

At that moment, Gao Mingheng, Cao Kun and other city guard officials, surrounded by all the officials and soldiers, went north along the Kaifeng West City Wall.

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Crockpot and the two thieves of Dougu were originally a group of giant bandits who were active in Sichuan and Shaanxi all the year round. They did not take Li Zicheng seriously in their early years. Get tough.

Later, I saw that Li Zicheng had flourished after entering Henan. In order to keep his team alive, he pulled his team all the way to King Chuang.

Its original intention is still the old idea of ​​holding a group to keep warm when the thieves are in trouble, and Li Zicheng has just recovered at this time, at the beginning of gathering troops, and at the time of employing people, they still seem to be harmonious on the surface.

But since they joined forces with King Chuang, Crock Pot and Yidougu have gradually regretted it. Now that more and more bandits have joined the camp, the two of them are no longer valued as much as they were at the beginning.

And everyone is centered on the generals of King Chuang's old camp, and there is a vague meaning of respecting King Chuang as the lord of the thieves. How can a master like Crock who is used to talking about it be able to bear it, even if he doesn't usually say it? What, but how can you not have some thoughts in your heart.

What's more, how can a thief like him who has been on the edge of life and death all year round not understand the benefits and necessity of preserving his strength?
Since he moved his camp to the north of Kaifeng City, Wakanzi has not been able to attack the city with all his strength. He has kept more than 400 core horse thieves under his command in the camp, and dispatched [-] people to supervise the battle every day, but he did not directly participate in the attack on the northern city wall of Kaifeng.

Counting from yesterday's trench filling to today's noon, about half of the less than [-] hungry people on his side were killed or injured, and the other [-] non-core old thieves also died or injured nearly [-] people.

This made him very distressed. Seeing the horrific casualties among the thieves under his command, he even began to secretly hate Li Zicheng for wanting to take advantage of the siege to consume his strength so that he could quietly eat him in the days to come.

He who just wanted to hang out with King Li Chuang and reap benefits has gradually started to retreat, but there is no reason or excuse for a while, how can he really attack the city with such thoughts.

Maybe a fool has a fool!

It was Wakanzi who did not sincerely help Li Zicheng attack and open the North Gate of Fengbei, so that there were a lot of bandits in his camp, and Chen Dakuan's army was discovered before they launched an attack.

The thieves guarding the camp flew to report to the crock pot, and his reaction was also amazing. He immediately abandoned the hungry people at the root of the city, and the four hundred old thieves who led the battle rushed back to the camp to rescue them.

And leave a leader to call the remaining more than 1000 infantry thieves, and immediately return to the rescue camp to repel the officers and soldiers.

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When Chen Dakuan formed his team in the north of the bandit camp, he was discovered by the bandit soldiers in the camp, but he didn't take this matter to heart, because he wanted to hit the bandit camp hard.

According to the established strategy, he formed a formation with shield soldiers at the front, gun soldiers at the back to form a three-fold formation, and finally the spear and broadsword soldiers.

There are two divisions in the middle of Chen Dakuan's infantry battalion, and two of the four divisions in each division are cold soldiers, and each division has three teams, and the first team of each team is a sword and shield soldier.

In this way, there are four rounds of cold soldiers in one of his works, among which there are twelve sword and shield soldiers, a total of 140 four sword and shield soldiers lined up in a row in front.

Behind each armored sword and shield soldier is a group of gunmen, lined up in three rows. They stepped on the drums, and the well-organized army formation slowly approached the bandit Kowajar's camp more than 200 steps away.

The camp in front of the bandits was not strong either. They may have fought all the way in the west of Henan, and it was too smooth, making them think that the place where their army gathered, all the officers and soldiers in Henan were fleeing, and they never thought that there was another army that had the courage to come Assault your own camp.

Coupled with the ice and snow at this time, both logging and soil extraction were quite difficult. The timber they laboriously felled was used to make ladders, and the earthwork they took out was also used to fill trenches.

Therefore, no camp wall of civil structure was built around it, but a simple circle with the remaining wood from making ladders. It hardly has any defensive function, and it only roughly circles the scope of the camp.

Chen Dakuan knew in his heart that even if the thieves had already discovered his army, they would be very hasty in attacking or defending temporarily when they were originally unprepared.

The battle opportunity was fleeting, and there was no room for any further hesitation, he shouted an order: "Beat the drum and move forward, within [-] steps of the bandit, the gunmen will shoot in turn according to the order!"

The army marched slowly, and the shields of the sword and shield soldiers in the front line were slightly tilted upwards. In addition, the shiny armor on their bodies was extremely dazzling under the sunlight at noon.

They walked in neat steps, like a forest of steel knives and guns, pushing towards the thieves inside the simple wooden wall, feeling extremely oppressive.

Chen Dakuan was also well-equipped with armor. He was behind the three rows of gunmen in the middle of the army formation. Through the gap between the gunmen in front, he saw that the wall of the bandit camp was only as high as one person.

Even from a distance, it can be seen that some short wooden branches of different thicknesses are formed. He shouted: "Shield soldiers, stop advancing."

Immediately afterwards, he shouted loudly: "One hundred steps, gunmen pay attention, check the guns, and get ready to shoot!"

Waves of orders were conveyed downwards, and in less than a stick of incense, more than [-] musketeers had completed their inspections, and the reports were sent to Chen Dakuan.

He nodded in satisfaction, and then ordered loudly: "The officers of the Gunnery teams pay attention to the observation distance, and each team will shoot immediately when they are within [-] steps."

Then he ordered loudly: "The shield soldiers obey the order, advance according to the beat of the drum, and pay attention to maintaining formation!"

(End of this chapter)