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Chapter 522 Zhu Zhicang should be the leader
On the tower in the northwest corner of Kaifeng City, inspector Gao Mingheng was watching the majestic chariot formation outside the city, and even saw the corpses of hundreds of bandit soldiers outside the chariot formation. Some bandit soldiers who were not dead were crawling back with difficulty, leaving behind a A dark red blood mark.

He said in a low voice to Wang Xie, magistrate of Xiangfu County: "Hurry up, gather all the city guards who can use bows and arrows here, and move more bricks, stones and trees. The distance between this place and the car formation outside the city is only one hundred and fifty. Step up and down, you must cooperate with the officers and soldiers outside the city, and don't teach the thieves to go north of the city to reinforce."

Gao Mingheng turned his head and bowed to Cao Kun again to Zhou Wangfu: "Cao Chengfeng can repay His Highness. You can see from the banner that there are indeed Zhang Cheng's soldiers and horses in Xuanzhen outside the city. I will have no worries in Kaifeng!"

Cao Kun's face was also full of joy. He had been frightened and frightened for the past few days. In addition, he was a close friend of King Zhou, and he was very loyal to King Zhou. Take it to heart.

At this time, he finally saw a strong army coming to rescue the army, and he was able to directly fight against the intruder army outside the city. How unhappy he was, his first thought now was to quickly report this good news to the King of Zhou. .

But being sent by the king of Zhou to assist in defending the city would not be a mediocre person. Before leaving, he did not forget to ask Zuo Changshi Li Yingchun, saying: "Li Changshi, the one who is good at shooting among the guards of the palace Transfer here, and form horns with Zhang Zongbing's army and horses outside the city, and don't let the bandit soldiers pass under the city to the north."

Because the residence of Prince Zhou was relatively close to Fengbei Gate, after finishing speaking, Cao Kun led a few guards of the palace to the north gate, and rode straight to the Palace of Zhou to report the good news after going down the city.

Right after Cao Kun left, Li Guangxun from the Ximen Headquarters ran over in a hurry, and said from a distance, "My lord, Mr. Gao..."

Gao Mingheng was in a happy mood seeing the reinforcements arrived in time, so he didn't feel guilty about it, but asked with a slightly sullen face: "Mr. Li, why are you so flustered?"

Li Guangxun also ran in a hurry, he stopped to catch his breath, and then said: "Returning to Mr. Gao, after you went here just now, the students were still on duty at the west gate, and suddenly heard someone shouting outside the city wall. .

The students took a closer look, and found that there were more than a dozen warriors who I sent down from the city to repel the bandits, and I hurriedly ordered people to fetch several large frames, tied them with ropes and let them go down to the city, and brought the warriors back to the city one by one. Come. "

If this happened before reinforcements appeared, Gao Mingheng would definitely pay great attention to it, and even publicize and praise it to encourage the latecomers to follow suit.

But now that the reinforcements have arrived, there is no need for these soldiers to leave the city to fight. He is not interested in this, so he just said indifferently: "Who have come back alive? You record their names and let them go to rest first!"

Li Guangxun's heart was on fire, but he felt that Mr. Gao didn't seem to care much about this matter, but most of the people who killed the thieves in the city were the brave people under his command.

He was originally a local gentry in Kaifeng, since he made a promise at the beginning, how could he not keep it now, if he behaved like that, how would he live in this city in the future.

At the moment, he reminded softly: "Yes, the students know. It's just..."

He paused for a moment, and after observing Gao Mingheng's face, he continued: "Master Gao, all the warriors in this city have killed several thieves bravely, but it is difficult to count them, and even the children of the clan in the city even cut off the city. The head of the thief chief is back."

"Oh……"

Gao Mingheng didn't care about other words, only the four words "children of the clan" aroused his interest, after a little thought, he said to Li Guangxun: "What's the name of this person?"

"Zhu Zhicang."

Gao Mingheng thought for a while, but he didn't have any impression of this person. He thought he was an unknown son of the clan in the city, and immediately said: "Everyone who goes to the city will be rewarded with ten taels; those who died in the war will give their families 30 taels of silver; Everyone rewards another 60 taels of silver;

That Zhu Zhicang was able to bring back the head of the bandit, as the first merit, in addition to rewarding 70 taels of silver for the meritorious service, another 50 taels of silver for the head, and an additional 50 taels of silver for the first merit. "

He turned back and said to Li Yingchun, the left chief official of Zhou Palace, "Since Zhu Zhicang is a son of the clan, Li Changshi should report to His Highness and give him a reward to encourage future generations!"

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Zhang Guodong, the leader of the infantry battalion under Zhang Cheng's command to help suppress Henan, and the guerrilla general of Xuanzhen, led the army in the center and marched from north to south. He had 150 guard cavalry of the Chinese army under his command, as well as [-] sergeants of Zhang Chengzhong's army, and Chen Chongchang, a guerrilla in the Beijing camp. more than a thousand infantry.

As for the chariots in the battalion, he dispatched the ten side chariots and three supply carts of the headquarters to Wei Zhice's temporary commander in order to strengthen the defense of the chariot formation.

According to the original plan, the thieves in the north of Kaifeng were not camped together, but were camped on the east and west sides of the north gate of the city.

Wakengzi was afraid that Li Zicheng would take the opportunity to swallow his team, so he was wary everywhere, and Li Zicheng still had something to rely on because the recruits recruited in the west of Henan had not yet been trained, so he let him do everything.

After Zhang Cheng found out about this situation, he decided to give priority to eliminating the thousands of bandits in the north of the city, and the main attackers were the two thousand headquarters of the infantry battalion under Zhang Cheng's command.

The task of Zhang Guodong's troops was to provide support in the middle, and because Zhang Guangda's heavy cavalry and light cavalry were on the east side to assist Chen Dakuan's troops in attacking the thief Kou Waguanzi.

On Jin Yong's side, there were only Lin Fangping's tiger guards and two hundred Mongolian cavalry to support him, which was relatively weaker. Therefore, Zhang Guodong also paid more attention to Jin Yong's situation.

He led the army to advance in the center. At the beginning, he saw that Jin Yong's troops were progressing smoothly, so he kept the army without support. After all, according to the established combat strategy, after the battle in the north of the city, the army will move to the east of the city. It is also very difficult to maintain the physical strength of the soldiers. important.

However, although the bandit soldiers were driven by Lin Fangping, Su Laohu and other cavalry, they did not completely break up as expected. There were still hundreds of shield soldiers, spearmen and archers gathered around the bandit general Liu Tichun, desperately resisting. And fight and retreat.

They besieged the city one by one, with a circle of shields on the outside, shields and spears on the inside, and no shields on the third floor. They were all spearmen, and the people inside were all archers.

Liu Tichun commanded them to gradually move eastward in the center, and he shouted from time to time: "Don't mess up, the officers and soldiers are cunning, whoever runs first, whoever dies first, everyone don't mess up."

This is the case for everyone. Among the hundreds of thieves, only 300 to [-] are old thieves, and most of the rest are newly recruited thieves. Beside, desperately resisting.

On the outskirts, there were more than 2000 bandits and hungry people running around like headless chickens. The cavalry of the officers and soldiers scattered with three, five, or more than a dozen cavalry, and surrounded them into dozens or hundreds of people. Many people in the small group were already lying on the ground, unable to struggle.

Zhang Guodong saw from a distance that Jin Yong was commanding the infantry battalion to attack Liu Tichun's group of bandits, and he also ordered loudly: "Bian Cheng, you lead the cavalry of the Chinese Army to stop the gang of bandits, and don't let them go any further." Go east."

Bian Cheng was Zhang Guodong's middle officer, in charge of commanding the 150 cavalry in the infantry battalion. After he got the order, he did not dare to neglect, and he yelled twice and led the knights to gallop on horseback.

Then, Zhang Guodong waved the command flag in his hand again, and shouted: "He Kuan, you lead the Chinese army to help Jin Yong and take down those bandits."

He Kuan was Zhang Cheng's team officer when he first joined King Jingqin, and he is currently the commander-in-chief of his army camp, currently only [-] infantry soldiers of the Chinese army are under his command.

After he also received the order loudly, he turned around and shouted for a while, and strode forward to lead the army in a neat formation. They also had swords and shields in front, and gunfire soldiers behind.

Among the [-] soldiers in Zhang Cheng's Chinese army, there are [-] shield soldiers and [-] musketeers. However, the shield soldiers of the Chinese army do not all use swords and shields. They will follow their own habits and have steel knives and hatchets. , Tie Guduo and other short soldiers of various colors.

He Kuan ordered loudly: "Keep the formation in order, shield soldiers pay attention to protection, gun soldiers prepare to shoot!"

(End of this chapter)