The city top of Kaifeng was filled with people from the city.
These people were originally unarmed citizens, but when Li Zicheng's army pressed on, they were all recruited by the city's defenders and became strong defenders.
Rusty broadswords and spears were brought out from the warehouse and distributed to these temporarily recruited civilians. But even this was still not enough for one manpower, so some people used wooden sticks to fight, preparing to use wooden sticks to kill those who climbed up.
The thieves stabbed them down. Some people were assigned to boil gold juice and pour dung water on the attacking thieves to repel the enemy.
Among the crowd on the city wall were not only strong and middle-aged men, but also some thirteen- and fourteen-year-old children. Carrying heavy weapons, these conscripted children were trembling.
The Kaifeng city wall has a circumference of 20 miles and 190 steps, and has 12,339 crenellations. If it were not for the recruitment of these strong people, the Kaifeng defenders would not even be able to stand at the crenels.
This time the defenders of the city were Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, and Chen Yongfu, the commander-in-chief of Henan. Gao Mingheng had been the governor of Henan for several years, and he stayed on because of his meritorious service in defending the city of Kaifeng. Chen Yongfu was a veteran who had fought fiercely with Li Zicheng for several years, day and night.
Fighting with Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops.
Chen Yongfu was a little nervous when he saw hundreds of thousands of thieves approaching.
The momentum of the traitor soldiers was really astonishing. It was said to be "hundreds of thousands", but no one knew the exact number. Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu couldn't figure it out, and I'm afraid even Li Zicheng himself didn't know. In the current year of drought in Henan,
Under the circumstances, Li Zicheng only had to climb up and shout to attract countless hungry farmers.
If you don't starve to death in An'an, you will be like the mantis with its arms. Instead of shivering and starving to death under the rule of the gentry, it is better to follow King Chuang to grab a handful. In fact, although Henan's financial situation is very poor, the homes of the wealthy gentry families in the city are indeed
There was a large amount of food hidden there. Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses robbed Henan for two years and fed hundreds of thousands of troops by robbing.
Now these hungry soldiers must sacrifice their lives to serve King Chuang who gave them a way to survive.
The civilians on the city wall looked at the momentum of the hundreds of thousands of traitors outside, and their faces turned pale. Some people couldn't control their fear, so they retreated back and fell in panic on the city wall.
Chen Yongfu clenched the bow and arrow in his hand and shot an arrow in the distance.
The arrow clusters made a "whooshing" sound in the air, and under the city wall, a hungry soldier who was rushing to the front with a spear fell down at the sound. Chen Yongfu was not only a competent general soldier, but also a rare marksman.
During the four battles to defend Kaifeng, Chen Yongfu shot and killed countless traitors.
After shooting the traitor to death, Chen Yongfu shouted at the people beside him: "We will attack Kaifeng and destroy it. No one will be left alive. Even the broom head will be chopped into pieces with a knife."
This ballad was forged by the officers and soldiers to boost the morale of the people in the city. It was said that after Li Zicheng conquered Kaifeng, he wanted to massacre the city and would not spare any citizen. If not for this ballad, the people in the city would not have the morale to hold on.
Kaifeng, I'm afraid the city has already been breached.
In this war-torn era, the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers had no faith at all, and were sometimes even more shameless and cunning than the rebels.
Hearing Chen Yongfu's roar, the panicked faces of the people showed a trace of determination, and they looked a bit tragic.
Governor Gao Mingheng was a middle-aged man in his thirties with a long beard. Hearing Chen Yongfu's call, he added: "The King of Zhou has an order. After guarding the city, the King of Zhou will open a granary to distribute grain. Each person will be rewarded with three stones of rice and silver."
Twelve!"
It is difficult to say whether Gao Mingheng's words are true, but they were spread word of mouth among the people. The people on the city wall seemed to have another reason to fight to the death and became more determined.
Today is the seventh day of the siege. The trenches outside the city have long been filled in by bandit soldiers, and more than a hundred various general cannons, French machine guns and several Hongyi cannons on the city wall have been fired.
The shells were fired and all the shells misfired. The ensuing battle was a bloody hand-to-hand fight.
Amidst the loud shouts of killing, the hungry soldiers rushed to the edge of the city wall. The archers on the city wall began to shoot arrows. With the sound of arrows piercing the air, the unarmored hungry soldiers were hit by arrows one after another. The defenders on the city wall
The soldiers are equally vicious. The arrowheads of these arrows are soaked in feces. The wounds of those who are hit by the arrows are very easy to suppurate. If they are hit by the arrows, they are basically hopeless.
The screams of those who were hit by arrows rang out sadly, but were drowned out by the shouts of killing from the rebels.
The hungry soldiers rushed to the city wall, held up wooden ladders to the city wall, and climbed up to the top of the city while howling.
Spoonfuls of hot dung juice were poured down by the defenders on the city wall. In this warm month of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, these burning golden dung juices had unexpected lethality. The hungry soldiers who were splashed with golden dung juice were immediately stunned.
His skin was torn and his flesh was torn, and he was screaming and moaning in the suffocating stench.
The high-temperature golden juice flowed down the collar and into the clothes, violently corroding the rough skin and flesh of the thin rebels. The pain was so painful that it made people give up all will, and it was enough to make the hungry soldiers recruited feel worse than death.
Wounds caused by this kind of "biochemical weapon" cannot be cured.
But just as the person in front fell down, the person behind climbed up the ladder again.
"kill!"
"Kill! Kill!"
"Kill the King of Zhou to share the food!"
Like a group of unconscious ants, the hungry soldiers swarmed up the ladder in a mighty manner. Those in front were splashed with gold juice, knocked down by rolling stones and wood, and knocked down the ladder by sticks, and those behind followed.
.The hundreds of thousands of hungry soldiers were simply too many. Even though thousands of people died when they climbed the wall, their morale remained strong.
The city wall of Kaifeng is three feet and five feet high, and the hungry soldiers gradually approached the city head.
The hand-to-hand combat finally began, and the defenders and minzhuang on the city wall began to wield swords and spears to kill the hungry soldiers who tried to jump onto the city wall.
A hungry soldier climbed a few steps on the ladder and saw two spears pointing at his face. He hurriedly dodged to the right, dodging one of the spears, but was still stabbed by the other spear.
It stabbed hard into his left shoulder, breaking his collarbone and getting stuck in the broken bone.
The hungry soldier screamed and fell down the ladder.
A tall hungry soldier brandished a scimitar to block the sword that was coming towards him, and miraculously stood at the end of a ladder that was as high as the city head. He howled, jumped up, and stood on two stacked walls.
In the crenel in the middle.
A young man of fourteen or five years old suddenly found himself standing directly in front of this hungry soldier.
The hungry soldier suddenly swung his scimitar, and the boy with no armor suddenly felt his chest blossom and fell to the city wall with a look of resignation.
But before the hungry soldier could retract his scimitar, a flying arrow suddenly stabbed at him and pierced the hungry soldier's forehead. The hungry soldier staggered back a few steps and rolled back.
He fell off the city wall.
The last few steps of the ladder were the bloodiest battlefield. The thin hungry soldiers and the equally thin and strong civilians fought together with unfamiliar weapons and shouts.
The hungry soldiers attacked the city in order to survive, because of the illusion of not receiving food. The strong people defended the city desperately in order to survive, because of the lies of the government and army. rw
