In mid-May of the 14th year of Zhengzheng, the Central Mingjiao Army and Fan Yao of the West Route Army joined forces to attack Gongyi.
It only took half a day for the Ming army to advance.
Next, we headed eastward one by one, passing through Xingyang, Zhengzhou, and Zhongmou. The Yuan soldiers had already fled in the face of the wind. Before the Ming soldiers arrived, the gates of every city were opened. The people in the city stood respectfully by the roadside, eating pots of pulp to welcome the king's troops.
The Mingjiao's main energy was spent on appeasing the masses, taking over the city, and rushing on the road.
At the end of June, military commander Jingtong Derong rushed into the room where the assistant ministers were on duty and happily reported the latest news: the army on the south route had defeated Xinmi, Xinzheng, Weishi, and Tongxu, and was already thirty miles south of Kaifeng.
Yang Xiao, Li Jiang, and Wei Yixiao discussed it in the duty room, and they all felt that the matter was reasonable. Han Shantong was only engaged in a simple military struggle. It was enough to capture the city and leave some troops to guard it. There was no need to consider political work, so it was normal for him to advance rapidly and be faster than the West Route Army.
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The three of them agreed that they should stop being soothing on the west side and speed up the process to encircle Kaifeng together with the south route army.
The military order was issued to Fan Yaochu in the military camp.
After receiving the order, Fan Yao couldn't help but curse, "Why did you go there so early? You guys have such benevolent faces that you insist on slowing down the progress, but now you think the progress is too slow!"
He slapped the table and shouted: "Give me the order. The army will be ready for half a day and set off in the evening."
Three days later, the army from the West Route, driven like dogs, arrived in Kaifeng.
After the exchanges and discussions between the two armies and reporting to the Military Aircraft Department, the two armies beat the war drums and mobilized on the second day.
The army encircled the south side of the South Road.
The West Route Army surrounded the west and north sides. They were the central army with overwhelming combat power, so they had to do more work. In fact, it didn't take much effort since the river was in the north.
Let go of the east side, leaving a way for Yuan soldiers to survive and weakening their determination to fight to the death.
It's not that the Ming army didn't want to be eaten by them, but the intelligence office came out with news that there were still more than 100,000 Yuan soldiers in the city.
In the Military Aircraft Department, there were actually only two people, Li Jiang and Fan Yao, at that time. They believed that the Mingjiao Henan army only had 200,000 people. If they surrounded Kaifeng and attacked the city from all sides, the losses would be very heavy. Therefore, they made a decision when they were in Luoyang.
The strategy of surrounding three enemies and one.
The Ming army's bloody siege began.
For ten days, the Yuan soldiers defended the area in a decent manner. They had plenty of food and water, and their morale was good. They caused great damage to the Ming army.
On a battlefield with hundreds of thousands of people, personal force is really not worth mentioning. Li Jiang led his personal guards, the former death squads, to attack the city gate several times, but still could not capture it.
Zhang Wuji took advantage of his own advantages and led the Emei faction to set up a pre-war rescue team. Whenever a Ming army soldier failed to receive medical treatment and died of serious injuries, he would shed tears silently.
Ten days later, the Mingjiao backhand appeared.
The Houtu Army dug a tunnel and loaded it with slag medicine. Unfortunately, the walls of Kaifeng City were high and thick, so the thunder attack had little effect. It only blew up a gap of several feet. Before the Ming Army could rush in, many people
, the Yuan army quickly blocked it.
Li Jiang looked at the hundreds of people trapped in the city from a distance, and he knew their fate in his heart. At this time, he was extremely sad and wanted to slap himself a few times. He regretted extremely why he didn't study science. Otherwise, if all the guns were fired, he would still need
Will Ming soldiers take their lives to fill it?
The day's fighting stopped, and the summer evening breeze brought a little coolness, and also softened the bloody wind inside and outside Kaifeng.
Just when Mingjiao had a headache because he had chewed a hard bone, things suddenly took a turn for the better.
Although the Tianlei operation failed, it greatly shocked the defenders in the city. They never thought that there was such a siege technique in the world. Some smart people immediately thought that since there is one, there are two, and if there are two, there are two.
There are three reasons. There will always be a time when the city wall cannot withstand it.
The highest official in Kaifeng City and the cousin of Emperor Yuan was such a smart man.
He won over a group of officers, and after discussion, decided to preserve his strength and abandon the city through the east gate.
The Yuan army's tactics since Temujin's time were to fight if they could win, and to run if they couldn't, so no one laughed at him.
But some people have raised doubts: "Will the east road opened by Mingjiao be a trap?"
Everyone laughed and ridiculed the speaker, saying: "We are a nation of horses and cavalry. Can we catch up with the two bare feet of the Mingjiao mud-legged people?"
A group of people made plans to escape, but then they tricked others.
There were not only Mongolian soldiers in Kaifeng City, but also Semu people and Han soldiers from the north. However, the Mongolian prince mobilized Mongolian soldiers in small batches to the east gate in the name of defense, without notifying others of his escape plan.
A few more days passed, and both parties were ready.
The Mingjiao dug another tunnel and this time filled it with ten coffins.
The more than 50,000 Mongolian soldiers gathered by the Mongolian prince also arrived.
As if they had discussed it, when a deafening explosion sounded, the east gate of Kaifeng opened "Yi Yi Ya Ya" and Mongolian soldiers poured out like a tide.
Tan Ma immediately reported the situation to the military aircraft office. Li Jiang was overjoyed and issued an order. The South Route Army circled to the east gate, and the West Route Army attacked from the gap. When asking the two armies to attack the city, they shouted: "Tiemul has run away, abandon your weapons and surrender."
do not kill!"
This move was indeed effective. Originally, the ten-foot gap in the city wall dampened the fighting spirit of the remaining people. Then they heard that the bosses had run away, which made it even worse. So most of the people lost their fighting spirit and surrendered.
Only a small group of Semu people are still resisting. They have no choice, because as the young masters of the Mongolian masters, they usually dominate the Han people. They know the Mingjiao's strategy and will settle accounts with those who have great public indignation.
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From the early morning to the evening of that day, the Ming army finally quelled the resistance in the city and took control of the whole city. However, the fire in the city still did not go out. This was because a small number of those who resisted were unwilling to accept it, or they took advantage of the chaos to make a fortune.
People did it.
When the fire engulfed almost half of the city of Kaifeng, thunder rolled from the sky and heavy rain poured down.
The whole city's soldiers and civilians cheered together.
After seeing this, some old scholars asserted that Mingjiao is invincible in all battles and is destined to be auspicious in times of trouble!
Countless people responded.
A night of heavy rain extinguished the fire, and the Mingjiao center entered Kaifeng City, which was half in ruins, on the second day of Kecheng.
After the war, the military aircraft department was extremely busy with pacification, relief, and law enforcement work, and Fan Yao also came back to help.
Two more days passed like this, and Fan Yao suddenly put down his pen and said in front of everyone's surprised eyes: "I have experienced the accumulation of bloody battles in the past few years. After the general attack on Kaifeng the day before yesterday, I finally gained something. Now I want to retreat to attack the innate."
After that, he pushed aside the temporary duty room and walked out.
Yang Xiao looked at the dignified Fan Yao and felt bitter in his heart. Fan Yao, who was also known as Xiaoyao's second immortal of Mingjiao at that time, was about to advance to Xiantian, but he, who was slightly ahead, had no clue at all.
Thinking of this, he put down the case file in his hand and felt a sense of boredom in his heart.
Li Jiang was stunned for a moment, then quickly dropped his pen and chased him out, saying as he ran: "Old Fan, don't be busy yet. You have advanced to Danger, and I have to help you protect him."
Fan Yao stopped after walking more than ten meters away and turned around with a look of emotion in his eyes. He knew that with Li Jiang, a great master, guarding him, he would be safe when he broke through the barrier.
Chapter completed!