Chapter 582 The Battle of Luoyang (1)
With the help of two guards, King Fu climbed up to the city panting.
Standing at the top of the city, there were endless rebels under the city, which stretched to the sky.
"Eat and wear fucking, and don't pay any food when the King of Breaking comes!"
Among the crowd of soldiers, loud singing sounded. The sound that followed made King Fu Zhu Changxun frightened.
"Invade Luoyang City and capture the King of Fu alive!"
"Capture Luoyang and capture the King of Fu alive!"
"Scissed King Fu! Cut him into pieces!"
"Invade the palace, open the warehouse and release the grain! Give all the ill-righteous wealth of King Fu to the people!"
A shocking roar sounded from the crowd of rioters, and the sound waves came to the city top one after another, which made the city walls shaking. It was the roar of nearly one million people. Most of these rioters were hungry people from Henan, and they roared from the bottom of their hearts.
King Fu was so scared that his legs became weak. He turned to look at the defenders on the top of the city. None of the soldiers gave him an old look. Now he understood that he was about to face a disaster.
"I would like to pay my best efforts to the soldiers, so I would like to give them one thousand taels of silver to reward them!" King Fu panted and said in pain.
Wang Shaoyu knelt on the ground and begged: "Prince, the soldiers guarding the city have thousands of them. I am afraid that you will be able to share the 1,000 taels of silver. Not to mention the morale, I have no face to speak to the soldiers."
King Fu thought about it again and said, "I will be generous, how about taking out three thousand taels?"
Wang Shaoyu wanted to say something, but was stopped by King Fu: "Three thousand taels are already my limit! No matter how much it is, there is not so much silver in the warehouse!"
"Oh!" Wang Shaoyu sighed and had no choice but to kowtow to thank him.
King Fu said to his personal guards, and soon a eunuch came with a box of silver. Three thousand taels of silver were distributed. Wang Shaoyu and several officials divided 1,000 taels of silver, and the remaining 2,000 taels of silver were distributed. As a result, the defenders in the city cursed even more fiercely. Some people said, how many grains of rice could be bought for this little silver? Some even said, otherwise they would just open the door and vote for the King of Chuang. Wang Shaoyu had no choice but to pretend that he didn't hear it.
Under the big banner far outside the city, Li Zicheng rode on his big gray horse. This was a dark gray tall horse with white spots on his body. The horse was named Wupu Horse, which was a good horse. Li Zicheng wore a white red tassel felt hat, a blue arrow jacket, a big red cloak, and a bow and arrow carrying a bow and arrow. Li Zicheng grew tall with a deep nose and eyes and a beard. At this time, his eyes stared at Luoyang City in the distance, with a kind of perseverance and calmness in his eyes.
Li Zicheng had already decided to start a strong attack. Although there were internal forces in the city, they had to wait until dark before they could take action. During the day, hungry people needed to consume the defenders.
"King of Chuang, the defenders in the city have not received food and wages for almost a year, and their morale is low. As long as our army attacks continuously, Luoyang City will be broken soon." Niu Jinxing stepped forward and said.
Li Yan opposed the strong attack: "While the morale of the defenders is low, they defend with the benefits of the city wall. If they drive away the hungry people to attack the city, countless people will probably suffer! They will still have a feint attack and wait for darkness and respond to the inside, we will attack again and break the city in one fell swoop."
"Hmph!" Liu Zongmin snorted, "Woman's kindness!"
Li Jiaodao, nicknamed A Tiger, said: "Uncle, my nephew is willing to lead the dead soldiers to fight in the city!"
Liu Fangliang, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and others agreed to first attack the city with hungry people and consume the city's defending weapons of the defending troops in the city, so that it would be beneficial to night attacks.
Song Xiance said: "King of Chuang, the students learned that the defenders in the city beg King Fu to pay the wages and grains, but King Fu was not a single penny. The hungry people in the city will definitely cooperate with our army! The defenders in the city must not only beware of our army's attack, but also guard against civilian changes in the city! As long as our army attacks the city, they may be able to break the city today."
The war drums rumbled, and the rebel army began to attack the city. There were also red barbarian cannons and general cannons at the top of Luoyang city, because Li Zicheng's army came from the south, and these cannons were placed on the south wall. As a result, Li Zicheng surrounded the city and launched an attack from the northeast corner, and these cannons could not play a role.
Although the Red Armor cannon and the General cannon were very powerful, it was difficult to move. The Ming army's cannons did not have the kind of gun mounts invented by Li Guodong, and they could not move on the city wall at all. If you want to transfer the position, you need to get into the city from the city, then dismantle the cannons, put them on the car, and then pull them away with manpower. The heavy Red Armor cannons need at least dozens of people to push and pull them around the city.
Accompanied by the sound of drums, the one who walked in front was hungry people holding a wooden stick in one hand and a simple wooden shield in the other hand, followed by a large number of hungry people carrying simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges. The hungry people only had the simplest weapons, some had hoes, some had a dung fork, some had a sickle, and most of them had only a wooden stick.
The hungry people who could not see the sky were overwhelmed by the starvation. The black crowd was like a black wave, rushing towards Luoyang City.
Luoyang City has always been strong, but there are not many defensive facilities. There are no deer fort wooden stakes outside the city, and there are also lack of weapons to defend the city at the top of the city. King Fu refused to take out money and food, so who would still be willing to build weapons to defend the city?
Among the defenders, the ones with the most resolute attitude were Wang Shaoyu's servants, archers, officials from the yamen, and some gentry slaves.
Groups of hungry people flocked to the moat. Wang Shaoyu at the top of the city looked at the black hungry people rushing over. Seeing the hungry people rushing into one hundred and fifty steps, he shouted: "Rocket! Get ready!"
There are many shoddy rockets in Luoyang City. These rockets have low accuracy, but the hungry people under the city are densely packed with people. As long as they shoot the rockets, they can penetrate into the crowd. Of course, some rockets are launched, and after they turn around in the air, they shoot back, but there are only a few rockets like that.
Wang Shaoyu's soldiers placed a tube of rockets on the mercedes. Looking at the refugees rushing over like a tide, Wang Shaoyu shouted: "Let it go!"
The soldiers holding torches stretched out the torch, approached the fuse at the tail of the rocket, and then quickly retreated.
There were thick smoke rising from the top of the city, hundreds of rockets were fired at the same time, and the sky was densely covered with white trails pulled out by the rockets, which were crooked and extremely irregular. Some rockets drew several circles in the air and plunged into the moat under the city, and some rockets were launched, and then turned back and pierced on the city wall.
These shoddy rockets were because the flame spitting holes were not in the middle of the cartridge wrapped on the rocket, and the counterweight was unreasonable, so they were launched and turned back.
However, most of the rockets plunged into the hungry crowd. The flying rockets plunged into the hungry crowd. Even the shields could not stop the rockets powered by the rockets. Only screams were heard in the crowd. A large number of hungry people fell backwards. Some hungry people blocked them with shields, but even the simple shields were cracked and arrows plunged into their bodies. Some refugees' shields blocked the rockets, but they were taken back by the rockets.
The flying rockets were like a storm, and countless fireworks were filled with trajectories of attacking, and at least hundreds of hungry people fell down.
The hungry people in front fell down, and the hungry people in back rushed over stepping on the bodies of their companions in front, and soon approached the moat.
"Boom boom boom" A stream of white smoke filled the city, and countless fires ejected between the marching slits. The bird gunners of the defenders opened fire, but the distance was still far away. The Ming army's bird guns opened fire fifty steps away, and being able to hit the target was like shooting at the moon.
The projectiles flew across the board, but they were weak and weak. Apart from eighty steps, they didn't know where the projectiles flew. Most of the projectiles were pierced into the soil, and a few hit the shields, and even the shoddy shields could not be penetrated.
"It was launched too early!" Wang Shaoyu cursed.
When you fire so far away, the bird gun has no effect at all.
Chapter completed!