Chapter 398: Set Henan!(2/2)
The rebel generals in the Chinese army's formation are very confident.
Right now, even the nearest imperial troops were two or three days' march away.
In Kaifeng City, there are only less than ten thousand defenders, all of whom are composed of Yamen servants and servants of various families in the city.
As long as they capture the city of Kaifeng in these two days and capture the young and ignorant emperor's grandson who is forcing him to rebel against Henan Province, they can exchange offense and defense with the imperial court and take the emperor's grandson to defend the city or retreat elsewhere.
Victory has long been rehearsed in everyone's mind.
However, accidents always come on time.
Outside the southern city of Kaifeng, the sound of horse hooves could be heard in the boundless wilderness.
The gravel beats, and the sound of horse hooves is like a thousand-year war drum, stepping on the hearts of the rebels outside the southern city.
The generals in the rebel army looked back at the wilderness behind them.
I saw that the entire field of vision in the wilderness was densely covered with cavalry who did not know when they appeared. The number was not enough to count.
Is it a friendly force?
Or the imperial army and horses?
The rebel generals suddenly felt uneasy in their hearts.
There are not so many cavalry in Henan Road. Except for Jiubian and Yingtian City, the Ming Dynasty cannot find anywhere else where there are so many fully equipped cavalry.
The rebels outside Nancheng reacted immediately, feeling uneasy in their hearts.
This is the court's army and horses arriving!
No one knows why these imperial troops and horses suddenly rushed to Kaifeng City earlier than expected.
However, Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jingchuan who came with his army, did not give the Henan Dao rebels, who were already visible to the naked eye, any more chance to think.
Thousands of cavalry lined up in a horizontal formation on the plain outside Kaifeng City, as if they were on the wasteland beyond Jiubian, and started the final speed increase in a large group charge formation.
The war horses move like thunder.
Wearing heavy armor, Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen holds a thickened and lengthened spear, and two fist-sized tiger-headed copper hammers are inserted into his waist on both sides.
"Charge!"
Cao Zhen waved the spear in his hand and roared.
The army was like a black cloud pressing down on the city, and the top of Mount Tai was crashing down on the rebels outside the southern city.
The cavalry under Marquis Jingchuan are on their way to the formation.
To the east of the rebel formation outside the south city, Zhu Yunxi had already led the remaining cavalry who had gone through the battle in the east city and were outnumbered to come over.
Glancing at the imperial soldiers and horses who were already charging towards the rebels below the city in the south, Zhu Yunxi's eyes had already swept across the entire battlefield.
"Who is coming?"
Zhu Shangbing, who followed, looked at the imperial soldiers and horses that were charging towards the rebels, and then said: "It should be Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, who came with his men. His spear has been used in the army several times, but none is longer than him."
It’s thicker.”
As he spoke, Zhu Shangbing leaned forward against the horse's back, and clenched the spear with a little more strength.
Now that Marquis Jingchuan has arrived with his army and horses, the charge will naturally begin here.
At this moment, the rebels outside the south city are in the process of rotating their battles again. The entire rebel formation is in a state of chaos, and this is the best time to attack.
Sure enough, Zhu Yunxi chuckled and looked back at Zhu Shangbing, Ma Hongqing, Zhang Hui, Tian Mai and others beside him.
"Generals."
"Follow me to the battlefield!"
Kaifeng City West City.
It was already past noon, and the battle for every city brick was so fierce that it lasted for most of the day.
Outside the city, more than 5,600 Yulin Right Guards troops commanded by Tang Bi rushed out of the city. At this moment, there were only more than 4,000 left.
Everyone was exhausted, sweating like rain, the palms holding the soldiers were constantly shaking, and waves of numbness came from the tiger's mouth.
The war horses of the Yulin Right Guards also began to breathe loudly. Even outside the West City, where artillery fire was blazing, people could easily hear the war horses' snorts clearly.
The officers and soldiers stretched out their hands and gently patted the war horse's neck. The place where they started was hot. This was the result of the war horse's continuous charging into the formation, which caused the blood in the body to continue to heat up.
It's just that the officers and soldiers of Habayashi's right guard who used to love their horses as much as their sons have no intention of feeling sorry for these comrades on the battlefield at the moment.
Completely crushing the rebels outside the West City is the most important task at the moment.
They have reached the point where they can hardly carry their guns, but the rebels outside the West City are also having a hard time.
After the Yulin Right Guards rushed into battle several times, the rebels outside the city had long lost their complete formation. The rebels had to guard against the Yulin Right Guards who had been ambushing Kaifeng City early in the morning and charged into battle again.
Also beware of artillery bombardment from the top of the city.
Both sides have reached the final bottom line. Whoever can tighten this string to support the other party will win the final victory and taste the fruits of victory.
And below the city gate on the west wall of Kaifeng City.
In the Ming Dynasty, Pei Benzhi, the dignified and second-ranking military envoy of Henan Province, Si Yamen Zuo, never stopped playing the piano.
The fingers of his hands were all red, and the sweat on his face was as big as beans.
The doors and windows of the city gate tower next to him had long been smashed to pieces by the rebel artillery under the city wall. The defenders on the city wall suffered heavy casualties. If Tang Bi had not led his troops out of the city to charge against the rebels again and again, he might have been killed.
At this moment, Kaifeng City has been breached.
The officers of the Chief Envoy's Yamen kept turning back to look at the slightly discolored strings, and looked at Pei Fangbo with worried eyes.
The officers were very worried that the chief envoy was not injured by the rebels, but his hands would be disabled because of playing the piano.
However, the effects are excellent.
As long as Pei Benzhi is playing the harp, and as long as the defenders on the city wall hear the Chief Envoy's harp playing, the rebel offensive under the city wall will become even more fierce, and no one will be afraid.
On the contrary, the rebels under the city wall were uneasy and tense under the constant charging of the Yulin Right Guards officers and soldiers and the roar of the two loudspeakers on the city wall.
"Charge!"
Outside the city, the officers and soldiers of the Habayashi Right Guards, who took a brief pause to breathe, reorganize their military formations, and replace their weapons, started shouting in unison without anyone leading them.
"Charge!"
Tang Bi held his spear horizontally and shook it slightly. The enemy's blood stained on the tip of the spear turned into raindrops and fell to the ground.
"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"
With a sound.
One call and a hundred responses.
"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"
"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"
"The Ming Dynasty is mighty!"
More than 4,000 cavalrymen instantly overtook the momentum of ten thousand cavalrymen.
The land of the Central Plains is shaking, surrendering under the iron hooves of the invincible Ming army.
This is the moment.
From the direction of the south city of Kaifeng City, thousands of defeated troops came to the west. After the defeated army, thousands of cavalry were like ghosts of tarsal bones, constantly harvesting the defeated rebels who were slowing down.
Zhu Yunxi has already led his people to meet up with Jingchuan Marquis Cao Zhen in Nancheng.
Once the soldiers and horses of both sides merged, the rebels outside the southern city were already in a constant battle, and their defeat was only an instant.
The rebels who fled towards the west city were in opposite positions to the Yulin Right Guards troops who launched another charge under Tang Bi.
For a moment, it was like two forces attacking the rebels in West City.
In the southeast, Zhu Yunxi, Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen and others led the army behind them, and like a steel knife, they slashed hard at the Xicheng rebel formation.
Chengtou.
A buzzing sound.
The guqin, which was inherited from the Western Han Dynasty, finally had its strings broken.
The young chief envoy's reddened fingers instantly opened a gash.
Blood, sprinkled on the piano, is like wintersweet in winter.
However, the young chief minister burst into tears, clapped his hands on the piano and laughed loudly.
“Dading, Henan!”
Pei Benzhi's eyes filled with tears, and he suddenly shouted in unison, expelling all the suppressed emotions in his chest and roaring filial piety in an extremely heroic manner.
The voice of Dading, Henan.
It echoed in Kaifeng City for a long time.
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Chapter completed!