Aspiration

Chapter 119 Intense conflict

"What?" Li Zicheng thought his ears had misheard.

"City massacre, I don't agree." Li Laiheng said, "Why massacre innocent civilians? What we want is the world, not a dead city."

"Whoever blocks me will die! Everyone in Kaifeng deserves to die!"

"No! We can capture Kaifeng, but we must not massacre the city. If you want to vent your anger, or say, you must capture this city, well, I am Li Laiheng! Tonight, I will destroy the cannons that came out today .Is that okay? I would rather exchange my [-] elites for the lives of the people in the city."

Li Laiheng confronted Li Zicheng who was furious.

However, Li Zicheng remained silent, and slowly, his eyes softened.

"Do you have a way to eliminate the artillery fire on the city?" Li Zicheng asked after a while.

"Yes. But, you promise me that no matter when you open Kaifeng, you will not massacre the city."

Li Laiheng is No. 1 in terms of Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng could not agree, he could not be coerced by his subordinates.

"Whether or not to slaughter the city is my business!" Li Zicheng said coldly.

Offending authority is the greatest offense.

Li Laiheng fell silent, determined to offend Li Zicheng's authority.So, he protested with silence.

"Huh? Li Laiheng, destroy all the cannons in the city!" Li Zicheng said.

Li Laiheng was silent.

"Li Laiheng! Answer!"

Li Laiheng remained silent.

"What? You disobeyed!"

"I can't help you massacre 100 million civilians in Kaifeng! I can't make a tyrant!" Li Laiheng said loudly.

"What?" followed by a "cha", and Li Zicheng got out of the sheath from the private room.

No one expected such an event to happen.Li Zicheng became angry with Li Laiheng, and Li Laiheng called him a tyrant.

Similarly, Li Laiheng was also angry with Li Zicheng.

Li Laiheng was of course angry because he planned to massacre the city because of a setback.

"King Chuang, let me ask you, are you trying to save the people from the fire and water? Do you want to win the world? Back then, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty could still follow his advice after becoming emperor. Today, I advise you not to kill the people. Can't you accept it? You want to kill me, so do it. However, you have to give me a crime and let me die clearly!"

Li Laiheng was not playing with a childish temper. He had to change some of Li Zicheng's habits. He remembered that when he conquered Beijing, he thought he had won the world. He did many unpopular things in Beijing, and finally defeated Shanhaiguan.

This history must be changed.

"Please calm down the king."

Now is the time, it's time to step down, Li Zicheng is too impulsive.Both of them were wrong today, but it was even more wrong for Li Zicheng to use swords and arrows.Therefore, Song Xiance pleaded for Li Laiheng in time.

"Please calm down, King Chuang. Everyone is in a bad mood. Laiheng is young and ignorant. Please calm down, King Chuang." Li Yan and others also pleaded.

Only Liu Zongmin was still staring at Li Laiheng.

Li Laiheng didn't show weakness either, he also stared at Liu Zongmin.

"Disrespect to King Chuang, he should have been killed!" Liu Zongmin said.

"It's your Master Liu's fault for encouraging King Chuang to open the seal!"

"What? Am I wrong?"

"Yes! Kaifeng is not easy to fight, but you think you can get it by sticking to it. It's not the first time to underestimate the enemy. Last time, I suffered a loss because of underestimating the enemy. I still haven't learned my lesson. So, you The chief whistle is responsible."

"Li Laiheng! I forgive you for your innocence, don't be disrespectful to the chief whistle!"

Li Zicheng shouted.He figured it out, and he was ready to reconcile, but it might be difficult to forgive.People are afraid of knots in their hearts, and knots in their hearts are very difficult to untie.Today, Li Zicheng's life was saved by him, Li Laiheng. No one mentioned it, but he knew it himself, so he was ready to reconcile.

Seeing that Li Zicheng spoke for him, Liu Zongmin couldn't say much.

The conflict between Li Zicheng and Li Laiheng was quickly compromised.

After all, it is a kind of nature, the love of the elders for the younger is at work, Li Zicheng no longer cares about Li Laiheng's disrespect.Li Laiheng also didn't want to argue with the ancients, Li Zicheng's fate may have been predestined, so he took the initiative to make up for it.

However, Liu Zongmin and Li Laiheng treated him with unbearable contempt and recklessness.Of course, Liu Zongmin has endured Li Laiheng's behavior of constantly challenging authority to the limit.

Tonight, Li Laiheng was also responsible for killing the one hundred cannons in the city.He knew that there were capable people in the city, and the hope of attacking Kaifeng this time was slim.Sadly, the final agreed result was that Kaifeng continued to attack, and it was impossible to capture it on the [-]th, but Song Xiance's divination was very accurate, that is, ten days later.

Ten days is not a long time, and it does not add up to a month. To lay down a provincial capital, less than a month is not a long time.

Li Laiheng's 800 people did not use the tunnel.The tunnels are reserved for attacking the city during the day.He was still using the old tactics, shields, bows and arrows, hooks, and soon 240 hooks flew up the city wall in the moonlight, followed by 240 men and 240 swords.The soldiers guarding the cannon will be frightened by the sudden appearance of the enemy.However, there was only a moment for Mu Wu, because when the murderer arrived, their heads left their bodies without giving them time.

It is not easy to smash a hundred cannons. Things made of steel cannot be smashed at once. You have to push them out of the city with all your strength. No one can use them.

Chen Yongfu was wary of the enemy coming to destroy the cannon. He arranged for reinforcements to be stationed nearby. When he heard that the enemy had all climbed the city wall, he was shocked and thought to himself, who is so powerful, who climbed the city wall so quickly?He hurriedly drove reinforcements up the city wall, and more than 1000 infantry swarmed up with spears.

Li Laiheng was not worried about these people, but if he got entangled with them, more enemies would inevitably come up, so he could only divide the people into two groups, to block the enemy together and push the cannon together.These cannons are very heavy, and it takes more than a dozen people to push down a cannon, so it takes some time.

Seeing that 1000 people could not attack, Chen Yongfu knew that he would meet the enemy's elite tonight.He turned his head and shouted to more than 100 people who were twenty or thirty steps away: "Firearm battalion!"

"Deng dong dong" 150 soldiers with firecrackers rushed up, it seemed that they had already loaded the gunpowder, and as soon as they came up, they raised their guns and started firing.

"boom!"

More than 100 firecrackers spew out flames.

Fortunately, Li Laiheng called: "Withdraw!" a little earlier than the "Boom", otherwise there might be more than half of the casualties among the hundreds of elites.

Li Zicheng was horrified when he saw Li Laiheng defeated.

Li Laiheng has never experienced such a disastrous defeat. How many times he charged into the battle, tonight, he was neither able to completely destroy the enemy's artillery fire nor killed many enemies. However, more than [-] of his elite were killed and more than [-] were injured. Losing hundreds of people was a rare defeat for Li Laiheng.

Most of the people who died in battle fell to their deaths, and those who were injured were shot by lead pellets and iron sand, and they all had to be removed by surgery. Some parts were very dangerous, and some were shot so deep that they could not be operated on.

In the city, there are still more than [-] cannons that have not been destroyed.This kind of cannon for defending the city can have two purposes, long-distance, with iron pellets, it can be fired two miles away.At close range, they don't use iron pellets as shells at all. They just use gunpowder, iron blocks, lead pellets, and stones to fire at the siege troops. The range of damage is large and the lethality is also very strong.

There are cannons and gun camps in the city.Li Zicheng thought, it seems that there are capable people in the city.

"Can you still fight?" Li Zicheng asked himself many times.

"Am I really wrong?" Li Zicheng was also reflecting.

"Li Yan, tell the truth, is it wrong for us to open the seal?" Li Zicheng asked Li Yan.He found that Li Yan had been seldom speaking, let alone saying anything in favor of attacking Kaifeng.

"King Chuang, to be honest, I don't know whether I'm right or wrong. Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs, but we seem to be a little impatient to open the seal, or we don't have enough information." Li Yan stopped.

"Laiheng said that there was a famous general in the city named Chen Yongfu. He was just a deputy general. I didn't care. This person has been guarding the city of Jinzhou for more than a year and is very experienced. I think this person played a big role." Li Zicheng said .

"That's right. Since there is such a character in it, this city will naturally be difficult to fight." Li Yan deliberately shifted the responsibility to the opponent.

"Military teacher, it seems that Chen Yongfu is really powerful." Li Zicheng said to Song Xiance.

Song Xiance was also extremely distressed.Attacking Kaifeng, he thought it would be easy, and he thought it was a perfect strategy, but he didn't expect that accidents would happen everywhere.Can the city still be captured?He also asked himself many times.Finally, he thought, it is certainly possible to capture this city.However, the price must be huge, tens of thousands of lives, maybe even tens of thousands of lives.

When he saw Li Zicheng tell him, he blamed himself a lot. At that time, he was very disdainful to Chen Yongfu. He thought it was lucky for a partial general not to be frightened to death in Jinzhou. He should have run away.Song Xiance blamed himself, he was too confident, rich experience in war is an important factor for victory, his experience is too shallow.

Since there is this experienced Chen Yongfu in Kaifeng, this person must be eliminated, otherwise, more people will die in the hands of the enemy.

For this task, Li Laiheng took the initiative to ask for a fight.

Lao Jiu said that the assassination of Chen Yongfu may be more difficult than the assassination of Sun Chuanting, because he ate and lived with his soldiers, very much like an ancient famous general.

Li Laiheng laughed hehe, he said that he killed Chen Yongfu with the least risk this time.He thought that in the 21st century, the method he often used was sniping.

Going into the city to snipe a lieutenant general felt like killing a chicken with a knife.However, Chen Yongfu is definitely not a chicken.

(End of this chapter)