Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

Thinking about how her brother always talked about marrying her to the man in front of him, her expression became awkward.

"If you have nothing else to do, you can go down first. I'll have someone else take this bowl back later."

With the battle imminent, Li Zicheng forced himself to suppress his inappropriate thoughts, buried his face in the bowl, and spoke without raising his head.

Gao Guiying took out a wine jug and a cup from behind and handed them over.

"I brought you a pot of good wine. I found it in the Lingbao County Office. They said it was Jiangxi Magu wine, brewed with more than 20 kinds of precious medicinal materials such as Polygonum multiflorum and Ganoderma lucidum."

"It would be a waste to give them such good things to drink."

"Now that the war is imminent, I will pour two cups for the prince."

"Wu Song was able to kill a tiger after drinking. If Your Majesty drinks this wine, it will be easy for him to capture Luoyang."

Li Zicheng smelled the aroma of wine and took the cup unconsciously.

Since he was sitting there, Gao Guiying could only lean over to pour the wine.

As he bent over, his collar opened slightly due to gravity.

The same smell as the garlic cloves also spread between the two of them.

Li Zicheng turned his head subconsciously, and saw the green clothes, red bellyband, white...

Gao Guiying poured the wine with a big movement, and her body rubbed against Li Zicheng's arm, soft and soft.

"oops!"

Suddenly, her foot slipped and a pot of good wine spilled out.

More importantly, her body involuntarily pounced towards Li Zicheng.

Chapter 327 Attack, Luoyang

Li Zicheng had never expected such a show and was thrown to the ground by Gao Guiying without any preparation.

Then, the two of them rolled down the hillside just like Gao Yigong and Niu Jinxing before.

Half a bowl of oil-splashed noodles and a pot of premium Jiangxi Magu wine were completely wasted...

The two stopped tumbling until they came across a small pit.

"My Lord, are you okay?"

Gao Guiying got up in panic and reached out to support Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng supported himself on the ground, sat up with difficulty, and gasped for breath.

When he was rolling just now, he almost subconsciously used his body to block the uneven stones for Gao Guiying.

At this moment, he felt a piercing pain in his back and thighs.

Seeing him like this, Gao Guiying quickly realized something and reached out to untie Li Zicheng's clothes.

Li Zicheng looked at her in astonishment: "What are you doing?"

"My Lord, are you injured? I will help you take a look."

Gao Guiying spoke without stopping her hands.

A gust of night wind blew away the dry bark wrapped around the tree trunk, and the white wood looked so smooth.

The woodpecker discovered the new target and flew over immediately.

The two claws kept jumping on the tree trunk, leaving traces.

The long and sharp bird's beak pecked back and forth on the tree trunk, making bursts of sounds, as if the tree was groaning.

Bits of sawdust splashed out and stained the woodpecker's feathers, giving them a strange red color.

The wind grew stronger at night, and the woodpecker pecked at the tree trunk even harder with its beak.

Finally, it looked at the hole it had pecked out, and then it flashed and went in.

Then, it flew out of the cave again, picked up a few dead leaves from outside and brought them back into the cave.

Over and over again, in and out.

It only sticks up its butt until it has built a small nest in the tree hole that satisfies it, and leaves behind a pile of continuations of life.

As the silver moon rises, the sounds of cicadas and birds gradually echo in the mountains and forests, sometimes loud like a torrent, sometimes low like an undercurrent.

At some point, a few crickets came over, lay down beside me, and looked at the scenery here in the dim moonlight.

Li Laiheng was standing behind a tree, and said to Yuan Zongdi beside him, "Brother Yuan, isn't it a bad idea for us to do this?"

Yuan Zongdi stretched out his hand and pinched his arm: "You know nothing, we are just keeping watch for the prince!"

"What is the prince's status? What if he is attacked by someone at this time?"

Li Laiheng was pinched so hard that it hurt, but he didn't dare to cry out. He had to endure it even though his face turned red.

But soon, Niu Jinxing also came over. He originally came to ask for a fight, but found that Li Zicheng had already started the fight.

He couldn't help but lower his voice and said with a smile: "The prince is really a man of temperament. Before the battle, he didn't forget to practice first."

Suddenly, Gao Yigong came over from somewhere, and seeing everyone gathered under the tree, he came over curiously.

Hearing the noise coming from afar, he instantly understood what was going on.

He was happy at first, then he stared at everyone angrily.

"What are you looking at, what are you looking at!"

"Look again, I'll beat you to death!"

Upon hearing this, everyone laughed and scattered like birds and beasts, disappearing in a flash.

An hour later.

Li Zicheng straightened his clothes, returned to the hillside with a rosy face, and began to give orders to everyone.

Afterwards, the Qin army of more than 20,000 people took advantage of the night and began to advance towards Luoyang step by step.

On the city wall, the nerves of the defenders had been tense for a whole day. Now they were exhausted, and even the defending general Duan Shu couldn't help yawning.

The Qin army did not light any fire, so even when they were 300 meters away from the moat, no one on the city wall noticed anything unusual.

Then, some sharp-eyed citizens saw people moving in the distance, but they did not give any warning to the defenders.

Not only that, he also slowed down his pace, making almost no sound while walking.

He also quietly signaled to other people to be quiet.

After a cup of tea, Li Guo and his men reached the city river.

Here, only a hundred meters away from the city wall, it is already within the range of bows and arrows.

It was not until then that the defenders realized something was wrong and pointed in this direction and shouted loudly.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Duan Shu, who was dozing off, suddenly started and all the sleepiness in his body disappeared.

Looking at the Qin army on the other side of the moat, he immediately gave the order.

"Archers, shoot!"

These two consecutive shouts brought the other defenders back to their senses. They picked up the bows and arrows beside them and fired frantically at the Qin army.

Afterwards, the artillery on the city wall fired one after another.

But despite the rain of arrows and the roar of cannons, there were few screams coming from the city.

This is very weird!

Duan Shu would never have thought that there were actually only a few people on the other side of the moat where people seemed to be crowded, but because of his order, at least tens of thousands of arrows were shot!

On the Qin army side, Li Guo hid behind the scarecrow and couldn't help but give Niu Jinxing a thumbs up in his heart.

Damn it!

He really made the trick of borrowing arrows from straw boats into reality!

That's right!

On the other side of the moat, there were only a thousand Qin troops, including him, and they were standing very far apart from each other.

But there were eight thousand scarecrows!

This thing was very light, so when they came over, each of them picked up two, and when they reached the moat, they put the scarecrows down.

Then the extra Qin troops retreated to a distance under the cover of night, leaving only Li Guo and the thousand men to find an opportunity to seize the gate.

The distance from the top of the city wall to the other side of the moat is about 100 meters. After the arrow flew over, it had lost most of its power.

Even if the nails could pierce through the scarecrow, they would basically not be able to hurt the Qin army behind it.

The screams before were mostly caused by the casualties caused by being hit by artillery shells.

There was no way around it. After all, the opponent was not Wei Zhongxian. It was totally impossible to take Luoyang without losing a single soldier.

Gradually, Duan Shu noticed something strange. He frowned and waved his hand to stop another round of arrows from being shot.

When everything calmed down and there was no further movement on the other side of the moat, he quickly changed the order, had people dip the arrows in flaming oil, and fired another round.

And now, Li Guo could no longer hide.

After all, those scarecrows are things that will catch fire if they come into contact with fire.

He immediately led his men, raised his shields, and retreated to the rear.

Suddenly, a scream was heard from the top of the city.

Then we saw the figures of the defenders falling outside the city. After a muffled sound, there was no movement.

"what happened!"

Duan Shu was shocked and subconsciously asked in the direction of the fallen soldier.

Upon hearing this, several civilians knelt down and explained in panic.

"Sir, he fell down by himself. It's none of our business..."

Seeing that the people did not seem to be lying, Duan Shu could only suppress his doubts in his heart.

When a large army is besieging a city, the judgment cannot be affected by the life or death of a single soldier.

Chapter 328 Luoyang, the city is broken!

There are four gates in Luoyang, originally named Jianchun, Lijing, Changshun and Anxi.

Since the early years of the Wanli period, it was changed to Changchun, Ruiguang, Xunfeng and Gongchen.

This wave of siege only targeted the Ruiguang Gate in the west of the city.

Shortly after Li Guo and others raised their shields and retreated, the Qin army also appeared at the Xunfeng Gate in the south of the city, and then at the Gongchen Gate in the north of the city.

This strategy of surrounding three and leaving one behind was also proposed by Niu Jinxing.

Even though Duan Shu already knew the Qin army's plan, it would still take at least a cup of tea for him to pass the news from the west of the city to the north and south.

And just in these few short minutes, the Qin army successfully defrauded a large number of arrows.

Although the Qin army had no use for these arrows, they could greatly consume the city’s inventory.

After the defenders on the city wall discovered the scarecrows they had been shooting at for half a day and replaced their arrows with fire arrows, the Qin army stopped moving.

The scarecrows outside the city along with the arrows stuck on them were ignited by rockets, and Luoyang City was engulfed in flames for a while.

Niu Jinxing stood on the hillside, casually sprinkled a handful of fine soil, looked at the direction where the fine soil floated away, and said to Li Zicheng.

"Your Majesty, the South Gate is feasible!"

Li Zicheng nodded and turned to look at Gao Yigong.

"Follow the previous military orders!"

"I will obey your orders!"

Gao Yigong immediately turned and left.

Soon, a group of Qin soldiers wearing face scarves and carrying bags rushed towards the south of the city.