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In the distance is a city with a radius of about five miles.

In the early morning glow, the gray-black city wall is clearly visible.

It is more than three zhang high, and there are no female walls, urn cities and other defensive facilities.

But there was a river that meandered around the city.

This was also the norm in the city at that time, not to mention the state, even the county generally had a moat.

If the enemy wants to attack the city, the moat will be solved first.

Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, and the last time was to dig up the Yellow River, because the Yellow River was connected to the moat of Kaifeng, and the Yellow River burst, flooded, and Kaifeng City was directly flooded.

The city was over, Li Zicheng had Kaifeng, and the idea of running the Central Plains was completely frustrated.

The battle of Kaifeng was the Ming Dynasty's Zhou king's management of the law, willing to give up gold and silver, being humble, and encouraging the gentry to help defend it.

There are also Chen Yongfu and other generals who are effective.

Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops attacked Kaifeng several times, and only a few thousand people in the city could fight with Chen Yongfu's troops, plus tens of thousands of people who helped defend the people, but the army could not be defeated.

In the era of cold weapons, it was very expensive to break through the city purely by violence, and the besieging side had to have the strength to crush the defenders.

In fact, the Chuang army entered Henan around the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, before it was defeated in Tongguan, the main force was scattered, and only a few people such as Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin fled into Shangluo Mountain.

From only about 1,000 people left, to 100,000, 500,000, it took less than a year.

Although there are many soldiers and horses, there are too few elites.

Storming a city is simply impossible.

However, in the field war, thousands of veteran battalion soldiers laid the foundation, and tens of thousands of elites who had trained or served as soldiers were the main force, coupled with more than 100,000 strong men who were coerced, and they were invincible against officers and soldiers.

In the first battle of Zhuxian Town, a governor, a governor, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Jiaping thief, and more than 100,000 officers and soldiers such as Hu Dawei, were defeated by Li Zicheng, and the main group of the Ming army was so weak that the frontal battlefield was not only not the opponent of the Qing army, but even the peasant army could not be defeated.

In fact, it was also the organization, scheduling and logistics of the Ming army that could not keep up.

When 10 o'clock in Fengyang, there was Ma Shiying's Fengyang Fubiao, and the combat effectiveness was not bad.

In Chuzhou, Huang Degong was born in Beijing, and his soldiers and horses came from the Imperial Horse Prison, not only can he fight, but he is also extremely loyal.

Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing needless to say, two wastes, but at that time, the four towns in Jiangbei were basically about to take shape.

But the Ming court could only mobilize about 100,000 people at a time.

Too much, the logistics can't keep up, and it will only lead to the collapse of your own side.

Just like the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji entered the customs for the first time, the Ming military department panicked and made every effort to gather all kinds of soldiers and horses Qin Wang, and the Ming army rushed to Beijing one after another more than 200,000 people, but the relevant departments such as the household department and the Ministry of Industry were blind, they simply did not have the ability to sort out the logistics and supplies, and a large number of soldiers rushed thousands of miles to Qinwang, and as a result, the civilian officials could not even do the food supply, so that many border army soldiers were hungry and waiting for the dispatch.

In a fit of rage, many Shaanxi border troops and Shanxi border troops rebelled, and the history of the Ming Dynasty recorded that the mountains in Shanxi were full of border troops who rebelled in anger and returned to their hometowns.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were both border soldiers in Shaanxi and became the gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty.

There is no way to attack Kaifeng City purely hard, and the Jin people destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty for no other reason, that is, Huizong and Qinzong, a pair of soft egg father and son, deserve it.

But countless people were miserable by these two emperors.

Taiyuan was attacked by force, but Taiyuan was originally the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty spent a lot of effort, the entire territory of the Northern Han Dynasty accounted for only the lonely city of Taiyuan, the Song army with more than 100,000 forbidden troops as the main force, ten times the elite of the Northern Han army attacked many times, and finally paid a great price to defeat it.

Since then, Taiyuan City has been stripped of its walls and weakened its defenses.

It's cheaper than the Jurchens more than a hundred years later.

It's the same with Gaotang Prefecture in front of you.

The city is small, but there are also moats, city walls, and perforations, as long as a few thousand people desperately defend the city, and want to fight hard, at least ten times more than the elite will attack day and night.

Fill in the moat, level the river, and then pile up the mountain, build an arrow tower, suppress the head of the city, and finally be able to attach ants to attack the city.

This is also the reason why Yue Fei immediately decided to bring the detective horse after seeing Gao Lian and the three hundred elites.

It's a different situation here than on Jingdong East Road.

After the rise of the Liangshan army, not to mention the state city, even the county seat was not attacked.

Later, the land of the states was either directly settled in by Yu Wei after the great victory, or it was already a boiled frog in warm water, and the periphery of the states and counties was already under control, and later the takeover of the city was also done easily.

It is definitely completely different in Hebei Road, and it is definitely better to take advantage of the weakness than to attack strongly.

Then he took a closer look at the city.

Yue Fei's eyes were also fanatical.

Many people think that Yue Feiwen is stable, but in fact, he definitely dares to take risks when it is time to take risks.

When he was a small leader of righteousness and courage in Hebei, he fought many risky battles and made many miraculous achievements.

Otherwise, how could a peasant son with no foundation be appreciated by Wang Yuan and Zong Ze successively?

The credit doesn't fall from the sky, you have to take it yourself!

Glancing at the city, Yue Fei looked at his subordinates again.

Like the horses, the cavalry sweated like pulp.

The robe is untidy and the hairstyle is disheveled.

The horses were even more exhausted, and their legs trembled as they stood.

Yue Fei's face showed satisfaction.

Either way, the subordinates persevered.

Looking at his subordinates, Yue Fei ordered loudly: "Everyone, rest for half an hour, tidy up your robes and hair, wash your war horses, and recover your spirit and physical strength." "

"Yes, Command!"

More than 100 scouts rode at a speed of more than 200 miles a day, and the horses and people were tired.

Fortunately, it was only two days.

Gao Lian and the others found in the middle of the night, Yue Fei immediately made a decision, and immediately rushed to the official road to Gaotang Prefecture and made a surprise attack.

There are more than 2,000 garrisons in Gaotang Prefecture, which is also the strength of Hebei Prefecture.

The average military state does not have so many garrisons.

The 800 military states of the Great Song Dynasty, if each military state had so many garrisons, plus heavy military groups such as the Beijing Camp and the Western Army, 2 million soldiers and horses would not be able to defeat it.

Raising 560,000 forbidden troops and 230,000 Xiang troops, the annual military expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty was about 40 million yuan.

If the number of soldiers and horses reaches more than 2 million, the financial department will directly declare bankruptcy.

Judging from the observations, there were not many people in the city, and a few hundred people were stationed at several gates.

It shows that when Gao Lian went out, he knew that the Liangshan army was still far away.

It is also to have absolute confidence in himself and the three hundred elite soldiers.

Even if you can't defeat the Liangshan army, you can protect yourself.

And then it's not too late to sort out the city defense.

......

Half an hour later.

The horse's physical fitness has recovered, and it cannot run long distances, and short trotting is not a big problem.

It's also washed, and it looks much stronger than the embarrassed appearance just now.

The scouts did not change their robes, but only changed the red tasseled hats of the Song army.

It doesn't look much different from the ordinary Great Song cavalry.

Actually, there is a difference.

The military robe of the Liangshan army is also a gray robe, but the Song Dynasty is still red, so the Song army has red tasseled hats, felt hats, phoenix wing helmets, and iron helmets.

There are also those who wear hats, which are not much different from ordinary people's clothing. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Of course, there are many people who are bareheaded, or wrapped in rags, and those who can wear a veil are already considered to be exquisite.

When it was for war or marching, the sergeants mostly wore leather hats.

Commonly known as: top vermilion lacquer gold hat.

The forbidden army and the box army, in which different grades of clothes are also different, take the forbidden army as an example, the main clothing is divided into three categories: court clothes, official clothes, and time clothes.

The costumes of military attachés and civil officials are not separated and then distinguished, but the types of clothing are specifically determined according to the different grades and occasions, which is the real sense of "military uniforms".

Military attachés are constrained by the hierarchical system, and they show proper courtesy and respect for civil officials, among which the court dress is to wear a long robe or short shirt over the armor, which can be seen as a sign of the gradual civilization of military attachés. Later, with the continuous evolution, because the generals also have ranks, they are convinced, and they also strive to show the rank of the generals.

Military generals will also wear short shirts without buttons outside the armor, and will embroider the military logo of which army they belong to on the short shirt, which is generally called embroidery, such as holding the Japanese army, Tianwu Army and other different forbidden armies, and the short shirt is embroidered with different army logos, which can be seen at a glance.

In normal times, from generals to ordinary soldiers, they all wear narrow robes, which lack crotch robes, small sleeves, slits on both sides, and cross collars.

If it is ordinary, the robe is long to the feet, and if it is training and going to war, it is a short robe, which is not shorter than the knees.

The slits on both sides are high and reach the waist, so that the corners of the robe can be tucked at the waist.

The robe is empty and small, and it is easy to tie leggings.

Wear straw sandals, shoes, and boots on your feet.

The color is blue, white, and gray, and the generals are ranked according to their grades, from nine to six grades are still green, six to four are scarlet, and the four grades and above wear purple robes.

Belts, uniforms, robes, trousers, and the forbidden army are slightly different from the box army.

People in the army can still see it when they look closely. []

The uniforms of the Liangshan Army are gray for the infantry, red for the cavalry, and black for the Judge Advocate Advocate and Garrison Divisions.

They are all short robes, on the knees, but there are no high slits, only palm-high slits that do not affect body movements.

The leather belt around the waist is made of leather, strong and durable.

The cuffs are cinched sleeves with buttons that can be fastened.

The same goes for the chest.

In addition, all kinds of utensils are better looking and practical than Song Jun, and if you look closely, the difference is quite obvious.

Moreover, ordinary soldiers also have iron shackles, unlike the Song army, which are mainly leather hats.

However, the one in front of him is a scout horse, and it is also a light horse, which at first glance looks similar to the Song army.

And Yue Fei and the others are also pretending to be forbidden soldiers from the Daimyo's Mansion, and Gao Tang's side should not be able to distinguish too clearly suddenly.

It was already the end of Tatsu 373, around nine o'clock in the morning.

In late spring and early summer, the sun is already quite hot at this time.

Not many people came into the city.

At dawn there were many people entering the city.

Nearby vegetable farmers pick vegetables and sell them in the city.

There are also those who go into the city to do short-term work, with a flat burden on their bodies, and stride into the city.

At this time, there were only some foreign merchants, and there were also some traveling Taoists, monks, etc., and there were not many people, so they went to the city slowly.

Gaotang Prefecture is notorious, and ordinary businessmen and travelers do not want to come here.

Most of the people who came over were people who relied on it or didn't know it.

The Xiangjun at the city gate stood crookedly, with a long knife and spear in his arms, or simply leaned against the city wall beside him, everyone chatted and laughed, and when someone came over, he stepped forward to see how it was, and there were a few words of scare of oil and water, and dozens of dollars came out, if there was no oil and water, a few words of scolding were put in.

If there is anyone who has no eyes and no money and dares to contradict it, he will be beaten away at the least, or he will be tied up and sent to the state government, and he will have to take off a layer of skin.

Up and down, how is Gao Lian to Chai Jin, and these people under his command are also the same to the people.

The people passing by around, as well as the people who went out of the city, all bowed their heads and hurried by, silent, even if they were extorted by the box army guarding the city gate, after paying the money, they bowed their heads and came out, not daring to fight with them.

It can be seen that people inside and outside the city have already known quite well that paying some money now can avoid disaster, and if they quarrel with them, the consequences will be much more serious than losing some small money.

Guarding the gate of the city was the head of a van army, who sat with a golden sword, and had a money bag beside him, and there were already a lot of scattered copper coins in it.

Guarding the city gate in Gaotang Prefecture is definitely fat, so the heads of the capital take turns to be on errands, and part of this money has to be handed over to the senior military attaches in the state such as the commander, the governor, and the commander.

The minions also have a share.

In fact, their income is not low, and it is definitely enough to support their families.

But if people's hearts are insufficient, who wants to live a life of poverty?

At this moment, the head of the city and the van army heard the sound of horses' hooves, and saw about 100 cavalry cavalry appearing on the official road not far away.

The cavalry was not fast, it was only trotting, but it was still quite powerful.

"We are the forbidden army of the Daimyo Mansion, and we came to Gaotang Prefecture to patrol and garrison on the order of Liang Zhongshu!"

In the distance, a loud cavalryman shouted at the front of the cavalry.