As expected, in just a few days, two prefectures in Ru and Ru successively accepted Li Tianqu's surrender and chose to open the city to change the flag. To unify the other counties and yards under the vassal states of the Zhongwu Army, the process would inevitably be easy.

Almost at the same time, good news came from the northwest. Ge Congzhou commanded the Tianping Army and the Ya Army, taking advantage of the situation to advance, and then went westward through the Yicheng Army and entered the Heyang Army's territory. In this way, blocking the key water and land passes will inevitably completely cut off the connection between Wang Rong, Luo Hongxin, Li Hanzhi and Wang Chuzhi, who were vassals of Zhu Wen and the Liang State.

The result was somewhat similar to the situation of the Zhongwu Army. Ge Congzhou was planning to mobilize troops to conquer the counties and cities under the Heyang Army, and then seize the Heyang Army's vassal states in one fell swoop. However, he heard the military situation from the fast horse: the envoy of the Jiedushi Dakai, who was in charge of Luoyang, had already sent envoys to express his willingness to surrender, and since then he would be willing to accept Li Tianqu's enlistment.

When all the generals under his command heard the war report, they all thought it was a surprise. However, after Li Tianqu learned that the man who is now the governor of the Heyang Army, he thought that the guy chose not to fight and surrender, which was also expected.

Because he had just entered the Heyang Army vassal state, the person who chose to surrender was originally Meng Qian, the younger brother of Meng Fangli, the governor of Zhaoyi Army.

The Zhaoyi army faced the military threat from the Jin army in Hedong for a long time, and Li Keyong was bound to annex the neighboring vassal territory in the south. In the early years, the Jiedushi Meng Fangli committed suicide due to defeat. His companion Meng Qian was elected as Jiedushi, but he was still unable to defeat the Jin army's envoy and asked Zhu Wen for help.

Later, Li Cunxiao became the vanguard of the Jin army and defeated Zhao Yi army invincible. Meng Qian could not retain his territory in the end, so he had to surrender to Zhu Wen. According to his historical trajectory, he had indeed been appeased by Zhu Wen and was appointed as the governor of the Heyang Army.

But if we follow the course of the official history, Meng Qian jumped too frequently between Zhu Wen and Li Keyong. He asked Zhu Wen for reinforcements, but later, due to the critical situation, he immediately chose to sell his teammates and captured Liang general Liang soldiers who came to support him to Li Keyong to protect himself. He should turn to the Jin army. During the Liang army's massive Northern Expedition of Li Keyong, Meng Qian, who was in Tianjing Pass, immediately opened the door to surrender and led the Liang army to attack Taiyuan, where the central central government of Hedong was located... Until the Northern Expedition of Jin was unfavorable, he followed the situation and turned to Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen was originally suspicious of the treacherous hero who was easy to kill? How could he allow Meng Qian to frequently rebelliously? This guy ended up according to historical records? It was "Taizu hated his capriciousness and killed him."

The drums were broken and thousands of people beat them, and the trees fell and the money scattered. Meng Qian belonged to that typical fence-riding faction? Zhu Wen, Li Keyong fought a tug-of-war? No matter who had the upper hand, he would immediately turn to that side? And he would not care about whether he had turned against him too frequently in the battle... Li Tianqu said that I have suppressed Zhu Wen in the Central Plains now, and under the danger of the army invading the border? With Meng Qian's nature, he immediately surrendered and turned against him, which is normal.

Compared to Han Jian, who was still trying to resist, this guy was even more honest. Li Tianqu thought that Meng Qian was not a person with outstanding abilities. After all, he was given up on the Heyang Army and made contributions. He simply sent him a free job to enjoy a happy life first? He must never entrust military power to guard the key pass. In the future, Meng Qian would do him immediately like Zhu Wen.

It is worth mentioning that Meng Qian's brother Meng Dao surrendered to the State of Jin, but he was always loyal. He even formed a relative with Li Keyong. His son Meng Zhixiang married Keyong's daughter as his wife, and became increasingly prominent after the State of Jin was changed to the Later Tang Dynasty. Later, Li Cunxu destroyed the Former Shu regime established by Wang Jian, and Meng Qian's nephew Meng Zhixiang took the opportunity to proclaim himself emperor according to Shu. Historically, it was known as Later Shu. Until Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin sent troops to attack, Meng Qian's nephew Meng Chang surrendered to the Song Dynasty? The country's destiny lasted for more than 30 years.

At least for now? Ensure that the Heyang Army's vassal states can also merge for their own forces. Have considered how to deploy troops? After continuing to advance to the military prefectures in the south, Li Tianqu turned his troops back, which was equivalent to making a circle around Bianzhou in the north. After meeting with the army that continued to attack and open the seal again, he found that the towering city walls of Kaifeng in Bianzhou were obviously much dilapidated.

At this moment, the Kaifeng city wall was already full of holes and devastated. The solidly built wall bricks collapsed on a large scale, and many locations around the city gate had collapsed. After Zhu Youyu ordered migrant workers to use wooden fences and bricks to quickly build them, and they were busy all day long around these collapsed places.

The confidant generals who were ordered to continue to attack the Feng Feng also left the camp to welcome Li Tianqu back. Among them, Wang Yanzhang took the lead in standing up and reported to him:

"King, Zhu Youyu is exhausted from dealing with our offensive. A few days ago, he sent dead soldiers out of the city at night, intending to destroy our siege equipment, but his trajectory was seen by the Cunshen brothers. Five thousand attacked the Liang army in the camp, but were ambushed by our army and almost all of them were annihilated. Now the Kaifeng defenders are even more depressed. It is only a matter of time to break through the city gate!"

Li Tianqu nodded with a smile, and encouraged several generals who had made contributions one after another, and then said again:

"Now Zheng Fan led the divine fire to escort the fierce fire, poisonous smoke shells, and the city of Kaifeng. Zhongwu and Heyang were all taken by our army, and it was almost a foregone conclusion. Now that the time is ripe, it is time to launch a full-scale attack on Kaifeng.

Zhu Youyu is Zhu Wen’s parent-child, and he must resist to the end. The lonely one will fulfill his determination to fight to the death with the city and the city is broken. Then he will take down Kaifeng, Bianzhou, and then declare that the world is the time for our army to dominate the Central Plains. It is time to plan the next great cause..."

The next day, Li Tianqu rode his horse again in the formation, raised his sword in his hand, and pointed at the Bianzhou Kaifeng in front of him. The army that was originally densely arranged in an instant moved. A group of huge military formations rushed forward neatly, and the soldiers from all departments shouted and killed each other, and pushed various siege equipment to advance forward continuously.

Above the head of Kaifeng City, although under the order of Zhu Youyu, the Liang army guarding the city quickly set up an array again to pour out countless sharp arrows. The two sides entered each other's range, and the dark cloud-like sharp arrows suddenly flew away. The sound of the crossbow creaking at first was very heavy, and then it made a sharp sound of breaking the wind, which seemed to be enough to shake people's eardrums. Extraordinary long crossbow arrows came out one after another, and they also roared towards the Kaifeng City Wall.

A large number of catapults began to start under the control of the sergeants. Heavy and huge stones were thrown high, making a whistling sound that made people feel thrilled. They fell from the air and fell heavily onto the city. They had to crush the flesh and blood on the ground, and then they broke into large pieces of bricks and stones and tiles collapsed!

In this offensive, after Li Tianqu returned to join forces, he led his army to immediately launch a suppressive blow to the head of Kaifeng City. A large number of defenders were caught off guard and were broken, and even crushed into a pool of flesh and blood. Although the soldiers squatting under the wall of the arrows and discs still had to fight back while the enemy attacked, many stones fell unstoppable rain. Even if they were hiding behind the wall, if they were not lucky, their bodies would still be thrown out with the gravel splashed by the smashed stone bullets, and of course they would be frightened.

What made the Kaifeng defenders even more frightened was that the sound of collapse not far away was getting louder and louder. The large area of ​​the city wall was hit by stone bombs, and it was already shaking, which inevitably led to a large-scale landslide!

"Hurry! The city wall over there is about to collapse, so I will immediately go and repair it!"

Seeing this, a Liang army general immediately shouted anxiously. However, before he finished speaking, he heard a military academy beside him panic and warned:

"Everyone will! Be careful!"

He was shocked to look up and saw more than a dozen shells hitting him straight, but the amount seemed to be a few circles smaller than the huge stones that hit the city wall. It was estimated that the momentum should not be enough to immediately collapse the still solid city wall. Even though he was with the soldiers around him, he immediately lowered his body and hid behind the wall of arrows and plates.

However, when the shells fell in the air, one of them hit Liang Jun for several steps. He vaguely seemed to see a burning fire on it. It hit the ground, but it did not make a violent impact. It sounded even more like the thick wine tanks and clay pots cracked...
Chapter completed!