"King Gao Chuang, now that Ruxiang and Lingbao have been conquered by our righteous army, and Henan Minggou has fled far away, how will we act next?"

Next to Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, a general dressed in a blue tight-fitting military uniform and wearing a Fan Yang felt hat, such a signature costume, asked Gao Yingxiang for instructions. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A sneer flashed on Gao Yingxian's face, but his eyes were full of greed.

He leaned sideways and whispered to Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng's eyes lit up, his eagle hooked his nose, and he nodded again and again and said loudly: "Zhong, Zhong, Zhong, the king's good plan, I will go down and convey it!" ”

A day later, the various streams of gangsters gathered in Ruxiang and Lingbao began to act separately according to Gao Yingxiang's order.

Zhang Miaoshou, passing through the two heavenly stars, went north from Mianchi, and made a posture of attacking Huaiqing Mansion.

Lao Hui and Scorpion Block are two parts, and they will go south to the Lu family, and it seems that they are going south from here to attack Nanyang Mansion.

And Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng led most of their troops and horses to the southeast to attack Runing and Yiyang, as if they wanted to attack Luoyang from here.

When the Liukou army was moving separately, the Ming army sentinel quickly reported the movements of the Liukou to Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces who was sitting in Kaifeng City.

This day is the tenth day of November in the eighth year of Chongzhen.

It was on this day that Li Xiaojun, who set off from Shanxian County, Shandong, arrived at Kaifeng City.

The soldiers led by Li Xiao mainly included most of the Iron Dragon Battalion and a general army of the Chifeng Battalion, and only a small part of the soldiers of the Iron Dragon Battalion were left, under the command of Mo Changrong, the deputy commander of the Iron Dragon Battalion, to guard the Iron Dragon City.

Among them, the soldiers and horses of the Tielong Battalion are 10 teams of shield soldiers, 20 teams of spearmen, 600 auxiliary soldiers, 200 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, and 200 flying harrier light cavalry.

The total number of soldiers and horses of the Chifeng Battalion is 15 teams of shield soldiers, 30 teams of spearmen, 600 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 600 flying harrier light cavalry, 600 rampant sentry, and 50 Lu Mi gunners.

Li Xiao did not bring artillery troops, but he brought 100 trebuchets and a large number of earth-shattering thunderbolts.

In this way, Li Xiao's total strength was 2,550 shield soldiers in 25 teams, 5,100 spearmen in 50 teams, 1,200 auxiliary soldiers, 800 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 800 flying harriers, 600 rampant sentinels, and 50 Lu Mi gunners, with a total of more than 11,000 soldiers and horses.

According to Li Xiao's arrangement, in the army that went out this time, the generals who led the troops were all fierce generals who could recruit and fight habitually, specifically as follows, the Tielong Battalion was led by Monk An, and the deputy was Feng Shuangli, and the general soldiers and horses of the Chifeng Battalion were led by Tian Wei, and the deputy was Li Dingguo.

As for Li Xiao himself, he had already selected 100 elite soldiers from the cavalry of the Chifeng Battalion, led by Li Haoran, the son of Li Maofang, the governor of Shandong, as personal guards.

Li Xiaojun, who was rolling in the iron stream and marching neatly, traveled all the way west along the Yellow River, passing through Cao County, Yifeng, Lanyang, and finally arrived outside Kaifeng City.

Along the way, looking at the embankment of the Yellow River that was far above his head and seemed to be hanging in mid-air, Li Xiao had a strange illusion.

He always thought that if the embankment of the river broke, the turbid waves and raging waters of the Yellow River would probably fall from the sky, destroying his own army, as well as the vast plains and wilderness on both sides, and the cities and villages dotted with cities, villages, and towns.

The Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, was also soaked in the blood and tears of the people on both sides of the river when it fed the Chinese civilization.

In history, during Li Zicheng's third Kaifeng battle, in order to force the Kaifeng defenders to surrender, he dug the embankment of the Yellow River and drowned millions of living people.

Xing, the people suffer, and death, it is also the people suffering.

When Li Xiao sighed in his heart, there were two other people in his army, and they were even more emotional.

These two people are Aixin Jueluo, who is a Xuanhu heavy cavalry. Ebilun, and Ilgen Jueluo, who is an ordinary member of the rampant sentry. Chata.

After the two joined Li Xiao's army, they both found that this army was fundamentally different from the Liaodong Ming army they had encountered before. This army has a strict system, strict training, highly effective brainwashing education, and strict military rules for rewards and punishments, and it is strictly and orderly in all aspects of the soldiers' thinking, training, work style, and rewards.

In the arduous and rigorous training every day, in the ideological education of reciting slogans aloud every day, and in the forced cultural study, the Chinese proficiency of the two of them has improved rapidly, and they have become more and more identified with Li Xiaojun and have a sense of mission to serve him.

And the longer and longer hair, and the Hanfu they wear every day, make both of them have a strange feeling, that is, they seem to be more and more accustomed to the way of life of the Han people, and the habits of the Eight Banners raised in the white mountains and black waters seem to be becoming more and more strange.

Who the hell am I?

Is it the Jurchens or the Han Chinese?

Or is it nothing?

Ebirun and Chata often ask themselves the same questions in their minds.

However, both of them got a clear answer from Li Xiaojun's military officials in the Supervision Department, that is: "Yi into Xia Zexia, from the time they grew their hair and wore Hanfu and joined Li Xiaojun, they have been a member of the Han people." ”

Although this explanation makes the two of them feel quite awkward in their hearts, but with the gradual passage of time, the two seem to agree more and more with their own cultural positioning.

Among them, Chatta, who came three months earlier, became more thorough, and in order to express his complete allegiance to Li Xiao, he even changed his surname, changing "Yiergen Jueluo" to the Han "Yin" surname.

His behavior immediately led to the ridicule of his colleagues and comrades-in-arms, and those who had good deeds even joked that Chata, you guy, was actually a Han surnamed Yin, and after his ancestors went to the northeast to join the Jurchen tribe, he changed his surname to Ilgen Jueluo.

Chata was overjoyed when he heard this, and said busily, this matter can be true, then I will change my surname to Yin now, wouldn't I recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors.

His answer sparked laughter from the crowd of rampant sentinels.

Now, the two of them are going to Henan with Li Xiaojun, and both of them secretly swear in their hearts that they will rely on their own hard work, make more military achievements, and strive to get ahead in Li Xiaojun's army as soon as possible.

After an eight-day trek, Li Xiaojun finally arrived outside Kaifeng within the specified time limit.

"Enter his mother, this Kaifeng City, the majestic end, seems to be bigger than Jinan City." Some of his soldiers were muttering quietly.

When he saw the tall and majestic figure of Kaifeng Mansion from afar, Li Xiao was also quite shocked in his heart.

The whole Kaifeng city, the circumference of the city is estimated to be nearly 30 miles, the shape of the city is like an irregular rectangle with an inverted fillet corner, the whole city is covered with green bricks, the huge city wall of up to 15 meters wide and about 10 meters wide, there are five city gates, the fortress tower, the corner tower, the sheep and horse wall, the urn city, the female wall, the battlement and other defensive measures are all there, the defense of the whole city is very solid and solid.

In particular, the ditch around the city that draws water from the water is very eye-catching, and there are four moats, each of which is about 50 zhang wide, and the depth is estimated to be 4 or 5 zhang. At the crosses of the five gates, all the gates were built with a drawbridge, which was made of thick and wide elm locust wood, thick and long, and rested on the moat like a pontoon bridge.

Li Xiao noticed that when his army marched towards Kaifeng, there were quite a few people outside the city, and they were also rushing to Kaifeng City.

Now that the Central Plains is in turmoil, the local wealthy families and people in Henan Province who have conditions regard Kaifeng, Luoyang and other big cities as their last support, and they think that they can finally save their lives by hiding in the big cities.

Driven by this mentality, the population of the ancient city of Kaifeng has reached 8.9 million in a few years, and there is still a steady stream of people pouring into the city every day.

When Li Xiaojun was about to arrive outside the city gate, the light cavalry that Li Xiao had previously sent to the city to liaise with had already brought several Lu Xiangsheng's guards to Li Xiao.

"My lord, please go to Governor Lu's palace as soon as possible. Your soldiers, Lord Lu has already arranged a camp, please order your army to rest in the camp with you. ”

Li Xiao nodded, and then ordered Monk An and Tian Wei to enter the camp with two of the guards to rest, while he took Li Haoran and a group of guards, along with the other two guards, into the city to the governor's palace.

Entering the city, Li Xiao found that although there were wars in various parts of Henan, there was still a prosperous atmosphere in Kaifeng City.

The whole Kaifeng City, there are a lot of streets and alleys, the buildings such as houses, shops, wine shops, hotels, temples and other buildings are intertwined, there are a lot of pedestrians on the bluestone slab street, the homeless people in shabby clothes and ragged clothes are even more like cattle hair, the crowd of people of three religions and nine streams is rubbing shoulders one after another, and all kinds of shouting and selling and begging are coming and going.

What impressed Li Xiao the most was that there were a lot of various memorial arches in Kaifeng City, and on the streets and alleys, when was the merit archway, and the first archway, the chaste archway and the like, it was lined up one after another, full of eyes.

A pink handkerchief fell from the sky and landed on the head of the guard captain Li Haoran's horse.

Li Haoran looked up, but saw a carved octagonal window open on a white-walled high-rise building, and several young women dressed up in charming and seductive clothes were looking at him eating and laughing.

"Childe, you are such a talent, which makes the slave family envious. Come up and play with us. A woman leaned out and shouted, covered her mouth and laughed.

"Yes, yes, the slave family has rubbed the best Suzhou rouge, and I am about to give my son a taste." Another woman shouted coquettishly, and flew a wink at Li Haoran.

Li Haoran picked up the champa from the horse's head, a smile appeared on his face, and he was about to say a few words to those Chunlou women, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Li Xiao's serious expression on the side, he was stunned, and the expression on his face immediately returned to a tense look.

He hesitated a little more, and then threw the champa away.

In the regretful voices of the women upstairs behind, Li Haoran solemnly beat his horse forward and never looked back.

"It is difficult to see the sea as water, except for Liangyuan, it is always a village."

Walking all the way, Li Xiao in his mind, for some reason, suddenly remembered the Northern Song Dynasty horse Chai Zongqing, these two famous sentences that have been recited through the ages, and suddenly felt inexplicable emotion in his heart.

Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, used to be as prosperous as a dream, a "Qingming Upper River Map", so how many Chinese are haunted by dreams.

It's just that Kaifeng, a historical city, was destroyed by the butcher's knife of the Jin people in the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was destroyed by Li Zicheng, and a monstrous flood would destroy everything in this prosperous city.

In front of Li Xiao's eyes, the noisy citizens, merchants, scholars, monks, beggars and even prostitutes and other people in the streets and alleys, their expressions were either happy or sad, laughing or angry, and they were all in various shapes, and they were not heavy. It's just that none of them will know that in the near future, they will be buried forever in the depths of history with this prosperous city in the monstrous flood, in the blood and tears, and make future generations sigh.

This kind of fatalistic and sad ending made Li Xiao's heart heavy and inexplicably heavy.

When I came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, can I really change history?

Li Xiao kept asking himself in his heart.

Li Xiao and the others watched the market weather all the way, and after turning a few streets and alleys, they arrived at Lu Xiangsheng's governor's palace.

Kaifeng is the capital of Henan Province, Kaifeng Prefecture is located, Xiangfu County is attached to Guo, the provincial, government and county three-level official offices are gathered in one place, and the official offices are all in the southwest of Zhou Wangfu. With the Bell Tower as the center, the Chief Secretary for Administration is located on the West Street of the Bell Tower, and the Command and Embassy Office is located on the East Street of the Bell Tower, and there are Divisions such as the Judicial Division, the Prison Division, the Governor's Office, and the Experience Division.

Around these offices, the surrounding is a continuous residence of officials and rich people, high walls and red doors, magnificent houses, those who live here, either rich or expensive, this area, is a famous rich area in Kaifeng City.

The Governor's Mansion of Lu Xiangsheng was temporarily rebuilt by the Kaifeng Municipal Government, which was very close to the provincial capital and the Zhou Palace, with an open atmosphere and strict guards.

After ordering Li Haoran to wait nearby with his own guards, Li Xiao entered with the guards.

When Li Xiaofang entered the meeting hall, he found that in this room, all kinds of generals were already gathered together.

It turned out that after Lu Xiangsheng got the report of the sentry, he immediately called the leaders of the generals in Kaifeng to discuss the latest developments of the Liukou.

Li Xiao came today, but it was just the right time.

On a long red lacquer table, Lu Xiangsheng sat on the head, and on both sides sat Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, Zu Dale, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, Zu Kuan, the deputy chief soldier of the aid and suppression, Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, Zuo Liangyu, the governor of Kaifeng, Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Suizhou, Luo Ju, the general soldier of Suizhou, Tang Jiuzhou, the chief soldier of Huaiqing, Li Bei, the chief soldier of Ruzhou, and the deputy general Liu Zhaoji, guerrilla Luo Dai and other generals.

Liu Zeqing turned his head to see that it was Li Xiao who had arrived, and immediately snorted coldly and didn't look at him again.

Li Xiao caught a glimpse of Liu Zeqing, and his heart was also full of contempt, he went straight into the room, and pretended to ignore him.

Zu Dale and Zu Kuan, who were in front, saw Li Xiao come in, their faces showed surprise, and they all stood up to greet Li Xiao, Li Xiao smiled and hugged his fists one by one in return.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Li Xiao is late with the army, please forgive me." Li Xiao respectfully bowed to Lu Xiangsheng at the head of the table.

"It's not too late, it's not too late, it's better to come early than to come by chance, Mr. Li, please sit down quickly."

Lu Xiangsheng, who was at the top, smiled and made a gesture to Li Xiao to invite him to sit down.

Li Xiao sat down at the end of the table, and Luo Dai, a guerrilla general next to him, threw a friendly smile at him, and Li Xiao also smiled and nodded to him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, as soon as Li Xiao came, the governor will ask him to tell General Li about the information that our army has obtained."

After Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, he motioned to a staff official on the side, and loudly told everyone in the room about the dynamics of the rogue.

"grandma! Gao Yingxiang's guy divided his troops into the north, middle and south routes, what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd. If I were the leader of the Liukou, with these more than 200,000 troops under my command, I would have rushed straight to Luoyang in one fell swoop, and I would have divided into bird soldiers! ”

As soon as the staff finished speaking, Zu Kuan's loud voice immediately sounded.

After Zu Kuan finished speaking, he scratched his head, his mouth snorted, and his face was puzzled.

Seeing Zu Kuan's outspoken words, Zu Dale hurriedly coughed twice in a low voice, glaring at Zu Kuan.

Zu Kuan knew that he was speechless, pursed his lips, and bowed his head silently.

Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly, he glanced at Zu Kuan, and said loudly to the generals in the room: "Everyone, now that the enemy situation is like this, what is the movement of the enemy army, but where it wants to attack, please speak freely one by one." ”

After Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, he looked around, but there was silence in the room.

Li Xiao also twisted his eyebrows and thought carefully, without making a sound.

At this time, Chen Yongfu, the chief soldier of Kaifeng, stood up with a thoughtful expression. He bowed to Lu Xiangsheng; "Governor Lu, there is an analysis below, I want to talk to you, and the right is to throw bricks and lead jade."

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly said: "Mr. Chen doesn't have to be polite, please come quickly." (To be continued.) )