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Kaifeng City is broken.

The news that the South Gate had been blown open and that a large number of thieves had poured in, and that they had rushed into the city along the streets were spread by the Ming soldiers who rushed from the South Gate along the city walls as volunteer propagandists.

"The walls are falling! The walls were blown down by thieves with a single cannon shot! ”

"The south gate is broken! The south gate is occupied by thieves! ”

"Governor Gao died in battle!"

"Wang Zhixian has surrendered!"

"General Chen is dead!"

"King Zhou's mansion is on fire!"

All kinds of rumors were created in an instant, and after countless people panicked by word of mouth, they were constantly spread by increasing the amount without increasing the price.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, the Ming army, which had already made up its mind, simply ran to the city, crossed the horn barrier backwards, and began to set fire to the city and loot it.

At the north gate and other places, Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu were also dizzy by the sudden bad news. Originally, he mobilized his troops to prepare for a counterattack on the imminent attack of the camp, but unexpectedly, news of the city was broken from the south gate!

"Mother's! We are frozen by the wind and snow in the city, and we are desperate with the thieves! Those who were officials, eunuchs, and rich and powerful lived in their homes to keep warm. Holding the little wife to drink and play cards, whatever! ”

Some people in the crowd of the Yoshiyong Taisha shouted without hesitation.

Originally, it was thought that the south of Caomen and the north of Songmen outside Dongcheng would be the main direction of attack of the peasant army, and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, as well as their main generals and elite troops, did appear here. Chen Yongfu transferred his main forces to wait in Dongcheng, preparing to fight desperately at the gap once the city was blown up. The Righteous and Brave Shrine composed of the squires in the city also transferred many elite Ding Yong to wait near the upper temple, and in case of emergency, immediately ascend the city to defend. But now. was hammered the waist.

"Mr. Chen, what should I do? We can't afford to lose land and fall into the domain! Gao Mingheng's eyes were about to drip blood.

"Do your best, know the destiny of heaven! My lord, you took Wang Xie, Huang Shu and others, and led half of the people of the Volunteer Shrine to the south of the city to prevent Hao from waving the flag. My dog Chen De and I stayed here to deal with Li Zicheng and Cao Cao's main force! ”

"Good! Mr. Chen, you and I will say goodbye! Gao Mingheng cleaned up his clothes, picked up the tea bowl on the table, and raised it respectfully towards Chen Yongfu, and the two drank the cold tea in the cup, and then threw it on the ground and smashed it.

The peasant army under the city was also thunderous, and the news that Gu Ying had broken through the south gate came. Immediately, the morale of the two generals was high.

While the flags were waving, another onslaught on the city walls began.

Hundreds of ladders rushed from the embankment behind the crowd directly to the bottom of the city and erected it.

In the front, the drums sounded like thunder, and more than 100,000 people shouted in unison, rendering the bloody battle of the siege at sunset more and more blood-red.

At night, the city of Kaifeng is still noisy.

Cao Gate was the first to be broken through, and Gao Mingheng, Huang Shu, Wang Xie and others who led the reinforcements to the south gate were surrounded by Yuan Zongdi's troops. Thousands of Ding Zhuang of the Volunteer Shrine were eaten up by the elite of Yuan Zongdi's subordinates in the blink of an eye, and they either died, surrendered or fled. Gao Mingheng and others were guarded by more than 100 people and family members. planned to find an opportunity to escape to the palace of King Zhou, and rely on the palace walls to defend it. However, how could Yuan Zongdi let these people get away?

"Fellow rebels! Since it is a crime of hanging the people, we are willing to follow King Chuang and open up a new world! Seeing the life-and-death situation, in history, like the national army, it advocated replacing soldiers with water. The Yellow River was opened, the water flooded Kaifeng, and Gao Mingheng and others, who let hundreds of thousands of people in the ancient capital of these dynasties die in the belly of the fish, immediately displayed their ancestral mastery, preparing to change another master. (However, the national army paid for it, and dozens of counties in the four provinces of Sulu, Henan, and Anhui were submerged.) Nearly a million people lost their lives, countless people were displaced, and the geographical term added the cost of a yellow flood area, which can be regarded as blocking the attack of more than 1,000 Japanese troops. However, the high governors did not block Li Zicheng's attack, but helped Lao Li and gave Chongzhen's classmate to the crooked neck tree. ）

"Humph! It's too late! When our army arrived in Kaifeng for the first time, you did not wait. When our army came to the city for the second time, you didn't wait, and today the city is broken, but you say that you want to follow King Chuang! Yuan Zongdi sneered and looked at Gao Mingheng and the others opposite, "If you tolerate your surrender, then in the future, will I be able to allow Wang Qiaonian's family to surrender?" ”

Wang Qiaonian, the governor of the three sides, was ordered by Chongzhen not long ago to order Mizhi County Bian Dashou to dig up the ancestral grave of Li Zicheng's family. Legend has it that there is an iron lamp in the ancestral tomb of Li Zicheng who was excavated by him, the light has not been extinguished, and a wooden plaque in front of the lamp has a line of words written: "This lamp is not extinguished, and the Li family is prosperous." Bian Dashou ordered the lamp to be blown out. Legend has it that after the lid of the coffin was pried open, he saw that the corpse had long yellow hair all over his body, and there was a small hole behind the skull, the size of a copper coin, and a small red snake was coiled in it, about three or four inches long, with two horns, and flew out, and flew a foot high, and stuck out his tongue towards the sun, and spit it out several times, and then fell down and died. Bian Dashou dried the little snake with wax and sent it to Xi'an with the skull. Wang Qiaonian sent someone to secretly send it to Beijing. The bones of other graves were scattered, some were burned, some were sprinkled with pig feces and pig's urine, and then thrown everywhere. Now this matter has spread in Xi'an, and everyone knows about it.

In all dynasties, digging ancestral graves is a hatred that is not shared, and more importantly, it is about the fate of a family, if it is really as rumored, Li Zicheng's ancestral tomb is really lit with a lamp, and there is a little red snake that has given birth to horns and has a dragon that will fly, and now the lamp has been blown out, the red snake was killed, and was sent to Beijing by Wang Qiaonian, isn't this dragon vein cut off?

How can such a deep hatred be forgiven?

Although Gao Mingheng and others did not dig up the ancestral grave of the Li family, they also resisted Li Zicheng's army and shot and wounded Li Zicheng.

"You wait for this group of killers, if you fight to the end, this general will have to respect you for being a good man, and now you want to surrender when you see that the situation is not good? Boys, let go of the arrows! If he can't shoot to death, the general will allow him to surrender! ”

Random arrows flew through the air, and Gao Mingheng, Huang Shu, Wang Xie and others were shot similar to the hedgehogs.

Along the pre-demarcated area, the two Chuang Cao families began to capture Kaifeng City.

The city was suddenly ablaze with fires, and the sound of killing continued.

Only the Zhou Wang's family, under the escort of the eight hundred guards who had been fed with silver on weekdays, hurriedly fled outside the city when the two families of Chuang Cao had not been killed in the Zhou Wang's mansion. Flee along the banks of the Yellow River. Perhaps it was Zhu Yuanzhang's classmate who blessed him with the spirit of heaven, and his family happened to encounter more than a dozen boats that were empty and ready to walk in the direction of the canal, and the group could be regarded as escaping. He became the second prince to lose his domain after King Fuku. (I'm curious, why are there empty boats at this time?) It must be that I opened it the wrong way! As for why there is a boat at this time and place, it is the opinion of the benevolent and the wise.

By midnight, the fighting in the city had largely subsided. Li Zicheng and Cao Cao each marched into Kaifeng with their own troops. The generalissimo of Fengtian advocating righteousness and civil and military affairs who broke into the camp was set up in the palace of the king of Zhou, and Cao Cao's general Xingyuan of the general Weide on behalf of the people was set up in the palace of Yingcheng County.

In the entire Kaifeng City, there is still a war in the direction of the upper temple.

Liu Fangliang and Liu Tichun led thousands of troops and horses to besiege, and Chen Yongfu and his son took hundreds of their own families and more than 1,000 nominal bravery, relying on the high walls of the temple to defend tenaciously.

A gong sounded, and the soldiers and horses besieging the temple above retreated like a tide. Chen Yongfu and his son breathed a sigh of relief. Chen De sat on the ground, dipped the long knife full of blood in water, and wiped it vigorously. On his body, the red tassel on his helmet has long since disappeared. The cuirass was splattered with blood. The quiver behind his back was already empty, and the bronze arm and iron-tired bow that made him famous even broke the bowstring, and he was pitifully discarded aside.

Chen Yongfu handed his son a life-saving bag and motioned for him to treat the wounds on his hands first. was rejected by Chen De with a smile: "Dad, no need, as soon as the morning dawns, my father and son will probably come to an end." ”

Chen Yongfu's eyes flashed with love, and his wife died early. This son was raised by him single-handedly, and he is a father. is a mother again, and her feelings for her son are full of double love. And his son Chen De also lived up to his expectations, with extraordinary skills, famous in Kaifeng Mansion, and a good shot of arrows.

In the Ming army, martial arts are respected, and Chen De's bravery. gave Chen Yongfu, who is a father, a big long face, and every time he chatted with the generals and talked about his son, he was full of praise, saying that his tiger father had no dog. Let Chen Yongfu's vanity be greatly satisfied.

Now that his son said such words, he couldn't help but make Chen Yongfu's heart sad.

The lights flickered among the camping team outside the wall, and a somewhat familiar figure appeared in Chen Yongfu's field of vision.

"Lord Chen's deceased is visiting, can we meet?"

"The Great Monk has arrived? It's okay, you can do a super dojo with my father and son and these more than 1,000 soldiers! ”

In the middle of a question and an answer, the two armies dodged a vacancy, revealing the fat body of Monk Yongxin. A few pikemen on the high wall made a gap and invited Monk Yongxin to come in.

I haven't seen him for a few months, and this Yongxin monk has gained a lot of weight. The brocade robes on his body are a little small. The gold and silver threads on it glittered in the light.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, but the great monk is wide in heart and fat. But I don't know if the great monk is not in the temple to practice and serve the Buddha, what is he doing on this Shura field of swords, soldiers, water and fire? ”

"Senior brother doesn't know. The little monk came today, one is the temple above the temple is the lower courtyard of our temple, lest there be a loss, so he came to check one or two. Second, it is also for the poor life and death of Xian Qiaozi. ”

"For my father and son?" Chen Yongfu keenly felt that things would not be as simple as he guessed. I'm afraid that Li Zicheng won't kill his father and son so lightly.

"Dare to ask Senior Brother, how are the walls here compared to the city walls?"

Answer: "Not really." ”

"The little monk asked the senior brother again, can the soldiers and horses here be compared with before the city was broken?"

Answer: "No. ”

"Senior brother," Master Yongxin sighed and said, "It's not a secret, on the way to the little monk, he saw that the camp had already pulled the cannon into Bianliang City. The rumored dragon and tiger battalion also entered the city, but they defeated Abatai to ashes. The first to blow open the south gate was the Zhenshan Battalion of General Luo Hu's headquarters. More importantly, before entering the city, the generalissimo strictly ordered the army to rectify discipline and not kill people indiscriminately after entering the city. Senior brother, your family members are all in the house, and there are people sent by the Chinese army to protect them, and not a single grass or tree has been damaged. If there is any reason why the senior brother can continue to fight, please inform the little monk. ”

Chen Yongfu sank his face: "The great monk is here, but he is here to be a lobbyist, let me be the disloyal and unrighteous person?" ”

Master Yongxin said with a righteous face: "Senior brother, this is wrong, the little monk is here for the loyalty of the whole senior brother and the righteousness of the senior brother." The so-called loyalty. It is the meaning of loyalty to the Lord, the so-called righteousness, and the great man of chivalry is for the country and the people. Today, Chongzhen has no way, the people don't have a good life, don't say anything else, then run the horse Chongzhen. Flower beggars don't want it yet. Not to mention the people's livelihood, Kaifeng City is full of hunger, not to mention Henan, which is ravaged by floods and droughts. Senior brother, you must know that loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness are also divided into great benevolence and righteousness and foolishness, loyalty and filial piety. If you really have the word loyalty in your heart, then killing Chongzhen is loyal to the Lord, and a counterattack is righteousness. ”

"My father and son have killed and injured a lot of soldiers and horses, and I even shot and wounded the king. Even if the king doesn't care, can the generals of the camp not take it to heart? "Chen De is young. Frank and outspoken. Speak out your inner doubts like arrows.

Monk Yongxin has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he knows people's hearts well, and by the flickering of the lights, he has seen the strange light in Chen De's eyes, and this inadvertent light makes him see Chen De's inner psychological changes. From Fang Cai's single-minded fight to the end, it turned into a desire for life.

However, the stakes are high, and it is not something that he can do as a monk. Haha, put his hands together: "Senior brother." Virtuous nephew, it is better for the little monk to go back and inform King Chuang of Xian Qiaozi's intentions, and ask King Chuang to decide. However, senior brother, before leaving, the little monk has something to explain to the senior brother clearly. King Chuang is now the generalissimo of Fengtian and advocating righteousness, and he is determined to beg thieves in Fengtian, sweep the world, and clear the world, so he is thirsty for talent. Have real skills. The generalissimo, naturally, will not be treated badly. With the ability of the senior brother and father, once he falls under the command of King Chuang, he must have made great achievements. ”

"What if I vote for the king?" Chen Yongfu smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand and took Chen De's bronze arm and iron tire bow with a broken bowstring, "Please ask senior brother to present King Chuang on his behalf." My father and son are waiting here. ”

Master Yongxin is gone. The battlefield where the two sides were fighting for life and death fell silent, except for the occasional sound of the wind blowing through the flag, which brought a slight smell of burnt. After a while, there was a commotion in the positions of the peasant army.

A large number of men and horses rushed from a distance, and the sound of footsteps and armor weapons colliding became more and more, and the rumbling of horses' hooves continued.

The team separated, and it was still Master Yongxin who appeared in front of Chen Yongfu and his son with a smile under the illumination of a few lanterns.

"Senior brother, the generalissimo ordered me to return this thing to Zhao." Monk Yongxin took the hard bow from the hand of the attendant beside him, and the bowstring that had been broken just now had been replaced with a new one. Next to the hard bow, a quiver was full of wolf's teeth and feather arrows. "King Chuang has something else to say. If Xian Qiaozi is unwilling to surrender to the righteous army and help the king to fight the thief, the righteous army will get out of the way and ask General Chen to lead his subordinates and dependents to leave Bianliang, and everyone will see you in the future. ”

"This?" Chen Yongfu was a little speechless.

Two horses came out of the group on the opposite side, and under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers, the people on the horses were like stars and moons.

A rough voice sounded like thunder: "Chen Yongfu, I am Liu Zongmin, who is under the command of King Chuang!" The brothers who broke into the camp all called me the chief whistle Liu Ye! The generalissimo ordered me to bring you a word, each on the battlefield is its master, everyone has no eyes for swords and guns, it is nothing! Our brothers respect your father and son's character and ability, and are willing to work with you to create a peaceful world for the people of the world! ”

With the help of the light of the lantern torches, Chen De could see very clearly that the person who spoke was nearly forty years old, very burly, with an angular face and a face full of wind and frost. The face is rough and bold, like a steel needle and a halberd with a short beard. He was wearing an iron helmet, wearing three layers of iron armor, two long knives hanging from his waist, and a red cloak on the outside of the armor, which looked majestic, and it was Liu Zongmin, the general of the camp.

At the head of Liu Zongmin, Luo Rucai, the coach of Cao Ying, sat immediately.

"General Chen, my generalissimo cherishes your father and son, lest you worry about King Chuang tangling with old things. Specially invite a certain family to come and testify, if the generalissimo is entangled in the actions of your father and son when he attacked the seal, he will be like this. ”

A junior colonel quickly stepped forward and raised the two severed arrows above his head, inviting Chen Yongfu and his son to watch.

Chen Yongfu gave a salute from afar: "Dare to ask if the commander is General Luo Rucai, who is known as Cao Cao?" ”

Chen Yongfu is called Luo Rucai's name in the peasant army. Luo Rucai smiled secretly, there is a door, and the title has changed. So Luo Rucai said: "Don't dare to be, Lao Tzu is just a reckless man who can't get used to some things and raises troops to beg thieves." However, you must have heard of Lao Tzu's reputation, some say that Lao Tzu is a thief, and some say that Lao Tzu is greedy for children's jade silk, greedy for wine and lustful, but it is not said that Lao Tzu's words do not count. Lao Tzu is here today to be a middleman for the generalissimo and to be a witness! ”

At dawn, Chen Yongfu and his son led their troops out of the upper temple. Declared to submit to Li Zicheng's righteous army, and begged for thieves for the people of the world.

The Battle of Kaifeng ended with Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's troops conquering this Tokyo Bianliang.

The harvest of the battle is undoubtedly huge for the two families.

How much wealth is there in Kaifeng City? How many supplies were hoarded? All it takes is two numbers to illustrate this.

In history, Gao Mingheng and others dug up the Yellow River, after Kaifeng was flooded. After Li Zicheng waited for the water to recede, he entered the city and salvaged 9 million taels of silver. Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, also sent people to Kaifeng to salvage, and also fished out hundreds of thousands of taels.

At this time, Kaifeng was neither flooded, nor did it experience the war damage caused by the long-term siege, and the wealth accumulated was naturally more.

"Brother Li, we've made a fortune this time!"

Listening to the opera troupe and singers of the Zhou Wangfu singing in their ears, and looking at the property accounts copied from the palaces, official offices, treasury, and official gentry's homes sent by the old camp secretary, Luo Rucai smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into a line.

When they entered the city, the two families had already agreed. Regional garrisons have been demarcated. Moreover, the military discipline after entering the city was also fully emphasized: "Only copy the official office, the palace, and the gentry and grain households." Ordinary people are not allowed to harass, and buyers and sellers are not allowed to act arbitrarily! Violators of the order will be punished on the spot! ”

Originally! Some middle- and low-level officers muttered in their hearts, there are so many big officials, princes, and gentlemen who don't rob them, but rob ordinary people? Are your heads burned? Have meat to gnaw on bones, and then carry an infamy?

Although the words of these grassroots officers of the Cao family are rough, they are a very real existence.

Since the Jin Dynasty moved its capital to Kaifeng in 1161 A.D., it has been operating hard. Although there is no restoration of the old view of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is north of the Yangtze River. It's the biggest and busiest city. After another seventy-three years, when the Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, because Jin Aizong fled to Caizhou (now Runan) in advance, Kaifeng was also destroyed by the war, but it was not very strict. Of course, it ceased to be the capital of a country from then on. Nor can it maintain the weather and scale of the past. At the moment of the alternation of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Xu Dabing went to Chenqiao, and the defenders of the Yuan Dynasty surrendered without a fight, so that this famous city was not damaged by fire. Zhu Yuanjin sealed his fifth son, Zhu Hu, in Kaifeng and called him King of Zhou. The palace city of the Northern Song Dynasty was built as the palace of the king of Zhou. From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to this time, after nearly 300 years without war, Kaifeng City has always been singing and dancing. It is located in the Central Plains, the Yellow River is only seven or eight miles away from the north gate, Suizhou in the east has a canal to the south can still be navigated, there is the convenience of water and land transportation, so the business is prosperous, so that Xi'an is far behind it, and Luoyang can not be compared with it. What's even worse is that in recent years, because the states, prefectures, and counties have been devastated by war or threatened by severe zhòng, the number of wealthy squires fleeing to the provincial capital has increased, and the number of households in Kaifeng has increased greatly, with a population of about one million. (It's a bit like Shanghai in the old days, isn't it?) ）

Unlike the shallow-based nouveau riche of King Fu, the Zhou Dynasty is an old feudal king who has been in Kaifeng since the Hongwu period. For more than 200 years, the king of Zhou has resolutely strictly restrained himself in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, only making money and harming the people to create people, and has never asked about political affairs and has no ambition at all. For more than two hundred years, both the immediate family members of the Zhou Wangfu and the accumulated wealth have become an astronomical amount. However, as soon as Kaifeng City was destroyed, these things became the trophies of the peasant army.

The second generation of Zhou Wang's name is Zhu Youstew, the overflow of the Xian King, Huidu Song lyrics, wrote many scripts, raised male and female opera troupes in the house, played miscellaneous dramas, legends, and is very famous in the country. Although the sound skills in the Zhou Palace's mansion are not as good as those of the previous generation, they are still unmatched by the palaces all over the country. Every day from dusk to late at night, the palace sings and dances endlessly, and the sound of silk and bamboo gongs and drums drifts outside the Forbidden City from time to time, just as a poem of the Great Liang people says: "The palace hears the drums day and night, and remembers the new music house of King Xian." ”

There are so many rich, food, and powerful people, and they can grab a lot of good things by smashing open the deep mansion compound, not to mention, now everyone is a person who has seen the world, and it is difficult for ordinary second-class property to enter the eyes of everyone.

In this way, after entering the city, the palaces, official residences, and large households have become the preferred targets of everyone, followed by the official offices everywhere. After a hundred years of accumulation of the Zhou king, the county kings, the sect people, and the guests of honor (the Ming system, the son-in-law of the prince and the prince of the county is called the guest of honor. The accumulated wealth became the spoils of war for the peasant army. However, among these trophies, most of those opera troupes and singers and dancers were given to Cao Cao's camp by Li Zicheng.

"Xiao Wu," Li Zicheng called his generalissimo Wu Ruyi, "have the merchants in the city been harassed?" ”

"Nope. After entering the city, the brothers were able to buy and sell fairly. ”

"Okay, Lao Luo, let Xiao Wu go to the city to find people who have dealings with Nanzhong merchants, and my righteous army wants to do big business with them!"

"What are you going to do?" Cao Cao was full of disdain, "Brother Li, you are really smart and confused for a while." Outside the city is the Yellow River, let Xiao Wu and Wang Long go to Shandong, what can't they buy? Looking for it in the city, don't you also have to go to Shandong to see Master Li? Luo Rucai didn't raise his head, just put his hands up and down on the singer in his arms.

"It's good! Let Wang Long and Xiao Wu go to Shandong, Luo Hu, Chen De, Wang Si, Gu Ying and others will train the new army of our righteous army! ”

Listening to Li Zicheng's arrangement, Luo Rucai stopped his hand slightly, his eyes blinked a few times, and then he continued to rub the singer Jiaojiao. (To be continued......)