A small victory won't change the big picture!

Although Tu Rire dreamed of helping the emperor to re-establish the world, in fact, the victory he achieved was even not worth mentioning, and even before Tu Rire had time to celebrate the victory, Kaifeng was already under siege. Although limited by the strength of the loyal and righteous army did not implement an iron barrel siege of Kaifeng City, the current Kaifeng is like a siege because of the closed city gate.

Kaifeng at this time, not only the city gate is closed, even the city gate is also sealed with bricks and limestone, the city wants to go out, but only by bribing the generals to defend the city, and then use the hanging basket to release from the city wall, want to get out of the city, no one does not have two hundred taels of silver is impossible, if the city is now besieging the Qing army or the old thieves, not to mention two hundred taels, that is, five hundred taels, one thousand taels, there are also people who are willing to sit in the hanging basket out of the city, but now because the siege of the city is the loyal army, knowing that the Ming army will never slaughter the city, Naturally, I won't spend that unjust money.

And if people outside the city want to enter Kaifeng, they have to spend more troubles, spend more money, and even need someone to guarantee it.

Will someone come into town at this time?

Of course someone went into town!

Although it takes a lot of trouble, there are always people who will do everything possible to enter the city, just like Xu Yuncheng, in order to enter Kaifeng City, he did not take a lot of trouble, first through the relationship of the students, sent the letter into Kaifeng City, handed it to the students who were staff members in the governor's yamen, and then entered Kaifeng City with the help of the student.

On the city in the night, when he walked out of the hanging basket, Xu Yuncheng, who was on the top of the wall, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and finally came in from outside the city! Although it took a lot of twists and turns and really spent some money, for Xu Yuncheng who entered the city, as long as he entered the city, he had completed the first step.

"Teacher, why do you have to come to Kaifeng at this time?"

Standing beside the teacher, Song Yuquan's tone was full of incomprehension.

"Nature is for the sake of the world! For the 100,000 people in Kaifeng City! ”

When the soldiers on the side listened to this, they looked at Xu Yuncheng's face with admiration, especially when they saw his awe-inspiring appearance. The soldiers naturally looked grateful, and even the commander on the city wall was anxious to return the silver, and after some pretense, the silver naturally did not return.

Song Yuquan, who refused to return the total money and already knew his intention from the teacher's letter, only thought that the teacher had come to the city to be a lobbyist, and asked softly.

"Teacher, I'm afraid that it will not be easy for you to meet the Governor these days, and the Governor has been busy with affairs these days......

"It's okay, as long as you send the sticker for the teacher, he will naturally meet the teacher."

Xu Yuncheng looked towards the city with some conceit, his expression and tone were as if he was here to save the world......

Since the Qing army suffered a crushing defeat in Zhuxian Town, although Liu Qingtai in Kaifeng City had the intention of serving the imperial court, he was like an ant on a hot pot, anxiously waiting for the arrival of rescuers north of the Yellow River, but he knew better than anyone that it was impossible for the imperial court to send reinforcements.

To be honest, even Liu Qingtai himself is still there, what is the use of continuing to stay in Kaifeng like this? Even as the governor of Henan, he clearly realized that Kaifeng was now an isolated city, and even if he held it, there was no point.

Even the reason why Kaifeng can persist until now is all thanks to the rain that has fallen for a few days in a row, which is not too big or small, but it is just right to make the loyal army unable to give full play to its advantages. After the Battle of Suqian, the Loyal and Righteous Army began to be equipped with a large number of firearms, from the six-coin firearm to the current nine-coin firearm, field artillery, mortar artillery, mortars and other firearms fully improved the combat effectiveness of the Loyal and Righteous Army, but the dependence on firearms also made the army have certain requirements for weather conditions, although they must learn to load ammunition and fire in the rain, but in order to ensure combat effectiveness, in rainy days, the Loyal Army will choose to defend, rather than attack.

In this regard, Liu Qingtai had already learned about it from the prisoners captured by the scouts, and while secretly calling it a fluke, he also knew that there would always be a clear day in this rain, and once the weather cleared, the attack would soon begin. At that time, whether the city wall of Kaifeng, which had been in disrepair for a long time, could withstand the shelling of the Ming army was a question.

Liu Qingtai, as a banner man, knows very well that the city walls all over the country have not been repaired since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, even in the capital, for the Qing Dynasty from outside the Guan, entering China is just a fluke, and it is also extremely squeezing China, and he does not regard this place as his home at all, so naturally he can't talk about repairing his home, and even from top to bottom, he has already thought about it, and once the Han people counterattacked, he returned to his hometown outside the Guanwai. Under such a mentality, the city wall will naturally not be repaired in this place, let alone the Kaifeng city wall, even the city wall of Jingshi is also overgrown with weeds.

The disrepair of the city wall made Liu Qingtai have little confidence to hold Kaifeng, and the activities of the loyal and righteous army outside the city may have been aware of the crisis. Although the rain stopped the attack of the loyal army, it did not stop them from dispatching their troops - several river boats brought more than a dozen huge cannons, which now stood on the embankment of the Yellow River, pointing at Kaifeng City.

Once the weather is fine, maybe dozens of cannons can blast open the Kaifeng city wall.

In fact, Liu Qingtai didn't know that the reason why the loyal and righteous army under the city was waiting was waiting for these twelve 40-pound guns, this kind of heavy artillery was not a field gun, but a coastal defense artillery, and it was also the first batch of heavy artillery cast by the Yuzhou Island Cannon Foundry with North Korea's high-quality low-phosphorus and low-sulfur iron ore.

Of course, this is also the military affairs yamen's desire to try how to use artillery to break through the city wall, and not just rely on the collapse method, after all, the collapse method has many natural conditions.

Although the rain in the past few days blocked the pace of the Loyal Army's siege, it did not affect the combat readiness of the Loyal Army, and the twelve forts were aimed at the Kaifeng City Wall.

At this time, the situation in Kaifeng City is also becoming more and more bleak, and only a few wild dogs roaming the streets are deserted. However, only 30,000 Qing troops and 20,000 people were stationed near the city wall, vigilant for a possible attack by the loyal army.

For Liu Qingtai, who was in the governor's yamen, after deploying the troops, he walked down the corridor and looked at the sewage accumulated by the rain on the ground, and couldn't help but think that the city under his feet had been flooded by the Yellow River more than once in history, that is, for decades, and it was also flooded by the Yellow River for Li Zicheng.

Liu Qingtai immediately asked the staff around him with some worry, although he was a banner man, but after coming to Henan to take office, he immediately recruited dozens of staff members in Henan, and Yuan Tingxin was one of the staff members of others' cronies.

"Xianju, the rain has been continual these days, the Yellow River should not skyrocket. If the Ming army outside the city took the opportunity to dig embankments and flood the city, how would it be good then? ”

As Liu Qingtai's staff, Yuan Tingxin listened to his question, he was a native of Henan, so he naturally knew the power of the Yellow River, and of course he also knew about Kaifeng City.

"Don't worry, there is still a sheep and horse wall outside the city of Kaifeng, this big water to the sheep and horse wall, the water potential has eased a lot, naturally will not cause too much impact on the city wall, not to mention that the big water will flow over in a few days, even if the big water bubbles for a long time, it will not collapse, after all, the bottom of the Kaifeng city wall is several zhang thick. Rather, if the thief digs the embankment, he will surely be flooded outside the city......"

Before Yuan Tingxin's words were finished, someone retorted on the side.

"Xianju's words are wrong. Didn't the thieves dig a dike and release water to flood Kaifeng City? It can be seen that in case the yellow water comes very violently and overflows the city wall. This Kaifeng city is also dangerous. Think more about the bad in everything. ”

This time it was Tu Hai who was the interface, as the commander of the more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers in the city, he naturally had his rescue for the Yellow River. Choked by Tu Hai like this, Yuan Tingxin hurriedly responded.

"What the general said is, yes, it was the villain who was negligent......"

Liu Qingtai didn't say anything in the sea of intentions.

At this time, there was only one thought left in his heart, that is, whether this Kaifeng City could be defended, at least for a moment, he was still thinking about whether he could send someone to dig the embankment, but this thought was only fleeting, not because he cared about the millions of people within hundreds of miles outside the Kaifeng City, when Li Thief dug the river, how densely populated the Central Plains was at that time, he didn't dig the Yellow River at once, not to mention that the water flooded Kaifeng City, so that there were almost no living people in the city, even within hundreds of miles of Fangyuan, it was also Zeguo, Even later, the Qing Dynasty entered Kaifeng, and Kaifeng was still like a dead city, and the army went south from Kaifeng for six days, and still did not see a single living person or an acre of land. So naturally, one can imagine the destructiveness of the flood after digging the Yellow River.

If he could, Liu Qingtai would definitely dig it!

But he couldn't dig the city, because the loyal army had been guarding against his idea of replacing soldiers with water from the beginning, and sent troops to garrison along the river embankment, and there were centipede gunboats patrolling back and forth on the river, even if he wanted to send troops to dig now, it was just to send people to the loyal army.

The only plan for today is to count on the imperial army on the north bank of the Yellow River, can they cross the river to support Kaifeng?

Thinking of the imperial army on the north bank of the Yellow River, Liu Qingtai's face was filled with a glimmer of hope. I saw him turn his head sideways and ask Tuhai on the side.

"Master Tu, Mu Dutong's men don't know how to prepare? When to go south? ”

The Mu Dutong in Liu Qingtai's mouth is Aobai's younger brother Mu Lima, who is leading tens of thousands of troops to garrison the Handan area north of the Yellow River.

"The general can rest assured that as long as the will of the imperial court arrives, Mudutong will definitely lead his troops south. It's not that a battalion of soldiers has been sent south first, just waiting for the will of the imperial court. ”

Tu Hai said quite confidently, in his opinion, the imperial court will definitely rescue Kaifeng. It is here that the descendants of the deceased come to visit.

"Xu Yuncheng? Xu Qianming...... How did he get here? ”

At the beginning of his tenure in Henan, Liu Qingtai also tried to recruit Xu Yuncheng into the scene, after all, when he was in the capital, he heard about this person from the mouth of Henan officials, although he was old, but he was quite famous, and he taught in the academy for decades, it can be said that he is a disciple all over the world, if he can recruit this person into the government, it will definitely help him to govern in Henan.

However, Xu Yuncheng refused on the grounds of unsatisfactory identity, Liu Qingtai naturally understood that physical discomfort was fake, and his heart was true. However, he didn't force it, but now Xu Yuncheng's arrival made him feel a little strange, after all, Xu Yuncheng was in Luoyang before, and now Luoyang has fallen into the hands of thieves. He came to Kaifeng at this time, obviously he had a plan, what was he trying to do? Is it to lobby someone Liu?

"Yun Cheng has seen the platform!"

When entering the door, Xu Yuncheng did not follow the rules of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and bowed, but only bowed flatly, this kind of etiquette was disrespectful to the Qing Dynasty, but Liu Qingtai poured out that he was not annoyed, but just smiled slightly.

"What kind of wind is this blowing Brother Qianming?"

Although Liu Qingtai's tone was polite, Xu Yuncheng was not polite at all, and he straightforwardly made clear his intentions.

"Yun Cheng is here, naturally for the lives of the 100,000 people in Kaifeng City and tens of thousands of soldiers under the command of the platform!"

Oh!

Sure enough, he came to be a lobbyist!

After understanding the other party's intention, Liu Qingtai's eyes narrowed and he sneered.

"Qianming knows that Liu is a banner man, and Mengtaizong thinks of giving the name of "Qingtai", you came to persuade Liu to surrender to Ming, but I really thought that Liu would not dare to kill you! ”

If it had been a few days ago, maybe Liu Qingtai would have killed someone, but now he still wants to hear what he wants to say. After all, the current situation made Liu Qingtai have to think about it, not to mention that the two armies are not fighting each other, he still understands this truth.

"The Taiwan system wants to kill Xu, Xu is naturally powerless to resist, but Xu has a word to inform the Taiwan system, the Taiwan system is stubbornly defending Kaifeng today, which is nothing more than pinning hope on Hebei, but does the Taiwan know that just two days ago, Mu Lima led tens of thousands of Qing troops to go north to Dezhou, and it is impossible for the Manchu court to send a soldier to Henan again, and the Taiwan and this Kaifeng have been abandoned!"

Although Liu Qingtai deliberately concealed the shock in his heart, Xu Yuncheng still saw it, and his heart suddenly became proud, if it wasn't for his students who brought this news when they fled back from the Handan camp, I'm afraid he wouldn't have recommended himself to Kaifeng for Li Ziyuan!

Today, this Kaifeng City is his Xu Yuncheng's way to advancement! As for the 100,000 people in Kaifeng City, and what people in the world, it was just a rhetoric, he didn't want to be out of office back then, and the same was true, he Xu Yuncheng always had his own purpose in doing things.

Now, since he has come to Kaifeng, he wants to take this Kaifeng for Li Ziyuan, and then use this city as his way to advancement, and this Kaifeng City is also his famous place!