Kaifeng.

"Yu Yang Mo came agitatedly, and broke the song of neon clothes and feathers!"

Shi Kefa held a sword in his hand, stood on the south bank of the Yellow River pontoon bridge, looked at the dust rolled up by thousands of horses galloping on the north bank, and sighed with grief and indignation.

He was appointed by Hongguang to supervise the Kaifeng army.

The original prefect was a southerner, and immediately abandoned his post and fled south after Hongguang became emperor, and Shi Kefa became famous all over the world because of the assassination of Yang Xin, but in the end he was dismissed from the Jinyi Wei Shishi and his own fame, although he was a Jinyi Wei but his original home was Kaifeng, and he naturally wanted to return to his hometown after the Jinyi Wei was removed, so he became a Kaifeng citizen and lived in Kaifeng, where he studied hard and waited for the arrival of light.

And then the light finally came.

After Hongguang became emperor, he was not only restored to fame under the unanimous recommendation of the sages, but also became the brightest new star in the political arena of the Hongguang Dynasty.

Of course, it's just a flag.

After all, his feat of assassinating Yang Xin back then made him say that he had a golden light, and everyone in the world knew his great name, and the Ming Dynasty praised his feat everywhere, and his activation could make the scholars of the world immediately see the light brought by the Holy Lord.

Although the Holy Lord is said to cry in the palace every day.

Really crying.

But it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that there is a holy lord, there are virtuous ministers, there is loyalty, and that is enough.

However, Shi Kefa didn't expect that his light came so suddenly, and he left in such a hurry, and he hadn't really felt the beauty of the Lord and the Sage, and this dream was cruelly punctured and turned into a vanishing bubble.

Wu Xiang's sudden defection was like a heavy hammer to smash the illusions of the princes of the Hongguang Dynasty.

Of course, Shi Kefa didn't know how Luoyang faced this devastating reality, but now he had to face the collapse of the battle situation first, Wu Xiang, who suddenly turned against him, led 10,000 iron cavalry like a raging torrent, swept down from the front line, saying that it was only six hundred miles from the front line here, and the cavalry who raided it was killed in seven days.

As for the ...... along the way

There is no need to care at all along the way.

Wu Xiang's rear was originally undefended, his 10,000 elites were Hongguang's main pillar in the north, and behind him was nothing more than a small number of regimental exercises to maintain law and order, this 10,000-strong iron cavalry torrent did not need to attack the city at all, just shout outside the city.

Gao Yimin opened the door to welcome the surrender.

The people of Lincheng changed the door to welcome the surrender.

The two thousand regiments urgently put together by Shunde Mansion rebelled in Neiqiu, together with the surrounding Bai Township, the torrent formed by the poor people of Longping swept Shunde Mansion, and the people in Shunde Mansion opened the city gate, and even before Wu Xiang arrived, Shunde Mansion City had already fallen.

Then there is Quang Binh Province.

……

Wu Xiang's army surged forward on the North China Plain like a plague god spreading chaos and plague, and the poor people in their passage seemed to have absorbed the demonic energy they had brought with them, and they all turned into crazy people. Shouting the slogan of fighting the local tyrants and dividing the land, they carried hoes, guillotines, and even directly held wooden sticks, instantly smashing the iron buckets of the village sages, and they followed Wu Xiang's army like a wildfire to sweep across the spring plain.

Does Wu Xiang need to siege the city?

No, you don't.

All the cities along the way opened their gates for him.

What's more, a cavalry corps like him didn't need to enter the city at all on the North China Plain, so he used the iron hooves of his 10,000 cavalry to smash the fireworks of this prosperous era at a speed of nearly 100 miles a day.

And then it crumbled all the way to here.

"Steady, cut those who retreat!"

Shi Kefa roared.

As long as Wu Xiang's army crossed the Yellow River, it would be completely over.

At this time, even the news of Hong Chengchou's capture of Jizhou had already come, and the Yang family in the direction of Jingzhou also quickly broke through Jingzhou, and the Wang Division in Shandong collapsed on all fronts, and Dezhou was no longer guaranteed.

And the poor people in Kaifeng City have long been ready to move.

It's just that Wu Xiang's army has not arrived, and they are afraid that they will not be able to withstand the suppression of the official army after they make a move, but as long as Wu Xiang's army crosses the river, it is estimated that the official army should also escape, and if they do not escape, they will have to defect, and the Yellow River is not only a geographical defense line, but also a psychological defense line. At this time, the Yellow River has thawed, and it is impossible to cross the river by stepping on the ice on the river, either by boat or by pontoon, Shi Kefa is very clever not to burn the pontoon bridge, because the pontoon bridge burned can not stop Wu Xiang, but forced Wu Xiang to cross the river in another place.

Scofa couldn't defend the long riverbank.

All he could really use at his disposal was a thousand troops.

On the contrary, leaving the pontoon bridge to let Wu Xiang know that he could take the pontoon bridge and shrink the battlefield to the point of the pontoon bridge, he built a defensive line at the head of the bridge as fast as possible with his loyalty to the time of the Lord and the Sage of the Ministers, and then arranged a total of 1,000 soldiers at his disposal here.

All that's left is to fight to the end.

As for the results......

At this time, the results are not considered.

The soldiers on either side of him stood tremblingly behind a breastwork, looking ahead.

These are the new armies that Shi Kefa organized and trained in Kaifeng, because of the generosity of the King of Zhou, or rather had to give generously, they were so well equipped that they had even been replaced with expensive flintlock pistols. This is produced in Jiangxi, when the regimental training was held in various places before, Guo Zengguang bought it from Jiangxi at a high price with the silver of King Zhou, but when it was delivered, Hongguang had already been called the emperor, so he simply armed Shi Kefa's new army.

Because the military salary is sufficient, and he is trustworthy with his loyalty and encouragement.

This is what he relied on to hold the pontoon bridge.

"Steady!"

He yelled again.

Boats laden with heavily armored soldiers were crossing the river, while countless cavalry lined up on the north bank of the pontoon bridge, and the reflection of steel formed a sea of silver. The cannons were firing on this side, and the sound of cannons and whistling continued to sound, and the shells stirred up columns of water in the river, but none of them hit. These soldiers, who have only been trained for less than a month, can complete the firing procedure, and expect them to aim and hit the target is nonsense, most of the shells are high, but some of them skim the river and land on the opposite bank.

At the sound of Scofa's roar, the boats finally landed on the riverbank.

The heavily armored soldiers landed one after another.

These were the elite of Wu Xiang's subordinates, but they had to dismount because of the river barrier, and their task was to seize the bridgehead, and then the cavalry on the opposite bank could rush across the pontoon bridge.

The gunners on this side continued to fire in a panic, because they were replaced with shotguns, but they began to harvest targets, Wu Xiang on the other side did not have cannons, and could not attack this side across the Yellow River, so these soldiers could still hold on, in the end, such a battle would not crush their will, but there was still a Yellow River in front of them.

"Go on, and reward one hundred taels for each person who repels the thieves!"

Scofa encouraged the musketeers beside him with some excitement.

Then the musketeers also began to shoot with a yearning for a hundred taels, but by this time the distance was actually more than fifty zhang, and their bullet hit rate could be said to be completely resigned to fate.

The Wu soldiers on the river beach are in an extremely disadvantageous situation at the moment, because they underestimate the enemy, the key is to be familiar with the combat effectiveness of these scumbags, so they are like the devils who walked towards the ambush circle in the drama, they never thought that there would be a real battle at all, and they crossed the Yellow River with the mentality of going on a trip. They had only the cavalry's short guns, and then the whipping, and they couldn't shoot at this side, and the landing site was still a thawing mudflat, and these invincible soldiers on horseback now had to struggle in the mud.

And there is little power to resist.

The recruits under Shi Kefa's subordinates did have a shooting level equal to none, but the shotguns didn't need any real aiming.

It's the same with platoon guns.

As long as the muzzle and muzzle of the gun are pointed at the opponent's position, all that remains is to reload and shoot, and those soldiers who were originally pure scum lie on the chest wall like shooting a target, leisurely and slowly complete the reloading procedure, and then shoot like a wild duck. The gunners of the cannons were constantly spraying stormy shotguns at the river beach below. Soon the Wu soldiers who were stuck in the mud and could not run fell one after another, and the dead bodies were scattered on the empty river beach, and the rest lost the courage to attack and had to lie on the river beach to avoid shells and bullets.

"Look, we have the Yellow River moat, why are we afraid of Liaodong Iron Cavalry."

Shi Kefa said excitedly.

He didn't expect that he would succeed in blocking a round of attacks like this.

It's too easy to win.

"No wonder that Yang reveres the flintlock pistol, why is he afraid of rebelling against the party with this thing in hand, but unfortunately we only have a thousand flintlock pistols now, if there are 100,000, why be afraid of the Yang thief!"

Liang Yun, who was beside him, stroked his beard and said proudly.

"100,000 male soldiers, if there are 100,000 male soldiers, the revenge of the teacher can be avenged!"

Shi Kefa said with emotion.

At the same time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves behind him, and he and Liang Yungou hurriedly turned around, and saw Zuo Changshi of the Zhou Wangfu running over with a panicked face, leading the horse in front of them, and almost rolling down from above......

"Brother Daolin, quickly withdraw the army and return to the city!"

He threw himself on Shi Kefa and shouted.

"Gong Liu, what's wrong?"

Liang Yungou asked in amazement.

"Sun, Sun Yuanhua is reversed, You Shiwei has returned to Germany in blood, and the striker has arrived in Chenliu!"

Nagasaki screamed in grief.

"Huh?"

Shi Kefa and the others were instantly dumbfounded.

Liang Yungou shuddered suddenly, and then turned his gaze to the soldiers who had already turned their heads, who looked at him in equally dismay.

"Don't, don't run......"

He screamed almost instinctively.

It's okay that he didn't shout, but as soon as he shouted, those soldiers instantly sobered up.

"Run!"

A soldier ran away with a gun.

"Run, Sun Yuanhua is from the King of Zhennan and his gang, You Shiwei has killed him!"

"Run!"

……

The chaotic shouts spread like a plague in an instant, and the soldiers who were still lying on the breastwork spread to both sides like toppled dominoes, scrambling to turn around and run......

"Stop, don't run!"

"This is fake, no Sun Yuanhua called!"

……

They were like clumsily catching chickens, dizzily trying to block the rout in front of them, but unfortunately it was useless, the soldiers who were just barely holding on, after learning the news, instantly understood the situation they were facing. Kaifeng is no longer impossible to hold, their real reliance is nothing more than a Yellow River, but You Shiwei was originally in the south, he was originally behind, and there were only a thousand people on the back of the enemy, how could he beat nearly 20,000 elite Liaodong iron cavalry?

What's the use of holding the Yellow River.

You Shiwei didn't have to cross the Yellow River, and now that he was in Chenliu, it wouldn't take him an hour to get behind him.

Don't run?

You're a fool not to run?

Poor Shi Kefa watched his defense line collapse like this.

At this moment, Wu Xiang's subordinates on the opposite side obviously saw the collapse here, and a group of cavalry immediately rushed onto the pontoon bridge.

Shi Kefa immediately came to his senses, pounced on a cannon as fast as he could, trying to turn the muzzle of the cannon to aim at the iron chain that was close at hand, their defense line was next to the cement pile that fixed the pontoon, this huge cement pier that is said to weigh millions of catties is mostly underground, inside are the skeleton of wrought iron bars, and the special wrought iron beam runs through it, and the iron chain that fixes the pontoon bridge is in the exposed part of the wrought iron beam, as long as the iron chain is broken, the pontoon bridge will not be able to be used for a short time.

This thing is certainly not something that a musket can interrupt.

Gotta use cannons.

"Brother Meiju, come and help me!"

Scofa shouted as he turned the cannon with all his might.

He wasn't the only one who could spin it, and he had to push it a few steps forward, otherwise it would be difficult to hit accurately.

Liang Yungou, who was only a few steps away from him, looked at him, and then at the pontoon bridge, where the cavalry of the brigade had already reached the middle of the bridge, he looked at Shi Kefa again, and then turned around and ran without hesitation.

"Brother Meiju, you're back!"

Shi Kefa roared.

Liang Yungou ran away without looking back.

"You coward!"

Shi Kefa scolded sadly, and then he wanted to continue, but in the end he gave up, he couldn't do this work alone, he kicked the cannon with a look of grief and indignation, picked up his sword, and walked to the bridge very heroically. By this time the cavalry had reached less than ten feet away, but they suddenly stopped, and then quickly parted to the sides, and behind them a young man in full armor urged forward, still carrying a spear in his hand.

"Mr. Daolin, why are you doing this?"

The boy said.

"The children of the Wu family, how do you know loyalty, today or so is just a death, and those who want to give the head can come!"

Shi Kefa said proudly while carrying his sword.

Well, this is Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui, who is fifteen years old this year, has begun to follow his father, originally he was actually studying in the capital of the country, which was given by the apocalypse, Wu Xiang was stationed in Gwangju, he followed when he was idle, in fact, he was sent to study with famous Confucians in various places. Wu Xiang was full of persistent enthusiasm for his admission to the Jinshi Examination, and all the famous Confucians who could worship worshipped him, and he was even sent by his father to Shi Kefa as a student for a few months, but Wu Sangui himself was not interested in reading, so he had no respect for this teacher.

At his current age as a high school student, he should still have a little hatred for this teacher.

"That student is Mr. Chengquan!"

Wu Sangui said.

After saying that, he urged the war horse.

The cavalry behind all stopped there, looking at it with a relaxed expression.

Shi Kefa held his sword in both hands, raised it obliquely above his head with a solemn face, and stood quietly in the middle of the pontoon bridge......