"The jade building Jin Que returned lazily, and the plum blossoms were drunk in Luoyang."

The city of Luoyang in the Ming Dynasty is famous, and the slave chiefs who are familiar with the books of the Han people are salivating, and if they can conquer this big city, it will definitely shake the Ming Kingdom.

At the beginning of October, the Qing army gathered a large army of 50,000 and drove the 100,000 Han people to attack with the tactics of encircling three and one.

Fortunately, there is Lu Xiangsheng here, this civil official personally fought in the city, and the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang were boosted and their morale was greatly boosted.

Hu Dawei, the chief soldier, Li Chongzhen, Lei Shisheng, and Liu Guangzuo, the general of the staff, and other generals followed Lu Xiangsheng to fight for a long time, and at this moment they were even more angry with the enemy, and the soldiers were grateful to Lu Xiangsheng for sharing weal and sorrow with them, and they also did their best to kill the enemy.

After three days of attacking and finding that the Ming army was determined to defend the city, Jiannu gave up, and then they continued to attack and advance east along the Yellow River.

Seeing the Qing soldiers all over the mountains, Lu Xiangsheng had to swallow his anger, he knew that he could only take a defensive position when the troops were in a completely contrarian situation, and the safety of the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang City and King Fu should not be underestimated.

The emperor listened to Huang Han's suggestion and issued a holy decree to strictly order all armies to hold the city and defend according to the danger without asking for an attack, which should have saved Lu Xiangsheng's life, otherwise with the personality of "King Lu Yan" who sacrificed his life for righteousness, he would definitely go to fight with Jiannu.

Zhu Yujian, the king of the Ming Tang Dynasty whose mansion is in Nanyang, is a responsible figure, and it can also be said that this prince is unwilling to wait for death for the rest of his life, and he learned that the Qing soldiers entered the fortress and penetrated Shanxi to kill this Henan, and he couldn't sit still.

At the end of July, he even ignored the Ming law that "the vassal king is not in charge of the army", recruited 1,000 or more people without authorization, and personally led the palace to escort more than 100 troops from Nanyang to the north, under the banner of "resisting the Qing Qin King".

Four or five hundred of the 1,500 men recruited by the Tang Dynasty were actually village warriors trained by the "Red Banner Army", and more than a dozen of them were flag guards.

Pei Daneng, a member of the Henan Military Intelligence Department, who had crossed the Yellow River and had been working in Yingzhou, gave instructions to assist Tang Wang in making contributions as much as possible.

Nine out of ten of the leaders of the flag guards are veterans who have retired from injuries and illnesses, and the flag guards who have developed also have special skills, they are as conspicuous as standing out in the rabble recruited by the Tang King, and within a few days all the flag guards have been appointed by the general of the hundred, the general, and the chief flag officer.

Shi Kunshan was taken by the Tang king, appointed him as the general manager of Qian, and promised to make contributions this time, and definitely recommended him to the imperial court to serve as a guerrilla or garrison.

A few months passed, and because the imperial court judged the situation and did not demand that the Ming army attack, the men and horses guarding the city could hold on with peace of mind, and many large cities did not fall.

However, the Qing soldiers were unusual, entered the customs for half a year, penetrated more than 2,000 miles into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, captured one prefecture, three prefectures, and thirty-five counties, broke through the Yanmen Pass and the Yatou Pass, killed dozens of civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, and killed more than 100 generals above the garrison.

More than 460,000 people were captured, more than 100,000 taels of gold were plundered, more than 3 million taels of silver, and countless other valuables were plundered, and the suffering and property losses suffered by the subjects of the Central Plains were immeasurable.

The Qing soldiers have grabbed a lot of money, and they have already entered Henan, and they are still attacking without a thief's heart, and they are not ready to retreat.

The Ming army in the interior became more and more difficult, and many cities were simply in the situation of being attacked by Jiannu and Liukou, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as dangerous.

If this kind of development continues, won't it lead to the loss of the land of Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi into the territory of the puppet Qing Dynasty?

Seeing that it is about to enter November, the frozen area of the Yellow River will gradually increase, and the losses caused by the Qing soldiers crossing the Yellow River and going north into the land of Gyeonggi will be doubled.

Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua strictly guarded the Yellow River, and the natural danger was about to become more and more difficult because of the freezing of the whole line.

Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, was anxious, and urgently mobilized the army in Gyeonggi to the south, and even many garrison battalions were requisitioned.

Seeing that the battle to defend the Yellow River was about to kick off, Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua looked calm and calm, not that they were confident, but that they were ready to repay the country with death.

At this time, Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, came to report the urgent official document again, and tens of thousands of Qing soldiers took Xingyang to break through Zhengzhou and occupy Zhongmu County, and then besieged Kaifeng very urgently, and asked the imperial court to send reinforcements quickly.

He also deliberately presented the emperor, and now there are not only King Zhou and his family in Kaifeng City, but also the King of Tang who "resisted the King of Qingqin".

Kaifeng Mansion is the seat of Henan Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, Kaifeng City is the first capital of the Central Plains, and there is the residence of King Zhou in the city.

Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, only had more than 10,000 men and horses in his hands, and he found that the Qing soldiers did not dare to abandon the city and flee without regiments, so he sent many messengers out to move the rescue troops.

Just three days before Kaifeng was besieged, a Ming army of less than 2,000 men came outside the city.

Because the king of Tang wanted to break his family and serve the country, he took out a lot of money and grain to recruit troops and horses, and the king of the Ming Dynasty was really rich.

The troops formed by the Tang Dynasty all have newly issued mandarin duck battle jackets, and there are three or four hundred people who also have iron armor, and the weapons used are not only the Ming army's standard cold weapons, but also more than 800 Lumi guns.

In the past two months, under the training of Shi Kunshan and others, plus a small half of them have actually received military training. Although it is not a daily practice, it has accumulated a lot of time in the past three years, and it is not a problem to assassinate and release Lu Migong.

The king of Tang now trusts Shi Kunshan even more, because he left Nanyang and went north, although this biao man did not fight the Qing army, but he had already defeated the three liukou and obtained three or four hundred captures and a small number of captures.

Now the morale of this biao man is booming, and when he came to Kaifeng City, Governor Chen Biqian saw it and thought that it was a border army to help.

It stands to reason that the civil and military generals guarding the city will not easily let a group of men and horses without a warrant enter the city, but no one in Kaifeng City will refuse this Biao man and horse to enter the city to assist in defense, because there is a Ming vassal king in the team.

If the Tang King refused to enter the city, he rushed to Luoyang with less than 2,000 people and was beaten by the Qing soldiers, and the consequences were unimaginable.

Kaifeng was besieged, and if the city broke through the Ming Dynasty, two vassal kings were about to encounter an accident, and the emperor and ministers were helpless.

Chongzhen was furious when he learned that the King of Tang dared to recruit troops without authorization, but at this time the country was eventful, so he had to choose to temporarily forbear and ask the ministers for advice.

However, the ministers were not able to make suggestions on how to resist the invasion of the Qing army, and one by one they jumped out to impeach the Tang King for violating the ancestral system, and all advised the emperor to quickly arrest and bring the Tang King to justice as an example.

Does it make sense to talk about all this uselessness at this point? Chongzhen is not stupid, he knows that the Tang King has less than 2,000 people, and now there are more than 10,000 Ming troops in Luoyang City, and the Tang King will not make the Tang King openly raise troops to fight for the throne.

But King Tang's move is unacceptable, and many vassal kings will dare to recruit troops privately in the future, so what? A must for settling accounts after the fall!