Chapter 2 The Meaning of Breaking the River II

Gao Mingheng couldn't help but put Zhou Wangfu in his eyes.

After all, King Zhou has been in Kaifeng for more than 200 years, so there are all kinds of restrictions, but it still makes King Zhou the head snake of Kaifeng Mansion. Moreover, the line of the king of Zhou cannot be called the virtuous kings of the past dynasties, but there are several kings with virtuous names, such as the current king of Zhou, Zhu Gongyu, who is also a virtuous king among the current vassal kings.

"Now the treasury is empty, the thieves have attacked the city twice in succession, and the treasury has run out of food. Gao Mingheng's eyes were mostly on this Li Fengchang.

Li Fengchang bowed and got up, and said: "Lord Gao is polite, before coming, the king of my family ordered that as long as Lord Gao speaks, all the treasury of King Zhou's mansion will be open for adults." Tall man, just go and get it. ”

Gao Mingheng was overjoyed and said, "Thank you Li Fengchang." ”

"Don't dare." Li Fengchang said: "My lord, please thank the king of my family." ”

The handover between a minister and a vassal king is always taboo. But Gao Mingheng had to say something, and said: "This official will definitely play the imperial court, and the imperial court will definitely reward King Zhou's actions." ”

Gao Mingheng sighed in his heart, this week King is much better than King Fu.

If King Fu was as good at talking as King Zhou, Luoyang City would stop there.

Looking back at the fall of Luoyang City, the fundamental origin is not the strength of Li Zicheng's troops, but the mutiny of the official army. Li Zicheng has swelled to this point. Why did King Fu die so miserably?

Perhaps it was the tragic situation of King Fu that frightened these vassal kings. This is why the king of Zhou is so supportive of defending the city.

As soon as the food problem is solved, everything else is a trivial matter.

Facts have proven that the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops can still be guaranteed under the condition that there is sufficient food and salary.

Gao Mingheng immediately arranged for the battle defense.

Gao Mingheng guarded the west gate as the governor, and Daotai Su Zhuang assisted. Zuo Bu's political envoy Liang Bing guarded the east gate, and Tan Guozhen, the capital secretary, assisted in guarding. The general soldier Chen Yongfu guarded the south gate, and Wu Shi, the prefect of Kaifeng, assisted in guarding. Guan He and Zhisang opened the north gate, and Zhisu Mao co-guarded. Huang Shu, the magistrate, guarded the Cao Gate and the North Gate.

The officials are assigned to stop. All the gates in the city are under the jurisdiction of the gate guards.

Broke into the camp to attack Kaifeng twice, and also trained a strong defending army for Kaifeng City, and many people have experienced such a scene many times, and they are not afraid of anything. I'm used to it.

After a successful fundraising plan. Yan Yunjing, the inspector of the imperial history, visited Gao Mingheng alone and offered a plan.

"The city wall built by the king of Zhou is the embankment of Kaifeng City, and even if the Yellow River breaks, it will never be able to rush into Kaifeng City." Yan Yunjing said: "And the millions of thieves outside the city are all fish and turtles. Please also ask Lord Gao to make a clear decision. ”

Gao Mingheng pondered and wandered, but did not jump to conclusions. Huang Shu had already spoken, and said: "What Lord Yan said is grounded, and you must not believe it, once you lose, Lord Yan, you can't afford it." ”

Yan Yunjing said: "Of course there is a basis. I have asked the local elders that Kaifeng is close to the Yellow River, and it can be said that it is a river prevention every year. The reason why Kaifeng City was built four feet and five feet is not only to resist the military disaster, but also to prevent floods, and ordinary floods cannot break through Kaifeng City at all. And outside Kaifeng is different. If Lord Huang doesn't believe it, you can ask Guan He and Master Sang Kaisang to come over and ask. ”

"Mulberry-sama, please." Gao Mingheng said in a deep voice.

"Yes." One of the servants immediately went to find Sangkai.

After a while, Sang Kai came over, and saw that Sang Kai's face was dark, and he looked poor, and said, "Sang Kai has seen the governor." But I don't know what happened when the governor summoned Sangkai? ”

Huang Shu immediately told Sang Kai what Yan Yunjing said, and after finishing speaking, he said: "Lord Sang is the best at river work, but I don't know if what Lord Yan said is right or not? ”

Sang Kai pondered for a while and said, "What Lord Yan said is not right or wrong. ”

"The terrible people in the world are also fire and water. Of all the rivers in the world, the Yellow River is the most difficult to control. During the Wanli period, Pan Gong used the strategy of harnessing water and attacking sand, which can be regarded as dividing the river a little. All my life, I have been thinking about how to never break the river, not how to break the embankment, and I have never thought about how to rush out of the city and not break the city. This thing is not right in itself. Up and down the river, all of them are the children of the court, how can adults bear it? Sang Kai said.

Gao Mingheng's face was a little ashamed, but Huang Shu didn't seem to think there was anything wrong, and said: "Breaking into the world of cholera is especially better than water and fire, as long as the two thieves are eliminated in a battle, then the river can be blocked up and down, even Your Majesty," Huang Shu said of Emperor Chongzhen, and immediately bowed his hand to the north and said: "I will definitely agree." Among them, are the gains and losses that you, a little water control official, can say? All you have to say is what you can or can't do. ”

Sang Kai was born as a man, known as a river worker, and spent half his life before coming to this position, compared with these officials from Jinshi, he was at the bottom of the chain of contempt, so he was reprimanded, and he could only endure it, saying: "On the big river, there are peach floods in spring, volcanic floods in summer, autumn floods in autumn, and Lingxun in winter." However, the flood and autumn flood are the largest. Now that the peach flood has just passed, the bottom of the river, even if the big river is opened, there is not much river water. Only the flood or autumn flood can achieve the result that the adults say. ”

"But the flood in the autumn, the flood in the autumn, the same as fire and water, unpredictable, once the estimate is wrong, not only the millions of people outside the city, all of them are fish and turtles, even Kaifeng City is afraid to sink to the bottom of the river, this matter is absolutely not feasible. It's a lose-lose strategy. ”

"Please also ask Master Gao to be enlightened."

Gao Mingheng said: "In this case, this matter should be considered in the long run. Stand down, all of you. ”

"Yes." All three retreated.

The discussion of breaking the river was over. It's just that this is not the end, but it is buried in the depths of people's hearts, and when the time comes, it will eventually bloom.

Both sides were denied a decisive strategy, but the impact was not over.

For example, now Zhang Xuan is deeply affected.

Now Xiao Yuan's camp is going to move the camp and set up the camp on a high place.

It seems funny to say, the commanding heights in the north of Kaifeng City are just above the river embankment, and there is no higher place than the river embankment. If the embankment is picked, the north of the city will not be safe anywhere. After Zhang Xuan and Yuan Shizhong discussed, the camp was moved to the west, the west was always higher than the east, and the camp selected was also on a high ground, which was a highland, but it was actually not high, but it was higher than the east and south.

It's like meeting a bear in the forest, you don't have to run faster than the bear, you just need to run faster than your companions. Therefore, the water flows to the place, and the place where Xiao Yuan's camp is camped does not need to be higher than the embankment, just higher than other places, and the water will naturally flow in other directions.

Even so, though. Zhang Xuan was not at ease, he not only sent manpower for twelve hours to monitor the embankment, lest someone break the embankment directly north of the camp, but also organized laborers to dig a deep trench around the camp, not to defend against the enemy, but to drain water.

Camping in such a place, a few miles to the north, is the Yellow River, which is locked by two major embankments, and it is impossible to be too careful.

Zhang Xuan also brought part of Cao Ying's craftsman camp to the camp. Begin to jingle to build siege equipment, such as shield cars, ladders, siege guns, etc., but the most important thing is artillery.

Artillery has become the sharpest weapon for siege.

This time, under the auspices of Wang Cannon, he began to cast cannons with the method of casting cannons with iron molds, but this time, it was not to build a small cannon weighing only 100 catties. It weighs more than 300 catties, and it is said that it can hit more than 100 zhang, that is, one or two miles, which is much better than those Linying cannons that can only be large-sized muskets.

Yuan Shizhong is not idle, he is now training every day. Although it couldn't improve the combat effectiveness of the army for a while, now Xiao Yuan's battalion looks decent.

However, after all, this is on the battlefield, and this kind of idle life is destined not to last long.

It was nearly May, and the wheat fields near Kaifeng were slightly yellow, and it was not yet time for harvest. But Kaifeng City couldn't hold its breath anymore, and sent soldiers out to cut wheat. The rebel camps reacted immediately, and the officers and soldiers could not be allowed to cut the wheat away.

A battle to seize wheat kicked off, and the first battle of the three attacks on Kaifeng was staged.

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