Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Aftermath Is Faint

Thieves poured out the sealed city.

It was the summer and autumn season of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and the biggest news seemed to be a stone smashed into the water, causing countless waves.

No matter how Hou Sui denied it, they didn't pick up the embankment. But after Kaifeng City fell into the flood, the first to react was the officers and troops on the north bank of the Yellow River. Almost with the flood is the front and back feet. And there came and went in fleets, and all the people who were still in the high places of the city were brought over.

Of course, these are all dignitaries in the city. None of them are ordinary people.

Although, Zhang Xuan sent people to build rafts to save people, but how can the raft be compared with the boat, as soon as the raft of the righteous army meets the big ship of the official army, don't think about going back.

Therefore, whenever the officers and soldiers are dispatched, the raft rescue operation must be stopped. And it was precisely because of the presence of the official and military fleets that Cao Ying could not cross this new Yellow River to fight the camp. It's nerve-wracking.

But even if it is just that, it is only to save thousands of people from Kaifeng City.

Gao Mingheng wrote his resignation.

Of course, he knew that for the sake of the overall situation of the imperial court, he would rather flood Kaifeng City than let the rogues get it. But he was transferred to Kaifeng from Chongzhen in the twelfth year, and he has been working hard to keep Kaifeng City, but now although he did not sink Kaifeng City to the bottom of the water with his own hands. But every time I think of the old knowledge in Kaifeng City and the new ghost, I can't help myself.

Emperor Chongzhen knew Gao Mingheng's ability, and wanted to promote Gao Mingheng to the secretary of the military department, and still supervised Henan. But Gao Mingheng resigned several times. Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to order Wang Han to be the governor of Henan on behalf of Gao Mingheng.

Gao Mingheng returned to his hometown.

It's just that the world is so big that it can't tolerate the slightest idyllic poetry, and two years later, the Qing soldiers went south, and Gao Mingheng was martyred in his hometown of Yishui.

Chen Yongfu had already prepared, although his subordinates had lost a lot, but the father and son still withdrew to the north bank. Later, from Sun Chuanting, he met again with Chuang Ying.

However, Sang Kai did not reach the north bank, but was washed downstream by the river. After nine deaths, he still regrouped and continued to fight against the rebels.

And Huang Shu was meritorious in guarding Kaifeng City, and was sent to Zuo Liangyu's army to supervise the army, and he got along well with Zuo Liangyu and became Zuo Liangyu's military advisor.

King Zhou was sick.

Very sick.

He's in his sixties.

And for more than 60 years, he has never left Kaifeng Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion is not only his shackles, but also his hometown, he likes to stand on the carrier hall since he was a child, looking at the Kaifeng market, but a few days ago, he saw the boiling Yellow River, flooding the entire Kaifeng City from north to south.

Looking at all the living people, all turned into floating corpses on the river.

He can stand it so much.

The fate of the characters in Kaifeng City will not be depicted one by one. And Hou Sui didn't get it

Okay.

Hou Sui broke the embankment one by one. Naturally, the imperial court would not pierce the window paper, but Hou Sui, as the court supervisor, sat back and watched the thieves break the embankment and open the sealed city, and was dismissed again.

However, Emperor Chongzhen's remaining hatred is unresolved, and this is not a good punishment. Let the people of the world talk about the Yellow River embankment is decided by the imperial court. But Emperor Chongzhen was such a cautious person, and suddenly remembered this incident one day, and immediately arrested Hou Sui from Yangzhou again and put him in prison.

Of course, that's another story.

Gao Mingheng resigned, Hou Sui dismissed, and the real power of the Hebei armies fell into the hands of Wang Han.

Wang Han rectified the art of war and crossed the old Yellow River, the first thing he did was not to attack the rebels, but to fill the embankment. Officers and soldiers were busy filling the embankment. And the rebels were also busy crossing the Cao Ying men and horses from the New Yellow River, and broke into the camp, and the Xiao Yuan camp men and horses met west of Kaifeng.

In addition, it seems that God wants to pay off the rain owed to Henan in the past few years, and the heavy rain continues, and there is no time to fight, so the two sides are separated by a new Yellow River, and they are actually safe.

But there is one person who cannot be still.

Sun Chuanting's hair turned white.

Sun Chuanting is only about fifty years old now, and when he came out of the edict prison, he was still gray, and now he can't find a few black threads in his hair.

Emperor Chongzhen issued several orders to reprimand Sun Chuanting. Let Sun Chuanting quickly rescue Kaifeng City. was all hard pressed by Sun Chuanting.

The Qin army has been defeated several times, and the morale has long been to the end, even if you don't talk about morale, I don't know how many soldiers have been bombarded by Li Zicheng's prisoners and rectified into the camp, and it can even be said that the Qin army prisoners are the favorite source of soldiers in the camp, because of the same township and the same origin, most of Li Zicheng's subordinates have the experience of fighting in the Ming army.

These Qin prisoners joined the camp, and they didn't need much training at all, they were a new force.

Among them, all kinds of armor, ordnance, etc., I don't know how many were lost. Sun Chuanting only received some remnants of the defeated generals, and also killed He Renlong.

He Renlong is certainly unruly, but he is indeed a man who can fight.

Even Sun Chuanting had to admit that he killed He Renlong, so that the whole army listened to the order awe-inspiringly, and did not dare to overstep in the slightest. But it also hurt the morale of the army.

Therefore, this must be properly rectified, smoothed out with time, where it can be done in a few months.

But Kaifeng City did not fall, he still had reason to prevaricate, but now that Kaifeng City has sunk into the river embankment, he can no longer shirk it, sighed, and ordered: "Order the generals, each leave the flood land, meet in Tongguan, and send troops in September." ”

However, even if Sun Chuanting sent troops, he tried to delay some time to let him prepare a little more.

The news of Sun Chuanting's dispatch of troops will take a while to reach the camp, but Kaifeng City sank to the bottom of the river, which was very important to Li Zi

Cheng, it was a very big blow.

He took such great pains to open the lockdown city, not for the sake of the goods in the city, but to prepare to use this Kaifeng city as his foundation.

Now the prefectures and counties near Kaifeng City are under the control of the righteous army, Li Zicheng has a foothold in Kaifeng City, and he can immediately bring the Qianli Plain south of the Yellow River into management.

But once the river embankment is decided, the impact is not only Kaifeng.

The people's livelihood in the hundreds of miles near Kaifeng has been greatly damaged, at least Li Zicheng wants to take Henan as the center to gain a foothold, not only to see the geographical location of Kaifeng City, but also the fertile fields of Henan.

Although Henan has been plagued by natural disasters. But natural disasters are not always there, at least looking at this year's harvest, it should be a normal year. There are bumper harvests in many places in Shandong, and thousands of miles of fertile land in Henan can only be owned by the camp, and the camp will no longer have to worry about the problem of military rations.

After all, Henan is also Henan no matter what you say.

The status of the granary of the Central Plains, although it has been repeatedly replaced by the south, is still a large grain production province, after the disaster, it is quite easy to resume production, but it is washed by the Yellow River, not a few years of operation, can no longer be the old view.

In terms of history, it was also during the Kangxi period that Kaifeng City was rebuilt, and Kaifeng Province was moved back to Kaifeng City.

And where does Li Zicheng have so much time to wait.

Therefore, his plan based on the Central Plains was completely bankrupt.

As soon as Li Zicheng thought of this, he said with a bit of gritted teeth: "I knew that now, I wouldn't have put such a lot of effort into Kaifeng City in the first place. Directly poured Kaifeng City, the officers and soldiers dare, don't I dare? Mr. Niu, the army has made the inventory clear. ”

There was a bit of unceremony in his tone.

Niu Jinxing didn't dare to speak much, because the proposal to base himself on Kaifeng City was the first one he proposed, and said: "Chuang Wang, the old and weak lose ---"

"Don't talk about the old and weak, just talk about the soldiers." Li Zicheng's one-eyed eyes were a little hideous, and he said.

"The loss of soldiers is nearly 10,000." Niu Jinxing said.

In fact, where is nearly 10,000, it is more than 10,000 at all. It's just that Niu Venus did something when he was counting, and there was nearly 10,000 of them.

But this alone already made Li Zicheng feel heartache.

Li Zicheng has only a few soldiers, plus Cao Ying and Xiao Yuan Ying, there are only 130,000 or 40,000 soldiers. Counting the camp alone, it was less than 100,000, and 10,000 were lost at once, most of them were the people who attacked the city that day and had no time to evacuate, and of course some escaped by taking advantage of the chaos.

It can be said that after attacking and sealing the city, Li Zicheng did not lose more than 10,000 soldiers. Most of the people who died were disaster victims, just people. This is all his capital, but he threw it into the water in vain. He took two deep breaths, knowing that it would be useless to say this at this time. said, "What's next?" ”

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