Zhujiazhai in the northeast of Kaifeng City, is a large wharf of the Yellow River near Kaifeng, there were originally civilian boats ferrying pedestrians, but after the Mandate of Heaven army surrounded Kaifeng for the third time, the cavalry often paraded on the embankment, and the people who ferried had already run away.

Except for Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, who twice sent troops to cross the Yellow River and landed in Zhujiazhai, the wharf here was temporarily deserted.

The camp tent set up by Liu Zeqing's troops in Zhujiazhai has long been dismantled by the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, but there are still some remnants left on the battlefield.

Recently, a heavy rain, coupled with the water from the upstream, caused the Yellow River to rise sharply, the place where the Ming army was originally camped, has been flooded a small half, and most of the remaining half, also because of the rain washing, most of the remnants were buried by the loess, I don't know hundreds of years later, the remaining objects will be dug out, will it become an ancient book of war?

The night was boundless, and the faint moonlight filtered through the sparse shadows of the trees, and the ground looked mottled.

The cavalry of the Mandate of Heaven Army, which had been on the march for a day, had already entered the camp to rest, and could no longer hear the sound of horses' hooves.

Zhujiazhai wharf, but there is a small boat quietly approaching, the oars gently fall into the water, thin as silent, to the underwater, only to exert force, the boat rushed forward, sliding down the water for more than ten steps.

The boat quietly docked, forbidden for a moment, and only four or five people landed, all armed with waist knives, scattered in all directions in an instant, hidden in the shadows.

Suddenly, there was a birdsong, as if frightened, and stopped.

There were several large ships that appeared to the west of the pier, also coming along the water, silently, but the speed was very fast, just docked, the ship rushed down countless figures.

There are too many big ships on the shore, and the dock can not accommodate it, so it can only be connected to the stern of the ship in front, and people also land along the big ship in front, and the strange thing is that these people do not carry weapons and shields at all except for the short knives on their waists, but are armed with shovels, pickaxes, two teeth and other agricultural tools.

If it weren't for the armor on their bodies and the short knife hanging from their waists, they wouldn't have been able to tell that they were soldiers, but like people ploughing the land by moonlight.

There was no sound, the soldiers had already assigned their tasks, and after landing, they each carried their equipment and followed the officers, crossed the embankment, came to the designated place, and began to dig.

At the same time, in Majiakou, northwest of Kaifeng City, there was also a group of soldiers who quietly landed and dug on the ground.

The last officer to land was the chief soldier Bu Congshan, who was ordered by Yan Yunjing, the governor of Hebei, to personally lead nearly 10,000 soldiers to Zhujiazhai and Majiakou on the south bank of the Yellow River, and took advantage of the opportunity of the rising water of the Yellow River to break the embankment and release water, submerging the Heavenly Mandate Army outside the city, which was the only way to relieve the siege of Kaifeng.

As for whether the people inside and outside the city were affected by this, Bu Congshan is immeasurable, he is a soldier, and he only knows how to obey military orders.

Tonight seemed to be going well, there was silence on the embankment, and the cavalry of the Providential Destiny Army had long since fallen asleep, and not even a single ranger was missing.

Bu Congshan's gloomy face has become slightly more relaxed, he has already calculated, no accident, in the middle of the night, it is completely possible to dig up the embankment, and before dawn, the water can be broken.

He looked around, and saw nothing on the perimeter except for the soldiers who were digging.

There was silence all around, and not even the soldiers on guard sent a message back.

Bu Congshan waved his hand, and eight soldiers carried down four packages from the big ship, which was a special gunpowder bag made by the Beijing Firearms Bureau, commonly known as "ten thousand enemies", each gunpowder bag weighed forty catties, and when the embankment was dug up, only those soil and stones outside the embankment remained, and these gunpowder bags should come in handy.

Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Bu Congshan knew that this kind of gunpowder bag was so powerful that it would not be a problem to blow up the remaining remnants of the embankment.

The only hope is that the cavalry of the Mandate of Heaven will not come to harass them, and it is better for them to sleep soundly.

Bu Congshan is not worried about the sporadic rangers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, he has made sufficient preparations, the soldiers on the periphery are all archers, if they encounter the rangers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, the archers can release arrows silently, and seal their throats with an arrow, and the rangers of the Heavenly Mandate Army will definitely not be able to warn.

He looked up and saw that the moon was in the middle of the sky, it should be the time of the sub-hour, and in two hours, the embankment of the Yellow River should be completely dug up, and he didn't know how the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army in their sleep could avoid this "unexpected" flood.

Bu Congshan is not worried about the flood flooding Kaifeng City, the city has already made a big boat, the flood flooded Kaifeng City, the tide rises and the boat rises, and King Zhou just left Kaifeng City with the help of the big boat.

As long as Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, is kept, even if the remnants of the Mandate of Heaven army do not withdraw from the siege, more than half of the task will be completed, and when the emperor pursues responsibility in the future, the civil and military officials in Kaifeng City and Hebei Province will not be severely punished.

The soldiers had already riveted their strength, but Bu Congshan still felt that they were too slow, and the speed of breaking the embankment was definitely not comparable to the speed of the full moon sinking in the west......

Bu Congshan was bored, and was thinking about whether to withdraw the soldiers on guard on the periphery and help dig the embankment, when he suddenly heard a sound of chatter, he didn't care, anyway, there were many soldiers on guard on the periphery, and the cavalry of the Mandate of Heaven Army could not sneak attack.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

This time, Bu Congshan heard it clearly, the rifle, the rifle of the Mandate of Heaven!

When are the soldiers of the Manifest Destiny approaching? Why didn't the vigilant soldiers warn?

Bu Congshan couldn't get an answer for the time being, and the officers and soldiers who were digging the embankment were caught off guard, and there were heavy casualties for a while, and the soldiers kept shouting.

What to do? The embankment has already been dug for a small part, so give up?

If you give up, what will happen to the siege of Kaifeng? In case Wang Zhu Gongyu has a good one in the week, I don't know how many people will suffer!

What if you don't give up? Can the officers and soldiers stop the offensive of the Mandate of Heaven? Even if it can be stopped, who will dig the embankment? Outside Kaifeng City is the world of the Heavenly Mandate Army, once the main force of the Heavenly Mandate Army is attracted, it may be difficult to retreat......

Bu Congshan estimated that the information that the officers and soldiers were going to dig the Yellow River must have been leaked, and I don't know whether it was leaked by the Inspector or Gao Mingheng and Huang Shu in Kaifeng City, and the information about the excavation of the Yellow River embankment was tightly sealed.

There is no doubt that the soldiers who excavated the embankment in Zhujiazhai will definitely be attacked by the Mandate of Heaven Army!

Continuing to stay, in addition to increasing casualties, it is impossible to achieve the original goal, Bu Congshan did not hesitate anymore, and hurriedly issued the order to withdraw the army.

The Ming soldiers threw away the farm tools in their hands, hugged their heads, turned their heads and ran.

These soldiers crossed the river to Kaifeng, not to fight, but to dig the river embankment, except for the basic waist knife, they carried all agricultural tools, there was no extra hand to carry a shield, in front of the rifle, they could only wait for slaughter.

However, the gunners of the Mandate of Heaven did not pursue, and when they saw the Ming army swarming and retreating towards the horse's head, the gunners stopped firing, only moved forward a little, and arranged a defensive formation in the rear of the Ming army.

"Kill!"

"Brothers, the time has come for meritorious service!"

"These Ming troops are all our military merits, kill!"

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Behind the Ming army, there were countless shouts and killings, and there were faint "clicks" of a small number of horses' hooves on the ground, and I couldn't see clearly in the night, and I really didn't know how many people there were.

Bu Congshan was like falling into the abyss, and only at this time did he understand that the cavalry of the Heavenly Mandate Army may still be sleeping just now, but they mobilized a large number of infantry, and they did not know it, and the soldiers who were arranged to guard the periphery by themselves were afraid that they would be poisoned by the Heavenly Mandate Army.

I thought I had hidden the Mandate of Heaven Army, but who knew that the Mandate of Heaven Army had been waiting for a long time in the net......

He didn't care about the screams of the wounded soldiers around him, if he couldn't board the big ship quickly, he would probably die in Majiakou tonight, the cunning Mandate of Heaven army......

The Ming army fled to the dock, they had already lost their formation, and under the pursuit of the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven, they panicked, they could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the generals, whether they could escape with their lives could only depend on the will of heaven.

People crowded, people trampled, people scary, chaos!

At the beginning, the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven seemed to be far away, but the Ming army was crowded together, and they couldn't run as fast as they could at all, and when they uploaded to the ship, they had to delay a lot of time, and they were gradually caught up by the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven.

The Ming soldiers seemed to have forgotten the short knife at their waists, and they didn't even have time to pull it out!

First there was a rain of arrows, then swords and spears, once the cavalry of the Mandate of Heaven was pasted, the Ming army could not escape, thousands of soldiers, crowded on the narrow docks, were rushing to run to the large and small ships.

But the boat is too narrow, and there are too many soldiers vying for uploading, even the soldiers who grab the boat will be pulled by the soldiers behind and both fall into the water, and the soldiers who climbed onto the side of the boat will be squeezed by the soldiers behind, and their feet will be unstable, and they will fall out unconsciously.

A soldier with good luck can still fall into the boat next door, the pain is inevitable, but his life may be saved, and the soldier with bad luck happens to fall into the gap between the two boats, first squeezed by the two big boats, and then fall into the water when his brain is dizzy, and there is no reason to survive.

Behind the wolf-like soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven, the more frightened the Ming army was, the more they could not board the boat, even if they boarded the boat, they might not be able to escape their lives, a big boat was just ready to set sail, and the boatmen began to paddle, but because the soldiers on the boat were alarmed, they shook left and right, and they turned on their sides, and a boat of soldiers all rolled into the river......

The guards drove the soldiers with waist knives, fought a way, escorted Bu Congshan to board a big boat, and did not allow other soldiers to come up, forcing the boatman to row and leave the dock far away.

As soon as Bu Congshan left, the Ming army left on the shore was even more chaotic, and the officers at all levels only thought about getting on the boat and escaping for their lives, who could take care of the soldiers?

The soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven who arrived later showed no mercy to the frightened Ming army, and after a burst of slashing, the Ming army had completely lost its fighting spirit, and it was too late to escape.

Either surrender on your knees or be killed and ascend to heaven!

The battle did not last long, or rather, it was a one-sided massacre, and the cavalry of Liu Yunshui's troops abandoned their horses, but solved the battle with swords......

After dawn, Liu Yunshui immediately reported the defeat of the Ming army digging the embankment to Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng's face showed a strange smile, I don't know whether it was joy or chagrin.

In any case, Kaifeng must be taken as soon as possible, lest the imperial court have another moth.

Li Zicheng immediately gave an order to attack the independent battalion and the Chengtian battalion that attacked the east gate and the north gate, and after breakfast, he took his own soldiers and personally came to Caomen to supervise the battle.

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