"What, so much?" Li Zicheng couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

During the Chuzhou War, Sun Yuan's 3,000 infantry impressed him too deeply. It was simply a rock, and the thousands of troops and horses of the peasant army continued to rush forward, but they were all smashed to pieces without exception.

Even his own cavalry troops were so beaten that they couldn't find the north and completely collapsed

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The cavalry is the king of war in this era, which can not only carry out large-scale mobile raids, but also charge into battle, and can be called the armored group army during the cold weapon war.

Especially in Armageddon, cavalry was the main factor that determined the outcome of a battle.

As soon as the cavalry rushed up, thousands of war horses roared over, and it was really overwhelming. Many infantrymen could not resist at all when they saw the cavalry group increase their speed, and they collapsed before the enemy could make contact with them.

So many times, the combat effectiveness of a unit is usually measured by how many cavalry troops the opponent has.

For cavalry, there was also a very precise standard for measuring words in this era. For example, the daily consumption of a war horse is equivalent to seven infantry, and the combat power of a cavalry is equivalent to ten light infantry.

After this Li Zicheng won the battle of Zhuxian Town, he recruited more than 20,000 elite Ming troops and captured 6,000 war horses, and his strength was greatly improved, and his heart was inevitably a little swollen. Therefore, I heard Liu Zongmin say that Sun Yuan led his troops to the Kaifeng area, and he also thought about concentrating all the cavalry to eat the 3,000 cavalry army in Ningxiang.

Now I heard Liu Zongmin say that the Ningxiang army came not only with 3,000 cavalry, but also two battalions of infantry in addition to the cavalry, with artillery, and the main force of the entire Yangzhou was here, which made people's hearts tighten, and the vest was oozing sweat innorantly.

He jumped off the stool, stood barefoot on the loess, and his right eye fell on Liu Zongmin in disbelief.

The fierce beast of the Ningxiang Army, with only 3,000 cavalry, defeated Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, and Xiao Yuanying, and lost a big defeat, and now the whole army is coming, is this still possible?

At this moment, not only Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin's faces changed greatly, but even Niu Jinxing and the leaders who participated in that battle also turned white.

Song Xiance saw that everyone was shocked like this, and at the same time he was a little puzzled and a little funny: "King Chuang, the officers and soldiers are just nine thousand more people, and they are all foot soldiers, so what are you afraid of?" ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Things are not as simple as Song Junjun imagined, the nine thousand people of the Yangzhou Zhenning Township Army are all elite, such as the elite of Jiannu Tartar." Many people must know the strength of the cavalry army, and the combat effectiveness of the newly added nine thousand elite troops is not inferior to their cavalry. If I, Lao Li, had these two battalions of elites, not to mention the Central Plains, I am afraid that I would have entered Beijing long ago. ”

In an instant, the memories of the past came to him vividly

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It was also in Chuzhou that the rows of spears that stood like forests forced their cavalry to circle around them, like tigers gnawing hedgehogs, not only did not know how to mouth, but were beaten by the musketeers of the people like flies.

The gunfire never stopped from the beginning, and how many heroes died on the battlefield worthlessly.

Ning Xiangjun's earth-shattering shout, his cold eyes, and his neat movements still make Li Zicheng break out in a cold sweat.

"What, are they all the main soldiers, or are they elites like Jiannu?" Song Xiance was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but let out a low sigh. (.marshmallow)

He hadn't seen Jiannu, but he had only heard the elite soldiers of the nine sides in the army say that it was all a beast worth ten, and a few hundred Jiannu could crush a Ming army of tens of thousands of people.

Song Xiance, the elite of the nine-sided family, knows that the reason why the army is so powerful now is not because the imperial court's finances collapsed, and the border army can't pay military salaries. In order to survive, a large number of border troops joined the peasant camp, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the rebel army. To put it mildly, the skeleton of the current invading army is supported by the border army. It is precisely because of the participation of a large number of elites that Li Zicheng has the idea of competing for the world.

In fact, there were not too many elite families in the Ming Dynasty army, with a battalion of 4,500 people, and only a few hundred. A town border army, there are thousands of even a big army town.

The 11,000 men and horses of the Ningxiang Army turned out to be all family members, this, this, is this possible, could it be a mistake.

You must know that with so many families, it is not a problem to support an army of more than 100,000 horses.

"Yes, that's it." Liu Zongmin and the others' faces turned pale.

Niu Jinxing muttered: "It's troublesome now, I didn't expect Sun Yuan, the fierce tiger, to come with the whole army, and this battle of Kaifeng is only afraid of big changes." ”

Liu Zongmin's right-hand man Xin Sizhong, who was afraid of being beaten by Sun Yuan in the last battle, couldn't help but shout: "King Chuang, the thieves in Ningxiang are powerful, and I am afraid that this Kaifeng will not be able to fight." Otherwise, the siege troops will be withdrawn, and we will join the Chuang Army, the Cao Army, and the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left to fight with Sun Yuangan first, and then cut off this trouble. ”

Song Xiance hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, no, you can't withdraw."

。 Now there is a shortage of food in Kaifeng City, which has reached the point of cannibalism. If the siege is withdrawn at this time, won't Kaifeng be relieved. When we repel Sun Yuan and Ma Shiying and then turn back to deal with King Zhou, I don't know how many days it will take. It's hard to open the seal four times and open the seal five. After besieging Kaifeng three times in a row, the casualties of the soldiers were too serious, and the officers and soldiers of all armies were already exposed, and the army had no heart to fight. If you fight again, what else are you talking about? ”

"What if you don't withdraw, you have to withdraw." Liu Zongmin shouted: "Even if we gather the full strength of the three armies, we may not be able to win against Sun Yuan, and I think you are also confused, and you still want to fight a decisive battle with the enemy while besieging the city." You don't need to fight the tiger with all your strength, you can take the way to death. ”

Song Xiance was unhappy in his heart: "General Liu Zongmin, you are the first brave general in my army, why are you so afraid of Sun Yuan, is it possible that he has three heads and six arms?" ”

Liu Zongmin was furious: "Old Song, you said it lightly, if you went to the battle of Ma Muji last time, I am afraid that you will not say such things, and you may not be able to come back." ”

"Yes, yes, General Liu is right." Everyone nodded.

These people are Li Zicheng's confidants, and some people have seen Sun Yuanjun's fierceness in Ma Muji. Even those who did not participate in that battle were terrified in Chuzhou back then. It can be said that now the entire high-level of the army has suffered a big loss in his hands.

For a while, everyone's faces were miserable, and their morale was extremely depressed.

Thinking of the strong Li Zicheng, he sighed lightly: "If you want to repel the Ningxiang army, you have to use all your strength." Let's not talk about the outcome of this battle, even if we win by luck, once Kaifeng eases up, can our tired army still take this strong city? If Kaifeng can't take it, we won't be able to gain a foothold in the Central Plains. This...... Sun Yuan is Sun Yuan, you are really called a loss of ground! ”

Song Xiance was shocked when he saw Li Zicheng's depressed face. You must know that this master in his mind has always been confident, calm, and strong, as if everything is under control, quite like the atmosphere of a founding king. Now, he has been made like this by a Sun Yuan, is this Sun Yuan really strong, so strong that he is powerless?

At this time, another group of cavalry came running, and the leader was Tian Jianxiu, who was second only to Li Zicheng in the army, and the actual commander of the siege of Kaifeng.

Since the siege of Kaifeng began, Tian Jianxiu has been staying in Taojiadian in the north of the city to preside over military affairs and coordinate the various departments of the peasant army.

He came all the way today, apparently because he had urgent military affairs.

From afar, Tian Jianxiu was shouting: "Chuang Wang, Chuang Wang, something is wrong."

！ ”

Seeing the anxious noise on Tian Jianxiu's face, the war horse ran so fast, and the hearts of everyone in the long circle were tight, and at the same time there was a bad premonition.

Li Zicheng shouted: "What's the big deal, could it be that the Ningxiang Army has hit you, isn't Sun Yuan's thief still in the south of Lanyang, could it be that he planted his wings and flew over?" ”

While speaking, Tian Jianxiu had already rushed to the bottom of Changwei, and when he heard the words, he said: "What Sun Yuan?" ”

Then he jumped off his horse and waved his hand and shouted to his subordinates: "Take it!" ”

On the top of the earthen fence, everyone looked intently, and only then did they see that Tian Jianxiu had a middle-aged man covered in blood under his hands.

"What's the matter, who is this man...... Eunuch? Waiting for Tian Jianxiu and the others to come up, Li Zicheng glanced at the captive and was stunned. Indeed, this middle-aged man has no beard, no Adam's apple, and is still wearing palace clothes, so there is no doubt that he is indeed a eunuch: "Lao Tian, why did you bring such a gelding to see the forehead?" ”

Tian Jianxiu pushed the eunuch and said with a smile: "King Yuchuang, it's hard to talk about this eunuch." This person came out of Kaifeng City, a person from the Zhou Palace, and ran to Zhujiazhai with his men and horses last night, wanting to dig the Yellow River dam to flood us. The explosives were all planted, but fortunately our sergeants were patrolling that section and killed them. ”

"Blow up the Yellow River embankment!" Everyone was startled, and then took a breath of cold air.

Most of the high-ranking generals of the Chuang army are from Shaanxi and know what is going on with the Yellow River. The Yellow River carries a large amount of sediment, which is constantly raised by the riverbed. This is especially true in Henan. In order to control floods, the state has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build dikes in successive dynasties. For every foot that the Yellow River rises, the embankment also rises by ten inches.

Over the centuries, the river has become an overhanging river.

According to Niu Jinxing, Kaifeng City has been flooded several times in history, and when the water receded, the entire city was covered with a hundred layers of thick soil. Under the current Kaifeng City, there are two more Kaifeng.

The area around Zhujiazhai is a large plain with gentle terrain, and if the Yellow River bursts, the raging Yellow River water will immediately pour down. When the time comes, the southeast direction will immediately meet the border Chengze country, and hundreds of thousands of righteous soldiers die without knowing how they died.

"It's so vicious!" Liu Zongmin was furious, rushed forward, and punched and kicked the eunuch

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The eunuch was stiff, and he didn't scream, but he suffered so vigorously that blood kept gushing out of his nostrils and the corners of his mouth.

Li Zicheng waved his hand to signal Liu Zongmin to stop, and asked, "Who are you, tell me, what's going on?" ”

The eunuch only glared at Li Zicheng with hateful eyes, but did not say a word.

Li Zicheng: "It's a man, although you received that knife in the crotch, I don't embarrass you." There is no need to think about this matter, it must be the idea of Governor Gao and King Zhou, who want to flood the Seventh Army for Lao Tzu. It's a pity that before you blew up the Yellow River embankment, it was discovered by our army, and God is not on your side. ”

The eunuch spat out a mouthful of bloody spit and scolded: "Thief, you will kill our family if you have a kind." I, the people of Kaifeng, will become a city, even if you take Kaifeng, you will have to suffer heavy casualties, prepare 100,000 coffins! Haha, haha, haha! ”

"Take it down!" Li Zicheng's face was iron-blue.

Indeed, the tide of the war has already begun to move in his favor. The soldiers and civilians of Kaifeng City are obviously ready to live and die with the whole city, as the dead eunuch said just now, even if Kaifeng is taken in the future, the righteous army must have the consciousness of paying tens of thousands of lives. What's even worse is that Ma Shiying and Sun Yuan's army has already entered the Kaifeng territory, and they can reach the battlefield in three to five days at most. Against the 11,000 main soldiers of the Shangning Township Army, Li Zicheng was not sure of victory. Moreover, Ma Shiying still has tens of thousands of horses on hand? Once this battle is fought, the scale will certainly be not small. Who wins and who loses, God knows.

Even if you are lucky, Elong Qi is in the body and wins this game by luck with God's favor, it will definitely be a miserable victory, and then there will be enough strength to gnaw on the hard bone of Kaifeng?

The most terrible thing is that if I withdraw the siege of Kaifeng and go to fight with the Ningxiang army, the king of Zhou will send people to dig the Yellow River embankment. His grandmother's, when the time comes, my hundreds of thousands of troops will not have to feed the fish. The thieves in Kaifeng City were so badly injured that they had already lost their hearts, and this kind of thing must have been done.

Not only did Li Zicheng think of this, but everyone also woke up at the same time, and their faces changed greatly.

No matter how you look at it, I'm afraid that this battle is going to be a sandwich meal, and besides, if the army is not good, it is really easy to fall into this Kaifeng Mansion and not go back.

Li Zicheng suddenly muttered: "What if we withdraw the troops first and dig up the embankment of the Yellow River?" When the time comes, the entire Kaifeng Mansion will become an ocean, and the tens of thousands of troops of Sun Yuan and Ma Shiying will not be able to come. ”

"Ahh

！ Song Xiance was shocked: "King Chuang, it is indeed a clever plan to retreat the enemy with water, but with the big water, I am afraid that even Kaifeng City will be flooded, and we are not busy in vain." ”

"Yes, if Kaifeng City is flooded, it will be troublesome." Everyone nodded at the same time. Since the beginning of the peasant army, it has always been a military food, and it is only this year that it has begun to have a posture of operating base areas. The last time I hit Luoyang, everyone was full, and now a good Kaifeng is in the eyes, I don't know how much gold and silver is hidden in the city, is it possible to watch it washed away by the water?

"No, don't worry!" Suddenly, Niu Jinxing said loudly: "Gentlemen, if the Yellow River floods Bianliang and floods Kaifeng, how can the King of Zhou send someone to dig the embankment, isn't that suicide?" ”

"Yes!" Everyone raised the spirit.

Li Zicheng also turned his head with a bang: "Venus, you talk about it." ”

"Youtu."

When the map of Kaifeng was brought, Niu Jinxing pointed at the map with a wooden stick and said with a smile: "King Chuang, gentlemen, Niu is from Henan, and I don't know how many times I have been to Kaifeng, but I know the geography of the mountains and rivers here." You see, this is the Cao Gate in the east of Kaifeng, which is the lowest place in Kaifeng. If you dig up the Yellow River embankment, the big water together, must come here first, the Caomen city wall is extremely strong, all are rammed earth as the quality, covered with green bricks, the Yellow River water still can not collapse. When the time comes, as soon as the water is blocked by the city wall, it will inevitably divert along the city wall, go straight to the southeast, and finally flow into Suishui. Over there, isn't it the direction of the Ningxiang Army, the Lufeng Army, and the Nanjing Army entering Henan? The Seventh Army was flooded, and it was Sun Yuan who was drowned. However, there is one more important thing in this matter. King Zhou dug the embankment, in order to let the water of the Yellow River smoothly return to Suishui, so as not to flood the people, the digging should not be large. We are not so merciful, so we simply opened the opening larger, so that Suishui did not have time to drain the flood, and piggyback on the Ningxiang army. ”

"Good!" Li Zicheng was shocked: "He is worthy of being a Niu Junshi, and he can even think of such a clever plan." Guys, what do you think? ”

"What is this good idea?" All the generals nodded.

Everyone was frightened by the Ning Xiang Army, and it was naturally best to be able to fight with Sun Yuan, Niu Jinxing's idea was exactly what everyone wanted.

For a while, the praise of Niu Junshi was endless.

Niu Jinxing made a big splash today, and he was also extremely proud in his heart, and he couldn't help but smile. He also knew that from today on, the old man of the army had truly accepted himself, and he had since replaced Li Yan's position in their minds

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Song Xiance wanted to object, but after thinking about it, he didn't know what to say, so he had to keep his mouth shut.

Li Zicheng's heart was refreshed, "It's not too late, Zong Min." ”

Liu Zongmin: "The last general." ”

"You take the men and horses to dig the embankment of Zhujiazhai tonight, remember, open the mouth a little wider."

"The last army is commanded."

"Tian Jianxiu."

"The end will be."

"Go down and mobilize the three armies, prepare to withdraw the siege tomorrow, and take the troops to the high ground to the west. In addition, inform Cao Cao and the leaders of the 5th Battalion of Gezuo that they are also ready to withdraw their troops to avoid the water. ”

"Yes!"

After speaking, Li Zicheng glanced at the swarthy Kaifeng in front of him again, looked at the flag fluttering at the head of Caomen City, and couldn't help but smile coldly, "Bianliang Haojie, I am willing to stand under this banner from my travelers!" Huang Peng thief, I really want to meet you well. Wait until tomorrow when the flood is together, and foreign aid is cut off, I want to see what kind of expression you have. ”

"Kaifeng has been boiling this hard stone for so long, it should be cooked."

He squatted down, ignoring the fact that his bare feet were already covered with mud, and put on his boots directly and put on a big coat: "Let's go, let's move the camp to the west." ”

After getting off the long fence, Li Zicheng jumped on the war horse and saw a corpse pounced under the soil fence, and the blood was still bubbling down.

On the ground, in a pool of blood was a white-faced, beardless head with round eyes, who was not the captured eunuch before?

"When was this captive killed?" Li Zicheng was stunned: "Why didn't you hear the slightest sound?" ”

A soldier arched his hand and said: "Back to the king's words, just now this eunuch was hard, and he knew that he could not live, so he lay on the ground, stretched his neck, and did not snort from beginning to end." ”

"What a good man!" Li Zicheng praised: "Don't treat people badly, throw his body in the field and feed it to the dogs." ”

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