Chapter 352 Kaifeng, Xiangyang Ding

"Boom!"

Zhengzhou City! At this time, the artillery bombardment continued, Liu Changyou's soldiers and horses could not stop the attack of the New People's Army in Luo**, more than half of the 30,000 troops were lost, and most of them were afraid of artillery bombardment, at this time the battle of Zhengzhou had just begun, and as soon as they heard the sound of artillery, the soldiers below trembled.

In the face of sharp artillery fire and long-range musket fire, the soldiers guarding the city gate turned around and retreated into the city.

Where Liu Changyou personally supervised the battle at the head of the city, the law enforcement team killed dozens of people to no avail, and in the end he himself was carried away by the generals.

"King Song, the small city of Zhengzhou can't stand the New People's Army at all, let's withdraw!"

"King Song is not afraid of running out of firewood."

Liu Changyou felt bitter in his heart, he had fought with the Taiping Army for so many years, and the Twist Army had been suppressed for countless years, and the muskets in the early days of the Taiping Army were also quite good, and there were many of them, but compared with the New People's Army, it was still a big difference.

Not only the breech guns, the bullets are constantly firing, but this cannon alone can't compare, and hundreds of them have to be broken in a strong city.

Especially these recruits, who were not very loyal to themselves, scattered directly when they heard the sound of artillery.

"Give up Zhengzhou, the gate of Kaifeng will be opened, and with Kaifeng's defensive terrain that leaks on all sides, it is even more impossible to stop the New People's Army." Liu Changyou was taken out of the city by his subordinates, and hundreds of horsemen ran from the east, more embarrassed than him:

"King Song, I'm sorry for you! Kaifeng City was taken by the New People's Army and the Twist Bandits. ”

"Ahh With a scream of pain, Liu Changyou fell under the horse and pointed his finger at the general: "This... How is this possible. The main forces of the New People's Army are in Zhengzhou, when to go to Kaifeng. ”

"King Song! It turned out that the New People's Army had already lurked in the surrounding villages and towns, and they didn't know where they got their artillery and muskets, so they attacked the city gate, and the brothers who defended the city did not notice because they had to deal with the Twist Army in the south, and they were caught off guard and lost. ”

"It's over! Finished! Zhengzhou, Kaifeng lost! Henan is finished! Liu Changyou was a little depressed, all the supporting spirits were scattered, and his face turned pale.

"King Song, where are we going, going to Shandong or Jiangsu." The loyal staff asked.

Once a person has been a master, he has been high-spirited, where can he still accept the send-off fence, Liu Changyou still wants to do the last struggle, and sighed quietly: "Don't go anywhere, let's go to Xuchang." ”

As soon as the people heard it, their faces changed slightly, and their eyes flickered, Xuchang, okay, it used to be the national capital, but today's Xuchang is no longer the Xuchang of the Three Kingdoms, this is sandwiched between Nanyang and Kaifeng, and it is stuck on the roadpoint of the New People's Army, and the way to die.

For a while, the subordinates who followed Liu Changyou had bad thoughts.

Xiangyang City!

Liu Songshan and the envoy of the New People's Army were sitting together to discuss the conditions.

"Envoy Hong, this is our condition, as long as the New People's Army agrees, we can immediately join the New People's Army and give up the king's title."

"Lord Liu, this is impossible, our marshal said that you can only give the establishment of one division, although you have 100,000 people, but the real elite main force is only the Xinzi battalion, the establishment of one division is completely enough, you also know that the commander of Jiang only gave the establishment of one division at that time." The secret agent who came to negotiate was Hong Xing from MI1.

The first military intelligence has developed from Sichuan Province to Shaanxi and Hubei, so he personally came forward to show his attention to such an important matter.

Liu Songshan shook his head and said: "This is wrong, Hong's envoy Jiang Yifeng only had 50,000 people when he joined the New People's Army, and he had just arrived in Guilin with an unstable foundation, just a partial general and commander rank, and my department was all children of the two lakes, and he was also named king. ”

"This is Lord Liu's mistake, if it is really discussed, Liu Da's situation is not necessarily better than that of Master Jiang at that time; You may have forgotten that it was precisely because of the annexation of Commander Jiang that the rout of Xibaotian's division was quickly achieved, and the casualties of our army were reduced, and the terrain of Guilin I think is much more dangerous than that of Xiangyang, and the annexation of your division cannot bring us any substantial progress, and now the number of artillery in our army has been greatly improved compared with before. Hong Xing said very politely, Liu Songshan's face changed when he heard this, although what Hong Xing said was true, but he still wanted to fight for the greatest interests for himself.

Hong Xing continued: "The commander of the division took the initiative to return to righteousness at that time, I think it should be treated as equals, and fairness is good, as for Lord Liu, he wants to inherit the so-called throne. It's not impossible. ”

"Hmm..!" Liu Songshan smelled a little strange smell, and listened quietly, Hong Xing smiled, asked his subordinates to bring the things they brought, lifted the black cloth, revealing a wooden ball supported by a bracket, and under the curious and confused eyes of Liu Songshan, Liu Jintang and others, he pointed to a certain area and said:

"Our marshal said, if you want to be the king and be the emperor, the outside world is very big, you can go to these places, you can be the king if you occupy the mountain, you can build a country and become the emperor if you grab the island, as long as you are not in the country, we will not interfere with what you want to do anywhere, and we can even support and be your back. ."

"What is this? What for. ”

"This is the righteousness of the earth, used to see the world, the place where we live is probably like this, here is our China, here is France, here is England, here is Tsarist Russia."

After Hong Xing's explanation, Liu Songshan finally understood what the world was like and how big it was outside, subverting their traditional concept of China as the center and the world revolving around China, and then he realized that the world was very big and China was very small.

There is a large piece of land to occupy outside, and there is a lot of meat to eat.

"No wonder the New People's Army can have today's development, what kind of people will have what kind of pretentiousness, Yang Dashuai's vision is my first person in China."

Liu Songshan said sincerely: "Special Envoy Hong, you don't need to talk about anything else, for the country, for the nation, in order to occupy more land in the world for future generations, I agree with your plan, a division is a division, I will put all the most elite soldiers into the Xinzi battalion, independent division, the country needs to recuperate, the people need to be stable, fight for so many years, in the end you won." ”

Listening to Liu Songshan's somewhat depressed voice, Hong Xing smiled: "It's not that we won, but everyone won, for the people of Xiangyang to thank Lord Liu for his profound righteousness, by the way, Lord Liu still wants to inherit the throne?" You can be like the Heavenly Army, and when the country is stable, I can help you establish our brotherly kingdom abroad. ”

Liu Songshan waved his hand and said: "If I were fifteen years younger, I might have gone overseas, but now I can't, when the country is stable and prosperous, I still play at home, and the fallen leaves return to my roots?" ”

Liu Songshan didn't dare to gamble, his family was still in Hunan, and he was a prisoner of the New People's Army, which was also one of the reasons why he chose to belong, of course, not the most important one.

Liu Songshan sighed with emotion, and looked at Liu Jintang, do you want to be the king? Why don't you go, but Liu Jintang shook his head, and he didn't force it.

He has no son, only such a nephew, who also has high hopes as a baby and a son, and he is extremely reluctant to let him go overseas to start a family business.

Liu Songshan then asked: "Special Envoy Hong, I don't know where our department will be transferred after the reorganization, and what tasks will be next." ”

You must know that after Jiang Yifeng's 15th Division was reorganized, it has been fighting against the Hunan army on the front line.

"Division Commander Liu, now I should call you Division Commander Liu, according to the arrangement of our commander, after the reorganization of your department, you will be transferred to Shaanxi to be responsible for defending against the harassment of the white bandits in the northwest, you can rest assured, you will not fight with your former colleagues and fellow villagers."

Liu Songshan was quite satisfied with this arrangement, and the smart Liu Jintang was also full of passion in his eyes, and he secretly admired Yang Dongfang.

Going to the northwest at least shows that they have great achievements to make in the future, they will be taken seriously, they will not be left out in the cold, and they do not care about their previous deeds, this is a person who can really tolerate and employ people, no wonder they can develop the New People's Army to this point.