The Ningxiang Army, Lufeng, and Nanjing Army rescued Kaifeng this time, and they still took the same route that Sun Yuan blitzed Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, and Yuan Shizhong at the beginning, starting from Yongcheng, taking Xiayi and Shangqiu, and then to the Yellow River in Yifeng and Lanyang. Set up an old camp here and threaten Li Zicheng's old camp to the west.

According to a report from the spies of Liang Mancang's detective factory, Li Zicheng's old camp was set up in the area of Xiamen in the east of Kaifeng City. Then it stretches to Chenliu New City and Xuanwuwei, showing a huge half-arc.

Sun Yuan took this road to revisit the old place, but compared to the last light car assault, the size of the team this time has increased tenfold, and the speed is much slower.

In the past, the cavalry traveled for a day, and the army had to walk for two or three days.

It's the beginning of September, it's the end of autumn, and the weather is much hotter than July and August, and the journey is harder than ever. Along the way, the Lu Fengjun was better, and the young master soldiers of the Nanjing Army complained one by one, which slowed down the troops' feet.

According to Sun Yuan's prediction, the troops would have to walk on the road for ten days. According to real history, Li Zicheng will dig up a section of the Yellow River in Zhujiazhai on the 15th of this month and flood Kaifeng.

The Yellow River in this section of Zhujiazhai is high, and if the embankment is broken by the thief army, the water of the Yellow River will pour down without any hindrance and sweep across the great plain. This is also the reason why Sun Yuan wants to set up the old camp in Yifeng and Lanyang, these two counties are exactly 20 miles south of Zhujiazhai, and if Li Zicheng wants to send people to dig the Yellow River, he must first pass the pass of the Ningxiang Army.

As a traversal, Sun Yuan naturally knew that these two places were the key to the battle of Kaifeng.

When he made this decision, Ma Shiying still didn't understand. According to his thoughts, when the Ming army marched north, it should go directly to fight Chen Liu, so why go around a big circle to Lanyang and take the wrong road. However, Sun Yuan's military talent is very trusting, and since Sun Yuan has made a decision, he will no longer talk nonsense

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The army walked on the road for four days and finally reached Shangqiu. According to Sun Yuan's plan, there were seven days left. With the current marching speed of the army, if you want to reach Lanyang in seven days, you have to hurry.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry."

"Keep up!"

On the vast plains, the cavalry galloped in formations on the yellow earth, and everywhere there were the shouts of the officers.

All the spearmen and musketeers hurried forward with their heads down, sweat streaming down the soldiers' foreheads. It would be a lie to say that they are not tired, but the young faces are flashing with excitement, and the fighting spirit of the troops is extremely high.

During the three years of rest and recuperation of the Ningxiang Army, Sun Yuan's strategic focus in these three years fell on the water division, and the army was so idle that it was about to grow mold. Liu Chao rebelled before, and everyone screamed with joy, and they could finally pull the troops out to move their bodies.

But the result was a great disappointment for the infantry, and all the battles were covered by the cavalry, and the others did nothing.

Fortunately, now we can finally set off, and the scale of the battle is larger than the conquest of Liu Chao, and now, it is finally our turn to show our Yuanzi Battalion, Weizi Battalion and Artillery Battalion. The cavalry battalion will also fight Liu Chao, the weak chicken, and Li Chuang's main force, and we have to rely on our infantry.

The Ningxiang Army moved fast and gradually lost touch with the Lufeng and Nanjing armies.

Soon, the troops crossed the Shang Hill and entered the territory of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The scout cavalry in front began to make contact with Li Zicheng's exploration horses, and within a day, there were more than a dozen skirmishes. Naturally, the cavalry did not suffer any losses, and listened to the report from the front to behead more than 20 levels.

Kaifeng was beaten three times by Li Zicheng, and the Chuang army and the Ming army repeatedly fought in more than a year, and they had already turned this place into a blank field. The desolation of Kaifeng is better than Guide.

Sun Yuan walked on the road all day, but he didn't see a single citizen. It was late autumn, and it was the season for winter wheat sowing, but the fields were still barren. Everywhere we went, all the villages had been abandoned, houses had collapsed, wells were clogged, and not a single wild dog could be seen. The heavens and the earth are thick, the heavens and the earth are wide, and there is a death-like silence, as if returning to the time when the heavens and the earth first opened.

From time to time, white bones can be seen in the ditch next to the official road, and at night, ghost fires flicker everywhere in the darkness

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Fortunately, there are signs of the great drought in the Central Plains, and there will always be a few light rains in January.

The thirsty land greedily sucks the rain, and everywhere it is green.

But this green is only short-lived, and in January, winter is coming, and the plants and trees will wither.

The leaves of the poplars on the roadside have begun to turn yellow, and they are scorched in the autumn sun.

"Brother Huang, this is really the white bones exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles! I think that back then, when Cao Cao pacified the Yellow Turban Army in Henan and Qingzhou, Shandong, it was probably the same situation! In the evening of this day, when the Ningxiang Army was stationed, Sun Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

Huang You also had a sad face: "Yongcheng has become an empty city, depending on the situation, the people here in Kaifeng are also dead, even if the thieves are leveled, the Central Plains will not be able to recover in ten years." Floods, droughts and military disasters, the vitality of my Ming Dynasty has been exhausted by this endless civil strife. At this time, if Liaodong Jiannu comes to attack, who can stop it? ”

Fu Shan next to him also took a rare solemn look, and sighed: "Yes, Hebei and Shandong have been robbed by Jiannu three times, and if they come again, Hebei and Gyeonggi will become the second barren land like Henan." ”

Sun Yuan felt sad in his heart: "What's the use of saying this now, my generation just does my part." Rest early, and start tomorrow at midnight, and in four days, our army should be able to reach the ground. ”

He was depressed, and after a little wine at dinner, he went into the tent. The weather was very hot, and the tent was stuffy, and the hot sweat on my body did not stop, and I slept soundly. At dawn, there was a rustling sound outside.

In the haze, Sun Yuan was relieved, it finally rained, and as soon as it rained, the weather became cooler and comfortable.

However, he remembered another thing, the feet here are all thick mud, if it is soaked in the rain and the roads are muddy, how can the troops march.

Thinking of this, he suddenly startled and hurriedly put on his clothes and left the tent.

As soon as I stepped out, it was as if I had stepped on a thick and sticky layer under my feet, and there was a crackling sound.

The air was filled with eerie buzzing sounds, as if you were in the middle of a factory floor, and your ears were filled with the beeping of machines.

At this moment, it is already midday, and the light of day has already opened

。 Sun Yuan fixed his eyes and immediately opened his mouth wide, unable to speak.

But I saw that the sky was full of locusts flying, and a layer had accumulated on his Chinese army tent.

It turned out that what I had just heard inside was not the sound of rain, but the locusts falling on the tent.

Huge groups of locusts flew in the sky like smoke and clouds, and even the morning light of the two dawns was shrouded in them.

These green-yellow locusts shimmer with evil light and eat everything they can.

The grass on the ground and the leaves on the trees disappear at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The loud roar outside alarmed all the soldiers, and one by one the soldiers came out of their tents, staring in amazement at everything in front of them.

"Oh my God, oh my God!" Huang You didn't know when he walked to Sun Yuan's side, waved his sleeves to drive away the locusts around him, and cried out sadly: "Such a catastrophe, there is no grass and trees left, and I don't know how many people will starve to death in Henan this year!" ”

One by one, the pines were lit, and the soldiers carried torches to burn the locusts overhead.

Soon the locusts were burned to the ground, and then the soldiers made up for them.

The sun was out, the black clouds were still hovering overhead, the ground had been trampled by the soldiers, and the viscous locust body fluids were flowing everywhere.

Not only do these pests eat everything they can, but they also fly around. Soon, the horses on the other side of the stable were frightened, and they neighed and ran and jumped, causing confusion in the camp.

The chaos lasted until a moment in the afternoon, and suddenly, all the locusts "buzzed" into the air, and flew east in a black cloud that spread for dozens of miles.

There was no annoying "buzzing" sound, and there was a sudden silence in my ears, so quiet that I could hear the sound of blood flowing in my eardrums.

"Damn!" Sun Yuan stomped his feet fiercely and trampled the two locusts to shreds: "I delayed another half a day's work." ”

After half a day's work, I can walk ten miles more.

Huang You: "General, are you still marching?" ”

"Go, why don't you go, how much can you go?" Sun Yuan looked at the layer of locust corpses on the ground and their internal organs, and said hatefully: "Could it be that you still want to stay with these little beasts for another day and night, not too dirty?" ”

"Yes, General, I'll go and prepare

。 Huang You nodded silently and went down to organize.

After all, it was an elite army, but in an hour, the troops were drawn again and continued to advance northward.

Strange to say, he walked very smoothly today, and he didn't meet a single scout.

Fu Shan poked his head out of nowhere beside Sun Yuan: "The thieves are probably tossed enough by this large group of locusts, and they can't even send a probe horse." "This guy is so nonexistent.

At this moment, the Ningxiang Army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Kaifeng.

Li Zicheng is also a veteran of the war, and according to real history, since he entered Henan, it seems that he suddenly got the hang of it, and the army began to be regularized. With such an unprecedented scale of war, will he not send a spy?

No, there must be something wrong?

At the whole time, suddenly a group of rats rushed in front of the black pressure, at least tens of thousands, and almost shocked the war horses to blow up the group again.

Seeing so many people and horses coming in front of them, the group of rats was also afraid, turned a corner, and walked around the side of the Ningxiang Army Brigade.

"It's disgusting!" Fu Shan frowned.

Yu Xiang laughed: "This Henan is too poor, you see, general, even the rat is thin like this!" ”

Everyone laughed at his vulgarity.

After the swarm of rats, the sky suddenly darkened, and then there was the sound of "quack" birds.

Looking up, countless sparrows and crows flew in desperately.

Sun Yuan didn't laugh, and suddenly shouted: "The front team is changed to the back team, the rear army is changed to the front army, run up and run!" ”

With that, he twisted his horse's head sharply, turned and galloped forward with a grim face.

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