Text Chapter 9 The beacon fire wolf smoke is revealed

In fact, from a historical point of view, the Ming Dynasty was the most "proud" era for Chinese farmers in history!! Perhaps Genghis Khan never dreamed that he led the Mongolian Iron Hoof to create the most extensive and most elite Dayuan Dynasty in world history, and his descendants would be destroyed in the hands of an unknown peasant Zhu Yuanzhang! History is not only mocking the domineering of tigers, but also applauding the strength of ants! No matter who is strong or small, there is never an eternal existence! When Zhu Yuanzhang went through thousands of hardships and stepped on a horse and swung his sword in the world, his heroic and extraordinary "motto" shouted unyieldingly at the same time: What's yours is mine, what's mine is still mine! "But when yours, my real belonging, Zhu Yuanzhang, he not only wants to enjoy the supreme dignity of power, but more importantly, he wants his country to be able to "long live", but when the descendants of the Zhu family have just been in business for more than 200 years, a team as powerful as he was back then came to the Ming Dynasty, and his leader was actually a peasant as destitute as Zhu Yuanzhang! "Li Zicheng!" Emperor Chongzhen thought that since the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang could establish the great cause of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng may not be able to create a new dynasty, which is naturally undoubted, not to mention that history is constantly innovating! No, his mighty army has already stepped into the Central Plains! However, facts speak louder than words, on the one hand, although they are opponents, Li Zicheng also has to be admired, otherwise how could a million teams surrender to him? On the other hand, no matter how extraordinary your momentum is, the Ming Dynasty is not resigned to being slaughtered! has already regained his spirits, who will kill the deer? Still unknown? When Emperor Chongzhen thought of this, he couldn't help but sneer.

In the early morning of the 21st day of the first month of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured Luocheng, killed Chongzhen's uncle Zhu Changxun, Fuwang Zhu Changxun, searched for the rich cellar in Henan, swept the jade silk of his children, and bundled it into the mountain. Chongzhen couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the news, and he was upset and didn't eat for a few days. He is ashamed of being the king of a country, and he can't even protect his own uncle, how can he protect the Zhu family's country? Of course, the emperor's relatives died sadly, and how many people died in the name, when Li Zicheng invaded Luoyang, he saw that King Fu was a fat man, and most of his peasant army were thin and weak hungry people, seeing the accumulation of wealth, he was furious: "You are the prince, rich in the world, when there is such a famine, you are unwilling to hide the money to help the people, and you are a slave!" And he stabbed him to death with a sword.

Li Zicheng's troops were invincible, and on February 12, they attacked the capital of Henan. On February 29, the emperor was furious, and on February 29, he issued an edict: Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, immediately arrested Beijing and questioned the guilt, and the governor was promoted to governor according to Gao Mingheng who defended the city and attacked. Li Xianfeng hanged himself when he heard it! At this time, Zhou Tengjiao, the magistrate of Bianxian County, said: "Biancheng does not defend Henan, Henan does not protect the Central Plains, and if the Central Plains is not protected, Henan's throat will be broken, and the general trend of the world is very worrying!" The emperor was very anxious when he heard this, so he ordered the ministers to recommend a good minister to fight with Henan! The ministers saw that the military officials of the imperial court were indeed incompetent. At the beginning of March, the emperor once again asked the ministers to nominate them, and the ministers looked at each other, and at this time, Ren Jun patrolled the province according to the south of the Yangtze River, and had not yet performed his new post, and the ministers unanimously recommended: "The patrol according to Ren Jun has a long reputation, good talent and virtue, and outstanding ability, let him be appointed as the governor of Henan according to the imperial history, and the governor Gao Mingheng will stick to Henan together!" When the emperor saw Ren Jun's return, the ministers were overjoyed: "When you can, when you can!"

Ren Jun supervised the army as an envoy to Henan, and together with the governor Gao Mingheng, he guarded the overall situation of Henan to fight against Li Zicheng.

As soon as Ren Jun arrived, his morale was high, because there were many brave soldiers and subordinates who he had personally trained when he was the imperial history of Henan, and their old leaders came to be the commander, and their spirits naturally increased, and they swore that the crowd shouted in unison: "Swear to defend Biancheng to the death!" Ren Jun climbed the city tower and saw Li Zicheng's millions of bees and ants attached to Biancheng, the scene was very solemn, and he couldn't help but be shocked! In the past, I only heard how Li Zicheng slammed into the song, calling himself "King Chuang", today I saw the soldiers coming down to the city, and they started from the beginning of the unveiling of the rod to vent their anger and seek revenge of the momentum of the desperate Saburo, unabated, they from the original chaos to today's well-trained, comparable to the Ming army, their victories again and again are enough to prove that Li Zicheng is by no means an idle person, if with the clumsy strength of the brute attack, there is no Wen Tao Wushu will not attack the Central Plains! Ren Jun felt the strength of his opponent, so he went down to the city to discuss with the generals and officials how to deal with it.

Governor Gao Mingheng said: "The enemy army has cut off our grain route and wants to besiege me Kaifeng."

General Chen Yongfu also stepped forward to ask Ying to obey his orders and ask for a quick battle!

Ren Jun said with a smile: "With my tens of thousands of soldiers to drive the enemy millions of soldiers, how can I win?"

The generals were dumbfounded, and Ren said, "If you win more with less, you may not be able to win with loyalty and bravery, only elite soldiers and strong generals, with one as a hundred, plus the skillful side may win!" The enemy is so powerful that it should not be underestimated! “

Ren Jun ordered Chen Yongfu to draw a crack army from the army and train them. The Ming general Gao Qian was ordered to lead his troops to Kaifeng and join forces with the general soldier Chen Yongfu, so that the two troops together were enough to compete with the enemy.

In the near future, Ren Jun personally supervised the battle, and first sent 500 elite soldiers into the battle to tear it apart? Kill, and then lead the troops to fight, one after another, rose up to resist, so that Li Zicheng could not resist, sighed that he met the opponent who resisted stubbornly, and secretly admired Ren Jun's strength in governing the army, seeing countless casualties, he returned defeated. Li Zicheng attacked the Ming Dynasty, it was really the first time to suffer such a big defeat, he had heard of Ren Jun's loyalty and bravery, and his changeable strategy, he was the backbone of the court will let him fight a tragic protracted war, he knew that it was not possible to fight with Ren Jun, it was better to fight with him in a roundabout battle, he left his troops to defend Kaifeng, and led his troops to fight other counties and counties, because there were many "soft bones" there, and it was easy to fight. And Kaifeng this "hard bone".! You have to take your time! Li Zicheng laid down a few more cities, completely cut off the supply line of Kaifeng, and then came back to besiege Kaifeng.

For more than 100 days before and after, the city fought rice and ten gold, the grass and trees and leather bands were eaten, and even some people ate people, and the situation was extremely critical! All the reinforcements ordered by the emperor were blocked, Ren Jun ordered the officials to abide by their duties and stabilize the morale of the army, he stood on top of the city, and he didn't realize it when the snowflakes fluttered all over his clothes, he fell into deep thought, thinking of a way to break out of the encirclement!

On December 23, the 14th year of Chongzhen, it is a small year in the lunar calendar, and it is a day for the world to worship the "Lord of the Stove" to say good things to the heavens, and to keep the peace in the lower realm, but the entire Kaifeng City is in extreme danger, starving to death, freezing to death, and dying of illness are countless, in the face of such a situation, Ren Jun ordered with tears,

Governor Gao Mingheng, chief soldier Chen Yongfu, push official Huang Shu, and Xiangfu Governor Wang Xie, each a lot, demarcate the land to defend it, and they did not slack off, they stuck to forty days and nights, and never unarmed and slept peacefully. It wasn't until Chinese New Year's Eve that Ren Jun came up with a way to gather the generals to discuss, and everyone's faces showed a long-lost smile.

On the first day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the patrol posted a notice according to the imperial history: the city is guarded with gunpowder first, and more should be prepared, and the gunpowder stored today is only 100,000 catties. Immediately after the notice was posted, King Zhou took the lead in donating 30,000 catties of gunpowder, and there were also donors from other parties. Within a few days, more than 100,000 catties of gunpowder were raised!

Soon, Li Zicheng attacked the city on a large scale, he organized his soldiers to dig holes around the city with plows, hoes, axes, and constantly fired cannons into the city, and the city wall was strong, not only did the city wall not fall, but killed many of their own people. And Kaifeng City because of the sufficient gunpowder, under the command of Ren Jun, Kaifeng City was in flames, bombarded Li Zicheng's troops day and night, Li Zicheng fled in panic when he saw this, the siegers suffered heavy losses, and the number of deaths under the city reached tens of thousands, which was the most tragic battle in history! Ren Jun was injured in the battle and couldn't move, so he asked the emperor to return to his hometown to recuperate.

The battle of Kaifeng played out the ambition of the imperial court, Ren Jun's loyalty and courage, the management of the army in a good way, the rewards and punishments are clear, and the heroic name of loyalty and unyielding has been recorded in the annals of Chinese history. The reason why Kaifeng was able to hold on for a long time was actually as the old Kaifeng said: "The martyrdom is in the general, and the loyalty and courage are in the people!" Bai Yu, a Kaifeng man who experienced the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, lamented in his work "Bianyuan Wet Record": "The disaster of mutiny, there has never been a person who is worse than my Bian!" ″

Emperor Chongzhen has been on the throne for more than ten years, and only this battle of Kaifeng has made him raise his eyebrows, but in addition to being full of emotion, he thought that there was a more tragic battle coming!