Zhu Youzhen glanced up at Xia Wanchun and smiled slightly: "What's the matter with you?" ”

"Wechen asks to join the war!" Xia Wanchun said childishly.

"Father and son soldiers, you can, go! But pay attention to safety, don't let Xu Zhaohua become a widow before she gets married! ”

Zhu Youzhen said this with a smile, Shi Kefa and other officials present couldn't help but smile, not only because of the matter of Xia Wanchun and Xu Zhaohua, but also because His Majesty Zhu Youzhen still had the heart to make this kind of joke at this time.

Xia Wanchun couldn't help but blush: "Yes!" But he ran away from the Governor's Office.

Here, Zhu Youzhen suddenly pulled his face: "What are you laughing at!" They are all important ministers in the court, and they have no self-cultivation at all, so now they have to give me a little calm, stabilize the key points, and when they will go out, so that the officials and people of Kaifeng City can see confidence from us, and they all understand? ”

"Obey Your Majesty's orders!"

The ministers couldn't help replying, but at this time, Gao Hongtu stood up: "Your Majesty, Weichen has a reluctant request, can you ask Your Majesty to give your Majesty to wear your majesty's dragon robe and crown for a day, Kaifeng officials and people only need to know that Your Majesty is here, you don't need to know who it is, but the ministers can't let Your Majesty really get into danger, so dare to ask Your Majesty to allow the ministers to trespass." ”

Other officials couldn't help but be surprised when they heard this, wearing the clothes of Emperor Zhu Youzhen to avoid hurting the real Majesty with open guns and hidden arrows, and at the same time being able to achieve that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen was still in the city, it was indeed a good way, but this was indeed an act of transgression, and it was a felony to kill the head.

"It's rare that Aiqing has this heart, I promise you, in the past, Jie Zi pushed and cut the shares of Fengjun, and today Gao Aiqing changed his robe to protect me, which really makes me happy, please rest assured that Aiqing is not the king of Jin, and I will not punish Aiqing when the time comes, if I and you return to Beijing safely, he will definitely repay Aiqing's righteousness one day!"

After Zhu Youzhen said, he decisively began to change his robe, and for a while Zhu Youzhen wore a python robe and walked out, and waited for Gao Hongtu outside the door for a while.

About the end of the afternoon, smoke and dust were already billowing in the northwest direction, and Zhu Youzhen and his party also went up to the city tower, and at this time, the officers and soldiers up and down the city tower had already begun to kneel, shouting long live. While Zhu Youzhen was dictating, Gao Hongtu said some encouraging words loudly to the officials and people present.

After another quarter of an hour, the officials and the people began to concentrate on preparing for the war, and Zhu Youzhen also breathed a sigh of relief, the people of Kaifeng in the city were much more experienced than they imagined, and they did not mix in the construction of slaves, so that until now, there have been no sneak attacks.

Zhu Youzhen looked outside the city, and at this time, dozens of cavalry had already appeared outside the outer city walls.

Across the moat, Zhu Youzhen looked at these cavalrymen from a distance, their skin was as dark as Kunlun slaves, with a handful of hair hanging on the top of their heads, braided into braids, slightly curled, each with high cheekbones, thin mouths like silk threads, wide shoulders and tall torsos did give people a lot of pressure.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but glance back at his side, countless officials and civilians were yellow and thin, some of their bodies trembled slightly, and the knives and guns in their hands were clenched very tightly, so they couldn't help but smile, thinking that maybe at this moment, if they could be here, they would be considered very brave to dare to look at the Tartars.

Xia Yunyi and the 6,000 officers and soldiers of his battalion also went to the city wall, and one by one he put the Chongzhen 14-style flintlock pistol on the battlements with a solemn face, began to bite through the paper shell bullets, loaded the granular gunpowder into the barrel, and then pressed the trigger with his index finger, just waiting for the Tartar to get close to Xia Yunyi and pull the trigger to fire.

At the same time, these officers and soldiers also made of the ordnance of the earth-shaking thunder, a grenade-like weapon began to neatly stack on the city tower, although this kind of earth-shaking thunder does not have modern thunder mercury as the detonation material, but because of the improvement of the gunpowder ratio and the manufacturing principle of flowering bombs, the explosion effect is greater than the various explosive weapons before the Ming Dynasty.

The battalion led by Xia Yunyi of the Second Army of the Guards Army did not participate in actual combat, and was always responsible for the important task of defending Gyeonggi, and even if the training was in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, the training intensity of the battalion was relatively large, and as soon as it encountered such a battle, especially a defensive war, it began to make all kinds of preparations in an orderly manner.

Zhu Youzhen was very relieved to see this, and the officers and soldiers of Kaifeng City also had some confidence, and even took the governor of Henan, Lu Daqi, to stretch his brows.

At this time, the Tartars outside were gathering more and more, and even many of them were whistling, pulling their bows and arrows from time to time, and even pulling out one or two captive people to slash and kill a few times, so as to frighten and frighten the officials and people who defended the city. But they were all very cunning, they just refused to get closer, and they looked behind them from time to time, waiting for the main force to arrive.

"Many of them are Eight Banners armor soldiers, all of them are old Tartars who have killed countless of my compatriots in the Ming Dynasty since ten years ago, let them all aim at the point, kill one and earn one!"

Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly as he spoke, and continued to look at more and more Tartars outside the city, and finally saw Duoduo's Chinese army appear in the field of vision, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but order someone to hand him the Westerners' monoculars, and then began to look at Duoduo and the others carefully.

However, Zhu Youzhen found that Duoduo was not as delicate as the actors in the Qing palace drama, but had a horizontal face, like a basketball board, and looked indeed a little powerful, but he really couldn't match the handsome, and the money rat tail on his head made him even more uncivilized barbarian.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also saw two fair-skinned people following Duoduo, seeing that his face was slightly different from that of Jiannu Tartar, but he was also wearing the Jiannu King suit, Zhu Youzhen thought to himself that this might be Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi, two big men and 0 traitors.

At this time, outside the city of Kaifeng was already the sound of drums, the sound of string control came and went, the war horses galloped back and forth, rolling up the smoke and dust in the sky, and the sound of rowing wood was also heard everywhere, ladders, giant trees, trebuchets, etc. began to appear one after another, and even the red-clothed cannon that was still wrapped in a rain cloth.

"Zhang Keliang's guy really surrendered to the enemy!"

At this time, Lu Daqi also saw Zhang Keliang, the general of the Tiger Prison who surrendered to the Qing army.

"As the commander of the city, you must not be so emotional, although he Zhang Keliang defected to the enemy, but he also tried his best, it is understandable, after all, he has also defended the city for you for half a month, if you don't let him defend and not retreat, it won't be like this, he only has 300 people left now, it can be regarded as benevolent and righteous, of course, those who surrender are not tolerated, and it is also a military discipline that must be abided by! Defend the city, don't worry about him, your enemy at this moment is the commander of the Qing army, Duoduo! ”

Zhu Youzhen finished saying that he led a group of people down the city wall, and at this time, the whistling sound of cannonballs began to come from outside the city, and even one fell directly on the battlements that Gao Hongtu had just left, directly knocking down a large part of the battlements, and there was a rumbling sound!