Thundered~

Listening to the sound outside, the shopkeeper's expression became even more unnatural, looking up at the sky, the sun was shining, but for some reason he always felt that there was a haze in the air that could not be dispersed.

The guy looked at the shopkeeper incomprehensibly and said, "Shopkeeper, what's the situation, why do we have to climb upstairs?" ”

At this time, the shopkeeper pointed to the west of Kaifeng Mansion and said, "What's over there?" ”

"West? Kaifeng Mansion? The Western Wall of the City? Moat, river? Wait for the Yellow River! ”

The man's eyes widened suddenly, and the shopkeeper nodded stiffly and said: "That's right, it's the Yellow River, when I was studying in the college, the teacher once told us, although Kaifeng Mansion is high and the walls are thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is a trick, that is, flooding ......"

"And the teacher has also mentioned more than once, the old matter of Wang Ben, the son of the Qin general Wang Qian, digging water to irrigate the beam, now Kaifeng Mansion is well defended, but Li Zicheng still dares to let the displaced people attack Kaifeng, if he doesn't make a fuss on this water, then I'm too sorry for the group of military advisors under him who are known as think tanks."

"Break open the Yellow River embankment, flood the city of Kaifeng, my God, there are millions of people in this Kaifeng city, he breaks the Yellow River embankment, these hundreds of thousands of people will immediately become homeless, this, this is a lack of great virtue."

It took a long time for the guy to hold back such a sentence.

The shopkeeper smiled when he heard this: "Lack of great virtue? They are rogues and still care about this, you think they are county honors, and they will do whatever it takes to win. ”

When the guy heard this, he said: "Yes, it's still good for the county, if you want me to say that Kaifeng is like this, it's better to let the county Zun mention the soldiers come and take them under the command of Lantian, and the people here can live a good life for a few days." ”

The shopkeeper said: "That's not good, if the county zun really takes Kaifeng under his command, the imperial court, Li Zicheng, and even Zhang Xianzhong, who is doing things far away in Hubei, will come to find the county zun and work hard, after all, they all know that if the county zun is successful, they will have no way to live." ”

The guy said, "That's what I said. ”

After saying this, the guy looked at the sky, and saw a flock of birds flying in the distance from the northwest to Kaifeng in a panic, and the guy said, "It's not going to start." ”

The shopkeeper's right eyelid jumped violently at this time: "I feel like a catastrophe is coming!" ”

Hearing this, the two looked to the northwest together, and the young man said, "Are we safe upstairs?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "It's definitely safer than flat ground, by the way, go down and bring all the food, maybe we're going to be trapped here." ”

When the man heard this, he immediately went down with the shopkeeper and moved all the finished cakes and mutton soup upstairs, and the door of the shop was closed, ready to meet the danger.

At this time, the upper reaches of Kaifeng Mansion, the Yellow River, at this time, there are obvious traces of artificial heightening, and the river water in the Yellow River is turbid, it is rushing down there, the waves are turbulent, it is terrifying to look at, the water is almost not like water, but flowing mud.

At this time, on the embankment of the Yellow River, a man riding a tall horse and wearing a lotus leaf felt hat stood on a high place, looking down at Kaifeng Mansion not far away, and his face showed unprecedented pride.

In the past two years, he has been so aggrieved, he was surrounded and suppressed by the imperial army, and he took out eighteen horsemen and hid in the mountains of Shanxi.

And today he finally cleared the dark clouds and saw the light of day, as long as he dug the Yellow River embankment, the Yellow River water that he had been trapped for half a year was enough to flood the invincible Kaifeng City below, and then there would be hundreds of thousands of millions of victims below at once, and when he climbed the heights, there would be hundreds of thousands of millions of righteous troops.

I can take them to Luoyang, go down to Shandong, and directly hit Chongzhen Lao'er's BJ City, take the bird position, and become the emperor himself.

This feeling of reaching the pinnacle of power makes Li Zicheng can't help it, it's so cool, this is what a man should do, this is the career he should pursue.

Li Zicheng couldn't help but look up to the sky and let out a long roar when he thought of this: "Ah~"

The people around were stunned, and they all looked at Li Zicheng, thinking that this King Chuang's poetry was going to make what kind of famous story through the ages, as for the fact that King Chuang is not educated, it doesn't matter, Han Gaozu is not educated, didn't he also make such a heroic sentence that the wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, and the warriors are guarding the Quartet?

As a result, Li Zicheng was still disappointed, and after this sound, he didn't want to write a poem.

Instead, he spit out two words: "Dig!" ”

As soon as it came out, the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time immediately dug the embankment of the Yellow River, followed by the sound of thunder and thunder immediately sounded in the Yellow River, gushing out directly from the mouth of the embankment, and the next moment directly showed the momentum of thousands of troops and horses and rushed directly to Kaifeng Mansion not far away, flooding Kaifeng.

Thundered......

Seeing that the water level of the Yellow River was declining at a speed visible to the naked eye, Li Shichao, the commander of the guard battalion who followed Li Zicheng, sighed, and his sigh was seen by Li Zicheng.

"Shi Chao? Why sigh? ”

Li Zicheng looked at Li Shichao, Li Shichao looked up at Li Zicheng when he heard the words, and said: "King Chuang, as soon as the Yellow River breaks, the people of Henan are afraid that they will suffer, and I can't bear it." ”

Li Shichao is very sincere, Li Zicheng also knows that his brother's heart is not hard enough, at this time he issued such a sigh, Li Zicheng did not feel strange, on the contrary, if Li Shichao did not react at all, Li Zicheng would be suspicious.

Li Zicheng looked at Li Shichao and said: "This is also a helpless thing, the court is corrupt, under the rule of the court, these people are not as good as pigs and dogs, it is better to let us help them, if this evil account is to be calculated, it should also be recorded in the court, what do you and me do." ”

Li Zicheng looked at the sky at this time and said: "All resistance has a price, and this is the price. ”

Li Shichao nodded at this time and said, "I understand King Chuang." ”

Li Shichao said that he understood, but he was complaining frantically in his heart, he understood a hammer, why did you Li Zicheng want to rebel and have to make innocent people pay, the people's lives are already hard enough, you don't save them, but instead fight them harder, I have to say that you are too dark-hearted.

Of course, in this era of cannibalism, you can't do anything if you don't have a heart, you can't do anything.

The water of the Yellow River frantically poured into Kaifeng City, and the huge Kaifeng City was surrounded by floods in an instant, and the defenders of Kaifeng Mansion standing on the city wall saw the rushing Yellow River water, and the whole person was paralyzed, and at this time they only had time to shout: "The Yellow River has burst!" ”

Followed by the sound of the Yellow River water carrying stones and sand impacting Kaifeng City, no one wants to plug the gap at this moment, not to mention whether Kaifeng City can be released, even if Kaifeng City can be released, but at this time the Yellow River is in the flood season, the water flow is turbulent, as long as the embankment is broken, there is no way to block it.

The Yellow River surged down, directly engulfing the entire Kaifeng City, watching the flood come, everyone's eyes widened, hundreds of people were swallowed up by the flood, miserable.

The shopkeeper looked at the flood that suddenly poured into the city, and his heart was shocked, fortunately, the building where he was located was near Kaibao Temple, which was originally the highest place in Kaifeng City, at this time, the water was poured back, but it could not be flooded here in a short time, but this flood was destined to be a human tragedy.

Those who witnessed this tragedy were all terrified.

And this major flood was also recorded.

Chongzhen thirteen years of Xin Chou day afternoon, the thief Li Zicheng dug the Yellow River Kaifeng section of the embankment, the river Bo was angry, the sound of the water was heard far away, to the evening, the water to the city, the turbidity wave emptied, the sound boom was like thunder, a thousand miles, the city gate of Kaifeng was instantly washed away by the flood, the flood poured back, the block pavilion turned into Zeguo, only left a few pavilions in a high place around the Kaibao Temple, look up, are the ridge of the house, and then in the distance, the ridge of the roof is not seen.

More than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were buried in the belly of the fish, less than one-fifth of the lucky survivors were two, so far Kaifeng City disappeared on the map for eight years, after the establishment of the new dynasty, His Majesty Li Chaosheng decreed to rebuild Kaifeng Mansion, reproduce the old appearance of the ancient capital - "Kaifeng Mansion Chronicles"

Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng Mansion, and suddenly took a major town of the Ming Empire without blood, and became famous for a while, and after flooding Kaifeng Mansion, Li Zicheng These giants ascended to the heights, and those people who had no way to live immediately took refuge under the command of King Chuang, which made the half-dead Li Zicheng swell rapidly.

Followed by the surrounding thieves who wanted to take refuge in Li Zicheng, they also threw themselves into Li Zicheng's command, and soon Li Zicheng collected hundreds of thousands of disaster victims, and suddenly jumped to the center of the historical stage again, becoming the most beautiful boy in the Ming Dynasty during this time period.

Li Zicheng broke Kaifeng, opened up the situation for the righteous army in the Central Plains, and suddenly made the Ming Dynasty very passive, Chongzhen heard the bad news, almost fainted, and was rescued by a group of ministers and eunuchs Wang Chengen.

As soon as he woke up, Chongzhen shouted: "Hurry up and invite the Buddha to ......"

？？？

No, I got the wrong script, and as soon as Chongzhen woke up, he shouted: "Quickly invite the princes of the court to enter the palace to discuss this matter." ”

So that night, a group of ministers rushed to the Shang study's room in a hurry, and among the people who came were Chen Xinjia, the head of the military department, Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, Wang Qiaonian, the governor of the three sides who had just returned to Beijing to report on his work, and the chief eunuch Cao Huachun and other cadres.

At this time, the entire study room was brightly lit, and everyone's faces showed unprecedented solemnity.

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair with a pale face, and a big blister was visible to the naked eye at the corner of his mouth, which belonged to the urgency of attacking, Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and handed a copy of the fold to Wang Chengen and said: "Read it to all the ministers." ”

Hearing this, Wang Chengen took the fold and said, "No." ”

After speaking, Wang Chengen opened the recital: "At noon on the Xin Chou day, the thieves dug the embankment of the Yellow River, flooded the city, and the residents of the city were unprepared, resulting in the flood pouring into the city, overnight, drowning 370,000 soldiers and civilians, Henan political envoys, Henan governors, Henan governors and other officials lost contact, life and death do not know, Zhou Wangfu became a Ze country, Zhou Wang was martyred, the water retreated in five days, the thieves entered the city to collect the displaced people, and gathered more than 300,000 troops in a few days, and then the thieves led the troops to attack the surrounding prefectures and counties, the prefectures and counties were empty, all were broken, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. ”

"The thieves are loud, the surrounding thieves have come to vote, the team has grown more than 400,000 in a few days, there is no enemy in Henan, the thieves are gathering soldiers and horses, preparing to attack Luoyang, if Luoyang is lost, then the whole territory of Henan has fallen, and the danger of the Ming Dynasty has been ......"

When Wang Chengen read this, he saw that the expressions of both Chongzhen and the princes below became extremely ugly, and Chongzhen was even more depressed, as if he had broken his soul.

It took a long time for Chongzhen to come back to his senses, and looked at the Gong Gong Zhugong, who was usually eloquent, and said angrily without saying a word: "Isn't it very good to say when you are fair, what should you do today?" ”

As soon as Chongzhen's words came out, all the princes looked at each other, followed by Qi Qi in silence and did not say a word.

Chongzhen's eyes swept down at this time, looked at Chen Xinjia and said, "Chen Xinjia, you are the squire of the military department, what should you do about this matter?" ”

Seeing Chongzhen asking himself, Chen Xinjia said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, although the thieves are powerful, but their subordinates are all rogues, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, we just need to deploy troops in time to quell the rebellion, no harm, we can defeat him once, this time we can defeat him a second time, Your Majesty don't have to worry about it." ”

Chongzhen looked at Chen Xinjia when he heard this: "Oh, so you already have a bamboo in your chest?" So who should be sent to quell the rebellion? ”

Chen Xinjia's face changed when he heard this, and he was silent, and several ministers around him glanced at each other when they saw this, and the corners of their mouths turned up slightly, this Chen Xinjia was in a hurry, isn't it tantamount to looking for death to make a promise to His Majesty at this time?

Counterinsurgency, is Li Zicheng so easy to quell? Do you know who these thieves used in order to level Li Zicheng back then, but at that time, it was the result of the joint efforts of Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting.

Now that Lu Xiangsheng has been killed, Hong Chengchou is on the border of Liaodong and cannot be moved easily, and Sun Chuanting has taken over the position of governor of Xuanda, which is also a heavy burden.

Looking at the Central Plains again, Liu Zeqing is guarding Luoyang, but Liu Zeqing's combat effectiveness is known to everyone, and it is okay to deal with ordinary bandits, but Li Zicheng, who has an army of 400,000, is a bit insufficient.

He Renlong is playing hide and seek with Zhang Xianzhong in Hubei, Yang Sichang is also playing hide and seek with Zhang Xianzhong there, Zuo Liangyu is always on guard against Lantian outside Tongguan, this is a tiger, and his harmfulness is probably not under Li Zicheng.

So Da Ming looks like a large land and a large population, but for a while, you can't find a qualified candidate to deal with Li Zicheng.

The ministers were silent at this time, the more they said at this time, the more wrong they were, and they would die miserably in the future.

However, Chen Xinjia is still a little really talented, and he knows that he can't fool the past at this time, so he said: "Your Majesty, Li Zicheng's soldiers are strong, with 400,000 soldiers, although the equipment is far inferior to ours, but he also has more than ten years of rebel experience, we can't take it lightly, when they were pacified, it was Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting who worked together to annihilate them, and this time the minister thought that he could not rely on one or two governors or general soldiers to defeat the thieves, so the minister thought that His Majesty should send a few more people, Join forces to fight the thieves! As for who to choose, the minister thought that it should be decided by all people, not by one person. ”

(End of chapter)