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Yan Dai, the governor of Henan, is a smart person, the last time Guan Shengyun crossed the border, put on a posture of attacking Luoyang and deceived everyone over, Lord Yan happened to go to Guide Mansion, not in the provincial capital. After receiving an urgent report from the political envoy Lu Shen and rushing back to Kaifeng, Guan Shengyun had already waved his army south. Lord Yan pondered for a few days, and thought about it and predicted that he was about to face a difficult hurdle to overcome: the surname Guan went straight south to Huguang, and if he didn't say it well, it would disturb Chengtianfu, if it was bad, his life would almost be explained, even if Gong Ruixian Emperor appeared, the thieves were beaten back in Huguang, didn't they still have to continue to plague Henan? In any case, I can't get rid of it. So without saying a word, he gave the Son of Heaven a lesson: I am old and sick and beggars, and I want to retire!

At this time, the imperial court received reports of "great victories", and everyone felt that Yan Fuzun had a bit of a meaning of accepting it when it was good, and no one thought much about it. The Holy Son of Heaven warmly said that he gave him the title of Nanzhili Hubu Shilang and let him go to Nanjing to retire, and Lu Shen took over the post of governor as a matter of course - the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there is an unwritten habit: one party in the power struggle asks for Zhishi to admit defeat, and the other party is not very good at killing everything, you can go home to retire, which high-ranking official repeatedly begged for retirement in vain, and at the same time did not participate in your life-and-death power struggle, the court will feel that you may be really tired, thinking of the hard work of serving the empire for most of your life, It is often arranged in the team of Nanzhili, with the same official rank or half a level, you can drink tea and read newspapers and enjoy the leisure street to pass the time.

Lu Shen was very happy for a while. Although Nanyang Mansion was almost slaughtered by Guan Shengyun, it was finally "appeased" in Huguang, and on the bright side, no one would turn it out again for what he did in Yu Province, and said that the governor's black gauze hat simply fell from the sky. Hearing that Zhang Hu was tossing in Shaanxi again, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, Lord Lu set up a heavy army to intercept the mountain road of the old pass of Hangu in Shaanzhou, never expected that this time the thieves would take advantage of Huguang, and suddenly appeared in Henan Province from the southeast of Shaanxi, and when they came to attack Kaifeng in a few days, Lord Lu's intestines were repentant, and he scolded the eighteenth generation of the ancestor of the old fox Yan Dai over and over again in his heart.

Zhang Hu, Niu Youtian, Fang Ge and other generals were all born in the army, and each of them had an account in their hearts. They know very well that although they have hundreds of thousands of people, the speed of this journey will definitely exceed that of the officers and soldiers who came to aid Kaifeng: Daming's management of the military towns of the guards is not generally strict, from the Kaifeng Mansion to the police to issue an order for the local guards to rescue, and then to assemble and pull out, no matter how fast it is, it will take five or six days, those guys are starving and bullied on weekdays, who would really want to work for the dog officials at this time? The speed of the march is no more than 20 miles a day! Therefore, the strength of the Kaifeng Mansion must be very limited now, and if it can be raided quickly, it is likely that it will be able to go down with lightning speed!

Niu Youtian decided to learn from the example of Zhang Hu leading a horse team to raid Guangyuan, and led more than 400 horsemen to attack Kaifeng. Riding a horse and running in the front is the horse guerrilla Wang Biao - when Ma Qiancheng and Sun Jie attacked Baoning Mansion, he happened to be sick, and was helped by Li Song to run on the horse for a while, but I didn't expect that I saw a lot of Lang Zhong did not see any improvement, sweated profusely, and the condition was much lighter, and when he arrived at Chaotian Pass, he was completely cured, and now he has become a guerrilla general, and Li Song has also become a thousand generals.

As Zhang Hu and a few people expected, at this time, in addition to more than 1,000 guards of the palace in Kaifeng Mansion, there were less than 3,000 Xuanwu guards guarding the city-several city walls and grain depots and arsenal officials and guards were spread out, and there were really not many people everywhere. Although it is impossible for Niu Youtian's horse team to take all of Kaifeng Mansion, there will definitely be no suspense in grabbing a city gate. Wang Biao and Li Song are all experts in grabbing the door, and the rest of the matter is to guard the city gate and wait for Zhang Hu's infantry camp to open up and enter the city...... Well, if it weren't for that unexpected turn of events.

Exactly, it's not the things that are not the thing, but the date of the day: the eighth day of the ninth month.

Kaifeng Mansion is a little north-east of Weishi. There is a town called Xinghuaying next to the provincial capital, whether it is from Weishi in the south or Luoyang Zhengzhou in the west, to Kaifeng Mansion, Xinghuaying is the only way.

The apricot blossom camp has a set, and it opens every eight days every month!

The news that a large group of thieves had captured the Wei clan had already spread, and none of the peasants who were about to flee from the surrounding towns expected that the thieves would come so quickly, and they were all in a hurry to exchange the things that were not useful at home for the time being for some cash or food and then run away, so there were an unprecedented number of people rushing to the market today, there were seven or eight thousand people. When they heard the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, they suddenly exploded like a nest and made a mess, and of course most people wanted to flee to Kaifeng Mansion, which was close at hand. But many people are even more reluctant to their own things, and the carts are carrying sacks and baskets, and the official road is blocked tightly! Wang Biao, Li Song and others half-truths and half-truths even cut and scared to get out of the crowd, how easy is it to talk about? The more anxious he was, the more he was stuck in the crowd, and it was simply difficult to move an inch, and the momentum of the horse team's high-speed impact was suddenly blocked.

That is, a little more than two pillars of incense, Kaifeng City learned the news of the attack of the thieves. Lu Shen took Wei Buqun to the Zhou Palace, and Tao Dechang, the prefect of Kaifeng, Ji Shu, the commander of the capital, Yang Zhongguo, and Jiang Shide, the general soldier of Henan, all rushed to the west wall. Of course, closing the city gate is the first priority, however, no matter how anxious the adults are, the city gate can't be closed - from the easternmost end of the Xinghuaying market to the west wall of Kaifeng is very close, only four or five miles away, and there are many people in Kaifeng City who want to go to the market to buy some grain to store, and the people who are running fast collide with the people who are out of the city one after another, and the city gate is stubble!

It took Niu Youtian, Wang Biao and others more than half an hour to get out of the market, and when they turned around to reorganize the team, they found that all the armored horsemen were already in crooked armor, panting and exhausted. Then I had to rush to Kaifeng, so I beat the spirit and continued to rush with a whip and a whip...... Then he was forced to more than half a mile outside the city, and he was completely dumbfounded: the crowd at the city gate had been crowded into dead lumps. Niu Youtian's eyes widened and he stared at the outermost part of the crowd at a guy who looked like a talented man wearing a blue cloth robe and a scribe's turban that had been torn off without knowing where it had been torn off, and he watched for a full cup of tea—even though the guy was jumping on his feet in a hurry, he didn't move the slightest place! There are already thousands of armored soldiers gathered on the wall, although it is not very real, but there are more unarmored people Ding Zhuang who are busy like ants, they should be preparing bows, crossbows, masonry, gold juice and other guards...... Okay, don't worry about anything, just wait for Zhang Hu to lead a large army to besiege the city. Niu Youtian waved his hand to stop the guys in the horse team who wanted to rush forward and cut a few cheap people: Rushing over can certainly cause more chaos, but it will definitely not touch the city gate, and the bow and crossbow on the wall will also kill and injure many brothers, and it is not worth exchanging the lives of the common people with precious armor rides, one for ten. The crowd was too crowded, and the old cow reined in his horse and looked at the chaos at the entrance of the city, and estimated in his heart, even if he pulled all the five tiger squatting cannons of Gao Tengdou over, loaded with the largest iron ball, and bombarded them in a straight line one after another, and when the last shot was over, the guys who were crowded in front might not be able to be injured!

The officials on the wall were not as relieved as Niu Youtian, and the armored horsemen more than half a mile away, and the smoke and dust from the middle and large groups of thieves more than ten miles away scared the adults enough. Looking at the pimple of the person who didn't move for a long time, everyone wondered what was going on. Ji Shu ran down to the city to see and found that the city gate guards were in a hurry to close the gate, and the people outside the wall were desperately squeezing inside, and the city gate could no longer be closed after half of it was closed! A few frightened spearmen stabbed over the men crowded in the crack of the door in a hurry, but the front one died, and the one behind surged forward vigorously, so the city gate was jammed to death! Seeing that the thieves' armored cavalry did not mean to rush up, Jiang Shide mobilized all the archers on guard, and sent his own soldiers down the wall to the city gate hole, and ordered the city gate officials not to prevent the people from entering the city, so all the soldiers lined up in a column and dragged the people outside the gate into the gate one by one...... After tossing for a long time, finally under the eyes of everyone on the wall, the crowd under his feet began to show signs of loosening.

Niu Youtian stared at the scribe who had been staring for a long time and was almost prostration, looked back at the group of armored riders, and simply sat down with his head in his hands, putting on a resigned appearance. After a long time, the people in front of him entered the city one after another, and the blue-shirted scribe got up, threw another frightened glance at Niu Youtian's side, and hurriedly followed the people in front of him into the city, and the two heavy city gates closed with a bang.

If Niu Youtian could have predicted what would happen in a few days, he would rather kill half of his men than hack this seemingly powerless scholar to death at the city gate.

Zhang Hu finally arrived.

Originally, it was a fluke to use the horse team to grab the door, but Zhang Dawang didn't care about Niu Youtian's failure at all. The old rule, fence it off first. The north of the city is the Yellow River, there is no need to block it, Zhang Hu wishes that the dog officers and soldiers would run to the river after abandoning the city, and there is no need to put too many people in the east of the city, Fang Ge led 100,000 people to sweep Chen Liuqi County, even if he misses some, he will run headlong if he runs not far, Zhang Hu focused the siege on the west and south of the city - he also made a serious mistake. The difference is that Niu Youtian never knew the important role that the scholar who almost became the soul of the sword would play in the near future, but Zhang Hu regretted his carelessness for a long time.

In the face of a lonely city, it is still the old way: fill it with human lives, anyway, there is cannon fodder. Zhang Hu explained to Niu Youtian and asked him to fight step by step, and he took five war battalions and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers to the west to Zhongmu: the reinforcements from Zhengzhou and Xingyang were not enough to worry about, but they should beware of the reinforcements sent by Henan Mansion and Huaiqing Mansion, and King Zhang was ready to play a one-handed siege to send reinforcements.

Niu Youtian was also not in a hurry, watching the army set up camp around most of Kaifeng Mansion, and at the same time arranging for people to collect cannon fodder for filling the trenches. The old rule is to wash the veterinarian's mouth, Xinghuaying, and Xincheng first. Niu Youtian was very annoyed with the Xinghua camp that was blocking his raid, so he ordered that the people there should not even be recruited, but all of them would be circled, and let them make the first batch of consumables for filling the trenches tomorrow.

In the evening, Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, accompanied by Lu Shen and others, climbed the western wall. In the sky, the remnants of the sun are like blood, and the ground is also red, and villages and towns are burning in the distance. Although the cries of the people were not heard, everyone knew that there was a living hell outside the city.

King Zhou wept.

Not far from the outside of the city were the dense tents and shacks of the thieves, and the smoke of the cooking stove rose one after another, and the thieves had dinner. The smoke columns were so dense that they couldn't be counted, and the sky above the entire Kaifeng Mansion was shrouded in these smoke and dust, and the gray smoke clouds pressed on the Kaifeng Mansion and on everyone's hearts. The soldiers on the wall were shocked and silent. After a long time, a voice full of fear and crying sounded nearby: "My mother, the thief's stove is more than ours......"

"Dogs are bold!" Lu Shen, Yang Zhongguo and other civil and military officers scolded in unison.

Jiang Shide shouted: "Shake the morale of the army!" Come on, take it! ”

"Slowly, slowly." Zhu Gongyu waved his hand to stop the officials. Following the prestige, several soldiers in sight hung their heads in horror, hunched over, and quietly stepped back at their feet, exposing a young soldier alone.

Zhu Gongyu took two steps forward, and the soldier knelt down, and cried while kowtowing: "The prince spares his life, the villain is guilty." ”

Zhu Gongyu looked at the undulating back of his head steadily, and after a while, he said, "You get up and speak." ”

"The villain doesn't dare, the prince spares his life!"

"Lonely tells you to get up, and you will get up."

"Yes. The villain obeys the king's orders. The soldier kowtowed again and got up, his head hanging deeply, not daring to lift it.

"What's your name?"

"The prince is a thousand years old, and the villain's name is Li Jinzhu." The sound was barely audible.

"How old are you?"

"Almost eighteen, oh no, the villain is seventeen." Li Jinzhu hung his head and muttered quietly.

"Well, don't be afraid. Lone will tell you a story. Come, all of you. As he spoke, Zhu Gongyu stretched out his hand and beckoned, "Come on, come on." ”