As soon as the embankment was opened, the rolling Yellow River water carried sediment, soil and rocks in an instant, drowning tens of thousands of troops stationed in the low-lying areas of the northeast.

The situation is already very critical.

Li Zicheng was in the heavy rain, without wearing a coat or an umbrella, quietly looking into the distance.

The rain was pouring down, and I couldn't see the distance clearly.

"King Chuang!" The generals of the peasant army waited anxiously.

For every quarter of an hour, there is more danger in the army.

Li Zicheng turned around and said resolutely, "Order! Dig up Majiakou and lead the flood to the north gate of Kaifeng."

The topography of Kaifeng is different from that of the general big city, and its trend is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. This resulted in the fact that Kaifeng City was not orthography, but resembled a diamond.

The water of the Yellow River flows from Zhujiazhai in the northwest to Majiakou in the southeast.

The flood has flooded and will soak a section of the Kaifeng city wall.

The peasant army dug open Majiakou, so that the entire northern city of Kaifeng was soaked in water, the city wall collapsed, and the water flooded Kaifeng.

Most of the flood water changed the road and flowed southeast.

If they all flocked to the south, it would be disastrous for the intruders.

A large number of clans such as Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, and a group of high-ranking bureaucrats such as Gao Mingheng, took the ships prepared in advance. led part of the elite and transferred out of Kaifeng City.

As for the big merchants and squires who had participated in the defense of Kaifeng, they were all abandoned, along with hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of soldiers soaked in Kaifeng City.

After this incident, Gao Mingheng resigned and returned to his hometown in the name of being seriously ill due to guilt in his heart.

By the end of June, the entire Kaifeng had become a Ze country, and only two or three out of ten of the people survived.

If there is no one to rescue them, then only death awaits the remaining people.

In the wind and rain, the topless soldiers of the Chuang and Cao coalition pushed the bamboo rafts and rafts into the water.

They rowed bamboo rafts and rafts to rescue the people living in Kaifeng City.

It turned out that after Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai moved the joint army to the high ground, at the insistence of Li Zicheng, the coalition army abandoned the old feud (three times to defend Kaifeng + shot Li Zicheng blind in one eye), and built a large number of bamboo rafts and rafts from local materials to rescue the abandoned people.

But things didn't go very well.

It's not that God is doing the trick, but that the Ming army is taking advantage of the chaos to attack the peasant army.

While setting up artillery on the north bank of the Ming army, the Bai Bang Ministry opened artillery at the peasant army floating on the river without fortifications, and took the opportunity to cross the river by warship to attack the peasant army that rescued the people.

The peasant army lost more than 1,000 men as a result.

Just when Li Zicheng still wanted to rescue, a piece of news came - Sun Chuanting went out of Tongguan.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to give up the rescue, take the soldiers and the rescued people, and quickly transfer.

On the first day of the seventh month, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai led their troops into Nanyang and first defeated Sun Chuanting's partial division from Wuguan.

On the third day of the first month, the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left went to Gushi, Xincai, and Shenqiu, and successively joined forces with Li Zicheng, and the peasant army was in great strength.

The two news that the partial division was defeated and that the 5th Battalion of the Revolution and Li Zicheng were jointly camped reached Sun Chuanting's ears, and Sun Chuanting was not angry but happy.

He was worried that he couldn't defeat Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, so when he came to the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, things would be much easier.

"Our army is short of food and grass, if we can't quickly defeat the thief army, because the food is on the enemy, our army will collapse without a fight."

After analyzing the current situation, Sun Chuanting continued: "Therefore, we must find a way to lure Li Zicheng to go north and settle the battle in one battle."

"If you want to win, you have to rely on the right tactics. Lure the enemy with a small number, and ambush most of them on both sides, wait for the enemy to enter the encirclement, and then go out on three sides to break the enemy in one fell swoop."

Gao Jie put forward his own proposal.

Sun Chuanting nodded: "This method is good, I'm afraid that the thief army will not be fooled."

"It depends on whether the person who is the lure of the enemy pretends to be like it." Gao Jie smiled, "If Lord Sun doesn't dislike it, the last general is willing to take on this heavy responsibility."

"Huh?" Sun Chuanting thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

In terms of familiarity with the peasant army, no one can compare to Gao Jie.

"Dong Xueli is the left army, Niu Chenghu is the right army, and Zheng Jiadong is the middle army."

Sun Chuanting immediately ordered: "When the thief army enters the pre-ambush site, the three armies will come out together, and the thief army must be wiped out."

"Yes." The three generals stood up and took orders.

Although Dong Xueli is a deputy general, he is currently under Gao Jie's command, and the soldiers he led are also assigned to him by Gao Jie, so he takes on this important responsibility.

After the formation was completed, Gao Jie took a small number of soldiers to the area where the peasant army was active south of Jiaxian County and attacked the peasant army.

He knew Li Zicheng's situation very well, and the target of the sneak attack was Li Zicheng's adopted son, Li Shuangxi.

Sure enough, the young Li Shuangxi was enraged by Gao Jie and led his army to chase after him.

"Li Shuangxi, don't chase it!"

Hao Shaoqi led some soldiers to shout in the back, "I'm afraid there is an ambush!"

Li Shuangxi didn't listen.

As soon as he heard the word "Gao Jie", he was furious at the thought of the humiliation suffered by his father.

The Ming army's Gao Jie Department ran in front, and Li Shuangxi chased behind.

Hao Shaoqi chased Li Shuangxi again.

Two peasant armies broke into Sun Chuanting's ambush in a daze.

Sun Chuanting waved the flag, and the Ming army fought out on all sides, and the shouts shook the sky.

Li Shuangxi was stunned, he saw Gao Jie under Shuai from a distance, and his heart was crossed, ready to launch a decisive charge against Gao Jie.

"Withdraw, we've been tricked!"

Hao Shaoqi grabbed the reins in Li Shuangxi's hand and commanded the soldiers to retreat.

"No! Gao Jie is right in front of us, let's kill him before leaving." Li Shuangxi refused to leave.

"Gao Jie's numbers seem to be small, but in fact he has a large number of officers and soldiers behind him."

Hao Shaoqi persuaded bitterly, "Let's evacuate quickly. The enemy is surrounded by three and one is missing, and this is to use our rout to break the army of King Chuang."

Li Shuangxi was obedient and withdrew with Hao Shaoqi.

However, while they were speaking, the Ming army came from three sides, and the two peasant armies were in chaos and fled south.

The two could only follow the crowd and command their headquarters to flee south, hoping to find an opportunity to regroup their team and avoid a tragedy.

How could Sun Chuanting give this opportunity and command the three armies to chase and fight fiercely behind.

He was too hungry to win.

"Suffered! This Ming army is different from the past, and it is going to crush us."

Hao Shaoqi was anxious.

Without time to regroup, a retreat can easily turn into a rout.

Seeing that the morale was declining a little bit, the soldiers fell one after another, and the panic on their faces was seen by Hao Shaoqi.

Suddenly, a large flag waved in the distance.

"Hey, that's the banner of the king! Oh...... It's the flag word."

Hao Shaoqi's face was happy, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood.

"Li Shuangxi, King Chuang asked us to throw away the valuable things on our bodies." Hao Shaoqi turned his head to Li Shuangxi and said, "Quick! I'll do it right away."

Li Shuangxi was puzzled, but he didn't hesitate, and immediately threw away the money bag on his body.

The invading soldiers received orders, and although they fled in a panic, they also did as they were ordered.

Why are you so obedient, because there is a banner of King Chuang in the distance.

As long as the king is in the king, there will be hope in their hearts every day.

In particular, the flooding of Kaifeng has strengthened this point.