Kai Fu Han

Chapter 588 Looking to Kaifeng

"Then why didn't they take Huazhou back with them?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"I guess there are some concerns. I guess it may be to avoid direct contact with us, or the civil servants have other considerations." Xu Zhong said with some guilt: "We have not found out why they stopped advancing."

"It is possible that the officials who presided over the recovery of the four counties in Hebei along the Gyeonggi Road were officials from the Gyeonggi Road and were unwilling to wade through the muddy waters of the North Jingji Road." Liu Xinqicai guessed.

"Then do we want to fight?" Xu Zhong asked.

This question troubled Liu Xinqi.

The general staff's combat plan included the conflict with Southern Zhao.

The purpose of sending two brigades to the Southern Route Army was to guard against Southern Zhao.

Therefore, the Xinghan League can fight or not fight these counties in Hebei along the Gyeonggi Road.To fight, even if Southern Zhao sends troops northward, the Xinghan League leaving one brigade of field troops here will be enough to resist.If there is no fight, the whole army will continue to move westward without conflict with Nan Zhao. If the two brigades cooperate, the progress of the westward advance will naturally be accelerated a lot.

"Strictly speaking, the current Kaifeng Mansion is also located in Hebei." Liu Xinqi replied.

Before the Duchongsui River, the Yellow River flowed from the north of Kaifeng and entered the Bohai Sea through two roads in Hebei.After the Suihe River, the Yellow River changed its course and went south to seize the Huai River channel, and finally merged into the East China Sea from Huainan East Road.

After thinking for a while, Liu Xinqi finally decided not to fight.

Making too many enemies at the same time will have a great impact on the overall strategy of the Xinghan League.

If they start a war with Southern Zhao in Kaifeng Prefecture, there is a high chance that they will not be able to contain it, and Huainan and Jiangnan may follow suit.At that time, the South Route Army of this attack will definitely not be able to continue westward, and the Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Army Road in the west are likely to be eroded by the Xixia and Tubo tribes.

Southern Zhao was a Han government, and Liu Xinqi chose to "fight internally and pacify external affairs first".

Let’s recover Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road first before talking about anything else.

"Let's go see Kaifeng City. I don't know when we will come next time." Liu Xinqi invited.

"Okay, let's go take a look." Xu Zhong responded.

Everyone continued to move forward on horseback. When they bypassed Fengqiu City, they could see that Fengqiu City was heavily guarded and the walls were full of defenders.

When the defenders saw dozens of Han Xinghan League soldiers passing by outside the city, they did not leave the city to stop them, but just watched quietly.

"I guess the Kaifeng Mansion still thought that Fengqiu would be its northern gate. I didn't expect that the defenders of Fengqiu would choose to be a coward. Even dozens of us would not dare to go out of the city to fight." Xu Zhong sighed.

"The Xinghan League's high-end combat power is famous far and wide. It's understandable that they are timid and dare not fight in the field." Liu Xinqi answered.

Up to now, Xinghan League has been established for four years.The leader of the alliance, Liu Xin, initiated the immortal method and the Xinghan Alliance had its own enlightened immortal soldiers and generals. The information that these immortal soldiers were infinitely powerful and had inhuman combat prowess had spread throughout the Kyushu continent.Even the forces of the Xixia, Xiliao, and Tubo tribes are already clear.

There are not many power owners who believe that seeing is not believing.However, for the sake of caution, it has become the consensus of the surrounding hostile forces not to challenge the Xinghan League in single combat or engage in field battles.

Along the way, one person and two horses, basically no rest.Only when the horses were allowed to rest did the soldiers on the road take the time to rest for a while.

"Kaifeng is ahead." Xu Zhong introduced.

Liu Xinqi grew up on the edge of Mount Tai. Before his family moved, Liu Xinqi had never traveled far away. This was his first time visiting Kaifeng City.

"It's so big!" Liu Xinqi exclaimed.

You can see the city walls on both sides at a glance, and there are endless lanes outside the city walls.

"As expected of a capital with a population of more than 100 million, it is really too big." Kaifeng had a population of 100 million during the Northern Zhao Dynasty. After Zhao moved south, Kaifeng experienced several military disasters, and the population has dropped sharply.According to the information from Diting, the current population of Kaifeng is only 10,000+.

Compared with Fengqiu's tight security, Kaifeng can be said to have no defense at all.

Dozens of people were hiding in Titing's stronghold in the north of Kaifeng City.

The stronghold was small and could barely accommodate dozens of people and their horses.

"Come out with me." Liu Xinqi invited Xu Zhong. Xu Zhong did not agree. He planned to inspect Diting's work in Kaifeng.

"We are being guarded by guards. Don't cause trouble. Leave early and come back early. We have to return to Xucheng County." Xu Zhong reminded.

"to make."

When we arrived in Kaifeng, the sky had already darkened. We tidied up a little at the stronghold, washed up, changed into clean clothes, and then Liu Xinqi went out with two guards.

There was no curfew in Kaifeng City at night, and the city gates had long been closed. Liu Xinqi chose Fan to enter the city.

The city looked very rundown. It was already dark, but not many lights were on. I don’t know whether it was to save fuel or because the houses were unoccupied.

After walking around the city for more than half an hour, I found that even in such a state of decline, the living conditions of wealthy people have not deteriorated, and there are still many people in those nightlife venues.

Liu Xinqi had never seen how rich and large the nightlife in Kaifeng was during the Northern Zhao Dynasty.But the current scale alone is the most extravagant Liu Xinqi has ever seen.

"As expected of the heart of the Central Plains, it is rich." Liu Xinqi praised.

After wandering around casually without disturbing any forces in the city, they left the city again.

Xu Zhong was having an overnight meeting with the spy chief and platoon leader in Kaifeng. Liu Xinqi returned to his temporary residence and lay down to sleep.

The next day, everyone got up and returned, and the hasty trip to Kaifeng ended in a hurry.

The horse ran for a while, Liu Xinqi pulled the reins, turned around and looked in the direction of Kaifeng City, thinking in his heart "I will be back soon!" 】.

……

On February [-]th, Liuqiu Beigang.

"The harvest this time is too great. Not counting the goods on the fifteen ships, the value of these fifteen large ships has exceeded 7 taels of silver." Ye Chuan made preliminary statistics and Zhao Liuxinyuanhui reported.

"What's the value of the goods?"

"Still counting carefully, preliminary statistics indicate that the value exceeds 3 taels." Ye Chuan replied excitedly: "In other words, we just made this trip, and within five days of going back and forth, we got back more than 10 taels of goods. .”

"Sure enough, it's easier to steal money." Liu Xinyuan smacked his lips, feeling a little fond of him.

"Nan Zhao must know that we did it, and they will definitely take precautions." Ye Chuan said.

Although the flag was not displayed during the operation, when Ye Chuan finally led four warships to seize the rear and fight against the defenders of Quanzhou Bay, the artillery on the ships fired with full force. This weapon was too obvious. Only the Xinghan League had it in the surrounding countries.

Nan Zhao also imitated some of them, but the quality, range, and power were comparable to those of the Xinghan Alliance.Therefore, it is easy for those who are interested to identify that the warships attacked this time were the warships of the Xinghan Alliance.

"It doesn't matter, Quanzhou is on guard. There are many ports on the East China Sea coastline. Let's change our target." Liu Xinyuan said nonchalantly.

(End of this chapter)