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After reading the information about the second siege of Kaifeng by the Chuang army, Liu Sheng fell into deep thought for a moment.

He remembered that Li Zicheng seemed to have besieged Kaifeng three times in history, and it ended with "the Yellow River bursting its banks and flooding Kaifeng."

There are different opinions as to whether it was the Ming army digging the river embankment, or the Chuang army digging the river embankment, or both, or whether a real natural disaster broke out.

The truth is hidden in the historical fog of the war in the late Ming Dynasty, and it has been impossible for future generations to explore.

But one thing is certain.

There were 50 people in Kaifeng City at that time, but only tens of thousands survived in the end.Many people either died in the war, starved to death during the last long siege, or were eventually buried in floods and fed to the fish and shrimps of the Yellow River.

Liu Sheng felt heartbroken when he thought that 50 people were just gone.

How great would it be if they all moved to North America to open up wasteland?
Today's situation has changed a lot compared with history. It seems that Kaifeng City will not be able to survive Li Zicheng's second siege.

But it is unknown whether the "Yellow River bursts its banks and floods Kaifeng" as happened in history.

Liu Sheng felt that for the sake of the 50 people, he had to intervene in this matter.

He immediately said: "Call Ruyang and ask Governor Li to send a letter to Li Zicheng in my name, reminding him to be careful of the Yellow River bursting its banks."

Hearing this, the clerk responsible for drafting military orders couldn't help but look up with a look of surprise.

Then he lowered his head and wrote down the order.

After Liu Sheng read it, he asked the guards to send it to the telecommunications team to send it to Ruyang.

Zhang Kuang couldn't help but ask at this time: "How could the king think of reminding Li Zicheng about this? Could it be that the Yellow River will burst its banks this year?"

The reason why Zhang Kuang believes that Liu Sheng has the ability to predict the unknown is naturally because Liu Sheng is suspected of being an "immortal".

Liu Sheng said: "It's hard to say for sure - natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years. In addition, if Kaifeng runs out of food and supplies, the officials guarding the city may not have the idea of ​​digging dikes to flood the invading army.

On the other hand, if the invading army cannot attack Kaifeng for a long time, they may also have the idea of ​​flooding Kaifeng. "

Zhang Kuang was shocked when he heard this, and said: "How is this possible? Kaifeng is one of the largest cities in Henan, with hundreds of thousands of people. How could anyone be so mad as to flood Kaifeng?"

Liu Sheng sighed and said: "In today's troubled times, there are probably not many people who are fighting for the world who have mercy on the people."

There is some debate in history whether the 50 people in Kaifeng died from natural disasters or man-made disasters. However, in the Yangzhou Massacre in history, 80 people died tragically, but it was a pure man-made disaster!
Thinking of this, Liu Sheng became more determined to unify the world as soon as possible.

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Zhang Kuang on the side suddenly knelt down, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, if the intruder army really fails to attack Kaifeng for a long time, the Yellow River will be diked. Please send troops north as soon as possible to save hundreds of thousands of people in Kaifeng!"

Liu Sheng hurriedly helped Zhang Kuang up and said, "Mr. Zhang just told me this matter, so he wouldn't do such a great gift."

Zhang Kuang did not dare to kneel down to force Liu Sheng to agree, so he took advantage of the situation, but still hoped that Liu Sheng would agree.

Liu Sheng sighed: "After Nanjing is captured, I will take charge of the march north. In addition, Mr. Zhang, don't worry too much about this. I have reminded you that as long as the Chuang army is careful to take precautions, this will not happen."

As a member of the gentry class and a former Ming Dynasty official, Zhang Kuang had no confidence in the Chuang army. Hearing this, he couldn't help but said: "I'm afraid Li Zicheng will seize Kaifeng without caring about the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."

Liu Sheng didn't say much about this matter because he really didn't know the historical truth, let alone what would happen in Kaifeng in this time and space...

Two days later.

Kaifeng.

Li Zicheng set up the Chinese army's camp six or seven miles west of Kaifeng City.

This time it was not just the Chuang army who attacked Kaifeng - Li Zicheng also called on Luo Rucai.

The original intention was to use the opportunity of attacking Kaifeng to let Luo Rucai understand the power of the current Chuang Army, calm down his self-reliance, and completely submit to him.

Unexpectedly, after the two armies met again, Luo Rucai kept pretending to be stupid and did not mention the matter of surrender.

Seeing that Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai looked unhappy after returning from the meeting, Niu Jinxing waited on them with extra caution.

He asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, it's Luo Ru who doesn't want to surrender?"

The flesh next to Li Zicheng's blind eye twitched, and he said coldly: "Hmph, I almost explicitly asked him to submit, but he just pretended to be confused.

Now that Liu Sheng wants to seize Jiangnan, he thought it was a few years ago that he could live happily by himself. "

Niu Jinxing shook his feather fan and said: "Your Majesty, even after reaching this point, Luo Rucai is still unwilling to surrender. I'm afraid he has made up his mind to stand on his own. For the current plan, we'd better take action first."

Li Zicheng actually had this idea on his way back, and he made up his mind after listening to Niu Jinxing's words.

A cold light flashed in his eyes and he said: "He doesn't understand current affairs, so don't blame me for being unjust!"

Luo Rucai also participated in the conquest of Henan and Shandong, so he now has many troops under his command, more than 10,000.

Even the cities of Chenliu, Qixian, Tongxu, Suizhou and Ningling were occupied by Luo Rucai.The outside world thought that Luo Rucai's department had become part of the Chuang Army, but in fact Luo Rucai called himself a general and had always had a cooperative relationship with the Chuang Army.

Although Luo Rucai's troops had many troops, Li Zicheng was not afraid.

Firstly, he now has hundreds of thousands of troops under his command and many generals; secondly, since he invited Luo Rucai to retreat to Henan Prefecture last year, he has been secretly bribed by Luo Rucai's generals.

Nowadays, except for a few of Luo Rucai's die-hard confidants, most of his generals are willing to venture into the country.

Just because he had cooperated well with Luo Rucai before and was even rescued by Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng had always hoped that Luo Rucai would recognize the reality and submit voluntarily.

But now he doesn't want to delay it any longer.

"Your Majesty," Zhang Nai, the commander of the personal soldiers, came in and handed over a letter, "Ei Jun sent a letter, saying that it was written by Liu Sheng to your Majesty."

"Liu Sheng wrote a letter to me? Isn't he attacking Jiangnan?"

Li Zicheng muttered something puzzled, opened the letter and read it.

After reading this, he not only twitched his brows, but also asked in confusion: "How can this Liu Sheng properly remind me to be careful about the Yellow River bursting its banks?"

In front of Niu Jinxing Mountain, "Your Majesty, can you let me have a look at the letter?"

Li Zicheng handed over the letter.

After Niu Jinxing read it, he pondered for a moment and said, "Wei Chen thinks that Liu Sheng may be reminding the king to be careful about the Ming army digging up the river embankment."

"Dig the Yellow River?" Li Zicheng glared, "Is the Ming army crazy?"

Niu Jinxing shook her feather fan and said, "If we choose the location where the embankment breaks, it is possible to wash away part of our army."

Li Zicheng stood up and said: "Zhang Nai, go find someone to organize a dike patrol team to patrol the river day and night to guard against anyone digging the embankment!"

"As ordered!"

After Zhang Nai left, Li Zicheng couldn't help but wonder, "How could Liu Sheng be kind enough to remind me of this?"

Niu Jinxing thought for a while and said: "Perhaps he intends to go north to capture Kaifeng, and has regarded Kaifeng as his territory - a reminder to the king, it will be a favor without any cost to him."

Li Zicheng knew that Liu Sheng would go north sooner or later, but he still felt uncomfortable thinking that Liu Sheng now regarded Kaifeng as his territory, so he wanted to capture Kaifeng as soon as possible.

"Prime Minister Niu, how much gunpowder have you prepared?"

"More than [-] kilograms have been prepared."

Li Zicheng frowned slightly and said: "The Kaifeng city wall is extremely thick. Ten thousand kilograms may not be enough. We have to use it in several places, so at least thirty thousand kilograms of gunpowder is enough."

After taking care of Luo Rucai, we will attack the city by digging holes and blowing up walls. You should step up your collection of gunpowder. "

Niu Jinxing laughed dryly and said: "We must step up our efforts and we will not miss the attack on the city."

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In Kaifeng City, the governor's office.

Gao Mingheng, the governor of Henan, summoned the main civil officials and military generals in the city to discuss the matter of defending the city.

Naturally, Gao Mingheng was on the main seat.

There was a screen placed next to it, and sitting behind it was a wealthy old man, but it was Zhou Wang Zhu Gongzhen.

However, the King of Zhou was not allowed to deal with officials in name, but to defend Kaifeng, the support of the King of Zhou's palace was indispensable, so everyone used this method to work around it.

In the hall, the civil servants include Liang Bing, Henan's left chief envoy, Cai Maode, the right chief envoy, Su Zhuang, the governor of the branch, Wu Shidao, the prefect of Kaifeng, Sang Kaidi, the prefect of Guanhe, Shi Ling, the patrol censor, and the official of Kaifeng Prefecture. Wang Xie, the magistrate of Huang Shu and Xiangfu counties.

There are relatively few generals.

There were only a few people including General Hu Dawei, Deputy General Chen Yongfu, and General Gao Qian.

Seeing everyone gathered, the 40-year-old governor Gao Mingheng frowned and glanced at everyone, saying: "There are probably 20 intruders in the siege this time. Kaifeng has been cut off from the outside world. If we want to defend Kaifeng, we are the only ones." There is a concerted effort.

Therefore, from today onwards, all military and political affairs in the city will be subject to the orders of this court.Anyone who disobeys will be punished first and then punished! "

Hearing this, all the officials and generals in the hall immediately frowned.

Although the situation is indeed serious, no one wants to have someone above them who can kill everyone.

The patrol censor Shi Ling immediately stood up and asked: "Futai is so arbitrary. Could it be that there is a sword of Shangfang given by the Holy One?"

Gao Mingheng said coldly: "I don't have Shang Fang's sword, but I do have a pair of Wang Ming flags."

Ling Dao: "The king's order can only be done cheaply, but he does not have the right to kill it first and report it later. If the Futai force wants to do it, I will definitely take part in it afterwards!" (End of this chapter)