Win the Ding 1617

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The city of Kaifeng is broken.

The south gate was blown open, and the news of the brigade of thieves rushing in and rushing into the city along the streets was spread by the soldiers of the Ming army who rushed along the city wall from the south gate as voluntary propagandists along the way.

"The city wall has collapsed! The city wall was blown up by the bandits with a cannon!"

"The south gate is broken! The south gate has been taken by thieves!"

"Governor Gao died in battle!"

"Wangzhi County has surrendered!"

"General Chen is dead!"

"The Zhou Palace is on fire!"

All kinds of rumors were created in an instant, and after countless people panicked word of mouth, they were constantly being spread without increasing the price.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, the Ming army who had made up their minds simply ran to the bottom of the city, turned the hurdle back, and started setting fire to, killing and looting in the city.

At the North Gate and other places, Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu were also dizzy from the sudden bad news.Originally mobilizing troops to counterattack the attack that Chuangying was about to launch, unexpectedly, news of the city's destruction came from the south gate!

"Damn it! We are suffering from the wind, snow and cold in the city, fighting with thieves to our death! Those officials, eunuchs, rich and powerful people live at home to warm themselves by the fire. It's unreasonable to drink and play cards with the little wife. !"

Some people in the crowd at the Volunteer Taisha shouted without hesitation.

Originally, it was thought that the main attack direction of the peasant army would be south of Cao Gate and north of Song Gate outside the east city, and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai and their main generals and elite troops did appear here.Chen Yongfu then transferred his main force to wait in the east city, preparing for a bloody battle in the gap once the city was blown open.The Volunteer Society formed by the gentry in the city also dispatched many strong Ding Yong to wait near Shangfang Temple. In case of emergency, they would immediately go to the city for defense.But now.He was slapped hard on the waist and eyes.

"Chen Zongbing, what should we do? We can't bear the crime of losing land and trapping feudal clans!" Gao Mingheng's eyes were about to bleed.

"Do your best, know the destiny! My lord, you take Wang Xie, Huang Shu and others, and half of the troops from the Yiyong Taishe to Nancheng to defend against Hao Yaoqi. My dog ​​Chen De and I stay here to deal with Li Zicheng and Cao Cao's main force! "

"Okay! Mr. Chen, let's say goodbye!" Gao Mingheng cleaned up his clothes, picked up the tea bowl on the table, and raised it respectfully towards Chen Yongfu. The two drank the cold tea in the cup and threw it on the ground , smashed to pieces.

The peasant army below the city was also cheering. It was probably the news that General Gu Ying had broken through the south gate.Immediately, the morale of the two Chuang Cao generals rose.

While the flag was waving, another onslaught on the city wall began.

Hundreds of ladders rushed directly from the embankment behind the crowd to the city and erected them.

Among the frontlines, drums sounded like thunder, and more than a hundred thousand people shouted in unison, making the bloody battle of the siege at sunset even more bloody.

At night, the city of Kaifeng is still noisy.

Caomen was the first to break through, and Gao Mingheng, Huang Shu, Wang Xie and others who led the reinforcements to the South Gate were surrounded by Yuan Zongdi's troops.Thousands of Ding Zhuang from the Volunteer Great Society were eaten up by Yuan Zongdi's elite subordinates in a blink of an eye, and they either died or surrendered or fled.Gao Mingheng and others were guarded by more than a hundred civilians and servants, and they fought and left.He planned to find an opportunity to escape to the Zhou Palace and defend it with the palace wall.However, how could Yuan Zongdi let these people escape?

"Soldiers and soldiers of the rebel army! Since it is a crime against the people, we are willing to follow King Chuang and open up a new world!" Seeing the critical moment of life and death, history, like the Communist Party, respected the use of water to replace soldiers.The Yellow River was pulled away, Kaifeng was flooded, and Gao Mingheng and others, who had killed 10 people in the ancient capital of these dynasties, immediately displayed their ancestral skills and prepared to change their masters. (However, ** at least paid for the flooding of dozens of counties in the four provinces of Sulu, Henan, and Anhui. Nearly a million people lost their lives, countless people were displaced, and the geographical term was added to the price of a yellow flood zone. It can be regarded as stopping more than a thousand Japanese troops Offensive. However, Governor Gao did not block Li Zicheng's attack, but helped Lao Li and gave Chongzhen to the crooked neck tree.)

"Hmph! It's too late! When my army first arrived in Kaifeng, you didn't surrender. When my army approached the city for the second time, you didn't surrender. Today the city is broken, but you said you want to follow King Chuang!" Yuan Zongdi sneered, and looked at Gao Mingheng and the others opposite, "If I want to tolerate your surrender, can I, King Chuang, allow Wang Qiaonian to surrender in the future?"

Not long ago, Wang Qiaonian, the governor of the three sides, obeyed Chongzhen's order and ordered Bian Dashou, the magistrate of Mizhi County, to dig the ancestral grave of Li Zicheng's family.Legend has it that there was an iron lamp in Li Zicheng's ancestral grave discovered by him. The light had not been extinguished. A wooden sign in front of the lamp wrote a line of words: "This lamp will not go out, Li's Changxing." Bian Dashou ordered the lamp to be turned on blown out.It is also said that after the coffin lid was pried open, the corpse was covered with long yellow hair. There was a small hole in the back of the skull, the size of a copper coin, and a small red snake was coiled inside, about three or four inches long, with two The horn flew out, flew up to a height of one foot, stuck out its tongue towards the sun, several times in a row, and then fell down dead.Bian Dashou waxed the snake and sent it to Xi'an with its skull.Wang Qiaonian sent someone to secretly send them to Beijing.The bones in other graves were scattered, some were burned, some were sprinkled with pig feces and urine, and then thrown everywhere.Now this matter has been widely spread in Xi'an, and everyone knows it.

In all dynasties, digging up ancestral graves has been an unshakable hatred, and more importantly, it is related to the fate of a family. If it is true, as the rumors say, there is really a lamp in Li Zicheng's ancestral grave, and there are horns that have grown. A little red snake that was able to fly with the dragon, now that the lamp was blown out, the red snake was killed, and was sent to Beijing by Wang Qiaonian, wouldn't the dragon vein be cut off?

How can such a deep hatred be spared?

Although Gao Mingheng and others did not dig the ancestral grave of the Li family, they also resisted Li Zicheng's army and shot Li Zicheng himself.

"You wait for this group of killers. If you fight to the end, I will respect you as heroes. Now you see the situation is not good and you want to surrender? Boys, let the arrows! If you can't shoot, I will allow him to surrender!"

Random arrows flew through the air, Gao Mingheng, Huang Shu, Wang Xie and others were shot like hedgehogs.

Along the pre-delineated area, the Chuang Cao family began to attack Kaifeng City.

The city suddenly burst into flames and the sound of killing continued.

Only Zhou Wang's family, under the protection of eight hundred guards who were fed with silver on weekdays, fled out of the city in a hurry while Chuang Cao's family failed to kill Zhou Wang's mansion.Escape along the banks of the Yellow River.Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang was blessed by the spirit of heaven, and his family happened to encounter more than a dozen tank boats that were empty and ready to go to the direction of the canal, so the group escaped.He became the second prince to lose his domain after King Fu. (I am very surprised, why there are empty tank boats appearing at this time? It must be that I opened it in the wrong way!) As for why there are tank boats appearing at this time and place, it is a matter of opinion for the beholder.

By midnight, the fighting in the city had basically subsided.Li Zicheng and Cao Cao each marched into Kaifeng with their own troops.Xingyuan, General Marshal of Civil and Military Affairs of Fengtian who broke into the camp, was set up in Zhouwangfu, and Cao Cao's Daitianfumin Weide General Xingyuan was set up in Yingcheng County Wangfu.

In the entire Kaifeng city, only the direction of Shangfang Temple is still fighting.

Liu Fangliang and Liu Tichun led thousands of troops and horses to besiege. Chen Yongfu and his son took hundreds of family members and more than a thousand nominal braves to defend tenaciously by relying on the high walls of the temple.

With the sound of a gong, the intruders who had besieged Shangfang Temple retreated like a tidal wave.Chen Yongfu and his son were slightly relieved.Chen De sat down on the ground, dipped the bloody long knife in water, and wiped it vigorously.On his body, the red tassel on the helmet has long disappeared.The breastplate was spattered with blood.The quiver on his back was already empty, and the bow with copper arms and iron tires that made him famous was even broken, and he pitifully abandoned it aside.

Chen Yongfu handed his son a life-saving kit, signaling him to deal with the wounds on his hands first.But Chen De refused with a smile: "Father, there's no need, as soon as the day breaks, my father and son will probably have come to an end."

A look of love flashed in Chen Yongfu's eyes. His wife died early.This son was raised by him alone, and he became a father again.Being a mother again, the feelings for her son reveal a double layer of love.And his son, Chen De, lived up to his expectations. He was famous for his extraordinary skills in Kaifeng Mansion, and he was also good at shooting arrows.

The Ming army has always respected martial arts, Chen De's bravery.As a father, Chen Yongfu has a big face. Whenever he chats with the generals and talks about his son, he is full of praise, saying that his father has no dogs.It greatly satisfied Chen Yongfu's vanity.

Now that his son said such words, Chen Yongfu couldn't help feeling sad.

The lights flickered among the barracks outside the wall, and a somewhat familiar figure appeared in Chen Yongfu's vision.

"Master Chen's old friend is visiting, can we meet?"

"The Great Monk has arrived? That's fine, you and my father and son and these more than a thousand soldiers will do a super-salvation dojo!"

During the question and answer, the two armies stepped aside to reveal Monk Yongxin's fat body.A few pikemen on the high wall opened up a gap and invited Monk Yongxin to come in.

Not seeing him for several months, this monk Yongxin gained a lot of weight again.The brocade cassock on her body seemed a little too small.The gold and silver threads on it glistened under the light.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, but the Great Monk has gained weight. But I don't know what the Great Monk is doing in this field of swords and fire, when he is not practicing and serving the Buddha in the temple?"

"Brother, I don't know. The little monk came here today. Firstly, this Shangshang Temple is the lower court of our temple. I was afraid of making mistakes, so I came to check. Second, I came here for Xian Qiaozi's poor life and death. "

"Come here for my father and son?" Chen Yongfu keenly felt that things would not be as simple as he had guessed.I'm afraid that Li Zicheng will not kill his father and son so easily.

"Dare to ask senior brother, how is the wall here compared to the city wall?"

Answer: "Not as good."

"Let's ask my brother again, can the soldiers and horses here compare with those before the city was broken?"

Answer: "No."

"Brother," Master Yongxin said with a sigh, "to tell the truth, on the way here, I saw that Chuangying had pulled the cannons into Bianliang City. It was rumored that the Dragon and Tiger Camp had also entered the city. But Abatai was beaten to ashes. The first to blow up the south gate was the Zhenshan Camp under General Luo Hu. More importantly, before entering the city, the Generalissimo strictly enforced the military order to rectify discipline. If he did not enter the city, there would be no chaos. Killing people. Brother, the nobles and relatives are all in the house, and there are guards sent by King Chuang's army, and no grass or tree has been damaged. If you have any reason to fight, brother, please tell the little monk."

Chen Yongfu's face darkened: "The Great Monk is here to be a lobbyist, asking me to be that unfaithful person?"

Master Yongxin said with a righteous face: "Senior brother, this is wrong. This little monk is here for the loyalty of all senior brothers and to fulfill the righteousness of senior brothers. The so-called loyalty is the meaning of loyalty to the wise master, and the so-called righteousness is the greatest hero. For the country and for the people. Today Chongzhen has no way, and the people don’t have a living. Let’s not talk about others, then Chongzhen is a horse race. Flowers and beggars are not even needed. Not to mention the people’s livelihood, Kaifeng is full of hunger and death, not to mention Henan, where floods, droughts, and soldiers are raging. Brother, You must know that loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness can also be divided into great benevolence and righteousness and foolish loyalty and filial piety. If you really have the word loyalty and righteousness in your heart, then killing Chongzhen is the loyalty of the Lord, and fighting back is the righteousness."

"My father and son killed and injured a lot of soldiers and horses in the camp, and I even shot and wounded King Chuang. Even if King Chuang doesn't care, can the generals in the camp not care about it?" Chen De was young.Straightforward.Expressed his inner doubts like arrows.

Monk Yongxin has been through the rivers and lakes for a long time and is well versed in people's hearts. Through the flickering of the lights, he has already seen the strange light in Chen De's eyes. This inadvertent light made him see Chen De's inner psychological changes.From the single-minded fight just now to the end, it has become a desire for life.

However, this is a big matter, and it is not something that a monk like him can decide.Make a haha, put your hands together: "Brother, nephew, why don't you go back and tell King Chuang about Xian Qiaozi's thoughts, please make a decision. But, brother, before I leave, I have something to say to my brother It is clear. King Chuang is now the Generalissimo of Civil and Military Affairs of Fengtian. , once it falls under King Chuang's command, it must be a big achievement."

"If I vote for King Chuang, what can I do?" Chen Yongfu smiled wryly, and reached out to take Chen De's bronze-armed iron bow with a broken bowstring, "Brother, please face King Chuang on your behalf. My father and son are waiting here."

Master Yongxin left.The battlefield where the two sides were fighting for life and death just now fell into silence, only the occasional sound of the wind blowing the flag, bringing a little burnt smell.After a while, there was commotion in the peasant army's position.

A large number of people and horses came rushing from a distance, there were more and more sounds of chaotic footsteps and the impact of armor and weapons, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes continued.

The team separated, and it was still Master Yongxin who appeared in front of Chen Yongfu and his son with a smile under the illumination of several lanterns.

"Senior Brother, the Grand Marshal ordered me to return this thing to Zhao." Monk Yongxin took the hard bow from the attendant beside him, and replaced the bowstring that was broken just now.Beside the hard bow, a quiver is full of spiked arrows. "King Chuang still has something to say. If Xian Qiaozi is unwilling to join the rebel army and helps King Chuang to hunt down the thieves, the rebel army will get out of the way and ask Chen Zongbing to lead his subordinates and family members to leave Bianliang. See you on the battlefield in the future."

"This?" Chen Yongfu was a little speechless.

Two steeds came out from the opposite team entering the camp, and under the protection of dozens of personal soldiers, the people on the horses were as numerous as the moon.

A rough voice sounded like a thunderstorm: "Chen Yongfu, I belong to Liu Zongmin under King Chuang's command! All the brothers in the camp call me Master Liu! The Generalissimo ordered me to bring you a message. For the master, everyone has no eyes for swords and guns, it is nothing! Our brothers respect the character and ability of your father and son, and are willing to work together with you to achieve a great cause and bring about a peaceful world for the people of the world!"

With the help of the light from the lantern torch, Chen De could see clearly that the speaker was nearly 40 years old, with a very burly figure, and his face was angular, full of wind and frost.The face is rough and bold, with short beards like steel needles and halberds.He was wearing an iron helmet, three layers of iron armor, two long knives hanging from his waist, and a red cloak over the armor, which looked majestic and majestic. It was Liu Zongmin, the general who broke into the camp.

On the head of Liu Zongmin, Luo Rucai, the coach of Cao Ying, immediately sat upright.

"Chen Zongbing, my Generalissimo cherishes your father and son, lest you worry that King Chuang will get entangled in the old affairs. I specially invited a certain family to come to be a witness. If the Generalissimo is entangled in what your father and son did when they attacked Kaifeng, it will be like this."

A small school stepped forward and raised two broken arrows over his head, asking Chen Yongfu and his son to watch.

Chen Yongfu saluted from a distance: "May I ask if the general Luo Rucai known as Cao Cao is under his command?"

Chen Yongfu was called by Luo Rucai's name in the peasant army.Luo Rucai secretly smiled, there is a door, and the name has changed.So Luo Rucai said: "I don't dare to take it. I am just a reckless man who doesn't like some things and raised troops to seek thieves. But you must have heard of my reputation. Some say that I am a thief, and some say that I am greedy for children. I'm a lustful drinker, but I didn't say that my words don't count. Today, I'm here to be a middleman and a witness for the Generalissimo!"

At dawn, Chen Yongfu and his son led their troops out of Shangfang Temple.Announced that he would submit to the rebel army under Li Zicheng's department, and beg for thieves for the people of the world.

The Battle of Kaifeng came to an end when Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's troops successfully conquered Bianliang, Tokyo.

The harvest of the battle is undoubtedly huge for the Chuangcao family.

How much wealth is there in Kaifeng?How many supplies have you hoarded?This can be explained with just two figures.

In history, after Gao Mingheng and others dug the Yellow River, Kaifeng was flooded.After Li Zicheng waited for the water to recede, he entered the city and salvaged 900 million taels of silver.Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, also sent people to Kaifeng to salvage, and also recovered tens of thousands of taels.

At this time, Kaifeng was neither flooded nor experienced the war damage caused by the long-term siege, and naturally accumulated more wealth.

"Brother Li, we made a fortune this time!"

Hearing the voiceless singing of the opera troupe and singers of Prince Zhou's Mansion, and seeing the property accounts copied from various palaces, government offices, government treasuries, and officials' homes sent by the old secretary, Luo Rucai laughed so hard that his small eyes narrowed became a line.

When they entered the city, the two had already negotiated.Areas are designated for stationing.Moreover, the military discipline after entering the city is also fully emphasized: "Only copy government offices, royal residences, and large gentry and grain households. Ordinary people are not allowed to harass, and businessmen are not allowed to act recklessly! Anyone who violates the order will be punished on the spot!"

Originally!Some middle and low-ranking military officers muttered in their hearts, are there so many high-ranking officials, princes, and gentlemen who are not going to rob, but ordinary people?Laozi's brains are burnt out?If you don't eat the meat, go to the bones, and then bear a bad name?

Although the words of the grassroots officers of Chuang Cao's family are rough, they are a very real existence.

Since the Jin Dynasty moved the capital to Kaifeng in 1161 AD, it has been operating hard.Although the old view of the Northern Song Dynasty has not been restored, it is north of the Yangtze River.It is the largest and most prosperous city.After another 73 years, when the Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, because Jin Aizong fled to Caizhou (now Runan), although Kaifeng was also damaged by the war, it was not very serious.Of course, it has since ceased to serve as the capital of a country.It cannot maintain the weather and scale of the past.At the time when the Yuan and Ming dynasties alternated, Xu Dabing came to Chenqiao, and the guards of the Yuan Dynasty surrendered without a fight, so that this famous city was not destroyed by war.Zhu Yuanjin sealed his fifth son Zhu Wei in Kaifeng and called him King of Zhou.The palace city of the Northern Song Dynasty was built as Zhou Wangfu.From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to this time, after nearly 300 years without war, the city of Kaifeng has been singing and dancing.It is located in the Central Plains, the Yellow River is only seven or eight miles away from the north gate, and Suizhou in the east has a canal to the south that can still be used by boats. Luoyang can't even compare with it.What's more terrible is that in recent years, because states, prefectures, and counties have been devastated or seriously threatened by wars, more and more wealthy gentry and big families have fled to the provincial capital, which has greatly increased Kaifeng's registered permanent residence, with a population of about one million. The rich families who fled to Kaifeng brought a large amount of property, and their daily life and consumption made the market more prosperous. (It's a bit like old Shanghai, isn't it?)

Unlike upstarts like King Fu who have a shallow foundation, Zhou Wang's family is a veteran vassal king who has been in Kaifeng since the Hongwu period. For more than 200 years, the lineage of the king of Zhou has resolutely strictly restrained itself in accordance with the rules of the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty. It only wanted to make money to harm the people and create people, and never asked about political affairs and had no ambitions at all. After more than 200 years, whether it is the immediate family members of Zhou Wangfu or the accumulated wealth has become an astronomical figure.But once Kaifeng City was broken, these things became the spoils of the peasant army.

The second king of Zhou, named Zhu Youdun, was known as King Xian. He knew how to write songs and wrote lyrics, and wrote many scripts. There were male and female troupes in the mansion, who performed dramas and legends, and were very famous throughout the country.Although the vocal skills in the royal residence of Zhou are not as strong as in the previous generation, they are still inferior to the royal residences all over the country.Every day from dusk to late at night, there are always songs and dances in the palace, and the sound of silk, bamboo, gongs and drums drifts outside the Forbidden City from time to time, just as a poem from Daliang people said: "When you hear the Xiaogu in the palace day and night, you will remember the Xianwang Xinyuefu."

With so many rich, well-fed and powerful families, they can easily grab a lot of good things by smashing open that deep house compound. What's more, now that everyone has seen the world, it is difficult for ordinary property to be recognized by everyone.

In this way, after entering the city, the royal residences, official residences, and wealthy households became the first choice for everyone, followed by the various government offices.The Zhou kings have accumulated for hundreds of years, and the wealth accumulated by the county kings, clansmen, and Yibin (Ming Dynasty, the son-in-law of the prince and county king is called Yibin.) has become the spoils of the peasant army.However, among these trophies, most of the opera troupes, singers and dancers were given to Cao Cao's camp by Li Zicheng.

"Xiao Wu," Li Zicheng called his Generalissimo Xingyuan Zhongjun Wu Ruyi, "Have any shops in the city been harassed?"

"No. After entering the city, the brothers can still do fair business."

"Okay, Lao Luo, let Xiao Wu go to the city to look for people who have contacts with Nanzhong merchants. My rebel army wants to do big business with them!"

"What are you trying so hard for?" Cao Cao was full of disdain, "Brother Li, you are really smart and confused for a while. The Yellow River is outside the city. Let Xiao Wu and Wang Long go to Shandong, what can't you buy? If you look in the city, don’t you also want to go to Shandong to meet Mr. Li?” Luo Rucai didn’t even raise her head, she just put her hands on the singer in her arms.

"Alright! Let Wang Long and Xiao Wu go to Shandong, and Luo Hu, Chen De, Wang Si, Gu Ying and others will train the new army of our rebel army!"

Hearing Li Zicheng's arrangement, Luo Rucai stopped his hands for a while, blinked his eyes a few times, and then continued to rub the diva who was gasping for breath. (To be continued..)