The leaders of the rebels from all sides came to join the gang, and the thieves were huge, and even Yang Sichang, who was chasing after him, was afraid of three points and did not dare to send troops easily.

After the fall of the domain, Yang Sichang was terrified all day long, his hair was white, and he was seriously ill, but Chongzhen once again showed strong trust in him, and ordered him to make meritorious service and slash Li thief.

Li Zicheng's army of hundreds of thousands marched into the hinterland of Henan, breaking more than 10 cities in the eastern part of Henan, and the people along the way burned incense and saluted, killed pigs and sheep, and raised flags to welcome, and some people volunteered to act as guides for Li Chuang's army.

At this time, Yang Sichang's army was densely fortified near Xingyang, and those enthusiastic guides led the army to bypass these fortified places.

Yang Sichang was stunned and watched the army calmly pass by from outside the defense line, and his mood was indescribable, hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Xingyang, he couldn't untie his belt at night, commanded the armies to fight, and fought bloody battles for several days.

Yang Sichang found out that the Li thieves who were chased around by him in the past were not weak in combat effectiveness, especially their habitual tactics of crowds, which were even more shocking and had no way to start.

Mi County, Xingyang Prefecture, Henan.

When the officers and soldiers collapsed, they saw the impact of the Ma army and the old battalion cavalry coming in waves, and the brothers in their own battalion kept falling, and the general soldiers of Datong were as fierce as tigers and grieved in their hearts.

He really wanted to ask Yang Sichang in person: "Why is this thief fighting more and more, and the more he is suppressed, the more prosperous?" What does your cabinet eat! ”

Born in Mongolia, the fierce tiger no longer has the heroism of the past, and in the two years that Yang Sichang went south to the Central Plains to suppress the Kou, he was haggard and old, and he had countless questions to ask the imperial court.

The Li thief was defeated many times, and only the remnants fled to the mountains, how did he go out of the mountains several times, and there were more and more dependents?

As soon as the army came, the surrounding people held high the words "Greeting the King", and some were already ready to open the city gate to welcome the army into the city.

Standing on the tower of the city as fierce as a tiger, he saw this scene, and saw the mighty thieves outside the city coming, and there were many hungry people with hoes charging in front of him, and his heart was full of confusion.

Seeing that the army was about to break through the city, a sense of powerlessness surged into his heart like a tiger, he held his sword and muttered: "I can't go back here, I hope that in the next life, I can Yongzhen Daming border wall." ”

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On this day, the local people opened the city gate, the thieves swarmed in, and the general soldiers of Datong were martyred like tigers.

Li Zicheng continued to march eastward and besieged Kaifeng.

Kaifeng City occupies the throat of Kyushu, the land and water capital, and the fief of King Zhou is here, which has been sealed for more than 200 years.

Li Xianfeng, the former governor of Henan, was arrested by Chongzhen due to unfavorable combat, Li Xianfeng committed suicide and died, and Gao Mingheng was promoted to the governor of Henan.

The new governor of Henan, Gao Mingheng, and the general soldier Chen Yongfu stuck to Kaifeng, but the military salary was urgent, after some operation, the king of Zhou took out the treasury of 500,000 gold, bought rice and wheat to supply the soldiers defending the city, and offered a reward to raise the daring to die, kill an enemy soldier, and reward 50 gold.

After besieging the city for several days, Li Zicheng's personal commanders showed off their military might under the Chengming Gate in Kaifeng, and Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan, shot an arrow from the city, blinding Li Zicheng's left eye and almost killing him.

Li Zicheng pretended to be a failure, so he had to hate and withdraw the troops, he was jealous in his heart, he must capture Kaifeng and avenge this arrow!

Kaifeng was besieged, the surrounding reinforcements did not dare to rescue, the governor Gao Mingheng and his subordinates discussed, planning to decide the river water at the mouth of Zhujia Zhaikou to irrigate Li Zicheng's army, and untie the siege of Feng.

Li Zicheng laughed after receiving the secret report, and ordered the army to move to the high ground, and also returned the other way to the other, driving tens of thousands of refugees to Kaifeng City by flooding the Yellow River.

The surging water of the Yellow River penetrated from the north gate, and came out from the southeast gate, the sound of the water rushed like thunder, and millions of households in the city were all flooded, and the army was also drowned more than 10,000 people, so they pulled out the camp and left.

Kaifeng city is forty miles long all around, as big as Nanjing city, Zhou Wangfu is more than ten miles southeast of the city, there are outer cities, there are two purple gold cities among them, the palace is glazed tile, there is Mu Mountain behind, but it is buried by the whole sediment.

The king of Zhou led his family to sleep on the city wall, or the governor Yang Sichang sent a boat to Kaifeng City to respond, and the king of Zhou and his entourage crossed to the embankment of the Yellow River at night and escaped from the flood.

The whole Kaifeng City was in chaos, and there were people fleeing frantically for their lives everywhere, and many people couldn't escape and desperately climbed to the heights.

When a large landowner surnamed Wei saw the flood, he hurriedly ordered his family to make a raft out of two beams, tie them with silk cloth, and tie gold and silver under the raft.

Master Wei hid some dry food on his body, left all his relatives and relatives to sit on the raft alone and went down the river, escaping, leaving only the cries of everyone in the house behind him.

However, as soon as he drifted to a safe place and took out his belongings to leave, he saw a group of intruders intercept him and surround him.

The fat-headed and big-eared Master Wei was shocked: "What are you going to do?" ”

Chuang Bing smiled: "Borrow your burden!" ”

The old rich man clung to the gold and silver nuggets in his baggage and a wad of water-soaked land deeds, and said in horror: "Didn't you say that the king of Yingchuang would not pay for food? I support the rebels and the king! ”

"Didn't Lao Tzu just say? Just borrow! ”

"Bring it!"

A group of intruders shouted and snatched the burden full of money, and the two of them dragged and robbed, and one of them slapped the old rich man on the head, causing him to let go of his hand.

The old rich man's will to resist was far beyond ordinary people, and in the end, a few intruders cut off his arms before taking the treasure.

The successful intruder laughed, kicked the old rich man into the river, and continued to the next target down the river.......

After Li Zicheng's army entered Kaifeng City, he saw that the city was barren, almost uninhabited, only half of the brick houses remained, the rest were now thatched houses, and the brick houses outside the city were only two or three out of ten.

Kaifeng Prefecture food cut off, the city began to sell human flesh to eat, some people hid a cooking cake under the waist, sold it on the city tower, each cake silver one dollar and two cents, there was moss and algae floating over on the water surface, the hungry people fought for it, some people survived by eating cloth, and some people died because of eating paper.

Li Zicheng burst the embankment of the Yellow River, not only flooded Kaifeng City, but also the common people who went down the river for 800 miles, drowned countless people, and the flood rushed to Gushi County, which was nearly a thousand miles away, and even rushed to the territory of Fengyang Prefecture.

After the fall of Kaifeng, Yang Sichang led the army to fight with the Chuang army again, Li Zicheng's army was defeated and went east, gave up the armor and military funds on the road, and also scattered silver money and food along the way, the officers and soldiers were busy picking up, and the army was in chaos.

Li Zicheng suddenly led a large army to kill a horse gun, and the officers and troops who were busy collecting money were defeated, and they were chased and killed for dozens of miles, and the entire Henan almost fell into Li Zicheng's hands.

Yang Sichang withdrew all the way from Henan, deployed defenses in Zhending Mansion, and ordered Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, He Renlong, the general soldier of Shaanxi, and Wang Wannian, the general soldier of Shanxi, to lead troops to come to the aid of the general army, and they would fight to the death with the Chuang army in Zhending Mansion.

In this battle, Yang Sichang had to fight, and the ministers of the DPRK and China began to impeach him, and I heard that the emperor's mentality had gradually shaken.

He knew very well that if the war dragged on like this and he couldn't defeat Li Zicheng, then his net worth and life would be lost, and the end would be even more miserable.

Yang Sichang connected three times, elaborated on the battle plan, and asked the court to fully support him, and he made a military order to settle the battle and kill Li Zicheng!