In the dead night, suddenly a thunderous loud roar, and the army who was still asleep opened his eyes incredibly, jumped up, and on the edge of the sky, a silver line rushed towards him.

"It's flooding!"

"Run!"

In the shouts of fear, there were scattered and fleeing troops everywhere, and the camp of the invading army that had been besieged for more than a year was broken. However, the water and fire are ruthless, in the gaze of the frightened invading army and displaced people, the surging flood is the interception of the city wall, the city gate of the hole is like a river, rushing with the turbulent yellow water of the Yellow River, the neat streets of Kaifeng City are filled with the sound of dying fear, the people who were swept away by the flood peak stretched out their arms for help like sorghum growing in the ground, and the dead and silent city became boiling in an instant, and countless people cried in the catastrophe.

Kaifeng City, the city presses the city, a city is stacked on top of each other! Once again, in the midst of a great man-made disaster, the city was heavily buried under the dust of history.

There are many versions of this flood, and many people believe that the flood is that the Ming official army has experienced the defeat of Zhuxian Town, and has been completely unable to relieve the siege of Kaifeng, so the jade is burned to open the dam. Some people also think that the big water was released by Li Zicheng, after all, Li Zicheng couldn't attack it for a long time. Moreover, he ordered the opening of the Yellow River dam, not only to extinguish Kaifeng, but also to use the flood to create more refugees downstream to strengthen the army. Especially after the destruction of the Ming Kaifeng City and the pacification of the Ming Dynasty as the latter fortress, the land of Zhongzhou, there was no obstacle to the invasion of the army, and this battle completely ended the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains.

There is also a theory that the Chuang army and the official army dug the dam of the Yellow River together, which caused the originally controllable amount of water to become such a large flood!

But no matter what you say, this two-year battle, which involved hundreds of thousands of troops and 100,000 people killed on the battlefield, ended with hundreds of thousands of residents of Kaifeng turning into dragon princes and people, and dying in the catastrophe of the great water.

Whether it is Da Ming or Chuang Jun, it seems that they have not achieved what they want.

After this war, the war situation in the Central Plains gradually calmed down, and Li Zicheng, who got too much spoils, was not busy moving eastward, but for the imperial court, this was not a good sign, because Li Zicheng's exile army began to no longer loot and flow around like the previous exiles, and he began to occupy the Ming Dynasty's prefectures and counties in Henan in an orderly manner, and soon after the Battle of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng also established a regime in Xiangyang, calling himself the generalissimo of Tianshunyi Fumin, and built six governments in imitation of the six departments of the Ming Dynasty. He also divided the scholars who took refuge as officials such as waiters.

Li Zicheng has officially germinated the ambition and determination to replace the Ming Dynasty! Chongzhen, who was angry about this, couldn't eat well for several days, but he was helpless.

There is no way, the Baoding army has been destroyed, the Ning Jin army is also gone, the Xuan army, the Qin army, the main forces were defeated by Chongzhen, and now only Zuo Liangyu's Huguang army can be used, the remaining Beijing camp, Zhu Dadian's Nanjing army is not at all, Kong Huizhen's Sichuan soldiers are still fighting to the death with the invading Zhang Xianzhong, and now the remnants of Yuan Chonghuan's Qin army do not even appear on Chongzhen's strategic map.

In September and October of the end of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Empire was already in a dangerous state of falling apart.

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At this time, the Dongjiang River was full of liveliness.

There was really no ability to convert the steam engine to a harvester, and in the cold rice fields of September, groups of farmers had to wield sickles and clatter the rice with their heads bowed.

But even so, there were patches of laughter and laughter everywhere, and as far as the eye could see, the yellow, orange and orange ears of rice on the Great Plains were overwhelming, and the Dongjiang farmers wearing big hats were each incarnated into dog-headed warriors, and the humanoid harvesters swung forward like scythes, and the hills of rice cut down by the dodols were pulled to the earing field.

Who would have thought that such a big granary could be hidden in a bitter cold place?

Of course, the Northeast is indispensable for the big bud rice stick, Hegang is the bud rice planting area, and it is also the golden and silver-white bud rice all over the mountains, the stick that has just been broken off is thrown directly into the cauldron and boiled, biting into the mouth, the fragrant and tender feeling can simply make people think about the first love.

Sun Chuanting's title in Daming is the squire of the military department, the governor of the three sides, but when he arrived in the Dongjiang River, he was inseparable from the factory director, in the nineteenth factory he was the factory director, and when he arrived in the Songhua River, he became the director of the thirty-seven ranch again, fortunately, he changed his title this time, otherwise I don't know if he would be aesthetically fatigued.

For him to pick up the wind is the former Ming Ji Liao Governor, now the director of the production workshop of the 19th Factory Wu Aheng, the two former Ming senior bureaucrats are now also adapted to the local life of Liaodong, the table above the bulging hot soil kang is swinged, a large pot of boiled green corn, a large pot of potatoes dipped in local sauce, and a large pot of pork stewed vermicelli, two people cross-legged on the bud rice wine, one bite at a time.

"Master Sun, congratulations on your promotion! I respect you for my brother!"

"Lord Wu, this is a joke brother, now I am still a guilty person, and I am in command as a prisoner, how can I say that I am promoted? It's just a little bit of a small effort for the imperial court!"

Still looking like an ancient well without waves, holding a wine glass, Sun Chuanting said indifferently, however, the next words, Wu Aheng made him unable to calm down.

"Is Brother Sun still worried about this prisoner's identity? Moreover, is Brother Sun really doing his best for the imperial court? ”

"What do you mean by this, Lord Wu?"

Sun Chuanting couldn't help but put down the wine glass and stare at the past, but Wu Aheng was very calm, calmly drank the wine, exhaled turbidity, and then replied comfortably.

But he didn't respond positively to Sun Chuanting's question, but said in a somewhat gloomy voice.

"Brother Sun went south to supervise the army during this time, and there was a Tang newspaper from above, and the imperial court Zhu Xianzhen was defeated by 400,000 troops, everything was as Brother Sun expected, the thieves have become the climate, and Your Majesty has no one to use to dig Yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Inspector back from the Dongjiang River!"

"Lord Sun, you have also supervised Shaanxi, and after Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian were defeated twice, what is left on the three sides? You don't know what to expect. ”

"Anyway, I'm old for my brother! It is estimated that my brother will stay in this nineteenth factory for the rest of his life! It's Brother Sun, you, do it yourself......"

Sun Chuanting understood what he heard, but he didn't expect Wu Aheng of the hard state to admit his fate before him, first of all, the contradiction between the Dongjiang River and the imperial court has become clear, just like the relationship between the feudal town and the central government in the late Tang Dynasty, and the result of the battle of Zhu Xianzhen has made him not hopeful of Chongzhen, after he leaves, he will become the director of the 19th factory, and he will also satisfy this factory director, and no longer want to return to the Ming Dynasty.

However, what he is worried about is not unreasonable, he is obviously more valued by Mao Jue, and there are many opportunities to emerge in the Dongjiang River, once Mao Jue really stands on his own in the future, pulls the flag and fights against the Ming Dynasty, where should he go? Just like Xun Yu in the Three Kingdoms, he was loyal to the Han Dynasty, but assisted by Cao Cao, the Han minister, when Cao Cao and Emperor Han Xian were opposed, the dilemma was not enough for outsiders!

How to choose when it really came to that point, Sun Chuanting didn't have a score in his heart, he simply diverted the topic, poured the glass of wine with his head high, and then stretched out his hand to pour a full glass for no one again, drinking and talking.

"I was appointed as the commander of Hegang Town, and this time I came back to organize the troops of Hegang Town, and follow the army south, brother, the fifteenth day of next month is the military time! It will take me ten days to assemble and march, starting tomorrow, brother, you have to hurry up the autumn harvest, and the work in the factory must be arranged in advance, once the war starts, the boys don't know when they will come back!"

This news made the atmosphere on the wine table become dead and silent, thanks to Mao Jue, he took out a cigarette from the box and smoked it, sucked all the smoke and dust into his lungs, and took a few puffs, Wu Aheng asked solemnly again.

"If you take the boys out, you will be able to bring them back!"

This time, Sun Chuanting's answer was much faster and more decisive, and he nodded heavily.

"In the battle with Jian's captivity, even if Sun was crushed, he would go all out, although he didn't dare to guarantee that he would bring it all back! But I won't let them die on the battlefield in vain!"

With a bang, the two porcelain cups slammed together.

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This year is a great famine year, the war is raging, but the high latitudes outside the Guan, it seems that they have adapted to the abnormality of the Xiaoice River period, coupled with the construction of large-scale water conservancy facilities, it is a big harvest year.

The granaries of every household are piled up, the walls are scraped with a series of buds and peppers, and the pigs in the pigsty at home seem to have fattened up a few times.

But at this time of euphoria, the cold war horn is a nightmare that broke into the lives of every household, this time it is an unprecedented war order of the Dongjiang River, as far as the rest of the father, the town is moving south, the situation in the customs is about to become clear, this year and next year, Mao Jue will also be separated from the Qing State outside the customs.

"Wow!! Dad, don't go! ”

Early in the morning, the terrible cry had already sounded in the factory compound, and looking at the children who didn't know how many groups of families were holding the adults in the family and crying, Sun Chuanting's heart was also sour.

"Officials rest assured, everything in the family has concubines, and concubines and Shining will wait in Hegang to celebrate the officials!"

Compared with the following parting of life and death, Mrs. Sun, who was born in the military household in Qinzhen, was obviously a lot more polite, she just lightly tied a battle robe for Sun Chuanting, and on the side, Sun Chuanting's eldest son Sun Shining was also quietly seeing him off.

How many times has this scene been experienced in the Ming Dynasty, but now, for the first time, Sun Chuanting has a feeling of reluctance.

It seems that life is really too comfortable!

Thinking in his heart, on his face, Sun Chuanting showed a rare smile, reached out and grabbed the hands that were tied with the buttons of the robe, and then reached out and patted Shining's head again.

The autumn wind gusted, and the men who put on their robes again lined up at the gate of the factory to receive flintlock pistols and bayonets, and merged into the team, and immediately reformed the army of the Dongjiang River rampant all over the world, and looked back at the two women who were standing on the balcony to say goodbye, and the balance in Sun Chuanting's heart seemed to have fallen to the side a few points.

"Driving !!"

(End of chapter)