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After Li Guo and Hao Yaoqi fled back to the camp, they exaggerated the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in front of Li Zicheng.

"The Ming soldiers were wearing armor, but there were so many muskets and they brought a lot of cannons. We were unable to get close to them when we fought with them. Moreover, their military discipline was very strict, and they didn't even pick up the property on the ground, so they had no chance of sneak attacks. In order to avoid greater losses, we had to retreat first."

"How is the loss?" Li Zicheng was not very concerned about victory or defeat, but attached great importance to the losses of the army.

"Fifty thousand troops were lost, but they were all ordinary soldiers, and the old camp suffered almost no losses." Li Guo naturally knew what Li Zicheng was concerned about.

Sure enough, when Li Zicheng heard that the old camp had no losses, his face immediately improved a lot. "So this Ming army is not easy to deal with?"

"Unless you use artillery and muskets to attack, it will be difficult to defeat them." Li Guo nodded.

"Although muskets and artillery are powerful, they consume a lot of gunpowder and projectiles. The Ming army came from afar, how many gunpowder and projectiles can they bring? As long as we find ways to consume their gunpowder, there will always be a time to use it. At that time, those cannons and fire sticks are fire sticks, and they will definitely be useless." Li Yan said from the side.

"Yes, we have people, and we can pile them up to death. There is no need to worry about the King of Breaking." Song Xiance echoed.

"Then let's send a large army to fight?" Li Zicheng asked.

"No, let them enter Kaifeng City. Compared to gunpowder, I'm afraid that the food in Kaifeng City will be more scarce. With these tens of thousands of people, Kaifeng City will probably not last long. If it doesn't work, I have a way to do it once and for all." Niu Jinxing said with a narrowed eyes, with fierce light in his eyes.

"What method?" Li Zicheng asked impatiently.

The army attack was opened several times, because Kaifeng City had a strong defensive power and failed, which almost became his heart disease.

"Does the king want to Kaifeng City, or just want to break through Kaifeng City and vent his hatred?" Niu Jinxing asked.

"Is there any difference?" Li Zicheng was a little confused.

"If we want Kaifeng City, then we have to take it down in full. If the king just wants to break the city and vent his anger, then we can use other methods, such as flooding." Niu Jinxing said proudly.

"Flooded?" Everyone was shocked.

"Where did the water come from?" Li Yan asked with a gloomy face.

"Will there be something if you open the Yellow River embankment?" Niu Jinxing said lightly.

"Do you know what you are talking about? If you peel off the Yellow River embankment, not only will Kaifeng be flooded, but the entire Henan Prefecture may become a member of the Zeguo." Li Yan shouted sternly.

"In the past, King Ben of Qin had not been able to attack Daliang City of Wei for a long time, and led the Yellow River to flood Daliang. Three months later, the city was broken and the Wei State was destroyed. Daliang was the Kaifeng today. Since Kaifeng could not be able to attack for a long time, why can't we use water to attack? The so-called great things are not limited to small matters. For the sake of the great king's great cause, what is this sacrifice?" Niu Jinxing quoted the scriptures and tried to convince Li Zicheng to adopt his own opinions.

Li Zicheng was immediately moved after hearing Niu Jinxing's suggestion, and was calculating gains and losses in his heart.

"King, as your life is today, it is time to regain the hearts of the people. If we dig the Yellow River embankment at this time, it will probably have a very bad impact on the king's reputation." Li Yan advised bitterly.

Li Yan's words hit Li Zicheng's concerns. He is no longer the thief he used to be. Since he is ready to take over the world, he naturally has to cherish his reputation.

"What's wrong with this? Let's just push this matter to Ming Jun." Niu Jinxing's words immediately moved Li Zicheng.

"Let's leave this matter to Military Commander Niu." Although Li Zicheng did not clearly agree, his attitude had already explained everything.

"There is no hurry to do this. Let's talk about it when Lu Xiangsheng and the others enter the city. Then they will be caught all in one go." Niu Jinxing said proudly.

"Okay." Li Zicheng nodded with a smile.

Li Yan looked at Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing, his eyes full of darkness.

Li Yan still has some feelings of saving the world and saving the people, not exactly like Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing, who did whatever he wanted to achieve his goal. He joined Li Zicheng's uprising army because he was completely disappointed with the court and hoped to assist Li Zicheng to replace the corrupt Ming Dynasty and benefit the people.

In fact, in Li Yan's heart, Li Zicheng is not a perfect monarch, but now the only one who has the most hope to replace Zhu Ming is Li Zicheng. Although Lu Ruolin's Jinzhou Army was said to be good, in Li Yan's opinion, it has always been unpredictable if he is not in the Central Plains. Moreover, Lu Ruolin's relationship with the court is complicated, which is not a good choice.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng has changed a lot now compared to the past. At least he has a vision of the world in terms of ambition and is no longer the bandit mentality of the past.

Faced with the decision of Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing to spread the Yellow River, Li Yan was powerless to stop it and could only comfort himself in his heart. Those who accomplish great things are not limited to trivial matters. Perhaps this is the sacrifice that should be done on the road to domination.

After Li Zicheng decided to flood Kaifeng, Lu Xiangsheng and his team entered Kaifeng City without any obstacles.

At this time, Kaifeng City was a hell on earth. The long-term siege caused an extremely shortage of food in Kaifeng City, and people who starved to death could be seen everywhere.

The food of the people in the city was taken away by the government army, and the people who had no food could only wait to die in the house. Almost all the food in the city was eaten up, and there was a little inventory in addition to the Zhou royal palace, so no food could be found.

Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu welcomed the arrival of Lu Xiangsheng's army at the city gate. For Lu Xiangsheng's arrival, the governor Gao Mingheng and general Chen Yongfu were mixed.

What is happy is that the arrival of Lu Xiangsheng, a new force, makes it more certain to defend Kaifeng City. What is worried is that the more tens of thousands of people, the problem of food is even more difficult to solve.

"The lower officials met with the supervisor." Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu bowed to Lu Xiangsheng.

"No gifts, thank you for your hard work." All the cities in Henan were falling, and only Kaifeng was still holding on. Lu Xiangsheng still admired Gao and Chen very much.

"It is necessary to serve the country. However, the supervisor came to help thousands of miles away, and Kaifeng was grateful."

"It's all for the court, let's work together."

"Please ask the supervisor to enter the city. The King of Zhou has prepared a banquet to welcome the supervisor."

"I am about to visit His Highness the King of Zhou, please."

In order to welcome the arrival of Lu Xiangsheng's army, the streets have been cleaned up by Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu. In addition to being sparsely populated, they also seem clean.

As Lu Xiangsheng's army entered the city, the eyes of Kaifeng's military and civilians were focused on Lu Xiangsheng's military supplies. Especially the officers and soldiers guarding the city, watching the baggage vehicles entering Kaifeng and the strong cattle and horses, they unconsciously swallowed their saliva.

Lin Zhenyuan, Yang Guozhu, and Ma Ke suddenly felt heavy when they looked at the Kaifeng officers and soldiers with pale faces and thin eyes.

They are all veterans for a long time, so it is easy to judge that the food and grass situation in Kaifeng City is not optimistic.

The three of them ordered their subordinates to guard the barracks and take care of the food, grass and livestock, and followed Lu Xiangsheng to the Zhou Palace for a banquet.

Because he was besieged by the rebel army, the originally prosperous and lively Zhou Palace seemed particularly depressed at this moment. The servants were all careful, afraid of being angry with the irritable Zhou King.

When King Zhu Gongye of Zhou saw Lu Xiangsheng, he was very excited. He held Lu Xiangsheng's hand despite etiquette and said, "Mr. Lu, I'm looking forward to you."

Kaifeng was besieged and the court sent several reinforcements, but unfortunately they were defeated by Li Zicheng, leaving Kaifeng City isolated and helpless. This situation hit the morale of the military and civilians guarding the city in Kaifeng very seriously. No one knows how long the siege will last and whether it will last until the day of rescue.

Now Lu Xiangsheng's arrival has given everyone hope, which at least proves that the court has not given up on Kaifeng City.

"There is a late rescue, which scares Your Highness." Lu Xiangsheng quickly apologized.

"The thief is fierce. It is very rare for Lord Lu to repel the thief army and enter the city. What a crime? You have worked hard all the way. I welcome you." Zhu Gongye didn't care and took Lu Xiangsheng's hand and entered the banquet hall.

The banquet hall is very luxurious, but the food presented is very simple and incompatible with the environment here.

Faced with these simple meals, the Kaifeng City officials who attended the welcoming banquet did not dislike it, but their eyes shone and they wanted to start eating immediately.

"Now the city is short of food, and I want to set an example, so I can only apologize to you." Zhu Gongzi said embarrassedly to Lu Xiangsheng and others.

Lu Xiangsheng was solemn and stood up and said, "Your Highness has heard of the generous donation of money from you. Now he shares the joys and sorrows with the military and civilians of Kaifeng. He is really a model of the royal family. The officials admire him very much, so how could they dislike him?"

Lu Xiangsheng's words made Zhu Gongye feel very pleased, and he said bitterly: "Just relying on the stored grain in the royal palace, it is impossible to supply the entire city of military and civilians. If there is no more food to enter the city, I am afraid that there will be no living people in Kaifeng City in a short time."

Lu Xiangsheng asked in surprise: "Is the food in Kaifeng City already short of this?"

Gao Mingheng smiled bitterly and said, "The soldiers still have some food, but the people in the city have been out of food for a few days. We have discovered several cases of eating people. If this continues, the situation will be even more unimaginable."

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng's expression began to become serious, "Is it so serious?"

Gao Mingheng nodded: "It will only be more serious."

Lu Xiangsheng pondered for a while and said, "This time we brought some food and grass with the army, and temporarily took out some to help the military and civilians in the city, and then we will get through this level first."

Lu Xiangsheng also took a very big risk when doing this. After all, if the food is out of stock in the future, his army will be in danger of being wiped out.

Gao Mingheng, Chen Yongfu, Supervisor Liang Bing, Su Zhuang, Wu Shiyan, Tongzhi Su Maozhuo, Tongzhi Peng Shiqi, Promoter Huang Shu and others all stood up to give Lu Xiangsheng a big gift.

"The generals of the Henan Prefecture are grateful!"

"The state affairs are difficult, let's work together." Lu Xiangsheng also sighed.

"Okay! The top and the bottom work together, and the gold will be cut off. All the lords work together, so why worry about the injustice of the bandits!" Zhu Gongyi was overjoyed when he saw this and applauded.

"The king has good command, which is our blessing." Everyone carried the flower sedan chair, and Lu Xiangsheng and the others would not be stingy in praise of Zhu Gongye's righteous deeds.

For a moment, the banquet hall was full of fun and the atmosphere began to become warm.

"The most urgent task is to open up the food channels as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to last." Lu Xiangsheng said the key to the problem.

Zhu Gongzi hurriedly asked: "The thief army is siegeing tightly. It is so difficult to open up the food channel. I wonder if there is any solution for Lord Lu?"

Logically, although Zhu Gongye has a noble status, he cannot interfere in political affairs and military affairs. However, the situation is special at this time, Kaifeng City is in danger, and Zhu Gongye has lost all his money to support the defenders in the city, which is the greatest help for the defenders in the city. Naturally, everyone is willing to give him a face and obey his orders without affecting the overall situation.

"It seems impossible to transport grain from land now, so you can only find a way from water." Lu Xiangsheng put forward his own idea.

"Shuilu? Since the bandits besieged Kaifeng, no ship dared to come, let alone transport food and grass." Gao Mingheng still smiled bitterly.

"The thief army has no naval army. As long as it can ensure the safety of the ships and pay high prices, I think the canal transportation yamen is still willing to take the risk of running." With the previous experience of dealing with the canal transportation yamen, Lu Xiangsheng knew that as long as the interests are sufficient, the canal transportation yamen is not unaware of it.

"Money is not a problem. As long as you can transport the food, no matter how high the price is, it will be fine." Zhu Gongye said proudly.

Zhu Gongzi is a sensible person. He is not as stupid as King Fu. He is almost broken and still keeps his money. In the end, not only is the money snatched away, but he has no one. He is really foolish.

Therefore, Zhu Gongzhe had to help the officers and soldiers defend the city if he had spent all his money. As long as the city was preserved, there was still hope for the future.

Seeing the Ming Dynasty vassal kings who had lost their lives for money, the performance of Zhou King Zhu Gongye was perfect and made people feel comfortable.

The biggest problem now is to transport grain from Jiangnan all the way to the current, and you have to rely on the snare to pull the boatman along the way, so how to ensure the safety of the boatman and the boatman.

When Lu Xiangsheng and the others came, they had a large army of guards and did not encounter any thief army that was blinded along the way, so they arrived in Lanyang safely.

Without the protection of the army, people from the canal transportation yamen may not dare to come to Kaifeng.

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