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Chapter 45 Sad! Kaifeng was destroyed by the flood

Another soldier said, "Oh! General, you don't know! As long as people can catch a mouse, they will be widely promoted. Everyone will praise him for his great luck! I wish I could catch a mouse with a mouse clip, so that I could solve a meal! After all, meat is hard to eat! What's more, what about other things? Catching a mouse is a great blessing!"

"Oh!" Lin Xiangfeng said to the sky with a breath. He knew that Kaifeng had become a hell on earth now. He didn't want to stay in this hell on earth anymore. He was afraid that he would not be able to hold it back and he would go crazy.

So Lin Xiangfeng decided to go back. He only hoped that Kaifeng could relieve the trouble earlier and that he could rescue these innocent people. However, his wish would be disappointed.

Li Zicheng is not a fool. He had previously received a reminder from Zhang Biwu to be careful of floods. Now he heard that the government army was really difficult to rescue Kaifeng, so the government army wanted to dig the Yellow River, which would flood Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's army.

At this time, the river workers on the Yellow River had already reported the situation to the rebel army. This year's Yellow River looks more turbulent than in previous years, and now there are signs. In previous years, the government would recruit people to go up the river embankment to reinforce it. Once the Yellow River is in crisis, people will be on standby at any time. If the Yellow River is in danger, people will rescue the Yellow River and will not harm it.

But now it’s different. Kaifeng is surrounded, and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai’s army gathered near Kaifeng. Who will come to repair the river embankment? But this year will be even more terrifying than in previous years!

Song Xiance and Li Yan lived in Kaifeng, Henan for a long time and knew the terrible flood. Moreover, it has been said for generations that when a flood occurs, it will become a catastrophe on earth, so the river embankment is the top priority!

Under the reminder of Song Xiance and Li Yan, Li Zicheng had to be careful, and when he came to the Yellow River, he saw it, wow! That was amazing! The whole Yellow River seemed to be boiling! The river rolled eastward, and the sound made was like a roar that was deafening!

How could Li Zicheng not be afraid? He first ordered his army to move to the high ground so that he could save his army. However, more than 10,000 people from his and Luo Rucai were still swallowed by the flood.

Although Li Zicheng moved to the high ground, he was wondering again, if the opponent digs the dike and attacks it with water, and he also digs the dike and attacks it with water, can he successfully break Kaifeng City? It's just one thing: Kaifeng City is already ripe fruit, and it's easy to pick it without water attack. But the opponent's water attack! Then let's see if it's successful with water!

Li Zicheng guessed: Perhaps Kaifeng City is strong, tall and thick, and floods cannot flow into Kaifeng City, so it will only go around the city, right? It should be easy to prepare to attack the city with ships at that time! There is no need to worry that many people on our side will be killed or injured!

Besides, the official army has dug the river embankment, and the Yellow River water has rushed in an irresistible momentum! If the water can be directed to the other side, yes! As long as it does not come to the army of our side, even if it is led to other places, it doesn’t matter. Even if the entire Kaifeng City is flooded, it doesn’t matter. As long as your army is safe and sound, this is the most important thing.

When Li Zicheng thought of this, he beat him up and decided! Li Zicheng and the government army dug the embankment, so a catastrophe was inevitable. The government army first dug the embankment at the Zhujiazhaikou River, and Li Zicheng also drove tens of thousands of refugees and digged the embankment of the Yellow River.

Li Zicheng and Huang Shu both had the idea of ​​Kaifeng City high, and the height of the flood could not reach the end of Kaifeng City completely! As long as Kaifeng City was surrounded by a high wall, it would still be safe, but the towns around Kaifeng would be destroyed by the flood.

One side wanted to flood the thief, the other side wanted to divert the water away so as not to flood the army, but to let the water rise to near the city so as to break the city by boat. It can be said that both sides digging the embankment carried out this plan with their own ulterior motives.

But man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations! What they didn't expect was that when the Yellow River water broke through the embankment and flooded towards Kaifeng, the brave men guarding Kaifeng were already full of anger at the official's nest!

They were so dissatisfied with hunger and cold! Now the bureaucrats in Kaifeng have abandoned these people. Once the city is closed, it is equivalent to trapping them to death in the outer city. They are not willing to be abandoned! Since we can't live, don't want to live anymore! Everyone will die together!

It was under such an idea that the abandoned people opened the gates of the outer city. At this moment, the flood did not bypass Kaifeng, but rushed in towards Kaifeng! Under such circumstances, even if the Daluo god descended to earth, it could not prevent Kaifeng from becoming a Zeguo.

Huang Shu never expected that the Yellow River water would enter through the north gate. If the water was not discharged, the city wall would also overflow. Which city gate would be the best to discharge water?

Huang Shu thought about it and thought it would be best to drain water from the southeast gate. Although this would be the best result that nearly half of Kaifeng City could be flooded and half of Kaifeng City could be saved. The worst result is that Kaifeng City could not be saved, and the entire Kaifeng City was still flooded by floods. The only luck would be that Kaifeng would not be completely submerged, and at least some buildings could be exposed.

Therefore, Huang Shu had no choice but to open the southeast gate, but there was no result that Huang Shu expected, and the whole city of Kaifeng was still submerged.

Kaifeng was flooded! The people inside were life and death! Zhang Biwu, on the north bank, looked at the surging Yellow River and kept pouring into Kaifeng. He was stunned and could not stop him in the end. Moreover, the news he received was not only Li Zicheng digging, but also the official army digging. The people who dug on the side of the official army were General Bu Congshan and the inspector Yan Yunjing. They had done such a thing without telling Zhang Biwu.

Zhang Biwu was so angry that he wanted to beware of the Yellow River breaking, but now everything is too late! Fortunately, Gu Yanwu transported all the ships. When he was in Ningyuan, he also brought many ships. With these ships, he could drive these ships to Kaifeng City to save people.

At this time, Hou Xun hurried to find Zhang Biwu because he knew that Zhang Biwu had a boat, Hou Xun wanted Zhang Biwu to save people. Of course, the most important thing was to save the King of Zhou and the officials.

Hou Xun had long recruited three large ships to sail to Kaifeng City, thus picking up King Zhou and others out.

Zhang Biwu drove his hundreds of ships and requisitioned a lot of people to come towards Kaifeng, hoping to rescue the people in Kaifeng.

On the other hand, Li Zicheng was very upset because he heard Zhang Biwu say that Kaifeng would be flooded. He had always wanted to set up officials and manage the people after breaking Kaifeng, and use Kaifeng as the foundation to expand around to enhance his strength. However, this wishful thinking was declared bankrupt as Kaifeng was flooded.

Li Yan came to find Li Zicheng. He asked Li Zicheng whether he could send someone to save the person. On the one hand, he had to beware of someone taking advantage of the situation and suppressing the robbers who were driving a boat to blackmail and rob.

But it was difficult for Li Zicheng to want a boat, because most of the trees around him were cut down, and even the people's houses were demolished. It was not easy to want wood to make a boat.

It took a lot of effort to make a ship and a bamboo raft, but the number of ships was far from enough. However, when Li Yan heard the news, Zhang Biwu had already had 700 ships. Zhang Biwu also sent someone to inform Li Yan, hoping that Li Yan's soldiers from eastern Henan could save people with them and suppress the robbers.

Li Yan was very happy when he heard this. He did not expect Zhang Biwu to take the initiative to propose it. It was even more strange that Zhang Biwu got so many ships from? But he ignored it. He and Zhang Biwu took a boat to save people. Although it was just a small boat, these ships could rescue civilians in large quantities.

When someone reported the news to Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng couldn't help but be stunned for a while. Zhang Biwu didn't inform him first, but looked for Li Yan first! Although Li Yan was from Qi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, he was very anxious about rescuing the people of Kaifeng. If he asked him, he would act faster than anyone else. This is reasonable.

But why didn't he notify Li Zicheng, who was the master marshal? This made Li Zicheng feel a little suspicious of Li Yan. But he pretended not to know anything on the surface. After all, Li Yan was a good adviser, and he still needed Li Yan to give him advice. The world is not yet decided, and it would be impossible without Li Yan.

Zhang Biwu and Hou Xun agreed that he would only save civilians. As for the contributions to rescue ** and King Zhou, let Hou Xun take them!

Zhang Biwu and Li Yan began to nervously rescue the people of Kaifeng, and at the same time fought with some robbers who wanted to rob, and defeated the robbers resolutely and prevented them from committing evil and pursuing money.

Now the army of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai and the official army have stopped fighting, and both sides are rescuing the people in trouble.

Li Zicheng was ready to move to another high place. He thought that if the Kaifeng area could no longer establish a country, he would have to choose another place as his fundamental place.

Kaifeng was no longer possible, so what Li Zicheng and his Shaanxi generals like the most would be Xi'an! Chang'an, the capital that was formerly known as the Han and Tang Dynasties! Li Zicheng's hometown!

If we could build another glorious Li Dynasty in Xi'an, comparable to Li Tang, or even surpass Li Tang, this is what Li Zicheng wanted to see the most and greatest wish.

Li Zicheng wanted to move to another place as soon as possible. Due to the floods in Kaifeng area and the difficulty of feeding here, his hundreds of thousands of people could not stay for too long.
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