Kaifeng City.
As thousands of heads fell to the ground, all the discordant sounds seemed to disappear overnight. People don't think about and worry about the future outcome, but the knife hanging on their necks makes them dare not hesitate at all.
As all the tens of thousands of troops stationed in Kaifeng City were dispatched to support the suppression of rebellions in Henan Province, Kaifeng City finally closed its gates completely. No matter day or night, there were no documents jointly signed by the three bureaus. No one can open a gate.
At last, more than 2,000 officers from the Third Division and the other divisions in the city gathered together. Even the firefighters from the fire prevention squad were sent to the city wall.
Along with them, there are nearly 3,000 people who survived the disaster in the city, as well as the servants of other families who were unfortunate enough to suffer the disaster. On the surface, they are jointly guarding the safety of Kaifeng City.
On the gate tower to the west of Kaifeng City, as the former capital of the Song Dynasty and the thoroughfare to the city, this gate tower overlooking Luoyang to the west and Guanzhong in the distance is very majestic.
Despite hundreds of years of war and vicissitudes, Kaifeng, as a major city on the thoroughfare of the Central Plains, has never stopped investing in and repairing Kaifeng since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Sitting east and west, the city gate tower looks extremely calm with its simple and plain gray-brown main color.
Coupled with the city wall stacks, the guards and servants who did not look very good-looking and had very sloppy fighting postures, but they also looked quite desolate, with the atmosphere of a battlefield where rain is about to come and dark clouds are pressing down on the city.
At the top of Kaifeng City, where fighting spirit lurked, there was a long and long sound of a musical instrument, emanating from the city gate tower and leaning towards the wilderness outside the city.
Sometimes it's as light as raindrops, sometimes it's as heavy as thunder; sometimes it's like mountains and flowing water, sometimes it's like stormy waves.
It's hard to tell how many kinds of music the performers on top of the city can perform that can be seen in the world.
And in the city.
The government has issued several notices in succession in the past few days. The words are very cautious, and most of them are to appease the people in the city. But the more this happened, the more people felt that something might happen to Kaifeng City.
In addition to going out for daily shopping, most people will only look outside their homes at dawn in the morning, and will continue to hide in their homes if they see no movement.
At this moment, a few footsteps on the west city wall broke the silence of the city wall where there was only the sound of the piano.
Several guards wearing dark brown robes and embroidered spring knives on their waists walked from the city to the city gate tower.
In front of the gatehouse on the city wall, Pei Benzhi, the governor of Henan Province, was sitting under the gate. His eyes were either looking into the distance outside the city, or he was looking down at the guqin under his hands.
Surrounding him were the grandson of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the crown prince of the Prince of Qin, the crown prince of the Prince of Yan, Zhang Hui of the Jinyi Guards, and Tian Mai, the secret guard.
When several Jin Yiwei officers and soldiers arrived in front of the city gate tower, they bowed and clasped their fists, and were about to say something. Standing behind Pei Benzhi, looking at the scenery outside the city, and listening to the music of the piano in front of him, Zhu Yunxi raised his hand to signal the others to calm down.
Pei Benzhi glanced at the person coming from the corner of his eye, and his finger snaps sped up in vain.
On what seemed to be a calm battlefield, the two sides, which had already formed their formations, suddenly erupted into loud and piercing sounds of horns and drums, and then the cavalry infantry began to charge with shouts of killing. The two huge military formations collided heavily. For a moment, people were turned upside down, limbs were broken, and rivers of blood flowed on the battlefield. The soldiers on both sides were all wailing and fighting with their bare hands with red eyes.
At the end, the sound of an arrow was heard in the air, and the battlefield was littered with corpses. The victorious side did not cheer or celebrate, but silently rescued the wounded and wounded friendly troops, and inflicted a few more blows on the enemy troops who were not completely dead.
After sunset, the military camp was still extremely quiet. Celebrating victory will come much later.
Snap, snap, snap.
In the city gate tower, Zhu Yunxi took the lead in raising his hands and applauded Pei Benzhi, who had performed for a long time.
"I didn't expect Dachuan to have such skills. Today, it's like Zhuge retreated from Sima in the empty city."
Zhu Gaochi also praised and said: "Uncle Pei Fang is so talented that it puts us to shame. I can't wait for such an elegant thing."
Pei Benzhi stood up with a smile, shook his head repeatedly, turned sideways and waved, and asked his attendants to remove the piano and its stand together.
Then Pei Benzhi bowed his hands to Zhu Yunxi and said, "I fiddled with it a few times when I was a young boy who didn't want to learn, and now I'm really unfamiliar with it. I don't dare to compare myself to the Marquis of Wu, and there will definitely be no Sima family in the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Yunxi laughed silently twice and looked sideways at Xiaohan beside him.
Zhu Shangbingdang walked up to Pei Benzhi and motioned him to look outside the city. Then he stretched out his finger to specify the direction for Pei Benzhi.
Pei Benzhi was puzzled for a moment and could only follow Qin Shizi's instructions and look outside the city.
Suddenly, in the originally empty and deserted wilderness, a group of elite cavalrymen suddenly sprang out from nowhere. They were all equipped with long knives at their waists, crossbows hanging on their sides, guns on horseback, and long blazing guns on their backs.
This cavalryman, armed to the teeth, rushed towards the undulating horizon in the distance, holding the musket on his back. The cavalrymen held blazing guns, sat on their horses, and fired at the front at will.
A burst of smoke was produced, blocking the rushing cavalry for a short time.
After a gust of wind, Pei Benzhi on the top of the city saw dozens of people in the wilderness, fleeing in panic with their backs to Kaifeng City.
The cavalrymen were not in a hurry, and the muskets were turned back to their backs, while the crossbows on their waists were held in their hands. This time, the cavalrymen were not careless, but held their breath and followed the running rhythm of the horses under them. Only when they found the most suitable opportunity, they would shoot the crossbow arrows in their hands.
Almost every crossbow arrow will penetrate into a person's back.
When there were only about ten people left in front of the cavalry, they switched to spears, and the horses also caught up with the spies who were fleeing in the wilderness outside the city.
The spearheads were wrapped in red tassels and pierced into the backs of the spies. The cavalrymen immediately let go to avoid being dragged off their horses by the limp corpses.
When the cavalrymen rushed out a long way and there were no more rebel spies from Henan Road ahead, the cavalrymen turned their horses and tightened their reins, and the horses paced back slowly.
The cavalry dismounted, and the officers and soldiers held the horses with one hand and retrieved the abandoned spears with the other. Then he took out the saber from his waist and began to count the enemy spies who were still groaning and not yet dead.
After doing all this, the cavalry were even very loving, kind and full of humanitarian spirit. All the corpses were tied together, and several war horses pulled them together, dragging these corpses to a pit dug in the wilderness at an unknown time.
Finally, the cavalry speeded up and disappeared into the wilderness, disappearing from Pei Benzhi's sight on the top of the city.
Everything happened too suddenly, the killing happened so suddenly, and it ended so without warning.
Pei Benzhi was still at a loss as to who those people were and where those cavalry came from.
Zhu Shangbing looked at the empty city outside and sneered: "Uncle Fang, you are my Zhuge of the Ming Dynasty."
Pei Benzhi suddenly felt a chill all over his body. He turned back to look at Qin Shizi, who had caused thousands of heads to fall to the ground in Kaifeng City just a few days ago.
This person seems honest and honest, but now that I really understand him, I feel how shocking it is.
Pei Benzhi found it difficult to adapt. He turned around and looked at Zhu Yunxi: "Your Highness, are those spies sent by the traitors?"
Zhu Yunxi nodded and looked at the royal guards who had arrived at the city a long time ago.
The leader immediately clasped his fists and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the rebels and thieves are currently being forced to Kaifeng somewhere in Henan Province. The Duke of Liang and the Marquis of Xiping have reported that some rebels were cautious and tried to escape, but they were all arrested everywhere. Encircle and exterminate.”
Zhu Yunxi hummed.
Nowadays, the military strategy of the entire Henan Province is to close the door and beat the dogs, using Kaifeng City as the final battlefield.
Zhu Gaochi on the side said: "How is the situation with the rebels in the direction of Luoyang City?"
The officers and soldiers of Jinyiwei immediately replied: "The soldiers and horses of the Dusi Yamen pretended to join the army and horses of the Duke of Liang. They circled the east and south sides of Luoyang City and merged to the west. The east side was vacant, and there were military and horse spies out of Luoyang City for days. It seemed that Worried about our army setting up an ambush.”
As he said that, the Jin Yiwei officer turned his head and glanced outside the city, where a killing had originally occurred in the wilderness.
He continued: "Although it has not been verified, my subordinates believe that these people today are probably the military spies who came out from Luoyang City."
Pei Benzhi also recovered from the previous shock. He came up and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, the rebels in Luoyang City are trying to test the situation. The situation is not clear to them yet, so they send troops and horses again and again. Spy."
Zhu Shangbing came up from behind and patted Pei Benzhi on the shoulder: "This is all obvious. What these people are doing now is a business that hangs their heads. If it weren't for General Lan's surrender, it would be terrifying..."
The rebellion has changed from a bargain to a life-and-death struggle. The rebels in the direction of Luoyang City are naturally cautious.
Even though the rebellions in Henan Province and Shandong Province are now raging, the imperial court has enough space and time to tolerate one or two failures in countering the rebellion. But the rebel thieves of the two roads cannot. As long as they lose once, they will lose completely and have nothing.
Zhu Yunxi said: "I'm sending an order that all rebels, thieves, soldiers and spies who approach Kaifeng City with the intention of spying on Kaifeng's military situation will be killed without leaving any survivors."
Several Jin Yiwei who came to report the news immediately took the order and left.
Zhu Yunxi stared silently at the wilderness outside the west wall of Kaifeng City.
He wanted to create a scene of chaos and chaos for the rebels in Henan Province in Kaifeng City. Let these rebel thieves who are still testing and unwilling to make the final desperate attempt to make up their mind to come to Kaifeng City.
Zhu Yunxi is thinking about the future of Henan Road.
Zhu Shangbing pulled Pei Benzhi out of the city gate tower: "Uncle Pei Fang, in my opinion, the Henan Dao rebels can't wait any longer. The longer the time goes by, the more prepared the court will be, and the smaller their chances will be. This In a few days, they will probably come to Kaifeng City."
Pei Benzhi nodded: "The official thinks so too, so His Highness..."
Pei Benzhi looked back carefully at Zhu Yunxi, who was standing in the city gate tower and began to discuss the reform of Henan Province with Zhu Gaochi.
Obviously, Pei Benzhi was still worried that it was too unsafe for His Highness the Emperor Taisun to leave Kaifeng City alone with only thousands of Yulin right guards hiding there.
Zhu Shangbing snorted: "You don't have to worry about Brother Xi's affairs. No one among us can persuade him to do anything he wants to do. What I want to say is about your affairs, Uncle Pei Fang..."
Zhu Shangbing looked up and down at Pei Benzhi with ambiguous eyes as he spoke.
It's like the old madam in the hook bar is sizing up the girl for sale to figure out how much the girl is worth paying and how much she can be sold for.
Pei Benzhi looked a little upset, and his perception of the Qin Crown Prince's slight change in recent days had been quietly erased.
He cupped his hands and said, "If your prince has anything to say, just tell me."
Zhu Shangbing immediately patted Pei Benzhi on the shoulder: "I know that Uncle Pei Fang is the most cheerful person. Then when the rebels from Henan Province besiege Kaifeng City, Uncle Pei Fang will definitely play a song for the rebels at the top of the city. "
"What's the song to play?"
"Play a piece of heartbreak."
…
A few more days.
The rebels, thieves, and horse spies around Kaifeng City appeared more and more frequently, and Kaifeng City also showed a state of urgency, as if it was hiding some secret for fear of being known.
Finally, when the rebels from Henan Prefecture, Runing Prefecture, Xuzhou Prefecture, Weihui Prefecture and other places began to gather, and the military reports coming towards Kaifeng Prefecture were passed into Kaifeng City one after another, everyone was finally worried. It fell down.
And the entire city of Kaifeng was running at full speed.
Those survivors who were so frightened that they did not dare to sleep completely at night used all their power. Some even demolished the unused houses at home so that the bricks, stones and wood could be sent to the city wall.
The whole city, young and old, also under the leadership of the newly appointed Third Division of Henan Province and officials from various yamen, worked together to prepare to resist the arrival of the rebels.
When officials wearing green robes, green robes, or even red robes appeared in front of the people of Kaifeng City and led them to do the same thing, the people's hearts calmed down quietly.
People think very simply.
Since the officials are all in the city and have not escaped, they naturally have nothing to fear.
To die, it was these officials who were beheaded by the rebels and thieves first.
Just like those people whose heads were beheaded in the Xicheng Supervisory School a few days ago.
…
Outside Kaifeng City, in the wilderness between Lanyang County and Chenliu County, the siltation caused by the floods had long been cleared away, and new crops were growing vigorously in the fields.
Zhu Yunxi, who was wearing an indigo suit, was held by Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing on the left and right, and was driven towards Qixian County under the protection of a group of guards in brocade clothes.
"You shouldn't have dragged me out of the city."
Zhu Yunxi was quite helpless. Although he knew that he could not really stay in Kaifeng City forever, these people would definitely try their best to create Kaifeng City for him, which would become a place of deadly battle.
But he never thought that these people would tie him up and send him out of the city before he woke up.
And he had already taken precautions, but he was still bypassed by this group of people.
Zhu Yunxi glanced at the crowd around him, but there was no sign of Yutian, so he knew that the personal guards around him and Yutian's group were probably hidden in Kaifeng City at this time, and they might have been looking for him anxiously.
Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing turned a deaf ear and just walked forward under the protection of many Jinyi guards.
Zhang Hui said solemnly from the side: "Your Highness, your subordinates are afraid that being too close to Kaifeng City may easily attract the attention of the rebels and horse spies, so the horses are placed not far in front. They are almost there. Your Highness condescends to condescend to you. Just a few more steps and you’ll be there.”
Zhu Yunxi was quite helpless. He looked behind him and could only see a 'yard with low walls'.
That is the far away city of Kaifeng.
"Let me go first!" Zhu Yunxi lowered his head, grasped his heels, and pressed down with his arms.
Except Zhu Shangbing can still cope with it and stabilize his body. The little fat boy who had never practiced before and had lost a lot of weight would have fallen to the ground if his hands were not still on Zhu Yunxi's body.
Zhu Yunxi looked at the nervousness on the faces of Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing.
He could only chuckle: "We are heading towards Qixian County."
Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing nodded repeatedly.
Zhu Yunxi then said: "The rebels in Guide Mansion have been wiped out by the Xuzhou Guards a long time ago. The Chenzhou Mansion has also been basically killed by Xiping Marquis and the Beijing army, and there are some leftovers. They all go through Cuiqiao Town, Tongxu County, and go straight to Kaifeng City. In both directions, there are no rebels and thieves in one direction, and we can't encounter them in the other direction. Is this the case?"
Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing still nodded.
Zhu Yunxi sighed: "Then why are you in such a hurry?"
Zhu Shangbing glanced at Zhu Gaochi opposite him, and then whispered: "Xipinghou's Chinese army will be waiting for His Highness in the direction of Qixian County."
"He just followed the military strategy well. Why did he go to Qixian County again?" Zhu Yunxi felt dizzy for a while.
According to the original plan, Mu Ying was to lead the troops to spread out in Chenzhou Mansion, and then press the rebels all the way to Kaifeng City in the north.
At this time, Xiaohan said that Muying's Chinese army was waiting for him in Qixian County, so he must have arrived in Qixian County at this time.
Zhu Shangbing hesitated for a while, and then said after a while: "The Marquis of Xiping said... He said that the pacification of Henan Road should be your credit."
Seeing that Xiaohan finally told the truth, Zhu Yunxi's eyes suddenly darkened and his face turned livid.
Unprecedented.
For the first time, Zhu Yunxi burst into anger in front of Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing.
He snorted coldly on the spot, with a gloomy look in his eyes: "You are kidding!"
Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing immediately turned around in front of Zhu Yunxi, bowed and lowered their heads.
As for Zhang Hui, Tian Mai and others, they had already knelt down with others.
Zhu Yunxi had blue veins popping up on his forehead, feeling angry and resentful.
"Where are you going to put me?"
"Kaifeng City is full of soldiers and civilians. It can be said that they all know that I am with Kaifeng!"
"But for the sake of such a small amount of credit, you have to be trapped in an unkind and treacherous group of people?"
Zhu Gaochi raised his head and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
The truth is that, but who dares to really let the grandson of the Ming Dynasty's supervising emperor live in the city of Kaifeng where there are only 5,600 Yulin guards and thousands of incompetent Yamen guards?
Zhu Yunxi let out a long sigh, really helpless: "Furthermore, just for the sake of merit, wouldn't the merit be even greater if I defended the enemy together with the Kaifeng subjects?"
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