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Chapter 492 Hurry up!Kaifeng is in danger!
Hurry up hurry up!Kaifeng is in danger!
The high-spirited Chuangjun under the city of Luoyang was rushing towards Kaifeng from six hundred miles away, like a tsunami, but at this time, Kaifeng was like an empty city without defenders.

In Kaifeng City, there were originally several official troops, namely the Xiebiao Battalion led by the deputy general Chen Yongfu, and the Guerrilla Battalion led by the guerrilla generals Gao Qian and Zhang Dechang.

But the situation in Luoyang was critical a while ago, and they had already rushed to help Luoyang under the leadership of Henan governor Li Xianfeng. In short, there were no officers and troops in Kaifeng at this time.

Chuang Wang Li Zicheng had the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to attack Kaifeng. After he learned that Kaifeng was an empty city, he was even more excited and firmly believed that the opportunity must not be missed.

On December 13, 21th year of Chongzhen, the main force of nearly [-] thieves set off from Luoyang, marched hurriedly for three days and nights without rest, and went straight to Kaifeng Fucheng.

It's really impatient, the soldiers are so fast!
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In Kaifeng, a famous ancient city, when Li Zicheng led bandits to besiege Luoyang, except for the governors, generals and other officials in the city who were responsible for their responsibilities, they were in panic all day long and were devastated.

The other officials, gentry, merchants, and common people in the city just used it as a topic of conversation. No one thought that Luoyang City would be so easily breached by the bandits.

But now it has just passed the new year, as the old saying goes, "After the young year is the new year".

The city of Kaifeng is filled with festive New Year's Eve. The street market is full of colorful lights and people come and go. Everyone is preparing all kinds of items needed for the New Year's Eve just like in previous years.

To say that it is a little out of harmony with this festive atmosphere is the daily stream of refugees pouring into the city of Kaifeng.

Since the time when thieves invaded the west of Henan, the wealthy and powerful surnames, "clothed clans", and those gentry and landlords around Kaifeng Mansion have moved to the city to seek refuge. Most households also avoided Kaifeng.

Now it is the poor people in the surrounding villages and towns who push their carts and donkeys to Kaifeng Fucheng. There are groups of them with large and small parcels. Many people even rush to the gates of various cities at night to wait for dawn.

Just like in the second year of the Tianli Dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, and the hungry people ate each other. When Zhang Yanghao, the prime minister of Taichung, Shaanxi, went to relieve the disaster, he passed Tongguan. "As described in:

"The peaks and ridges are like clusters, and the waves are like anger. The mountains and rivers are outside and inside Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, I hesitate. Sadly, where the Qin and Han Dynasties traveled, thousands of palaces and palaces have been turned into dirt.

Xing, the people suffer!Death, the people suffer! "

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For the safety of Kaifeng, although the original officers and soldiers were taken away by the governor Li Xianfeng to rescue Luoyang, there are still a few officers and soldiers directly under the various government offices in Kaifeng City.

Although they are not as capable as the officers and soldiers of Xiebiao Battalion and Youbing Battalion, they are also much stronger than ordinary people. In addition, there are hundreds of guards at the gates of each city. This is the only military force in Kaifeng. .

However, Gao Mingheng, the inspector of Henan Province, was much more shrewd than the governor Li Xianfeng. He knew the importance of guarding the feudal clan in Kaifeng City, and he was also a person who dared to do things.

Since Li Xianfeng led Chen Yongfu and other generals to assist Luoyang, he has been working with Henan Zuo Buzheng Guan Shoudao Shi Liang Bing, Right Buzheng Cai Maode, Kaifeng Fu Tuiguan Huang Shu, Guan He Tongzhi Sang Kaidi, Kaifeng, etc. every day. Wu Shijiao, the prefect of the prefecture, Su Zhuang, the shoudao, and Wang Xie, the magistrate of Xiangfu County, and other officials discussed the strategy of city defense.

Finally, it was agreed that although there were not enough officers and troops in the city, the Minzhuang Association could be organized to defend the city. Now there are 10 people in the city of Kaifeng, and there are many wealthy households and gentry.

After the agreement was reached, Wang Xie, magistrate of Xiangfu County, came forward and invited the prestigious officials, squires and wealthy families in Jiji City to hold a meeting. There was a king's order from the King of Zhou, and there was a precedent of looters raiding Luoyang outside. Naturally, everyone responded positively.

Finally, a plan was determined to urgently organize the people to participate in the city defense.

There are 84 folk squares in Kaifeng city, and each square is a commune, and each commune has [-] soldiers and strong people.

The principle of dispatching troops is that all of them will be borne by the wealthy households in the market. The richer and richer the family, the more social soldiers will be dispatched. Those with family assets of one or two thousand taels must send one social soldier, or two families can join together. One, and those with family assets of more than 2000 will have to send out two to three social soldiers, and so on.

According to statistics, there are 84 workshops in Kaifeng City, and a total of more than [-] people can be sent out from the society. Then each society will elect a president and a vice president to lead the society soldiers of the society.

In this way, the soldiers of all 84 societies will be assigned according to the five city gates, and designated to be responsible for the defense. If the intruders really come to attack Kaifeng, they will deal with it according to this agreement.

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The sky was not bright yet, and there was just a gleam of light on the eastern horizon, and then wisps of faint red clouds gradually emerged.

The fires outside the gates of Kaifeng City are still shining with unburned red light. Many poor people have survived the cold winter night, just to enter the city early in Kaifeng for safety.

The sky gradually brightened, and thousands of bright clouds burst out from the eastern sky, illuminating half of the sky red.

The west gate of Kaifeng was also slowly opened, and the veterans guarding the gate led a team of social soldiers to check the people who lined up to enter the city. These shabby-clothed refugees formed a sharp contrast with the colorful lights hanging high in the city.

And none of the people thought that Kaifeng City's new year was destined to be spent in a thrilling war.

And in the near future, there will be a brutal offensive and defensive battle. It is unknown whether Kaifeng will eventually be destroyed as it was in history, and hundreds of thousands of lives will be ruined!
Perhaps because of the appearance of Zhang Cheng, history will not repeat itself again.

But who can be sure?
When the sky is over, the sun is not as dazzling as it used to be, but the place where the sun shines still makes people feel warm.

A group of about [-] officers and cavalry rushed forward on horseback. They bypassed a small earthen city in the west of Kaifeng City, and hurried straight to Xiguan.

The common people fleeing along the way saw them and they all turned aside early, giving way to the entire Zhongmou Avenue, and the social soldiers guarding the Ximen tower also saw the officer army from a distance, and he shouted: "Reinforcement troops, Reinforcements are coming!"

The team of officer cavalry rode their horses into the West Pass in a hurry, and could not go any further. At this time, the road was already crowded with refugees who were about to enter the city, and it was very crowded.

Even if those refugees wanted to avoid the menacing cavalry of the officers and soldiers, they had nowhere to hide, and all of them crowded the streets in Xiguan for a while.

The defenders and social soldiers in front of the west gate, who were inspecting the civilian refugees entering the city, also got the news from the tower. Everyone thought it was the generals who had rushed to Luoyang to help Kaifeng before, and they were very happy.

While hurriedly yelling at the people entering the city to move aside, they vacated a passage for the cavalry to enter the city, and at the same time sent people to ride horses to report the good news to the officials in the city.

(End of this chapter)