Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 199 Kaifeng of the Beilu Smoke and Dust Cage

Zhu Youjian looked up at Xia Wanchun and smiled slightly: "What's the matter with you?"

"Wei Chen requests to join the battle!" Xia Wanchun said childishly.

"Father and son soldiers, yes, go! But pay attention to safety, don't let Xu Zhaohua become a widow before he is married!"

When Zhu Youjian said this with a smile, Shi Kefa and other officials present couldn't help but smile, not only because of Xia Wanchun and Xu Zhaohua's incident, but also because His Majesty Zhu Youjian was still thinking about making such jokes at this time.

Xia Wanchun couldn't help blushing: "Yes!" But he still ran away from the governor's office.

Here, Zhu Youjian pulled his face suddenly: "What are you laughing at! They are all important officials in the court, and they have no self-cultivation at all. Now I have to be calm and steady. When I go out, I can let the officials and people of Kaifeng City You can see faith in us, do you understand?”

"Follow Your Majesty's order!"

The ministers couldn't help replying, but at this moment, Gao Hongtu stood up: "Your Majesty, I have an unfeeling request. Can you please allow your majesty to wear your majesty's dragon robe and crown belt for a day. The officials and people in Kaifeng only need to know that your majesty is here. That's it, I don't need to know who it is, but the ministers can't let His Majesty really take risks, so I dare to ask Your Majesty to allow the ministers to presume for a while."

The other officials couldn't help being surprised when they heard this. It is indeed a good way to wear the clothes of the emperor Zhu Youjian to avoid injuring the real majesty, and at the same time to ensure that the emperor Zhu Youjian is still in the city. This is indeed an act of arrogance, a felony of decapitation. Gao Hongtu can make such a request at this time, which is not untouchable.

"It's rare for Aiqing to have such a heart. I promise you. In the past, Jie Zitui cut off his shares to serve the king. Today, Gao Aiqing changed his robe to protect me. , if both you and I return to Beijing safely, we will definitely repay Aiqing someday!"

After Zhu Youjian said that, he decisively began to change his robes. Zhu Youjian came out wearing a python robe for a while, and waited for Gao Hongtu outside the door for a while. The special case draws a sword to guard the left and right, and the rest of Jin Yiwei guards the surroundings lightly and secretly.

Around the end of the afternoon, smoke and dust billowed in from the northwest, and Zhu Youjian and his party also went up to the tower. At this time, the officers and soldiers on and off the tower began to kneel down, shouting long live.While Zhu Youjian was dictating, Gao Hongtu shouted some encouraging words to the officials and people present.

After another quarter of an hour, the officials and the people began to concentrate on preparing for the war, and Zhu Youjian was also relieved. The people in Kaifeng in the city were much more experienced than he imagined, and they didn't get involved in the secret work of building slaves. A sneak attack appears.

Zhu Youjian looked outside the city. Sure enough, dozens of cavalry had appeared outside the outer city wall.

Across the moat, Zhu Youjian looked at these cavalrymen from a distance, all of whom were dark-skinned like Kunlun slaves, with tufts of hair hanging from their heads, braided into braids, slightly curled, each with high cheekbones, and mouths as thin as silk threads. The broad shoulders and tall torso really put a lot of pressure on people.

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but looked back at his side. Countless officials and people were all yellow and thin, and some of them trembled slightly. The knives and guns in their hands were tightly squeezed, so he couldn't help smiling, thinking that maybe at this moment, he could be here , dare to look at the Tartars is considered very brave.

Xia Yunyi led the [-] officers and soldiers of his battalion to the city wall. They put the Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns on the battlements one by one with serious expressions, and began to bite through the paper shell bullets, filling them with grains of gunpowder one by one. The gun barrel, and then squeezed the trigger with the index finger, only waiting for the tartar to approach Xia Yunyi and pull the trigger to fire.

At the same time, these officers and soldiers also began to neatly stack the grenade-like weapons made by the ordnance on the towers. Although this kind of thunderbolt does not have modern thunder mercury as the detonating material, it has improved the proportion of gunpowder and the flowering effect. Based on the principle of bomb manufacturing, the explosion effect is more destructive than the various explosive weapons before Ming Dynasty.

The battalion led by Xia Yunyi of the Second Guards Army has never participated in actual combat, and has always been responsible for the important task of defending Gyeonggi. Even the training is near Gyeonggi, but because Zhu Youjian often comes to the battalion to inspect The intensity is relatively high. When encountering such a battle, especially a defensive war, they start to make various preparations in an orderly manner.

Zhu Youjian was very relieved to see this, and the officers and soldiers of Kaifeng City also gained some confidence because of this, and even Lu Daqi, Governor of Henan Province, frowned.

At this time, more and more Tartars gathered outside, and many of them were whistling, drawing bows and arrows from time to time, and even pulling out one or two captive civilians to hack and kill a few times, in order to frighten the guards. The officials and citizens of the city.But all of them are very cunning, just refuse to get closer, and look back from time to time, waiting for the main force to arrive.

"Many of them are armored soldiers of the Eight Banners. They are all old tartars who have killed countless compatriots in Ming Dynasty since ten years ago. Let them all aim at the point and kill one to earn one!"

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly as he spoke, and continued to look at more and more Tartars outside the city, and finally saw Duduo's Chinese army appearing in sight, Zhu Youjian couldn't help ordering people to take the list of Westerners He handed him the binoculars, and then began to watch Duduo and the others carefully.

However, Zhu Youjian found that Duduo was not as handsome as the actors in the palace dramas of the Qing Dynasty. Instead, he had a face full of flesh and a body like a basketball. The Money Rat Tail seemed even more like an uncivilized savage.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian also saw two fair-skinned people following Duoduo. Their faces were slightly different from those of the Jiannu Tartars, but they were also wearing the clothes of the Jiannu king. Zhu Youjian thought that this might be the Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde are two big men who are 0 traitors.

At this time outside the city of Kaifeng, there are already bursts of drumming, the sound of stringing strings one after another, war horses galloping back and forth, rolling up smoke and dust in the sky, and the sound of scratching wood can be heard everywhere, and ladders, giant trees, trebuchets, etc. began to be heard one after another. Appeared, and even a cannon in red, still wrapped in a raincloth.

"That guy Zhang Keliang, he really turned against the enemy!"

At this time, Lu Daqi also saw Zhang Keliang, the guard of Hulao Gate who surrendered to the Qing army.

"As the commander of the city defense, you must not be so emotional. Although Zhang Keliang surrendered to the enemy, he did his best. It is understandable. After all, he has defended the city for you for half a month. No, he only has 300 people left now, which is considered to be the best of humanity. Of course, surrender is not tolerated, and it is also the military discipline that must be abided by! Keep the city alive and don't worry about him. At this moment, your enemy is the commander of the Qing army, Duoduo!"

After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he led a group of people down the city wall. At this time, the roar of artillery shells began to come from outside the city, and one even landed directly on the battlement that Gao Hongtu had just left, directly knocking the battlement into pieces. The big piece collapsed, and there was a rumbling sound!
(End of this chapter)