Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Besides, as long as we have time, we will build more, and build a few on each mountain..."

Yao Cheng was overjoyed, and the more he thought about it, the more delighted he became:

"I see that your Majesty's fortress is designed to be extremely thick, and the entrance and exit gates must first pass through a tunnel before entering.

In this way, unless the Hongyi cannon bombards it, it is absolutely impossible to attack this fortress.

At that time, if the enemy continues to march regardless of the fortress, the soldiers in the fortress will have a living target to practice their guns on.

If the enemy spends a lot of time, the gain outweighs the loss! "

Yao Cheng waved his hand, as if he saw the enemy eating it tastelessly and abandoning it:

"We just need to build more fortresses, just like the tactics of a pack of wolves, tearing off the enemy's flesh and blood bit by bit.

By then, the thirty-mile-long fortress complex, hehehe..."

"Even an army of one million people will have to peel off a few layers of his skin!"

"wonderful!"

"Fantastic!"

Yao Cheng and Zhu Youjian looked at each other and smiled.

This thing is a perfect match placed on a pass that is mountainous but can pass large armies!

If you don't destroy it, the fortresses all set up along the main traffic roads will continue to kill you.

If you fight...

In the absence of explosives, apart from the Hongyi cannon, what other thing can chew through this guy's fifty-centimeter-thick stone wall?

Expecting to score?

The 'U-shaped' corridor is underground, and the door is in front of the shooting hole. How many people are going to die?

Besides, if there were too many dead, the entrance to the passage would be blocked!

If the enemy wants to continue attacking, they must first clean up the corpses...

The two laughed.

Wonderful!

The bunker is a magical tool in the pass where stones are everywhere!

……

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng conquered Kaifeng and dug up the Yellow River.

Huang Shu, who was the official of Kaifeng Prefecture at the time, also chose to dig up the Yellow River in order to destroy the rebel army...

(Huang Shu, a Huizhou native. One of the most famous things about this person is that the King of Zhou in Kaifeng spent all his family wealth and rewarded the army with 100 million silver, so he defended Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province, twice. After Chongzhen knew about it, he ordered Thirty thousand gold coins were allocated to reward the king of Zhou.

Huang Shu was the handler. He directly embezzled twenty-seven thousand gold from Mo and only gave three thousand gold to the king of Zhou.

If it is less than [-]% floating, it will be very punishing! ( ??? ? ??? )

After obtaining this gold and silver, Huang Shu sent people to operate in the capital, and successfully defended Kaifeng and was promoted to Henan Inspector.

When General Bu Congshan rescued the King of Zhou, the two sides confronted each other and learned that Huang Shu had embezzled twenty-seven thousand gold. He and the prefect Wen Yunheng reported the matter.

However, the Huizhou gentry was too powerful, so Huang Shu was only transferred to the Sichuan Road Supervisory Censor to patrol Huguang, and the military governor Zuo Liangyu took care of the problem...

The embezzlement of internal funds and rewards will be ignored!

Later, Huang Shu encouraged Zuo Liangyu to launch an army east to attack Ma Shiying. Zuo Liangyu died, and Huang Shu persuaded Zuo Mengeng to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Finally, when Jin Sheng was guarding Huizhou, his fellow countryman Huang Shu, who believed in him, accepted him again.

Unexpectedly, Huang Shu directly killed Jin Sheng and dedicated Huizhou to the Qing Dynasty.

For the benefit of the Hui people and gentry, Jin Sheng relieved the Hui people and gentry from the responsibility of killing the imperial soldiers and horses.

But he didn't want to end up being stabbed to death by the Hui gentleman he was guarding.

Later, there was a saying: Fellow fellow, fellow fellow, a shot in the back...)

……

The Yellow River is an above-ground river, and the river bed is higher than Kaifeng Mansion!

Two breaches were dug in the river embankment at the same time, and the embankment burst immediately!

Kaifeng, a thousand-year-old city, was destroyed in one fell swoop...

At this time, heavy rains continued in Henan and Shaanxi, and the water volume of the Yellow River surged.

The flood after the embankment burst reached the border of Runing Prefecture (Xinyang) in the southernmost part of Henan.

The already dilapidated people are even more displaced...

After this incident, the government in Henan no longer had the power to fight back...

……

War has always been about who makes fewer mistakes!

The Ming army in Henan was in dire straits of food and supplies, and was left with only a handful of survivors. As one thing went down and the other increased, the Chuang army became even more powerful.

After the Third Battle of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng attacked the city and conquered the territory, and he was invincible!

Officials in Henan fled one after another!

Just before this year, Su Jing, the new governor of Henan, was kidnapped by Chen Yongfu's son and captured by the insurgent army.

Ren Jun (jun), who succeeded Su Jing, was unable to rush to Kaifeng to take office because of the invasion troops all over Henan and Kaifeng being destroyed.

After the Yellow River burst its banks, floods raged and Henan became a land of marshes.

Ren Jun was also unable to uniformly command the various Ming armies.

It became even more difficult to resist the invading army...

In February, an insurgent army under Li Zicheng captured Ren Jun alive in the battle of Nanguan.

The remaining Ming troops in Henan had completely lost their command and had to fight on their own.

After that, the Chuang army cut off the connection between Henan and the capital...

Therefore, in the Jiashen year, before Chongzhen committed suicide, all of Henan had been completely cut off from the imperial center...

It is precisely because of this that although Zhu Youjian flew out of Li Zicheng's encirclement, it has already spread all over the world——

However, except for some border areas, most of the remaining places in Henan have no idea about this...

They didn't even know anything about the Jiangnan gentry who publicly sacrificed Zhu Youjian and made Zhu Yousong the emperor!

Among them, Chen Qianfu was included.

Now, the highest official in Henan who still insists on serving the country is Chen Qianfu, the recommended official of Kaifeng Prefecture. (Equivalent to the President of the Provincial Court)

Henan was in ruins, and Chen Qianfu had no choice but to sneak into Xiping County on the east side of Tongbai Mountain.

He's looking for help!

The man Chen Qianfu is looking for is named Liu Hongqi.

He was originally just a private salt dealer, but now he has become the uncrowned king of Runing Mansion.

He has thousands of elite soldiers and even nearly two thousand cavalry.

More importantly, because Liu Hongqi had sold private salt before and had close contacts with the government, he still had a heart for the imperial court.

Chen Qianfu wants to persuade him to follow him to defend the country!

……

During the late Ming Dynasty, due to rogue bandits everywhere, social conflicts in the north increased sharply, thus giving rise to an ancient but unnoticed thing - villages!

Or Baowu!

This is a topic that few people have explored, and it is also an area that is so complicated that it is difficult to describe it in words.

The world is in chaos, with bandits, bandits, and defeated armies... running rampant in the countryside.

The villages that did not form strongholds to protect themselves all suffered hardships and even turned into piles of ashes!

No bones left!

In order to protect myself...

Under the auspices of local wealthy households and squires, camps were built one after another to spontaneously protect the people in the village.

Within a thousand miles up and down the south bank of the Yellow River, there are no fewer than hundreds of Tuzhai camps.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Where there are rivers and lakes, there will be fighting and killing!

Especially when order is lost.

In human society, even the worst order is much better than no order!

The power of the imperial court and the Chuang army were unable to take care of the swampy Henan. These Baowu forces, who had only been protecting themselves before, suddenly began to attack each other!