Chen Yongfu walked out and saluted the King of Zhou: "Your Majesty, the last general found out that yesterday, Wuweibo fought with the thieves' army and killed more than 10,000 enemies and captured 30,000 prisoners!"

"Wuweibo has only more than 20,000 people. It is really inspiring to be able to win such a great victory in the face of a million bandits!" King Zhu Gongyi of Zhou exclaimed.

Chen Yongfu said: "In fact, Wu Weibo is also good at using troops and trespasses to lure the enemy. Not only did Wu Weibo not be deceived, he used fire attack to cut off the front and back contact of the bandit army, and then ate the bait of the bandit army, but he escaped unscathed."

"Wuwei Bo is really the best general of my Ming Dynasty!" King Zhou sighed.

Gao Mingheng said: "Prince, the emperor is willing to go to Wuweibo's camp and persuade Wuweibo to agree to the plan to attack the water."

"The last general is willing to accompany Gao Futai to go there." Chen Yongfu said.

"Okay, you two will go there. It's best to invite Wu Wei Bo to the royal palace. I want to have a good talk with him." King Zhu Gongzi of Zhou nodded.

On the afternoon of that day, Henan Governor Gao Mingheng and Kaifeng General Chen Yongfu, surrounded by a group of guards, came outside the camp of Li Guodong in the north of the city.

Li Guodong was sitting in the central army's tent, studying the plan to break the thief. Someone ran in and reported: "Brother, the governor of Henan and the general of Kaifeng are here."

"Let them come in!" Li Guodong stood up, put on a phoenix-winged helmet, put on a crimson python robe, tied a jade belt, and walked out of the Central Army camp to welcome Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu.

"The lower official (the last general) has met Master!" Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu saluted Li Guodong.

Although Li Guodong was a military general, there was a superb Lord Wuweibo. Even if a local official who was a governor had to salute him. Li Guodong returned the ceremony and invited the two of them into the central army's tent.

When he walked into the central army's tent, Gao Mingheng bowed to Li Guodong and said, "My uncle is stationed in Kaifeng to defend the people of all places from being attacked by thieves. The subordinates thanked Mr. Bo for the people of Kaifeng."

"Did you come to Benbo's camp for the sake of breaking a thief?" Li Guodong asked.

Gao Mingheng said: "My uncle is indeed very clear! The thief army invaded our Kaifeng Mansion for the second time. I heard that the thief was powerful and more than one million people came. Kaifeng City was in danger!"

"Brother Ben just fought with the thief army yesterday, killing more than 10,000 enemies and capturing more than 30,000 enemies," Li Guodong laughed with his beard, "Why are the thieves afraid of?"

"Have you actually fought with the thief army?" Gao Mingheng asked in surprise as if he didn't know, "He actually killed more than 10,000 enemies and captured more than 30,000 people?"

"Yes!" Li Guodong nodded, "The thief army wanted to set a trap for Ben Bo, using 30,000 refugees and hundreds of cavalry as bait, and wanted to trick Ben Bo into the ambush circle. As a result, Ben Bo gave him a trick! He couldn't help his bait and ambush, and then caught him off guard!"

"This is serious?" Gao Mingheng continued his performance.

Chen Yongfu also cooperated and said: "Gao Futai, I will know about this matter, but I just failed to report it in time."

Li Guodong laughed: "Don't worry, two of you. If the thief army arrives, as long as the Kaifeng city can hold on for three days, I will naturally find a way to defeat the thief."

"I wonder what good strategies are there to defeat the enemy?" Gao Mingheng asked.

"Our army has won the first battle. As long as you keep it for three days, the bandits will be defeated. When our army breaks out, the bandits will inevitably retreat."

Chen Yongfu said: "There are a million thieves, and Wuweibo, you only have more than 20,000 people. How can you win?"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Although the number of thieves is large, most of them are hungry people without combat effectiveness. Moreover, their elite soldiers in the old camp were defeated by our army once and killed nearly 10,000. The old soldiers of the thieves were only 40,000 to 50,000, and they were not opponents of our army! Although our army only had more than 20,000 people, they were elite troops of a hundred battles. Everyone was an elite veteran. How would the thieves defeat me?"

Gao Mingheng said: "Mr. I actually have a quick victory strategy. I wonder if I want to hear it?"

"I don't know what good ideas Gao Futai has? Let's listen."

"Isn't my uncle stationed on the Yellow River embankment, but to prevent the thief army from breaking the dike and flooding Kaifeng, right?"

"That's right, otherwise the thief army will flood the city, causing disaster to the lives of the people."

Gao Mingheng nodded and said, "Mr., we can actually let the thief army flood."

"The water level of the Yellow River is even higher than that of Kaifeng City Wall. Once the water is released and the thief army is flooded, will Kaifeng City be affected?" Li Guodong shook his head.

"As long as you control the water level and have a city wall in Kaifeng blocking the flood, we block the city gate again, so that the flood cannot enter through the city gate. This will flood the thief army without harming the military and civilians in Kaifeng City." Gao Mingheng replied.

"If the Yellow River embankment is opened, what should the people east of Kaifeng do? When the flood comes, not only will there be a marsh country around Kaifeng, but the flood can even rush to Xuzhou and Jianghuai. The consequences are unimaginable. My uncle will not agree to flood the thief army! If Gao Futai is worried that he will not be able to defend Kaifeng, my uncle can send 10,000 infantry into the city to assist Chen Junmen in defending the city together." Li Guodong firmly disagrees with digging the river embankment and letting the water flood the rebel army.

"If you can send someone to help defend the city, then the official will be relieved." Gao Mingheng bowed with fists.

According to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, locals originally did not welcome the guest troops into the city, because after the guest troops entered the city, they would most likely harm the people without any scruples. However, Gao Mingheng knew that the Jinyang army had strict military discipline and never harmed the people, so he agreed readily and asked the Jinyang army to enter the city to assist in the defense.

Li Guodong shouted: "It's said that He Xing made an inquest!"

Not long after, He Xing came. Li Guodong ordered him: "General He, lead 10,000 infantry, bring enough ammunition, follow Gao Futai and General Chen into the city, and help them defend Kaifeng! Pay attention to our firework signal. When you see the green fireworks, you will not be able to hold on. When I send out three red fireworks, you will go out of the city to fight back!"

"No!" He Xing retreated.

After He Xing brought more than 10,000 infantry and left with Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu, Han Dashan came up and asked, "Lord, we have only 15,000 infantry in total, and 10,000 people have been sent, and we are only 5,000 infantry left. How to defeat the thief? Can't we just guard it?"

"I have already sent a letter to Wang Quanfeige, and asked him to quickly dispatch 10,000 Huai troops to help us."

That night, Li Guodong entered Kaifeng City and met with King Zhou. He comforted Zhu Gongye and said that with his Jinyang army there, the bandit army could not be besieged Kaifeng. Ten thousand elite infantry were transferred to Kaifeng City. As long as the city had enough food, it would be no problem to guard it for the previous year.

As for the rebel army that really wanted to siege Kaifeng for one year, the number of rebel soldiers was large and they could not consume the food in the city, so the rebel army could not siege Kaifeng, and they would only launch ant-attachment siege based on the advantage of the number of people. There were 10,000 elite infantry to help defend the city, and the rebel army would not have to say one million, and it would not be possible to break Kaifeng by two million.

The next morning, the rebel army arrived outside Kaifeng City. This time, the rebel army came with an army of more than 1.3 million people. On the west side of Kaifeng City, a large area spread to the sky appeared. The black area was filled with people, which was a huge momentum.

He Xing's 10,000 infantry soldiers were all elite veterans who fought with the Qing army in Julu. Among them, five thousand firearms, whether they were bird guns or turtledove-footed guns, were equipped with bayonets. The other five thousand were hand-to-hand combat soldiers, two thousand knife players, and three thousand spearmen. All of these ten thousand elite soldiers were wearing thick armor and had extremely strong combat power.

The military and civilians in the city were also highly morale. King Zhu Gongye of Zhou, like when he was guarding Kaifeng last time, gave a generous reward, shooting at the top of the city, or throwing stones to defend the city weapons to kill one enemy, and rewarding two taels of silver; killing one enemy, and rewarding thirty taels of silver. With a generous reward, many soldiers and civilians and refugees rushed to the city to guard, and the morale in Kaifeng was high.
Chapter completed!