At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, social unrest and cultural undertakings were severely damaged. Most academies were destroyed by military wars. For example, Zhuge Academy, Nanyang, Henan, was famous for its large scale and abundant learning fields in the Yuan Dynasty. However, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, "there were only ruins left in the remaining military wars" Yongcheng Qingbin Academy was originally founded by Zhang Sili, the county magistrate. "The military wars were destroyed at the end of the Zhizheng period, and the department belonged to the civil industry." Songzhou Yichuan Academy was founded at the end of the Yuan Dynasty."

Most other academies such as Yangzhai Rulin Academy, Guangshan Weishui Academy, Suiyang Yingtian Academy, etc. were also mostly destroyed at this time.

After Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang drove out Hu Jiao and established the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains, the Ming government adopted a policy of vigorously developing official education and banning cultural and educational academies in various places, which made the development of academies in the early Ming Dynasty go through a quiet stage of nearly a hundred years. At the same time, official schools have developed greatly. Confucianism was set up in all prefectures, prefectures, and counties in the province, and instructors were established, which was a "unable to those since the Tang and Song dynasties."

After Emperor Xianzong Chenghua, with the decline of official schools and the increasingly corrupt imperial examinations, academies began to rise gradually. During the Jiajing and Wanli periods, the establishment of academies in the province reached a climax, and a large number of academies were set up in various places at this time. For example, Liu Kui, the governor of Yuzhou, Kaifeng Prefecture, rebuilt and newly built five academies, including Rulin, Xixi, Baisha, Dongfeng, Xiantang, etc., between the seventh and eleventh years of Jiajing.

There is a scholar named Zhang Jian in the Rulin Academy located in the south of Kaifeng City. This person is Li Yan's best friend. Li Yan recommended this person, which shows that this person is extraordinary.

Soon, everyone found this scholar named Zhang Jian. Since it was entrusted by Li Yan, Zhang Jian climbed the city wall without saying a word.

At this time, Li Zicheng's army had approached the city. Their drilling method was slow but effective.

Kaifeng, as an important city in the Central Plains, and an ancient capital of the seven dynasties, has been relying on the canal water system hub of the Huanghuai Plain in the late Tang and Five Dynasties to become an important transportation center in the north. Because its geographical location is more convenient than that of Luoyang and Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty quickly developed into a new political center after the decline. The Northern Song Dynasty and Jin established their capital in Kaifeng, and hundreds of years of operation made the Kaifeng city walls extremely strong, solid soil and five feet thick. "The civilian army captured countless cities in Henan, but only under the Kaifeng city, it was bleeding.

If Biancheng does not defend, there will be no Henan, Henan will not be protected, and the Central Plains will not be protected. If the Central Plains are not protected, the throat of Hebei will be broken, and the general trend of the world will be very worrying and dangerous.

The meaning is that if Kaifeng loses, Henan will loses, and Henan will loses, there will be no Central Plains. If the Central Plains is lost, the throat will be broken in the entire Hebei region. If the throat is broken, the country will face destruction.

This shows the importance of Kaifeng City. "The Arrangement of the Bandits" says: "The enemy will gather the earthen bandits and the tiled pots, and a Dougu attacks Kaifeng."

At this time, Wajiu and Yidougu were leading their subordinates, screaming and digging holes under the Xicheng. They used wooden boards and other things to block the Ming army's bows and arrows. The villagers got into the hole dug under the city, and the Ming army had no choice but to do anything.

These villagers are like ants that eat little by little. After digging a hole in Kaifeng City, they can attack the city in large numbers.

Since he was a talent recommended by Li Yan, Li Hao believed in him deeply. Unexpectedly, when Zhang Jian went to the city, he remained silent.

Huang Shu, the promoter next to him, was anxious: "I said, Mr. Zhang, you are trying to find a solution. Didn't Lord Qianhu say that you are like a phoenix chick in the Three Kingdoms?"

Perhaps Li Hao was so arrogant that he boasted in front of everyone. Li Yan was Zhuge Wolong in the Three Kingdoms, and Zhang Jian was Feng Chu Pang Tong. Mr. Shui Jing Sima Hui once predicted that if one person is the one who can win the world.

This cowhide is so sarcastic. Not to mention that Li Yan is afraid that he is far inferior to Zhuge Liang. This Zhang Jian, a nameless scholar, can he have such great ability.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Jian saw the tactics of the bandits under the city, he just flicked his robe sleeves: "What's the difficulty of breaking the bandits? He made a hanging building with thick cypress boards, with a span of three to five marbles protruding outside the city wall, so that it could accommodate ten people inside. The hanging building can withstand artillery fire, and the soldiers inside can throw ignition cups or cannon stones directly downwards to attack the bandits dug at the foot of the city wall. In this way, this strategy can be broken."

Everyone looked at each other, and the inspector Gao Mingheng was stunned: "It's that simple?"

The scholars in these academies are very arrogant on weekdays. He disdained to answer the question from an eight-department patrolman. However, at this time, there was no need to be angry with the arrogant scholar. The promoter Huang Shu thought this plan was feasible, so he followed and said, "Mr. Gao, I have a great plan. Without further ado, let's make it."

Almost all the carpenters in Kaifeng City were collected. According to the method of scholar Zhang Jian, the craftsmen successfully made fifty hanging buildings overnight and arranged them on the city wall.

Originally, at every distance of the city wall, a rectangular enemy "horse face" protruded outward from the city wall. This design is to attack the enemy attacking the city from the side, thereby eliminating the blind spots of defense.

Kaifeng City does not have such a horse face. I think the person who designed the city wall to build it was really damn. Fortunately, everyone followed Zhang Jian's method and made hanging buildings one by one.

The Ming army's counterattack began.

King Zhu Gongzi of Zhou also understood the principle of "whether there is a complete egg under the collapse of the nest", and took out 520,000 taels of silver at one time to reward the soldiers guarding the city, and encouraged the people of Kaifeng City to "if any people who can kill thieves at the first level will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, those who can shoot and kill one thief will be rewarded with thiefs, and those who can shoot and injure a thief or attack bricks and stones will be rewarded with 10 taels."

For a time, the officers and soldiers guarding Kaifeng City and the people all participated in the battle enthusiastically, holding crossbows and scrambling to the forefront.

Some people took out the gunpowder stored in their homes and put it in a clay pot with fuses left on it. They held it up to the hanging building on the city wall, and others ignited the fuses, and threw the entire clay pot into the bandits who were digging under the corner of the wall. Others used homemade crossbows and even bricks and stones to throw them down the hanging building.

Finally, the bandits who dug the city walls under Kaifeng were beaten and ran away with ghosts and wolves howling. Some people threw down some straw or even cotton under the city, poured the strong liquor stored at home, and threw the torch down. In a moment, there was a sea of ​​fire under the city. The technology of distilled liquor brewing in the Ming Dynasty was mature, and the consumption of distilled liquor was popular. Distilled liquor was called "sauce" or "fire liquor". Highly strong liquor burned violently when encountering fire.

The thief Li Zicheng saw that it was not good. He was afraid that Kaifeng City could not be captured. It was not only because of the Ming army's tactics of hanging towers to break the enemy, but because the entire Kaifeng City had already been soldiers.

What’s important is that Sun Chuanting’s reinforcements don’t know when they will arrive. He is already unfavorable to attack the city, and once they are bitten by the reinforcements of the Ming army, the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

If he couldn't beat him, he would run away. It was Li Zicheng's specialty. So he took his subordinates to retreat. The remaining mobs saw that the King of Breaking had escaped. They were originally a mob, and they immediately scattered birds and beasts.
Chapter completed!