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Chapter 542
Bandit Ren Rongguang led a cavalry team of [-] horses and was [-] steps away from the west gate of Chuangwang camp when he saw a group of hundreds of cavalry galloping out of Chuangwang camp and heading east.

They were all dressed up as officers and soldiers holding sticks with open flames, and there were about seven or eight hundred cavalry officers running towards Kaifeng Xiguan in a loose formation.

Ren Rongguang hurriedly commanded the cavalry to chase after him, and when he was approaching the west gate of the camp, he met Liu Tichun who was chasing him out on horseback. Ren Rongguang hurriedly asked loudly: "General Liu, how is King Chuang?"

"Chuangwang is fine, hurry up and chase that old thief Chen Yongfu..."

When Ren Rongguang heard that King Chuang was safe, he felt a surge of joy in his heart. He yelled and directed the horse team to turn to the east to chase.

Liu Tichun rode his horse and galloped in with him, and said loudly: "General Mingyuan is blocking in front, but the cavalry of the officers and soldiers are fierce, and Liu Fangliang's place is full of infantry, I don't know if we can stop him."

Ren Rongguang also said: "Uncle Er Hu, take a break, and I will lead the horse team to help."

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Liu Zongmin ordered Li You, Zhang Li and Tong Shoushan to lead a cavalry team of more than [-] riders to pursue in the direction of the west gate of Kaifeng, while he rode his horse straight to King Chuang's central army tent.

I saw Chuang Wang Li Zicheng lying on his back on the couch in the inner tent, his left chest was blood red, and a light arrow was stuck in the left eye socket, and the arrow feather was still trembling slightly.

Niu Jinxing looked anxious, not knowing what to do, he just said: "Why hasn't the old god come yet?"

Song Xiance looked at Li Yan next to him, and saw that he was as anxious as himself, but he knew that no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't help.

At this moment, an old man with white beard and hair hurried into the tent, and the chief sentry Liu Zongmin came in with him. Everyone in the tent seemed to respect this old man, so Niu Jinxing said hurriedly: " Shang Ziming, you are here!"

Liu Zongmin rushed to the couch, looked back at Shang Ziming and said, "Old Immortal, do you think there is any help?"

Shang Ziming carefully inspected King Chuang's arrow wound, and then said: "No serious problem, life is safe, but I don't know if this eye can be saved."

Li Zicheng had been enduring the pain, and then he said: "Don't be afraid, one eye can still take down Kaifeng City and the Ming Dynasty!"

Shang Ziming said with great concern: "King Chuang, you endure a little pain, and I will help you deal with it."

"Okay, I can bear it, let's do it."

Then Shang Ziming said to everyone: "Master Liu, gentlemen, please leave the inner tent first. I want to pull out the arrows for King Chuang, and don't let anyone come in to disturb him."

Liu Zongmin asked: "Old Immortal, do you need to prepare anything else?"

"Yeah. Just ask the boys outside to come in and help, just prepare some hot water to boil."

Everyone retreated to the large tent outside as promised, the charcoal stove set up here was boiling hot water, and several disciples of Shang Ziming had entered the inner tent to help.

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According to the original history, Chuang Wang Li Zicheng was about to withdraw from the siege after Chen Yongfu returned to aid Kaifeng and entered the city.

His eye was injured by random arrows shot from the city, and he has since become the "One-eyed Chuangwang". Although his left eye was not completely blinded by the shot, the vision of this eye has obviously declined a lot since then. One-eyed is no different.

Ancient China has always paid attention to the appearance of the king. There has never been a blind emperor who can sit firmly in the Dragon Court. Perhaps this arrow in history changed Li Zicheng's imperial fortune. He was eager for success and failed to attack Kaifeng. On the contrary, it ruined his luck.

But how to say these things clearly, the fate of the country is the same, so is the fate of the individual, maybe there is a definite number in the dark, maybe Li Zicheng is destined to make wedding dresses for others, and this arrow has nothing to do with it.

But this time because of Zhang Cheng's accidental intrusion, it is hard to say whether Li Zicheng's wedding dress was made for Dongnu Huang Taiji and Dorgon, or for Zhang Cheng. There must be variables in it.

In fact, which arrow in Kaifeng City hit Li Zicheng, it was difficult to tell clearly under the chaos. Afterwards, Chen Yongfu insisted that it was his son Chen De, the chief executive of Qian, who shot it.

He is the deputy commander in chief of Henan, so naturally no one would argue with him about this matter, and all the people who shot arrows together at that time also received silver rewards, naturally this military merit will not be contested with Chen Delai again.

In the end, Chen De was promoted to the rank of guerrilla general because of this arrow.

But this time, Zhang Cheng's unexpected arrival may have caused some unexpected chain reactions. Li Zicheng suffered a much greater loss under the city of Kaifeng than in the real history.

And this arrow was shot ahead of time when Chen Yongfu attacked the camp at night, there was no dispute under the eyes of everyone, it was Chen De who shot the Chuang Wang Li Zicheng blind.

This is the way of heaven, Li Zicheng's fate of blindness is doomed after all, even Zhang Cheng can't change it!
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Kaifeng Xiguan, Chen Yongfu didn't know until now that the west gate had been sealed by the soldiers and civilians in the city. He led thousands of riders under his command to rob two camps, and just after a bloody battle, he broke through the bandits and rushed Liu Fangliang's interception into Xiguan.

However, he was told by the defenders on the city to go to the north gate to enter the city, but outside Xiguan was surrounded by bandits, Liu Fangliang's camp was not disturbed, and his army was intact.

At this time, he also learned from Ren Rongguang who was rushing over that the official army in Xiguan shot and wounded King Chuang.

This made him very angry, and commanded three thousand thieves to surround Xiguan, and more than two thousand cavalry, including Ren Rongguang, Li You, Zhang Li, Tong Shoushan, galloped around the periphery.

After Chen Yongfu led the battle, the exhausted army would definitely not be able to break out from here. He stood on a roof and observed the surrounding situation with the help of the faint light of the rising sun.

If there were bandit infantry outside, even if there were three or five thousand more, Chen Yongfu would not be afraid, he would still be able to lead his servants to break through the encirclement.

But now there are 2000 bandit cavalry outside, and the horses of the cavalry under his command have been exhausted for a long time, and it is really difficult to fight with the bandit cavalry again.

Now he can only arrange for the officers and soldiers to dismount and set up defenses, and use the houses in Xiguan to defend, hoping that the city gates can be opened in time, or there may be a glimmer of life.

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"Father commander, look over there, there is a team of officers and soldiers coming!"

Just when Chen Yongfu was feeling desperate, Chen De reminded him loudly from the side. Chen Yongfu turned his head and saw smoke and dust rising from the ditch in the north under the weak sunlight.

He said to Chen De: "Chen De, you have good eyesight, do you think it is an official army?"

"It doesn't look very real, but there are red clouds in the smoke and dust, which should be caused by the sunshine from the mandarin duck jacket or the red cloak."

Chen De looked carefully at the cloud of smoke in the north, and said again: "Father commander, didn't that Mr. Chen Qian from Xuanzhen say that Zhang Cheng led the army near Kaifeng? Could it be that he sent an army to meet us!"

(End of this chapter)