The Jinyiwei heard bad news from Nanjing city: Lu Jiude, Ma Shiying and others joined forces with the three towns in Jiangbei and the Nanjing nobles to prepare to support King Fu ascend the throne, and also obtained the support of Zuo Liangyu. Zuo Liangyu was preparing to go to Nanjing to serve the king. Of course, it was not the King Chongzhen, but King Fu. In addition, Shi Kefa, who opposed King Fu ascend the throne, went to Yangzhou and lost contact with Nanjing. Qian Qianyi, Lu Daqi and others who were strongly opposed King Fu ascend the throne, also surrendered to Lu Jiude and others, and Lu Xiangsheng was imprisoned.

The edict issued by Chongzhen to Liu Zeqing was also opposed. Not only did Liu Zeqing not come to Huai'an, but instead blocked the canal waterway and joined forces with various warlords and nobles to prevent Chongzhen from moving south.

"Rebelled! A group of traitors! They all turned over!" Chongzhen cursed in anger.

"Emperor, we must order Wuweibo to send troops to fight against rebellion as soon as possible!" Cao Huachun said.

"Please move your Majesty to the Toutu City." Wang Quan asked.

"Why do you need to move? There is a road in Huai'an, can't he guarantee my safety?" Chongzhen asked.

"We must destroy Liu Zeqing first. I am worried that the other rebels will not be good for Your Majesty! After more than ten years of management by Weichen, the Douhu City is already as solid as a god, and it is also on the high ground upstream of Hongze Lake. If Your Majesty's palace stays in Huai'an and has no danger to defend, I will not be able to let go of my hands and feet to eliminate the rebels."

"Your Majesty, I think Wang Dusi is right, please move to the Douhu City Village." Cao Huachun also helped persuade Chongzhen to move to the Douhu City Village. He had been to the Douhu City Village a few days ago. When he saw this city, he was not only shocked by this impregnable city village, but also felt glad that he could have such a city village west of Huai'an: this is the temporary shelter of Chongzhen's arrival south. In the future, whether it is a thief going south or a Jiannu going south, the city that controls Gaojiayan will be a sharp sword hanging high above the enemy's head!

Just imagine, whether it is the rebel army going south or the Qing army going south, as long as the Huai army digs open the Gaojiayan embankment, millions of troops will all become fish and turtles.

But Li Guodong knew that according to the original history, the Qing army did not go south along the canal, but went south from the upper reaches of Hongze Lake to the west and crossed the Huai River from Sizhou. Li Guodong's Touhu Village was next to Sizhou. An indestructible large castle had been built here. Duoduo could not spend his troops to attack the Douhu Castle. They could only avoid Sizhou and cross the Huai River from Fengyang to the south, so that the Qing army could force the detour.

Chongzhen finally heard Wang Quan and Cao Huachun's advice and moved to the Toutu City.

The big dragon boat traveled west along a river embankment. This river channel is a river channel for Hongze Lake to transport water to the canal. Although this river is not as wide as the Huaishu River opened after the founding of the Red Dynasty, it is enough to sail the canal boats. Chongzhen's big dragon boat could sail. The Huai Army Navy went upstream along the river and arrived at Gaojiayan. The ships lined up one by one after another and entered Hongze Lake.

"Walking up the Huai River here, you can reach Fengyang, right?" Chongzhen asked.

"Your Majesty is wise. You will be able to walk upwards to Fengyang." Wang Quan replied.

"If I want to go to Fengyang to worship my ancestors, what if I do?" Chongzhen asked.

"Your Majesty, let's wait until Wuweibo quells the rebellion first and then go to Fengyang." Cao Huachun advised.

The fleet sailed on Hongze Lake and entered a wide river channel. This was the entrance of one of the Huai Rivers to enter Hongze Lake. It sailed a short distance upstream along the river, and a towering castle came into Chongzhen's eyes.

"Why is the wall of this city wall so weird and complicated?" Chongzhen looked at the huge castle and couldn't understand what was going on.

The huge Tawau Castle is a huge castle composed of two hexagons that form twelve corners. It has an inclined dike outside and a concave fort inside. There is a triangular castle outside. There are solid castles and hollow castles above each corner. This is the first time he has seen such a strange shape.

Sun Chuanting could naturally understand what was going on. He exclaimed: "What a solid city! Every corner echoes each other. If Jiannu came to attack this city, he might not be able to capture hundreds of thousands of troops!"

"Your Majesty, it's very safe here. Although the people stationed here are all new recruits who have not received much training, as long as there are 10,000 new recruits and 500 veterans to control the formation, even if the enemy's millions of troops are invincible, they will not be able to conquer this city!" Wang Quan introduced.

Sun Chuanting asked, "If the enemy attacks with red barbarian cannons, how can we solve it?"

Wang Quan smiled and said, "This city is made of iron tendons and cement, and its hardness is comparable to steel. There are also super heavy red cannons that can fire 32 pounds of shells in the center of the city. If Jiannu brought the red cannon, the cannons in the city will first destroy the Jiannu cannon."

There are four super heavy red cannons in Touhu City. The 32-pound long-tube cannons have high accuracy and great power. In addition, there are twelve sixty-four-pound mortars. The range of the mortars that are shooting from a condescendingly will not be lost to the twelve and eight-pound red cannons. Moreover, the mortars can fire flowering bullets, which can make up for the weakness of insufficient accuracy.

The circumference of this village is one mile and can accommodate ten thousand troops.

Chongzhen's imperial guard entered the Tawau Castle, and his family was arranged on the top floor of the most central part of the castle.

On the top floor of the castle, there is a hall and bedroom with transparent sides, where Chongzhen and Zhou Hou lived. The lower floor is a fort with four thirty-two-pound long-barrel cannons inside. There are currently no garrisons in the fort. The lower floor of the fort was originally a barracks, but now it has been vacant. Zhang Yan, Concubine Yuan, Princess Kunxing and Princess Zhaoren arranged to live in the barracks.

Chongzhen and his family walked up the top floor with great difficulty along the rotating stairs.

Princess Kunxing stood on the top floor, looking at Sizhou City in the distance, and looking at Hongze Lake from afar. Princess Kunxing, who has been in the palace since childhood, has never been so free and has never seen such a beautiful scenery. She shouted in surprise: "Wow, it's so beautiful! This is the kingdom of the father!"

"Sister, let's go to the turret below to play." Princess Zhaoren jumped over and ran over.

"Let's go down and take a look."

Walking to the turret below, the two princesses touched the Heiliang heavy cannon with love, especially Princess Zhaoren. The child was fun. He rode on the cannon, then ran to the front again, and looked into the muzzle. After a while, she climbed into the muzzle.

"Your Highness Princess, come out quickly!" a young eunuch shouted anxiously.

Princess Zhaoren crawled out of the muzzle, and her dress was all dirty. The white dress turned black and gray, and her face turned black and white, turning into a little cat.

"Zhaoren, if you do this, your father will beat you up later." Princess Kunxing rebuked with heartache.

Chongzhen's family was arranged to the safest Tawau Castle. Wang Quan kept Zhang Shiwen to defend the city. After he took Chongzhen's edict to fight against rebellion, he led Han Dashan, He Xing, Wang Fuchen and others to lead 45,000 Huai troops.

The first person in the Huai Army to attack the three towns in Jiangbei was Liu Zeqing. He is the weakest and is currently stationed in Gaoyou.

The 45,000 Huai Army led by Wang Quan met with Li Guodong, and the 3,000 cavalry of Li Guodong, Zhang Shuheng's two thousand Jinyiwei and Wang Chengen's five hundred Dongchang men had a total force of 50,000. The Liu Zeqing army stationed in Gaoyou City had 100,000 people, and the civilians raised by the Wang family gentry, had a total of 120,000 troops.

The small Gaoyou City must not accommodate 120,000 people, so most of Liu Zeqing's 100,000 troops were stationed outside the city and built camps outside the city. Liu Zeqing also learned Li Guodong's sandbag defense strategy, and trenches were dug outside the camp outside the city and sandbags were piled up.

"Around the site to attack the reinforcements and surround Gaoyou. If Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo lead the army to rescue him, we just happened to kill the reinforcements!" Li Guodong said, pointing to the map.
Chapter completed!