Countless torches lit up all around, illuminating the place instantly like daylight. Countless sharp blades also appeared at this moment. The scene where there was no one in the darkness suddenly spread all around!
This is an ambush!
At this moment, Hu Ruohai was terrified and at a loss. There was a lot of cold sweat on his forehead, hands and even all over his body, and his face was extremely panicked. He never expected that the well-planned mutiny would be discovered!
What's even more annoying is that the other party actually laid an ambush! Someone must have leaked the secret and informed His Majesty of their actions today. Otherwise, even if they cannot take away 8,000 people, thousands of people can still return to Shanhaiguan!
At this time, Zhu Ling, who was admiring Hu Ruohai's horror on the tower, was extremely calm. Wang Jiayan and Meng Zhangming had told him earlier that he had been making preparations. Today, he was specially monitoring the three of them.
They had already left and immediately began to make arrangements. By the time he arrived, they had already set up an ambush.
"Surrender, Hu Ruohai."
At this time, Meng Zhangming rode out from behind them and showed his appearance under the surrounding firelight. He was wearing heavy armor, a sword hanging on his waist, and a big maroon horse under his crotch, which looked quite majestic.
Seeing the soldiers of Guan Ning approaching slowly, Hu Ruohai was extremely unwilling. They were about to succeed, but in the end the matter was revealed. He immediately drew out his sword, pointed it at Meng Zhangming, and shouted with a ferocious expression: "Impossible!"
"I have committed a serious crime against the Nine Clan, and you want me to surrender? What? Will I not die because of this?"
The more than 200 cavalrymen around him also immediately drew their sabers, but unlike him, they did not point at Meng Zhangming, nor at the Guan Ning Army surrounding them. Many of them had known each other before, and they were even life-and-death friends.
Because the people they wanted to be loyal to were different, they ended up like this.
From behind, Gao Wencai slowly rode up with a cold face and waved his big hand down. In an instant, countless Jinyi guards around him had already drawn their bows and arrows and aimed at Hu Ruohai and more than 200 Guan Ning troops in the middle. This move
This moment made Hu Ruohai even more panicked. Even if he was not afraid of death, it did not mean that he could let these brothers die miserably.
"Hu Ruohai! It doesn't matter if you die, don't implicate the Guan Ningjun brothers around you! They are just soldiers, and they were just deceived by you. If you insist on letting them die, you will also be despised by your brothers!"
Gao Wencai shouted loudly that His Majesty had an oral order. If he insisted on taking action, he could only kill Hu Ruohai, and other Guan Ning soldiers would not be killed if they could.
"Your Majesty! I would like to ask, where are Wu Bing and Mashan? Are they dead?"
Suddenly, Hu Ruohai shouted to the top of the city tower. He now knew that he was bound to die, but he still wanted an answer. Did one of them betray him? Even if he died, he still had an answer in his heart.
Hearing this, Zhu Ling, as the emperor, did not answer directly. The following was just a small military commander, and it was not consistent with his status to talk casually with him. He just waved to call Wang Chengen who was beside him, whispered a few words, and continued to appreciate.
Wang Cheng'en received the order, cleared his throat, took a few steps forward and said loudly: "Your Majesty has an order. Hu Ruohai instigated General Wu Bing to murder Deputy General Yang Kuo, and ordered General Ma Shan to seize Tianjin City Gate in an attempt to mutiny.
He should be punished! But his soldiers were deceived by his rhetoric and did not know the facts. They are not guilty of ignorance. If they are willing to put down their swords and return their allegiance to Your Majesty, they can forget the past."
After hearing His Majesty's decree, the Guan Ning troops who did not participate in the mutiny instantly felt their hearts in their throats. Your Majesty is so kind. If all their brothers are willing to lay down their weapons and be loyal to Your Majesty, they can completely avoid death.
Hu Ruohai, who also heard this, sighed deeply, thinking that His Majesty did not intend to answer his question. After thinking about it, he knew that those two people should have been killed, otherwise one of them would have repented midway.
"Brothers! Surrender." Hu Ruohai directly threw down the long knife in his hand and said in frustration: "Brothers, I have caused trouble to you. Don't follow me and do stupid things, re-loyal to Your Majesty, and act as if this never happened.
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Hearing this, Meng Zhangming immediately felt dissatisfied. If he continued to speak, even if the soldiers surrendered, they would still have feelings of kindness towards him. If they resented His Majesty because of this, wouldn't it be a big risk?
He immediately yelled: "Three numbers, surrender immediately!"
However, when he said the first number, Hu Ruohai had already lost hope of living. He committed suicide on the spot without saying anything more. As his body fell to the ground, it also symbolized the complete end of the mutiny.
After that, the soldiers who participated in the mutiny were not directly returned to their respective camps. Naturally, they had to be interrogated first. Wu Bing and Mashan were naturally killed. Mashan was probably the first to know the date of death. He had just arrived here.
He was shot dead with an arrow by the Jinyi guards hiding around him and dragged aside. Wu Bing was beheaded on the spot by Sima Jingru who was ambushing outside the house.
Yang Kuo's body was ceremoniously buried with the treatment of a second-grade military attache, and was buried on a mountain near Tianjin.
After this incident, we naturally have to deal with the problem of Guan Ningjun. It is naturally impossible to let them return to Shanhaiguan. After so much effort, we naturally have to make good use of it.
Therefore, Zhu Ling appointed Meng Zhangming, Fan Xianchao and Feng Kaizhang as the staff generals of Guan Ning Army, each leading a battalion. Sima Jingru has since become a staff general, in addition to leading a battalion, he also leads his seventeen brothers.
.Placing your cronies into the Guan Ning Army will be extremely convenient for controlling the Guan Ning Army in the future.
However, no one has been selected to lead the Guan Ning army. Wang Jiayan is no longer suitable for commanding troops in combat, but is only suitable for rear planning. The three people who have some knowledge of military affairs have also become generals, but at this time, there is no one.
Being able to take on such an important task really gave Zhu Ling a bit of a headache.
However, these four generals can cope with the current situation, and they will not encounter a war for the time being.
After just one night in Tianjin, Zhu Ling immediately went to see the ships prepared by Feng Yuanyang. He had heard that there were two hundred ships, including two larger ships, and he was quite curious.
Accompanied by everyone, they arrived at a port. Feng Yuanyang had already ordered people to arrange the ships. Although many ships were of different sizes, there were no flaws. Especially among such a huge scale, there were two huge ones.
The ships on the sea stand out like chickens in front of all the ships.
"Feng Qing, how many people can board so many ships?"
After hearing the question about himself, Feng Yuanyang hurriedly took a few steps forward and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, there are more than 200 ships that can accommodate tens of thousands of people on board at the same time, and there is still a little room."
"Very good." Zhu Ling nodded, and then said: "Let's start boarding the ship today. One day's departure is a day's work."
After visiting the ship, Zhu Ling returned to the lobby and ordered people to board the ship one after another. However, one of his decisions immediately stunned the ministers, who could not imagine that this was what His Majesty said.
"Your Majesty, you are putting yourself in danger! As the emperor, you must not treat this as a child's play!"
"If His Majesty insists on doing this, we will serve him by your side!"
"The country, the country, the country, and the country are all on your Majesty's shoulders. You must not be so abrupt. Your Majesty, think twice!"
For a moment, all the ministers stepped forward to speak, and everyone was angry. After all the difficulties and dangers, they had finally arrived in Tianjin, and could go to Nanjing to rebuild the country. His Majesty suddenly made such a move.
They were immediately dissatisfied.
Seeing such a scene, Zhu Ling once again felt the Ming emperor's helplessness towards these civil servants, especially when facing these loyal ministers, he instantly lost the ability to fight back.
As expected, they are all masters of writing. Every sentence is watertight, and even half a word of his criticism cannot be inserted into it.
Finally, they probably said they were tired, and Zhu Ling immediately explained: "My lords, I have thought about this matter carefully and did not act on impulse. Think about it carefully, half of the rivers and mountains in our Ming Dynasty have been captured by slave rebels.
If we still retreat, if Shandong is lost again, it will be a heavy blow to the court and the Ming Dynasty."
"Let's not talk about building slaves. Let's talk about the intruders. We were planning to make peace before, but in fact, neither party is sincere in making peace. The intruders will definitely feel resentful because I led people on the southern tour. Do you really think that the intruders will be fine?
Occupy the northwest and become king?"
"Of course not." Wu Linzheng said.
"Everyone is like a mirror in their hearts. They will definitely rebuild their morale and occupy more of the Ming Dynasty. We cannot keep giving in. Shandong and Beizhili must not give up easily! You all know the difficulty of the Northern Expedition. Since ancient times,
Nowadays, apart from Taizu, how many people have succeeded in the Northern Expedition? It was a smooth journey from north to south."
"I don't want to retreat to Nanjing, and I don't want to be bullied like the Song Dynasty. I don't want to lose Shandong and Beizhili because..."