While Yang Feng was leading the land reclamation team and working hard to grow rice in Huining, His Majesty the Emperor in the capital was still facing an intensifying rebellion.
Lan Yu finally began to attack Kaifeng.
He continued bombardment with twenty-four heavy siege artillery pieces equivalent to 18-pounders, and finally collapsed a section of the Kaifeng city wall.
But the subsequent assault into the city ended in failure.
Of course, this result is not surprising.
The attacking officers and soldiers were very worried, fearing that they would accidentally injure the prince. Especially since King Yan personally led his troops to block the gap to fight, it made them dare not continue to use artillery. After all, it was really not their responsibility to kill King Yan.
Frontline generals like them can bear...
Of course Lan Yu is not afraid.
In fact, Lan Yu wished that some fool could give King Yan a shot.
But the problem is that there is no such fool!
Those thousands of households who must take the lead are not stupid!
If you can't defeat Kaifeng, the best thing to do is continue fighting. It's normal for this kind of siege to last for several years. It's only been a few months now. I really can't say that their attack is slow, but if they really want to kill King Yan with one cannon, even if the emperor won't behead him afterwards
, which would inevitably lead to dismissal from office...
In fact, the possibility of being beheaded is extremely high.
"Are you trying to frame me for injustice by killing my uncle?"
Then, in order to prove his filial piety to his uncle, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely chop off a few heads.
Got it all!
Angry Lan Yu continued to report, asking the emperor to clearly declare the rebellion of the feudal princes, and to revoke his imperial edict not to harm his uncles, otherwise he would not be able to fight. At the critical moment, Zhu Di or other princes would
Will appear on the front line, and then the officers and soldiers will immediately restrain themselves. Previously, the King of Liao even led his guards out of the city to attack. Although they were finally blocked by the Shenji Battalion, the King of Liao personally charged forward with a spear, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion still
Get out of the way for him quickly.
I dare not refuse.
If we really kill him with a volley of guns, who can withstand the anger of the little princess?
The Shenji Camp was selected by the guards in the capital. Who doesn't know that Princess Hanshan is second only to the emperor in the capital? If you dare to kill her brother, do you believe she will kill your whole family?
Even Lan Yu has given instructions. It's okay for other vassal kings, but King Liao must not be hurt. After all, he can't afford to offend this little ancestor now. It's not just Lan Yu, it's the same for all generals. Who's in the bank?
No savings? Who doesn’t have some business with Wutai Mountain? Anger the little princess and wait for her to throw money at you!
In fact, for those generals, they did not dare to kill any vassal king?
No one dares to do so unless the emperor issues an edict.
Even if the emperor issues an edict, he must consider it.
But Zhu Yunxi ultimately did not issue such an imperial edict.
The main reason was that the civil servants opposed it. They advised Zhu Yunxi that the reason for such a commotion was ultimately the death of King Xiang, so His Majesty the Emperor could no longer let those uncles die on the battlefield. In addition, it was useless to kill a vassal king.
The situation is even more unmanageable. Under the current situation, as long as Kaifeng is opened, these vassal kings are captured, and then they honestly surrender to the emperor, the guards behind them will naturally no longer resist. Kill them, and their guards will be nothing more than support.
If their son, like King Yan, is killed, the Zhu Gaochi brothers will really have no choice but to fight to the end.
If Zhu Di is not dead, as long as he is caught, he can make all the troops in Peiping give up resistance with just one word.
In short, the emperor not only rejected Lan Yu's request, but also reiterated it again.
Lan Yu had no choice but to attack again.
But the city had quickly dug trenches in the gap and piled up gun forts.
His attack was frustrated.
At the same time, Li Jinglong and Cao Zhen's joint attack on Wuchang was also frustrated.
In fact they were close to success.
The two families attacked from two sides. After all, the cannons on the Wuchang city wall blocked the Yangtze River. In fact, their two officers and soldiers could not meet by water, so they could only attack one side separately. On Cao Zhen's side, Qu Neng and his son had already led their men to charge forward with bravery.
They captured Wuchang City, but their troops were small, and they were essentially just acting as a diversion to cooperate with Li Jinglong.
The latter's attack on the city failed.
Qu Neng, who attacked Wuchang alone, had to face the full counterattack of the defenders.
Finally had to retreat.
Qu Neng was still injured, and his subordinates were even more angry.
Angry, Cao Zhen went to court and accused Li Jinglong of betraying him.
However, it is indeed possible for him to let go. After all, he led an army of 100,000 to attack Wuchang, and he also had a Shenji battalion of the army. There is no reason why the Sichuan army with poor equipment can attack the city wall, but he can't do it.
I know that the Sichuan garrison soldiers have hardly changed any new equipment in recent years. After all, after solving Yuelu Timur, they have not fought there for six or seven years. At most, they only have some rapid-fire artillery. In fact, Qu Neng led
The elite members of the Sichuan Army did not use firearms at all, and they still used the most traditional fighting method. Even they could climb up the top of Wuchang City with all kinds of firearms, but Li Jinglong's well-equipped soldiers couldn't do it?
However, Li Jinglong later submitted a defense statement and accused Cao Zhen of deliberately letting a large number of King Xiang's guards go south in Jingzhou, which led to a surge in the strength of the Wuchang defenders and his failure to attack the city.
Then the two coaches blamed each other.
Zhu Yunxi finally chose to transfer Li Jinglong back and replace him with Cao Xing, Marquis of Huaiyuan.
However, this move caused dissatisfaction among Li Jinglong's subordinates.
After all, both Cao Zhen and Cao Xing were just marquises, and Cao Zhen had been alienated from the noble generals in the capital for more than ten years in Sichuan. Cao Xing was Lan Yu's old subordinate, but after Lan Yu became idle, he was actually dismissed.
Idle. Li Jinglong's subordinates are all new generals in the capital. Now the emperor is favoring Cao Zhen because of his background. This obviously makes Li Wenzhong's generals feel unfair.
Internal conflicts began to arise.
In fact, this is inevitable. The Ming army was originally factionalized.
Behind the Little Emperor is the Chang Yuchun Faction, or the current Sapphire Faction. It is definitely this faction that gets the most important positions. It will only be a matter of time before other factions become dissatisfied.
As for the attack on Suzhou, because the main forces were on the two battlefields, and Zhu Yunxi did not believe that the gentry was really capable of holding on, Wu Shou'an's tribe was still the main force, but Wu Jie, the Marquis of Anlu, who was Wu Fu's son, was sent there.
The main reason is that the latter has been in Zhejiang many times before, and now the only mobile forces Zhu Yunxi can mobilize are Zhejiang Guardsmen, and not only to attack Suzhou, but also to suppress the local gentry and guard against Ma He, who is still missing at sea. The latter gave
The coast posed a serious threat, although in theory he had not betrayed the emperor, and the emperor had issued a decree to relieve him of command and ordered Penglaibo Qi Bin, who was guarding Fusang, to lead the navy south from Fusang to take over the fleet.
but……
You have to know where he is first!
How can I send orders if I don’t know where this fleet is currently?
Beijing.
"Is there any news about Ma He?"
The little princess asked the green slave with an annoyed look.
She had just come back from the palace. She still wanted to persuade her nephew to wait for Yang Feng to come back and just issue an order to negotiate with the feudal princes. Anyway, the feudal princes were unable to attack externally. As long as they eased the relationship and took advantage of the funeral, they would be there soon.
On that day, the vassal princes were allowed to enter the capital to attend the funeral.
Of course, without troops.
But under normal circumstances, if he did not lead troops, he would definitely be punished by Zhu Yunxi.
This is also inevitable.
Although Zhu Yunxi did not kill his uncles, it did not mean that he would not take the opportunity to resolve his clan reform.
If all these uncles are detained, those who agree to live as apartments in the capital, and those who agree to take their families directly from the fiefdom to the capital, and those who agree to divide the territory to fend for themselves, of course have to remove the guards, and just keep one guard for each family. Anyway, Mongolia is now surrendered.
If the Western Region surrenders, they do not need to guard the border fortress. Each family does not need to keep a guard, or even a guard. Just give them a fiefdom. In fact, they can just throw it to the Western Region. After all, it is not good for Zhu Di to take advantage of the Western Region.
Princes like King Qin, King Su, and King Qing can definitely go to the Western Regions, and they can be given a few guards.
In short, as long as you enter Beijing, you have to take the opportunity to solve it.
At least the vassal group in the north must be broken up, otherwise it would be too dangerous for more than a dozen vassal kings to form a group at once.
In short, if you don't bring troops to Beijing, there will definitely be no good results.
But if he wanted to lead troops, Zhu Yunxi would not agree.
Tens of thousands of elites arrived in the capital, and he was afraid that his uncles would unite to raid the palace!
In this way, we can take the opportunity to disclose the news about Yang Feng in Liaodong.
Then Yang Feng came back if he wanted to, and if he didn't want to come back, she acted as a guarantor on Yang Feng's behalf, and the war ceased during the funeral. The emperor negotiated with his uncles to find a mutually acceptable solution and signed a covenant at Xiaoling.
It's a perfect solution for everyone to abide by this covenant and continue to maintain family friendship.
But the emperor refused.
He does not need to negotiate with his uncles. He is the emperor and they are ministers. Even if they are elders, he has the final say.
This made the little princess very angry.
"He should have gone to Keelung, and I suspect that he wants to collude with Fujian. The bank report in Fuzhou shows that the local gentry is extremely supportive of the Suzhou incident, and even wants to take the opportunity to respond, but they have no excuse. If Ma
If they made enough promises to them in the name of the King of Yan and landed in Fuzhou with a fleet, the Fujian gentry would probably raise troops under the command of the King of Yan. After all, just opening up maritime trade was enough to make the Fujian gentry fight for it.
It's not the worst case scenario, the worst thing is that they put on the yellow robe of the King of Yan. Regardless of Liu Jiang in Suzhou, Yao Guangxiao or Ma He in our city, they are actually with the Zhu Gaochi brothers.
The Zhu Gaochi brothers were the ones who wanted their father to be the emperor.
After all, then Zhu Gaochi will be the prince."
Haruhime said.
This North Korean woman has really grown up over the years. After all, Yang Feng has always treated her as his personal secretary. The little princess is the manager to be precise. She is the personal secretary, and Zhang Ying is the supervisor of the mainland business.
Green Slave is the business manager beyond the Great Wall.
The remaining one, Gu Lina, is the business manager of the Western Region.
As for why Liu Rong was called Liu Jiang, it was actually his father's name. Then when he was in Suzhou under his father's name, someone reported to the court that Liu Jiang, a general under King Yan, was the mastermind of the Suzhou rebellion. That was just nonsense.
Already.
Because Liu Jiang was still in the Western Regions at this time.
Song Sheng can testify.
Therefore, the Suzhou rebellion had nothing to do with King Yan. It was caused by Qi Tai and others. In order to frame King Yan, they deliberately asked him to lie about King Yan's general Liu Jiang, but they did not know that Liu Jiang was still in the Western Regions, so this attempt to marry him
The plot to bring disaster to King Yan is amusing.
"I'm so angry. What on earth does he want to do? Did he get entangled by that bitch in Huining?"
The little princess said angrily.
"Princess, have you never thought that when you gave me the order to go to sea, the emperor and Emperor Daxing had the same idea?"
Haruhime said with a mysterious smile.
"Uh, nonsense, nonsense, they have such a good relationship."
The little princess said obviously panicked.
"He was the grandson of the emperor at that time, and now he is the emperor."
Haruhime said meaningfully.
The little princess was speechless. Of course she understood that her nephew, like her father, actually wanted to trap Yang Feng at sea and kill him. She just didn't want to admit the reality. That's why Yang Feng still refused to go south.
It was revenge, he just deliberately watched Zhu Yunxi's jokes.
"Should we talk to the emperor about Ma He?"
Haruhime asked.
"Whatever you say is just speculation,"
said the little princess.
Then she sighed sadly.
Ten days later, Ma He led a fleet to raid Fuzhou, and the Fuzhou garrison surrendered without a fight. Then the Fuzhou gentry greeted him with a bowl of food, followed by the Fujian chief envoy, who all commanded the envoys and inspected the envoys.
Whether the emperor's edict is true or not, his duty is to guard the place, so he stays in seclusion until the matter becomes clear.
To put it simply, they are not involved in this war.
Just five days later, He Rong, who had been promoted to the Marquis of Dongguan due to the Battle of Annan, presented a report to the three envoys in Guangzhou and Guangdong at the same time. As for the explanation, the statement was the same as that in Fujian.
Another province withdraws.
Of course, keep to yourself.
To put it simply, we do not accept the court's orders for the time being.
You fight first.
Let’s get the results out later.
But during this period, the gentry in Fujian and Guangdong provinces could happily run to the sea.
Well, that's mostly what they're for.
The purpose of Ma He's visit to Fuzhou was actually to tell them how vast the world and the infinite wealth were overseas. Now that the opportunity had been given to them, it was up to them whether they could seize it. The emperor wanted to go to the West to establish a monopoly.
Don't you want to do something?
Wang Bi, who was guarding Annan, refused to accept the emperor's imperial edict to transfer him back to Beijing. The reason was that Annan was newly appointed to be guarded by generals. After the king of Chu went north, no one but him could suppress the natives. However, this was what he reported, but in fact it was not.
The troops were mobilized to prepare to go north to Guangxi at any time, so the officers and soldiers in Guangxi did not dare to go north to Qinwang.
Of course, they would not be diligent in the first place.
In fact, most of the guardsmen in Guangxi are stationed in Annan.
Since Annan had just been captured, most of the armies that had originally conquered Annan had not yet withdrawn.
On the other hand, Mu Sheng, the Marquis of Xiping in Yunnan, quickly defeated King Min's guard without any bloodshed. In fact, it was originally the guard station in Yunnan, but was adapted into King Min's guard. Mu Sheng gave up the resistance with just one word. Then Mu Sheng took King Min's guard.
The family members were imprisoned in the palace, but that was all he could do. After all, there were chieftains all over Yunnan. Under the current situation, if the Yunnan guardsmen dared to go north to King Qin, the chieftains would immediately rebel.
In this way, the emperor's world collapsed at an extremely fast speed.