The Imperial Guards in the capital wisely chose neutrality. With the situation still unclear, offending any party might bring trouble to themselves, so they opened the fence of Shuixi Gate, and the flat-bottomed warships slowly sailed in and parked on the shore.
, a springboard was put on the shore, and the embarrassed generals breathed a sigh of relief.
Meng Yeluo also came down from the city wall, and was about to board the ship with everyone when he suddenly heard a noise behind him. It turned out that the guards were chasing after him. Everyone was frightened and panicked. At this time, Admiral Zhang finally showed himself as a naval commander.
The quality came and shouted: "Everyone get down!"
Everyone hurriedly fell down. Admiral Zhang waved his hand, and the battleship's cannons fired simultaneously. Thirty cannons on one side of the ship fired at the same time. The river bank was suddenly enveloped in white smoke. Everyone felt their ears ringing, and heat waves rolled above their heads.
The Jinyiwei are not a field force. They are basically equipped with weapons such as embroidered spring knives and powerful crossbows. They can still have some power in urban street battles, but they are at a disadvantage in front of the fully armed naval warships, even though they are only thirty guns.
Small water battle bronze cannons are not on the stage in regular water battles, but to them, they are already thunderous and irresistible weapons.
After a round of shooting, the Jin Yiwei suffered heavy casualties. Dozens of warriors who rushed in front were all killed. Even the houses on both sides of the street were damaged. Fires were ignited by the artillery fire. The Jin Yiwei fled in a hurry. Here,
All the generals stood up and cheered.
Meng Yeluo led his men aboard the warship without leaving the city to escape. He relied on the strength of the ship and the powerful guns to cover them up. The warship ran rampant on the Qinhuai River. This kind of flat-bottomed shallow-water warship was originally used for inland warfare. It was not only equipped with a large number of artillery, but also
There is an underwater angle, and those flower boats and boats in the river are no match for it. For a while, Qinhuai screamed and called for help from ten miles away. The Qiu Ba people who were so aggrieved just now are now laughing proudly, showing off their power, and showing off to their heart's content
Showing the glory of the imperial navy.
The Jin Yiwei were so frightened that they rushed directly to the city wall and forced the defenders to fire back with an order signed by Grand Scholar Yang and Prime Minister Hu. They were forced to fight back. The defenders could no longer maintain neutrality and used city defense artillery to shoot at the battleships.
I don't know whether it was because of poor artillery skills or because I didn't want to offend my naval brethren. At such a close distance, most of the cannonballs fell into the water, and tall water columns rose up in the Qinhuai River.
Seeing the city defense army firing artillery, Meng Yeluo and others did not dare to go deeper, so they hurriedly reversed and retreated, evacuating the capital from Shuixi Gate and reaching the surface of the Yangtze River.
The warship sailed until it was near Yangzhou and was away from the threat of the capital's forts. Then it stopped and anchored to rest, and at the same time sent people back to Beijing to inquire about the news.
In the afternoon of the next day, news came, and notices were posted everywhere in the capital, saying that Meng Zhiqiu had colluded with the rebels, had connections with foreign countries, was corrupt and perverted the law, and conspired to launch a mutiny to seize the Zhou Dynasty. Fortunately, he was discovered in time by the Jin Yiwei and was expelled from the capital.
He was accused of his crime, and at the same time he went to sea to capture the documents and apprehend the thief. The signatures were the seals of Mr. Hu and Grand Scholar Yang.
Everyone gathered together to discuss important matters. According to everyone's analysis, it was determined that Yang Feng, a guy with a human face and a beast's heart, joined forces with the Jin Yiwei group of wolf-hearted rats to stage a coup. They wanted to take advantage of the emperor's absence in the capital to seize the treasure. As the forbidden army of the imperial court, they would never tolerate the great rivers and mountains.
If it falls into the hands of traitors, we must recapture the capital before the traitors take further actions that harm the country and the people.
In fact, everyone knew that the world was in chaos. The civil servants, who had been suppressed by the eunuchs for a long time, and the Jin Yiwei, who had been marginalized by the inner factory, colluded together to try to take advantage of the emperor's absence to weaken the power of the inner factory. Their actions were not authorized by the emperor.
Yes, it doesn’t count at all.
The Great Zhou Dynasty originally relied on force to conquer the world. Originally, the status of military generals was much higher than that of civilian officials. But later, I don’t know what was wrong with the emperor, and he actually started to emphasize civil servants over military officers. Therefore, the military commanders have been aggrieved. Now that
The civil servants actually did this and almost killed them all. These people were all generals with military power in their hands. How could they bear this kind of bad temper? In addition, Meng Ye was sobbing on the side, not
After a long time, they unified their opinions, brought back the bandit-suppressing army from the south of the Yangtze River, attacked the capital, and destroyed this gang of rebellious officials and traitors.
Meng Yeluo pretended to be worried and asked: "The bandit-suppressing army has returned to Beijing. How to deal with the banditry in the south of the Yangtze River?"
A general waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "Just say hello to Mu Ying. Although those gangsters are also rebellious officials and traitors, they are much more refined than Yang Feng Wenhai and others. After receiving the money, they will never play tricks behind my back."
of."
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It only took three days for the military generals to pull back the Jiangnan bandit-suppressing army. Tens of thousands of soldiers were stationed under the capital city, and warships gathered on the Yangtze River. The efficiency was many times faster than when they set off.
At this time, Yang Feng and Hu Weiyong had used both soft and hard tactics to defeat the Imperial Guards in the capital city. The city wall was tall and the barriers were tight, so it was not easy to attack. Both sides knew very well that when things got into this situation, there was no way it could end. Either you died or I did.
After the emperor's death, a civil war that should not have happened broke out before the emperor returned.
The battle was fierce. Both sides knew that this battle would determine their future official and financial fortunes, so they worked hard. Above the Yangtze River, warship masts were like a forest, and ship-borne artillery bombarded the capital regardless of day or night. From the city walls
Looking over, it is just clouds of smoke and white mist during the day. Looking at it at night, it is just dots of fiery red stars. The thirteen city gates of the capital are all closed. The city is full of collapsed houses and charred ruins. Prices of goods are high.
Prices have skyrocketed, especially for food, vegetables, and firewood. The prices have increased dozens of times, and you can't even buy them if you have money.
After all, there were so many people on Meng Yeluo's side. After five days of siege, the city could no longer hold on. At this moment, a large number of troops appeared in Jiangbei, which was the emperor's imperial dragon flag.
The emperor was back, and the generals did not dare to bombard the capital anymore. They agreed that the evildoers would complain first, and then everyone would go to the emperor to complain about Yang Feng's crimes.
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In the Wenyuan Pavilion in the capital, Yang Feng and Hu Weiyong were sitting opposite each other. The gunfire was rumbling outside, but they were not afraid at all. The "rebel" artillery could only threaten the buildings near the city wall, but could not reach as far as the Forbidden City.
The emperor's troops have arrived on the north bank, and this chaos will be over soon.
Yang Feng was full of confidence. He was not worried about Meng Zhiqiu being the first to complain because he had the trump card in his hand. There were some experts in the Jinyi Guards. Based on the information he had, he found out the details of Meng Zhiqiu. It turned out that he was once a refugee.
, was taken in by a businessman, who is now in the capital. Through interrogation, it was learned that Meng Zhiqiu's original name was Meng Yeluo, and he was from Gansu.
According to the name Meng Yeluo, I searched the official files and found in the vast files that this name appeared in the Gansu Provincial Examination in the 20th year of Tianyou. This person was a scholar in Luyang County, Gansu Province, and there was only one scholar in Luyang County who took the examination that year.
, his native place is Shibali Fort!
Shibali Fort was once a famous place in the west. The great salt lord and the horse thief Yuan Feng was born here. He controlled the salt, iron, tea and horse trade in the west. His Thirteen Taibao were so famous that even the Yuchi family in Chang'an was
Don't dare to sharpen your edge.
It was during the Provincial Examination that year that a terrible incident occurred in Lanzhou Prefecture, where the governor's office was burned down. After that, the imperial army destroyed the Shibali Fort. The so-called Thirteen Taibao were called history, and this once-prominent village was reduced to nothing.
, but the Thirteen Taibao did not disappear. After many years, they came out again and set off a vigorous wave again.
When the matter was investigated here, the truth has been revealed. Meng Zhiqiu Meng, the great scholar, was one of the Thirteen Taibao at that time and the sworn brother of the rebel leader Liu Yuanfeng. If this man was not a rebel, there would be no rebels in the world.
Moreover, there is also the confession of Lu Shubao, the son of Fenyang Marquis, which proves that Meng Zhiqiu had hit it off with the rebels when he was in Chang'an, and they became colluding with each other.
Many mysteries can finally be solved at this point. The changes in Shaanxi and Gansu over the years, Liu Yuanfeng, Fenyang Hou, Liu Songpo, Wen Yan, and even Qin Wang Zhang Chengtai, everything is intertwined and has a reasonable explanation.
With all the witnesses and evidence, and the reasoning flawless, Yang Feng is convinced that after the emperor learns the truth, he will never let Meng Zhiqiu go, and will also have a strong sense of distrust towards Cao Shaoqin, and he will take this opportunity to rise to the top and replace Cao Shaoqin.
status.
Although the rebels blocked the Yangtze River, they could not stop the Jin Yiwei. They had secretly sent people across the river to report the matter to the emperor. Even Cao Shaoqin did not dare to seize the secret letter signed by Yang Feng and Hu Weiyong.
With the victory in hand, Yang Feng was very proud. Looking at Hu Weiyong's white hair and listening to the rumble of cannons in his ears, he secretly thought, let's fight. The harder the fight, the better.
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At the military camp outside the city, Meng Yeluo was writing furiously, writing down the viciousness of Yang Feng and others in a memorial, preparing to cross the river the next day and present it to the emperor. He was not afraid at all that the matter was so big, because the matter involved Jin Yiwei.
Those who provoked him, such as corruption and bribery, don't count. Is there any official in the Zhou Dynasty who is not corrupt? What's more, Eunuch Cao is backing him. Why is he also a member of the inner factory? It depends on the owner to beat the dog.
Woolen cloth.
As he was writing, he suddenly heard the wind outside. Meng Yeluo grabbed the long knife and shouted in a low voice: "Who is it?"
"Me." came the low reply. Meng Yeluo's expression relaxed, she put the knife back into the scabbard and said, "It's your kid, come in quickly."
The door curtain opened, and Ye Kai, who was dressed in night clothes, walked in. He sat down in front of Meng Yeluo carelessly, grabbed the memorial he had just written, glanced at it casually, tore it up and kept it aside.
Meng Yeluo said angrily: "What are you doing! I just wrote it."
Ye Kai said: "It's no use, you've already exposed your bottom, run away quickly."
Meng Yeluo's eyes widened suspiciously, and she said in disbelief: "No way, I covered it up well enough."
"Someone recognized you. You are the mistress of the Lu family in Chang'an. Yang Feng is also a talented guy. He actually found out your details. It seems that he has already started to pay attention to you. I wanted to kill you and silence you, but they are very careful.
, so I have to inform you that your mission has been completed and you can return to the team."
After listening to Ye Kai's words, Meng Yeluo had mixed feelings. He opened the tent door, looked at the mighty Yangtze River outside, and sighed: "I'm finally leaving."
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