Outside Dafeng Kyoto, Zhou Yantian led the northern camp and set up camp stretching for several miles. The positions of several main camps were just right to surround the capital.
Zhou Yantian couldn't help frowning when facing the iron-barrel-like capital city. According to Zhou Yantian's original plan, as soon as his army arrived, the Zhou family faction in the city would take advantage of the chaos to seize the south gate, and they would cooperate with each other to open a gap.
However, not only the confidants in the city, but also in the camp on the outskirts of Beijing, were assassinated overnight by the Qinglong Guards at Niangan. Prince Jing, who had always been confused and lazy, suddenly became shrewd. In war, brothers are needed, and they must become warriors.
Together with Prince Jing, one controlled the affairs of the state and the other led the defense. Together with the righteous words of the old master, the civil and military officials of the Dafeng Dynasty united unprecedentedly.
What worried Zhou Yantian the most was Shutian City. Zhou Dazhong took advantage of the fact that Shutian City was an important trade center between the north and the south, and began to hoard grain and grass a few months ago. Once troops were raised, it became Zhou Yantian's logistics base.
In order to contain the Zhennan Camp, when Zhou Yantian received the first secret report from his son Zhou Dazhong, he sent an envoy to secretly reach an agreement with the Dangyun Kingdom. After the Northern Camp besieged the capital, the Dangyun Kingdom would also invade on a large scale to contain the Zhennan Camp.
army. In return, as long as the Zhou family seizes the country, they will cede the territory of a hundred miles south of Zhennan to the Dangyun Kingdom.
All the ideas seemed to be within Zhou Yantian's plan. However, a "Zhu Family Army" appeared out of nowhere, disrupting all Zhou Yantian's plans. In desperation, Zhou Yantian sent 40,000 elite troops to Shutian.
The first is to eliminate this miscellaneous army, and the second is to escort the food and grass back. Otherwise, the northern camp will not be able to hold on for many days.
In the imperial palace of the capital, Emperor Chengwu was sitting in the upper study room. Compared with Zhou Yantian, Emperor Chengwu looked even more sad. When the soldiers of the Yun Kingdom invaded, Guo Tianxin hurriedly wrote a letter and was unable to come to the capital to rescue him.
Moreover, Guo Tianxin recommended the 20,000 people from Shutian Mansion in his biography of Fei Ge. Even though the team was small, it was the elite of the Zhennan army. Moreover, it was Guo Tianxin's capable general Wen Ruhai who personally led it.
Guo Tianxin believed that these 20,000 people would be enough to contain Zhou Yantian's tens of thousands of troops. By then fighting to the death together inside and outside the capital might be able to relieve the capital's difficulties.
Emperor Chengwu understood that Guo Tianxin did this out of desperation. Once Guo Tianxin led his army back to Beijing, Southern Xinjiang would fall immediately. Dang Yun State would not be satisfied with Southern Xinjiang. They would definitely take advantage of the opportunity and enter, and would instead fight with Zhou Yan
Tiancheng formed a flanking attack on Zhennan's army from both front and rear.
Except for the soldiers and horses in Shutian City, Emperor Chengwu had no troops to mobilize. Fortunately, good news came from Wei Zhan, saying that Zhu Tianjiang faked the imperial edict and took over the military power, and also captured the Zhongdu Mansion.
Shutian City is currently under siege.
Emperor Chengwu was overjoyed. This false imperial edict was so good that he actually took action before Zhou Yantian's army arrived in the capital. If it were another general, he would definitely not dare to do such a move that could destroy the nine tribes. Since Zhu Tian
Jiang had already taken action, so Emperor Chengwu simply treated the horse as a living doctor and asked Wei Zhan to send an order to Zhu Tianjiang to return to Beijing immediately to rescue him.
Despite this hope, Emperor Chengwu still did not put all his treasure on Zhu Tianjiang. He ordered Li Hong, Minister of War, to recruit troops from all over the city. Once the capital could not be defended, Emperor Chengwu was ready to fight a bloody path.
He abandoned the capital and fled south for his life.
Wei Zhan dodged and hurriedly walked into the upper study room, "Your Majesty, I am so happy that that boy Zhu Tianjiang has sent a secret report." Wei Zhan said, and handed over the secret letter that Suzaku had obtained from the stick.
Emperor Chengwu was stunned and quickly started to read it carefully. Seeing Zhu Tianjiang's arrogant tone above, Emperor Chengwu not only did not think this boy was arrogant, but was actually very happy.
"You bastard, you are worthy of being my student. Come, tell all the civil and military officials to come to court." Emperor Cheng Wu stood up, with a happy smile finally showing on his face.
Wei Zhan and Emperor Chengwu knew very well that Zhu Tianjiang could not have an army of 100,000 when he blew the sky. Even if he did, it would only be a gathering of 100,000 farmers, which would not form a fighting force at all. However, this secret letter
It is extremely important for the current situation in Beijing.
Above the court, the civil and military officials no longer had the same confrontational situation as in the past, but everyone had a worried expression on their faces. Even Prince Jing, who also came to the court wearing a battle robe.
Emperor Chengwu sat on the dragon chair, glanced at everyone, and said loudly, "My dear friends, I am going to announce a great event today." When Emperor Chengwu said this, he paused.
Prince Jing rolled his eyes and thought that the capital city could not be saved, so what good news could there be? Most of the other ministers had the same idea as Prince Jing. Emperor Chengwu's words did not cause any commotion. On the contrary, Taifu Wang snorted dissatisfied.
"Sound." It seems that if Emperor Chengwu's happy event is not satisfactory, Taifu Wang is going to angrily recite a few words of Taizu's instructions in the court hall for Emperor Chengwu to listen to.
Cheng Wu forced a smile, "My dear friends, I know that everyone is worried about the siege of the capital. I have already made arrangements, dear friends, there is no need to panic. As long as we hold on for more than ten days, the traitor Zhou Yantian will be killed."
They will definitely be destroyed by our army. A month ago, I sent Zhu Tianjiang and his party to Shutian Mansion to supervise the payment of taxes. In fact, I have secretly planted an army there. Zhu Tianjiang has already led my army to capture Zhongdu.
, is besieging Shutian, and will return to the capital in a few days to rescue them. Wei Zhenghai, please present Zhu Tianjiang's secret message to all your ministers for review." Emperor Cheng Wu said, and handed over the secret letter sent by Zhu Tianjiang.
Passed it to Eunuch Wei.
Wei Zhenghai took the secret letter with both hands, read it out loud, and then walked up to Prince Jing with both hands raised. Prince Jing didn't care about others, he was most concerned about Zhu Tianjiang's words, 'If Prince Jing can save
In the capital, he will protect Yugege.
"This stinky boy, if you look back I won't beat him to death." Prince Jing muttered. He was so excited that he wanted to cry when he learned that his daughter was safe.
Wang Taifu walked a few steps, looked at the secret memorial carefully, and suddenly burst into tears. "Your Majesty, I am guilty. I almost killed my Dafeng hero. If Zhu Tianjiang can return to Beijing to save him, I am willing to work on Shili Street
Kneel down in front of the pavilion to apologize!" After Taifu Wang said this, all the Imperial Academy supervisors came forward one after another to apologize.
Emperor Chengwu walked down the dragon platform and said, "Why did the old master say this? Zhu Tianjiang has a naughty nature. This can be regarded as a crime and meritorious service." Emperor Chengwu held Taifu Wang with both hands and comforted everyone. This time, there was no Taifu Wang on the wall.
I am afraid that the ministers will not be so united in this act of justice. Regardless of the rottenness of the literati, at critical moments, it can also play an unexpected role.
The civil and military officials browsed through it, and their faces showed joy. In the hearts of these people, they really thought that Emperor Chengwu had secretly trained a large army to deal with the Zhou family's rebellion. How could they have thought that this was Emperor Chengwu?
He and Zhu Tianjiang performed a double act. At this moment, bursts of happy discussions and praises began to be heard in the court.
On the same day, Emperor Chengwu issued an edict and awarded Zhu Tianjiang the rank of military governor of the fourth rank. He suddenly jumped three levels from the sixth rank to the sixth rank, directly crossing the fifth rank and the fifth rank. He also chose Zhu Tianjiang to besiege Shutian Mansion.
The edict was announced to the whole city. Not only that, King Jing also ordered a group of archers to shoot the news to Zhou Yantian's camp, which also caused trouble for those guys on the opposite side.
It was really a happy event. In the afternoon of the next day, Emperor Chengwu immediately received a secret message. Shutian City had been destroyed. Zhu Tianjiang said that he would immediately lead an army to rescue him. Good guy, under Emperor Chengwu's deliberate propaganda, Zhu Tianjiang
Suddenly he became the savior in everyone's eyes.
In Shutian City, the army was training intensively to prepare for the invasion of powerful enemies. Zhu Tianjiang had hardly been out in the past few days. He squatted in the lobby every day, meditating hard on the map.
"Uncle Wen, do you think they will attack the city by force after they arrive?" Zhu Tianjiang asked with a frown. He was not worried about attacking the city, but worried about not attacking.
"Heaven descends, unless the leader is a fool, they will never attack by force. Their goal is not this city, but food. If my prediction is correct, this army will probably switch to war when they see that we are heavily defended.
Zhongdu, clean up all the granaries there and escort them to the capital to serve as Zhou Yantian's army rations." Wen Ruhai said worriedly.
"I'm also worried about this. Those few people in Zhongdu can't stop the impact of the northern camp."
"Skyfall, if that doesn't work, let's set up a battle array and fight them head-on. Once we fail, we will immediately retreat to Shutian City. In this case, we may be able to deter them from going to Zhongdu." Wen Ruhai said seriously.
Zhu Tianjiang shook his head and looked at the mountain road from Shutian to Zhongdu, "Uncle Wen, we can't lose our people casually. The other party's troops are expected to arrive tomorrow. It seems that we can only let them have a taste of being ambushed.
It tastes good." Zhu Tianjiang said, pointing to the mountain road on the map, lowering his head and saying a few words to Wen Ruhai.
Wen Ruhai couldn't help but nod, "Goddess, this is a great plan. However, if you want to do it yourself, wouldn't it be a bit risky?"
"If you want to lure the enemy deeper, you can't do it without taking risks. If it were someone else, I'd be worried that they wouldn't be fooled."
Wen Ruhai looked at Zhu Tianjiang seriously and said, "Well, as long as this battle can be successful, I can guarantee that you, Zhu Tianjiang, will become famous all over the world."
"Hey, as long as you don't die, that's fine, but I don't dare to think so far." Zhu Tianjiang scratched his head in embarrassment.
Zhu Tianjiang immediately ordered that the generals of each battalion come to the government office to receive orders. After the arrangements were made, Fan Rong led 15,000 infantrymen and left Shutian City in advance with some strange equipment.
Just the day before the Zhou family's army arrived, Zhu Tianjiang began to prepare his troops, preparing to eat this elite army in one fell swoop.