In mid-March, the three-month deadline stipulated by Zhou Dong to take back the occupied military garrison was approaching. After various efforts, Zhou Dong's arrogant and unreasonable methods of doing things, and his arbitrary measures and unreasonable behavior did not change at all. signs.
When their livelihoods were about to be cut off, the anger and despair of many generals and soldiers of Ningxia Guard had reached their limit. Not only did few people scold Zhou Dongan Weixue and others in private, but they also began to openly confront Zhou Dong and others. People conflict.
After urgent plotting, Anhua King Zhu Zhixiu and his staff Sun Jingwen and Meng Bin decided to use the opportunity to incite and launch a rebellion.
Sun Jingwen and Meng Bin came forward and contacted He Jinyi, Zhou Ang and others, and the two naturally hit it off. They thought that their financial path was cut off, and they had to buy a house and borrow money to pay for the extra acres. They were already furious and didn't know how to vent their anger. At this moment, When King Anhua wanted to launch the campaign, he naturally agreed immediately.
Moreover, Sun Jingwen and others made it very clear that the banner of the army was to punish Liu Jin and Qingjun. It was a popular move to resist the traitor Liu Jin and his party members. It was an act of justice and justice. Moreover, the position of Ningxia Guard was alone. Outside, after raising troops, you only need to guard the steep passes and ferries along the Yellow River in the south, which can completely block the path of the imperial troops and form a separatist regime. There is no need to worry about being liquidated.
The only problem is that Ningxia Town Commander-in-Chief Jiang Han, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yang Ying, guerrilla general Qiu Yue and others have high prestige in the army. Moreover, these people have not invaded the farmland, so Zhou Dong’s actions are not If they are involved, they will definitely be unwilling to raise troops. Moreover, they have a large number of soldiers and horses in Ningxia City. Once they take action, they may not be successful.
For this reason, He Jinyi, Zhou Ang, Zhu Zhixiu and others conspired for several days and came up with countermeasures.
On March 19, He Jinyi reported to Jiang Han that there were Tatar troops gathering outside Zhenyuanguan Great Wall Pass, the northernmost pass of the Ningxia Guard, and that they seemed to be threatening to invade the south. Jiang Han did not dare to neglect the report, and since After the battle at Dushi City on Shangbei Road in Xuanfu, all the border towns began to take strict precautions against sudden attacks by the Tatars, and they could not take any slightest disturbance lightly.
So Commander-in-Chief Jiang Han ordered Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yang Ying and Guerrilla General Qiu Yue to lead more than 3,000 troops and horses to Zhenyuan Pass to check the enemy's situation. There were only more than 10,000 troops stationed in the city, and most of them belonged to He Jinyi, the commander of the Ningxia Guard. Although the General Military Mansion of Ningxia Town is located in the city of Ningxia, its nearly 50,000 troops, including the Ningxia Guard, Ningxia Central Guard, Ningxia Guard, Ningxia Vanguard, and Left and Right Central Guards, are actually stationed in various places under the jurisdiction of Ningxia Town. There are only a few thousand soldiers and horses in the city under the direct jurisdiction of the General Military Mansion.
After Yang Ying and Qiu Yue left with their troops, although the more than 7,000 soldiers and horses in Ningxia City were nominally under Jiang Han's jurisdiction, they were only 500 personal guards and more than 700 frontier soldiers under his direct jurisdiction. The rest actually belonged to Jiang Han. It is under the jurisdiction of He Jinyi, the commander of Ningxia Guard.
At this point, the time is ripe for action.
March 22nd coincided with the birthday of Anhua King Zhu Zhixiu. On this day, Zhu Zhixiu invited guests and friends. Local officials in Ningxia City and military generals all received the invitations. General Jiang Han, Ningxia The governor An Weixue, the eunuch of Ningxia Town Li Zeng, the special envoy of the Qing Dynasty retreating from the Qing Dynasty, Marble Shaoqing Zhou Dong, and others were also invited.
Zhou Dong and An Weixue seemed to have foreseen something this time. They both chose to refuse to go to the banquet. Of course, they themselves also knew that they would stink the streets in Ningxia City. Attending such a banquet, they met generals of all sizes. With local officials, the situation will be very embarrassing.
But whether they go or not is actually not important anymore.
After the birthday party started, Zhu Zhixiu immediately announced that he was about to raise a rebel army to oust the emperor. Most of the officials present were stunned. They never expected that King Anhua would actually raise an army to rebel. Today's The banquet turned out to be a Hongmen Banquet.
Zhu Zhixiu wanted all the officials present to express their stance. Support or opposition meant life or death. Zhou Ang had already led sixty selected soldiers to wait on him in advance. Outside the banquet courtyard, the palace servants and the guardians The whole group has also been sealed off, and the dozens of generals present have no way out.
Dozens of officials and generals quickly expressed their support, but Ningxia Town Commander Jiang Han Li Zeng and seven or eight officials and generals refused to surrender. Li Zeng, the eunuch of the town army, had some backbone and pointed at Zhu Zhi's face. Xiu and others scolded him for being a traitor, and told him to stop immediately.
Zhou Ang raised his knife and cut off Li Zeng's head, then rolled it onto the banquet.
But this did not scare Jiang Han. He was also a tough guy and refused to surrender.
Zhu Zhixiu's intention was to try his best to persuade Jiang Han to surrender, because he was the commander-in-chief of Ningxia Town. If Jiang Han surrendered, he could order the 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses of Ningxia Town to submit to him in his name, which would avoid spending efforts to clear out the opponents. Soldiers and horses, and can quickly possess a large number of soldiers and horses.
However, Jiang Han refused to surrender, and it was useless to keep him. So He Jinyi was ordered to tie Jiang Han up, tie him to a big tree in the yard, and chop him with a knife until he died of blood.
Naturally, Zhou Dong and An Weixue could not escape. While the massacre was going on at the royal banquet, Ding Guang and Li Xuan of the Qianhu family each led their troops. Li Xuan attacked the governor's office of Ningxia Town and beheaded the governor An Weixue. Killing. Ding Guang led his men into the Guanyi where Zhou Dong and others settled, and killed Zhou Dong and the accompanying officials, guards and servants, including fifty-four people. He cut off Zhou Dong's head and took it back. The palace is restored.
Subsequently, Zhu Zhixiu ordered He Jinyi to lead his army to attack the General Military Mansion and attack the remaining more than a thousand soldiers and horses belonging to the General Soldier in the city. The battle lasted for a short time and ended. Because the general situation was over, and there were already many soldiers The generals and soldiers were extremely dissatisfied with Zhou Dong and others, and did not mount a desperate resistance at all.
By the end of the afternoon, the entire city of Ningxia had been controlled by the rebels of Anhua King Zhu Chixiu.
In the name of General Jiang Han, He Jinyi and others sent orders to the guards to declare their surrender to the army of King Qin of Anhua. The commanders of the guards in Ningxia were horrified. After weighing the pros and cons, the commanders of the Ningxia vanguard and Ningxia Zhongtun guards soon announced their surrender. Because they His wife, children and family were all in the city of Ningxia, and Jiang Han had orders, so they had to obey them.
The Ningxia Central Guard and Ningxia Guard are far south of the Yellow River. Whether they surrender or not actually has little impact on the overall situation.
On the evening of March 23, Ningxia Town Deputy General Yang Ying and guerrilla general Qiu Yue, who led their troops to Zhenyuan Pass, learned about the rebellion of King Anhua. The three thousand soldiers and horses they led were still rushing to Zhenyuan Pass. On the way, after an urgent discussion between the two, Yang Ying decided to escape with Qingqi, and Qiu Yue led the army to station at Pinglu Station in Ningxia to wait for action.
Yang Ying only took a dozen of his guards to swim east across the Yellow River ferry that night, risking his life to enter the Tatar territory and escape south. Early the next morning, Qiu Yue's troops were surrounded by He Jinyi's troops. He Jinyi persuaded Qiu Yue to Qiu Yue attacked Qiu Yue secretly, but Qiu Yue knew that he would die if he refused, so he decided to feign surrender to save his life. He was subsequently relieved of his military power and imprisoned at home.
At noon on March 25, Zhu Zhixiu held a swearing-in meeting on a high platform built in the square in the city of Ningxia. In front of more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Ningxia Town, he read out the proclamation for launching troops. The proclamation listed Liu Jin's seventeen major crimes and denounced him. They harmed the country and the people, bewitched the emperor, engaged in corruption and organized cliques, exercised power tyrannically, etc. They raised armies in the name of "purifying the emperor and punishing the traitors".
Later, he appointed He Jinyi as the general to fight against the bandits, Zhou Ang, Dingguang and others as his deputies, and Sun Jingwen as the military advisor, to lead the rebel army to fight against the bandits. He ordered all the soldiers and civilians in the world to follow him.
To remind you, the soldiers and civilians, who were already far away from the emperor and had been angered by the actions of Zhou Dong and others, cheered and shouted. Many people rewarded the rebels with pots of rice and milk, and they also supported Zhu Zhixiu very much.
Subsequently, He Jinyi personally led the army southward and stationed the army at major ferries and fortresses on the north bank of the Yellow River. From Qingtong Gorge to Wuzhong Fort, and even the Hengcheng Castle in the northeast, all the ferries and fortresses were heavily blocked. With the natural dangers of the Yellow River as a barrier, they were strictly guarded against death. .
Within a few days, even King Anhua himself did not expect that the army's rise would go so smoothly, and he would soon take full control of the situation.
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Liu Jin had actually received the report two days ago. After Yang Ying, the deputy commander of Ningxia Town, escaped, he had already spread the news of King Anhua's rebellion in advance. However, no one dared to report such a big event immediately. Report.
It wasn't until Huang Ke, the governor of Yansui Town, knew that the matter could not be concealed. Once the rebels went south and captured Lingzhou, they would directly threaten the flanks of Yansui Town. So he ordered his people to hurry up and report the situation to the court.
The news was first sent to the Ministry of War. When Xu Jin, the Minister of War, received the news, he did not inform the cabinet immediately, but reported it directly to Liu Jin. Liu Jin was panicked after learning the news. The banner of King Anhua was Qingjun side, and he counted his In other words, if the report is rashly reported and the emperor thinks that he caused the rebellion, then he may be in trouble.
So he spent two days, carefully considered the countermeasures, and after thinking that he was sure to exonerate, he pretended to know the news on this morning at the end of March, woke Zhu Houzhao from his sleep, and reported the horror People's news.
Zhu Houzhao sat on the bed blankly. The sleepy woman next to him had just been awakened. She put her arms around Zhu Houzhao's neck and acted coquettishly.
"Your Majesty, why don't you sleep? It's still early."
"Get out." Zhu Houzhao kicked the woman under the bed. The woman screamed, wrapped her naked body in clothes and ran away.
Zhu Houzhao's mind was in turmoil. The Ming Dynasty had not encountered such a thing for decades. He had only been in power for more than a year when someone rebelled. Although his reason told him that maybe there was no need to panic about this matter. But after all, he was a seventeen-year-old For a young boy aged 10 to 18, this kind of thing would have a huge impact on him. He would feel confused and at a loss for a while.
"Why did he rebel? Why did he rebel? When I ascended the throne the year before last, he came to the capital to congratulate me. I saw that he was kind and kind-hearted, and he didn't look like a rebel. How dare he do this? Isn't my world peaceful? Why is this happening?" Zhu Houzhao said blankly.
Liu Jin knelt in front of Zhu Houzhao and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, you know people but don't know their hearts. Zhou Dong went to Ningxia Town to clean up the farmland and offended some people. King Anhua had long been rebellious and took the opportunity to incite the morale of the army and raise troops to rebel. Zhou Dong Dong and the others were killed. Your Majesty, this slave is guilty. This slave has moved their selfish interests. These people only have themselves in their hearts and have no court."
Zhu Houzhao was startled and looked at Liu Jin sharply.