"The King of Yan rebelled? Did he think that King Qi in our Shandong Province rebelled, so he wanted to rebel and fight?" Luo Renyuan said with his eyes open.
Chief Su first considered whether the news was true: "Lu Yuan, King Yan really rebelled? When? How come we don't know about it at all?" If Zhu Di really raised the flag to rebel, the soldiers deployed in Texas It should be reported, and it is unlikely that only Lu Yuan knows.
Xie Chengze didn't say anything, but it was clear from his expression that he was also very concerned about whether this was true.
Lu Yuan glanced at the expressions of these people, and then said: "It's true. King Yan's men gave us some help and told me that King Yan will raise troops soon."
"It was September 21st when they told me this. They said that King Yan would raise troops at the end of September, and then send troops to Shanhaiguan to block the troops from Guandong from entering the pass. At the same time, the main force went south to meet with us."
"It is King Yan's intention to capture the head of the Kong family."
"As for why King Yan raised an army, I don't know."
After hearing Lu Yuan's confirmation that King Zhu Di of Yan would rebel, everyone became happy. After Zhu Di rebelled, their hope of success increased from extremely low to 10 to 20%. Although the chance of success was still very low, it was higher than before. After reading a lot, I finally have some hope.
Lu Yuan waited until they were all happy and then said: "So the most important thing for us now is to go north to join King Yan's army."
Then Lu Yuan gave some instructions and asked them all to retreat.
Even after they retired, they were still talking to each other. Some people were still talking about why King Yan rebelled, but most people didn't care about this issue. They were more concerned that Zhu Di also rebelled. They combined What will be the main direction of attack in the future? Everyone discussed enthusiastically, and the dull atmosphere of losing troops and generals under Yanzhou City in the past few days was swept away.
Lu Yuan also stood up and sent these people to the gate of the camp. Listening to their lively discussion, a smile appeared on his face.
Then he turned around and wanted to go back to his tent, but saw that Luo Ren was still in the tent and did not go out, so he asked: "Luo Ren, you still have questions? Why don't you go back to your tent?" ?”
Luo Ren came over and whispered to him: "Lu Yuan, after we join forces with King Yan, the general commander will be His Highness King Yan, right?"
Lu Yuan said: "That's natural. King Yan is not only a member of the Ming Dynasty clan, but also one of the most powerful generals today. In terms of commanding and fighting, even Xie Cheng may not be as good as him."
"And we started with the name Qing Jun, so it would be best to let the clan do it."
Luo Ren said anxiously: "But, have you forgotten what we did in Qingzhou? Do you think His Highness King Yan will not take any action after knowing what we did to Zhu Su's wife and children? ?"
"Even if King Yan doesn't care about it for the time being, if we can really succeed, do you think His Highness King Yan will still not care about it?"
Lu Yuan's face darkened at this time. He said: "I have also thought about this problem, so I have ordered those who stayed in Qingzhou to execute Zhu Shu and all his relatives to avoid future troubles."
Luo Ren said: "It's inappropriate! It's a long way, this is very inappropriate!"
"King Yan is not a fool. All the people from King Qi's lineage who stayed in Qingzhou are dead. How could he not be suspicious?"
"And even if they are all your cronies, do you really believe that no one will betray you? Especially when King Yan became the emperor and personally sent people to investigate this matter, do you think there will be any clues?
Don’t you want to leave it to King Yan?”
"As long as there are clues, we can find out the truth of the matter. Anyway, Zhu Shu is also the brother of King Yan. His people have been ruined by us. Do you think King Yan will let us go?"
"Even if it's just to save face, we can be executed for any crime."
Lu Yuan put on his completely gloomy face and said to Luo Ren: "Then what do you think we should do?"
Luo Ren said: "In my opinion, Zhu Shu must die. It can be said that Zhu Shu accidentally fell off his horse and died of injuries just after leaving Qingzhou."
"All Zhu Shu's concubines will also be put to death. But this is easy. Just use the reason that Zhu Shu asked all his concubines to be buried before his death, and it will not arouse suspicion."
"The few princes who stayed in Qingzhou are very young and don't have many people, and they don't know what happened. It's easy to deal with them. They can all be handed over to King Yan and sent to Peking. But it's the worst to deal with.
Yeah, just a few princesses."
Of course Lu Yuan also knew that several princesses were difficult to deal with. If they were all executed, unless King Yan was an idiot, he would definitely suspect that they had done something to these princesses. Even if Zhu Di had just passed away as if it was nothing,
He will definitely not let them go in the future. But the problem is that he can't think of a good solution.
Lu Yuan then said: "Do you have any good ideas?"
Luo Ren said: "After thinking about it for a while, I felt that the only way is to let our people marry several princesses."
"It is said that after Zhu Su raised his army, in order to win over his subordinates, he betrothed all his daughters to his subordinates."
"As for women, after they have a man, especially after they become pregnant with a man's flesh and blood, they will obey their man. Even the princess of the royal family will probably not be an exception."
"And as long as they don't say anything themselves, there won't be a problem."
Lu Yuan thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's do it like this! The younger ones will give it to themselves, and the older ones will give it to their sons."
"Call over the few people who followed us from Qingzhou, and I will give them orders."
Tie Xuan put down the telescope and said to Sheng Yong: "Cheng Ni is taking out the stronghold. Are they going to retreat?"
After Sheng Yong looked at it for a while, he said: "That's probably the case."
"They have been stationed at Yanzhou City for ten days, but they have made no progress, and as the recruited people become more skilled, their chances of conquering the city are getting smaller and smaller."
"And we already know that His Majesty has appointed Cao Zhen, Marquis of Jingchuan, as the commander-in-chief (they ignored Zhu Xianyao) to lead the troops north to quell the rebellion. The rebels probably also know this, so it is absolutely not advisable to continue to attack Yanzhou City, and it is natural to retreat.
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Tie Xuan said: "Should we send troops out of the city to pursue it?"
Sheng Yong said: "It's okay to send cavalry to follow, but I'm afraid it won't be possible to attack with infantry."
"Their rebels have not let down their guard. You see, one of their five armies is always on guard."
"And the soldiers in our city are just the three guards of King Lu who are not full. There have been many casualties these days. Those strong people can defend the city. If they are sent out to fight in the field, I am afraid that ten thousand of them will not be able to defeat one thousand of them, so the pursuit can only be Send out the few remaining guardsmen."
"But there are a lot of cavalry who rebel, and they are wary, so it's better not to take risks."
Tie Xuan is not a person who likes taking risks, so he did not plan to send troops after hearing Sheng Yong's words. Besides, his identity is Shandong political participation, and the soldiers under their command are all soldiers of King Lu's three guards, so he also Instruction does not move.
It took the Chengdu rebels outside the city more than half a day to collect the entire camp and then retreat in batches. In fact, it was not very troublesome to break out the camp, but how to place the injured soldiers was very troublesome. Wounded soldiers cannot walk by themselves like ordinary soldiers, so their speed is very slow.
Sheng Yong, who had been watching their retreat from the top of the city, was tempted to send people to pursue them, but in the end he endured it. He was not the commander of the capital of Shandong. Defending Yanzhou City was a great achievement, and greed for merit was nothing. Good thing.
Compared to him, Tie Xuan didn't have so many ideas. After his proposal to pursue them out of the city was rejected, he stopped caring about how they retreated and went down the city wall to deal with matters in Yanzhou City. He didn't go up again until Ban Wan. At the top of the city.
Tie Xuan picked up the telescope and looked at the rebels who were retreating into the distance, and said: "They have really retreated. I can finally relax a little bit."
Sheng Yong continued: "Yes, you can feel relieved a little. Next, just wait for Marquis Jingchuan's army to come up."
After Tie Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, he also wanted to talk about some lighter topics. He said: "The clairvoyance that your Majesty invented is really useful. If it hadn't been for it before, the first attack of the rebel army might have been successful. "
Sheng Yong also sighed: "Yes, if it weren't for the telescope, I might have missed it on the first day."
Sheng Yong was not only lamenting this, he was also lamenting that he could actually block the attack of the army led by Xie Cheng. Even though he had a city to defend, for a little-known general like him, he had never been able to block the attack. It's imaginable.
It makes sense for Sheng Yong to look down on himself in this way. The first sentence of his biography in "History of the Ming Dynasty" is "Sheng Yong, I don't know who he is." Then everything is about his performance during the crisis. It can be seen that he is here. My previous performance was unremarkable. It’s not surprising that I don’t have much confidence in myself.
After Sheng Yong finished speaking, Tie Xuan continued: "Unfortunately, there are also clairvoyant rebels. Otherwise, we estimate that it would be easier to defend the city."
Sheng Yong came out of his thoughts at this time, and after hearing Tie Xuan's words, he said: "When these things appear, they will naturally go to various guards. There is no point in keeping them in the capital. Unfortunately, there is a military rebellion. Usually they don't have clairvoyance to deal with thieves, so it will be very useful."
Tie Xuan sighed: "Speaking of which, in just over a year since His Majesty became the emperor, the imperial court has had a lot of new things, and they are all very useful, such as clairvoyance, rail carriages, and blast furnaces. Ironmaking, etc.”
"It would be great if the imperial court could suddenly come up with something that could quickly eliminate the rebels."
