Bronze Drum Acropolis, a small city that not many people knew about in the past, and even locals in Liping Prefecture knew little about, has experienced the biggest change in the past month, which can be said to be the biggest change in a thousand years.
First, the new army of the Tang Dynasty attacked half a month ago. The Ming army defending the city simply surrendered or fled after some resistance.
Not long after this, the Ming army fought again, turning this place into a war again. A few days after the Ming army attacked the Tonggu Acropolis, the offensive and defensive battle came to an end when the new army of the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to retreat.
But this is not over yet. No, it has only been a few days. The new army of the Tang Dynasty came over again and killed them. Their troops reached the gate of Tonggu Acropolis.
Continuous wars have left the short wall of the Bronze Drum Acropolis full of holes. The bloodstains outside the city have almost stained the land black. Take a deep breath and you can smell the strong smell in the air. The smell of blood.
And the cruel war has already caused the indigenous residents in this small city to flee to nowhere.
There were not many ordinary residents in this small town, only one or two thousand people. When the New Army of the Tang Dynasty attacked the city for the first time, fifty-six out of ten people in the city fled in order to avoid the war.
When the Ming army attacked, some of them escaped.
In addition, some people were killed or injured in the war!
As of today, the Tonggu Guard City is already empty of ten rooms. Looking around, they are all soldiers of the Ming Army, but there are not many ordinary people at all.
But this series of battles that took place in Tonggu Acropolis made the name of this small Tucheng appear frequently on the desks of senior generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army.
Even Zhu Zhihai, who was still on the road in central Guizhou, saw the name of Tonggu Acropolis more than once in the battle reports sent from the front line.
However, the battle at the Bronze Drum Acropolis that he saw was naturally exaggerated!
The Battle of Tonggu Acropolis he saw was that the Northern Route Army forward Qiu Yu successfully captured the Tonggu Acropolis after many days of hard work, killing hundreds of enemies. The process was heroic and the results were rich.
Just through this battle report from the Northern Route Army, the image of a brave, resourceful, persevering, heavy and calm general emerged in Zhu Zhihai's mind.
Let him sigh: "The battle of Bronze Drum Acropolis will live up to the dynasty's efforts to raise troops for hundreds of years!"
Now, I started to reward Qiu Yu. Such a capable and loyal general must be promoted. Otherwise, wouldn't it mean that he is mediocre and fearless and turns a blind eye to the merits of his soldiers?
This is of course impossible. Zhu Zhihai thinks that he is still a very good commander. He will not begrudge his rewards for the frontline soldiers who have made meritorious service. This Qiu Yu, he will report his merits to him in the report to the court. .
If Zhu Zhihai knew the truth about the battle at Tonggu Acropolis, and knew that the Tonggu Acropolis was abandoned by the puppet Tang rebels on their own initiative, Qiu Yu's troops rushed to the empty city wall and captured it.
Especially knowing that yesterday, more than ten miles south of Tonggu Acropolis, Qiu Yu's troops collapsed when they were only a hundred meters away from the puppet Tang rebel army, and set a record of the fastest collapse speed since the two armies fought, I am afraid it will He was so angry that he vomited three liters of blood and shouted: "Someone, pull him down and chop him!"
But Zhu Zhihai doesn’t know!
At this time, none of the battle reports from Liping Mansion in the past two days have been sent to him. Even if they are sent, they are battle reports that have gone through a lot of artistic processing. If Zhu Zhihai can see from these battle reports that have gone through a lot of artistic processing, If we look at the true situation of the war, then Zhu Zhihai is not the governor of Guizhou but a god.
Basically, in the recent period, Zhu Zhihai has seen a lot of information about the puppet Tang rebel army, as well as battle reports about the battle between the two armies. Basically, not one of the ten sentences is true.
For example, before the complete fall of Liping Mansion, the final battle report sent by the garrison generals said that they fought hard against the puppet Tang traitor army and killed many thieves, no less than a thousand people. The soldiers and civilians in the city would work together to resist the thieves, but in the end they would not be able to protect the safety of the city.
, but it will inevitably inflict heavy losses on the puppet Tang bandit army.
Just looking at the memorials of local officials in Liping Prefecture, one might think that the puppet Tang rebel army had killed and injured two to three thousand people in order to attack Liping Prefecture.
Then, coupled with Qiu Yu's statement that he killed more than a thousand bandit troops, the total number of people killed and injured by the puppet Tang bandit army was three to four thousand in less than a month.
How can it be!
The Tang Dynasty's new army that entered Liping Prefecture only had a total of five or six thousand men. If more than half of them were killed or injured, Li Xuan would have led his army to escape. How could he dare to fight against 50,000 Guizhou provincial soldiers in Liping Prefecture!
Speaking of which, Zhu Zhihai was also having a hard time. He worked hard and worked hard to raise troops, and even personally led the troops to the battlefield, but none of his subordinate generals told him the truth.
Well, of course, we can't blame Qiu Yu and other Ming army generals for telling the truth. If you dare to tell the truth, Qiu Yu would be beheaded in minutes if he dared to tell the truth about the Tonggu Acropolis war!
Alas, it’s not easy for everyone!
It was not easy for Li Xuan and others to rebel and they were frightened, and it was not easy for Zhu Zhihai and others to suppress the rebellion of the puppet Tang rebels!
If you are not careful, you will lose your official title or even your life!
If Zhu Zhihai and Li Xuan were to sit down, the conversation would probably not be about life ideals, but about complaints.
As they talked about how hard they worked, they might have become friends because they both thought they were hard workers.
Zhu Zhihai at the rear didn't even know the actual situation on the front line. In the far north of the capital, Emperor Zhengde in the Forbidden City, which was covered with snow, didn't even know what was going on in Liping Mansion.
On this day, the already senile Emperor Zhengde was wrapped in a thick coat, squinting while listening to the little eunuch beside him softly reciting memorials sent from various places.
Just when he was reading the memorial sent by Zhu Zhihai, he nodded slightly when he heard that Zhu Zhihai said that he had raised 50,000 troops to fight against the puppet Tang bandits, and that there would be good news sent to the capital during the interrogation period.
He still trusts Zhu Zhihai and is a loyal and capable veteran.
It's just that this person is a big talker, and he still doesn't know how to restrain himself at his age. When he was in the capital, he impeached one thing today and another tomorrow. Even when he arrived in Guizhou, he still didn't forget to get involved in the affairs of the court, thus offending most of the courtiers, and even
Emperor Zhengde thought he was too annoying.
Wouldn't it be better for everyone to be more harmonious? It's not normal for officials to be greedy for money even if their children break the law. Otherwise, how can we cope with them studying hard for more than ten years and deliberately trying to climb to a high position? If they don't make money,
I got enough gold and silver to buy tens of thousands of acres of good farmland in my hometown. Who the hell went to study in the first place? It was very hard work!
After all, there is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book. I have read all the books, and you didn’t give me Yan Ruyu’s golden house. Believe it or not, I immediately rebelled and showed you...
Well, this is why most of Mao's rebellions since ancient times were failed scholars. It's not that they want to rebel, but that they want to be officials but can't. Since others don't give them official positions, then they can become emperors themselves. They are taller than being officials.
superior.
Those bitter rural gangsters would never engage in such a high-level thing as rebellion!
Everyone knows that courtiers are corrupt. Even Emperor Zhengde knew that few of his ministers were honest ministers. After all, this kind of thing has existed since ancient times, both for officials and prostitutes.
Occupations have not changed much for thousands of years. They are ancient and full of tradition. It is absolutely impossible for you to change them.
You wish Zhihai good luck and tell these nonsense every now and then, for fear that outsiders won't know how corrupt the officials of the Ming Dynasty were.
Do you know that you must be harmonious? Do you know that family scandals should not be made public?
If you don't send Zhu Zhihai to Guizhou, you will not be able to live up to the civil and military expectations of the Manchu Dynasty. When Zhu Zhihai was sent to Guizhou, many courtiers wrote farewell poems, and most of them used the words "千里" and "万里".
' and other words, and some even used words such as 'no return' and 'no return'.
That scene was just like thousands of people singing Fei Yuqing's line "I'll send you away, thousands of miles away!" It was extremely touching!
Thinking of this, Emperor Zhengde abandoned his newly born cherishment of Zhu Zhihai's talent to the Kingdom of Java. Now that the court is in troubled times, it is better not to transfer that old fool Zhu Zhihai back to the capital, so that
He continued to deal with the chieftains and bandits in the remote countryside of Guizhou.
In this way, it is not a disgrace to his talent. No, now he can just go and destroy the so-called pseudo-Tang traitor army.
It's just that this pseudo-Tang bandit army is very strange. A mere small rural landowner can actually gather so many homeless bandits in such a short period of time, and even conquer Xingquan City. This does not seem to be something that a small rural landowner can do.
It's a matter.
But it just feels a little strange!
Rebellions happen every year, and more than once or twice a year. There are five or six in good years. If there is a famine or something, dozens of rebellions are not unheard of. The scales of them range from large to small, and most of them
They were all small-scale rebellions, some were quite powerful, and many of them swept through surrounding prefectures and counties.
but!
From ancient times to the present, there have been thousands of rebellions, but few ordinary people have been able to successfully rebel and finally unify the nine states of China!
So from a theoretical probability point of view, this so-called pseudo-Tang Dynasty will be able to make some noise for a while, and even spread to several provinces. Emperor Zhengde thought it was possible, but it really became a fatal threat, even to the death of the old Zhu family.
The empire was overthrown, and Emperor Zhengde would not believe it even to death.
If this is the case, then his Zhengde will undoubtedly become the most unlucky emperor in history!
Emperor Zhengde was conceited that although he was not an eternal sage or even a good emperor, he would not be so unlucky no matter what!