Zhu Di and Zhang Xin talked secretly for a long time, and then summoned the monk Daoyan to discuss the uprising.

After Zhu Di became the emperor, for Zhang Xin, who had no merit on the battlefield, whether it was in the court meeting or when they met in peacetime, Zhu Di called Zhang Xin Enzhang, not only that, but he ordered Zhang Xin to do secret affairs such as surveying the movements of the vassal king, and his favor to Zhang Xin has not faded.

At this time, Zhang Rui, Xie Gui and others held the edict issued by Emperor Jianwen to arrest the officials of the Yan Wangfu and deprive the Yan Wangjue, and led the Beiping Seven Ya officials and Tuntian soldiers to surround the Yanwang Mansion City. With Zhang Xin's support, Zhu Di's heart was a little relieved, and he hurriedly called the guard Zheng He to lead 800 strong men into the yafu to wait for the emergency.

After Zhang Rui, Xie Gui and others led their troops to surround the palace, they shouted to the subordinate officials of the palace to be arrested when they went out. In order to bluff, they kept shooting a few arrows into the palace, because there were few soldiers in the Yan Palace, Zhu Di also felt very frightened, he asked Zheng He: "Their soldiers are surrounded outside and the streets are all over the street, what should I do?"

Zheng He came up with an idea: "If you can capture Zhang Rui and Xie Gui first, the other soldiers will be easy to deal with." ”

Zhu Di pondered for a long time and came up with a plan: "Since the edict is to arrest the officials and subordinates in my mansion, we can trick Zhang Rui and Xie Gui into entering the palace, and tell them that the person to be arrested in the edict has been escorted, and the two of them need to enter the mansion to verify their identity." ”

So Zhu Di opened the door of the palace, he sat in the east hall, and claimed that his serious illness had been cured. In advance, he ambushed the sergeants in the palace gate and the rite gate, agreed to act on orders, and then he sent people to summon Zhang Rui and Xie Gui into the palace.

At first, Zhang Rui and Xie Gui were afraid of the trick and did not dare to come. In order to deceive the two, King Yan sent someone to show the two with a detailed list of officials and subordinates with an edict written on it, indicating that they were inviting two officers to enter to check the identity of the prisoner. Zhang Rui and Xie Gui thought about it again and again, and Emperor Jianwen's edict only said that it was to arrest the officials and subordinates of King Yan, and this imperial uncle had not completely torn his face, so they hesitated for a moment and then moved forward with their swords.

When entering the gate of the palace, the guards around Zhang Rui and Xie Gui were stopped by the guards at the door. Due to the royal family in Zhu Yuanzhang's era, the palace really could not enter at will, in line with inertial thinking, Zhang Rui and Xie Gui did not insist on entering the palace with escorts.

Entering the lobby of Yanwang's Mansion, I saw Zhu Di sitting with a cane, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness. The officials and subordinates in the mansion on both sides gathered, the music sounded, and the king of Yan gave a banquet and drank wine. After three rounds of wine, a maid served a delicate lacquer case, on which melon slices were neatly arranged.

"Someone just came in to offer new melons, and I tasted them with Qing and others today. As he spoke, Zhu Di stood up, picked up two slices of melon in person, and walked over to Zhang Rui and Xie Gui.

The two got up and bowed and were about to reach out to take the melon, but Zhu Di suddenly changed his face and scolded loudly: "Even if it is an ordinary person, the brothers and clans can still protect each other." As a relative of the Son of Heaven, I am worried about my own life and safety, the court treats me like this, what can not be done in the world?" After speaking, Zhu Di threw the melon on the ground and glared at Zhang Rui and Xie Gui with disgust.

The soldiers in the palace of King Yan suddenly rushed out, and all the guards rushed forward to tie up Zhang Rui and Xie Gui, and Ge Cheng and other Emperor Jianwen's internal should also be taken down on the spot. Zhu Di threw away the crutches in his hand and shouted: "I'm not sick at all, I was forced to come up with such a plan because of the traitorous minister's frame-up." With a wave of his hand, he reprimanded Zhang Rui, Xie Gui and others, and beheaded them in front of the palace hall.

Zhang Rui and Xie Gui's guards waited outside the palace gate for a long time, and they all thought that the two were drinking and feasting with the prince, so they slowly dispersed. Not long after, I heard that Zhang Rui and Xie Gui had been killed by King Yan, and the Ming army that surrounded King Yan's mansion was leaderless and immediately dispersed. Only Peng Er, the commander of Beiping, was relatively calm, and he shouted loudly in the market alone: "King Yan rebels!"

He gathered more than 1,000 soldiers and stormed the Duanli Gate. While he was commanding, two vigorous soldiers under King Yan took advantage of the chaos to advance, cut Peng Er down from his horse, and killed him with a random knife, and the soldiers dispersed.

Zhu Di hurriedly ordered Zheng He to lead his troops to attack at night and capture the Nine Gates of Beiping. Due to the urgency of the incident, the eight gatehouses were captured in one fell swoop, and only the soldiers of Xizhimen were tenacious and kept defending. Zheng He rode alone to persuade him to surrender: "Don't make trouble for yourself, the imperial court has now promised King Yan to govern the north." Surrender now, don't ask any questions, if there is a slight delay, you will not be spared!"

The officers and soldiers guarding the gate were anxious for a while, and they didn't know whether it was true or not, so they all dispersed in a hurry. In just two or three days, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, had already taken over the entire Beiping City, and the commanders sent by the imperial court made Yu Zhen and Ma Xuan have few soldiers around them, one retreated to Juyong Pass, and the other fled to Jizhou.

The Ming general Song Zhong led 30,000 troops from Kaiping to Juyong Pass, deeply afraid of the courage of the Yan soldiers, this straw bag actually retreated to Huailai. When Jianwen heard about the incident, he issued an edict to cut down the subordinate title of King Yan, and the armies of both sides officially started fighting.

After Zhu Di raised his troops, the march was very smooth. As soon as the army arrived in Tongzhou, Fang Sheng, the Ming general who was guarded, surrendered the city. Yan general Zhang Yu quickly captured Jizhou, killed the Ming general Ma Xuan, broke Zunhua, and captured Miyun. Soon, Juyong Pass was captured, and Yu Zhen, the defender of the Ming army, abandoned the city and ran to Song Zhong who camped in Huailai because of the lack of reinforcements.

After all, Zhu Di is not a bird raised in a cage, he has been fighting with Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a teenager, and he is a general in the Jiuxian army when he is an adult. After defeating Yu Zhen, judging the situation, Zhu Di decided that the Ming general Song Zhong had tens of thousands of soldiers in Huailai, and he would definitely attack Juyong Pass under the urging of Emperor Jianwen's edict, so Zhu Di ordered the army to advance and take the initiative to attack.

The generals were puzzled: "The enemy is outnumbered, and it is difficult to compete with each other, so it is better to hold on to the pass and wait for the enemy to attack." ”

Zhu Di tried to disagree with the public: "Song Zhong's troops are newly assembled, and the army is not aligned, we should win with wisdom, not by force." Moreover, Song Zhong is self-righteous and rash, and when he hesitates, he will be able to break the enemy by attacking him!"

Zhu Di led the elite of 8,000 cavalry, rolled his armor and traveled in a double way, and went straight to Huailai. And he commanded according to the saddle, and his face was happy, these performances all showed that Zhu Di was obviously in his chest.

Originally, Song Zhong first played psychological warfare in the army, and said that the family members of the army in Beiping were all killed by Yan soldiers, and the corpses were piled up all over the road, hoping to provoke his subordinates to fight to the death. Zhu Di had already received the information, he first sent a group of soldiers of the Ming army in Beiping to hold high the banner as the vanguard, and called his brother from afar, informing the whole family that they were healthy and safe.

The soldiers and generals from Beiping under Song Zhong were all overjoyed and passed the word to each other: "The Song Governor deceived us. Soon, most of the Ming troops from Beiping defected and ran away.

Song Zhong had no choice but to lead the rest of the people to line up in a hurry, the formation was not stable, and Zhu Di's Yan army had already rushed over with shouts and shouts. The Ming army commanded Sun Tai to be very brave, riding his horse to meet the Yan soldiers and charging fiercely, killing and wounding many Yan soldiers and Yan generals.

Zhu Di hurriedly found a few marksmen and stepped forward, shot head-on, and shot Sun Tai all over his body. General Sun was loyal and brave, regardless of the blood flowing all over the armor, he charged into battle and died. As soon as Sun Tai died, the Ming army, which was already weak in their hearts, saw that the situation was not good, and they scattered and fled one after another, returning to Huailai City. The Yan army followed and chased in, captured Huailai, captured Song Zhong, Yu Zhen and Peng Ju and sent them to King Yan's horse.

Although these three generals were ineffective in the war, they were all loyal and righteous people, and they refused to give in and were killed. Seeing that the lord was like this, the more than 100 middle-level generals and colonels of the Ming army who were captured refused to surrender, and they all died generously. The soldiers of the early Ming Dynasty, many loyal and righteous people, are definitely not like the generals of the late Ming Dynasty who have been corrupted by the peaceful years, and whoever is caught will surrender. Although they were captured by King Yan, who had the same surname as Zhu Ming, they were able to maintain their allegiance to the central court, which was indeed respected by future generations.

After the Yan soldiers conquered Huailai, the momentum was like a bamboo, Kaiping, Longmen, Shanggu, and Yunzhong were all self-defeating, and soon captured Yongping. At this point, Zhu Di's Beiping rear base has become a solid foundation, and there is no longer much to worry about, and he can go south with determination.

The military situation in the north was so urgent, Jianwen Junchen didn't care very much, they thought that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was just a fluke. Although Huang Zicheng was born as a scholar, he could also see that the Yan soldiers were not good, and he advised Emperor Jianwen and said: "The Yan soldiers are strong, if you don't defend early, I'm afraid Hebei will be lost." ”

Emperor Jianwen sent Changxing Marquis Lian Bingwen, Commander Li Jian and others to lead the Northern Expedition to resist the attack of the Yan soldiers. Huang Zicheng was not at ease, and then ordered Wu Jie, Marquis of Anlu, Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, and more than a dozen commanders to march in parallel with each other, known as the million army, to march in the direction of Beiping, and flew to Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi provinces to help with military pay and logistical support.

Before the generals set off, Emperor Jianwen saw them off in front of the palace. If it is to talk about some victory, the official nonsense of the horse to the success does not matter, but Emperor Jianwen is full of poetry and books, and he is the lord of Rouren, he admonished the generals: "In the past, Xiao Yi of the Liang State of the Southern Dynasty in order to ascend the throne of God, instigated his subordinates to take advantage of the chaos to kill his third brother, Xiao Gang, the Jianwen Emperor established by Hou Jing, such a thing is extremely ominous. Now you soldiers are going to fight against King Yan, so be careful not to kill or injure King Yan, so that I don't have a bad reputation for killing my uncle for future generations. Such earnest entrustment is the most smelly move in Emperor Jianwen's life.

Yan King Zhu Di rebelled, endangering the Ming Dynasty society, the main force of the two sides has not yet contacted, the emperor actually made it clear that he could not let this anti-thief uncle be damaged, the generals threw rats and taboos, and the soldiers did not dare to capture the thief first to capture the king, and kill the thief first to kill the head, so we can foresee the embarrassment of the Ming army in the face of the Yan soldiers in the future.

In September of the first year of Jianwen, Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing of the Ming Dynasty, and others led 300,000 troops to Zhending, Xu Bing led 100,000 troops to garrison Hejian, Pan Zhong led tens of thousands of troops to garrison Mozhou, and Yang Song led 9,000 elite soldiers to enter Zhaxiong County as the vanguard, preparing to attack the Yan army with Pan Zhong's army, and the first battle of the Ming and Yan armies Zhending opened the prelude.

Zheng He was brave and strategic, and first disguised himself to conduct a field reconnaissance of Geng Bingwen's army, and after answering, he reported to Zhu Di, the king of Yan: "The Ming army led by Geng Bingwen was undisciplined, and it was a chaotic camp with many people and a messy camp. Pan Zhong and Yang Song choked the southern road of our army, and they should eat the troops of these two people first. Zhu Di heard the words and personally led his troops to Zhuozhou.

After a short rest in Lousang, he led the army to cross the Baigou River in a hurry. After going ashore, he said to the generals: "Tonight is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Ming army does not know that our army has arrived, and they will definitely drink and have fun. ”

In the middle of the night, the Yan army quietly rushed to the city of Xiongxian and climbed the city. The Ming army in the city was not prepared at all, and they had just fallen asleep drunk, when they suddenly heard the sound of swords and guns shouting, and they were all startled. After all, these Ming troops were vanguards, but their thoughts were paralyzed, and their combat effectiveness and willpower were not weak, and they fought to the death, but in the end, they were defeated by the armed Yan soldiers because they had no time to handle the guns and knives. As a result, Yang Song and his 9,000 Ming soldiers were all killed in battle, and more than 8,000 of his best horses were also captured by the Yan army.