On the third day of the first month of November in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong, who had been waiting for a month, finally received the holy decree of King Weiqin.

Zhu Cihong acted vigorously and resolutely, and immediately summoned all the generals to Fengtian Temple for urgent deliberations.

In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Cihong looked at the excited Wenchen generals in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "This palace has received the holy decree of King Qin, and has also made arrangements for the commander of the guard, I will order below!" ”

All the generals in the hall stood straight, and for a while, there was a sound of nail leaves rattling, and everyone was staring at the prince expectantly.

Zhu Cihong said: "Huang Degong led 10,000 Tianwu troops to garrison Huguang, Yang Yufan led 20,000 Anwu troops to garrison Luzhou Mansion and Chuzhou Mansion, Fengyang Mansion and Taiping Mansion each left 5,000 Tianwu troops to garrison to guard the military industry such as the Ordnance Bureau, and the rest of the Tianwu soldiers and horses all went north with the palace!" ”

The three divisions of the Tianwu Army had a total of 60,000 regular soldiers, and 60,000 baggage soldiers accompanying the army, totaling 120,000 troops.

The baggage soldiers of the Tianwu Army are the reserves of the Tianwu Army, and everyone is equipped with armor, self-generated Lumi guns and other equipment, both their equipment and combat effectiveness are not inferior to any elite soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and the only thing lacking is the polishing of the battlefield.

It is impossible for Zhu Cihong to pull the Tianwu army to Beizhili, Fengyang Mansion and other half of Nanzhili were built by his own hard work, and Huguang, once he leads the army away, the nobles in Jiangnan will not be overturned? Everything that has been done in the past two years has been undone.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong decided to leave behind the 20,000 Tianwu Army, and these sergeants still trained the Tuntian soldiers in various places as usual, maintained public order in various places, and eradicated unstable factors.

Hearing that he had left himself, Huang Degong immediately panicked and shouted, "Your Highness, how can there be no last general in the north this time?" The last general really misses those Tartars! ”

Zhu Cihong comforted him and said: "Nanzhili and Fengyang Mansion are our foundations, and you can rest assured that you will guard the palace!" ”

Seeing that he was still unhappy, Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "If it weren't for the imperial court to appoint Sun Yingyuan as a general to capture and let him go north, I would take you and let him stay in Fengyang to take care of his family!" ”

Sun Yingyuan smiled when he heard this, the generals also laughed, and Huang Degong's mood also improved a lot.

Zhu Cihong looked at Huang Degong and suddenly said solemnly: "Huang Degong listens to orders!" ”

Huang Degong immediately put away his frustrated face, stood up straight, and said seriously: "The end will be!" ”

Zhu Cihong said solemnly: "During the period when the army goes north, if anyone dares to take the opportunity to stretch out their hands on our territory, you just have to let go and kill, even if any Guogong comes, he will still be cut down, and all the consequences will be borne by the palace!" ”

Huang Degong said solemnly: "Yes! The last general must guard Nanzhili and Huguang for His Royal Highness! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, looked at Yang Tinglin again, and said, "Yang Qing, Fengyang Mansion will be handed over to you." ”

Yang Tinglin bowed deeply and said, "Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will not let anyone destroy the peace of Fengyang Mansion!" ”

Zhu Cihong swept to everyone and said in a deep voice: "Two days later, at four o'clock, the military parade outside the central capital will go north!" ”

"Yes!" There was a roar in the hall.

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Before leaving, Zhu Cihong went to see Li Dingguo once and asked him if he was interested in going to the north to kill the Tartars together.

After thinking for a moment, Li Dingguo shook his head and refused.

Seeing that he did not enter the oil and salt, Zhu Cihong gave him two choices, either to go north to kill the Tartars, or to go to Qimen County, the severely affected Huizhou Prefecture, to serve as a county magistrate.

Li Dingguo sneered: "I don't choose either, I just want to die!" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "This palace won't let you die, even if you bite your tongue and kill yourself, this palace will save you back, there is just one more dumb person in this world!" ”

Li Dingguo was speechless and asked in a deep voice, "Then what do you want?" ”

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Since you hate the government so much, then you can try it yourself as a county parent official to see if you can govern it well and give the people a stable and prosperous life." ”

Li Dingguo raised his head and said: "In the end, you still want me to surrender to the imperial court, but I can't do it!" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "I know you are afraid, as the saying goes, there are 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion in three years, are you afraid that when you become an official, you can't help but tempt corruption and bribery, and you will lose face?" ”

Li Dingguo sneered: "Low-level method of agitation! ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "If you are not afraid, let's make a bet, I will give you three years, if you can govern Qimen County well, there are no bad deeds between your positions, after three years, the palace will let you go free, and it is up to you where you go!" On the contrary, if you become a corrupt official during the period of Ren Zhixian, then the palace can only eliminate the harm for the people and cut off your head! How is it? ”

Li Dingguo pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll bet with you!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded with satisfaction, but listened to Li Dingguo say again: "There is a question below, please tell the truth to His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Zhu Cihong said: "You say." ”

Li Dingguo stared at him and said, "Dare to ask Your Highness, is Sun Kewang sent by you to kill my father-in-law?" ”

Zhu Cihong said seriously: "To be honest, I just asked him to choose between Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, but I didn't expect him to choose Zhang Xianzhong." ”

Li Dingguo was silent for a long time, and finally bowed his hand to Zhu Cihong and retreated.

After Li Dingguo left, Yang Tinglin on the side said worriedly: "Your Highness, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to let him go to Huizhou Mansion, there are many rogues who surrendered, in case Li Dingguo rebels again.......

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "Is there anything unusual about those rogues who surrendered and were assigned to the field?" ”

Yang Tinglin said: "Not for the time being, they are quite peaceful, and some thorny troubles were killed on the spot by Zhou Shishuai." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and said: "Then it's okay, now that Huizhou Mansion is peaceful, if Li Dingguo pulls the flag and rebels again, it will still be the people who will be injured, if he doesn't care about the lives of the people, it will be useless to keep it......."

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On the fifth day of the first month of November, the weather was clear, and the outside of the central capital was covered with black heads, and one phalanx after another spread into the distance.

This time he went north, Zhu Cihong led a total of 40,000 regular soldiers and 40,000 baggage soldiers of the Tianwu Army, a total of 80,000 troops.

Today, the periphery of the central capital is full of dense people who came to see each other, many of them are the families of the soldiers of the Tianwu Army, they all came to see their relatives on the expedition, and when they saw the honor guard of the crown prince, everyone was fanatical in saluting.

Zhu Cihong walked up to the high point platform, looking at the neat queue below, all the soldiers of the Tianwu Army wearing helmets and armor, and his heart was full of pride.

At that time, Ming Chengzu Yongle military parade mobilized 100,000 troops, shocked the envoys of more than 30 countries, and in the future he will be the emperor, and he must hold another prosperous military parade to cheer up the people, strengthen the prestige of the Ming army, and deter the surrounding Xiaoxiao!

Retracting his thoughts, Zhu Cihong said: "Point general!" ”

Gu Wei, minister of the Ministry of Military Justice, opened the military register, loudly named the generals, and one by one the generals came to the stage to receive orders and report the number of non-commissioned officers in their own army.

Not long after, Gu Wei said in a loud voice: "Back to Your Highness, there are 80,000 soldiers on the expedition, and all of them have arrived!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, walked up to the highest steps, looked at the dense soldiers below, their simple faces, Zhu Cihong suddenly pulled out the carved dragon sword, and pointed obliquely at the sky.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

“.......”

Everyone was shouting feverishly, and the majestic sound rolled across the earth like spring thunder, shocking people's souls, and the overwhelming sound of victory spread in all directions.

"Playing music!"

"Draw your sword and raise the soil, and set the horse to set the Huan District. The king is angry and opens the heavens, and the treasure calendar should be dry. Wu Luo Wenmo, Dragon and Tiger Fengyun started a business. The general's star is circumferential, and the warrior moon is curved. Choose to ride the Southern Chu, form a formation under the Eastern Wu, drive Hu across Shu, and live in the emperor's house with thousands of miles of mountains and rivers! ”

In the grand "Qinghai Yu" martial arts dance music, the huge military parade is the beginning, the Tianwu army phalanx one by one walked through the point of the platform with neat and powerful steps, the flag hunting in the field, the soldiers shouted in the wind, and the blood was boiling.

Although the process of reviewing the Tianwu Army this time was simple, the momentum had exceeded the expected goal, which opened the eyes of the people of Fengyang Mansion and was deeply shocked by the morale in front of them.

In the sound of a tsunami in the mountains, Zhu Cihong turned over and got on his horse, he controlled the reins in one hand, held the sword in the other hand, and danced the cloak behind him.

In another month, Zhu Cihong will be twelve years old, and his height is already close to one meter six, and the difficulty of riding a horse brought by his height is not great.

Zhu Cihong rode the horse a few steps and then lifted the reins of the horse violently, the war horse neighed, and immediately leaned back with its front hooves into the air, putting on a majestic posture of a prancing horse.

This posture of the prancing horse sword finger is Zhu Cihong's long-practiced pretending action, but fortunately, the action is still smooth, in one go, as soon as this set of difficult movements appeared, it immediately caused tens of thousands of soldiers to shout feverishly.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

“......”

Zhu Cihong swung his sword again, pointed diagonally to the north, and shouted: "Go on the expedition!" ”

In the cold wind, the Tianwu Army marched north in an orderly manner and headed for the north.

"Your Highness must come back triumphantly!"

An old man let out a cry with tears, which immediately led the people around to see off, and everyone desperately crowded and shouted, wishing the army to triumph and stay in Fengyang.

Zhu Cihong looked back, looked at the expectations of the people, nodded silently, and led the army to roll towards the north.