Chapter 97: The Rogue Strikes A Shift
Zunhua City. Just after the fourth watch, Lin Yi's Guanning iron cavalry confronted the men and horses of Wang Pu, the general soldier of Shanxi.
The reason why these more than 1,000 Guanning iron horsemen followed Lin Yi and dared to confront the people and horses of the imperial court was also for a reason.
The first reason is because Guanning Tieqi has long had a grudge with the imperial court. A few years ago, Yuan Chonghuan was stationed in Liaodong and built a strong Guanning defense line, which was difficult for the Later Jin army to break through. Huang Taiji detoured to Mongolia and attacked the Ming Dynasty's Gyeonggi, and Yuan Chonghuan led Guanning to gallop thousands of miles and enter King Qin.
After driving away the Tartars, Yuan Chonghuan asked Emperor Chongzhen for instructions to enter Beijing to rest his army, but Emperor Chongzhen refused, and Guan Ningjun later slept on the streets outside Beijing. The defenders of the city fired arrows and stones at the Guanning army, causing several casualties.
Later, Yuan Chonghuan was Ling Chi, and Guan Ningjun was treated unfairly, which greatly chilled the hearts of the soldiers of Ning Yuanjun, and until now the general of Guan Ningjun, Zu Dashou, has listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement.
The second reason is that they are unhappy for their new main general, Lin Yi. In these few battles, Lin Yi made great contributions, and the officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were obvious to all, but the meritorious ministers, not only were not reused and rewarded by the imperial court, but they had to be killed, as if they had become Yuan Chonghuan's second, which was unbearable.
Therefore, these soldiers of Guanning Iron Cavalry will follow Lin Yi with all their hearts, and would rather do something rebellious.
"Where are Gonggong Gao and Yang Futai?" Lin Yi slashed angrily.
Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang had to appear in front of the military formation.
"Commander Lin visited late at night, why? With such a stirring up of the people, do you have to rebel? ”
Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang were still pretending not to know what was going on.
"Hypocrisy, you two can really pretend, today's matter, Lao Tzu will make it clear to you, see what you can do!" Thinking of this, Lin Yi sneered: "Gonggong Gao, Yang Futai, look at who they are!"
Lin Yi said, throwing the three bloody heads in front of Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang's horse.
One deputy thousand households and two hundred households of the Fu Division of Weibei Town, Jinyi, two or three hours ago, they were still giving orders together, and of course Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang and others knew each other.
After seeing it clearly, Gao Qiqian, Yang Sichang and others were stunned. Killing the factory guard is already a crime of rebellion, not to mention the powerful person who killed Jinyi Weibei Town?
Especially Gao Qiqian's big white face is not calm, no wonder there has been no news of them, it turned out that they ended up like this, the three of them are like this, the more than 500 brocade guards under their command can be imagined, wantonly killing the brocade guards of the imperial court, this Lin Yi is ruthless and brave enough!
"Father-in-law Gao, Yang Futai, since we have a 10-day appointment, why do we want to do this tonight?"
Lin Yi questioned face-to-face, Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang looked at each other, and then had an idea.
"They are from Beizhen Fusi, and they came to Zunhua together this time, and they were ordered by the commander of the East Factory, Cao Governor, to investigate the case of Lu Ming, the factory guard, and the Jinyi Guard handled the case, and even we were not allowed to ask, so we didn't know about this matter."
I even said I didn't know? Well, in that case, I'll do what you don't know. It just so happened that Lao Tzu didn't want to make a big deal in the city and tarnish the reputation of the governor Lu Xiangsheng for the rest of his life.
In the middle of the night, they suddenly broke in, indiscriminately asking for Lin's life, Lin had to do this out of self-preservation, at this time, it was all Lin Yi's doing, and it had nothing to do with anyone else. After the expiration of the 10-day covenant, Lin Yi and the Governor will enter Beijing with you, and Lin Yi will make this matter clear at that time. But in the remaining days, Grandpa Gao and all the adults, don't force Lin Yi to do something out of the ordinary! ”
After Lin Yi finished speaking, he threw the three embroidered spring knives to the ground with a bang, and then rode away with more than a thousand Guan Ning Tie.
"Father-in-law Gao, Lord Futai, can't you just let these thieves go?" Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Shanxi, looked at Lin Yi's domineering backs and said angrily.
"There are still six or seven days, let's keep this account for them first, and then calculate it after we go to Beijing."
Gao Qiqian, Yang Sichang and others hurriedly withdrew their troops.
After Lin Yi went back, he pulled out all the bodies of hundreds of Jinyi guards and buried them.
In the next few days, Lin Yi has been vigilant, but he has always been peaceful, Gao Qiqian, Yang Sichang, the two chief military officers Wang Pu and Tang Tong and others are very honest.
Lin Yi knew what they were going to do, and after he and Lu Xiang were promoted to Shangjing and thrown into prison, they would settle the new accounts and old accounts with them.
But they have their plans, Lin Yi also has Lin Yi's plans, he has already planned it, and after the 10th, Xiaoying, Zhang Sheng, Gan Bao and Jiang Xingyuan have already sent someone to send news, saying that according to Lin Yi's plan, everything is going well.
Lin Yi was very happy, and he was looking forward to this day, secretly said, the dead eunuch, and Yang Sichang, you traitors, will have you feel good when the time comes......
Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang deployed 30,000 heavy troops inside and outside the city, one is to prevent changes in the city, and the other is to prevent thieves outside the city from attacking. As a result, when the ten days came, there were no major changes in the city, and there were no thieves outside the city, so in any case, the ten days were passed smoothly.
Next, it was time for Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian to part ways. As the commander of the army and the herald of the imperial court, Gao Qi sneaked Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi to return to Beijing to resume his life.
And Yang Sichang is the governor of these places, of course, he has to stay and continue to patrol Zunhua, Yongping, and Shanhaiguan.
According to the agreement, on this day, Lin Yi and Lu Xiangsheng were all loaded into the prisoner car, and Gao Qiqian wanted to escort them back to Beijing.
As soon as these two people were put into the cage, Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang's two hearts were put in their stomachs. But now they will never dare to do harm, and they have to consider the public opinion of more than 1,000 Guanning iron horsemen and tens of thousands of ordinary people in the city.
Everything can only be said after arriving in Jingshi, or leaving Zunhua. Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang can only endure it now.
Because it is not close to the Jingshi Road, the 30,000 horses of Datong and Miyun are all carried by Gao Qiqian to avoid accidents on the road.
These armies also have nothing to do with Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian is Lu Xiangsheng's commander of the army of soldiers and horses, and he is also ordered by Chongzhen to supervise the army to fight, Wang Po, the chief soldier of Shanxi, and Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Miyun, of course, have to follow Gao Gonggong.
Therefore, Yang Sichang only took more than 1,000 personal soldiers and guards, and continued to stay in Zunhua, exercising the powers and duties of the governor entrusted to him by the imperial court.
The governor of the Ming Dynasty had very great power, he was the highest administrator of a province, and had the power to mobilize troops and horses.
Therefore, after Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi were escorted away, there were still many things to do in Zunhua, Yongping, and Qianxi, and the prefect and the three divisions of the yamen were missing, so the governor had to act on behalf of these officials.
The first thing Yang Sichang did was the problem of the reorganization of more than 1,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry in Zunhua, of course Yang Sichang knew that these were Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi's henchmen, and they had to be cleaned and reorganized, and the influence of Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi on them must be completely eliminated.
Don't look at Yang Sichang as a civilian official, but he is also a person who knows soldiers, when Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi were there, he didn't dare to touch these soldiers and soldiers. But now that Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi have been put into a cage and taken away, more than a thousand Guan Ning iron horsemen have no leader, which is tantamount to sheep entering the tiger's mouth, Yang Sichang thinks that he can clean them up as he wants, kill those who should be killed, close those who should be closed, and replace those who should be replaced.
The plan was decided, but Yang Sichang was wrong, and on the night when Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi left Zunhua, there were thieves.
I don't know how many people, earth-shattering, they claim to be the men and horses of the sky, shouting to attack the city.
Guan Ning Tieqi took the initiative to ask Ying to go out of the city to quell the thieves, Yang Sichang agreed, and he had to agree. But the more than 1,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry opened the city gate and put the thieves into the city.
After the thieves entered the city, they did not kill the people, nor did they set fire to them or rob, but rushed towards Yang Sichang's summer office.
Yang Sichang was so frightened that he had to run away overnight, and under the protection of more than 1,000 personal soldiers, he opened a bloody road, opened the city gate and fled to Beijing overnight......
Gao Qiqian took 30,000 horses and escorted Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi and left Zunhua.
The higher he went, the happier he became, and the more he walked, the more secure he felt, because the closer they got to Jingshi.
Gao Qiqian remembered the anger he had suffered in the past few days, and began to abuse Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi, and he planned to vent his anger first.
Having also walked dozens of miles, he ordered the team to stop. He led someone to carry a whip, and Xiang Lin Yi's car came.
Who knew that before he got close to Lin Yi's car, the shouts of killing were everywhere, and the overwhelming thieves came over, claiming to be Hui Hui and the people whose lights were not on.
These thieves seem to have come out of the ground, and they dare to attack the officials and soldiers in broad daylight, they really deserve to be thieves!
The only thing that Gao Qi was afraid of was to command the war, and he didn't care about retaliating and abusing Lin Yi and Lu Xiangsheng.
Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, Shanxi, and Tang Tong, the general soldier of Miyun, commanded 30,000 horses to lead troops to the enemy.
But when they saw that there were too many thieves, they were all over the world, and they were tearing the earth to the sky, and the cries were like the rising tide of the sea.
These officers and soldiers were stunned, and a thief's general arrived with men and horses, this general was five big and three thick, and carried a large axe in his hand, the size of a small wheel.
Killing the officers and soldiers was unstoppable, and the chief military officer Wang Pu personally came to fight, and he fled in embarrassment without a three-way helmet.
The general who made the axe led a group of men and horses into the flock, and soon encountered Tang Tong, the general of Miyun, that is, more than ten rounds, and Tang Tong's head was chopped off with a click.
The officers and soldiers were defeated, and the general with an axe rushed towards Gaoqidive.
Gao Qiqian was so frightened that his face was colorless, and he hurriedly ran away.
The general who made the axe did not chase, rushed to the front of the two wooden cage cars, killed the surrounding officers and soldiers, and rescued Lin Yi and Lu Xiangsheng from the car with a few axes, and then they fled with Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi.
Gao Qiqian was protected by Wang Pu and others, and ran out of more than 20 miles in one go, and only when they saw that the thieves behind them did not chase after them, they stopped and gasped.
Gao Qiqian felt that these thieves were too powerful, so he didn't dare to delay at all, and hurried to Shangjing with the remnants of the defeated generals......
Two days later, Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang, the two poor worms, met together again, and told each other that they were connected by the same fate, in order to shirk their own responsibility, they had to push all this on the thieves and go back to report to Emperor Chongzhen......
In a mountain ring dozens of miles outside Zunhua City, all the black pressure is people and horses, at least more than 100,000.
But these people are not all soldiers, nor are they all thieves. There are Guanning Iron Cavalry from Zunhua, as well as Tianxiong Army from Qianxi, etc., plus more than 1,000 horses in one piece.
The rest are all ordinary people, most of whom come from three places, Zunhua, Yongping and Qianxi.
These people surrounded two people like stars holding the moon, one was Lu Xiangsheng, and the other was Lin Yi.
Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi thanked the villagers for not hesitating to be thieves and risking death to save each other.
On the contrary, the common people were all grateful to Lin Yi and Lu Xiangsheng for driving away the Tartars and protecting them.
The common people dispersed, Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi only had more than 1,000 horses left, they went into the mountains, Lu Xiangsheng went incognito, built a grass house and said that he would not leave.
Lin Yi took more than 1,000 people with him, and he did not leave, firstly, it was now winter, and secondly, he planned to protect Lu Xiangsheng here until he was fully recovered.
Every day, in addition to visiting Lu Xiangsheng, Lin Yi took Xiaoying, Zhang Hua, He Tao, Wang Qi, Erhu Wang Jian, Gan Bao, Jiang Xingyuan and others to practice martial arts.
Lin Yi began to practice riding a horse and charging, because after these few battles, he knew that it was his shortcoming to rush and kill immediately. In this troubled world, in this era of cold weapons, as a general, he is not good at riding a horse and killing, and sooner or later he will suffer.
Lin Yi practiced for a few days, and accidentally found that Lu Xiangsheng's figure appeared every time, and Lu Xiangsheng would shake his head every time he saw Lin Yi practicing riding a horse and charging.
Lin Yi had an idea, the master is here, why not learn from a teacher?