It's the other way around, this time it's really the other way around!

A month after King Huai's rebellion, King Yan also rebelled and issued the "Jing Nan Wen Wen" in Beiping, reprimanding the court for "treacherous and rebellious power, jumping off the beam left and right", and the difference with history is that he also accused Zhu Xiongying in the text, "The tyrant is unreasonable, brutalizes the people, kills the king and cuts the domain, and destroys the foundation of 10,000 years." ”

What's even more unexpected is that His Royal Highness King Yan and King Huai did not have the slightest awareness of family ugliness, and they even confirmed the rumors of the father's dusting and the big brother's green hat in the text.

said that Zhu Xiongying was "born of ** temptation Taizu" is the shame of the Ming royal family, and he Zhu Di will be martyred by the heavens, pull the tyrant off the dragon chair and choose another Ming monarch.

No wonder he has such a big tone, now he has more capital than in history, there are nearly 60,000 elite cavalry under his command, more than 10,000 people in the Shenji Battalion, another 80,000 foot soldiers, and even a medium-sized arsenal, which he has accumulated over the years through the use of foreign troops.

As for money and grain, he was not short of money, and the port that borrowed the benefits of woolen spinning and direct sales had already had a large amount of reserves, and with the secret support of other vassal kings, he was fully capable of fighting with the imperial court.

King Yan has led the army for many years, and at a young age, he went deep into Mobei alone and swept the remnants of the Northern Yuan, even if Mongolia was later divided into Tatars and Warats, he did not let go, and led his troops to slip around from time to time.

In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Goryeo's powerful minister Li Chenggui launched a coup d'état, and King Yan took the opportunity to bring Goryeo under the rule of the Ming Dynasty as the commander and the navy.

Such a No. 1 person raising troops to rebel is naturally a shock to the whole country, but the imperial court is in danger, and the current saint is waiting for this day when he is the prince.

The imperial court received the urgent report of King Yan's rebellion and immediately issued an edict to reprimand King Yan for "having no subordinates and wolf ambitions" as a chaotic minister and thief who caused trouble in the world, and at the same time did not forget to attack Zhu Di with his life experience, saying that he was not the concubine of Queen Gao at all, but the birth of a Mongolian concubine of Lao Zhu, and he colluded with the Mongolian tribes to rebel to restore Meng Yuan Yunyun.

At the same time as fighting the war of public opinion, the imperial court also cut off the transportation and shipping to curb the grain and trade routes in Beiping, and on the other hand, began to recruit soldiers and horses from all over the country to go north to quell the rebellion.

According to Zhu Xiongying's meaning, he naturally drove the expedition in person, and before he insisted on going to Yangzhou to quell the rebellion, on the surface, he cleaned up Zhu Yun cleanly without blood, but in fact, he planted a big heel, and now he naturally wants to take this opportunity to be ashamed, not to mention that this is what he has been thinking about all these years.

The courtiers didn't want Zhu Xiongying to repeat the mistakes of Yangzhou, all the courtiers strongly objected, and the Empress Dowager Chang naturally didn't want her son to take risks, Zhu Di's hideous beast was not Zhu Yun's kitten, Chang let Concubine Zheng Shufei blow a pillow wind, and Zhu Xiongying changed his mind.

The selection of the coach is difficult again, and the first person in the army is Cao Guogong Li Jinglong, and he is recommended by the most people. Zhu Xiongying in the main hall asked Li Jinglong's attitude in front of the ministers, and Li Jinglong replied: "The ministers dare not ask or resign, but Your Majesty orders!" Zhu Xiongying smiled when he heard this, and he was noncommittal.

Li Jinglong is avoiding suspicion and Zhu Xiongying obviously doesn't trust him, who is called Zhu Di, Li Jinglong, and Ping An Li Jinglong is called the Iron Triangle, if he rebels directly with the army, it will be repaid, even if Li Jinglong has a small family in Yingtian, he is not at ease.

Time waits for no one, seeing Zhu Di conquering the city in Hebei, Zhu Xiongying couldn't sit still anymore, and finally finalized the candidate, judging from this identity, Zhu Xiongying's biggest criterion for selecting people is loyalty and reliability.

Chang Tong and Zhu Xiongying are cousins, they have grown up together since childhood, have a deep relationship, and naturally trust each other, and Zhu Xiongying will naturally not worry that he will defect to the enemy.

It's just that the world has been peaceful for many years, and although Chang Tong has the title of the governor of the left army, the only experience in leading the troops is to help Zhu Xiongying, who was still the prince at that time, to train the new army.

Let such a young bird lead the army to go to the courtiers naturally objected, Zhu Xiongying was not confused, and sent a letter to Tang Ding, the prince of the country, as a deputy general, and asked him to assist Chang Tong.

In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, Tang He was seriously ill and could not speak or act, Taizu ordered someone to take him to the palace with a carriage and horse to summon him, Taizu held his hand for a long time and talked about the old things of the youth, and it was difficult to raise the army, Tang He could not answer the right kowtow, Taizu saw this and shed tears not only to give him gold cloth for funeral purposes.

Soon after returning to Fengyang, Tang He died of illness, Taizu was grief-stricken, and posthumously named him the king of Don'ou, but Tang Ding was not allowed to inherit the title, until Taizong Deng's wronged courtiers in Hongwu years were rehabilitated, Tang Ding took advantage of this shareholder wind to get the title, and then he has been saying that he was sick in Fengyang, and learned from his old son to marry a concubine at home.

Tang Ding entered the Shenji Battalion to fight with the army when the Ming Dynasty was not founded, although he did not have Zhu Di's dazzling achievements, but he was also a calm and experienced veteran in a hundred battles. And Tang Ding is not as deep as Li Jinglong and Zhu Di has too much to do with, he was originally a good candidate to be the coach, but unfortunately he was not trusted by the emperor.

It is much better to have a reliable deputy marshal than nothing, and the ministers also knew what the emperor thought in their hearts, so they no longer persuaded each other, and only sighed that the new monarch's suspicion and suspicion were better than Taizu.

After discussing the plan with the ministers, Zhu Xiongying officially decreed that Chang Tong would be the general of the rebellion, and Tang Ding would be the deputy general to lead more than 500,000 troops of the army and navy to the north to quell the rebellion.

Before the expedition, all the generals went to the palace to say goodbye, and Zhu Xiongying encouraged him with kind words, so he asked the generals to retreat and leave only Chang Tong alone.

Chang Tong, who is nearly thirty years old, is tall and burly, with a strong appearance, a tuft of beard under his chin, and a shiny armor that is majestic, very much like his grandfather often meets spring.

Zhu Xiongying called him to his front and ordered: "It is not appropriate to ask you to be the commander and lead the army to quell the rebellion this time, but I am also helpless." After Xu Guogong came to Yingtian, I don't know how many lieutenant generals and colonels went to visit, and Xu Guogong could not guarantee that he would not win the hearts of the army for Yan Rebellion. ”

"Your Majesty is too worried, most of the backbone of the army now came out of the Shenji Battalion back then, and it is normal for them to go to visit Xu Guogong's old department, and Xu Guogong has not seen them at all." Chang Tongyi arched his hand and said: "The minister didn't dare to deceive His Majesty, in fact, the minister also went, but my uncle didn't see me." ”

Zhu Xiongying got up and patted Chang Tong on the shoulder, "You are different from them, although you and I are cousins, we are better than biological brothers, if I can't even trust you, no one can be trusted." This time, letting you lead the army to counter the rebellion is not so much to make you the commander as it is to be the overseer. ”

"Overseers?"

"Well, you must remember to ask the Duke of Xin Guo often when marching north, but you must not listen to your words and let them be at your mercy, you can always tell what advice is good and what is bad."

"Your Majesty, rest assured, if you can't even tell the difference between this, so many military books will be read in vain, and the sand table deduction will be done in vain."

Zhu Xiongying earnestly instructed: "This time to quell the rebellion, I don't expect you to do any great things, just eat some small losses steadily, and with the profound strength of the imperial court, you can slowly consume Yan Wei to death." ”

"The minister has one thing to understand, why didn't Your Majesty let the Long Xiang army go out together, just so that they could see blood on the battle array."

The so-called Longxiang Army is a new army organized and trained by Zhu Xiongying as the crown prince to control military power, and it is an elite army selected from various armies, and it is well equipped, and it is simply armed to the teeth. Zhu Biao once said that Zhu Xiongying has the ability to change the emperor because he controls this army.

"Nearly half of the Longxiang army are veterans who have fought in Goryeo, but they are not new soldiers who have never seen blood. This is my last reliance, I will not move them lightly until I have to, the army of more than 500,000 is not enough for you, in short, don't let me down. ”

"Weichen will never live up to His Majesty's trust, and he will definitely mention Yan to see him against the head!"

It is the late autumn when everything is bleak, the Jinan city wall that has been beaten into a pockmarked face is crumbling, it seems that as long as a little hard push will collapse, there is a huge wooden card standing at each battlement of the city, the wooden card is pasted with a layer of white paper, it is written that "open the heavens and walk the way Zhao Ji Li great saint to the god benevolence, righteousness, martial arts, virtue and success of the high emperor", it is the spiritual position of Lao Zhu, Jinan City has not lost all thanks to Lao Zhu's blessing.

Zhu Di's conditions for raising troops were much better than in history, because he had conquered Goryeo as a commander, and Zhu Di was very stable in the rear of a large number of cronies in Liaodong, so from the beginning he raised troops to the south and quickly occupied most of Hebei with a devastating momentum.

After that, he turned around again, drove the navy that had forcibly landed in Zhigu back to the sea and continued southward, occupied Dezhou, the gateway to Shandong, and then began to besiege Jinan.

Shandong's political envoy Tie Xuan and the commander Sheng Yong did not stare at Zhu Di by blowing his beard, but first asked people to go outside the city to send some grain and grass to Zhu Di who came from afar, saying that Zhu Di would open the city and surrender as long as he promised not to harm the people in the city.

You can't blame these two for not being disciplined, although they have a strong city, the Yan army has a good artillery. However, in the past few decades, firearms have developed to a very terrible level, and in the early years of Hongwu, a projectile would leave a dent in the wall, or break a section of the female wall.

Now, as long as the aim is accurate, more than 20 shells can make a gap in the city wall like a city gate, and if the aim is not accurate, it will only be the people in the city who will suffer.

Zhu Di said that he understood Tie Xuan's love for the people, and promised that he would not commit any crimes to the people after entering the city, and Tie Xuan immediately opened the door to welcome Zhu Di into the city.

The complacent Zhu Di never imagined that a huge jack gate knife would fall in the city gate hole, and if he wasn't vigorous, he would have been cut into two pieces alive like his own mount.

Zhu Di, who escaped death, was so angry that he began to storm the city fiercely, I don't know how many shells fell into the city, and the casualties caused to civilians were more than the people slaughtered by Zhu Xiongying in Yangzhou.

The artillery of the Yan army also successfully opened several gaps in the city wall, but they just couldn't rush in, or they were driven out by the defenders in the city when they rushed in.

They are all the troops of the local guards, and the defenders of Shandong are not much stronger than the garrisons of Hebei, because there is an iron-like chief officer in the city.

The Yan army was frustrated, and the defenders of Jinan also suffered heavy losses and could not hold out for long, in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Yan army, Tie Xuan, who was just a little cold, turned his head and made countless Taizu's spiritual positions arranged on the city wall.

Not to mention, this bad idea is very useful, since the portrait of Taizu and the spiritual position of the Yan army have not attacked the city again, and now they are starting to pack up the camp and seem to be about to withdraw.

Sheng Yong put down the binoculars and said with a smile: "The idea of the domain is really wonderful, Yan Shun actually retreated!" ”

Tie Xuan stroked his beard and said with a smile: "If you can keep Jinan from losing, it will be the manifestation of Taizu!" Yan Wei suddenly retreated, I am afraid that the army of the imperial court has arrived! ”