Two days later, on the first day of the first month of the first year of the Yongli calendar of the Southern Ming Dynasty (1647 in the Western calendar), the sky was more cloudy, and the clouds were overwhelming, as if they would collapse at any time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Guangxi Wuzhou Mansion outside the city suddenly came a large group of people, from the Sanjiang Wharf to the Wuzhou South Gate between the official road, the foot and horse are mixed, people back to the horse neighing, wandering around, the yellow dust is all over the sky, look at it, like a gray dragon.

Walking in the front was a six-trailer carriage, because through the curtain, the people inside could not be seen, and there were several cars behind it, all of which were also veiled.

The guards around the carriage were knights, accompanied by eunuchs in scarlet robes and green robes; There are also court officials and ministers who wear Usha on their heads and patch clothes; More of them are some brocade-clothed pro-soldiers dressed in cotton armor and wearing phoenix-winged copper helmets on their heads.

In the middle are some family members of officials, men, women and children, the line is sparse, very long, and the walk is slow, looking listless. At the back were a group of baggage vehicles and a group of chauffeurs, and there were a certain number of brocade-clothed pro-army guards on both sides of the team.

Although the people in the countryside have never seen the world, they also know that this group of people is not small, and the timid have already knelt down and kowtowed, but more are standing far away on the dark fields on both sides of the official road, looking at the excitement suspiciously.

Suddenly, the south gate of Wuzhou Mansion City was opened, and a group of men and horses rushed out of the city, quickly passed the ring moat, and rushed straight towards the large group of men and horses outside the city.

The procession was suddenly a little confused, and then it slowly stopped, and a eunuch on horseback shouted in a sharp voice: "Someone, escort!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a military attache of the brocade guard led dozens of brocade guards to drive forward and block the front of the team.

There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, and the horses came closer.

"It's Governor Cao." After seeing the appearance of the leading horseman, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The leader was dressed in a four-grade Yunyan red supplement, and his face was panicked and eager, it was Cao Ye, the governor of Guangxi who rushed to meet him after hearing the news.

When approaching the car that was guarded by the Jinyi army, Cao Ye didn't care about the dust on the ground, turned over and dismounted, knelt in the middle of the road, kowtowed, and said: "Cao Ye, the governor of Guangxi, welcomes the holy car." If you are late, please ask the emperor to surrender. The entourage behind him also knelt down, not daring to raise their heads.

After a while, the gentle voice of the young emperor came from the car: "It's because I've come in a hurry, and it's not too late to pass it on, what's the crime?" Flatten. ”

Cao Ye kowtowed again and said, "The minister bows to thank the emperor." ”

After getting up, Cao Ye's eyes still had a lot of panic in them, obviously he was not mentally prepared for the sudden arrival of the emperor.

As he spoke, the curtain of the six-hung carriage at the front of the team opened, and the young emperor on the carriage gently pushed away the waiter who was standing aside and wanted to step forward to support him, stepped on the wooden couch, and stepped off the carriage alone.

I saw that he was burly, his face was delicate and dignified, his eyes were big and sharp, the bridge of his nose was straight, and the whole person looked very heroic.

Needless to say, this young emperor is naturally Zhu Tianyang, who just crossed over to Emperor Yongli a few days ago.

"Please take the emperor on your shoulder."

Yang Shouchun, the eunuch of the imperial leader standing aside, had already ordered the chamberlain to prepare the gorgeous shoulder pads beside him so that the emperor could ride.

Seeing that the eunuchs around him were so considerate, Zhu Tianyang was very satisfied in his heart, as if he had experienced the feeling of living in eight seats at the peak of his career in his previous life, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of the majesty of a person who had been in the top position for a long time.

Through the memory of the original owner of this body, Zhu Tianyang knew that the eunuch, the head of the imperial court, was originally an old man in the Guiwang Mansion, and since Zhu Youlang was named the king of Yongming County when he was ten years old, he has been in charge of his diet and daily life, and it has been more than ten years now, and he is one of Zhu Youlang's most trusted slaves.

Slowly stepping up to his shoulder, Zhu Tianyang said softly: "You can enter the city." ”

"Get up and get into the city!" Yang Shouchun sang loudly.

In this moment's effort, outside the city of Wuzhou Mansion, it was already crowded with people who went out of the city to greet them, with fluttering flags and honor guards.

They already knew from the mouths of the gentry and lords in the city that the team of men and horses outside the city was the driver of the Ming Emperor's 'Western Tour'.

Hearing that the newly enthroned Emperor Ming was the little Gui prince who originally lived in the same city as them, the people knelt on both sides of the city gate with a trace of surprise and awe, and the leading officials were Lu Shilian, the prefect of Wuzhou, and Wan Sikui, the county governor of Cangwu.

Because they couldn't ride horses, they couldn't keep up with Cao Ye's footsteps, so they organized the people here to catch up.

The emperor's car was getting closer and closer to the capital city of Wuzhou, and soon reached the south gate. Wuzhou, known as Cangwu in ancient times. In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the road was changed and the government was set up, and there were five gates: Yangming in the east, Xijiang in the west, Nanxun in the south, Dayun in the north, and Dezheng in the southwest.

There is a city gate tower above the city gate, there is an urn city outside the five gates, and there is a corner tower at each of the five corners of the city wall. Sixteen miles around the city, covered with bricks, even the female wall is two feet and five feet high, there are one thousand and seventy-five battlements, and five hundred and sixty-nine buildings are built.

The east, south and west sides of the city wall are surrounded by Hao, three zhang deep, the water flows against the crocodile pond outside the east gate, and flows into the Guijiang River under the south gate, the small south gate, the west gate to the Tochigi Bridge, the mountains in the north are continuous, it is a natural defensive barrier.

There is a big river in the southwest of Wuzhou City, the river is Guizhou, Yu Ershui, confluence in the east of Xunyang City in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", Xunjiang River. After entering the boundary of Wuzhou Prefecture, it passes under the Standing Mountain in the east, merges with the Guijiang River, and is called the mouth of the three rivers. The big river passes through the city of Wuzhou, and flows down in Guangdong, which is called the Xijiang River. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were heavy troops stationed in Wuzhou Hedong, Hexi, Henan three places, and there were three major barracks, in order to communicate the three places, two large pontoon bridges were built on the Guijiang River and the Xijiang River, so that the six banks of the three rivers in Wuzhou were connected into a piece, so Wuzhou is a well-deserved military town in the southwest.

But when it got closer, I only saw that the city defense was in ruins, and there were few arrangements for deer antler knife fences, iron thistles, village pipes, and horse rejection, and the defense was simply useless. Although I saw a large number of defenders of the city with cotton armor on their bodies, their weapons were also very sharp, and there were even a lot of guns standing at the head of the city, but the soldiers were lazy, the generals were arrogant, and there was no trace of spirit up and down.

Yiye Zhiqiu, judging from the lax defense of Wuzhou City, it is estimated that the defense of the city in the territory of the Southern Ming Dynasty is not much better, and it is no wonder that the Qing army can go all the way when it goes south, and his life seems to be difficult to keep!

Listening to the voices of the people all over the city welcoming the holy car and shouting long live, Zhu Tianyang did not have a trace of excitement, his eyes were slightly closed, and his eyebrows gradually wrinkled into a Sichuan character.

"Cao Qing, I ask you, how can you defend a city?"

The memory of Emperor Yongli in this life has been completely absorbed, coupled with the officialdom experience of decades in his previous life, Zhu Tianyang can generally control the identity of the emperor.

Cao Ye, who was on standby at any time, was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know why the emperor suddenly asked this question, but fortunately, since he was in charge of Guangxi for a year, he had also suppressed several Yaomin rebellions, and he had some understanding of military affairs, so he would not answer the question and be ignorant.

He stabilized his mind and considered his sentence for a while, and then he spoke cautiously and slowly: "The minister thinks that all those who defend the city must meet at least the following three points: First, they must have sufficient food, have food in their hands, and do not panic in their hearts.

Second, it is necessary to have sufficient troops and firearms, coupled with high morale, and if the soldiers do not have fighting spirit, they will not be able to fight.

Third, it is necessary to build a strong fortification in advance, and those who are in battle can only win a hundred battles by making themselves invincible first.

With these three points, the location, the people, and I, if we get the time again, what we lack is a wind of victory. ”

"Aiqing said it well!"

Zhu Tianyang took advantage of the situation to put away his sad face, glanced at the Wuzhou Mansion City, suddenly turned pale, and said: "Wuzhou Mansion is connected to Zhaoqing in the east, Guilin in the northwest, in the upper reaches of the place, in the middle of the five mountains, there is the danger of nine peaks and three rivers, and the water bay is ringed, and the thoroughfares are four reaches, it is really the throat of Baiyue, the shape is victorious, and the ordinary city is still needed to be so, so important town, what should I do?" ”

Zhu Tianyang's words are here, if Cao Ye still doesn't understand, then he is not worthy of being a big official, he is the governor of Guangxi, supervising local military affairs, and the matter of Wuzhou's city defense is naturally regulated by him, and the emperor is obviously holding him accountable.

With a look of sincerity and fear on his face, he quickly dismounted, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The minister is guilty, the minister deserves to die, but the minister has a last resort, I hope the saint will see it!" ”

"Oh? Do you still have a hard time? Let's hear it. ”

Cao Ye bowed down and said with a look of grievance: "The minister is incompetent, and the talent and virtue of the minister are not enough to take on the heavy responsibility." Wuzhou Town's general Chen Bangfu is strong and strong, fierce and powerful, so he has always been taking care of the city defense on weekdays, and the minister has a negative grace, please ask the emperor to remove the minister from the post of governor of Guangxi, in order to be virtuous. After speaking, he knocked his head a few times.

Zhu Tianyang was speechless for a while after listening, this Cao Ye was really cunning, and with a few gentle words, he put the responsibility on Chen Bangfu, not only in his words, but also said that Chen Bangfu was arrogant and commanded by himself, but also hinted at the fact that he relied on military authority to encroach on the governor's power, and finally used his resignation to threaten in disguise, turning passivity into initiative, worthy of being an old official who has been mixed in the Ming officialdom for decades, it is really not easy for him, a small director of different time and space, to bluff him for a while!

In his previous life, Zhu Tianyang loved history, especially the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and was naturally no stranger to Chen Bangfu, a famous general in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Chen Bangfu was originally a son of a rich family, treacherous and greedy by nature, and once bribed the Chinese martial arts, and the officials were divided into Liu and Qing generals. In the first year of Longwu (1646 in the Western calendar), Zhu Hengjia, the king of Jingjiang, Guangxi, rebelled, and Chen Bangfu participated in the counterinsurgency, and was meritorious in speculation. This series of celebrity rewards suddenly made Chen Bangfu the leading powerful feudal town in Guangxi.