Chapter 233: Where is the Son of Heaven?
"Your Majesty, Weichen has a secret book to play, please retire from the idle people." Tang Laihe did not get up, knelt on the ground and held up a note.
"We are all ministers of state, so what should we not say to anyone? Besides, Your Majesty has removed your crown and belt, what qualifications does a white body have? Fu Guan immediately spoke out against it.
"The king does not lose his country, the minister does not lose his body, and the small people must not be guarded against." Tang Laihe replied coldly.
"That's it, since Mr. Nandou has something to say, I will listen to it, you step back first, don't mind." Emperor Longwu waved his hand and appeased Fu Guan, who still wanted to speak, and under the guidance of several eunuchs, a group of civil and military ministers retreated, leaving only Tang Laihe, Chen Zizhuang, He Wuyu and Wang Kun and others.
"Wang Kefan, the national thief, Fu Guan, Cheng Wen, Zhu Tianlin and others colluded with him, colluded with him, acted for the tiger, and had many acts of perverting the law and misleading the country, and the ministers asked His Majesty for an order, and immediately took them down for questioning...... "Tang Laihe Tu saw that he was poor and pointed the finger at the Chu Xun officials in the court, intending to uproot them.
"Is this to force me to surrender?" Emperor Longwu glanced at him coldly: "Fu Ji'an is not a big mistake, Wang Kefan has a great merit in recovering Nanjing, I have no reason to embarrass them." ”
"Your Majesty, hasn't you made up your mind at this time?" Tang Laihe's attitude was even a little aggressive: "Your Majesty goes to Guangzhou, there is still a possibility of continuation of the Ming Dynasty, if you go to Nanjing, sooner or later you will give up the three-hundred-year-old ancestral inheritance, this is a major matter related to the life and death of the country, Your Majesty must not be lucky." ”
Emperor Longwu was silent, and did not care about Tang Laihe's faux pas, Tang Laihe's words hit his heart.
But this reason alone was not enough for Emperor Longwu to make a decision.
He Wuyu sighed lightly, and stepped forward to persuade: "When I was a young student, I was young and vigorous, and I saw all kinds of shortcomings in the court, and I hated him deeply, and then I heard about Zhang Taiyue's deeds, and I admired him very much, and I was quite puzzled in my heart, why there were so many people who opposed Zhang Taiyue's new law, so that people died in politics, and I came to this step of the field step by step......
Hearing that He Wusu suddenly talked about the old things of the previous dynasty at a critical juncture, everyone was very incomprehensible, but He Wusu, as the first assistant, said these words must have a purpose, Emperor Longwu did not interrupt him, and waited quietly for the following.
"Since entering the court as an official, the old minister is getting older, and finally understands the truth of governing a big country if you cook a small fresh, Mr. Qiu Tao has a good saying today, if Wang Kefan is in power, he will change the law of 10,000 years, it is not easy to system, his new policy, than Zhang Taiyue's whip law is a hundred times harsher, in the long run, the country will not be a country!" He Wusu paused for a moment and said very firmly: "The country can be destroyed, the Tao cannot be abolished, the old minister and Wang Kefan are different from each other, and they will never go to Nanjing!" ”
In the eyes of most literati and doctors, Wang Kefan, who implemented the new policy, is tantamount to a flood beast, and is an existence that does not share the sky, compared with him, Zhang Juzheng's whip method is a shallow taste of the wind and drizzle, too gentle, in order to maintain the Taoist system and legal principles, He Wusu also firmly stood on the side of Chen Zizhuang and Tang Laihe.
Even if the future is full of difficulties and obstacles, you must go to Guangzhou!
At this point, there is no point in hiding and tucking it away
, Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian no longer concealed it, and finally said the biggest concern that had been hidden in his heart: "In the current situation, I also want to go to Guangzhou, but can I go if I want to?" Will you be able to stand firm after you go? ”
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After Tan Xiao led the army into Quanzhou, he was busy pacifying the ubiquitous rebels, although in front of the Chu army of the tiger and wolf division, these unorganized rebels did not pose any threat, but their number was too large, and it still took a lot of time, and when it was easy to control the situation, Tan Xiao brought a team of personal guards to ask Emperor Longwu for peace, but was shocked to hear that the emperor had run away.
There are only a few hundred auxiliary soldiers left in the camp to carry the baggage, they select a small amount of materials and equipment to take away, and the others cannot be taken away and prepared to be burned with fire, so as not to raise the enemy, the officer who led the team was very polite to the famous Tan Xiao, and he came out at a trot, but Tan Xiao did not have time to talk to him, and after asking the whereabouts of Emperor Ming Longwu, he immediately chased down with the troops.
Not far after chasing out, he met Emperor Longwu's palace troops, the main general of the army was a soldier named Huang Qiyu Langzhong, seeing Tan Xiao leading the army to chase after him, he ordered the troops to put on a posture to meet the battle, three thousand soldiers and horses spread out to the two wings, the knife was unsheathed, the bow was wound, blocking the road, and waiting for the battle.
Tan Xiao rode in pursuit, most of the men and horses were still behind, there were only five hundred cavalry around him, seeing that the opponent's strength was five or six times his own, but he did not hesitate to approach forward, and also put on a posture of preparing to charge into battle.
"Who? is so bold that he actually rushed into the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven. ”
Although Tian Qiyu was a civil official, he served as the county commander of the Zhili area for a long time during the Chongzhen period, and fought with the Qing army who entered the army many times. His most important task is to stop Tan Xiao or Zhou Guodong who are chasing him, and when necessary, he can use force and meet each other.
But the powerful Chu army made Tian Qiyu have a lot of scruples, and at the last moment he hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't dare to tear his face and accept it, hoping to force Tan Xiao to retreat with the help of the righteous name of the Son of Heaven, he ordered his generals to be on strict guard, and then rushed to Tan Xiao with a team of personal guards.
Since it is a fox and a fake tiger, you have to put the shelf to the end, Tian Qiyu tightened his face, and there were still dozens of steps away and scolded loudly, as if he had returned to the Chongzhen period of the noble and martial arts, at that time, a seven-grade county order dared to make no fuss about the second-grade general soldiers, and now because of the war for many years, the status of the military generals has been significantly improved, but Tian Qiyu is a powerful official who is the center of the imperial court, and then he can be promoted to the dignitary of the six departments and nine kings, and the general soldiers are really not in his eyes.
But it's a pity that Tan Xiao is not an ordinary general soldier.
"A certain person is here to escort, where is the Son of Heaven?" Tan Xiao didn't answer what he asked, and he didn't take Huang Qiyu in his eyes, his generals were clearly distinguished, so why bother to ask knowingly.
"Escort? It's a hijacking, what kind of thing are you, and you dare to watch the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven! The official ...... "Tian Qi's face sank like water, and he was scolding with official authority, but Tan Xiao slashed his head and covered his face with a whip, leaving a dripping blood mark on his face.
"What are you? Dare to block Lao Tzu's way! ”
As soon as Tan Xiao waved his hand, the left and right guards rushed forward like wolves, and before Tian Qiyu's guards could react, they had already captured him alive, and the two steel knives were staggered
On the shoulder, the blade is almost embedded in the neck, and the head can land at any time.
"Lao Tzu hurry to escort the car, so that your shrimp soldiers and crabs will quickly give way! Damn, do you think Lao Tzu wouldn't dare to kill? ”
"Kill!"
The five hundred elite horsemen under Tan Xiao shouted in unison, raised five hundred snow-bright steel knives in unison, and looked coldly at the Longwu army opposite, just like looking at a group of dead people, and the air was filled with a strong murderous aura.
These five hundred elite cavalry is the old foundation of following Tan Xiao's army, over the years to Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, has defeated countless Manchu elites, up to the veteran Wang Jierharang, down to the young and handsome Leke Dehun, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi This kind of history books are famous for a while, but also not worth mentioning the defeated generals, Tian Qiyu's soldiers and horses are proud of the Son of Heaven's army, but they don't know that their Son of Heaven is the Chu army thousands of miles to rescue from Tingzhou, these five hundred elite cavalry suddenly mighty, Like a lazy male lion suddenly getting angry, the hyenas who want to bargain for a bargain scatter in a hurry.
These are 500 big insects, not to be messed with!
Tian Qiyu's troops are in charge of the palace, and they are also the elite selected from the Longwu army, their establishment and training methods are modeled after the Chu army, and the weapons and equipment are no less than Tan Xiao's department, these days and the Western Army have fought many times, and they can be regarded as having seen blood, but when they met Tan Xiao's five hundred elite cavalry, they were inexplicably suppressed momentum, Tan Xiao's five hundred cavalry shouted in unison, but here they were silent, as if the atmosphere did not dare to breathe, for fear of causing misunderstanding on the other side.
In the midst of all the horses, a stubborn and unyielding voice suddenly sounded, a general named Mo Bobin was a strong temper, and when he saw that the main general Tian Qiyu fell into the hands of the enemy, he immediately urged the horse to rush up and want to rob people, and shouted loudly at the same time.
"Chu thieves rebel, don't talk about killing, sons, kill!"
The war horse is galloping, the spear is like a dragon, Mo Bobin is like Changshan Zhao Zilong possessed at this moment, and he rushed to the military formation of the Chu army single-handedly, and suddenly turned around and realized, huh? Why didn't his own soldiers and horses keep up, even if his most trusted team was invited, they were slowly dragging behind, at least twenty or thirty steps away from him.
"Rush! Don't be afraid, there are few thieves in Chu, kill them all in one go! Archers, release your arrows......"
In Mo Bobin's hoarse shout, his troops did not come forward to fight, gradually, as the Chu army approached step by step, they began to slowly retreat, as if they were facing a great enemy, ready to flee for their lives at any time, they were already on the verge of collapse, and his own soldiers also turned their horses one after another, and at the same time shouted warning to him, as if some danger was approaching behind him.
Mo Bobin's face changed suddenly, and he turned his head to look before he could turn around, only to see that Tan Xiao had rushed to the front, his hideous face seemed to be within reach, and the long knife in his hand slashed head-on, and it was too late to dodge, Mo Bobin exclaimed, and then the sky swirled, and everything in his field of vision kept turning his head, and he lost his color in an instant.
With a snap, Mobobin's head fell to the ground, splattering with blood.
Tan Xiao turned his horse back and shouted to the Longwu army on the opposite side: "The one who stands in my way is dead, and you still don't give way?" ”
There was a small commotion, and the three thousand Longwu army were like waves at low tide, running clean in the blink of an eye, flashing out of a wide road in the middle.
Wonderful!