When the ministers heard the news, they all wore linen and filial piety, and set up spiritual seats at home to pay tribute to their legendary emperor.

The emperor's funeral was naturally very grand, Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the Ming Tomb that had already been repaired, and his wife Empress Ma was buried together.

Of course, the poor concubines who did not give birth were also martyred for him. These concubines never imagined that they would end up in this situation after the emperor's death, and they were deceived by the eunuchs into a large house.

There was nothing in this room, except for the white silk hanging from the beams, and there were chairs under the white silk, and the eunuchs told them that His Majesty the Emperor had ordered them to be martyred.

These concubines who were once favored by the emperor were instantly frightened and cried, some of them really liked Zhu Yuanzhang, but they only found out today that their love was so cheap.

Zhu Yuanzhang also spoiled them, and now they know that Zhu Yuanzhang's favor is so selfish.

Some bold and angry concubines, fortunately, stood up directly, kicked off the stool under their feet, and died with a whimper, and some of the timid ones were so frightened that their legs were weak, and they couldn't climb on the stool alive or dead, and finally the eunuchs sent them back to the west.

Six days later, in the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, on the 16th day of the leap month, Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne by the edict, changed the next year to the first year of Jianwen, and announced the news of Zhu Yuanzhang's death and the news of the succession of the new monarch and Zhu Yuanzhang's edict to the world, announcing the arrival of a new era.

The edict said: "I have been in the Mandate of Heaven for thirty years and one year, and I have been anxious and attentive, and I have not slackened my work every day, so as to benefit the people." Nai is from a humble beginning, without the knowledge of the ancients, good and evil, not far away. Now we have the natural principle of all things, and there is a sense of ridicule and sorrow. The emperor's grandson Yun Wei is benevolent and filial piety, and the world should be on the throne. Internal and external civil and military ministers work together to assist the government to reassure our people. Funeral ceremonies, do not use gold and jade. Because of the mountains and rivers of Xiaoling, do not change it. The subjects of the world, crying for three days, are all relieved, and there is no harm in marrying. The kings are in the kingdom, and they do not go to the capital. Those who are not in the order will be pushed to do so. ”

I have to say that this edict is very touching to read.

The edict was sent to all directions by the imperial court's fast horses, and the northwestern Su State, which was the farthest away from the capital, was naturally the last to receive it, in fact, until the end of the leap month, Zhu Ao's edict had not yet reached the Su State.

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, at the end of the fifth month of the leap month, the Uighur capital Yili had been besieged for a month, and this famous capital in the west could be said to be in danger, with more than half of the soldiers killed and wounded, and the rolling wood, gunpowder, and lead bullet in the city were almost consumed, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was only a matter of time before the city was breached by the Ming army.

Compared with the leisureliness of the soldiers, Zhu Ao was anxious, because he knew that if nothing else, Lao Zhu had already hung up, and now the messenger who informed him should be on the way, and when the messenger came to the army and announced the emperor's death, how could he, as a son, be embarrassed to continue to grab land? Why don't you have to wear linen and filial piety first, and cry for a few days? In this way, did not the Uighurs escape death?

Zhu Yunwen should have already ascended the throne, if he does something at this time, will he listen or not?

On the morning of that day, Zhu Ao decided to concentrate all his efforts on a general attack on the crumbling Uighur capital, and he told his generals before the battle: "Our army attacked Warat, and received almost no resistance. Now besieging a city, you can't beat it for more than a month, are you only able to fight field battles, and you are not good at attacking fortifications? ”

As the saying goes, persuasion is better than excitation, all the generals heard Zhu Ao's words, and they all held back their stomachs, suffocated their weather-covered faces, and shouted loudly: "Please rest assured, the king, if you can't take it today, the last general and others will come to see you!" ”

Zhu Ao liked the enthusiasm of the generals very much, stood up suddenly, and said with great majesty: "Okay! Widows love your heroism! The widow is willing to work together with the generals, and today he will do his best. After the city was breached, the generals and their men could take three days off to enjoy the joy of victory as punishment for their stubborn resistance. ”

"The last general commands!" When the generals of Su Guo heard Zhu Ao's words, the blood and greed in their hearts all burst out, their heartbeats accelerated a little, their faces turned even redder, and their eyes radiated a strange brilliance, as if a wolf who had been hungry for a long time suddenly saw its prey. This is not to blame them, since the establishment of the Su State, the cities they have broken have all surrendered at the last moment, and everyone has surrendered, and it is impossible to say that there is chaos.

And this attack of this Yili is the only one that has been resisting to the end, and killed and injured a lot of Ming troops, it has already made all the Ming troops hold back the fire, after breaking the city, they must enjoy it, let them know that it is powerful.

Zhu Ao still attacked from all sides according to the previous deployment, he took Wang Huchen, Sheng Yong and others to lead 40,000 elite hoards at the east gate, stood under the banner of the general and said: "Today's siege of the city, where it is, I hope all the soldiers will work hard!" ”

"Try! Step up your game! "Serve the King!"

The more than 40,000 Ming troops piled up in the east of the city burst out with a tsunami-like roar, they are the elite soldiers personally selected by the king, and they are also the most elite part of the besieging army.

"Fire!" Zhu Ao stood under the banner of the general, holding a heavy sword and shouting. A colonel, who was in the position of the Chinese army, immediately took a torch and lit the trumpet cannon next to him.

"Boom!" With a bang, the cannon under the general's command made a loud noise, and the heavens and the earth seemed to shake, and they were clearly visible for miles away.

The Uighur troops at the head of the city also heard this horn cannon, and their reaction was the same as when they heard the cannon before, and their hearts were all nervous, because according to their previous experience, they knew that this was the Ming army preparing to attack.

Sure enough, Sheng Yong, the training envoy of the Shenji Battalion, who was in charge of firearms support on the Eastern Front, heard this clarion cannon, drew his knife and shouted: "Release!" ”

Sheng Yong usually doesn't talk much, he is resolute and strategic, he never has much nonsense whether it is training or fighting, he often expresses his heart in one sentence!

"Put!" After receiving Sheng Yong's order, a general flag officer of the Ming army waved the flag and commanded several of his gunners to ignite a large general cannon he was responsible for.

The cannon had already been loaded, and an operator held a torch, lit the fuse behind the cannon, and then waved his hand to signal his subordinates to dodge away, saying: "The cannon is going to sound, disperse quickly!" ”

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the general cannon has always had an unsolved problem, that is, the explosion of the chamber, as long as an experienced veteran gunner, almost all have experienced the accident of the chamber, therefore, every time the cannon is fired, when the fuse on the cannon body is ignited, the nearby gunners will deliberately avoid it, so as to avoid the general cannon does not listen, and then accidentally injure themselves.

This is also one of the reasons for the relatively low rate of fire of the cannons in the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, this general cannon is still very powerful, although after such a long period of work, but it is still extremely powerful, there was no accident, after the fuse ignited the gunpowder in the cannon body, only to hear "boom!" With a loud bang, a huge lead bullet weighing seven pounds shot out of the muzzle, crossed a perfect parabola in the air, and slammed heavily on the city head of Yili Sholi with a "bang".

The foothold of this shell was that Yili landed the enemy tower on the head of the city directly on the tiles on the enemy tower, and immediately smashed the tiles into a large hole, and all kinds of debris flew wildly, startling the nearby Uighur army to scurry for a while.

This is just a microcosm of the Ming army's artillery bombardment of Yili, after Zhu Hao's cannon sounded, hundreds of cannons of the Ming army's Shenji battalion roared one after another, and Yili blew up the city head of the city.

"Don't run, don't run." A Uighur commander was very experienced in combat, and knew that the most taboo thing to do when the enemy was bombarding was to run around, because when people were running, they had to stand up straight, or at least bend over, which increased the probability of being hit, and no matter where they ran, the passage must be unobstructed, and the casualty rate would definitely be much greater than lying on the wall and hiding by the wall.

When the Uighur commander saw that some of the recruits were still running around, he went up and grabbed one of the recruits, pinned him against the wall, and yelled: "You want to die? Don't run around! When the enemy opened fire, the dead ran around. ”

As he spoke, a shell from the Ming army's cannon fell and smashed into the head of a Uighur soldier who was running around, splashing his brain and falling to the ground motionless, apparently dead and unable to die again.

However, the force of the uncannonballed shells did not lessen, and it bounced on the brick-paved ground, then jumped up again, and struck the lower leg of a Uighur soldier, who immediately broke his calf and fell to the ground, holding his calf with both hands, screaming in pain.

The Uighur soldier, who had been pressed against the wall by the Uighur commander, was very glad to see this scene, and he was very grateful to his warm-hearted commander, who would have been the same as these two men if he hadn't intervened in time, and he was speechless for a moment of excitement, but looked at his commander with gratitude and fear.

"Look at what! Don't be so pretty, killing a few more Ming soldiers later can be regarded as repaying Lao Tzu's life-saving grace. The Uighur commander looked at his quail-like appearance and slapped him on the head with a smile of anger and amusement.

The Ming army under the city head and preparing to attack saw the Uighur army running around the city head, and their hearts were full of joy, standing under the city head to admire the enemy's miserable appearance, that is also a kind of fun.

"Enjoyable! It's fucking enjoyable! Seeing this scene in front of him, Wang Huchen of the big forward couldn't help but grin happily and laughed, the progress of the Su State in recent years is really fast, thinking back then, when they fought with the Uighur army, the firearms of the Ming army could not form such a huge pressure, but I didn't expect that after just a few years of development, it could completely suppress the opponent.

Thinking of this, he admired Zhu Ao a little more, this young prince is really amazing, in just five or six years, he has managed a Su country that was originally a remote place so rich, and turned a Su army that was originally on par with the strength of the Uighur army into such a powerful force that the strength has left their opponents far behind.

In terms of combat effectiveness, not only the Uighurs, but also the most elite Twelve Guards of the Son of Heaven in the Ming Dynasty are just like that.

"Hahaha! Work harder! Wang Huchen stood under the city and watched the scene in front of him, and shouted happily: "Your Shenji Battalion is working harder, and the old men will not have to work hard, just go up and collect the corpse." ”

The sound of artillery still did not stop, Li Mian fired three rounds of artillery, completely suppressed the arrogance of the enemy, anyway, this time they calmly entered the army to besiege Yili Li, and the artillery shells they brought were very sufficient, and they had enough, so they did not have to worry about the follow-up of firepower.

Zhu Ao watched the cannons of the Shenji Battalion suppress the Uighur army on the head of the city and couldn't raise his head at all, and most of the female walls on the city wall were smoothed out, and the wall was very badly damaged. ”

The herald gave Zhu Ao a military salute to indicate that he had heard Zhu Ao's order, and then turned around and waved the command flag at the drummers and trumpeters not far away, signaling them to give the order to attack.

When the drummers saw the heralds' banners, they knew that the time had come for the general attack, and their blood boiled all over their bodies, and they waved their arms with all their strength, beating the war drums with all their might, and they simply did not want to serve their daughters-in-law.

The sound of the horn immediately raised his head, took a deep breath, and with the assistance of the supporting hand standing in front of him, he sounded the horn of attack with all his might.

Suddenly, a solemn "woo woo" sound resounded in the sky above Yili Sholi, and every soldier in the forward battalion of Su Guo looked awe-inspired, because they knew that the time to attack had come, the time to Xuanli had come, and the time had come to become a beneficiary.

Sure enough, after Wang Huchen heard the horn order to attack, a cloud of anger immediately rose from his chest, his grandmother's, finally it was Lao Tzu's turn to play, looking at your cannon, Lao Tzu was going to be miserable, pulled out his war knife made of Damascus steel, swung forward vigorously, and said loudly: "Today will be this city, give it to me!" ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" The soldiers of the forward battalion of the Ming army suddenly roared in unison as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, took the guys, and rushed towards the head of the city in Yili Force.