"Bow and crossbow!"

With a shouting order, hundreds of cavalrymen in the Yuefu martial arts field held bows and crossbows, lined up horizontally, and galloped on horseback, but seeing the sand and dust flying, suddenly the figure on horseback leaned sideways, "Whoosh! A hundred arrows were fired in unison, and the rain of arrows was scattered on the five huge rattan signs in front of him, "Knock, knock." "The rattan sign seems to sound only twice, with very short intervals.

"Horse lance!"

Before the crossbowmen had retreated, they heard the order to restart, and suddenly the sound of hooves shook loudly, and a hundred cavalrymen were dressed in bright armor, and the horses of one color were neatly arranged, and the top of the lance was slightly tilted upward. Suddenly, I saw the head of the lance slowly sinking, and the body of the lance gradually parallel to the horse's back, "Whew! After the deafening roar, "Bang! The violent impact sounded, and countless heavy sandbags suddenly flew up and bloomed in the air.

The field near the academy was filled with figures flying and shouting, and hundreds of guards were fighting each other or hand-to-hand; or wearing thick armor, a shield in one hand and a short knife in the other, and fighting in close quarters.

Zhu Qiming sat upright on the central platform, his eyes swept to the training ground on both sides from time to time, and his heart was divided into the upcoming fierce battle.

It is true that the Ming Dynasty has artillery, guns and other weapons, but the Tartar thieves who crossed the border and plundered were all cavalry, coming and going in a hurry, erratic, dragging heavy artillery to pursue the agile and mobile Tartars, only fools have this idea!

And the firearm is not small in the siege of the city, the formation of the formation to meet the enemy, but in the cavalry between the movement of the war is not very useful, the horseback on the head of the gun is too poor, after a gun, has not been filled with gunpowder, I am afraid that the men and horses will rush into the enemy formation, that is not chopped into flesh?

If you want to annihilate the enemy in rapid movement, what really works is excellent riding and archery kung fu, and then the fierce impact of heavy weapons such as horse lances. By the time the two sides are huddled together, weapons are often superfluous, and teeth are more effective than swords! At this time, everyone compares fist and elbow kung fu, close combat, and the weapon that can effectively exert its power is the short knife!

Zhu Qiming couldn't get any inspiration from the training methods of the Beijing army, it was just some good-looking tricks, so he had to use his brains and create a set of extremely targeted tactics.

The tactics displayed by the guards in front of him are tailor-made for the Tartar thieves who cross the border to plunder!

Liang Gang stood aside, looked around, turned to Zhu Qiming and smiled: "Your Highness, these more than 1,500 people are all alive and well, and compared with the strongest soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they are not the same. ”

Zhu Qiming shook his head, "To face the Warat people, you need one warrior in a hundred, and it would be good if these people could leave half of them." Those who are too small are not left, and those who are afraid are not left. ”

Liang Gang was stunned for a moment, "Most of the Warat people have broad shoulders and round waists, it makes sense that we don't leave a head too small, but none of these guards are afraid!" ”

Zhu Qiming hesitated, he was not sure whether to call Liang Gang the master or the official name. It seems inappropriate to call the master, and in the future, when he goes to the battlefield and orders the master as an apprentice, what kind of system will he become? From now on, let's try to call the official name as much as possible.

"Commander Liang, training and actual combat are two different things, don't look at them cheering on the field at the moment, as soon as they go to the battlefield, many people will have weak legs. They also have to visually test their courage with a dangerous lesson close to actual combat. ”

"Your Highness is right, but how can hundreds of people be enough? There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Beijing army, let alone a thousand, even if tens of thousands of elite soldiers are selected from them, it is not a difficult task, why not ask the emperor to select elite soldiers? ”

Invite the Emperor? Can this king pre-rule? Can the emperor convince the assistant ministers? Besides, a bunch of ink-hungry officers can bring out elite soldiers? Zhu Qiming muttered in his heart, and said: "Do what you should do, don't expect others." ”

Liang Gang muttered: "You can't choose anywhere else, and the selection from the Yuefu guards is so strict, how can this be a selection of soldiers?" It's clearly a chosen! ”

"This king wants to choose the soldiers, the dead soldiers of the country! Because of this, the king wants to let them have no worries about food and clothing, and also treat their families well, which requires a large amount of expenses, and the household department can't count on it, and the king has to live a tight life, little by little. ”

Thinking that today's son longs for a very convincing victory, which provides a great opportunity for him to display his ambitions, Zhu Qiming felt that even if he tightened his belt to live, it was worth it, so he immediately stood up and ordered Liang Gang and Tang Ji to supervise the training, and he himself went back to prepare to take stock of his family wealth.

When Fang arrived at the door of the Cunxin Palace, he saw Huang An leading Yun Niang over in a hurry.

Yun Niang said in a low voice: "Your Highness, there is news. ”

Zhu Qiming has sealed many past events, but with the arrival of Yun Niang, the truth may gradually surface, and he has to face those heavy topics in advance.

took Huang An, took Yun Niangcao to Dongyuan, and entered the study.

Yun Niang covered the door, waited for Zhu Qiming to sit down, and stood in front of him. "The rumor came to the capital in April of the fourth year of orthodoxy, saying that the prince of Jujing had frequent contacts with the three major battalions, and there were changes in the Beijing camp, first involving the king of Yuejing, and then affecting the king of Weigong, so that the monarch and ministers were shaken."

"Where do the rumors come from?" Zhu Qiming said lightly.

The officials were secretive about this, but some people still made bold speculations. However, Your Highness, you don't have to be close to each other, you don't want to be respectful, and there are some things that Yun Niang doesn't dare to say directly! ”

"We are people who have lived and died together, but it doesn't matter if you say it!"

"Yes! I am afraid that this matter stems from ······ King Xiang. ”

King Xiang? Zhu Qiming's heart tingled, he couldn't accept this fact, it was his own uncle!

Yun Niang was stunned for a moment. "In fact, the only people who tried their best to speak for Yuefu and Weifu were the two of them, Duwei Jingyuan and Shi Jing, and most of the Xun Qi and the governor remained silent, and the civil officials did not dare to talk much, of course, except for Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, especially Yang Rong, who strongly advised the emperor to focus on the overall situation, and would rather believe it than believe it."

Thinking that Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong took advantage of the Empress Dowager's delirium and the young age of the Son of Heaven to collude with the prince outside Beijing to suppress the power of the prince of Beijing, this possibility is extremely small, the two are old, and no matter how much they abuse their power, they will not be able to enjoy it for a few years, and the most reasonable self-interest is nothing more than to quickly install a protégé and a former official, and they can't make such a big effort to embarrass the two princes who have very limited participation in the political power. But what could be a more plausible explanation than the above?

Zhu Qiming said quietly: "Why did Yang Rong do this? ”

Yun Niang probed the tone of several people, and it seemed that they didn't know. However, before and after the death of the first emperor, the call for King Xiang to ascend the throne was not under the current emperor, which Yun Niang had heard people talk about. Yun Niang dared to say a big disrespectful word, and it was rumored that the auxiliary minister was emptying the monarchy, which caused the dissatisfaction of the royal family in Beijing. ”

When Zhu Qiming heard this, a scene that happened in Yongsu Hall on the night of Zhengdan suddenly appeared in his mind, and the emperor was stirred up by Sanyang, which indeed made the recruitment of Minzhuang go undone.

Yun Niang looked at Zhu Qiming quietly, slightly hesitating, "And King Xiang's plan can just be used." Please Rong Yunniang speculated presumptuously: The Empress Dowager is not hesitating, the Son of Heaven is young and does not know how to govern the government, and the ambition of the Prince of Beijing who has been suppressed for several years may take the opportunity to emerge, at this time, the Prince of Jujing has become his obstacle, so the man trapped the two princes with rumors, and at the same time murdered His Royal Highness all the way in Baoanzhou, just to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to prevent future troubles! It was only because the Empress Dowager suddenly recovered that the man's plan fell short. ”

Also, the battle for the throne of that year has not died down, the embers are still there, and the slightest wind blows will burn fiercely.

The battle of Jingjing set a terrible precedent, the uncle seized the nephew's position, and future generations will follow suit, and from then on, the Son of Heaven calculates the prince, the prince calculates the Son of Heaven, and the tragedy of the same room will probably be repeated repeatedly.

However, he was assassinated in the lamp market in the first year of orthodoxy, and after the Empress Dowager recovered and the capital was settled, he was still hunted down, so this matter is by no means as simple as Yun Niang said!

Besides, as an obstacle to the road, there are not only two adult princes, but also King Yu, and after King Yu, there is also the Son of Heaven, and there are many scheming in the Forbidden City, how can the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine stand by and watch! Strangely, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager seem to be interested only in a down-and-out prince, and seem unaware of the fire that burned to Yuefu and Weifu and was bound to spread to the Forbidden City, which is unbelievable, and there must be a more complex storyline in it.

Zhu Qiming looked at the snow-covered bamboo forest outside the window, and only felt that it was still far from the truth at this time. "Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong were entrusted by the first emperor on his deathbed, and they are the ministers of the current emperor, if they conspire with others to rebel, even if the plot succeeds, they are bound to be despised by the world's scholars, and it is difficult to die well, why do they make such a decision?"

"Your Highness should know what a prominent person Er Yang is! How can they easily get on the thief ship? Yun Niang thought about it for many days, and finally figured out one thing, that is, Er Yang must think that they can control the situation, but they can secretly help the other party to go in the direction of rebellion, but they never let the other party go to the step of rebellion. ”

Zhu Qiming shook his head, "It's all speculation, there is no evidence, and it is not credible!" ”

"There is a Lang Zhong in the Ministry of Industry who said something in front of Yun Niang after drinking, which is intriguing, he said that in the three or four years of orthodoxy, someone saw two mysterious figures three times in a place more than ten miles west of Baiyun Temple, one of them was like Yang Rong, and the other was like King Xiang."

Zhu Qiming stood up suddenly, "Is this credible?" ”

"Yun Niang thinks that after a detailed investigation, she can determine whether it is credible."

Why didn't Ouyang Changshi mention this? Could it be that his father didn't know about this or knew about it, but he couldn't bear it in order to take care of the overall situation?

Or is there nothing like that in the world?

Although he was very eager to solve the mystery of the past, after all, it involved his own uncle, so Zhu Qiming was unable to solve it for a while.

"What if it's true? At most, it can only prove that the vassal king and the auxiliary minister are secretly violating the rules, but it cannot confirm the speculation in the market! ”