Chapter 196: The Imperial Expedition
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In the ring, Ding Le pretended to have just met Lewen, with a shallow smile on his face, raised his eyebrows, and unceremoniously arched his fist at Lewen.
Le Wen didn't speak, just smiled faintly, and also hugged Ding Le's fists, and said disdainfully: "Hmph...... In the ring, although Brother Ding did it, he didn't need to move. ā
In fact, Lewen thinks that if Ding Ke'er can do it, he can also move his mouth, but now in broad daylight, it is really immoral to be like this under the Langlang Imperial City, but it is exciting to think about it......
After the magistrate issued a starting slogan, Lewen's first reaction was to hide first, not that Lewen was afraid of Ding Ke'er, but that Lewen was afraid that Ding Ke'er would retaliate against him in the future, well, in fact, he was still afraid of Ding Ke'er.
Ding Ke'er is worthy of being a heroine among women, every move of the double sword is so elegant and light, I saw her left sword swing over, Le Wenli from the waist through the shoulder to the wrist of the arm, the standing sword from the oblique above to make a move to block the sword, but as soon as he used this Tai Chi swordsmanship, Ding Ke'er immediately used another sword and stabbed at Le Wen.
Le Wen unhurriedly made a wrist flower, using the wrist as the axis to make the sword around the outside of the arm, and wrapped the other sword that Ding Ke'er stabbed around the long sword, and then circled it twice, only to hear the sound of "pop ......", the sword in Ding Ke'er's left hand fell on the ring, and Ding Ke'er didn't pick it up, but jumped up suddenly, stood in mid-air, and stabbed towards Le Wen's face.
"Bell ......"
With a crisp sound, the two swords intersected, Ding Ke'er's sword was extremely powerful, but Le Wen just held the sword and gently picked it up along Ding Ke'er's strength, and with a "snap ......", the sword in Ding Ke'er's hand was picked off in the ring again.
Ding Ke'er hurriedly leaned over to pick up the sword, but when her hand just touched the hilt, she felt that a long sword was pointed at her chest, but Ding Ke'er wanted to take half a step forward, and said in her heart: "See if you dare to stab, if the stab is broken, see how you play in the future." ā
Le Wen discovered Ding Ke'er's evil intentions, and said in his heart: "My day, what Master Kong said is really right, women and villains are difficult to raise, if Lao Tzu is really stabbed, then there will really be a pair of fun little white rabbits in the future." ā
Thinking of the soft and plump two little white rabbits, Le Wen hurriedly put away his sword and took a step back, but Ding Ke'er took advantage of this to clench the short sword in his hand and stabbed at Le Wen.
"It's not good, I'm a devil again."
Le Wen took a breath lightly, the psychedelic pace of luck ladder clouds under his feet, Ding Ke'er's short sword stabbed into the air, but Ding Ke'er's specialty is light work, I saw that her agile skills were like a wind, when Le Wen flashed to the side, she also quickly followed, but Ke Lewen's action was an illusion, Ding Ke'er just followed, Le Wen had already luckily walked to her side, and the long sword was on the high collar of her neck.
"Brother Ding, do you still have to do useless struggles?" Le Wen smiled faintly and looked at Ding Ke'er's disdainful expression.
"Brother Le, martial arts are superb, admit defeat in the next."
Ding Ke'er didn't want to take this first place, she was lucky to get to this point, and now she can face off with Xianggong in the ring, and it is still in the imperial city, but she thinks about how good it would be if one day, this imperial city is her home.
"Okay, Lewen, since you have won the top spot, I will give you the five products and thousands of households to proclaim consolation and the seal of honor, and go north to fight against the Tatars, if there is anything important, you can directly play it to me, how about it?"
After doing it for a long time, this Zhu Houzhao wanted to borrow the civil and military all-round talents selected by the civil and military conference to serve as the anti-Japanese generals on the border, because there were uprisings in various places this year, and the Tartars knew that the Ming Dynasty was in internal chaos, so they wanted to take advantage of the situation to go south and swallow the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the generals and cavalry of the northern border pass have suffered serious losses and are in urgent need of supplies, so Zhu Houzhao came up with this note, even if more than ten people who were defeated in this civil and military conference will be assigned by the imperial court to serve as generals at various checkpoints on the front line, but they are all official positions below the seventh grade.
Le Wen originally went to Zhending Mansion to visit his teacher, but who knew that he accidentally fell into this trap, and his wife was also trapped, which was not what he wanted.
Zhu Hou took care of Lewen and didn't speak for a long time, thinking that Lewen had objections, so he scolded unhappily: "What? Don't you want to resist the decree? ā
"Wechen don't dare, Wechen will be grateful, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."
Lewen was awakened by Zhu Houzhao's voice, and greeted Zhu Houzhao's whole family of women in his heart, mother, this Zhu Houzhao looked harmless, it turned out to be a guy who eats people and doesn't spit out bones.
Zhu Hou took care of Le Wen's appearance of falling in and out, smiled shamelessly in his heart, and then said to Ding Le: "Very good, Ding Le, you won the second place in this conference, I will give you a five-grade deputy thousand households and a seal of honor, and go north with Le Aiqing to kill the enemy and make meritorious service to the court, how about it?" ā
Ding Ke'er was about to kill the enemy with her husband and make meritorious contributions, and she was naturally happy, so she received the decree and said: "Weichen is grateful, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" ā
Because Cui Zhi, the third place in this civil and military conference, was seriously injured and was named the deputy envoy of the sixth grade, and was given a seal of honor, Zhu Houzhao sent someone to give Cui Zhi a holy decree, and Cui Zhi naturally wanted to accept the decree, but he was so happy that he was about to jump up from the couch, originally his father Cui Yu didn't want him to join the army, who knew that this time was good, not only to join the army, but also to go to the front line to fight against the fierce and brutal Tatars, if Cui Yu knew, he would definitely not be able to sleep for three days.
Zhu Houzhao's treacherous plan succeeded, and he played Lewen all over the scholars who came to participate in the conference, especially the eighteen civil and military talents who were shortlisted, all of whom had to be assigned to the border to fight against the Tatars, which made these people sad, most of these people who could be shortlisted were children of the family, with daily brocade clothes and jade food, brocade clothes and satin, and many beauties accompanied, but if he went to the front line to become a broken general, it would be to live with his head every day, not only was his life uncomfortable, but he couldn't even see the shadow of a woman. This doesn't suffocate people to death, these people all have bitter melon faces when they think of this.
Le Wen took the holy decree, received the official mansion and the seal, as well as the special seal of honor, this seal of honor is made of pure gold, with a unicorn carved on it, and eight characters engraved at the bottom, the battle of honor, the prosperity of civil and military affairs.
It can be seen from these eight characters that Zhu Houzhao has buried the pit early in the morning, and these talents are still scrambling to jump into this pit.
Zheng Liangcai unfortunately also fell into this pit, and the imperial court sealed him a riding school commissioned from the eighth grade.
A month later, Lewen and others were ready to set off, but who knew that Zhu Houzhao announced that he would personally drive the expedition and lead the soldiers to the front line together, in fact, Zhu Houzhao's personal expedition was mainly to try the feeling of killing the enemy on the battlefield, and the most important thing was to feel fun, he was really tired of playing in the leopard room in the palace during this time, and it was a very good choice to go out and exercise his body.
"Zuo Chuan" has a saying: "The major affairs of the country are in the worship and Rong", that is, the biggest thing in the country is sacrifice and war.
The "Zhou Li" divides the ancient etiquette system structure into "five rites", and the "military ceremony" ranks fourth. And the emperor's personal conquest, no matter from any of the above angles, is a major event.
Since it is a major event, it must not be simple, and if you want to drive the expedition in person, you must first get the ministers done. Although the pro-campaign can boost morale, after all, there are risks, and if something goes wrong, it is not a joke, so the civil and military officials will definitely not let it go, so that the emperor can easily succeed in the expedition.
After Zhu Houzhao proposed the imperial conquest, the first to disagree was the ministers headed by Yang Tinghe, the first assistant minister of the cabinet.
Yang Tinghe became famous at a young age, at the age of 12 he was admitted to the township examination, and in the 14th year of Chenghua (1478) at the age of 19, he was awarded the Hanlin review. Ming Xiaozong was the crown prince Zhu Houzhao to read. In the second year of Zhengde (1507), he entered the cabinet, worshiped the East Pavilion University Scholar, and was awarded the edict of the Imperial Decree. Liu Jin worshiped the young master and the prince and the prince, and the scholar of the palace. In the seventh year of Zhengde (1512), he served as the first assistant.
These cabinet ministers headed by Yang Tinghe used various reasons to block Zhu Houzhao's personal expedition.
However, there are also those who agree, that is, Qian Ning, the governor of Jinyi Weizuo, he has always been Zhu Houzhao's favorite minister, why he can become a favorite minister, is because he is afraid of sycophants, and he will not shoot sycophants on his thighs, as long as Zhu Houzhao wants to do anything, he will support it.
Because Yang Tinghe had just been promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet at this time, some cabinet ministers were not too convinced, so they were not so concentric.
But Zhu Houzhao played a scoundrel, insisted on driving the expedition in person, and also sent the eunuchs of Dongchang to coerce and lure these ministers who opposed him.
Then Zhu Houzhao issued a written statement to show the world, but these things need the world, so half a month has passed.
After Zhu Houzhao dealt with these ministers who opposed him, he chose an auspicious day to carry out the action of the imperial conquest.
As a state of etiquette, the Ming Dynasty must have had a complicated expedition process.
First of all, the martial law of the army, the preparation and placement of sacrificial supplies, the training of honor guards, and so on.
Then there is a large-scale sacrificial activity for the heavens, the emperor is the son of heaven, and the pro-conquest is to do the right thing for the heavens, so it is necessary to sacrifice to the god of Haotian in order to obtain protection. The emperor himself and the civil and military officials who participated in it had to fast in advance, and there were different links such as offering wine, sacrificing, offering coins and silks, blood, and burning firewood, and at the same time, the emperor changed into different dresses and rode in different vehicles.
Then there is the oath of the general. It is done by the emperor himself or by an official appointed by the emperor. Zhu Houzhao explained the reasons and goals of the expedition, and clarified the military discipline, but he still gave Zhu Houzhao bold words, he must beat these Tartars back to their hometowns, and never dare to come out again.
Le Wen actually didn't want the emperor to drive the expedition in person, he wasn't afraid that the emperor would be in any danger, he was born and died when he went out to fight, which is good, there is still an emperor who needs to be protected, and Zhu Houzhao also deliberately asked Le Wen to follow to protect him, this task is too rigorous, it is a capital crime to be careless, it seems to be a supreme honor, but in fact, it is to accompany the tiger to bite him, but also to give the tiger a meat shield, drudgery.
However, what makes Lewen strange is that the historical Zhu Houzhao royal driving pro-conquest was five years later, that is, in October of the 12th year of Zhengde (1517), the Mongolian prince Boyan knocked on the pass, and Zhu Houzhao wanted to drive the pro-conquest, and the courtiers couldn't help but be nervous when they heard the word "pro-conquest". So it was another round of persuasion, lessons, and even threats, but Zhu Houzhao was never willing to let go of this opportunity to fight, and finally led the troops in the name of "General Zhu Shou". As punishment, he did not give any civil official the honor of accompanying him.
But why is it now five years ahead of schedule, which makes Lewen a little confused by the second monk, could it be that his arrival changed history?
Lewen thought about it, but couldn't think of any other reason, so he recognized that it must have been his arrival that changed history.
In fact, it is exactly like this, there was a shortage of generals on the front line, so Zhu Houzhao used this trick to select civil and military all-rounders to be generals, but none of these civilian-military all-rounders had ever led troops to fight, he thought about it or he personally led these people to the front line to fight a big victory, so this situation occurred.
Northern Border Front
The sun was rising, the fog had not yet dissipated, and the Ming army, which had been silent for several days, was dispatched.
The central infantry army of the Ming Dynasty is 200,000, and the cavalry on both wings is 100,000 each, a total of 300,000.
The Tatar army on the opposite side is dressed in strange clothes, except for some shield arrays to protect the Chinese army, the others are basically all cavalry, about 100,000 cavalry, most of them are holding scimitars, and other various weapons, carrying longbows on their backs, daggers and other short weapons at their waists.
Both armies have artillery, and the Ming Army also has a total of 5,000 Shenji battalions, equipped with firearms, 3,600 thunderbolt guns, 200 Dalian bead cannons, and the original Shenji battalion, 3,600 infantry (fully equipped with firearms); cavalry 1,000 men; 400 artillery personnel (managing field heavy artillery and Dalian pearl artillery); A total of 5,000 officers and soldiers.
A loud and energetic horn, the Ming army then set out, long black like a pine forest all over the field, looking at the formation like a dragon out of the sea, unstoppable.
Suddenly, the Tatar snare drums and trumpets sounded, and the flags hunted in the wind. The cavalry on both wings of the Ming army took the lead, and the soldiers of the Chinese army marched forward in a neat step, advancing like a mountain wall, shouting "kill" every three steps, and they were calmly rumbling forward.
At the same time, the terrible sound of bull's horns shook the valley, the cavalry on both wings roared to meet the attack, and the heavy infantry also strode unstoppably and arrogantly, like a black tide sweeping over the flat ground.
At last the two armies collided like a sea of mountains, and if the rumbling thunder resounded through the valley, and like thousands of angry waves crashing against the mountains. Spears and scimitars fluttered, spears and spears whistled and flew by, dense arrows rained down like locusts crossing the border, and dull shouts and short roars made the mountains and rivers tremble!
The artillery roared, and the iron cavalry of the Tatar army was too fierce, all of them were like Genghis Khan possessed, regardless of life and death, rushing towards the Ming camp.
The iron man struck, the death did not spin, the hideous face, the bloody sword, the low howl, the smoke and dust, the whole earth seemed to be enveloped and annihilated by the tragic aura of this bloody fight.....
(To be continued.) )