After dinner, Yuan Chonghuan said that he still had to audit the accounts of the army and leave first.

Zhu Youzhen sat in the room and felt very bored. When I want to be in Beijing, my wife and beautiful maid are around me, how comfortable it is; Even in Shanhaiguan, there are Qi Meifeng, Bao Yulian, and the Russian beauty Catherine who is always with you.

But now that he is alone in the earth city, the boundless loneliness and lovesickness immediately stuff his brain full. Thinking that he had only been here for a day, how miserable those soldiers who had been guarding the border for many years were!

When I was melancholy, I suddenly heard a commotion outside.

After many days of military life, Zhu Youzhen's nerves had become very sensitive, and he immediately realized that something must have happened.

He hurried out of the room, but saw the soldiers rushing out of the barracks in a hurry, and hurried to a platform not far away.

Zhu Youzhen asked the little school on the side in surprise: "What's the matter?" Everyone is in a hurry, where are they going? ”

The junior colonel replied: "Your Highness, the soldiers and drums have sounded, this is the main general's order!" According to military regulations, if you don't get one, you will be punished with twenty rods; If it is less than two times, the rod will be punished forty; If you don't get three times, you will be beheaded and shown to the public. So everyone rushed to Tutai, where the generals gathered and ordered troops. ”

Zhu Youzhen felt fresh, so he ignored the dissuasion of the school and squeezed forward in the crowd. At this time, everyone was just rushing forward, and it was dark, but no one paid attention to him.

When I got to the stage, I saw that thousands of soldiers had gathered here, crowding the small square, which was not spacious. On the stage, there were no generals such as Zu Dashou, only Yuan Chonghuan sat in the center, looking extremely majestic. Beside him, there were more than a dozen of Sun Chengzong's Chinese soldiers, as his personal soldiers, holding ghost-headed broadswords, standing with straight eyebrows, and tightly guarding all directions of the Tutai.

Seeing that the soldiers of the whole city had arrived, Yuan Chonghuan stood up and shouted majestically: "Silence! ”

The audience immediately fell silent. When everyone saw that his face was sinking like water, they didn't know what had happened, and their hearts were full of anxiety.

Seeing this, Yuan Chonghuan nodded slightly, and ordered expressionlessly: "Bring Tong Yanghao up!" ”

Several Chinese soldiers immediately pushed and shoved one person from behind the stage. Everyone saw that although this person had been taken off his helmet, he was still wearing the armor of a general, and it was the general Tong Yanghao, and the audience couldn't help but make an uproar!

Zhu Youzhen was also taken aback, thinking that this Tong Yanghao is a third-grade general, although he is now temporarily controlled by Zu Dashou, but he is on the same level as Zu Dashou in terms of official qualities, and it is said that he has never been very obedient.

And Yuan Chonghuan has just been promoted, but he is only from the front of Sipinning, and he is much lower than the general in terms of rank, how can he actually win Tong Yanghao, who is older than him?

In fact, he didn't know that in the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent military generals from supporting their own troops, they had always used civilian military control, and the commander must be a civilian official. Although the commanders of the subordinate departments are military attachés, they must also send civilian officials to supervise the army. Although the prison army did not have the right to command in name, it was in fact able to control the generals.

For example, in the army stationed in Qiantun, although Zu Dashou is the main general, it is actually Yuan Chonghuan who really has the final say. He wants to take the generals of Zu Dashou's subordinates, let alone it.

But after all, Yuan Chonghuan had only been in the army for a short time, and some soldiers didn't even know who he was, so he didn't have any prestige. And many of the soldiers in the audience were Tong Yanghao's subordinates, and when they saw that the Lord was being taken at this time, they were all shocked and couldn't help but make a noise.

Yuan Chonghuan sneered and said, "Tong Yanghao, tell everyone yourself, why did this official take you?" ”

Tong Yanghao didn't have his usual majesty at this time, cold sweat trickled down his forehead, and he said in a trembling voice: "Big... My lord, the last general... Falsely reported a few vacancies and paid more food. The last general has already confessed his guilt, and is willing to return all the many rations and salaries, and beg the lord to be gracious! ”

"How many vacancies?" Yuan Chonghuan took a step forward and said with a cruel smile to Tong Yanghao, "When you receive the salary, report that the total number of soldiers in the battalion is 6,503. But this officer has been carefully observing in the past few days, and your battalion of soldiers will not exceed 3,000 people anyway! You are bold to risk more than double your salary! According to military regulations, those who engage in fraud for personal gain should be beheaded! ”

Tong Yanghao was arrested before, and he thought that Yuan Chonghuan just wanted to be powerful in the army, and he happened to be the unlucky guy, so he had to be scolded with a cane, or even demoted, so he had to admit that he was unlucky.

But looking at the current posture, Yuan Chonghuan actually wants to cut himself! At this time, Tong Yanghao didn't do it, jumped up from the ground with a bang, and shouted loudly: "Lord Yuan, yes, the end will be empty." But looking at the generals all over the world, how many of them don't eat empty quotas? The last general eats this empty quota, isn't it so that the soldiers can eat three full meals a day? If the imperial court can pay the food and salary on time and in full, who is willing to take this risk! ”

Tong Yanghao shouted, and many generals and soldiers in his battalion in the audience also made a fuss, shouting one after another:

"General Tong is right!"

"General Tong is not guilty!"

"Release General Tong!"

Yuan Chonghuan saw the commotion in the audience, and suddenly shouted: "Whoever dares to make any more noise and disturb the military camp will immediately correct the law on the spot!" ”

Don't look at his low stature and a civil official, but this voice shocked the audience, shaking Zhu Youzhen's eardrum with a faint pain.

Under Yuan Chonghuan's roar, the square was temporarily quiet.

Yuan Chonghuan turned around and came to Tong Yanghao, pointed to his nose and said, "Even if you don't die for the crime of receiving food and wages, but you have an illicit correspondence with Jiannu and intend to rebel, what should you say?" ”

When Tong Yanghao heard this, his face suddenly turned like ashes, and he suddenly became half a cut shorter, and snorted: "My lord, don't misunderstand, there will be a return in the end!" The last general has a brother named Tong Yangzhen, who was also a general of our army earlier. When Fushun was lost the year before last, he... He surrendered to Jiannu. But our Tong family has already removed him from the family tree and severed the relationship! ”

"Really cut off?" Yuan Chonghuan took out a letter from his sleeve and said aloud to the soldiers in the audience, "This letter is written by the traitor Tong Yangzhen, and the recipient is his brother General Tong Yanghaotong." In this letter, Tong Yangzhen praised the thief chief Nuerhachi for how good he was, and also persuaded Tong Yanghao to betray the court, he was willing to be a recommender, and guaranteed that General Tong would enjoy endless glory, endless wine, and endless women to sleep when he arrived there! ”

There was an uproar in the square!

"You... You lie! Tong Yanghao was also anxious at this time, and argued loudly, "I have never seen this letter, where did you get it from?" Someone must have forged it and deliberately framed me! ”

"Tong Yanghao!" Yuan Chonghuan roared, "You are corrupt and fornicating with the enemy, the facts are there, and you dare to quibble!" Come on, behead Tong Yanghao to this official, and use the power of the French army to correct the country! ”

"You dare!"

Tong Yanghao saw that Yuan Chonghuan really wanted to kill himself, but of course he refused to be killed. Although he was bound, he was still infinitely powerful, and with a shake of his body, he knocked the two junior colonels beside him to the ground.

Yuan Chonghuan was furious and said: "Don't let this official take down this murderer!" ”

More than 20 Chinese soldiers on the soil platform rushed up, punched and kicked, and pressed Tong Yanghao down again.

Tong Yanghao's head was pressed down, his face was pressed to the ground, knowing that his life was on the line, he roared with all his strength: "I am a third-grade general, a dignified court official!" Even if you want to kill, you have to report it to the imperial court, and after the trial of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, you can only ask for a holy decree! Without a holy decree, if the Governor asks for Shang Fang's sword, it will be reasonable! Now there is no holy decree, there is no Shang Fang sword, and even the main general here is not there, General Zu Da Shouzu, you are a little four-grade Taoist, why kill me! ”

The soldiers in Tong Yanghao's camp in the audience also made noise at this time, shouting chaotically: "Yes! You can't kill the general! ”

And the Chinese army on the stage who restrained Tong Yanghao also knew that there was a set of strict rules for killing people in the army, and it would definitely not work if Yuan Chonghuan said kill and kill, so he hesitated for a while.

Zhu Youzhen saw that the situation was deadlocked, and the small city was already full of people, and there was a big chaos, and the secret road was not good! I thought that this Yuan Chonghuan was too bad at doing things, it was obviously a good thing to catch embezzlers and traitors, but the evidence was not very sufficient, and he hadn't controlled Tong Yanghao's subordinates, it was a mess! Now you can't kill it, it's up to you how you end up!

Yuan Chonghuan unhurriedly separated everyone, snatched a steel knife from the soldier next to him, and smiled at Tong Yanghao on the ground: "Your Taoist official is a scholar, can't you kill you?" Tell you, although this official is a scholar, he wants to be a general! ”

As he spoke, Yuan Chonghuan slashed the knife. I saw a flash of cold light, and with a click, Tong Yanghao's head had landed!

The thousands of soldiers around the earthen platform suddenly fell into a dead silence. No one would have imagined that this short civil official, who looked weak, would personally kill people and behead Tong Yanghao, the general of the third grade!

Suddenly, an angry shout erupted from among the soldiers: "Kill this dog officer!" ”

It didn't matter if this shout was there, and there was a sudden chaos in the square. When Tong Yanghao's subordinates saw that the master was about to be killed, they all lost their minds, and they all drew their swords and rushed to the stage in a swarm!

Yuan Chonghuan originally thought that by beheading Tong Yanghao, he would be able to stabilize the situation, but he didn't expect to provoke a mutiny, and he was also shocked into a cold sweat. He was busy ordering the Chinese army to desperately defend the Tutai, and shouted to the other soldiers: "Tong Yanghao is all rebelling!" Capture the thief, there is a reward! ”

Most of the soldiers in the audience are not Tong Yanghao's subordinates. At this time, seeing that the chief officer had an order, he also showed his weapons one after another, and fought with the people of Tong Ying.

And Yuan Chonghuan's shout also completely cut off the retreat of Tong Ying's soldiers, and he simply rebelled. Because the uniforms of both sides are exactly the same style, and it is at night, this time it was disrupted at the beginning, and many people couldn't tell who was who, so they had to cut people when they saw them, otherwise they might be the ones who were stabbed.

Zhu Youzhen, who was in the midst of the chaos, was so frightened that he was running out of the air, and he had just run out of the air, only to hear a broken cry from behind: "Isn't that the king of letters?" Brothers, catch him for me! Let's go out of Qiantun and take him to the Jurchens! ”