When Ma Shiying's spies sent the news to Ma Shiying's ears, the army was less than 20 miles away from Nanjing City, so anxious that Ma Shiying hurriedly went to Ruan Dacheng, the new secretary of the military department, to discuss countermeasures.

The two have long conspired, and have now instigated the Songjiang General Army, the Hangzhou General Army, the Governor of Yanjiang, the Ganzhou General Army and other eight military and political officials from all over the country, and the number of troops is also around **10,000, Ma Shiying in addition to the heavy money and temptation, and promised that once they are done, each of them will be added to the knighthood, and the wife and son, these eight people have also expressed their willingness to serve the country, as long as the time is ripe, they will lead troops into Beijing, eradicate the power of the country and the king of the country Lanping, and see and hear from the government and the opposition.

In addition to these eight people, there is another person, Ma Shiying has to be stammered, that is, Ningnan Marquis Zuo Liangyu, who has an army of 150,000, but this person is too old and treacherous, Ma Shiying's messenger ran back and forth several times, and the silver was sent to the young and old, but General Zuo did not have a word of truth in the end, just verbally perfunctory, and promised Ma Shiying, but in fact, his 150,000 soldiers and horses were not mobilized, if he really wanted the army to press the border and force Wang Lanping to hand over the military power, then the army should have been assembled a long time ago, You must know that gathering an army of 150,000 is not something that can be done in ten months, and if you don't do it, it will be too late.

Ma Shiying knew what this person was planning, and he also knew what Zuo Liangyu was thinking, and the contradiction between Zuo Liangyu and Ma Shiying came from the beginning of the new Hongguang Dynasty.

The four towns of Jiangbei were Ma Shiying's henchmen and generals, and when the Hongguang Dynasty was established, they were named marquis and worshippers, and their power was leaning for a while, but they ignored General Zuo Liangyu, the general of Wuchang who supported 500,000 troops at that time, you know, Zuo Liangyu is a veteran of the three dynasties, and his military merits and resume are far higher than the general soldiers of the four towns of Jiangbei, but he was snubbed by Ma Shiying at the beginning of the new dynasty.

This made him angry, and he once threatened to lead an army of 500,000 to Nanjing and the imperial court to fight and fight.

However, with the establishment of Li Zicheng Dashun State at that time, Yuan Zongdi, the Marquis of the Shun Dynasty, led 100,000 troops to the south, defeated Zuo Liangyu in Huguang, and the Zuo general had no time to take care of Nanjing's affairs.

In order to appease him, Ma Shiying reluctantly invited Emperor Hongguang and made him a Marquis of Ningnan, which made General Zuo suspend the idea of going down the river.

Today, such a change has happened in the DPRK, I don't know where a martial champion has emerged, there is a great tendency to swallow the military power of the four towns in Jiangbei, General Zuo has a chance again, since Ma Shiying invited me to enter the court, it is just right and straightforward, I came to take this opportunity to enter Nanjing, needless to say in terms of momentum, the army of 150,000 Mabu is not as strong as my strength in the four towns of Jiangbei combined, and it is natural to get a governor of several provinces.

Second, he destroyed Wang Lanping, and dealt with Ma Shiying together, controlled the imperial court, and let Emperor Hongguang crown himself a king with a different surname.

For the sake of these two ideas, Zuo Liangyu verbally promised Ma Shiying on the one hand and repeatedly delayed the date of the march, and on the other hand, secretly passed on the army to prepare for war and go to Jiangnan at any time.

Of course, Ma Shiying knows Zuo Liangyu's thoughts, but he can't give Zuo Liangyu too many short guarantees now, the cowhide is blowing too much, if Zuo Liangyu really enters Beijing in the future, what should he do? The power is still on the side, so he has to think twice when employing people, not only Zuo Liangyu for his own use, but also not let him become his opponent, Ma Shiying's guarantee to Zuo Liangyu is that once Wang Lanping is removed, General Zuo's army immediately returned to defend Jiangxi, and named Zuo Liangyu as the Duke of Ningguo, this position is only under the prince, it is not high, and most of Jiangxi and Anhui will be given to him, as his tax and food pay.

But Zuo Liangyu is not a fool, these places are actually controlled in his own hands, and there is no need for the imperial court to do this more, so the two sides have not been talking, and the period of eastward expansion has been delayed again and again.

When he was not fully ready, the spies suddenly reported that Wang Lanping's army had been drawn out, and the 3,000 cavalry of the front army was only twenty miles away from Nanjing.

Ma Shiying was dumbfounded, it came so quickly.

At the moment, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng hastily agreed, first, to immediately revise the book, and transfer the eight generals who had already negotiated the conditions to quickly lead the troops into Beijing, the name of which is 'Qing Jun's side', and second, to connect all the incumbent ministers and ministers of the DPRK and China, as long as Wang Lanping returned to the court, they would jointly write a letter to impeach him for privately adapting the Ming military system, and executing Li Zhi, Liu Zeqing and other important generals without authorization.

When Ma Shiying heard that Wang Lanping had transferred the Zhenjiang Naval Division to the Hezhou front, he immediately sent Liu Kongzhao, a sincere Bo, to lead the defense of the Yangtze River, and transferred all the warships on the Nanjing River to the mouth of the canal at once, cutting off the main waterway for the Huai'an army in Jiangbei to go south, which had been snatched by Wang Lanping, so as to prevent them from colluding with each other, and sent people to Yangzhou to closely monitor Shi Kefa's every move.

In addition, Ma Shiying immediately sent his henchmen to take over the Nanjing Fort and block the Nanjing River to prevent Zheng Hongkui's Zhenjiang Naval Division from returning to Wang Lanping.

In a hurry, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng can only do this, so they can't kill Wang Lanping, so they can only resign themselves to fate.

When the two of them left Ruan's mansion, there was already a commotion on the street, saying that the 3,000 cavalry, the vanguard of the champion army, had entered the city of Nanjing, and the army followed closely behind.

The 5,000 garrisons led by Ma Ming, the deputy general of the Nanjing garrison, did not even dare to ask questions in the face of the menacing champion army entering the city, and directly let them go, and the 30,000 troops walked mightily on the streets of Nanjing, passing through the layers of people, and marched generously to the outside of the palace under the worship of the people.

When Emperor Hongguang in the palace heard that 30,000 soldiers were coming outside the palace, he was already so frightened that his face was pale, and he hid in the residence of Concubine Shuangyan without an owner, and he didn't come out after being killed.

Ma Shiying simply couldn't even take care of the taboos of the harem, and beckoned the soldiers to invite Zhu Yousong, who was like a sieve, out of the bed, and pressed him on the dragon chair in the Fengtian Palace.

More than 50 large and small officials have gathered in the main hall, all of them are Ma Shiying's people, because almost all of the opponents against him were wiped out by Ma Shiying under the pretext of the 'fake prince case', either executed or imprisoned, and the lightest is also dismissed, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military now has only one purpose, to impeach Wang Lanping for playing with military power.

In the hall, the birds were silent, the weather was also unusually hot, everyone was sweating profusely, and they didn't know whether they were scared or anxious, Zhu Yousong on the dragon chair was even more sweaty, like sitting on pins and needles, whether it was Ma Shiying or Wang Lanping, he was afraid, he regretted his death now, originally expected Wang Lanping to take over the defense of Nanjing, and do the errand of taking care of the home for himself, so that he could be a safe and stable emperor in the city of Nanjing, but he didn't expect that the development of things was completely beyond his imagination, he really lifted a stone and broke his foot, It's too late to regret it.

Zhu Yousong kept praying for God in his heart, I hope that all this will end soon, I just hope that no matter which side has the upper hand, don't change me as the emperor, I don't want to be the master of Zhongxing who revitalizes the Ming Dynasty, at least I have to be a master of Shu, I don't ask for power, as long as I am rich and noble for a lifetime, as for who Zhuge Liang is, I don't care.

"Dingnan Hou, Nanjing garrison admiral, Wang Lanping Jin see" came from outside the palace.

Ma Shiying nodded at Emperor Hongguang, Zhu Yousong swallowed his saliva, and coughed lightly a few times to strengthen his courage, "Xuan!" ”

Facing everyone, they all turned their heads and stared intently at the steps outside the palace.

The first to appear in front of everyone was not Wang Lanping himself, but Wang Lanping's 100 personal guards, fully armed and rushed up the steps, lined up on both sides, a man dressed in a dragon robe, quickly stepped up the steps, and when he arrived at the palace gate, he took off the sword at his waist, handed it over to the eunuch on the side, and raised his steps into the court.

When everyone saw it, they were a little stunned, this is not Wang Lanping, who is this, he is wearing a regimental dragon robe that only the royal family and the nobles with high merits can wear.

The person who came was the deputy general of the cavalry battalion of the champion army, Song Xian, the robe on his body, which was put on by Wang Lanping in Xiangshan that day, and at this moment this dress appeared in the court, it was really extraordinarily glamorous, a small battalion soldier general, even had the opportunity to stand in the court and show his face, which was something that Song Xian couldn't think of, but today he dared to come, because Wang Lanping asked him to come, and there were tens of thousands of troops behind him.

Song Xian lifted the hem of his clothes, knelt on the ground, and said loudly, "The commander of the light cavalry battalion of the Ming Dynasty, Song Xian, see the emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

Zhu Yousong on the chair in the hall was a little confused, blinked a pair of small eyes, and looked at Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying was furious, what is this unification, and there is no national law, the big officials dare to run to the Fengtian Hall to show off their might, and they still have armor, what do you want to do, do you want to force the palace to rebel?

Ma Shiying glared at Song Xian angrily, "The little deputy commander also dares to enter the palace to discuss matters, is this the place where you can come?" What about Wang Lanping, what does he mean by sending you to bring so many armor soldiers to the palace? ”

Song Xian was not afraid, and replied, "Back to the emperor, back to Lord Ma, Wang Governor said that at present, the thieves are violating the border, and in order to prevent the fine work from sneaking into the palace, which is not good for the emperor, he specially selected loyal people to guard the palace day and night."

Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said, "Joke, the palace has its own Praetorian Guards, what is he doing?"

Song Xian said, "Back to this lord, Governor Wang is still the commander of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, and the palace guards are his business, and a thousand armor soldiers have been stationed in the palace to change their defenses."

Ma Shiying's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he shot too quickly, thinking that this palace guard has always been guarded by his own people, why was he replaced but no one came to report to him, this kid is too ruthless.

"Lawless, what about Wang Lanping, why didn't he come to the court, is there still an emperor in his eyes" Ma Shiying pointed at the emperor and scolded Song Xian.

The rest of the courtiers also showed righteous indignation one by one, scolding everything, some of them were bold and even directly said that Wang Lanping wanted to blackmail the Son of Heaven and wanted to do things that were not ministers, and some said that Wang Lanping should be summoned to the palace immediately, and he was a big crime in the Yaowu court, and some suggested that someone should be sent to pass on the decree immediately, giving Wang Lanping to self-judge, the king wants the minister, and the minister has to die.

Song Xian bowed to the emperor, "Congratulations to the emperor, two months ago Wang Commander was ordered by the emperor to go to Xiangshan to train soldiers and horses, and now he has trained 30,000 soldiers for the emperor, Wang Inspector personally led the army outside the palace, respectfully ask the emperor and hundreds of officials to review"

Zhu Yousong couldn't be the master, and looked at Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying understood this time, and secretly said in his heart: Wang Lanping, Wang Lanping, you kid is too yin, you actually want to use the military power to suppress the ministers, this useless hundred officials of the Manchu Dynasty are not frightened under the military authority of your 30,000 army, how dare you impeach you.

At that moment, Ma Shiying said, "Presumptuous, since he returned to the court, he should first come to the court to see the emperor, as for what is the review of the three armies, then the emperor has the final say, you, go and summon Wang Lanping into the court."

Song Xian smiled, stood up to himself, turned around and shouted outside the hall, "Respectfully invite the emperor and hundreds of officials to enter the city"

Outside the hall, a hundred armor soldiers, with a loud sigh, pulled out half of the big knife that reflected the cold light, and shouted in unison, "Respectfully invite the emperor and hundreds of officials to enter the city"

Zhu Yousong was so frightened that he fell off the chair and shouted, "Guard, escort, escort"

Song Xiandao, "The last general is here to escort you, and the emperor doesn't have to be frightened"

Ma Shiying was so angry that his eyes were crooked, his facial features were distorted, and he shouted, "It's the opposite, it's the opposite, it's coming, it's coming, it's driving"

But no one outside the temple answered.

"Please come to the city!" Song Xian urged again.

Zhu Yousong, supported by the eunuch, stood up tremblingly, and stammered, "Okay, okay, I'll go."

Song Xian took the opportunity to shout, "The emperor is driving, and all the officials are with him"

Wang Lanping came to Nanjing, that is not stupid, he knows what is waiting for him in the court, and he also heard some Ma Shiying's deployment, even if he is not afraid of the impeachment of hundreds of officials, but the word of the public will go out, and it will have a great impact on his reputation, simply, Fengtian Temple will not go first, and directly send troops to take over the palace and city defense, and then walk tens of thousands of troops around the palace city, so that these ministers who have never seen the world know and know, what is the arm can not twist the thigh, what is the only sword and gun can be powered, Scare them into ascending to heaven, and the three souls will go to the ground.

Escorted by about 100 armor soldiers, the emperor and his party reluctantly climbed the palace tower.

"The emperor has arrived!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under the palace wall, the war drums shook the sky, so frightened that Zhu Yousong took another step back, slowly stretched his neck to look down, and suddenly, a cold sweat broke out, so shocked that his legs did not obey the call, and he couldn't move a step.