12-65 Soldiers are coming to the city

Shaanxi, Tongguan, Yuan Chengzhi's army after a long journey, finally arrived here, the former Western Army camp is still there, the Hebei Army will be stationed directly, Yuan Shaomarshal with a team of horses into Tongguan to meet his father.

Now the gap between the official positions of the father and son is very small, Yuan Chengzhi has been promoted from an unemployed jinshi to the governor of Jiliao in just a few months, the prince Shaobao, and the rank of squire of the military department, only one grade higher than his father, one less than the title of the imperial envoy, as a son, of course, I hope that my father will praise him, but after seeing Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chengzhi was surprised.

Two years have passed, and his father, who used to be heroic, now has frosty temples, thin cheeks, bloodshot eyes, and looks more than ten years old.

"Father!" Yuan Chengzhi's eyes were hot, and he knelt down in his robe, but Yuan Chonghuan didn't have the excitement of seeing father and son, but said indifferently: "Get up and speak." ”

Yuan Chengzhi got up, saw his father spread out the map, pointed to a few points on it and said: "The Western Xia army has arrived here, here, the next step is Tongguan." ”

Yuan Chengzhi was shocked, no wonder his father didn't even greet him and went directly to the topic, it turned out that the military situation had been urgent to the point of urgency, in just a few months, the Western Xia army went all the way from Jiayuguan, flew east along the Qianli Hexi Corridor, and overcame Lanzhou, Baoji, and Xi'an in an instant, and now it has reached the gate of Tongguan, and there is only the last step from the Central Plains!

When Liu Ziguang served as the general of the expedition to the west, he won a series of battles, won more with less, and the troops went out of Jiayuguan to fight until Hami, the hinterland of the Xixia people, but he didn't expect that it was less than a year, and he actually turned the tables and was beaten to the door of his home. Muddy? Yuan Chengzhi was puzzled.

As if seeing his son's doubts, Yuan Chonghuan put down the map and said sadly: "Speaking of it, it is all to blame Liu Ziguang, not to mention his own conspiracy to rebel, but also to incite the rebellion of the army in Hexi, in order to prevent the tiger from being troubled, the father only seized their grain, grass and ammunition, did not think that they would ignore the national righteousness, blatantly defected, led the wolf into the house, led the Xixia army into the customs, Lanzhou garrison Liu Zongmin rose up to resist, helplessly outnumbered, martyred, Lanzhou City hoarded like a mountain of arms and materials into the hands of the enemy, a total of 50 heavy armored chariots, 100 heavy artillery, more than 500 small cannons under eight catties, 20,000 guns, cannonballs, bullets, and canned rice are served, which are all the people's fat and ointment of the people of the Ming Dynasty! It fell into the hands of the enemy in vain and became a sharp weapon to slaughter us. ”

Yuan Chengzhi only felt that his head was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't get up when he sat on the chair all of a sudden, what did it mean for such a huge amount of arms to fall into the hands of the enemy, it couldn't be clearer, the Xixia people were already extremely strong, since Galdan and the next one used soldiers like gods, they were not afraid of death, and they had extremely strong field combat and mobility capabilities, coupled with the help of the Red Shirt traitors, and such a large amount of advanced munitions, it was simply ...... He didn't dare to think about it, the so-called one-man pass, the Tongguan natural danger that could not be opened, was not an existence like tofu scum in the face of heavy artillery.

Looking at my father's tired appearance, it must be that he has exhausted his mind for the war these days, and looking at the troops in Tongguan City, they are also weak, and the task of resisting foreign captives will be pressed on him.

Yuan Chengzhi made up his mind and said: "Father don't worry, my son has brought 100,000 fresh troops, weapons and equipment are first-class, we will join forces, we will definitely be able to keep the Xixia people out of Tongguan, and call the imperial court, ask them to recruit new soldiers and make munitions. ”

Yuan Chonghuan sighed and said: "Now that the court is in chaos, someone is spying on my father's military power, if the news of the defeat spreads, I am afraid that someone will come to pick up the seal immediately." ”

Yuan Chengzhi said: "Why did my father say this, he is wise and wise today, and his father-in-law Wei is loyal to the sun and the moon, who dares to be unfavorable to his father, and his son is the first to not let him go!" ”

Yuan Chonghuan said: "This is politics, you are too young to understand." ”

Yuan Chengzhi didn't dare to argue in front of his father, so he had to bow his head and say, "Father is taught." Then he looked around and asked, "What about the eldest brother?" ”

When he asked about Yuan Chonghuan's sore spot, he slapped it on the handsome case and said, "Wu Sangui has been imprisoned." ”

Yuan Chengzhi exclaimed: "Why is he in prison, the eldest brother bravely crowns the three armies, and the nine sides of filial piety are the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, who framed him." ”

Yuan Chonghuan said: "The crime is to collude with the traitorous Liu Ziguang, because the father knows that this child will never have anything to do with Liu Ziguang's traitor, I am afraid that he has planted a heel in the matter of his children's private affairs, this child is good at everything, but he is too infatuated." ”

Yuan Chengzhi nodded, and seemed to understand something, the eldest brother's family has a beautiful wife, and it is still the top brand of Qinhuai River in the past, this is a well-known thing, but Wu Sangui has been fighting outside for many years, and it is strange that Hongxing does not come out of the wall, I am afraid that it is because of the woman's affairs that some powerful people will be imprisoned, alas, this kind of thing is really helpless. ”

Yuan Chengzhi was sad on the surface, but in fact, there was a hint of joy in his heart, if he talked about the young heroes of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Ziguang was naturally the number one who was the first to be the leader, and the second number was Wu Sangui, who had the reputation of "fair-skinned and the least number of years", and now that these two people are finished, the natural laurels will fall on their heads.

When the country is in internal and external troubles, it is a good time for true heroes to show their skills, the Western Xia Empire is pouring into the nest, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the Central Plains, which is not an opportunity.

"Chengzhi, come and see." Yuan Chonghuan picked up the map again and called his son, Yuan Chengzhi hurriedly dragged his distant thoughts back, came to his father's side, and studied the strategy decently, but the little abacus in his heart began to fight.

The capital is turbulent, the six departments are paralyzed, the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate has some backbone and goes away, the emperor was frightened, bedridden, and the power is even more sideless, Wei Zhongxian's power has reached its peak, the cabinet is like a doll in his hands, and the whole ** government is controlled by him, in order to further control the army, he urgently appointed and dismissed a group of generals above the general army, and sent a prison army to the Beijing camp forbidden army, each battalion has a eunuch, four brocade guards are in charge, and the position of the supervisor is above the battalion officer, in order to prevent rebellion, The key to the arsenal was in the hands of the supervising army, and he could not use it without his will, and all the capable people in the army were squeezed out.

Wei Zhongxian doesn't care about these, at this time he is proud, his confidence is extremely inflated, thinking that it took Huang Jinrong decades to climb to the position, he reached it in a few years, although he didn't add any title of nine thousand years old to himself now, but those are all things sooner or later, now the court is full of his own people, Wen has Hou Sui, Mao Bi stiff, Wu has Yuan Chengzhi, Jiangnan taxes are not more than 10 million, and the grain and grass weapons produced are enough to make him full of confidence, not afraid of the invasion of any foreign enemy.

The Donglin Party is all soft bones, except for some stinky and hard guys who hang up and leave, most of them still surrender to their own doors, and they are affectionate and tight by Wei Gonggong, Huang Zongxi is a master in the world, and he does not compete with himself for power, but he is forced to reluctantly arrange a few of his relatives to serve in military positions, which also makes Wei Zhongxian very satisfied, and the only thing he is afraid of in the world is Liu Ziguang, who is far overseas.

But it's not a big deal, when the cannon ship of Jiangnan Shipyard is built, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he must be captured and executed by Ling Chi before he can let go of the burden in his heart.

The secret of Zhu Youxiao's inability to have children Wei Zhongxian knows, it is precisely because of this that he is keen to massacre those children of the clan, and he has thought about the follow-up plan, after a period of time, he will offer a pregnant woman to the emperor as a concubine, and after October, the prince will naturally be born, and then he will be able to cover the mouth of the world, this child will naturally come from their Wei family, and when it comes to this, he will be angry, Wei Liangqing and Wei Liangdong's two nephews are not angry, one was burned to death by fire, and the other disappeared mysteriously, if our family is still down there, how nice it would be.

Early in the morning, in the Forbidden City, Wei Zhongxian was reviewing the folds, and he really responded to the old saying, the emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry, Zhu Youxiao is not diligent in political affairs, Wei Zhongxian is very diligent, and he gets up early every day to review the folds submitted from various places with a red pen, and there is a great style of diligence and love for the people.

Suddenly, a little eunuch ran in with small steps outside the door, Wei Zhongxian frowned and was about to scold, the little eunuch said in a low voice: "Father-in-law Wei, the big thing is not good, there is a brigade of cavalry in Jiangbei." ”

"Oh, how many people, under what banner?"

"I don't know, the local security said that they don't have a flag, but it doesn't look like a Central Plains person, at least 10,000 people."

Wei Zhongxian's brows gradually twisted, and his first thought was that Liu Ziguang's remnants had revived, but this was not terrible, not to mention the Yangtze River moat, there were more than 100,000 Beijing troops and the tall and thick Nanjing city wall, even if there were tens of thousands of people.

"Hmph, it's just in time, let's go to the city to watch."