The bottom line between the imperial court and the two rivers is getting lower and lower.

Can you understand what I mean? With your intelligence, it will never be possible.

Because you understand a bottom line, then there will be another lower bottom line.

If you understand that lower bottom line, there will be a lower bottom line soon.

And then it goes on like this, and it can go on for a million years.

A million years from now, will we be able to find that lowest bottom line?

I know that there is a minimum temperature, but there is no maximum. There is certainly no minimum bottom line in this world - there is only a real bottom line when humanity is completely destroyed.

If humanity had perished, it would have been over, but if you were dead at this time, you wouldn't have understood it.

What I mean is: since the Battle of Tongguan on April 4 in the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, there has been no regular war between the imperial court and Lianghe, and the dark war is much more cruel than the hot war.

I don't know who started all this.

Everyone in Gyeonggi said that it was provoked by Zhao Zhengbao, but I don't believe it!

Everyone in Lianghe said that it was provoked by the imperial court, especially the eunuchs of the inner court, and I don't believe it, because I really haven't heard of anyone planning it.

If a boring person like me, who loves to toss and inquire, has never heard of the conspiracy of the imperial court, it can only be: there is no conspiracy.

The other provinces of the Ming Dynasty didn't care about this at all, they either wanted to bite the meat from the two rivers, or they wanted to take some meat from the bowl of the imperial court, and the premise of all this was that the more fierce the fight between the imperial court and the two rivers, the better.

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I'm going to sort out all the between them in this chapter.

Let me start by stating that, as with this book, I can only guarantee that it will be as true as I can.

As for whether it's true or false, that's for God to know.

My references are:

First, the information of the imperial court. In order to show their awesomeness, the foreign courts, the imperial army, and the government army of the imperial court said that they beat each other very badly; In order to say that the other party was cruel, they said that they were beaten badly. As a result, their record is full of contradictions.

Second, the propaganda of the spies sent to Gyeonggi by Cho Jeong-pao. But they are the same, in order to say that they are awesome, they say that they beat the court very badly; In order to say that the court was cruel, they said that Lianghe was beaten badly. As a result, their records are also full of contradictions.

This bunch of rubbish! You can't lie to anyone! One of the key points of deception is to be self-consistent, and we must not be attacked by others with our own spear.

If I were the imperial court, I would set up a royal lying department (and call it the royal truth department), and I would lie every day, and only I would be allowed to lie, and no one else would be allowed to lie. If someone says a word, I say they spread rumors and throw everyone in jail.

- Third, the information of the Inner Court and the Forbidden Army. In contrast, the Inner Court and the Forbidden Army stayed out of the matter and had no incentive to cheat. However, as I said earlier, although the inner court and the forbidden army are powerful, their number is still too small compared to 4 billion subjects, and their information is incomplete.

I compare each other, the contrast between the court materials, the opposition between the two river materials, the contrast between them, plus the contrast between the court materials and them, roughly straightens out the dark war in the past few months.

The first exchange of fire between the two sides is also not clear, for example, on April 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 13 in the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, explosions and riots occurred in several counties of Gyeonggi respectively. After all, this kind of thing has happened before, and at that time, Zhao Zhengbao and his father were still the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty!

The first definite event was the explosion of the Royal Army in Xianyang on April 14, the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty. On that day, four horses pulled a cart and rushed into the camp of the Xianyang Army, and the Xianyang Army was huddled together to do exercises, and more than 1,000 people were killed in one fell swoop. This incident must have been done by Lianghe, because the explosives of that cart were red, which was caused by the Yanjing Arsenal not purifying. In addition, the explosives were stuffed with iron nails to increase damage, which I also invented on my own.

The remaining big things are:

In early April of the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the rebel smugglers in Gyeonggi broke through from Tongguan, and the Central Plains Army outside the pass responded and repelled the imperial army.

On April 20, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial army captured Wangjing County, Central Plains Province, the Central Plains Army defeated them, and then entered the pass and plundered Yudong County, Gyeonggi Province, only to be surrounded by a large number of imperial troops, and then more Central Plains troops came to the rescue. This time, both sides lost tens of thousands of men each, and the regular armies of the two sides never fought again.

On April 30, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the foreign dynasty sent assassins to assassinate the county magistrate of Luoxi County in the Central Plains (doubtful, perhaps killed by a local mob).

On May 1, the fourth year of Daming Honghua, the city gate of Chang'an County was attacked by suicide bombers. It was found that this kind of suicide attack had a high success rate, caused a lot of damage, and left no room for life, which was the perfect innovation. This was the first suicide attack, and since then there have been more and more attacks of this form, and in the end, all of them have been like this.

On May 5, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the army recruited by Prime Minister Li Guozhong from the Western Regions and Mongolia appeared outside the Guan. These tribesmen attacked the villages and county towns of the Central Plains like hungry wolves entering the flock. Although the imperial court stated that these ethnic armies came to the Central Plains from the Western Regions and Mongolia by themselves and had nothing to do with the imperial court, the Central Plains people were not fools, did they believe it?

On May 10 of the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, Li Hongguang, a slave general who had taken refuge in Zhao Zhengbao, appeared in Tongguan. He earnestly stated that he was loyal to the imperial court and had rebelled against an army to join the king. The imperial court was pleasantly surprised and sent a large number of officials and people to "eat the rice pot". Li Hongguang suddenly killed them and plundered more than a dozen counties before leaving the customs. The Central Plains claimed that they were not responsible for this, saying that it was a contradiction between the slaves of the Western Regions and the central court, and they didn't care.

On May 20, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Imperial Army and the Fu Army went east out of Niangzi Pass and plundered Hebei counties along the Taihang Mountain.

On May 25, the fourth year of Daming Honghua, a large number of wells in Niangziguan County, Shanxi Province were poisoned, poisoning more than 100,000 people and killing 20,000. Hebei claimed to know nothing about it and said it must be a curse.

On June 1 of the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the cavalry of western Liaoning plundered the Senei. Tens of thousands of people in Saibei, Hebei Province, were taken captive and their fields burned.

On June 20, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the main cavalry of Yanjing went out of the fortress, killing 50,000 herdsmen in Liaoxi and capturing 500,000 cattle, sheep and horses in Liaoxi. At the same time, the Liaodong cavalry also sent troops to plunder hundreds of thousands of livestock in western Liaoning. The Hebei cavalry and the Liaodong cavalry met at the Liaohe River crossing in the western Liaoxi grassland, and the two sides actually took a look at each other and left. Hebei and Liao Dongfang claimed at the same time that they did not collude together, which was completely accidental.

This may be really accidental, because also on June 20, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong suddenly dispatched hundreds of thousands of main troops to besiege Shanhaiguan. When Shanhaiguan was about to fall, the defenders of the forty acropolis of Yanjing poured out and used poison gas bombs. The Liaodong Army was defeated and led troops back to Guanwai. Hebei claimed that Liaodong was a treacherous villain who went back on his word, and Liaodong claimed that he didn't understand what Hebei was talking about at all.

On July 5, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains Army blew up all the five bridges on the Yangtze River in the Central Plains. Central Plains claimed that the price of goods in Jiangnan Province was too expensive, so he no longer did business with Jiangnan. They also said that they only bombed the bridge on the Central Plains side, and that the bridge from the center line of the Yangtze River to the south bank of the Yangtze River still remains, so this is a completely legal and reasonable move.

On July 20, the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the seven Yellow River bridges built by the Central Plains and Hebei were blown up at the same time, and the two rivers could only rely on pontoon bridges and small boats to travel from then on. Lianghe accused Jiangnan Province or the imperial court of retaliation, but their reply was: "Your actions are legal and reasonable, so why should we retaliate?" It must have been your people who did it themselves, thinking that Lianghe was not satisfied with doing business, so they blew it up themselves. ”

On August 1, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the River Gang, the Jiang Gang, and the Sea Gang attempted to cross the Yangtze River in small boats and plunder Jiangnan Province, but they were discovered by the Jiangnan Army and the whole army was annihilated. According to the captured bandits, it was Zhao Zhengbao who asked for the attack. Lianghe resolutely opposed this, believing that it was framed by the imperial court.

On August 20, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan army infiltrated the Central Plains, but as soon as they came ashore, they were discovered by the armor guards of the Central Plains, and the whole army was annihilated.

On September 1, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, some Shaolin troops entered the south of the Yangtze River, burned, killed and looted back. Of course, the imperial court did not recognize this "Shaolin Army". Shaolin has two distributions, one is Northern Shaolin, which is located in Shaolin Mountain in the Central Plains; One is South Shaolin, located in Danxia Mountain, Lingnan. However, what made the court depressed was that both the Central Plains and Lingnan had rebelled, so no Shaolin was from the imperial court, and the Shaolin army was naturally not from the imperial court. However, the imperial court always has a way, they found a monk, and said that he was the abbot of Shaolin Temple; They found a Royal Army, shaved their heads, and said they were Shaolin Army.

On September 15, the fourth year of Honghua in the Ming Dynasty, all the Wudang disciples of Wudang Mountain in Jiangnan Province were dispatched to cross the Yangtze River with the support of the Jiangnan army and attack the Central Plains. The Central Plains Army, which was defending on the north bank of the Yangtze River, was the opponent of the Wudang masters, so they all fled. The reputation of the Wudang faction has become more and more prestigious, and all the taverns in the world are commentaries on "Wudang disciples vs. rebellious bald donkeys".

I calculated that as of the end of September of the fourth year of Daming Honghua, in just half a year, Lianghe launched a total of 200 relatively large suicide bomb attacks, and his own casualties were only hundreds, while the imperial court suffered tens of thousands of casualties. In fact, tens of thousands of people are not much, and they are all civilians, but the impact on people is like tens of millions of deaths.

There should have been fewer suicide attacks on Lianghe by the imperial court, because the people of the imperial court were too stupid to control people. They forced them to go to the Central Plains to carry out suicide missions, but as soon as they arrived in the Central Plains, they either took refuge in Zhao Zhengbao or slapped their butts and slipped away. The court wants to save face and will never admit the failure of the mission. So even though they say they have a lot of suicide bombers, I don't believe it.

I am here to recount these frivolous little things in order to make way for a big event that is about to come.

The rivers and lakes are so big, so chaotic, and all kinds of things happen every day, but this big event that happens immediately is extremely rare.

This thing is: the Battle of Wudang Shaolin.