12-55 Beijing War

Since the rebellion of Liu Ziguang, the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty has fallen into a strange situation, the old Red Shirt Army in Hebei, Shanxi, Liaodong and other places are no longer controlled by the imperial court, but nominally the imperial army, but the imperial court does not give them food and equipment, which is actually equivalent to the warlord separation.

However, it is not entirely the case to say that the division is not exactly like that, except for Shanxi Province, which is controlled by the Red Shirt General Zhao Chengcheng, other places are the forces of the two sides are intertwined, the 200,000 forbidden troops under the command of Xu Zengshou, the Duke of Wei, are stationed in Zhending, Beijing and other places, the food and equipment are sufficient, and the relationship with Li Yan's Red Shirts is quite harmonious, the forbidden army often sells weapons and ammunition secretly to the Red Shirts, and smuggles them to the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo and other areas with frequent civil wars in exchange for high price differences, and the cooperation between the two sides is happy and harmonious.

This situation is not what the imperial court wants to see, Xu Zengshou, the commander of the Hebei Forbidden Army, is the hereditary Duke of Wei, the brother of the current queen, the emperor's eldest brother, it stands to reason that the relationship is absolutely hard, this is now that the queen has been beaten into the cold palace, she has to guard against Xu Zengshou and the red shirt army colluding and making enemies of the imperial court.

Now that the government is controlled by Huang Zongxi and Wei Zhongxian, it is said that these two are indeed talents, and their strategies are not under the Qian Qianyi of Donglin back then, and there are also young heroes Yuan Chengzhi and some other talents selected by Zhu Youxiao, and it is not difficult to reorganize this disintegrated country.

Beijing, the Mansion of the Duke of Wei, which was originally the residence of Prince Gong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was later requisitioned by Xu Zengshou, how can people say that it is also the hereditary prince of the Ming Dynasty, and there must be a mansion that matches the identity wherever you go, right? Xu Zengshou's official rank is very high, the title of the original governor of the five armies is still there, and he is also the governor of Hebei Liaodong military affairs, it can be said that all the soldiers and horses in the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty are under his control, and he can definitely be regarded as a feudal official.

But Xu Zengshou's mood is not very good, because there is a letter from home saying that the sister has angered the emperor and has been beaten into the cold palace, the most ruthless emperor's family, as a first-class duke, Xu Zengshou does not know, if the sister is not in free love with Zhu Youxiao, he will never marry his sister to the deep palace, he would rather find a brother-in-law like Liu Ziguang with the same smell, sister-in-law Xu Yuanhui has been married to the emperor for five years, and she is twenty-one years old this year, and she has not been able to give birth to a boy and a girl, and she has a stubborn temper, which is almost the same as when she was not married, In the past, it was just noisy and noisy, but the emperor is gradually maturing, so can it be noisy again?

Although the queen was beaten into the cold palace, the title is still there, which shows that the emperor still misses the old feelings, or rather, he has some jealousy of his brother-in-law, after all, he has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, monitoring the tiger wolf-like redshirts, if it weren't for his own Buddha, those fuel-efficient lamps would have been in trouble a long time ago.

Liu Ziguang ran away, Yuan Chonghuan was far away in the Western Regions to resist the Junggar army, and the rookie Yuan Chengzhi was also in Nanzhao to quell the chaos, how could anyone in the court replace him, alas, while he still had a little weight in speaking, he hurriedly wrote a sincere letter and went back to say something good to the emperor for his sister, isn't this day going on?

Just as he was mentioning that Wolf Hao was about to write a letter, someone came to report: "General Zu sent someone to send a post, his son is full of moon wine today, and he invites the master to the banquet." ”

By the way, how did I forget this, Zu Dashou's newly married concubine gave birth to a big fat boy, I said hello a month ago, today is the time to put the full moon wine, although Xu Zengshou is a prince, but the old temper has not changed, and he still likes to mingle with his subordinates, especially good wine, how can he be missing on this lively occasion, so he quickly prepared a congratulatory gift and went to the banquet with a team of personal soldiers.

Zu Dashou's current position is the chief soldier of Baoding, and his subordinates also have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and he bought a big mansion in the city of Beijing, or the palace of the Manchu king, and married a concubine from the Manchu nobles, and helped him give birth to a white and chubby son, Zu Dashou is nearly forty years old and has this son, which is indeed a great joy in life, today Zu Dashou did not wear an official uniform, but wore a robe of fragrant cloud yarn, full of smile lines, and saw anyone who was a slap on the shoulder: "If you don't get drunk today, you won't return!" ”

Hearing that Xu Dashuai was coming, Zu Dashou hurriedly went out to greet him, Xu Zengshou is a martial artist, don't talk about those false tricks, he has already come in first, and he saw Zu Dashou is punch in the chest: "Ancestor, with you, you can drink a few more glasses later, and you are not allowed to go to bed if you are not drunk." ”

Zu Dashou smiled: "Let the grandfather smile, I will definitely accompany you later, come on, hurry up and invite the grandfather to the table." ”

Xu Zengshou went with a smile, from the person put a very heavy gift list at the door to receive the gift, and then all the relatives and soldiers went to the side of the courtyard to eat wine, Zu Dashou's mansion is very large, today opened a banquet of hundreds of tables, enough for thousands of people to enjoy, Beijing City can come to all the distinguished guests.

Watching Grandpa Guo's personal soldiers enter the courtyard, Zu Dashou put away his smile, pulled one of his men to the side and asked, "Is Li Yan here?" ”

"General Qiyu, Li Yan went to Tianjin to inspect the military affairs of the Navy Division, and he couldn't come, but he just sent someone to send a big gift." But there were quite a few other generals.

Zu Dashou nodded: "That's it, open the table." ”

The banquet officially began, all kinds of dishes were generally sent up, the generals did not like complicated tricks, that is, big fish and meat, roast duck, pig's head, elbow, brush mutton, two pot heads in the tank, guess the boxing order for a while, shouting five and drinking six, the atmosphere was very lively.

Drinking and drinking, suddenly someone shouted at the door: "Lord Qincha has arrived!" ”

Everyone who was drinking in the courtyard was stunned, and the raised wine glasses also stopped in mid-air, only to see a person coming in from outside, not tall, not very old, full set of armor, followed by a guard holding Shang Fang's sword, swaggering in.

"Who is this?" Everyone whispered, and Xu Zengshou, who was drinking in the main hall, was also stunned, because he knew this person, it was Yuan Chonghuan's son Yuan Chengzhi, didn't he lead the army to Nanzhao to quell the rebellion, why did he suddenly appear in Beijing, or what kind of Qincha, could it be said? Xu Zengshou didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Yuan Chengzhi led a group of people into the courtyard, pushed the wine table away, took out the holy decree and read: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, Xu Zengshou, the governor of Jiliao, Li Yan, the governor of Hebei, colluded with the traitor Liu Ziguang, intending to rebel, and the crime is unforgivable. ”

"Grandpa Guo, take the order." Yuan Chengzhi rolled up the holy decree and looked at Xu Zengshou with both hands, with a smile on his face.

"This is an edict! This father is not convinced! My father is going to the capital to face the saint! Xu Zengshou stood up suddenly, pushed the table away, and subconsciously wanted to draw the knife, but it was empty, and the saber had already been untied and placed in the gatehouse.

Zu Dashou, who was sitting on the side, also stood up, ripped off the Xiangyun gauze robe on his body, revealing the soft armor inside, shook his head and said, "Brother Xu, it's late, let's be punished, my brother will give you incense on the grave every year." ”

"Zu Dashou! It's you! Xu Zengshou then understood that the so-called full moon wine was a Hongmen banquet set up by Zu Dashou, specially used to deal with himself, and he pointed at Zu Dashou and was furious.

Zu Dashou avoided Xu Zengshou's gaze and said: "Brother, I am old, I have a son, I have been fighting and killing for a lifetime, I am tired, I want to go home and enjoy a few days of peace, alas, this is all a helpless thing." Before he finished speaking, his face changed, he turned around and pulled out a steel knife from the dark grid, and shouted: "Kill the thief by order!" ”

The jubilant banquet suddenly turned into a hell on earth, a large number of officers of the Red Shirt Army and the people brought by Zu Dashou, as well as the unstable elements in the forbidden army were all the targets of beheading, they drank too much wine, and they did not bring weapons, so they could only be slaughtered, and after a while, the courtyard was full of corpses, and Xu Zengshou was also forced by a few firearms, unable to move.

"Dude, close your eyes, I'll be soon." Zu Dashou said.

Xu Zengshou's eyes widened angrily: "You are the rebels and thieves!" Self-destruction of the Great Wall can only plunge the Ming Dynasty into war! You'll regret it. ”

"Uncle Xu, I don't have to worry about the rest of the matter, the northern military affairs will be taken over by the little nephew, everything is under control, you can rest assured." Yuan Chengzhi said softly on the side, his slightly dark but handsome face was splashed with some blood, and it seemed that he had killed people just now.

Yuan Chengzhi nodded at Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou gritted his teeth, his hand fell, and a silver light flashed, poor Wei Guogong I was famous, and he worked hard for the country for half his life, and he ended up in a different place.

"Hang the head at the city gate for three days, and then send it to the capital for 600 miles, the remnants of the Red Shirts in Beijing must be cleared today, tidy up the people and horses, change into the clothes of the Red Shirts, and rush to Tianjin overnight, and strive for the soldiers to take Tianjin without blood, capture Li Yan alive, it is really impossible to catch it, and it is okay to die, Shanhaiguan must be taken down, and the pass on Taihang Mountain, strengthen vigilance, and be ready to march into Shanxi at any time, and the Mongolian side will also greet him, and Zhamuhe will definitely not give up when he hears the news." Yuan Chengzhi walked together, while giving orders to Zu Dashou and others, although Man Gui, Zhao Shujiao, He Kegang and others did not participate in this matter, but they were all moved under the thunder, plus Yuan Chengzhi is the son of their old superior Yuan Chonghuan, and he always has some origins, and now he has to follow him all the way to the dark.

On that day, the city of Beijing was full of corpses and blood, and some of the logistics organs of the Red Shirts were completely slaughtered, scientific researchers, skilled workers, and the families of military officers suffered heavy losses, and even the Yongding River turned red.