"Ma Shiying, this traitor!"

Ever since they learned that Ma Shiying had transferred some of his troops and horses to resist Zuo Liangyu, the opposition was furious, not to the extent that they were overjoyed when they heard that Zuo Liangyu had finally cavalry on the side of the Qingjun. I just learned that Zuo Liangyu, who was pinned on high hopes, was defeated by Huang Degong in Luzhou Mansion, even more so, it is rumored that the Shun army has broken through Yangzhou, and the life and death of the Shi Pavilion Department is unknown, Ma Shiying, a traitor, is still resisting Zuo Liangyu's righteous army, is it tolerable or unbearable?

"The horse thief cares about his personal honor and disgrace, and he doesn't care about the Ming Dynasty at all," what made the opposition most angry was Ma Shiying's disregard for the overall situation: "Zuo Shuai is on the side of the Qing monarch, not to *** the Ming Dynasty, even if King Lu ascends the throne, the world is still their Zhu family, and it will not be cheap for outsiders; And if the thief succeeds, won't Da Ming be finished? Ma Shiying, a traitor, can't even understand this truth? ”

"There is also a faint monarch, and being in the same room, isn't King Lu a descendant of Taizu? For the sake of his throne, he actually transferred troops from the Jianghuai defense line back to fight infighting! Didn't he give Emperor Taizu's country to outsiders in vain? ”

Since the emperor is so mediocre, the conspiring courtiers have completely lost much loyalty to Emperor Hongguang, and the battle situation in Luzhou Mansion is becoming more and more favorable to Ma Shiying's traitorous party, Zuo Liangyu has lost three battles in five days, and it looks like he will be completely defeated by Ma Shiying's lackey Huang Degong in the near future. In this way, the opposition had to consider such a question: After Huang Degong returned to the dynasty victoriously, would Ma Shiying, who had become more confident because of the elimination of Zuo Liangyu, settle accounts after the autumn and drive all the opposition out of the imperial court, like Wei Zhongxian who single-handedly covered the sky every year.

Even if Ma Shiying hadn't been mad enough to use this opportunity to expel the opposition, Emperor Hongguang would probably not give these courtiers who supported Zuo Liangyu any good looks in the future.

"How is Huang Hou over there?"

"Huang Hou still hasn't moved."

"Didn't Huang Hou's son lead his troops to Hangzhou?" Hangzhou is the king of Lu, and many people hope that the Funing army will raise troops to respond to the side of the Qing monarch of the Chu army, or simply support King Lu to ascend the throne or supervise the country in Hangzhou.

"Huang Hou refused to raise troops on the side of the Qing monarch, and only promised not to let the traitor's minions go to Zhejiang to go to Zhejiang, "No matter how many letters the opposition sent to Huangshi to bitterly explain the benefits, he always had an ambiguous attitude and refused to support the virtuous King Lu." Many people think that if Huang Hou sent troops from Fujian at the beginning of the year, even if he spoke out in support of Xianwang Lufan, he would not be taken advantage of by the descendants of Zheng Guifei, a fox spirit. Now Fujian's performance has made these people feel even more disappointed, Zuo Liangyu has been the first to attack for a long time, and Zhendonghou is still unhurriedly consolidating his territory in Fujian and Guangdong, even if he asks him to send troops to help Zhejiang resist the tax supervisors, he has to bargain, and he has to take half of the remuneration of Nanjing's tax before sending troops to help: "Huang Hou also said that the role of the monarch and the minister has been decided, and the mouth of the world is difficult to prevent." Alas, it's so pedantic. ”

"Huang Hou is so stupid and loyal, I dare to say that even if the traitor puts the knife on his neck, Huang Hou will not resist, at most shout twice every day."

Since the Hou of Zhendong could no longer count on it, the opposition in Nanjing had to take matters into their own.

"The emperor is unreasonable, exterminates humanity, abandons his wife, imprisons the prince, is a traitor, covets honor and ignores the ancestors and society, and the people with lofty ideals at home and abroad all lament ......"

If Huang Degong completely defeated Zuo Liangyu and returned to Nanjing, it would be too late to make another rebellion, and now the army loyal to the traitorous ministers has basically been transferred out of Beijing to resist Zuo Liangyu, and most of the existing troops in Nanjing are under the control of righteous men and gentlemen. The opposition immediately staged a mutiny, planning to support the man who pretended to be the crown prince to take office as the superintendent first, and then go to Hangzhou to ask Lu Fan to take the throne.

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When he learned the news of the Nanjing Rebellion, Li Chengdong was still searching for ferries on the Yangtze River, and so far he had only found fishing boats that could cross the river for a few hundred people, and Yu Dong and others who were looking for boats separately were not much different from what he had gained. The Nanjing side had already controlled the ships, and in order to fight with Zuo Liangyu, Huang Degong even looted the civilian ships on the Yangtze River, and the Jiangbei Army, which came to look for ships for the third time, of course gained very little, and most of their own sailors were still in the Huai River, and it was difficult to sail into the Yangtze River in large numbers in the short term.

"Nanjing is in turmoil, King Fu escaped from the capital alone to join Huang Degong, Ma Shiying is said to have also absconded in makeup, anyway, I haven't heard the news that Ma Shiying was arrested or executed, and now the whole city supports the prince, who claims to be the guy with the pseudonym King Ming...... "A guard reported to Li Chengdong the news about Nanjing that he had just inquired about.

"It's Wang Zhiming." There is a person who is well versed in the inside story next to him to correct the way.

"It's really tasteless, wouldn't it be better to cheat and eat and drink by directly assuming the name Prince Zhu." Li Chengdong scolded disdainfully, pointed at the subordinate and said, "Go on." ”

"Now the people of Nanjing are panicking, I heard that the hundred officials in the city have let the prince ascend the throne and become the emperor, and they are ready to resist the city." The guards shouted: "My lord, Nanjing's strong pass is like iron, we must quickly inform the general to march at full speed, and take advantage of the chaos in the city to break the city in one fell swoop, otherwise it will be troublesome." ”

Nanjing as long as it is difficult to take the initiative to surrender, for example, the queen of the Tang Dynasty relied on this lonely city to still resist the absolute superiority of the Song army for nearly a year, after the painstaking reinforcement of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing became more majestic, the high walls are strong, the soldiers are densely packed, the Jiangbei army generals who have been to Nanjing estimate that the city's city wall can not be broken by artillery, and the hidden soldiers in the city wall can protect tens of thousands of soldiers, they can use these hidden soldiers to avoid the siege artillery of the Shun army, and then appear in time to appear in the city to repel the attack of the infantry of the Shun army.

If Nanjing did not surrender, Xu Ping planned to follow the old trick of the Song army, besiege Nanjing without attacking it, and try his best to control the area around Nanjing City to turn it into an isolated city, and he even drafted a year-long siege plan, considering the Ming army around him, this plan was not completely risk-free when it was implemented.

"It's too late, in case they support that fake prince to ascend the throne and calm people's hearts, it will be a tough battle to attack Nanjing again." Li Chengdong immediately made a decision and ordered the immediate use of these boats to cross the river: "Ben will personally take 200 people to cross the river, and then bring 400 horses to take Nanjing." ”

Because there was no vanguard to cross the river, at this time the beacon tower and ferry on the south bank were still in the hands of the Ming army, and the Shun army had no understanding of the deployment of the Ming army's naval division. In case the follow-up troops were isolated in the north of the river, the 200 people crossing the river would not be enough for the Ming army on the south bank to fill the gaps.

However, after Li Chengdong launched a military adventure, the beacon tower on the opposite bank has not lit the alarm signal, and the Ming army guarding the beacon tower directly opposite quietly watched the Shun army hurriedly load horses and supplies onto the ship on the opposite bank, and then untie the cable and sail towards the south bank, but there is no warning at all, let alone any preparation for resistance.

Watching the Shun army's ships sail to the shore, a group of enemy soldiers jumped into the water, struggled to fix the boat to the shore, and then set up a plank and began to lead the horses off the boat, the beacon tower in front of them hurriedly sent people to help the Shun army land, and the two beacon towers farther to the left and right also saw the situation here, and they also did not react. A guard squinted at the small group of Shunjun cavalry that landed in the distance, and said to his colleagues next to him: "The ghost knows where the Funing Navy Division and Huang Dashuai's Navy Division are now?" We can't***. ”

All the Jiangfang sentinels and beacons were worried that sending a message to the police would make them the target of the Shun army, and even if the sailor saw that the alarm really came in time, it would only be a credit to others, and it would be no good for him to provoke the disaster of death.

In this way, Li Chengdong's army successfully crossed the Yangtze River under the nose of the Jiang Defense Army, and after crossing the Yangtze River, Li Chengdong immediately led the first group of cronies who landed with him to Nanjing, and the follow-up Shun army troops began to contact the various beacon towers, military stations and the river defense army in the ferry along the south bank of the Yangtze River after crossing the river, so that these Jiang defense troops changed their doors and monitored the Yangtze River for the Shun army. Stations are supplied or rested.

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On the Jinluan Palace in Nanjing, the ministers shouted long live to Wang Zhimingshan, the "Prince of Chongzhen", who had just been put on the throne, and implored him to immediately take up the post of prisoner of the country.

"Your Majesty should be close to the virtuous ministers, far from the villain. So the Ming Dynasty can be ...... to be excited."

Before the congratulatory message was finished, he suddenly heard a commotion outside, which was so loud that it could be clearly heard in this Jinluan Palace; And it was so close, it seemed that even the eunuchs in the forbidden were shouting together:

"The Great Shun soldiers have entered the city!"

After Li Chengdong rushed to the city of Nanjing overnight with 200 personal guards, he disguised himself as a Ming army in the morning and mixed into Nanjing, which had become a mess, and after entering the city, Li Chengdong and his 200 personal soldiers took off the Ming army's battle robes, changed into the black clothes of the Shun army, swaggered back and forth in the city, and shouted loudly in the streets:

"The Great Shun Soldiers have arrived!"

The noise of these 200 people immediately shocked the guards of Nanjing, after learning that the Shun army had entered the city, the Nanjing defenders who were already panicked immediately ripped off the red flag of the Ming army, replaced it with a black flag in order to protect themselves, a guard who did not prepare the black flag in advance was in a hurry, dissolved all the ink stones around him in the water, and rushed to make a black flag and hang it.

After confirming that the Shun army had entered the city, the scholars and officials of the Sixth Department of Nanjing, who were still kneeling in His Highness, suddenly jumped up together and rushed towards the young man in his early twenties sitting on the throne. Hundreds of officials crowded together in the main hall, and those who tried their best to squeeze in front of the throne stretched out countless hands, tearing Wang Zhiming off the throne with all hands and feet, and carried him out of the palace like an eagle catching a chicken.

Li Chengdong shouted until the nine gates of Nanjing had all changed their banners, and then rushed to the imperial city of Nanjing, and when he arrived in front of the gate of the imperial city, the hundred officials of Nanjing had already gathered at the gate to greet the officers and soldiers of Dashun. When these officials surrendered to Li Chengdong, they were carrying a young man whose clothes had been torn to shreds, and they all claimed that they had contributed to the pseudo-Ming prince.

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"Your Majesty is in the capital division, and the ministers still have something to do, but now the Beijing division is lost, and the ministers are intellectually lonely, so what can I do?" Seeing Emperor Hongguang fleeing to his army, Huang Degong was also surprised, tens of thousands of his sons and daughters all relied on Nanjing's materials, grain and grass, and the army did not have much savings, and these days with Zuo Liangyu fierce battles both soldiers and military funds have been greatly lost, Huang Degong is now in urgent need of personnel and material replenishment, rather than more military tasks.

"Every city is rebellious, and thieves are in the river," when Emperor Hongguang fled from Beijing in a hurry, there were not even Praetorian Guards around him, only a few little eunuchs left: "How is this good?" ”

Yesterday, Huang Degong had just defeated Zuo Liangyu's department, and the Chu army was beaten to the point that he lost his armor and collapsed, and after carefully asking about the situation in Nanjing, he said to Emperor Hongguang in a deep voice: "Today's plan is to quickly recapture and return the Beijing division to resist the thieves." ”

Ignoring the glances thrown from side to side, Huang Degong said to Emperor Hongguang: "Your Majesty's respect for all vehicles, it is not appropriate to put yourself in danger, please go to Hangzhou as soon as possible, and ask Your Majesty to return to Que after the minister recaptures the Beijing Division." ”

Hongguang refused: "The life and death of the Ming Dynasty are all in the hands of the general, if the Ming Dynasty dies, how can I survive alone?" I don't know anything about the military, but I want to beat the drum for the general. ”

Seeing that Emperor Hongguang refused to go to Hangzhou no matter what, Huang Degong asked his cronies to arrange for the emperor and the eunuchs to go to the rear cabin to rest, and at the same time ordered the whole army to set off and return to Nanjing.

After Emperor Hongguang left, he couldn't hold back anymore, and shouted to Huang Degong together: "Dashuai, isn't returning to Nanjing at this time to bring about your own destruction?" ”

Although the Chu army was repulsed, it was still hovering in the west, and Zhejiang in the south was the territory of King Lu, and if Emperor Hongguang could not rush to Hangzhou immediately, it was difficult to say what would happen, at least there was no need to count on the replenishment of troops and the supply of food. With the Shun army in the north and Nanjing in the east, Huang Degong is now undoubtedly a lone army with no base. At this time, forcibly attacking the Shun army relying on Nanjing, militarily speaking, there is not much difference from suicide, even if the Shun army outside Nanjing is defeated, it is no different from dreaming to capture Nanjing, the Xiongcheng city that Ming Taizu painstakingly managed, with this lone army with neither the rear, nor reinforcements and grain and grass reserves.

"Huang Hou's letter, haven't you read it?" reminded Huang Degong left and right, and Zhendong Hou wrote to persuade him many times, saying that if he knew that things were no longer possible, he should take the army to Fujian as soon as possible: "Huang Hou is still waiting for the marshal in Fuzhou to discuss the plan!" Dashuai, Huang Hou is your same clan, and he still relies on his own brother to fight the tiger, at this time, Dashuai is not with Huang Hou, who else to go to? ”

Huang Degong looked at the back cabin, shook his head lightly and said: "It's not that I don't know that Huang Hou is a person from Donglin, and it is inevitable that there is some estrangement between him and the emperor, but the emperor treats me well, and the country treats me well, the emperor gave me an earl, put my heart in my heart, entrust me with important responsibilities, and ...... today."

Huang Degong shook his head again: "Today's crisis, the emperor does not go anywhere else, but throws himself into our army alone, this trust in Huang Mou...... I'm not hard-hearted, how can I not be moved? I received Huang Hou's wishes, but I can't fail the emperor. ”

After finishing speaking, Huang Degong ordered loudly: "Send troops!" Take back the Jingshi! ”

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