Zhang Xuan didn't see Zhu Hao, and Zhu Hao wouldn't see him.

Guan Jing is not the kind of person who is good at words, he is only responsible for leading the troops, as for the meeting with Zhang Xuan, Zhu Hao asked him to say whatever he wanted, it was just a script, more like an ultimatum before the war...... No matter what you Zhang Xuan thinks, anyway, the next time we launch an attack, we will take down the capital.

"How have you been doing when you went to sea? Whose army is besieging the capital right now? Who is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty? ”

As an envoy, Zhang Xuan knew that he would have to find the emperor to communicate with him after he went back, and he needed detailed content, and he would not be easily dismissed by Guan Jing with a few words.

Guan Jing said: "I am now representing the Huaxia Empire, and the army of the Huaxia Empire is naturally fighting against you. According to the edict of the emperor of the Chinese Empire, the Ming Emperor can retain the throne, but in the future can only exist as a vassal of the Chinese Empire, as for the emperor of the Chinese Empire, he will leave his life, and he can even enjoy wealth forever, but from then on, the people of the Ming Dynasty are the subjects of the Chinese Empire. ”

"Crazy! Lose your marbles! ”

Zhang Xuan was furious.

Listening to the other party's style of speaking is very similar to Zhu Hao, Guan Jing was brought out by Zhu Hao after all, Zhang Xuan naturally felt that these words were taught by Zhu Hao.

It's just that Zhu Hao didn't come out to see him.

Guan Jing asked someone to bring over something like a national letter, stuffed it into Zhang Xuan's hand, and said coldly: "This is something brought to your emperor, there are still three hours before dawn." Three hours later, the army of the Huaxia Empire will enter the city mercilessly, hoping that he will do it himself! ”

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Zhang Xuan left the camp with his credentials.

The situation in the camp surprised him very much, those Javanese soldiers who kept vigil were neatly dressed one by two, wearing a steel helmet on their heads, wearing black military uniforms on their bodies, standing guard with their heads held high, holding steel guns, as straight as a pine tree, walking in two columns, three people in a row, all natural movements, at first glance it was an elite division.

Zhang Xuan wondered very much, how did this army come about?

In just a few years after Zhu Hao went to sea, he formed an army mainly indigenous, and he was so disciplined...... How could this group of barbarians who didn't even understand the language obey Zhu Hao's orders?

Isn't Zhu Hao afraid of their rebellion?

Anyway.

Zhang Xuan felt that the mission of his envoy had been accomplished, and not only brought back the negotiation conditions offered by the other party, giving the emperor a choice, but also bringing hope to the soldiers and civilians in the city.

As long as the emperor surrenders.

What is the Chinese Empire, he doesn't understand, but he vaguely feels that as long as the emperor abdicates, he can be a prince with peace of mind in the future, which is probably what it means, and the Ming Dynasty will be controlled by this Chinese Empire in the future, but who the emperor of the Chinese Empire is, he is not sure for a while.

When he appeared under the city, Yang Yiqing was surprised that Zhang Xuan could come back alive.

"Bingyong, how's it going?"

Yang Yiqing asked people to open the city gate and welcome Zhang Xuan into the city.

Zhang Xuan was annoyed by the fact that he was ordered to send an envoy by Yang Yiqing before, and said coldly after meeting: "The thieves have decided to attack the city before dawn, and they threaten to raze the capital to the ground!" See for yourself! ”

Yang Yiqing said: "Then you can only take the initiative!" At present, it seems that the thieves have the least troops and horses in the north of the city, and they can concentrate on the assault with 20,000 cavalry, or they can fight! ”

"Huh."

Although Zhang Xuan is now the secretary of the Ministry of War, he no longer has any decision-making power.

Almost all the military power of the Ming Dynasty fell into the hands of Yang Yiqing.

Zhang Xuan is also pondering, it seems that you don't know how powerful the other party is if you don't suffer...... The problem is that tens of thousands of cavalry rushed to kill before, but the big guys saw it, why do you think there is hope tonight?

Yang Yiqing said again: "Besides, what else?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "For the rest, I will only play with Your Majesty." ”

"You don't have to go!"

Yang Yiqing waved his hand, and someone immediately took Zhang Xuan down.

Zhang Xuan shouted and asked: "The surname Yang, do you want to rebel?" ”

This time he has already let go, before Yang Yiqing ordered him to send an envoy, and now the envoy came back and did not let him go to see the emperor, it is clear that Yang Yiqing is ready to firmly hold the military power in his hands, or Yang Yiqing is ready to use the Confucian way to "martyr".

From Yang Yiqing's point of view, if the military power is in the hands of the emperor or Zhang Xuan, the major affairs of the family and the country are likely to go in an uncontrollable direction, and he must save the last face for the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Yiqing said: "The Son of Heaven guards the country, the king dies, and I will find someone to do it about entering the palace to participate." All you have to do is tell the envoy in detail, or you'll be killed immediately. ”

Zhang Xuan lamented in his heart.

Sure enough, it was thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, after the end of the Zuoshunmen incident, the era of the emperor controlling everything came to an end at this moment.

The emperor used an uncalm passive way of avoiding war, which made the hot-blooded courtiers feel cold, and the Wenchen led by Yang Yiqing now wanted to carry out a "coup", or it could not be called a "coup", but Yang Yiqing and others wanted to decide the direction of this war in their way.

Zhang Xuan originally wanted to persuade Zhu Si, or we could judge the situation and surrender, and leave Qingshan without fear of no firewood, but now he knew that he had no way to tell the emperor anything, and even the needs of the enemy outside the city would most likely not reach the emperor's ears.

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Zhu Si hid in the Qianqing Palace, dressed neatly, ready to run away at any time, but there was no news coming.

His concubines were sleeping on the floor with their clothes together.

Zhu Si waited anxiously, walked out of the palace gate, and went outside to breathe, but saw that a batch of guards around him had been replaced.

"Your Majesty, Elder Yang Ge sent someone to say that he would replace the palace guards."

Zhang Zuo appeared in front of Zhu Si with a look of embarrassment.

Zhu Si said angrily: "I have already seen that the surname Yang has a heart of disobedience!" Order Jinyiwei and Jinwuwei to firmly guard the imperial gate! In addition, send someone to take down the surname Yang! ”

"Your Majesty, at this time...... Do you want to put the big picture first? ”

For the first time in his life, Zhang Zuo did not want to obey Zhu Si's orders.

Zhu Si did this a little messy, although it seems that Yang Yiqing has signs of committing a rebellion, but at least he is guarding the last line of defense for Daming, if Yang Yiqing is taken down or killed at this time, the army will mutiny...... Then the emperor will completely lose the hearts of the people.

Zhu Sidao: "What, do you also want to rebel?" ”

Zhang Zuo hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you want to hold the Jingshi, you must keep an old minister like Yang Ge Lao, who knows the army, for example, after the change of the Tumu Fort in the past, it is also up to the minister Yu Qian to defend the capital. Your Majesty may have strengthened the guards of the Imperial Palace, and the gates of the Imperial City have been closed, and no one from the army has been seen since. ”

"Hmm."

After careful consideration, Zhu Si agreed.

It's too risky to be awkward with Yang Yiqing, and his purpose is to get out of the city and run his family to Anlu.

Zhu Si was also thinking in his heart, fortunately, I have always regarded An Lu as a spare lair, everything over there should have been repaired, as long as it is suitable, I can move in, I don't believe that those thieves can chase me after me!

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Yang Yiqing originally wanted to control the emperor, everything was under his control, and the discipline of the Ming monarchs and ministers could be kept.

But as the people he sent to take over the palace guards failed, and even the palace gate appeared to confront Jinyiwei, and finally the emperor's cronies completely controlled the vital places of the imperial city, Yang Yiqing knew that in fact, the trust of the soldiers in the army was also limited.

At the moment of the great enemy, the soldiers supported him Yang Yiqing, not because he wanted him to commit rebellion, but more because he was afraid that the rebellious ministers and thieves would mislead the country.

And you send people to control the emperor, what is this called?

"Elder Yang Ge, I have asked, Gui Cao, the secretary of the ministry, was originally in charge of defense in the north of the city, but now he has escaped without a trace, or entered the palace, and no one has been found for the time being."

Yang Yiqing listened to the report of the generals under his command, and was even more annoyed.

What he wants to do now is to "clear the monarch's side", in this era of the supremacy of imperial power, the emperor will never be at fault, and the only one who is guilty can only be the ministers around the emperor, those people in the palace can't be cleaned up for the time being, so he will first clean up the people who stay in the court, except for Zhang Xuan, who is headed by the official department Shangshu Guicao, both of whom are his henchmen.

Now that Zhang Xuan is under control, Gui Cao has fled.

"What did Zhang Bingyong find on his body?"

Yang Yiqing asked sharply.

Immediately, someone handed the national letter that Zhang Xuan was carrying in front of Yang Yiqing, and when Yang Yiqing saw the content on it, he was shocked.

"Elder Yang Ge, it seems that everything has ...... There's room to turn around. ”

Obviously, the generals had read the contents of the national letter before.

As mentioned above, as long as the Ming monarchs and ministers go out of the city and surrender, they will be exempted from the doom of destroying the country, and they can be in peace......

From the emperor's point of view, this was not acceptable at all, but for the courtiers, especially the soldiers who charged, it was actually negotiable.

It's not that they don't want to be loyal to their country.

It's because ...... I really can't beat it.

Death is also in vain.

"Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat! I, the Ming monarch, will never surrender under the iron hooves of thieves! Get your cavalry ready and launch a surprise attack north of the city! Break them one by one! ”

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A big battle was initiated by the Ming army in the city.

20,000 cavalry, black pressed to assemble in the north of the city's Desheng Gate, what they had to do was to open a gap in the north of the city, which on the surface seemed to be the weakest enemy defense.

I thought that the weakest defense was the south gate, but as the people gathered there, the movement was too great, and the opponent in the south of the city had already been prepared, and it was also difficult for the cavalry in the densely populated place to rush out of the city, so Yang Yiqing turned to seek a breakthrough from the north of the city.

The east of the city was the main battlefield, and the emperor sent a cavalry assault to the west of the city and almost wiped out the whole army...... Only take advantage of the night to complete the final blow in the north of the city.

"You are the last hope of the Ming Dynasty, everything depends on you! Loyalty to the country is now! ”

Before the war, Yang Yiqing personally issued a mobilization order to the three armies.

It is a pity that most of the cavalry who were ordered to attack did not have the determination and courage to die, they had already seen the strength of the opponent's firearms, and after rushing out, even if they win, they would definitely suffer heavy losses, and the loss of more than half was light, especially the cavalry that rushed in front, which was almost no different from sending them to death.

Just like that, he said that he wanted to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty?

"Old Yang Ge, the sky is floating here, and I don't know where it fell! For a time in the past, there were scattered all over the city, you see. ”

Someone handed over the persuasion documents that were scattered in the city in a large area through the hot air balloon outside the city to Yang Yiqing.

Yang Yiqing was angry after reading it.

"Troops!"

Yang Yiqing shouted sharply.

Immediately, some people questioned: "If you still have to send troops in this way, will it be ......?"

Yang Yiqing had no better choice, because even the ordinary people in the city had seen the persuasion document, so how could the inner palace not get this kind of persuasion letter from heaven?

When the emperor reacted, the matter of sending troops could not be carried out.

"Fight a success! All the army is attacking! ”