At that time, Mei Yin, the son-in-law of Emperor Taizu Gao, led an army of 100,000 and lied that 400,000 to hold Huai'an.

Zhu Di circled around the sand table in the tent, staring at Mei Yin's location, his eyes were also straight, and asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

Zhu Neng instinctively looked at Zhu Gaoxian and asked, "Fourth Prince, what is your opinion?" ”

Zhu Gaoxian raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "Dad is asking you, not me!" ”

Zhang Yu said with a smile, "Why don't you let the last general and others listen to the opinions of the fourth prince first?" ”

Only in front of Zhu Gaoxian, these generals under Zhu Di will call themselves the last generals, what does this mean?

Zhu Gaoxian's gaze slowly crossed the faces of the generals, very good, how many people were there when he came, and how many people are still now, he just thought, and said, "Mei Yin is a lonely minister, this person is very popular, not a person who knows the times, Dad doesn't have to think about fighting for it!" ”

Zhu Di was shocked, and he blurted out, "How do you kid know that Lao Tzu wants to fight for him?" ”

"My son guessed!" Zhu Gaoxian will definitely not say that in history, his father wrote two letters to Mei Yin, wanting to borrow from Huai'an, and the first time he said it was very tactful, saying that he wanted to pay homage to the tomb, but Mei Yin naturally did not borrow or say it, and scolded his father for being unfilial.

The second time, his father was impatient, and bluntly said that he wanted to go to the Qingjun side of Nanjing by the way, Mei Yin was also very direct, cutting off the ears of his father's envoy, leaving only a mouth for him to go back and tell Zhu Di what is the righteousness of the monarch and the minister.

Instead of being straight with Mei Yin, his father bypassed Mei Yin and crossed the river from Puzikou, where he met with stubborn resistance. The person who resisted was Sheng Yong, who was not dead at that time, Zhu Di's army almost collapsed, and it was about to collapse completely, at this moment, Zhu Gaoxu led the cavalry to help in the battle, and the soldiers regained confidence.

At that time, Zhu Di patted his son's shoulder again and said, "Reluctantly, the son of the world is sick!" ”

Zhu Gaoxian pointed to a large open space behind Huai'an, and said to his father, "Arrange people here, cut off the road from the capital to Mei Yin's army, and do not allow information exchanges, and when we occupy the capital, no matter who we are, how many troops we lead, it is just a tree without roots and water without a source." ”

Zhang Yu's eyes lit up, and he said to Zhu Di eagerly, "Lord Wang, the last general thinks it's feasible!" ”

At this critical time, try to conserve troops. Mei Yin's words were 400,000 troops, but in fact, where did Zhu Yunwen have so many troops for him at this time? Amazing 100,000!

But 100,000 is not a lot, besides, the more losses at this time, the more Zhu Di will become the emperor in the future, and the less troops will be in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di glanced at his son appreciatively and nodded, "Let's go!" ”

The artillery opened the way, and the shells whistled over the river and landed in the southern army camp on the south bank.

After Zhu Di sacrificed to the god of the river, the Yan army began to cross the river.

On this day, the weather is very good, there are no clouds, there is no wind in the blue sky, there are no waves on the river, the boats crossing the river, the boats are connected with each other, the flags are in the sky, the spear is shining, and the golden drum is shaking.

The soldiers of the southern army who were preparing for war along the shore in Jiangnan stood in horror and looked at it from afar, so stunned that they did not dare to move.

The cannon standing up to the sky, the submachine gun held by the soldiers of the Yan Army, shining with a dark and shiny luster, and the muzzles of the guns were lined up, and after gradually approaching the shore, the guns rang out in unison, and the soldiers of the Southern Army did not dare to approach at all, like a lamb that had been slaughtered, and they fell to the ground in a sweep.

The officers and men of the Southern Army surrendered one after another.

Zhu Di was worried that when attacking Yingtianfu, there would be Zhenjiang defenders to harass, so he arranged for Zhu Neng to lead 20,000 troops to Zhenjiang, but before he reached Zhenjiang, the defenders in the city saw that the Yan army had crossed the river, and took the initiative to tie up the commander Tong Jun to come and defect.

In the palace, Zhu Yunwen seemed to hear the sound of artillery fire outside, the hall was empty, at a critical time, the people who had advised him, Qi Tai went to Guangde to recruit troops, Huang Zicheng went to Suzhou to recruit troops, Lian Zining and Huang Guan recruited troops in Hangzhou, and Fang Xiaoru was fine yesterday, but today he said that he was sick.

"Go and invite Mr. Fang to me!"

The waiter was about to go, but Zhu Yunwen stopped and asked, "What's the commotion outside?" ”

The attendant hurriedly knelt down and said tremblingly, "Your Majesty, the defenders on the riverside have all surrendered, and Zhenjiang Mansion has also surrendered!" ”

Zhu Yunwen spurted out a mouthful of blood, and he stumbled, looking like crazy, "How can this be?" How so? Why do you all have to betray me? ”

The Empress Dowager took the first step to announce Fang Xiaoru into the palace, Fang Xiaoru had seen the Empress Dowager, came to see the emperor, he restrained the panic in his heart, came in as usual, saluted, and waved his hand to drive the waiter away, "Your Majesty, why panic?" If it is really impossible to do anything in the future, the emperor can still die for the country! ”

Zhu Yunwen was stunned, for more than 20 years, he thought about being the crown prince, thinking about being the grandson, thinking about being the emperor, thinking about pulling his uncles off the throne, he did whatever he wanted, thought about governing the country in peace, and thought about becoming the first emperor of the ages, but he didn't think that he would die for the country!

What did he do wrong?

Shouldn't it be cut?

He never forgot that back then, Uncle Qin Wang was rude to him, and Uncle Jin didn't take him seriously, at the gate of this Jinshen Palace, Uncle Yan Wang patted him on the shoulder and said, "You kid also have today?" At that time, he was already a grandson!

Just two years ago, Uncle Yan Wang entered Beijing, entered the imperial road, and did not worship His Majesty. At that time, Zeng Fengshao, the superintendent of the imperial history, impeached King Yan for being disrespectful, he only said at the time, "Dear flesh and blood, why bother", is he really not caring in his heart?

It's just that at that time, he was discussing the matter of cutting the feudal domain with Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and others, and he didn't want to startle the snake because of this trivial matter.

What about Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai? Only then did Zhu Yunwen think of the two of them and asked, "What about Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai?" ”

It was because of the instigation of the two of them that he had today, and when he heard that the Yan army was coming, the two of them, like the other two, fled from Beijing in the name of recruiting troops, just because they were worried that he would hand them over to the king of Yan.

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient!" Fang Xiaoru lowered his face, he knew very well in his heart that there was only one way to die for him, and as for how to die, this initiative was still in his hands.

How can Zhu Yunwen get up? For so many years, no matter how good his temperament was by the literati and scholars, he couldn't suppress the mania in his heart at this time, and said with red eyes, "Mr. Fang, you taught me how to govern the country, since I ascended the throne, I have listened to you, and now, you are all going to leave me one by one, at this moment, the Yan army has entered Yingtianfu, you still want me to be restless!" ”

"Martyrdom?" Zhu Yunwen laughed, with two tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, and turned his head to stare at Fang Xiaoru, "You are a bachelor of Hanlin, a doctor, and everyone, you tell me that from ancient times to the present, except for those kings whose dynasty is close to death and the country has died, which lord of a country has been martyred?" ”