Chapter 280: The Rebellion of the Thirteen Kings
Sister Liu's speculation soon became a reality.
Just when the eleven vassal kings of Yan, Zhou, Jin, Qin, Qingsu, Liao, Han, and Gu Ning gathered in Kaifeng, Zhu Yunwen suddenly appeared in Kaifeng City, and then cried to these uncles and brothers, saying that his brother tried to kill him for trumped-up crimes, and asked the kings to administer justice for him.
Of course, it also includes forcing the king of Xiang to death.
The eleven vassal kings who were moved by his tearful cry jointly played and asked Zhu Yunxi to give him a feudal title.
and executed Song Zhong, who forced the king of Xiang to death.
Of course, Zhu Yunxi refused.
And he was enraged, and directly ordered that the vassal kings no longer have to attend the funeral, and immediately returned to their fiefdoms, and at the same time ordered the Henan Metropolitan to command Xie Gui to escort Zhu Yunwen back to the capital, and then dare to die or live directly into the prisoner car. Xie Gui immediately went to arrest him, but was blocked by the guards of the King of Qin, and then Zhu Di ordered the accompanying guards to control Kaifeng City. Xie Gui tried to mobilize troops to forcibly block him, but was taken by Zhu Di's guards, and a few days later he was preparing to move eastward, and then surrounded Chang Sheng, who forced the kings to submit, and was assassinated in Xi'an.
The Assassin committed suicide.
But it is very likely that it is the dead soldier of the King of Qin.
After all, with the advancement of weapons at this time, the difficulty of assassinating such a high-ranking general has greatly decreased.
Chang Sheng was shot in the head at close range by a flintlock gun, and he rode through the city of Xi'an, and the Assassin hid in the crowd, and as he passed, he suddenly drew his gun and opened fire on him, and then the Founding Duke was killed instantly. But then when the city searched for the same party, Chang Sheng's Shenji battalion and the Qin Domain's guards clashed, and then the Qin Domain's guards gathered to confront the Shenji Battalion in Xi'an City on the grounds of folk rumors that they wanted to purge the Qin Domain.
With the Qin Wangfu as the core, they cordoned off large areas of the surrounding neighborhoods.
Zhu Yunxi immediately took Lan Yu as the commander and led an army of 100,000 including the Shenji Battalion to the north, and at the same time ordered Beiping, Shandong, and Huguang to send troops to encircle Kaifeng.
At the same time, he ordered Xu Huizu, who had just returned to Shanxi, to lead the Shanxi army south to Xi'an.
"Why is it so much?"
Yang Wen frowned and looked at the holy decree that was urgently sent.
This was sent from Liaoyang.
He arrived on the same day as he arrived in Huining, but he went north in the guise of inspecting Liaodong military affairs and went to Huining privately, after all, Huining is not the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.
However, it can be said that no one cares about the place where the emperor is far away.
As for the holy decree, it was given to Huining Dusi.
If you want to Ningdu Si immediately select 5,000 soldiers and horses to go south to accept Yang Wen's moderation, and then watch the guards of the three kings of Han in Liaoning, it doesn't matter if the guards of the king of Han are there, he has now completed the formation of a guard, which is actually the original adaptation of 30,000 guards, but the two feudal clans of Liaoning are really strong and strong.
King Liao is the richest, and as the younger brother of the little princess, he often asks the latter for all kinds of modern technical materials and even military tactics, anyway, his sister has her own watch, just ask Sister Liu to pass her some points and let people copy it. Therefore, the three guards are equivalent to three new army brigades on horseback, all of which are four infantry phalanxes plus a cavalry team and a field artillery team, and even the supplies are accompanied by camel teams, which have extremely strong mobile combat capabilities. In fact, if the same number of battles are fought in the set area, he can contain one army of the Shenji Battalion with one escort, the key is that the mobility is too strong, all the staff have horses, and the military supplies are all accompanied by camels, and it is easy to raid two hundred miles in a day and night.
Although King Ning does not have his strength, it is also a camel city of the current Ming army standard.
But he had Mongol vassals there.
Therefore, the actual military strength cannot be said to be simply three guards, by buying those Mongolian vassals, he can double his forces in a very short time, and more importantly, the main force of the Daning Dusi is still in the Western Regions.
Not only the Daning Division, but also the Shanxi Xingdu Division, the Beiping Division, the Daning Division, and even the main forces of Shanxi and Shaanxi did not come back.
The ones brought by Zhu Di, the ones brought by Xu Huizu, and the follow-up reinforcements of Song Sheng were all drawn from these capitals, but the guards of the vassal kings basically did not move, for example, the guards of King Su have been staying in Gansu. The actual situation is not optimistic, taking Shanxi Xingdu Division as an example, more than half of the troops have not returned in the Western Regions, or are on the way back. If you really count it, the old and weak who stayed behind may not have beaten the coalition army of the King of Jin and the King of Dai, not to mention that the King of Gu is also a vassal and has two guards.
"First, it's not like a real rebellion.
If it is really a rebellion, they will not get together, they will just be served in a pot, in the end, their strength is not enough to fight against Your Majesty, but it is only right for each to defend the domain city, and now they are all far away from the domain city, nothing more than one person with thousands of guards, adding up to only twenty or thirty thousand people.
What can you do?
Second, at least for the time being, His Majesty does not want to force them into rebellion, but only wants them not to go to Beijing for burial, as long as they return, and the holy decree does not mention the word rebellion. That is to say, they deliberately stayed in Kaifeng, in order to avoid the anxiety of the rear guards, and asked you to transfer troops and horses everywhere, and just go over and watch closely. Obviously, Your Majesty also tries to avoid using the word rebellion, and you don't make it too big, just transfer 20,000 or 30,000 people, and first station in the Quang Ninh area in the name of drills, anyway, it is very reasonable for you to lead troops to drill.
But don't provoke them.
In case they really misunderstand the situation and think that you are going to clean them up, it just so happens that the king of Liao is not there, and there is no one to preside over, and they rebel on impulse, then it will become your responsibility in the end.
Left and right have me here.
It can't be a big deal. ”
Yang Feng said.
Of course, he was just using the information to coax Yang Wen, because at this time, the coalition army of the kings had already defeated the Henan army that was trying to enter Kaifeng, and imprisoned Xie Gui, the commander of the Henan capital.
But the holy decree from the capital to Liaodong will take at least half a month, and it is winter now, and the time will definitely be longer, but he was reported to him directly by Zhang Ying with his watch. Zhang Ying also has it, she settled those righteous daughters in Yanzhou, and then hurriedly ran to Kaifeng to get first-hand information, anyway, her identity is not dangerous. But according to her information, Zhu Di still did not make up his mind to rebel, and what he wanted now was to continue to enter Beijing to attend the funeral, but to lead troops into Beijing with those vassal kings. And negotiated with Zhu Yunxi, who did not agree to them to bring troops into Beijing, you must know that these vassal kings combined are more than 20,000 absolute elites, and Ma He's fleet is still in Taicang at this time.
In addition, the two kings of Chu Min are still in Wuchang, and they have already followed King Yan and others to ask Song Zhong to be punished.
The king of Chu has a large number of troops.
He actually controlled his old guards in Wuchang, and the guards of the King of Xiang were also playing to avenge the King of Xiang, so if he led troops into Beijing, it was likely that he would be the guards of the two feudal domains of Chu and Xiang.
In the final analysis, this matter is being deliberately fueled by the people, and it has completely become Zhu Yunxi's fault, it is his narrow-mindedness that he can't tolerate his brother, you must know that what his brother has done the most over the years is acting. Especially the gentry like him, and have been sparing no effort to praise him among the people, the capital may know more, but the field, especially those far away, is not what the gentry say.
King Xian.
Then the tyrant who had just bloodily suppressed Confucianism wanted to kill him because of his suspicion of his brother and despite the fact that his grandfather had not yet been buried.
Then he had to flee.
And another virtuous king, his uncle King Xiang, wanted to protect him and mediate the conflict between his brothers.
King Xiang also has a good reputation.
He also has a good record in leading troops to fight, and his literary style is also very good, he understands piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and compared with the King of Qin and King Qi and other noble things, he is simply like a virtuous gentleman. Although he may be a little stronger, this kind of thing is all set off by his peers, and Lao Zhu's sons are virtuous gentlemen. As a result, in the end, the tyrant not only did not let go of his own brother, but also did not let go of his own uncle, and forced such a virtuous king to death, and the death was so miserable, the folk gentry exaggerated it, and it became a grievance like June Feixue.
In this case, King Yan and others redressed his grievances for him were completely desirable to the people.
This is different from the original history.
Originally, his death in history did not arouse the indignation of the people, including the guards, after all, Zhu Yunwen was liked by the gentry at that time, and the public opinion they spread among the people must have supported the imperial court.
But now Zhu Yunxi is hated and even hostile to the gentry.
Of course, as much as possible to manipulate public opinion.
"I will return to Liaoyang immediately, and then transfer troops to the Guangning area for training."
Yang Wen nodded.
Indeed, with Yang Feng here, nothing big can happen.
Even if the guards of the King of Liao do something, it is estimated that Yang Feng will be honest when he shouts in the past, and in this place in Liaodong, Yang Feng's speech is the most effective, and he has more or less colluded with the Yang family from top to bottom, including those guards and toasts, who can also be said to be the most afraid of Yang Feng.
He immediately left.
However......
"Zhang Ying got the news that Beiping mutinied, and the Zhu Gaochi brothers imprisoned Guo Ying and controlled Beiping with Yanshan guards."
Sister Liu said.
"Damn, forget about them."
Yang Feng said.
Indeed, he had forgotten that there were still these two.
Zhu Di has indeed been leading troops outside, but Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaochu have been in Beiping, although Zhu Yuanzhang has issued an order to move the domain, but of course this kind of thing cannot be completed in a short time, in fact, it has not even been carried out yet. Originally, it was not until the beginning of spring that Zhu Di's family was allowed to go to the Western Regions with an escort, and before that, the three guards of Yanshan continued to serve as the guards of King Yan. Zhu Di is not the Zhu Gaochi brothers, these two are not the original half-old, Zhu Gaochi is in his early twenties, and Zhu Gaochu is also nineteen, it can be said that it is the time to be brave, these two are cunning and brave.
What's more......
They don't want to go to the Western Regions!
How nice it would be to put their father on the throne!
And this is different from the original history, in the original history, Zhu Di's guards have been eliminated by Zhu Yunwen, and now in addition to those who followed the westward expedition, there are at least more than 7,000 of his three guards left in Beiping.
However, it was from the Beiping Division, and a large number of people were transferred to the west and did not come back.
"It's going to be a big game now."
Yang Feng said with emotion.
It's really big.
The Zhu Gaochi brothers have been planning for a long time, they deceived Guo Ying to the palace on the grounds of asking Guo Ying to intercede for Zhu Di, the latter capsized in the gutter, and did not think that a few children in his eyes could make trouble, so they went defenselessly, and were immediately held down by Zhu Gaochu after going.
Although Lao Guo was indeed a fierce general when he was young, he really couldn't stand a young man like Zhu Gaoxu at this time.
Zhu Gaochi, who took Guo Ying, immediately summoned the other generals of the Beiping Division, and the latter also went stupidly, and then Zhu Gaochi simply put his father's gold, silver and jewelry to the main hall, are you willing to follow my father to seek greater wealth, or do you want my brother to kill you now? These generals were originally in awe of Zhu Di, but now in this case, of course, they chose to follow Zhu Di to seek greater wealth, in the final analysis, Beiping belonged to the border at this time, and the generals had no feelings for the new emperor of the capital.
Most of them didn't even necessarily meet Zhu Yunxi.
Peiping was immediately controlled.
On the same day that Beiping was controlled by Zhu Gaochi's brothers, Lan Yu led his army to Kaifeng.
But the strikers were again defeated.
Of course, his forward is not the Shenji battalion, the latter is an infantry, which needs to be walked from the capital to Kaifeng, and there is no water transportation in this season, and the forward of Lanyu is a cavalry of the Beijing battalion. But the combat effectiveness of these Jingying cavalry, and Zhang Fu and Zhu Neng came back from the Western Regions is very different, and even their war horses have become all Arabian horses, and finally the Beijing cavalry was crushed by them.
This battle is important.
Because Lan Yu's biggest role is his prestige in the army, but this battle made the fear of the various armies in Kaifeng City drop sharply.
Although he didn't play......
He couldn't go into battle, not to mention his age, the old wound of being stabbed by Yang Feng with a bayonet also made him incapable of charging into battle for a long time, and the most courageous righteous sons under him, there were few re-gathered at this time, Lan Yu is still Lan Yu, but it is already a remnant of blood, and it has long been lost in its heyday.
However, his command ability was sufficient, so he simply ordered a retreat and waited for the arrival of the subsequent armies.
Anyway, the total of the eleven kings is more than 20,000 people, even if you add the guards of the original Zhou king who were controlled in Kaifeng City, that is, less than 40,000, he took the capital to the north of 100,000, Shandong, Henan and other places, Beiping......
Well, there's no more Peking.
Not only was there no army in Beiping, but the Ming army on the periphery of Beiping could not move.
Huguang ......
There is no lake wider.
Because the king of Chu cut off the Yangtze River shipping in Wuchang.
Immediately afterwards, the guards of the King of Xiang in Jingzhou quickly controlled Jingzhou in the name of retribution of the King of Xiang, and received the support of the gentry of Jingzhou, so it was impossible for the armies of Huguang to go north again, and the Jiangxi armies that were originally going north to reinforce did not dare to move.
Fortunately, however, neither side used words such as rebellion or rebellion.
King Yan and others wanted to lead troops into Beijing to attend the funeral.
The Zhu Gaochi brothers are to avenge the grievances of King Xiang and Zhu Yunwen.
The king of Chu was the Jingzhou mutiny under the banner, in order to prevent the king of Hunan from escorting down the river to raid the capital, so he cut off the Yangtze River shipping, as if the Jingzhou mutiny was before he cut off the Yangtze River shipping, but he was also supported by the Wuchang gentry, and even the officials and army generals in Wuchang City. At this point, the gentry and civil officials also began to tear off their disguises, in the end, they did not dare alone, but when the vassal king did it, they dared.