For His Majesty the Emperor's imperial expedition, Yang Feng certainly has nothing to say.

Let it be!

However, with the current level of His Majesty's guards, it is indeed difficult to be assassinated.

Now the guard system has been reorganized.

The first is the guards.

It's called the guard, a hereditary guard specially formed, and there are 1,000 people on duty every day to protect the emperor, all of them are half-body plate armor and flintlock short guns, as for the cold weapon fighting ability, needless to say, this kind of selection from the army in this era is absolutely capable of fighting.

The second brocade guard.

In fact, it is all kinds of honor guards, miscellaneous chores such as intelligence along the way.

But it can also fight.

In fact, the combat effectiveness is not weak.

The third pro-army.

That is, the combat units selected by the pro-army on duty and specially accompanied by the guards, including infantry artillery, the core is four infantry phalanxes, which is roughly equivalent to a brigade-level combat detachment of the Shenji Battalion.

Just like when Yang Feng took the west expedition to Samarkand.

There are more than 10,000 people in the entire accompanying team, and under this level of protection, it is really difficult to have a chance to assassinate the emperor, not to mention that there are no real elites in Suzhou except for those brought by Liu Rong. As for the reason why Wu Shouan has been unable to break through for a long time, first, his logistics have always been intermittent, and second, he is likely to be bribed.

It's not about bribing him to defect.

Then the Divine Machine Battalion will not hesitate to kill him.

Instead, it was to bribe him to delay under the city of Suzhou, which was easy for him.

As for the money to buy him......

This is also easy for the Suzhou gentry.

This kind of thing is also normal, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yangzhou gentry still wanted to buy 300,000 taels of our Qing Dynasty prince not to enter the city! However, our Qing Dynasty Emperor feels that this kind of silver is deserved, so let's just go in and get it ourselves!

As for Liu Rong......

Zhu Di would not allow them to kill the emperor.

After all, the emperor is really going to be killed by them, and those who understand the truth will think that he instigated it, and it is normal for him to send his subordinates to help Zhu Yunwen raise troops in Suzhou, after all, the current situation is to see who can hold out longer, until the opponent's backyard catches fire.

But the nature of killing the emperor has changed.

Helping Zhu Yunwen is the latter persecuted by his younger brother, and has killed the king of Xiang, as the oldest of the elders who are still alive, he can be said to be the patriarch, in this case, he is the only way to protect the victims against the emperor for the sake of justice for the clan. But killing the emperor would only prove that he himself was the one who was really ambitious and trying to seize the throne of his nephew, and then he would hardly be supported. Especially the vassal kings together, the latter followed him with the purpose of overwhelming the emperor, if they could be replaced, they would have to be replaced by Zhu Yunwen, who had promised to ensure their interests, but Zhu Di would not have to talk about it when he became the emperor. A strong emperor like Zhu Di is also not a good thing for the vassal kings, only the weak emperor is in line with their wishes, and now the purpose of following Zhu Di is to make Zhu Yunxi change from a strong emperor to a weak emperor.

But Zhu Di wants to be himself?

Then his brothers would not hesitate to abandon him.

In short, Yang Feng is no longer interested in caring about the affairs in the south.

He went south immediately after Kaiping.

Before he arrived at the Xuan Mansion, Princess Gu had already sent someone to welcome him, or to greet Ambassador Yang, after all, everyone is also a relative, this is also a brother-in-law, although he has not yet married, but since Ambassador Yang has said it, there are already facts......

Well, according to the law of Da Ming, in this case, the mother's family can actually beat him to death directly.

Da Ming Law is like this who tries to cook raw rice to gain recognition, and the mother's family has the right to kill directly, but since the mother's family has no ability to kill Ambassador Yang, they have to accept the facts. In short, Princess Gu sent escort generals to greet her brother-in-law at Zhangjiakou Fort, and then the army of Ambassador Yang and the Marquis of Ninan entered Xuanfu. Yang Feng also promised them that he would contract his military supplies in the future, and persuaded the emperor to remove some of the guards, and then he would be responsible for the development of this area, in short, to appease the six guards and let them continue to garrison.

The rest will come later.

On the same day that Yang Feng arrived at Xuanfu, His Majesty the Emperor officially began his imperial expedition.

And it carries two giant siege cannons that have just been made......

The shell weighed twenty-four pounds.

A single shot can knock down a city wall.

Of course, it does not include the city walls of the capital, but the ordinary rammed earth and brick city walls can indeed collapse with one shot, after all, this is already a thirty-two-pound cannon, not only these two cannons, but also eighteen siege heavy artillery, in fact, the Ministry of Industry of the capital is still casting giant mortars.

It can shoot hundreds of pounds of stone cannonballs four miles away.

His Majesty the Emperor is a believer in science, and any city that cannot be conquered is only because the cannon is not big enough, increase the caliber, increase the tonnage, as long as the cannon is big enough, the mountain can also collapse. However, the fact is also the case, during this time, the Kaifeng city wall was bombed into a jagged shape, and the Wuchang city wall was also collapsed in many places, and the power of artillery siege was fully displayed. However, because the defenders took the initiative to attack with trenches, forts, and even forts, and a large number of cavalry in the city, they still let the besieging army rush in again and again, and then had to be driven out again. The offensive and defensive battles of the two battlefields have greatly improved the military technology of the Ming Dynasty, and now it has begun to enter the era of the fortress, Zhu Di quickly built a simple fortress in the largest gap that was blown open in Kaifeng, and then plugged the gap.

Then install the heavy cannon cast by the temple bell in the city and shoot at the blue jade.

Lan Yu's heavy artillery was far away, and it was impossible to blast through this small fortress, its wall was three times thicker than the Kaifeng city wall, and if it was close, it would be hit by fire from the wreckage of the city wall.

The wreckage was incoherent, and instead became isolated batteries.

Even the defenders have learned to carve out bunkers on it and shoot outward.

However, the city walls are no longer the main line of defense.

Rather, it is a second-tier line of defense behind the city wall, a little distance.

Trenches, artillery forts, countless horse-resisting horses, and the breastwork wall that protects the soldiers' shooting, stretches throughout Kaifeng City to form a tight defense, and even the maneuver in the city is through the tunnel, and the tens of thousands of elites guarding it have even suffered very small losses until now, and the total casualties are less than two percent. There were not many civilian casualties, because Kaifeng City was large enough and the population was not large, so the civilians withdrew directly to the original Jin Palace, and by the way, they also hoarded food and ammunition inside.

As for supplies......

As long as there is money, there will always be someone who sends it to King Yan.

Those factory owners in Shanxi have become rich in the past six months.

Yang Feng's tax package has begun to make money.

Suzhou.

Tiger Hill.

His Majesty the Emperor leaned on the binoculars and looked at the huge city ahead with great ambition.

This is also the second largest metropolis in the Ming Dynasty after Beijing, although Suzhou at this time has not spilled out like the end of the Ming Dynasty and become a super metropolis with a population of two million, but it is also huge enough at this time. Standing on this small plateau, which is actually a mound, His Majesty the Emperor can see everything through a telescope.

But......

"Let's shoot!"

He said.

"Your Majesty, do you want to tell me first, in fact, except for tens of thousands of Japanese slaves in the city, most of them are just being coerced."

Wu Shouan said cautiously.

"Tell me? The cannon is my message. Calif? If it's really coerced, my umbrella cover is standing here, why don't you see anyone anyway? You've been fighting here for months, and you haven't seen anything right, fire your cannons, blast the walls open, and then give a decree. ”

His Majesty the Emperor said.

Wu Shou'an trembled and hurriedly signaled the signal soldiers to wave the signal flag.

The two huge cannons outside the Pingmen that had been loaded immediately erupted into flames, and two twenty-four-pound shells pierced the air at supersonic speed, one of which hit the city wall a mile away. I saw that the city wall seemed to be gnawed by something, and in an instant, a striking crater appeared in the flying debris, and then the upper part of the crater collapsed. The next moment was the eighteen siege guns, almost all the shells fell around the collapsed area, and the collapsed area of the city wall quickly expanded under the impact of the shells. At the two giant cannons, those artillerymen were busy loading, because the tonnage was too large and the loading was slow, and it took about a minute and a half to fire the second round of shells.

"Your Majesty, the giant cannon is so powerful, the criminal minister asks Your Majesty to give the name of the Divine Invincible General Cannon."

Fang Xiaoru next to him saluted and said.

Fang Daru's performance during this period can be completely described as flattering.

So much so that many Confucian students scolded themselves for being blind in the past, and mistakenly treated him as iron-clad Zhengzheng, and now they see that there is no iron-clad Zhengzheng, but it is a fight between the slave Yan and the Holy Father, who is scared enough because of the unstable situation, and has just given His Majesty the Emperor a song of merit and virtue.

Among them, there is a sentence of the Eight Desolations and Salty Songs, which can disgust the Confucian students.

And in order to avoid his family being involved in the reform that was obviously aimed at Confucianism, he deliberately said that his ancestor appeared and let him play.

In short, I can do everything I can to flatter.

And Fang Daru has maintained his flattery to the emperor since he turned himself in.

It was as if I had suddenly come to my senses.

After decades of doing iron-clad work and not getting a reward, he suddenly woke up and began to learn from those courtiers, which made him quite appreciated by the emperor recently, but he still wore shackles. As a criminal, he belongs to the guilty meritorious service, of course, he must wear shackles, otherwise His Majesty the Emperor is afraid that he will suddenly pull out a knife and pounce on himself from somewhere.

As soon as the shackles weighing dozens of catties were worn, Fang Daru could sing praises beside the emperor like a royal clown.

"Kamui Invincible General Cannon? This name is good, the one that hit the city wall in Shicai was given the name of the invincible general cannon. ”

The Emperor said with a smile.

Wu Shouan and several other ministers hurriedly touted the emperor's good name.

"This cannon is so powerful, if the flesh and blood are hit, I'm afraid the whole person will turn into powder, even if the steel and iron bones will be shattered."

Fang Xiaoru said meaningfully.

The Emperor smiled indifferently, as if he didn't understand what he was saying.

At this time, the two cannons fired again, this time because of the good adjustment, the two shells hit almost at the same time, one of them still hit the crater that had been heavily damaged, and then I saw it with flying fragments straight through the upper part of the city wall, and the next moment the city wall collapsed directly, and there was an extra gap in the originally intact city wall.

And then there were the eighteen siege guns.

In the blow of the shells, this gap quickly widened.

"Keep going until it collapses!"

The Emperor said with satisfaction.

At this time, Zhang Xianzong walked up to him......

"Your Majesty, the Marquis of Japan and the Marquis of Japan reported in Daning, Ambassador Yang stopped the war with the Suyu flag, and at present, the two feudal domains of Liaoning have been returned to their respective cities to be punished, and the governor Chen Heng is an old minister of the Daxing Emperor, and he is willing to follow the Daxing Emperor to death, so he killed himself in front of the battle.

Ri Nanhou and Ambassador Yang are heading towards Kaiping. ”

He said.

At this time, because the key point of Beiping was disconnected, Yang Wen's recital had to be sent to Jinzhou, then to Dengzhou by sea, and then to be sent by post station, so it was delayed a lot.

"yourself, hum!"

The Emperor sneered.

Of course, he understood that this self-deprecation must have been forced by Yang Feng.

However, this does prove that Yang Feng's prestige in the army has reached the point where he can command tens of thousands of elite veterans with a single sentence, and he would rather kill himself than dare to be his enemy. Although he knew that Yang Feng should not covet his throne, it still made him very awkward to have such an existence in his country, but Yang Feng was helping him after all.

"Send a message to Yang Wen and ask him to tell Ambassador Yang that everything in the north is up to him, and he will pacify Suzhou and Wuchang in a few days, and then meet with Ambassador Yang in Kaifeng."

He said.

That's when ......

"Your Majesty, the gate is open!"

Wu Shouan suddenly shouted.

His Majesty the Emperor hurriedly lay on the binoculars, and then saw a group of cavalry rushing out of the gate, but there were only a dozen people, and in the middle was a civil official.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion outside the city immediately stepped forward and led him to this side.

"It's Huang Yue, in the middle of the matter."

Wu Shouan said.

"Don't bring him over, ask him what he wants to do?"

The Emperor said.

The signal soldier beside Wu Shouan immediately waved the signal flag.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion immediately stopped, and soon an officer came out of it, rode straight to this side, and was brought over by the Jinyi Guard.

"Your Majesty, the anti-party Huang Yue said that he came on the order of the pseudo-Guangze County King, and the pseudo-Guangze County King wants to invite His Majesty to meet in Fengqiao, he is willing to go out of the city alone, if Your Majesty is willing to give a meeting, Suzhou will open the city to welcome the surrender."

The officer saluted.

"Rendezvous?"

Zhu Yunxi was surprised.

"How can a fake be qualified to meet His Majesty?"

Fang Xiaoru hurriedly said.

"Your Majesty, I want to come to this generation to know that I can't avoid it, I want to ask Your Majesty to forgive him for his capital crimes, the Fengqiao area has long been controlled by the Shenji Battalion, and it is not within the reach of the city's artillery fire.

Huang Guan, who was accompanying him, hurriedly said.

Several other ministers chimed in.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at the direction of Fengqiao with a telescope, which was indeed the control area of the Shenji Battalion, and it was indeed outside the firepower on the city wall, it was impossible to ambush the soldiers, nor could it be sniped from a distance, and the only possibility left was that the fake King Guangze carried a musket with him, but this was not possible, after all, he had to search his body to see him.

"Your Majesty, in that case, let him sail under the bridge, and your Majesty will meet him on the bridge, as a sign of humility."

Fang Xiaoru said.

"That's good, let him take a boat under the Maple Bridge."

His Majesty the Emperor thought for a moment and said.

It's even less dangerous.

(End of chapter)