"If you don't agree, Gao Xu can only take it himself." Zhu Gaoxu smiled: "There will be your name on the inscription." ”

"And after the deed is completed, the eighteenth uncle will drown, and in the future, King Min will be inherited by my younger brother Zhu Huixuan."

Hiss, Zhu Gaoxu's words simply shocked the audience, and Zhu Yang gasped even more, glaring at Zhu Gaoxu with an incredible expression.

He really didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to be so vicious.

is dozens of times more vicious than Zhu Di and Emperor Jianwen.

"You-dare to kill your uncle-" Zhu Yang pointed at him angrily, he was shocked and frightened, his whole body couldn't help but tremble at this time, and he stammered when he spoke.

Zhu Gaoxu had a cold face and said coldly: "Dare to kill your father and your king, what is it to kill a few uncles and uncles?" ”

Hiss, Zhu Yang gasped again, his face full of horror.

"You, you little beast, Qin rebels and Li Shimin don't dare to kill their father-——" Zhu Yang pointed at him and scolded: "If you dare to touch me, all the clans in the world will oppose you." ”

"As long as I do it seamlessly, the people of the world will only praise me for my filial piety and wisdom." Zhu Gaoxu said loudly: "There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of people with hearts." ”

"You, you—you-——" Zhu Yan was speechless angrily, his expression becoming more and more frightened.

"Someone." Zhu Gaoxu drank again.

"The King." Yao Bin and the others hurriedly stood up.

"Send a document to Huguang Province, write my eighteenth uncle's name, and send someone to raid the eighteenth uncle's house, and post an announcement to the outside world, the eighteenth uncle fully supports me to fight against evil and sponsor military spending of one million taels of silver."

"Wow," Yao Bin said loudly.

"You unfilial son, you want to trap this king in injustice-" Zhu Yang shouted angrily.

Zheng, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly pulled out the knife, brushed, and the knife flashed, slashing at Zhu Yang like lightning.

Zhu Yang suddenly flew out of the sky, and he didn't have time to react, and with a snort, Zhu Gaoxu slashed his left arm.

"Ah" Zhu Yang screamed, plopped, and sat on the ground in fright.

The next moment, there was a sharp pain in his body, and he looked down to see that his left arm had been slashed by Zhu Gaoxu, and the blood was pouring in.

Do you really dare to kill him? Zhu Yang was really stunned now.

There was an exclamation in the hall, and Yao's mother and son were also scattered.

Everyone looked at them in horror.

Zhu Gaoxu waved the knife in public, not caring about it, which was really shocking.

"Stop, stop—don't—don't—" Zhu Yang has been pampered since he was a child, and it is estimated that this is the first time he has been injured in his life, and he is simply out of the world.

He clutched his left arm, frightened, waving desperately, his body kept retracting, obviously frightened.

Zhu Gaoxu originally just wanted to scare him, but he was happy when he saw Zhu Yan's performance, it turns out that you are also afraid of death? immediately stepped forward and raised his knife sharply: "If this king doesn't dare to kill his uncle, Lao Tzu will cut you." ”

"Don't, the king." His subordinates stepped forward to dissuade him, but Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be determined to kill him, and pushed everyone away with all his might, and wanted to cut Zhu Yang.

Yao Bin hurriedly glanced at Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yang almost cried: "Don't dare, don't dare, the eighteenth uncle listens to Gao Xu." ”

"If you don't see the coffin, you won't cry." Zhu Gaoxu scolded and withdrew the long knife.

Before looking, he glanced at Zhu Huiyan and Yao Bin.

"The eighteenth uncle is good to recuperate, and the Minwang family will carry forward the Huixuan from Youhui."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Yao Bin's face was ecstatic.

As soon as he walked on his front foot, a large number of sergeants entered the Minwang Mansion, and the Minwang Mansion suddenly jumped with chickens and dogs.

King Min doesn't actually have much money.

He saved some money in Yunnan in the first half of his life, and then was demoted to a concubine and escorted back to Nanjing, and then was released by Zhu Di to Wugang, and all the property in Yunnan at that time belonged to Zhu Gaoxu.

He has only been a prince in Wugang for three years, and he has not accumulated much wealth.

After Zhu Gaoxu's inspection, there were only 100,000 acres of fertile land, more than 200,000 stone of grain, and only 100,000 taels of silver.

Zhu Gaoxu left 5,000 acres of land for Yao's mother and son, and confiscated the rest.

On the same day, the whole city of Wugang posted a notice, saying that Zhu Yang also felt that Zhu Di was rebellious, disobedient and unfilial, so he supported Zhu Gaoxu and voluntarily sponsored 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 stone of grain.

At the same time, Zhu Yang stood in front of the announcement document in front of the palace with a cower, and repeated it again to the people who were watching the announcement.

The announcement and Zhu Yang's statement shocked all the clans in the world.

——

At the same time as Zhu Gaoxu invaded Huguang.

Zhu Neng was already preparing to storm Taihe Mountain.

The officers and troops had been surrounding Taihe Mountain for several days, and it was determined that Zhu Gaoxu's 20,000 cavalry was not nearby.

Zhu Neng also guessed that Zhu Gaoxu might have entered Huguang, but he didn't care.

As long as the hundreds of thousands of rebels in Taihe Mountain are defeated, Zhu Gaoxu's 20,000 cavalry will be useless.

Beginning on the 15th, the rebels in Taihe Mountain tried to break through to the bottom of the mountain, and organized a large number of soldiers and horses to rush into battle many times, but more than 300,000 officers and troops under the mountain continued to be surrounded layer by layer, and the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, and the rebels had no way to do it, and were repeatedly repulsed.

At this time, Xu Zhong already felt that something was wrong, and dissuaded Zhu Neng many times.

The rebels were at the advantage before, suddenly retreated to the mountains, and now they are at a disadvantage, but they have repeatedly broken through, I am afraid that there is some trickery.

Zhu Nengdao, the biggest possibility for the rebels is that Guizhou and Guangdong will come to reinforce the army, saying that we have the opportunity to encircle Taihe Mountain, attack inside and outside, and defeat us.

Xu Zhong agreed.

Therefore, Zhu Neng sent a large number of sentinels to two directions, and the current news that the rebel soldiers and horses in the direction of Guizhou and Guangdong did not appear in Guangxi.

What are you afraid of?

Xu Zhong persuaded him several times, but he couldn't say a reason, so he had to forget it.

He was puzzled, why did the rebels take the initiative to be surrounded by officers and soldiers, and what kind of fighting method was this?

On the 18th, the rebels rushed down the mountain with a greater force, a large number of native soldiers in front, and the Ming army in the rear, fighting from morning to noon, the officers and soldiers refused to retreat and firmly guarded the mountain.

According to Zhu Neng's estimate, the water source on the rebel mountain is almost consumed, and if they don't break through, there will be no water.

Zhu Neng ordered to block the rebels on the one hand, and on the other hand, let the follow-up soldiers and horses continue to move forward, and the mountain was like ants, a large number of officers and soldiers gathered, and the surrounding water was impassable.

Noon on the 18th.

With the sound of a trumpet, the rebels who had just been attacking retreated like a tidal wave to the mountain.

Wang Zhong was standing halfway up the mountain, and he was taking Qu Tao and them to watch the official and military formation.

The official army under the mountain is really like ants now, probably afraid that the rebels will break through, and the encirclement will be layered one after another, one after another.

The officers and troops at the front were at the foot of the mountain, less than fifty paces from the advance of the rebel army, and the two sides were on the hill and the other at the bottom of the mountain, and from time to time they would shout at each other.

The officers and troops behind are stacked one by one, riding on foot, and at a glance, they are all men and horses.

"This breakout? I'm afraid I won't be able to rush out? The face of one of the toast leaders changed dramatically.

Wang Zhong smiled: "It's time for our weapons to play, the king said that from today's battle, the way of fighting will change dramatically." ”

Behind him, the Nong clan and several other Tusi leaders were noncommittal, and they didn't seem to understand Wang Zhong's words.

Wang Zhong smiled slightly, and turned his head to Qu Tao: "Cannon." ”

"Shoot." Qu Tao turned around and ordered.

Soon, someone around him raised a high banner and waved it in the wind, and a moment later, black cannons appeared from all over the mountain.

The toasts looked at these cannons dumbfounded, they knew that the Han King had cannons, but the Ming army also had cannons, and they didn't expect these cannons to change the situation of the war?

But with the appearance of cannons one by one, they found that King Han had a bit more cannons.

Zhu Gaoxu's cannon has three kinds according to the caliber, but it is not a few pounds and a few pounds of the European style, and now the artillery has just been used on the battlefield, and he adopts the weight calculation that is more recognized by domestic craftsmen.

Three hundred catties, five hundred catties, and one thousand catties.

They are named small, medium, and heavy.

In the past, it took a lot of effort to move these heavy artillery to the mountain, but fortunately, there were local Tusi people to help.

Now that I've been hiding for so many days, it's finally my turn to play.

At this time, there were more than 100 artillery pieces, which appeared in the middle of Taihe Mountain, lined up in a line along the front direction of the officers and soldiers, and divided into three rows.

Zhu Gaoxu spent more than three years in Yunnan and built more than 200 cannons, more than half of which were placed here.

The toasts had never seen so many cannons, and they were dumbfounded.

"Order, prepare to attack." Wang Zhong said at this time.

Immediately the sound of a trumpet sounded at the foot of the mountain, and a large number of rebels began to assemble.

Zhu Neng on the opposite side was amused, the rebels had just been repulsed, and they came again?

"Assemble." Zhu Neng also gave an order, and the officers and soldiers gathered forward like a tide, and pieces of black pressure appeared at the foot of the mountain.

But seeing that the rebel army was gathering more and more, dozens of steps ahead were full of rebel soldiers and horses gathering, but they didn't see the attack.

Zhu Neng's face became solemn when he saw it, and immediately ordered all departments: "The rebels have to make the last desperate fight, the whole army breaks through, everyone pays attention, and the departments behind hurry forward." ”

The transfer of officials and troops was naturally seen by Wang Zhong, and he was very happy in his heart.

The king is right, as long as we break through a few times, there will be more and more officers and troops under the mountain, and we will get closer and closer to Taihe Mountain.

Now the officers and soldiers have gathered like ants, and within five miles, there are all people.

The army of more than 300,000 officers and soldiers was almost all compressed in the open space within five miles.

If there is a dense formation, theoretically, it is impossible for the people on the mountain to break through.

However, it is not the same if artillery is added.

"Ready." Wang Zhong raised his hand high.

Qu Tao also hurriedly raised his hand.

"Put"

put, with the sound of various commands on the mountain.

Boom, the first cannon of the rebel army fired.

This cannon is a 500-kilogram medium-sized cannon, the shell weighs 6 kilograms, the barrel is more than seven feet long, and it is normally on flat ground, with improved black powder, it can hit five or six hundred meters at the farthest, and the most effective killing distance should be within three or four hundred meters.

Now the artillery is erected halfway up the mountain, and it can hit up to seven or eight hundred meters, and the effective killing distance is more than one mile.

Whew, a cannonball burst through the air and fell like a meteor into the official and military formations at the bottom of the mountain.

The officers and rebels fought for so many days, and it was the first time that they were shelled.

Zhu can see it incredible: "The rebels still have artillery? ”

In his dumbfounded.

Boom, the shell fell into the formation of the officers and soldiers, smashing an officer and soldier on the spot, and the shell rose again and bounced.

(End of chapter)