Because it is a cold winter, the wind and snow are continuous, which is not conducive to the travel of the army.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun's pro-conquest army was still making the last stop before the war in Huazhou, and it was also to wait for the arrival of the last batch of baggage, and so that the guards and experience officers could take advantage of this time to do the final mobilization work before the war.

The Son of Heaven is different from other armies, and every sergeant who enlists in the army is not an ordinary military household, but a sergeant who has been strictly selected.

According to Zhu Yijun's original request, the most ordinary soldiers of the Son of Heaven's pro-army guard need to know the reason for each battle, and to be more direct, they just want to be seen as people and need to be told what they are fighting for.

Zhu Yijun has not yet been able to modernize all the armies of the Ming Dynasty through the reform of the military system, he can only do this with his own pro-army guards first, because strictly speaking, this is his personal soldier of the emperor and the guarantee of his power and security.

If you want these people not to be tempted by fame and fortune, you can only give them dignity or even greater special things that others can't give.

In this way, maybe even if the emperor can't pay the salary for the time being, these people will not rebel, and they are still willing to follow the emperor.

……

Pro-army battalion.

"This time, we are all people who have failed His Majesty, even if we are all killed, we will not be wronged! Just like the civil officials who killed Wang Zhenyu's party back then, they were essentially guilty of the following, but why did we do this? ”

"It's still as I said before, it's also for Your Majesty, in order to let the people of the world understand that even if they threaten Your Majesty with something that goes into the water and connives them to resist the decree, we dare to use the way of resisting the decree to punish these thieves first, and then be punished by the national law, in exchange, they don't dare to kill the king and usurp the throne in order to keep the old era when the literati were the nobles and the people were the nobles and the martial arts were the sluts!"

"Fortunately, Your Majesty is the Holy Lord and Benevolent Monarch, who understands us and really treats us as loyal and good people, so he didn't let us pay for our lives immediately."

"But!"

"We owe Your Majesty's life after all!"

Shen Yongmao chatted with Wei Peng and other low-level military academies on this day, and continued to review this matter.

After Shen Yongmao said, he asked Wei Peng and others: "Do you say yes or no?" ”

"Yes!"

Wei Peng replied first, then pursed his lips and said: "The experience is not wrong, our life is really given by His Majesty now." ”

"That's right!"

"In the previous life, I lived for myself as a person, and in the next life, I really just lived for Your Majesty."

"That's what I said at the time, the reason why I dared to participate in such a thing was to let those old men see that we ordinary soldiers and civilians would no longer be arrogant, and they didn't want to live! But if he can still live, it can only be the emperor's grace, and this life only belongs to His Majesty. ”

……

Other military schools followed suit.

Shen Yongmao nodded and continued: "You can think like this, which proves that you are really loyal and righteous, and your majesty's kindness is not in vain. ”

"And next, we are going to quell the rebellion, but according to the evidence found by Wang Ge Lao and others, this rebellion is actually not Dong Chaoying and their desire to betray the imperial court, but actually caused by the governor Dang Xin Ke deducting military salaries and not marking him as a battalion soldier."

"So, Dong Chaoying and they have violated the law of the country, but they are not really the worst criminals, but we still have to kill them!"

"No way, they have betrayed Your Majesty, they have betrayed Xinli, and they have become lackeys of the old era!"

"They obviously didn't realize that it was not the party Xin who really oppressed them, but the chronic disease of the scholars who did not pay attention to the holy decree and the law of the country after the civil fort!"

"Therefore, they only killed Dang Xin but did not kill the gentry in the city, but colluded with those gentry to abolish the new rites of the King of Qin, which was just out of a cage and into a bigger cage;"

"And we are different, we soldiers killed the gentry for Wei Xinli, and this counterinsurgency is the same, we know that they are excusable, but we also have to suppress it! Because we want to completely eliminate the old era, so that the scholars will no longer dare to ignore the holy decree and the law of the country, and we really want to establish a new era in which the whole world is ruled by one king. ”

"After experience, I understand that our counterinsurgency is not because Dong Chaoying is hateful, but because the old era that is pressing on our heads will be wiped out!"

At this time, Wei Peng echoed.

The other military schools also nodded.

Shen Yongmao smiled and said, "Exactly! After the civil fort, the world emphasized literature and suppressed martial arts, not only because those civil servants dared to kill Ma Shun, the Jinyi guard official in front of the emperor, and were forgiven by the Son of Heaven and even forgiven by the people of the world, but also related to the fact that the defense of the Beijing division under their auspices finally held the Daming Sheji! They relied on this to earn honor for themselves and the respect of the people of the world, and then even the Son of Heaven had to look up to them even more; We are pro-military guards, and unlike other armies, we also have to earn our own honor! ”

"Therefore, in this counterinsurgency, we should not be like Dong Chaoying and those people, we must stress military discipline and struggle strategies, we must order and prohibit, and military discipline must be strict, don't bully the people after entering the city, and even punish the gentry without authorization, don't let the people of the world really think that we are all ruffians like other armies!"

"Understood!"

The military academies replied.

Shen Yongmao got up and arched his hand: "Please, the honor of the pro-military guard needs to be guarded by us, this time it is a last resort, but if anyone commits something next time, it will be to discredit the entire pro-military guard!" ”

……

February of the twentieth year of Wanli.

Although the snow has not melted, the weather is gradually getting warmer.

Zhu Yijun and his pro-conquest army officially set off.

During this time, the whole army did the final mobilization work, and the previous killing of the gentry was a turning page.

The celebrity eunuchs who came to face the saint were also reconvened by Zhu Yijun during this period and participated in the imperial banquet.

At the banquet, Zhu Yijun appeased them, and rewarded a few outstanding eunuchs, and also swam Huashan together, inscribed some words, and also made a qualitative description of the killing of Ning Chengan and others, saying that they should not threaten the Son of Heaven, and being killed can be regarded as self-inflicted, and the celebrity eunuchs also felt that Ning Chengan and others should be killed, thinking that they were too blind and had no father, and they also ruined the image of scholars.

During this period, Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua intensified their investigation of the failure to implement the new policy honestly.

However, after the incident of the pro-army guards killing the gentry by threatening the emperor with something like falling into the water, which could not be used by the emperor to prevent Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua from doing so, many bureaucrats were completely honest.

Therefore, Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua will be able to do fewer and fewer people in the future, and the local bureaucrats and Haoyou are almost honest.

The celebrities and eunuchs not only did not dare to threaten the emperor with any fire in the Wumiao Falling Water Temple, but also praised the emperor even more, and also began to praise Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua as iron-faced and selfless ministers, and even the Son of Heaven's personal army and guards were more respected by them, and many people took the initiative to organize the people to welcome the army and reward the army.

As for why these celebrities and eunuchs are so respectful of the emperor, and more respectful of the ministers and pro-military guards, the reason is also very simple.

That is.

Because they found out through this incident that there was a violent army in front of them, guarding the new rites, and even the emperor could be put aside first.

This is just like the civil and military generals who could be replaced by the emperor in order to protect the interests of the Han family after the defeat of Tumubao in that year, when the emperor was captured first, it was a group supporting the emperor!

And the emperor is not alone in the fight!

Therefore, it is no longer possible for them to achieve their goals by kidnapping the emperor's personal safety.

Therefore, they might as well curry favor with the emperor and his people, so that they can be preserved, if not to obtain greater benefits.

"These arrogant soldiers and fierce generals have messed up the law, killed our respectful relatives and friends, and we have to eat pot pulp for them, there is no such aggrieved thing in this world!"

When the people who raised the people to welcome and see off the officers and soldiers of the Son of Heaven's pro-army who had left Huazhou one after another, he couldn't help but look at the rows of people passing in front of him with a smile, and at the same time whispered a few words to the elders of the clan who were also here.

"What's the solution!"

"We have tried our best, and we have even guessed that the Son of Heaven will force his trusted minister to visit on his behalf, but we just didn't guess that His Majesty would do this."

Dongdaohe said at this time.

Dong Shouyue asked, "Third Uncle really thinks that the mutiny that night was deliberately made by the Son of Heaven to do this?" ”

"It doesn't matter if it's right or not, anyway, this matter is the most beneficial to his son of heaven and the most beneficial to the new deal!"

"It seems that the Son of Heaven can't even control his own pro-military guards, but he obviously controls everyone in this way! As the so-called big sound wishes, the elephant is invisible, with great power but seems to have no power! ”

Host and said.

"Is the era of an old rite really coming to an end?"

Dong Shouyue muttered for a while, and then looked at the Son of Heaven's pro-military guards who were walking past one after another in front of him, and continued to squeeze out a smile.

……

Xi'an City.

After the rebel general Dong Chaoying and others took the king of Qin as the king, they failed to gain momentum because they were too strict in capturing the landlords and gentry, and the Ming Dynasty now has few displaced people, so they failed to become a trend, and by the way, they took the surrounding states and counties of Xi'an.

They are still stuck in the city of Xi'an, training and building weapons.

However, some literati and gentry in Xi'an City chose to betray the imperial court together with Dong Chaoying, and served the King of Qin as the king, and wanted to be martyred.

The main reason is that if you don't betray the court together, you will have to be killed, so most of the literati and gentry still chose to join the King of Qin because they were afraid of death, not to mention, many of them actually miss the old era when they could not treat the Han people as human beings.

Many of these literati and gentry became ministers and scholars of the Qin Dynasty's regime.

However, it was mainly Dong Chaoying who defended the city.

Dong Chaoying made a lot of preparations for defending Xi'an City, one was to recruit people and train soldiers, and the other was to dig trenches and build walls.

However, the Son of Heaven's pro-army did not have the slightest fear, and after Dong Chaoying and others refused to surrender, they began to bombard Xi'an City with artillery in an orderly manner, and at the same time, the trench filling vehicles, box cars, and rocket vehicles also began to advance to the Xi'an city wall one after another, and Shen Yongmao, Wei Peng and other officers and soldiers followed behind the chariots and advanced in an orderly manner.

Boom!

Xi'an City is the second year of Longqing by the governor of Shaanxi Province Zhang Ji added bricks outside the earthen wall, and also built green bricks on the top of the wall, and the firmness is much stronger than before.

But under the bombardment of the horse-drawn heavy artillery of the Son of Heaven's army, it still couldn't withstand it, and soon collapsed a large part of it.

At the same time as the city walls were collapsed, the ditches outside the city were being filled in one after another, paved with pavement planks, and even pontoon bridges began to be built over the moat.

Although Dong Chaoying and other rebels returned fire from time to time with cannons and guns, causing some pro-army officers and soldiers to fall to the ground or fall into the ditches and moats where stagnant water and sharpened wood were hidden, the officers and men of the Son of Heaven's pro-army did not stop advancing, and stopped in an orderly manner when they were less than 200 paces away from the collapsed city wall.

For a while, the chariots were lined up into a wall, and the guns were held horizontally like a line, and under the sunlight, they appeared outside the city of Xi'an.

Seeing this, Dong Chaoying and the others had a deep face, clenched their fists, and did not say anything.

They knew that they would wait for today's scene sooner or later, so they had no fear, and even because they had killed a lot of officials and gentry and slept with a lot of ladies, they felt that it was worth dying.

And he refused to surrender because he knew that even if he surrendered, the powerful bureaucrats would not let go of people like him who killed Shangguan.

Therefore, Dong Chaoying knew that what he could do now was just to kill one more and bring one more to accompany him to see the king of Hades, and at the same time let the world add a little more fear to him.

And as a border army, he actually wanted to fight with the so-called Son of Heaven pro-army very early, he didn't believe that the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, who was required to read and write and study in class, would really be better than those who were crawling around in the border town.

Knock knock!

With the sound of drums, the infantry of the Son of Heaven's army began to charge over in an orderly manner according to the command of Admiral Liu Wei.

Shen Yongmao was the first to hold the fire gun in one hand, and shouted to a cadre of officers under his command: "There is an order from above, the captain and the whole team will kill the captain, the sentry officer will kill the sentry officer if the whole team retreats, and the whole battalion will kill the guerrillas if they retreat with the guerrillas!" All of us should dedicate ourselves to the new era and let the Son of Heaven see that it is right to let us live. ”

Shen Yongmao shouted "rush" as he spoke, and stepped onto the wooden bridge and rushed to the collapsed city wall of Xi'an.

"For the sake of the new era, rush!"

At this time, Wei Peng also shouted, and personally rushed over with his soldiers.

Whoosh!

At first, the officers and soldiers of the Son of Heaven's army were not blocked, but after they rushed through the collapsed city wall, they encountered a large number of rocket carts and chariots with large guns appearing in front of them, and a large number of rockets burst towards him, and many of them were reduced to a sea of fire on the spot.

"Ahh

Many pro-military officers and soldiers screamed as a result.

Dong Chaoying, who had gone down the city wall and came to a rocket car, saw this scene and smiled coldly, he knew that the Son of Heaven's army was well-equipped, and the city wall could not stop the attack of these Son of Heaven's army, so he chose to fight with him in the city with rich experience in actual combat, and put a large number of troops and limited firearms in the city wall in advance, instead of putting them on the city wall.

"But that's it!"

Dong Chaoying also said a word because of this.

But he soon changed his face, because he found that there were still a large number of Son of Heaven's own troops rushing over in front of him, and taking advantage of the interval between the launch of rockets and firearms on his side, they had already rushed over first, and fought hand-to-hand with the officers and soldiers under his command.

(End of chapter)