The outskirts of Beijing, Imperial Garden.

The Han general sounded the horn on behalf of the emperor's visit to the imperial garden.

The point tower in the center of the Imperial Garden.

Emperor Hongzhi wore dragon pattern cloth armor and stood high on the stage.

The civilian official lives on the left side of the military platform. Their task today is not to accompany Emperor Hongzhi on the hunt, but to write poems and paintings to praise the majestic scene of the emperor's hunting.

In front of the platform, all the generals involved in the hunt were already on their horses, carrying bows and arrows. The leader of them is naturally King Xing.

Chang Feng, as a military attache of the Jinyi Guard, is also among them.

He thought to himself: Xiao Yan is good at archery. It's a pity that she is a female streamer and cannot participate in hunting. If she had been here today, she would have come out on top.

Emperor Hongzhi finished ordering troops. I was about to announce the start of the hunt.

Suddenly, Liu Jin led a small mule to the point platform.

On the mule sat the eight-year-old prince Zhu Houzhao. Zhu Houzhao was wearing a cloth armor that had been changed to a smaller size. Holding a small bow in his hand.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and asked, "Zhao'er, do you also want to participate in hunting?" ”

Zhu Houzhao replied: "Back to my father, my sons also want to show their skills in the Imperial Garden today!" ”

At this moment, Li Dongyang walked out of the civil service class. shouted: "The prince can't!" ”

Zhu Houzhao asked, "Sir, why not?" ”

Li Dongyang is Zhu Houzhao's teacher after leaving the cabinet. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao called him "Mr."

Li Dongyang's mouth was full of the tone of the master: "Has His Highness forgotten what the minister taught you?" A gentleman does not stand a dangerous wall, does not walk strangely, and does not enter deep water! ”

"The Son of Heaven is too old to ascend! The prince is young and doesn't shoot! ”

Zhu Houzhao is a very assertive child. But children are assertive and often seen as rebellious and disobedient by adults.

Zhu Houzhao's teachers are all civil officials. These teachers complained in front of Emperor Hongzhi every day, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not respect the teacher and did not listen to the teacher.

Li Dongyang said bitterly: "Your Highness, you are still young. The words of the sages should be learned. It's not too late to wait until you're in the year of your weak crown to go hunting. ”

Zhu Houzhao replied childishly: "Sir, what you said is wrong!" Lonely heard Liu Jin say that when the grandfather raised troops in Haozhou, he had hundreds of 'boy red scarves' under his command. ”

"They're not a few years older than Gu. But all of them are brave. Investigating the enemy's situation and laying traps, he has made many meritorious achievements. ”

Emperor Hongzhi bowed slightly: "There is indeed such a thing." ”

Li Dongyang's literati essence at this moment is fully revealed: "As the prince of a country, how can His Royal Highness listen to the words of a eunuch? Please return to the East Palace and study the scriptures of the saints. ”

Li Dongyang is very worried about Zhu Houzhao's excessive dependence on Liu Jin on weekdays.

In his opinion, master and apprentice are like father and son. The prince can only rely on him, a serious teacher, how can he obey the words of a eunuch?

Emperor Hongzhi asked Zhu Houzhao: "Zhao'er, what do you say?" ”

Although Zhu Houzhao is young, he is very shrewd. His answer was reasonable: "Father." Emperor Taizu Gao immediately won the world. Erchen participated in hunting in order to imitate Emperor Taizu Gao since childhood! ”

Li Dongyang was anxious: "Your Royal Highness is only eight years old, how dare you compare yourself to Emperor Taizu?" ”

Zhu Houzhao choked Li Dongyang enough with one sentence: "Sir, didn't you teach Gu to chase after the sages yesterday?" ”

Li Dongyang was furious. Lao Tzu is a dignified emperor and a treasurer. was confronted in public by an eight-year-old Chujun student?

Li Dongyang did not put himself in the right position. The relationship between the monarch and the minister is much greater than the relationship between teachers and students.

No wonder Zhu Houzhao didn't want to see him when he grew up.

The contradiction between students and teachers, between civil officials and future emperors, planted the seeds.

Emperor Hongzhi doted on Zhu Houzhao very much and was obedient to him. Emperor Hongzhi suffered a lot when he was a child, and he didn't want his son to suffer the slightest grievance.

Emperor Hongzhi laughed heartily: "Zhao'er said it well." I have given you permission to take part in today's hunt. ”

Li Dongyang was speechless.

Emperor Hongzhi gave an order, and everyone rode towards the depths of the Imperial Garden, shooting wolves, deer, pheasants, and rabbits raised in the Imperial Garden along the way.

The twenty-nine-year-old Emperor Hongzhi was in his prime, but his body could not even catch up with the old Ma Wensheng.

After only two moments of riding the horse, he was tired and out of breath. I had to dismount and rest. Li Guang waited on the side.

The rest continued to shoot.

Let's say that Chang Feng has been riding a horse and following the prince Zhu Houzhao, who is riding a small mule.

Suddenly, a pheasant appeared twenty paces ahead of Chang Feng.

Chang Feng immediately stretched out his bow and arrows, and after a while, he put down his bow and arrows and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Highness, look, there is a wild pheasant in front." ”

Chang Feng just wanted Zhu Houzhao to get through his addiction to archery.

In his opinion, an eight-year-old child still uses a trumpet bow and arrow. How is it possible to shoot a wild pheasant twenty paces away?

Unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao had a decent bow, arrows, aiming, and loosening strings.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow flew straight towards the pheasant. "Poof"! Impartial, right in the belly of the pheasant!

Chang Feng was dumbfounded: "Palace, Your Highness is a divine shot!" ”

Zhu Houzhao was actually a blind cat who ran into a dead mouse. He smug: "What is this? At the age of eight, Ganluo worshiped the prime minister. It is not uncommon for an eight-year-old lone to shoot a wild pheasant. ”

Zhu Houzhao is very much like an ancestor of his in his bones: Taizong Zhu Di.

A Han general stepped forward and picked up the prey that Zhu Hou had struck.

Chang Feng thought to himself: bring the prey back in a while. I don't know what the prince's teacher Li Dongyang will be embarrassed to become.

At this moment, Shi Wenyi rode over on horseback: "Master Chang, the emperor has dismounted and rested." He told you to follow the prince. ”

Chang Feng nodded: "Well, I will definitely protect the prince." ”

Let's say that twenty miles north of the Imperial Garden, the Fenwu Camp is stationed.

In the change of Tumubao, the three battalions were lost. The defense of the Beijing Division, the three major battalions were rebuilt.

After the war, Yu Qian selected capable soldiers from the three new battalions and divided them into ten battalions for regimental training, which was for the regimental battalion.

After Yu Qian's death, the regimental camp was abolished.

During the Chenghua period, Emperor Chenghua re-established the regimental camp. It was organized into 12 regimental battalions.

They are the four martial arts battalions: Fenwu, Yaowu, Lianwu, and Xianwu.

Four brave battalions: brave, courageous, brave, and courageous.

Siwei Battalion: Liwei, Shenwei, Yangwei, Zhenwei.

Among the twelve regiments and battalions, the Fenwu battalion is the strongest. It is the elite of the elite. Similar to the Old Guards Regiment of Napoleon in later generations.

All the soldiers in the Fenwu Battalion are veterans who have fought and killed people. Mainly cavalry. Good horses and good blades in the army, priority is given to equipping the Fenwu battalion.

At this moment, the school field in the Fenwu camp is conducting military exercises. Governor Shi Wenzhong and supervising eunuch Zhang Yong issued military orders in an orderly manner.

Zhang Yongsheng has five big and three thick, and he is very strong. If he wasn't wearing a eunuch uniform, others would probably mistake him for a military general.

Shi Wenzhong, the eldest brother of Jinyiwei's "big buddy" Shi Wenyi, has a very good personal relationship with Zhang Yong on weekdays.

Under the joint training of the two, the combat strength of the 12th Regiment Battalion has steadily improved.

Shi Wenzhong said with a smile: "Gonggong Zhang, the Fenwu camp is now very much like the tiger and the light horse of Huo Quai's illness in the Han Dynasty. Going deep into the hinterland of the steppe, it is not a problem to surprise the Tatar camps. ”

Zhang Yongdao: "It's a pity that there are too few people in the Fenwu Battalion. Only six thousand people. ”

"If you can train ten martial arts battalions, what is the little prince of Tatar? Just a piece of meat on the cutting board. ”

While the two were talking, a hundred households from the camp came over in a hurry.

Baihu arched his hand: "Shi Shuai, Father-in-law Zhang, something big has happened." There's a stab on the other side of the Imperial Garden! A Han general under the command of Jinyi Wei Chang Ye came to ask for help! ”

Shi Wenzhong's face changed: "What? What about the Han general? ”

As soon as the words fell, two soldiers walked over with a big Han general with a bloody face.

This Han general has several obvious knife wounds on his body, and it looks like he has fought his way out of the encirclement.

Shi Wenzhong asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The Han general said with a faint breath: "There is a Tatar cavalry that has secretly crossed the Great Wall. colluded with the inner director of the capital to find out that the emperor is hunting in the imperial garden today"

"There were more than 3,000 of them, and there were only 800 of the Han generals who accompanied them. We are outnumbered."

Zhang Yong was anxious, and directly grabbed the armor of the Han general: "How is the emperor?" ”

The Han general said: "Your Majesty, woo woo!" ”

Zhang Yong suddenly felt bad in his heart: "Don't squeeze horse urine!" Say, what the hell is going on? ”

The Han general said: "The emperor was killed by the Tatar cavalry, and the dragon returned to the sky." ”

Zhang Yong and Shi Wenzhong were stunned.

The emperor was killed by the Tatars today? The sky has fallen!

The two looked at each other, their faces pale.

The Han general took out a troop transfer order from his arms: "His Royal Highness King Xing ordered the Fenwu camp to go to the imperial garden immediately to exterminate the Tartar soldiers and protect the prince!" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the transfer of troops is an extremely sensitive matter. The procedures for redeploying troops are very cumbersome.

The order for the transfer of troops needs to be stamped with the emperor's treasure seal, the customs defense of the military department's book, and the handsome seal of the governor of the five armies.

If the border army is transferred, it must also be stamped with the big seal of the local general army.

However, the transfer order presented by the Han general was only covered with King Xing's small seal and Chang Feng's signature.

Zhang Yong took a cursory look: "I have seen Chang Feng's twists and turns, it is his handwriting." ”

Shi Wenzhong said with a straight face: "At the time when Daming is in danger of survival, the two of us should make a decision!" ”

Zhang Yong said categorically: "Immediately gather all the soldiers of the Fenwu Battalion. Hurry to the Imperial Garden. ”

The 6,000 soldiers of the Fenwu Battalion mounted their horses, wore sharp armor, and marched towards the Imperial Garden.

The two of them were fooled!

But they didn't fall for it because they were stupid.

For any general who is loyal to the emperor and the imperial court, I heard that the emperor was in danger and died, and the prince was in danger. Regardless of whether it is true or not, I will definitely lead troops to find out.

At the same time, in the middle of the Imperial Garden.

Emperor Hongzhi rested under a large willow tree. Around the big willow tree, there were more than a hundred Han generals guarding and dozens of eunuchs waiting.

Li Guang was fanning Emperor Hongzhi on the side.

It's three miles away from the big willow tree. The crown prince Zhu Houzhao found a wolf.

In the Imperial Garden, the highest-ranking prey is the wolf.

Zhu Houzhao was overjoyed. But he knew how many pounds and taels he had. With the small broken bow in his hand, he would never be able to shoot the wolf.

Zhu Houzhao showed the talent of commanding in his mother's womb.

He commanded in an orderly manner: "Chang Feng, you take ten people and pass from the left side." Shi Wenyi, you take ten people over from the right side. ”

"Liu Jin, you take ten people around and block it. I took the main force of the Chinese army and didn't move, so I didn't have to scare it away! ”

"When you are surrounded on three sides, I will lead people to rush over!"

Hey, don't say it, Zhu Houzhao, who was riding on a short mule, dispatched troops, and had the heroic appearance of a little general.

Chang Feng secretly said in his heart: Although this method is not necessarily clever. But the prince knew at the age of eight that it was not easy to circumvent the roundabout.

Everyone acted separately according to Zhu Houzhao's orders.

However, the wolf was very cunning and ran away. Angry, Zhu Houzhao shot a few arrows over the mule to vent his anger.

Suddenly, Chang Feng and the others heard the sound of "boom, boom".

Qian Ning beside him was a little strange: "Why is it thundering in the clear sky?" ”

Chang Feng frowned: "It doesn't sound like thunder." It was like the sound of horses' hooves marching in large troopers. ”

Qian Ning was confused: "Cavalry? In charge of guarding the Imperial Garden is the general of the Jinyi Guard. You didn't let them assemble and march! ”

Chang Feng shades the sun with his hands and looks into the distance. Suddenly, he noticed a black crushing cavalry at the end of the horizon!

The cavalry marched and rolled up a billowing yellow dust.

Chang Feng was shocked: "Could it be that the Tatars crossed the Great Wall?" ”

Qian Ning's eyes were much better than Chang Feng's: "That's not right. They are wearing mandarin duck battle jackets! It's the Ming Army! ”

Chang Feng gasped: "It may also be a Tatar pretending to be a Ming army." Today, the military department and the governor's mansion have not transferred the Beijing battalion garrison to accompany them! ”

Channing was shocked: "Huh? So what to do? ”

Chang Feng immediately decided: "Quick!" Shoot arrows and assemble the Han generals. Protect the emperor, the crown prince, and the king of Xing first! ”

It's a real mistake. Chang Feng regarded the Fenwu battalion that came to "escort King Qin" as a Tatar who sneaked across the Great Wall and attacked the Imperial Garden.

Emperor Hongzhi is resting under the big willow tree.

Suddenly, Li Guang shook his shoulder: "Your Majesty." Oh no. ”

Emperor Hongzhi asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Guang pointed with his hand: "Your Majesty, look!" ”

I saw 800 Han generals forming a large circle centered on the big willow tree.

Chang Feng and King Xing strode towards Emperor Hongzhi. Zhu Houzhao swung his two calves and followed behind.

Li Guangdao: "Your Majesty, something is wrong! Why did Chang Feng let General Dahan surround you? ”

A suspicious expression appeared on Emperor Hongzhi's face: "Yes." The hunt was well done. Why did the Han generals suddenly gather and surround me? ”

Li Guang pointed into the distance again: "Your Majesty, look, a large force of cavalry has appeared in the Imperial Garden!" Is it a combination of the inside and the outside? ”

"Ahh Big things are not good! Someone is rebelling, Your Majesty! ”

By mistake, the Imperial Garden is in a mess!

Chang Feng walked in front of Emperor Hongzhi: "Your Majesty, there may be Tatars pretending to be the Ming army to cross the Great Wall and drive straight to the Imperial Garden on the outskirts of Beijing. ”

"The ministers will lead the Han generals and swear to protect the lord to the death!"

Xingwang should not have said more: "The younger brother will also swear to protect the lord to the death!" ”

The little prince Zhu Houzhao echoed: "Erchen, Erchen follows the Four Emperor Uncles and Chang Feng to protect to the death!" ”

It's too late, it's too soon. Gu Da on the side used lightning speed to pull out his waist knife and lay it across Chang Feng's neck.

Gu Dayong said: "Chang Feng, do you want to collude with King Xing to mutiny and kill the master?" Let the Han generals disperse. Otherwise, don't blame my steel knife for being ruthless! ”

Li Guang echoed: "Yes! Chang Feng, King Xing, don't be delusional! ”

After speaking, Li Guanghu was in front of Emperor Hongzhi, opened his arms, and made a posture of protecting the lord.

Chang Feng was anxious: "When is this!" Gu Da, don't mess around! delayed the escort of King Qin, and the sky of Daming fell! Put down the knife! ”

Gu Dayong sneered: "I put down the knife and let you assassinate the king?" ”

At this moment, Shi Wenyi ran over in a hurry: "Your Majesty." The cavalry on the periphery was the Fenwu battalion. It was led by Shi Wenzhong, the eldest brother of the minister, and Zhang Yong, Zhang Gonggong. ”

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he became even more suspicious: "I have never asked the military department to transfer the military battalion to the Imperial Garden!" ”

Li Guang turned his head to Emperor Hongzhi and said: "Your Majesty, it is really a collusion between inside and outside, a mutiny!" ”

Let's talk about Shi Wenzhong and Li Guang. The two of them led their troops to the Imperial Garden and sensed that something was wrong.

Where is the shadow of the Tatars in the Imperial Garden? Where is the scene of fierce battles between the Tatars and the Han generals?

Shi Wenzhong said: "It's weird. Could it be that the wounded Han general just now deceived us? ”

Zhang Yong asked a thousand households in a loud voice: "What about the injured Han general just now?" ”

Qianhu replied: "Grandpa Zhang, didn't you see that he was seriously injured and let him stay in the camp to bandage and heal?" ”

At this moment, Li Guang rode a horse and ran more than ten steps in front of the two.

Li Guang asked: "Why did you bring troops to the Imperial Garden without any order or order?" ”

Shi Wenzhong replied: "It was His Royal Highness King Xing and Chang Tongzhi who transferred us to protect the crown prince." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Guang was ecstatic in his heart.

Li Guangyin said in a gloomy voice: "Joke." What power did the vassal king and his retainers have to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the capital camp? ”

"Shi Wenyi, Zhang Yong, you're in trouble! Follow me to the emperor! ”

Shi Wenzhong was surprised: "Didn't the emperor die?" ”

Li Guang's face changed: "Okay, don't recruit yourself!" You colluded with King Xing and Chang Feng to mutiny and rebellion. ”

"You think the Changfeng Assassin King has already succeeded, right?"

(End of chapter)