The Imperial Mausoleum of Fengyang Mansion originally had a garrison army, but because of the sudden outbreak of war, after Wu Xiang arrived, he had already moved all the guards of the original Imperial Mausoleum to the city, in order to help defend the Fengyang Mansion.

Therefore, when Wang Qi arrived at the imperial tomb with more than 100 personal guards, there was no one else here except for a few old soldiers who usually sweep the sacrifices.

"Are you here to sweep the imperial tomb and worship Emperor Taishang and others?" The old pawn was already dizzy, seeing Wang Qi leading more than 100 people all the way up the steps, slowly walking from the 100-meter Shinto, he had some doubts in his heart, and he was followed by a dirty child with a low snot bubble, and his eyes were wide at this moment, looking at Wang Qi and his party curiously.

"Old army, my master is here to worship the imperial tomb, he won't be disturbed, he will leave in a while," he stepped forward to talk to the old army, and handed over a silver ingot.

"Eh," the old soldier's cloudy gaze turned around Wang Qi's body, and then nodded a little suddenly: "It's to worship one or two, it's to worship one or two."

Wang Qi stood on the Shinto, looking solemnly at the imperial mausoleum standing tall in the distance, and did not speak for a long time.

This imperial mausoleum monument is written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, and the Taoist text on the monument is vigorous and majestic, and it is fascinating to look at.

"Only this inscription shows how Emperor Taizu swept Liuhe and unified the great power of Shenzhou," Wang Qi slowly paced on the Shinto Road with his hands behind his back.

The breeze is gentle, blowing the hem of the clothes, and the imperial tomb is quiet and solemn, which only seems to take advantage of Wang Qi to be more leisurely.

"Old Army, can I have a meal here?" He looked at Wang Qi, who was immersed in the solemn scene in the distance, and turned around to ask the old soldiers guarding here.

"Coarse grain meals, I don't know if you are used to eating them?" The old soldier wiped the hem of his clothes with his hand with some embarrassment, obviously for these people, the identity of Wang Qi and others is already transcendent, where can they get used to eating in the countryside?

"It's okay, this is Zhai silver, please also ask the old man, prepare one more, my master can taste the saltiness," he said, and handed over the silver casually.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" The old army has been guarding the imperial mausoleum here for all these years, and the salary owed by the court alone is one hundred and ten taels, and today a noble person suddenly came, and he was rewarded with thirty or fifty taels, how not to let the old army be grateful?

While walking and watching, pacing with his back hands, about half an hour, Wang Qi finally came to the main hall of the imperial mausoleum.

"Let's go in and have a stick of incense," Wang Qi came today, which can be regarded as visiting the sages and paying tribute to Emperor Taizu - the filial piety mausoleum in Nanjing City can't go, and now Fengyang ministers worship it, it's the same.

"My lord, I'm worried that Wu Xiang of Fengyang Mansion will send troops to come," he stepped forward and wanted to remind Wang Qi.

"He didn't dare to come," Wang Qi waved his hand and walked straight into the main hall of the imperial mausoleum.

Here is enshrined Emperor Taizu's parents and brothers, Zhu Yuanzhang himself is a statue, and there are also sacrifices here.

Standing in the hall, looking at the statue of Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Qi was a little touched for a while.

After all, he pouted the roots of the Zhu family, and when facing the main master, even though he was a staunch atheist, Wang Qi also sighed, took the three incense sticks from the side, bowed respectfully, and then inserted them into the incense burner.

"Emperor Taizu drove out the Tartars, restored China, miraculous achievements, for the heroes of the world, today the younger generation Wang Qi came to worship, incense for Taizu!" Wang Qi said goodbye, bowed down and bowed again.

After a short time, Wang Qi walked out of the palace.

"Coarse tea and light rice, you can't put it on the table, please adults, don't be surprised," the old soldier trembled and stood on the table for Wang Qi, and the snotty child on the side looked at Wang Qi with some fear, put the two boiled yellow-skinned eggs in the bowl on the table, and then pushed them to Wang Qi.

"I'll give it to you," Wang Qi peeled the egg, then handed it to the child with a smile.

The child snorted, first turned his head to look at the old army, and after the old army nodded, he stretched out his dirty little hand to take the egg in Wang Qi's hand, first sniffed it with his nose, then licked his lips, and ate it in a big gulp.

"Old Jun, how long have you been here," Wang Qi asked, eating the blackened rice in the bowl.

"In the twenty-third year of Wanli, after being wounded in the Korean expedition, the old man was sent here to guard the imperial mausoleum," the old army said, pulling up the hem, revealing half of the empty trouser legs: "It's already broken, no matter what you do, it's not done, sweep the tomb here, look at the imperial tomb, and wait for death." ”

"In Fengyang City, how many soldiers are there now, do you know?" Wang Qi divided five by two, swallowed the hard toothy rice in the bowl, wiped his mouth, picked up the teapot on the side, and poured a cup by himself.

The tea leaves are the leaves of the big trees, and it is estimated that they were picked indiscriminately from the side of the road, and they were boiled and brewed as tea leaves, and they were just tasted.

"Old Army, where do I know this?" The old army opened his mouth, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and smiled vaguely: "My lord is going to Fengyang Mansion?" ”

Looking at the old army fixedly, Wang Qi said after a while: "There is an old one in Fengyang." ”

"Oh, I heard that in the north, that Qi Guogong led his troops to besiege Fengyang, and the old army persuaded Ling, there is about to be ruined, so don't go" The old army's head shook like a rattle.

"Fengyang Mansion is not so easy to take," Wang Qi smiled at the corner of his mouth: "I won't go back to die, thank you for the reminder." ”

After listening to Wang Qi's words, the old army stuffed the dry tobacco pouch into his mouth, took two puffs of it, the smoke came out of his nose, and then it was sucked back violently, and only slowly spit out after a while, and the old army's mood was obviously a little complicated.

"If the war starts, how many people will die? How many people were scattered, and how many children of dogs were the same age, starving to death on the roadside? The old soldier's cloudy eyes looked at Wang Qi, begging with meaning, and then, as if in order to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere, he solemnly took out the rolled leaves he had wrapped from his waist and handed them to Wang Qi: "Taste?" ”

Looking at the cigarette leaves in the old army's hand, Wang Qi finally smiled.

He took it casually, and then the waiter next to him helped him light it.

Take a sharp breath, and suddenly the smoke fills.

Wang Qi's whole person seems to have returned to the 996 days of his previous life. This kind of taste is really nostalgic.

A cigarette leaf burned out between breaths, and when the last trace of smoke came out of Wang Qi's mouth, the atmosphere in the whole room suddenly relaxed.

"Thank you veterans for your hospitality."

Wang Qi got up and saluted the old army.

"It's good that adults don't dislike the simplicity of the house," the old soldier dared to accept Wang Qi's gift, and hurriedly got up.

"Farewell," Wang Qi nodded, and turned to leave.

More than 100 relatives outside the house followed and left.

Between breaths, the huge imperial mausoleum seems to have been visited by no one, and no one cares about the autumn wind and leaves.

"Grandpa, who is that person?" The child, still holding an egg tightly in his hand, asked with a little face up.

"Him?" The old army's cloudy gaze seemed to penetrate the hundred-step long Shinto, and when he saw Wang Qi riding away on horseback, he muttered: "He is the gravedigger of the Ming Dynasty." ”

As soon as he left the imperial tomb, a scout came with a letter.

"My lord, Xiong Tingbi has already started, starting from Suzhou, and will be able to arrive outside Chuzhou City later in the day after tomorrow!"

It was Qin Erbao's letter, according to the plan, after Xiong Tingbi led the army to march, Qin Erbao and Lu Xiangsheng would lead the army to withdraw from Fengyang Mansion and make a gesture of besieging Nanjing City.

Folding the letter, Wang Qi's eyebrows became more and more cold.

The conversation of the old army of the Imperial Mausoleum made Wang Qi feel a sense of urgency in his heart.

Revolution has always been a blood-stained road, it can't be too slow, and everything can't be taken care of!

For half a year, Wang Qi has been working and planning for the stability of the parliament and the stability of the surrounding provinces in Beijing.

On the one hand, sitting in the city of Beijing, no one dares to take the lead!

On the other hand, Wang Qi wants to wait for the integration of the forces of Nanjing City Zhu Youzhen, and then catch them all!

Now the time has come, and we can't wait any longer!

Although it is difficult to people's hearts, no matter what, the military power is in hand, and no hard neck can withstand the knife edge.

20,000 people?

Wang Qi turned his head to look in the direction of the imperial mausoleum: When Emperor Taizu was born as a beggar and became an emperor, I have 20,000 elite soldiers in my hands, and I can't dominate the world?

"Go back and tell Qin Erbao and Lu Xiangsheng to lead the troops directly in the direction of Chuzhou, and I will finish my work in one battle!" Annihilation of 150,000 troops in Nanjing within a month! ”

"Little Obedience !!"

After a short time, the herald scout departed.

"My lord, what about us?" Although the more than 100 guards around Wang Qi are fierce, if they encounter several times the enemy, Wang Qi's own safety cannot be guaranteed.

"Go to Chuzhou," Wang Qi tightened the reins of the horse: "When Emperor Taizu was in Chuzhou, he set the world in Chuzhou, and there, I also want to go there to see what this artifact in the world is!" ”

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Xiong Tingbi's soldiers and horses marched very fast, starting from midnight yesterday to later today, they had traveled more than 100 miles, and they were only 50 miles away from Chuzhou Mansion.

Because the news of Wang Qi's southward trip to Fengyang Mansion came, Nanjing City mobilized almost all the soldiers and horses in the south into Fengyang, wanting to kill Wang Qi's 20,000 people in Fengyang Mansion in one fell swoop, so the rest of the place was almost an empty city, and there was almost no defense.

This is not to say that other states and counties are not important, but the location of the gateway of Fengyang Mansion, Nanjing City is expected, Wang Qi will definitely not dare to cross Fengyang Mansion and go south to attack the rest of the states and counties, otherwise the enemy will be attacked by the enemy at that time, and the gains outweigh the losses!

Anyone who knows the army knows this truth.

And Wang Qi, as the world's leading general, will not make this mistake.

So. has created a situation where Chuzhou is now empty.

"It's the rebels who are coming!"

"The man-eating demon king of the north has arrived in Chuzhou Mansion from Beijing City!"

"What about the soldiers and horses of Fengyang Mansion? Why didn't you stop? Could it be that Fengyang has been lost? ”

When Xiong Tingbi's army appeared on the distant horizon, the entire Chuzhou Mansion, including the city of Nanjing, fell into a huge panic.

Xiong Tingbi led the troops to the scene, so what about Wang Qi?

Hearing the news, Zhu Youzhen almost had to smear oil on the soles of his feet, and went south to Fujian with the temporary civil and military team.

"Your Majesty! Why be anxious, "Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian, and Yuan Keli have been summoned by Zhu Youzhen almost every day in the past few days, and they have been living together from morning to early in the evening.

Facing Zhu Youzhen, who was constantly pacing in the hall and panicked when he heard Wang Qi's name, Zuo Guangdou was really a little displeased.

Wang Qi is not a three-headed and six-armed demon king, no matter how powerful he is in the world, he is still a person made of flesh and blood.

Can he still fly over the tall walls of Nanjing City and really come to the palace?

"I'm not in a hurry, it's just a little incomprehensible," Zhu Youzhen shook it in the air with the Chuzhou prefect's urgent performance in his hand, and said with a frightened face: "Where is Wang Qi?" Isn't he in Suzhou, more than 100 miles north of Fengyang Mansion? Why did Xiong Tingbi appear outside Chuzhou overnight? ”

"Is he trying to bypass Fengyang Mansion and occupy Chuzhou?" Yang Lian was calm, without the slightest panic, still analyzing the current situation: "Yuan Gong, in your opinion, occupying Chuzhou, for a rebellious army of only 20,000 people, can you get anything?" ”

Yuan Keli was the only person who knew the soldiers in the seat, and at this moment, Yang Lian asked, and the eyes in the hall also gathered.

"Before the minister came, he had seen the map of Chuzhou Mansion, and in the minister's opinion, if he occupied Chuzhou Mansion, the north was my Fengyang army, the southern part was the fortified city of Nanjing, and the east and west were Hefei Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion, and it was not easy to take it, then in this way, Wang Qi would fall into my encirclement, which would be a dead end," Yuan Keli stroked his beard gently, and his eyebrows were also puzzled.

It stands to reason that with Wang Qi's style of acting and the use of soldiers, he will never make such a mistake!

"According to Yuan Aiqing's meaning," Zhu Youzhen listened to the analysis, took two steps forward, and the spit star almost splashed on Yuan Keli's face: "If you occupy Chuzhou, Wang Qi will be defeated?!! ”

Where does "Chen" Yuan Keli dare to play this kind of package ticket, besides, Wang Qi is opposite! Killing Jiannu is like slaughtering a dog, destroying the country of ten thousand times in the breath of the heavenly people, how can Yuan Keli be sure that Wang Qi will be defeated?

"The minister thinks," Yuan Keli coughed twice, and said thoughtfully: "If Wang Qi really appears in Chuzhou Mansion, he can be surrounded and annihilated. And for the specific situation, I have to write to Wu Xiang, Zuo Liangyu and others, and let the generals in front of the battle judge for themselves according to the situation on the battlefield! ”

"Hiss" Zhu Youzhen nodded thoughtfully, put his hands behind his back, and began to pace again.

In the hall, Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou glanced at each other, their eyes full of worry.

This emperor seems to be too rigid and self-serving, and he acts impatiently, for the courtiers, this is not a good king!

"Where is Xiang Quanzhong?" After a while, Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked.

"Back to Your Majesty's words, Xiang Quanzhong summoned the world's soldiers and horses, gathered at the mouth of the Zhenjiang River, from Chuzhou, about three hundred miles, if you are in a hurry, you can arrive in three days, and it will be faster by water!" This matter, as the Ministry of War, Zuo Guangdou was very clear in his heart.

"50,000 soldiers and horses, can you recruit all the soldiers?" Zhu Youzhen has already sat back on the throne.

"This" Yuan Keli shook his head: "Back to Your Majesty, ten days have passed so far, and only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses have been gathered."

"Ten thousand soldiers?" Zhu Youzhen slapped the table: "Plus the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Fengyang Mansion, a total of more than 110,000!" ”

"110,000 against 20,000, the advantage is mine!"

"Spread the decree, Fengyang and Zhenjiangkou soldiers and horses, immediately galloped day and night, encircled and suppressed Wang Qi in Chuzhou Mansion! The thieves who steal the country and uphold the government will be destroyed in Chuzhou! ”

Zhu Youzhen said, suddenly got up, and that confidence returned to his face: "I! Within three days, I will see Wang Qi's head! ”

(End of chapter)