In the darkness, Yan Keng saw the rebels who were attacking the city in front of him.

He raised his saber aloft and said in a loud voice:

"Brothers, we have been eating imperial food for generations, and now is the time to repay Your Majesty!"

"In this battle, when you kill the enemy bravely, there is no advance or retreat!"

"After this battle, everyone will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, the wounded will be rewarded with 500 taels of silver, and the dead will be compensated with 1,000 taels!"

"The one who captures the head of the thief will be rewarded with 100 gold, and this prince will be His Majesty, please seal him!"

"Charge, crush them!"

High-pitched voices resounded in the night sky, and this was the best mobilization.

The cavalrymen behind him let out a roaring shout, their eyes were full of fanaticism, and then followed Yan Keng's horse and whip, and the iron horse rumbled forward.

These 3,000 battalion soldiers are the descendants of the Shunyi Iron Cavalry and Duoyan Sanwei who followed Yan Keng's southern expedition to the north, and they have the courage to fight without losing to their fathers.

Although there were only a thousand of them, they did not hesitate to charge at the rebels, who numbered in the thousands.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were 5,600 people in a guard station, and the number of a guard in the pro-army was nearly 10,000, but fortunately, most people were unwilling to follow these commanders to fight an illusory dragon, and several thousands of households were taken down, and in the process of action, people constantly noticed that something was wrong and fled, resulting in the actual number of rebels was only more than 6,000 people.

The difference in the number of people in the three thousand battalions plus the thousands of people on duty in the flag guards is still a lot worse, and the flag bearers were raided before, with many casualties, and they have to be responsible for guarding the imperial city and cannot fight, so in fact, that is, the three thousand battalions and thousands of rebels are slashed, and the flag bearers use bows and arrows and artillery on the city wall to support, Yan Keng is still at a disadvantage.

But the 3,000 battalions are worthy of the prestige of their fathers!

These warlike Mongolian men, under the reward of heavy money, have become extremely brave!

Their iron hooves stepped through the enemy line again and again, tearing and scattering the rebels again and again!

It is a pity that the number of cavalry of the 3,000 battalion is too small after all, although they can be defeated, they cannot be defeated, and every time they end the charge, they can only watch them reunite.

The fierce fighting lasted from night to day, and on this day there were no pedestrians in the whole city of Beijing, and all the people and officials hid in their homes and shivered, while the soldiers on both sides fought fiercely on the streets, blood spilled on bluestone slabs.

Yan Keng's subordinates are fierce and can fight, while the rebels rely on a large number of people and fight for several hours!

Even as the main general, Yan Keng was injured in many places, his armor was cut off, he was covered in blood, and his body was also scarred.

The soldiers of the 3,000 battalion also suffered heavy casualties, losing more than half of them.

But it was because of their efforts that the rebels were unable to break through the gates, and as time went on, their disadvantages became more and more apparent.

After all, Beijing is an imperial city and Zhu Di's basic plate.

The only way for the rebels to succeed is to make a surprise attack and seize the throne immediately while the Jingshi garrison does not react, so that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Jingshi may still accept it for the sake of the heavenly position.

But the cavalry led by Yan Keng arrived in time and smashed all this.

From the beginning of the mess, the armies were in a mess, only a division of the 3,000 battalions and the bannermen stationed in the east of the imperial city were fighting, and later Zhu Di reacted, and the 3,000 battalions, the five army battalions and the Shenji battalion entered the city one after another, and the Ming army gradually occupied an absolute advantage in terms of strength.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the three major battalions are even sharper, and among the three guards, the Yulin avant-garde can be compared with it!

By the time dawn came, the various departments had been assembled, and the British Gong Zhangfu, who had returned to Beijing to take over his father's title, took over the command position, and then ordered the Ming army to launch a general attack!

The rebels were exhausted by this time, and they had almost lost the strength to resist in the face of a sea of overwhelming offensives.

The soldiers of the Ming army are becoming more and more courageous, they are outnumbered, everyone knows that this battle is to be won, and now is the time to fight for meritorious service, so everyone is moving forward bravely!

The rebels of the Three Guards can only seize the houses and the tall mansions of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and make a final stubborn resistance!

And at this time, the soldiers of the rebels also reacted:

That's not right.

You must know that Gao Zheng and his subordinates fooled their subordinates into Beijing, not to say that they rebelled, but to say that the emperor secretly ordered them to enter Beijing.

Even the Yulin avant-garde, their commander Peng Xu lied that there was a rebellion in the Jingshi, and he was ordered by the emperor to quell the rebellion, so that the army was obedient.

But no one is a fool, at this time, the "rebels" are fighting more and more, and these soldiers gradually realize that something is wrong:

TND, how does it seem that labor and management are rebels!

As soon as the thought came to me, it was as unstoppable as wildfire.

The current situation can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, and they are already dying.

Originally, if they were fighting for the emperor and the court, these soldiers might have died generously, but Nima's inexplicably became a rebel, who would do this?

The army's spirit collapsed in an instant.

Even if Gao Zheng and Chen Kai shouted to stop, and even killed several people with swords, they could not stop the rout of their subordinates, they dropped their weapons and surrendered to the Ming army in pieces.

The end of the war was doomed, at noon, the battle finally ended, more than 6,000 rebels were captured more than 2,000 people, the rest were all killed, Gao Zheng and others wanted to escape in the rout, but they were also captured on the spot.

And the rebels in Changshan were also quickly defeated by the soldiers of the three battalions who arrived, and Meng Xian was killed on the spot.

The rebellion of Yongle in the 22nd year came to an end.

Meng Xian and others were all wiped out by the three clans, and Wang Yan and others were also executed by Ling Chi, and the heads were rolling for a while.

King Zhao was called to the emperor and severely reprimanded, and he was supposed to be punished severely, and even because of the rebellion, Zhu Di was furious and wanted to demote him to a concubine. After all, according to the false edict found out, they planned to make King Zhao the Son of Heaven, which offended Zhu Di's rebellion.

But he couldn't bear the prince's bitter pleading, and said that it must be his own opinion, not Zhu Gaosui's original intention, and there is indeed no clear evidence that King Zhao was involved, so Zhu Gaosui was spared, but he also lost his sacred heart, and his offerings were heavily reduced, which was like house arrest.

And Yan Keng, because of his meritorious escort, has been unanimously favored by the Zhu family's father and son.

After all, without him, maybe the imperial city would be lost, and in this case, the Yongle family might really be in danger! ——

"In the twenty-second year of Yongle, in April, Xingzhou Houtunwei commanded Gao Zheng and others to rebel, Lai Chen Guogong fought with all his strength, and Taizong and Renzong were spared."

"After the war, there were medical officers who treated him, and there were 45 wounds, which were deeply visible to the bones, and everyone who saw them was shocked! Taizong sighed when he heard this: "I am really a loyal and righteous person! And then the grace of God was restored. ”

——"History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Chen Guogong"

(This place should be the real name, but I think that if the country was founded later, the historian should not dare to call the name of the emperor's ancestors, and Chen Guogong doesn't know if it's right or not, and you are welcome to point out the mistake.) ）

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