Wu Gao's caution made him withdraw his troops in advance, and when he passed by Changchun on the way to withdraw his troops, he watched the heavily garrisoned Changchun Station, and realized it later.

"I should have thought that the king of Bohai County sent this new soldier who had not joined the army for a year to come here to cultivate and cultivate, just to confuse us."

"Do you want to storm the city and get back the food?"

Geng Zhen asked on horseback, but Wu Gao shook his head: "We can't delay, we must return to San0,000 Wei as soon as possible to prevent any changes in San0,000 Wei." ”

"In addition, you sent someone to send a letter to Liu Zhen, asking him to leave 2,000 troops to prepare Jiulian City, and select 2,000 troops to go to Jinzhou in southern Liaoning."

"If Liaobei is lost, as long as we still have Jinzhou, we can rely on Shandong shipping to continue to deal with him."

Wu Gao's vision is indeed outstanding, although thinking about retreating to southern Liaoning before the fight has somewhat boosted the ambition of others, but what he wants is not ambition, but to hold Liaodong.

After one last glance at the Changchun Institute, he turned his horse's head and headed south.

Soon, this army of more than 70,000 soldiers and civilians began to march rapidly, and this scene was also seen by Chu Zhao, the thousand-household official of Changchun at the head of the city.

"It's a pity ......"

Chu Zhao sighed, he thought that Wu Gao would attack the Changchun Institute, so that he could stay with him for a few days to create time for Liu Zhao, who had just passed through the Changchun Institute this morning.

Now it seems that His Royal Highness said that Wu Gao was cautious and difficult to deal with.

"When they evacuate, I will immediately send news to His Highness, saying that Wu Gao will withdraw his troops and Liu Zhao will be a day's journey at most."

Chu Zhao looked back at the soldiers with panicked expressions, and the officials of the hundred households who accepted his order also swallowed their saliva with difficulty: "Thousand households, are we really the opposite?" ”

"It's not that we are reversed, but that the court has forced us to rebel." Chu Zhao shook his head, corrected his statement, and continued:

"The imperial court wants to abolish His Royal Highness as a concubine, and also to confinish Nanjing to be humiliated by slaves, and will abolish Bohai Juntian, if you think it is acceptable, then you can leave the city and go south, I will not stop you."

Chu Zhao's words made everyone look at each other, they really didn't want to rebel, but they didn't want to go back to the south and become refugees.

They only received the land on the winter solstice last year, and more than 30 acres of land had to be handed over, so it was better to rebel.

"! It's the opposite! ”

"That's right! No one wants to snatch my field! ”

"Don't go! We're the opposite! ”

"Nope! It was the court that forced us to rebel! ”

"Yes to ......"

As soon as it came to recovering Juntian, the military households, who were still hesitant before, immediately became firm.

It is easy to harvest the fields, and Zhu Gaoxu's confidence in daring to rebel lies in the fact that the more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the entire Bohai Sea are tied to his own interests.

More than 100,000 acres of land in the Bohai Sea, even if Zhu Yunwen doesn't want it, some people will want to take it back, which is doomed.

Even if Zhu Yunwen promised not to reclaim Juntian, the Bohai Navy people would not believe his nonsense, because they only believed Zhu Gaoxu.

"Turn the grain in the granary into military rations, Your Highness will soon lead the army out of the customs and take us south!"

Chu Zhao saw that the soldiers had become firm, and immediately began to command them.

After a short time, the entire Changchun Institute began to operate in an orderly manner.

Like them, there are also soldiers and horses from the four cities of Bohai who received an order early and drove south.

On the tenth day of the first month of May, this was the day of Zhu Yuanzhang's collapse last year, and on this day this year, there were also people outside Jixi Pass in Jilin City, crowded with people.

The Jurchen Eight Guards, who had been training for a winter, finally got the armor of Bohai, and they happily put on the armor and showed off their might to each other.

Of course, they would also look at the opposite side of the Eight Guards Camp from time to time.

On the opposite side of them, the Udiha savages they had once despised were also dressed in bright Bohai armor and armed with weapons they had never seen before.

It was said that the gun was too short, and the stick was too long, they didn't understand what it was, maybe only Meng Zhang, who commanded the three battalions of soldiers and horses, and Xu Sheng, who had participated in the training of this army and horses, knew how terrifying this army was.

In addition to the eight guards and twenty-four and the three battalions of Shenji, in the hilly barracks outside Jixi Pass, there are also the old team of Bohai, which is organized as the Han soldiers of the four guards.

"The twelve guards and four battalions are combined, a total of 53,000 people, 10,000 people were left in the four cities, Cui Jun took 5,000 people, and 38,000 people can be gathered here."

Walking in the camp and looking at the lively Bohai troops around him, Zhu Gaoxu experienced the feeling of Lao Li before the Battle of Ping'angrad.

The team was released for a few years, and when he came back, he actually had more soldiers and horses than the Liaodong Dusi.

At present, in the entire Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that only the Yunnan Dusi, who is heavily armed, can compare with him.

"To be honest, I've never led such a large army, so I don't know if I can do it."

In front of Wang Yi, Meng Zhang, Xu Sheng and Chen Chang, Zhu Gaoxu did not hide it, but bluntly said what he was worried about.

Carefully calculated, when he fought Xiyangha, there were more than 1,000 people, and he commanded more than 4,000 people in the battle of Jixiguan, half of whom were still people.

The rest of the soldiers, whether they marched north to Haragu or joined Zhu Di, never had more than 5,000 soldiers and horses under their command.

Now he suddenly commanded an army of nearly 40,000 people, and this army has never been run-in, and the language is also diverse.

Taken together, it is normal for Zhu Gaoxu to be a little worried.

It's just that he thought about it, he has so many brothers to help him manage the army, so what else do he need to worry about?

After laughing, Zhu Gaoxu asked, "How are the garrisons in various places, tell me." ”

"Yes!" Wang Yi bowed his head, and then said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Zhaozhou has 3,000 soldiers, Andong and Jilin City, Jixi Pass 1,000 each, Heishui City 3,000, and Sanchang 1,000, which is probably the case." ”

"Except for the messenger horses used by the Tang horses, the rest of the horses have been brought, including 39,000 riding horses, 13,000 pulling horses, and more than 6,400 war horses."

"If the horses are not enough, they can be transferred from Jilin City, and there are more than 50,000 horses and mules in Jilin City."

After several years of development and two victories in the battle against Uliangha, Jilin City has sufficient animal power, and there is no need to worry about riding horses and pulling horses.

"Where's the grain?" Zhu Gaoxu asked about the key point, and the generals looked at each other when they heard this, and it was obvious that the lack of food was the main problem faced by the armies.

In this regard, Wang Yi also said with difficulty: "Yizhangyin has done everything well, but only 3,000 stone dried fish and 70,000 buckets of military rations, 5,000 buckets of dried vegetables, and 3,000 stone beans can be sent. ”

Wang Yi did not use stones to calculate military rations, but used buckets.

One bucket of military rations is normally enough for a soldier to eat for half a month, and 70,000 buckets of military rations is enough for the entire army of 38,000 people to eat for less than a month.

"The last general has seen that whether it is grain or bean feed, it is only enough for the whole army for twenty-four days."

Wang Yi's words cast a haze on everyone's hearts before they could send troops.

"Twenty-four days is enough!" Zhu Gaoxu stood up to cheer everyone up.

"Now that the grain and grass have been prepared, let's prepare to go south!"

The Bohai Navy does not use people, because they have enough animal power, so they can increase their speed and speed up the time.

Under his encouragement, the morale of the generals was ignited, and they immediately began to return to their respective camps.

Zhu Gaoxu also took the opportunity to find a hundred soldiers in the army who knew Haixi Jurchen, Beishan Jurchen, and official dialect to serve as heralds.

After finishing everything, Zhu Gaoxu returned to the palace and met Guo Yan, who was packing his clothes for him.

may have known that Zhu Gaochu was probably wearing military uniforms all the way south, so he prepared ten sets of mandarin duck battle jackets for Zhu Gaoxu, and only prepared two sets of regular clothes for visitors.

"Tomorrow I will pull out the camp and go south, Jilin City will also be lost, don't worry."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Guo Yan to explain, and after Guo Yan heard this, she also put down the mandarin duck jacket in her hand, and she stepped forward worriedly: "Are you sure?" ”

Although she was asking, she also knew how big the difference in strength between Bohai and the imperial court was.

"When I get back."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't answer positively, but his answer was enough for Guo Yan to feel at ease.

I couldn't sleep all night, and the next day Zhu Gaoxu pulled out his army to the south, and the team stretched for seven or eight miles, but there was nothing filthy except for the horse's hooves along the way.

All the horses were wrapped in dung bags and buried every twenty miles.

In contrast, although Wu Gao's team was also prepared, they could still see some scattered and unburied feces on the side of the road from time to time along the way.

However, Wu Gao did not scold him, because their traces had been exposed under the noses of Changchun, and everyone knew that they had gone south.

The only thing Wu Gao cared about was whether Zhu Gaoxu sent troops to raid 30,000 guards.

He didn't see any excrement along the way, and it was difficult to tell if the horses' hooves and wheel prints on the road were their own or someone else's.

It took Wu Gao three days to go all the way south from Changchun, but unfortunately when he came here, the head of the city of 30,000 Wei had already changed its banners......

"Let's attack the city, there is still food we have saved, and we can't let Zhu Gaoxu's army receive it."

Outside the 30,000 Acropolis, Wu Gao looked at the 30,000 Acropolis that had been hung with the Bohai Vermilion Bird Flag and was silent, and Geng Zhen on the side also suggested attacking the city.

Not only Geng Xuan, but the generals of Liaodong all looked at Wu Gao, because they all knew that there were more than 100,000 stone grain reserves in 30,000 Wei, and once Zhu Gaoxu obtained it, it would be able to support his army for at least half a year.

"No, take a detour south to Tielingwei to garrison!"

To everyone's expectations, Wu Gao did not choose to stop the siege, but went to Tielingwei to garrison.

In this regard, he also gave his own explanation: "Before going north, I asked people to transport half of the grain in the 30,000 Wei to Tielingwei, in order to worry about the failure of the feudal domain, Zhu Gaoxu took the opportunity to raid here. ”

"Although his speed is faster than I expected, now 30,000 guards of grain should only be 50,000 or 60,000."

"If he wants to take into account the people of Bohai and the 30,000 guards and soldiers, this grain will only be enough for a month at most."

"Withdraw to Tieling, and it only takes a month to garrison him to kill him."

Wu Gao's caution came in handy, and the generals also breathed a sigh of relief.

Instead of storming 30,000 guards, they withdrew to Tieling, a hundred miles to the south.

This scene was seen by Liu Zhao at the head of the city, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"Removed ......"

Liu Zhao turned around and reported to the brothers of Sanwanwei and Jilinwei, and everyone also saw the scene just now and breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Zhao's ability to successfully win 30,000 guards is also the credit of Zhu Gaoxu and Zhou Ding, although Zhou Ding was transferred to Jinzhou, but 30,000 guards were not replaced, plus many soldiers in the Battle of Jixi Pass were promoted to small flag officers and chief flag officers and even 100 households and 1,000 households, so Liu Zhao easily took down the 30,000 guards of the 2,000 defenders.

The only thing he regretted was that the grain transfer officer of 30,000 Wei transferred half of the grain to Tieling, and now there are less than 80,000 stone of grain in the 30,000 Wei reserve warehouse.

But in any case, the first game between Zhu Gaoxu and Wu Gao was still won by Zhu Gaochu one step faster.

Wu Gao led his troops to retreat to Tieling, and sent the news of the Bohai rebellion to the south, but according to the time, even if it was 800 miles urgent, it would take at least six days to reach the capital.

He began to build fortifications in Tieling, and many merchants who learned of the Bohai rebellion were also preparing to flee south with their goods, but the goods were requisitioned by Wu Gao, and they were sent to the Shandong Provincial Envoy to ask the Yamen for money.

This move made the merchants complain, but in order to survive, everyone could only hand over the goods and flee south with their servants.

Time passed day by day, and after the delivery of 800 miles of urgent news, the whole territory of Liaodong was the first to learn the news of the Bohai rebellion, followed by Daning.

"Sure enough, there was a rebellion......"

In Daning City, Bu Wan, Chen Heng and King Ning of the Dusi Yamen were gathering to discuss matters, and the news of the Bohai rebellion had already arrived.

Almost immediately, Bu Wan looked at Zhu Quan, and Zhu Quan muttered these words.

Knowing Zhu Gaoxu's character, he naturally knows that Zhu Gaochu is not the kind of person who waits for death, if Zhu Yunwen wants to cut the domain, then Zhu Gaochu will definitely raise troops.

It's just that he doesn't have the strength to worry about Zhu Gaoxu now, because Bu Wan spoke.

"King Ning, according to Your Majesty's will, please hand over the three guards."

As soon as Bu Wan's words spoke, Zhu Quan stood up, but he didn't resist, but questioned Bu Wan, who was still his subordinate a moment ago: "Do you also have to hand over the basic guards of the palace?" ”

"No need to ......" Bu Wan shook his head, he only wanted the three guards of Yingzhou in Zhu Quan's hands.

"In that case, Daning will ask the two of you."

Zhu Quan turned to leave, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.

When Bu Wan saw him leaving, his eyes also fell on Chen Heng on the side.

"I can't think about it, I really dare to go against ......"

Chen Heng sighed, then raised his head and looked at Bu Wan: "Are we going to send troops to help the Marquis of Jiangyin?" ”

"There is no will of the imperial court, let's guard Daning first." Bu Wan saw that Chen Heng did not move, so he immediately ordered, and then turned around to receive the three guards of Yingzhou.

Seeing him leave, Chen Heng's face gradually became ugly, and his eyes looked at the sky outside the yamen worriedly.

"Yan Wang ......"

"Bohai is opposed, then King Yan must take it!"

By the time Chen Heng was muttering 'King Yan', Beiping had already received news of the Bohai Rebellion.

In the yamen of the political secretary, Zhang Yu, the political envoy, and Xie Gui and Zhang Xin, the commanders of the capital, got together.

Xie Gui is the fortieth grandson of Xie An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and one of the old ministers who rebelled against Zhu Yuanzhang.

When he learned of Zhu Gaoxu's rebellion, he immediately demanded to take Zhu Di.

In his eyes, the forty-year-old Zhang Hao and Zhang Xin, the former is a literati, but the latter is a general who has led troops well and made many military exploits in the southwest.

Seeing Xie Gui like this, the two did not choose to refuse.

"Let's do it tonight, while the three guards of King Yan's Mansion are outside Beiping City, the defenders can capture King Yan!"

There are not many defenders in Beiping City, but since Zhu Di went crazy, Xie Gui transferred a lot of soldiers and horses from the surrounding guards, and now there are 5,000 people for them to drive.

As long as Zhu Di is taken at night, the three guards outside the city will not be afraid.

"Do it when you do it!"

After Xie Gui finished explaining, he immediately got up and left the yamen, and Zhang Yu and Zhang Xin also left.

It was only not long after they left that Zhang Xin, who returned to the house, found his mother Zhan for the first time.

Seeing that he was in a hurry, Zhan knew that he was in a hurry because of something, so he pulled him into the study: "What's wrong?" ”

"They're going to do it early, and they're going to do it tonight." Zhang Xin and Zhan seem to have conspired for a long time.

Just hearing the news of the early move, Zhan Shi was still puzzled: "How could they do it in advance, the three guards are still outside the city and have not been transferred, and it will not be good for them to fail now." ”

"I can't wait, the King of Bohai County has taken the first step to raise his troops." Zhang Xin told the truth, and Zhan Shi suddenly realized.

"Then it's not surprising." Zhan shook his head, and then said to Zhang Xin: "What do you want to do?" ”

"I want to ask your mother to let Zhang Liu's send a sedan chair, I will take the opportunity to take the sedan chair to King Yan's mansion, tell the news to King Yan, and let him do it early."

"This ......" As soon as he heard that his son was going to rebel, Zhan immediately retained and said: "If you do this, your father's reputation will be ruined." ”

"When my father was alive, I said that King Yan is more suitable to be the prince, and now the son is just helping his father fulfill his last wish, please let his mother fulfill it!"

Zhang Xin knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times in a row, Zhan felt sorry for his son when he saw this, so he could only support him and nodded to answer the errand.

Under the joint management of the mother and son, Zhang Xin soon took a woman's sedan chair to the Yanwang Mansion.

Since Zhang Xin himself and Zhu Di have never intersected, he has already made enough preparations that Zhu Di will not see him.

When the sedan chair came to the side door of the palace, Zhang Xin immediately asked people to pass it on, and the guard stepped forward vigilantly, and Zhang Xin also whispered through the curtain: "I have something important to tell the princess, worry about life and death." ”

"Release!" Hearing that it was a matter of life and death, the guard immediately let him go and let the sedan chair enter the palace.

However, the sedan chair was stopped before it went deeper, and Zhang Xin also heard a familiar voice.

"Dare to ask what the envoy of Commander Zhang Du is here."

Zhang Xin lifted the curtain and sure enough, he saw Zhu Neng and Zhang Yu, the two generals who had been temporarily taken from their posts.

"There are many people here, and I want to meet Your Highness."

Zhang Xin said bluntly, but Zhu Neng shook his head: "Your Highness is sick and can't see guests." ”

"Is it about the life and death of the king of Bohai County?" Zhang Xin asked rhetorically, Zhu Neng was stopped by him, and was about to refute but was stopped by Zhang Yu.

"Let's go......" Zhang Yu glanced at Zhang Xin's sedan chair and body, and after making sure that he didn't have any murder weapons, he led him to a small courtyard behind the Shizi's Mansion.

Unconsciously, Zhu Di had already moved from the Heart Hall to live here, and it was obvious that he had already prepared.

When the courtyard door opened, Zhang Xin really saw Zhu Di sitting in the courtyard, and Zhu Di was also surprised by Zhang Xin's arrival, and looked at Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng vigilantly.

"Your Highness, Zhang Du commanded the envoy to say that it is a matter of life and death for His Royal Highness, and the last general can only bring him to see you."

Zhang Yu's move was a bit abrupt, but he also knew that Zhu Gaoxu was now a firework that was about to explode, and any bit of news should be confirmed.

What's more, Zhang Xin's whereabouts are so sneaky, it obviously doesn't look like he intends to deceive.

"Your Royal Highness, on the seventh day of the fifth month, Zheng Gongzhi went to Jilin City to cut the domain under the escort of the Marquis of Jiangyin, Zheng Gongzhi was killed, and His Royal Highness raised troops and captured 30,000 guards, and now the Marquis of Jiangyin has withdrawn to Tieling, and the news has also been sent to the capital."

"Today, Zhang Yu and Xie Gui summoned me to discuss matters, and they have decided to do something to Your Highness, and the time is set for tonight!"

Zhang Xin confessed what he knew, and Zhu Di also stood up after hearing that Zhu Gaoxu was the first to rebel.

In history, Zhu Di did not believe Zhang Xin because he had no external information, but this time was different, he knew very early that Zhu Gaochu was preparing to rebel, so he pretended to be sick in advance and got Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui back to Beiping in advance.

In addition, what Zhang Xin said was very consistent with Zhu Gaoxu's impression of Zhu Di, so he didn't think that Zhang Xin was lying to himself.

"You want to take refuge in me?"

Zhu Di's self-claim ruined the atmosphere, but Zhang Xin did not dwell on it, but said: "There are 5,000 defenders in the city, and 500 of them are my own brothers. ”

"As long as His Highness nods, His Highness can go out of the city first, and at the end of tonight, he will let them open the Qihua Gate, and His Highness can lead three guards into the city!"

The Qihua Gate mentioned by Zhang Xin was also the gate of the Ming army that captured Dadu that year.

Due to the sparse inhabitants and empty terrain in the north of the ancient city of Yuan Dadu, the soldiers in the city had nothing to rely on when defending, so Xu Da built an earthen wall in the north of the city soon after the siege, and changed the city wall into a "day" shaped layout, so that the northern section of the city wall was close to the densely populated area, and the soldiers defending the city could calmly plan food and clothing during the war.

In the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang abandoned the capital wall of the Yuan Dynasty north of the new city wall, and abandoned the Anzhen Gate and Jiande Gate on the original north city wall, as well as the northernmost Guangxi Gate and Suqing Gate on the east and west city walls, and set up Desheng Gate and Anding Gate together, and set up Desheng Gate and Anding Gate together.

Beiping Nine Gates, Zhang Xin can only master the gate of Qihua Gate, so this means that Zhu Di only has one chance to trust Zhang Xin.

Once the three guards fail to enter the Qihua Gate, then he will be crowned with the name of raising troops and causing chaos.

Zhang Xin also knew, so he was willing to escort Zhu Di out of the city and let Zhu Di personally bring the three guards into Beiping City.

"Why should I go? Zhang Yu, Qiu Fu, and Zhu Neng just need to go. ”

Zhu Di saw Zhang Xin's thoughts, stepped forward to help him, and patted him on the shoulder: "If this matter is successful, I will remember your first work." ”

"Your Highness......" Zhang Yu couldn't help but call out to Zhu Di, as if hoping that he wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

It's just that Zhu Di shook his head at him and said, "If Zhang Xin wants to harm me, there is no need to let me out of the city." ”

"Besides, even if he really wants to harm me, even if I go out of the city, there are still the eldest and the third and Xu Meizi in the city, how can I put my mind at ease?"

"There are 800 guards in this palace, don't make a noise at that time, wait for Zhang Yu and Xie Gui to surround the palace, and then you enter the city to level them."

"I want the world to know that I am not a rebel, but Zhu Yunwen's little bastard!"

Zhu Di gritted his teeth and spoke, hating this former eldest nephew.

Seeing this, Zhang Xin also said: "Please pass on the code to Your Highness." ”

"Code ......" Listening to Zhang Xin's words, Zhu Di muttered to himself, and then slowly strengthened his gaze.

"There is a saying in the "Ancestral Training" sent to me by my father: If there are no ministers in the court, and there is evil in it, then the prince will train the soldiers and stand by, and the Son of Heaven will secretly edict the kings and lead the town soldiers to seek peace. After the peace, the troops were collected in the camp, and the dynasty returned to the emperor. If the king does not come, and sends his generals to seek peace, he will also collect his troops in the camp. ”

"Although I don't have an edict from the Son of Heaven today, it makes no sense for me to watch Yun Wei kill my uncles and nephews under the bewitchment of traitors, so tonight's code is only six words......"

Zhu Di looked calm, as if he had changed something, and slowly spoke: "Qingjun ...... side"

"Yasukuni is difficult!"

"Records of Ming Taizong": "In the summer and June of the first year of Jianwen, Yu and Gui conspired to cut the domain, and the letter was secret. The above sentence "Zu Xun" "There is no official in the court, and there is evil in it, then the prince will train the troops and stand by, and the Son of Heaven will secretly edict the kings to lead the town troops to seek peace"

(End of chapter)