Chapter 611: Change of Generals
In the end, the court meeting passed a resolution to requisition the garrisons of various provinces, and together with a part of the Jingshi people, to go to the west to quell the rebellion of King An.
For the commander of this army, Liu Jin and his faction, under the recommendation of Gao Feng and Zhang Yong's self-recommendation, decided to take Zhang Yong as the supervisor of the army and become one of the members of the command.
The faction of meritorious nobles, but the British nominated Jingyang Bo Shenying, the right to be the chief military officer, and led the army to conquer.
The Qingliu civil official faction also followed the previous agreement with King An, nominated Yang Yiqing to be reactivated, promoted to the imperial history of Zuodu, reinstated as the governor of Shaanxi, and led all matters to pacify the rebellion of King An.
If Liu Jin is in the court, he will definitely try his best to oppose it, and Yang Yiqing will definitely not come back so easily. But now that Liu Jin is not there, Gao Feng and Zhang Yong, the temporary leaders of Liu Jin's party, are silent, and this impossible appointment has been passed under the tacit agreement of several parties.
Empress Dowager Zhang was also the one who could have prevented this appointment, but she saw that Gao Feng and Zhang Yong did not object, and Zhang Yong personally served as the supervisor, so she did not doubt it, so she let this appointment pass.
The commander of the counterinsurgency army was re-formed, and all the armies converged from all roads towards the east bank of the Yellow River, but Yang Yiqing went up to worship Xie Tianen, and together with Zhang Yong and Shenying, he led the Beijing army of the Beijing division and rushed to the front line as soon as possible.
When he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, it was the time when Liu Ming withdrew with the imperial army to set up defenses.
Yang Yiqing quickly announced the holy decree, and with the help of Zhang Yong and Shenying, in the name of defeat and dereliction of duty, Liu Ming and Ma Yongcheng were directly stripped of their positions.
Liu Ming had long known that if Liu Jin disappeared this time, there would definitely be people in the court who would attack him.
Outside the military fort before, he missed the opportunity, which led to the failure of this battle, and Liu Ming had a lot of opinions about Liu Jin in his heart.
While Liu Jin and his party are in the party, Liu Ming is also a soldier. Liu Jin provoked such disputes for no reason for his own selfish desires, which has already provoked the anger of the heavens and people.
If he waits for Liu Jin to come back and let him continue to sit on the throne of the first power, I am afraid that with Liu Jin's temperament, he will not give himself any good fruits to eat.
After all, in Liu Jin's view, the reason why this battle was not completed was because of Liu Ming's improper command. Therefore, Liu Ming thought about retreating, pulled the army out of Ningxia, and then informed the imperial court.
Sure enough, the princes of the imperial court reacted quickly, although they did not completely disintegrate Liu Jin's rights, but they sent Yang Yiqing and the others, but they directly deprived Liu Jin of his military power.
Once the military power is gone, the possibility of Liu Jin wanting to make waves again is very small. Therefore, Yang Yiqing dismissed Liu Ming from all his positions on the charge of ineffective counterinsurgency, and returned to Beijing for trial, Liu Ming did not have much reaction, and after directly handing over the seal letter to Yang Yiqing, he was obediently taken away by Jinyiwei.
Although Liu Ming could see it and was willing to give up his position and avoid a head-on conflict with the imperial court, Ma Yongcheng, the temporary supervisor, could not see it.
He didn't really agree with Liu Ming's order to retreat again and again and retreat to the Yellow River, and he didn't want to inform Jingshi of the news here, let alone hand over the power in his hands to Zhang Yong, who was quite uneasy with him.
If Liu Jin is here and has his support, Ma Yongcheng still has some hope of turning the tables. But Liu Jin disappeared, and Ma Yongcheng only had the identity of the Eastern Admiral Eunuch, but this identity did not play much role in this army.
Seeing that Ma Yongcheng refused to hand over his rights, Yang Yiqing was also extremely angry, and directly ordered the Jinyi guards who followed him to take down Ma Yongcheng on the charge of disrespecting the decree.
After all, this army is still the army of the Ming Dynasty, although Liu Jin was the commander, but after all, he did not completely buy everyone's hearts. In addition, Liu Ming, the military leader of Liu Jin's party, directly "surrendered", and Liu Jin's power in the military was completely shaken.
In the end, no matter how unwilling Ma Yongcheng was, he was still taken down by Jinyiwei, and on the charge of disrespecting the decree and suppressing the rebellion of King An, together with Liu Ming, he was escorted to the prisoner car and returned to Beijing for trial.
For a time, one of the three highest decision-makers in this army disappeared, and two were taken away in public, which caused the army to be shaken, and the command completely returned to the hands of the civil and military officials headed by Yang Yiqing and Shenying.
After clearing Liu Jin's influence in the army, Yang Yiqing did not read out any decision on Liu Jin, as if Liu Jin was really dead like this.
He just used his power as governor to order all kinds of armies to deploy defenses on the east bank of the Yellow River, so as not to let King An's army cross the Yellow River, and then he died down, as if waiting for King An to attack.
At the same time, he also secretly sent an envoy to find the main force of King An, to explain the current situation of the imperial court, and to remind King An, asking him to lead the rebel army, and when he reached the Yellow River, he could not take a step beyond the Lei Chi.
There was a tacit understanding on both sides, and there were people in Ren Bufan's gang who pulled the bridge in the middle, so the envoy quickly found the main force of King An and met King An himself.
At this time, King An had already rushed to the west bank of the Yellow River fifty miles with Jiang Yunsong's Hetao men and horses, as well as nearly 20,000 horses under his command.
The arrival of the envoy made King An understand that the plan had begun, and Li Dongyang and others had begun to take advantage of Liu Jin's absence to purge Liu Jin's influence in the imperial court, and set out to completely overthrow Liu Jin.
After listening to the envoy's report, King An had no sorrow or joy, and was silent for a long time, before writing a letter by himself, handing it over to the envoy to take back and handing it to Yang Yiqing, and sent Sun Jingwen to follow the envoy to Yang Yiqing's side.
After dealing with all this, King An led the army and slowly rushed towards the edge of the Yellow River.
In his heart, this battle has ended, but the next thing is to have a good show with Li Dongyang and other Qingliu civil officials, and it will be done.
It's just that the truth is in this, but King An didn't say anything to anyone. Everyone had just gone through a vicious battle, and their willingness to fight was not high for a while, and they all followed King An and slowly marched towards the Yellow River.
And Liu Jin, at this time, together with Xuanyuan Po, left the treasure land by activating the divine power of Heshi Bi and returned to this world.
After he determined his location, he said goodbye to Xuanyuan Po, and agreed that in the future, after Xuanyuan Po returned He's Bi to himself after the completion of the matter, he mentioned the light body exercise and ran towards the military fort where he had fought before.
The essence of the Sunflower Treasure Book is that the light skill is both fast and treacherous, ordinary martial arts people, they can't even see it clearly, and naturally they will not be the opponent of the cultivators of the Sunflower Treasure Book.
Liu Jin got the Sunflower Treasure Book by chance, and practiced the Sunflower Treasure Book for more than ten years by means of evil methods, and now in the martial arts, even masters like Gu Xiaotian and Qingxu Zhenren are not his opponents.
This treasure line, he got the whole book of the Sunflower Treasure Book from Xuanyuan Po, as long as time passes, under his painstaking understanding, martial arts will definitely be close to the level of the five uniques, only a few people, can be his opponent.
Therefore, the speed at which he rushed back at this time was also extremely fast, and it only took two hours to rush to the previous military fort. It's a pity that at this time, except for some brothers of the Tianlong Gang and Wan'er, there is no one else in the military fort.
Looking at the plain outside the empty military fort, Liu Jin was also a little strange. At the moment, he didn't know it, and he unknowingly arrested a brother of the Tianlong Gang, and under torture to extract a confession, from the mouth of this brother, he roughly knew what happened a few days after he went to the treasure.
It's just that the brothers of the Dragon Gang on that day only knew that after Liu Jin disappeared, Jiang Yunsong brought the Hetao army to help, and the news that the imperial army retreated, and the rest was actually unknown.
Liu Jin asked several times, but seeing that he really couldn't know too much news, he killed the brother directly immediately, and then went to look for it outside Ningxia.
Although he did not know the art of war, he also knew that if the Hetao army came to the aid in a big way, then the imperial army would definitely not be able to continue to deal with King An's rebel army in Ningxia wholeheartedly.
Therefore, this imperial army is likely to withdraw from Ningxia at this time, and continue to fight with the rebel army of King An and the army of Hetao outside Ningxia.
In view of this, he traveled all the way east, but found that the army of King An and the army of Hetao were in one place, and they were marching towards the Yellow River.
Among the army, there are many masters, and Liu Jin's martial arts have not reached the level of Xuanyuan Po's transcendent sainthood, so he also gave up hearing any news from this army.
Bypassing the army, he galloped in the direction of the army's advance. In his heart, since the Hetao army and the rebel army are advancing in this direction, then the imperial army must be in this direction.
As long as he finds the imperial army and regains control of military power, Liu Jin can mobilize more troops from all over the country, first, to exterminate the army under King An, and secondly, to control more military power, laying the foundation for him to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne in the future.
Therefore, Liu Jin was not disappointed at this time, but was extremely excited, as if everything could really develop as he wanted. He traveled all the way, but accidentally caught up with Sun Jingwen and Yang Yiqing's envoys.
Seeing the envoys of this imperial army, Liu Jin was originally going to come forward to reveal his identity and get some news from them.
But his eyes were good, and he found out that Sun Jingwen was in the team, so he immediately gave up his plan to come forward.
Sun Jingwen is King An's confidant, and King An is Liu Jin's thorn in the heart, so Liu Jin knows a lot about Sun Jingwen.
This person often runs for King An, works hard and complains, and is really a strategist around King An.
But now this henchman of King An is not staying by King An's side, but how did he get together with a team from the imperial court.
And from a distance, Sun Jingwen and the messenger talked very happily, like old friends for many years, but it also made Liu Jin notice a trace of unusualness.