Chapter 68
Soon, the news of the death of Lei Tianba, Yang Biao, Guan Ziqing, Shi Sen, Shi Lin, and Shi Xiongmin's eldest lady Zhang reached Lianzhou, and these five families cried wildly, Shen Zhongyue, Guan Kui, Shi Lan, and Shi Ying cried and fainted.
Tianxiao heard the report of the defeat on the front line, was beheaded nine generals, and killed more than 40,000 Longqing soldiers, this is the biggest and worst defeat after having Longqing soldiers, Long Yan was suddenly furious, thinking to himself who you Wang Kan is, it is so rampant, so he scattered and left Zhong Lei, Jiao Yi, Shi Guo, and Lei Long, and all the major affairs in the court were handed over to these four important ministers of Longqing, and quickly transferred 15,000 elites from Bai Zizong's water division to replace Shen Zhongyue's 5,000 fierce cavalry tiger battalion, Nasha's 5,000 light cavalry female battalion, Zhao Dan's 5,000 light cavalry battalion, Guan Kui's 6,000 Mulan army, and Shi Lan, Shi Ying's 2,000 Shijia army。 Then bring Li Fei, the four brothers and sisters of the Fei family, and said that they would wear battle robes to drive the expedition in person, capture the enemy general Wang Kan with their own hands, capture Dali City, and avenge the loyal and righteous general Yang Biao, the brave general Lei Tianba, Guan Ziqing, the Shi family brothers, and all the soldiers. After that, he will lead the victorious army to capture more Daming cities to stabilize the foundation of Longqing. The news of the emperor's personal expedition reached the three armies, and it can be said that everyone was excited, all of them were excited, and which general was willing to lag behind, everyone wanted to show Xiàn in front of the emperor, so they instigated the army to go straight to the city of Dali. But Feng Li was not in a hurry to attack the city, but placed eighty-four artillery pieces in the dense forests on both sides of the mountain road leading from Yue Qing to Dali, and then laid an ambush army, waiting for the 70,000 Ming troops to evacuate Yue Qing to save Dali.
Wang Kan, the chief general of the Ming army who was attacking Yueqing, heard that Longqing had transferred a large army, the little emperor personally recruited, and Dali Mansion was in danger, so he quickly pulled out the camp and left. I thought that if I captured Emperor Longqing to the capital, it would be a miracle, and the high-ranking official Houlu fought here. But when he waved his army and just entered the Dali territory, more than 1,000 shells suddenly fell on the top of his head, and many soldiers and horses were blown to pieces, and the Ming army was suddenly in chaos. Tianxiao saw it on the mountain, waved the spear in his hand, and rushed down the mountain first. Shen Zhongyue's Tiger Battalion, Nasha's Women's Battalion, and Zhao Dan's Light Cavalry Battalion. Guan Kui's Mulan Army. Shi Lan, Shi Ying's Shi family army saw it, and they also rushed down from the mountainside to kill the enemy in the shout, and fought bravely to kill the enemy. And Hu Yanli, who has been lying in the dense forest of the mountains for a long time. Han Dezhong. Ye Xiaodong. Sun Litang, Fang Shichuan, Ning Milling. Wei Meng also led his troops to attack together. Shen Zhongzhu, Yan Zheng, Hu Yanxue, and their more than 30,000 soldiers and horses rushed out of Yueqing City and covered them from behind. In such a position, where could the Ming army stop it, and there was nowhere to flee, and all those who did not die abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and there were as many as 66,700 people. But the enemy's main general Wang Kan refused to surrender, Shen Zhongyue, Shi Lan, and Shi Ying were the first to fight, wanting to avenge their husband and brother. But Wang Kan is a strong general, and the Spring and Autumn Broadsword in his hand is unmatched, and when he saw three female generals rushing towards him with spears in their hands, they dragged their knives forward and killed them in a sneer. Although Shen Zhongyue's three marksmanship is excellent, Wang Kan has great strength, and every time he touches his big knife, the tiger's mouth hurts violently, and he is almost knocked off the spear. Nasha, Zhao Dan, and Guan Kui saw that Shen Zhongyue and the three could not win, so they rushed in to help the battle. I don't want this Wang Kan to be really powerful, and he is a powerful opponent of the six female generals of Longqing, not only does he not show his defeat in the left and right blocks, but he almost takes Zhao Dan's life with one sword. Li Fei saw that his hands were itchy, and he was just about to go out to replace the six female generals with a double-edged giant axe, and beheaded Wang Kan to show Longqing Tianwei, not wanting to rush over one step ahead of him, but it was Zhu Tianxiao, the Longqing Emperor who was holding a spear.
Among the kung fu learned, Tianxiao's marksmanship is the worst, and it is not as good as swordsmanship. But others are sensitive, light and good, and will be improvised. "The five sisters retreated to the side, and I came to capture this thief. He laughed, although Shen Zhongyue and the six people were unwilling, they didn't dare to resist the order, so they had to retreat to the side to watch the battle and cheer for the emperor. And this Wang Kan heard the word "I" and knew that it was Emperor Longqing who had arrived, so he laughed wildly and said: "Little doll, look at your body and bones, how can you withstand my knife, it is better to obediently get off the horse and be bound." Tian Xiao was neither angry nor answered, and as soon as the gun danced, he was killed by the enemy general. After twenty or thirty rounds of direct fighting, Wang Kan realized that the little emperor of Longqing's marksmanship was not only powerful, but also seemed to have the same moves as himself, so he asked while fighting: "Who are you who is crazy and old-fashioned? I am his second apprentice Wang Kan, known in the army as the overlord of Chu." As soon as Tianxiao heard that this person was the second apprentice of the crazy old way, that was his second senior brother, he said in his move: "I am the closed disciple of his old man's family. It's just that in front of the two armies, don't get close to me, either dismount and surrender to my Longqing, or fight with me for 300 rounds to decide the winner, there is no choice. Hearing this, Wang Kan was still not angry, and said: "I can't bear to kill you because you are the same door, who would have thought that you would be so ignorant, then don't blame me for bullying the small." Look at the knife. Tian Xiao shouted in a sneer: "Good to come." Then he leaped out of the saddle to dodge the sword, but the man was already in the air, and then he struck down with his spear shaking on his feet. Wang Kan didn't know what this move was, and he didn't dare to hold it up for a while, and he was just about to take the big knife dance, but who expected that the spear of the little emperor of Longqing had flown out diagonally after a little bit of his knife back, and there was no trace. "What about this person?" When he was stunned, the five major acupuncture points on his body had already made the sky scream, and the big knife in his hand also fell to the ground. In an instant, the surrounding mountains roared like a tsunami, and the straight-arm cheers of the Longqing soldiers "Long live, long live" sounded.
Solving this Ming army, Shen Zhongzhu asked Longqing soldiers to quickly change into Ming army uniforms, and opened the Dali city gate under the banner of the Ming army. All the armies rushed into the city of Dali first, saw the defenders in the city dance the knife and killed, even the people who surrendered to the ground had to die, even the people in the city were not spared, in the blink of an eye, the soldiers and civilians defending the city were slaughtered cleanly, there was no one left alive, it was not much better than slaughtering the city, it can be said that it was a river of blood.
I don't know if it was the emperor's personal expedition, or the anger in his chest was not enough, in short, the generals of Longqing were like they were enchanted to be the first to capture other cities in the Ming Dynasty, and they left Dali City with their subordinates in the shouting, and rushed to various places, Feng Li couldn't control these generals no matter how he shouted, so he had to shake his head. Fortunately, he still has 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands to guard Dali, otherwise he would really become a single marshal with no soldiers and no generals.
The Longqing soldiers were originally brave and good at fighting, and this time it was the emperor's personal expedition, everyone hung their heads on their trouser belts, and the siege was like playing with their lives, even the emperor himself risked his life to attack, and who among the three armies would care about his own life. Invincible at all times. As a result, Feng Guang, Yan Zheng, and Shi Xiongmin took Duyun; Shen Zhongzhu, Hu Yanxue, and Qin Yin occupied Liping; Lei Tianbao, Luo Huo, and Tuba broke through Jingzhou; Hu Yanli, Han Dezhong, and Ye Xiaodong broke Moerkan; and Sun Litang. Fang Shichuan. Ning Mill, Wei Meng, and Dalic occupied Zelagang, and Qamdo; Zalisi. Although Murong Fei and more than a dozen other generals did not occupy a city. But it also captured Luzhou, Jiading, and Yazhou. Even the little emperor of Longqing was not far behind, and led his troops to capture Jiading, Yazhou, Dong Bu Han Husi, Tianquan Liufan Division, and Lingzang five places with his inner servants, Fei family brothers and sisters, Shen Zhongyue, Nasha, Zhao Dan, Guan Kui, Shi Lan, and Shi Ying. For a time, the Longqing soldiers shook the southwest, and the Ming army did not dare to attack.
After Feng Li feasted on the three armies, he simply led the victorious army to occupy Liewudong, Biligong, Naquka, Chaliba, Sanzhujiezhai, Sidazang, Puranrang, Bidi, Leh, Balti This large area, the army went to Liqiangtang, to Kunlun Mountain. As a result, Longqing accounted for a quarter of the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the water division, his total number of soldiers and horses has also expanded to more than 587,000, which is enough to protect the territory of Longqing.
After sending the good news to Lianzhou, Feng Li then deployed defenses, and each city sent three generals, 4,000 soldiers and horses, ten earthen cannons, and five artillery. Because the spirit is hidden in the mountains and rivers, it is far away from the cities of Longqing, it is really a remote place, but it is a strategic place, by ten generals, 30,000 soldiers and horses, 20 earth cannons, 5 artillery, and the family members go with the army. After completing the border defense, he handed over Lianzhou, Gaozhou, Leizhou, and Qiongzhou to Bai Zizong's naval army for defense. After that, because Longqing will set up the capital of Dali, Feng Li will set up a big village outside the city of Dali, 50,000 soldiers, by Shen Zhongzhu with 20 generals to guard, in his spare time to pioneer and grow grain, self-cultivation, prepare enough grain and grass, in order to rush to the aid of Longqing border cities. He also left 20,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Luo Huo to guard Lianzhou and protect the young master. After the dispatch was completed, Feng Li raised the account, saying that he wanted to personally lead the remaining generals to lead 100,000 troops, with Wei Meng and Daliqi as the vanguard, and entered Myanmar from Mangshi to wage war with foreign countries to recover the four cities of Mubang, Manmo, Mengyang, and Mengmi.
"Boss. With the shout, the white-haired old lady who came in with a cane came in from outside the tent, but it was the mother of the late fierce general Shi Sen Shilin, and the housewife Shi Lao Lady who had just been canonized by the emperor as the "Longqing Family". Feng Li saw that he got up and came over, and the old lady Fushi sat down on her handsome chair and said, "Old lady, don't you like to tease your grandson at home and enjoy your old age in peace, what are you doing in my big tent?" The old lady said: "Back then, I practiced the Shi family army for today. My son is gone, but my daughter-in-law and daughter are still there, and even the emperor praised me for the courage of the Shi family's army, and the four cities of Mubang, Manmo, Mengyang, and Mengmi, the Shi family will fight for the vanguard, otherwise I will go to the emperor to comment. When Dalic heard this, he said in unison: "No." Old Lady Shi smiled at them and said, "Two old generals, don't fight with the old man for the vanguard seal, because the old man has the secret treasure to convince the boss in his hand, and he is not afraid of the two old men fighting." Then he shouted outside the tent: "Present the secret treasure of the Shi family." Seeing the Shi family's daughter-in-law and Shi Lan, Shi Ying led six Shi family generals to walk in with the Shi family's army Fan Feng.
Fan Feng spread a roll of paper in his hand on the handsome table, Feng Li looked at it, it turned out to be a map, on which there were four cities of Mubang, Manmo, Mengyang, Mengmi, as well as hills and rivers, and even marked the number of defenses in various places, the route of the march, where to set up camp, etc. "This is really a treasure, I don't know how the Shi family got it?" Feng Li asked in surprise, and the old lady Shi pointed to Fan Feng and said: "For this picture, in order to allow the Shi family to win the vanguard seal when they captured the four cities of Mubang, Manmo, Mengyang, and Mengmi, he went deep into Myanmar for three springs and autumns, which can be said to be a lot of hardships. As for Meng Meng, Daliqi looked at the map and listened to Mrs. Shi's words, and felt that this map could help Long Qingshun recover the four cities of Mubang, and he was willing to give the pioneer seal to the Shi family. "Thank you, two old generals. Shi Lan took over the pioneer seal, and together with Shi Ying and two sisters-in-law, six generals led 15,000 soldiers as the vanguard, and embarked on a journey to recover the four cities of Mubang.
In the early autumn of the seventh year of Wanli, Longqing had a total of 725,000 soldiers and horses, and 1,000 generals. Among them, Feng Li had 50,000 horse troops, 400,000 infantry troops, 30,000 iron cavalry, 20,000 shield bearers, 50,000 archers, 10,000 tiger battalions, 10,000 female barracks, 10,000 light cavalry battalions, 10,000 Mulan troops, and 15,000 Shijia shield troops, which were enough to defend the territory of Longqing and resist enemy invasion; Bai Zizong had 120,000 sailors and more than 600 large and small warships. The territory of Longqing has a total of 34 prefectures, 6 prefectures, 12 divisions, 217 counties, and occupies more than a dozen islands in the Beibu Gulf, Wanli Shitang, Shixing Shitang, Wanli Changsha, islands in the South China Sea, Penghu Island, Bazhong Mountain, Taiping Mountain, Junyu Island, Chiwei Island, Gumi Mountain, and all the islands in the sea area of Dadao. In August of the following year, they successively recaptured Mengmi, Mengyang, Mubang, Manmo and other places, and coerced Burma to negotiate peace, and the battle of Longqing soldiers basically ended.
After more than a year of preparation, in October of the ninth year of Wanli, Longqing officially set the capital of Dali, and Lianzhou was the capital. Luo Huo also has 30,000 Imperial Forest Army to protect the imperial city and maintain law and order in Dali, Kyoto. The emperor issued a decree to grant amnesty to the world, halve all taxes, celebrate the whole country, and rejoice with all the people.
In order to govern the government, Tianxiao Force excluded the crowd, and still let Zhong Lei be the auxiliary governor of the regent of Longqing, so he never thought that Zhong Bogong was the lord and threatened his throne. However, in order to balance the power of the DPRK and China, he worshiped Jiao Yi as the great power teacher, Yue Xuan as the left prime minister, and Shi Guo as the right prime minister, and jointly managed the major affairs of the DPRK and China. He also adopted the construction of Guan Kui, set up ministers, and after the six ministries of history, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and works, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, and the Ministry of Medicine. In order to have a deeper understanding of the towns, hills, rivers, grasslands, deserts, and even border defenses in the territory of Longqing, he asked Fan Feng to lead 5,000 people to draw the "Map of the Territory of Longqing Town". After completing these, he took into account his safety with Kyoto, and the Flying Demon Heroine and his wife, the four brothers and sisters of the Fei family, Yang Biao, Shi Weida, Qian Fu were the guards with knives in front of the palace, Li Fei and Shanhu were the deputy commanders of the Inner Palace, Azaguri was in charge of the inner guards, the iron-headed monk was in charge of the outer guards, Dexi was the chief eunuch, and Luo Huo led the 30,000 Imperial Forest Army to guard the important places of the imperial city and maintain the law and order of Dali in Kyoto.
Although the Longqing Kingdom is not large, it is adjacent to the North Vietnam Dynasty, Laos, Siam, Burma, Mughal, Nepal, Yarkand, and Tatar Tuhutes, and half of the border is adjacent to the Ming Dynasty. In order to avoid war and reduce the pressure of material expenditure, Tianxiao focused on discussing national governance and sympathy for the people with the ministers in a small court on the third day and a large court on the seventh day. He talked about how to get along with neighboring countries amicably, how to effectively curb the use of troops by the Ming Dynasty, and how to develop agriculture and animal husbandry. Anything that is conducive to the great cause of Longqing and the people, he will listen carefully, and then issue an order to promulgate the emperor's list, which will be implemented by a special person, and will not be delayed, it can be said that the monarch and the minister are united, the people live in peace, the grains are abundant, and all industries are prosperous. He also listened to Jiao Yi's construction, returned the land to the people, and also implemented a tax system to reward pioneering, and bought strong cattle, grain seeds, and poultry from the Ming Dynasty for the people to cultivate and raise, so that the people really had enough food and clothing, and also met the tax and silver storage.
Another major event that followed was the trade between Longqing and Portugal led by William, because it involved the marriage between the Emperor Longqing and the Portuguese princess, and who should represent Longqing in Portugal became the top priority. After half a month, Guan Kui was finally elected as the special envoy of Emperor Longqing, and his entourage included Fan Feng, Shen Zhongzhu, Li Mo, and more than a dozen generals. Sitting on the dragon and phoenix ship, accompanied by 50 warships and 80 masted ships, carrying 5,000 sailors, 5,000 archers, and 2,000 shieldmen. It was loaded with five catties of gold, five million taels of silver, eight thousand pieces of porcelain, five hundred pieces of ancient porcelain, three thousand pieces of silk silk, five hundred quintals of tea, five hundred urns of aged Tori incense, one thousand urns of aged daughter red, eight hundred urns of home-brewed rice wine, fifty horses from the Western Regions, thirty desert camels, and 5,000 pieces of various handicrafts.
Then, Tianxiao did two more things, one is to solve the shortage of food in Longqing, reward the people for pioneering, buy strong cattle and rent them for the people to cultivate, so that the people can have enough food and clothing, and live a stable life, so he issued a decree to promulgate the law of expanding the three wastes and paying taxes for one waste, so as to encourage the people to pioneer more and gain from their labor. Another thing is to post the imperial list at the gate of the city of 34 prefectures, 6 prefectures, 12 divisions, and 217 counties, and the monks of Azaguri and Tietou will sit in Yunnan Mansion and set up a hundred days in the ring to recruit martial arts figures. If you win the martial champion, you are willing to be the deputy commander of the internal service for the official, and the reward for the unwilling to be an official is 1,000 taels of silver; if you get the example, you are willing to be the deputy commander of the external service for the official, and you are not willing to be an official to reward 800 taels of silver. Those who are first-class in kung fu enter the inner guard, and second-rate kung fu all enter the Huwei camp. The Huwei camp is newly built, and it also belongs to the category of imperial guards, but it is not in the palace and is led by Yang Biao. The martial arts people of Longqing gathered in Yunnan Mansion from all directions, even the Ming Dynasty had people come to try their luck in martial arts, the inns of Yunnan Mansion were full, even the restaurants and restaurants had no empty tables, and many people lived in the people's homes. (To be continued......)