"Your Majesty, this sounds like a cannon. Does the opponent have a cannon in his hand?"
Wang Jiayan said with surprise when he heard the loud noise.
However, before Zhu Yuanzhang could answer, he shook his head again and again and said, "The checkpoints around the capital are guarded. There is no way the other party can transport cannons to the capital."
At this time, the military camp that had just been calm became noisy again, but no one left the camp.
Zhu Yuanzhang waited for a while, but when he heard no more cannons, he looked at Wang Jiayan and said, "Can't it be our people who fired the cannons?"
When Wang Jiayan heard this, he understood and nodded: "Yes, yes, we..."
"That's not right. If our people fired cannons, why did they only fire one cannon!"
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him hesitantly, shook his head and said, "Maybe it's a warning, wait and see!"
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's calm expression, Wang Jiayan felt a little calmer and glanced towards the capital camp from time to time.
At this time, the lights that had been extinguished in the distance lit up again, and the stars looked like stars.
After about a cup of tea, the tiger warrior from before came over again to report that Fucheng Gate had been opened and thousands of rebels wanted to enter the city at night.
Unexpectedly, after the soldiers guarding the city fired a cannon, a group of cavalry rushed out from outside the city, repelled the opponent, and were now fleeing towards Tongzhou.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was a little surprised and said: "Do you know who is commanding the cavalry outside the city?"
The dead soldier Huben shook his head and said: "It was dark inside the city at that time, and our people didn't see the opponent's appearance clearly, but judging from the clothes, they looked like the uniforms of the Beijing army!"
"Beijing Army?"
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and repeated, and then looked at the dead warrior Tiger Ben and said: "Okay, you can go investigate again. If there is any new information, report it immediately!"
After the dead soldier Hu Ben agreed, he left in a hurry.
Wang Jiayan looked at the retreating figure of the dead soldier Hu Ben. He was silent for a while and then said, "Your Majesty, there is something fishy about this matter."
"The man guarding Fuchengmen is Wang Zhang. I know this man well. Although he is a bit outspoken, he is extremely careful in his work and takes great care of his subordinates. The soldiers are also willing to serve him."
"Last month, no one opened the city gate despite Thief Li's ferocious attack. How come the city gate will be opened tonight?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly startled when he heard this, and then said in a deep voice: "Wang Qing, this matter is not trivial. You must not be emotional. We hope you can use evidence to tell us the truth."
Wang Jiayan was stunned for a moment, then bowed in agreement, and immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate the matter.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang kept looking forward, he vaguely heard Wang Jiayan's arrangements.
After hearing that his arrangements were orderly and fair, I couldn't help but feel a little better about him.
In fact, Wang Jiayan's suspicion just now was correct, because the people who opened the city this time were indeed not Wang Zhang's soldiers, but Gong Dingzi's people. To be precise, it was the dead soldiers of Huben who secretly opened the city gate for Gong Dingzi's people.
It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had been thinking about how to deal with the Donglin Party's counterattack since Shen Weibing used the Donglin Party members to put pressure on Zhu Yuanzhang. Chinese website
Later, when he saw the petitions from Wang Zhang, Gong Dingzi and others, and thought that Gong Dingzi had been living in a separate courtyard near Fuchengmen recently, he felt that this matter was a bit strange.
Until when he interrogated Xu Yunzhen before, he discovered that Li Zushu had troops in his hands and would definitely raise his troops to rebel. He understood immediately and wanted to use his plan to end the chaos in the capital at once.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang did not have many soldiers and horses at the time, the only ones hidden in the dark were a thousand heavy armored cavalry and a thousand infantry led by Jiang Yingkui left by Li Ruolian.
Therefore, although he had seen through Li Zusu's plan and knew that Li Zushu would definitely enter the city through Fucheng Gate, he was hesitant because he could not confirm the specific number of Li Zusu's number.
But when night terrors appeared in the capital, Zhu Yuanzhang was not so worried.
Because he knew that if Li Zushu had enough troops, he could just help Gong Dingzi open the Fucheng Gate and sneak into the imperial city by surprise, and there would be no need to do so many things.
Although night terrors are a good move, they
It is also a double-edged sword. Once the enemy is not frightened, you may be the one who is frightened.
Therefore, before Zhu Yuanzhang rushed to the military camp, he first sent someone to notify Jiang Yingkui, who had been lurking near Xizhimen, and asked him to rush to Fuchengmen.
Then he found Huang Nilu and assigned two hundred tiger warriors to him, so that he could also rush to Fuchengmen.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang did not tell Huang Nilu about opening the city gate. He just told him that he must make good use of firearms and guard Fucheng Gate.
Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang heard the first cannon fire, his mood was complicated.
But then there was no sound of gunfire, and he felt relieved.
Because he knew that if the war went against his will, with Huang Nilu's level, it would be impossible to fire just one shot.
There is only one possibility for this kind of thing to happen now, and that is that Li Zushu was defeated.
However, although Zhu Yuanzhang had anticipated all the processes and the result was perfect, the group of people who came out halfway made him a little uneasy.
You must know that he only discovered Li Zushu's plan today, but the other party was able to attack before Li Zushu entered the city, which shows that the other party had known about Li Zushu's plan for a long time and was just waiting for the final blow.
This scheming and resourcefulness immediately reminded him of Shen Zhanran.
"Perhaps it would be better to transfer Shen Zhanran back after some time!"
While Zhu Yuanzhang was deep in thought, Wu Laoliu came back with more than 40 soldiers.
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and walked up to chat with them. He learned that on their way home, they happened to encounter two teams of Jinyi guards fighting, and they were all stunned when they saw it.
Later, it was Wu Laoliu who recognized that the other team was fake through Jin Yiwei's incision, and they joined forces to arrest the other team.
Just at this time, Wu Mengming sent someone to pass a new password. It turned out that Wu Mengming had also caught many people pretending to be Jin Yiwei, so he changed the password.
After eliminating the false and retaining the true, there were far fewer people who stirred up trouble, and the people gradually settled down.
Since the soldiers' homes were at different distances from the military camp, Wu Laoliu divided the soldiers into four teams. Their team was relatively close to each other. After going home and seeing that nothing was wrong, they came back first.
Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to take the opportunity to encourage them, but seeing that many people in the military camp were looking around, he let them in without saying much.
Afterwards, a burst of cheers that had been building up for a long time came from the military camp.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked back at the excited soldiers, and then asked Wu Laoliu beside him: "Is everything done?"
Wu Laoliu bowed and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, Li Dayong and others were injured by the disguised Jin Yiwei, and some soldiers saw it, so there will be no problem!"
"Just now, I sent them to Zhao Prison on the grounds of treatment. I believe the results will be available soon."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "Okay, we have recorded your merits, but you will still be punished later, so be prepared!"
Wu Laoliu heard this and said without changing his expression: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this little one's life is given by your Majesty. If your Majesty wants it, you can just take it, let alone such a trivial matter as being punished."
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Wu Laoliu in surprise, and then said in a deep voice: "Okay, then you should live the life we gave you and don't lose it!"
After that, he walked towards Wang Jiayan and said, "Wang Qing, this matter is over, we should go back and deal with another matter!"
Wang Jiayan was stunned for a moment, then understood immediately, and hurriedly followed Zhu Yuanzhang towards the imperial city.
