After hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Man Gui and Zhang Yiming were fine. They were just surprised and had not yet fallen down due to fright. But that group of useless snack-like clans, from the acting king Zhu Dingwei down to the eight county princes and a large group of generals, were all frightened!
"Wan, long live my lord," the acting king Zhu Dingwei, who was old, sick and gloomy, spoke tremblingly, "What did you say?"
Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "Old King, you are the vassal king guarding Datong! When you saw the Tatars breaking through the wall, you must be gearing up and want to go into battle to kill the enemy, right? Now the opportunity has come, I will take you with me Go kill the enemy!"
The old prince was so frightened that his calves went weak and he immediately sat on the ground unable to get up.
Zhu Youjian was still riding on his horse and saw that the old king suddenly became half shorter. He hurriedly leaned over and looked around. When he saw the old man sitting on the ground, he smiled and asked: "Old king, what's wrong with you?"
The old king hurriedly paid homage to Zhu Youjian: "Long live my lord, I am a vassal king. According to the ancestral system, I cannot support troops or leave the city too far..."
Zhu Youjian smiled and waved his hand: "What did the old prince say? I will take you to the battle to kill the prisoners! I am the emperor, and I have to lead the way to kill the prisoners. You, the guarding vassal king, can stay in the city and not come out. ?Are you still a loyal vassal king of the Ming Dynasty? Besides, aren’t the Tatars located on Baishan Mountain, 30 miles north of Datong City? Isn’t the ancestral grave of Prince Dai’s Mansion near Baishan Mountain? I’ve heard that this tiger and rabbit Dun Khan is a Faqiu Khan... Do you know what Faqiu means? It means digging people's ancestral graves and getting treasures from them! Your ancestors' graves are about to be dug up, why don't you go and talk to them? Are the Tatars fighting?"
Zhu Youjian's more than 50 years as emperor were really not in vain. He learned to slander his opponents and fight back, and directly labeled Hutu Dunhan as "Faqiu Khan".
His eyes suddenly became fierce, and he looked at a group of filial sons and grandsons who were separated from Prince Dai's palace. He lowered his voice and said, "You are all the descendants of Prince Dai Jian. Do you want to watch your ancestors' tombs being dug up by the Tartars?"
What else can I do if I don’t just watch...?
A group of descendants of Zhu Gui, the acting king, were all frightened. They all looked at Zhu Youjian in a daze, unable to say anything to beg for mercy.
Of course Zhu Youjian couldn't wait for them all to lie on the ground and beg for mercy... He was not a tyrant like Nizi who only cheated his own family, he was a benevolent king!
"Okay! You are all doing well!" Zhu Youjian nodded pretendingly, "You all go back and prepare well today. The day after tomorrow, which is the eighth day of June, all gather at Beiguan Playground City before the third quarter of the year... ...Everyone prepares armor, weapons, and horses. Anyone who is not up to date is not a descendant of Emperor Taizu and King Daijian!"
What is this nonsense? Does this mean expelling the clan?
"Long live Lord, please spare us!"
Finally someone reacted and cried and begged for mercy, and then more people started crying and begging too...
"Long live Lord, I really don't know how to fight!"
"Long live the Lord, I don't have the power to restrain a chicken..."
A group of princes and generals from the old Zhu family were all stunned with fright. They knelt down and cried as if their own fathers were dead. The acting king Zhu Dingwei cried the hardest. He was coughing while crying, and looked like he was seriously ill and was about to die.
Zhu Youjian was so angry when he saw this scene! They are all acting kings. I think how brave the third child (Zhu Cijiong) was when he was 16 years old. He dared to fight the Donglu to the end at the age of 16. When Datong could not hold on, he went to Luliang, then to Yulin, Yan'an, and later returned to Datong, killing him with one knife and one shot. Take back the fiefdom... This is the vassal king who guards one side for the Ming Dynasty!
And what kind of vassal king are you, Zhu Dingwei? You're so afraid of death... Besides, you're going to die next year! Now even if he died in battle, he would only live less than a year. How glorious it will be when you meet your ancestors and report the cause of death!
Die for the Ming Dynasty and die for your country!
"Acting King!" Zhu Youjian's voice was full of anger, "Why are you crying? What are you afraid of? Isn't it just to go into battle and kill prisoners? You are afraid of killing every prisoner, so you still act like the King of Sai of the Ming Dynasty? No! Cry! Go back and get ready, and then you will follow me to kill the prisoners on the eighth day of the month!"
To kill prisoners? Zhu Dingwei, the acting king, was crying and thinking: I am the one who kills prisoners like this? Being kidnapped is not bad at all! This is how to do ah!
Zhu Youjian didn't say much to the prince who was about to cry to death. He turned around and said to Man Gui and Zhang Yiming who no longer knew what to say: "If I and my ten thousand troops don't enter the big city, we will go to Beiguan." The whole army is stationed in Caochang City... The whole army will rest for a day and go out to kill the prisoners on the eighth day of the lunar month! Governor Zhang, go and prepare some food and horse feed and send them to Caochang City for military use.
Mangui, come with me, I have something to ask. "
Zhu Youjian's troop dispatch was carried out behind the imperial court's back, so he did not ask the prefectures and counties along the way to prepare anything. The 600-mile march was all supported by the rations and horse feed he carried with him when he dispatched troops. When they arrived at Dasi, the servants still had some marching food, but there was not much horse food left.
In addition, if the army rushes for 600 miles, it will still consume a lot of money. It is no exaggeration to say that the men and horses were exhausted, so Zhu Youjian decided to rest for a day and a half, and then go into battle to fight against the Han tribe on the eighth day of the lunar month.
Man Gui and Zhang Yiming looked at each other and felt that the emperor was a bit messy! Looking at the cavalry forming a team outside Nanguan City one after another, I felt that this messy emperor really knew how to train troops! Although I don't know how good the martial arts of the emperor's servants are, their queue is still very neat. Moreover, everyone wore helmets and carried spears on their shoulders, which looked quite intimidating.
Wouldn't this young emperor really beat away the "running away Khan" who had inserted himself into the Han tribe? If this really happens, Ming Dynasty will have an emperor who can fight!
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Datong Beiguan Playground City is a fort in Datong City. Located outside the north gate of Datong City, it is a military fort that protects the main city of Datong. It is very strong and has a school ground and military barracks built inside it, which can be used to station troops. If all the troops in Datong Town are complete, there should be many soldiers stationed in the military camp in the playground city. However, this playground city has been abandoned for a long time. Both the barracks and the government office are a bit shabby and are really not suitable for Zhu Youjian to live in.
So Man Gui and Zhang Yiming, who followed him to Beiguan Playground City, wanted to persuade Zhu Youjian to enter Datong, but Zhu Youjian blocked him with a smile - Zhu Youjian did not dare to enter the big city because he had entered the big city. , it will not be easy to come out again!
"Although I am the emperor, I am not the kind of pampered person... I came all the way from the Nanhaizi Camp. Didn't I march like the knights in front of the tent and sleep in the open air?"
What? Are you still sleeping in the open air? Still marching as usual...Man Gui and Zhang Yiming both couldn't believe that this was the Ming Emperor!
They both rode horses and followed Zhu Youjian around outside Datong City. Both of them also noticed Zhu Youjian's equestrian skills... His skills on horseback were indeed outstanding! At first glance, it looks like he has been practicing hard for many years!
"Your Majesty," Zhang Yiming was a civil servant. He naturally knew that the courtiers would not agree to the emperor's personal expedition under any circumstances, so he boldly asked, "You are coming to Datong this time. The courtiers and the martial arts in Beijing..."
Zhu Youji glanced at Zhang Yiming and thought: You still have the nerve to ask! In your last life, when Hu Tu Dun Khan invaded the army, you almost lost Datong, and you even asked me to terminate my official position afterwards! I'm here to save you this time, but you're not grateful. Do you have a conscience?
Thinking of this, he snorted coldly: "The court officials and Wu Xun will naturally not agree to my imperial commander's personal expedition, so I didn't tell them... I won't be able to do it once I talk about it!"
"Your Majesty..." Zhang Yiming said, "You are a man of ten thousand gold...how can you take risks on the battlefield? It is better to move to the Prince's Palace, and let the ministers and General Manchu lead the Datong soldiers to fight."
"You can't beat Hutu Dunhan! If you can, I won't come!" Zhu Youjian smiled, "But I will win! So I have to go to war...Hutu Dunhan He is a Mongolian Khan who bullies the weak and is afraid of the strong. He looks like a rabbit when he sees Donglu, but he comes to Datong to pretend to be a big bug! If I don’t deal with him, there will never be peace in the northwest, and he will not join forces with me to fight against Donglu. So this battle I must fight! And I will definitely win!"
