Because it is winter now, with constant wind and snow, which is not conducive to the travel of the army.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun's personal expedition army is still making its final stop in Huazhou before the war. It is also waiting for the arrival of the last batch of baggage and allowing the military training and experience officers to take advantage of this time to do the final mobilization work before the war.
The emperor's personal military guards are different from other armies. Every sergeant who enlists is not an ordinary military household, but a strictly selected sergeant.
According to Zhu Yijun's original request, the most ordinary emperor's personal guards need to know the reasons for each battle. To be more direct, they need to be treated as human beings and need to be told why they are fighting.
Zhu Yijun is currently unable to modernize all the armies of the Ming Dynasty through military reform. He can only do this with his own personal guards first, because strictly speaking, these are the private soldiers of his emperor. It is the guarantee of his power and security.
If you want these people not to be seduced by fame and fortune, you can only give them dignity and even greater specialness that others cannot give them.
In this way, maybe even if the emperor is temporarily unable to pay wages one day, these people will not rebel and will still be willing to follow the emperor.
…
Pro-military camp.
"We are all responsible for His Majesty's fault for what happened this time. Even if we are all killed, we will not be unjust! Just like those civil servants who killed Wang Zhenyu's party, we are essentially guilty of the following, but why are we like this? Do?"
“As I said before, it’s also for Your Majesty’s sake, and to let the people of the world understand that even if they threaten Your Majesty with any incident of falling into the water and allowing them to resist the decree, we dare to use the method of resisting the decree to kill them, the traitors of the country. , and then be punished by the laws of the country, in exchange, they dare not kill the king and usurp the throne in order to preserve the old era when the literati were noble and the common people were sluts!"
"Fortunately, His Majesty is the Holy Lord and a benevolent monarch. He is considerate of us and really regards us as loyal and good people, so he did not let us immediately pay the penalty with our lives."
"but!"
"For this reason, we ultimately owe His Majesty our lives!"
Shen Yongmao chatted with Wei Peng and other low-level military academies that day, and continued to review the incident.
After Shen Yongmao said that, he asked Wei Peng and others: "Do you think it is true or not?"
"yes!"
Wei Peng answered first, then pursed his lips and said, "My experience is correct. Our lives are truly given by His Majesty."
"That's right!"
"In my previous life, I lived for myself as a human being, but in my future life, I will really just live for His Majesty."
"That's what I said at the time. The reason why I dared to participate in such a thing was so that those gentlemen would stop being so arrogant when they saw us, ordinary soldiers and civilians, and stop thinking about living! But if I can still survive, it can only be The emperor's favor is so great that this life belongs only to His Majesty."
…
Other military academies also followed suit.
Shen Yongmao nodded and continued: "If you think this way, it proves that you are all loyal and you are worthy of His Majesty's mercy."
"Next, we are going to put down the rebellion, but according to the evidence found by Mr. Wang Ge and others, this rebellion is not actually Dong Chaoying and others who want to betray the court, but actually the governor Dang Xin deducting military pay and not marking him The soldiers in the camp were responsible for it."
"So, although Dong Chaoying and the others have violated national laws, they are not really heinous criminals, but we still have to kill them!"
"There is no way, they have betrayed His Majesty, they have betrayed Xinli, and they have become lackeys of the old era!"
"They obviously didn't realize that the real oppressor was not Dang Xin, but the chronic illness of the scholar-bureaucrats behind the Tumu Fortress who didn't take the imperial edict and national laws into consideration!"
"So, they only killed Dang Xin but not the wealthy gentry in the city. Instead, they colluded with those wealthy gentry and served the King of Qin to abolish the new ceremony. They just got out of one prison and got into a bigger prison;"
"But we are different. We remonstrated and killed the gentry to defend Xinli. It is the same with this rebellion. We know they are excusable, but we have to suppress it! Because we want to completely eliminate the old era and completely let the scholar-officials I dare not ignore the imperial edict and national laws anymore, and we really want to establish a new era in which the world will be ruled by one king."
"Through experience, I understand that we are fighting the rebellion not because Dong Chaoying is hateful, but because the old era that is weighing on us needs to be wiped out!"
At this time, Wei Peng echoed.
Other military schools also nodded.
Shen Yongmao smiled and said: "Exactly! After Tumu Fortress, the world emphasized civility and suppressed military affairs. It was not just because those civil servants dared to kill Ma Shun, the royal guard, and others in front of the emperor without following the order. They were forgiven by the emperor and even punished by the world. The forgiveness of people is also related to the fact that the defense of the capital under their leadership finally protected the Ming Dynasty! They earned honor for themselves and gained the respect of the people in the world. In turn, even the emperor had to think more highly of them; we are Dear military guards, unlike other armies, we also have to earn our own honor!"
"So this time to counter the rebellion, we don't want to be like Dong Chaoying and others. We must adhere to military discipline and struggle strategies, enforce orders and prohibitions. In addition, military discipline must be strict. Don't bully the people after entering the city, or even punish the gentry without authorization. Don't let the common people of the world really I think we are just like other armies, we are all ruffians!"
"clear!"
The military schools replied.
Shen Yongmao stood up and handed over his hands: "Please, gentlemen, we need to protect the honor of the pro-military guards together. This time it is a last resort, but if anyone commits a crime next time, he will discredit the entire pro-military guards!"
…
February of the 20th year of Wanli.
Although the snow has not yet melted, the weather is getting warmer.
Zhu Yijun and his personal army officially set off.
During this period, the whole army did the final mobilization work, and the previous killing of the tycoons was considered a turn of events.
The celebrities and officials who came to meet the Holy Spirit were also summoned again by Zhu Yijun during this period to participate in the imperial banquet.
At the banquet, Zhu Yijun comforted them and rewarded several outstanding officials' children. They also visited Mount Huashan together, wrote some inscriptions, and characterization of the murders of Ning Cheng'an and others, saying that they They should not threaten the emperor, and being killed is their own fault. The celebrities and officials also felt that Ning Chengan and others deserved to be killed, thinking that they were too arrogant and had tarnished the image of scholar-bureaucrats.
During this period, Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua intensified their efforts to investigate the failure to implement the New Deal honestly.
However, after the incident in which pro-military guards killed wealthy gentry, many bureaucrats and right-wing officials became completely honest.
Therefore, Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua have fewer and fewer people who can do it next, and local bureaucrats and right-wing officials have almost become honest.
Celebrities and dignitaries not only did not dare to threaten the emperor with the incident of the Wu Temple falling into the water and the temple being on fire, but they also praised the emperor even more. They also began to praise Wang Xijue and Li Ruhua as selfless ministers. Even the emperor's own military guards were even more affected. They respected it, and many people took the initiative to organize the people to welcome and reward the army.
As for why these celebrities and dignitaries have more respect for the emperor, ministers and pro-military guards, the reason is also very simple.
That is.
Because they discovered through this incident that with a violent army in front of them, even the emperor could put aside Xinli.
This is just like after the defeat of Tumubao, even though the emperor was captured first, the emperor could replace the civil servants and generals in order to protect the interests of the Han family. It was a group supporting the emperor!
And the emperor is not fighting alone!
Therefore, it was no longer possible for them to achieve their goals by kidnapping the emperor's personal safety.
Therefore, they might as well please the emperor and the emperor's people, so that they can be preserved, if not gain greater benefits.
"These arrogant and powerful generals violated the law and killed the virtuous relatives and friends we respected, and we still have to eat them. There is nothing so aggrieved in this world!"
When Juren Dong Shouyue led his tribe to greet the officers and soldiers of the Emperor's personal army who were leaving Huazhou one after another, he couldn't help but smile as he looked at the rows of people passing by in front of him, and at the same time looked at the tribesmen who were also here. The elder Dong Daohe complained a few words in a low voice.
"What can be done about this!"
"We have tried our best and even guessed that the emperor would force his trusted ministers to conduct inspections on his behalf, but we just didn't guess that His Majesty would do this."
Dong Daohe said at this time.
Dong Shouyue asked: "Third uncle really thinks that the mutiny that night was caused by the emperor on purpose?"
"It doesn't matter whether it is yes or no. Anyway, this matter is most beneficial to the emperor and the New Deal!"
"It seems that the emperor can't even control his own soldiers and guards, but he clearly controls everyone in this way! As the saying goes, the sound is great, the elephant is invisible, and he has great power but seems to have no power!"
Dong Daohe said.
"Is the era of old rituals really coming to an end?"
Dong Shouyue murmured a question for a moment, and then looked at the emperor's personal guards who were walking past one after another, and continued to smile.
…
Xi'an City.
After the rebel general Dong Chaoying and others accepted the King of Qin as their king, they were too strict in plundering the landowners and gentry. In addition, there were very few refugees in the Ming Dynasty, so they failed to gain momentum and took over the surrounding counties of Xi'an.
They are still staying in Xi'an City, training weapons and making weapons.
However, some literati and gentry in Xi'an city chose to betray the imperial court together with Dong Chaoying and accept King Qin as their king instead of Jingnan.
The main reason is that if you don't betray the court, you will be killed. Therefore, most of the literati and gentry chose to surrender to the King of Qin because they were afraid of death. What's more, many of them actually cherished the kind of people who could not regard the Han people as their own. of old times of man.
Many of these literati and gentry suddenly became ministers and ministers of the Qin Dynasty.
However, the main defenders of the city were people like Dong Chaoying.
Dong Chaoying made a lot of preparations to defend the city of Xi'an. First, he recruited civilians to train troops, and second, he dug trenches and built walls. By the time the emperor's personal guards arrived, the entire city of Xi'an was considered to be heavily defended.
However, the emperor's own army did not have the slightest fear. After Dong Chaoying and others refused to surrender, they began to bombard the city of Xi'an with artillery in an orderly manner. At the same time, trench-filling trucks, trunk trucks, and rocket cars also began to advance towards the Xi'an city wall one after another. Shen Yong Mao, Wei Peng and other officers and soldiers followed the chariot and advanced in an orderly manner.
Boom boom!
In Xi'an City, in the second year of Longqing's reign, Zhang Zhi, governor of Shaanxi Province, built additional bricks on the outside of the earthen wall, and also laid green bricks on the top of the wall. The solidity was much stronger than before.
However, under the bombardment of horse-drawn heavy artillery from the emperor's own army, it still could not withstand it, and a large part of it soon collapsed.
While the city wall was being blown down, the trenches outside the city were being filled in one after another, wooden planks were paved for pedestrians, and even pontoons began to be built on the moat.
Although Dong Chaoying and other rebels used cannons and muskets to fight back from time to time, causing some pro-army officers and soldiers to fall to the ground or fall into ditches and moats filled with water and sharpened wood, the officers and soldiers of the emperor's pro-army did not stop advancing, and Less than two hundred steps away from the collapsed city wall, they stopped in an orderly manner.
And for a moment, the chariots were lined up to form a wall, and the muskets were held horizontally like a line. Under the sunlight, they appeared outside the city of Xi'an like an iron city wall.
Seeing this, Dong Chaoying and others had dark faces, clenched their fists, and said nothing.
They know that they will be waiting for today's scene sooner or later, so they have no fear. They even feel that death is worth it because they have killed many officials and gentry and slept with many ladies.
And he refused to surrender because he knew that even if he surrendered, the powerful officials would not let go of someone like him who killed Shangguan.
Therefore, Dong Chaoying knew that all he could do now was to kill one more person and take one more person to accompany him to see the King of Hell, and at the same time make the world more afraid of him.
As a border soldier, he had actually wanted to fight against the so-called emperor's soldiers for a long time. He did not believe that the emperor's soldiers, who were required to read, read, read, and study in class, would really be better than him who was struggling in the border towns. The one who rolls around is strong.
Boom!
As the drums sounded, the infantry of the emperor's army began to charge over in an orderly manner according to the command of Admiral Liu Wei.
Shen Yongmao was the first to hold a fire gun in one hand and shouted to the officers under his command: "There is an order from above. If the captain retreats with the whole team, kill the captain. If the sentry retreats with the whole sentry, kill the sentry. If the whole battalion retreats, the sentry will be killed." If the guerrillas retreat, kill the guerrillas! Everyone, we should dedicate ourselves to the new era and let the emperor see that it is right to keep us alive."
As Shen Yongmao spoke, he shouted "Come on" and stepped onto the wooden bridge and rushed to the place where the Xi'an city wall collapsed.
"For the new era, rush!"
At this time, Wei Peng also shouted and rushed over bravely with his troops.
Whizzing!
At first, the officers and soldiers of the emperor's army were not blocked, but after they rushed through the collapsed city wall, they encountered a large number of rocket vehicles and chariots with large guns appearing in front of them, and a large number of rockets exploded at him. came, and many of them turned into a sea of fire on the spot.
"ah!"
Many pro-army officers and soldiers screamed.
Dong Chaoying, who had descended from the city wall and came to a rocket car, saw this scene and smiled coldly. He knew that the emperor's army was well equipped and the city wall could not stop the attacks of the emperor's army. Therefore, he had rich experience in actual combat and chose Fighting with them in the city, a large number of troops and limited firearms were placed inside the city wall in advance instead of on the city wall.
"Nothing more than that!"
Dong Chaoying even said something about it.
But his expression soon changed, because he found that there were still a large number of Emperor's soldiers rushing over in front of him, and taking advantage of the interval between the launch of rockets and firecrackers on his side, they had already rushed over first and fought hand-to-hand with his officers and soldiers. stand up.
(End of chapter)
