Civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty, begging me to ascend the throne

Inside the hall, the old emperor raised his hand to pick up the last memorial.

This is the urgent performance of Xie Mingtang, the commander of the Beijing camp.

Although the old emperor already knew what happened, his mood improved a lot after seeing this memorial.

Opening the memorial, seeing Xie Mingtang's flamboyant handwriting and those comforting words, the old emperor felt a warm current in his heart.

"It's better for Mingtang to act prudently..."

After hastily reading Xie Mingtang's memorial, the old emperor commented like this.

Of course, what Xie Mingtang said in the Memorial, the attack on Qiongzhou did not affect the old emperor's good mood at all.

After learning of Anle's rebellion, he calculated Daxia's military strength.

Over the years, the old emperor has been stationing troops near Qiaodu.

He clearly remembered that at the beginning of this year, he added [-] troops to Qiongzhou.

Today's Qiongzhou holds [-] troops.For the rebels, Qiongzhou has at least the power to fight, and their troops will not be defeated in one blow.

After thinking about it for a while, the old emperor drank the medicine confidently and fell into a dream.

……

Li Yancheng is leading an army of 5 people to attack Qiongzhou.

This battle lasted for two days under Li Yancheng's intentional release.

Now Li Yancheng's evaluation of Qiongzhou's defenders is only four words: vulnerable.

In Li Yancheng's eyes, the Qiongzhou garrison, whose military discipline was chaotic and neglected all the year round, was not capable of fighting.

But for the final plan, Li Yancheng still feinted for two days.

You know, he didn't even use 300 people in these sieges.

Most of the army is keeping a low profile and ready to go.

Li Yancheng's feint attack was mainly to transfer Xie Mingtang's defenders in Jizhou away.At least, transfer a large part.

Then the Pioneer Battalion can surprise Jizhou from Jingzhou. Once Jizhou succeeds, Li Yancheng will start to take real action.

His troops will not withdraw from the vicinity of Qiongzhou, but after Xie Mingtang learns that he has been tricked into diverting the tiger away from the mountain, he will set up a Beijing camp in the rear.

The purpose is to make Xie Mingtang's Beijing camp no longer able to fight.

After that, they went straight to Qiongzhou, which is proud of its soldiers.

Finally - take the bridge directly.

The plan was perfect, but a little uncontrollable.

That is Xie Mingtang.

As long as Xie Mingtang doesn't fall for it, then this plan will never succeed.

Li Yancheng and Xie Mingtang had met several times before, and now they have even fought once, so they know both sides well.

Li Yancheng knew that Xie Mingtang would never fall for it.

He is cautious, far stronger than he appears on the surface.

During the battle in Jizhou, others thought that Xie Mingtang was lucky that he got reinforcements.

However, Li Yancheng, who was against Xie Mingtang, knew that if reinforcements had not arrived and he had escaped early, it would be difficult to get out of this battle.

In order to 'solve' Xie Mingtang, Master Tao, who was far behind, came up with a poisonous plan.

He colluded with the censors who had been friends with him, let them play the restless memorial in Beijing, and praised Xie Mingtang as a hero.

Therefore, let the old emperor transfer Xie Mingtang back to Kyoto to manage the security of Kyoto.

As long as Xie Mingtang returns to the capital, no matter how clever his subordinates in Jizhou are, they will not be able to avoid the poisonous tricks offered by their predecessor, Mr. Zeng.

Now... the plan has been half successful.

As long as the old emperor recalls Xie Mingtang back to the capital, within half a month, Li Yan will be able to lead his troops into the bridge capital.

……

Jizhou Border - Pioneer Camp

Ah Yi looked at the night, and now it was midnight.After receiving the news that Xie Mingtang was urgently transferred back to Beijing, they were preparing to surprise Jizhou.

"Three, Two, One"

"Come on!!"

The soldiers in the barracks were soundly asleep when they were suddenly awakened by the soldiers rushing in.

Before they could see clearly what was going on, they were pointed at with long swords by someone who broke in.

After they were pushed out of the camp one by one, when they looked at the bound comrades, their minds were completely clear.

Jizhou... was defeated.

Li Yancheng was still waiting for the opportunity when Ah Yishi made a surprise attack on Jizhou.

He was waiting for news of Jizhou's fall to spread.

But he did not expect an unexpected appearance.

The Cheng family army was also recalled by the old emperor, and is currently stationed near Jiangzhou, following the Beijing camp and the defenders of Jiangzhou to establish city defense.

The old emperor was also very afraid of Cheng's family on weekdays, so Cheng's family was stationed at the southern border every year to prevent the southern barbarians from invading.

The recall of part of the Cheng family army this time was not only unexpected by Li Yancheng, but it was also reasonable.

But the matter has come to this point, and the arrow is already on the string and has to be launched.

Li Yancheng looked serious, he called the messenger, wrote an urgent letter and sent it out.

Since you have to send it, then do it as best you can.

……

Royal Palace
The old emperor staggered from the bed to the dragon chair in front of the desk, and sat down slowly with the support of the palace servants.

This serious illness made the old emperor who thought he was very brave on weekdays taste the taste of old age.

With weak limbs and a muddled head, the old emperor has been unable to lift his spirits these days.

Especially knowing that King Jin also fooled around with Princess An Le, standing on the opposite side of himself.

The old emperor suddenly felt that there was no resentment in his heart. Although he had guarded against this younger brother for half his life, but now that King Jin really participated in the rebellion, the old emperor only felt that a heavy stone had completely fallen to the ground.

He didn't meet anyone these few days, but today he happily let the palace people open the palace door.

Xie Mingtang is back.

The old emperor looked at Xie Mingtang's old armor and hurried into the hall to salute.

He cheerfully called people up.

"Mingtang, you are really doing me a favor!" The old emperor's face was wrinkled with a smile, and he felt much more relieved.

Xie Mingtang already had that stern face, sitting at the side very respectfully, lowering his head, listening to the old emperor's teaching.

And the superior old emperor, seeing Xie Mingtang's appearance, nodded in satisfaction in his heart.

What he loves the most is such a loyal minister.Only the courtiers who are loyal to him.

Thinking of this, the old emperor thought of his sons again, and complained to Xie Mingtang: "If my princes were half as capable as you, I wouldn't work so hard like this."

Xie Mingtang lowered his eyebrows and comforted him: "Your Majesty is blessed and blessed, and the princes are also nobles of the emperor..."

Before he could finish speaking, the old emperor asked a fatal question seemingly involuntarily.

"I heard that the prince was still riding a horse in the suburbs of Beijing...Ming Tang, what do you think of this matter?"

In fact, similar to this kind of problem, these old emperors often made insinuations to their close courtiers.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the old emperor didn't like the prince.

Even, there is a faint intention to abolish the prince.