Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 128 The emperor's guard of honor is ready

Sun Xiang, the censor of the right deputy capital guarding the Zijing Pass, and Zuo Neng, the commander of the capital, stood on the city wall, staring blankly at the Ming army that suddenly appeared.

This strange army was not close to the city wall, but set up camp two miles away from the city gate.

Not long after, thousands of follow-up people entered the newly built camp, escorting food and grass, driving cattle and sheep.

Sun Xiang and Zuo Neng looked at each other, speechless.

There is a problem here at Bauhinia Pass. Sun Xiang's right deputy, the censor, is a civil servant of the third rank, and the commander of Zuo Neng is a military officer of the third rank.

At this time, the status of civil servants has not surpassed that of generals, and both of them are third-rank, so who should command whom?
So the two had to discuss it. Sun Xiang hoped that he could concentrate on dealing with the Oirat army in front, and the Ming army behind him could do whatever he wanted, as long as he didn't make trouble.

And Zuo Neng is close to the Supreme Emperor, wishing to open the gate of the city quickly and let the Oirat army in.As for the Ming army outside the city, it would be best to drive them away.

In the end, the two adopted a compromise strategy, and first sent a few capable sentries to inquire outside the city.

Half an hour later, the sentry came back.Zuo Neng hurriedly asked: "Which Ming army is under the city?"

The leading sentry looked back: "General Hui, he is the avant-garde of Yingzhou."

Hearing this, Zuo Neng hurriedly scolded: "Nonsense, the former guard of Yingzhou is stationed in Xianghe County, west of Tongzhou, why did you come here for no reason?"

The sentry retorted with an innocent face: "General, the camp below the city is not the Yingzhou Qianwei stationed in Xianghe, but the Yingzhou Qianwei reorganized by the Daning Metropolis. The leader of this army is the commander of the capital of the Daning Metropolis." I know Gu Cong."

Zuo Neng and Sun Xiang looked at each other when they heard the words, they were even more astonished.Du commanded Tongzhi to be a second-rank military general, higher than the two of them, so how could he come to Bauhinia Pass inexplicably.

Sun Xiang asked several times to confirm that the sentry was not mistaken.Then he said to Zuo Neng, "General Zuo, please guard the pass strictly. I'll go down and see for myself."

Zuo Neng couldn't get what he wanted, so he nodded his head immediately.Just after Sun Xiang left the customs, he could connect with his confidantes and discuss how to let the Supreme Emperor enter the customs.

But it is said that Sun Xiang took a few followers, sat in a hanging basket, went down outside the city, and came to the camp of Yingzhou Wei.

Gu Cong greeted him with a smile, and enthusiastically let Sun Xiang into the big tent of the Chinese army.

Sun Xiang sat down in the big tent, and asked eagerly, "May I ask why General Gu led his troops here?"

Gu Cong explained with a smile: "I follow His Majesty's secret decree to come here for three things."

After finishing speaking, Gu Cong took out a document from the case and handed it to Sun Xiang: "Please look at it, Yushi Sun. This is an order from the Ministry of War. I am legally leading the army to station at Zijing Pass."

After Sun Xiang confirmed that the transfer order was correct, Gu Cong continued: "I have three purposes here, one is to send some cattle, sheep, wine and vegetables to the Oirat army, so that they can quickly reach the city of Beijing without the trouble of looting the people.

Second, I brought a group of well-educated scholars from the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial College, as well as the first-rate painters in the capital.They want to go to the top of the city to watch the battle.

Thirdly, I was ordered by the emperor to rescue Sun Yushi and the loyal and brave soldiers in the city.His Majesty knew that the Zijing Pass could not be guarded, and had no intention of guarding the Zijing Pass.

However, His Majesty did not want the loyal soldiers to die in vain, so he asked me to bring His Majesty's secret decree and the order of the Ministry of War. You can follow me to the Baoding Mansion after a symbolic resistance for two days. "

After finishing speaking, Gu Cong took out the secret decree and the documents of the Ministry of War from his pocket and handed them to Sun Xiang.

After Sun Xiang had seen it, he still refused to give up easily: "General Gu, Bauhinia Pass is so dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, why did Your Majesty abandon the pass so easily?"

Gu Cong said with a smile: "Sun Yushi wants to defend, but the soldiers in the city don't want to defend. Most of them are devoted to the Supreme Emperor. If they can't defend for a few days, these people will voluntarily abandon the pass. When the time comes, the Oala army will definitely break through. Sun The censor is bound to lose his life.

Sun Yushi doesn't have to blame himself, just follow orders.Even if something goes wrong, His Majesty will take the responsibility with all his strength, and no one will blame you. "

Sun Xiang saw that Gu Cong was talking about this, so he could only nod helplessly, and then asked: "Your Majesty still doesn't understand, what is His Majesty sending some literati and painters over for?"

Gu Cong explained with a smile: "Your Majesty wants painters to paint the fierce battle scenes, let literati write them into articles, and then spread them all over the country, so that the people of the world know the hardships of the Beijing defense war."

Sun Xiang was speechless after hearing this. The emperor even asked to abandon the pass. Where did the fierce battle scene come from? Isn't this a coaxing child.

Regardless of Sun Xiang's slander, Gu Cong enthusiastically sent Sun Xiang out of the camp.

When Sun Xiang came out, he had only a few entourages, but when he returned to the city, he gave dozens of literati and painters.

The leader among these literati and painters is none other than the emperor's Zhongshu Sheren Liangang.

Under the Bauhinia Pass, the emperor calls the door. This is one of the most important scenes in the defense of Beijing.

Although Zhu Qizhen has also called the door in the city of Beijing, but that did not break the city, not convincing enough.

The Bauhinia Pass was the only important city pass that was breached during the whole civil engineering change and the defense of the capital.

Therefore, it is necessary to write a special book here, and publicize it widely, so that everyone in the world knows about it.

When Sun Xiang returned to Guanzhong, Zuo Neng also discussed with his confidant about abandoning the city.

On this day, the Wala army was also setting up camp, resting and preparing for war.So the whole battlefield is very calm.

In the early morning of the next day, Sun Xiang was still asleep, so Zuo Neng came and called Sun Xiang up.

Sun Xiang quickly asked: "Wala started to attack?"

Zuo Neng shook his head: "No, no, another Ming mission came from outside the city."

"The Great Ming Mission? The war is about to begin. Why is His Majesty still sending missions? Did the envoy say what they are here for? Hurry up and hoist them up with a basket."

Zuo Neng replied helplessly: "They said they came to send the emperor's guard of honor to the Supreme Emperor. And the city gate must be opened so that the emperor's guard of honor can pass through the Bauhinia Pass and go to the Wara Camp."

"Ridiculous, who came up with this idea? Okay, what kind of emperor's ceremonial guard will you send!"

"Sun Yushi, speak carefully, speak carefully, this is His Majesty's personal order, if you don't believe me, take a look."

With that said, Zuo Neng handed over to Sun Xiang the imperial edict that had just been hoisted up from the bottom of the city.

Sun Xiang had read the edict, but had no choice but to switch and let it go.

So when Zhu Qizhen just woke up in the felt tent, Yang Shan's mission rushed to the Wara camp with the emperor's guard of honor.

After resting, Zhu Qizhen's body has improved a lot.Because both Zhu Qizhen and Yexian believed that it would take at least three or four days to capture the Zijing Pass, they got out of the chariot and lived in the felt tent again. At this time, Ma Liang's four concubines also started anew. Serving bed for Zhu Qizhen.

When Yang Shan entered the felt tent, Zhu Qizhen was having fun hiding in the brocade quilt with his arms around the beautiful woman.

Yang Shan had no choice but to salute and play against Zhu Qizhen through the curtain.

Zhu Qizhen asked: "Why did Aiqing come here, and what does the emperor need to explain?"

Yang Shan replied: "The new emperor sent a full set of emperor's ceremonial guards for His Majesty, and sent ministers as special envoys to welcome His Majesty back to Beijing."

Hearing this, Zhu Qizhen poked his head out of the curtain curiously, and asked rather puzzled: "Is my younger brother sincerely welcoming me back to Beijing?"

Yang Shan shook his head: "I'm not sure, either."

"Then what can you be sure of?"

"I can assure you that the new king definitely does not want to be still under His Majesty."

Zhu Qizhen sighed, and asked again: "How do you evaluate Xinjun's behavior?"

Although Yang Shan was loyal to Zhu Qizhen, he still replied fairly: "I want to welcome His Majesty's return, but I can understand the new Lord's difficulties. If His Majesty returns to the throne, the new Lord's family will not survive anyway. .

So the new monarch is now riding a tiger, and it cannot be entirely blamed for his greed for the throne. "

　It will be on the shelves tomorrow. What a coincidence, today I met a stray white cat outside. I carried her for a few hundred meters, but I couldn't bring it back.It’s too late to get home today, and I’ll continue to feed the cat tomorrow to see if I can get it home and raise it, and bring good luck back to me by the way.If I can bring it back, I will tell her to put a cat on the shelves.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)