Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 796: The fourth prisoner of Xi's residence was beaten and came to Gaizhou to set up an ambush on the flank.

Wang Cheng and Shu Liang were worried about how to be scolded and how to defend themselves along the way.

But when she arrived, the empress in front of her looked pleasant and showed no sign of getting angry.

Huang Qi took a tray and came over with four bowls of ginger soup. Wang Cheng and others apologized and stood up to take the ginger soup.

Ningxiang waved her hand: "Sit, sit, sit, everyone, sit down and drink, don't be restrained, just like you are at home."

The two sides chatted for a while, and Shu Liang took the initiative to review Dongchang's poor performance.

Ningxiang smiled and said: "I have a good attitude. No matter how people scold me, I don't get angry. But you fourteenth and fifteenth empresses are very angry.

Although the two of them are cold in front of others, they are also very decent in how they treat people. It’s not bad for our own close confidants.

Moreover, he wakes up early and works hard at night, only to end up failing. Do you think this makes people feel chilled or not? "

Shu Liang replied: "Your Majesty, please give me ten days. I will definitely bring these traitors to justice."

Ningxiang asked: "A war is about to begin in Northern Xinjiang. Do you want to go to the front line to supervise the army and accumulate some military qualifications?"

Wang Cheng, Shu Liang and others looked at each other, going to the front line to supervise the army? This is all dirty work, and not many people are willing to do it. Moreover, powerful officials like the Chief of Ceremony and the Admiral of Dongchang would go to the front line for nothing.

Having already reached the rank of Chief of Ceremonies and Hand of the Eunuch, there is no way to be promoted. What more military merits do you need to accumulate?

But there was no way to refute it, because sending troops to the front line to supervise the troops was the most common way for their princes and ladies to express their favor to their confidant eunuchs.

Soon Wang Cheng and Shu Liang figured it out. What Shi Niangniang said just now, translated into plain language, is: If you guys can't do your job well, I will send you to the front line to supervise the army in the name of showing favor to you.

The time limit for supervising the army can be long or short. There is no end to the Mongols being killed. As long as I am unhappy, you can just stay outside slowly as time goes by.

This is to use the gentlest words to express the strongest attitude.

When officials anonymously remonstrated, Shu Liang was under the most pressure. Now there is another anonymous post, and Wang Cheng is also affected.

Because in addition to being in charge of the Rite Supervisor Seal, Wang Cheng was also responsible for supervising the Military and Horse Department of the Five Cities.

The four of them finally came out of Qingyun Pavilion. They were all sweating a lot. They were shivering from the cold due to the wind and rain.

Shu Liang sighed: "There has been nothing happening in Beijing these past few years. My men and I are used to being carefree. If this person slacks off, problems will suddenly arise."

Wang Cheng also sighed: "When Mr. Cheng was in Beijing in the past, he could still check things in and give us ideas.

It's a pity that Mr. Cheng was transferred to Nanjing, and it seems that the emperor has no intention of transferring Mr. Cheng back.

We can't get too close to other civil servants. Although the empresses are very kind to us, after all, we have little contact with them on weekdays. After all, they are not as good as those who meet every day. "

Shu Liang asked: "How to investigate this case?"

Wang Cheng smiled and said: "Let's arrest the Mongolian spy first. If we arrest a few hundred of them, even if the case cannot be solved within ten days, at least there will be an explanation. If we don't have anything by then, then we really have to go out and supervise the army."

Shu Liang nodded, and they discussed the whole journey, returned to the capital, closed the city gate, and began to mobilize the Jinyi Guards and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to capture Mongolian spies throughout the city.

The sixth day of May, Guangning City.

After many days of preparation, Fan Guang took his 30,000 troops and horses, and Wu Zhong and Zhang Ning took Guangning's left, middle and right guards and marched northeast towards Kaiyuan.

Ten days later, the army marched to the Juliu River and camped.

Bolai received military reports from the direction of Shenyang. After learning that the Guangning garrison was dispatched to occupy Kaiyuan, Borai was a little confused.

After all, none of the Mongolians had fought against the Ming army after Ye Xian Taishi.

So everyone is fighting based on their feelings. For example, the Liaodong Army is notoriously timid. When mentioning the Liaodong Army, the first reaction of the Mongolian generals was that they were cowardly and soft, and they loved hiding in castles and being unable to get out.

Now the Liaodong Army in Guangning has left the city and is heading to Kaiyuan, five hundred miles away. This is really new.

Bolai faced two choices, one was to intercept and kill the Guangning Army, and the other was to continue to ambush the Gaizhou Army.

The Gaizhou Army was transferred from other places by the Ming Dynasty, and its combat strength is unknown. Borai had always been hesitant and not good at making decisions, so he summoned all the generals for a discussion.

After arguing for a long time, Borai finally decided to continue ambushing the Gaizhou Army.

According to information from spies in Shenyang City, the Gaizhou Army consisted of 10,000 Shenshu battalions and 20,000 Japanese soldiers.

The Shenshu Camp was a newly formed branch of the Beijing Camp. After forming an army, it had no record of success.

Twenty thousand Japanese soldiers were prepared, but they rarely participated in actual combat. Their combat strength was unknown, and they were not much stronger anyway.

The ambush location was chosen at Tashanpu.

Gu Zhong led an army of 100,000 people, starting from Gaizhou and slowly marching towards Shenyang.

Among these 100,000 troops, there are 10,000 Shenshu camp, 5,000 Xiaoqi camp, 20,000 Japanese soldiers, and more than 60,000 auxiliary troops.

Polo was afraid of alarming the Ming army and did not dare to send out a large number of sentries to conduct reconnaissance. Therefore, the Mongolian army nestled near Shuiquangou, and only saw the Ming army moving in an endless stream, heading north.

Based on the successful experience of sneak attacks on the Ming army in Shanxi, Polo ambushed the army in the mountains and valleys northeast of Gaizhou.

The Ming army left Gaizhou City and marched north, but the Mongolian army ignored it completely, did not make any attacks, and never alerted the enemy.

This is darkness under the lamp.

The reconnaissance cavalry of the Ming army were patrolling the front of the army.

The valley ahead will be patrolled to avoid ambushes. But for the valley on the side and rear, I instinctively ignored it.

This is an old problem of the Ming army. They care about the head but not the back.

In frontal combat, the Ming army was okay. But the flanks are empty and easy to be stabbed by the enemy.

Five hundred years later, there was a principal, and the troops under his command also always liked to care about their heads rather than their backs.

Anyway, the Ming army's combat style has been engraved in their bones.

Borai was very patient. The Ming army left Gaizhou and marched for three days, but the Mongolian ambush still did not move.

When the Ming army approached the Haizhou Guard, their marching formation was stretched out, and their defenses were at their weakest, they were given a fatal blow.

……

May 18th.

Zhu Qiyu got up early and started collecting homework. The ten-day period has arrived, and it's time to see the results of Wang Cheng and Shu Liang's case solving.

After waiting for a long time, Qianxue and Suxi came in from outside.

Qianxue met Zhu Qiyu's gaze and smiled helplessly.

Zhu Qiyu's heart skipped a beat, knowing something was wrong again.

Qianxue smiled and said: "His Majesty the Great Emperor Wu Jingtai, the wise and wise god, knows that the imperial city is on fire again."

"Where was it burned?"

"There are several palaces in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, which were set on fire by thunder and fire from the sky. That's right. Your Majesty is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and we are the concubines of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Neither of them is virtuous.

God sent down punishment, and the ancestors were not at peace either. This time it was truly the anger of God and the resentment of mankind. "

Zhu Qiyu sighed: "I'm really good at playing, I even set the Imperial Ancestral Temple on fire, but I'm getting more and more bottomless."

"There is nothing we can do. We have fewer and fewer pro-army troops in the capital. And the Jin Yiwei and the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division are gradually exposed, and they are still unwilling to be loyal to us."

(End of this chapter)