Ping An Biography

The dispatched servant not only brought Yao Ji back the person she needed, but also brought a piece of news that could help her. The Suzaku Army quickly captured Wuchang City.This is a battle that is doomed before it even starts, but it will be more convincing if it is actually won.

At that time, the Suzaku army mainly attacked the nearest south gate, and the official army also undoubtedly set up a key defense at the south gate.Similar to previous siege battles, first the artillery continued to bombard, and the roar of the artillery continued throughout the day.However, the ordinary mortars and solid long-barreled cannons that are mainly equipped by the Suzaku Army are impossible to break through the walls of Wuchang City, let alone the less powerful Fran's cavalry cannons.

The shelling for several days destroyed most of the defensive equipment on the city wall, and it also played a great deterrent effect on the morale of the originally low-moralized defenders.That's all it did, they still couldn't get the artillery close to the city gate; although most of the artillery on the city wall of the official army was destroyed, there were still a large number of catapults behind the wall. Throwing shots are also extremely difficult to hit.There are range-finding soldiers on the top of the city to guide the launch of the catapult cannon behind the city wall; if the artillery approaches and enters the range, it must be stopped to set up a fixed target.

But the stalemate didn't last long, and soon chaos surged in the city after being hit by artillery projectiles, and some officers and soldiers opened the city gate from the farthest north gate to escape.Feng Youxian's cavalry regiment deployed on the flank seized the opportunity to attack quickly and took the opportunity to seize the North Gate.At that time, the senior members of the Huguang Third Division personally went into battle to supervise the battle, and organized several counterattacks in order to take back Beicheng; but the chaotic official army could not even deal with the stationary cavalry.Feng Youxian was able to hold on until the infantry of the Suzaku Army detoured several miles from the outside of the city to come for reinforcements.After the infantry arrived, a few rounds of gunfire passed, and the counterattacking official army was immediately defeated.

The Wuchang garrison, which claims to be in the tens of thousands but has a chaotic organization, failed to defend it for ten days, and waiting for reinforcements from the Shenji Battalion has become nonsense. [

Only now did Yao Ji see with her own eyes that Zhang Ning's plan to lay down a large territory had been realized.Wuchang City is not just a city, but more importantly, it is where the three divisions of Huguang are located; the Ming Dynasty implemented a three-level administrative system of three divisions, prefectures, and counties, and the three divisions of one province coordinated the military, political, and judicial powers of each prefecture and county. For the local prefectures and counties and the central court, it is only a symbol and source of power, and the direct decrees come from the three divisions; once Wuchang is lost, the prefectures and counties in various places are suspected to be a mess, and the entire vast land of the lake and hundreds of millions of people are separated. After losing the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty, waiting for a new king to take over.

As the saying goes, if you mount a horse to conquer the world and dismount to rule the world, whether Zhang Ning can maintain the rule of this territory cannot be achieved by guns and force alone.How to establish prestige and righteousness, how to win people's support, countless people throughout the ages have written books and made suggestions, is an extremely complicated project; but Zhang Ning now has the simplest and quickest way to restore Jianwen!

Not everyone can be an emperor, and the land of China has already formed rules for thousands of years.Either take back the country by force from the Yidi regime, whoever has the ability will be the most righteous emperor of the country, and restore the clothes of the Han family, and everyone in the world will obey you, the proof of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang; or the Central Dynasty itself collapses, and everyone competes together The Central Plains is divided into high and low, which is fair and just; but if there is already a more orthodox emperor, whoever has ambitions will plot rebellion and everyone will be punished. Otherwise, if you have soldiers, I will have soldiers. Why can't I be the emperor if you are the emperor?If you can't convince people, the world will be "chaotic", and the past of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is vividly remembered.

If Jianwen can be restored, everything will be justified. At most, it is just a dispute within the Zhu family.Because Jianben had already been emperor, and he was the eldest grandson of Taizu, who was helped to the throne by Taizu; normal thing.

... Yao Ji in Changde ordered the whole city to celebrate the victory, and to publicize it with great fanfare. For a while, under the urging of the officials, the city was decorated with lanterns and festoons as if it were a festival.The palace is also preparing a banquet to invite guests to celebrate the achievements ahead.Many people were invited to the banquet, but among those who came to the banquet, Zheng Qia was the one Yao Ji valued the most.

According to the popular banquet arrangements at this time, it was no longer fashionable in the Ming Dynasty to enjoy singing and dancing while drinking and eating meat as in the Sui and Tang Dynasties or earlier.The guests first sit at the table according to their rank and enjoy the food and wine. After eating, they go to the garden to drink tea and watch a play with snacks.

The people in the palace selected two theater troupes to prepare for the show, besides, Gu Chunhan would also go on stage to perform for the distinguished guests.It's not a good thing for women to show their heads in public in this era, but Yao Ji didn't force her to sing, it was Gu Chunhan who wanted to sing

Yao Ji had a smile on her face, as if she could see through Zheng Qia's conflicting thoughts at a glance.Only today did she dare to be so grandiose, because she has the strength to protect her; otherwise, it would be "a man who is guilty of a crime", and there is a saying that a man does not show his wealth and a woman does not show her milk, and beauty does not necessarily mean It's a good thing... After the fall of Nanjing, she escaped from the city with a part of Jianwen's remnant party, and the accompanying imperial guards even had evil intentions at the critical moment. Fortunately, an eunuch surnamed Cao took precautions in advance and helped her escape from the clutches of the clutches.

"Chen Wenhuadian University scholar (Jian Wenfeng) Zheng Qia pays his respects to the noble concubine." Zheng Qia bowed and bowed.Because Yao Ji was only a concubine, not the emperor, Zheng Qia, the minister next to Jianwen, had to kneel down.

Yao Ji sat very dignifiedly, and said unhurriedly: "Zheng Shaobao, take your seat, the next play will begin."

"Thank you, sir." Zheng Qia sat down on the chair prepared for him gently with his body bent, and turned to watch the play on the stage.But at this moment, he probably didn't know what the actors were singing.He never dared to set his sights on Yao Ji again, he was a self-proclaimed gentleman no matter what, so don't look at evil.

At this time, Yao Ji asked Zheng Qia how he was doing with concern, and her words were very decent.Zheng Qia couldn't help thinking of Empress Ma's often harsh words for a moment, and of course he judged them in private.

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