high official

Chapter 1084 Personal expedition
Although there is no evidence, King Zhao firmly believes that Wang Xian must be playing tricks, because in the whole world, there is only Wang Xian who has the ability to help the prince in this way and is willing to assist the prince.

Now the situation became extremely dangerous. From the original closed door to fight the dog, it became the current enemy. His Royal Highness Zhao Wang and his generals felt unbearable pressure.

"My lord, we must change our plan and attack Beijing immediately. We must conquer the capital before the crown prince!" Gao Zheng roared with red eyes.

"Is the capital so easy to fight?" Liu Qiang shook his head and said repeatedly: "That is the capital built by the late emperor for 20 years! Don't say that our troops are not enough, even if we have several times more troops, it will not take a year or a half. Don't even think about breaking through the city of Beijing!" After a pause, Tian Zihe added: "What's more, after breaking through the outer city and the imperial city, and breaking through the imperial city, there is also the palace city. I can do it..."

"Then deal with the crown prince first!" Gao Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "Once the crown prince dies, the capital will decide!"

"What if the army in the capital takes the opportunity to attack Tongzhou?" Liu Qiang said with a bitter face, "How can we win?"

"It's really not possible, let's go west..." Tian Zihe whispered.

"You fart!" Gao Zheng angrily drew his sword and said, "I wanted to run away before hitting you. Believe it or not, I will kill you first!"

"Presumptuous!" King Zhao slapped the table violently, only to stop the tragic scene of blood spattering on the spot.

"We must never leave Tongzhou." This time, Liu Qiang stood aside with Gao Zheng, and said slowly: "We are in Tongzhou, so we can fight against Beijing and simplify the dispute between the two cities. Once we leave Tongzhou , the world is exclusive to Beijing, we are helpless rogues, the only way to die..."

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work either, Lao Liu is talking about it, how can we do it?" Chen Kai couldn't help but muffled.

"This..." Liu Qiang was discouraged and said, "For the time being, I haven't bothered..."

In fact, what Liu Qiang thought in his heart was that we had no chance of winning at all!From the moment he learned that the merchants in Tongzhou City had brought food and grass to the south collectively, he knew that the people's hearts were against each other, and the destiny was indeed on the crown prince!Zhao Wang wants to change his fate against the sky, but he can only say that he has missed the opportunity, and this kind of opportunity to change his fate against the sky has always been an opportunity that cannot be missed...

Zhu Gaosui was obviously more sober than the generals including Liu Qiang. He already understood that no matter how hard he struggled, his chances of winning were very slim.But the unwillingness in his heart surpasses everything else, he is unwilling to admit defeat like this, unwilling to watch the crown prince ascend the throne, and become a shameful traitor himself, with a long history of infamy...

The generals watched His Royal Highness Zhao's expression change several times, and finally fixed on the unwillingness and ferocity on his face!
Zhao Wang Huo stood up, gritted his teeth and said: "I have decided my loneliness, the whole army will face the prince!"

Although everyone knew that attacking the city of Beijing was of greater significance, King Zhao resolutely chose to fight the crown prince when both options were hopeless!Proving that he is better than his two older brothers has always been his obsession!

In any case, a decision was finally made, at least the generals are no longer like headless chickens, and finally have a direction...

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In Jinan City, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince completed the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the Emperor Daxing from afar in England, Zhang Fu, Marquis of Anyuan Liu Sheng, Shandong Governor Chu Yan, and the Inspector Wei Yuan, as well as the ministers who followed him from Nanjing, wearing heavy filial piety All the monarchs and ministers held a military meeting outside the mourning hall to discuss the next move.

Similar to the situation in Beijing City and Tongzhou City, there are also different voices here. Liu Sheng, Marquis of Anyuan, believes that he should immediately lead his army northward to eliminate Zhao Wangjun in Tongzhou.The British Duke Zhang Fu believed that the prince should be safe and stay in Shandong temporarily, waiting for the arrival of Qin Wangjun from all over the country to resume the Northern Expedition.However, the ministers who followed the prince from Nanjing proposed to return to Nanjing, succeed to the throne in Nanjing, and take Beijing as their line...

After the defeat of Jining, the British Duke did not return to Beijing immediately. Although the emperor was in a coma and no one ordered the recall, but more importantly, the British Duke himself did not want to return to the whirlpool, so he stayed in Jinan City , watching the development of the situation with a cold eye, remotely controlling the actions of the Zhang family in Beijing.

When Zhang Xiang participated in the rescue, the Zhang family's attitude became clear. When Zhu Gaochi went north to Jinan, the British Duke naturally appeared in the team to welcome His Royal Highness.Although he only has a few thousand soldiers in his hands, as the First Duke of Ming Dynasty and the leader of the generals in the world, his attitude is that of a general in the world, and no one dares to ignore it.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Fu opened his mouth, the crown prince tended to stay in Jinan, but this obviously did not match Wang Xian's established route. Liu Sheng and Wei Yuan looked at each other, and the latter nodded slightly, then asked Zhang Fu, "I don't know what you mean by the time is ripe." , which ones are they referring to?"

"Naturally, wait until King Qin's army is basically in place." Zhang Fu said expressionlessly.Of course, he didn't want Zhu Gaochi to go north too early, and wanted the military generals group to clean up Zhao Wang, make this great contribution for the new king, and stabilize the status of the nobles.

"Now there are [-] troops of Lord Gong and Lord Hou, is that enough?" Wei Yuan asked.

"Naturally not enough." Zhang Fu shook his head and said, "Zhao Wang's army claims to be [-]. Even though there are many exaggerations, there are still [-]. Our troops are far inferior to the enemy's."

Before Zhang Fu finished speaking, Liu Sheng said with a smile: "I want to report good news to my lord, Liu Xin, commander of Shandong Province, Liu Jun, commander of Qingzhou Guards, and others, have assembled an army of [-], and will soon arrive in Jinan! In this way, with the addition of some miscellaneous troops, we can really put together a hundred thousand troops!"

"They..." Zhang Fu frowned, and said unhappily: "Although they have been recruited, their attitudes are unpredictable, and I may not be able to rely on them."

"Hey, what the Lord said is chilling." Liu Sheng shook his head, and said with a half-smile: "Since I have accepted the recruitment, it is the army of the imperial court. Now it is the time for employing people, so why should we divide them?" Looking at the prince, he said sternly: "Your Highness must arrive in Beijing as soon as possible, otherwise, things will change if you are late!"

"Hmm..." Zhu Gaochi was caught by the words, the emperor died, but the prince was not in the capital, this was the source of the disaster!Throughout the dynasties, I don't know how many lessons he has learned. Of course, he doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors, but he can't wait to spread his wings and fly to Beijing.What's more, Wang Xian has already written to tell him that Liu Xin, Liu Jun and others can be trusted.The balance in His Royal Highness' heart inevitably tilted towards Liu Sheng and the others. "Indeed, if they can come to the King at this time, it shows that loyalty and filial piety are commendable, and they shouldn't chill the hearts of righteous men."

In order to take care of Zhang Fu's face, His Royal Highness laughed again: "Besides, take a step back, with the British Duke and Marquis Anyuan here, I am not afraid of anything!"

"Your Highness is right." Seeing the prince's attitude, Zhang Fu could only take a step back, and changed the subject: "This kind of military strength is barely enough, but what about the food and grass? Shandong has been through wars for a long time, and there are ten rooms and nine empty rooms. How can there be food and grass supply? One hundred thousand troops?" The guard sighed and said, "The so-called soldiers and horses go first before the food and grass are moved, and the problem of food and grass is not resolved, how to enter the army?"

"Also..." The prince and the others nodded in agreement.

"There's no need to worry!" Chu Yan, who had been silent all this time, said with a smile, "We haven't moved our troops this time, and the food and grass are already waiting in front!"

"Oh?" Zhu Gaochi looked at Chu Yan in surprise: "What's the master plan?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, I got a report today. Within a few days, dozens of Tongzhou grain merchants brought a large amount of grain and grass to the south, and now they have gathered in Dezhou, eagerly waiting for Your Highness!" Chu Yan said calmly: "These grain merchants Willing to donate food and grass to His Highness free of charge, enough to support an army of [-] for a year!"

"What?!" Not only the prince and others, but even Zhang Fu was shocked!This is the Prince of Heaven Blessing!And it is definitely a bottom line for King Zhao!

"Is there such a thing?!" The prince stood up all of a sudden, looked at Chu Yan tremblingly, and lost his composure very rarely.

"It's absolutely true, how dare I use this kind of thing to deceive Your Highness?" Chu Yan said solemnly, "It's just that His Highness heard the bad news the day before yesterday, and was distraught, and has never had a chance to report it!"

"Haha, that's great!" Zhu Gaochi rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "As expected, these grain merchants are all heroes of the community, and Gu will definitely reward them heavily!"

"The fate of the Ming Dynasty is indeed His Highness! The common people are eating pots of milk to wait for Master Wang!" Now even the group of people who originally wanted to go back to Nanjing became excited.After all, no one is stupid, knowing that the winning ticket is in hand, how could they be so stupid as to turn around and return to Nanjing, and of course they have to go to Beijing to reap the fruits of victory!
The city of Zhang Fuhe immediately understood that everything was under the control of Wang Xian, Liu Sheng and his group, and one could even boldly guess that the ups and downs of the past six months were all changed little by little under Wang Xian's layout. into what it is now.

Wanting to understand this point, he secretly sighed, no longer insisting on his own opinion, but smiled and said: "It seems that I am worrying too much for the minister, since it is Your Highness God Blessing, we have nothing to worry about, immediately raise troops to go north, Conquering rebellion is!"

"What the British lord said is very true." Seeing that the British lord also changed his attitude, Zhu Gaochi was very pleased, and immediately said: "I would like to ask the British lord to be the commander, dispatch troops and generals, and conquer the rebellion for the lonely!"

As soon as the crown prince said this, the expressions of Liu Sheng and the others became unnatural. Although the Duke of England deserved his name as the commander-in-chief, everyone is not the same after all. Who would let him lead?
Fortunately, the Duke of England was very clear-headed, he shook his head and declined politely: "Thank you for your trust, but for this matter, it is not the best candidate to be a minister. For the sake of the overall situation, please take back your order."

The faces of Liu Sheng and the others looked a little better now, and they said in their hearts that you are acquainted, and Liu Sheng was even more secretly proud that the British Duke is not the best candidate, so the best candidate can only be himself, not anyone else!
"Oh?" Zhu Gaochi looked at the Duke of England, and asked slowly: "In the opinion of the Duke of England, who is the right candidate?"

The Duke of England looked at Liu Sheng, then moved his eyes away from him, and finally landed on the crown prince, and said indifferently: "Your Highness must personally conscript him."

(End of this chapter)