Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 216
Of course, Lin Yi knew who the father and son of Fu Wang were. The old Fu Wang Zhu Changxun was fighting for the throne with the father of Emperor Chongzhen, and he almost sat on the dragon chair. Born to a court lady.Originally, the main palace of Emperor Wanli was the Queen, but he had not given birth to a child for many years. One day, Wanli was lucky to have a court lady through wine, and this gave birth to the eldest son Zhu Changluo.

However, even though Zhu Changluo was the eldest son, because he was born of a court lady and had a low status, Wanli did not want to make him the prince. Instead, he wanted to establish his own lineage, that is, Zhu Changxun, who was born to the third son Concubine Zheng. This was because he liked Zheng Zheng very much. The reason for concubine, but this is not in line with the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated for future generations that if there is a descendant, the descendant will be established, and if there is no descendant, the elder will be established.Therefore, the issue of the succession of the prince has not been established for a long time.Later, Emperor Wanli wanted to put Zhu Changxun, who was later the old King Fu, on the throne, but he was unanimously opposed by all the ministers (mainly the Donglin Party). Unable to compete with the ministers, the eldest son Zhu Changluo was finally established.

Emperor Wanli was very angry about this matter. As the king of a country, the whole world, could it be the land of the king, and the guests of the crowd could be the king's ministers, but now he can't do whatever he wants, and the supreme imperial power has been challenged by a group of these courtiers. And let them succeed in the challenge.He, the emperor, dares to say nothing, he can't even decide the trivial matter of letting one of his sons inherit the property, he is not as good as an ordinary folk family. How can Emperor Wanli feel so bad?
In fact, this is a contest between the cabinet ministers headed by the Donglin Party and the imperial power, which marks the decline of the supreme feudal imperial autocracy that has lasted for thousands of years, and the rise of the cabinet monarchy. Although there is no constitution for the emperor like Western countries, But also the cabinet is no longer the silent lambs.How could Emperor Wanli win against the powerful Donglin Party?The emperor could no longer say that he was indistinguishable. Wanli appointed three kings in a fit of anger. Fu Wang Zhu Changxun was one of them, and he would not go to court for 30 years.This exacerbated the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty. Some people said that this was an important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, which seems to be reasonable.

After that, the old King Fu lived in Luoyang. This descendant of Emperor Wanli, relying on the emperor's favor and the power of Zheng Guifei, did whatever he wanted in Luoyang. Searching for people's fat and people's anointing, the fat body of their father and son is proof, others are starving to death, but they eat so much fat, so after Li Zicheng broke Luoyang, he divided up his huge family property, captured old Fu Wang, killed him, and then from A few deer were brought from the backyard, and even the meat of the old Fu Wang was boiled in a pot, and distributed to the soldiers to eat. This is the famous Fu Lu Banquet in history.

Lin Yi knew all these historical materials, and Emperor Chongzhen became a poor ghost.Since this Fu Wang is so rich that he is definitely richer than the emperor, why not take this opportunity to rip him off?Although I have no choice but to work hard to drive out the thieves for you, but at least you have to pay the protection fee, and I can't do your work for nothing!
Thinking of this, Lin Yi asked the soldiers to wait here, and immediately returned to the tent, ordered someone to fetch a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, thought for a while, brushed a little, and wrote a letter.Now Ji Dong has also learned to write with a brush. After all, it has been a few years since time travel. He does as the Romans do. He can’t find a hard pen without a brush, forcing him to practice calligraphy when he has nothing to do. Over the past few years, Ji Dong has finished practicing several tanks of water. , now his writing in lower case calligraphy is quite good.

This letter was of course written to Yang Sichang. No matter what, Lin Yi couldn’t ask for money directly from King Fu. Although he is the God of Wealth, and even though he will pay the money in the end, it’s only natural for Lin Yi to ask the Ministry of War for money. Let Yang Sichang ask King Fu for money. silver.

As for Ji Yi’s reasons for asking for money, there are a lot of reasons, such as high mountains and long roads, and food and grass can’t be provided. The food and grass for more than 2 horses must be raised locally. In addition, the battle at Laohukou caused many casualties. There is a lack of medical care and medicine, all of which require money, which is equivalent to 100 million taels of silver.

When Lin Yi wrote to ask Yang Sichang for the amount of 100 million taels of silver, Zhezhe didn't respond, and Xiaoying stuck out her tongue.

"One million taels of silver? Brother Lin, what if he doesn't give us so much money? Shouldn't it be less important, as much as he can come?"

Zhang Hua said: "These corrupt officials have plenty of money. I think adults will have less money. If he doesn't give it easy, we won't fight for him. More than 1 people will die. They don't even have this money." If you don’t want to go out, then just do whatever you want, let these thieves attack Nanyang, and then attack Luoyang, then we don’t care.”

"You kid was wrong this time." Lin Yi glanced at Zhang Hua, and Zhang Hua trembled in fright. Lin Yi said: "The current Fu Wang must be frightened. Two years ago, Li Zicheng tossed and burned in Fengyang, Anhui. The imperial mausoleum has dug up the ancestral graves of their Zhu family. Now that Li Zicheng is close to his Luoyang, can this old boy not be afraid? As long as we win this battle, even if we only take down a county, King Fu will bear the pain Cutting the meat will also give us the money, because it feels safe to give us the money, and the money is worth the money. If on the contrary, we have suffered defeat like Zhu Dadianhu David and others, the old Fuwang will definitely not give it to us. He was not willing to give us the money, and he thought it was worthless. Besides, we won the battle, so Yang Sichang could speak for us and ask King Fu for money. His nephew, Emperor Chongzhen, has no money now. He is an uncle. If he has money, who will pay if he does not come out?"

"My lord is so right, I am really a pig's brain." Zhang Hua rubbed his head and smiled embarrassedly.

After the letter was written, Ji Dong read it again. There were no mistakes, and he added the words 500 urgent, and then signed his name and date on the signature.Then stamp it.After drying the ink, put it in a [-]-mile urgent envelope, and write on the envelope, Yang Sichang, the Minister of the Cabinet, personally opened the words.

Then he handed this letter to Zhang Hua, and asked him to take a few shrewd followers to Luoyang for a personal visit, and told him to hand over this letter to him after seeing Yang Sichang.

"No." Zhang Hua promised, packed the letter, and galloped away with a few people.

Then Lin Yi ordered Xiaoying and Zhezhe to take the women's battalion with them, and gave them a special task, and after explaining a few words, the two took the order and left with more than 60 women's battalion Pegasus.

Then he ordered Yang Fang's fifth battalion to stay, and the 3000 men were responsible for guarding his base camp.Then Lin Yi took the guard battalion and two other battalions, a total of three battalions, out of the big camp and headed north to Neixiang to kill.

Shouting along the way for two days, 9000 or [-] people bluffed, and after a journey of more than [-] miles, they quickly killed the inner city.

At this time, Li Zicheng's two generals, Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi, were in charge of guarding Neixiang, with a total of 3000 soldiers and horses.After following the orders of Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, they saw that Lin Yi's brigade was approaching, and quickly withdrew the 3000 troops into the city. Li Zicheng's men attacked the city aggressively.

In fact, the city has already made full preparations, not to mention thousands of horses coming to attack, even dozens of cannons in red cannons, it would take half a day to capture the city.

Because the moat has been widened and deepened, the city walls have been heightened and thickened, all the gates have been replaced with iron, and suspension bridges have been erected.On the top of the city, rolling logs, stones, bows and arrows, and other weapons for defending the city are piled up like a mountain. There are also firearms and other firearms they seized from the officers and soldiers. The muzzles of the black holes are aimed at the officers and soldiers outside the city. The city has long been heavily guarded. barrier.

Ji Dong has sent someone to find out these things, and now Ji Dong, who is sitting on the horse, is only a few hundred meters away from the city, and he can see very clearly.

At this time, he ordered the troops to stop, waving the flag and shouting that they would not attack the city.How many times did the gunfire gunners in front of them shoot the top of the city with their guns in hand?I don't know if it was blown or not, puffs of white smoke dissipated with the wind.

At this time, Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi on the top of the city could see clearly. They stood on top of the top of the city, watching the movement of the officers and soldiers below.

At the beginning, the two of them were very happy. Seeing Ji Dong's men rushing over aggressively, the two of them looked at each other and smiled proudly. Our chief whistler, Mr. Liu, is very powerful, and the officers and soldiers were immediately fooled.If they attacked Xichuan or Xinye, it would be a bit difficult, but they would come to attack Neixiang, which is of course the best.They couldn't take the city, the troops from Xinye and Xichuan had killed them, and the two armies squeezed in the middle, and if we fight out from the city, this army will be attacked by the enemy.

Now even if Chuang Wang and Mr. Liu of Nanyang City don't send troops, our three troops alone can eat them up. This time we can cleanse Li Guo of the humiliation of being defeated by Tiger's mouth. If he can meet Hao Yao The traitor in Qi must be cut into pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart.

Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi were happy when Lin Yi's men stopped and rushed forward, about 600 meters away from the moat.Just don't rush forward, the bows and arrows and firecrackers in the city can't reach them, the two of them looked at each other for a moment, what's going on?
After waiting for a long time, the officers and soldiers still stood still, just waving their flags and shouting, some shot arrows into the sky, and some fired a few guns indiscriminately, making a lot of noise.

"Damn it, they are bullying us and dare not fight, let me go out and lead them to attack the city!" Yuan Zongdi couldn't take it anymore, his eyes were staring like buns, and the pair of iron whips in his hands were sweating coming.

Liu Fangliang shook his head, "No way! Have you forgotten King Chuang's order? We are required to stick to the city, and only when there is chaos behind their ranks, we will go out. Don't worry about them now. Going out at this time will ruin the big things. They love You can toss and toss as you like below, the more fierce they toss, the faster the Xinye and Xichuan people will come."

Yuan Zongdi thought that what Liu Fangliang said was reasonable. Anyway, Lin Yi's team had already been fooled, and it was only a matter of time before the entire army was wiped out.As long as the men from Muye and Xichuan came to kill them, they would open the city and rush out.

But what both of them found even more irritating was that the officers and soldiers outside the city shouted for a while, and sat down to rest when they were tired. Thieves are nothing.After the officers and soldiers finished their rest, they continued to shout outside the city.

"Come on, kill, don't let the thief get away... whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoop..."

Shouting and screaming, some shooting arrows, some firing guns, they tossed fiercely, but the people stood still and didn't move at all.

Brother Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, who are thieves, think in your heart, you should do it down here. In less than half an hour, the people from Xinye and Xichuan will be killed. At that time, I will let you know that we are not shrinking turtles. Come out and kill all of you, let you know how good we are!

Lin Yi's 8000-[-] troops were so tossed about in the inner countryside and the city, there were early thieves who visited the horses and reported them to the thieves in Xichuan County and Xinye County.

Li Guo and his son guarding Xichuan, Gao Yigong and Tian Jianxiu guarding Xinye, the four generals were waiting for the news.

Of course they also know now that Lin Yi's men did not attack Xichuan and Xinye on both sides, but directly attacked the inner village between Xichuan and Xinye. This is of course best for them. It seems that Lin This battle is doomed to failure, if not done well, the entire army will be wiped out.

Of course, the happiest ones are Li Guo and his son, who want to avenge the defeat of Huhukou, and they also want to catch Hao Yaoqi, a traitor.

Therefore, these two families have already made preparations.To report to the horse, Lin Yi's men and horses over there have already attacked the city on a large scale.There were a total of 6000 thieves in these two counties, and four generals came out in full force, heading straight to the rear of Lin Yi's team.

The distance between these three counties is tens of miles, so the two teams of them reached the range of the inner county in the blink of an eye.

Here, Lin Yi received the report as soon as the thieves from those two places left the city.

Ji Dong immediately ordered that Gan Bao's standard battalion be responsible for dealing with the rogues from Xinye, while Lin Yi led a battalion of more than 1000 guards to deal with the rogues from Xichuan.Dongsheng's Musketeer Battalion still stayed under the city of Neixiang, and as soon as the people in the city came out, the Musketeer Battalion retreated immediately.

When the two troops of Liu Zei arrived, their three battalions acted in unison.

The soldiers of the three battalions are all ready, so far, everything is developing according to Ji Dong's plan.

Shouts from east and west came from far and near, like a tide.Ji Dong knew it was time to act, and ordered: "The Musketeer Battalion is ready to move, and the Third Battalion and the Guard Battalion will attack!"

(End of this chapter)