13. Soldiers approaching Zhongwei Bridge
"These troops have entered Duji Road and are ready to support the Central Plains and protect the canal transport at any time. Don't mobilize them easily. Speaking of canal transport, why hasn't the wealth from the southeast of the Jianghuai River been transported yet!" The emperor was very anxious when he talked about this.
This batch of two taxes is the life-saving money of the court now.
However, there was no news from Bao Ji.
It is said that it was a ship that was entrusted and was inexplicably blocked from Chen Shaoyou in Huainan.
Now that Li Xilie rebelled, Chen Shaoyou and Han Huan's attitudes were also ambiguous. The emperor was like an ant on a hot pan and couldn't help but regret it. If Liu Yan still had the power of power now, why would this be? At the end of the desperate situation, he said to Lu Qi: "There should be a copy of cloth in the Zuozangku, and take it out and let Jingzhao Yin send it to Li Huaiguang's troops."
In Fuping County, Li Huaiguang summoned all the soldiers of the Changwu Army alone and said to them openly: "I know you have complaints, and I have them in my heart! We come from all over the world, and all the foreign and Han ethnic groups have them. We are in war and sacrifice our lives. They just want to have food and clothing for their families. But today, my son was deceived by treacherous ministers and drove us to fight one after another. So far, the cost of the supplies and funeral expenses have not been distributed to us, let alone rewards. Now there is no money, no food, no cloth, so we are asked to rush to Lantian to fight against Li Xilie in Huaixi. Everyone said you are willing to give up!"
"Not to give up!" More than ten thousand soldiers in Changwu City let out a roar that shook the earth, and the resentment accumulated over a long period of time completely burst out.
"I am the commander of the entire army. I can't help but see my children like this, so I, Li Huaiguang, will take everyone to Weiqiao in the capital today. No, I will also divide my troops to Dongweiqiao. What should I do? I advise the saints in the palace in the city, if the saints are still bewitched by treacherous ministers, then we will occupy Dongweiqiao, take the world and gather the wealth that we have accumulated there."
"I'll listen to the general!" Countless arms raised.
In the Shence Army camp next to him, Da Xi Xiaojun, the general under Li Huaiguang, carried a blood-dripping sword, Yang Huiyuan and Zhang Juji's head, walked out of the tent, and then raised the head high in the sunshine, with the blood in his cavity dripping down.
When they saw the four thousand Shen Ce soldiers at the head of the general, they were all so scared that they knelt down and shouted in unison that they wished to surrender.
"Don't be surprised when you are young. We will raise an army. We are just to clear the emperor and eliminate treacherous ministers. As long as your Majesty is willing to leave the palace to reply, we will not move every grass or tree in Chang'an City!"
In Li Huaiguang's tent, the judge Gao Ying, the grain and material commander Cui Zong, and the military commander Zhai Wenxiu, were all squatting together, surrounded by Changwu soldiers holding sharp blades. Then Yang Huiyuan and Zhang Juji's head were thrown in from outside.
"Li Huaiguang, you bastard, you are confused!" Gao Ying shouted angrily. He knew that Li Huaiguang was going to do something that could not be turned back.
"Judge Gao calms down, we have to do it." The soldiers in the tent shouted, and Qi Qi kowtowed Gao Ying and apologized.
Cui Zong was also pale, while Zhai Wenxiu screamed constantly, looking very frightened.
Then several soldiers rushed in, grabbed Zhai Wenxiu, pushed and shoved outside the tent. Zhai Wenxiu only saw the Changwu army connecting from head to tail, lined up and began to advance towards Jingyang, north of Chang'an City.
Li Huaiguang was riding his iron armor and rode on the horse to point his fingers to him, saying, "Zhai Junrong, you reported to impeach the military discipline of Changwu Army before. The soldiers were not convinced after hearing this. They were not full or warm in food, so what kind of military discipline was discussed? So I asked them to walk towards Zhongwei Bridge. If the saints still don't give us rewards, then Huaiguang I can only kill you to calm the morale of the army."
Zhai Wenxiu's legs immediately became weak and she knelt in front of Li Huaiguang's horse.
At this moment, Gao Yue had already rushed to Chongyifang, south of the Imperial College of Wubenfang, where Duan Xiushi's house was.
Duan Xiushi, who was idle at home, heard that Gao Yue suddenly came to find him, and was so shocked that she put on her clothes and got up.
"The envoy (Gao Yue still called Duan Xiushi as the envoy), the capital is now in danger, and there is a rebel Li Xilie in the southeast. Li Huaiguang from the river is also dissatisfied and attempts to break the verge!" Gao Yue gasped, followed Guo Xiaofeng behind him, and said this when he saw Duan Xiushi.
"What!" Duan Xiushi did not expect the situation to be so serious.
"How many Shen Ce still unites the children in Beijing?" Gao Yue hurriedly asked the second question.
Duan Xiushi sighed and shook his head, saying that there were originally 60,000 Shence troops inside and outside the capital, Li Sheng took away part, Liu Dexin took away part, Yang Huiyuan and Zhang Juji's troops joined Li Huaiguang's army to Heshuo, and Xing Junya, Zhu Zhongliang, Luo Yuanguang, and Shang Kegu entered Ge Shu Yao's camp to rescue Dongdu - where are there any soldiers left in the city.
"But didn't Bai Zhizhen get a lot of money?"
"Oh, silly kid, don't you know this yet? Bai Zhizhen has no choice. Now the people in Chang'an have been emptied, and they are all supplying the military camps just now. In fact, there are less than 5,000 soldiers in the city, and most of them are for the elderly and the weak. On weekdays, Bai Zhizhen just takes empty books and is in vain to deal with it."
Gao Yue thought that it was true. Only in Xianyang, Gao Chongwen's two thousand gods of war were actually achieved. Fortunately, he followed me in Fengtianying City.
Then Gao Yue said to Duan Xiushi: "If this is the case, the Holy Lord is afraid that he will not know. Li Huaiguang will have a mutiny in 788 years. Li Xilie attacked again. The capital could not be defended at all. Please call the envoy to Kaifuyi and the three corps at night, the Grand Governor of Yangzhou, the General of the Sanqi, the General of the Sanqi, Xiao Xin, the Grand Tutor Yan Lu Gong, the Minister of Rites Pan Yan, the Minister of Rites Linghu Yi, the Minister of War Xiao Fu, the General of Jinwu, and the General of the Right and Right Jinwu, and Zhang Guangsheng, to enter the Daming Palace in the East. Please ask the Lord to open the gate of the Yanying Palace, not to be too late!"
Duan Xiushi saw that Gao Yue didn't seem to be joking. After thinking for a while, he asked his son Duan Bolun to gather dozens of children in the family, hold a torch, and run around the streets of Chang'an City to summon everyone mentioned by Gao Yue.
During the Ming Dynasty, these ministers and generals realized the seriousness of the matter. Among them, Xiao Xin, the oldest, rode from Xuanyangfang to the outside of the Daming Palace on a horse, shouting to the soldiers of the Jinwu Guard who were guarding: "Li Huaiguang is going to offend Que, Li Huaiguang is going to offend Que!"
"How is this possible?" Then in Yanying Hall, the emperor was disbelief and said to the ministers, "I also appointed my subordinate Lu Qi yesterday to instruct Jingzhao Yin Wang Hong to go to Fuping today to reward Li Huaiguang's troops in the cloth from the Zuozang warehouse."
As a result, before the emperor finished speaking, Huo Zhongtang and Tan Zhizhong came over, with a terrified expression: "Your Majesty, Li Huaiguang's 20,000 troops have arrived at Zhongwei Bridge and approached the northern forbidden garden of the capital. I don't know what the intention is."
"Lu Qi ordered Wang Chong?" At this moment, Yan Zhenqing also noticed the most serious problem.
Because since Lu Qi framed the censor Yan Ying, he actually united the original enemies Yuan Xiu and Wang Chong, one for Guangluqing and the other for Jingzhao Yin, gathered from time to time and wanted to give Lu Qi some color.
So Yan Zhenqing suddenly realized and hurriedly picked up the tablet, "Your Majesty asked to send the imperial envoy to quickly return the army's Wang Xuan!"
"Why did you say this?" The emperor was still a little confused.
At this time, several other eunuchs from the hall came in and reported to the emperor that Prime Minister Lu Qi, Guan Bo heard that the emperor suddenly opened the pavilion and summoned him to listen.
Lu Qi could not tolerate the emperor discussing state affairs with others Yu Yanying Palace when he was not present.
Chapter completed!