Brother Zhu Youxiao

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On August [-]th, when the fireworks that represent the Mid-Autumn Festival bloom over the cities of Daming, perhaps many people do not know that this will be the best day in the next few years.

At Haishi on the [-]th, the prince Zhu Jianhuan launched a rebellion. Seven battalions including Wanping Camp, Daxing Camp, Changping Camp, Tianjin Camp, Gu'an Camp, Zhuozhou Camp, and Donggong Camp entered Beijing under a false edict, and successively captured Yongding Gate, Zuo'an Gate, and Right Gate. There are six gates including Anmen, Guangqumen and Guang'anmen.

At the same time, Zhu Jianhuan falsely preached an imperial decree, claiming that the king of Wu Zhu Jianzheng, his chief assistant Li Ziren, and Qin Guogong Li Shoubi rebelled.

Due to the sudden incident, the soldiers and horses of the battalions in Beijing did not know the situation and did not dare to send troops rashly.

At three o'clock in Haishi, Wu Gengyao, the governor of Jinyiwei Nanzhen, learned of the prince's rebellion, and immediately ordered someone to notify Emperor Wushou who was celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the Forbidden City, and at the same time ordered martial law at all gates of the Forbidden City.

At four quarters, Emperor Wushou learned that the prince had launched a rebellion, and immediately scolded Chuanxin Jinyiwei, not believing that the prince would rebel.

At the critical moment, Chief Assistant Li Ziren and Qin Guogong Li Shoubi repeatedly inquired, and after confirming that they were correct, they immediately prepared to use the imperial city as the foundation to guard Emperor Wushou.

However, at this time, three gates of the imperial city had been lost, so Qin Guogong Li Shoubi restrained the fourth battalion of the Forbidden City in an attempt to escort Emperor Wushou to break through.

Before the wires were cut, the first assistant, Li Ziren, sent an urgent telegram to the soldiers and horses in Beijing, demanding to put down the rebels.

After the telegram was sent, the wires and cables of the Forbidden City were cut, and the rebels besieged the Forbidden City. The Ming army was frustrated in breaking through, so they had to retreat to the Forbidden City and sealed off the city gate.

Emperor Wushou sent people to search the East Palace, but the East Palace was already empty.

At four o'clock in Haishi, Zhu Jianhuan led seven battalions of soldiers and horses to surround the Forbidden City. After confirming that the cables were cut, Zhu Jianhuan sent a telegram in the name of Emperor Wushou, demanding that all the troops in the five-army governor's mansion should be removed under the pretext of "King Wu holding Emperor Wushou" as an excuse. Going up straight without moving lightly, all the troops entered the king of Jingqin.

After receiving the telegram, Zhang Bingzhong and Luo Fu, who had already prepared, deceived the soldiers, and each led ten battalions of soldiers and horses to Beijing by train under the pretext of "Wu Wang took Wu to hunt the Emperor".

The three governors of the Western Army, the Northern Army, and the Navy did not dare to move lightly, and insisted on seeing the imperial edict of Emperor Wushou.

The move of the three caught Zhu Jianhuan's heart, and at this time Li Huanglai had already taken over the Armament Academy.

It's just that when Li Huang came to imagine that he could see the hidden ordnance of the Armament Academy, what stood in front of him was a steel gate with a thickness of several feet.

The door was three feet high and more than six feet wide, and a cart was needed to open and close the door. There were three secret keys in the door locks, which were on the emperor, chief assistant, and military chief.

Now all three of them are besieged in the Forbidden City, Li Huanglai can only look at the door and sigh.

He left [-] soldiers to guard the place, and then he took more than [-] soldiers guarding the Armament Academy to the capital.

On his way back to the capital, Zhu Jianhuan, who was besieging the Forbidden City, saw Emperor Wushou who was boarding the Huangji Gate.

Zhu Jianhuan signaled Emperor Wushou to abdicate, but Emperor Wushou yelled, "Shuzi conspired against him, and everyone will be punished!" and shouted to the soldiers outside the city, saying that those who put down their weapons should not be blamed.

The soldiers under the city looked at each other with distressed expressions on their faces.

They didn't want to rebel. The reason why they appeared here was because the general in the army told them that Emperor Wushou was held hostage by King Wu.

Who would have thought that when they came here, everyone would discover that the facts were different from the orders they had received, and they would become rebels without knowing it.

Seeing that the soldiers in the army wavered, Zhu Jianhuan shouted loudly, saying, "The army is already a rebel army, and the crime is unforgivable. Only by capturing the Forbidden City, can there be a chance of life. If the Forbidden City is captured, the officers and officers of the army will be promoted to three ranks!"

As soon as these words came out, the original wavering of the lieutenant soldiers disappeared in an instant.

For ordinary soldiers from the ninth rank with a salary of only 20 taels, the result after being promoted to the third rank is that the salary soars to 120 taels of the eighth rank, which is six times the income.

Wealth is right in front of you, and you have become a rebel, it seems that there is only one way to go to the dark.

At six o'clock in Haishi, with Prince Zhu Jianhuan's "siege", more than [-] Ming troops from the Seventh Battalion suddenly began to attack the city.

The Forbidden City, the palace built for 350 years, did not escape the baptism of artillery fire in the end.

Emperor Wushou, who was famous the day before, could only retreat to Jingshan in the north under the guard of his soldiers.

Since it is forbidden to store shells in the imperial city, the Ming army had artillery but no shells, so they could only be beaten passively.

At three o'clock, the rebel artillery bombarded the palace wall, and more than [-] rebels filed in. Qin Guogong Li Shoubi led the army and retreated while fighting.

At the critical moment, the two battalions of Tongzhou and Zhuozhou jointly bombarded the [-] rebels outside the Xuanwu Gate with [-] soldiers and horses in Beicheng.

Seeing this, Li Ziren, the chief assistant, immediately led the army to break through and escorted Emperor Wushou out of the Xuanwu Gate.

Knowing that Xuanwumen was attacked, Zhu Jianhuan also ordered the army to abandon Li Shoubi and pursue Emperor Wushou.

Li Ziren escorted Emperor Wushou and the King of Wu to retreat to Beicheng, and sent people to use the radio to contact the armies inside and outside Beijing.

After learning that the Eastern Army and the Southern Army responded to the prince's call to join Queen Jingqin, Li Ziren immediately felt that the two armies had rebelled, so he prepared to escort Emperor Wushou to the North Station of the capital, and fled to Xi'an by train.

However, at the critical moment, after Li Huanglai learned the news of Emperor Wushou's breakout, he immediately changed his target and occupied the North Station of the capital.

That night, the people in the entire capital were frightened by the sound of guns and guns. Li Ziren led more than a thousand remnants of soldiers to escort Emperor Wushou and more than [-] officials who participated in the Mid-Autumn Banquet to the North Railway Station. After the occupation, immediately drive the vehicle to Juyongguan.

Due to insufficient preparation of cars and trucks, many ministers had to ride bicycles they regarded as antiques in order to survive.

At the sixth quarter of the hour, Qin Guogong Li Shoubi successfully broke through from Xizhimen and fled south to Zhuozhou. There were only more than [-] people in the fourth battalion of the imperial city around him.

At seven quarters, Tongzhou camp, Zhuozhou camp and Beicheng soldiers and horses were defeated by the rebels. Zhu Jianhuan couldn't find Emperor Wushou for a while. Taking Emperor Wushou hostage and fleeing, the prince had no choice but to supervise the country to quell the rebellion.

Zhu Jianhuan followed Luo Changgong's suggestion, and not long after the telegram was sent, Li Huanglai sent someone to inform Emperor Wushou to flee to Juyongguan.

Upon hearing the news, Zhu Jianhuan sent Li Huanglai to pursue immediately, and he led his troops to catch up later.

At the third quarter of Maoshi (5:45), the first assistant Li Ziren escorted Emperor Wushou to Juyongguan. At this time, Juyongguan was already a county with a population of more than [-]. .

Yan Jikuan heard the news of the prince's rebellion, and immediately ordered people to open the city gate to welcome Emperor Wushou, and immediately arranged for a train to send Emperor Wushou to Xi'an, while he himself took a thousand soldiers and horses from the county and a Thousands of yamen servants guard the city.

Emperor Wushou promoted Yan Jikuan to be the governor of Juyongguan, and asked him to act according to circumstances. If he surrendered, he could turn back in the future, so he must protect himself.

At seven o'clock, Li Huanglai led a battalion of soldiers and horses to the city of Juyongguan, and ordered Yan Jikuan to open the city.

Hearing this, Li Huanglai immediately ordered the whole army to shell Juyongguan.

During this period, the soldiers and horses and the chief secretary's office all over the country were very chaotic. It was not clear whether King Wu had kidnapped Emperor Wushou or whether the prince had rebelled and forced the palace.

It wasn't until Emperor Wushou arrived in Taiyuan at noon that he sent a telegram to all provinces in his own voice, and at the same time Li Shoubi, who had fled to Zhuozhou, also sent a telegram together. Whether the emperor was held hostage.

At three moments later, Sun Tingjun, the governor of the Northern Army, responded to Emperor Wushou's call, and personally took the train from Anxi to Xi'an, and sent troops to Taiyuan to protect Emperor Wushou.

In less than five minutes, the Western Army, the Navy, and some local commanders of Shangzhi responded to Emperor Wushou and Li Shoubi one after another.

In the next hour, the chief envoys of various provinces responded to Emperor Wushou one after another. Obviously, the prince's past actions were not popular among the people. In the hearts of most officials, unless it was confirmed that King Wu had kidnapped Emperor Wushou, they would never support the prince.

However, compared with them, the Prince faction who was promoted during the period when the prince supervised the country unconditionally chose to trust the prince, believing that King Wu hijacked Emperor Wushou and fled westward.

Such trust led to the rebellion of several battalions of soldiers and horses in Shanxi. Emperor Wushou learned of the news and fled to Xi'an with his officials.

At five o'clock in Shenshi, Juyongguan was breached, and Yan Jikuan was captured to the front of the battle.

Zhu Jianhuan saw that he blocked his army for four hours with only [-] soldiers, horses and yamen servants, he loved his talents and asked him to surrender, but Yan Jikuan yelled at him.

Yan Jikuan angrily scolded Zhu Jianhuan as "unfaithful and unfilial". Zhu Jianhuan was furious and ordered his left and right sides to smash his teeth, but Yan Jikuan continued to insult him vaguely.

Zhu Jianhuan ordered people to pull out his tongue, cut off his limbs, and insulted Yan Jikuan as a "rotten Confucian".

Yan Jikuan sprayed Zhu Jianhuan's face with blood in his mouth. Zhu Jianhuan was so angry that he ordered his left and right to throw him into the well in the city and drown him.

After the rebels left, the people of Juyongguan fished out Yan Jikuan's body from the water and buried it in Dongshan.

Fearing that the rebels would return to open the coffin and flog the corpse, no one dared to erect a monument or worship him.

At the time of You, learning that Emperor Wushou had fled to Xi'an, and that Li Shoubi had gathered troops in Zhuozhou, Zhu Jianhuan, who was worried about the loss of the capital, withdrew back to Beijing. When he passed Juyongguan on the way, he had people seal up the well where Yan Jikuan's body was discarded.

On the seventeenth day of the eighth month, more than a thousand officials, including Emperor Wushou, his first assistant Li Ziren, King Wu Zhu Jianxuan, twelve princes, princesses, and more than [-] officials, arrived in Xi'an.

Emperor Wushou lived in the former Qin Palace, and at the same time sent a telegram to all the vassals in the world, ordering them to keep their own place and not to participate in the East Palace rebellion.

On the [-]th, Emperor Wushou abolished Zhu Jianhuan as the crown prince, and made Wu Wang Zhu Jianhuang the crown prince. He also appointed Qin Guogong Li Shoubi as the governor of the five armies, and ordered the southern and northern armies to return to their bases.

In order to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, Emperor Wushou ordered Li Shoubi to take back the Armament Academy in Mentougou as soon as possible.

On the same day, Emperor Wushou learned of Yan Jikuan's death, and posthumously named him Duke of Lu, posthumously titled "Wenzheng".

At the same time, Zhu Jianhuan still spread the rumor that King Wu held Emperor Wushou hostage.

On the [-]th, the vassals responded to Emperor Wushou, ignoring Zhu Jianhuan's telegram.

However, even though the feudal vassals did not support Zhu Jianhuan, the contacts left by Zhu Jianhuan during the period of supervising the country still formed a huge force. They all believed in Zhu Jianhuan's remarks and believed that King Wu was holding Emperor Wushou hostage, so they supported Zhu Jianhuan to suppress the rebellion.

Shanyu and Modong generals of the Northern Army rebelled, Shangzhi Shandong and some Shanxi battalions rebelled, openly supporting Prince Zhu Jianhuan.

In order to support Zhu Jianhuan, they moved out the "prince system" in "Emperor Ming Zu Xun", thinking that there was no precedent for the abolition of the crown prince in Ming Dynasty. Changing the king of Wu really made them unbelievable.

So far, there are four provinces in Northeast China, four provinces in Tianzhu, and sixteen provinces including Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiaozhi, and Luchuan in the provinces that supported Zhu Jianhuan's remarks.

If you count the lesser half of Shanxi and Northern Zhili that are currently occupied, as well as Shuofang in northern Shaanxi and other places, the rebels have already occupied 93 provinces, with 28 battalions, totaling [-].

Fortunately, the Chief Commissioners of Jiugang, Nanzhou, Yingzhou, Xiaoxiyang, Kunlun, and Middle East did not follow the rebellion, otherwise the situation that Ming would have to face would be unprecedentedly difficult.

Of course, the most difficult thing for Emperor Wushou was that the Armament Academy in Mentougou was occupied by Zhu Jianhuan.

Emperor Wu Shou knew better than anyone what was inside the Military Armament Academy. Once Zhu Jianhuan found a way to open the secret storehouse of the Armory Academy, the Daming Society would be in jeopardy.

Fortunately, at this time, the two sides have not yet started a formal battle, so Daming still has time to prepare.

However, this situation began to become clearer as time went by.

At the end of August, Emperor Wushou mobilized the Western Army, the Northern Army and the Navy to station troops on sea and land. There were still 130 battalions still supporting Emperor Wushou, with a total of 42 soldiers and horses, but 12 of them were stationed in the western frontier. move.

Judging from the situation, Ming's advantage is still very obvious, and a large number of soldiers among the rebels are unwilling to be coerced into becoming rebels, and there are not a few soldiers who defect and return to justice every day.

If this stalemate continues, Zhu Jianhuan will become a lonely family sooner or later, it seems that Emperor Wu Shou has no need to worry.

However, in order to prevent Zhu Jianhuan from opening the Armament Academy, Emperor Wushou resolutely ordered the navy to land in Tianjin, and Qin Guogong Li Shoubi led the army northward to recover Mentougou.

The reason why Zhu Jianhuan did not surrender now is because of Mentougou, so as long as Mentougou is taken down, all problems will be solved.

On the ninth day of September, Emperor Wushou issued a call to action, telling the rebel soldiers to put down their weapons and surrender. If the generals who accidentally supported the prince were willing to surrender because they didn't know before, they could let the past go. The news that King Wu held hostage.

On the same day, the East China Sea Navy bombarded Tianjin Port, and Qin Guogong Li Shoubi led [-] troops from Huguang, Henan and other provinces in the northern expedition.

Yue Jun, governor of the Western Army, led an army to attack the four provinces of Tianzhu, and Sun Tingjun, governor of the Northern Army, led an army of [-] to attack Shanxi and Sichuan.

Luo Fu, governor of the Southern Army, and his son Luo Yun guarded the defense lines of Tianzhu, Yangtze River, and Xiangjiang River respectively. Zhang Bingzhong, governor of the Eastern Army, led his troops to defend the defense lines of Mobei, Shaanxi, and North Zhili.

At the same time, Zhu Jianhuan ordered people to continuously blast the walls of the military secret warehouse, trying to take out the advanced weapons stored by the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

The vassals saw the war started, and the Qin, Zhou, Shu, Jin, Zhao and other big vassals in India, who were in charge of India, came forward one after another, please send troops to support the northern and western armies, but Emperor Wushou worried that the vassals would take the opportunity to cultivate their own in the four provinces of Tianzhu. power and therefore not approved.

On the tenth day of September, Sun Tingjun, the governor of the Northern Army, led his army into Sichuan and captured Jianmen Pass. The defenders in Mianyang, Chengdu, and Chongqing immediately surrendered upon seeing this.

At the same time, because the father of Yue Jun, the governor of the Western Army, was Yue Zhongqi, the former governor of the Southern Army, most of the soldiers in the four provinces of Tianzhu surrendered without resistance, but they were quickly suppressed by Luo Yun, who was defending the western front.

On September [-]th, Li Shoubi led an armored truck into Mentougou, but was repelled by artillery groups on the mountains around Mentougou.

On September [-]th, Zhang Bingzhong, the governor of the Eastern Army, mobilized all the soldiers from the Northeast to enter Beizhili, and Li Shoubi was repelled to Baoding.

The Navy cannot attack Beijing because it does not have enough armored trucks.

On September 25, Qi Wang Zhu Bomu sent a telegram to Xi'an, hoping to end Qi and recover Mentougou in time, but Emperor Wushou refused.

Knowing that Emperor Wushou refused to allow Qi State to participate in the war, Li Ziren, the first assistant, went to the Shu repeatedly to ask Emperor Wushou to approve the Qi State to send troops, and Wu Wang Zhu Jianhuang also went to the Shu Shu to agree.

However, Emperor Wushou, who was betrayed by his eldest son, could not listen to any advice at this moment, and insisted on relying on Daming's own strength to suppress the rebellion.

The time has entered October, and the respective strengths of both sides are seriously insufficient. The Ming Dynasty can still recruit troops in the name of "countering the rebellion", but the rebel army has already begun to rely on high military salaries for conscription.

The armored vehicles and artillery of the Western Army and the Northern Army in the Central Plains were seriously insufficient, and one-third of the Shangzhi participated in the rebellion. Therefore, the front line has been stalemate in Juyongguan, Baoding, Tianjin, Gu'an, and Taiyuan.

In addition, with the appearance of large-scale armored trucks led by Eastern Army Governor Zhang Bingzhong on the Hetao Plain, the Northern Army could only rely on the Great Wall and the Northern Shaanxi Plateau for passive defense.

Although Yue Jun from the southwest led his army to break into India, Luo Yun, the deputy governor of the Southern Army, had a stalemate with him at the junction of the Ganges.

In the twelfth lunar month, after more than three months of military expansion, the Ming army expanded to 92, and the rebel army expanded to 83. The ordnance in the ordnance bureaus in various places was squandered by both sides, and most of the hundreds of millions of taels of savings accumulated by the previous emperors of the Ming Dynasty were also squandered. .

On the fifth day of the first lunar month in the 12th year of Wushou, the rebel army opened the secret warehouse of the Armament Academy, and a large number of ordnance, materials and production lines stored in it that had never been seen before were moved out.

Knowing that the secret library of the Armament Academy had been opened, Emperor Wushou ordered to recapture Beijing at all costs.

On the fifth day of February, the Ming army launched the "North China Campaign" on the northern front. 24 Ming troops attacked Beijing under the command of Qin Guogong Li Shoubi.

At first, the Ming army attacked Fangshan, Gu'an, Tongzhou and other places several times. The rebels retreated steadily, and Beijing's first line of defense was broken through.

On February 12, Zhu Jianhuan urgently dispatched Zhang Bingzhong and his [-] rebels to return to Beijing from Hetao.

On February [-]th, the Ming army recaptured Mentougou, but Zhu Jianhuan transported many scholars and all supplies inside to the Shenyang Ordnance Bureau.

On the first day of March, under Zhang Bingzhong's suggestion, Zhu Jianhuan decided to abandon the Beijing area and withdraw to Shenyang, in exchange for time with strategic depth.

On April [-]th, the Ming army won the North China Campaign, regained the entire territory of Beizhili except Shanhaiguan, and wiped out the [-] rebels entrenched in Shandong.

Emperor Wushou, who was far away in Xi'an, got the news, and immediately rewarded many generals who participated in the battle, and each soldier in the army rewarded fifty Mingliang.

On the second day of May, Sun Tingjun, the governor of the Northern Army, regained Sichuan, Huguang, and Guizhou, and attacked Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Luo Fu immediately led many ordnance from the two major ordnance bureaus in Guangzhou and Kunming to Luchuan, and deployed heavy troops to confront Sun Tingjun in northern Guangdong, Yunnan and other places.

During this period, there were continuous internal uprisings in the southern army, but they were all suppressed by Luo Fu and his son.

In July, after a simple three-month rest, Emperor Wushou decided to launch the "Northeast Campaign", determined to regain the Northeast, and at the same time launched the "Pingnan Campaign", vowing to put down the rebels within a year.

This kind of courage shocked the feudal lords and the European countries. After all, in this era, if you want to launch two battles with 10 people in one go, there are really few countries that can do it.

On the second day of August, Yue Jun, the governor of the Western Army, led his army to break through the Ganges defense line of the Southern Army. At the same time, Sun Tingjun of the Northern Army also broke through the defense line of northern Guangdong, regaining Guangdong and Guangxi with difficulty.

On the [-]th day of August, the navy landed in Jiaozhi. The narrow terrain of Jiaozhi was difficult to defend against naval guns. In addition, the southern army of Jiaozhi had Ming Dynasty in mind, so the whole province surrendered at the beginning of the navy's landing.

By August 20th, the southern rebels were only in Yunnan and Luchuan provinces, with less than [-] troops.

Emperor Wushou was overjoyed when he heard the victory, and restored the title of the Sun family. He canonized Sun Tingdu as the Duke of Dai, and at the same time canonized Yue Jun as the Duke of Shu.

At the same time, Qin Guogong Li Shoubi led 30 Ming troops to attack the northeast, while Zhang Bingzhong chose to abandon the coastal towns because the Ming army had control of the sea, and focused his campaign on Liaoyang and Shenyang.

Therefore, shortly after the start of the Northeast Campaign, the Liaoshen Defense War officially started.

The 30 Ming army went straight to the Liaoshen area, which was defended by 23 people, and both sides were ready for a protracted war.

This battle lasted from August to the twelfth lunar month of the same year. Many soldiers of the Ming army were injured and retired due to the severe cold in the northeast, and a large number of people died in the flames of war.

It was not until March of the 13th year of Wushou that the Ming army was able to capture Liaoyang and launch a siege to Shenyang.

At this time, there were only 23 Ming troops in the Northern Expedition, and only 15 northern rebels, of which [-] were new soldiers.

On the second day of April, the defense of Shenyang started.

Before the war, the Ming army, from the generals to the civilians, seemed to think that the counter-insurgency was coming to an end.

However, when the Ming army launched an offensive at noon on the second day of April, thirty monsters equipped with heavy armor and long barrels appeared in front of everyone.

Followed by more than ten big black birds flying from the north.

When the big black bird flew over the Ming army and dropped black bombs one after another, orange-red flames bloomed on the battlefield...