I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 348
Chapter 348

Zhou Yuji realized that the pursuers behind him did not come after him, so he ordered to stop advancing.

Zhou Yuji's son, Zhou Ruhu, held a water bag and handed it to Zhou Yuji. Zhou Yuji reached out to take it, and found that the water bag was actually warm. Obviously, Zhou Ruhu put the water bag close to his body to warm it up.

Zhou Yuji asked with red eyes, "How is the situation now?"

Zhou Ru said with a wry smile, "Very bad!"

"How bad!"

"Ning Haijun suddenly joined the battle, and our situation of being outnumbered instantly reversed. They Ning Haijun is well-trained, brave and well-equipped. We..."

Zhou Ruhu didn't say anything, but Zhou Yuji also knew that the Jingying was actually a watchdog, bullying the common people, one was more fierce than the other, and if they fought more and less, their morale could be like a rainbow, but the problem was that they couldn't fight tough battles. When it comes to elites like Ning Haijun, they become impotent in an instant.

Zhou Jiyu said, "How many supplies and troops are there?"

"After a fierce battle, we lost thousands of people, and the rations we carried with us were only two steamed buns and seven or eight cakes, enough to last for two days!"

Zhou Ruhu smiled wryly and said: "There are only one of the four cannons left, only eleven shells left, and more than 130 catties of gunpowder."

Zhou Yuji frowned: "It's freezing cold now, so I have to eat more than usual. If you let go of this little food, you'll eat it all in one day!"

Zhou Ruhu said: "It should be enough for us to return to Beijing!"

"go back?"

Zhou Yuji shook his head and said: "We can't go back, just go back like this, we are dead!"

When Zhou Yuji found out that the person he was going to deal with was Gao Qiqian, he knew that this was a game specially set up for him and Gao Qiqian. When it failed, Zhou Yuji could only surrender to Zhang Fengyi, otherwise he would be the scapegoat, whether it was Cheng Shijie or No matter how high you dive, you won't let him go.

"There is no turning back when you open the bow. As long as Gao Qiqian is killed, our father and son, and these soldiers will have a way to survive!"

Zhou Yuji touched the secret message on his body. When he opened it, his face turned cold: "What a great gesture!"

"what?"

Zhou Ruhu looked at the words written on the secret letter: "General Soldier of Taiyuan Town?"

Zhou Yuji is now at the fourth rank. In fact, the guerrilla general is bigger than Cheng Shijie's original Ninghai garrison. It is equivalent to a general at the deputy division level. Commander of the Great Military Region.

As a pure general, Zhou Yuji did not want to be anyone's dog, whether it was Zhang Fengyi or Wen Tiren. He was only loyal to the Ming court and the emperor.His source of information is mainly public opinion, and scholar-bureaucrats control public opinion. In Zhou Yuji's understanding, Cheng Shijie is not a good person, but a warlord who listens to orders but not propaganda, and is also an arrogant and domineering warlord.

Cheng Shijie colluded with Gao Qiqian, worked in collusion, deceived the emperor, sold officials to nobles, was nepotism, and killed Gao Qiqian, an eunuch. For Zhou Yuji, there was no psychological burden at all.

"go back!"

"Why go back?"

"If you don't go back, we attacked the Ninghai Navy Supervising Army. The emperor will punish you. You and my father and son will die, and the family will be implicated!"

Zhou Yuji said: "They may not think that we will turn around and go back!"

In this way, Zhou Yuji took more than a thousand remnants, one by one, and returned along the original road. It took most of the night to finally arrive at the camp where Gao Qiqian was.

Of course, this camp is mainly to protect Ning Haijun's transportation supplies, mainly food. Three to four hundred Ning Haijun soldiers guard the huge convoy, using the large cars as a wall to form a car wall.

The oval-shaped car city has watchtowers built at the four corners, and huge whale oil lamps are lit on the watchtowers, which are as bright as day.

Zhou Yuji looked at this scene and knew that there was no way he could get close to Ning Haijun's temporary camp. Fortunately, he still had an artillery gun. Zhou Yuji took the telescope and finally discovered the high-rise and dive tent.

As the Ning Navy, almost all equipment and utensils are unified. Whether it is the tents of the young and strong peasants or the tents of the guards, they are all uniform and very eye-catching.

However, Gao Qiqian is actually holding a huge tent. After all, Gao Qiqian is the supervisor of Ning Haijun. In theory, he is the second person with real power after Cheng Shijie. Regarding the treatment of the army, he can't get involved in anything about Ning Haijun's affairs.

This is also the tacit understanding between Gao Qiqian and Cheng Shijie.

"See that biggest tent?"

"I see!"

"Aim at it and smash this tent!"

"Father, in case, there is no high dive in here!"

"That's fate, we father and son must admit it!"

……

Gao Qiqian is a smart person, but the problem is that smart people tend to go to extremes, he thought for a long time, and thought about people who could endanger him, including Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen, Wang Zhixin, Lu Jiucheng, Han Zanzhou, Li Guofu, Xu Jinzhong and other eunuchs Once again, he still hadn't figured out who was attacking him.

Either there is no motive, or there is motive but no strength. In fact, in the entire inner court, there are only two people who can threaten Gao Qiqian's status. One is Cao Huazhuan and the other is Wang Chengen.

But the problem is, he didn't receive any news. Cao Huachun reached out to the Jingying and Yumajian. Although Gao Qiqian is not in the capital during this time, he has money, and some people are willing to work for him. His news is quite well informed. , After thinking about it for most of the night, I didn't figure out what was going on.

Gao Qiqian decided to wait for dawn, follow Ning Haijun's transport team and under the escort of Ning Haijun, he arrived at Cheng Shijie's side. Only with Cheng Shijie could he sleep peacefully.

"Godfather, it's getting late, let's rest!"

Zhang Muzhi adjusted the charcoal stove to a higher level, and carefully checked whether the charcoal gas was leaking.

Lie high and lie on the soft couch: "Go down and rest too!"

As soon as Gao Qiqian finished speaking, he heard a loud noise coming from outside.

When Gao Qiqian heard the sound of the cannon, he subconsciously wanted to put on his shoes.

However, at this moment, he just sat up, and a nail was knocked off by a shell, and hit Gao Qiqian's chest, Gao Qiqian opened his mouth, and did not say anything, a large mouthful of blood spewed out of his mouth.If he got up high and stayed still on the soft couch, the nail would fly over a foot in front of him at most.

However, there are not so many ifs in this world.

Gao Qiqian died, being pierced by a nail.

This nail was a nail on a carriage more than ten meters away. A cannonball hit the carriage and blew the nail away, accurately hitting Gao Qiqiu in this big tent.

The artillery under Zhou Yuji's command only had time to fire one shell, and before they even had time to fire the second shell, dozens of Ning Navy cavalry rushed towards the artillery position. Zhou Yuji looked at the fire dragon rising from the sky, and his first reaction was to run .

In this night attack, two soldiers of Ning Haijun were scratched by the sawdust blown up by the shells, and a young man was left with an extra hole in his buttocks by the sawdust.

The killing effect of this shell is nothing more than that, that is to say, this shell caused four casualties in Ning Haijun, and Ning Haijun even counted young and strong civilian husbands, and injured three people. The only death in battle was the death of Ning Haijun's supervisor.

Zhou Yuji was not sure, until the guards around Gao Qiqian were crying, he still couldn't believe that he would have such good luck.

Zhou Yuji saw with his own eyes that Gao Qiqian's body was loaded, so he returned to Zhang Fengyi.

As Gao Qiqian was successfully killed, the cabinet rejoiced.

But, in fact, when this news reached Cheng Shijie's ears, Cheng Shijie was just a little regretful, after all, Gao Qiqian was quite sensible after working with Gao Qiqian for so many years.

Gao Qiqian is dead, and the more than 100 million taels he saved in the Liaodong Bank are cheaper than the Liaodong Bank. Although it is possible for Gao Qiqian’s godson to get Gao Qiqian’s passbook, he does not have a password. Zhang Muzhi still needs to prove the password, and Gao Qiqian authorized him.

Of course, it is impossible for a dead person to authorize.

As for the relationship between Emperor Chongzhen and Cheng Shijie.

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was more anxious than Cheng Shijie. An investigation into Gao Qiqian's death had not yet been launched. The supervisor who replaced Gao Qiqian was also selected by Emperor Chongzhen. Li Guofu served as the new supervisor of Ning Haijun.

This Li Guofu is the adopted son of Han Zanzhou, the eunuch of Nanjing Sili Supervisor, and he has won the trust of Emperor Chongzhen.

When Cheng Shijie saw Li Guofu, he was slightly taken aback.

To be fair, Cheng Shijie has met many eunuchs. These eunuchs all have a distinctive feature, they are thin and short. Both Cao Huachun and Gao Qiqian, including Wang Chengen, are less than 1.7 meters tall.

But Li Guofu is different. He is at least 1.7 meters eight, just a little shorter than Cheng Shijie. Armed came to meet Cheng Shijie.

"Your servant Li Guofu, please pay your respects to your consort!"

Li Guofu is also a fine person, he is not like Gao Qiqian, at least Gao Qiqian is in front of Cheng Shijie, he will never call himself a slave, but call our family or me, but Li Guofu is a slave when he comes up.

No matter how high their rank, eunuchs are the emperor's domestic slaves. No matter how high his official position is, Cheng Shijie cannot become the eunuch's master without the status of Prince Consort, and he has no power to order the eunuchs.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie is not only the Crown Prince Taibao, Hai Guogong, Governor of Nine Frontiers, Governor of Zuo, General Zhenglu, Commander of the Ning Navy, and Governor of Liaodong, he is also the husband-in-law of Princess Chongming.

Although Princess Chongming has no real power, she is the younger sister of Emperor Chongzhen. She is the master of the eunuch, and it is reasonable for Li Guofu to call himself a slave to Cheng Shijie.

"Eunuch Li, you can't do this!"

Cheng Shijie didn't relax his vigilance because of Li Guofu's modesty and low profile. The more arrogant and domineering the person, the easier it is to deal with. After all, a dog that bites doesn't bark, and a dog that doesn't bark bites people is hard to guard against.

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "I have cooperated with Eunuch Gao for many years, I never thought that Eunuch Gao is separated from heaven and man, I will write a letter to His Majesty, and ask the third division to investigate strictly, if the real culprit is not caught, I will never stop! I don’t know Eunuch Li, have you heard any rumors?”

"It is said that Mr. Wu, the former cabinet assistant, had to hang himself because of the coercion of Eunuch Gao. Therefore, Mr. Wu's clan son, Wu Liang, who is now the young minister of Dali Temple, was dissatisfied, recruited dead men, and assassinated Eunuch Gao. Now Wu Liang Already surrendered..."

Before Li Guofu finished speaking, Cheng Shijie understood that this was really a series of loops, and Wu Zongda was already dead, so he should maximize the benefits of his death and bear the charge of assassinating Gao Qiqian.

Cheng Shijie said: "Eunuch Gao is gone, and things have to be done!"

"The son-in-law means..."

"The inspectorate at Wusongkou is worth several million taels of tax money every year. Your Majesty's internal treasury can count on those tax money. This is the most important thing!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Li Guofu and said: "If this matter is done poorly, a thousand efforts will not be worth it!"

Li Guofu also knew that it was impossible to reach out and enter Ning Haijun, and Cheng Shijie threw him a large piece of fat when he came up. If he didn't eat it, he might be the next person to die.

In fact, Li Guofu did not believe that Wu Liang sent someone to kill Gao Qiqian. Gao Qiqian had three or four hundred personal guards, well-equipped and well-trained, and hundreds of Ning Haijun soldiers guarding the camp. People were killed by a cannonball.It's so strange, in Li Guofu's view, Gao Qiqian must have done something he shouldn't have done, angered Cheng Shijie, and was arranged by Cheng Shijie to kill him.

Naturally, Li Guofu didn't want to take it upon himself to suffer.

After Li Guofu met Cheng Shijie in Yanqing County, he immediately returned to Beijing and told Emperor Chongzhen that Jiangnan was the top priority, and he left Beijing immediately in order to prevent chaos in Jiangnan.

Wen Tiren miscalculated.

Of course, he didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen actually had no other choice now, he still needed Cheng Shijie, not to mention a suspicion, as long as Cheng Shijie didn't directly raise the flag to rebel, Emperor Chongzhen would recognize it.

……

When the main force of Ning Haijun arrived at Shenyang City, they encountered huge trouble. Jiannu knew that they had no way out, and if they fought in the wild, they would only die more miserably.Fortunately, Shenyang City has undergone renovations, especially the city walls have been heightened and reinforced during this period, just like Cheng Shijie did in Baihe Valley, and the city walls were reinforced with ice walls.

Ning Haijun's artillery shells fell on the city wall, and at most the ice wall was broken into pieces. But the problem was that as soon as the ice wall on the city wall was blown up, Jiannu would immediately pour hot water on it to form an ice wall again.

When the artillery could not destroy the city wall, and Ning Haijun was about to take approaching blasting, the rolling stones and trees on the city kept falling down, and they would die if they touched them, and they would be disabled if they touched them. The soldiers of Ning Haijun who were struggling to climb up had no chance to dodge!
Rounds of boulders and trees kept rolling down, rumbling, and suppressed screams one after another. Many soldiers who were hit rolled down the mountain with the boulders and trees, and some even turned into a ball of fleshy mud. It was just a test Sexual offense, there are 400 people fell there.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Yu hurriedly stopped: "Stop attacking!"

"General, what's the matter?"

"You can't fight like this!"

(End of this chapter)