General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 94
The thousand or so cavalry did not come straight to the capital, but stopped in a village outside the city.

"That's... our village?"

In less than half an hour, black smoke had already risen from the village.

Even though Ning Jue made most of the people move into the city ahead of time, it is impossible to move all the food and houses of the family to the city, and there are always some elderly people with handicapped legs who cannot enter the city.

Many people just watched helplessly that the village they had lived in all their lives turned into ruins.

Seeing the thicker black smoke outside the city, many people turned red-eyed.

"Don't look, hurry up and prepare for battle!"

After being yelled by the sergeant, order was restored on the city wall.

Upstairs above the city gate, Yang Shouqian stared at Yansui Deputy Commander Zhu Ji in astonishment.

"General Zhu, Kou Bo's capital is here, why hasn't he come out?!"

Zhu Ji stood in front of Yang Shouqian and cupped his hands.

"Yang Fuxian, Yansui is thousands of miles away from Beijing, and the final general only brought thousands of light cavalry, and he didn't even bring much armor."

"If you insist on going out of the city to meet the enemy at the end, there is nothing wrong with the end, but it doesn't matter if we lose, but if there is a mistake at the Anding Gate, something big will happen."

Yang Shouqian was about to speak when he sensed something was wrong.

"How many generals are there?"

Behind Zhu Ji, Feng Deng, Fu Fu and others also lowered their heads silently.

Obviously their situation is not much different from that of Zhu Ji. It is said that they are King Qin, but the defense of this town must not be compromised. The soldiers and horses of King Qin who entered Beijing are mainly Qingqi. Ji that came all the way from Shaanxi, it is already pretty good to be able to reach the capital in such a short time.

Zhu Ji was the first among the generals in front of Yang Shouqian to arrive.

The situation of the rest of the generals can be imagined.

Looking at the people in front of him, Yang Shouqian also reacted belatedly, and sat down on the chair.

"Someone wants me to die..."

Yang Shouqian's father, Yang Zhixue, was a top three Jinshi in the sixth year of Hongzhi, ranking 185th. This ranking basically missed the temple. After more than [-] years, he was the governor of Datong with the title of fourth-rank censor.

It wasn't until after Jiajing that Yang Zhixue gradually made his fortune, and finally became the Minister of the Ministry of Justice with the 30th place from the bottom of the top three. Without Jiajing, the Yang family would not be where it is today.

When Zeng Mi first went to Shuyi Fuhetao, Yang Shouqian was almost the only one who went to Shuchanghe.

In the current situation, Yang Shouqian had two choices.

He went out to battle, was defeated, Andingmen was in turmoil, and Yang Shouqian died.

When the bastard is impeached, Yang Shouqian is still going to die.

"Vice Constitution thinks deeply."

Zhu Ji took a meaningful look at Yang Shouqian, and then stood directly where he was with all the generals.

"Anyway, it's a death. Yang's family has been favored by the country, so how can Yang abolish the king?"

"Everyone, please strictly guard the Anding Gate. There are thousands of mistakes, and someone Yang will take care of them."

Looking at the flames outside the city, Yang Shouqian felt a burst of sadness in his heart.

Yang Shouqian didn't expect that at this point, there are still so many people in the court who immediately thought of the fact that the party is united against the dissent.

Just when Yang Shouqian hesitated.

The gate of the city tower was pushed open from the outside.

"The enemy bandits are raging outside the city, and the people are hanging upside down. Why doesn't the vice constitution go out to fight?"

Still holding Zhu Xizhong's sword in his hand, Ning Jue broke into the tower.

A few days ago, Ning Jue went to the top of the city to help in the battle, but unexpectedly, he didn't even see the face of the tartar, so he just worked as a stevedore for several days.

Yang Shouqian was already full of anger.

When Jing Ning Jue was so excited, he poured it out directly.

"Ning Kezhong! This is the front of the two armies, do you really think that retreating the enemy can be won by going out of the city and hacking?!"

"If you win or lose before the battle, if you lose Andingmen, then I will go straight to the imperial city!"

Ning Jue stood where he was and looked at Yang Shouqian like a fool.

"This is the capital, not a border town."

"Don't talk about the Anding Gate, even if you tear down the Anding Gate, I'm sure you won't be able to reach the Imperial City!"

Yang Shouqian was furious: "It's not up to you, Ning Ke, to decide if you get there or not!"

"Jifu is an important place! Even if there is one in a million, it is impossible to do Meng Lang!"

Ning Jue was too lazy to talk nonsense with Yang Shouqian, so he stepped forward, grabbed Yang Shouqian by the collar and walked out.

"Ning Kezhong, what are you going to do?"

Ning Jue abruptly dragged Yang Shouqian out of the tower, and the people and soldiers on the city wall all looked sideways when they saw the change in the tower.

"Did Vice-Xian Yang see it?"

"What did I see?!"

"This is Gyeonggi, with millions of people! It's not an ordinary border town! Even if you let the northern captives into the city, the people will not agree, not to mention only a thousand horses, even if it is ten times larger, the Tartars will not be able to enter. !"

After finishing speaking, Ning Jue turned his head, looked at the people in front of him and said loudly:

"Vice Yang said that the princes would allow thieves to enter the city, should the princes not?!"

On the city wall, I was startled for a moment, until someone suddenly reacted and said firmly: "No!"

"The ancestors' old land, the ancestral graves of six generations are all in the capital, what should we do?!"

At the beginning, only the nearby Ding Zhuang could hear clearly, and then the voices of the people in the city gradually boiled up, and thousands of words finally converged into a wave of sound.

Although the words are different, in the end, there are only three words left in everyone's mouth.

"No promise!"

At its root, Yang Shouqian and his like are nothing more than a scholar-bureaucrat.

Yang Shouqian will never know to what extent the power of the common people will be gathered.

And Jingshi, a city with a population of more than one million, is enough to make all the "laws" in the history books for 3000 years invalid.

But when all this came into view, only four words came to Yang Shouqian's mind.

People's hearts are available!

"Zhu...Zhu Ji!" Yang Shouqian's tone trembled.

"The end is here!"

"Bang the drum!"

"Here!"

Hear the drum and advance, Ming Jin withdraws troops.

All of a sudden, the Andingmen drums rang loudly, and soldiers from all battalions got on their horses one after another and assembled at the city gate. As the city gate rose slowly, all the more than [-] riders guarding the Andingmen came out, and the sound of killing in the city was loud.

Yang Shouqian knew that this was his only way to survive.

It was Yang Shouqian's second life given to him by the people of the capital.

"Ke Zhong... I was wrong, Ke Zhong, Ke Zhong, Wang Butang? When did you come?"

When Yang Shouqian turned around, he realized that Ning Jue had already left the city calmly among the two thousand riders just now, and the one standing behind him was Wang Yongbin, Minister of Rites.

The sound of war drums at Andingmen and the cheers of soldiers and civilians at the top of the city resounded throughout the city.

Yan Song of Shuntian Mansion Yamen couldn't help being surprised, he casually grabbed a commoner who came back from Andingmen in a hurry and asked:

"Why is there a drum beating at the Andingmen Gate?"

"Ning Bingxian took the generals out to avenge the villagers!"

Yan Song looked blankly at the people around him.

"Aren't you afraid of Tartars?"

"I'm so afraid, the Tartars will burn our house and kill our people, we can't wait to fight the Tartars!"

Yan Song heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words. He stayed behind closed doors before because he was afraid of losing the battle. The morale and the hearts of the people are all available. Don't be a fool for the military exploits you handed over.

"Okay, okay!"

"Yang Yunheng is rewarded, Ning Ke is finally rewarded!"

Just when Yan Song was feeling emotional.

Yan Shifan quietly pulled Yan Song's clothes.

"Father, this matter cannot be rewarded."

"Why can't I reward you?!"

"Go out of the city to wipe out the thieves! Boost the morale of my capital and the hearts of the people."

"If you don't reward them, is it possible to reward you?!"

Yan Shifan glanced at his father in a dilemma, then he didn't care much, and forced Yan Song to tighten the Shuntian government office.

"Why are you dragging me, what can't be said outside!"

"Father, the people outside the city are not Tartars."

As soon as these words came out, Yan Song seemed to be grabbed by the neck suddenly.

"Outside the city... are the Jinyang soldiers under the command of the Marquis of Xianning!"

(End of this chapter)