Daming Military Empire

Chapter 112
It is not a simple matter for the royal conquest. First of all, someone must be arranged to handle the daily government affairs in the capital. The person in charge is ready-made. The regent Zhu Youjian has been in charge of handling the memorials. There will be no problems in Beijing for a month or two. He stayed in Jinling for more than a month last time, and the capital is just as good.

But these people will try their best to dissuade him and not let him go. The last time he went to Jinling was an excuse to worship his ancestors. There was no danger, but this time it is different. Liaodong is a battlefield. After all, he is only seven or eight years old, so who can rest assured!

Zhu Cijiong is determined to go, that is Liaodong, Houjin's lair, if the tactics of the support troops are not used properly, it is very likely that they will suffer from Huang Taiji's crazy counterattack, and it will not be a matter of losing 40 to [-] troops. Three to four million are possible!

He told Zhu Youjian and Xu Guangqi about the idea of ​​Yujia's personal conquest, and the two strongly opposed it. Although Zhu Youjian was Emperor Chongzhen in history, he seemed to be greedy for the throne. I never thought that I would become an emperor. During the Chongzhen Dynasty, Emperor Tianqi had no heirs.

Now, Zhu Cijiong is doing well as Emperor Chongzheng, and he is also doing well as Regent. Zhu Cijiong decides the big things. He goes to work every day to review memorials, and he doesn't have to worry about other things. How comfortable, why bother to grab that throne?

It can be said that he really cares about Zhu Cijiong and is really afraid that something will happen to him.However, Zhu Cijiong had to go, and he couldn't say that now I am the only one who can command hot weapons. That would only make Zhu Youjian mistakenly think that he has a neurological problem, which is what the saying goes.

How to do it?In the end, he had to resort to his trump card: insist on going his own way!
No matter what you say, I'm going, I'm the emperor, I have the final say, I'm going, okay?
If he plays rogue like this, Zhu Youjian and Xu Guangqi can only retreat. Although Da is still young, his authority is not small at all. No one in the court dares to confront him now. His uncle and teacher After being defeated, the others naturally dare not persuade them anymore.

The matter of staying in the court was finally resolved by him with rogue means, and the next step was to determine the entourage.

Cao Huachun will naturally go, he can be responsible for managing the accompanying eunuchs, and can also serve as a bodyguard, Zhu Cijiong has always trusted him well, Zhu Cijiong will definitely not get used to it without him;

Qin Mingyue is also going. She is a Shang Palace, and her power in the palace is at the same level as Cao Huachun. Naturally, no one dares to say anything about her being in charge of the accompanying maids. Besides, she is also a super bodyguard.More importantly, Zhu Cijiong has fallen into her warm and fragrant embrace and cannot extricate himself. Of course, this is not humane.

Zheng Sen is also going, uh, this going does not mean that Zhu Cijiong wants to take him there, but that he wants to go, this, of course, there is no door.Just kidding, it's not like going on a tour, taking a child, what's the matter, so Zheng Sen's unreasonable request was rejected by Zhu Cijiong without hesitation.

The next step is the accompanying guards. Jin Yiwei and Dongchang's masters must all accompany them. As for Luo Yangxing, he is a good hand in business. He is not qualified to be a bodyguard.Zhu Cijiong never counted on his protection at all, but hoped that he could earn more money for the treasury, so Zhu Cijiong decided not to bring Luo Yangxing this time.

Let Wang Zhengnan take care of the masters of Jinyiwei and Dongchang. In the past, Zhu Cijiong wanted to train him to be a general, but now he has changed his mind. Daming has no shortage of generals. If he is added, there will be no more, and if he is missing, there will be no shortage. .It was his skills, it would be a waste not to be a bodyguard, so Zhu Cijiong simply transferred him to Jinyiwei and gave him the title of a thousand households. This time he was put in charge of the outer protection.

This is just to protect and take care of the emperor's daily life, and the accompanying civil servants and generals are also indispensable.

This civil servant just means something. After all, he is going to war. It is useless to bring too many civil servants. In the end, Zhu Cijiong appointed Sun Yuanhua, the right servant of the Ministry of War, as a civil servant. .

As for the generals, the more the better, but Zhu Cijiong found that there are really no generals around him now. The only general, Qin Liangyu, has to stay in the capital. Except for Shi Kefa, none of the others are there!But Shi Kefa is still a rookie, and has basically never commanded a battle, so he can't be regarded as a fierce general.

Zhu Cijiong was instantly embarrassed. Yu Jia's personal expedition did not have a strong general to accompany him. How could he do that? He directly ordered the eight hundred li station along the way to urgently notify Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming, hurry up and return to the capital within ten days!

There are basically so many entourages, and in the end it is the accompanying army.

When it comes to the problem of the army, Zhu Cijiong is even more embarrassed. Except for the [-] elites of the Beijing camp, he has no soldiers to use!It is still unknown when Sun Chuanting's Tianxiong Army will arrive in Zunhua. Should he wait in Zunhua?Of course this is not possible, he can wait, but Zu Dashou can't afford to wait!He had to order Sun Chuanting to be urgently notified at eight hundred miles along the way to march as fast as he could, and he must arrive at Zunhua within fifteen days!

Even with the addition of Sun Chuanting's 15-strong army, Zhu Cijiong's imperial conquest this time only has 15 troops, which can be said to be the most shabby imperial conquest in Ming history.But this time he was mainly going to save his ancestor's birthday, and teach Huang Taiji a lesson by the way, but he didn't think about putting Huang Taiji down immediately, [-] people are barely enough.

Besides, he still has a trump card, the latest howitzer is no joke, even if there are only seventy of them, if you use it well, you can blast the shit out of Huang Taiji!
After everything was arranged, Zhu Cijiong could only wait patiently.

On the seventh day, the first batch of fifty 35-type howitzers were tested, and [-] of them passed the test;
On the ninth day, Qin Yiming hurried back to the capital, and Zhu Cijiong was finally freed from the embarrassment of not being accompanied by a fierce general;

On the tenth day, Qin Gongming hurried back to the capital. With these two brothers to save face, the military commander can make do;

No. On the 14th day, Sun Chuanting led an army of 15 to Zunhua, and the army of [-] was considered complete;

No.15 days, the second batch of fifty 32-type howitzers were tested, and finally [-] were qualified;
No.16 Early in the morning, at Chenshi, the 1000 Jingying elite lined up neatly outside Desheng Gate. Surrounded by more than 32 Jinyiwei and Dongchang masters, Zhu Cijiong came to the [-] army on a dragon chariot carried by [-] people directly in front of.On both sides of the main road, court officials knelt on the ground. The regent Zhu Youjian and the chief minister of the cabinet Xu Guangqi reluctantly left the sides of the dragon chariot after a long while. The big sedan chair that was carried came quickly.

Zhu Cijiong had no choice but to shake his head helplessly, sat down, stared at the sky and rolled his eyes.The only one who dared to stand in the way at this moment was Zheng Sen, the son of Prince Zhennan. After the sedan chair was blocked by the Jin Yiwei, Zheng Sen pulled Liu Rushi and ran under the dragon chariot quickly, shouting: "Your Majesty, when will you come?" Come back?"

Xu Guangqi ran up quickly, grabbed him, and whispered in his ear.

Zhu Cijiong is so angry, didn't he tell all the eunuchs and maids in the palace not to tell him, why does this kid still know.Alas, it is probably because Qin Mingyue and Zhu Cijiong did not practice with him in the morning that this clever ghost guessed it.

As soon as Zheng Sen appeared, the whole scene was a little uncoordinated. Fortunately, Zheng Sen was persuaded by Xu Guangqi, and he knelt on the ground and said loudly: "I wish the emperor a successful victory and success!"

Zhu Cijiong rolled his eyes when he heard the words, and said loudly: "Okay, well said, I will give you the name of success when you are successful, and you can hand it over to Zheng Chenggong in the future!"

Zheng Chenggong, this name is well chosen. Xu Guangqi said something to Zheng Chenggong in a low voice, and Zheng Chenggong immediately said loudly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Thinking of Zheng Chenggong's great achievements, Zhu Cijiong was so proud for a while, he couldn't help but waved his hand, and said loudly: "Let's go."

In this way, Emperor Chongzheng began the great cause of conquering Houjin, which is generally called the first crusade against Houjin in later history books.

The [-] army, not too much, not too much, plus the accompanying eunuchs, maids, guards and artillery, the army moved slowly, and arrived at Zunhua on the third day.

At this time, Sun Chuanting had already led an army of [-] to line up outside the city, and even Sun Chengzong, the Duke of Zhenguo, led [-] Liaodong troops to rush over.

As soon as Zhu Cijiong arrived in Zunhua, Sun Chengzong came to the dragon chariot alone, knelt down and cried loudly: "My minister is guilty, please trouble the emperor to conscript himself."

Zhu Cijiong was caught off guard by his crying, the dragon chariot was too high for him to jump off, so he had to get up and walk to the front of the dragon chariot, and comforted him: "Teacher, don't blame yourself, there is nothing wrong with building the fort, it's just that Jiannu is too rampant, he dared to besiege my army unscrupulously, did he really think that Daming was afraid of him? I wanted to teach them a lesson, but I never had a good chance. See and see how powerful I am."

Sun Chengzong was taken aback when he heard the words. This is different from the script he imagined. Could it be that the emperor really wanted to teach Jiannu a lesson?
Zhu Cijiong saw that he still couldn't get up, so he had to raise his hand and said loudly: "Okay, I forgive you for your innocence, get up."

Only then did Sun Chengzong get up in tears of gratitude, and stood there bowed, waiting for Zhu Cijiong's oracle.

Although Zhu Cijiong looked calm on the surface, he was actually a little anxious inside. When he saw the position of the sun, it was not yet noon, so he hurried on his way. Zu Dashou had been surrounded for almost a month. If something unexpected happens, it will be a big trouble.

So, he said to Sun Chengzong: "Teacher, General Zu has been besieged for a month now, let's rush to break the siege as soon as possible, how are you and Sun Chuanting preparing, or should we go straight away?"

Sun Chengzong hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "The army has been assembled."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong waved his hand and said in a loud voice: "Very well, the Liaodong Army is at the front, the Tianxiong Army is at the back, and the Beijing camp is in the middle. The whole army, let's go."

(End of this chapter)