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At this time, just as the soldier turned around and bent over, he felt a lightness in his waist, and the saber he was carrying disappeared.Er didn't wait for him to react, his waist tightened again, under great force, he fell to the ground with a dog gnawing shit.Then a figure took his place, and an iron knife was resting on Shi Heng's neck.
All of this was naturally done by Huzi, and the so-called Huzi was Tiehu, the captain of the Spike Special Forces Brigade, and this time he was completing the beheading operation arranged by Yang Chendong.The difference was that he didn't mean to take Shi Heng's life, as long as he was willing to cooperate, everything would be easy to talk about.Otherwise, he is afraid that he can only kill.
The iron knife was placed on Shi Heng's neck, Tiehu's voice and performance were completely different from Gang Gang's, and he said calmly: "If you don't want to die, don't shout and move around, otherwise, this knife will not recognize you. people."
As he spoke, Tie Hu deliberately added more strength, and immediately the iron knife pierced his neck, bringing up blood that overflowed.
Shi Heng is also a general who rushes to kill on the battlefield, and he himself has two tricks. He just wanted to resist, and then he felt a murderous intent covering his whole body. He finally knew that this Huzi was not just talking casually, but really existed. Kill your own heart.Most importantly, he felt that his every move was being watched to death by this person. No matter what he did, the iron knife would cut his throat first. In order to survive, he had to become honest.
Feeling that Shi Heng didn't dare to struggle, Tie Hu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Let all your soldiers retreat, and at the same time call my brothers outside, hurry up, slow down, and I will let you die."
"I'm calling, I'm calling." Shi Heng said struggling repeatedly, and then said to a soldier: "Quick, why don't you do what this tiger hero said?"
The eight guards really wanted to do something, they believed that with their own strength, they could surely kill this Huzi here, but they couldn't guarantee the general's safety, so they could only walk out of the big tent at his mercy and kill Tiehu. The more than ten people brought were put into the big tent.
Thin Monkey, King Kong, Violent Ape, Silver Hand, Steel Leg and others quickly entered the main tent. Seeing the scene where Tie Hu was holding Shi Heng hostage, they all laughed heartlessly. stand up. "An iron head is an iron head. The task is completed cleanly and beautifully, which is admirable."
Once everyone entered the account, it was as casual as entering their own back garden.First he looked around and looked around, and then he came to Shi Heng's side and surrounded him tightly.
Although they are wearing ordinary uniforms of the Northern Ming Army, King Kong and the others give the eight guards the impression that they are very dangerous. There seems to be no way to move their hands and feet, but if you want to take the opportunity to make a move, you will find that there are guards everywhere , I feel like telling the eight people that the dozen or so people who came in are the best of the best.
When Shi Heng fell into the hands of Tiehu and other members of the Spike Special Forces Brigade, he completely lost hope of escape, and could only be at his mercy. "Shi Heng, if you want to survive, you must cooperate with us. Captain Jie Shiben can guarantee that you will be saved. If not, you can fight to the death. But we are just ordinary people. If we die, we will die. , but Lord Shihou is different, there is still a bright future waiting for you in the future, it is a pity that you died like this." Hearing Tiehu's beating words, Shi Heng's face was ugly, but he had to Replied, "Okay, I will naturally admit that I have fallen into you and others, but I don't know who you are and what you are here for?"
"I'm not afraid to tell you that we are the Spike Special Forces under Mr. Zhongdan, and what we did was to behead you high-ranking officials." Tie Hu declared his identity.
"Subordinates of Lord Zhongdan, you are actually subordinates of Lord Zhongdan, and I am the Marquis of Wuqing who was proclaimed by the Northern Ming Emperor. Are you not afraid of the king's law when you treat me like this? Are you not afraid of the emperor's punishment in the future?" After knowing the details of Tiehu and the others, Shi Heng pretended to be very angry and roared.
Tie Hu didn't pay attention to his method of preemptively suppressing others with reason, "Okay, if you want to survive, you should stop shouting a few words. We are only performing tasks. As for the emperor's punishment you are talking about?" , what does that have to do with us?"
"Haha, Hutou is right. If the emperor wants to punish us, he has to find us first, hahaha." The thin monkey who likes bickering the most among the team members laughed.This sound drew the other team members to laugh in agreement.
This is when a scholar meets a soldier, and the reason is hard to explain.
For officials, the emperor is a huge existence.But for ordinary people, it is too far away.Especially Tiehu and the others, who obeyed Yang Chendong. As for the Emperor Beiming, which onion was it?
Unable to explain the reasoning and unable to fight again and again, Shi Heng had no choice but to bow his head in resignation.He knew that if he wanted to survive, he could only do what the other party asked him to do next.
"It's very simple. Do two things first. If you do it well, your life will be safe." Seeing that Shi Heng wanted to bow his head, Tie Hu said immediately.
"Which two things?" Shi Heng asked aloud.
"First, order the army to stop immediately and stay where it is. Second, write a letter to your emperor and tell him that the five-star army is too powerful and powerful, and you are no match." Tie Hu said what Yang Chendong had arranged when he came. Task.
Shi Heng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "The army can stop, the Marquis has the final say on this matter. But the matter of writing the memorial may not be that simple. There is no reason for us to have many soldiers. "
"Do you want a reason? Don't worry, there will be one soon, um, just wait for one night." Tie Hu seemed to have expected what Shi Heng would say, and spoke in a leisurely manner.
The main account camp was thus controlled by Tie Hu and others.It is worth mentioning that the news of Shi Heng's being blackmailed did not get out.Perhaps this Lord Hou wanted to save face too much, and the eight soldiers were ordered not to spread any news, so his affairs were covered up.
The 20 troops were originally ordered to rush towards Sanburachuan City quickly, but the order was suddenly changed, and they were asked to stay where they were. For a while, many generals were a little puzzled.But with the military order in front, no one dared to disobey, so they had to find a place nearby to stop first.
At the same time, hundreds of red-clothed cannons newly built by Beiming stopped.During the march, this thing was already pulled behind the team because it was too bulky.But this thing is really very effective, so there are indeed a lot of guards arranged to protect them, as many as thousands of people.
It is naturally not easy to get past these heavy encirclements and come to the artillery.But it would be much easier to blow them up remotely.Coincidentally, the order Leng Fifth Division received was to blow up these guys.
Since it was a task assigned by the Sixth Young Master himself, He Gong, as the teacher, also came to carry it out in person.He selected hundreds of elite fighters from the Fifth Leng Division, and brought four rocket launchers to the Beiming army garrison.
The two elite soldiers first stunned two Beiming soldiers who were in charge of night watch patrols. After changing into their military uniforms, they secretly placed more than a dozen powerful explosive packs around a hundred red cannons.Then He Gong gave an order, and the four rocket launchers erupted in anger, bombarding the explosive packages, and the sky-reaching flames ignited, surrounding and devouring the red-clothed cannons.
The shock like the birth of an earth dragon scared Shi Heng who had just rested on the desk.He sent two personal soldiers to inquire about the news, and soon it was reported that all the red-clothed cannons accompanying the army had been bombed.At this point, Shi Heng finally understood what Tiehu said.
"Alas." With a sigh, Shi Heng began to write a memorial to Emperor Daizong, probably because the artillery was completely destroyed and there was no powerful weapon to attack the city, and considering that the leader of the Five-Star Army was still Da Ming Zhongdangong , I don't want to face each other in the same branch, and I want the emperor to issue an order to retreat.
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The capital of the Northern Ming Dynasty, the imperial palace.
The war in the Northwest Grassland has always affected Daizong Zhu Qiyu's heart.When he learned that Datong's 20 soldiers were defeated, he scolded angrily; then when he learned that the Xuanfu soldiers were also implicated and trapped in Sanburachuan City, he angrily overturned the dragon case.
Fortunately, there was good news soon. Wala and Yilibali Kingdom were going to join forces to attack the Five-Star Army. Immediately, he felt like he was watching the battle between dragons and tigers.
The news from the front line is that there are more than [-] Oala allied forces, and they are only dealing with the five-star army with only [-] troops. At that time, Zhu Qiyu became concerned about gains and losses.On the one hand, he hopes that the Oirat allied forces will succeed, so that Yang Chendong can be wiped out and his confidant's serious troubles can be solved.On the other hand, he didn't want the war to end prematurely, because once Wala and the others became stronger, they would also be a big threat to Beiming.
In this way, more than a month passed, and news came from the front line again, and it turned out that the five-star army had won.Yili went back to the country first, and then the Oirat army was defeated. As soon as the news came out, Zhu Qiyu lamented that Yang Chendong was not simple, but also saw the hope, that is, when the five-star army was seriously injured, he would kill him. Wouldn't it be great to eliminate many important cities and solve the troubles in your heart?
Shi Heng led the army to set off, and Zhu Qiyu was waiting for good news all the time.Finally, when the memorial from the Great Governor and Marquis Wu Qing came, he opened it hastily, and saw that it was indeed completely different from what he had imagined.
About half a cup of tea, Zhu Qiyu stood up suddenly, kicked the brand new dragon case to the ground with a kick.Then there was his angry shout, "Crap, trash, a bunch of trash."
This scene frightened Jin Ying, the chief eunuch who was waiting on the sidelines, trembling.It wasn't until he picked it up from the ground and was thrown down the Shi Heng Memorial that he realized why the emperor was so angry.
Chapter 996 Xu Youzhen made a bad move
Shi Heng exploded the cannons before he left the army, and then asked him to negotiate with the Five-Star Army. He also said that if he had to fight the Five-Star Army now, even if he could win, it would only be a miserable victory. The army took advantage of the opportunity to attack, and they would have no power to fight back. At that time, Beiming would be in danger.
"Nearly 40 troops are dealing with only tens of thousands of five-star troops who are exhausted. They are still so timid. What do you want them to do?" Kim Eng.
"Your Majesty, do you want to send another general to replace Shi Dudu?" Jin Ying tried to come up with another method.
"It's too late, it's too late. As long as the Five-Star Army is given enough time to rest, they will soon be able to recharge their energy. If that's the case, it will be like what Shi Qing said, even if they defeat the Five-Star Army, it will be a miserable victory." Zhu Qiyu shook his head.Fighting opportunities are often fleeting, and any waiting may miss the best opportunity.But now, the opportunity is about to pass, just to defeat the five-star army, and still not completely sure to kill Yang Chendong, it is not his wish to let him fight the five-star army to the death.
"Your Majesty, what shall we do next?" Seeing that the battle could not be started, Jin Ying asked the method aloud.
Zhu Qiyu didn't answer right away, but hesitated for a long time, and slowly spit out four words, "Biography Xu Youzhen."
As early as after Xu Youzhen returned from Shicheng, she reported what she saw and heard to Zhu Qiyu.He also said that Yang Chendong was very grateful and looking forward to the emperor's decision to make him King of Wunan.For this reason, he was not only willing to provide food and grass for nearly 20 Ming troops in Sanburachuan City for free, but he was also willing to contribute 500 million yuan to help the Northern Ming court establish a banking system.
It is impossible for Zhu Qiyu, who wants to be strong, to refuse such a request.When it comes to building a bank, he has long had such a plan. His predecessor, the current Nanming Emperor Zhu Qizhen, had such an idea.It's just that when he saw that the Yang Family Bank had become so powerful, he put out the idea of building his own bank, thinking that instead of building it himself, it would be better to occupy it for his own use, wouldn't it be better.However, the facts changed, and not long after, civil engineering changes occurred, and Zhu Qizhen was forced to go to the south to proclaim himself emperor, and this matter has no further details.
After Zhu Qiyu came to power, he thought more about gathering people's hearts and building a new army. For a time, he pushed back and forth about the construction of the bank because of the tension in his hands.Well now, Yang Chendong is willing to contribute 500 million taels of silver to help him build a bank. How could he refuse such a good thing?
At the beginning, he wanted to agree, but Zhu Qiyu hesitated because of the vicissitudes of the war on the grassland.He was still thinking about it, if Yang Chendong was wiped out, this promise would be useless.But now, when the overall situation is settled and the five-star army is the winner, Zhu Qiyu has to reconsider the matter of cooperating with Yang Chendong.
Again, the highest state of politics is not to fight and kill, but how to achieve what you want through mutual compromise.Although he had joined forces with the Oirat coalition forces before, although he did not send troops directly, he became an enemy of the Five Star Army indirectly.But now for the common good, we still have to sit down and talk again.
Xu Youzhen was urgently called into the palace.And in too
The moment the prisoner went to deliver the decree, he knew what was going to happen next.Compared with Beiming's intelligence network, Yang's Security Bureau is faster. Thanks to them, Xu Youzhen even knows the truth better than Zhu Qiyu, such as the news that Marquis Shiheng of Wuqing has been brought under control.
After going to Shicheng, Xu Youzhen's originally vacillating thoughts became very firm, that is, to completely stand on Yang Chendong's side, and this matter of turning Zhongdan Gong into Wunan King became his certificate of nomination , has also become a great gift from him to his master.
In the palace hall, Zhu Qiyu asked about the 500 million taels of silver, and the focus was on when the silver could be taken out.
"Returning to the emperor, the result of the discussion between the minister and Duke Zhongdan in Shicheng that day is that as long as the emperor announces to the world that he can be crowned king, those people from the Yang Family Bank in the capital will send people to the address we have selected to carry out renovations. Guidance. Once the renovation is successful, 500 million taels of silver will be put into our own bank." Xu Youzhen answered clearly again.In fact, he had reported this matter more than once, and he believed that the emperor called him urgently because he didn't want to hear the answer again.
Zhu Qiyu nodded silently, did not speak immediately, but asked aloud after a while: "Then can we do the decoration first? Xu Aiqing, you also know that there are still many preparations to be made for things like being king , is not something that can be done with an imperial decree."
"Yes, yes, what the emperor said is very true. I think it is understandable for a brave man, so everything will be done according to the emperor's wishes." Xu Youzhen made a statement without even the slightest hesitation.Of course, others didn't know that this was a question that Yang Chendong had considered in the first place. In order to get the throne, he was willing to take the initiative to make concessions. Anyway, the money was not included in the account, so he was not afraid that Daizong would play tricks.