Chapter 131 Sending the wolf from the front door to the tiger from the back door
Chapter 131: Sending the wolf to the front door and entering the tiger to the back door
There was no suspense in the result of Lu Bing in Ji County. The army in Huazhou swallowed the fortress like a tide and rushed straight to the capital. The logistics supplies of the Huazhou army were finally allocated. Liu Shisan led 60,000 soldiers and rushed straight to Shaanxi, Shanxi, and joined the light cavalry led by Yang Da.
Zhang Liang, who had always guarded the pass, led 30,000 people to clean up the remaining Ming troops in northern Zhili, Shandong and Henan, and only the 70,000 troops led by Jiang Feng under the capital city.
A big city like the capital, which is almost an architectural miracle, is surrounded by 70,000 people. If you say it to others, it would be a joke. However, the troops led by Jiang Feng made the people in the capital laugh at all. There were hundreds of artillery blocking the doors outside the capital gates.
The light cavalry of Huazhou went around the city and did not give any opportunity to take advantage of the city. The soldiers and horses in the capital were only about 10,000, and they were all the soldiers and horses of the imperial guards led by Zhou Lin, as well as the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Guards. These people went out of the city to break through the decisive battle, which was like moths flying into the flames.
Near the Imperial City has become a forbidden area, and civilians dare not approach it easily. Although the army outside the city is approaching, the city is strictly controlled by soldiers and horses at all levels, and the number of people being arrested in prison day by day.
Emperor Jiajing no longer appeared in the court. He practiced arts and sought immortals and medicine every day, but he was not very confused. He did not ask the heavenly soldiers and generals to come down to earth to drive away the demons outside the city. The passionate ministers of the Western Party were silent at this time and no one spoke.
Those who said they wanted to go to the front line to personally supervise the army were all sick at home and their actions remained unchanged. Emperor Jiajing heard the report of the Jinyiwei of the bodyguard that the civil servants did not get angry, but just smiled and did not take it seriously, so they left it.
Although the Jinyiwei, the Five City Military Officers, and the yamen runners in Shuntian Prefecture are still pursuing their duties conscientiously every day, every morning, various leaflets and posts from Huazhou will appear in the city openly to promote the origin of Huazhou and various policies.
Through these, the merchants in the capital gradually understood the policies of Huazhou and had some hope. Under the rule of Emperor Jiajing, the merchants' good days were really less than a few days later. Huazhou focused on business and controlled the sea routes, wouldn't it be an opportunity to make a fortune?
Emperor Jiajing took pills every night, and the dosage of his pills was gradually increasing, in pursuit of a state of wandering around and being in a trance. He stayed among the Taoist priests every day. These people were old people in Xingxian Mansion, and they were all loyal confidants, so of course they were relieved.
Emperor Jiajing, who originally lived in the bedroom, has now moved his elixir room and inner study room to the foot of the coal mountain. Perhaps it was because of the heat after taking the elixir and needed to be cool at the foot of the mountain.
On the evening of April 11, 24th year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing took the pill and sat on the futon in the yard to meditate. Due to the curfew in the capital, the sky became extremely quiet as soon as it was dark. Although the sky was dark, the clouds around the capital were all red, and these were the firelights of the Huazhou camp.
The emperor always thought that his actions since he ascended the throne may be less than those of the previous emperors, Taizu and Chengzu, but Jiajing is very confident than others, but why does the situation feel so decayed like this!
Suddenly, the contemplative emperor heard that the surroundings began to get noisy, as if the whole city had become noisy. He was a little annoyed and was about to call someone, but he saw the eunuch who was following, Rui Xiaosan rushed in quickly because the officials of the Western Party attributed the responsibility for all the situation to the eunuchs' chaos. Emperor Jiajing had already seized all the authority of the eunuchs. What Rui Xiaosan was doing now was just a housekeeper who was following.
Rui Xiaosan shouted in panic:
"Long live, long live, Yu Tairen, the Minister of Rites, and the traitors opened the city gate together, and the thieves in Huazhou are about to enter the city!"
This is actually a big event of the collapse of the sky and the earth, but Rui Xiaosan's reaction was not so intense. Because after such a long experience, people were a little numb. Emperor Jiajing was a little surprised and asked:
"Who are they, and those of the Western Party?"
Rui Xiaosan nodded with affirmation. At this time, more than a dozen guards and alchemy Taoist priests rushed in. Emperor Jiajing was stunned for a long time before saying with a smile:
"Scholars really can't believe it..."
"Long live, long live, let's run away in casual clothes. The slaves lead the people to fight the thieves to death, so delay the time!"
After Rui Xiaosan finished speaking, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the emperor a few times, stood up and led the people out. Emperor Jiajing stood there and had no intention of changing clothes. Instead, he reached out to send the two guards around him and walked towards the coal mountain by himself.
The troops in the capital city, the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Imperial Guards did not resist because there was an internal strife inside them. Chen Dahu, the Thousand General of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, colluded with three colleagues. When the civil servants of the Western Party led their servants to open the city gate, they fought with their colleagues who were guarding the city.
When the Huazhou army entered the imperial city, there was almost no resistance. Rui Xiaosan gathered the strong eunuchs and the imperial guards in the palace. About four or five hundred people fought a helpless death battle with the Huazhou army. It was like a small stone thrown into the water, which only caused a little wave and disappeared in an instant.
On the top of Coal Mountain, Jiang Feng saw Emperor Jiajing for the first time. This might be the last time for him, because Jiajing had already hanged himself on a tree. Emperor Jiajing hanged himself on Coal Mountain with white silk. If the emperor had not worn this bright yellow dragon robe, he would have looked very peaceful.
The suicide note left on the ground is very simple, and it says, "I am not wrong, and I am not ashamed of my ancestors and ancestors under the nine springs. The fault of heaven!"
Looking at these words, Jiang Feng smiled and ordered the guards behind him to say:
"I'll be buried in my life. I'll be the king of a country after all!"
Chapter completed!