Chapter 283: Prince Shaobao, General Zhou Yuji Takes Order!
The next day, the third uncle and other villagers reluctantly sent Ren Shuangyou and his companions off. After learning the identities of Ren Shuangyou and his companions, the villagers completely let go of their worries. They opened the fort gate directly and dealt with the officers and soldiers of the assault brigade confidently. That day
In the evening, the old and young men in the village were busy all night just to make more dry pancakes for Ren Shuangyou and others.
"Your Majesty's troops have already appeared here. I think it won't be long before we can return to your Majesty's rule. In this world, you have to have your Majesty to clean things up to make people feel at ease." The third uncle looked at the assault in the distance.
The traveler couldn't help but sigh. Human feelings are quite complex. They used to criticize Zhu Youjian in the capital as a coward, but after losing this coward, they realized that someone else would be worse than the original one.
Heading south along the bank of Yishui River, Ren Shuangyou was leading more than a thousand people to rush towards Nanjing City. The reason why he chose this road was because it could pass through a large mountainous area and basically would not be large-scale.
The blocking force appeared, and after walking out of Yishui River, we arrived at Luoma Lake in Huai'an Prefecture. After arriving at Luoma Lake, we entered the hinterland of Nanjing, and reached Dangtu County in the west of Nanjing.
While Ren Shuangyou and others were rushing all the way to Nanjing, in the Nanjing palace, the prince, Zhang Yan and others were eagerly discussing countermeasures.
In late February, Li Zicheng finally raised enough rations to continue the Eastern Expedition. As soon as Li Zicheng moved, Zuo Liangyu also moved, and soon Zuo Liangyu's main troops arrived in Dangtu City. At this time, Zuo Liang
Yu's subordinates further expanded, and there were already five to six million soldiers and horses. If five to six million soldiers and horses came over, they would be frightened to death.
"Auntie, the Zuo thieves' troops are only about a hundred miles away from Nanjing. What should we do now? Some court officials say they should move to Hangzhou."
"Taifu Li, are you sure Beijing is aware of the current predicament?"
"I can confirm that more than 20 days ago, I tried to contact the Jin Yiwei in Beijing. They had placed spies at my residence before. They seemed to intend to expose their identity, so it is not difficult to find him."
"It has been spreading for more than 20 days. I think there will be some action in Beijing." Zhang Yan did not reply to the prince's question, but started chatting with Li Zunxian.
"Mother, even if there is action in Beijing, it is thousands of miles away, so I'm afraid I won't be able to count on it."
"Taifu Li, are you sure that no heir has been born on the emperor's side in the past two years?"
"That's for sure!"
"Beijing must take action! Beijing is thousands of miles away from here, but Zhou Taibao is only a hundred miles away. The Ai family is waiting for an imperial edict from the city of Beijing. When Beijing announced that Zhou Taibao would go north, it was the Ai family that refused to allow it.
He went. Currently, Zhou Shaobao is hundreds of miles away, and the Ai family is afraid that they can't move him. As long as there is an imperial edict from Beijing, Zhou Shaobao can return to Beijing to escort us out of Nanjing. In any case, Dimai is here now
Nanjing City is the only available support now."
Hearing this, Zhu Cihong realized what Zhang Yan's arrangement was. It turned out that he relied on his two younger brothers to force Zhou Yuji to defend him and others to leave Nanjing City. But after leaving Nanjing City, where could he go?
Still very confused.
Zhu Cihong was not the only one who was confused. Zhou Yuji, who was blocking Zuo Liangyu on the Dangtu front line, was also confused at this time. There were hundreds of thousands of enemy troops outside the city, and behind the city was the city of Nanjing. Now he felt like a leaf floating on the sea.
Bianzhou is alone without any support. He doesn't even know who he wants to be loyal to! He does not belong to any force here in Dangtu City. At the moment, Zhou Yuji just wants God to give him a revelation and tell him to face this eternal difficulty.
How to make a decision when encountering chaos.
"General, many soldiers in the Beijing camp have escaped from the city. Do we want to take them back?" The general ran over to Zhou Yuji and told Zhou Yuji about the soldiers' escape. The Nanjing camp soldiers who went out to fight in the city and their brothers in Beijing were together.
In this way, you should hide when you see a battle, and surrender when you encounter an enemy.
"We have so many people to control it? Just give orders to our soldiers and horses to tell them not to mess up! Go and get the bamboo box that I brought from Beijing."
The general followed Zhou Yuji's instructions and brought a bamboo box from the hall. Zhou Yuji took it and opened it carefully.
Inside the box was a set of military uniforms, but no one else had seen the style of this military uniform.
"Come on, pretend to serve me!" Zhou Yuji took out the clothes and handed them to the general, asking him to help him put on the military uniform.
Gu Lu and the two fumbled for a long time before changing their clothes. The general looked at Zhou Yuji who had changed into a new military uniform and said nothing for a long time. This should be the general's uniform that Beijing City gave to his general through secret channels. Don't tell me.
, the general is really brave in this outfit.
"Your Majesty, I don't know what to do, general! The only way is to fight to the death. Tomorrow I will go out of the city and fight to the death to win a chance for Nanjing." Zhou Yuji said to himself while arranging his clothes.
After putting on his military uniform, Zhou Yuji walked out of the general hall and inspected the Dangtu city defense with his soldiers.
In the middle of the inspection, a pro-soldier came over and said that Beijing had sent him an imperial edict and asked him to receive it.
He returned to the general hall and knelt down to greet the imperial edict. The eunuch who delivered the edict read the contents of the imperial edict aloud. This was an order to mobilize the troops, asking him to immediately lead his troops back to Nanjing to defend the imperial edict.
Return to Nanjing? Zhou Yuji thought for a while and understood the meaning of this imperial edict. The prince should be preparing to leave Nanjing. Although this is also an option, Zhou Yuji knew that he could no longer do it. Now as soon as he retreated to Nanjing, left
Liangyu's troops might reach the city before him. In the situation of Nanjing City, he would lose the city if he couldn't enter the city.
"I have received my order, and the servants should go and rest first. After I have finished packing, I will lead my troops back to Nanjing to defend the Holy Emperor."
After being asked to leave with the servants, Zhou Yuji sat on the general's guard without saying a word for a long time. Return to Nanjing! You must have that ability.
A soldier quickly ran into the general's hall and said: "Report, General! A group of about fifty people came from outside the city, saying they came to convey the general's order."
"Deliver the order? Didn't you just pass the order?"
"Yes! We are also very puzzled. The people who came are also a little strange. They are wearing the clothes of rebels. They don't look like they are from the palace, but they look like old soldiers. By the way, the clothes the leader wears are very similar.
General, you are wearing the clothes you are wearing now."
"What? Are you wearing clothes like this?"
“It looks similar from a distance!”
"They are the people sent by Lord Long Live! Let them enter the city quickly!" Zhou Yuji exclaimed and quickly asked people to let the people who conveyed the order enter the city.
When the soldiers went to deliver the order, Zhou Yuji kept pacing back and forth in the general hall and rubbing his hands. At this time, he was very anxious.
After waiting for a while, the soldiers led a man in military uniform into the general hall. Zhou Yuji stared at this man for a long time. The clothes he wore were indeed very similar to his own clothes, but there were still some differences after a closer look.
After the visitor paused for a while, he took out the imperial edict in his hand and said, "Prince Shaobao, General Zhou Yuji receives the edict!"