Before hanging himself, Chongzhen lifted the table

Chapter 87: Table of Surrender

After hearing this, other officials all agreed and shouted for impeachment.

They didn't even want to leave the office, so they waited for Zhu Zhifeng to arrive at the Governor's Mansion, hoping to know what was going on as soon as possible?

However, they couldn't wait until the evening came, and their mood became more and more violent.

"It seems that Zhu Zhifeng didn't take the governor's order seriously at all!"

"According to the Governor, this is the third day, it's almost here!"

"No wait, let's impeach him!"

"Haha, can the capital still control the place? Let me tell you, let's all disperse!"

"Who knows what happened in the Xuan Mansion? Maybe they plundered a lot and then took refuge with King Chuang?"

"..."

While they were talking, they heard the thunderous sound of horse hooves coming from outside the city, and then soldiers came to report that a cavalry army was coming from the Xuan Mansion.

When Wang Jimo heard this, he immediately shouted: "Let's go with me to see Zhu Zhifeng's official power and see what he wants to do?"

After Wang Jimo led his officials to the top of the city, he saw about [-] cavalry outside the city.

He immediately saw Zhu Zhifeng in a scarlet robe, because in a team full of cavalry, the civilian attire was too conspicuous.

However, when Wang Jimo and others saw Zhu Zhifeng for the first time, their anger suddenly turned into gloating.

They saw that Zhu Zhifeng was tied to the horse, and at this time, two imperial guards were untying him.It looked like he would definitely fall off the horse if he wasn't tied up.

Upon seeing this, Wang Jimo and others suddenly realized that something was wrong: Captain of the Imperial Guard?

Then, they immediately noticed that there was a person wearing a scarlet robe next to Zhu Zhifeng, who turned out to be a eunuch from the palace!

But it's not surprising that many imperial armies have eunuchs serving as supervisors.Those royal guards in royal robes were probably brought by the eunuchs in the palace.

While they were thinking about it, they saw the eunuch driving his horse forward, took out a gold medal, and shouted loudly: "Open the city gate."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the officials and soldiers in the imperial court were in bad military discipline. For example, Zuo Liangyu's troops burned, killed, and looted ordinary people on a daily basis. Even the bandits put forward slogans and started to change careers, but they continued to intensify their efforts to harm the people.

Therefore, when the imperial troops were seen in many places, they did not dare to open the city gates.The most recent time was when Supervisor Li Jiantai was refused by the local authorities to open the city gates to let them into the city, and was rejected. So angry that he ordered an attack on the city, killed the people, and whipped the county magistrate. After arriving in Baoding, he was refused to open the city gates again. Almost ordered another siege.

But at this moment, it was a palace eunuch holding a gold medal representing the emperor who asked to open the door.

Wang Jimo also recognized this eunuch as Fang Zhenghua, and knowing that he was one of the emperor's favored eunuchs, he did not dare not open the door. However, when he ordered the city to open, one of his men reminded him: "Sir, this is the cavalry. The army is acting recklessly in Xuanfu, if the city gate is opened..."

After Wang Jimo heard this, he was a little worried. He turned around and looked at the city. He saw that Zhu Zhifeng had untied himself and staggered off the horse. He couldn't stand firmly. He needed the help of a Jinyi Guardsman who was arranging his clothes. .

So, he said: "Did you see that Zhu Zhifeng is under the city? Don't you need an explanation? Just open the city gate. I don't believe it. Is he the governor or am I the governor?"

The governor is the largest official in the Xuanda area. He has this confidence. Zhu Zhifeng will definitely not dare to be presumptuous in front of him.And if there are eunuchs who supervise the army, military discipline is generally good.

He said so, so his officials naturally couldn't stop him, so they opened the city gate.

The generals of the cavalry under the city were He Zan and Wei Shizhen. When they saw the city gate open, they followed the prior arrangement and He Zan led the troops to enter first and control the city defense. Then Fang Zhenghua, Zhu Zhifeng and other talents surrounded Emperor Chongzhen and entered the city gate. Climb to the top of the city.

On the top of the city, when Wang Jimo saw the cavalry's behavior, he immediately became angry again. What was he doing?
When Zhu Zhifeng finally reached the top of the city, he immediately looked at Zhu Zhifeng and shouted: "Zhu Zhifeng, what are you going to do? What did you do in Xuan Mansion? Why didn't you report it to me in advance? My officer?"

Zhu Zhifeng was still a little unsteady when walking, with a depressed look on his face, and did not answer his words at all.

Wang Jimo saw this and was about to shout angrily again when he saw the general walking in front of Zhu Zhifeng take off his visor, revealing his true face.

When Wang Jimo saw it, he immediately stayed there, as if he had seen a ghost.

In fact, the group of people who came over were surrounded by this general. Under normal circumstances, they should have discovered that this general's status must be different.However, Zhu Zhifeng's steps seemed to be unsteady, and Wang Jimo subconsciously thought that this was because Zhu Zhifeng had not recovered.

When Fang Zhenghua saw Wang Jimo in a daze, he immediately shouted: "How dare you be rude in front of Long Live Lord?"

When he drank like this, Wang Jimo immediately came back to his senses and confirmed that the man in front of him did not look like him, but was really the current emperor.

So, he immediately panicked and hurriedly went down the mountain with his hands and shouted, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live my emperor!"

While seeing the ceremony, Wang Jimo was very surprised. Why did the emperor come to Yanghe?And he's still wearing armor?Zhu Zhifeng is coming here tied up, why does the emperor seem to be riding so far but nothing happens...

At this moment, he had a lot of questions in his mind, and he also suddenly realized some things. For example, if the emperor was there in the Xuan Mansion, it would all be explained.

As he was thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen looked at him and shouted coldly: "Wang Jimo, as the governor of Xuanda, you allowed the Shanxi merchants within your jurisdiction to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country. The position of Grand Governor is to assist the new Governor of Xuanda, Zhu Zhifeng, in his work to observe the consequences."

In fact, Zhu Zhifeng was also incompetent. The difference between him and Wang Jimo was that when Li Zicheng's army arrived, he did not choose to escape, but died for his country; while Wang Jimo shouted to resist while holding [-] ku Silver ran away, only to find that even his bodyguards couldn't stand it and abandoned him.

Emperor Chongzhen's plan was to use Zhu Zhifeng as the governor of Xuan to coordinate logistics between Datong and Xuan, use the gold, silver, grain and grass supplies confiscated from the eight major Shanxi merchants to support the war in Shanxi, and also The military forces of Xuanfu and Datong were organized as reserve reinforcements.Otherwise, the improvised cavalry force he brought from the capital alone would not be able to fight Li Zicheng's main force.

After all, to fight a war, you must first have food and supplies!
On the Yanghe side, the emperor is here and under the arrangements, no one can resist.As a result, Zhu Zhifeng officially took over the post of governor of Xuanda, and Wang Jimo made meritorious deeds.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen also left Wei Shizhen's [-] cavalry troops and [-] Jinyi guards to Zhu Zhifeng to help him control Yanghe as soon as possible.

As for himself, He Zan, and the He Zhen rearguard cavalry camp that arrived later, they all had to rest quickly and continue their journey early tomorrow morning.

After running non-stop all day today, Emperor Chongzhen was actually very tired, but because his physical fitness had changed, he was much better than Zhu Zhifeng, and he didn't have to be tied to a horse.

Wei Shizhen couldn't rest yet. He was responsible for checking the condition of the horses in the entire cavalry battalion and replacing some of the horses that could no longer run, so that the two general cavalry battalions could normally protect the emperor and rush to Datong.

According to the plan, there will be a few days of rest in Datong.With this time, the war horse should be able to recover a lot.

Speaking of which, there are still too few war horses.If one person rides two horses, the pressure on the horse can be greatly reduced, and the mobility will be much less restricted.Emperor Chongzhen paid no attention to Yanghe's affairs and took a rest early.In the early morning of the next day, he led the army and set off for Datong.

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In the governor's office of Datong, the commander-in-chief Jiang Quan walked into the back office in a happy mood. His eldest brother Jiang Xuan was drinking tea. When he saw him like this, he immediately asked excitedly: "How is it? Did that fool Dai Wang fall into the trap? "

After Jiang Yan heard this, he didn't speak immediately. He just took off his helmet and handed it to the guard behind him. Then he went to sit on the other side of the coffee table. He picked up a cup of tea, tested the temperature, drank it in one gulp, and waited for the tea cup to be put down. When he got to the coffee table, he smiled and replied: "Of course! I emphasized to that generation of kings that now that the enemy is coming, the fate of the old King Fu is certain. I implore him to send county princes to guard each gate, and at the same time use With the reward of silver, we should be able to defend the city. Therefore, I extorted a sum of silver from him and divided some among my brothers in the military camp, sending 200 people to each city gate."

At this point, he drank the tea he had just filled in one gulp, and then continued: "Master Wei is nursing his legs at home. The king is suppressing him like this, and there is a powerful enemy in front of him. There is nothing the other people can do about it. Then Several county princes only listen to my words."

Jiang Yan said, smiled, and said: "Now it's done. My people control the gates of Datong. When King Chuang comes, I can open the door."

After Jiang Xuan listened patiently, he also smiled and said happily: "Okay, okay, in this way, we should write a surrender form as soon as possible and send it to King Chuang as soon as possible, so that we can show more loyalty. Maybe When Dashun was founded, he could even get a title!"

While he was talking, he stood up, picked up a letter from the table next to him, turned around and walked to the coffee table where he was drinking tea, handed it to Jiang Yu and said: "I have already asked the master to write a letter for the reduction of my watch. Please take a look. If not, If you have any questions, just sign, and by the way, I’ll also sign behind you.”

The idea of ​​​​surrendering without a fight was brought up by him first, which shows his enthusiasm. It was not surprising to Jiang Yu that he took out the already written surrender form at this time.

Therefore, after Jiang Quan took it and read it, he found that the letter was very flattering to Li Zicheng, with a very low attitude. He also said that the Jiang family had long been willing to submit and was now well deployed in Datong, waiting for Li Zicheng's army to arrive. , the whole city must surrender, and by the way, Zhu Ming's clan and acting kings will be presented as a meeting gift.

Jiang Yu had no objection to this reduction.So, his brother immediately handed him the brush he had prepared and asked him to sign.

Then, Jiang Xuan also signed his name: Jiang Xuan, the former commander-in-chief of Changping.

He then collected the letter and immediately called his son Jiang Kai, the son of the Jiang family, and asked him to be sent to King Chuang's army immediately and must be dedicated to King Chuang.

Seeing Jiang Kai carefully put away his watch and left with a few people, Jiang Xuan seemed to have finished a huge task. He breathed a sigh of relief, sat back and drank a cup of tea, then looked up at the sky and smiled. Then he said: "It's almost noon, I guess Yuji won't even have time to eat that week, haha!"

Jiang Yu listened and nodded and said: "Zhou Yuji sent another messenger for help yesterday, saying that Li Zicheng had led the army to Ningwuguan and urgently asked for reinforcements. Haha, I have burned this request for help. There is no reinforcement. Ningwuguan Even though it’s dangerous, it can’t stop the Hongyi cannon’s bombardment!”

He obviously still has some insights into military affairs, and added: "However, there are Hongyi cannons at Ningwu Pass, which have the upper hand, but if there is no gunpowder, it is just an iron barrel. In my estimation, it is just It’s happened in the past two days.”

After Jiang Xuan heard this, he chuckled and said, "If you fight, it's best to hit him harder. It hurts Li Zicheng. Only then can you show how important it is for us to surrender to Li Zicheng!"

Hearing this, Jiang Gan glanced at him and said relaxedly: "Zhou Yuji is a rare strong general, and he is brave and resourceful. He can definitely hurt Li Zicheng. But a clever woman can't make a meal without rice. Without soldiers and food, she is just Ning. With the few men and horses in Wuguan, no matter how capable he is, he is just a mantis using his arms as a chariot, and it will be a matter of time before he breaks through!"

When Jiang Xuan heard this, he laughed happily. Suddenly, he thought of another question, and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared. He asked with a little worry: "Tell me, will Zhou Yuji try his best?" After that, he felt that he was worthy of the emperor's respect for him, and then demoted Li Zicheng?"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for his brother's answer, he immediately added: "If this is the case, he has shown his ability and can make Li Zicheng take it more seriously. In the Battle of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng was shot blind by Kaifeng guard Chen Yongfu. He only had one eye, but he surrendered to Chen Yongfu and used it regardless of past grievances. This is a precedent!"

After Jiang Yu heard this, he replied without thinking: "Brother, this is because you have little contact with Zhou Yuji and don't know Zhou Yuji as a person. I can guarantee that he will never surrender. He is that kind of person. Don't worry. ”

When Jiang Xuan heard what he said, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is best. Only if our family surrenders can we become important here. Otherwise, if he surrenders too, maybe Li Zicheng will pay more attention to him!"

Jiang Yan heard this and was about to speak when he suddenly frowned and stopped talking. Instead, he showed an expression of attentive listening.

Just a moment later, he said to Jiang Xuan, who was also listening: "There seems to be some movement of the cavalry?"

When his brother heard this, he nodded and said, "There is indeed a movement of cavalry coming."

Having said this, he paused and said a little surprised: "Could it be that Ningwuguan has been breached and the forwards of the Dashun Army are here?"

Anyway, after he thought about it, he couldn't think of any other possibilities.After all, they had just discussed that it was impossible for Zhou Yuji to surrender, nor to abandon the dangerous Ningwuguan and escape.In this case, the only possibility is that the cavalry of the Dashun Army will come over.

Jiang Yan had already stood up when he was talking, and said to him as he walked out: "Let's go and see the situation."

The Dashun Army suddenly arrived several days in advance, which was a bit unexpected.

No, as Jiang Xuan followed him out, he said a little worriedly: "Don't think that the reduced form cannot be delivered to King Chuang, do you want us to write another one?"

After he finished speaking, he sighed again: "If the army descends upon the city, this amount will be light!"

The two brothers quickly left the Yamen while talking.There were guards at the door who led their horses over. The two of them got on their horses vigorously and rushed to the city. Unexpectedly, they missed each other with a soldier who came back to report the news.

There were obviously fewer people on the streets.Everyone who could be seen ran home.With the army coming outside, no one can guarantee what will happen next. Subconsciously, everyone will hide at home first.Even if something happens, it is with my family.

Both Jiang and brothers were excellent in riding skills, and they soon arrived at the west city gate.He was still a little far away when he saw the movement at the city gate and was immediately stunned.

I saw all the people there, kneeling down and saluting a group of people entering the city, including the prince in charge of this gate.

You should know that although the clan of the Ming Dynasty was restricted in real power and could not interfere in local military affairs, its status was still very high.Even the largest governor in Datong would openly bow to these clans when he saw them. It could even be said that no matter what official came, it was impossible for the prince to kneel down and salute him!

At the beginning, Jiang Yu subconsciously thought that it was Li Zicheng who came.It was normal for Prince Zhu Ming to kneel down and beg for mercy from Li Zicheng or Li Zicheng's generals in order to survive.However, he saw that among the crowd there were clearly high-ranking Ming officials wearing scarlet robes!

It would not be surprising if some of Li Zicheng's troops wore the uniforms of imperial officials and soldiers. After all, most of Li Zicheng's troops were surrendered by imperial officials and soldiers.However, there are absolutely no officials wearing scarlet robes.Even if there is surrender, it is impossible to wear the official uniform of a high-ranking Zhu Ming official again!

Who is this person who can actually make the king kneel down and salute?
A conjecture came up, but was immediately rejected by Jiang Yu: He is really crazy, how could the emperor come to Datong!

His eldest brother was also surprised and asked him immediately: "What's going on? What should we do?"

This situation really made him a little confused as to what to do!
Originally, given their status, they must have gone directly.But they have ghosts in their hearts and a guilty conscience!

Jiang Yuzhang still had real power and was more confident. Hearing his brother's words, he immediately replied: "Don't panic, go over and check the situation before we talk!"

Jiang Xuan obviously also had a guess and asked uncertainly: "Isn't it the emperor who is coming?"

"It would be best if the emperor comes. Taking him and presenting him to Li Zicheng will be a great achievement!" After hearing this, Jiang Quan replied coldly in a low voice, then clamped his legs, drove his horse and continued to move towards the city. Go through the door.

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