Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1113 Killing the Inner Ghost
Wang Yan annexed King Tang's army, but left many hidden dangers. After all, King Tang was the younger brother of Emperor Gaozong. His throne was spoiled by Wang Yan and King Lu.

With this relationship, and the fact that the co-governing emperor was young and unable to take charge, many ministers and generals who were loyal to the imperial family, that is, the imperial party, pinned their hopes on him.

After Dong Zhongshu reformed Confucianism and transformed Confucianism into a tool suitable for the emperor's rule, under the influence of thousands of years of loyalty to the emperor, there are still many people who are loyal to the emperor's family.

One of the deputy commanders was Yunnan general Zhao Yinxuan, who went out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty during the Hongguang period, and he was present in Jiangxi and Hunan battlefields.

Another acquaintance named Wang Dehan was born in the Yangzhou army. He followed Wang Yan very early. However, this old soldier had many problems. Unavoidable imbalance, let Tang Wang find an opportunity.

Wang Dehan was a gambler and often owed debts. Many times he asked his colleagues for help, but he was not in a hurry to pay back the money.

Once, he lost more than 300 taels, and it coincided with the Chinese New Year. Others slaughtered chickens and sheep, but he was still carrying huge debts. He asked the commander Yang Yanchang to borrow some money from him. Yang Yanchang knew his nature , so he didn't give it, but asked someone to send some fish to his family to make his family happy for a new year.

In other words, those with a bit of conscience should be grateful. Unfortunately, Wang Dehan didn't feel grateful for his honest words. Instead, he fell in love with Yang Yanchang. At this time, King Lu seized the opportunity and asked someone to deliberately lose 500 taels of silver to him, waiting for his reaction. When he came here, he had already spent all of Tang Wang's money, so he was counted as a thief.

In addition to these two people, there are three thousand households and some secret people. King Tang has been working hard to maintain the relationship. They all wrote letters of loyalty to King Tang.

The king of Tang gave them the order to defend Nanjing first, support Gao Yigong with all his strength, and block King Lu's troops, wait until Jin Shenghuan killed Wang Yan, and then try to get rid of Gao Yigong, control the governor's office of the five armies, and launch a mutiny. Controlling the army in Nanjing, but in Nanjing city, there are many troops loyal to the imperial court, so it is difficult to achieve, so the king of Tang confessed that if it is not possible, he will lead his subordinates and the Japanese army to open the city gate and welcome Jin Shenghuan's troops to Nanjing city.

Zhao Yin chose this side, naturally he wanted to launch a mutiny and control the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and Gao Yigong.

The reason is very simple, since it is risking their lives to launch a mutiny, it is natural to fight for a good price for themselves.

Open the city gate and let Jin Shenghuan enter the city. They open a city gate and only lead their men and horses to join them. Naturally, they will get less credit, and they will easily be annexed by Jin Shenghuan. It is like making a wedding dress for Jin Shenghuan. Their status will be worse than Jin Shenghuan Too far, after Tang Wang came to power, he also advanced the core circle.

If he could control Gao Yigong and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and help His Royal Highness Tang Wang control Nanjing, not to mention being on an equal footing with Jin Shenghuan, at least he wouldn't be left too far behind.

Zhao Yinxuan and the others knew that under the two circumstances, their future would be very different, so they had to kill Gao Yigong no matter what.Doing things for the Tang king is to be loyal to the imperial family, but at the same time they are loyal, they also have to think about themselves.

Those rogues from the Shun Army had climbed over the heads of these orthodox officers, and their titles were much higher than theirs, which made them dissatisfied.

Over the past few days, Zhao Yin selected a few people to discuss, and they all agreed. What they are doing is doing business with their heads, so naturally they want to make it bigger.

Because the time has not come yet, Jin Shenghuan has no news yet, in order to avoid startling the snake, the few people are very forbearing, and obey Gao Yigong's orders, so as not to arouse his suspicion.

On this day, after several people were ordered to inspect the city, as soon as they left the city, soldiers came to deliver an order, saying that the governor asked them to go to the five-army governor's mansion to discuss matters. Several people did not doubt it.

According to the information given by His Highness Tang Wang, since Anqing should succeed, Jin Shenghuan will come over in the next few days. At the critical moment, Gao Yigong will not let Gao Yigong become suspicious, so he will only bring his own guards and go straight to the Mansion of the Governor of the Five Armies .

The Zhejiang army's offensive has weakened a lot these days, they must be preparing some other means of siege, they thought that Gao Yigong called them to discuss defense matters.

A group of people entered the yamen, and the soldiers on guard didn't change much. They just walked through a hallway and saw several military academies rushing out. After seeing Zhao Yinxuan and the group, they immediately stepped forward and said, "General Zhao came at a good time, so as not to be humbled." Let’s go, the governor is waiting for some generals!”

Zhao Yinxuan and Wang Dehan glanced at each other, Zhao Yinxuan's hand fell on the handle of the knife unconsciously, "What is the governor looking for us for?"

"The defenders at Zhengyangmen heard the movement. The rebels seem to have dug a tunnel. The governor wants to discuss with some generals!" The military academy lowered its head, not daring to look at the two of them.

"Oh, lead the way!" After hearing this, Zhao Yinxuan and Wang Dehan felt relieved when they saw that it was indeed a matter of discussing the defense of the city. They waved their hands and followed the officer to go straight to Jietang.

With the military academy of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion leading the way, they traveled unimpeded all the way, until their personal soldiers were stopped outside the festival hall, which did not arouse their vigilance.

This is normal, how can ordinary soldiers enter the festival hall of the Great Governor? Not only soldiers cannot enter, but even the generals have to take off their knives.

Lin Chong entered the Baihu Hall with a knife, and was punished by Gao Qiu. The novel was written in the Song Dynasty, but the book was written in the Ming Dynasty.It is impossible for the commander-in-chief in the world to allow generals and soldiers to enter without permission. In special circumstances, the generals will also take off their weapons.

Wang Dehan glanced at Zhao Xuanyin, and the latter nodded. Jin Shenghuan felt that he would come to Nanjing soon. They had endured for so many days, and they were about to succeed, so nothing could go wrong now.

At that moment, the two left their guards outside, and untied their knives and handed them to the guards in front of the door. An officer on duty immediately pushed the door open, "Two generals, please come in!"

Zhao Yinxuan nodded, and went in first, followed by Wang Dehan, who entered the festival hall.

As soon as they entered, the door was closed, and the hall was empty, the Shuai case was also empty, Gao Yigong and two generals stood in front of a map with their backs to them.

Zhao Yinxuan frowned when he stood up, didn't he say to call the generals to discuss matters?Why is there no one in the hall?

"Governor, this is..." Zhao Yinxuan felt guilty and forgot to salute.

"You are here!" Hearing the sound, Gao Yigong turned around, and the two people beside him also turned around, one was Yang Yanchang, the commander of the Tiger Wing Battalion, and the other was indeed Yu Taichu of the Jinyiwei, who was squinting at them .

"Ah..." When Zhao Yinxuan and Wang Dehan saw Yu Taichu, their hair exploded immediately. The two exclaimed almost at the same time, turned around and ran instinctively, and at the same time shouted anxiously, "Guards!"

But the door of the festival hall was locked from the outside, and the soldiers they shouted did not rush in, and a burst of shouts and clashes of weapons sounded from outside at the same time.

Although the Jinyiwei organization has been abolished with many powers, its intelligence collection work is still quite effective.

The officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty basically have information to check in the archives of Jinyiwei. They can know what they have done and what stains they have.

When Wang Yan employs people, it is natural to conduct a political review. For those who have problems and hidden dangers, Jin Yiwei has focused on monitoring them.For those who voted from the side of King Tang or King Lu, Jin Yiwei would monitor them for a period of time, and then decide whether to continue to observe according to the situation.Unfortunately, Zhao Yinxuan has been under the supervision of Jin Yiwei. As for Wang Dehan, it is because he loves to gamble too much and has too much money.

Zhao Yinxuan and Wang Dehan rushed to the door and were shocked when they found that the door was locked.

"It's been tricked!" Wang Dehan exclaimed in his heart as if mourning his concubine, and his face turned pale instantly.

Zhao Yinxuan on the side reacted faster, he managed to calm down, looked back at Gao Yigong and the other three, and said with a trembling voice, "Governor, why is this?"

Gao Yigong sneered and remained silent, but Yang Yanchang on the side laughed grimly and said, "What are you doing? Of course it is to kill the internal thieves!"

"I'm wronged!" Zhao Yinxuan immediately called Qu, "The humble official is loyal to the court, how could he be an internal thief, did the governor make a mistake!"

"What's wrong?" Yu Taichu held the handle of the knife and said with a smile: "Then why are you running? Let me tell you, Jin Yiwei has already obtained conclusive evidence. Not only you, but also Tang Wang can't run away!"

"This..." Zhao Yinxuan was at a loss for words for a while, but Wang Dehan at the side was overwhelmed by Yu Taichu's words. Since the other party mentioned King Tang, he obviously knew everything.

At that moment, he felt fear in his heart, his knees softened immediately, and he knelt on the ground, "Governor, this subordinate was designed by the Tang king, and he didn't sincerely join the Tang king, because I have followed His Highness the Chu king for many years... "..."

"You still have the face to mention His Royal Highness the King of Chu..." Yang Yanchang pulled out his knife and pushed forward step by step, "You didn't take refuge in the King of Tang, why did you run away?"

"Humble job, I'm afraid of a humble job..." Wang Dehan leaned back in fright. After several years of peaceful life, plus his love of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, he had already become corrupt and depraved, and he lost much courage.

Wang Dehan is Yang Yanchang's subordinate, he thinks he has taken care of him a lot, but he didn't expect that he became an inside ghost, and wanted to launch a mutiny to get rid of Gao Dudu and him. Yang Yanchang was very annoyed by his face.

"It's right to be afraid!" Just as Wang Dehan was kneeling and leaning back, Yang Yanchang suddenly stepped forward, and with a knife in his hand, he cut his chest open, and blood spattered immediately. Zhao Yinxuan, who was next to him, closed his eyes and was splashed all over his face. ······

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