Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 620
In addition, the residence of Cao Bin and Xue Juzheng.Of course, some people who are close to Ye Chen or Cao Bin will inevitably be stared to death or placed under house arrest.For example, father and son Yang Wudi and Yang Yanjun, father and son Luo Gongming and Luo Yaoshun, and Zhan Xiongwu who served in the Forbidden Army.

Of course, what needs to be explained here is that the reason why Zhao Guangyi is able to mobilize the [-] forbidden troops, city defense troops, and even the army of the city gate division outside the city is because under the current circumstances, Zhao Guangyi is the emperor of the Song Dynasty. 'legal' successor.

Two factors contributed to this.

[-]. Zhao Guangyi was designated as the successor of the emperor by the edict of the former emperor and the edict of the empress dowager.The main reason why this point is recognized is that the life and death of the thousands of court officials who ruled the Song Dynasty in the Great Court this morning are in the hands of Zhao Guangyi, and they have to admit it if they don't.Of course, this is also directly related to the personal connections that Zhao Guangyi has carefully managed among officials over the years.

[-]. Zhao Guangyi's competitors --- Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Defang have almost no advantage compared with Zhao Guangyi.First of all, Zhao Guangyi's prestige and ability among civil and military officials and the Imperial Army are far higher than those of the two nephews. For most officials and soldiers of the Imperial Army, they are more willing to choose Zhao Guangyi as emperor. Because he was worried that his son was too young and not capable enough to defend the country, and there were quite a few people who passed the throne to his younger brother, Zhao Guangyi felt more at ease and taken it for granted when he took over the throne for the officials, the army and even the people. Song, as long as Da Song shows his weak side or any flaws, hundreds of thousands of cavalry will go south. Under such circumstances, no one wants their emperor to be an incompetent person.

In addition, it is also the most important --- Wei Wang Zhao Dezhao was appointed by more than a dozen ministers and dozens of eunuchs and maids who followed Zhao Kuangyin to worship the heavens as the murderer behind the murder of the king and conspiracy, and his disappearance is now defined as absconding in fear of crime.And it doesn't matter that the little prince Zhao Defang is still young, he is still seriously injured.

Under such circumstances, apart from the fact that Zhao Guangyi has animosity, such as the forces represented by Zhao Pu and Ye Chen, there are also a small number of people who are loyal to Zhao Kuangyin, because they suspect that Zhao Guangyi is the brother who killed the king. In addition, most of the other courtiers and generals have no psychological burden on choosing Zhao Guangyi as emperor, and even support it.

Therefore, although Zhao Guangyi was a regicide and rebelled against his superiors, but because of his ingenious planning and the coincidence of various favorable factors, he faintly seemed to be expected by everyone.

Under such circumstances, Cao Bin, the envoy of the Privy Council, resigned again, and it was easy for Zhao Guangyi to mobilize the army.Even if a general has some thoughts in his mind, he has to weigh Zhao Guangyi's revenge afterwards, and has to be obedient.

However, despite this, because the commander of the city defense army is Dang Jin who has always been extremely loyal to Zhao Kuangyin, and Dang Jin and Zhao Guangyi once had conflicts, the relationship between them is not harmonious.Therefore, even though Dang Jin did not stand up like Cao Bin and Xue Juzheng at the Great Court Meeting in the morning, he was still placed under house arrest by Zhao Guangyi.Moreover, Zhao Guangyi also replaced the commander-in-chief of the city defense army with Zeng Shangfei, a member of the Privy Council who had secretly signed a letter with him at the beginning of the year under his co-option.

But even so, Zhao Guangyi is still worried, because Zeng Shangfei has only been with him for a short time, and he is not considered a real confidant. If not for the fact that he has few people in the army, he would not use Zeng Shangfei.In addition, everyone knows that the City Defense Army and the Thirteen City Gate Divisions are the most loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.

Therefore, Zhao Guangyi finally switched defenses against Kyoto.

Hurry up!
On the long street, the soldiers of the Kaifeng Mansion had already pulled up a long blockade.And just outside the blockade, the sound of horseshoes came from far away on the long street, and then I saw teams of cavalry with bright armor driving straight in, galloping past the crowds of people in Kyoto behind the blockade!

The unique armor of the [-] Imperial Guards outside Kaifeng City is particularly eye-catching, as long as it is a commoner in Kyoto or anyone who lives in Kyoto.But those who can distinguish the establishment of the [-] forbidden army are not people who ordinary people can do.

The One Hundred Thousand Forbidden Army consists of four parts, namely the Fourth Upper Army, the Third Army of the Dianqian Division, the Third Army of the Infantry Division, and the Two Armies of the Division Division, with a total of twelve legions.

Among them, the so-called Upper Fourth Army refers to the four most elite legions of the Song Dynasty, namely Pengri, Tianwu, Longwei, and Shenwei.

The three armies in front of the temple are the three legions of Shenyong, Xuanwu, and Xiaoqi, each divided into the upper army and the lower army, with ten commanders in each army.

The Infantry Division is composed of Ningshuo, Xiaosheng, and Huyi. Ningshuo and Xiaosheng each have ten commanders; while Huyi is divided into the left army and the right army, each with five armies, and each army has ten commanders.

The Cloud Cavalry Army and the Wu Cavalry Army of the Horse Army Division each have ten commanders.

The leading organizations of each legion are the commander-in-chief of the capital, the commander-in-chief of the capital, and the Marquis of Du Yu as the chief and deputy chiefs.

Entering the city at this time, instead of the city defense army are the Wuqi Army and the Yunqi Army of the Ma Junsi, each with 5000 people, the commander of the Wuqi Army is Liu Shouzhong, and the commander of the Yunqi Army is Li Jilong.Both armies are dominated by cavalry.Among them, the Wu cavalry army is heavy cavalry, while the cloud cavalry army is light cavalry.The two armies entered from the north and south gates respectively.

At this time, entering the Yunqi Army from the south gate, galloping at the forefront of the team is Li Jilong, the commander of the Yunqi Army.

Li Jilong is the son of Li Chuyun, the famous founding general of the Song Dynasty. He participated in the war to pacify Houshu, made military achievements, and was promoted all the way to the position of commander of the deputy capital of the Yuncavalry.But just a day ago, his superior, the Yunqi Army, commanded his envoy Rong to suddenly fall ill and returned home to recuperate.With a military order from Zhao Guangyi, Li Jilong was directly promoted to the commander of the Yunqi Army.

The reason why Zhao Guangyi trusted Li Jilong so much was because Li Jilong's younger sister was Zhao Guangyi's wife, who was the later Empress Mingde in the original history.

This future uncle of the country is not incompetent. On the contrary, he is very good at riding and shooting, and is very resourceful. He is a well-known Confucian general in the Song army. With his legs tightly clamping the horse's belly, he raised his whip vigorously!
"In any case, as long as this general is here, no one can change the fact that King Jin is enthroned as emperor, even if the young King Xiangfu appears." Li Jilong thought so, and quickly conveyed the order, and began to receive it in an orderly manner. Defense, according to Zhao Guangyi's order, the cloud cavalry is responsible for the defense of the southern city of Kaifeng, including the southern half of the city wall of Kaifeng, the south gate and west gate, and seven side gates.

Although Li Jilong had just been rectified by the deputy capital commander, there was no shortage of his trusted generals in the Yunqi Army. In fact, he had readjusted the generals at all levels of the Yunqi Army within half a day. The envoys are all his confidantes, as long as it is his order, they will be carried out to the letter. This is one of the abilities of an excellent general, and Li Jilong already possesses this ability.

In addition, Liu Shouzhong, the commander of the military cavalry army in charge of the defense of the northern city of Kaifeng, also has the loyalty and ability to Zhao Guangyi for special reasons.In addition, the imperial city was already under Zhao Guangyi's control as early as last night, so, so far, Kaifeng City has been firmly controlled by Zhao Guangyi.

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In the imperial study room, Zhao Guangyi sat in the place where Zhao Kuangyin sat in the past with a satisfied face, watching Xu Fangyi walk in from the outside after being notified, this sense of satisfaction was even stronger.

"Minister Xu Fangyi pays homage to the lord!" Unlike Lu Duoxun, Lu Yuqing and others who had already started calling his majesty when they faced Zhao Guangyi, Xu Fangyi still called Zhao Guangyi the lord. Zhao Guangyi was not displeased with this, on the contrary he admired Xu Fangyi's neither humble nor overbearing.After all, he hadn't been enthroned as emperor yet.

Zhao Guangyi nodded slightly, and said gently: "Xu Qing, you don't need to be polite, how is the matter going in Huaxia Weifu?"

Xu Fangyi showed shame on his face, and said: "I am incompetent. Except for two-thirds of the spies in the intelligence department who are willing to listen to my words, only about one-third of the spies in other departments are persuaded by me."

Hearing this, Zhao Guangyi's expression became a little gloomy, but in a blink of an eye, Ye Chen was still alive after all, and with Ye Chen's prestige, even if he forcibly dismissed his position as chief envoy and let Xu Fangyi take over, it would be difficult for him to truly control Huaxia Wei. government, unless there is a massacre and a bloodbath.But Zhao Guangyi, who wanted to subdue Yanyun sixteen prefectures and even destroy Khitan to show that his ability was only stronger than his brother, was reluctant to cause such a huge loss to Huaxia Weifu.

Thinking of this, Zhao Guangyi sighed, and said, "Since the other two-thirds of the people are trapped in the main office of the Huaxia Weifu, it is enough for you to use one-third of them."

Xu Fangyi didn't hesitate, and said: "My lord, Hu Sanguang escaped because of my negligence of duty, and I don't know where to go."

Zhao Guangyi frowned immediately, and said, "How many spies are there in Hu Sanguang's hands who will be at his disposal?"

Xu Fangyi said: "There are less than a hundred spies in Kaifeng City."

Zhao Guangyi said: "Find him as soon as possible, and then kill him and his one hundred spies."

Xu Fangyi respectfully said yes.

Zhao Guangyi said again: "Has the king of Wei ever found it?"

Xu Fangyi looked ashamed, and said: "Your Majesty, forgive me, I mobilized more than 400 spies, and with the cooperation of more than 4 peripheral members of Kaifeng City, and the Kaifeng Mansion, they failed to find King Wei, but I found a piece of information. matter."

Zhao Guangyi said, "What is it?"

Xu Fangyi said: "Zhao Pu entered the capital secretly when the late emperor Xixun left Kaifeng. King Wei is with him now."

Hearing this, Zhao Guangyi's eyes flickered, and his expression became a little dignified. He said, "It turned out that the old thief Zhao Pu was conspiring around De Zhao's trash. No wonder he didn't die in the previous assassination, and now he even disappeared. With Zhao Pu like that The old thief is hiding in Kaifeng, this king is a little uneasy, Xu Qing! From now on, we must find Zhao Pu and King Wei at all costs. This king will let Li Jilong and Liu Shouzhong cooperate with you."

Xu Fangyi solemnly said yes.

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(End of this chapter)