Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

The Tang family has a newborn girl and a woman who has just given birth, and the Lin family also has both old and young people.

Tang and Lin were both very flexible people. Seeing that the situation was not good, they quickly contacted old friends who had already moved to Peking and moved their families there.

As the local bosses of Binzhou, they are familiar with the local roads and know what the people want.

The people in the counties and towns surrounding the big cities in the entire Shandong Province have no good feelings towards the current imperial court.

Disaster relief was poor, but conscription was in full swing.

Everything was fine during the reign of the previous emperor, but when the new emperor came to power, Shandong was filled with famine.

It is hard to say whether the new emperor is not good for Shandong.

The Yan army wanted to bypass the city and head south, and wanted to get rid of the corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, or even replace the emperor, but no one would report it.

After Captain Tang and Captain Lin were summoned, they readily marked a winding southward route on the map for Zhu Di, but guaranteed that there would be no garrison there. Finally, Captain Tang made the request.

"Your Majesty, we both have only one request."

"Go ahead."

Zhu Di held the map as if it were a treasure, and of course he didn't mind any requests from his subordinates.

"Please follow the prince south. We will escort the prince to the Shandong border."

Captain Tang and Captain Lin looked at each other, and Captain Lin spoke first.

"Ah, just send them to the Shandong border? Are you afraid of death?"

Zhu Di raised an eyebrow.

"We are not afraid of death. Our families have settled down in Peking. We have no regrets if we die. We don't know how to fight and don't want to hinder the prince. After the prince's army passes, the southern army may be angry with the people of Shandong because they let the prince pass. We want to protect them and also trip them up if they want to chase the prince."

Captain Tang explained anxiously.

"Hahahaha—Okay, it's settled, Captain Zhang!"

Zhu Di was stunned at first, then he laughed.

"The general is here!"

"On this expedition, Captain Zhang, you will lead the Yanshan rear guard to cover the retreat and ensure the safety of the people of Shandong."

"The general will obey your orders!"

After solving the problem of the first line of defense at the beginning, the people in the camp seemed to have their minds opened up.

A plan on how to cross the river was quickly drawn up after everyone had their brainstorming together.

Those who can be won over were also asked to write letters to persuade them to surrender by those who are proficient in literature and writing.

After sorting out the general ideas.

The question is how to capture the capital in the end.

There's really no way to deal with this matter. If you try to attack head-on or fight hard, it won't work. You can only say it's fate and timing. People who are used to fighting wars understand this.

It won’t be too late to discuss it after we have passed the two lines of defense ahead.

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Ming Dynasty, the second year of Jianwen, July.

The Yan army marched south.

Reason: If there are no loyal ministers in the court and there are treacherous people within the court, the princes will train soldiers and be on standby, and the emperor will secretly issue orders to all the kings to lead the troops to suppress the rebellion.

Slogan: Punish Qi and Huang, clear out the imperial court, and quell the national crisis.

Strategy: Do not take the cities, but go straight to the capital.

In early July, the Yan army marched quickly to the border of Binzhou and encountered the Southern Army's Ping'an Border Patrol Army, and the Yan army won.

On July 14, the Yan army captured Dong'a.

On July 15th, the Yan army captured Dongping.

On July 17, the Yan army went down to Wenshang.

On July 27, the Yan army arrived in Jiangsu and captured Pei County.

On July 30th, the vanguard of the Yan army arrived at Xuzhou, and the Shandong defense line was left far behind.

During the entire month of July, the Yan army did not occupy any city, nor did they engage in any entanglement with the small group of Southern Army they encountered.

This did not give any opportunity for the southern army in Shandong Province to support each other, nor did it give the imperial court any time to dispatch troops to support Shandong.

The Southern Army led by Sheng Yong and Ping An could only chase the Yan Army all the way from the rear.

The Yanshan rear guards led by Zhang Chang chased after Sheng Yong and Ping An and harassed them all the way.

The Southern Army was often chased so hard that they could only take care of the beginning and not the end.

Zhang Chang even recruited soldiers on the spot and divided them into several teams dressed as civilians to take turns blocking the gates of cities large and small in Shandong Province.

After the gates of a considerable number of county towns in Shandong Province were knocked open, the people in the yamen surrendered directly.

As the fighting went on, Zhang Chang gained some experience and began to understand the advantage of breaking the whole into parts.

He led a total of 5,000 guards behind Yanshan, plus 5,000 people recruited locally in Shandong.

Later, they were divided into small teams of a hundred or even ten people, and from time to time they would sneak into big cities and small counties to burn stables or steal granaries.

Shandong Governor Tie Xuan was so angry that he jumped up and down in Jinan Prefecture.

But they couldn't rashly split up their troops to fight Zhang Chang's rat-like guards.

Once the guards stationed in the county towns and cities chased the enemy out of the city gate, when they returned, even their lair had been occupied.

The army of Shandong Province was trapped in Shandong by Zhang Chang's 10,000 men.

While Zhu Di's main Yan army was marching southward, Zhu Yunwen was also not idle.

Duke of Wei Xu Huizu was once again ordered to rush to Shandong for assistance. Before he arrived in Shandong, the Yan army had already passed Xuzhou and was approaching Suzhou.

Sheng Yong and Ping An finally got rid of Zhang Chang's pursuit and stationed troops in Huaishang and Jining.

In early August, Ping An led his troops to attack the Yan army, but was defeated and retreated to Suzhou.

On August 8, Tie Xuan, who was urgently transferred to Xuzhou by Zhu Yunwen, encountered the Yan army and both sides won and lost.

In mid-August, after Xu Huizu, Duke of Wei, met with the Southern Army, the Southern Army won more games than it lost, and the morale of the Yan Army was low.

In late August, the situation of the Yan army was already critical, but when the court heard that the battle situation was advantageous, it recalled Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, on the grounds that the capital could not be without good generals.

On August 20th, Ping'an was in Lingbi, where they dug deep trenches and built high fortifications, intending to confront the Yan army for a long time.

On August 25, because food and fodder were often intercepted by the Yan army, Ping An personally led the army to escort the food and fodder, but was attacked by the Yan army; He Fu went to assist and was ambushed together.

On August 29, He Fu and Ping An agreed to break out with three cannon shots, but the Yan army also fired three cannon shots as their attack signal. This was a coincidence that when the Yan army's attack signal sounded first, the Southern Army mistakenly thought they were going to break out, and the two sides collided with each other. The Yan army took advantage of the opportunity to defeat the Southern Army and the entire army was annihilated.

After the Battle of Lingbi, which was won by coincidence, the Yan army no longer had any rivals on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

On August 30, Sheng Yong took the Huai River to resist the Yan army and was defeated.

On the first day of September, Sheng Yong relied on the natural barrier of the Yangtze River to resist the Yan army. The Yan army was unable to cross the river for a while and cursed at each other from across the river.

On the third day of September, Jiang Defense Commander Chen Xuan led the navy to surrender to the Yan army. The Yan army successfully crossed the river and the unprepared Sheng Yong was defeated.

On the eighth day of September, the Yan army was stationed at Longtan, sixty miles away from the capital.

On the tenth day of September, Zhu Yunwen sent Li Jinglong to negotiate with the Yan army, but the talks failed.

On September 11, the Yan army approached the capital. Prince Gu Zhu Tan and Li Jinglong opened the Jinchuan Gate to welcome the Yan army into Nanjing.

A thin piece of paper recorded the entire battle situation and sent it back to Peiping.

When Zhang Xin read every word to Xu, she didn't know how to describe the feeling in her heart.

I fought for four years in my previous life!

Four full years!

In this life, from the scorching hot July when the army set out to the cool and pleasant September now, the capital has been captured.

【Gua said: It actually took seven months from the time Zhu Di decided to march south to the time he entered the capital. This book is a historical novel.】