Chapter 108: Ningxia is decided

The great war on the northeastern border is about to begin, but the great war on the northwestern border is about to be decided.

The father and son in Ningxia City finally completed the bloody cleansing, and killed nearly half of the four battalions that followed him, and the remnants of the four battalions were finally controlled by them. It's just that these soldiers who survived the catastrophe may have long lost the courage to pick up weapons again, and the difference between them and the walking dead is not much.

The strength of the father and son was also consumed in this civil strife on a large scale, and even the most elite family troops, the Cangtou Army, had less than 2,000 people and barely maintained their combat effectiveness, and the descendants under his command died less than 15,000 without hanging the lottery. On the whole, the so-called 60,000 troops at the peak of their prime, now I don't know if they can gather 20,000 people and are still willing to obey their orders.

The Ningxia rebellion could be declared a defeat so far.

In these days of civil strife in Ningxia, the strength of the Ming army outside the city has been greatly enhanced, and the counterinsurgency soldiers and horses from Shaanxi, Yansui and other towns have arrived one after another, so that about 70,000 Ming troops have gathered outside the city of Ningxia.

These armies are also a little interesting to say, in addition to the army of the imperial court, there are more than 10,000 special troops - the elite of the families of the retired generals, such as Dong Yiyuan, the younger brother of Dong Yikui, the general soldier of Yansui, brought nearly 3,000 people with his brother to help in the war.

Dong Yikui and Dong Yiyuan brothers are also from Xuanda General, and their father Dong Yang once served as a general of Xuanfu. Dong Yiyuan was dismissed for colliding with the patrol two years ago, and he was originally "dismissed from his post and idle", but this time he found an opportunity to lead his family to help in the war and strive for meritorious service. There are still a lot of generals like him in the opposition, and this time the additional reinforcements of no less than 10,000 people came in this way, which is also a characteristic of the Ming Dynasty to some extent.

Guyuan General Li Yun, Yansui General Dong Yikui and other troops rushed outside Ningxia City, making the Gao pragmatic troops more than enough, only Li Rusong's troops were previously transferred to Zhuang Langwei to assist Gansu General Liu Chengsi did not return, but that didn't matter.

Although the specific situation in Ningxia City is unknown, Gao Pragmatic and others outside the city have roughly understood that the strength of the rebels in the city has been greatly reduced through the lookout platform built by Gao Pragmatic and others, and they are quite impatient with the delay of Bibai's father and son to open the city, and the letters sent by Gao Pragmatic to the city are also harsher than the other.

Why did Ningxia delay for five or six days and still refuse to open the city? Because Bibai father and son have different opinions.

Previously, when Bi Chengen killed Liu Dongyang and others, Bi Bai didn't know about it, but it was actually Bi Chengen's "fake holy decree", pretending to be Bi Bai's order to transfer soldiers and horses. However, this kind of thing obviously opened the bow and did not turn back, and when Bibai learned the news, it was impossible to stop shouting, so he had to simply do nothing, and cooperate with his son to wash the whole of the four battalions in Ningxia in the city.

But when the four camps were cleaned, the father and son had another dispute. Bibai didn't believe in Gao Shishi's promise at all, thinking that Bi Chengen must have been deceived, so he insisted on refusing to open the city. At the same time, he also believed that since the internal instability factors had disappeared, and the number of troops had been reduced a lot, and the remaining food in the city was enough to last for at least a year, it was completely possible to resist hard, and the imperial court would definitely not be able to support the 100,000 army trapped outside the city for such a long time.

When Bi Chengen was told by him, he also had some doubts in his heart whether Gao Pragmatic was deliberately lying to him. However, the scene of Lingzhou City being blasted by cannons really impressed Bi Chengen too much, he always felt that although Ningxia City was stronger than Lingzhou City, as long as Gao was willing to bombard, sooner or later it would be able to be blasted, so that defending was not a way out at all.

It stands to reason that the father and son fell into a dispute, and Bibai, the father, had the final say, but because the "city purge" incident was launched by Bi Chengen first, he gradually mastered a lot of troops in the process of purging, and in the end, he actually mastered one or two thousand more soldiers and horses than Bibai, which led to the effect of Bibai's speech was also greatly reduced, and he almost relied on his former prestige to barely control the city gate was not opened.

However, as the wording of the "life talisman" sent into the city by Gao Pragmatic became more and more severe, the contradiction between the father and son of the Bi family became more and more acute, and Bi Chengen even openly said at the meeting last night: "If I can't open this door!" Then he slammed the door and went out, making Bi Bai so angry that his face was red and his neck was thick, and he almost ordered the rebel to be caught and killed on the spot.

But this is just talking, in fact, Bibai does not have such an ability, and now even a meeting is held by both sides with their own soldiers and horses, where is it said that you can catch it.

After Bi Chengen came out, he was also angry, he always felt that if the city was opened immediately after the "civil strife" was quelled, Gao Pragmatic was very likely to fulfill his promise, but now he was delayed by the old man again and again, making Gao Pragmatic's tone more and more unkind, and he was about to change his hexagram.

Once Gao Chengcheng is impatient, when the time comes, the gate of Ningxia will be opened, and 70,000 troops will rush in, then he will not say anything about Yongzhen Ningxia, but he is afraid that he will not even be able to keep his head, but how is this good?

The more Bi Chengen thought about it, the more he didn't know how to go, and urgently sent someone to get in touch with Gao Shishi's spies in the city - at this time, it was not Zhou Zhe's kind of person, just an ordinary detail - and asked him to convey it to Gao Shutai, saying that the old thief would not repent of his death, and the last general had decided to kill his relatives in righteousness. Within two days at the latest, we must give an explanation to the cardinal, and ask the cardinal to give another day or two of grace, and the end will be slightly arranged.

Gao Pragmatic outside the city received the news, and he was quite stunned, and said in his heart that this Bibai father and son really planned to follow An Shi's two thieves, and now Bi Chengen's out, should it be regarded as An Qingxu killing An Lushan, or Shi Chaoyi killing Shi Siming?

However, Gao pragmatic thought about it, it doesn't matter whether Bi Chengen wants to be An Qingxu or Shi Chaoyi, the important thing is that there are at most 20,000 horses left in Ningxia City now, and if there is another civil strife, there is not much difference between his father and son whether he opens the city or not.

So Gao pragmatic sent a message back to the city, first seriously criticized Bi Chengen's delay in opening the city, and then changed the conversation, saying that considering that the relationship between father and son is indeed very much abandoned, General Bi is pure filial piety and refuses to be ungrateful, and I can also understand it very well.

Then the conversation changed again, saying that the prince of heaven and earth, filial piety is important, but the loyal monarch is still before the filial piety, the general is loyal to the monarch and the righteous destruction of relatives, this is the right way in the world, I am very admired. It's just that this battle has been delayed for a long time now, and I can't talk well in the court, so I ask the general to be sure as soon as possible, otherwise it's hard to say whether the things I promised before can be fulfilled......

Bi Chengen learned that he was pleasantly surprised, and he didn't expect Gao Pragmatic to "remember" the "Yongzhen Ningxia" thing he promised before, which was a surprise.

But there was joy and surprise, he couldn't imagine that Gao Pragmatic would feel the pressure in the DPRK because of "this battle has been delayed for a long time", and he had to force him to do it quickly.

In fact, Bi Chengen is just an impulsive young man, just like he launched the purge, he actually didn't think about it before he started, and now he plans to "kill his relatives in righteousness" is actually just hot-headed at the time - young people who are used to being indulged often have such a performance, and there is no exception in the past.

But now, even if he is hot-headed, he has to continue to be hot, since Gao Pragmatic is no longer patient, then of course he can't delay it, and the "righteous annihilation of relatives" is already on the verge of being sent.

But how to send this arrow, Bi Chengen was still a little hesitant. Bibai controls the gates of the four cities, the Fuyuan and the mansion of the Bi family, and it makes no sense to open the city gate now, the important thing is to "destroy relatives with righteousness" - take down Bibai himself.

But Bibai has also become cautious in the past two days, and no one knows whether he stays in the governor's yamen or his own house every night, and Bi Chengen feels a little difficult to do when he thinks about it.

Take the fuyuan and the private residence at the same time? It's not impossible, but the difficulty is obviously much greater, after all, it is easy to concentrate elite soldiers, and if it is divided into two units, the strength will not be so strong, and it may be reacted by Bibai - the strength of the two sides is about the same, once Bibai reacts, with his prestige in the army, it is not so stable whether he can win in the end.

Bi Chengen thought about it, but he was still worried about Bibai's prestige and didn't dare to do it easily, and finally used several male and female "dead soldiers" that he had planted a long time ago, planning to engage in "one-rod trading", determine where Bibai was, and then concentrate on the elite troops to attack and take Bibai himself as quickly as possible, so as to avoid too much loss to the Ningxia army - he still knows that the army is the capital to settle down.

However, what Bi Chengen didn't know was that there was an old saying called "ginger is still old and spicy", and two of the dead soldiers that Bi Chengen used were double-sided fine works that Bi Bai discovered and bought in his early years.

The reason why Bibai has been pretending not to know is because Bichengen has never given them any instructions, so Bibai originally thought that Bichengen only did this out of a kind of distrust of his father as the eldest son - the Mongol primogeniture system was only implemented after the death of Dayan Khan, and it was only a few decades, and it was not surprising that Bichengen was worried that Bibai would pass on the family business to other sons.

But Bi Chengen suddenly activated the dead tonight, and as long as they were sure of Bibai's location, it couldn't help but make Bibai angry.

Determine the location? What do you do to determine the location?

What else can you do, this son of a son actually wants to kill his father!

Bi Bai was so angry that his hands and feet were cold, and then his blood was boiling, and his teeth were itching with hatred, so he changed his cloak on the spot and personally led his troops to kill Bi Chengen's mansion.

Bi Bai suddenly launched, but it was much more unexpected than Bi Chengen, and more importantly, Bi Chengen originally planned to use elite soldiers to capture only one person, so he only gathered five hundred of the most reliable elites, and did not gather a large army so as not to startle the snake.

However, under the anger of Bibai, he couldn't care much at all, and took a thousand Cangtou troops and two thousand descendants of the former Ningxia Fubiao to go straight to Bichengen's mansion, and attacked directly without saying a word.

Of course, Bi Chengen couldn't resist it, and the gate and back door were quickly broken. Fortunately, Bi Chengen was a gentleman earlier, and there was a tunnel at home to quietly get out of the house, but this time it saved his life, let him sneak out with more than 30 cronies, and hurriedly ran to his camp to move the rescuers.

Bi Bai killed a bloody person in Bi Chengen's mansion, but in the end he found that Bi Chengen actually escaped from the secret passage, and in a fit of rage, he took the soldiers and horses to Bi Chengen's camp again.

At this time, Bi Chengen had already led the soldiers and horses back to fight, and the father and son saw each other, and there was no family affection.

On the one hand, he scolded Bi Chengen for trying to kill his father, and he was wolf-hearted and dog-hearted; On the one hand, Bi Chengen scolded the tiger for not eating the poison, you old thief is not even as good as a beast.

The soldiers on both sides were stunned, and they couldn't figure out what was going on with the father and son, let alone who they wanted to kill whom.

However, at this time, there was a variable, Bi Bai's second son Bi Chengzhong suddenly jumped out and scolded Bi Chengen for not being a thing, obviously relying on his father to get to where he is today, but instead he wanted to kill his father and ask for surrender, it was simply intolerable to heaven and earth, and he deserved to die.

Bi Chengpet usually doesn't say anything, and there are not many soldiers and horses at hand, originally his little strength has never been in Bi Chengen's eyes, but unfortunately he jumped out a little bit of the timing this time, and the soldiers on both sides heard it, it turned out that Bi Chengen was the one who was deeply guilty, and his momentum changed all of a sudden.

The soldiers on the side of Bibai are vigorous, and the momentum on the side of Bi Chengen is declining - it can be seen that it is reasonable for the ancients to attach importance to the fame of the teacher.

When he saw it, he knew that the opportunity could not be missed, and immediately launched an attack, although there were less than a thousand people in the department, they also joined in to help the battle. Although the momentum on Bi Chengen's side was suppressed, his forces were still slightly more than Bibai, and the two sides were entangled together.

This battle was extremely bloody, both sides had no way to retreat, and they fought for two hours, and finally the three fathers and sons of the Bi family went into battle to fight the knife in person.

Perhaps it was the bonus of "justice" that was extraordinary after all, and the battle ended in the victory of the worship side.

Bi Chengen was cut off his left arm by Bi Bai, and he was begging for mercy in panic, when Bi Chengpet next to him suddenly appeared, and suddenly made up for it, cutting Bi Chengen's neck in two, blood splashed and spatter, and a round head with open eyes rolled out of the distance.

Now that Bi Chengen is dead, the prestige of Bi Bai can play a role, and he shouted loudly for a while, and the rest of Bi Chengen's troops gave up resistance and surrendered.

However, what made Bibai desperate was that after this battle, there were less than 10,000 capable soldiers in Ningxia City, and he had completely lost the capital to resist the official army.

What made him even more desperate was that at this moment, the sound of cannons suddenly sounded outside the city.

The first time the official army launched an artillery bombardment on the city gate of Ningxia, and it was after nightfall, the truth of this, Bibai can understand without even thinking about it: the situation in Ningxia City, Gao Shishi outside the city has actually been watching the fire. At this moment, there is no longer any strength left in Ningxia City to resist his army, and if he does not attack the city, how long will he wait? Do you really want to make Ningxia a family town?

No, that's impossible, from the very beginning, Bi Bai didn't believe in this, and only Bi Chengen, a brainless son, would fall for the scheme.

But...... It's late, it's already late. Now that the soldiers on the city tower have been transferred to the city to fight, Gao Shishi's 70,000 troops are still afraid that they will not be able to go down in one go?

What King Qin, it's just a dream of Nan Ke.

A "bang" sounded at the feet of Bibai, and all the rebels looked at Bibai.

It turned out that it was Bibai who threw away the bloody steel knife in his hand.

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