On the morning of the ninth day of the first month of September, Jiajing ignored the opposition of his ministers and personally climbed the tower of Xizhimen to observe the enemy's situation.

Zhao Quan took out a monocular and glanced at the city for a while, and soon found Emperor Jiajing surrounded by a group of ministers, although the latter did not wear a dragon robe to put on a guard of honor, but it was surrounded by civil officials and guards, and there were many guards, and nine times out of ten it was the Ming Emperor.

Zhao Quan smiled and pointed at the head of the city and said: "Suo Duo Khan, please look, the young man among the group of civil officials at the head of the city should be Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi!" ”

I took the monoculars and looked at it, and said jokingly: "Jiajing, this kid has fine skin and tender meat, and he seems to be a little more agile than a woman, but he has a little courage, and he actually went up to the city tower to observe the enemy formation, and Ben Khan thought that he would be so scared that he hid in the palace and cried his nose." ”

The generals under my command immediately burst into laughter, and someone teased: "After the city is broken, how about the last general catch Jiajing Xiao'er and send him to Soduo Khan's tent, and make him wear women's clothes and lie down under Soduo Khan?" ”

The generals burst into laughter again, and Zhao Quan also smiled: "My subordinates have heard that Jiajing has a sister, Princess Yongfu, who is a first-class beauty, and she knows books and etiquette, has a good demeanor, and has a bewitching posture. ”

I replied and licked his lips and laughed: "When Mr. Zhao said this, Ben Khan was quite moved, Mr. Zhao thought that Ben Khan asked Jiajing to marry Princess Yongfu as his wife, would Jiajing agree?" ”

Zhao Quan shook his head and said, "Da Ming is different from Han and Tang. Yongle Emperor Zhu Di once set up an ancestral precept, no harmony, no land, no compensation, no tribute, the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the king dies. Although the old Zhu family's species is not good, but it is a guideline for Zu Xunchun, Jiajing should not accept the condition of harmony, but ...... Try it as well as Sodohan! ”

I replied with a smile and said, "Then let Ben Khan's future brother-in-law see the style of the steppe warriors, so that he can know the consequences of rejecting Ben Khan." ”

Next, I gave an order, but I saw four cavalry galloping out of the barracks, the number was not very large, each of them was only 3,000 horsemen, but the east team was all white horses, the west team was all black horses, the middle team was full of red horses, and the back team was all green horses.

These four horse teams did not launch an attack on the city, but rode their horses and galloped outside the Xizhi Gate, shouting and killing while raising their swords. The chilling light of the sword, the neat horse team, the earth-shaking shouts of killing, and the thunderous hoofs all make people's hearts palpitate and chill.

On the tower of Xizhimen, a group of civil and military ministers saw that the Tartar cavalry was so prestigious, and they all changed color, especially the soldiers of the Yaowu battalion, all of them were as white as earth, and they trembled, obviously their courage had been intimidated by the Tartar cavalry.

In fact, I replied that this trick was to imitate the Xiongnu's Shan Yu Maodun, when the Han Gaozu Liu Bang was besieged by the Huns' 400,000 troops in Baishan Mountain, the Huns' Shan Yu Maodun played a trick "four-color horse", the scene was far more than the grand male costume I answered at this time, but Liu Bang was scared enough, and finally sent someone to secretly bribe Mao Dun's Yan (wife) to get out of the siege, and then even sent Liu women to the Xiongnu and relatives, in exchange for peace.

Zhu Houxi is not a faint gentleman who does not learn and has no skills, he has naturally read this history of the Han Dynasty, and I replied that he is following the example of Mao Dun at this moment, obviously demonstrating to himself, and it is also the irony and insult of Chi Guoguo!

Therefore, Zhu Houxi was shocked and angry at the moment, his face was extremely pale, and he wanted to lead an army out of the city, but when he thought that there were only about 40,000 forbidden troops in the city who could fight, and most of them were infantry, he was not confident.

At this time, the four Tartar cavalry outside the city retreated to the camp after the demonstration, but the Chinese army of the Tartars galloped out more than a dozen horses, and the leader was Zhao Quan, who was carrying a person with five flowers in his hand, and he should be a eunuch in his clothes.

Zhao Quan carried the eunuch to Xizhi Gate, and more than a dozen Tartar cavalry who came with him raised their shields to protect Zhao Quanquan in front of him, in case the Ming army at the head of the city attacked with arrows.

Zhao Quan threw the eunuch on the ground and laughed at the city: "It's the Ming Emperor in the city? I'm Zhao Quan! ”

"Zhao Quan!!" Zhu Houxi's eyes flashed coldly, and he shouted: "Come on, release the arrow!" ”

Whoosh whoosh ......

A row of sharp arrows shot down from the city, but they were all blocked by the Tartars' shields, and they couldn't hurt Zhao Quan at all!

Despite this, Zhao Quan still pinched his sweat, pointed to the eunuch on the ground and raised his voice: "This eunuch is Yang Zeng, the chief eunuch of the Liangxiang Palace, and Soduo Khan has a letter to the Ming Emperor, and it is on this eunuch, whether you look at it or not, you can do whatever you want!" ”

After Zhao Quan finished speaking, he swung his knife and cut the rope on the eunuch Yang Zeng's body, and then quickly retreated under the protection of the shield.

Zhu Houxi was shocked, but in the end, he couldn't help but be driven by curiosity, and ordered someone to put down a basket from the city and hang the eunuch Yang Zeng up.

As soon as Yang Zeng was hung on the city, a group of guards immediately pounced on him and captured him, searched him carefully, and found nothing unusual, so he let him go, and gave Jiajing a letter found from him.

Jiajing was about to take the letter, but Yang Yiqing, the first assistant, shouted: "The emperor is slow." ”

Emperor Jiajing subconsciously retracted his hand, Yang Yiqing took the letter first, took out the letterhead inside and checked it carefully, and then leaned under his nose and sniffed it, confirmed that there was no problem, and then handed it back to Zhu Houxi.

Zhu Houxi took the letterhead and looked at it, and he was furious, and roared: "I answer the barbarian, and dare to deceive Yu Siye!" ”

Yang Yiqing, Fei Hong and Zhang Xuan and others next to them looked at it, all of them changed color, the content of the letter was very brief, it was written in the tone of my answer, which probably meant that Emperor Jiajing asked Emperor Jiajing to marry Princess Yongfu to him and his relatives, and open the horse market, exchange border trade with Tatars, compensate five million taels of silver, and at the same time release the arrested White Lotus disciple Qiu Fu, if Jiajing does not agree, he will order the siege of the city, capture Jiajing Yunyun alive!

"How can this be justified, the Tartars are arrogant and deceive people too much!" The ministers were all furious and scolded one after another.

Zhu Houxi tore the letterhead to shreds, threw his hand down at the head of the city, and shouted: "Fire!" ”

Boom Boom Boom ......

Several cannons on the head of the city opened fire at the same time, and the shells whistled and flew towards the Tartar camp, but unfortunately the range was not enough, and it landed a hundred meters away from the Tartar camp.

Zhao Quan stood in front of the Chinese military tent and said with a smile: "That kid in Jiajing is probably angry. ”

I laughed out loud, he didn't really want to marry Princess Yongfu, this was just a pre-war strategy to attack the heart, which angered Jiajing and his ministers, and also hit the morale of the defenders in the city.

However, as soon as I finished laughing, the blow to him came, and a soldier hurriedly came to report: "Qi Soduo Khan, General Hadan Batel was attacked by the Shenji Battalion and was defeated, and he has been killed!" ”

The smile on my face stopped abruptly!!

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