Because the rebels are controlled by Qian Fenglin, and the 20,000 Jiangxi soldiers under Qian Fenglin are under the control of Jinyiwei, tomorrow's battle is just a formality, and Chen Yue and the generals under his command know this.

However, despite this, there is no shortage of precautions that should be done, even if it is stable and surpassing, it must not be relaxed, which has become the practice of Chen Yue's subordinate armies.

According to the regulations, there are no small number of open posts and secret posts of this faction and vigilant patrol troops at night. And the construction of the camp is also completely in accordance with the rules, and there are everything in the horse moats, ditches, walls, and arrow towers.

Therefore, the Wuxi camp that Ai Nengqi flickered was discovered when it was still three miles away from the Ming army camp, and then he saw a large bonfire suddenly appear in front of him, illuminating the front of the Ming army camp as if it were daylight.

"Marshal, the Ming army has already taken precautions!" Hou Mubai was shocked when he saw this, and exclaimed at Ai Nengqi beside him.

Ai Nengqi pretended to be angry: "The brocade guards of the dog day are simply pervasive, I didn't expect Ben Shuai to be so careful and let them find out!" ”

"Dashuai, what should we do? Return to the camp? Hou Mubai asked.

Ai Nengqi shook his head and said, "No, we can't go back, but we should hide first and wait for the opportunity!" ”

Hou Mubai thought that he understood: "Dashuai's plan is good, the Ming army thinks that we have given up attacking the camp, and when they fall asleep, we will suddenly kill again!" ”

Enchi smiled and nodded. So the two of them took more than 4,000 Wuxi battalion rebels, stopped outside the Ming army's bonfire, and then retreated back, retreated a little distance, and then turned south, hiding in the reeds on the shore of Taihu Lake.

......

In the camp of the Ming army, Chen Yue was slightly stunned when he heard the spies' announcement. The rebels on the opposite side suddenly came out of the camp and then retreated, what the hell were they doing?

Just when Chen Yue was in doubt, the sentry came to tell again, and several rebels came out of the camp and killed him. Chen Yue didn't know that these were other rebel armies such as the Kunshan Battalion and the Changshu Battalion that Ai Nengqi flickered.

Ainengqi took Hou Mubai's Wuxi battalion to hide on the shore of Taihu Lake, but several other rebel armies did not know, and clamored to attack the Ming army camp, trying to get the first merit of defeating the Ming army. The number of the Ming army is only 30,000, but there are as many as 150,000 or 60,000 on their side, and the strength is more than five times that of the Ming army.

"What the hell is this Qian Fenglin doing? Could it be that he is going to rebel? Shocked by the killing of several rebels, Zhang Huangyan was not calm, and said in shock.

After talking about the pretense of war tomorrow, Qian Fenglin retreated to Zhejiang with the rebels. Now that such a thing has happened, it cannot but make people suspicious, suspecting that Qian Fenglin has two hearts, and is trying to rely on the rebels to defeat Chen Yue's army and stand on his own.

Now the rebel army is nearly 200,000, controlling Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangdong, if you can defeat the 30,000 Ming army led by Chen Yue, you can attack Nanjing to the west and destroy the imperial court! It's chilling to think about!

Chen Yue shook his head slowly: "No, I know Qian Fenglin, he won't do this!" Something must have happened! ”

Chen Yue knew that as long as Qian Fenglin was not crazy, he would not do such a thing. Because the backbone of the rebel army is Chen Mo's Dongfan Army and Ma He's two lieutenant generals' Jiangxi soldiers, these are beyond Qian Fenglin's control.

Without the Jiangxi soldiers and the Dongfan army, these more than 100,000 rebels are just some rabble, even the 30,000 troops in Chen Yue's current hands can easily annihilate them!

So, something must have happened!

"Lord Wang, what should we do then?" Zhang Huangyan asked.

"The situation is unclear, and it is not advisable to act hastily. Hold on to the camp and wait for the dawn! Chen Yue said calmly.

Zhang Huangyan immediately ordered after receiving the order.

At this moment, the big camp, except for the corner where the Jiangbei Army is located, is a little flustered, and the rest of the place is very calm. The Northern Expeditionary Army was the elite of a hundred battles, and it was not alarmed by this situation at all. For they knew how strong the camp was, how sharp their firearms were, and how difficult it was for the rebels to break through the camp at night!

When several rebels such as the Kunshan battalion and the Changshu battalion rushed to the Ming camp in a disorderly manner, before they could rush to the wall, they were hit head-on by the Ming army, and hundreds of corpses fell to the rebels with a salvo of thousands of firearms.

Thousands of torches were lit on the walls, and the light of the torches did not affect the gunpowder of the projectiles. The Ming gunners followed the operation of three-stage shooting, and the projectiles were fired round after round.

The rebels who attacked were all rogue ruffians and poor people, who had just picked up swords and guns to rebel for a few days, when had they ever seen such sharp shooting, when they saw their accomplices being shot and falling down one by one, many people were stunned, standing still and unable to move, and they couldn't even escape.

"Run!" Seeing that the Ming army was guarded and the firearms were so sharp, the leaders of several rebel armies were not stupid, where were they willing to send them to death again, so they quickly took the lead and fled.

Regarding the retreat of the rebels, the Ming troops in the camp did not pay attention to it, and had no intention of pursuing it. Soon, the rebels retreated, leaving only a thousand corpses under the light of the campfire. This is how an eerie battle ends.

On the shore of Taihu Lake, Hou Mubai listened in shock to the dense sound of fire in the distance, and his face turned pale. The firearms of the Ming army are so sharp, the Kunshan battalion and Changshu battalion that attacked are probably not good! If he didn't retreat in time, I was afraid that his thousands of people would also suffer great casualties Thinking of this, Hou Mubai looked at Ai Nengqi with gratitude.

"The Ming army is so well guarded, this battle is dangerous." Ainengqi said softly.

"What then?" Hou Mubai asked in surprise.

"The Ming army on the opposite side is the elite of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the general who leads the army is Chen Yue, the first general of Qi in the world. Although our army will be more than 100,000 in the future, the victory or defeat in the battle is not won by a large number of people. If my estimate is correct, tomorrow morning, the Ming army will attack our camp. And the time for us to fail is not far off! ”

Ainengqi's tone was full of frustration, which made Hou Mubai even more frightened.

"Dashuai, you have an idea!" Hou Mubai said busily.

"Originally, our only chance was to attack at night, but now that the night attack has failed, it may be difficult to defeat the Ming army again!" Ai Nengqi sighed, "The only way now is to defend Suzhou City and resist the attack of the Ming army by relying on the strong city walls. I will write to the generals of the camp and ask them to withdraw to Suzhou early tomorrow morning.

However, it is not enough to defend the city, and an army must be left to support the troops defending the city. The city of Suzhou is adjacent to Taihu Lake, and the vast Taihu Lake is the best battlefield. General Hou, our army is hiding in Taihu Lake, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Ming army and respond to the defenders of Suzhou! ”

"Yes, Dashuai!" Hou Mubai said happily. Compared with defending Suzhou and letting the Ming army attack, Hou Mubai preferred to hide in Taihu Lake with his subordinates, which was safer.

Ai Nengqi no longer spoke, but looked at the lights of the Ming army camp in the distance in a daze. At first, Ai Nengqi still had hope in his heart, hoping that a few rebel night attacks would cause some damage to the Ming army, and it would be best to cause chaos in the Ming army, so as to boost the morale of the rebels, and he could just fish in troubled waters and order other rebels to succeed.

And now seeing that the rebel attack was so easily thwarted by the Ming army, Ainengqi felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

The troops of Chen Yue, the king of Qi in the Ming Dynasty, are really powerful, and I am afraid that I will not be able to fish in troubled waters! Most of the rebels were in Qian Fenglin's hands, and there were the most elite troops and the most powerful generals of the Ming army on the opposite side. There is no hope for myself here!

In that case, we can't stay here anymore! Stay here and you'll be caught sooner or later. You have to get out as soon as possible!

As for where to flee, Ainengchi had already made up his mind. The only thing in the whole world that is still under the control of Daxi is Sichuan, so naturally he wants to flee to Sichuan!

Originally, he was alone, and Ai Nengqi had no certainty of escaping, but now with Hou Mubai and his subordinates, the possibility of a successful escape has greatly increased!

......

It wasn't until dawn that Chen Yue figured out the truth about the rebels' night attack. Lu Jianxing came to the camp again to report the whole story.

"Ainengchi? It's kind of interesting! Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Lord Wang, Ainengqi has escaped, how should we explain to the civil officials of the imperial court?" Zhang Huangyan said with some worry.

Chen Yue said: "What do you want to explain?" If the king doesn't give them an account, what can those civil officials do? As long as we can make Jiangdong and Zhejiang settle down, they can only choose to give in! ”

"Alas!" Zhang Huangyan let out a long sigh.

"Ai Nengqi can't escape far, Lu Jianxing, pass on the order of the king, and order the Jinyi guards in Jiangdong to go all out to investigate Ai Nengqi's whereabouts!"

"Yes, Lord Wang!" Lu Jianxing agreed, hugged his fists and left.

On the second day, according to the prior plan, the Ming army slowly drove out of the camp and pressed towards the rebel camp.

Qian Fenglin ordered the Kunshan battalion, Changshu battalion and other rebels who fled back to the camp to meet the battle, and as soon as the two sides made a little contact, these rebels were defeated, and before they could escape back to the camp, Qian Fenglin had already fled with the main force of the rebels.

This escape was a defeat like a mountain, and more than 100,000 rebels ran into a wolf, frantically fleeing.

Chen Yue commanded the army to easily occupy the city of Suzhou and sent troops to recover the counties of Songjiang in Fuzhou.

Qian Fenglin fled to Zhejiang with the main force, and on the way to escape, he gave orders to the rebels and ordered them to retreat to Zhejiang. As a result, the rebels in the four prefectures of Jiangdong no longer resisted, and the Ming army easily recovered various prefectures and counties. Even if there is a small group of rebels who refuse to escape, in front of the elite Northern Expeditionary Ming Army, they are just mantis arms as a car!

The rebels retreated all the way south to Huzhou, and were about to turn to Hangzhou, when suddenly bad news came, Wang Yin, the Ming Governor, led 50,000 warships and 1,000 ships of the naval division to suddenly advance into Hangzhou Bay and invade the city of Hangzhou.

After there were pursuers, Hangzhou was captured by the Ming army, and the rebels had no choice but to continue south into Shaoxing Mansion, and under the pursuit of the Ming army, they hid in the Siming Mountains.

In the city of Hangzhou, Chen Yue and Wang Yin met.

Since Chen Yue led the Northern Expedition, the two have not seen each other for a year and a half.

"Congratulations to the prince on his upcoming reign, and now the gentry power in Jiangnan has been weakened to the extreme, and the civil officials in the court have also obeyed, and the opportunity for the prince to show his ambitions has finally arrived!" Wang Yin congratulated Chen Yue.

"Haha, Yokoyama is fallacious, it's our chance to show our ambitions!" Chen Yue laughed.

Wang Yin suddenly showed a knowing smile on his face. Since following Chen Yue in Beijing, Wang Yin has been Chen Yue's descendant for several years. And in the future, with Chen Yue's administration, Wang Yin will inevitably rise!

"Back then, the prince was just a seven-grade soldier, who would have thought that in just a few years, he would be able to tear the earth and seal the king, becoming the first king with a different surname since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and he is about to rule the country!" Wang Yin sighed.

"Is Bingguo in power?" Chen Yue said with a smile: "Although this king is a prince, he is not from a Jinshi, where is he qualified to be the first assistant?" ”

Wang Yin smiled and said, "What qualifications are you not qualified to talk about now." The Manchu Qing can have a prince regent, why can't I? ”

"Regent?" Chen Yue tasted it and shook his head, "This name is not good." Yokoyama Gong, what do you think of resetting the prime minister? ”

"Prime Minister?" Wang Yin shook his head slightly: "Since Taizu abolished the position of prime minister, there is a holy decree, 'In the future, the heir will not have to discuss the prime minister, and the subordinates will be punished with capital punishment if they ask for the establishment.'" Therefore, resetting the prime minister would violate the holy decree of Taizu, and I am afraid it will be difficult to pass it in the imperial court. ”

"What kind of holy decree did Taizu leave behind?" Chen Yue exclaimed.

Wang Yin nodded: "The power of the prime minister is too great, and he has been able to compete with the imperial power." Taizu fully recognized this, so he no longer established the post of prime minister, in order to eliminate the existence that could threaten the imperial power! ”

Chen Yue couldn't help but sneer: "Does Taizu think that everyone is as energetic as him?" Without the help of the prime minister to deal with state affairs, the emperor alone would not be able to handle so many complicated affairs. Didn't he think that his children and grandchildren couldn't all be as wise and energetic as he was? ”

Wang Yin said: "That's exactly the case, so a cabinet has been set up since the Jianwen Dynasty to help the emperor deal with government affairs. At first, the role of the cabinet was only to prepare for the emperor's consultation, but later the cabinet became more and more powerful, and today, the power of the cabinet is getting bigger and bigger, and the power of the first assistant scholar and the prime minister is almost the same! ”

Chen Yue said: "Since Taizu has a holy decree not to set up a prime minister, then let's change to another name." ”

"Another name?" Wang Yin was stunned, "If you don't need a cabinet, you can't use a prime minister, how can you call it?" Is it to use Tongping Zhangshi and Governor Affairs, or to use Shangshu Ling? ”

Tongping Zhangshi is the name of the former Song Dynasty Prime Minister, and Shang Shuling is the name of the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister, both of which are also another name for the Prime Minister.

Chen Yue smiled slightly: "You don't need either." ”

Wang Yin asked, "Then what should I call it?" ”

Chen Yue smiled: "How about using the title of 'prime minister'?" ”

"Prime Minister?" Wang Yin was stunned for a moment, this title is clear in meaning, but after going through the dynasties, there is no such title!

"Isn't the Prime Minister okay? And what about the president? Chen Yue continued.