Unofficial History of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty

Jiang Bin felt strange, so he was distracted, and was suddenly restrained from behind and dragged off his horse to roll into a ball!

Jiang Bin bumped his elbow against the tree, and after a moment of paralysis, the sharp knife fell to the ground.Seeing that person pressing forward, he hurriedly punched him, but he was caught impartially.

"It's me!" The man said in a low voice, waving away the throbbing moths around him.

Jiang Bin was taken aback when he heard the voice, and the man moved away, so that Jiang Bin could clearly see his dusty face.That pair of bright eyes showed a smile of reunion after a long absence.

Jiang Bin hurriedly dragged him to a hiding place behind a tree, grabbed his collar and said, "Why are you?!"

Wang Xun smiled, straightened his helmet and said, "Isn't that the emperor's secret edict before?"

Hearing what he said, Jiang Bin really embodies what Wu Ping'er said: "Qiao Shangshu also got the emperor's order...?"

Wang Xun smiled and touched his nose, "If you don't work hard, how can you hide it from those eyes and ears?"

"Who has eyes and ears?"

"Who knows? It's not a one-off thing. It's just a vain attempt to shake the country. The emperor will not tolerate it." Wang Xun said here, and looked around again, seeing the two armies fighting one after another. No one paid attention to this point, so he lowered his voice and said, "Tell me, what is the prince's plan?"

Jiang Bin then said what Wu Ping'er said before, Wang Xun listened, stroked the scabbard and said: "Actually, the emperor has not seen Wu Ping'er since he left, and I don't know where the jade plaque came from. Whoever sent it, the palace was not burned by the emperor... These people with ulterior motives are deliberately instigating, just to fight for power. Now that the emperor is leaving Beijing, he has released the news so that King Ning can return. Nanchang, I just wanted to co-act a show, so that those rebellious officials and thieves would show their feet, so that they could get in and force out the whereabouts of Imperial Physician Wu."

Hearing what Wang Xun said, Jiang Bin was relieved a lot. After thinking for a while, he said, "But you want the prince to pretend to be captured?"

If Zhu Chenhao is defeated and taken prisoner, those who want to make a profit must be afraid that Zhu Chenhao and others will give some clues, or bury the evidence of the crime, or destroy the corpse to wipe out the traces, and they will never be able to hold their breath.

Seeing that Jiang Bin coincided with Emperor Zhengde, Wang Xun shook his head and said, "You really live up to your reputation of 'Ning Xing'! But this is just one part of it." He paused and said, "You should have persuaded the prince , don't fight in the water?"

Jiang Bin nodded, thinking that Wang Xun is really a confidant.

"The emperor has found out that someone has tampered with his gunboat, just to make some mistakes during the battle between the two armies, and to blame this disaster on King Ning. And King Ning must have minions planted by rebels. I tried my best to persuade him to fight in the water, but in fact, most of the arrangements have been made, so that the rudder can be used by the wind, so that King Ning can't retreat completely, and both sides will suffer."

Wang Xun's words reminded Jiang Bin of what Qiao Yu asked him before, "Who really has a different heart?" If something happened to Emperor Zhengde, he could justifiably control the government, but there were only a few...

"Therefore, firstly, we must protect the emperor and King Ning, and secondly, we must play enough to lure the snake out of the hole. I know that you have iron teeth, copper teeth, and a lotus tongue, and you will surely succeed!"

Hearing Wang Xun's determined tone, Jiang Bin frowned and said, "What if it doesn't work?"

Wang Xun smiled and took out a wooden box from it, opened it, and saw an agate-colored bead the size of his thumb, glowing blood-red under the moonlight, wasn't it the water-proof bead that Zhu Chenhao had given before?

"The emperor asked me to hand it over to you, saying that if something goes wrong, just run for your life."

This bead was played underwater only once when Jiang Bin and Emperor Zhengde were deeply in love, and this bead was handed over to Wang Xun in a serious manner, isn't it meant to be teasing?

Jiang Bin's ears felt hot, and he thought that he still wanted to play tricks on him.

Fortunately, Wang Xun didn't ask about the origin of the beads, he just touched Jiang Bin's tightly wrapped neck and said, "Does it still hurt?"

"It's just a skin injury." Jiang Bin stretched out his hand to chase away the moths that had surrounded him again. Wang Xun then remembered, took out a wine bag from his waist, and wiped it on Jiang Bin's neck, and those moths seemed to have lost their memory. They scattered like wandering souls.

"When the imperial doctor gave you the medicine, he added some pollen that attracts moths, so that I can recognize you at a glance...here, this is it, you keep it, maybe you will need it in the future."

Jiang Bin took the small porcelain vase painted with bamboo leaves and put it in his arms, and saw Wang Xun take out a kit and handed it over.Jiang Bin opened it and found a bunch of soft hair tied with a red string.

"Xin'er's fetal hair, my sister-in-law said, let your adoptive father keep it."

Jiang Bin looked at the yellowish tuft by the moonlight, and felt that it was entangled in his heart, twisted suddenly, and the pain was so painful that he could hardly hold it.

Jiang Bin will never let others know the truth about the Xuanfu battle, and because of this, he will never be able to get out of the autumn rain filled with rancid smell in his whole life.Even if King Ning can get what he wanted and turn danger into good luck, he and Emperor Zhengde will never go back.

Seeing that Jiang Bin was in a daze, Wang Xun thought he missed his old friend, sighed once, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "Sister-in-law and Xin'er are under our care, so don't worry too much... I can't say anything about myself, so you can tell me more." Be more scruples about yourself, and don't be arrogant."

Hearing this, Jiang Bin nodded sourly, carefully took the fetal hair back into the kit, and kept it close to his heart.

"This place is up to you." Wang Xun said, Pai Hui got up, lowered his helmet, got on his horse and went.

Jiang Bin looked up at Qiyue for a while, thinking that he didn't know when he would see him again.I was out of my mind for a while, and then turned out after a while.The horse had disappeared, so I had to find another horse that had lost its owner.

Picking up the knife, he chased all the way to the place where the battle was fought, but he heard an order from behind shouting: "Withdraw! Withdraw! The whole army retreat!"

However, only two-thirds of the cavalry retreated. When Wang Xun and Jiang Bin were talking just now, Zhu Chenhao saw that Wu Wending was fighting and retreating, so he listened to Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng and ordered to pursue them.Unexpectedly, Wu Wending had already set up an ambush, tripped the horse's hooves with a rope, and then lit and dragged the fuse to bury the gunpowder bamboo pole, blowing up the advance troops.Fortunately, Wang Lun, who discovered the clues early, ordered to stop the pursuit in time, so that heavy losses were avoided.

In this battle, Zhu Chenhao's side only ended up in a disgraceful end, and Wu Wending took his men and horses away before he went to carry the dead and wounded soldiers back.

Jiang Bin took advantage of the chaos and came back with those who cleaned up the mess. He changed into his previous clothes and lay down.

A moment later, Lu Qing was led in by the military doctor, but he just sat beside Jiang Bin and remained silent.Jiang Bin pretended to just wake up, stood up and said, "But did you make things difficult for you?"

Lu Qing opened his eyes and said coldly: "I took the shoes for you, they are covered with a lot of mud, who can't understand?" "

Jiang Bin was full of worries just now, and came back in a hurry, how could he remember this.Hearing what Lu Qing said, he realized that he was negligent, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean to hide it from you, but I just involved others, so I don't want to say anything."

Lu Qing didn't talk to him, and only served Jiang Bin to drink when the military doctor brought medicine again.After that, he waited for Jiang Bin to wipe his body, rinse his mouth, and grate his hair. Then he turned off the light and lay down beside him.

Jiang Bin pricked up his ears, still listening to the shouting and shouting outside, obviously he was still treating the wounded and counting the number of people, which couldn't stop for a while.

This person has a lot of things to talk about, presumably Wu Ping'er will not come tonight.

Jiang Bin closed his eyes, touched the brocade bag on his chest, and felt that he could not sleep well, but he finally woke up for a while, and slept for a while until the sunrise.

However, it was not Ping'er who came to look for him the next day.

Zhang Jin yawned and walked in front, and the three soldiers behind him sandwiched Jiang Bin and Lu Qing, and only led them to the main tent.When they got outside the tent, they still let Lu Qing wait outside and taught Jiang Bin to follow Zhang Jin in.

Zhu Chenhao stood in front of the blueprint with his hands behind his back, while Wang Lun, Li Shishi, Liu Yangzheng and Wu Shisan were still waiting by his side.

When Jiang Bin came in, Zhu Chenhao, who was only wearing the padded jacket, raised his head: "It was only a test yesterday, so you can be sure, but I want to fight in water, can Master Jiang give you some advice?"

Hearing what Zhu Chenhao said, Jiang Bin knew that he was probing, but in fact he was asking about the meaning of Emperor Zhengde, so he followed the words: "My lord insists on doing this, so we must pay attention to the newly made Hongyi Cannon and Fran Machine guns, Hongyi cannons can reach seven or eight miles away, and they are equipped with front sights and rear sights, which are very accurate, but it takes some time to adjust the shooting angle. The prince can use eagle boats and other light ships that can advance and retreat quickly to surround Hongyi The fuchuan and gunboats where the cannons are located use artillery to bombard their masts and rudders, making them unable to move. However, the Fran cannon fires at extreme intervals, and uses flowering ammunition, each of which can have [-] bullets. We will be at a disadvantage when attacking, and we need to use centipede boats that can sail against the wind to outflank the two wings, destroy the fort, and seize the opportunity."

"It's a good one to seize the opportunity!" Zhu Chenhao sneered, "Master Jiang has worked so hard, how can he live up to it? Tomorrow, I will ride with this king, so I can give you some pointers."

Jiang Bin was surprised when he heard this, but he knew in his heart that this was just for others to hear.It seemed that he was threatening his life, but in fact, he was doing things conveniently to avoid those eyes and ears.

Having said all that, the two already understood each other's meaning, and they were just waiting for a good show together.

Zhu Chenhao still ordered Jiang Bin and Lu Qing to be escorted back to their original place for custody.Lu Qing seemed to finally understand the meaning of always ordering him to listen outside, so he lowered his voice and asked Jiang Bin, "Is it really believable?"

Jiang Bin smiled wryly. People's hearts are unpredictable, so how can he count what he said.

On this day, Zhu Chenhao ordered the camp to go to Kanglang Mountain.This Kanglang is just an island in Poyang Lake, with open hills and lush trees, it is easy to send troops, and it is easy to hide. Taizu once hoarded troops here.

After setting up camp and counting the ships and luggage, it was already sunset.Zhu Chenhao summoned the generals under his command to determine the tactics, and ordered a preemptive strike tomorrow morning.

Jiang Bin was still being guarded, drinking and applying medicine, as if he was afraid that he would collapse if the wind blows tomorrow.

That night, Wu Ping'er still didn't show up, Jiang Bin thought, Zhu Chenhao can trust Zhang Jin and his wife the most now, they didn't see Zhang Jin before, and now Ping'er is gone, so I don't know that Zhu Chenhao sent them To do something unspeakable.

Thinking about tomorrow's battle, Jiang Bin tossed and turned, unable to sleep, sighed softly, but heard Lu Qing, who woke up at some point, say: "In those years of famine, I was sent to my master to practice martial arts, and the master asked me to take care of it. The monkey-like kid called Senior Brother. I called him, but he didn’t agree, but since then, he has never let me suffer from hunger or cold. After the master disappeared, he took me to perform and juggle for a living. After I fell asleep, , He went to pick up slop for others, earning some money for me to help the family. My brother said that he has no relatives and has nothing to worry about. At that time, I thought, if one day I can get ahead, I must repay him well.”

Jiang Bin turned his head, but only saw a vague outline in the darkness, which looked very much like his own shadow.