Early the next morning.

Imperial Palace, Wuying Palace.

"Tang Zhongyuan's move is too ruthless."

Wang Zhen sighed and said slowly: "I thought he would go to Shanhaiguan, but I didn't expect to take a false shot first." Now that the spring ploughing has been mistaken, public opinion is boiling...... We've waited for all our thoughts to go down the drain. ”

Song Li sighed: "The situation in the capital has improved, but after this, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive, and it will only get worse and worse......"

Zhou Yan's face tightened, and asked, "How is it good?" ”

"The top priority at the moment is to calm the hearts of the people and compassionate the soldiers."

"It's just that this money and food ......," Song Xin said, turning his head to look at Wang Zhen.

Wang Zhen smiled bitterly, waved his hand and said: "You don't have to look at me, the army in the south of Tang Rebellion, the army of Wu Yan has passed through Henan, cutting off the road between the capital and Jiaodong, and the money and grain can't be transported." ”

"What about recruiting soldiers and horses from all over the world?"

"Who is going to come?"

Song Li's eyes froze, still falling on Wang Zhen's face, and said slowly: "Brother Wang should also give an idea." ”

Several people in the hall were silent for a moment, and seeing that Wang Zhen did not answer, Song Li bowed his hand to Zhou Yanyi and said, "Please ask Your Highness to go out of Beijing and avoid the edge for the time being." ”

Zhou Yan's face became more and more tense.

He was only fifteen years old, and the weight on his shoulders made him feel a little dizzy.

Wang Zhen said: "King Wu Yan has cut off the way to the south, where does Lord Song want His Highness to go?" ”

"Brother Wang Hugh thinks I don't know." Song Li said: "Marquis Huaiyuan has prepared a ship in Tianjin, yes or no?" ”

"Not bad."

"Now that it's time to make a decision, Brother Wang must not mistake Huaiyuanhou's arrangement for the sake of his own ability."

Wang Zhen sneered and said: "In the past, I didn't see Brother Song respect his brother so much, but now in order to persuade me, he is calling 'Huaiyuan Marquis' respectfully." ”

"Brother Wang, the family and country affairs are big, and it's not the time for you and me to quarrel." Song Xin came forward to persuade: "The people of the capital are indignant, and when Tang Zhongyuan besieges it again, it will not be able to hold it, so make preparations as soon as possible." ”

"Where do you want Your Highness to escape? Nanking? Wang Zhen asked rhetorically, "The 30,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry is still in the hinterland of Jiannu, if even the king abandons Sheji and flees at this time, then what are they?" Who is willing to serve the Chu Dynasty? ”

Song Xin and Song Li were stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Wang Zhen meant.

- You want to send His Highness to Jiaodong, right? Wait for my third brother to come back.

Thinking of this, Song Xin couldn't help but be furious and shouted: "Wang Zhen! Can you tell which is more important?! ”

Wang Zhen turned a deaf ear and looked at Zhou Yan and bowed deeply.

"Today, His Royal Highness is visiting the state government, whether to leave or stay, it is all in the thoughts of His Highness."

He didn't say how he would leave or stay, but he saluted without hurry, and put this problem in front of Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan fell silent.

This seems to be the first issue that he has to decide for himself since he took charge of the country.

Walk? Or stay?

This is not only related to his life, but also to the ancestor of the Chu Dynasty.

Zhou Yan wanted to speak, but suddenly felt his fingertips tremble a little.

He realized that this was a test given by Wang Zhen.

Not only Wang Zhen, but also Wang Xiao and the entire force behind him are testing themselves......

- Are you Qi King Zhou Yan worthy of assistance?

"Lonely...... If you don't go, you are willing to live and die with the capital. Zhou Yan replied slowly.

He pursed his bloodless lips, only to feel that the crown on his head was getting heavier.

- I, Zhou Yan, am not a person who can't stand the test.

But the test is never so easy.

The next moment, Song Xin and Song Li fell to their knees and slammed their heads on the ground!

"Knock ......"

"Your Highness! Once the capital is besieged, it is impossible to take the waterway from Tianjin, and the vitality is like a white horse passing through the gap, fleeting! ”

"Whether the family and the country are overturned, or the preservation of half of the country, only in the thought of His Highness, you can't fall into despair!"

"Your Highness! If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about the society. If the capital falls, this court is loyal to the hundred palaces of Chu, and all the royal nobles in this palace have fallen into the hands of thieves, and the lessons of Song Hui and Qin Erzong are especially there, His Royal Highness must not be impulsive, so that the temple will suffer a great shame......"

Zhou Yan's face turned pale, he looked at Song Xin and Song Lisheng crying blood, as if he saw the palace in front of him on fire, and countless thieves rushed up viciously, and the hall was full of palace people's blood......

Then, a big knife slashed down!

Zhou Yan's body shook again, and the cold sweat on his forehead kept pouring down.

Suddenly.

A eunuch preached: "Your Highness, the noble concubine Niangniang sent someone to bring soup to His Highness and the ministers. ”

The frozen atmosphere in the hall was broken, and several small yellow doors were placed separately with utensils.

"The concubine said that this thing is called kelp, and I specially invite you to try it......"

Zhou Yan looked down, but saw a small piece of paper under the soup bowl, but the handwriting was the handwriting of his sister Princess Chunning......

A few people in the hall casually scooped a few mouthfuls of soup, and Zhou Yan spoke again, and his tone was much calmer......

"Although Tang Zhongyuan is a thief, he now has the idea of a family and a country, and is willing to drive out the Jiannu for my Chu Dynasty and regain the gateway of Shanhaiguan. It's not too late to change your heart, and you are not a small person, so you accepted it and ordered you to be crowned the king, so as to calm the people...... What do the gentlemen think? ”

Wang Zhen raised her head and glanced at Song Xin and Song Li, with some surprise in her eyes.

- What a princess Chunning!

~~

Yikun Palace.

"The Tang thief did make a ruthless move, but he didn't expect Mei'er to crack it easily." Xu Guifei gently twisted the spoon, and her eyes flashed with approval.

Chun Ning sat upright and shook his head slightly: "I can't talk about cracking it, but I can slow down for some time." ”

"The Tang thief wants to coerce the people's will, so we will coerce him one layer and canonize him as the king with a different surname, so that the people will know that the king of Qi wants to protect the territory and the people, and has the mind and bearing to accept all rivers, and they will also look forward to a truce between the two sides. And if the Tang thief dares to take it, he will be a courtier of my Chu Dynasty, and the name of the so-called Emperor of the Rui Dynasty will be self-defeating; If he does not answer, in the eyes of the people, he will be the one who started the war lightly, and the current situation of public anger can be slightly resolved. ”

Xu Guifei asked again: "According to the current momentum of the Tang thief, is he really willing to talk?" ”

"He's willing to talk. Because we said that we would reward him, all these years of natural and man-made disasters, the people have been scattered, and there is a shortage of money and food in all directions. Jiangnan secession, Sichuan Zhang Xianzhong's foothold is not stable, in Tang Wei's view, taking the capital at the moment, can only get a good or bad name, and it is even worse than money and grain. After all...... My father has long since ordered that he cannot leave the capital. And with money and silver, stabilizing the northwest and seizing Sichuan as soon as possible, he can at least divide one side and dominate, but it is easy to lose the whole game if he attacks Beijing. ”

"Perhaps, the Tang thief didn't expect that this Eastern Crusade could go so far, and it was our Chu Dynasty officials and people who opened the door to surrender and sent him all the way. But he can't become a fat man in one bite, and it is estimated that he has already wanted to retire. ”

Xu Guifei muttered: "But if he surrenders to be the king, he must not be willing." ”

"It's not important, we don't have to give him money and food, just talk, he will want to fight for my Chu Dynasty to be a brotherly state, so arguing back and forth, we can delay for a while, wait until ...... The husband came back with Guan Ning's iron horse. ”

At this point, Chunning lowered his head.

Concubine Xu Guifei smiled, took her hand and patted it gently, and said, "Yan'er is grateful to have a sister like you, and he will be prosperous in the coming year, and he will be the first class for your husband's family." ”

Chunning whispered "um" and said slowly: "The concubine can prepare, presumably the court will soon ask you to be crowned queen." ”

Talking about this, Xu Guifei nodded a little reservedly.

Thinking of the son-in-law who was rumored to be a demented child, and then looking at her daughter, she felt more and more satisfied......

~~

Tang Qianqian didn't know at this time that in the Chu Dynasty and in the capital, there was a little woman who had a trick with her invisibly.

Tang Qianqian is riding her horse to the east.

She is going to knock down Shanhaiguan, regain the gateway for the Central Plains, and open the way home for her sweetheart.

For a period of time, she has traveled thousands of miles back and forth, painstakingly combining the forces of the three sides, and finally contributed to the next battle.

It is not only for the family and the country, but also for personal feelings.

Thinking of Wang Xiao's bet with his own 'if your rebels can stop the Qing soldiers from going south, I will listen to you in the future', Tang Qianqian couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth and smiled.

"I'll do it, you just have to ...... Come back soon......"

~~

"We go all the way to the west, and Jiannu must think that we are going to attack Shenyang again, so as to attract its troops to the left of Shenyang, and then we can quickly turn north, detour to the Horqin grassland, and then ...... Go home. ”

Wang Xiao sat on the ground and drew a simple map with a tree branch.

At the mention of the word 'go home', he was slightly abrupt.

"I'm afraid it's not easy, Jiannu has begun to deploy troops to surround us." Dong Jihe said.

"War is bound to be war." Wang smiled, "We have Dongba Fort to the west and Salhu to the north, where do you think it is appropriate to go?" ”

At the mention of 'Salhu', Qin Shanhai raised his eyes, and a trace of pain was wiped in his eyes.

Dong Jihe said: "Walking in Salhu, its land is mountainous, not as flat as Shenyang, and it is located on the south bank of the Hunhe River, which is more convenient for us to escape." Crossing the Hunhe River and then crossing the Tieling Mountains, there is the vast grassland. It is not easy for Jiannu to chase us. ”

"Not bad." Qin Shanhai said: "We still have more than 1,000 wounded people placed in Ivory Mountain north of Salhu, which can be ambushed soldiers, and we need to take them with us on the return trip." ”

Wang Xiao was silent.

"What do you think?"

"I'm wondering, how is Huang Taiji going to surround us......"

The next moment, the detective horse flew to report the news.

"Report! There was a small group of Jiannu cavalry ahead. ”

"Let's go!"

More than 3,000 cavalry quickly mounted their horses and turned to the mountain road......

~~

On the Liaohe Plain, teams of people and horses are also tossing and turning.

The 300,000-strong army of the Qing army has successively returned to the aid of 240,000 people, including the logistics miscellaneous troops and 90,000 people who have not yet been established shortly after the surrender, and the main force of 150,000 people.

Among them, 50,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry soldiers are chasing the Chu army again from all directions, and there are 30,000 surviving Liaoyang battles to intercept them.

After Qin Chengye's department broke through the first encirclement, he was turning back and crossing the Taizi River.

Their intention was also to make a detour from the Horqin Mongolian steppe back to Guanwai......

~~

Shengjing City, Qing Palace.

A huge sand table is placed in the Pavilion of the Ten Kings.

Small flags are planted on the sand table.

"Wang Xiao must be here, between Salhu and Dongba Fort......"

"Qin Chengye has just crossed the Taizi River, outside Liaoyang City, this ......"

"These two thieves are not here for Shengjing, but in fact they want to escape from Horqin. Pass the order...... Surround them for me, and not a single soldier will want to leave! ”

"Wow!"

"The minions will punish these two fangs!"