Later, the two palace ladies outside the Qianqing Palace had just come out with copper basins, coped with errands, and chatted on the way back to rest.

"Your Majesty has personally enlisted, have you heard of it?"

"How can you not know such a big movement." Another palace sighed: "Niangniang has a dragon son, but Your Majesty is out of the palace at this time." ”

"Since Your Majesty left Beijing, Niangniang has been sullen."

The other man said as he walked: "It is said outside that the southwest is not light compared to Liao, the rebels have besieged Chongqing City, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces are under martial law, only our inner court still thinks that the world is peaceful." ”

"Don't say it, let the old palace people hear it, and it's time to be scolded again."

As soon as the two of them finished speaking, a team of brocade-clothed captains turned around the corner, holding sabers, and were ordered to patrol around Kunning Palace day and night.

Late at night, a scream rang out from the Kunning Palace.

In a moment, a brocade-clothed guard Qianhu dressed in a flying fish suit ran to the door, and seeing the vigilance in his eyes, he pressed his hand on the embroidered spring knife and asked in a loud voice:

"Mother's ——?"

"I'm fine."

"Retire!"

Hearing this, Jinyi Wei Qianhu breathed a sigh of relief and carefully took a few steps back, but still took the captains to guard outside the palace.

His eyes scanned around, a cold, murderous aura.

"Search!"

"The palace people who stay nearby, don't count the killing!"

He remembered what Xu Xianchun, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, had said not long ago, shuddered, and said again:

"During Your Majesty's expedition, the queen and the prince in the womb had an accident, and the official judged himself, and he was punished! Do you understand? ”

"Especially the people of Dongchang, they must not be asked to get half a step close to Kunning Palace, no one can afford this responsibility!"

Hearing this, all the lieutenants cheered up and said yes one after another.

Just outside the palace, Jinyi Wei was furious because of this scream, and Xu Xianchun quickly sent additional people from the Zhenfu Division to guard Kunning Palace.

Sweating profusely, Zhang Yan leaned on the pillow and took a long breath, she had a nightmare, and then she woke up suddenly.

She looked around silently, and then thought about it, at this time, the pillow people on weekdays were afraid that they had already left Tongzhou.

Zhang Yan groped her way up and lifted the bed curtain, and looked wordlessly at the black shadow standing under the window, almost blending with the deep and dark night outside the palace.

A few shadows stood meticulously around the Kunning Palace, lonely but extremely determined.

Zhang Yan knew that this was the famous Jinyi Guard of the Ming Dynasty, who was the emperor's confidant and extremely loyal and reliable.

Farther away, the palace is also full of guards, bright posts and dark piles, and people should not approach.

Now she is now the queen of the Ming Dynasty, but she is still a girl one year younger than Zhu Youxiao.

Alone in the middle of the night, I can't help but sobbed softly.

She hugged herself like the emperor hugged her a few days ago, curled up in a corner, and said softly:

"Don't cry, don't cry, you're the queen."

......

Sichuan, Hejiang.

Between the two mountains, the stream is murmuring, and the water flow cannot be called turbulent, but it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it is extremely difficult to pass with heavy soldiers and horses.

After receiving the news of Hao Chongming's rebellion against Chongqing, Lu Qin, the governor of the four southwestern provinces, dispatched officers and troops to encircle and suppress it on six routes.

Zhang Yanfang, the chief soldier of Guiyang, and Xu Chengming, the commander of the capital, led more than 4,000 Ming troops in their headquarters to enter Sichuan as a vanguard army and rush to help Chongqing.

However, in Sichuan, the terrain is complex and densely packed with mountains, and the Guizhou reinforcements obviously underestimated the harsh terrain of the local area.

After entering Sichuan, Zhang Yanfang's headquarters moved very slowly, and at this time, he was sandwiched between the two mountains, which made him have a bad premonition.

Immediately, Zhang Yanfang continued to send his own soldiers to urge the battalions to pass quickly.

Three days ago, the local Tusi people reported that the first batch of Ming court reinforcements had entered Sichuan.

Upon receiving this news, Yu Chongming immediately rejoiced, and sent Zhang Tong to lead 20,000 horse infantry from outside Chongqing to set up an ambush on the road "Hechuan".

Zhang Yanfang, the chief soldier of Guiyang, was only a general at the time of the Battle of Pingbo, and later made military exploits and was promoted to the chief soldier.

He used the cavalry of the capital governor Xu Chengming as the outpost to open the way, and the middle section was the firecracker and the baggage team, and he personally led the infantry behind the palace.

In the summer basin, the sun is dazzling and the temperature is gradually rising.

The Ming army marched on a narrow mountain path, which was so crowded that many people were so busy that they refused to say a word.

At this time, a personal soldier finally caught up with him, and rushed to the former capital official Xu Chengming and said:

"The town has an order, tell you to speed up!"

"How to speed it up?"

Xu Chengming couldn't open his eyes when he was exposed to the sun, hot sweat dripped down his helmet, he pointed around while wiping, and said:

"This broken place is full of stones, and it is inconvenient for cars to drive, and people can't get through. The baggage battalions are all stuck behind, and it is difficult to move a step. ”

"There's no way, send someone to lead the horse, and take out some of it to help the baggage battalion cart!"

The pro-soldiers also knew that the terrain was difficult and did not say much.

Hearing that the Chinese army's baggage battalion was having difficulty marching, Zhang Yanfang immediately sent additional infantry troops to the middle section to help push carts and carry baggage.

The Ming army, dressed in armor and equipped with sufficient gunpowder, was dispatched by Zhang Yanfang to quickly speed up and march mightily through the mountain trails.

Half an hour later, the sky was getting late, the temperature had dropped, and it was much cooler, and the Ming army began to distribute army flour cakes from the middle section to the front and back.

Some soldiers got the bread in their hands and walked while nibbling on it, still talking about the military exploits received by the imperial court after pacifying the southwest.

Some people say that they want to be promoted and make a fortune, and some people say that they want to return to Guizhou, marry a wife and a shadow son with their military exploits, and live an ideal life.

Suddenly, there was an uproar ahead.

Many bloodstained ownerless horses were frightened and galloped back, hitting the middle Ming soldiers and overturning them on their backs.

"The soldiers of the Middle Soil Division are in ambush!"

"Xu Dusi has died in battle, run!"

Shouts erupted, and almost in an instant, more than 1,000 Ming troops in the middle collapsed and scattered, and even their baggage was abandoned.

The mountain road was narrow, and when the Ming army heard of the defeat, they rushed to trample on it, and before the Tusi soldiers arrived, they had thrown a piece of baggage and fled for their lives between the mountains and fields.

The news of the collapse at the front reached the ears of the chief soldier Zhang Yanfang not long after.

At this time, the outpost and the middle section were already in chaos.

didn't even have time to give the order, and the rout rushed back, scattering the formation of Zhang Yanfang's rear infantry at once.

The Tusi soldiers, armed with knives and guns, accompanied by angry roars, rushed into the crowd of Ming troops that had already collapsed like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and slashed and slashed.

The screams of a crowd, the sound of bodies tumbling and falling, followed by the resonance of weapons, and the terrible howls were intertwined, making people's hearts shake and their fighting spirit completely lost.

"What to do, Chieftown, give me an order!"

A personal soldier looked at the Tusi soldiers who were covering up in the dark night, and his face was full of tears.

"Kill back!"

Zhang Yanfang did not hesitate for a moment, raised his knife and said: "Soldiers, the time has come to serve the country!" ”

Immediately, he led hundreds of his own soldiers to shout and rush forward, and soon drowned in the tide of luxury troops.

......

In this battle, Zhang Yanfang, the chief soldier of Guiyang, was stabbed several times, but still killed several thieves, but he couldn't be caught, and was cut off by Zhang Tong, a luxury general, and died in the chaos.

As for the outpost Du Si Xu became famous, he had already been swarmed by all the Tusi soldiers and split his body into several pieces.

Zhang Tong led the rebels of the department to set up an ambush, and after annihilating the 4,000 reinforcements from Guizhou, he quickly divided his troops at the same time, stifled the eastern waterway, and led the rest of his troops into the siege of Zunyi.

Yuan Ren was almost frightened when he heard the news that the Guizhou reinforcements had been destroyed and that the commander-in-chief Zhang Yanfang and Du Si Xu Chengming had died in battle, so he fled first, so that the Zunyi defenders dispersed in a hurry.

Zhang Tong led the Tusi soldiers into Zunyi, captured Yuan Ren, and killed him on the spot.