In the air, the winter snow fluttered one after another, and everything in the sky and earth was extraordinarily pale. Under the embankment, you can see grass huts built by refugees evacuated from Hebei.

In the hut, there was also a monk, unlike the others, even in the middle of the night, he still did not sleep, suddenly his face changed suddenly, he lowered his hand, looked at the snow on the ground, then looked up at the snowflakes in the air, and then staggered up from the ground and ran towards the river embankment.

The awakened man shouted urgently.

"Monk, where are you going?"

The monk didn't answer, and a few curious people ran over.

I saw the monk run all the way to the bottom of the river embankment, straight to the frozen river, he ran very well, and finally ran to the middle of the river, and then "plopped" and knelt down, raised his hands, raised his face, and then let out a terrible cry from his mouth.

"It's frozen, it's frozen! There is no one for thousands of miles! ”

The awakened man asked blankly.

"Thousands of miles without one? What does it mean to be unmanned for a thousand miles? ”

When the news of the freezing of the Huai River reached Zhongdu, it was almost dawn.

However, even if the sky will be released, Shi Kefa still has not slept yet, he is stationed in the central capital as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, responsible for supervising the garrison of the capital and other places, when the East captured entered the Kou last year, he was still the right attendant of the household department and the right Yushi, replacing Zhu Dadian in charge of Cao Yun, stationed in Xuzhou to garrison to prevent the East from going south, but in the end the East stopped at hundreds of miles north of Xuzhou.

Subsequently, he was transferred to the post of secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, counselor of confidential government affairs, because he knew that the army had not been trained for a long time and had no combat effectiveness, Shi Kefa played eight reform opinions. But I never thought that these eight reform opinions have not been replied to, and the Dongyu here has once again entered the Central Plains.

Because of his outstanding performance during the garrison of Xuzhou, he had just been promoted to the secretary of the military department, and naturally became the best candidate for the garrison of the Central Capital Governor Nanzhili Army, so he hurried to the Central Capital. Supervise the general troops of all walks of life to resist the captivity.

In the past few days, Shi Kefa has been so busy that he is exhausted, although he will be in charge of the four general soldiers, he understands his own affairs, whether it is Mu Wenshou, the chief soldier of Fengsi, or Wang Xian, the chief soldier, Huang Degong, the chief soldier, or the soldiers and horses under Liu Liangzuo, they are not necessarily the opponents of Dongyu.

"The Jurchen is invincible!"

This sentence pressed on Shi Kefa's heart like a mountain, but even so, he had to block the east from Jiangbei and Zhongdu.

When he learned that the Huai River was frozen, Shi Kefa was not shocked, but just responded lightly, "Oh." Then, he sat in front of the desk without saying a word, with a candle beside him. His figure landed on the wall. The shadow sat like him.

Raising his face and looking at the shadow on the wall, Shi Kefa muttered to himself.

"The East Captives must have crossed the river."

He asked the shadow on the wall,

"Tell me, what should I do?"

The wind entered the window, the candles flickered, and the shadows swayed. Staring at the shadow, Shi Kefa continued to talk to himself.

"Since he is a minister, he is only loyal, but if he allows the east to erode the north of the river, the army will force the southern capital. What is the face of Emperor Gao behind Shi? What is the face of the people of the world? ”

In the end, Shi Kefa muttered to himself.

"Only death!"

With his eyes like a torch, Shi Kefa picked up the letter on the table again, and then said to the door.

"Send this letter to De Shizi immediately, so that he will not delay along the way, and rush to the aid of Zhongdu!"

In fact, even in Zhongdu, Shi Kefa also heard about the "ridiculous things" that the prince did in Taoyuan, and the dignified court officials were actually killed directly, and when the news reached Nanjing, it was naturally six shocks, and even Shi Kefa had the urge to impeach "the son of the German prince is extremely domineering, and there is no national law", after all, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even the emperor has not seen that the vassal king will be as domineering as the prince of De.

Kill without asking!

If you kill a general, it's fine, but what he killed is actually a civil official, even if it is a seven-grade civil official, that is also a civil official, even if there is Shang Fang's sword in hand, he can't easily kill a civil official.

Don't say it's the prince of a foreign domain, even if the emperor wants to kill civil officials, it's not that he just kills him.

Although there was an urge to impeach him in his heart, reason still made Shi Kefa press such an impulse.

After all, at the moment, the East Captives are at stake, and Abatai is about to cross the river, and that prince can always come in handy.

"But will he be able to hold the capital? That's more than 10,000 horses......"

Besides, he is still in Taoyuan, even if he comes day and night, can he come over in time for the Eastern Capture Army?

What if it's not in a hurry?

Just when Shi Kefa was worried, he didn't know that tens of thousands of Qing troops had crossed the frozen Huai River under the leadership of Abatai, although there were tens of thousands of horses led by Liu Liangzuo on the other side to block the enemy, but tens of thousands of troops were almost defeated in a battle, especially after the Qing army crossed the river, the defense of the Ming army immediately fell into collapse, and even half a day's effort, did not survive, and abandoned the river and fled.

At twilight, in the flying snowflakes, a messy team ran like a headless fly on the land of Huainan, and when they fled, they were still panicking towards the north of the pass, while still looking behind them in fear.

If there was a sound of horses' hooves behind them, these officers and soldiers who had lost their armor would scream in terror and flee around.

In the team that fled in a hurry, in addition to the officers and soldiers who lost their armor and abandoned their armor, there were also hundreds of horsemen, and the leader was a general wearing iron armor, and the iron helmet on his head was thrown there, and there was a lot of ice and snow on the iron armor, and there were even some ice slags hanging, and the ice slag was carrying blood, I don't know if it was his or someone else's.

Defeated!

Defeated so quickly!

Liu Liangzuo couldn't imagine this, although he had heard that the Donglu soldiers were powerful, but he didn't pay attention to it, but at dawn today, the thousands of Donglu foot riders who quietly crossed the river killed the troops deployed on the south bank, and tens of thousands of troops couldn't even hold on for half a day and were defeated.

Around him, there are panicked officials,

"Junmen, now, what now?"

The shouts of his subordinates made Liu Liangzuo stunned, and he was speechless for a while.

"Junmen, this, the Dongyu soldiers are really powerful, if we go to Zhongdu now, we will definitely be sent to death!"

"Yes, Junmen, then Abatai is leading fifty or sixty thousand horses, the Jurchen is invincible, even if Shi Butang has an army of 100,000, how many days can it last?"

"Yes, yes, the Eastern Soldiers are too powerful......"

In the midst of everyone's words, Liu Liangzuo looked around, this is more than 10,000 people who have finally gathered together, what should I do now?

Is it really going to Zhongdu to die?