"Hao Shaoqi, what do you say?" Li Guo opened his eyes wide and looked at the man holding the banner in front of him. This person's surname is Hao, and no one knows his name, everyone only knows that he was born as a standard-bearer in the army, and even if he later became the leader, he still likes to carry a military flag with the word "Chuang". When he went into battle, he took the lead with the big banner and was extremely brave. Therefore, everyone called him "Hao Shaoqi".

Hao Shaoqi replied: "Master Hou, Emperor Zhu Thief is likely to be out of Beijing City!" Not only did he ask the sentry horseman, but he also asked a eunuch of the Zhu family who had fallen behind, and it was also the Emperor Zhu Thief who arrived at the Dongzhi Gate yesterday afternoon, escorted by the Nanhai Zijing Army. ”

Li Guo took a breath, and his thick eyebrows were already twisted into a ball.

"Master Hou, maybe Emperor Zhu Thief has played a trick of the golden cicada shelling!" It was Tang Tong who spoke, and he followed Li Guo out of Beijing with his 8,000 soldiers and horses, with the goal of capturing Zhu Cihong. Now that he knew that Chongzhen might be out of the city, he became excited.

If Chongzhen can be captured alive, it will be a great achievement! In the future, when it comes to meritorious deeds, why do you have to be crowned a marquis, right?

Li Guo touched his beard, glanced at Tang Tong, who was eager to try, and said in his heart: Can you give you a general for the merit of catching the emperor?

"Come to Heng!" Li Guo shouted and called a tall and burly young man in his twenties.

"Daddy, you call me?" The young man's name is Li Laiheng, the son of Li Guo, and the commander under Li Guo, that is, the general in charge of the capital. The military system of the old battalion of the Dashun Army is divided into battalions, capitals, brigades, departments, sentinels, and teams. All are second only to the battalion, usually two or three thousand people.

Li Guo smiled and said: "Son, you take the people of Pontus to chase in the direction of Shunyi in the northeast, if the Emperor Zhu Thief escapes to the northeast, you must capture him!" ”

"The child has an order!" Lee Rae-hyung agreed loudly.

Li Guo looked back at Tang Tong again, and said with a smile: "General Tang Bing, you send dozens of cavalry who are familiar with the northeast terrain of the Beijing Division, and take Wu'er to capture the Zhu Thief Emperor!" ”

"The subordinates have orders!" Where did Tang Tong dare to disobey Li Guo's order, he was the nephew of Emperor Dashun. Then Li Laiheng may be the future Emperor Taizong of Dashun......

Li Guo then ordered Hao to shake the flag and said: "Shake the flag, you continue to the east, restrain your subordinates, don't catch any fat sheep, and don't fight with the Zhu thief's brigade, bypass Tongzhou, and go straight to Tianjin." General Tang Bing, you will send dozens of horsemen to follow and wave the flag, and also be a guide. ”

"The subordinates have orders." Hao Shaoqi received the military order.

Tang Tong asked with a puzzled expression: "Master Hou, Hao Zhang's brigade is only a few hundred horsemen, and he can't attack the city...... Moreover, Tianjin Acropolis is an important town for water transportation and shipping, and there is the Wei River next to it that can be opened to sea ships. The Nawei River was so wide and deep that cavalry alone could not block the passage of ships. If the prince of the Zhu family arrives in Tianjin, he will be able to enter the sea, and it will be difficult to hunt down. ”

Li Guo laughed and said: "The army division has already made a clever calculation in this matter, there is our Dashun's internal response in the Tianjin Acropolis, as long as the cavalry waving the flag arrives, he will do something in the city, and then the internal and external echoes, how can the prince of the Zhu family escape?"

Mr. Tang, you lead the troops to follow, and the foreheads are behind the Zhu thief while catching fat sheep and chasing after them! ”

"The subordinates have orders!"

……

Zhu Cihong, who had a sore buttocks, became the No. 1 filial son of Tianzi again at this time, and was riding in front of the carriage ridden by Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou, looking filial to protect his parents from being hurt by thieves.

The west gate of Tongzhou City is in front, the city gate is open, and the city and the city are all heavily armed Shuntian patrol officers and soldiers. Song Quan, the governor of Shuntian, and Wei Zaode, a scholar from the capital university who arrived first, were standing outside the door with a group of subordinates, and their python robes were also covered with long armor, and they also looked loyal to defend the emperor and the prince to the death.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!" Wei Zaode's eyes were sharp, and he saw Zhu Cihong wearing armor at a glance, and hurriedly shouted loudly, "The one riding in front of the convoy is the prince of the Ming Fujun!" ”

Song Quan was a jinshi in the Apocalypse, he was not yet fifty years old this year, he was a little short, with high cheekbones, small eyes, a high nose bridge, and a very neatly trimmed sideburns, looking majestic and shrewd.

In the past few days, he has seen many officials and nobles who have slipped out of Beijing with the prince's decree, and he has also heard from them about Zhu Cihong's various deeds, and he himself has received an order asking him to arrange for the Son of Heaven to run away.

Before meeting Wei Zaode, he didn't believe that this series of actions came from the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and thought that Emperor Chongzhen was playing chess behind his back. But this morning, Wei Zaode, who saw Pegasus coming to fight the front station, knew that Chongzhen "slipped and fell into a coma" when he went to court, and the prince presided over the overall situation with Fujun, Song Quan didn't know what to do.

Prince...... It seems to have started a palace change!

This is a rebel and a thief!

But he felt that the prince didn't do it right, Emperor Chongzhen was too stubborn, the enemies had entered the outer city, you didn't run, and you still wanted to guard the inner city and wait for Wu Sangui to save him...... Wu Sangui, that guy is still in Yongping! Don't get close to Beijing in three or five days?

Even if he comes, can he beat such a rogue like that? Now there are tens of thousands of rogues gathered near Beijing, how many people are there in Wu Sangui? And how many people can it bring? Dingtian is 10,000 elites marching in a hurry, and a dozen of them are fighting?

Therefore, taking advantage of Li Zicheng's army to break through before Beijing was killed, it was really the only way for Emperor Chongzhen to survive......

In order to save his father, the son did some disobedience to his father, which can't be said to be unfilial, right? Could it be that the father is confused and wants to jump down from the city wall of the noon gate, and the son has to follow him?

After thinking about it, Song Quan felt that Zhu Cihong was a great filial son, a great filial piety, not a small filial piety! And in that time, he collected so many soldiers and horses from Beijing, and this ability seems to be more than Chongzhen.

The Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty can probably only count on His Royal Highness the Prince.

Thinking of this, Song Quan and Wei Zaode walked forward quickly, knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Cihong and the convoy behind him, and said loudly: "Song Quan, the governor of Shuntian, welcome the holy driver!" ”

Wei Zaode and Song Quan's attaché also kowtowed together, and their voices said, "Ministers welcome the holy driver!" ”

"Get up!" Without waiting for Chongzhen in the carriage to speak, Zhu Cihong spoke first, "Wei Zaode and Song Quan stepped forward to speak!" Feng Kaizhang is not there? ”

"Here, Chen Feng Kaizhang is here." A young man in his twenties, short stature, dark skin, a Zhejiang accent, and a very energetic facial features walked out of Song Quan's subordinates and walked quickly to Zhu Cihong's horse.

This young man is the son of Feng Yuanyang, the governor of Tianjin, and the nephew of Feng Yuanbiao, the former secretary of the Ministry of War. However, today he did not wear an official uniform, but a businessman's dress, and he was dusty.

On March 10, he entered Beijing on the orders of his father Feng Yuanyang, and secretly reported to Emperor Chongzhen that he was preparing to escape by sea from Tianjin—his father Feng Yuanyang was of course also a loyal minister who worried about the country and the people! Using the power of the governor of Tianjin to supervise shipping, he was preparing for Emperor Chongzhen's retreat early in the morning.

However, Feng Kaizhang's trip to Beijing did not yield any results, and on 14 March, the day Zhu Cihong "fell asleep and did not wake up," he left Beijing and returned to Tianjin. As a result, he only returned to Tianjin on the front foot, and Wang Zhixin brought Zhu Cihong's decree on the back foot.

And Feng Yuanyang immediately recognized the power of the crown prince to raise the army and the governor of the military affairs - and immediately sent his son to Tongzhou to meet him.

Wei Zaode, who was standing in front of him, had already seen him, and then sent his family to report to Zhu Cihong, so Zhu Cihong already knew that Daming still had Feng Yuanyang and Feng Kaizhang such responsible loyal ministers.

"Feng Baihu, you don't have to salute." Zhu Cihong asked in a low voice, "How many sea boats has Ling Zun prepared?" Where are they? ”

"Prince Yu," Feng Kaizhang didn't say much, and went directly to the topic, "My father has recruited Shen Tingyang, who is the manager of shipping, and Su Guansheng, who is the manager of the sea patrol, to Dagu, and there are more than 100 sea boats, dozens of naval warships, and 2,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division. In addition, Shen Tingyang also has 2,000 sailors, 1,000 guards, and 1,000 turtledoves under his command! It is enough to protect the Holy Lord and the crown prince to the south! ”