When Liu Juntao led the army to arrive outside Tongzhou City, the entire Tongzhou City had already begun to be chaotic.

At this time, the 500,000 army led by the orthodox emperor was defeated, and the news that it was besieged by the Tartars in Tumubao had completely spread, and the people in Tongzhou City went out of the city with their families and mouths to the south.

In the eyes of these people, the 500,000 troops of the imperial court have been defeated, and this time they must not be able to stop the Varat Iron Cavalry, and the land of Gyeonggi will no longer be safe, and it is impossible to tell when the Tartar Iron Cavalry will be killed.

Liu Juntao had already led the army to camp outside Tongzhou City, preparing to rest for half a day, and rush to the capital early tomorrow morning.

At this time, Liu Juntao led a team of guards to stop next to the official road, only to see countless people leaving their hometowns with sad faces and fleeing towards the south, as if they had been cut by a knife, and their hearts were painful.

In a trance, looking at the scene in front of him, Liu Juntao actually had a feeling of being in a troubled world!

Liu Juntao looked at the official road for a while, only felt very uncomfortable in his heart, so accompanied by the guards, he prepared to enter Tongzhou City from the south gate, wanting to take a look inside the city.

When Liu Juntao and his entourage passed by the canal wharf outside the city, they saw sand boats transporting grain and grass unloading their goods, and thousands of people were nervously loading trucks to transport grain and grass to the capital.

It turned out that as the news of the defeat of the Orthodox Emperor spread, the entire capital was already in chaos, and those civil officials who promoted the Orthodox Emperor and the Wuxun Group to lead the army to the expedition were also a little panicked at this time when they heard the news.

After all, standing up at this critical juncture, it is better to say that if there is any flaw, it will be a catastrophe!

However, at this time, Yu Qian, the right attendant of the military department, had not yet messed up, and after getting the news that the orthodox emperor was defeated and besieged, Yu Qian began to rectify the defense of the capital on the one hand, and hurriedly mobilized the grain on the dock of the Tongzhou Canal into Beijing to prepare for the upcoming battle to defend the city.

Looking at the truckloads of grain, Liu Juntao breathed a sigh of relief, after all, there were still people in the DPRK and China who were doing things at this time.

Liu Juntao took his guards around the city, only to see that Tongzhou City was also closed, and the shops on the street had closed nine times out of ten.

"Alas!"

Liu Juntao sighed, and then led people back to the camp directly.

Early the next morning, Liu Juntao led his army and rushed towards the capital.

Along the way, nine out of ten of the villages and towns that the army passed through had been emptied, and the villagers heard that the court was defeated and the emperor was trapped, and they all fled towards the nearest city, which was the safest place in the perception of these villagers.

At ten o'clock in the evening of the same day, Liu Juntao led an army of 28,000 to arrive five miles outside the Dongzhi Gate of the capital and set up camp on the spot.

And Liu Juntao himself led a team of guards into the city first, and reported to the military department in order to ask for the next order.

However, when Liu Juntao and others entered the capital from Dongzhi Gate, the towering city walls and endless cities did not shock everyone.

On the contrary, Liu Juntao was shocked by the tens of thousands of people gathered near the city gate, some of these people wanted to flee for their lives out of the city, and some wanted to enter the city to save their lives.

At this time, the vicinity of Dongzhimen has been completely chaotic, and even many people were pushed to the ground, and then they were trampled to death by the surrounding crowd, and the scene was completely out of control for a while, and tens of thousands of people shouted in horror, and the momentum shook the sky.

Seeing this, the accompanying guards protected Liu Juntao in the middle, and a captain led by him said anxiously: "General! It's too dangerous here, let's go back to the camp first! ”

Liu Juntao looked at the chaos in the distance with a frosty face, and was about to order the mobilization of troops and horses from the camp to maintain order, when he saw some officials appear at the head of Dongzhimen City, pointing at the tens of thousands of people in chaos outside the city.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of officials and soldiers poured out of the gate of Dongzhi Gate, and at the same time, the officers and soldiers who came out of the city gates in other places also hurried over, and the number of these officers and soldiers was more than 2,000 people!

I saw these officers and soldiers shouting loudly, controlling the chaotic crowd, and all of them were brought to the vicinity of the city gate, and they were guarded on the spot in groups of 200 people.

At the same time, the officers and soldiers sent the injured people to the city for treatment, and those who had already died were placed in the general waiting for their families to claim them.

By the time tens of thousands of people had calmed down, an hour or so had passed.

At this time, those officials and soldiers let go of the people who were about to flee for their lives out of the city, and at the same time began to interrogate and screen those who wanted to enter the capital, so as to prevent Warat from entering the capital.

Seeing that everything was going on in an orderly manner, Liu Juntao couldn't help but be amazed.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty at this time is not a later generation, and there is no experience in dealing with large-scale events such as Spring Festival transportation and gatherings ~ meetings in later generations.

However, the officials who handled this matter this time can stabilize tens of thousands of people who have gone out of control within an hour, and this ability is very strong!

"I wonder who's presiding over the situation?"

With this question, Liu Juntao led the escort team to Dongzhimen, and after submitting the order of the military department, he smoothly entered the capital.

At this moment, a brocade-clothed guard stopped Liu Juntao and the others and said, "My lord, are you Liu Juntao, General Liu, the general of Yanzhou Mansion?" ”

Liu Juntao turned over and dismounted, and said, "Exactly! I don't know what to advise? ”

"I also ask General Liu to move to the city tower, and Lord Yu, the right attendant of the military department, is invited."

Liu Juntao was slightly stunned when he heard this, but he was relieved when he remembered the scene outside the city gate just now.

At this time, the one who can have this ability above the court is Yu Qian, the right attendant of the military department.

So, Liu Juntao asked the guards to wait here, and he followed the brocade guard to the city tower.

After seeing Yu Qian, Liu Juntao also secretly observed this famous minister through the ages, only to see Yu Qian's face with a long white beard, very elegant, but with a sense of uprightness.

After saluting, Liu Juntao said; "I don't know if Lord Yu is rude again."

Yu Qian said with a smile: "General Liu's troops are moving fast, but he is the first to rush to the capital among the armies from all over the country, which shows that General Liu is dedicated to the country!" ”

Liu Juntao said a few polite words, and then listened to Yu Qian ask: "I don't know the geometry of General Liu's soldiers and horses, where are they stationed now?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, this time the general will lead an army of 28,000 troops into Beijing to garrison, and the actual number of 28,000 men and horses will be camped five miles outside Dongzhimen at this time."

After hearing that all the troops under Liu Juntao had arrived, Yu Qian couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, you must know that no matter how elite the army is at this time, under the high-intensity march, there will definitely be a large number of soldiers left behind.

If you lead an army of 10,000, there may only be 8,000 people at the assembly point, and the rest of the men and horses will either fall behind and chase after them, or flee halfway.

Such a thing was very common at this time, and the military department had nothing to do about it, so it could only be regarded as turning one eye open and closing one eye and pretending not to see.

At this time, the surrounding officials listened to Liu Juntao's words, and they all sneered and didn't believe it, thinking that Liu Juntao was deliberately talking nonsense in order to earn face in front of Yu Qian.

So a few people from the military department suggested that Liu Juntao should drive his soldiers and horses outside the city and station them near Dongzhi Gate, so that the soldiers of the army could rest nearby, and second, they could also take the opportunity to count the actual number of Liu Juntao's soldiers and horses.

Yu Qian thought for a while, then looked at Liu Juntao.

In fact, Yu Qian also wanted to see if the 28,000 soldiers and horses under Liu Juntao's command had really arrived, not that Yu Qian wanted to deliberately embarrass Liu Juntao, but wanted to determine how elite Liu Juntao's soldiers and horses were, which was crucial to the upcoming war.

Liu Juntao also understood what everyone was thinking, so he summoned the guards waiting in the city, and asked him to order the army to come in formation immediately, and let Yu Qian, the right attendant of the military department, review it in public.

After the guard left, Liu Juntao accompanied Yu Qian and other officials to wait at the head of the city, and everyone said some polite words to each other, and their minds had already run to Liu Juntao's army.

It didn't take long for a burst of majestic war drums to come, and the people outside the Dongzhi Gate were pushed aside when they heard the sound, and the officials at the head of the city were also taken aback, standing on the top of the city and looking into the distance.

I saw that the soldiers of the six battalions under Liu Juntao were divided into six huge phalanxes, and they came all the way along the official road, each phalanx was neat and uniform, and the murderous aura was awe-inspiring, and the army didn't even need to stop the whole team between marches!

Such an army made Yu Qian and other officials stunned, and their eyes were full of awe when they looked at Liu Juntao.

"Five thousand, eight thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand, twenty-eight thousand!"

A senior member of the military department roughly counted, and according to the number of marches and banners of the army, he found that Liu Juntao's army had indeed arrived.

For a while, everyone was shocked, they never expected that Daming would have such an elite and strong army, Yu Qian blushed even more, as if he was drunk: "Now, Beijing City will be solid!" ”