After being frightened, the soldiers hurriedly turned around, got serious, saluted, and said, "Qiyu calms the envoy, the lord, it's not a small dereliction of duty!" It's just that there is a Ming army outside the city. ”

When the envoy of Ming Wu Qingwei heard that it was the arrival of the Ming army, he was a little surprised and walked to the city wall to take a look, he thought; Could it be that the defeated army in the north was withdrawn? But if you take a closer look, you can find that there are many flags, the formation is regular, and the temperament of the army is very majestic, not like it has lost a battle?

But no matter what, he still has to report the news to his boss first.

The vanguard troops under the city here have arrived less than 800 meters away from the Wuqingwei suspension bridge, one of them is wearing waist-length armor, wearing a bowl with a rectangular flag on the top of the head, and two red ear guards next to his ears The general stopped his horse, glanced at the city defense in the distance with a monocular, and immediately asked, "The morale of the defenders here is not bad!" Have any rogues attacked? ”

The general wearing a pennant with a hat and helmet next to him replied, "If you are in command of the guard, this place has not yet been captured by the rogues." ”

At this moment, the right guard of Mingtongzhou commanded the servant: Xu Wenqing, sent a group of soldiers to the city, shouted to the city to open the door and surrender, the soldiers in the city felt that something was wrong and asked back, "You are the army, why do you want me to surrender to me?" ”

I saw the soldiers under the city laughing and said, "Wait a minute, we are here to persuade the guards to surrender on the order of the Ming Emperor, and Kaicheng will continue to surrender to the Ming Dynasty to serve the imperial court." ”

Some of the soldiers defending the city who were puzzled asked curiously, "Now the first emperor is dead!" Where did the emperor come from? I wonder who ascended the throne? ”

The soldiers under the city straightened their chests and raised Yu Huang proudly, saying: "This is the edict of His Majesty the Prince of Song, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, we will act according to the order, if we don't open the city gate as soon as possible, we will bear the consequences!" ”

The soldiers, feeling frightened, thought to themselves; What is the crown prince of His Majesty Emperor Chongzhen, Prince Song: Zhu Cihong, actually ascended the throne? So has the capital been recovered? Thinking of this, many soldiers planned to surrender to the imperial court and continue to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, because they were originally the army of the Ming Guard, and it was natural for them to listen to the orders of the imperial court.

However, the news spread that the commander of the guard was sitting in the command post, and the commander of the Ming Wu Qingwei was the same as the commander: Hun Da Biao, and the general manager of the Dashun Wu Qing Department: Niu Ba, the two looked at each other face to face with emotion, and the commander of the Ming Wu Qingwei was the first to speak, "The general of the department, I thought that the commander of the guard should be released at the moment, and let him take the lead in letting the Ming army enter the city to alleviate this catastrophe." ”

But the general manager of the Dashun Wuqing Department does not think so, he thinks that now there is a Ming army coming in the north, then His Majesty the Emperor of Dashun must be defeated, and he is still a little incapable of managing Wu Qingwei alone, if the Ming army is released, they will definitely turn back, and then they will lose both the city and their lives, which is too cost-effective!

But at present, the Ming army outside the city did not give them much time to think about it, and the anxious commander of the right guard of Ming Tongzhou saw the small guard command post, and actually did not give the new emperor His Majesty face to make himself wait for a long time, and he immediately ordered the front Ming artillery battalion to pull up three large general guns and four attack guns, and load the ammunition and compact the line to ignite the fire (dong, dong, dong, dong) A row of artillery solid shells exploded towards the city wall.

The soldiers defending the city hurriedly lowered their heads and hid in the city stomping, just about to get up to load the ammunition and pull the line was suppressed by the Ming army's firepower, and the Ming army under the city also cooperated with the use of all kinds of firearms and bows and crossbows to shoot at the top of the city tower, and shot the Ming Wu Qingwei Zhenfu envoy and ten soldiers on the spot, and the rest of the soldiers were very emotionally fluctuating, and couldn't help but raise the white flag to surrender and agree to open the city gate against the generals.

Seeing the surrender of the soldiers in the city, he asked the commander of the right guard of Mingtongzhou in front of the battle to order the shelling to stop and lead the army into the city.

Suddenly, the soldiers in the city cheered, and the Liukou soldiers saw the Ming army entering the city, some immediately resisted and died on the streets, some fled directly, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and a few Liukou ran to the Wei command post to inform the situation.

After learning that the Ming army entered the city, the Dashun Wuqing Department was always a little uneasy, and he immediately prepared to take the belongings he had looted before to evacuate with his cronies, and sent someone to inform the county magistrate before leaving.

As soon as the soldiers in the command post of the Liukou were released, the commander of the Ming Wu Qingwei: Liang Lihui, who came out of the prison, told the commander of the right guard of Ming Tongzhou who came to the rescue that the actual situation of the troops in this area, and the fact that the county lord colluded with them to do evil and harm the villagers, because he knew about it, he was killed by his subordinate Ming Wu Qingwei commander Tong Zhi when he conquered them!

And then the rest of the generals such as; Wu Qingwei commanded the affairs, Wu Qingwei experience division, Wu Qingwei capital, Wu Qingwei ethics Cui Huangkou battalion commander affairs, and just arrived outside the city and surrendered without fighting with the Ming army, Ming Wu Qingwei left guard Yu Qianhu, Ming Wu Qing Wei Caoyun 100 households and four guard 1000 households, deputy 1000 households, 500 households, trial 100 households, etc.

Immediately, the Ming army pursued the fleeing Liukou with all their might, and part of the Ming army continued to enter the city of Wuqing County westward.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin, who were escorted to the court by the magistrate of Wuqing County in the Ming Dynasty to serve as substitutes for the dead ghosts, were ready to be executed at the entrance of the vegetable market on the grounds of deliberately murdering the county magistrate of Ming Wuqing County and maliciously creating incidents.

Before the execution, the old man of Wei Mansion looked at the two of them, and said to the magistrate of Ming Wuqing County, "They have never seen each other, are they the real murderers who killed my son Baolin?" This is what the magistrate said was behind the scenes? ”

In order to understand this matter as soon as possible, the county magistrate who also gave an explanation for the death of the county Cheng insisted that they were the murderers, and pretended to say, "Although these two people are military households, they have no choice but to take a fancy to the wealth of the Wei Mansion, and they want to kidnap the women that Wei Gongzi likes and take the opportunity to blackmail, but Wei Gongzi is not afraid of them, so they choose to kill and kill their mouths!" ”

However, this excuse is clearly nonsense, Wu Junzhen directly retorted, "Dog county official, I just came to the county seat, how can I know about the Wei Mansion when I first arrive?" How do you know the new love of the prince of Weifu? Besides, we are the northbound military households who were ordered by the Shangshu of the Ming Southern Zhili Military Department, how could we lack that bit of silver? ”

The cunning magistrate of Wuqing County in the Ming Dynasty retorted: "Then this army is in chaos, who knows if you are really a Ming military household?" Or is it an impostor? Besides, at the moment, the crisis is in full swing, but they want to go north, don't they want to surrender to the Liukou and be the military household of Dashun? ”

In the face of this false accusation, Liu Ruilin also began to refute, he said: "If we are fake military households, then what about His Royal Highness the county lord? Is she also fake? Moreover, the magistrate of the county indiscriminately harmed our and other military households, aren't they afraid that the court will blame them? ”

This remark can be said to have angered the county master, he immediately rolled up his sleeves, took out the token, threw it out, and shouted loudly: "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and I want to say more!" Behead the official for public display. ”

After the executioner on the stage heard the beheading order, he immediately took a sip of wine and spit on the ringed ghost-headed broadsword, ready to swing the knife for execution.

The onlookers felt a little wronged, after all, Wu Junzhen took the lead in proposing the night patrol to arrest the murderer, and some people doubted how ordinary people could kill people without traces under normal circumstances? It is obviously not artificial, and Wu Junzhen had helped the people with Ma Wei before entering the city, so that they had to take refuge in the city, so some people outside the field shouted for him.

Due to the fact that the matter was very troublesome, Cao Huachun, the former Ming Si Rite Supervisor Bingbi Eunuch who was in retreat in the house, also walked out of the house and came to the vegetable market to watch, and he stopped and looked at it for a while when he saw that the magistrate who had been promoted in the past was handling the case.

At this moment, a soldier suddenly ran over and shouted, "My lord, my lord, it's not good!" Keep people under the knife! ”

When the executioners heard this, they hurriedly stopped the execution, and the magistrate of Ming Wuqing County, who was sitting on the court, hurriedly got up and walked to the front of the stage, and the soldiers ran over and whispered in his ear, "Lord Zhixian is not good!" The Ming army has come over, and the Wei command post has already descended! At present, the Shun army under the command of the general minister is defeated and fled, let the little one come to report and tell you to quickly take His Royal Highness the county lord in his mansion and make a talisman with them to escape! ”

The stunned county magistrate thought to himself; If there is a Ming army to kill it! Then Wu Qingwei's commander will definitely be released, so that everything will be exposed, and he can't care so much! Afraid that the Ming army would kill him, he immediately ordered in a panic: "Outside that Wei member, this official saw that there were so many people in the audience shouting grievances, there must be grievances!" It's better to cut it another day! Taken into custody first. ”

But the old man of the Wei Mansion doesn't care about this! shouted directly: "The old man doesn't care if he is wronged or not!" Today, you know that the county lord must give an explanation, someone must pay for the lives of my son and wife. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a rush of footsteps in the distance, and the Ming troops in bright blue cloth armor and red vermilion lacquer brave helmets were running towards this side.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the magistrate of Wuqing County in the Ming Dynasty hurriedly led people to evacuate, and in the chaos, the people were made by the Ming army to run around, and the old man of Wei Mansion was trampled to death by the crowd in a panic, and the former Ming Si Rite Supervisor Bingbi Eunuch: Cao Huachun, escaped under the protection of his entourage.

Wu Junzhen and Liu Ruilin were rescued by the Ming soldiers, but Wu Junzhen was a little strange when he saw them, and asked them on the spot which army they were?

The Ming soldiers replied, "We came to recover the guard by the order of the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty, changed the next year of Fengshuo to the first year of Yixing, and no longer respected the Chongzhen year of the first emperor." ”

They were even more confused when they heard this? Thought; Are there other royal descendants in the capital who have ascended the throne?

Liu Ruilin, who was familiar with the Ming war, asked the Ming army who was called the emperor in this dynasty, and when he learned that it was the crown prince of Song: Zhu Cihong, he was very happy when he ascended the throne, and quickly knelt down and prayed to the sky, "The sky!" Finally, the grace is open, and His Majesty the Emperor can also get his wish in the heavens, and now the crown prince has ascended the throne to revitalize my Ming Dynasty, and the recovery of rivers and mountains is just around the corner. ”

But after thinking about it, he felt strange again, who supported His Royal Highness Prince Song as the emperor?

The soldiers of the fundamental Ming army revealed that it was the general soldier of the Ming Ning Yuanwei General Town and Ping Xibo: Wu Sangui, who was crowned the crown prince of the crown prince after His Royal Highness Prince Song ascended the throne and was crowned as the "Great General of Daming Town" and the king of Zhongshan County in the Ming Dynasty and the general of the conquest: Xu Da, the name of the general of Shangzhen Yuanda, almost in the entire northern Zhili of Gyeonggi and even Shandong Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, Wanquan Xingdu Command Envoy Division, Shanxi Xingdu Command Envoy Division, Daning Command Envoy Division is the most bullish Ming Ping Xibo in the northern region.

Knowing that it was the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was supported by this person, Liu Ruilin instantly felt a little uneasy! Because Ming Ping Xibo was in the Liaodong Metropolitan outside the Shanhaiwei Pass in Beizhili, commanding Si Ning Yuanwei to guard the town, how could he rush into Beijing to support His Royal Highness Prince Song, the crown prince? And Ming Ping Xibo is treacherous and brave, does he want to be the second Han Empire's Liangzhou Pastoral State: Dong Zhuo, or the prime minister of the Han Empire and the King of Wei: Cao Cao, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes?

But at present, Wu Junzhen doesn't understand these state affairs of the Ming Dynasty, he only knows about the current drought and the fact that His Royal Highness the county lord is still in their hands to save him, so he led the county lord who led the Ming army to pursue the Ming army as the right guard of the Ming Dynasty to try a hundred households, after all, he knows some insiders?