Suddenly, a soldier broke in and reported, "Report, Lord Qiqi Shoufu, I just received the military information from the south, and Jiannu has withdrawn north." Hearing the news of Jiannu's retreat to the north, the first assistant of the Ming cabinet hurriedly sent someone to the capital to report to Ming Yizong, and the imperial court was overjoyed when he learned of this, and immediately gave the first assistant of the Ming cabinet (the prince and the prince), and quickly passed them into Beijing to receive the wind.

This made the first assistant of the Ming cabinet very happy, and hurriedly asked the commander of the right guard of Ming Tongzhou to set up a formation and prepare to drive back to Beijing, and when he left Tongzhou Wei, he and the right attendant of the Ming Army: Zhao Guangxi, the right of the Ming Imperial Palace: Fan Zhiwan, the two Ming armies converged, and the three of them entered Beijing with the army.

But everyone was nervous in their hearts, so they had to conceal the true military situation and did not dare to report to the court, one was afraid that the court would blame them for the Dali Temple, and the other was afraid of being blamed by Lord Shoufu, so they did not mention a word but kept talking about how to defeat Jiannu and which enemy generals were killed.

Then the first assistant of the Ming cabinet asked people to make a record of it, and it was ready for the court to answer the situation when asking, when the army just passed through the left guard of Tongzhou to the Forbidden City, it was standing on the tower of Zuo'anmen wearing three claws (python suit) of the Ming brocade guard Zuo Du Governor: Luo Yangxing, found the first assistant of the Ming cabinet who returned to Beijing, this person has long been unaccustomed to the style of the first assistant, and also found that the old thief Zhou did not lead the army south? It's just that the right attendant of the Ming Army Department is in command of the southern expedition.

Therefore, the Ming Jinyi Wei Zuo Du Governor immediately informed His Majesty the Emperor of this matter, and Ming Yizong, who was still happy for the victory of the Ming army at this moment, had just changed into (leather clothes) and put on a black gauze hat, and heard the Ming Wuxiang Left Guard Commander: Lu Zhenglin, the footsteps of Lu Zhenglin walked into the hall and saluted and said, "Your Majesty, someone outside the door Jinyi Wei said that there is something important to report to Your Majesty?" ”

The excited Ming Yizong waved the sleeves of his robe and said, "Oh, quickly announce him in." Who knew that after the brocade guard went to the palace, he squatted down with a serious face and handed a letter to the eunuch of Mingsi, the eunuch of the ceremony? Ming Yizong has some questions? Thought; Ay! Isn't there another rogue raiding that area?

But after opening the letter and reading it, Ming Yizong was surprised, it turned out that the letter was written about the first assistant of the Ming cabinet: Zhou Yanru, greedy for life and afraid of death, sitting in Tongzhou Right Guard, did not dare to take command of the south! Instead, let the right attendant of the Ming Army Department act as the commander to lead the army south, which is only a small part of the content, and Ming Yizong continued to look only to find that Zhou Ge Lao actually embezzled the disaster relief silver taels of the previous imperial court? And deceived the imperial court to lie that the plague had been quelled, in fact, the local health office and county government area had solved the epidemic infection, but the people's residential villages still continued to break out!

And the epidemic has also infected many counties, and the epidemic situation in the area of Shuntianfu in Beizhili has been getting worse, and most of the officials' excerpts have also been suppressed by Zhou Ge Lao before and not passed on to Ming Yizong, and some of the folds reported by the Secretary of the Government have also been burned by Zhou Ge Lao.

Looking at the pieces of Zhang, Ming Yizong was furious, picked up a teacup, fell heavily to the ground, and shouted, "Where is the person? Hurry up and arrest the old thief Zhou to me and go to the Xishikou outside the Xuanwu Gate to behead him immediately, and the rest of the generals will also be executed! I saw Jin Yiwei smile and retreat.

Then Jin Yiwei handed over the holy decree to the Ming Jin Yiwei Zuo Du Governor, and he led the north and south towns to Fu Si Jin Yiwei, ready to arrest Zhou Ge Lao and his party, but just out of Chongwen Gate, he met the arrogant Zhou Ge Lao riding a horse into the city gate, Ming Jin Yiwei Zuo Du Du Du Governor laughed and said, "Zhou Ge Lao is automatically sent to the door, come and take it quickly." ”

The incomprehensible Ming cabinet chief assistant asked, "Wait, what are you waiting for?" The old man is the crown prince and master of His Majesty's entitlement, if you hurt the old man's head, be careful! But the brocade guards didn't seem to be scared at all, but laughed at Old Thief Zhou for not knowing the height of the sky.

This made the right attendant of the Ming Military Department feel very bad, and he whispered to the right hand of the Ming Imperial Palace, "Look at this posture, we may not be able to see the sun tomorrow!" Seeing that the old thief Zhou didn't know it, he was pitiful, so he told him, "Okay, anyway, you are going to the execution ground, and this governor will let you die clearly, Your Majesty has already learned that you have privately withheld the imperial court's disaster relief silver, and refused to take command of the expedition, so I asked me to wait to send Zhou Ge Lao and you on the road." ”

After speaking, he asked the Jinyi Guards to suppress all the generals on the spot, and the generals shouted that they were wronged, but they were still pulled by the Jinyi Guards to the west market entrance of Xuanwumen and killed.

Before the county lord of Ming Tai'an: Zhu Youlan, he hurriedly came to the gate of Yongding, and asked the Ming army guarding the city to report to Ming Yizong to ask for an audience, and Ming Hu Ben right guard calmed down: Yin Deliang, quickly ran to meet Ming Yizong and told him that there was a county lord who asked to see, originally Ming Yizong didn't want to see it, but after thinking about it, the county lord asked to see must be in a hurry?

So immediately Xuan County Lord entered the Yang Xin Palace to receive him, and Ming Yizong, who was wearing a purple regular dress and a (good wing crown), saw Zhu Youlan, who was sad and sad, and asked, "I don't know, you are the county lord of that party?" I saw Zhu Youlan raise her head slightly, wiped her tears, and replied: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the courtier's daughter is the daughter of the king of Tai'an County, and she was trapped in Tai'an Prefecture because of Jiannu's southward achievement!" Father, in order to cover the evacuation of his courtiers, he unfortunately died in the palace! Please also ask Your Majesty to send additional troops to guard the border passes, don't let Jiannu go south to harm the people! ”

As soon as the words fell, Ming Yizong was about to speak, when he saw the eunuch of Ming Si and the eunuch Bingbi holding a book and submitting it to him, Ming Yizong opened the book and looked at it carefully, and asked the eunuch of Ming Si and the eunuch Bingbi, "It has been almost two years since the old imperial uncle was killed, and I am busy with political affairs but I have forgotten the son of the old imperial uncle, and my cousin has not yet taken the title, so I quickly passed on my decree and ordered the Huaiqing prefect to transfer 1,000 men and horses as the honor and guard of the Fu Wangfu, and let the household department allocate 100 stone of rice and 300,000 taels of silver as the coronation expenses of the new Prince Fu." ”

After the order was completed, Ming Yizong saw that the eunuch of Ming Si and the Rite Supervisor did not retreat? Instead, he continued to take out the second copy of the fold from his sleeve and handed it over, what did Ming Yizong think was a bad thing? Directly tossed aside, picked up the cup, and took a sip of tea.

At this moment, the eunuch of Mingsi Rite Bingbi said, "Your Majesty, don't you open it and take a look?" This is a war report handed over by the prefect of Huaiqing. As soon as he heard that it was the battle report, Ming Yizong happily picked up the fold and opened it to watch, and Ming Yizong, who was still frowning at the beginning, instantly laughed, patted the case and said: "Okay, at the critical moment, Governor Sun is reliable, and the will of Tongguan Wei Ming Army to protect the son of the old emperor's uncle is meritorious, and Sun Chuanting is specially awarded the title of the secretary of the military department and the supervisor of the seven divisions." ”

However, Zhu Youlan, who was under the main hall, wiped away his tears and continued: "By the way, the right attendant of the military department, they escorted the courtiers to the north, and they repelled Jiannu, I don't know if Your Majesty summoned them?" Ming Yizong was shocked when he heard this, and said, "What? The right attendant of the military department led the troops to repel the Jiannu? Also escorting His Royal Highness the county lord into Beijing? Looks like I misunderstood them! Wang Chengen quickly passed on my will to let the Governor of Jinyi Wei Zuo stop the execution! ”

But the eunuch of Mingji and the eunuch Bingbi said: "Your Majesty is too late! At this moment, I am afraid that they have already been dragged to the mouth of the West Market and beheaded! "Ming Yizong regretted it now! Killed so many Wenchen generals at once, he was very remorseful, but the matter had come to this point, so he had to order the burial of the right servant of the Ming Army: Zhao Guangxi, the right of the Ming Imperial Palace: Fan Zhiwan, Ming Yongping Governor: Ma Chengming, Ming Shuntian Governor: Pan Yongtu, Ming Baoding Governor: Zhang Qiping, fortunately, Ming Shanhaiwei General Soldier: Bai Guangen, has withdrawn back to Shanhaiwei, otherwise it will be difficult to escape the doom!

After being sad, Ming Yizong sent the commander of Beizhen Fusi Jinwei: Wu Mengming, carrying two canonized decrees through Shuntianfu and going south on the Daning Dusi official road, first rushed to Henan to announce the decree of the political secretary, and arranged for the county lord to go to Fengyang Pavilion to live temporarily.

On May 13, 1643, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, after half a month of turbulence on the sea, the Karaqin Daru Huachi entered the Daling River in Liaodong and detoured back to Karaqin in southern Mongolia.

Emperor Taizong Wen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the snow-covered Shengjing City: Aixin Jueluo Huang Taiji, anxious He was very worried about the Four Banners cavalry of the Southern Expedition, after all, he made a detour to Southern Mongolia and went deep into the Ming Court, but he had to pay a heavy price, so he was very afraid.

Moreover, it has been more than a month since the expedition and has not received the news of returning to the division, and Taizong of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is worried that the entire army has been wiped out? The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and asked the soldiers to send an order to the Manchu Gongshun County King: Kong Youde, the Manchu Huaishun County King: Geng Zhongming, and the Manchu Zhishun County King: Shang Kexi, these three Dongjiang Zhenming generals who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty went south to meet the Manchu Dynasty Doluo Rao Yu Baylor.

After the decree was delivered, the Manchu Gongshun King took the lead in setting out, and when he just passed Liaoyang Prefecture, the Manchu Zhishun County King found that there was an army approaching them in front? He hurriedly reported to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and said to the king of Gongshun County: "Brother Kong, look, the team in front is the Four Banners Army of Dororao Yu Baylor?" ”

The Manchu Gongshun County King, who couldn't see the military flag in front of him, hurriedly asked the soldiers around him to take out a monocular to look, and after careful observation, he found that it was indeed the Manchu Four Banner Army, and the flag was embroidered with a white dragon flag and a blue dragon flag.

So the three Han county kings immediately ordered the soldiers to line up horizontally into two teams to prepare to meet Belle Ye, only to see the Manchu Dynasty Doro Rao Yu Belle came over on a haggard horse, the three county kings saluted and said, "I have seen Belle Ye, this time Belle Ye can come back safe and sound, it is really good!" ”

However, the Manchu Dora Rao Yu Beile didn't want to behave embarrassed in front of them, so he dismounted and saluted, "Jurchen language: See the three county princes, I don't know why the three county princes have leisure here?" After the Manchu interpreter explained, the three county kings replied: "Oh, I am waiting for your majesty, oh, not the emperor's order to come to meet Lord Beile." ”

Because the Manchu Dynasty Doro Rao Yu Baylor was afraid of angering the emperor, he did not dare to reveal any military battle reports with the three county kings, but quickly let the Four Banners army quickly rush to Shengjing City, and when he entered the city, the Manchu Inner Court University Scholar: Fan Wencheng, looking at the demoralized Four Banners army on the city tower, guessed that it must have been hit hard by the Ming army?