In Hebei, Lu Xiangsheng's department only has about 30,000 infantry troops, which are mostly unusable. The only elite in their hands, the generals' families, were sent to the Texas side to harass Dolgon's troops on their way back to the north.

At this time, relying on the eliminated troops in his hands, only a few hundred nights are not collected by horses, and the others are infantry troops, in fact, they are really unable to fight, even if they are as brave as Lu Xiangsheng, in the face of Yue Tuo's more than 10,000 Jianyu troops, they dare not leave the city they rely on, which Lu Xiangsheng knows very clearly.

"It would be much better if there were enough side vans." Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said, "Now is the time to divide the army, it is the best opportunity, the greatest certainty can defeat them individually, at least, it can also save a lot of Ming people, it's a pity." ”

When Wang Chengen on the side heard this, he comforted him and said, "Didn't Duke Lu already send a chapter to the emperor asking for help?" Maybe the emperor will think of a way to send reinforcements. ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng's eyes lit up, and then he shook his head and said: "It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, to put it mildly, now that the construction is strong, the armies everywhere don't want to fight hard with strong enemies, so that they haven't been able to do it for a long time, where can the reinforcements be sent?" ”

"Hey!" When Wang Chengen heard this, he couldn't help but sigh, and then said a little angrily, "Those people really don't know what they think, if you want our family to see, we should really kill them all!" ”

When he came over from Jingshi, he really didn't hear the news that King Qin's army had arrived, and he was saying that there was a delay here, a delay there, and they were still on the road anyway. Now when he heard Lu Xiangsheng say this, he felt that it was true, those people were waiting for the Jianyu army to come out of the customs before they arrived in Beijing.

Lu Xiangsheng heard this, and was about to say something, when suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the tent, and a personal guard flashed inside and said, "My lord, there is a messenger from Qin Bing." ”

"Qin Bing?" When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he immediately stood up in surprise, and hurriedly said, "Quick, hurry, please!" ”

The army of the Ming Dynasty can fight, and there are some famous ones, that is, Qin soldiers. Suddenly hearing the news, Lu Xiangsheng forgot what he had just said, and he was very happy.

After a while, a messenger who was in the dust entered the tent under the polite guidance of the guards, and without waiting for Lu Xiangsheng to ask, he saw him clasp his fists and say: "By the emperor's order, Lord Hong, the governor of the three sides, and Lord Sun, the governor of Shaanxi, are rushing over from Beijing, obeying the overall planning and dispatch of the lord, fighting against the Jianyu army together, and rescuing my Ming people!" ”

When he had finished speaking, he reached into his arms, took out a letter, and offered it with both hands.

Without waiting for the guards to hand it over, Lu Xiangsheng strode over, took it in his hand in person, and immediately looked at it.

The letter was similar to what the messenger said, but there were some details, such as the emperor's reception of them, and the emperor's inspection outside the city to motivate the army, etc. In the end, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting both asked Lu Xiangsheng for instructions, and the army they led arrived immediately, how to act, and asked Lu Xiangsheng to come up with a charter.

Lu Xiangsheng was very excited, and after reading it in one breath, he carefully re-read it again before handing the letter to Wang Chengen, who was stretching his neck beside him, and then he strode to the military map hanging on the side, and thought nervously about what he said in the letter.

Wang Chengen also read the letter quickly, he patted the letter and said with a smile: "Look at it, you know that the emperor has a way, right?" The emperor issued a strict decree and ordered that the troops from all over the country must arrive as soon as possible, which boosted the morale of the Qin soldiers, haha, let's see, this battle has to be fought! ”

When he was speaking, Lu Xiangsheng had already made a decision, immediately turned around and walked towards the handsome case, picked up the brush and began to write a letter. It didn't take long for a letter to be written.

He put down his brush, blew on the ink, and then said to the messenger: "This official is here to attract the attention of Yue Tuo's department, you go back and report to Governor Hong, Governor Sun, and let them launch a surprise attack on Du Du's department and rescue the 200,000 Ming people who are being detained over there." If you come in time, you will come and attack the Yue Tuo Department again. The details of this battle have been written down in the letter. ”

The Qin soldiers came over, and even Lu Xiangsheng didn't know about it, let alone the Jianyu army. In this way, it will be possible to rescue the people of the Ming Dynasty who are about to be plundered to Liaodong. 200,000 people, I don't know how many people will die on the road, once saved, it is really immeasurable!

The stakes were so high that the messenger could not rest and immediately returned with the escort of his entourage.

Lu Xiangsheng's side, in order to cooperate with the actions of the Qin soldiers, immediately began to move, making a posture of wanting to move south.

Yue Tuo heard the announcement of Tanma in the camp, and personally stepped forward to watch the battle, and couldn't help laughing: "It seems that Lu Xiangsheng is really in a hurry, just these old and weak soldiers also want to go south to rescue Jinan Mansion, haha!" ”

When his men heard this, they all laughed.

They all understand that the city of Jinan has fallen, and whether the vassal king of the Ming Kingdom is killed or captured, Lu Xiangsheng will not escape the blame, and he will be blamed if he is not in a hurry! Therefore, they didn't think much of it.

In fact, in fact, it is also true that the Qin Wang army in various places, including the Qin soldiers of Sun Hong's two divisions, did not arrive in Beijing until February.

In this plane, due to Emperor Chongzhen's urging three times and twice, and even his tone became more and more severe, the Qin soldiers and even the Yongwei battalion accelerated their speed to rush to King Qin. And Emperor Chongzhen changed his person and changed his way of doing things, even if he killed these Jianyu leaders, they couldn't have thought of it.

"Come, give the order to the front, let them out." Yue Tuo immediately began to order, "Let them stay away from the city, without the support of the city wall, and defeat them in one fell swoop." If anyone can kill Lu Xiangsheng, there will be a reward! ”

When he heard this, his men screamed. The combat power of the army on the other side, they have held it for so many days, and they know it well in their hearts. As long as the Ming army leaves the city wall and the Qing Dynasty goes to fight them, it will be like a wolf entering the flock, and the fight should not be too easy. What if Lu Xiangsheng can fight again? It's hard to stand alone, wait for death!

However, what they didn't expect was that the Ming army moved for a long time, and seemed to have discovered their intentions, and even shrank back before dark, so angry that they stared dryly.

The next day, Lu Xiangsheng's department began to perform again, trying to attract the attention of Yue Tuo's department, which was to bully them for the news disadvantage of fighting away in Guannai.

However, on Emperor Chongzhen's side, he found the eavesdropping seed on Fan Yongzheng's body and returned very important news.

It turned out that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting led the troops and horses to arrive outside the city of Beijing, and the emperor left the Beijing division after personally inspecting it. Most of the people rejoiced and finally came to the reinforcements. But Fan Yongzheng was frightened, Qin Bing's sudden arrival was too unexpected. There was no time to tell his brother about this matter, so he decided to send someone directly to report to the Qing army.

For this kind of thing, how could Emperor Chongzhen let him do it, so he urgently sent a decree to Jinyiwei to command Li Ruolian to take action.

Since the Manchu army entered the customs, Jingshi has been under martial law. Except for certain hours, it is only the powerful who can move more conveniently. As for these gates of the capital division, the entry and exit will be strictly restricted, of course, this is not absolute, some life necessities, including firewood, coal, water and so on, will be checked within a specific time before release.

No, in broad daylight, there are a lot of people queuing up under the city gate, and they are waiting in line to get out of the city. The soldiers guarding the gate inspect one and let one go.

At this time, suddenly, three horses rode up, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. When I turned my head, it was three people dressed in brocade and mink, who looked like wealthy people coming over.

The three of them didn't go to the queue, they went directly to the city gate, and the poor people in line didn't care about it, in this era, the rich are privileged, and there is nothing surprising.

The soldiers guarding the city also changed their faces for this rich man on horseback, with a smile, they didn't dare to scold, and asked with a very good attitude: "Dare to ask which mansion it is and where are you going?" ”

When the leader heard this, he just sat on his horse, held his head high and said, "We are from Liu Yushi's mansion, go out of the city on business, get out of the way quickly!" ”

In the past, as soon as the gatekeepers heard this, they would have let them go immediately. But at this time, after several of them glanced at each other, the soldier at the head continued to ask: "May I ask if it is Liu Meicai and Liu Yushi's mansion?" ”

Immediately, the slave was stunned for a moment when he heard this, came back to his senses, and shouted with a slightly ugly face: "My lord's name, how can you call it?" If you don't open the door quickly, I've delayed my master's important business, and I will definitely clean up you soldiers when I turn back! ”

Although the imperial history is of low grade, it has great power, not to mention that their duty is that anyone can be impeached by them, and there is also a duty to patrol the city in the imperial history, which is actually directly in charge of the army. Therefore, on weekdays, no matter who it is, no matter how big an official is, he will sell face to Yushi.

However, at this time, although the slave scolded, the guards did not let go, and the leader hurriedly squeezed out a smile and said: "It's not the villain who dares to stop it, it's someone from your mansion who is waiting for you." ”

Immediately, that person was Fan Fu, the shopkeeper of Fan Ji Qian Village, and he was slightly taken aback when he heard this. Of course, he is not from Liu Meicai's house, but he has always borrowed Liu Meicai's name to do things. Including this time, he also wanted to go out of the city directly after Fan Yongzheng's order, and he didn't need to go to Liu Meicai's side to say hello. However, at this time, Liu Meicai's people were waiting for him here, how could he not be surprised and wondered?

Although he was doing bad things, he had never met anyone who would make trouble against Fan Ji Qianzhuang, so he was just wondering, how did Liu Meicai know that he was going out of the city and sent someone to stop him? Could it be that there has been a major change in the court?

Thinking about the fact that the people of the governor of the three sides and the governor of Shaanxi had just left, and the emperor had personally gone out of the city, maybe the news was related to this.

Thinking of this, he was a little anxious, and immediately turned over and dismounted, and at the same time hurriedly asked, "What about people?" ”

The soldier at the head hurriedly led the way to the temporary resting barracks under the city, and stretched out his hand to signal: "This way, please!" ”

The three of them followed the soldier into the barracks, and looked up, although there were some people in civilian clothes in the barracks, Fan Fu didn't know any of them, and he was surprised, but when he saw the person in charge, he suddenly waved his hand and shouted: "That's right, come on, take down a few of them." ”

Just such a sentence, Fan Fu hadn't come back to his senses, and a few people in civilian clothes who were sitting casually on the side pounced like fierce tigers, and skillfully threw Fan Fu and the three of them to the ground, cut off their hands and began to tie them up.

Fan Fu's face was pressed against the cold ground, and he was very terrified. Such treatment, but something he had never encountered before, he hurriedly shouted: "Who are you? What do you do? Do you know who I am? ”

"Hehe, aren't you Fan Fu, the shopkeeper of Fan Ji Money Village?" The plainclothes man at the head caught the target, rejoiced in his heart, and replied with a smile, "I am Liu Yue, the general banner of Jinyi Wei, and I am ordered to invite you to the edict prison for a cup of tea!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Fan Fu's heart immediately sank, and knowing him meant that he was absolutely not wrong, they were coming for him. As soon as he thought of this, he remembered his purpose of going out of the city this time, and suddenly, a cold sweat broke out on his back. He couldn't figure it out, could it be that Jin Yiwei knew something? is also ordered, so even the emperor knows?

Fan Fu was a little unbelievable, he waited to say more, but he saw a stinky piece of cloth, and he didn't know what kind of cloth it was, so it was forcibly stuffed into his mouth, gagged his mouth, and couldn't speak again.

Liu Yue saw that everything was done, so he smiled and said to his subordinates: "It seems that the stalking of the past few days is still useful, at least I have a familiar face, hehe, I can give an account to the commander!" ”

That's right, after Emperor Chongzhen heard Fan Yongzheng's explanation to Fan Fu through eavesdropping seeds, he immediately sent an urgent order to Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei, and asked him to immediately send his henchmen to all the city gates to block Fan Fu and secretly arrest him.

At this time, the three big zongzi, after waiting for a while, estimated that the people who had seen Fan Fu and the three of them at the city gate had left the city, they were moved to a caravan and quietly left the city gate.

This matter, even the soldiers guarding the door didn't know what was going on, thinking that it was really someone from Liu Meicai's Imperial History Mansion who called the people from his own mansion back.

Soon, Fan Fu and the others were arrested and put into Jinyiwei Prison and secretly detained. The commander made Li Ruolian interrogate them personally, and he didn't care that they were complaining about grievances, but just said to them: "Explain what you have done well, so as not to suffer from the flesh and skin, cooperate well, and only deal with the first offender when you turn around, and you can get out alive." ”

Fan Fu is naturally not stupid enough to bring letters or the like, so he still has luck in his heart, but he doesn't move, pretends to be stupid, and Jinyiwei is not ambiguous here, and the big punishment is waiting.

At the same time, the matter of capturing Fan Fu was immediately reported to Emperor Chongzhen.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he felt a lot more relieved. At this time, he hadn't even thought about arresting Fan Yongzheng, and with that eavesdropping seed, he would be able to learn more things. This case of Jin Shang is destined to be one of the biggest cases since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, he learned more information through the eavesdropping seeds on Chen Xinjia's body.

It was Fan Yongdou who returned to Jindi and met with Chen Xinjia.

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