Xining presented Zhao Yan's recital to Zhu Qizhen, then turned around and put the manuscript on the dragon case, and was about to go out, when a cold angry shout sounded: "What a good scholar, I dare to assert that I will be defeated and captured, it is really bold, don't think that I will not kill people if I have a good temper, come and put Zhao Yan, the concubine of the Hanlin Academy, into the prison, and ask for beheading one day." ”

Wang Zhen rarely saw Zhu Qizhen lose his temper, and when he saw this, he was curious, and then picked up Zhu Qizhen's Song Shu, who fell to the ground, opened it, and immediately laughed angrily.

'Minister, Zhao Yan, the Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, wept bloodily and played. I heard that His Majesty wants to conquer Warat in person......

Since Zhao Yan was on the song, he simply let it go, and told Zhu Qizhen's decision to start the personal expedition, and the final defeat and capture were all told as a prophecy, of course, he didn't want to die, so he said it very tactfully, such as dreaming, speculating, etc., and even said in the end that if Wang Zhen followed Zhu Qizhen to conquer Warat, he might probably die in the chaos in the end, although there is no word of affirmation in the whole article, but the whole article is full of affirmation, which makes people feel that if they don't believe him, the consequences will definitely be very serious.

Wang Zhen was very confident in his Wen Taowu strategy, although he was angry, but after thinking about it, he suddenly said: "Your Majesty is angry, didn't this Zhao Shuchang assert that His Majesty's personal expedition will be defeated?" It's better to take him with you when you set off three days later, and when Your Majesty breaks the war, and when he is captured first, see what this Zhao Shu often says. ”

On July 16, the 14th year of Ming orthodoxy, the emperor ordered Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, to guard Beijing, and then led more than 100 officials with Wang Zhen to lead an army of 500,000 from the capital. The ministers persuaded to no avail, so they had to discuss and decide, and the British Gong Zhang Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, Zhu Yong, the secretary of the military department, Kuang Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, and Cao Nai, Zhang Yi, the cabinet scholars, escorted the expedition.

On the way from the capital to Juyong Pass, the entourage of ministers once again persuaded the emperor Zhu Qizhen to return to the capital, but at this time, all the people around Zhu Qizhen had been mastered by Wang Zhen, and all military and political affairs were arbitrarily decided by Wang Zhen, and it was even more difficult for the ministers to see the emperor.

Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, was appointed as a general, but he could only kneel in front of Wang Zhen, and Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, asked the emperor to return to the army, and Wang Zhen ordered him to kneel in the grass until it was dark.

Zhao Yan was locked in a prisoner car, escorted to follow the army, two days of prisoner life made him lose a lot of weight, his hair was unkempt, his clothes were not covered, and he could only curl up in a ball when the cold and dew were heavy at night, just looking forward to the early dawn, but after dawn, the red sun was scorching, and the temperature in the prison car was extremely high, fortunately, the escorted sergeant was still kind, and the drinking water was not short, otherwise Zhao Yan would have been unable to stand the high temperature and died of dehydration.

Zhao Yan's prisoner car is far away from the Chinese army, except for the sergeant, there are no people in other clothes on weekdays, but today there are some exceptions, a middle-aged official wearing a five-grade official uniform actually came to the prisoner car and asked: "But Zhao Guomei is in person?" ”

Zhao Yan brushed away his messy hair, squinted and looked at the visitor for a moment before responding, "Exactly." ”

The middle-aged official couldn't help frowning when he saw Zhao Yan's weak appearance, and called the left and right sergeants and asked: "Zhao Shuchang is also an official of the imperial court, and His Majesty only ordered him to be imprisoned, and he never said how to deal with it, why are you abusing Zhao Shuchang so much?" Aren't you afraid that this official will say to the general Cheng Guogong and deal with you and other military laws? ”

When the two sergeants heard this, they said in horror: "I don't dare, but a little father-in-law from the Chinese army said that this person has angered His Majesty and the prince-in-law, and he needs to be made to suffer more, otherwise the prince will ask us and others, and even the general can only kneel in the face of the prince-in-law, I can't wait for the ordinary sergeant, I really don't dare to disobey." ”

"Hmph." The middle-aged official snorted angrily, then sighed helplessly, and said to Zhao Yan after waving off the two sergeants: "In the Wenxuan Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, Li Xian, Zhao Shu often suffered. ”

Zhao Yan grinned and reluctantly said, "It turned out that Li Wenxuan was in front of him, and he was polite." ”

Li Xian shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Zhao Shuchang doesn't need to be polite, if you want to salute, you should apologize to Zhao Shuchang in the next generation of ministers." ”

Without waiting for Zhao Yan to answer, Li Xian explained: "We all know that Your Majesty was deceived by Wang Zhen, so we decided to drive the expedition in person, but our persuasion was fruitless, and Wang Zhen had already annoyed Wang Zhen, but there were all the scholars in the cabinet in front, Wang Zhen did not dare to dispose of us at will, so he could only take Zhao Shuchang out of anger, so as to establish authority to us, so I want to apologize to Zhao Shuchang, I only hope that Zhao Shuchang will hold on for a few more days, and we will definitely jointly petition Your Majesty to release Zhao Shuchang as soon as possible." ”

Li Xian, on behalf of the cabinet Cao Nai and Zhang Yi, came to express his condolences to Zhao Yan and then turned to leave, and after a while, a captain in brocade clothes came over again.

"Zhao Gongzi, do you still recognize me?" Yuan Bin held the prisoner cart with both hands, looked at Zhao Yan's haggard appearance and couldn't help but ask softly.

Zhao Yan recognized Yuan Bin and couldn't help but be surprised: "Didn't Brother Yuan go to the south with Brother Li?" When did you come back? What about Brother Li? ”

Yuan Bin replied: "The old father at home is seriously ill, and he was just transferred back to the capital a few days ago, and after settling down the old father, he wanted to go to find Zhao Gongzi, and also to report to Zhao Gongzi for Li Qianhu, but His Majesty wants to drive the royal expedition in person, and he naturally has to accompany the guards in the Jinyi pro-army, if it weren't for the two officials who happened to hear Zhao Gongzi talking about Zhao Gongzi, I am afraid that I don't know that Zhao Gongzi is actually trapped here." ”

"Hehe, it's hard to say." Zhao Yan didn't want to show a complaining appearance to annoy people, so he said: "I don't know how the war is going in the south, Brother Li is okay?" ”

Yuan Bin saw that Zhao Yan's lips were chapped, so he handed the water bladder he was carrying to Zhao Yan and said, "Li Qianhu has been promoted from deputy Qianhu to Qianhu because of his meritorious service in battle, and he is still under the command of Cao Jixiang and Cao Gonggong. Li Qianhu asked him to tell Zhao Gongzi that he was all right in the army, the thief chief Deng Maoqi had been ambushed, and the remaining thieves would be cleared in a few months, and then Li Qianhu would be able to come back and have a good time with Zhao Gongzi. ”

"Hehe, okay." Zhao Yan reluctantly laughed twice, his future was uncertain, and he didn't know if he could escape his life in the civil engineering change, if he died, his relatives didn't know how to be sad.

Yuan Bin observed his words, and vaguely guessed what Zhao Yan was thinking, so he said: "Zhao Gongzi relax, Your Majesty is not a tyrannical king, on the contrary, Your Majesty is benevolent and pure, and now he is just angry, and when he is angry, he will naturally release Gongzi." ”

"I hope so." Zhao Yan drank all the water in the water bladder in one go, stretched out his hand and handed the water bladder to Yuan Bin, and said, "Since Brother Yuan is with His Majesty, where his duty lies, let's go back quickly." ”

Yuan Bin nodded, called the two sergeants on the left and right, pulled his face and said, "Do you know the clothes on my body?" ”

The two sergeants nodded, and one of them flattered: "Naturally, I know, I don't know what the captain commands?" ”

Yuan Bin pointed to the prisoner cart and said, "Take good care of this son, otherwise I will definitely not let the two of you have a good time." ”

"But......" A sergeant wanted to move Wang Zhen out, but Yuan Bin didn't eat him at all, and before he finished speaking, he said sharply: "The king of Hades is so difficult to see that the little ghost is difficult, you are a little ghost, and so am I, even so, if I want to kill the two of you, I have a way, understand?" ”

These two sergeants are just ordinary guards, farming in peacetime, acting as baggage soldiers in wartime, and they don't know any officials who can afford to support the scene, and the notoriety of Jinyi Guard is like thunder, and they are frightened by Yuan Bin at this time.

"Don't worry, captain, the two of us will definitely serve this son properly, you can rest assured."

On July 19, the army left Juyongguan, passed through the arms, went to Xuanfu, and then walked and left, and the army entered Datong on August 1.

When he arrived in Datong, Zhu Qizhen finally remembered Zhao Yan and ordered someone to call him. Thinking of the 'prophecy' on the original song, Zhu Qizhen wanted to humiliate Zhao Yan, but when he saw Zhao Yan's haggard appearance, he didn't know if his conscience found it, so he only waved his hand and asked people to take him down to wash, and then ordered Zhao Yan to accompany the Chinese army and wait for the two armies to fight.

As soon as Zhao Yan was taken down, Guo Jing, the eunuch of the Datong garrison, brought a piece of news, and first took the initiative to retreat north in order to lure the army deeper.

This news is the judgment made by the Datong Shou General and Guo Jing after years of experience and understanding of Yexian, but when they heard it in Wang Zhen's ears, they became the first to hear that Wang Shi was going north, and he was frightened and fled north.

Wang Zhen monopolized the power, and immediately ordered the army to continue to march north, but the result was less than a hundred miles out of the Great Wall, and when he heard that the four generals of Jingyuan in front of him were defeated, Wang Zhen immediately panicked and asked the army to retreat quickly.

Wang Zhen's original route of retreat was to go directly to Wang Zhen's hometown of Wei County after crossing the Great Wall, and then enter the pass from Bauhinia Pass back to Beijing City, but just after crossing the Great Wall, Wang Zhen was afraid that the army would damage his manor and crops in Wei County when passing through Wei County, so he changed the route of the march again, and wanted to take the road when he came, first to Xuanfu, then through Tumubao, Juyong Pass, and finally back to Beijing City.

The route of the march changed repeatedly, causing the soldiers to be exhausted, and when the army arrived at Xuanfu, the Vara brigade pursued the troops, and the 30,000 cavalry of the Ming army were cut down cleanly, and Wang Zhen ordered the army to speed up the retreat in panic.

On the 13th of August, the army reached the fort of Tumu, and the pursuers of Warat followed.

Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, suggested that he should ignore the pursuing soldiers and rush into Juyong Pass overnight to ensure the safety of Emperor Zhu Qizhen. But Wang Zhen thinks very highly of himself, and he still can't face the reality at this moment, he thinks that the terrain of Tumu Fort is very high, and he can order the army to camp again to block the pursuing soldiers.

After the Ming army set up camp according to Wang Zhen's idea, the Wara army was already close at hand, and in a hurry, the general Zhu Yong commanded the army to repel the Wara army, and the two armies confronted each other.