Hundreds of thousands of troops disappeared like spring and snow, and although the defenders of Huailai City could not accept this fact, they still ordered people to send the news to the capital quickly.

The army of more than 200,000 regular troops, more than 300,000 guards and the personal soldiers and slaves of the ministers, adding up to more than 500,000 people, was defeated by the 50,000 people of Warat?

Anyone who hears this news finds it unbelievable, but the facts are in front of them, and no one can not believe it.

The top priority is how to clean up this mess, now that the defense of the capital is empty, in case the Warat army comes to attack the city, the consequences are unimaginable.

The empress dowager Sun and Empress Qian of the harem immediately cried when they heard the news, and the king Zhu Qiyu ordered the ministers to be called to the palace, intending to discuss countermeasures, but the ministers couldn't think of anything but jumping in a hurry, and the leaders of the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty almost all went to the front line with the emperor Zhu Qizhen, and now it is difficult to say how many can escape back, especially the emperor's whereabouts are unknown, and a few pessimistic ministers have already felt that the sky has fallen.

Not all of the ministers were in ruins, and when the ministers saw that the palace was already in chaos, he couldn't help frowning and stood up and shouted: "Silence." ”

The heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials came out to speak, and people seemed to have found the backbone, and everyone, including Zhu Qiyu, looked at Wang Zhi in the hall, wanting to see what useful words this Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Officials could say.

Wang Zhi glanced at Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, with deep meaning, and then said loudly: "The country cannot be without a king for a day, the matter has come to this point, we should first find out the whereabouts of His Majesty, and then enrich the city defense, in case the Wara army takes advantage of the situation to attack the city." ”

Wang Zhi's words have a potential meaning, the 500,000 army was defeated and lost, although the emperor is responsible, but his whereabouts are unknown, since ancient times, the society is important, the monarch is light, even if the emperor is dead, he will die, let's set up another one, but the anger is that the emperor's life and death are unpredictable, so the top priority at the moment is to determine the emperor's life and death first, and then let's find a way.

The ministers who had been in the officialdom for a long time understood the meaning of Wang Zhi's words, and couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement, but whether the emperor died or not, I'm afraid only those who have personally experienced the civil engineering battle know best, and now we can only wait a little longer.

Early the next morning, Zhu Qiyu summoned the ministers to the palace again, because someone from the front line had returned.

Liang Gui, the Jinyi guard, was a personal guard who accompanied Zhu Qizhen, he was stunned by the Wara cavalry in the chaos, and he became a prisoner after waking up, but he was also reminded by Xining first, afraid that the ministers of the capital would think that the emperor Zhu Qizhen was dead, and then regardless of the re-establishment of an emperor, so that he had no chips in his hands, and how to get benefits from the Ming court, so he released Liang Gui and asked him to go back to the capital to pass the word: "Your emperor is not dead yet, he is in my hands, you don't act rashly, if you want to return your emperor, it's very simple, give money." ”

Liang Gui stood in the main hall at this time, told the story of the civil engineering battle in 1510, and then said to Zhu Qiyu and the ministers with certainty: "Your Majesty is still alive, and the minister saw Your Majesty with his own eyes before he was released by the Warat people." ”

The hall was silent for a while, and many ministers showed a trace of loss and helplessness in their eyes, but no one said anything.

In the end, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Wang asked directly: "What about the other ministers of civil and military affairs?" ”

Liang Gui replied: "Your Majesty has always been guarding Your Majesty and has never stayed away, I only know that Taining Hou and Xiu Wubo, as well as Pingxiang Bo and General Fan Zhong, the guard general, have all been killed in battle, and the whereabouts of the other civil and military ministers are not known." ”

Zhu Qizhen also knew that the capital must be in chaos at this moment, all of this was caused by his own willfulness, although he regretted it, but there was nothing he could do.

Xining turned into a dog leg of Yexian, Zhu Qizhen couldn't take care of himself, so Boyan Timur chose two people from several captives to take care of Zhu Qizhen, one was Jinyi Wei Yuan Bin, and the other was Jinyi Wei Haming.

The Yuan family is a hereditary Jinyi Lieutenant, Yuan Bin's father resigned due to illness in the orthodox four years, Yuan Bin replaced his father as a Jinyi Captain, he was very smart since he was a child, and he has read a lot of books, but because he is upright and lacks flexibility, so he has not been promoted.

Upright people generally have a common problem, that is, admitting death, and Yuan Bin can't escape this shackle, which is reflected in him and Zhu Qizhen's transformation into loyalty.

After coming to Zhu Qizhen's side, Yuan Bin quickly contracted everything in Zhu Qizhen, eating, drinking, walking and sleeping, and he took care of Zhu Qizhen meticulously.

Ha Ming is a Mongol in the end, although he is also loyal to Zhu Qizhen, but he does not have Yuan Bin's confidant, so usually he just acts as a mouthpiece between Zhu Qizhen and the Warat people.

Yuan Bin and Ha Ming went to accompany Zhu Qizhen, but Zhao Yan and Wang Lin, who were captured with them, were inexplicably asked to go back by the king of the competition.

Like Boyan Timur, King Saikan is Yexian's younger brother, but the three are not brothers, he was adopted by Yexian's father Tuhuan, but this does not affect him to become the third person in the Warat camp after Yexian and Boyan Timur.

After Zhao Yan and Wang Lin were taken to the camp of the Saikan King, the Saikan King looked at Wang Lin a few times and suddenly asked, "You killed dozens of my warriors?" ”

Wang Lin replied nonchalantly: "That's also called a warrior?" ”

The king of the journal smiled angrily and said, "Since you look down on the warriors under my command, are you willing to compete with them?" ”

Wang Lin glanced at Zhao Yan and suddenly whispered, "Senior brother, what if you say that I catch this tartar and let him let us go?" ”

Zhao Yan had already looked around on the way here, and when he heard this, he shook his head and said, "This is the henchman of the Warat army, even if you catch him, we won't be able to rush out." ”

"Oh." Wang Lin was a little disappointed, and then said to the king of the competition: "If you promise me a condition, I will compare." ”

The actual age of the king of the race is only in his twenties, but he has been exposed to the wind and sun on the grassland all the year round, which makes him look a lot older than his actual age.

"Hahaha, you're very guts, I want to hear what conditions you have."

Wang Lin broke away from the rope that bound his wrists with a single force with both arms, and then he glanced at the Wara soldier who pulled out the knife and sneered, "Coward." ”

On the Warat side, only the king of Saikan could understand what Wang Lin said, his face turned red, and he motioned to his generals to put away their weapons, and then asked: "You not only have courage, but also great strength, if you agree to be my guard, I can marry my sister to you, she is the most beautiful woman in my tribe, only a mighty and majestic warrior like you can be worthy of her." ”

Wang Lin was stunned for a moment, how could he talk and become a matchmaker.

"I'm still young, and I don't want to get married yet." Wang Lin shook his head, a hint of fear on his face, as if it was a terrible thing to get married.

"My condition is that if I win your warriors, you just need to let me and my senior brother go, how about it?"

As soon as Wang Lin's words fell, the king of Saikan laughed and said: "Immortal Heaven is above, your thoughts are as pure as clouds in the sky, you are my captives, your life is in my hands, why should I let you go?" ”

As the king of the journal said, people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, if the king of the journal is so foolish, I am afraid that he will not be able to sit on the throne of the three masters of Warat at all, Zhao Yan has a very clear understanding of this, but after a short period of contact, Zhao Yan found that this king of the race is not a person with muscles in his head, he can think, smarter than other Warat people, which has room for maneuver, nothing more than bargaining.

Zhao Yan had strong confidence in Wang Lin's force, and immediately said: "We don't expect His Highness to let us go, if he wins......"

Zhao Yan pointed at Wang Lin and continued: "I hope that His Highness can treat us as ordinary people and give us relative freedom, this condition is not too much, I believe that His Highness will not refuse." ”

The king of the journal asked with interest: "What is relative freedom?" ”

"We can have our own place to live and move freely in the camp." Zhao Yan replied.

"And what if you escape?" A tall young girl with a wheat complexion walked into the tent and asked with a frown.

The king of the journal looked at the girl dotingly, and said, "Gegentana, why are you here?" ”

Gegentana walked to the side of the Saikan King and stood still, and said: "Brother, I heard that you are going to marry me to an ugly Ming countryman, I don't want to marry him, even if I do, I will marry our real warriors of Dayuan, not a devil who slaughtered dozens of Dayuan soldiers." ”

Is Wang Lin an ugly devil? Zhao Yan glanced up at Wang Lin, and felt that Wang Lin could be called a model of masculine men in other places except for being a little darker, in terms of appearance, he was much stronger than these Warat men present, only a little worse than himself, how could he get the title of an ugly devil?

"We won't run away, we promise that." Zhao Yan glanced at Gegentana, then looked at the king of the competition and said: "Even if we escape, I believe that the warriors under the command of His Highness will stop us, for the sake of life, we will not step out of the camp." ”

The King of the Race Journals thought for a moment and said, "I can agree to your request, but I will select three of the strongest warriors under my account to take turns to fight him, if he wins in the end, you can get relative freedom, and if he loses, then he will kneel in front of me and swear allegiance to the Immortal Heaven to me." ”

Wang Lin opened his mouth and was about to agree, but was stopped by Zhao Yan.

"Your Highness, this is not fair."

The king laughed: "How can the lamb talk to the evil wolf about fairness?" ”

Wang Lin stopped Zhao Yan, who wanted to continue bargaining, and said, "Senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely win." ”

Seeing that he looked complacent, Zhao Yan had to sigh and ask, "Your Highness, when will the competition start?" ”

"Let's go outside, my warriors are practicing archery, why don't we compare bows and arrows first." ”