Ping An went around Beiping, although the time was not long, but the results were quite fruitful, he broke through the Xishan Zuo camp, killed Zhu Di's rear army general Fang Kuan, and then drove the army to attack the city, causing great panic to the people of Beiping, and also cast the prestige of the "black armor whirlwind" in the hearts of the Yan army, and the Yan army has changed since then.

However, there are still some regrets about the surrender of the army and the siege of the city, if Ping An is properly deployed, maybe the city of Beiping will be broken, but unfortunately Ping An only holds the attitude of consuming the surrender of troops, and by the way causes panic in Beiping. Due to a day's delay in Xishan, Zhu Gaochi has mobilized the young and strong people in the city to help defend the city, and the princess Xu Yihua also personally put on the battle, calling on the old and weak women and children to splash water and throw stones under the city, including the people of the Daning army, the Daning army saw their relatives and struggled to climb the city tower, and the people in the city did not stop it, Zhu Gaochi was shocked, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the Daning army turned around to protect his relatives and help defend the city, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Ping'an was furious and ordered the Henan army to attack the city, but Zhu Gaochi ordered the people of Daning to go to the city to defend and shout loudly for their relatives, which caused the entire siege to fall into chaos. Coupled with the news of Zhu Di's return, Ping An had no choice but to give up the siege and turn south.

When Zhu Di arrived at the city of Beiping, he saw pieces of corpses under the city, as well as sword marks, knife marks and pieces of blood on the city wall, and finally the blank eyes of the people in the city.

According to the losses, there were about 60,000 people collected by Xu Zhong and surrendered by Zhu Gaochi, and in addition to those killed in battle, about 10,000 Henan soldiers were scattered near Beiping, some went to Tanggu, and some were robbers nearby. Zhu Di symbolically sent people south to drive them away from Beiping.

After returning to Beiping, Zhu Di immediately convened a military meeting, he summarized the situation, in his opinion, the expedition was still successful, killed Geng Bingwen, Li Jian, subdued Gu Cheng, and incorporated 40,000 surrendered troops, which can already supplement the losses of the Xishan battalion in terms of numbers. Moreover, Geng Bingwen died in battle, and the imperial court divided the entire battlefield into two theaters of war in the east and west, and appointed two new generals of Ping An and Sheng Yong as commanders, which will inevitably cause some veterans to be dissatisfied, and there will be some chaos if it is not good, Ping'an and Sheng Yong need time to rectify the army, and its combat effectiveness will inevitably be weakened, and even the situation of inconsistent military orders will occur, and the Yan army should immediately go south after a short rest and seek opportunities to strike at the enemy.

After listening to this, the general's mood recovered slightly, but it was still a little low. At this moment, a loud Buddha number "Amitabha" sounded in the conference room, Dao Yan stood up and said: "Why should the prince be arrogant, the old man thinks that this expedition is a big victory, which greatly alleviates the passive situation of our army, everyone please see, if Geng Bingwen does not die, he should be under the city of Beiping at this moment, and Ping An is in the west, Sheng Yong is in the east, and the camp in Xishan will all fall into the hands of Geng Bingwen, and our army can only be trapped in the lonely city, waiting for the city to break." ”

"Therefore, Lao Wei thinks that this time the prince attacked and killed Geng Bingwen, which is an unprecedented victory, and Geng Bingwen is not wronged, he is treacherous and wants to capture the prince alive, if it is not for Gu Cheng, I am afraid that the prince will never come back."

Therefore, the old man suggested that the prince should tell the Beiping military and people about the true matter, and reveal it to the world, the emperor sent the tyrant Zhao to Beiping to announce the decree to paralyze the prince, and the prince was angry at the tyranny and domineering of the tyranny, and turned to negotiate with the general Geng Bingwen. But who knew that Geng Bingwen harbored evil intentions, treacherously, and wanted to harm the prince. It's a pity that the prince is sincere, but he is not understood by the court, fortunately, the righteous man Gu Cheng can't bear to see the prince loyal and killed, and reprimanded Geng Bingwen at the meeting, Geng Bingwen committed suicide in shame, and ordered Gu Cheng to lead his army on behalf of the prince to clear up his grievances. However, the traitor Gao Wei did not know how to get lost, but confronted the prince, which led to a series of disasters and cabotinal killings among the Ming soldiers. ”

"The imperial court even sent Ping An to burn and loot in Beiping, not only killing loyal soldiers, but also harming innocent people, now Beiping bandits infested, the people are not living, the court also sent people to lure the people to Zhigu, with a boat to transport it to the extremely cold land, and the barbarians. The prince should order the political envoy of Beiping to expose the true face of the imperial court to the people, let the people understand that the imperial court wants to destroy the heart of the military and people in Beiping, and call on the people to live and die together with the prince and go to the national disaster together. ”

As Dao Yan's impassioned voice sounded in the conference room, everyone's emotions were mobilized, and they realized what a great victory it was to kill Geng Bingwen, which greatly alleviated the strategic dilemma of Beiping; And I think it's really fixed, everyone just fights back angrily, it's a last resort, as for what Ping An did, it also aroused everyone's great indignation, what kind of ability is it to bully the people? You have the ability to come to us!

For a time, the generals were excited, expressed their loyalty, praised Zhu Di's quick decision, killed Geng Bingwen's great achievements, and also asked for war to fight to the death with the imperial court, to express grievances for Zhu Di, and to bring peace to the world.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Di was very happy, and took the lead in the first place, and ordered Ru Yu and others to sort out what Daoyan said, read it out in the countryside of Beiping, and prevent the foolish man and foolish woman from going to Zhigu; He also condemned the imperial court and the surrounding political envoys, accusing Geng Bingwen of treachery and attempting to murder the vassal king, advocating that he be punished by the Ming Dynasty, deprived of his title, and his family members were confiscated into the army.

After everyone went down, Zhu Di and Dao Yan sat opposite each other, and Dao Yan smiled and said: "Lord Wang, this kind of denunciation is insignificant to the imperial court, and it can deceive ordinary people, but as long as the people of Beiping believe it, it is enough." This battle of Zhending should also be hyped up, don't care about face, if you talk too much, the soldiers will naturally believe it, but the most important thing is to win the battle, and now the situation of our army is not optimistic. ”

"Well, how do you say that?"

"Now Li Bin of Juyong Pass has frequently warned Beiping that the Shanxi army has signs of attacking Juyong Pass, and this matter cannot be underestimated and needs to be treated with caution."

"In addition, Yongping in the east also needs to pay attention to the fact that our army only controls Yongping, and the surrounding Funing and Changli have not been captured, and the Liaodong Army is also frequently active, and the city gate of Yongping has been closed from time to time recently to prevent the Liaodong Army from sneaking attacks."

"Let's not talk about the truth in the south, it's a big disaster for our army."

"There is also Zhigu, this Zhigu city is very small, and the garrison is only more than 10,000 people, but it is a very important place."

"Critical? No, there are not many garrisons in Zhigu, and even if they attack Beiping, they will be easily defeated. ”

"At present, it is indeed not a big threat to Beiping, but what if the imperial court increases its troops in Zhigu? Can you ignore it? The cavalry set off from Zhigu and could reach the city of Beiping in one day. ”

"This king is not worried, fighting under the city of Beiping, this king is still confident."

"But Zhigu also has a role, that is, to control the canal, what Zhigu has been doing recently is to collect ships on both sides of the strait, and now from Tongzhou down, almost all boatmen and ships have been plundered to Zhigu, so our army has no ships to use."

"In this way, our army will not be able to go south along the canal, because it is easy to be blocked by Zhigu, then the canal is not owned by me, and now the imperial court has accumulated a lot of military supplies in Linqing in order to supply Sheng Yong's army, but even if we defeat Sheng Yong's army, we will not be able to transport the military supplies back, because it cannot pass through Zhigu."

"This seems to be a problem, the width of the canal is five to ten zhang, and the river can be easily blocked by rockets and tiger squat artillery, which is indeed a troublesome matter, it seems that Jianwen Xiaoer is really far-sighted."

"But don't worry too much about these for the time being, the first thing is peace and Sheng Yong, Lord Wang, do you know about them? Can you be sure to beat them? ”

"Before Ping'an, he was just a commander under this king, and he was brave and brave, but he was not difficult to deal with; Sheng Yong, this king has never heard of it, and he doesn't understand it, and this king doesn't understand why Jianwen Xiaoer wants to reuse him. ”

"That old man suggested that the prince attack Ping'an first, Ping'an was transferred from Suiyuan, the Zhending people don't know about him, it takes more time for the army to integrate, and attacking Ping'an, Sheng Yong will inevitably come to reinforce, Sheng Yong has more infantry, he can defeat Sheng Yong in the field, such a big thing can be done!"

"Well, this king thinks about it!"