It is not a simple matter to drive the royal car, first of all, it is necessary to arrange someone to be responsible for handling daily government affairs in Beijing, this person in charge is ready-made, the regent Zhu Youzhen has been in charge of dealing with the twists and turns, and the cabinet also has Xu Guangqi to help watch, Zhu Cijiong will not have any problems when he leaves Beijing for a month or two, he stayed in Jinling for more than a month last time, and the Beijing division is as good.

But these people will try their best to dissuade him and not let him go, the last time he went to Jinling, it was an excuse to worship his ancestors, there was no danger, but this time it was different, Liaodong was a battlefield, after all, he was only seven or eight years old, who could rest assured!

Zhu Cijiong is determined to go, that is Liaodong, the old nest of Houjin, if the tactics of the support troops are not used properly, it is very likely to suffer from Huang Taiji's crazy counterattack, and then it will not be a matter of losing 30,000 or 40,000 troops, three or four hundred thousand is possible!

He said the idea of driving the imperial expedition to Zhu Youzhen and Xu Guangqi, and the two really objected, don't look at Zhu Youzhen as Emperor Chongzhen in history, it seems that he is very greedy for the throne, in fact, before the death of Emperor Apocalypse, he never thought that he would be the emperor, Chongzhen Dynasty was the Emperor of the Apocalypse at that time, and he was driven to the shelf, which was not appropriate.

Now, Zhu Cijiong Chongzheng Emperor is a good emperor, his regent is also a good one, major matters are decided by Zhu Cijiong, he just goes to work every day to review and review, and he doesn't have to worry about anything else, how comfortable, why do you want to grab the throne by asking for trouble?

It can be said that he really cares about Zhu Cijiong and is really afraid that something will happen to him. However, Zhu Cijiong has to go, and he can't say that only I will command the hot weapon battle now, which will only make Zhu Youzhen mistakenly think that he has a nervous problem, which is the so-called neurosis.

What to do? In the end, he had to resort to a killer move: he insisted on going his own way!

No matter what you say, I'm just going, I'm the emperor, I'm going to go, can't I?

As soon as he played a scoundrel like this, Zhu Youzhen and Xu Guangqi could only retreat, although he is still young, but the authority is not small at all, no one in the court dares to do anything with him now, his uncle and teacher have been defeated, and others naturally dare not persuade him anymore.

The matter of staying in the court was finally solved by him by rogue means, and the next thing was to determine the entourage.

Cao Huachun naturally wants to go, he can be responsible for managing the accompanying eunuchs, and he can also serve as a bodyguard, Zhu Cijiong has always trusted him well, and Zhu Cijiong will definitely not be used to it without him;

Qin Mingyue is also going, she is Shang Palace, and her power in the palace is the same level as Cao Huachun, and she is responsible for managing the accompanying palace maids, so naturally no one dares to say anything, and besides, she is also a super bodyguard. What's more, Zhu Cijiong has fallen into her warm and fragrant embrace and can't extricate herself, of course, this is not enough to communicate with outsiders.

Zheng Sen is also going, uh, this is not to say that Zhu Cijiong wants to take him, but he wants to go himself, this, naturally, there is no door. Just kidding, this is not going to the mountains and rivers to play in the mountains and rivers, what is it to take a child, so Zheng Sen's unreasonable request was rejected by Zhu Cijiong without hesitation.

The next thing is to accompany the guards, the masters of Jinyiwei and Dongchang must all follow the shelf, as for Luo Yangxing, this product is a good hand when it comes to business, and he is really not qualified to be a bodyguard. Zhu Cijiong didn't expect him to protect him at all, but hoped that he could earn more money for the treasury, so Zhu Cijiong decided not to bring Luo Yangxing at all this time.

Jin Yiwei and the masters of Dongchang let Wang Zhengnan take it, Zhu Cijiong used to want to train him to be a tiger general, but now he has changed his mind, Daming is not short of tiger generals, there is no more than him, and there is no less than him. It's his skills, and it's a waste not to be a bodyguard, so Zhu Cijiong simply transferred him to Jinyiwei, and also gave him a thousand household titles, and this time let him be responsible for the protection of the periphery.

This is only to protect and take care of the emperor's daily life, and the civil officials and generals accompanying the royal driver are also indispensable.

This civil official just means it, after all, he is going to war, and it is useless to bring more civilian officials, and in the end, Zhu Cijiong ordered Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the military department, as a civilian official, Sun Yuanhua is an artillery expert, and Zhu Cijiong does not need to personally command the artillery with him.

As for the generals, the more the better, but Zhu Cijiong found that there were really no generals around him now, and the only general, Qin Liangyu, had to stay in the Beijing Division, and the rest was not there except for Shi Kefa! But this Shi Kefa is still a newcomer, basically has never commanded a battle, and he can't be regarded as a fierce general.

Zhu Cijiong was instantly embarrassed, the imperial driver did not have a fierce general to accompany him, so how to do it, he directly ordered the post station along the way to urgently notify Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming for 800 miles, hurry up, and must rush back to the capital within ten days!

There are basically so many people in the entourage, and in the end there is the army that accompanies it.

Speaking of this army problem, Zhu Cijiong was even more embarrassed, except for the elite of the 50,000 Beijing battalion, he had no soldiers available! It is still unknown when Sun Chuanting's Tianxiong army will arrive in Zunhua, do you want him to wait in Zunhua? This is naturally not good, he can wait, Zu Dashou can't afford to wait! He had to order the post stations along the way to hurry up to inform Sun Chuanting that he could march as fast as he could, and he must rush to Zunhua within fifteen days!

Even if Sun Chuanting's 100,000 Tianxiong army is added, this time Zhu Cijiong's imperial expedition is only 150,000 troops, which can be said to be the most shabby imperial expedition in the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, this time he mainly went to save the ancestral birthday, and taught Huang Taiji a lesson by the way, but he didn't think about it, and Huang Taiji lay down, 150,000 people were barely enough.

Besides, he still has a killer feature, the latest howitzer is not a joke, even if there are only seventy guns, if you use it well, you can completely bomb the emperor's farts and pee!

After arranging everything, Zhu Cijiong could only wait patiently.

On the seventh day, the first batch of 50 Type 417 howitzers was test-fired, and 35 were finally qualified;

On the ninth day, Qin Yiming rushed back to Beijing, and Zhu Cijiong finally avoided the embarrassment of not being accompanied by a fierce general;

On the tenth day, Qin Gongming rushed back to Beijing, and with these two brothers to save face, the generals were enough;

On the fourteenth day, Sun Chuanting led an army of 100,000 to Zunhua, and the 150,000 army was completed;

On the fifteenth day, the second batch of 50 5518 howitzers was test-fired, and 32 were finally qualified;

Early in the morning of the sixteenth day, at the beginning of the morning, the elite of the 50,000 Beijing battalion was neatly arranged outside the Desheng Gate, and Zhu Cijiong was surrounded by more than 1,000 Jinyi guards and Dongchang masters, and sat on the dragon chariot carried by 32 people to the front of the 50,000 army. On both sides of the road, the court officials knelt on the ground, the regent Zhu Youzhen and the cabinet chief assistant Xu Guangqi were reluctantly left on both sides of the dragon for a while, Zhu Cijiong plucked out his ears, and was about to order the whole army to set off, but a sedan chair carried by eight people came quickly.

Zhu Cijiong had to shake his head helplessly, sat down, stared at the sky and rolled his eyes. After the sedan chair was blocked by the brocade guards on the periphery, Zheng Sen pulled Liu Ru and ran quickly under the dragon chariot, shouting: "Your Majesty, when will you come back?" ”

Xu Guangqi hurriedly ran up, grabbed him, and muttered in his ear.

Zhu Cijiong is so angry, didn't he ask the eunuchs and maids in the palace not to tell him, how could this kid still know. Alas, it is estimated that Qin Mingyue and Zhu Cijiong did not practice with him in the morning so that this clever ghost guessed it.

As soon as Zheng Sen appeared, the whole scene immediately became a little incongruous, but fortunately, Zheng Sen was persuaded by Xu Guangqi, knelt on the ground and said loudly: "I wish the emperor a victory and success!" “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, his eyes rolled, and he said loudly: "Okay, that's right, if you succeed immediately, I will give you the name of the word success, and you will hand it over to Zheng Chenggong in the future!" ”

Zheng Chenggong, this name is good, Xu Guangqi whispered something to Zheng Chenggong again, and Zheng Chenggong immediately said loudly: "Thank you for the emperor's grace." ”

Thinking of Zheng Chenggong's great achievements, Zhu Cijiong was so proud for a while that he couldn't help waving his hand and said loudly: "Let's go." “

In this way, Emperor Chongzheng began the great cause of conquering the Houjin, which is generally called the first crusade against the Houjin in later history books.

The 50,000 army, not too much, not too much, plus the accompanying eunuchs, palace maids, guards and artillery, the march speed of the army was relatively slow, and it only arrived in Zunhua on the third day.

At this time, Sun Chuanting had already led an army of 100,000 to wait outside the city, and even Sun Chengzong, the prince of Zhenguo, led 50,000 Liaodong troops to rush over.

As soon as Zhu Cijiong arrived in Zunhua, Sun Chengzong came to Long Yuan alone, knelt on the ground and cried: "Weichen is guilty, I bother the emperor to drive the expedition in person." “

Zhu Cijiong was caught off guard by his crying, this dragon chariot was too high for him to jump, he had to get up and walk to the front of the dragon chariot, and comforted: "Taifu doesn't have to blame himself, there is nothing wrong with repairing the fortress, it's just that this Jiannu is too rampant, and he dares to surround my army unscrupulously, is Daming really afraid of him?" I have long wanted to teach them a lesson, but I have never had a good opportunity, this time, he dared to come alone to besiege the city, just so that he could see the power of my Ming. “

Sun Chengzong was stunned when he heard this, this is different from the script he imagined, could it be that the emperor really wanted to teach Jiannu a lesson a long time ago?

Zhu Cijiong saw that he couldn't get up yet, so he had to raise his hand and said loudly: "Okay, I forgive you for your innocence, get up." “

Only then did Sun Chengzong get up gratefully and stand there with his eyes bowed, waiting for Zhu Cijiong's holy message.

Although Zhu Cijiong looked calm on the surface, in fact, he was still a little anxious in his heart, he looked at the position of the sun, it was not yet noon, so he simply hurried to the road, Zu Dashou had been surrounded for almost a month, in case of any accident, it would be a big trouble.

So, he said to Sun Chengzong: "Taifu, General Zu has been besieged for almost a month, let's rush to relieve the siege as soon as possible, how are you and Sun Chuanting preparing, or let's go directly?" “

Sun Chengzong hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The army has been assembled. “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he waved his hand and said loudly: "That's good, the Liaodong Army is in front, the Tianxiong Army is in the back, the Beijing camp is in the middle, and the whole army is set off." ”