"Meet your lord!" Seeing that the people who came were wearing black veils and scarlet robes, and the red official robes were embroidered with brocade chickens, the generals in the city hurriedly knelt down and saluted. Even Li Kaixian, the Marquis of Fengcheng, stood up without smiling and greeted the visitor with a smile. Although he is a super-grade marquis, his power position is much worse than this.

The person who came was over sixty years old, although he was old, his waist was still straight, and the five strands of long hair on his face were fluttering in the wind, and his face was full of righteousness and majesty.

Li Banghua is a Jinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli, successively served as the county magistrate, the imperial history, Guanglu Shaoqing, the right to the imperial history, the governor of Tianjin, the governor of the river, the secretary of the Nanjing military department and other positions, during his reign, dare to admonish, the courage to do things, is a rare cadre in the Ming Dynasty, but also because of the offense to many people, was attacked and dismissed several times, before and after living at home for 20 years.

At the beginning of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Banghua reinstated himself as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, which coincided with the troubles of Zuo Liangyu's army, claiming that he would go to Nanjing to ask for grain and rice, and hundreds of thousands of troops and thousands of warships covered the Yangtze River, which frightened Nanjing's civil and military forces like a chilling cicada, Li Banghua personally went to Jiujiang and scolded Zuo Liangyu with great righteousness, Zuo Liangyu was ashamed, Li Banghua saw the opportunity to allocate 150,000 taels of silver from Jiujiang to the left army as military salaries, and calmed down the turmoil of the left army.

Emperor Chongzhen recalled Li Banghua back to Beijing because of this incident, appointed him as the imperial history of the left capital, trusted Li Banghua, and summoned him to the palace many times.

This time the Qing army entered the customs, Li Banghua was entrusted with the supervision of the Beijing camp as the imperial history of the left capital, responsible for supervising the city defense of Beijing, and happened to inspect the Xibianmen, shocked by the roar of the red-clothed cannons.

"What happened, is it the Qing army attacking the city? Why the redcoat cannon? Li Banghua walked to the head of the city with a serious face and questioned Li Kaixian, the Marquis of Fengcheng.

"There is a group of people and horses in the city, and their behavior is very suspicious, I suspect that they are spies of the Qing army." Li Kaixian explained.

"Oh!" When Li Banghua heard this, he looked down at the battlement, and saw that there were forty or fifty people in the city, more than a dozen war horses, and they were all Ming people dressed up, where did they look like spies of the Qing army!

"Isn't it a spy, just call them over and ask, there are only a few dozen people left and right, can they still beat Beijing City? Master Hou, you are too reckless in using cannons, what if you frighten the people in the city? Li Banghua reproached without being salty, and Li Kaixian's face was flushed, but he was speechless.

"Hey, who's in the city? Tell us who you are! One of Li Banghua's entourages held on to the battlements and shouted at the city.

Hey, Chen Yue under the city was just startled by the cannon at the head of the city, could it be that the Ming army at the head of the city was crazy, why did they shoot at their own people! Although this shot missed, it could not be guaranteed, and the next shot would fall among his own people. It seems that this city gate really can't get in, and in desperation, Chen Yue has to take everyone away from Beijing. It is dangerous to have Qing soldiers outside the city, but they can't be killed by the Ming army in the city as spies with red-coated cannons, and it is too unjust to die like that.

Just when the queue was leaving the Xibian Gate, someone in the city suddenly asked, Chen Yue couldn't help but be overjoyed, and personally rode to the city gate, raised his head and shouted: "I am Chen Yue, the son of Chen Jianghe, the general of the Xibian Gate, and I am followed by my family's family servants, there should be many people in the city who know us, please don't open fire!" ”

Xibian doorknob total Chen Jianghe? Chen Yue's clear voice reached the city, and Li Banghua was stunned when he heard it, turned his head and looked at the generals in the city, asking who Chen Jianghe was.

Chen Jianghe, as a small general, has a low position, and was squeezed to the periphery after Li Banghua came to the city with a group of people, and he couldn't interject at first, but when he saw Li Banghua's opinion, he hurriedly took a few steps forward and knelt down in front of Li Banghua.

"Lord Hui, the city is indeed the dog Chen Yue and the servants of the family, not the spies of the Qing army."

"You are a little boss, how can you have so many war horses?" Li Banghua asked, as a royal historian, he saw the key to the matter at a glance, Chen Jianghe is just a small boss, he shouldn't have so many families, let alone so many war horses, there must be details!

"This ......" Chen Jianghe stammered, speechless, he knew his own family affairs, how could there have been a war horse in the family!

"I don't have any horses at home, and I don't know where I got the dogs." Chen Jianghe lowered his head and said truthfully.

"Hmm!" Li Banghua nodded and instructed his entourage: "Ask Chen Yue under the city, why are there so many war horses in the team?" ”

"Wu Na Chen Yue, where did the war horses in your team come from? Hurry up and be honest! The retinue shouted at the city.

"The war horses were taken from the Qing army, and we met a group of Qing army sentinels, fought fiercely with them, defeated them, and robbed these war horses!" Hearing the city's question, Chen Yue smiled, and then realized that because the war horses in the team were mistaken for spies of the Qing army, he hurriedly shouted at the city.

What the? Defeated the Qing cavalry and snatched the war horse from the Qing soldiers! The people at the head of the city were stunned, and they all suspected that they had misheard. Since the rise of the Manchu Tartars, the Ming Dynasty has never lost more than won in the war, and the field battle has never been won, and it is only by defending the city that it has won so many battles. Especially in recent years, the Manchus have continuously entered the customs and robbed, defeated the Ming army many times, and countless elite soldiers or died at the hands of the Manchus, or surrendered to the Manchus, in the eyes of all the Ming people, the Eight Banners have been an invincible myth.

There are still tens of thousands of troops in Beijing, but they watched the Qing soldiers pass through Beijing and loot everywhere, whether it is a high-ranking official of the imperial court or a general of the Beijing camp, no one dares to propose to go out of the city and fight with the Qing soldiers!

And Chen Yue under the city only took dozens of family servants, but he claimed to have defeated the Qing cavalry and snatched more than a dozen war horses, isn't this a dream? Everyone in the city, from Li Banghua, the imperial historian of the left capital, down to ordinary soldiers, including Chen Yue's father, Chen Jianghe, all expressed disbelief.

"Wu Na Chen Yue, what you said is true?" Li Banghua endured the turmoil in his heart, regardless of his identity, he picked up the battlement, and asked the city. At this time when the Qing soldiers entered the city and were terrified, if there were really warriors who could defeat the Qing soldiers and kill the Manchus, it would definitely be able to inspire the hearts of the people in the city and make the emperor happy!

"With the head of the Qing soldiers as evidence, this time we encountered five Qing soldiers, four of whom were killed by us and one escaped." Chen Yue said proudly.

"Quick, quickly put the hanging basket down the city, hang the head up to the city, and the official will personally inspect it!" Li Banghua hurriedly ordered to go down.

After a while, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city sent a hanging basket down the city, and Chen Yue instructed Chen Yan and others to put the four heads of the Qing soldiers into the basket, and the hanging basket was slowly pulled up to the head of the city.

"It's really full of heads!" In the city, several Beijing camp officers who had fought with the Manchus and several imperial historians checked together, and the faces of the first rank were hideous and different from those of the Ming people, and the stubble on the head was not newly shaved, so it was sure that it was really full.

"Yes, yes, what a warrior!" Li Banghua excitedly admired again and again, and turned his head to Chen Jianghe, "You gave birth to a good son!" ”