I am afraid that where a large-scale war broke out, there will be a shortage of troops in the entire western Jinxi.

When they came out this time, Ma Er and the others all fell ill, and no one inquired about the news before and after, it was completely the feeling of a blind man touching an elephant.

Thinking of this, Zhiwen couldn't help but pat his head with remorse, even if he looked at the history of the late Ming Dynasty before crossing over, he would not be as ignorant as he is now, and he would rely on his own judgment.

Then do you want to continue to Jingshi? Zhiwen secretly wondered.

"Uncle Zhao, Aunt Zhao, there is still a while before dawn, do you want to stop squinting?" Zhiwen didn't have the heart to continue chatting, and stood up to say goodbye.

The two sides said a few more polite words before they dispersed.

What no one noticed was that the rat that was chased away by Liu Laohan just now sneaked back in the dark and got into the shack of the Zhao couple along the gap.

Back in the snow nest, Zhiwen did not continue to sleep, but woke up Liu Cai and his father, and began to pack up his things.

Zhiwen decided, or continue to move forward, if something really happens, they still have horses, they can run faster than these refugees, there should be no problems.

If nothing happens, it would be a shame to be scared back like this.

Sure enough, the road was very easy to walk in the early morning, and both men and horses ran very smoothly.

It was only after dawn that the number of pedestrians on the road gradually increased, and it had to slow down.

In this way, it took more than a day for the four of Zhiwen to rush to the front of the fleeing team, and the pedestrians became more and more scarce, and finally there was no one around them.

When they saw that they were ready to gallop, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in front of them, and four horsemen rushed towards them.

The leader wore a golden crown of hair, a blue samurai robe, and a sword hanging from his waist, and was heroic, with two guards behind him, and one of whom should be his companion.

Both sides were four people and four horses, and when they staggered by, they couldn't help but look at each other, and turned their heads, Zhiwen only felt that the person headed by him was so familiar, and he couldn't help but look back again, but saw that the person also turned around.

"Are you..., Gongzi Zhou?"

"Zheng Xiaolang?"

Both spoke at the same time, and both recognized each other.

Zhou Chengyun's clothing and temperament at the moment are very different from his polite appearance when drinking tea in Jiezhou, and Zhiwen didn't recognize it for a while.

The same is true for Zhou Chengyun over there, Zhiwen's somewhat tattered clothes at the moment are not the same as the first time they met.

Zhou Gongzi laughed, stopped the three of his subordinates who were still trying to move forward, threw the saddle and dismounted.

"Zheng Xiaolang, I didn't expect to see you here."

Zhiwen also motioned for everyone to dismount, "Gongzi Zhou..."

"What son, call me Brother Zhou." Zhou Chengyun narrowed the distance between the two sides with one sentence.

"Okay," Zhiwen was not polite, "Brother Zhou, why did you come here?" ”

"I want to ask how you got here? Where to see what goods? Why don't you see Brother Sun? "I also took to heart what they said at the time, as if he were Dr. Sun's nephew.

"I'm sorry, Brother Zhou, I didn't tell you the truth at the time, why don't we find a place to sit down and talk in detail?" Zhiwen saw that they were coming from the direction of Jingshi, and he happened to ask them for news.

"That's what I mean."

"Dazhu, Brother Liu, Uncle Liu, this Brother Zhou, he gave us a lot of food in Puzhou at the beginning." Zhiwen introduced to the other three.

"Oh?" When Zhou Chengyun heard this, he couldn't help asking, "You can't just come from Hexi, right?" Brother Sun is Doctor Sun? ”

Zhiwen arched his hand, "I'm sorry, Brother Zhou, you won't blame us, right?" ”

"It's okay, but I don't know Taishan with my eyes, and I missed the opportunity to get acquainted with Doctor Sun."

When Liu Laohan heard that the heroic noble son in front of him had sent food, his good feelings suddenly increased, and he quickly cleaned up a vacant land on the side of the road.

Zhou Chengyun followed Zhiwen and them, and sat on the ground without care, and the three of his subordinates were not surprised and sat down as well.

The two sides introduced each other politely, and Zhiwen recognized that the companion behind Zhou Chengyun was the scholar Sicha.

"Little Brother Zheng," Zhou Chengyun quietly changed his name again, "Where are you going?" ”

"We're going to Jingshi, we have a business, and we want to see if we can do it." Zhiwen replied.

"I can't go, let's go back." Zhou Chengyun said, his face was unprecedentedly grim.

"What's wrong?" Kewang couldn't hold his breath anymore and turned back? It's only been a few days since I came out, and I haven't even seen the shadow of Jingshi.

"Si Cha, you tell Junior Brother Zheng about what happened to us." Zhou Chengyun confessed, "There is no need to hide anything, they are not outsiders." ”

"Yes, Childe." Sicha bowed slightly and began to tell their story.

When the first snow fell in the two states, Zhou Chengyun took the three of them to the north, preparing to go to Beijing first, and then rushed to Jinmen, the route was different from Zhiwen, and after arriving in Jinyang, they went east, passed through the Taihang Mountain Well Pass into northern Hebei, and then passed through Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion.

Although Zhou Chengyun went out this time, although he was a light car and a simple follower, there were only four people connected to him, but he had his own intelligence system, unlike Zhiwen and the others.

When they arrived at Liangxiang near Jingshi in early November, they got in touch with the Zhou family's personnel in Jingshi, but they got bad news.

At the end of October, the Houjin soldiers divided into three routes, avoiding the Guanning defense line, bypassing Mongolia, and attacking Daankou all the way, and the general Zhou Zhen died; All the way into Longjing Pass, all the way to attack Hongshan Pass, the general Zhang Ande and others were defeated and fled, the Jiannu chieftain Huang Taiji arrived in Zunhua, Jizhou was besieged.

At the beginning of November, Zhao Shujiao, the general who took the lead in returning from Liaodong, was killed, the important town of Zunhua fell, and the Beijing division was under martial law.

The dignified Ming Jingshi was exposed to Houjin's minions in this way, from Zunhua to Jingshi, there was no danger to defend all the way, as for the field battle with the enemy, the poor Ming army defending the city along the way did not have the strength and courage.

Zhou Chengyun is in a dilemma, Jingshi can't enter, and his Liangxiang is safe, but there are sentry horses all over the Jiannu around Gyeonggi, and it is not safe on the way to Jinmen.

He didn't want to give up halfway, so he retreated, relying on being well-informed and patiently waiting in the good country.

Zhou Chengyun firmly believed that Jiannu was only a temporary success, and it would not last long, and the troops from all over the country would definitely enter the king of Jingqin, and he planned to wait for the situation to improve before continuing to rush to Jinmen.

On November 10, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, led his army to Jizhou, and promptly blocked the way for the Houjin army to enter Beijing.

It's just a horse near Gyeonggi, Huang Taiji did not fight with Yuan Chonghuan, but bypassed Jizhou and continued to advance to Jingshi, Sanhe, Xianghe, and Shunyi all the way, and everywhere they went were wanton robberies, and Yuan Du followed all the way behind his ass to eat ashes.

Later, Yuan Chonghuan took the south road and went to the west of the river, and finally arrived in Beijing before Jiannu on November 17.

On November 20, Huang Taiji arrived in Jingshi and launched an attack on the same day, and since then the Ming and Jin sides have been fighting fiercely in the Gyeonggi area.

This is the famous battle of the Later Jin attack on the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because the second year of Chongzhen is already a year, and the history is called the change of his own life.

Later, the Qinwang army from all over the country successively arrived in Shuntianfu, among which Geng Ruqi, the governor of western Jin, who was familiar with Zhou Chengyun, and Zhang Honggong, the general soldier, also led the army to Liangxiang.

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