To be honest, during the period when Beijing was under siege, Wang Shouren's opinion of Liu Jin has changed a lot. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even sometimes, he would feel that Liu Jin, the great eunuch who had always made him feel hateful, was the person in this city who was most worried about whether the city walls were solid.

In the face of the tens of thousands of Tatar troops and the more than 100,000 defeated soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin trembled, but still did not get off the city wall.

just asked Wang Shouren: "Are there enough officers and soldiers to defend the city?" I still have more than a thousand people in the east factory to call, and if it is not enough, there are hundreds of fathers-in-law in the palace who dare to follow me to the city! ”

From this sentence, Wang Shouren already thinks that Liu Jin is much better than the so-called Qingliu civil officials who only know how to tremble at home during the war, and the actual corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

So when Liu Jin was unreasonably reprimanded by hundreds of officials after getting a respite, Wang Shouren wanted to say a good word or two for this father-in-law who looked obscene but was actually quite good.

However, Wang Shouren, who was covered in armor and full of arrow marks, had just started his first life, and was surrounded by several officials, who only asked three questions and made Wang Shouren disheartened.

"Have you read the books of the sages?"

"Do you remember the disaster of the Civil Fort?"

"Do you have fame, but do you have an official status?"

The first two Wang Shouren can confidently say that he has read the books of sages and sages, and he has also jumped on a horse to kill the field, but he really has no fame, let alone an official body.

Wang Shouren is tough, but he is not as hard as the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, and even harder than the imperial historian who is used to being the only one. Since the first emperor opened the way, this group of people had the opportunity to even pull out the impeachment of the emperor for such a thing as God not raining, and cannibalism is a common thing, which can be said to be a model of killing a few relatives and not recognizing six relatives.

Although Liu Jin was worried about the safety of the imperial city, he was actually not a good person, and his natural inferiority complex made him have a deep malice towards all civil officials after he made a fortune.

So even if there are ministers kneeling outside the hall and scolding loudly, he can turn a deaf ear. Even after the fake invitation, he stood aside with his arms crossed and looked lively, anyway, the person who knelt was not him Liu Jin, and he would not lose a few catties of meat if he was scolded for a sentence or two.

Seeing Wang Shouren who was stopped aside, Liu Jin walked over with a smile: "Bo'an, how is the military situation now?" ”

Wang Shouren smiled bitterly, this father-in-law Liu is really big-hearted, and everyone is about to kill him, but he is still in the mood to care about the military situation, but he still said: "Although it is a slowdown at this time, I think it is more like the water level before the tide falls, and if it calms down a little, there will be a big surge!" ”

Liu Jin's smile suddenly disappeared, and he asked with a kind of sorrow: "If there are really big waves, how long can you Wang Bo'an, this embankment, resist?" ”

Wang Shouren thought of his remnants, stretched out two fingers with difficulty, and said, "Two days at most!" ”

"If you add the soldiers of the yamen, the families in the mansions of the major people, and the father-in-law who dares to go into battle, how long can you withstand it?"

Wang Shouren smiled bitterly and said, "I have counted all of these, if you add all the men who dare to fight in the capital, I am afraid that I can hold on for a few more days."

But I have a bad premonition, in recent days, the news that King Qin's army has been broken by the Tatars in various places is also known to your father-in-law, and now it is still a little possible that only Datong is left, but there has been no news for so long......"

Speaking of this, Wang Shouren didn't want to say that the situation was not clear, which made him pessimistic about the future.

Liu Jin seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "If you can hold on for one more day, I heard that an army that recently appeared north of the Yellow River killed the two generals of the Tatar commander Turtu and Tengge Bukar in just a few days, can it give us a chance to win?" ”

Wang Shouren shook his head and sighed: "Being able to kill the two generals of the enemy does sound exciting, but their number is too small to control the overall situation at all. ”

On this side of the capital, there is chaos outside the city, and Wang Shouren has a headache, so that he has an urge to go to the goddamn city defense, and let the group of **** Tatar barbarians outside rush in and cut down this group of bastards.

But it's clear that he won't do that, because it's a commitment between one man and another.

Zhu Houzhao was anxious, he knew that his plan would definitely make the little prince of Tartary fall into the pit. However, the pit he dug was too shallow to kill the bastard of the grassland, and he could hold back the footsteps of the little prince.

So he's in a hurry now, and one could even say all-or-nothing. Because once he gave up Tongzhou, basically his supply line would be much more difficult, and it was a bit whimsical to want to transport equipment from Tongzhou to the capital.

However, Zhu Houzhao had no choice.

A detour from Tongzhou to Tangshan, and then access from the back of Beijing, is a cumbersome idea, but obviously practical.

This march route was no more than a hundred miles away from Juyong Pass, and it turned out to be a supply route passing through Tatar. After a battle that was not considered hard, Zhu Houzhao successfully obtained a batch of mounts.

Many soldiers carrying various weapons and equipment hung their weapons and equipment on the bodies of cattle and sheep after a full meal of beef and mutton.

With this kind of help falling from the sky, Zhu Houzhao's marching speed suddenly doubled, and the journey of a hundred miles only took a day and a half, which was not much slower than a fast horse.

When the little prince was still in Tongzhou City, Zhu Houzhao's 8,000 men and horses had already arrived at the city of Beijing with piles of ammunition and herds of cattle and sheep.

As mentioned earlier, the little prince's tactical policy was to encircle four and attack one, and he only attacked the south gate on all sides of Beijing, and adopted a suspicious strategy of encircling but not attacking the three gates of the east, west and north.

To this day, there are still a small number of small soldiers roaming around the north gate, except for some regular Tatar cavalry, and most of the others are exiled and defeated prisoners.

This wave of people stopped in front of Zhu Houzhao, which made him quite embarrassed.

Fundamentally speaking, this group of homeless soldiers ended up like this because of him, if it wasn't for the last resort, he really didn't want to kill the killer anymore, like Wang Shouren, and slaughtered all the enemies who dared to attack under the city wall.

But today, he had to do that, Beijing City was already close at hand, if he was stumped by this group of people and attracted tens of thousands of troops in front of him to chase and kill, he Zhu Houzhao would not be dead?

Without thinking much about it at the moment, Zhu Houzhao set up a formation, intending to disperse this biao man and horse within a quarter of an hour, and quickly enter the city with his own 8,000 people.