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Hearing the news that there were 5,000 Tatar troops stationed fifty miles outside the city, Zhu Houzhao was a little silent.

"Out of town!" Zhu Houzhao weighed it and gave an order, he planned to send a battalion of troops to set up a battlefield under Tongzhou City.

Liu Dafu, as the leading general of this army, quickly carried out Zhu Houzhao's military order, and set up a position one mile away from the city, with trenches and horses, and many minefields.

Zhu Houzhao's purpose in sending this small army was indeed to confuse the five thousand Tatar wolf riders outside the city, but it was not to send them to death.

The minefield of one mile is enough for Liu Dafu's small army to calmly return to Tongzhou City.

After half of the Tatar wolf riders were wiped out by the scout team, they finally believed that the Ming Dog in Tongzhou City had made a move, but when he looked at the only 1,000 centaurs who appeared on the opposite side, it made the Tatar commander a little suspicious.

It stands to reason that this Qianming dog is the meat that is sent to the wolf's mouth, but it is an abandoned pawn who has no return.

However, thinking of the five thousand or even more Ming troops that still existed in Tongzhou City, the Tatar commander was also a little uncertain in his heart.

"It's a decoy, and once we bite into it, the sharpest knife will surely stick out of it and kill us!" The cautious Tatar commander finally came to such a conclusion.

"Everyone's attention, the camp is ten miles forward, and we will be stationed face to face with them, nose-to-nose surveillance!"

I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune, the Tatar captain escaped. However, the scouts under him were rapidly decreasing at the rate of more than ten people a day, and no matter how much the Tatar commander scolded and whipped him, he could no longer let the scouts under his command come within two miles of Tongzhou City.

For three days, the armies of the two sides faced each other outside the city, and at the same time, Zhu Houzhao also sent troops from the west gate of Tongzhou City to the north gate.

In the eyes of the Tatar scouts, he only thought that there would be a big move in Tongzhou City, but in the eyes of the Tatar commander, it became a steady stream of reinforcements from the direction of Shandong in Tongzhou City, which made him even more afraid to act rashly.

Three days later, Zhu Houzhao found that he had actually matured. Ordered his subordinates to plant flags on the tower of Tongzhou City, and the banners of various prefectures and armies were overwhelming, so that the Tatars did not know how many Ming troops were raised in Tongzhou City.

Fearful of this, the Tatar commander sent an overnight telegram to the little prince on the fourth day.

And Zhu Houzhao did take this opportunity to almost empty the defenders in the city, except for the remaining firearms that were enough for 2,000 people. He personally led 8,000 men and horses to leave Tongzhou by water overnight, detoured to Tangshan, and turned around the capital from the north.

The little prince was about to break the city, and he saw that after several waves of strong attacks, he could break through the south gate of the outer city of Beijing and enter the inner city, but suddenly received news from the direction of Tongzhou, a large number of Ming troops were gathering in Tongzhou, and the Tatar iron cavalry responsible for monitoring had retreated more than 50 miles.

Hearing such news, the little prince was shocked. If you can let your own 5,000 wolf riders retreat for 50 miles, then there will be at least 30,000 troops. If these 30,000 men rushed to the aid of the Beijing division, it would put the besieging Tatar army, which was also at the end of the crossbow, into a crisis.

So at the first time, he personally led 10,000 Tatar iron horsemen to Tongzhou, intending to fight quickly.

As soon as the little prince left, the pressure on Wang Shouren in the capital suddenly became much less, and he finally got a chance to breathe.

But in the direction of Tongzhou City, the Tatars were quite pathetic. The captain who stayed behind was almost pulled out by the little prince and beheaded, and his popularity was not bad, but in the end, fifty lashes and a stinking scold still couldn't escape.

The very aggrieved Tatar commander couldn't understand why he could see groups of men and horses reinforcing the Ming army outside the city every day, but when I looked at it now, there were still more than 1,000 Ming dogs there.

"Pig brain, don't you think that the cunning Ming Dog would go out of the city during the day and return to the city at night?" The little prince stood a mile outside the city of Tongzhou, his face was full of gunsmoke, it had just taken him half a day's work to pass through the minefield, and the loss of men and horses was almost a terrible thousand, but he still didn't touch a single hair, and could only watch them shrink back into the thick city wall.

The helpless little prince was suddenly a mess of arrows, but he didn't even touch the city wall.

Thousands of flags were erected on the tower of Tongzhou City according to Zhu Houzhao's instructions, at first glance, as long as no one showed their heads, it felt that there were thousands of troops and horses, and the five hundred military horses who also continued to act at the two city gates in the northwest also gave the little prince a ridiculous idea that the Ming army was gathering in Tongzhou City.

As for Zhu Houzhao, after the overnight march, with a large number of supplies, they successfully found enough military horses in Tangshan, and their speed increased greatly, and they rushed towards the capital without stopping.

Wang Shouren had only one breath left now, and he felt that if he didn't breathe any longer, he would suffocate himself.

Now there is less pressure outside the city, but the pressure in the city is increasing. After this incident, almost all the ministers pointed the finger at the emperor who was missing, and the **** sitting on the dragon chair had long become a joke in the eyes of those who cared, and everyone did not break it because it had not yet reached the existential crisis.

Now it has been attacked by the Tatars for days, and the outer city has been ruined. The capital is already in a chaotic situation of a father and a mother marrying and taking care of themselves.

However, in the end, they were all selected by the Ming Imperial Examination and educated by the sage's learning, Liu Jian and others did not scold their mother, and did not flee, and it is even more unlikely that such a thing as treason and defection to the enemy will occur. This group of gray-haired old men all gathered outside the gate of the Qianqing Palace, kneeling in a row, not worshipping the emperor, nor praying to the sky, but just hanging a portrait of Emperor Zhang Xian Xiaozong Zhu Youzhu in front of him, crying and shouting.

The puppet fake emperor is helpless, and it can even be said that he is indifferent, a few months of court life have already made him crazy, in addition to the endless delicacies of the mountains and seas, he can't say a word, there are a lot of beautiful women, he can only look at it but not touch it, and there is no possibility of eating it.

So in this situation, the only one with the most pressure is Liu Jin. Liu Jian and the others did not kneel to the emperor, nor did they kneel to the hundred officials, they simply knelt to Liu Jin to see, that is, to let the hundred officials see how many sins this eunuch who controlled the government and hid the emperor.

In China's hundreds of years of history, once a great misfortune has occurred in the country, there are often only two types of people who bear the blame, one is a woman, a beautiful woman, and the other is only a eunuch who is missing.

The former has Daji, Zhao Feiyan, Yang Yuhuan, and the latter has Zhao Gao, Wang Jin, and Liu Jin, who has been forced into a corner, and Liu Jin's Liu palm print.

Before the crisis was resolved when the city of Beijing was temporarily preserved, the internal struggle had already begun, and the slogan of the Qing monarch to punish Liu Jin had been quietly formed in the dark.

Wang Shouren is quite helpless, the enemy army outside the door has not been withdrawn, do you want to burn the jade?