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Although due to the closed city gates, the grain and goods in the south stayed in Tongzhou, Tianxenjin and other places, resulting in a slight increase in prices in the capital.

But the dignitaries and nobles in the capital and the people of Li are still living as usual, and the reason why they are as calm as at the beginning is because His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youxiao did not panic, and the people below did not panic.

Even in order to prevent the fear of riots in the capital, Zhu Youxiao also specially sacrificed to the Temple of Heaven and Earth at this time, and specially ordered Qian Qianyi to make the ceremony bigger, so that the people of the capital knew that their emperor had the confidence to keep the capital from being attacked by the Tartars.

However, although Zhu Youxiao deliberately did this, he went to the court as usual, sacrificed as usual, held the selection of the Hanlin Academy as usual, went to the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of Sciences to inspect as usual, and came to the Praetorian Guard barracks to talk to the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard as usual.

But the increasingly oppressive atmosphere is clearly starting to get stronger.

The Jinyi Weiti rode endlessly through the city, although it was not the usual to arrest people everywhere, but it still made the hearts of the whole capital beat faster, everyone knew that this situation would only show that the Tartars were still ravaging Gyeonggi.

Otherwise, the news would not have been transmitted so frequently, and the relatives began to worry about whether their manors outside the city would be destroyed by the Tartars, and they kept asking His Majesty to send troops to quell the Tartar rebellion.

And Zhu Youxiao was also sitting in Xinuan Pavilion with an angry face at this time, listening to the report of Xu Xianchun, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Since the Tartars evacuated Jizhou City, the main forces of the Tartars such as Huang Taiji began to ignite fires everywhere flexibly, from the slaughter of Yutian to the slaughter of Fengrun, and now Xianghe is not spared.

The northern part of the Ming Dynasty, which had just recovered some vitality due to the natural disaster, had to usher in a man-made disaster again.

"The Tartars are all cavalry, strong mobility, if they attack the capital, they can gather heavy troops to fight with them, but now this Huang Taiji has learned that the likes of the Liukou do not fight the big cities, only plunder the grain population, only fight the small cities, and if this continues, even if the capital is not broken, I will have hundreds of people displaced in the Ming Dynasty, and more fields will be barren, and the Tartars cannot be allowed to plunder like this, Your Majesty!"

Li Mingrui said worriedly.

Zhu Youxiao did not answer, but clenched his fists, and then ordered: "Wang Chengen, Wei Guangwei!" ”

"The minister is here!"

"From now on, the two of you are responsible for supervising the affairs of the Jingshi, and major matters can be reported to me immediately, and you can make your own decisions on small matters!"

Zhu Youxiao said and ordered Liu Ruoyu: "You are fully responsible for the affairs of the capital, if I have any mistakes, you and the cabinet elders and the six ministries and nine secretaries jointly presume that the descendants of the close relatives of the royal family are the princes!" ”

Wang Chengen, Wei Guangwei, Liu Ruoyu and others couldn't help but look at Zhu Youxiao in amazement after hearing this: "Your Majesty, what do you want?" ”

Zhu Youxiao just smiled and said: "You said that if the Tartars knew that I was not in the capital, and there were only more than 10,000 Praetorian Guard recruits around him, did you say that Huang Taiji wanted to loot the property and population and go back to the customs directly, or find a way to get rid of me, the Ming Emperor?" ”

The ministers on duty in the Xinuan Pavilion knelt down without thinking about it: "No, Your Majesty, you are the king of all times, how can you risk yourself, the Tartars have always been brave, and now their whereabouts are even more strange, there are tens of thousands of soldiers, you only bring more than 10,000 people, there is no strong city to defend, it is difficult to win, Your Majesty!" ”

"Don't say it, I've made up my mind, since the capital can't attract the Tartars, then let me be the bait, I don't believe that he Tartars don't want to get rid of me!"

As Zhu Youxiao spoke, he said to Xu Xianchun, the commander of Jinyiwei: "Send a decree to Lu Xiangsheng, let him temporarily control the division of Qinwang in Jiliao, Liaodong, Qinjin, and Shandong in addition to the Jingshi, and when the Tartars and I are fighting, you must support, if anyone cowers, you Jinyiwei can be killed on the spot!" ”

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The wind rose, Beidi came, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, wolf smoke was everywhere, more than 10,000 Praetorian Guards outside the palace straightened their waists, looking at His Majesty Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Emperor in the palace, no one said anything, but everyone knew what they were going to do next.

11,000 Janissaries officers and soldiers.

Twenty-one Daming No. 1 guns and sixty-four Daming No. 2 guns.

The flintlock infantry battalion was four thousand five hundred.

One thousand elite cavalry.

This is all the armies that Zhu Youxiao can control, but it is the most advanced army in the Ming Dynasty now.

However, the ministers did not think that His Majesty's tens of thousands of Praetorian Guards could be compared with the barbaric Tartars, and Liu Ruoyu even persuaded him: "Your Majesty, don't go." ”

"If you disturb the morale of the army again, believe it or not, I will behead you now", Zhu Youxiao said coldly, Liu Ruoyu had no choice but to shut up.

"Bow down!"

Zhu Youxiao shouted, and Ao Bai immediately turned his horse's head: "The minister is here!" ”

"Raise the dragon flag and blow music", Zhu Youxiao did not plan to sneak out of the capital, he wanted to blatantly tell Huang Taiji that he was out of the city, and he wanted to sweep the court with the majesty of the great emperor.

Moreover, Zhu Youxiao also specially sat on the dragon chariot to go on the expedition, set up a guard of honor, and deliberately went out of the city in a high-profile manner.

……

"Great Khan, I just got the news that Zhu Youxiao really left the capital and has now gone to Shunyi."

After the Eight Banners scout muttered a few words beside Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji couldn't help but smile dumbly: "What is this Zhu Youxiao going to do, he is not hiding in the capital, but he actually came out, have you found out how many people are around him?" ”

"Not many, more than 10,000 people, all of them are recruits he trained a few months ago, and it seems that this is the first time to fight."

At this time, Fan Wencheng lifted the curtain and walked in: "Great Khan, this is a once-in-a-lifetime good time to get rid of Zhu Youxiao, with the courage of my Eight Banners athletes, is it not enough to defeat a group of baby soldiers who have never killed anyone." ”

"Pass the order, immediately turn around and rush to Shunyi, and the Amin Department will find a way to intercept Zhu Youxiao first, and tell him that Ben Khan will arrive later, and if he can get rid of this person, it will be the biggest gain from entering the customs this time."

Huang Taiji said, Dolgon couldn't help but say: "Great Khan, this Zhu Youxiao dares to go out of the capital, he must have been prepared, in the past few days, we have seen his style of acting, but I am afraid that he will use himself as bait to lure us into the bait?" ”

"He Zhu Youxiao is just an ignorant child from the Forbidden House of the Deep Palace, is it difficult to scare me with thousands of people who control the strings in the Eight Banners, even if he has a net, he has to see if he can catch us, Dai Shan, you lead five hundred white-armored soldiers, one thousand unarmored soldiers as the vanguard, Li Yongfang, you take five thousand clothes with heavy grain and grass press, and set off in an hour!"

As Zhu Youxiao expected, although Huang Taiji and the others were wise and resolute, they were too confident in their Eight Banners' combat effectiveness, or in other words, they also felt that they were the strongest army in the world, but they didn't know that the future war would be dominated by the quality of firearms.