In the city of Beijing, which was at the forefront of the war, another morning came, and with the rising sun in the east, a new vitality began to float throughout the capital.

The convoy collecting night incense rumbled along the long street as always, announcing that a new day was about to begin again, and the small people who got up early continued to worry about their livelihoods for the new day.

It has been ten days since the fall of Zunhua, and it has been eight days since the martial law of Beijing was closed for eight days, and the inside and outside of the city have been completely cut off, making the lives of the lower classes of people more and more difficult.

Now Beijing is completely a city of consumption, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, all kinds of meat, eggs, poultry, even including sweet drinking water, have to be transported in outside the city every day, relying on the massive consumption in the city, countless people in the inner and outer cities, relying on these in the work coolies, to support their families, this martial law closure of the city, so that the people of the lower classes are miserable.

Think about the beginning, the last time in the Gyeonggi Rebellion, Beijing city martial law for four months, when no less than 100,000 people died of poverty, freezing and starvation, Lu Hanqiang defeated Jiannu to relieve the difficulty of Beijing, until a year later, the people did not recover their original life, this time I don't know when martial law can come, and I don't know how many poor people died in it.

Just when the people in the city were suffering from the bitter wind and rain, a news spread throughout Beijing when the sun had just risen, martial law in the capital was lifted, and the 100,000 conscripted villagers were also announced that they could go home to reunite with their wives and children.

The news plunged the entire city of Beijing into silence, and then there were waves of cheers one after another.

The Jiannu army is on the side, martial law in the capital is lifted, and Xiangyong can go home, what does this mean? This is the most intuitive indication that Beijing is no longer in danger, and the last suffering will not be repeated, and the Ming court has absolute confidence in dealing with the entry of 40,000 Jiannu.

And this confidence comes from the fact that the army of King Lv Hanqiangqin, the governor of Liaodong, has arrived, and has surrounded the 40,000 Jiannu regiments in Zunhua City, and their destruction is just around the corner.

I don't know which poor people took to the street and shouted first: "Supervisor Lu is the prince of Wandai, Inspector Lu is invincible." ”

So this blessing that had been shouted in the capital was shouted again by millions of people this time, wave after wave, spread all over the streets and alleys of Beijing, into the various yamen of the imperial city, and into the Forbidden City, all kinds of people began to have a complicated mood, and turned their eyes to the northeast and to the small Zunhua.

In response to Lu Hanqiang's call, groups of border army brothers from the grassland from the south of the desert from the northwest to the northwest, with a heart of gratitude to Lu Hanqiang, with the feeling of serving the country, rushed from Tiannan and Haibei, gathered under the high fluttering Lu Zi banner, surrounded the towering Zunhua City, originally prepared as the last line of defense of the Beijing Division, the British 15,000 men and horses, and the 30,000 border cavalry sent by Lu Hanqiang, also returned to the team again, so that outside the Zunhua City, only in a short period of time, gathered 200,000 horses, this is not a claim, this is not a people, this is a real fighter.

Everyone is full of pride in battle, with the confidence of decisive death, and they all want to avenge the heroic death of Huang Bingcan and his 10,000 brothers, and the 100,000 compatriots who died in this war.

The squires of the common people in the land of Hebei, led by their respective patriarchs and squires, spontaneously took out everything they could, like a trickle flowing into the Yangtze River, and poured into this continuous military camp to reward their relatives and children.

The citizens in the capital, under the encouragement of the Ming News, donated one after another to reward the soldiers on the front line, an indifferent and selfish official, also with great enthusiasm, sent people to the family, and rushed to the front line with the money and food they donated, this time it was not apportionment, but willingly.

Emperor Chongzhen also generously took out 100,000 taels of silver and personally ordered his personal eunuch to be sent to the army, of course, this is still a five-fold amount.

Empress Zhang also sent eunuchs and sent thousands of taels of rouge money to the harem to show her gratitude.

Cao Huachun did not give up such a rare opportunity to exercise, and left the original 10,000 Beijing battalions in the Beijing Division, and cooperated with Wu Xiang's 30,000 Shandong Iron Cavalry, who rushed out of breath, to defend the Beijing Division. The 20,000 children of the royal family who had just been recruited and reorganized into an army were also directly pulled to the front line, and he wanted to train these children of the royal family in this rare war, so that they could grow up rapidly in the war, for such a method, Emperor Chongzhen expressed his satisfaction and encouragement, and quietly took out 500,000 taels of silver again and handed it to Cao Huachun to reward the children of the royal family who had meritorious service in this war, and at the same time bought people's hearts in disguise, of course, this time it was full and did not drift.

Zhu Dayou, who has now become the commander of the battalion, has a thousand complete flintlock pistol soldiers under his command, and when he came to Zunhua City with the mighty army, he couldn't help but be enthusiastic when he saw the continuous military camp and high morale.

At the same time, in his heart, he is very much looking forward to seeing Lu Hanqiang, who is respected by the people as the Buddha of all families and who is quietly praised in the royal military camp, and who may seize the Ming Dynasty in the future.

But his wish was not realized, because the camp of nearly 200,000 troops was torn to the ground, and his 20,000 Beijing camp was like a bay of stream flowing into the rushing Yellow River, which did not stir up any waves at all, and his small Qianzong could not even see Lu Hanqiang's big bank. It made him look forward to it even more in the midst of disappointment.

Although he couldn't see Lu Hanqiang's face, when he came into contact with all the other friendly troops, the news he obtained was diametrically opposed to the image of Lu Hanqiang conveyed in his army, which really made him unable to distinguish in the eyes of an honest Shandong man, so this honest Shandong man became more and more determined to see with his own eyes, what kind of person is Lu Hanqiang, the biggest traitor of the Ming Dynasty, who is about to seek the usurpation of the dynasty?

At noon one day, the camp in the northeast suddenly heard a huge cheer, the waves rose and fell like the tide of the sea, Zhu Dayou relied on his identity as a thousand generals, immediately rode on a war horse, and rushed to the place of cheering.

After a huge bend, when he arrived, he still saw what shocked him.

Nearly 100,000 war horses were driven by 5,000 brothers, and they were urgently entering the barracks, and each war horse was carrying a mountain of materials, including bags of things that I don't know what they were, bundles of huge arrow clusters that he had never seen before, all kinds of strange equipment, and carts of steel armor and iron armor, which were so many that he couldn't imagine them at all.

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