Outside the You'an Gate of Jingshi, Zhang Dahui hurriedly walked into the door with a few bricks and some pedestrians. Jingshi was under martial law at the beginning, but it was not completely impossible to enter and exit, he once ordered the city guard here, and the person did not search his body and let him enter the urn city.

The bricks and stones in the urn city have been piled up into a mountain, Zhang Dahui threw the bricks on a stone pile, and scolded in a low voice, I don't know if it was the bad idea of the civil official, everyone who enters the city must bring a stone, otherwise he will not be allowed to enter, so that he needs to start looking for stones far away every time he enters and exits.

Zhang Dahui walked out of the city gate of You'anmen, the door was full of people, crowded with people who wanted to go out of the city, the officials of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division and the imperial history of the city patrol were identified one by one at the door, and those who brought their families were not allowed to go, and several women disguised as men were found, all kneeling on the ground and crying and begging, begging these officials who guarded the door to let them live. They seem to have decided that Jiannu will conquer Jingshi in one fell swoop.

In the midst of the noise, the soldiers of the Beijing camp maintained order, and those soldiers of the Beijing camp were also thin and weak, and in Zhang Dahui's opinion, they were far inferior to the soldiers of Weihai. The soldiers guarding Gyeonggi are all like this, and it is no wonder that Jiannu can fight in the capital.

Zhang Dahui covered the bad money bag, desperately squeezed out a way in the crowd, when he came out, his hat fell off, he scolded a few words, and did not dare to turn around to find it, so he had to continue to hurry bareheaded, all the way over, most of the shops on the street were closed, passers-by were in a hurry, and from time to time you could see the city patrol soldiers of Jinyi Wei and Wucheng Soldiers and Horses.

Zhang Dahui walked most of the outer city, arrived at the street outside Chongwenmen, when he arrived at the entrance of the alley, there was a sudden scream inside, followed by the sound of fighting and scolding, Zhang Dahui stood guarded at the entrance of the alley, did not dare to go in, after a while three men ran out of it, one of them held a bag of rice, Zhang Dahui immediately knew that it was the person who grabbed the grain, and a woman turned out at the corner, shouting while chasing: "Catch the thief!" My family's life-saving food! ”

The three of them quickly ran to Zhang Dahui, one of them was still holding a knife, Zhang Dahui flashed to the side without hesitation, and watched them flee into the opposite alley. The woman in the back ran to the entrance of the alley, saw that the people had already run, sat down against the wall, and cried loudly, and the pedestrians around her were already surprised and hurried by themselves.

Zhang Dahui bypassed the woman casually and returned to the small courtyard, Song Wenxian came to open the door, and when he came in and sat down, he asked, "Has the news been sent?" ”

"It's sent, now the east is not passable, so I can only go to Liangxiang."

Song Wenxian's face was also a little worried, he had been here for several months, maintaining the relationship between Wen Tiren and Qian Yuanke, and among some of the Beijing camp officials that Zhang Dahui had befriended, he also selected a few key points to deal with. At present, Jiannu really ran to Jingshi as Chen Xin expected, and he was both surprised and somewhat scared.

"Mr. Song, how is the situation of Jingshi in the past two days?"

"What else, the people are panicking, several cabinet elders personally inspect the city defense, there is a huge shortage of equipment, many collapsed city walls have not been repaired, and several people have been dismissed from the Ministry of Industry."

Zhang Dahui was quite relaxed, and said with a smile: "Anyway, there are so many Beijing camps and such high walls, are you still afraid of those tens of thousands of Jiannu." ”

Song Wenxian shook his head and sighed: "Jingying, you have been friends for a long time, and you don't know what it looks like?" There are more than 100,000 soldiers, but most of them are paid for empty salaries, buy leisure, and occupy service, and no matter what soldiers can fight, even if they are real, I am afraid that there will be a maximum of 30,000 or 40,000 people. ”

Zhang Dacheng agreed: "The three major battalions of the Fifth Army, Shenshu, and Shenji are roughly as Mr. said, if you want to say that you can fight, I am afraid that only the Four Guards Battalion and the Warrior Battalion are supervised by the Royal Horse. ”

"It's just reluctant, I think our Wendeng camp is far stronger than him, you have been here for a long time, and now this Lord Chen is training, but it is even more severe than before."

Speaking of Wendeng Camp, Zhang Dahui became interested again, "Mr. Song, which route is Brother Chen going to take?" It's time for them to go to Tianjin. ”

"He told me that he was going to come from a good country, but I haven't seen him for a few months, and I don't know if he has changed."

"I don't know when he'll be there."

"This time is to be particular, according to the people of the Ministry of War, Jiannu has arrived in Tongzhou, rumors in the city, most of them are unfavorable to Jiliao Governor, the Governor cannot not know, so he must be in a hurry to get rid of, the best way is to set up some military merits, he is now also the governor of King Qin's soldiers and horses, if Lord Chen comes early, in case the Governor takes him to attack Jiannu, take our lives for other people's military merits. If it's late, there's less impact. ”

"Then when does Mr. Song think it's best?"

"It's not that I think, it's still Lord Chen's decision, he thinks that once Jiannu arrives in Beijing, Lord Yuan will probably go to prison, and then he will come again. But he and I thought about it simply, Numa had just arrived in Tongzhou, and all the news about Jingshi's eastward movement was cut off, so if Jiannu arrived in Jingshi, the news around Jingshi would also be cut off, so how could I inform Master Chen of this opportunity. Besides, the Jiannu sentinels rode out in all directions, as far as dozens of miles, how could Lord Chen's soldiers escape, if they were discovered. ”

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On 19 November, in the Zhenhai camp of Tianjin, the beggar soldiers of the Tianjin Navy Division stared blankly at the wharf, and dozens of sailing boats spat out soldiers on the wooden bridge, all of whom were strong but slightly sluggish. There were several galleons with some horses on deck, equally in low spirits.

After Chen Xin landed on the shore, he sent Hai Dog with his own soldiers to inform Qin Lufang that the battalion officers of the Zhenhai camp vacated some barracks to rest for these Qinwang soldiers. Chen Xin directly asked the water camp capital about the situation of Jiannu.

The battalion officer was full of anxiety and roughly told Chen Xin that Jiannu had sneaked through Jizhou on the 14th, and had broken through the Jixi defense line that the imperial court had high hopes for, and he was afraid that he would go to Beijing. A few days ago, Lord Yuan took the Guanning army back to aid the Beijing division through Hexi, but the people in Hexi thought that Jiannu was coming, and they were all so frightened that they ran to Tianjin, and even the people outside Tianjin went south one after another, and nearly half of the soldiers in the pacesetter camp and his Zhenhai battalion ran away.

Chen Xin looked at this listless sailor battalion officer, and estimated that Jiannu really came to Tianjin, and this battalion officer was also going to slip away. They drifted at sea for eight days before reaching the mouth of the Weihe River in Tianjin, but some of the stragglers had not yet arrived, and the men and horses were very tired and urgently needed to rest.

There are more than 2,000 people in the Wendeng camp, half of them live in the barracks, and the rest have to set up tents in the open space, Chen Xin himself is very tired, but as the chief officer, he can only rest later than the soldiers.

Looking at the direction of Tianjin Wei, Chen Xin's mood fluctuated slightly, the neighbors there still made him remember deeply, they are no longer numbers. He knew that the Tartars would not come this time, but Tianjin would not be a paradise in troubled times after all.

Liu Pojun quickly lined up the barracks, and many soldiers fell asleep as soon as they lay down, and it was indeed not an easy thing to stay on the ship of this era for seven or eight days.

Among the officers, Dong Yu was the busiest, Dong Yu borrowed a soldier from a division from the Chinese army to help carry the baggage, mainly gunpowder and spare cold weapons, as well as javelins for camping. The gunpowder of the Wendeng camp is all brought by itself, and they make it strictly according to the formula of the new book of discipline, and the dosage of the drill code is also based on their own gunpowder taste, and the gunpowder of the Ming army is not applicable.

Zhu Guobin was the second busiest, their horses were extremely uncomfortable in the rocking boat, several had died, and the others were very weak, he took the veterinarian to diagnose the sick horses one by one, and fed them with black beans, hoping that they would recover as much as possible.

After waiting like this for an hour, the sea dog arrived with Qin Lufang, and Chen Xin immediately let him and Dong Yu into the barracks where the Chinese army was located. Qin Lufang saw the army of Wendeng Camp all the way, excited and anxious, and said to Chen Xin: "My lord, Jiannu is really here, really here!" ”

Chen Xin took out a rough map of Gyeonggi and beckoned Qin Lufang, but he didn't have time to greet and asked directly: "How many troops are there in Jiannu?" ”

"A few days ago, Mr. Song sent news from the Beijing Division, and the Tang newspaper received by the Ministry of War was very chaotic, some said 100,000, some said 50,000, and some said 30,000, but some veteran officials of the Ministry of War thought that it was around 50,000. All the Eight Banners of Houjin have appeared, but Zhenyi will not exceed 20,000 people, and there are also Mongolian left and right wings, Horqin, Karaqin, and Tumut Mongolia, and after breaking the border wall, they have entered some small Mongolian tribes one after another, and the total number should not exceed 50,000. ”

"The small Mongolian tribes don't count, they are here to make fire and rob, and they will not follow the actions of the Houjin army. Huang Taiji will not allow them to follow and pick up the bargain. Chen Xin said while calculating, "Houjin is about 240 Niu Lu, each Niu Lu is 100 armor, and it is only 24,000, after all, the Dongjiang Army is still there, they can't pour out of the nest, 10,000 should be about the same, more than 2,000 armor soldiers on the left and right flanks of Mongolia, it is impossible to dispatch all of them, that is to say, there are more than 10,000 soldiers in the Jianzhou headquarters, and it is difficult to estimate the surrender of the Mongolian tribes, but their combat power is low, so they are not to be afraid." ”

Qin Lufang said: "It is estimated that when the military department estimated, they were clothed, and these people are not to be afraid." ”

"Tell me about the past few days."

Qin Lufang's eyes lit up and pointed to the location of Jizhou: "The Miyun and Changping armies that were originally near Jizhou were transferred back to their original places, but after Jiannu broke through Zunhua, they stopped for a few days, and on the thirteenth, they suddenly bypassed Jizhou and went to the direction of Sanhe. Even Jizhou dared to bypass it, this Jiannu really didn't take Guan Ningjun seriously. ”

Qin Lufang had been to Jizhou and knew the terrain there, so he was a little surprised by Jiannu's boldness.

"Lord Yuan regards Gyeonggi as Liaoxi, and the land of Gyeonggi Plains is not enough to hold a few cities." Chen Xin had already known about sneaking, and it was not surprising that Huang Taiji was completely committed without a rear, and for them, there was no such thing as a strategic place, and the powerful field combat ability of the Houjin Eight Banners was his city wall. The Ming army's field warfare was too poor, and every time it was engaged, the whole army was annihilated, and it could basically only defend the city, and the strategic places without the slightest attack power lost its role in controlling and containing the surrounding areas.

Dong Yu looked at the map and asked: "My lord, Jiannu went west, they must have stayed in Zunhua and Santun camp, where should most of their looting proceeds be, my lord, see if we go to Jingshi Qinwang or Zunhua, if we go to Jingshi, more than 2,000 of us are just Jiannu soldiers, I'm afraid it's ......."

Chen Xin said without hesitation: "Go to Jingshi, we are here to King Qin." Law, how about the supplies along the way. ”

"Tianjin, Dong'an, Yongqing, Gu'an, Liangxiang, and Hexi have grain in their shops, each with 200 stones, enough for the army to be practical for five days, and a small number of pigs and sheep in each place."

"Is the meal ready? How is the situation of the carriage and horses. ”

"It's ready, ten days per person, and ten donkey carts and carriages in Tianjin have been bought."

Chen Xin patted the table lightly, "Dong Yu, arrange military rations, each soldier will bring ten days of food, and the baggage team will take over the carriages and horses, and then bring ten days of ordinary food." ”

Dong Yu frowned and said, "My lord, I'm afraid ten donkey carts are not enough, each cart only carries a few stones......

"You and Zhu Guobin will take people to requisition outside Tianjin."

"My lord, I have to run for my life at this time, I am afraid that they are unwilling to sell."

Chen Xin didn't raise his head: "I'm talking about requisition, what do you care if he sells it or not, the knife you brought is for killing chickens?" ”

Dong Yu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and didn't dare to ask again, he has always been good at accounts and scheduling, so it is true that such a robbery will not happen, and he looks embarrassed.

Chen Xin looked at his appearance, shook his head and changed his words: "No need Zhu Guobin, let Nie Hong and Zhou Shi send it, you only send someone to take care of the carriage, let him do the requisition, and prepare the carriage and horse food within two days." ”

Qin Lufang asked: "My lord, there are many roads to Jingshi, should we go to the direction of Dongtongzhou, or go south to Gu'an, and go to Jingshi through Liangxiang and Lugou Bridge?" ”

Chen Xin looked at the map on the table, Guan Ningjun ran to the capital with a smoke, only the Xuanda army was left near Tongzhou with combat power, and now most of them were also beaten away by Jiannu, if he went to Tongzhou, he would have become a lone army, in case he went to Tongzhou, he was found by the main force of Jiannu of 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the plains were attacked from all sides, and he couldn't even have bones left. Gu'an is in the south of Jingshi, and this route is relatively safe, but it is not excluded that Jiannu will go south for a while.

He only knew that the Guanning army and Jiannu would fight a battle under the city, but the specific process of Jiannu's attack on the Jingshi was not clear, and Chen Xin was not in a hurry to rush to the city of Jingshi, and now Yuan Chonghuan was also the governor of Qinwang soldiers and horses, first broke the mouth and then sneaked through Jizhou, these two things are serious dereliction of duty no matter what the reason, if according to the modern military system, the chief officer, intelligence officer, and staff officer who are responsible for fighting against Jiannu should all go to the military court. Therefore, Lord Yuan should be in a hurry to make meritorious service now, at least to show that he is not colluding with Jiannu as rumored, and he is sent to the door at this time, so it is strange that he is not cannon fodder.

His plan was that Yuan Chonghuan would be imprisoned, and after the Guan Ning army fled back to Shanhai, the Jingshi would be at a loss at that time, as long as he became the first Qinwang army to arrive, he would be able to inspire the hearts of the Jingshi, and obtain great political benefits at the lowest cost. As long as Chongzhen has such a deep and good impression of him, he can ask for a lot of special policies at that time, and the officials below will also give the green light.

"Go south."