In order to get rid of the pursuers behind him, he Leshan even abandoned the heavy artillery belonging to the first town, and only brought those artillery pieces below a thousand catties, and the food, grass and ammunition were only brought for ten days, all in order to run away lightly.

However, who would have thought that those powerful ministers were all dragging their families one by one, and the gold, silver, and family members added up to more than three hundred carriages, which added up to more than the baggage carriages belonging to the baggage battalion of the first town and the sports cars of the artillery unit.

When I saw this convoy at the east gate before, Leshan was almost depressed and vomited blood, please! Big brother, we are going to run for our lives, not moving, no matter how much gold and silver we bring with us, we are not all killed, and there are more than ten family members brought by you Peng Yunzhang, and there are more than 50 house slaves accompanying us, and there are more than 20 carriages with a group of people plus gold and silver soft family wealth, what is this for?

There are only a dozen carriages in the royal family, and there are more than 20 carriages in the team of one of your ministers, does this mean that they are more awesome than your royal family?

When Leshan found Mu Yin and said this, Mu Yin also looked embarrassed, the people who fled with the emperor were all powerful ministers, either the minister of military aircraft or the ministry, or the prince and the prince and the like, and they also said that they brought their own food and carriages, just followed the team. Even if Mu Yin is the minister in charge of the affairs of the Eastern Hunt, there is nothing he can do about it.

But now Leshan sees the crowded convoy on the road, and then looks at the looming cavalry in the rear, he can't continue like this, at the current speed. Not to mention walking 60 or even 80 miles a day, it is estimated that you can't walk 40 miles. When the time comes, everyone will have to die if they are caught up by the Chinese army.

So Le Shan found Mu Yin again, and then said, "My lord." If it goes on like this, not only you and me, but I'm afraid that Your Majesty's safety will not be guaranteed, and these burdens must be solved, otherwise don't wait for Jixian County, and Song Xiangtang will catch up! ”

Mu Yin followed the direction pointed by Le Shan and saw the crowded convoys on the road, and at this time, there were several carriages on the road that didn't know whether they were stuck in the pit or broke down, in short, they stopped. And the road is so wide that the carriages behind are blocked.

Even the soldiers of the First Town had to bypass the road and walk straight through the field, watching as the First Town's baggage and artillery struggled to push the artillery and baggage vehicles through the potholed field, and the reason for all this was only because the carriages of the ministers and their families were congesting the road.

At this moment, Mu Yin's face was also gloomy!

"This must be settled!" After Mu Yin said this, he pondered in his heart, it was not possible to directly throw down the convoy of these powerful ministers, it was estimated that he would make trouble in front of Xianfeng as soon as he opened his mouth. But this situation cannot be sustained, and the current predicament must be resolved.

After pondering for a long time, he said, "Leshan, you can arrange one or two, and arrange the holy driver and some adults together." Divide your men and horses into two routes and draw a battalion to protect the convoys. The others traveled east with the Holy Driver! ”

"Would you agree to that?" Leshan voiced his worries.

Mu Yin said: "At this time, I can't help them. Besides, I'll take this battalion with me myself, and I'll be far away when you're gone. I'll catch up with the men again! ”

"What about them?" Le Shan said with a puzzled face.

"Let's have a destiny!" When Mu Yin said this, he sighed deeply!

When Le Shan heard this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, he didn't expect that Mu Yin's idea was to abandon these people directly, which was even more ruthless than himself.

Soon, Le Shan made arrangements, in the name of protecting the holy chariot and ministers nearby, the royal family's convoy and a small number of core ministers were concentrated in the Chinese army, and even in order to speed up this convoy of only more than 20 carriages, he even sent some horses pulling heavy carriages to pull the carts.

As for the remaining nearly 300 convoys carrying the families of powerful ministers, gold, silver, and soft goods, they lagged behind, while the royal convoy in front and the main force of the first town were moving more and more.

Although the people in the rear convoy also noticed that something was wrong, they were slightly relieved when they saw that there were nearly a thousand soldiers around them, and Mu Yin was also with them, but what they didn't expect was that when they were temporarily resting and stationing in a small village at night, Mu Yin quietly left with the thousands of men and horses, and directly chased the main force of the first town, leaving the convoy of more than 300 vehicles and more than 2,000 powerful families there.

When those magnates found that there was no soldier around them at dawn the next day, they panicked, so they rushed to re-embark on the road of escape, but this time the large team also began to disperse, some people wanted to flee directly to the northeast, while some people wanted to hide in the countryside, and then slowly tried to go to the northeast, and even some people wanted to be incognito, not to the northeast but to go to other places.

Not to mention these magnates who were abandoned by Mu Yin and Leshan and their families, but said that Song Xiangtang and other Chinese troops who were chasing them in the rear!

After a short rest last night, Song Xiangtang's department had already begun to bury the pot and cook before the sky was bright, and after breakfast, the army once again embarked on the pace of pursuit.

Without waiting long, their forward troops discovered the convoy of magnates and their families abandoned by the Qing army, and naturally they were not very polite to them, and directly captured these people.

"After preliminary interrogation, these are the powerful ministers of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty and their families, and a total of about 1,800 people have been arrested, and according to them, more than ten other families have parted ways with them! In addition, the puppet emperor did not walk with them, but in front! ”

Song Xiangtang looked at the Manchu magnates and ministers who were dejected, but were still covered in brocade on the way to escape, and just said calmly: "Let the assistant defense division take over, escort them back to Beiping, and we will continue to chase!" ”

Song Xiangtang is now bent on catching Xianfeng, and he has no interest in these powerful ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at all!

And when Song Xiangtang led the main force of the First Division to continue to pursue Xianfeng eastward, Yi Xun in Beiping City looked at the letter in his hand and did not speak for a long time.

The content of this letter was sent by the Chinese army outside the city, and the content of the letter was quite simple, they demanded that the Qing army in the city immediately and unconditionally surrender, otherwise the army would immediately attack the city, and no one would be left behind who participated in the resistance!

And if the Qing army is willing to surrender unconditionally, the Chinese army will give the Qing army in the city the treatment of 'prisoners of war'!

The so-called treatment of prisoners of war means that ordinary soldiers and middle- and lower-level officers can save their lives, while middle- and high-level generals and officials in the city are treated differently according to their cooperative attitude.

To put it simply, the content of this letter is stubborn resistance!

Yixun knows very well that no matter whether he resists stubbornly or surrenders voluntarily, it will not be too good to wait for his fate, he Yixun is the prince of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the younger brother of Emperor Xianfeng, and a former contender for the throne, and his political status is incomparable with other Manchu nobles, members of the royal family, and those ministers.

Throughout China's thousands of years of history, the fate of the royal family after the death of the country was not very good, and it would basically be slaughtered by the new dynasty, leaving no grass behind.

He asked himself if it was unlikely that a miracle would happen to him!

Yixun has the consciousness of dying, but he still maintains a trace of luxury, and can protect the lives of many court officials and Manchus in the city, especially his family.

He has also said that the Chinese army gives preferential treatment to soldiers and civilian officials who have surrendered to Chengcheng, but this kind of preferential treatment is limited to ordinary soldiers, middle- and lower-level officers, and middle- and lower-level officials.

But to be stubborn?

Yi Xun sighed deeply, what is there to resist in the city now, although there are still more than 10,000 Qing troops in the city, but the morale of the army is gone, Yi Xun was able to stabilize the situation in the city in the chaos yesterday, relying on the two battalions of new troops left by Du Xing'a, and the new troops of these two battalions are still being trained, if it weren't for the chaos yesterday, Yi Xun took them to forcibly take out the guns from the armory, they don't even have guns now.

Relying on these two battalions to suppress the formation, Yixun initially stabilized the situation in the city, and re-caught up with the green battalion and the Beijing camp that had fallen into the verge of collapse to the city, and in order to maintain the stability of the Forbidden City and the city, starting yesterday afternoon, he commanded his men and horses to forcibly suppress and kill more than 1,000 chaotic people who wanted to fish in troubled waters, and then it was considered to restore stability in the city.

However, this kind of stability cannot be sustained, and if the Chinese army outside the city immediately launched an attack, Yixun would definitely not have to re-enter chaos in half a day.

There are many possibilities in my mind, and then one by one I veto them!

After a long time, Yixun sighed again, then walked out of the door, looked at all the panicked officials in the hall, and said: "Pass the order down, let the Chinese army enter the city!" ”

When he said this, Yi Xun could see that everyone's faces showed obvious expressions of burden, they had long wanted to surrender, but no one took the lead.

Now that Prince Gong has personally taken the lead, these people are naturally preparing to surrender without any psychological burden, and immediately sent someone to send a letter outside the city, which was written by Prince Gong and stamped with his own private seal, and also stamped with the official seals of the Prime Minister's New Military Department, the Ministry of War and many other institutions in Beiping.

The content of the letter naturally said that the Qing army was willing to surrender on its own initiative and wanted to discuss surrender-related matters with Lu Daobao, especially to deal with these officials, their families and Manchurians.

Not long after, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Daobao, the commander of the first regiment, looked at the letter sent from the city and looked surprised, did he really surrender? (To be continued.) )