In front of everyone's eyes, a big basket was dangling and hanging on the city wall of Beijing, many people are accustomed to this, Beijing City every day up and down the basket not dozens but also a dozen, but the soldiers are reporting only this time.

Dorgon was surprised by this, and the soldier seemed to see Prince Rui's confusion, and hurried forward to explain.

"On weekdays, the basket is hung up and down, and there is only one back and forth, no more than three back and forth at most, but this time there are four back and forth, and the slave feels that there must be an extremely important Nan ** official in this basket."

The soldier was a banner soldier of the Eight Banners, and he spoke Manchu, but Lu Zhifan pricked up his ears but didn't understand half of the words, only to see him stretch out four fingers and swear to Dolgon.

Dorgon nodded, as if agreeing with the soldier's statement, and then looked at the basket that had slowly fallen down the wall with a complicated expression.

Lu Zhifan can probably guess their thoughts, but the Ming army is not stupid, and will not be stupid enough to go up and down within the effective attack range of the Tartars, and it is at least more than two miles away from the basket here, not to mention the bow and arrow, even the Hongyi cannon can't point where to fight, and don't think about the idea of moving the basket.

At the same time that a group of Qing army generals pointed and discussed this, the last basket was hung on the head of the city. The Ming army in the city dragged out a person from it, it was Prince Su Haoge.

"Tap, tap, oops, it hurts the king......"

Haoge shouted loudly, one by one, the soldiers of the Beijing camp really couldn't see it, he was so arrogant when he was a prisoner, I don't know who kicked him hard, and Haoge's body suddenly flew out and there was a dog to chew.

This is also Li Xin's habit of conniving at him, although as a prisoner, he does not care about him in words. But when it comes to the territory of Jingying, the situation is very different, the Ming soldiers here have all suffered enough in the hands of the Tartars, where will they tolerate his arrogance!

However, before anyone could fill their feet, everyone scattered on both sides and saluted. The person who came was the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of Bingbi, the governor of the Beijing camp. The four people who were hung up to the city looked at the great eunuch who commanded the city defense battle.

One of them's eyes were full of incredulity, it was unheard of for the Qing army to be in charge of the defense by a eunuch. This person is Li Xin, if he was born and raised in the Ming Dynasty, he would not be surprised by this, and the situation of eunuchs in charge of soldiers is not surprising, especially in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. For example, Emperor Chongzhen is not one hundred and twenty people who can rest assured that the most elite Guanning Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty will be handed over to him to corrupt.

Li Xin had never come into contact with a few eunuchs in this era, and he still had a little resistance to eunuchs in his subconscious, he really wanted to ask Emperor Chongzhen if there was no one in China, and he had to be in charge of the army by eunuchs? Of course, he didn't ask these words from beginning to end, but then he finally understood why Emperor Chongzhen was like this. This is all later, when Li Xin received the will, he really didn't expect the emperor to ask for him by name.

Cao Huachun congratulated Li Xin, with his understanding of the emperor, if the emperor named someone, either this person would be unlucky, or this person would soar, obviously Li Xin belonged to the latter. One route from Jinghai to Jingshi, and then after the battle just now, Cao Huachun has completely changed Li Xin's first impression of being just a Qiu Ba. To tell the truth, he agreed that Li Xin's mention was taking all kinds of risks, which can be said to be a gamble, and winning is full of money, and losing is a complete defeat.

The stakes were nothing more than two things, one was Hauge, and the other was Li Xin's promise that this fake army would be able to suppress Dorgon. Now it seems that this second plan has been preliminarily realized, and the first wave of Dolgon's attack has been successfully repulsed, and the pace of the Tartar siege has to be slowed down due to the pinning down of the large army. Now that the emperor has summoned him personally, he seems to see the throne of power beckoning to him again, and the direction of the situation is generally moving in the expected direction.

Cao Huachun coughed a few times and greeted Fang Zhenghua, the two were old acquaintances for many years, and they were all exempted from being polite, Fang Zhenghua stepped forward to ask if he personally commanded this battle. Cao Huachun laughed and pulled Li Xin's solemn introduction.

"The battle outside the city was commanded by General Li, how?"

Li Xin and Fang Zhenghua saluted, and arched his hand: "It's a loss to Cao Gong to strategize." ”

This modest sentence Li Xin is tantamount to staring at his eyes and talking nonsense, Cao Huachun has nothing to say to help except watching the battle, and it is even more nonsense to strategize. But when the sycophants were sent, Cao Huachun still lifted his whole body comfortably, there are too few people who have talents and know the general situation in these years, thinking like this, looking at Li Xin's eyes with a little more appreciation.

When Fang Zhenghua heard that the battle outside the city was commanded by the strong man in front of him, he was thrown to the ground, so frightened that Li Xin hurriedly flashed to the side and supported him with both hands.

"What is Fang Gong doing, but Li Xin is tormented!"

Unexpectedly, after Fang Zhenghua straightened up, he said seriously: "General Li is just like a snow seed to send charcoal, and the Beijing master is safe!" His words did come from the bottom of his heart, after the Jizhen Chen Guowei Department was all annihilated, the morale of the Beijing camp soldiers defending the city plummeted, almost fell to the bottom, it was the arrival of this Ming army that relieved his urgent need, the first battle was a small victory, so that the morale of the Beijing camp soldiers was originally low and sharply improved.

Without waiting for Li Xin to answer, Fang Zhenghua asked another question.

"I don't know Elder Sun Ge, General Liu can you be under the city?"

Cao Huachun sneered.

"The bluff is ear-bearing, even the army under the city is pretended to be by homeless people." Looking at Fang Zhenghua's expression of disbelief, Cao Huachun said again: "That Shandong general soldier Liu Zeqing stopped moving forward, and he had a bad heart, and he has been killed by General Li!" ”

Fang Zhenghua was completely stunned this time, except for Yuan Manzi, who dared to kill the general soldiers of a town, he had never seen anyone with such courage. Even that Yuan Manzi invited Shang Fang's sword as a supervisor before he dared to kill Mao Wenlong. What's more, how can Mao Wenlong, the left governor of the general army of Dongjiang Town, compare to Liu Zeqing, the left governor of the general army of Shandong Town? He looked Li Xin up and down again.

"I wonder which town General Li belongs to?"

Dare to kill the general soldiers of a town, it is definitely not a general, he searched all the generals in his mind and failed to find information related to this Li Xin. But the words that made his jaw drop were still to come.

"Li Xinxi recruited people for Sun Ge Lao to teach and learn!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar, and they never imagined that the commander of tens of thousands of troops who came to King Qin was just a small Minzhuang teaching, which was too unbelievable and sensational. It also made the generals present feel a sense of frustration in their self-esteem.

Fang Zhenghua wanted to ask again, but was interrupted by Cao Huachun, "Fang Gong has a lot of questions, don't let Banzai wait in a hurry, I can wait for you to ask a happy question." And this grandfather ......" Cao Huachun pointed at Haoge, "He is the eldest son of the slave chief Emperor Taiji, and he asks Fang Gong to take care of him!" ”

Cao Huachun's military report had already mentioned this before, so he was not as surprised as before. Fang Zhenghua is not only the commander of Jingying, but also the governor of the East Factory, and only when Haoge is handed over to Cao Huachun of the East Factory can he rest assured. The situation in the DPRK and China is sinister, since the defeat of Wei Zhongxian, although several of their old brothers who served the emperor Yu Qiandi have been reused one after another, but the power of the celebrant is still declining after all. If this great achievement is confirmed, the old men in the cabinet may no longer have the strength to compete with them.

"Let's go, enter the palace and face the saint!"

More than a dozen fast horses galloped through Andingmen Street, attracting the already scarce pedestrians to look sideways, and their hearts were worried. Li Xin galloped on the streets of Beijing City, and his heart was full of mixed feelings, he had been to Beijing more than once in his previous life, but this was the first time that Beijing City was more than 300 years ago.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city of Beijing was far less imposing than imagined except for the city walls, and the buildings in the city were low and messy, and although it was winter, the sewage ditches on both sides of the road still faintly emitted a foul smell. Perhaps because of the siege of the Tartars, the streets were lifeless, even the occasional pedestrians were in a hurry, and most of them were in tattered clothes, showing that they were living in difficulty, and their eyes were full of the gloom and withering of the sunset in the western mountains of a dynasty's imperial capital.

The group went all the way through Chongjiaofang, Zhaohuifang, Baodafang, and Nanxunfang to East Chang'an Street. The place where he passed was not where the Guozijian was or the official office of the Shuntian Prefecture and other official offices, so dilapidated, if the southern city where the common people lived would not know what to become. This is very different from the impression left by Li Xin on both sides of the Grand Canal when he first arrived in Linqing.

On the East Chang'an Avenue to the west is the Chengtian Gate, Li Xin looked south, in the previous life, the original square was located all over the official offices, and the middle of the street extended by the Chengtian Gate was divided into two. This is the bureaucratic center of the Ming Dynasty, where the Governor's Mansion and the Six Ministries are located.

Li Xin saw a group of people standing outside Chengtianmen from a distance, and went straight to the front, only to see a few little eunuchs stamping their feet from the cold, and saluting Cao Huachun one after another.

"Cao Gongan is good, long live the lord is waiting for you, hurry up and enter the palace with the little one."

Cao Huachun nodded lightly and got off the horse to tidy up his clothes, and seemed to be explaining something to a few of the little eunuchs, but because of the distance away, Li Xin couldn't really hear what he said.

One of them, who seemed to be the chief eunuch, looked at the people behind Cao Huachun, and asked in a sharp voice, "Who is Li Xin?" ”

Li Xin hurriedly stood up, and the eunuch took a look, "You are Li Xin?" ”

"It's Li Xin!"

The eunuch nodded and mumbled.

"It's the body of a tiger general, long live calling you by name, I don't know if it's a blessing from several lifetimes in my previous life......"

While speaking, Cao Huachun had already taken the lead in the door, and Li Xin followed behind the chattering leader and eunuch, listening to him explain all kinds of rules for meeting the emperor, but his left ear went into the right ear. A group of people entered the Forbidden City from the door, first handed over all the weapons they carried, and then led by people, passed the end gate, entered through the right door of the noon gate, but went east, Li Xin wondered, shouldn't it be to go straight to Fengtian Temple, where is this going?