Yanjing City.

The flames that had burned all night were extinguished, and the granaries in the city had been reduced to ashes, and wisps of black smoke still swirled over Yanjing.

However, except for the granary of Yanjing, the whole city was actually quite intact, but there was a lot of confusion when the Mongols retreated to the end. I don't know if it was the last Mongolian army to evacuate that was doing evil, or the residents of the city started a riot, but there are scorched black marks and unerased blood stains everywhere in Yanjing City. The corpses have been packed up and piled up outside the Heyi Gate, but they have not been completely cleaned up, and there are still many corpses scattered all over the city.

In addition, the east of the city and outside the Yimen Gate are full of overturned vehicles and discarded miscellaneous luggage. It is clear that the Mongols retreated in a somewhat hasty and haphazard manner.

However, in general, this historical capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and now the capital of Yanyun Province of the Great Yuan, once made the kings of the Northern Song Dynasty worry about Xiongcheng for more than 100 years, and it still fell into the hands of Chen Dexing relatively completely. Even most of the city's inhabitants were not slaughtered, which is completely unexpected!

And in this Yanjing Xiongcheng, the Han people who were originally like ants were like ants, whether they were merchants who lived here for a long time, or refugees who were brought in by the Mongols from everywhere, after the brigade wore black clothes and black armor, held steel inlaid steel weapons, and looked like the majestic Beiming cavalry drove into the city, they immediately settled down.

For more than 300 years, the people of Yanyun have long been accustomed to being ruled by all kinds of powerful people, whether it is Khitan, Jurchen or Mongol...... Whoever comes is paying taxes and working.

As long as it is a strong person who can give them peace. Don't think like the Song army back then, when you enter the city, you can't stand up and let the Khitans fight out, and then let the Jurchens enter Yanjing and plunder. then spent money to ransom Yanjing, and after a long time, the Jurchens came in...... This toss is really bitter for the people of the city!

But. Looking at the elite appearance of the vanguard of the Northern Ming Army, it seems that there is no possibility of being beaten out by the Mongols again. This time. The big guy will be able to be obedient to the people with peace of mind.

As for what kind of heavenly Taoism these new masters of Yanjing City believe in, they don't let people take the examination or anything...... The people of Yanjing don't care! It's a big deal, everyone just follows and recites the scriptures of the Heavenly Taoism. If you don't take the imperial examination or something, don't take the exam, anyway, the Mongolians have stayed in Yanjing for more than 30 years and never thought about opening the imperial examination, but as soon as the imperial examination was opened, this Yanjing was replaced within a few months!

Of course, there are also people who want to leave Yanjing City and return to their hometown as soon as possible, but the Yanyun War has just begun, and no one knows what is going on outside Yanjing City. Maybe as soon as you leave the city, you will be killed by the rebels. So this kind of thought, it's just thinking.

Others are running hard in the city, on the one hand, helping the soldiers with black flags to maintain order; On the one hand, the merchants and people in the city are still mobilized to have a grand welcome ceremony when King Ming enters the city.

Needless to say. These people who are running are all people with lofty ideals who want to perform in front of the new master of Yanjing. Among them, many Han officials from the Great Yuan Yanyun Province quietly stayed behind when the Yuan army retreated......

Among them is Yao Sui, the nephew of Yao Shu who drank with Liu Xiaoyuan that day!

He was originally a petty official in charge of household registration in Yanjing City, not the chief official in power - the reason why his official is so small is because Yao Shu intends to experience, if Chen Dexing hadn't called so quickly, he would have been promoted and left a few months later.

But it's bad luck - it's not that he is out of luck, it's that the whole of Great Mongolia is out of luck!

Fortunately, this "traitor of the second generation" has a flexible brain, and his uncle can work for the Mongols who want to exterminate China (when Yao Shu defected to Mongolia. Mongolia has no signs of sinicization at all), why can't he Yao Sui mention that the Ming Dynasty, who wants to break Confucianism and Taoism, is working hard?

If the uncle is a traitor, can't the nephew be a traitor?

So when the Mongol army retreated a few days ago, Yao Sui did not leave with his family. Instead, he took advantage of the chaos and quietly hid. As soon as the Mongols left, they immediately jumped out to organize the "maintenance meeting".

Under the organization of Yao Sui and dozens of other Dayuan Han officials who believed in "the four seas and the unification of the world", it was early this morning. Inside and outside the Shiren Gate in the east of Yanjing City, there are ant-like people everywhere. Helping the old and the young, on both sides of the road, they either burned incense or held pottery and bamboo tubes—which contained wine, soup, or rice. This is called eating pot pulp to welcome the king. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was the army that the people loved that had this treatment, but when most of the big cities changed their masters in later generations, they had this set of procedures, otherwise most of them would have been slaughtered......

Of course, the massacre was strictly forbidden in the Northern Ming Army. The Northern Ming Army is a division of benevolence and righteousness, so it only captures serfs and slaves, and does not engage in massacres - the humans in the north are about to become precious animals, where can they afford to slaughter? Who will farm and work after all the killings? Who do so many Shijue Eight Banners rely on to eat?

So when I heard that the Yuan army did not slaughter the city when it retreated, Chen Dexing and the Northern Ming army were relieved - that was hundreds of thousands of people! There is nothing in the Southern Song Dynasty, but in the north, it is the capital to build the country!

At this time, there was a large group of infantry teams in the distance appeared in the east of Yanjing, and there was a soldier in front of him, with thick hands and feet, a messy beard and a messy beard that was not well trimmed, wearing a shining silver steel armor, with an equally silver helmet on his head, and a very long horizontal knife in his waist.

I saw him pressing the handle of the knife with one hand, and pulling the reins with the other hand to lead a horse, and immediately carrying luggage and a large bag of rice and grain-the granary of Yanjing City was burned, and the people's grain storage was also looted by the Mongols in the name of defending the city a while ago. Therefore, Chen Dexing ordered all the departments entering the city to walk and use horses to carry grain.

It was in Pingluan that this person took refuge in Chen Dexing, and Guo Kan, who refused to hand over his military power and offered Chen Dexing a battle tactic. Behind him were 3,000 elite infantry who followed him on a journey of thousands of miles. About 600 of them wore plate armor like him, and when they walked down the road, they were scary to look at!

However, looking at Guo Kan's appearance, he was unhappy, as if he had never been addicted, and muttered to Zhu Sijiu, who was sent above to study the tactics of the phalanx with Guo Kan, and kept complaining, "The two of us have bad lives!" Look at those black-clothed cavalry, they took Yanjing City without seeing any tough battles...... Our 3,000 steel-armored soldiers have eaten ashes all the way and walked 300 miles, without any credit! I should have robbed the pioneer if I knew it! ”

Zhu Sijiu just smiled and didn't take Guo Kan's tone. The Battle of Yanyun has just begun! Are you afraid that you won't have a chance to make meritorious contributions? And...... The Mongols are now taking the initiative to give up Yanjing, and they have not yet slaughtered the city, and it is clear that they want to throw hundreds of thousands of people in Yanjing as a burden to the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, Zhu Sijiu estimated that the abandonment of Yanjing was just the first link in Kublai Khan's series of battle plans, and there must be a backhand behind him.

And Daming fought all the way, and it seemed to be overwhelming, occupying a lot of territory, and also won Yanjing, the largest city in the land of Yanyun. But there was no real battle with the main forces of the Mongol army. It's not about winning without a fight, it's about the other side playing tricks the enemy into going deeper - anyone with a little military common sense can see through this. Chen Dexing is naturally no exception, but even if he knew that Kublai Khan was setting a trap for himself, he couldn't help Yanjing and the hundreds of thousands of Han people in Yanjing City.

This is not a woman's benevolence, but Kublai Khan's bait is sweet enough - hundreds of thousands of Han people are not only the source of soldiers to expand the soldiers, but also the producers and builders. With them, Beiming's national strength can go up a few more steps in a short period of time!

Therefore, Yanjing is the tiger's den in Longtan, and the Northern Ming Army will also break into it without hesitation. This is not only because Kublai Khan's hand is big enough, but also because the Northern Ming army is full of confidence. No one thought that Kublai Khan's 100,000 or 200,000 Mongol troops could defeat them, because they were the invincible steel army!

Chen Dexing's guards division was behind Guo Kan's steel-armored infantry, and they were also wearing armor and leading horses on foot, but they were only one person and two horses, and the horses were also carrying rice noodles on their backs. Chen Dexing himself, as well as a few generals and civil officials who followed, of course, rode on horseback.

Following the marching column of the Guards Division was a marching column of as many as 70,000 people, of which there were about 35,000 soldiers, including the Northern Ming Central Army, the First Division of the Lower Army, the Cavalry Division and the Eight Banners Horse Corps of more than 12,000 people. About 15,000 people from the main force of the Northern Ming Dynasty and the Eight Banners were left in Pingluancheng and Yuguan to cover the rear of the army. In addition, there are more than 4,000 people from the First Division of the Northern Ming Army in Tanggu who are responsible for garrisoning.

In other words, it can now be used for the combat troops of the Northern Ming Army around Yanjing, including the 3,000 people brought by Guo Kan, a total of 43,000.

And the next battle is to use 43,000 elites to face off against the main force of the Mongol army, which may have a total of more than 200,000!

Along the way, Chen Dexing pondered the possibility of this upcoming Armageddon, or the Mongol army swooping down from Yanshan to besiege the city; or Kublai Khan inserted an elite cavalry cluster into the east of Yanjing to cut off Yanjing's supply lines; Or simply use the army to pounce on Taiyuan to the south and defeat Li Pu first......

"Hooray! Banzai! Hooray......"

The high-pitched cheers suddenly came from the direction of Yanjing in front of him, interrupting Chen Dexing's thoughts. He raised his head and walked forward, and the majestic Yanjing Xiongcheng stood on the great plain at the foot of Yanshan not far away!

On both sides of the road leading to this northern Xiongcheng, I don't know how many people help the old and the young, holding altars and jars, and bowing down to greet each other. This welcoming procession started from more than ten miles outside Yanjing City and spread all the way to Yanjing City. The people of the city seem to have all come to greet the king of the Han family who has been absent for many years.

"Master Wang! Master Wang! Wang Shi ......"

In an instant, in the midst of the tsunami-like cheers of the mountains, Chen Dexing straightened his back on the horse, rode forward, strode towards Yanjing City, and slain the dragon trap set by Kublai Khan! (To be continued......)