Li Xin immediately changed his words again, "Your Highness, the minister has just received a report that I have captured the puppet Prince Yu in the East in Huanghae Province by the Korean garrison. ”

"What?"

Empress Zhou blinked her eyes in disbelief, she was not a woman who didn't understand anything, in the days when she took over her husband's authority in the Ming Dynasty, she was familiar with government affairs and enemies day and night. The puppet prince of Yu Duoduo was the fifteenth son of the slave chieftain Nurhachi, and was the brother of the same mother as Dolgon, and he was brave and good at fighting, and was Dolgon's arm and arm in the Manchu Dynasty.

If this person is captured, it will definitely be a rare good news for the predicamented Da Ming.

Thinking of this, a rare smile bloomed on Queen Zhou's delicate face. In the past few days, she has been getting a series of bad news, from the sudden fall of her husband to the arrival of Manchu soldiers in the city, and then to King Shen's ill-intentioned desire to seize the throne, which one does not make her tremble and feel cold like walking on thin ice?

What worries Empress Zhou the most is the hearts of the people of the court, if she is helpless in this way, the authority accumulated by her husband for more than ten years will gradually be lost, and at that time, she and the crown prince can still keep the inheritance left by her husband in this environment of internal and external difficulties.

The good news brought by Li Xin is like charcoal in the snow, and it would be great if the news of the capture of Duoduo could be used to stabilize the people's hearts that are fluctuating day by day.

She looked at Li Xin's gaze softened a lot, and she couldn't help but get down from the warm kang, walked slowly towards Li Xin, stood down half a step away from him, and couldn't suppress her excitement and asked, "When can I be escorted to Beijing?"

For the first time, Li Xin was so close to this woman who held the power of life and death in his hands, and he could even feel the unique aura of this woman. Li Xin couldn't help but sigh secretly, no matter how strong the queen was, she was still a woman, and it was really difficult for her to take over the stormy old broken ship of the Ming Empire.

"Seven or eight days at the earliest, and half a moon at the slowest!"

Li Shiwen on the side was stunned by Empress Zhou's abrupt move, the queen is a woman after all, regardless of her status and power, and she cannot be equated with a man. It is said that the dialogue between these ministers and the queen must be covered by a curtain, and the queen of Zhou removed the curtain in order to show respect to the courtiers, which is understandable, but it is still a little difficult for him to look directly at the courtiers so closely.

Empress Zhou may be aware of her gaffe, but she is not easy to trade and retreat, and she seems to be even more out of shape. However, Li Xin naturally took a step back and bowed again, "Your Highness, please rest assured, the Manchu Dynasty is not enough to trouble!" Then he abruptly accentuated his tone, "King Shen is not a problem. ”

When Li Shiwen heard Li Xin say that the Manchu Dynasty was not enough to make trouble, he just wanted to make a mockery, but when he heard the sentence "King Shen is not enough to be troubled", an old face full of folds couldn't help but change color.

King Shen has the intention of seizing the throne, and all the officials in the court can see it as long as they are not blind and foolish. But everyone knows this but they won't say it clearly, in the end, this is still the Zhu family's family matter, who does the Son of Heaven, are they not courtiers?

Li Shiwen hurriedly closed his mouth again, for fear that if he lost his words, he would fall into the trap in the future.

However, Li Xin's statement moved Queen Zhou, and her eyes were a little red. Since her husband fell, except for a son who has not yet been crowned to rely on, she is surrounded by all kinds of people with evil intentions, and it is the first one like Li Xin to publicly express his support for her and oppose King Shen.

Empress Zhou turned around and returned to the kang to hide her gaffe, and then said with a slightly trembling voice: "With Li Qing's words, I am very relieved, and the defense of Gyeonggi can be let go, and there is no need to report everything." ”

Li Shiwen suddenly felt very embarrassed, Li Xin suddenly expressed his support for Queen Zhou and against King Shen, if he was not on the spot, it would be fine, if he didn't follow the statement now, he was afraid that he would be hated by Queen Zhou in the future, but if King Shen gained power, wouldn't he be killed?

For a while, this old minister with white hair was in a dilemma, and it was not ......

The imperial court rejected King Shen's request to enter the palace to visit the Son of Heaven, and did not even send a piece of paper to Juyongguan. This has clearly expressed the diswelcome of the government and the opposition to him in terms of attitude, but King Shen doesn't care, the so-called attitude of the court is just the result of the cabinet's observation of words and feelings, once the authority of the mother and son in the Forbidden City is lost, how many officials in the court and the central government can bow down to them?

Therefore, King Shen was happy to wait patiently, waiting for a fiasco of the Jingying army, and Dolgon himself led an army of 100,000 to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, just with more than 10,000 people in the southeast of the city, the three guards still wanted to turn the tide? Are you kidding!

When Li Xin's battle plan reached Juyong Pass, King Shen laughed even more, in his eyes, this was already a manifestation of the poor skills of the donkey, and playing such tricks would be useless in front of the absolutely superior Qing soldiers.

"Lord Wang, Li Xinqi should not be underestimated, since this person dares to let out the wind so firmly, maybe there will be something unexpected about it."

King Shen's staff didn't dare to slack off, and cautiously reminded him. King Shen sneered:

"It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, the soldiers in the Beijing camp are all wastes who are full of food all day long, and only the more than 10,000 people of the Three Guards are really worthy of a war, how much time can they withstand in front of the 100,000 Qing army? Li Xin released the news in advance, it was nothing more than to play some tricks and make a surprise attack, just look at it, it's useless. ”

What King Shen said was reasonable, and the staff member stopped talking, not to mention that Zuo Liangyu was about to lead the main force out of Datong Mansion, once he met them at Juyong Pass, not to mention the Beijing camp waste in Beijing City at that time, even if the Qing army had the capital to fight with it.

The staff member thought for a while and then suggested: "Do you want to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Three Guards and sneak attack them......

King Shen waved his hand resolutely, "No need, it's too risky to do this, let these obstacles be cleared by Dolgon!" ”

He believed that the day of Li Xin's fiasco was the day he ascended to the throne, and at that time, looking at the land of Gyeonggi, who else could save Beijing except for him King Shen? This is also thanks to Yang Sichang's ghostly heart, if he is not afraid of the enemy in Henan, how can he be his turn to dominate in this Gyeonggi land?

……

Dolgon paced repeatedly in the tent of the Chinese army, tonight he was a little delirious, King Shen's cunning was expected, what made him feel elusive was Li Xin, this son actually blatantly released the rumor that he would fight the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty in three days.

He knew that the combat strength of the Three Guards was extraordinary, but if he dared to compete with the superior strength of the Great Qing Iron Cavalry with an absolutely inferior force, he still couldn't believe it, and this was probably a trick used by Li Xin.

If it weren't for the two attacks on Korea, the Qing army suffered a crushing defeat, and Dolgon at this time would not have been worried at all. In the Korean War, the disadvantage of the Qing army was that the opponent relied on the advantage of Korea's mountainous terrain to carry out defensive counterattacks. But the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty is different, looking at the flat river everywhere, what tricks can the Ming army have to turn the tide?