Before the Qinwang reinforcements of the Three Guards arrived, the Jingshi faced both internal and external threats. One is the Jiannu from outside the Guan, and the other is the army of King Shen who roared north from Shaanxi.

Before meeting Empress Zhou, Li Xin already had a plan, so he replied without hesitation when faced with an inquiry: "Your Highness, don't worry, if you want to break the city, it is really a dream. As for King Shen's troops going north, don't worry, just let them come! ”

Empress Zhou's eyes widened in surprise, she didn't know how Li Xin would answer, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.

"King Shen's wolf ambition must be guarded against!" Fan Fucui was also very worried about King Shen's northward journey, and it was inconvenient for Empress Zhou to mention it in public, so he said it. Sure enough, Queen Zhou cast a grateful look at Fan Fucui.

Li Xin said again: "What is the wolf's ambition to fear? King Shen can march so fast, it must be a light army, and the grain and grass must depend on the places along the way, as long as the neck of the Shen Wang's army is not tightened, these people can still go to the sky? ”

"I see!"

Empress Zhou raised her well-maintained right hand as if relieved, and gently patted her heaving chest. preserves, a long sigh of relief. She also said that Li Xin was making a bad idea, but she didn't want to, and the most critical rope was still in the hands of the imperial court. What if King Shen's troops went north? As long as they control their food and grass, it is equivalent to choking the lifeblood of these jackals, as long as the jackals are not allowed to enter the city of Beijing, is it possible that these people still dare to attack the city at the risk of the world's condemnation?

You must know that the cabinet scholar, the marquis of Zhenyu Li Xin, is famous for his good guarding. In this way, Queen Zhou's mind finally stabilized, and she also had a faint confidence in her heart, and instructed the eunuchs around her to write a pen, and when she said a word, the eunuch wrote a sentence.

In a moment's effort, a holy decree praising King Shen had been written.

After discussing the crisis of King Shen, the Qing soldiers and Tartars that gradually appeared outside the city became the first problem to be solved.

In this regard, Queen Zhou showed unprecedented trust and only said it lightly.

"The matter of defending the city is decided by the marquis of Zhenyu!"

Then, on the grounds that the prince was lacking, he sent a group of ministers out, and seized the time to do their own thing. Now is the very time, no one is busier than the Zai Fu, Fan Fucui has not been home for three days and three nights, and when he is sleepy and tired, he takes a nap on the warm kang in the cabinet hall, and when he has recuperated a little, he immediately gets up to deal with the official documents.

Now that the Son of Heaven Zhu Youzhen is sick, although Queen Zhou has a well-founded advance and retreat and performs well, she is a woman with no ruling experience after all, and she is also panicked in the face of such a strong enemy.

Although the rest of the cabinet ministers were not as desperate as Fan Fucui, they were also much more nervous than usual, and even Zhou Yanru, the first assistant who had always liked not to ask about general affairs, was constantly walking between the Wenhua Hall and the cabinet hall, uploading and disseminating.

Fan Fucui looked at Zhou Yanru's contrived busy back with disdain, at the moment when the imperial court was in danger, as the first assistant, he didn't dare to shoulder the heavy burden, he only thought about seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, the longer this kind of person stayed in the imperial court, the greater and more far-reaching the harm.

But soon, he sighed again, and it was not easy to drive this person out of the capital.

"Elder Ge, the Marquis of Zhenyu has transferred troops. Each door changes its defense, and it seems that there is going to be a big move! ”

Fan Fucui's eyebrows jumped twice.

Not to mention what Li Xin did, just hearing the word "troop transfer" in his ears, he had a very uncomfortable feeling, is it a blessing or a curse to let Li Xin, a border general and important minister from a horse thief, master the soldiers of the Beijing Division?

But at least there is one thing that makes Fan Fucui feel at ease, it is said that Gu Pingyu, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, used to be Li Xin's general, and later betrayed the Three Guards Army and joined Zhou Yanru's disciples, which allowed him to get an errand to run the general army.

These five people from rough backgrounds attach the most importance to the loyalty of their subordinates, and Gu Pingyu betrayed Li Xin like this, presumably there must be an unbridgeable gap with Li Xin at this time.

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"The last general, please lead 3,000 armor soldiers and go out of the city to destroy the Tartar forward!"

Gu Pingyu called for battle, but Li Xin shook his head categorically.

"Think you're still with the Three Guards? These old men of the Beijing camp, if they rely on the strong city, they may be able to fight, if they rush out of the city, if they are defeated, their morale will inevitably be severely defeated! ”

Since Gu Pingyu led the troops, he has always been the most ruthless, and he has not been afraid of the Jiannu Qing soldiers, and after listening to Li Xin's words, he couldn't help but be stunned.

It's not that he doesn't care about the training of the Beijing camp, and if it is reformed in the way of the Three Guards, it is not impossible, but after all, the Beijing camp is involved a lot, and if it is restructured, it will inevitably offend a large group of people and be isolated. Zhou Yanru is not a person who can withstand the pressure and is willing to take responsibility, so it is easy to say that rectifying the Beijing camp and reforming the military system is even more difficult to implement.

Gu Pingyu lowered his voice: "I don't know when the Three Guards will arrive in Beijing, by that time, Beijing and Nanjing will be under control, and the Hou of Zhenyu will ......."

Seeing Li Xin's face sink suddenly, Gu Pingyu swallowed back the second half of his words, Mi Yan, who was in North Korea in the past few days, had been in frequent correspondence with him, and some signs had been faintly revealed in the conversation, which made him immediately boil with blood after being dormant for many years, and he was so excited that he couldn't control himself.

In fact, as early as when the envoys of the imperial court set out from Beijing, the large fleet had already set off from the mouth of the Han River in North Korea, carrying 10,000 elite new troops to Tianjin Wei of the Ming Dynasty. If the time is calculated, the landing of the army will be in the middle of the night or tomorrow morning.

Li Xin was a little surprised by the speed of the Qing army's march, if it is calculated, there are at least tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers who appeared under Beijing at this time, how can it be that more than half a day has passed by now, and it is still 3,000 people.

After dawn, the news came, and Li Xin had already been a group of officers in the Beijing camp.

In fact, the army of King Shen had already arrived in Changping overnight, and fought a bloody battle with the Manchu army outside Juyong Pass for a whole night, and successfully repelled several consecutive strong attacks of the Eight Banners before sunrise. Most of the Eight Banners soldiers who came to Beijing immediately were immediately transferred to Juyong Pass, because there were only 3,000 suspicious soldiers under Beijing.

This time, the Qing army originally planned to use cavalry to sneak attack Juyong Pass, but they didn't want the sneak attack to turn into a fierce attack. These suddenly appeared Ming troops were different from the border armies they had encountered in the past, although they were similar to the ordinary Ming army's combat methods, but their fighting will was far from being comparable to that of ordinary Ming troops, and they were able to compete with the Eight Banners in the field.

After Gu Pingyu learned the news, he couldn't help but secretly sigh, whether it was the strong combat effectiveness of the Shen Wangjun or the great decline in the combat effectiveness of the Qing soldiers and Tartars!