It's finally here.

These ten days can be said to be the most difficult period for Zhu Youzhen.

It was also his most dangerous ten days.

Fortunately, in the past ten days, no one has come to hold him hostage.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that he, the emperor, also deliberately submits softly, and when Guang Shiheng points at his nose and scolds him, he can endure it.

However, now Zhu Youzhen doesn't have to endure it anymore!

The good days of the dissenting civil and military officials have come to an end!

"All of them!"

Zhu Youzhen shouted angrily, and thirty-five eunuchs appeared neatly behind Zhu Youzhen from around the Qianqing Palace.

In the past ten days, he specially trained these thirty-five eunuchs, although he did not make them elite soldiers in a hundred battles, but he could also do the order and prohibition.

Zhu Youzhen asked He Xin to leave twenty people to protect the safety of the concubines, princesses, and princesses in the palace.

And Zhu Youzhen himself changed into eunuch clothes, brought the prepared holy decree jade seal, and took fourteen eunuchs to ride horses overnight and follow Wang Chengen to prepare to go out of the city to see Zhou Yuji.

Wu Mengming is greedy, and the people under him are also greedy.

Therefore, when the guards of the palace city saw that the emperor did not come out, they let Zhu Youzhen and Wang Chengen leave the palace city very easily, and when they arrived at the Dong'an Gate of the imperial city, the Dong'an Gate guards did not know where they came, and they did not dare to stop Wang Chengen, a minister and official, who was out of the city.

As soon as they got out of the imperial city, Zhu Youzhen and the others did not dare to ride horses anymore, after all, the inner city was patrolled by the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, so as not to alarm the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

The Five Cities Terracotta Division is subordinate to the Ministry of War.

Zhu Youzhen can be sure that Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is not trustworthy, and naturally he can no longer trust the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

Therefore, he could only follow Wang Chengen on foot and run on the streets of Qihuamen.

Fortunately, he has practiced his physical fitness these days, and he can run all the time, plus it is the second half of the night, and the moon is dark and the wind is high, so no one will find out.

When he came to Qihuamen, there was Wang Chengen's internal response.

Not all the internal and external bureaucrats in the entire capital are preparing to surrender Li Zicheng, and Wang Chengen, as the governor of Dongchang, naturally has his own eyeliner.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian successfully walked out of Qihuamen.

As soon as he came out of Qihua Gate, Zhu Youzhen took off his eunuch clothes, changed into a dragon robe, and followed Wang Chengen to the vicinity of Zhihua Temple, only to see Zhou Yuji and the crown prince Zhu Cihong, as well as Gong Yonggu and his family who guarded the prince, as well as the officers and soldiers of Ningwuguan who camped on the spot.

This group of officers and soldiers were all neatly arrayed on the grass, although most of them had become muddy faces all the way away, but Zhu Youzhen could feel the murderous aura on their bodies.

In the end, it is the only border army that can hold Ningwu Pass for more than ten days, although it is not the strongest army in this era, but its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the rotten Beijing battalion.

What's more, these officers and soldiers have experienced the vicious battle from Taiyuan to Ningwu Pass, and they have all been stained with human blood.

Even if you are not an elite soldier, you have been tempered into an elite soldier.

"Father!"

As soon as the crown prince Zhu Cihong saw Zhu Youzhen, he hurriedly ran over, and couldn't help hugging Zhu Youzhen and crying.

And Zhu Youzhen directly pushed Zhu Cihong away: "What are you crying about!" Wipe away your tears! Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, how to become a generation of kings in the future! ”

Zhu Cihong had to hold back his tears and stand honestly.

At this time, Zhou Yuji also walked over: "Zhou Yuji has seen Your Majesty!" ”

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly helped Zhou Yuji up in person, only to see that he had big shoulders and a round waist, thick eyebrows and big eyes, half a head taller than himself, and there were blood stains on the tips of his dry hair, and there were even knife marks on his cheeks.

It is enough to guess that this veteran has just experienced a lot of fierce battles.

"Aiqing, please get up!"

After Zhu Youzhen spoke, he asked Zhou Yuji: "Along the way, Wang Chengen has already told you the reason why I summoned you to Beijing urgently, right?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the factory governor has already said that in addition to the 5,000 death squads left behind in Ningwu Pass, Weichen has personally led 20,000 officers and soldiers to rescue the driver in accordance with His Majesty's order, and now it is up to His Majesty's arrangement!"

Zhou Yuji replied with his hand, speaking very simply, but Zhu Youzhen still noticed a trace of uneasiness in his lonely eyes, so he asked: "Who is the one who stayed behind in Ningwu Pass with the death squad?" ”

"Dog Zhou Boming!"

Zhu Youzhen suddenly realized and patted Zhou Yuji on the shoulder: "The Ru family is really full of loyalty!" If he can revive the Ming Dynasty in the future, I will definitely not treat the Aiqing family badly! ”

"Tell me in detail about the 20,000 officers and soldiers," Zhu Youzhen continued.

"Yes! In addition to the 3,000 family members under the command of Wei Chen, there are 10,000 infantry, 5,000 firearms, and 5,000 archers! They are all local brave people, and they have a blood feud with the thieves! And two thousand strong women of the clumsy thorn! ”

Hearing Zhou Yuji say this, Zhu Youzhen found out that there was indeed a women's army among the officers and soldiers, and the leader was dressed in armor, but it was not easy to see that it was a group of women.

"Very good, who said that women are inferior to men!"

"From now on, these 20,000 officers and soldiers will be named the Guards and enter the city with me!"

After Zhu Youzhen said, he and Zhou Yuji went straight to Qihuamen with 20,000 officers and soldiers.

The Dongchang eyeliner of Qihuamen immediately opened the city gate, and Zhu Youzhen successfully took Zhou Yuji's 20,000 officers and soldiers into the inner city of the capital.

"Leave a thousand people behind and immediately take over the defense of Qihuamen! If anyone violates the will, he will be killed! ”

As soon as he entered the inner city, Zhu Youzhen asked Zhou Yuji to control the gate out of the capital, so that he could evacuate the capital by himself at that time.

Zhu Youzhen took out three more holy decrees.

The first is to order Zhou Yuji to send 1,000 horsemen to Li Banghua's mansion quickly, and let Li Banghua replace Zhang Jinyan as the secretary of the military department, and control the military department and the yamen of the five cities of the soldiers and horses.

The second order ordered Zhou Yuji to allocate 1,000 cavalry to immediately control the Beijing camp, arrest Li Guozhen, the commander of the Beijing camp, and Wang Chengen temporarily lead the Beijing camp.

The third way is to order Zhou Yuji to allocate 1,000 cavalry to control the mansion of Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, take over the power of the Praetorian Guard, and control the defense of the imperial city.

As soon as the three holy decrees were issued, the three cavalry rushed towards the place pointed out by Zhu Youzhen under the arrangement of Zhou Yuji, and it was naturally Zhu Youzhen's cronies and eunuchs who led the way.

And Zhu Youzhen personally took Zhou Yuji and others to the imperial city.

However, at this time, the gate of Dong'an Gate was already closed, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but yell directly:

"I am the son of heaven Zhu Youzhen, you still don't open the city gate quickly, if you dare to resist the decree, don't blame me for the sins of the nine clans!"

Because it was the second half of the night, the people guarding the city could no longer hold back and fell asleep, and when they were shouted like this, they thought that they were going to escape from the city again, and they couldn't help yawning and scolded:

"Bastard thing! What is the blind screaming in the middle of the night, Grandpa Guo has already ordered that after the unitary time, no one is allowed to enter or leave the city! Stay on my side! ”

Before this person's words fell, Zhu Youzhen directly ordered the infantry under Zhou Yuji's command to shoot arrows and attack.

Suddenly, a rain of arrows shot towards the city gate, and the guerrillas guarding the city were so frightened that they hurriedly hid in the battlements.

"I am the Son of Heaven Zhu Youzhen, if you don't open the city again, I will attack the city directly, and then you and your family will not have a chance to live!"

Zhu Youzhen shouted.

The guerrillas guarding the city hurriedly ordered the city gate to be opened, but as soon as the city gate was opened, a man in a python robe appeared with more than a dozen family members: "Don't open it, who let you open it!" ”

"Grandpa Guo, that's the emperor!"

The guerrilla said with a sad face.

Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, originally received the order of Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to check the defense of the imperial city, and heard that the inner city was full of horses' hooves, so he was a little uneasy, so he came out in the middle of the night to personally inspect it, and this inspection did not expect to see someone in Dong'anmen to enter the city.

Now that he heard that it was the emperor, Cheng Guogong asked without thinking about it: "What, when did Zhu Youzhen come out!" Hurry up and get him there! ”

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen could guess that Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, had also betrayed him, and he shouted "Kill!" ", and directly took the two elites under Zhou Yuji's command to kill directly!

Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen was momentarily stunned, but immediately had to kneel on the ground: "Your Majesty! ”

Zhu Youzhen was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and directly beheaded Zhu Chunchen under the horse, "Bastard thing!" ”

and ordered Zhou Yuji's wife, Liu, to take over the defense of the imperial city as the governor of the right capital.