Tongzhou City is still a killing sound.

Zhang Lun, deputy envoy of the Beizhili Tongbaohe Military Preparation Road, did not live up to Zhu Youzhen's entrustment.

With the only 10,000 officers and soldiers guarding the warehouse in the city, they resisted the thief Tian Jianxiu for seven days!

It is two days longer than the only five days that Zhu Youzhen requested.

However, what Zhu Youzhen would not have expected was that Zhang Lun was an official who adhered to integrity, and he did not follow Zhu Youzhen's instructions to retreat on his own five days later.

On the contrary, he was determined to live and die with Tongzhou City on the grounds that he was the soldier guarding Tongzhou.

The thief Tian Jianxiu was finally dragged by Zhang Lun in Tongzhou City for ten days.

Ten days later, Tongzhou City was finally broken!

Zhang Lun finally hanged himself!

However, because the officials and people of Tongzhou City resisted too fiercely under Zhang Lun's call, and in order to establish authority for the new dynasty, coupled with Tian Jianxiu's call all the way from Shaanxi, the grain and grass were not enough, and the grain stored in Tongzhou was also transported away by Zhu Youzhen.

Tian Jianxiu used this as an excuse to slaughter the city of Tongzhou for three days, and burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil.

When Zhu Youzhen learned of this news, he had already left Tianjin Wei and arrived in Bazhou.

Further south of Bazhou is Baoding.

Baoding is an important town in Gyeonggi along the canal, guarding the only official road leading to the canal wharf.

Now, Zhu Youzhen already knows that the thief Liu Fangliang's department has entered Zhending from Henan, and once Liu Fangliang's department wants to pursue him, he must attack Baoding.

"If you want to smoothly go south along the canal to Jinghai, and then enter the territory of Dezhou, Shandong, you must first ensure that Baoding City will not be lost to thieves within ten days."

Zhu Youzhen didn't have time to feel sorry for Zhang Lun now, and he didn't even have time to scold the general Tian Jianxiu for being cruel and inhumane for the people of Tongzhou City.

From a certain point of view, the slaughter of Tongzhou City also has something to do with him.

As the so-called success will be successful, Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, cannot guarantee that more people will not die under the butcher's knife in the future.

After hearing that Tongzhou City had fallen, Zhu Youzhen immediately summoned hundreds of officials in Bazhou City to make decisions on important matters in the humble county government.

At this time, Li Banghua, the secretary of the military department who was still by Zhu Youzhen's side, stood up:

"Your Majesty, Li Ge Lao, who was ordered by His Majesty to supervise the expedition before, is now in Baoding City, and Li Ge Lao guards Baoding as a Ge Lao, maybe it's not a big problem."

Zhu Youzhen smiled faintly, he knew that Li Ge that Li Banghua said was always Li Jiantai.

However, as far as Zhu Youzhen knows, Li Jiantai surrendered to the thief Liu Fangliang in Baoding City.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen is not sure whether Li Jiantai has defected to the enemy now.

"Li Jiantai is unreliable, he guards Baoding City, I don't worry, I have to go into Baoding City to see in person, and Baoding City is the key to the canal, you can't take it lightly!"

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen asked Zhou Yuji's wife Liu to lead two thousand horsemen to Baoding, and first passed his edict to Li Jiantai and ordered him to prepare to take over.

Before deciding to go to Baoding, Zhu Youzhen only took time to take the time to prepare for the soldiers Zhang Lun personally held a funeral in Bazhou, and he was the king himself, and posthumously named Zhang Lun as the right attendant of the military department, and posthumously honored the martyrs.

Because the country is about to be broken, Zhu Youzhen knows that he can no longer give these officials actual political and material security, but he can still give them great glory after death.

This is perhaps the greatest need for many officials who adhere to the religion.

Otherwise, at the end of every dynasty, there would not be so many officials who choose to be martyred in order to live forever.

The ancients paid more attention to the name behind them, and it is true.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen naturally cannot be stingy.

The civil and military officials who followed Zhu Youzhen did not expect that a small soldier would be able to get the honor of His Majesty the Emperor personally, and their loyalty to King Zhu Youzhen would naturally be stronger.

After all, the ministers who chose to follow themselves when Li Zicheng's soldiers were pressing the border were naturally more likely to be moved by Zhu Youzhen's actions of loving ministers, and even forgot that Zhu Youzhen had just beheaded the heads of countless ministers before.

Zhu Youzhen did not only pay tribute to Zhang Lun, who died of martyrdom in defending the city, but also brought more than 100,000 officials and citizens who were slaughtered by thieves in Tongzhou City to pay tribute to them, and asked Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the household department, to write a memorial speech to mourn Tongzhou Lishu.

"All parties are guilty, the sin is in my bow, what is the crime of the people in the world, if I have a negative country, I should ask the ancestors and the ancestors to blame Zhu Youzhen for not being filial!"

Zhu Youzhen knelt on the temporary high platform in Bazhou City with a sad face, and said this sentence in a low tone.

Civil and military officials such as Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the household department, Li Banghua, the secretary of the military department, and Zhou Yuji, the governor of Ningwu Bozuo, were heartbroken when they heard this.

Ni Yuanlu knelt down first and cried: "Your Majesty! ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Banghua, the secretary of the military department, and others also knelt down, crying and shouting the word "Your Majesty".

"Your Majesty's crimes, they are all incompetent, resulting in the loss of the country, the people are suffering, and the ministers are willing to sacrifice the souls of the people of Tongzhou with a seven-foot body!"

Zhang Luoyan, the young secretary of Guanglu Temple, may have been too moved by Zhu Youzhen's behavior, so that he couldn't help but speak loudly and generously.

Moreover, after speaking, this Luo Yan directly got up and crashed into the pillar on the side, and immediately his head broke and blood flowed, and the person died directly.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be shocked!

The officials couldn't help but be shocked!

The people of Bazhou, who had come to watch His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, were already moved when they saw His Majesty the Emperor personally sacrificing the victims.

Now that some officials have committed suicide, Zhu Youzhen has strengthened the effect of winning over the hearts of the people by paying tribute to the officials and people of Tongzhou.

In addition, Bazhou City at this time is drizzling again.

It was a gloomy day when pedestrians on the road wanted to break their souls, and the officials and people were naturally even more moved, sighing for the benevolence of His Majesty the Emperor, and the number of great Ming Qi was not exhausted.

In addition to the officers and soldiers who accompanied His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by sea, the 70,000 officers and soldiers of the First Guards Army of Zhou Yuji's Department and the Second Guards Army of the Beijing Camp were also moved when they saw this.

If it is said that Zhu Youzhen gave them back their military salaries before, it only allowed them to get material security and was willing to retreat south with Zhu Youzhen, the emperor.

Now, they are beginning to feel that following such a good emperor is not just about having something to eat, but also a sense of mission.

A sense of mission to protect this good emperor who loves the people like a son and makes contributions to him.

Although Zhu Youzhen is still panicked like a lost dog, he is still on the way to flee south, and has to face the encirclement and interception of Li Zicheng's army and the constraints of warlords from all walks of life.

But now, whether it is the officials, the army or the people, they all see hope from Zhu Youzhen and the hope of the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Luoyan's death has added a strong touch to Zhu Youzhen's actions today.

He didn't want to use his life to complete his cause of regaining the hearts of the people, but Zhang Luoyan's behavior undoubtedly helped him a lot.

Therefore, Zhang Luoyan was also posthumously named the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and posthumously named Zhongsuke.

However, just when the ministers Li Shu admired the wisdom of His Majesty Zhu Youzhen, Mrs. Liu, who was ordered to go to Baoding to preach Li Jiantai, came back with injuries and told Li Jiantai that Li Jiantai refused to allow the Ming army to enter Baoding City!

"Li Ge Lao said, even if it is the emperor's will, Li Ge Lao threatened to return to the new dynasty, read in the monarch and ministers, and did not send troops to arrest His Majesty, and also said that His Majesty can choose to go south or surrender to him, and join the new dynasty!"

After Mrs. Liu gritted her teeth and said, the ministers were all indignant after hearing it.

Even Zhu Youzhen felt that this pavilion elder was very shameless, seeing that Li Zicheng wanted to surrender Dashun surrendered, seeing that he still had 70,000 troops who did not dare to go out of the city to fight for fear of death, he said clearly, why deliberately put on a show and said that he was going to let himself go in the first game of the monarch and ministers, and he also wanted to let himself surrender to him, and let him go to Li Zicheng to ask for credit, it was really naïve!