The emperor gave an order, and the entire city of Beijing fell into chaos. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The officials of Shuntianfu, Wanping County, and Daxing County, with the household registration register, began to collect people from door to door under the leadership of the chief and Lizheng.

Before the common people could figure out what was going on, they were dragged up from the bed by the officials, put on their clothes haphazardly, and gathered on the streets and alleys. When they got to the streets, the officers were replaced by heavily armed officers and soldiers, and without telling them what they were going to do, they drove the terrified people out of the city.

Torches lit up on the wide official road, and the boyish young man and the gray-haired old man pushed the cart and carried the burden, escorted by the mighty army, and rushed to Tongzhou, which was fifty miles away, overnight.

It was extremely cold that night, and I don't know how many people froze to death on the way, but the officers and soldiers escorting them didn't care, and just blindly drove them to hurry.

At dawn, the first wave of minfu had already arrived in Tongzhou City, and the last minfu had just left Beijing City.

Tongzhou City is the end of the Grand Canal since ancient times, although the Yongle Emperor dredged the Tonghui River, so that the canal ships can go directly to the capital pond, but after all, the capacity is limited, and the capital has nowhere to build a vast area of granaries, so the grain and other materials transported from the south will be unloaded in Tongzhou, and then the capital needs to ship how much.

In order to manage the treasury of more than 100 countries in Tongzhou, the imperial court set up a warehouse yamen in Tongzhou, which was headed by a household servant, who was responsible for the collection, storage and transfer of the world's grain, and the four guard armies were specially responsible for protection, which showed the importance of Tongzhou.

Since Hongxi, the imperial court has emphasized agriculture and persuaded mulberry, encouraged production, and transported the grain and grass in the capital every year to reach a huge amount of four million stones, in addition to meeting the consumption of the military and civilians in the capital, there will be a surplus of one million stones every year, plus more than half of the grain and grass that has not been consumed this year, and now in the city of Tongzhou, there are more than 6 million stones of grain in total, if all are transported back to the capital, it is enough for all the soldiers and civilians to eat for 18 months!

As long as there is food, the city of Beijing is unfortunate, and a whole year and a half is enough to consume Wang Xian until the army is defeated and the people die!

Therefore, this is indeed the key to the success or failure of the imperial court today!

Yang Rong was personally in charge of this escort, and the commander of the 100,000 army was Li Xian, Marquis of Fengcheng. Before leaving the city, the prince warned Li Xian that he must obey Yang Rong's words and must not make any claims, in fact, Li Xian himself has no ideas, and he is naturally happy to listen to Yang Rong's deployment.

Yang Rong knew that the overall situation was related to success or failure, so he was naturally extremely vigilant, and sent countless scouts to closely monitor the wind and grass in all directions. He can't help but be unvigilant, Wang Xian's army is a hundred miles away from the capital, but it takes a long time to transport, Wang Xian's army may reach Tongzhou at any time, if he can't stop his attack, these grains will all fall into Wang Xian's hands!

Who knows what to be afraid of, that morning, there were scouts galloping to report, and the southwest found a brigade of unknown cavalry, which was coming to Tongzhou!

"Why did you come so fast?!" Yang Rong's expression tightened.

Li Xian was even more frightened and asked, "Could it be that the Daxing defense line was lost so quickly?!" "He is the son of Li Bin, the Marquis of Fengcheng, a famous general of Jingnan, and has a very good relationship with Zhu Zhanji, so he was entrusted with an important task. But he had never been on the battlefield at all, and when he heard the news that Wang Xian had been killed, he panicked and said, "How can that be good?!" ”

"Don't panic, if you are in a hurry, you will report it a long time ago. Wang Xian came so quickly, his army must not be much," Yang Rong calmed down and said, "We only need to transport our grain, and leave the rest to the escort army." ”

"Okay." Li Xian thought about it, there were 100,000 troops between Tongzhou and Beijing, and as long as Wang Xian's soldiers and horses were not many, it was estimated that he would not dare to act rashly.

The two of them ordered the army to enter a state of battle, and then waited anxiously for the follow-up news in Tongzhou.

The army that is now southwest of Tongzhou is the 5,000 cavalry led by Xu Huaiqing.

Last night, Wang Xian's army went north, and the vast and flat North China Plain was extremely suitable for cavalry galloping. At dawn, the army arrived at Daxing, sixty miles away!

Daxing is the Yiguo County of the capital, known as the capital of the world, half of the city of Beijing is under the jurisdiction of Daxing County, and the importance of its location can be imagined. After Zhu Zhanji took power, in order to guard against the Shandong side on the side of the couch, he set up three lines of defense in the south of the capital, the first two were Cangzhou and Langfang, and the third was Daxing.

This Daxing defense line, which is only eighty miles away from the south gate of the capital, is the last barrier of the capital, and it is naturally the top priority of the deployment. Zhu Zhanji sent an army of 50,000 and conscripted tens of thousands of migrant laborers to build a 60-mile-long and more than one-zhang deep ditch from Yufa Town, the southernmost part of Daxing County, to the westernmost Changzi Battalion. As soon as there is a stir, the 50,000 troops stationed along the trench can arrive as soon as possible.

The news that Wang Xian's army appeared in Zhuozhou had already reached Daxing yesterday, and in the middle of the night, the imperial court issued a strict decree, ordering the officers and soldiers of the garrison to fight to the last man, and Wang Xian must not be allowed to cross the Daxing defense line. In addition, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will also personally lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to come to the town quickly, and he will be able to arrive in one day at the latest.

Daxing's guard Zhang Xuan is the third brother of Zhang Fu and Zhang Hui. When the Han King first rebelled, he was ordered to seize the Nanjing City Gate, and almost captured Zhu Gaochi, who was still the crown prince at the time. Later, the Han King was defeated, and Zhang Wei was naturally arrested, but with Zhang Fu and Zhang Hui there, he still saved his life, and since then he has been locked up at home and has not left the house.

In order to deal with Wang Xian and his party, Zhu Zhanji really did not dislike it, and even turned out this kind of goods that had been in the corner for many years and entrusted him with an important task. Of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not unreasonable, how to say that he is also the blood of the old Zhang family, and his ability to lead troops to fight is still excellent, and more importantly, he hates Wang Xian to the bone, and he will never fall to the Wang Party!

Knowing that Wang Xian appeared in front of him, Zhang Xuan was in a state of extreme excitement, others were afraid of Wang Xian, but he was not afraid. He blamed Wang Xian for the reason why he hadn't seen the light of day for so many years, and he couldn't wait to cut off Wang Xian's head to vent his hatred!

It was Zhang Xuan who patrolled the Daxing defense line overnight, urging all the enemy towers and lookouts to keep their eyes open, and they could not let go of any trouble! He also ordered all the soldiers to sit on their backs and arrive as soon as there was a military situation! This thing is already a bit perverted, and it has become more and more brutal after being locked up for a few years, and after this time he came out of the mountain, I don't know how many officers and soldiers who dared to disobey him were killed, and the soldiers under his command were silent, how could they dare to slack off on his orders.

It was Wang Xian's forward army, as soon as it appeared near the trench, the sentinels of the watchtower lit the beacon fire at the first time, and the first guard army stationed several miles away immediately arrived, and the rest of the distant troops also immediately dispatched, and they would arrive in a moment.

Wang Xian and Mo Wen rode at the front of the team, their expressions solemn when they saw this, they didn't expect the reaction of the officials and soldiers to be so fast.

Time waited for no one, and there was no time to make another plan, so the two of them urged their soldiers to move the barricades quickly, and on the other hand, they personally dismounted, and together with the soldiers, braved the severe cold, carried two or three zhang long logs, rushed to the edge of the ditch, and laid the bridge over the ditch!

At this time, the nearest guards and horses had not yet arrived, and the 500 officers and soldiers stationed in the enemy tower saw that Wang Xian and they were actually going to build a bridge, and they rushed out desperately, trying to stop the bridge!

Zhang Xuan had already given a strict order, whoever let Wang Xian break through from their defense area, all the officers and soldiers stationed in the garrison would be beheaded! No official or soldier dared to suspect the ferocity of that madman, and even if they tried their lives, they couldn't let Wang Xian pass them!

Wang Xian's soldiers had been waiting for a long time, and immediately blocked the officers and soldiers with dense rain of bullets and arrows! The officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, but they still insisted on returning fire with muskets and bows and arrows, and they were also shot down!

This unexpectedly fierce battle obviously shows that the previous easy battle of Ku Ding is gone!

On Wang Xian's side, a log had just been erected, and it was desperately pushed by the officers and soldiers who rushed over in the rain of arrows. Although the officer was immediately shot into a hedgehog, the log also slipped into the trench!

Several times, Wang Xianjun still couldn't build a bridge, and the soldiers were helpless for a while.

Wang Xian's face was pale, and he knew that he had underestimated the enemy. Although he has always reminded himself to be cautious and walk on thin ice, since the Great King City, he has conquered every battle and played with the enemy in the palm of his hand, and he still can't help but breed the mood of underestimating the enemy.

Wang Xian thought that tonight was extremely cold, and the officers and soldiers did not expect him to come so quickly, and it was very likely that he would not come out of the fortress, so he could take advantage of the darkness before dawn to use the rapid bridge erection tools developed by the Jinyi Wei Liu, and it only took a short time to erect the bridge and sneak over the trench. As long as you go through the trenches, you will have nothing to fear.

Who knew that the officers and soldiers actually used countless fires to illuminate the sixty-mile defense line as bright as white ground, and they didn't give them a chance at all! And the reaction speed was so fast, rushing out before they could build a bridge!

Wang Xian didn't care about reviewing it at all, the guards and horses were already close in front of him, if he delayed any longer, this bridge would not be built!

In a hurry, he jumped to his feet and shouted, "This can't be done!" ”

Xin Xin Yan behind him glanced at each other, waved his hand and signaled several junior disciples to jump on the log, Xin Yan himself jumped up, and shouted to the soldiers carrying the log: "Send us over!" ”

The soldiers were shocked, roared and rushed to the edge of the trench with the logs on their shoulders, and then threw them forward!

The heavy log flew up in the air, and a few monks actually stood firmly on it, flying to the opposite shore with the log!

"Shoot, shoot them!" Only half of the 500 officers and soldiers were left, but reinforcements were close at hand, so how could they have wasted their efforts? Seeing a monk flying over with the logs, he was not surprised, and the deputy Qianhu of the team leader pointed at them and shouted, "You can't let them come!" ”

The archers no longer cared about the other side, and shot their arrows at the monks on the logs! (To be continued.) )