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Before leaving, Wang Xian instructed him thousands of times: "You lead the army to the northeast, without going through Daxing, go directly to Tongzhou." I will lead the main force to attract the army of Daxing, so that they do not dare to pursue. ”

"This is more than 110 miles to Daxing, you have to set off tonight, you must arrive within a day, if you can take Tongzhou by surprise, it is the best, but if you don't have a chance, don't force it, as long as you deter the officers and soldiers, let them delay for a few days, I will lead the army to arrive."

"The imperial court will definitely attach great importance to Tongzhou, and you must not leave it to chance, if they send a large army, you must not hit the stones, as long as you harass them and delay their transportation of grain." Wang Xian said in a deep voice: "There is also the worst situation, that is, the army of the imperial court is already in Tongzhou, although the latest intelligence shows that it is not, but the battle situation is changing rapidly, no one can say. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Xian said word by word: "If this happens, you must retreat immediately, and we will make another plan!" ”

Xu Huaiqing grinned and said, "My lord still has a backup plan?" ”

"Absolutely." Wang Xian nodded without hesitation and said, "What this duke has is a way!" ”

"Order!" Xu Huaiqing hugged his fists and wanted to take the order.

"Huaiqing." Wang Xian stopped him again, and Xu Huaiqing turned his head and looked at his lord. Wang Xian stared at the most courageous general under his command, sighed and said, "You are out of a thousand." ”

"Where?" Xu Huaiqing flatly denied it.

"I grew up in casinos." Wang Xian shook his head and said, "Your method of stealing dragons and phoenixes is really terrible." ”

"Hehe...... Xu Huaiqing smiled with a smile on his face: "Whatever the adults say, I don't admit it anyway." Saying that, he said with a straight expression: "And it is indeed the most suitable for me to go, although Lao Mo is stronger than me, but adults can't do without him for advice." Although Zhang Yi is also very powerful, after all, he has not been on the battlefield for several years, and our group of proud soldiers will not be convinced of his ...... for a while."

Xu Huaiqing Rory was long-winded, and wanted to continue to list why others can't do it, only himself. Wang Xian shook his head to interrupt him, looked at him with red eyes, and said with a choked voice: "You must come back alive!" ”

"Don't worry, Lord Yama won't dare to accept me!" Xu Huaiqing laughed and said, "I think I'm too noisy!" ”

Wang Xian patted Xu Huaiqing's shoulder heavily, unable to say a word.

Half an hour later, Wang Xian's army quietly left Gu'an County.

At dawn, the people who had been worried all night went out to take a look, and were surprised to find that there was no shadow of the army in the city, and the small county town had returned to its former tranquility......

In the area of Zhili, the plains are thousands of miles away and densely populated, so it is naturally impossible for Wang Xian's army to hide its tracks. Soon the capital got an urgent report that he led the army to appear in Zhuozhou!

This day happened to be the winter solstice, and the emperor and the crown prince and others were so shocked when they heard the news that they couldn't calm down for a while.

But after the wailing is over, you still have to think about it, you can't watch Wang Xian enter the capital and give up this flower, right?

Zhu Gaochi barely calmed down and gave an order to Zhang Cheng: "Let Dongchang not arrest Wang Xian's family first, I can't give him the truth anymore." ”

"Father!" Zhu Zhanji said anxiously: "Isn't this another show of weakness?!" ”

"Your Highness, don't be impatient," Yang Shiqi supported the emperor. "Before, we thought that Wang Xian's army was trapped in Badaling, and arresting their families could completely break their fighting spirit. But now, Wang Xian led people to break through the Yanyun defense line, and the troops approached the Jingshi, and then arrested their families, which would only have the opposite effect. ”

"......" Zhu Zhanji stopped talking.

After Zhang Cheng went down, Yang Shiqi said in a deep voice: "Don't worry too much, the emperor still has 200,000 elite forbidden troops in the capital, and there are still 50,000 in Daxing, and the Qinwang troops from all over the country are still arriving one after another, and the fastest tens of thousands of Liaodong troops will arrive in Beijing almost in the next two days." The armies of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were also on the road, forming a joint encirclement of Wang Xian. The hearts of the people in the world are all in the emperor, and the odds are also in the emperor! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Wang Xian's surprise attack to break through the Bauhinia Pass certainly made everyone startled, but it didn't really change much of the situation!" Yang Rong also cheered up the emperor and said: "Moreover, his strength is far weaker than that of the imperial court, and he left more than 100,000 main forces outside the pass, which is a taboo for soldiers!" As long as we hold on to the wilderness and wait for reinforcements, and don't give him a chance, we will definitely be able to defeat him when reinforcements continue to arrive! ”

"That's a cliché." Yang Shiqi also nodded approvingly: "If it is freezing today, the grain and grass of Wang Xian's army can only rely on Shandong to supply, we can order the Qinwang army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Henan to directly attack Shandong, and focus on copying its back road and cutting off its grain route!" In this way, in just a month or two, Wang Xian will be tired of the old soldiers, and then it will be time for us to defeat them! ”

There is no doubt that this is a good method, because Wang Xian has an army of 70,000 or 80,000 at best, and it is no less difficult to attack the city of Beijing, which is garrisoned by 200,000 troops, than to attack Juyong Pass. As long as the imperial court held on to the city, Wang Xian had no way at all.

Zhu Gaochi also nodded in agreement, but Zhu Zhanji objected unhappily: "Wang Xian only led 20,000 soldiers and horses to pass the pass, and his arrogance is already very arrogant, if we have more than 200,000 troops but still can't shrink, it will definitely boost his prestige even more, and then the hearts of the people in the world will change, and I don't know how many states and counties will fall into his hands!" ”

"......" Zhu Gaochi and Er Yang's expressions darkened, how could they not know what Zhu Zhanji said. Although the Zhu family occupies the orthodoxy of the world, the people's hearts have always been like smoke, and when the army is really pressing, the army and the people will definitely look at the wind and surrender, and there will not be many people who die for his Zhu family.

Even if Wang Xian was finally pacified and these prefectures and counties were recovered, the damage to the imperial power would be irreversible. The world may even enter an eventful season from now on......

"Erchen is willing to personally lead an army of 100,000 and fight to the death with the king thief! Swear to defend your father and the court to the death! Zhu Zhanji became more and more passionate and asked: "Only by using the fastest speed and the most violent means to completely quell the rebellion can we defend the dignity of our Ming Dynasty!" ”

"You're right...... Zhu Gaochi rarely didn't scold Zhu Zhanji, and said: "However, the safety of Jingshi is a matter of social security, and you must not take risks, so let's do what Master Yang said." ”

"Hey......" Zhu Zhanji gritted his teeth and looked extremely disappointed.

Yang Rong couldn't take care of His Royal Highness the Prince's emotions at the moment, and immediately continued: "Your Majesty, in addition to concentrating the army and strengthening the city defense, there is one more important thing at the moment, which must be done immediately!" After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "It's the clear field of the wall!" ”

"Kiyono Fortified?" Zhu Gaochi couldn't help frowning, he was not an idiot emperor who didn't understand anything, he knew that these four words were easy to say, but it meant a disaster for the common people......

"Roughly divided into two at the same time, one is to immediately send officers and soldiers to collect all the grain of the people of Gyeonggi into the city of Beijing." Naturally, it is impossible for the common people to obediently hand over the grain for the winter, and as for what means the officials will use to collect the grain, it is not the scope of consideration by the high-ranking scholars.

However, Yang Rong knew that the emperor had always regarded himself as 'diligent and loving the people', so he immediately gave Zhu Gaochi the steps down and said: "The national disaster is at the head, so we can only let the people suffer first, and after Wang Xian is pacified, we will return the people with interest." If the emperor still doesn't want to go, he can also exempt the people of Gyeonggi from paying taxes for a year, and I believe they will be extremely happy. ”

"Hey, that's the only way......" Zhu Gaochi sighed sadly: "I hope the people don't hold too much grudges." ”

"The emperor has always loved the people like a son, and the people must be able to understand the difficulties of the monarch's father." Yang Rong said in a deep voice: "There is a second thing, it is not so tricky. It is to transport the grain from Tongzhou to the capital immediately! ”

"It's easy." Zhu Gaochi breathed a sigh of relief, he was really worried that Yang Rong would propose something more tricky, "Let the military department and the household department step up to do it." ”

"I'm afraid it's not enough!" Yang Rong shook his head categorically and said: "There are dozens of large granaries in Tongzhou, as well as dozens of warehouses of various materials, the materials are vast, such as today's cold and freezing, water transportation is not passable, relying on the strength of the military department and the household department, it can't be transported in a month." After a pause, he said: "The minister asked the emperor to issue an order overnight to mobilize all the carriages and horses in the capital, immediately send a large army and people to Tongzhou, and be sure to transport all the military supplies in Tongzhou back to the capital within three days!" ”

"Why three days?" Zhu Gaochi asked in a deep voice.

"Because, within three days, Wang Xian will definitely not be able to reach Tongzhou!" Yang Rong is confident. Zhuozhou is in the southwest of the capital, Tongzhou is in the east of the capital, the straight line distance is nearly 200 miles, and there is a Daxing defense line composed of tens of thousands of troops of the imperial court in the middle...... It was used to guard against Shandong, although they didn't expect them to stop Wang Xian, but they could still do it by delaying him for a few days.

"How many soldiers and horses, how many people?" Zhu Gaochi nodded and asked again.

"Weichen estimates that at least 200,000 people are needed, and 100,000 troops are sent at the same time to ensure both speed and safety." Yang Rong replied in a deep voice.

"200,000 people?!" Zhu Gaochi gasped, there are less than 100,000 people in the capital who come to serve from all over the country, where will the rest be recruited?

"I can only let the people of the capital contribute! All households, regardless of status, men over the age of 14 and under the age of 60, must be dispatched! Yang Rong had already thought of a countermeasure and replied immediately.

"Hey, that's the only way to ......" Zhu Gaochi sighed, what a catastrophe this is!

"Your Majesty, the ministers are going to do it!" Time waited for no one, Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi immediately retired, and Zhu Zhanji couldn't care about eating dumplings, so they left the Qianqing Palace together.

In the deep palace room, it was extremely silent all of a sudden, and without the noise of the prince and scholars, Zhu Gaochi felt more and more frightened. The burden in his heart aggravated his condition, and the coughing sound continued to echo between the beams and pillars, Zhang Cheng hurriedly served medicine to the emperor and helped him get up and go back to the dragon bed to rest.

Who knew that it didn't matter if he didn't get up, when he got up, the emperor only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and he fainted all of a sudden......

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" In the palace, a hectic scene was staged again, "Imperial Doctor, quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor!" (To be continued.) )