The arrest of Wei Xianji, Zhang Dingguo, and the chief steward is a reasonable surprise for Xiao Yu. After Xiao Yu returned to the camp in Qizhou with the three of them, he handed over Zhang Dingguo and Wei Xianji to the disposal of Praruo and Tang Chunyu.

But in the final analysis, these are all small things, and for Xiao Yu now, there is only one real big thing, and that is to return to the Eastern Capital. Since Xiao Lin, until Xiao Yu, the Xiao family has settled in the Eastern Capital for 16 generations, Xiao Yu was born and grew up in the Eastern Capital, it can be said that the Eastern Capital is Xiao Yu's hometown. After careful calculation, Xiao Yu has been away from home for nearly seven years, and although he came back a few times halfway, he came and went in a hurry, like a passerby. Only this time, he wants to go back openly, with dignity.

Wealth does not return to the hometown, just like a brocade night walk.

On the fourth day of the first month of March, the Northwest Left Army in Qizhou left Qizhou, and at the same time, the Northwest Central Army in Beidi and the Northwest Right Army in Yuzhou also opened at the same time, and the Northwest Army entered Zhili Prefecture on three sides.

Zhao Qing, who guards Zhili Prefecture, is sitting and waiting to die no matter how you look at it.

As for Xiao Lie, many well-intentioned people secretly speculated in their hearts that looking at the posture of the prime minister, it would not be impossible to see things, and they planned to give away this pair of belongings and go back to be a rich man, right? After all, Xiao Yu and Xiao Jin are not outsiders, they are their own sons, and this great family always has to be given to them, it is just a matter of time or time.

What Xiao Lie thinks is unknown to outsiders, but the situation on the frontal battlefield is not unexpected.

The Northwest Army was invincible.

Without the 200,000 Son of Heaven pro-army, and without the Northeast Army, he can only rely on his own Zhili Prefecture to face the Northwest Army, just like an old man who is about to rot in the face of a big man in the prime of life, and he has not much power to fight back, so he can only retreat one after another.

If the world has not yet been in turmoil, no matter how powerful the Northwest Army is in the world, it can only be in a corner of peace, precisely because the orthodoxy is deep-rooted, and it is the power of one place to fight the power of the world, even if it can win for a while, but in the end it still cannot escape the end of defeat. However, now that the situation has changed, various places have been divided, even if someone wants to be Qinwang, it is difficult to cross the long road of war to the Eastern Capital, so in the final analysis, it is now a place to fight a place, not a place to fight the world, and the difference is very different.

How to distinguish whether an army is an elite soldier depends on whether it can fight against the wind. Once the war does not go well, it will be defeated for thousands of miles, and it will be panicked like a lost dog. After the failure of the Southern Expedition, the Northwest Army was still able to build after the Northern Expedition, so the Northwest Army was an elite soldier. After the Northeast Army retreated to the Northeast and faced the Northwest alone, the weakness of its own combat strength was completely exposed, so it was not considered an elite soldier.

What's more, the morale of the three battalions is already sluggish, and people's hearts are fluctuating, and many "smart people" are not thinking about how to resist the enemy, but how to find a way to serve the new lord of the Northwest. There are "wise people" in everything, but there are no "fools" in everything. Everyone is a wise man, and no one is a fool, so this mountain will naturally not be moved. Now that everyone wants to serve the new Lord, the city will not be able to defend it.

Xiao Yu came to the front of Bohai Mansion City again, but unlike the last time he was lightly armed, this time Xiao Yu had tens of thousands of elite riders, and Lan Yu also accompanied him.

As the gateway of Zhili Prefecture, Bohai Mansion is extremely important in terms of topography and location, and it is also where Zhao Qing's heavy troops defend.

Xiao Yu stood on his horse, and the army behind him also stopped suddenly.

He looked at the Bohai Mansion City at the end of his line of sight, and said to Lan Yu beside him: "Ruiyu, you are now in charge of the secret guard affairs, are Zhao Qing's whereabouts confirmed?"

Lan Yu replied: "Zhao Qing is the old man of the secret guard, and his whereabouts are extremely secretive, and now he can only identify three places, Bohai Mansion, Zhili Prefecture Mansion, and Dongdu. ”

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Eastern Capital.

Today's court meeting is full of gloomy clouds, even the middle-level officials who are at the back of the shift have a feeling of black clouds pressing the city. In particular, the fact that the great prime minister Xiao Lie did not appear in the court made people speculate a lot, could it be that the prime minister had lost control of the eastern capital? But seeing that Sun Ligong and other Xiao Lie's henchmen were still standing safely on the court, they didn't feel like it.

The little emperor Qin Xian sat on the dragon chair with an expressionless face, and Sun Shilin, the master of ceremonies, stood on one side, bowing and lowering his hands. There was also a bead curtain behind the dragon chair, and a cold gaze coldly scanned the many courtiers through the bead curtain, making all Zhu Zi Gongqing deeply feel the majesty of this queen mother.

Sun Ligong, the governor of the capital, Xiao Gongyu, the new governor of the left capital of the eastern capital, and Zhou Jingchao, the leader of the civil service, all lowered their eyebrows and did not look at the noble woman.

It should have been Sun Shilin shouting "Something to start, nothing to retreat from". But today, for some reason, Sun Shilin, the chief eunuch of the Great Interior, did not mean to open his mouth at all, his eyes looked at his nose, his nose looked at his heart, like a clay puppet.

The woman's cold voice sounded, "Zhang Haijiu has fallen, Jin Yu has fallen, Sun Zhihua has fallen, Zhang Huadi is dead, Ding Shiguang is dead, Yuzhou is lost, Beidi is lost, Qizhou is lost, and now there is only one Zhao Qing and one Zhili Prefecture left, the Northwest Army is approaching the eastern capital, does the Zhongqing family have a good plan?"

The entire court was silent.

The pin drop can be heard.

Many buried their heads fiercely, as if to learn from the shrunken turtle.

Sun Ligong raised his head slightly, and then quickly lowered his head again.

The woman behind the bead curtain took a deep breath, tried her best to slow down her tone, and said in a deep voice: "On weekdays, everyone is pointing out the country, talking about invincible opponents at every turn, governing the country and cooking Xiaoxian at every turn, as if everyone can enter and exit the phase, why are they all dumb now? What about Da Zheng's courtiers? Do you just watch Xiao Yu show off his power outside?"

The next moment, in addition to Sun Ligong, Xiao Gongyu, Zhou Jingchao and other three, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military knelt on the ground, "The incompetence of the ministers has caused the court to be humiliated, and the ministers cannot be blamed for their death." ”

The Empress Dowager Jade slapped her chair fiercely and bowed her head, and said hatefully: "What's the use of wanting you to die? I want Xiao Yu, a traitor, to die! I want those 500,000 Northwest rebels to die with Xiao Yu!"

After looking at each other, Xiao Gongyu, who was at the forefront of the line, walked out of the queue, bowed his head and said in a deep voice: "Queen Mother, please be cautious." ”

The Empress Dowager Jade was suffocated suddenly, and after a long time, she said coldly: "Why did the Xiao Qing family say this?

Xiao Gongyu slowly raised his head, looked at the bead curtain, and said calmly: "The king of the northwest raised troops this time, just to do the things of the Qing monarch, not to rebel, if the queen mother's words reach the ears of the king of the northwest, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the king of the northwest and the soldiers in the northwest." ”

The Jade Empress Dowager's chest rose and fell violently, her face turned slightly pale, and her palms pressed the armrests tightly, almost embedding her five fingers in this fine red sandalwood.

This sentence is the real mind of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces.

Leave a line in your words, and see you in the future.

If Xiao Yu is offended to death in his words now, and Xiao Yu really enters the Eastern Capital in the future, then how can he go to the feet of the King of the Northwest to beg for mercy and beg, or even ask for another wealth?

Then again, Xiao Gongyu is now in charge of the Eastern Capital Forbidden Army, and he is in power, and he and Xiao Yu are a family in the final analysis, if you talk about it carefully, Xiao Yu still wants to call him uncle, he naturally doesn't want to tear his face with Xiao Yu at this time.

The Empress Dowager Jade said three good words in a row, "The minister of the bones, Lord Xiao is really the minister of the court." ”

Xiao Gongyu bowed his head slightly, and retreated back into the train, without adding fuel to the fire.

A great court meeting ended unhappily like this.

The ministers slowly withdrew from the hall, unlike before, everyone's faces were extremely solemn, there was no chatter, only hurried steps.

Sun Ligong and Xiao Gongyu walked at the end and walked out of the hall side by side.

Sun Ligong said softly: "Lord Xiao was so majestic just now, he really has a daughter, and he acts from his heart. ”

Xiao Gongyu laughed and said, "Ming people don't say dark words, you and I are all people in the same boat, why hide it." ”

Sun Ligong paused slightly, and then said in a low voice: "Gong Xiao is now in charge of the Eastern Capital Forbidden Army, and he still needs to pay attention to the Nine Gates, don't let someone with a heart take the emperor hostage from the city and make another incident." ”