The sunset in Liaodong can be described as the remnant sun like blood at this moment.

Li Da led the remnants of Liaohaiwei and Dingliaowei, covered in blood, through the vast land of the northeast, chasing the footsteps of Cao Yi, the general soldier of Liaodong.

But chasing along the way, Li Da became more and more frightened, he saw several military flags of different guards, discarded on the side of the road like rags, and the corpses of the Ming army were countless.

The scene of robes and corpses all over the field made Li Da feel sad and indignant. Once upon a time, he went to Liaodong under Shen Yichen's arrangement, with the ambition of chasing the Tartars in the north and drinking Ma Hanhai, but now he has encountered a complete defeat.

Why is this happening?

Li Da asked himself in his heart, he couldn't understand how the Liaodong Army, which was at its peak, could become a weak person slaughtered by the Mongol army in a short period of time.

It's not just Li Da who wants to know this answer, but the remnants of more than 2,000 people, almost everyone can't accept the facts in front of them.

Once the Liaodong Army was so brave and brave, suppressing the Jurchens in the north, suppressing Korea in the east, and conquering the Tatars in the west. Now he is like a lost dog, being chased and killed by his own men, what an irony!

Just when the morale of the remnants plummeted, the scouts who had been sent out to investigate brought even greater bad news.

Cao Yi, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and the officers of the Dusi have been found, but they are surrounded by the Tatar and Jurchen coalition forces, and the current situation is dangerous!

"Guerrilla Li, what should we do next?"

Ma Hao, the commander of the Dingliao Guard, heard the news of the scout, and turned to Li Da to ask.

Although the two were both commanders of the First Guard, Li Danai was recommended by Chengguo Gong, and after the Jingshi General Gate, he was added a high military position as a guerrilla general, while Ma Hao was a regular garrison officer.

Under the premise that there is no systematic command of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, the dominance of the army is determined by the level of the military rank, and Li Da naturally became the supreme commander of this remnant by default.

"Kill it!"

After saying this sentence fiercely, Li Da turned his horse's head to look at the soldiers behind him.

He knew that the defeat was encountered, and the scene of robes and corpses all over the road made the morale of the brothers of Liaohaiwei and Dingliaowei low.

But as a soldier, you have no qualifications to be afraid!

"Brothers, the scouts have come to report that General Cao and Chief Du have been surrounded, and it's time for us to play again."

"Ben will know that he has just been out of the siege, and many brothers may still have a good time to live after the catastrophe."

"But here Ben just wants to ask, are you afraid of the Tartars?"

Li Da's expression was extremely resolute, and a surging battle intent surged out, not at all like he was almost surrounded and annihilated.

"I'm afraid of an egg, Lao Tzu has been a soldier in Liaodong for almost 20 years, and he has no less than ten Tartar dogs in his hands, when have you ever been afraid!"

An old soldier stood up indignantly, he had fought the Mongols for so many years, and it was the first time that he had been chased and fled.

If you don't earn this breath back, you won't have the face to see those dead robes in the future.

"Lao Tzu can't read, so he doesn't know how to write the words he is afraid of!"

"If you want to kill the past, just say it, ask what?"

"When did Li Guerrilla become so civilized, did he come to Liaodong on the first day?"

All kinds of "vulgar" words came out of the mouths of the remnants of the soldiers, Liaodong is a bitter cold place, and those who can be stationed here to defend are all people with tenacity of mind.

Low morale is one thing, I'm afraid it's another.

Li Da, the chief, agreed with them, but they never got rid of the "squeamishness" of the Jingshi, and actually asked such words.

"Good, good, good!"

Li Da laughed wildly and said three good words in a row, this was the first time he led the soldiers of the Liaodong Guard Station to a bloody battlefield, and he really underestimated them.

This is the bloody nature that Liaodong Hanzi should have, and this is the courage that Daming Tiger Ben should have!

"If a man wants to repay the king's kindness, dying on the battlefield is a good death!"

"Brothers, the opportunity to be ashamed has come, this time to behead the Mongolian Tartars under Lao Tzu!"

"The Ming army is mighty!"

With the chanting of the battle horn of the Ming army, Li Da led the remnants of this army and rushed towards the Cao Yi Department in Liaodong with all his might.

As long as Liaodong is still there, it is impossible for the Mongolian army to complete the encirclement of the Ming Jing Division from the east and west!

On the other side, at the Dagu Haiphong Pass, the soldiers of the Fujian Guard Station have lined up and stood neatly on the beach on the coast, densely packed with no end in sight.

In addition to the more than 20,000 Fujian naval divisions directly under Shen Yichen's direct control, Shen Yichen also transferred more than 20,000 people from the Fujian Weisuo Army to form a coalition army of 45,000 people.

You must know that when Zheng He's fleet was at its largest, the number of officers and soldiers in the West was less than 30,000, and the number of 45,000 troops in the fleet had already set a new record for the Ming fleet, and it was a peak that other countries in this era did not dare to look up to!

Fortunately, this time he sailed along the Daming coastline, and Shen Yichen relied on the emperor's status as a celebrity all the way, and he was able to get supplies from various state capitals. Otherwise, the seriously overloaded fleet will probably not even be able to go to Songjiang Mansion, and it will have to face the scene of supply exhaustion.

Seeing such a magnificent scene, Mr. Dagu Qian couldn't help but shudder, and hesitated for a while before daring to walk to Shen Yichen's side and bow down: "Zhang Yanlei, a thousand households of the lowly Dagu Thousand Households, meet Admiral Shen." ”

"Zhang Qianhu came just in time, and the official happened to have something to ask."

"Admiral Shen asks, he must know everything and say everything."

Zhang Yanlei was busy responding, for fear that if he said slowly, he would make Shen Yichen unhappy.

"Zhang Qianhu, have you ever seen an official document from the imperial court about Liaodong?"

Shen Yichen sailed on the sea, without the support of the post station system, and the speed of obtaining information was much slower than on land.

Now even the news of Jingshi is as silent as a stone sinking into the sea, let alone the situation in Liaodong. If you want to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Tumubao, you have to surprise the first army from the flank of Liaodong, so as to disrupt the strategic deployment of Mongolia.

"A few days ago, there was a letter, which was an urgent military information submitted to the imperial court by the general army of Liaodong Cao, saying that the traces of large-scale Mongolian cavalry had been found in the border fort, and the three Jurchen tribes seemed to have moved and needed to be reinforced by the imperial court."

The Mongol Great Khan did not spend any time starting from both military and political aspects to gradually control the moves of the three Jurchen tribes in Liaodong, and Shen Yichen actually knew it.

It's just that he never expected that Zhu Qizhen would resolutely increase his troops in Luchuan, and then transfer soldiers and horses from Liaodong to fill the vacancy, which led to a hole in the flank defense line of the Beijing Division.

The operation of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall is true, only Zhu Qizhen did it!

"Has the imperial court increased its troops?"

"The imperial court ordered to draw some soldiers and horses from Shandong Wei, but now His Majesty is in short supply of materials for personal requisition, and all the officers and soldiers of Caoyun are transporting grain and grass to the north, so there is no extra spare power to load Shandong soldiers and horses."

As a result, the reinforcements of the Shandong Weisho could only divide into two routes, one by land to the north of Liaodong, and the other by boat across the Bohai Bay into Liao. The small one received an order from the imperial court to supply the Shandong fleet at the mouth of Dagu, so that he could learn about the imperial court's military report. ”

Mr. Dagu Qian told Shen Yichen what he knew, 1510, and he didn't dare to hide it in the slightest.

However, what the other party wants to do if he is not summoned to Beijing, that is something that the officials and nobles of the Forbidden City should consider, and it is important for a little Qian to save his life!

In later generations, from Shandong to Liaodong, the shortest and most convenient way was naturally Yantai, Weihai and other places, and the direct route to Lushun Dalian. However, in the Ming Dynasty, it was different, if the army wanted to go to Liaodong by sea, it had to enter Liaodong Bay along the coastline.

Jinzhou, Yingkou and other important towns in eastern Liaodong were all set up around Liaodong Bay, rather than the prosperous port of Dalian in later generations.

"Have the soldiers and horses from Shandong arrived?"

Shen Yichen asked, he had a vague premonition that the situation in Liaodong might deteriorate rapidly.

If there are not enough defenders, the sheep attack will turn into a real attack!

"Returning to Admiral Shen, no."

Hearing this answer, Shen Yichen's face became solemn.

He still knows a lot about the situation in Shandong, after all, he has been in charge of water control back then.

If the Fujian Navy Division can barely be regarded as a skinny camel, it still maintains the structure of the Navy Division and the most basic warship scale. So Shandong Sailor is purely an empty shell, where does the shipping capacity come from to help Liaodong?

"Li Zhan!"

Shen Yichen shouted behind him.

"The last general!"

"Immediately lead 10,000 sailors to board the ship and rush to Liaozhou Bay to support. If you see Li Da, the guerrilla general of Liaohaiwei, tell him that he must defend Liaodong to protect the flank of the Beijing Division, and form a threat to the left flank of the Tile Spur army. ”

"The last will obey."

After receiving Shen Yichen's order, Li Zan didn't even ask, so he agreed without hesitation.

Even in a sense, he still breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

After all, it is better to go to Liaodong to help than to go to Beijing without a call. Li Zan believes that Shen Yichen is a person who cares about his family and country, but it is useless to believe in himself, and the emperor believes in the court.

Song Zhiyue Wumu is loyal enough, it is not that he unjustly killed Fengbo Pavilion on trumped-up charges, not to mention that Shen Yichen's current actions are almost no different from a rebellious act.

Seeing Li Zan receiving the order to go to Liaodong to help, Feng Zheng, the commander of Fuzhou Zhongwei, showed a look of envy on his face, how much he thought that he was the one who could leave at this moment, and even if the court investigated it at that time, he could still find an excuse to get rid of the crime.

It's a pity that he is not a sailor, he can't control the fleet, and at the same time he got on Shen Yichen's thief ship, so it's not so easy to think about it again......

A day after Shen Yichen landed at Dagu Wharf, a messenger sent by Zhang Yanlei, the general manager, delivered the news to the imperial court.

Since Ming Yingzong decided to drive the expedition in person, most of the officials and relatives of the imperial court who were taken away, and the courtiers who stayed behind were under great pressure to deal with government affairs and prepare logistics materials, which led to the accumulation of many pieces of music, which could not be operated at all.

If it's just a shortage of manpower, then working overtime can always alleviate some of it, and if it's really not good, you can also send Beijing officials, masters and others to help. But the pit dug by Zhu Qizhen is far more than this, he led the army out to fight in a dashing manner, but he did not leave a backbone for the Jingshi to control the situation!

If the emperors of all dynasties were to go on expeditions or parades, they would choose to let the "first heir" of the throne of Jingshi supervise the country.

This person's identity is generally the crown prince, and if the crown prince is young, he may be replaced by another royal family.

No matter how much the emperor doesn't like this "first heir", in order to ensure the stability of the empire, he will still let the other party supervise the country until Zhu Qizhen plays a trick......

Historical records: Before the crown prince was established, he ordered the servant king Qiyu to "live and guard", and Jiao Jingfu, the commander of the horses.

The translated meaning is that Zhu Qizhen has not had time to establish the prince, so he asked Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, to stay in Beijing, and Jiao Jingfuzuo, the governor of the horses.

Seeing no, the word "Jushou" was used, rather than the traditional prison country.

This means that Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, only stayed in the capital and did not have a regent, which is equivalent to the Beijing division without a leader.

This is why, the follow-up recital of Shen Yichen's Shangshu Imperial Court into Beijing will sink into the sea. On the one hand, the efficiency of the imperial court center is slow, and too many affairs have been piled up to handle.

On the other hand, at such a critical moment, if a minister leads troops into Beijing, who dares to make a decision to agree or refuse?

Not to mention that Zhu Qiyu does not have the right to supervise the country, even if he does, it is estimated that he will not dare to make a decision easily.

So Shen Yichen's recital was placed in the General Administration Department, and the officials all adhered to the mentality that as long as I didn't do things, I wouldn't do anything wrong, and I dragged it out if I could.

But when the military information of Zhang Yanlei, the general manager of Dagu, was transmitted, this kind of thing could not be delayed, Shen Yichen's soldiers and horses had already landed at the Dagu Haiphong Pass on their own, and if it was delayed, I am afraid that they would come to Beijing in a few days!

At that moment, should the city be greeted by Kaesong, or should it be defended according to the city?

In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Qizhen, the king of servants, sat on the left side of the dragon chair, and the ministers in the hall had different expressions, and the air was filled with an atmosphere of panic.

After all, too many things have happened in a short period of time, on the one hand, the emperor is unfavorable, and he is stuck in Datong in the heavy rain. On the other hand, Shen Yichen led the army to Beijing without being called, and no matter how you look at it, there is a suspicion of rebellion.

It's really a blessing, and the misfortune is not a one-way street......

"Ministers, Shen Yichen led the Fujian Navy Division to Beijing without a call in the name of rushing to help, what do you think?"

After being silent for a while, Zhu Qiyu, who was sitting above, finally asked.

In fact, he knew very well in his heart that the emperor's brother only gave himself the name of "jushou", not the prison country, which was clearly a sign of jealousy.

Since ancient times, the royal family has no family affection, only supremacy and profit, even if Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu are brothers, and the relationship is not bad, but in the face of the throne and power, this bit of brotherhood is nothing.

After sitting in the center, Zhu Qiyu has always maintained a cautious attitude in words and deeds, that is, he does not want to offend the taboo of the Son of Heaven.

But now that a resolution is not discussed, Shen Yichen is about to come to the city.

"Shen Yichen's wolf ambition, taking advantage of His Majesty's personal expedition without being recalled to Beijing, is a traitor!"

Naiheng, the head of the household, immediately stood up to characterize Shen Yichen's actions.

The eunuch party led by Wang Zhen has long been incompatible with Shen Yichen, and the two sides have no intersection in Fujian, which is still calm. Now that Wu Zhao led the army to Beijing, it is equivalent to sending the handle to the hands of the eunuchs, so there is no need to wait for a long time at this time?

As soon as Nai Heng's words came out, it can be said that the audience was in an uproar.

The reason is that you have to put Shen Yichen in the position of a rebel, which means that the two sides have to fight each other.

Now that the defenders of the Beijing division are less than 20,000 people, and the armor and weapons are even more seriously insufficient, Shen Yichen explained in the recital that there are nearly 50,000 troops, and who will organize the defense when the dragons are leaderless?

In case the Jingshi is broken and the emperor returns to the division to find that the old nest is gone, then it will be a lot of fun......