With the ignition of the war in Xuanfu, the imperial court began to prepare for the war closely, Tongzhou began to become busy, both sides of the canal are full of people who pull fiber, they shouted a low trumpet, and slowly pulled the heavy ships full of grain transported from Shandong, autumn and winter are dry periods, on the shore, there is also a huge force of grain transport, under the escort of the soldiers of the Shandong General Military Office, the mighty march to Shenjing, stretching for dozens of miles.

In the afternoon of this day, Jia Jue walked on the way back to Shenjing under the escort of more than 100 personal soldiers, he has been staying in the barracks for the past few days, the emperor transferred 3,000 Lu Mi guns from the arsenal of the imperial city in one breath, and transferred 500 cavalry from the forbidden army, so that the Rui Shi battalion has 1,000 cavalry, and he recruited 2,000 young men to train into pikemen, plus 1,000 sword and shield hands, the Rui Shi battalion has 7,000 soldiers, plus officers and miscellaneous servants, nearly 9,000 people, becoming the battalion with the most soldiers in the Royal Forest Army, which also attracted the criticism of the civilian officials. However, the Imperial Forest Army is the private army of the Emperor of Heavenly Blessing, and they can only live their lives behind their backs.

Due to Niu Jizong's entry into the cabinet, the pressure on the Shoufu Wen dialect was greatly eased, and Liu Wenbin, the cabinet minister who was the leader of the Qingliu officials, for a while, the imperial power overwhelmed the prime minister's power.

As the sergeants continued to send back the news from the front, the atmosphere of the war became more and more intense, just yesterday, Jia Jue received the news from Dai Quan, and the secret agent of Nanzhen Fusi, who was lurking inside the Tatars, desperately sent a secret letter, the Tatars and the Warats had joined forces, and they were ready to go south through Datong Pass, and they wanted to retake the road of destroying Beijing first.

Speaking of which, this is all the credit of those civil officials, the spy said in the letter, originally the Warats were ready to fight to the death with the Tatars who took advantage of the fire to rob, and when they heard that the Warat leader Afu Li had received a mysterious letter, he changed his mind and shook hands with the Tatars, and the two clans put aside their grievances and joined forces to go south.

It's a pity that there is no evidence, and they can't be convicted just by relying on the words sent back by those spies, and also, listening to Dai Quan, all the secret spies in Dongchang buried in the mansion of Zhongshun Wangfu, Zhang Fu and others have lost contact, so they don't dare to wake up another group of spies who have been lurking for many years.

Although they have learned the horror of these people from Jiao Dakou, now even the secret spies who have been lurking in the East Factory for several years have been discovered and dealt with by them, which shows their caution.

After a stick of incense, Jia Jue finally arrived in Shenjing, five steps and a post at the city gate, ten steps and a sentry, the city has been under martial law, a team of Ming troops ran through the street, and the household department requisitioned a large number of people and horses and livestock in the city to carry materials for the household.

Everything was arranged in an orderly manner, and Jia Qi couldn't help but sigh at the war potential of the Ming Dynasty.

"Third Master!"

At the gate of the Earl's Palace, Jia Jue saw Jiao Da, who had disappeared for several days, Jia Jue turned over and dismounted, handed the reins to his own soldiers, and asked as he walked inside, "How is it?" ”

Jiao Da: "Third master, don't worry, at dusk the day before yesterday, the scout camp had already set off." ”

"Good! Later, I will give the grandfather another 100,000 taels, regardless of the process, just look at the result. The training of the scout battalion will be handed over to the grandfather. ”

Jia Jue nodded, since he knew that he would go to Xuanfu or Datong with the army to fight, he handed it over to the scout battalion, the original Jia family intelligence network a task, to explore the situation in Xuanfu and other places, especially the mountains, rivers and trails.

.......

In the palace of the king of Shu, Zhu Wuxiang paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, his heart was full of anger, until early in the morning he knew the news of the southern invasion of the Tatars and the Warats, and what made him even more unacceptable was that there were civil officials behind this matter, which made him unacceptable, and the words of Emperor Tianyou sounded in his ears again, the Ming Dynasty is the world of the Zhu family, and the civil officials can continue to be their official positions, but they are destined to live and die with the Ming Dynasty as the children of the royal family.

At this time, he had already regretted it, why did he believe in these civil officials so much?

But now, it's too late to regret it!

"Your Highness, Changshi is back."

At this time, the eunuch's report came from outside the door.

Zhu Wuxiang hurriedly said, "Hurry up, please come in." ”

After a while, Luo Yinghe hurriedly walked into the study, bowed to Zhu Wuxiang and said, "See Your Highness." ”

"How?"

Zhu Wuxiang asked anxiously.

Luo Yinghe replied: "Back to Your Highness, the second assistant was infected with a little wind chill and didn't see it." ”

Zhu Wuxiang's eyes were horizontal, "Infected with the wind cold?!" ”

There was silence, and Luo Yinghe did not answer immediately as usual, but looked at Zhu Wuxiang quietly.

Zhu Wuxiang stared at him, "What's wrong?" ”

Luo Yinghe then pondered the words and replied: "Come out of Zhang's mansion.... I met the carriage of Wu Shichang, the imperial historian, and waited for a stick of incense on the side, but I didn't see anyone come out...."

Zhu Wuxiang smiled coldly, "This is a tacit acquiescence." ”

Luo Yinghe sighed silently, "Your Highness, they are sure that you can't do without them, otherwise you wouldn't.... Ay! Before returning home, he went to the household department, saw Song Butang, and told him about the matter, he.... He wasn't surprised at all, just sighed. ”

Zhu Wuxiang was stunned and immediately asked, "What did he say?" ”

Luo Yinghe didn't answer, his eyes were full of sorrow, and he looked at Zhu Wuxiang, the king of Shu, fixedly.

Zhu Wuxiang was taken aback and said hurriedly: "What the hell is wrong?!" ”

After muttering for a while, Luo Yinghe sighed, "Song Butang said that the tragedy in the capital camp will reappear on the body of the Imperial Forest Army, and also... He also said that Jia Jue would die in the Hetao like his grandfather.... There are also their pawns in the Imperial Guards. ”

After speaking, Luo Yinghe leaned over and sat down on the chair, quietly looking at Zhu Wuxiang who was walking back and forth.

After a while, Zhu Wuxiang stopped his footsteps and said loudly: "Back then, the Jia family ended up miserable because of their support for Emperor Wuzong, and now just because their father reused Jia Jue, they will get rid of him, isn't it, as long as they are loyal to the royal family, they will get rid of them, this world is surnamed Zhu, not the world of this group of scholars!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Wuxiang turned around, saw Luo Yinghe looking at him, understood that he was out of shape, turned around and sat down next to Luo Yinghe, a blank look flashed in his eyes, and sighed: "Yinghe, you tell this king the truth, does Jia Jue really deserve to die?" Does the military really want to suppress it? Wen... Are civilians really credible? ”

Luo Yinghe: "Your Highness, the Holy Ancestor was able to regain the throne from the hands of Taizong and his family, relying on the support of the nobles, and the subsequent Northern Expedition was also the full support of the four kings and eight dukes. Although Sejong and Hyojong supported civilian officials in order to consolidate imperial power and suppressed the Xungui group, they still adhered to the bottom line, that is, the army was run by Xungui military generals. And Emperor Wuzong was determined to support Xungui to resist the civil officials when he saw that the civil official group was shackling the imperial power, but unfortunately, the success failed. The First Battle of Hetao caused almost all the two generations of Xungui to die in battle..."

Zhu Wuxiang looked at him with an inquiring gaze.

Luo Yinghe was also sad for a while, and then hardened his heart and said: "The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty know that His Royal Highness likes literature and dislikes martial arts, if His Highness has any ideas, it is better to take it slowly." As for Jia Jue, he is a good general, but unfortunately he can't be used by His Royal Highness. However, it is not possible to kill all the nobles, and there must be enough strength to balance the civilian clique. ”

Zhu Wuxiang slapped his palm on the case, stood up suddenly, and said, "Accompany this king into the palace!" ”

.......

As the Ming Dynasty began to prepare for the war in full swing, the 200,000 Tatar Warat coalition troops were also assembled, the low trombone sound echoed over the grassland, a team of fully armed soldiers began to line up to reorganize the troops, the 200,000 coalition army was black and oppressive, and the leader of the Warat, Ah Fuli, rode on a white horse, looking at the coalition army in front of him, and his eyes were full of yearning for breaking through the Han capital.

There are also different opinions within Warat about this southern expedition, especially the 30,000 right-wing households that have just been attacked by the Tatars, and some old people think that Warat has just experienced a great epidemic and has not yet recovered its strength, and the victory rate with the Ming Kai at this time is not high, and in addition, they do not believe in those Han officials.

Despite the resistance, Ah Shili still decided to unite the Tatars to conquer the Ming Dynasty in the south, firstly, because the clan had lost too many livestock in this epidemic, and it was difficult to survive the cold winter with these livestock alone, and a large amount of grain had to be looted.

Second, after forty years of recuperation, the Ming military strength was restored, and it was just through their internal strife that their elite army was annihilated again, so that the grassland was safe, and they could invade the south if they wanted to, and they would not be threatened by the Ming army.

"Whew-"

As the low trumpet sounded again, a group of cavalry rushed in the distance, led by the leader of the Tatars, Bayan Khan, and a hundred thousand Tatar horsemen saw their Great Khan and let out a thunderous cheer.

The smile on Ah Faux's face disappeared, the pressure on him from the Tatars was too great, and perhaps they could be weakened by the hands of the Ming army.

Seeing Bayan Khan rushing towards him, Ah Rude hurriedly greeted him, greeted him twice, and said directly: "It's not early, let's go!" ”

Bayan Khan nodded, waved his hand, the majestic horn sounded again, 200,000 coalition troops set off, and tens of thousands of herdsmen drove cattle and sheep behind the main army to march towards Daming....