"Hurry up, hurry up!"

"Beware of the things that are long lived, if they break something, they will ask for your head first!"

"Hooray, be careful with your ......"

At six o'clock (18:30) on the first day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, when the sun had set and the sky was gradually becoming a little cold, the soldiers and horses of Daxingzhou in the north of Yanshan were escorting Zhu Youxiao to retreat to the south.

On the flat river valley, two thousand Yiluan guard cavalry and five hundred brocade guards escorted nearly a thousand cooks, eunuchs, palace maids and people to the south, Zhu Youxiao rode on horseback, was closely guarded by the Yiluan guard cavalry, followed by Zhu Ciran, Wei Zhongxian, Wei Liangqing.

Zhu Ciran's immature face showed some fear, while Wei Zhongxian was pale, and Wei Liangqing was also nervous.

At this time, although Zhu Youxiao was a little flustered, at least he could calm down.

He sat on his horse with a gloomy face, and rode his horse back to the south.

There is only a hundred miles from Daxingzhou to Yanshan County, and at their current speed, they will be able to reach Yanshan County by noon tomorrow at most.

Yanshan County also has 3,000 infantry and 1,500 Han generals of Yiluanwei, as well as 1,500 net troops, counting the cavalry of Yiluanwei, how to say that there are 8,000 people.

What's more, after arriving in Yanshan County, as long as Zhu Youxiao walks fifty miles to the railway embankment in Beijing, he can take the train that has been opened to the local area to return to the capital.

In other words, by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, Zhu Youxiao can get on the train, and as long as he gets on the train, then he will be safe.

In addition, the 20,000 Shangzhiming troops who protected his hunt were also rushing towards Yanshan, and Tang Cai also rushed to the capital with a military report of 800 li.

The arrangement left by Zhu Youjian, as long as there is no accident, no one can hurt Zhu Youxiao.

"Queens, have they returned to the capital?"

Zhu Youxiao calmly analyzed the situation he encountered, and thought of Zhang Yan, Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cijiong and others who returned to Yanshan in advance.

"The queen has received the news, this time is estimated to be out of the Dading Palace, at the latest (21 o'clock) to arrive in Anjiang Town, from Anjiang Town to take the mobilized train back to Beijing."

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly responded, and Zhu Youxiao was relieved to hear that Zhang Yan and a few children were fine, but after this breath of relief, he immediately held back a breath of anger in his heart:

"What is the Shangzhi of Kaiping Mansion doing?!"

Zhu Youxiao tried his best to suppress his temper, but the anger in those words still couldn't be contained, which frightened Wei Zhongxian and Wei Liangqing.

It was the first time that Zhu Ciran saw his father so angry, but at this moment he was already frightened.

Speaking of which, he is only ten years old, and it is okay to gag on weekdays, but when he encounters a war for the first time, he can't help but be a little nervous.

At this time, he knew why his father was always reluctant to leave his Uncle Qi.

As long as Uncle Qi is by their side, he will give people a feeling of being as stable as Mount Tai, and everyone will not panic.

As long as he is there, he gives the people around him a sense of security.

It's just a pity that at the moment, his Uncle Qi Wang is more than 1,900 miles away in the capital, and even if he puts on his wings, he can't catch up with it.

"Hoo ......"

Zhu Ciran was scared, but Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath after getting angry, and then exhaled.

He calmed down his mood a little before continuing to ask Wei Zhongxian:

"When will Duoyan and the soldiers and horses of the Kaiping Mansion Gongwei Hunting Ground come to us?"

"This ......" Wei Zhongxian didn't understand military affairs, so he could only focus on Wei Liangqing, Wei Liangqing saw this, and immediately helped Wei Zhongxian to relieve the siege and said:

"Long live, the cavalry of the Gongwei battalion have stayed at the Biansai Stone Fort to patrol the outposts, and this time the people in charge of guarding the hunting ground are all foot soldiers and gunners, even if they don't care about the artillery, they will walk a maximum of a hundred miles a day."

"Previously, they had been stationed at a position of about 100 miles around our army, but now they are calculating, at most, it is seven or eight miles faster than our feet every hour, so it will take at least a day to catch up."

"However, as the troops and horses approach, there will be heavy troops rushing back from all the river valleys and rural roads in the north, and the closer to our army, the safer our army will be."

"Hmm......" Hearing Wei Liangqing's words, Zhu Youxiao rarely stretched his brows, but at the same time, he began to doubt this matter in his heart.

Although he knows everything about his safari in Yanshan, the time when the northern captives usually hunt grass valleys is after autumn, and this time he suddenly came to grab it in spring, which is somewhat weird.

His younger brother left Beizhili and went to Nuergan to give Beiyu a chance, but even if Beiyu wanted to rob it again, he would have to wait until May and June, not April, unless the grassland was hit by a white disaster last winter.

In addition to encountering a white plague, so that the northern captives had to go south to fight the grass valley, Zhu Youxiao couldn't think of another reason why the northern captives would appear in Kaiping Mansion.

If the grassland did not suffer from the white plague, then it means that someone leaked the news, and if the northern captives came towards Yanshan, it means that the people who leaked the news will not simply be the common people and gentry.

Zhu Youxiao knew very well that the last thing he wanted to die at the moment was the gentry and civil officials in the world.

As soon as he dies, no matter who takes the throne, his younger brother is either the regent or the emperor, and with his governing philosophy, the gentry and civil officials in the world will be even worse than the officials in the Zhu Yuanzhang period.

What's more, even if you want him to die, you won't pick this time, because ......

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Ciran, and after Zhu Ciran noticed his father's gaze, he also looked at him, but soon Zhu Youxiao withdrew his gaze.

If it weren't for Zhang Yan and Zhu Cijiong returning to Dading Palace in advance, all the male heirs of Zhu Youxiao and his vein would have suffered a catastrophe.

According to the "Daming Huidian" and "Huangming Zuxun", as soon as he dies in this vein, his younger brother will definitely sit on the throne, even if he refuses.

Civil officials may want to kill him Zhu Youxiao, but it is impossible to destroy his lineage, only by killing him and supporting his eldest son Zhu Ciran can they meet their needs to control the emperor and fight against their younger brother.

All in all, this matter was not done by civilian officials......

Zhu Youxiao's face turned dark, because there are only two factions in the government and the opposition at the moment, one is a civil official, and the other is the Qi Palace.

Under the palace of the king of Qi, there are officials from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, officials from the Yanshan faction, and nobles who are related to their younger brother Nawei Pingyang Guifei.

Looking at it this way, under the Qi Palace, there are at least three factions of people who have the possibility of making a move.

As an emperor, Zhu Youxiao couldn't think of which faction was moving for a while, but he quickly remembered Huanglong's move to Tianjin.

"Is it the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies......?"

Zhu Youxiao's brows tightened, and at this time, the Tang rider in front of him also rode over and replied with some news to Wei Liangqing.

Wei Liangqing kept nodding his head, this scene made Zhu Youxiao very concerned, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Long live, the road is safe thirty miles ahead." Wei Liangqing hurriedly responded, and when he heard his words, Zhu Youxiao immediately reacted.

At this moment, he is somewhat rumored, and everyone is suspicious.

It was impossible for Wei Liangqing and Wei Zhongxian to betray him, and although he exiled Wei Zhao and the three clans, Wei Zhao still had no worries about food and clothing in Nanzhou.

If they die, they have the most to lose.

Zhu Youxiao analyzed the pros and cons, and then continued to retreat south.

A short journey of eighty miles was not difficult for the Ming army's foot soldiers, let alone for the cavalry of Yiluanwei.

It's just that Zhu Ciran and Zhu Youxiao couldn't stand the suffering at all, so the team retreating south could only retreat at a speed of twenty miles per hour.

When they retreated, the guards of the Gongwei battalion, who were responsible for protecting the hunt, also marched in unison in all directions, heading towards Yanshan County.

At this time, Zhang Yan, Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Cijiong and others retreated south under the escort of Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch who stayed behind in Dading Palace.

More than 3,000 Yiluan guards and more than 1,000 Han generals escorted them south, and finally arrived at Anjiang Town in the southwest of Yanshan County at four o'clock.

"Woo-"

When the whistle of the train was heard by them, Zhang Yan's hanging heart also relaxed.

They sat in the carriage and waited for the train to start, and soon after, Liu Ruoyu came to the carriage with a general dressed in a general's armor.

"Your Highness, this is the news that the Miyun camp has gotten the news, and the Miyun general Jin who came to the rescue by train is the younger brother of Jin Xuan, the prefect of Yingzhou South Island."

"The Miyun Battalion Staff General Jin Qi led the troops to rescue him late, please forgive Your Highness!"

When he came to the car, Liu Ruoyu explained to Zhang Yan, and the twenty-six or seventeen-year-old general hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

Zhang Yan in the car opened the window and looked at Jin Qi when she heard this, and after learning that he was the younger brother of Jin Xuan, the first teacher of her child, she was immediately relieved, so she hurriedly asked:

"General Jin, can the train leave?"

"Back to Your Highness, there are only two railways currently open, and you can take 1,200 people south at the same time." Jin Qian explains:

"The six thousand soldiers and horses of the Huairou Battalion and the Changping Battalion have been assembled towards Miyun, and after His Highness gets on the train, he can go straight to the capital without worrying about safety."

"......" Listening to Jin Jina's somewhat different way of speaking from ordinary Daming Wenwu, Zhang Yan frowned: "Is General Jin also a graduate of Yanshan?" ”

"The last general was indeed born in the Yanshan Military Academy." Jin Qi hurriedly responded, and Zhang Yan also hesitated a little when she heard that he was from Yanshan.

Zhang Yan is not a fool, she knows very well that if this incident is not an accident, it should involve the Qi Palace.

She is now with two imperial heirs, if something happens to Zhu Ciji and Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran have an accident with them, then ......

Thinking of this, Zhang Yan could only ask tentatively: "How many soldiers and horses did General Jin Shen bring?" Can you escort us south by land? ”

"This ......" Jin Qian lowered his head and muttered for a few seconds, as if he was a little embarrassed:

"Your Highness, please forgive me, the last general is now preparing to lead the troops to Yanshan County to rescue the driver, His Royal Highness has Yiluan Wei and the Han generals and the Jing army by his side, and he is already very safe, and he can arrive in the capital safely without the last general."

"What's more, there has never been an accident since the construction of the railway, as long as Your Highness takes the railway south, you can reach the capital in three hours, but it takes at least two days by land, please think twice, please think ......twice."

Jin Jin's words are all about wanting Zhang Yan and them to leave the battlefield and return to the capital as soon as possible, although Zhang Yan is suspicious of Qi Wangfu, she has nothing to believe, so she can only choose to believe in Jin Qi.

"Well, if you are foolish, arrange it." Zhang Yan bowed slightly, and then explained to Liu Ruoyu.

"The slave and the maid lead the decree." Liu Ruoyu hurriedly responded when he heard this, and then retired with Jin Qi.

One of them went to the train to add water and coal, and the other waited for the follow-up soldiers and horses to arrive at the train station, and then prepared to lead the troops north.

After tossing like this for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Yan and the others got on the train for the first time.

Zhu Cijiong and Zhu Cijiong were too young to stay up and fall asleep, while Zhang Yan was comforting Fan Guifei and them on the train.

Zhu Youxiao brought too many people on this trip, and there were nearly 1,000 concubines and palace maids serving them, so in the first train, there could only be less than 100 pure soldiers.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Miyun Camp arrived by other trains, and after there were more cars, six trains were sent out at intervals at the station, and Zhang Yan and the others were able to take less than 3,000 people south.

Liu Ruoyu took the remaining 2,000 people and waited for the subsequent train to arrive at the station, while Jin Qi galloped towards Yanshan County with 3,000 soldiers and horses from the Miyun Battalion.

Later, perhaps because he felt that the speed of the foot soldiers was too slow, he took more than 500 horsemen in the camp to gallop lightly and rushed towards Yanshan County.

At the same time, with the urgent delivery of eight hundred miles, the civil and military officials in the capital also knew about Lin Dan Khan's knock.

Late at night, bells and drums rang in the capital, and hundreds of officials above the fourth rank hurriedly wore official uniforms to the Huangji Gate.

By the time they all arrived at the Imperial Gate, it was already seven quarters (22:45).

In the gatehouse of the Huangji Gate, Gu Bingqian, Yuan Keli, Shi Fenglai, Sun Chengzong and other cabinet ministers, six departments were all in the matter, and six books were present.

Looking at the more than 100 officials with more than four grades, Gu Bingqian also told the matter, and this statement blew up.

"The guards of the Shangzhi Governor's Mansion are unfavorable, and they should be punished!"

"You have to send troops and horses to rescue the driver quickly!"

"Transfer to the Zhigong Guard Battalion and the Imperial City's Flying Bear Guard and Dragon Tiger Guard to rescue!"

"What is there to discuss about this? Hurry up and save the car to avoid the recurrence of the civil fort! ”

For a while, there was a lot of noise in the hall, and Gu Bingqian also looked at Yuan Keli and Zhu Xieyuan.

These two people are one of the few people in the cabinet who personally led the troops to fight and won the war, so Gu Bingqian needed them to analyze the situation.

At this juncture, although the people below were very chaotic, their cabinet and the twelve ministers of the six ministries seemed very calm.

The chaos among the people below was due to party strife, but the twelve of them knew that only the people from the Qi Palace's Mansion were the ones who did the action on this matter, and it could not be them.

"Jin Qi, the general of the Miyun battalion, has already led troops to support Yanshan County by train, and there are also eight battalions of soldiers and horses around Yanshan County to support, although they are all foot soldiers, but there are still two thousand cavalry of Yiluanwei by his side."

"Although the northern captives are menacing, it is impossible to know the specific location of Banzai."

"At present, as long as we mobilize three battalions of soldiers and horses from Huairou, Changping, and Jizhou to go out of the Great Wall to rescue the driver, and escort Banzai to the railway station in Anjiang Town to take the train south."

Zhu Xieyuan was the first to speak, and his tone was calm, not worried that the emperor would be besieged by Lin Dan Khan.

He knew very well the emperor's character, and when he encountered this kind of thing, he would definitely protect himself and retreat first, and would not lead troops to fight with the northern captives like Yingzong and Wuzong.

Therefore, as long as the emperor wanted to retreat, the northern cavalry, who could not find his position, could only retreat after plundering.

"Maohe is right, long live the safety and worry-free, the key is to repel the northern captives, so as not to enter the customs and plunder."

Yuan Keli's idea was the same as Zhu Xieyuan's, that is, Lin Dan Khan could not be allowed to enter the Great Wall to plunder.

Due to the war in the northeast, the Shangzhi Gongwei battalion in the Guannai was transferred to the three prefectures of Taining.

At present, the 30 battalions of the Gongwei Battalion of the Taining Three Prefectures actually let Lin Dan Khan rush to Duolun County, so the loyalty of these 30 battalions of soldiers and horses is up for debate.

Not counting these 30 battalions of soldiers and horses, the number of Gongwei battalions in the pass is only 20 battalions, and the 20 battalions of soldiers and horses are scattered in various provinces, and there are only six battalions of soldiers and horses stationed in Beizhili.

The six battalions of soldiers and horses, and eighty percent of them are foot soldiers, and they can't defend it at all.

If Lin Dan Khan entered Beizhili, and the thirty Gongwei battalions of the three prefectures outside the Guanwai were indifferent, then things would be bad.

Yuan Keli and the others did not doubt the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but they suspected that the Ming army did not want to fight at all.

Even Jin Qi had already led troops to help, but they were still not at ease, because Jin Qi was also from the Qi Palace.

Therefore, Sun Chengzong couldn't help but say: "It's better to send Xiong Wei to help." ”

"But ......" Hearing Sun Chengzong's words, everyone nodded one after another.

Although the Flying Bear Guard is also from Yanshan, at least he is under the control of the emperor, and the emperor has placed chess pieces among the three guards.

With them, even if some people in the Flying Bear Guard have crooked thoughts, there will be people who will stand up and defend the emperor to the south.

"Let's arrange it like this, but I have to inform His Royal Highness King Qi of the matter."

Gu Bingqian finally made a summary, that is, he had to remind Zhu Youzhen to return to the capital early.

As soon as he said this, he was nodding and approved by everyone, and with the approval of the cabinet and the six ministers, a horse rushed out of the capital, and Fei Xiongwei also galloped towards the railway station of the north station of the capital, ready to go to the gate to rescue the driver.

It's just that after the hundred officials dispersed, Chengde, who was the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, returned to the official workshop in the capital with an ugly face and the officials of the Yanshan faction.

After the officials above the seventh rank walked into the courtyard where Cheng De lived, Cheng De turned to look at them and asked:

"If we don't explain this clearly, dirty water will be splashed on our heads!"

Cheng De was angry at everyone, but the three people led by the crowd also frowned, and Li Demao of the military department also stood up and said:

"We can't control the affairs of the army, and even if we want to do it, we won't do it so stupidly."

"Right now, His Royal Highness is thousands of miles away, if His Majesty is trapped in the prison, it will shake the country's foundation, although we hope that His Highness will ascend to the great treasure, but I don't want His Highness to ascend to the great treasure in the name of killing his brother."

"What's more, if Your Majesty is trapped in the Order, and the Northern Captives knock into the Northern Zhili, wouldn't it make more than 7 million people in the Northern Zhili suffer from the military disaster?"

"How can we do such a thing?"

The four are all their own people, and Li Demao will let it go.

They want His Royal Highness the King of Qi to ascend to the Great Treasure, but they will not be stupid enough to let the northern captives knock on the pass and harm the people.

Although this is a bit hypocritical, the reason is that everyone in the courtyard is from Yanshan, and in Yanshan education, they are often taught to put the people first.

This kind of education has also led to the fact that no matter whether there are any corrupt people in the two dozen or so people in the courtyard, whether there are mermaids and common people, but on the surface, they still have to put the people first, otherwise they will be kicked out of the Yanshan faction.

Li Demao's words won the support of everyone, and Zhang Maocai of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies even said:

"The transfer of soldiers and horses in the Shangzhi Governor's Mansion is all arranged by His Highness, and we can only get the news, but we cannot transfer the soldiers and horses arranged by His Highness at will."

"The reason why Shangzhi showed an opening this time and let the northern captives get in is because His Majesty mobilized soldiers and horses to defend him for hunting, and we can't blame it!"

Zhang Maocai's words sounded like Zhu Youxiao's problem on the surface, but in fact, it was not.

The Shangzhi Gongwei Battalion stationed 20 battalions and 60,000 soldiers and horses in Kaiping Mansion, and Zhu Youxiao only transferred eight battalions of foot soldiers, that is, less than 20,000 people.

In other words, there are still 40,000 soldiers and horses left to guard the border fortress, and there are more than 10,900 iron horsemen among these 40,000 people.

As long as these iron cavalry patrols are effective, they can completely inform the rear as soon as the northern captives enter the Kaiping Mansion, Zhu Youxiao can calmly withdraw, and the 20,000 Gong Guard Battalion foot soldiers who are hunting can also support Duolun.

However, the cavalry patrolling the outpost did not know why they did not light the beacon tower in time, and it was not until Lin Dan Khan took tens of thousands of iron cavalry to go deeper than 300 miles that he was discovered by the patrol on the periphery of Duolun County.

On the road of 300 miles, more than 200 stone forts and more than 2,000 soldiers and horses were involved.

As long as they had a stone fort to light the beacon tower, the current situation outside the gate would not be so passive.

In the final analysis, this matter is still a problem with the army, and a large number of grassroots generals in the army are graduates of Yanshan Military Academy, so no matter how they break it, this black pot is something they can't avoid Chengde.

"It's so obvious that we didn't do it at all, but it was on our heads."

Xiao Daogui, who was standing with Chengde in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, couldn't help but open his mouth, and his words also made the twenty-nine Yanshan officials in the courtyard furious:

"I think this matter was directed and acted by the Gu party officials, and they framed us!"

"This group of moths should be killed!"

"When His Highness returns, we must go up and launch Jingcha!"

"Jingcha must be led by us!"

"This group of ......"

For a while, there was endless strife in the hospital, but Chengde also had a headache and roared: "Okay! ”

Everyone yelled at him, closed their mouths one after another, and Cheng De also raised his forehead and said:

"Fortunately, Jin Qi led the troops to rescue the driver in time, and now I just hope that nothing will happen outside the gate."

"It is unlikely that Hudun Rabbit will know that Long Live went to Daxingzhou for a safari, and it is estimated that he will go straight to Yanshan County."

"As long as Jin Qi guards Yanshan County and lets Banzai retreat from other places, then half of our suspicions will be cleared."

Cheng De said this, but he also knew in his heart that no matter how he washed it, the Yanshan faction was also the one who was the most suspicious.

Thinking of this, Cheng De couldn't help but have a headache, and Xiao Daogui next to him suddenly remembered something when he saw this, and couldn't help but look ugly and said:

"Today seems to be the time for Huang Dudu to settle in Tianjin, Huang Dudu ......"

"It can't be him!" Chengde waved his hand to dismiss Xiao Daogui's conjecture:

"The blockage of the wharf in Songjiang Prefecture is a fact, and he is also acting in accordance with the order of the cabinet, and everyone is suspicious, but he is not."

Cheng De explained to Huang Long, but Li Demao said: "But no matter what, this matter is too involved, and this time is stuck when he arrives in Tianjin, we can not think so, but what about long live?" ”

"Hooray?" Hearing this, Chengde's face was calm, and he said gloomily:

"If I live long live, no matter who the culprit is, this is the best time to hit you and my Yanshan students......"