The door of King Ning's Mansion rumbled open, and the palace people walked out, holding various guards of honor to welcome guests, Zhu Di withdrew his gaze to look at Chen Heng's head hanging on the palace wall, and gently kicked the belly of the war horse under him.

One by one, the palace doors were opened one after another, through the palace wall, the corner of the eaves beast of the carrier hall could already be seen, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, stood under the palace wall from afar, and saw Zhu Di riding a horse, and his face was complicated.

Thinking of what Gu Huai said yesterday, Zhu Di shook his head helplessly, he turned over and dismounted, and greeted Zhu Quan, the ironclad guards behind him were lined up on both sides, and they did not retreat.

"Old Seventeen..."

"Your Highness, you can't let Yan Shun enter the palace!"

The sudden debut figure in the oblique stab interrupted Zhu Di's mood that had been brewing for a long time, Zhu Di waved his hand to stop the guard who was drawing his knife out of the sheath, and looked at the figure who was crying on the ground: "Who are you?" ”

The man ignored him, and just kowtowed to Zhu Quan: "Your Highness, Yan rebels against the rebels and sinners, everyone will be punished!" His Royal Highness doesn't want to get rid of traitors for the country, so why do you still welcome him into the palace? Is brotherly love greater than the righteousness of kings and ministers? ”

These words are loud and righteous, but Zhu Quan's face suddenly became blue and red, the so-called people have to bow their heads under the eaves, does he want to welcome Zhu Di? And do you need to jump out and teach me these truths? To get to this step of the field, are you willing to do it? A good vassal king, just because His Majesty and that Fang Huang and others were full of food and wanted to cut the domain, but as a result, all the military power was gone, and he couldn't even live a good life in the palace, and now that Zhu Di has entered Daning, he is about to become a spectator, who can stand it?

At this time, a guard approached Zhu Di and whispered a few words, Zhu Di knew that this person was Shi Shi, the head of King Ning's Mansion, he stopped and looked curiously, and everyone's eyes also fell on Changshi, who was not afraid of death.

Zhu Quan hadn't opened his mouth yet, but Shaning, who was on the side, couldn't help it: "Shi Changshi, now His Royal Highness has no military power, what can he do to eliminate traitors for the country?" His Royal Highness King Yan has already laid down Daning, and it is not possible for brothers to see each other? ”

"Mother, shut up!" Shi Shu was furious, "Such a military event, where is it the turn of a woman to speak?" His Royal Highness has no soldiers and horses, and he also has a seven-foot man's body, can't he openly stand up to Yan Wei? ”

Zhu Di shook his head, he understood that this guy and Shi Gecheng, the head of the Yanwang Mansion, were not the same way, Ge Cheng had betrayed himself a long time ago and was counting on cutting the feudal domain and promoting him to make a fortune, this guy was really enthusiastic and wanted to serve the country but was stupid.

Zhu Quan smiled angrily: "What does Shi Changshi mean, is it to block the iron horse with his own body and kill himself?" ”

"Even if you can't meet the enemy, you should close the palace door and don't meet Yan Yi! is so afraid of the might of the soldiers, and opens the door of the palace to greet him, how can His Royal Highness face the world in the future? ”

Zhu Di's gaze slowly swept over, Zhu Quan only felt like a mang on his back, and he wanted to scold Zhu Di angrily to prevent Zhu Di from getting angry, but Shi Shu shook his sleeves and stood up and faced King Yan:

"Yan Wei, you don't want to enter the palace half a step! Shi Zhuxi is the chief of King Ning's mansion, and he must not let His Royal Highness King Ning bear the name of rebellion! If you want to enter the temple, step on my corpse!" ”

"As you wish!"

The one who spoke was Gu Cheng, who had already followed Zhu Di all the way to the black, he was already young and vigorous, not to mention that the bloody aura he had fought yesterday had not yet dissipated, seeing that Shi Zhi was not relenting, he strode forward in iron armor, took the guard's long sword in his hand, and simply waved a cold light, only to hear the sound of "poof", the blood light rose to the sky, and frightened the female palace and female dependents of Ning Wang's Mansion into discoloration, and they exclaimed one after another.

The flying head of the good man slowly rolled down the steps, Gu Cheng wiped the blood on his face with his hands, and saw that Shi Zhu's body had not fallen, it was still in the same posture of blocking with open arms, and stepped forward to make up for it, and the blood stains splashed more and more on the entire steps, and a few drops were even at Zhu Quan's feet.

Zhu Quan looked down at the bloodstain with an expressionless face.

The exclamation gradually became quieter, and Zhu Di didn't seem to see Shi Zhu's corpse, but just walked up the steps with a flick of his robe, stepped on Shi Zhu's corpse, and slowly walked towards King Ning.

He said that he would step on his corpse, and Zhu Di would fulfill his last wish.

This kind of posture and temper made Zhu Quan, who had not seen him for many years, feel cold, and when the figure that looked very much like his father and emperor came to his eyes, he still didn't react, Zhu Di's arms were slightly open, and his eyes were full of tears:

"Old Seventeen, in the past, you and my brothers grew up together in the palace, and the family was happy to reunite, how could you have thought that now the traitorous ministers are making trouble, and the heavenly soldiers are meeting each other? Today you are trapped in the palace, the fourth brother's Beiping is also in danger, the life and death of the family are unpredictable, the father has only been gone for a year, and the dignified clan relatives have actually fallen into this step! ”

Although there was a gap and the blood in the field was quite strong, but when he said this, Zhu Quan was still touched to the sore spot in his heart, thinking of the fear of these days, as well as the ups and downs of the past two days, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and the two brothers hugged their heads and cried in front of hundreds of people...

……

At the same time that Zhu Di walked into King Ning's mansion, Li Jinglong was also looking at Beiping City from afar.

It's finally here.

The autumn rain continues, the road is difficult, the temperature is simply plummeting these days, the southern soldiers who are not adapted to the northern climate are walking more and more slowly, and even more and more soldiers are infected with the wind cold, and all this, in the final analysis, is because they are in too much hurry, and the soldiers do not bring their winter clothes.

No way, who knows that winter in the north is like this? The four seasons in the south are distinct, and there is still a period of residual temperature after late autumn, and then winter, but here you have felt comfortable with the evening breeze the night before, and the next morning there is a thin layer of ice on the surface of the water.

The clothing of the Ming army, mainly the mandarin duck battle jacket covered with iron armor, the 500,000 army set off to wear this, to the north to wear this, probably when the Yellow River was crossed, the weather was very warm, so that Li Jinglong lost his awe of nature, thinking that he could gamble on Beiping before the complete winter, so he was so anxious to take the army to hurry, but since entering the boundary of Beiping, this road can no longer walk.

His mother's northern army was like locusts, retreating all the way north and almost stripped off the ground, no supplies were left for the southern army, the treasury of various prefectures and counties was empty, and the administrative organs were devastated, not to mention sending food and clothing to the army, and thankfully not causing trouble to the army.

So he could only set up camp, use the camp to resist the winter wind, and by the way, let Zhending send supplies, and the grain and grass that had not been eaten by hundreds of thousands of troops before came in handy at this time, making Li Jinglong's disdain for Geng Bingwen a little less.

If the grain sent to Zhending by the three provinces of Hejian is gone, there will be no need to fight this battle.

But the more troublesome thing is the winter clothes, the temperature will not rise when it drops, the soldiers are not iron, they can still carry it in a day or two, if they keep waiting like this, let alone go to Beiping City to attack the city, they have to shiver in the winter wind when they get out of the camp, and even in this process, the Yan army is still constantly harassing logistics... Many times the cavalry of the Yan army ran to the edge of the camp, just like that, watching the southern army bury the pot and cook for warmth, the blow to morale was not too big.

Li Jinglong realized at this time that he had made a big mistake, and it was right to take advantage of King Yan's departure from Beiping to forcibly attack the city, but his luck was too bad, and it was so bad that the winter rain and cooling would be half a month later, and Beiping might be defeated.

And if the 500,000 army is not fully brought, the pressure at this moment will be much less.

So the southern army showed a strange trajectory of action, from Yingtianfu all the way out of the wind like the wind, across the Yellow River from Zhending straight to Beiping, the end is like a dragon, but as soon as it entered Beiping, it began to stop and go, as if stuck in the quagmire, the harder you work, the deeper you fall.

But no matter what, after tossing and turning for a few days, he finally arrived at the city of Beiping, and the city gate of Beiping was closed as expected, and the scouts who went forward returned as Li Jinglong thought, and the entire Beiping was already empty.

Fortified Clear.

When the people moved into the city, all the grain from the local towns and villages was transferred to the city, and the southern army was not given any opportunity to supply on the spot or gather the people; The woods outside the city were all cut down, and all kinds of siege equipment could only be built and transported by the Southern Army from a long distance; The city head is full of crossbows, and the scouts who are close can clearly see that there is still a lot of construction in Beiping City at the moment, and several urn cities and high platforms are rising from the ground, just thinking about it, you know that the city gate is also thickened a lot.

It's ready to die.

Li Jinglong exhaled lightly, turned around and walked into the camp tent, the generals of the three armies all gathered in the tent at this moment, and saw the rebellious general Li Jinglong wearing all the armor and pressing the hilt of the sword, they also became solemn, and the tent was murderous for a while.

"Everyone, if you encourage, I won't say much, Beiping is in front of you, there are only tens of thousands of defenders in the city, as long as you work together with this commander, you will win this battle!"

All the generals were in unison, Li Jinglong drew his sword out of the sheath, a trace of abnormal flush appeared on his face, and hissed: "Pass on the military order of the commander, after burying the pot and cooking, all departments will follow the previous military discussion..."

"Siege!"

……

At the head of Beiping City, Zhu Gaochi, who was fully clothed, took a long breath, and then spit it out heavily, forming a white mist together with the breath of the generals behind him, he wanted to say something easy to break the dead silence, but in the end he couldn't say anything, just caressed the city wall.

An army of half a million... What is the concept?

As far as the eye can see, it is all black and oppressive, and originally such a long distance will make people very small, like a tiny dust, but at this moment, Zhu Gaochi clearly saw a huge dark cloud floating towards the sky above Beiping.

It's terrifying, and the thought that these 500,000 people will next use all kinds of means just to break through the city under them and rush in and kill them, no matter who it is, will inevitably give birth to a wave of fear and trembling.

Before, there was a figure in front of him to rely on, and that figure seemed to be able to block all the wind and rain, but now... He was on his own.

There is not much time to prepare, but it is barely enough, although he has not fought before, but he has made up a lot of military books these days, Zhu Gaochi knows that he is not a natural war fighter like his father, but he knows that he has the advantage of doing things carefully.

And wars are often more about who makes more mistakes.

Master Dao Yan did not come to the city wall today, and his age and body are indeed not suitable for taking arrows by himself, that is to say, the city behind him, as well as the lives of the tens of thousands of defenders in this city, all depend on his next choice.

This way of wielding power... It's really not good.

There was cooking smoke on the opposite side, and the reason why it could still be seen from such a distance was because there were countless columns of smoke gathered in all places as far as the eye could see, and Zhu Gaochi nervously held the blue bricks of the city wall, if nothing else... After burying the pot and cooking, it is time to attack the city on the other side.

From the day his father patted him on the shoulder and told him that Beiping was handed over to him, he had been waiting for this moment, countless moments in the dead of night, countless moments of stopping and pondering, he was imagining this scene, and he was also asking himself if he could win, but when it came to this second, he seemed to have put down everything, and just slowly straightened up.

"General Zhang Yu—" his voice was a little hoarse.

"Here we go."