Under Chongzhen's inspection, everything in the army was carried out in an orderly manner, and no one was lazy.

Whenever he saw a familiar veteran on the road, Chongzhen would call him for inquiry, from name, age, place of origin to whether he was married or not, sometimes joking and sometimes encouraging, there was no emperor posture on top.

Whether it is personally guarding the city on the wall, or caring about the bits and pieces at the bottom, Chongzhen is gradually growing into a qualified "commander", and the image he subverted in the past has also penetrated into the hearts of every soldier, just as the song of triumph sings, the Lord will kiss me better than parents.

Sufficient salary, sufficient food, this is far from enough, he wants the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to know clearly what they are fighting for.

Tang Tong was not stingy at all about the transfer of soldiers, and even divided 500 family members into the hands of Wang Jinchao to show his friendship. How can a fellow soldier not know the weight of his family? Wang Jinchao shirked again and again, not daring to accept it.

"Lord Tang, this can't be helped."

Tang Tong held his belt with one hand and said: "Tang is too late to see each other, and now that I am fortunate to be able to work with Lord Wang, we should take care of each other, right?" Hundreds of families are nothing, please accept it. ”

"But this ....." Although the two are now at the same level, with Tang Tong's qualifications, Wang Jinchao is not enough to compare, although the other party said it very sincerely, but still did not dare to agree.

Tang Tong took Wang Jinchao's hand and said from the bottom of his heart: "I said Lord Wang, Tang is guilty, and he is in a hurry to make some merits to show His Majesty. ”

The truth in these words is extremely simple, it is nothing more than exchanging some credit for the family, that is, Wang Jinchao's level as an official is not high, and Tang Tong needs to speak thoroughly to understand.

"Then do what Master Tang said."

"That's right, Tang is here to wish Lord Wang a victory."

......

A calloused hand slowly lowered the bowl, which contained half an unfinished piece of bread.

"Silly, let's go, remember to invest in a big family in the next life." Old Chen Tou muttered in his mouth, as if he was talking to the dead Tie Sheng, and the ground was full of black and red bloodstains.

The daughter-in-law was crying and crying with the baby, and Lao Chen was upset when he heard it, so he turned around and pushed them back, facing the broken bowl alone, half-squatting down.

"Let's be quiet and quiet." After that, he lit the tobacco leaves, and the cigarette pole was placed diagonally on the bowl, and the curling green smoke rose.

"There is no need to remember the family, the father's body is quite strong, and the grandchildren and daughters-in-law will take care of you."

"The official lord also came to see us, and brought some silver taels and food."

"The emperor said that he would give our family a reward in the future, and the old man will ask you for a knighthood when the time comes." Lao Chen said one sentence after another, thinking of where he spoke, the floating green smoke became thinner and thinner, and the tobacco leaves in the pole were about to burn out.

"Let's go, let's go, this life is not bad."

......

"It's a shame to say that Mao was accidentally knocked unconscious, and when he woke up, he knew that he had won, so he followed out of the city." Du Mao touched the back of his head, and the residual pain from yesterday was obviously not gone.

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive." Sun Xuanhuai patted Du Mao on the shoulder, relieved.

When counting the dead in the city, Sun Xuanhuai sent people to search for Du Mao's whereabouts, but he didn't see anyone dead or a corpse. Unexpectedly, on the way to convene a large household to discuss the relocation of the city today, he met Du Mao who had returned from outside the city.

"Changping, what about your injury?"

"It's just a small injury, Lord Xie Fuzun is worried."

Sun Xuanhuai pursed his lips and said: "It's reasonable, this official should let you go back to rest first." After that, he looked at Du Mao with some embarrassment.

"Mao is fine, if there is a need, please let the Lord of the Mansion say it clearly."

"Long live the Lord wants to move the people of the whole city to Guangchang County, and this official has to persuade these local squires, can Changping mobilize other people on my behalf? You have a lot of contact with refugees on weekdays, and I think you are more suitable than this officer. ”

"I am willing to share the worries of Lord Fuzun."

......

Although the Ming army did not continue to pursue, Dagubian, who fled by seizing the road, still ran non-stop day and night, during which Hedu woke up from the psychedelia, and after asking the reason for the escape, he immediately pointed to the hundred horsemen present and scolded.

Especially Dagubian, with the eighteen generations of his ancestors, he was greeted by Hedu.

"It's Mengchai, the Ming army that appeared out of thin air in the city came from him."

Hedu Belle is a royal family, and he will be punished at most if he loses the battle, but Dagubian is not surnamed Aixin Jueluo, he must find someone to take the blame.

So while silently enduring the abuse, Dagubian put the main blame for the defeat on the missing Monchai.

"Mengchai deserves to die, you deserve to die, you all deserve to die!" And Du was hysterical, roaring angrily, obviously he was about to win, and when he woke up, he was actually on the run.

There are only about a hundred left in the army of nearly 30,000 people, and they will definitely be skinned by Amma when they go back!

When he thought of his father Azig, Hedu had goosebumps all over his body, what to do, what to do.

After a while, Kazudu pulled Dagubian aside, and the two began a strange conversation.

"Dagubian, you just said that Monchai betrayed us?"

"Huh? It can be. ”

"Why would he do that?"

"He's a coward, a coward."

"No, you should say that you robbed Mengchai's woman, and Mengchai deliberately retaliated with a grudge."

"Didn't he snatch me last time?"

........

On the fifth day of the first month of June, the Qing army reappeared in Datong.

This time, Dolgon personally conscripted, and the Qing army used a total of 90,000 soldiers and horses from Wuman, Ermeng, and Liuhan, and the eight kings gathered.

Originally, this should have happened five years later, and it was known as Bawangwei Datong in history.

Which Eight Kings?

Mandahai, the prince of Heshuo, Wakda, the king of Doro, Shuosai, the king of Chengze, Azig, the prince of Ying, Nikan, the prince of Jingjing, Bolo, the prince of Duanzhong, and the regent Dorgon, and Wu Sangui, the king of Pingse, who assisted in the conquest.

Because Shanxi was too close to Jingshi, the news of Chongzhen's appearance in Datong made Dolgon feel uneasy, even if others were under the banner of Chongzhen.

As a result, the Qing army decisively gave up the idea of going south, and was bound to level Shanxi in one fell swoop, and by the way, Li Zicheng was cleaned up.

The defeat of Hedu strengthened Dorgon's suspicion that Datong must be hiding a big fish.

"Newspaper, it's an empty city."

"Empty city?"

Dolgon looked at the horse, there was no fortification along the way from Xuanfu to Datong, not even civilians, so the fortified city said not to want.

According to the report of the scout horse he let out, he once encountered a suspected Ming army scout sentry, but the other party left as soon as he saw it, and it was difficult to catch up.

"Want to run?" Dorgon couldn't help but sneer.

"Report! Jianyu has reached the area of Datong Fucheng, and the number of them is not less than 50,000 from a distance. ”

Chongzhen took tens of thousands of people with him to the vicinity of Lingqiu County, and received an urgent report from Ma Harrier.

"Command the front, go out of the Bauhinia Pass, and rush to attack the nearby states and counties of Baoding."

"No."

The civilian convoy walked in the middle of the road, with soldiers accompanying him on both sides, and Chongzhen looked back at the queue behind him.

"Like chasing?"