In mid-July, after Liu Yan returned to Wangjiazhuang, he began to reorganize his armament and war, and ordered all the fire road piers and tunbao to keep watch day and night, deliver news in a timely manner, and at the same time increase the amount of training, and all the seven sentinel armies should be mobilized.

In addition, Liu Yan also ordered all the commanders and generals to be mobilized, and once something happened, these military households and ordinary people would also take up arms to guard everywhere.

After these orders were issued, the entire Wangjiazhuang was boiling, and more than 1,000 dun troops from the seven outposts not only began to practice day and night, but even the ordinary people became nervous.

On this day, Xu Ming came to the official hall of the hundred households, and saw that in the main hall, Liu Yan was looking at a map of the thousands of households in front of Xiahe Village, and Wang Yunhe was holding a plate of fruit and just put it on the table.

"My subordinates have seen adults and Mrs."

Liu Yan glanced up at Xu Ming, then buried his head in the map, and said, "Is there something?" ”

"This ......"

Xu Ming saw that Wang Yunhe was here, so he hesitated and didn't continue.

Wang Yunhe said with a smile: "You guys are talking about business here, I'll go and see how lunch is prepared first." ”

After Wang Yunhe left, Xu Ming walked up to Liu Yan and said: "My lord, now the chiefs everywhere are confused, I don't know why the adults are suddenly preparing for war, I have a lot of opinions on this, do you want to explain to the adults?" ”

Liu Yan didn't even raise his head, and said directly: "As a dun army, do we still need a reason to organize the army?" ”

Xu Ming smiled and said, "What the adults teach is that the subordinates are worried that others will not understand and will misunderstand the adult's affairs." ”

Liu Yan put away the map, and then said to Xu Ming: "I have my own reasons for doing this, you just need to implement it, don't think about anything else." ”

Seeing this, Xu Ming clenched his fists and took his life.

Then Wang Yunhe walked in again, and said to Xu Ming with a smile: "It's almost time to prepare lunch, Xu Zongqi should stay and eat, just drink some wine with your family." ”

Xu Ming said with a smile: "My subordinates have thanked Mrs., but my subordinates still have things, so I won't ...... them."

Suddenly, a cannon rang out, which shook Liu Yan and the others.

Liu Yan and Xu Ming hurriedly ran out of the house, and Wang Yunhe also rushed to Liu Yan's side, holding Liu Yan's sleeves tightly with one hand, extremely nervous.

At this time, Liu Yan and the others looked in the direction of the beacon tower at the head of the south gate, but they heard a cannon sound, which made everyone tremble again.

The sound of cannons rang out five times in a row, and at the same time, Liu Yan also saw five beams of wolf smoke rising straight from the city, which was really shocking.

Faintly, it seems that there are also cannons around the area, as if there are cannons everywhere, constantly beating everyone's hearts.

Everyone looked at each other, and they were all pale. Liu Yan frowned, but just let Wang Yunhe stay in the official hall of the hundred households, and took Xu Ming to the castle wall.

On the fortress wall, Yue Ming, the chief flag officer, as well as Zhao Min, Tan Xiaoda, Xu Le, Bao Xuezhen, and Zhang Lei, the official of Guan Tun, also rushed over, and everyone stood behind Liu Yan, all with solemn faces.

At this time, Liu Yan looked around, only to see that there was already a beacon fire in front of him, and the sky above the castle and pier platform that was visible was all five high beams of wolf smoke rising, and the terrible sound of banging went straight into the hearts of everyone.

Yue Ming pointed to the distance and said in a trembling voice: "Five beacons and five cannons, the slave army is above 50,000 people, above 50,000 people!" ”

Liu Yan stood quietly, but at this time his mood was calm, the Qing soldiers finally arrived, and he had been preparing for a long time, and finally waited for this day.

At this time, everyone looked at Wang Dou, from the time when Liu Yan ordered Wang Jiazhuang to prepare for war, many people did not think so, but they didn't expect Liu Yan's prediction to really come true.

The enemy soldiers are pressing, the people are panicking, Liu Yan is the backbone of Wangjiazhuang. Facing everyone's eyes, Liu Yan said in a deep voice: "Order martial law in the whole fort." From today onwards, the whole territory of Wangjiazhuang will be closed and cleared, and those who dare to pass without permission will be killed, those who dare to shake the morale of the army will be killed, those who dare not obey the order will be killed, and those who dare to delay the fighter plane will be killed! ”

Liu Yan looked around at everyone, his tone was stern, and he said loudly: "The army of thieves and slaves is pressing the border, and the whole castle must work together to fight the enemy!" ”

Liu Yan issued a series of orders, and everyone obeyed them awe-inspiringly.

Soon, one by one, the heralds of the cavalry post rode out of the Wangjiazhuang Fort and summoned the officers under their jurisdiction to discuss urgently.

At night of the same day, the commanders of Dapanbao, Shagou Dun, Fengshan Dun, Huangshan Dun and other large and small fire road piers and Tunpu in Wangjiazhuang came to Wangjiazhuang one after another to obey Liu Yan's deliberations and arrangements.

In the official hall of the hundred households, Liu Yan looked at the chiefs who were full of people, as well as Tan Xiaoda, Zhao Min, Zhang Lei, Xu Le, Bao Xuezhen, Yue Ming and other directors and chief flag officers, Liu Yanyang said in a deep voice: "Just now, this official got the enemy spy report from the Feng official in front of the Qianhu in Xiahe Village: The army of 50,000 thieves and slaves, led by the thief chief Azig, has passed through the breach of the monolith fort in Xuanda Town, and has entered Chang'an Ridge through the carved pigeon fort. At the same time, thousands of thieves and slaves are also attacking our Shandong, and it is estimated that they will enter the country in a few days! ”

Everyone took a breath of cold air when they heard this, all of them turned pale, and the invasion of 50,000 troops, such a huge invasion, had already made everyone's hearts extremely nervous.

Liu Yan said in a heavy tone: "This time, the thief and slave entered the prison. The momentum is huge, and I will destroy the lives and the people suffer. ”

"But!"

Liu Yan looked around and said in a deep voice: "As a Ming general, we should take state affairs first. In this autumn of national crisis, only by being generous and fearless, holding the determination to become benevolent, being loyal and dutiful, and taking care of dangers and preventing thieves, can there be a glimmer of vitality. ”

He looked at everyone and said, "Although it is not certain whether the army of thieves and slaves will go south to Lingshan Guard, we must also prepare for war with all our might. In order to prevent the population and materials of each fort from being used by slaves, I decided to implement the policy of clearing the wilderness, except for the Dapan Fort, Wangjiazhuang, and Tiepu Mountain Iron Yard, the rest of the military households in the Tunbao and Huoludun were all transferred, so as not to let the thieves and slaves go to a single grass or tree. ”

Everyone took another breath and defended the adults with great skill.

In the territory of Wangjiazhuang, in addition to the Huangshan pier, Dapan Fort, wind volcano pier and other several big forts, there are a lot of fire road piers, each place has military households as little as 30 or 40 households, more than 100 households, these fire road piers also have nearly 2,000 people, and a large number of materials, all have to be transferred, this is a very big project.

However, hearing Liu Yan say this, all the armor commanders were also relieved, for example, when the Tartars entered the Kou, they were the first to suffer from these fire road piers and tunbao, and now all the military households everywhere have been transferred to the big fort, and their life safety has been guaranteed, even if the Qing army Tartars may not be killed.

Liu Yan acted resolutely, issuing orders one by one, no one had room for opposition, and those who dared to disobey the order were beheaded on the spot. However, Liu Yan's command was determined, and there was no panic at all, and everyone also settled down.

Things were decided in this way, Wangjiazhuang and Dapanbao are all big forts. Two hundred households were moved in, and the Tiepu Mountain Iron Yard was far away in the mountainous area, but a hundred households were also relocated, and the rest of the population was eventually distributed to Dapanbao.

At the end of the short discussion, the officers took their leave, and went back to move the population and supplies in a hurry.

Among the officers, several Chen Xun, Wang Yue, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, Xu Ming, and Miao Shao who were in Dapandun before Liu Yan were also there.

Liu Yan looked at these old brothers, and sighed in his heart, this is the first time that everyone in Dapandun has gathered since he was appointed as the manager of Wangjiazhuang, so he encouraged everyone.

Then everyone said goodbye to Liu Yan one after another, and was in a hurry to go back to relocate the population and materials, Liu Yan looked at their backs with a smile, but his heart was gloomy. This time, the Qing soldiers entered the Kou with great momentum, if they really fought with the Qing soldiers, they would say goodbye to these old brothers this time, and they didn't know if they would see each other again.

From this day until the 30th of the end of the month, the entire territory of Wangjiazhuang was cleared of the wilderness, and the population and materials were transferred.

Many military households from Huoludun and Tunpu packed up their supplies, they picked up their belongings, drove their pigs and sheep, reluctantly left their homes, and entered the three big forts of Wangjiazhuang, Dapanbao, and Tiepushan Iron Yard. Liu Yan had made careful arrangements for the advent of this day, so the transfer was orderly and there was no panic.

After the transfer of military households in various places and tunpu, their homes will definitely be burned down by the Qing soldiers, but it is good to be there. Homes are destroyed, but they can be rebuilt.

During this period, Liu Yan issued an order to let the director Chu Yunfei move the personnel and materials of the salt drying field to Dapanbao, and at the same time let the military households working in the military camp also move to Dapanbao.

At the same time, the Manchu Wuying county king Azig, Bel Abatai, Yangguli, led more than 50,000 Qing soldiers and Mongolian soldiers, after conquering the monolith, carved crow fort, Chang'an Ling forts, they came in a mighty way, they passed through the security guard, Huailai Wei territory, and stayed in Yanqing Prefecture in front of Juyong Pass.

Later, they sent troops to plunder everywhere, while waiting for the news of the other way from Xifengkou to enter the customs and clear the troops.

For a time, the security guards on the east road of Xuanfu Town, Huailaiwei, Yanqing Prefecture, Yongningwei and other places were in flames, and countless people were killed and plundered, like hell on earth.

The Qing soldiers entered the army, and the Beijing division was under martial law.

Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered his minister Li Guofu to guard the Bauhinia Pass, Xu Jin Zhong to guard the Reverse Horse Pass, Zhang Yuanheng to guard the Longquan Pass, and Cui Liang to defend the Pass. A few days later, he ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to inspect the border passes. At the same time, the Ming Military Department ordered the general army to lead the troops to aid the Beijing Division.

On July 23, the Ministry of War urgently consulted the governor of Datong: "By order, the thieves and slaves are reckless, and Yunzhen has already ordered to send in to help, and it is extremely serious to encourage the generals."

On July 24, the military department's message was even more severe and urgent: "The military department is still in charge of the inscription, consulting the governor of Datong, the slaves and thieves are proclaiming that the momentum of entering Chang is getting stronger and stronger, and the soldiers in the clouds will be Xingchi to help, and the town will be limited to eight days from the beginning of the day to Beijing, and if the limit is not in Fuzhen, it should be punished!" ”

Since 25 July, Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, the general soldier of Shanxi, the fierce tiger, Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong, Dong Yongwen, the chief soldier of Baoding, Zu Dashou, the general soldier of Shanyong, and Zu Dale, Li Chongzhen, and Ma Rulong, the general soldiers of Guan, Ning, Ji, and Mi, have all led the army to help.

On July 26, Cao Huachun, the eunuch in charge of the seal and the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor, inscribed: "After receiving the holy decree, the slaves went deep, and accompanied the two battalions of Yongwei to manage Sun Jiwu and other generals. ”

At this time, Liu Yan's department had just completed the clearing of the strong wall, and received an order: this time the Qing army entered the Kou for the fourth time, and a Qing army had entered from Jinan Mansion and went deep into the hinterland of Shandong to burn and loot, and the soldiers were advancing towards Qingzhou Mansion, so Lingshanwei ordered to gather soldiers and horses from all over the country to guard Qingzhou Mansion.

At this time, Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, had already led the main force of the Ming army in Shandong to aid the Beijing Division, and only the guards and horses in various parts of Shandong remained, and the situation became extremely grim.

Liu Yan received the order without any hesitation, as the saying goes, if the skin does not have hair, it will be attached? Once Qingzhou Mansion fell, Lingshanwei was the first to bear the brunt, and Liu Yan's Wangjiazhuang was also not spared, so it was better to take advantage of the opportunity of the gathering of soldiers and horses from various places to send troops to meet the battle.

So Liu Yan ordered all the outposts to assemble immediately, with Chen Xunbu as the guard, and divided troops to garrison Wangjiazhuang, Dapanbao, and Tiepushan Ironworks, each of which was dominated by a banner dun army, and at the same time recruited the watchman dun army and military men from all over the place to assist in the defense.

Although the combat power of these people is far inferior to the Seven Sentinels Army organized by Liu Yan, they can also follow behind the soldiers of Chen Xun's department to help, which can be regarded as an additional guarantee.

As for the rest of the forts and fire road piers, Liu Yan could only temporarily give up the defense, after all, at this time Liu Yan did not have too many troops to divide troops to garrison, to meet the Qing army, Liu Yan must show all his strength, and must not be taken lightly.

Only one day later, in addition to Chen Xun's sentry dun army deployed in various places, the remaining six sentry soldiers all gathered in Wangjiazhuang, Liu Yan in Wang Yunhe and the people in the fort to send off, led the troops to the expedition, to Xiahe Zhai Qianqian Qianhu assembly.

Some people died, but not completely......