When Hong Chengchou sighed with emotion, he listened to the official in the edict, "In the play! Triumphant drinking, there is a code of praise in ancient times; However, there are special honors, and the imperial court does not hesitate to reward the marquis; if the burden is heavy, the national law has its own punishment. Once the rebels are cleared, you will be the king of the starry night, and you will not be allowed to stay and miss the opportunity.

Chin!"

The so-called "Yu Xi" in the edict...... "Drink to" refers to the emperor's ardent expectation for the triumphant return of the army. Sacrifice to the Taimiao, and then the banquet, called drinking to, that is to say, Emperor Chongzhen has prepared a feast for himself in the palace......

After the edict was read, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting kowtowed to thank him and shouted long live. When Hong Chengchou stood up, he took the edict from the lieutenant's hand with both hands, inserted the edict back into the envelope of the yellow silk dark dragon, and put it into the box with vermilion lacquer and gold plate dragon, and he respectfully placed the box on the incense table.

After he finished all this, the summoned lieutenant eunuch took a Shang Fang sword from the hand of a little eunuch who followed him, and sang loudly: "Qin gives Shang Fang the sword, Hong Chengchou kneels to take it!"

Hong Chengchou quickly knelt down, took the Shang Fang sword with both hands, and once again kowtowed to Xie Enshan and shouted long live, he stood up, personally held the Shang Fang sword on the bar, and put it together with another Shang Fang sword.

Immediately, he and Sun Chuanting summoned the Zhongguan Dao, the three of them greeted each other, and the two of them sat down in the flower hall of the Zhongguan eunuch and instructed their subordinates to prepare a banquet. The two of them returned to the lobby and passed on the subordinate civil and military officials to announce the content of the holy decree to everyone.

All the civil and military officers listened to the announcement of the Inspector that they had finished their careers, and they all knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted from the mountain. The generals were even more grateful to the emperor, and they were excited at the moment, and everyone wanted to show their skills in tomorrow's big battle.

Because of the urgency of the military situation, Sun Chuanting immediately led all the generals back to the front of the army. Hong Chengchou himself had a banquet with the summoned eunuchs, leaving him to rest in Tongguan Xingyuan, and he himself took a group of staff and personal generals to Tongluochuan, where Hong Chengchou's governor's camp was already set up.

Chongzhen's temperament was originally an impatient temperament that belonged to the village party secretary who entered the night market, he listened to the rumbling cannons outside the city from time to time, and he doubted that he would fall out when he was summoned to Lu Xiangsheng tomorrow, the more he was anxious and restless, and the more he was prone to lose his temper with his own people in the palace, which frightened the eunuchs and palace maids in the Qianqing Palace one by one, and they didn't even dare to come out.

Just after breakfast the next day, he got the secret music that Gao Qiqian urgently sent into the palace by the supervising army, saying that the general soldier Zu Dashou had been besieged in Jinzhou for two years, and the city had run out of food, which was really in danger, and it was rumored that once the Qing soldiers broke through Jinzhou, they would increase the number of troops entering the customs and try to besiege and conquer the capital.

Although the fall of Jinzhou had been counted as expected by Chongzhen, he did not expect that at the juncture when the Beijing division was besieged, Jinzhou was also in danger, and he did not expect that the Qing soldiers would soon send more troops south, so Gao Qiqian's emergency secret performance shocked him greatly, and a sense of despair about state affairs suddenly rose in his heart.

There is also a mention of this sentence in the high potential tantra: "...... Wen Dongyu still has the sincerity to negotiate peace, if this matter can be accomplished, it may be able to save the current urgent situation; ”

Although Chongzhen did not like to use the word "peace" in Manchuria, and only said "negotiation" or "negotiation" in his heart, he could not help but admit that this was actually peace, so when he was at a loss this morning, he was not annoyed by the inappropriate use of words by his minions.

Regarding the secret peace negotiation with Manchuria, he originally thought that it was a rescue plan at present, and he was secretly urging Yang Sichang to speed up the process secretly, and don't forget that the sooner the better, he now received Gao Qiqian's secret music, and unconsciously complained in his heart: "Gao Qiqian is my domestic slave after all, unlike many extended ministers." Only he understands my hardships and is willing to think about my current difficulties!"

He was very anxious about the affairs of Gyeonggi and Liaodong, and he couldn't wait for Lu Xiangsheng, who was summoned by the platform, so he hurriedly ordered the eunuch to send Yang Sichang to Wenhua Hall to wait for the summons.

Just when Chongzhen and Yang Sichang in the Forbidden City were discussing the current crisis, a major war broke out almost simultaneously between Liaodong and Tongguan in the Ming Dynasty.

More than 300 miles away from the capital of the Ming Dynasty, there is a small city called Zunhua. Zunhua City pillows the south foot of Yanshan in the east, leans on the Great Wall in the north, looks at Jingshi in the west, borders Jintang in the south, and passes Liaoshen in the east.

Outside the city of Zunhua, the Luan River carries a stream of spring water around the waist and flows through. This section of the Luanhe River flowing through Zunhua is not more than ten zhang wide, but the water is deep and rapid, but it is not frozen in the coldest time of winter and spring, not to mention that it is the early spring season when eight or nine geese come at this time.

The right bank of the Luan River stretches out a flat beach, where a group of nearly 10,000 Ming officers and soldiers are resting. Some of these officers and soldiers drank horses by the river, chopped wood and set fires to cook food, some sat and slumped with their backs against thick tree trunks, and some of them simply lay on the ground with their heads resting on rocks and fell asleep.

Judging from their clothing, these disorganized officers and soldiers were dressed in all kinds of shabby fat jackets, armor, battle skirts, and arms coverings; they wore rusty iron hats and helmets on their heads, as well as colorful red hats and five-colored scarves.

The generals of the Ming army who led the troops, at this time did not know where they went, six or seven thousand stragglers were like dried fish ready to be sold, spread all over the river beach, except for a crooked Daming dragon flag leaning on a big tree, all the rest of the flags were either used to cover the body, or were crumpled into a ball as people's pillows.

At this time, the leaders of the gang who were fetching water and cooking on the shore suddenly stopped their movements, and they stretched their necks to look at the opposite shore. Gradually, their eyes widened, and with the sound of horses' hooves, came from far and near from the opposite shore, and under the guidance of an orange-yellow flag, a cloud seemed to be colored by the morning sun.

The leaders of the men looked closely at the opposite bank, and saw three or five hundred horsemen with pigtails on their heads and backs, marching unhurriedly along the river bank. The people on the horses were also dressed in a variety of armor, and some even wore only a greasy leather robe. Even among those who wore armor, some of which looked extremely ugly because they were too rough, were well-maintained and glowed with the cold glow of metal in the early spring sun.