On November 1, 2018, the second year of Chongzhen, strengthened the defense of Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen ordered officials, royal relatives, and heroes to take their servants to patrol and guard the city walls. At the same time, they also asked eunuchs to guard the city. The general of Datong of the Ming Dynasty, Man Gui, and the general of Xuanfu Hou Shilu, led their troops to camp outside Desheng Gate, Beijing.

The bad news came. The British Duke was forced by Donglin. In the unknown situation of the enemy, he led 50,000 Beijing camps and went out of the city to fight 100,000 Jiannu and was defeated. After 30,000 wars, the British Duke Zhang Weixian was caught in the trap. Zhang Zhi and his personal soldiers led 10,000 of the soldiers of the brothers of Wang Dazhuang to force the Jiannu cavalry to save their father. However, Zhang Weixian was old and died in the battle.

Chongzhen issued an order to mourn, followed Zhang Zhihe as the Duke of England, continued to command the Jingying, and ordered the Jingying to strictly guard the city walls and never fight.

When the bad news came, Zhang Cuiyan cried and cried, and Zhao Xingxiufen accompanied her tears.

The army left Guguan and entered Zhili. According to the plan, it stopped and headed north and directly rushed towards Zunhua.

But halfway through, he received a letter from the Ministry of War, ordering Hong Chengchou to lead his troops south and detour to Fangshan to Wuqing to defend. This is inconsistent with Zhao Xing's prior plan with Hong Chengchou.

The path Zhao Xing chose was to go through Huailai Yanqing to bypass Beijing and approach Zunhua.

The reason for this is that Huailai Yanqing has four guards in Jingying. No matter how many people there are, he wants to be incorporated. Now Zhao Xing’s idea is that the future defense battle of Zunhua will be a deadly battle that will block Huang Taiji’s retreat. Huang Taiji will definitely take back Zunhua at all costs. What he needs now is Han Xin’s order of troops, and the more he will be the better.

However, the imperial court's Ministry of War wrote Zhao Xing to lead his army south to Wuqing, saying that he was guarding against Jiannu to enter Hebei and Shandong.

Not to mention that there is a military force in Shandong, even if Zhao Xing led his troops there, it would not be able to stop the 100,000 Jiannu going south. Of course, based on Zhao Xing's historical memory, Jiannu had no intention of going south at all in this invasion. In this way, the Ministry of War put Zhao Xing's army in idle state.

Also, it completely broke the purpose of taking over the four guards of the Beijing Camp.

Faced with such a mobilization, Zhao Xing looked at the nominal commander of the team, Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou directly ordered: "Come and execute this bastard with fake information." Then he said to Zhao Xing: "We have never seen this person, and of course we have not received this official document. This war is in chaos, and the consignor of the Ministry of War is probably eaten by a wolf halfway."

Zhao Xing nodded with satisfaction, thinking that it was absolutely possible, so the army continued to move forward in the original plan.

As a result, shortly after the army was launched, the emperor's imperial edict came. This time, he ordered Hong Chengchou to continue to go to Wuqing, and Zhao Xing immediately returned to Beijing.

This time it was the emperor's imperial edict, and Zhao Xing dared not disobey. At the same time, the person who sent the edict could not be killed. He is an old friend Wang Zhonghe and the Chief of the Sili Supervisor. If he suddenly disappeared, it would be a huge matter.

"Sir Zhao, please go back to Beijing quickly. If you don't go back to Beijing, the emperor will be in trouble and the capital will be completely finished."

"Are you all the lords? Are there all the civil and military officials? Are there any Beijing camp and the king-supporting soldiers? As long as they persist for a while, I quietly raid Zunhua and cut off Huang Taiji's retreat. Wouldn't everything be solved?"

Wang Hezhong explained hatefully at that time: "What else can those ministers do besides internal fighting, besides being able to talk big? Luo Yang was so scared that he couldn't get sick, the Jinyiwei was headless, and the entire capital was in chaos. Everyone knew what Yuan Chonghuan thought, and who would dare to count on his troops? The soldiers and horses who served in the kings in other places were poor and weak, and they didn't see each other fighting with the enemy, but they only found their hands asking for money."

Then he looked at Zhao Xing and lowered his voice solemnly: "Your plan is good, even I, who don't understand military affairs, know it. But when you see that you are in trouble, even if you have great contributions to occupy Zunhua, can you escape the death penalty in the end? Brother, please be more careful. This time, the emperor asked me, the chief supervisor of the Silijian, to come here to do this trip, which is something that a little eunuch can do. Do you still know?"

After being reminded by Wang Hezhong, Zhao Xing gasped and sat there blankly but didn't dare to move.

Yes, I still take it too much for granted. I forgot that now I am in a feudal society that should be killed, and the emperor's safety is greater than that of heaven. Even if I finally save the universe, just waiting for the king to be in trouble will be a great death penalty. Yu Qian saved the Ming Dynasty, which is known to everyone in the world, but what is the final result? The previous lessons are not far away.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xing immediately found Hong Chengchou, handed him the emperor's imperial edict, and then said decisively: "We follow the imperial edict and turn troops to Wuqing."

As a result, Wang Hezhong stretched his neck and said, "The emperor means that Lord Hong Chengchou will lead his troops to Wuqing, and the old slave will accompany Lord Zhao back to Beijing, immediately, immediately."

Hong Chengchou understood that the emperor sent Wang Hezhong to come, which was equivalent to escorting Zhao Xing back to Beijing.

Hong Chengchou was a loyal minister, and he did not dare to go against the emperor's wishes and could only abide by it.

So, Hong Chengchou asked: "How many soldiers did sir bring back to Beijing?"

Zhao Xing looked at Wang Hezhong. Wang Hezhong said lightly: "The meaning of the imperial edict is as long as Lord Zhao and I go back to Beijing with me, I will not say how many soldiers I will bring." The meaning is obvious.

Zhao Xing pondered for a while: "The army of kings has gathered, no matter how much it is, the supply from the capital cannot be provided. If there is a document from the Ministry of War, you will lead your troops to Wuqing, so you will turn your troops now. I will take the 600 cavalry of Zhifeng to follow the lord Wang back to the capital to meet the saint."

Wang Hezhong nodded: "That's good, then let's go now."

On December 10, Zhao Xing and Wang Hezhong took 600 cavalrymen into Beijing from Zhengyang Gate (South Gate of Beijing).

As soon as he entered Beijing, Zhao Xing immediately felt that there was an atmosphere of doomsday in the whole of Beijing.

The enemy's army was at the city, and the court was still fighting or defending, and there were endless quarrels. Every day, the sound of cannons in the north roared day and night, but there were always defeats. Today, it was lost, and tomorrow there was lost. In the morning, what town was massacred by Jiannu, and in the afternoon, there was no chicken or dog killed by Jiannu. Which army was defeated today, and tomorrow there was a mutiny between the king-supporting army. This said that Yuan Chonghuan was a traitor and led Jiannu to invade, and that said that Yuan was a loyal minister and the elder-supporting army was a powerful army to serve the king. The rumors of true and false flying all over the sky.

The officials of Shuntian Prefecture, who were in charge of the capital, just posted notices everywhere, but the content was either empty or inconsistent or made people at a loss.

The five-city military commander in charge of public security was transferred to the city guards. The commander of the Jinyiwei was so scared that he could not leave his home. The security of the entire capital was completely broken. Rogues and gangsters took advantage of the situation to rob, and the refugees stranded in the capital and the refugees pouring in outside the city took the opportunity to steal, causing normal civilians to be shocked three times a day.

Everyone ran in panic, spreading rumors and buying various supplies. Prices soared. However, the grain merchants closed down and countless people held gold and silver, but it was hard to find a grain of rice, which further exacerbated the chaos in the capital.
Chapter completed!