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Chapter 1221 Zhang San Crazy

With the emperor's order, the whole city of Beijing fell into chaos.

Officials in Shuntian Prefecture, Wanping County, and Daxing County took their household registration registers, and under the leadership of Baochang and Lizheng, they began door-to-door to recruit civilian husbands.

Before the common people figured out what was going on, they were dragged out of bed by officials, put on their clothes indiscriminately, and gathered in the streets and alleys.On the street, the officials were replaced by fully armed officers and soldiers, let alone tell them what to do, so they drove the fearful people out of the city.

On the wide official road, the torches shined in the sky, and the childish young man and the white-haired old man, pushing carts and carrying loads, were escorted by a mighty army, and rushed to Tongzhou, fifty miles away, overnight.

It was extremely cold that night, and many people froze to death on the way, but the escort officers and soldiers didn't care, they just drove them on their way.

At dawn, the first wave of migrant workers had already arrived in Tongzhou City, while the last migrant workers had just left Beijing City.

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Tongzhou City has been the end point of the Grand Canal since ancient times. Although Emperor Yongle dredged the Tonghui River so that the canal boats could reach the Jishuitan in the capital, the transportation capacity was limited after all, and the capital had no place to build a large area of ​​granaries, so from the south The grain and other materials that have been transported will be unloaded and put into warehouses in Tongzhou, and then the capital will ship as much as needed.

In order to manage more than [-] national treasuries in Tongzhou, the imperial court set up a warehouse in Tongzhou. A servant of the household department was in charge of the collection, storage and transfer of grain from all over the world. The four guards were also responsible for protection. The importance of Tongzhou can be seen.

Since Hongxi, the imperial court has paid more attention to agriculture, persuading mulberry and encouraging production. Every year, the amount of grain and grass transported to the capital has reached 400 million shi. In addition to meeting the consumption of the soldiers and civilians in the capital, there will be a surplus of one million shi every year. In addition, the grain and grass that have not been consumed this year , Today, in Tongzhou City, there is a total of more than six million stones of grain stored. If all of them are transported back to the capital, it will be enough for all the soldiers and civilians to eat for eighteen months!

As long as there is food, the city of Beijing is invincible. For a whole year and a half, it is enough to consume Wang Xian until he is defeated and killed!
Therefore, this is indeed the key to the success or failure of the court today!
Yang Rong was personally in charge of the escort, and Li Xian, Marquis of Fengcheng, was in charge of the [-] troops.Before leaving the city, the prince warned Li Xian that he must obey Yang Rong's words and never make any claims. In fact, Li Xian himself has no claims, so naturally he is happy to listen to Yang Rong's arrangements.

Yang Rong knew very well that the success or failure of the overall situation was at stake, so he was naturally extremely vigilant, and sent out countless scouts to closely monitor every disturbance in the surrounding area.He couldn't help being unaware that Wang Xian's army was hundreds of miles away from the capital, but it took a long time to transport it. Wang Xian's army might reach Tongzhou at any time. If he couldn't stop his attack, all the food would be lost. It's in Wang Xian's hands!
Who knows what to fear, that morning, scouts galloped to report that a group of cavalry of unknown origin was found in the southwest, and they were heading towards Tongzhou!
"Why did you come so fast?!" Yang Rong's expression tightened.

Li Xian was even more frightened and asked: "Could it be that the Daxing defense line fell so soon?!" He is the son of Li Bin, the famous general of Jingnan, and has a very good relationship with Zhu Zhanji, so he was entrusted with the important task.But he had never been on the battlefield at all, and when he heard the news of Wang Xian's killing, he panicked and said, "What should I do?!"

"Don't panic, if Daxing is in an emergency, he would have reported it long ago. Wang Xian came so fast, his army must not be many," Yang Rong calmed down and said: "Let's just transport our food, and leave the rest to the escorting army."

"Okay." Li Xian thought so too. Between Tongzhou and Beijing, there are [-] troops. As long as Wang Xian doesn't have many troops, he probably wouldn't dare to act rashly.

The two ordered the army to enter the fighting state, and then anxiously waited for the follow-up news in Tongzhou.

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The army that dispatched to the southwest of Tongzhou was the five thousand cavalry led by Xu Huaiqing.

Last night, Wang Xian's army marched north. The vast and flat North China Plain is extremely suitable for cavalry to gallop.At dawn, the army arrived in Daxing, sixty miles away!

Daxing is Yiguo County in the capital, known as the first city in the world, and half of Beijing is under the jurisdiction of Daxing County, so the importance of its location can be imagined.After Zhu Zhanji took power, in order to guard against the Shandong side on the side of the couch, three lines of defense were set up in the south of the capital. The first two were Cangzhou and Langfang, and the third was Daxing.

This Daxing line of defense, which is only [-] miles away from the south gate of the capital, is the last barrier of the capital, so it is naturally the top priority of defense.Zhu Zhanji dispatched [-] troops and conscripted tens of thousands of migrant workers. From Yufa Town at the southernmost tip of Daxing County to Changziying at the westernmost tip, a trench sixty miles long and more than one foot deep was built. The deer village is widely distributed outside to reject horses, and dense enemy towers and watchposts are built inside the trenches.As soon as there is any trouble, the [-] troops stationed along the trench can arrive at the first time.

The news of Wang Xian's army appearing in Zhuozhou had already reached Daxing yesterday. In the middle of the night, the imperial court issued a strict order ordering the defenders to fight to the last man, and Wang Xian must not be allowed to cross the Daxing line of defense.In addition, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will personally lead [-] soldiers and horses to come to the town as soon as possible, and will arrive within a day at the latest.

Zhang Fu, the guard of Daxing, is the third brother of Zhang Fu and Zhang Fu.This guy was the vanguard of the King of Han's party at the beginning. When the King of Han rebelled for the first time, he was ordered to seize the city gate of Nanjing, and he almost captured Zhu Gaochi, who was still the prince at that time.Later, when the King of Han was defeated, Zhang Fu was naturally arrested, but with Zhang Fu and Zhang Fu around, he still survived and was locked up at home since then.

In order to deal with Wang Xian's party, Zhu Zhanji really didn't dislike it. Even this kind of stuff that had been in the corner for many years was dug out and entrusted with important tasks.Of course, His Royal Highness is not unreasonable. After all, he is also the blood of the old Zhang family, and his ability to lead troops to fight is still excellent. More importantly, he hates Wang Xian to the bone, and he will never fall to the royal party!
Knowing that Wang Xian appeared in front of his eyes, Zhang Fu was in an extremely excited state. Others were afraid of Wang Xian, but he was not.He blamed Wang Xian for the reason why he hadn't seen the sun for so many years, and he couldn't wait to cut off Wang Xian's head to vent his hatred!

Therefore, Zhang Fu patrolled the Daxing defense line overnight, urging all the watchtowers of the enemy towers to keep their eyes wide open, and not to let go of any disturbance!He also ordered all the soldiers to stand on guard, and to arrive immediately if there is a military situation!This guy was already a bit perverted, and he became even more brutal after being imprisoned for several years. After leaving the mountain this time, he killed countless officers and soldiers who dared to disobey him.

Therefore, as soon as Wang Xian's vanguard army appeared near the ditch, the sentinel in the watchtower immediately lit the beacon fire, and the first guard army stationed several miles away rushed over immediately, and the rest of the troops far away also immediately dispatched, and they would be rushed away in a short while. Come.

Wang Xian and Mo Wen rode together at the front of the team, seeing the situation with serious expressions, they never expected the officers and soldiers to react so quickly.

Time waited for no one, and there was no time to make other plans, so the two urged the soldiers to remove the roadblocks quickly, dismounted themselves, and together with the soldiers, braved the severe cold and carried logs two or three feet long, rushed to the ditch Side, lay the bridge over the ditch!
At this time, before the nearest guard horse arrived, the five hundred officers and soldiers stationed in the enemy building saw that Wang Xian and the others were going to build a bridge, so they rushed out desperately, trying to stop the bridge building!
Zhang Fu had already issued a strict order that whoever asked Wang Xian to break through their defense zone, all officers and soldiers stationed there would be beheaded!None of the officers and soldiers dared to doubt the ferocity of that lunatic, and they couldn't let Wang Xian pass by them with all their lives!

The soldiers under Wang Xian had been waiting for a long time, and immediately blocked the officers and soldiers with a dense rain of bullets and arrows!The officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, but they still insisted on fighting back with muskets and bows, and they were also shot down!

This unexpected fierce battle obviously showed that the previous easy battle like a paw Ding Jie Niu was gone forever!
On Wang Xian's side, a log had just been erected when it was pushed desperately by the officers and soldiers rushing over under the rain of arrows.Although the officer was immediately shot into a hedgehog, the log also slipped into the ditch!
So many times, Wang Xianjun still couldn't build a bridge, and the soldiers were at a loss for a while.

Wang Xian's face was ashen, he knew that he underestimated the enemy.Although I kept reminding myself to be cautious and tread on thin ice, but since the Great King City, I have been invincible in every battle, playing with the enemy in the palm of my hand, and I still can't help but feel underestimating the enemy.

Wang Xian originally thought that it was extremely cold tonight, and the officers and soldiers did not expect him to come so soon, and that he might not be able to get out of the fort. He could take advantage of the darkness before dawn and use the rapid bridging tool developed by the Jinyiwei Sixth Office. In a short time, bridges can be erected and trenches can be sneaked across.As long as you pass the trench, you have nothing to fear.

Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers actually used countless fires to illuminate the sixty-mile defense line as bright as white ground, giving them no chance at all!And the reaction speed was so fast, they rushed out before they built the bridge!

Wang Xian didn't care about the review at all, the guards and horses were already close in front of him, if there was any further delay, the bridge would not be able to be built!

In a hurry, he jumped up and shouted: "This is not possible!"

Xinci and Xinyan behind him looked at each other, waved their hands to signal several juniors to jump on the log, Xinyan also jumped on it, and shouted to the soldiers carrying the log: "Send us there!"

The soldiers cheered up, roared and rushed to the edge of the ditch carrying the log, and then threw it forward!
The heavy log flew into the air, and several monks actually stood firmly on top of it, and flew to the other side with the log!
"Shoot, shoot them down!" Only half of the [-] officers and soldiers were left, but reinforcements were close at hand, how could they waste all their previous efforts?Seeing some monks flying over with Yuanmu, he couldn't care less about being surprised, so the deputy Qianhu, the leader of the team, pointed at them and shouted: "Don't let them come over!"

The archers no longer cared what they were facing, and shot their arrows at the monks on the log!

(End of this chapter)