After a while, the British publicly said, "Your Majesty, the generals of the Beijing camp have been working together for a long time. If they are allowed to separate at this time, it may affect the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp.

Therefore, from the perspective of the minister, you don’t need to replace someone.”

"I heard from my dear, these soldiers can go to Henan?" Chongzhen looked at the British Duke with a gloomy face.

The British Duke stammered for a long time and stammered: "Your Majesty, you should be able to go!"

"Since that's the case, let these troops increase their troops in Henan as I just said." After Chongzhen said that, he looked at the hall again, "Who of you has a better strategy to defeat the enemy?"

At this time, all the civil officials and military officials in the hall fell silent, and no one spoke.

Chongzhen looked at the silent hall and said, "Go back to court!"

Gao Qi sneaked up and shouted loudly at the hall, "Retreat!"

Chongzhen waved his sleeves, stood up from the dragon throne, and walked out of the hall.

After retreating from court, the officials in the hall walked out in groups of three or three.

While walking out, the British Duke glared at Min Hongxue with murderous intent on his face.

"Hmph, don't fall into my husband's hands. If it falls into my husband's hands, I will make you regret coming to this world."

The British Duke looked at Min Hongxue's back and sneered gloomyly.

Min Hongxue walked quickly, so he didn't see the expression of the British Duke now.

"We really want those soldiers to go to Henan as His Majesty said just now?" Duke Cheng approached the British Duke and looked at Duke with a serious look on his face.

The British Duke walked out of the hall and came to the open space outside. He looked around and saw that there was no one around. He came to Duke Cheng's ear and whispered: "Your Majesty has said this. Do you think we can do this if we go to Henan?"

"But if these soldiers go to Henan, our strength in the Beijing camp will be greatly reduced." Duke Cheng looked at Duke England with a worried look. He really couldn't figure out how the Duke England agreed to Chongzhen's request at this time.

"Great discount? Haha!" The British Duke sneered, "You still don't understand the rules here. Before, we sent someone to contact Zhao Wen to discuss the surrender, but we haven't seen the reply until now. I guess this matter is probably going to be ruined.

In my opinion, Zhao Wen may think that we have no sincerity, so he rejected our surrender.

My Majesty asked these soldiers to go to Henan just now. I originally disagreed, but later I thought, since we are all going to surrender to Zhao Wen, this capital is not as effective as before.

Since that's the case, it's better to bet all the treasures on Zhao Wen this time."

"What do you mean?" Duke Cheng still didn't quite understand.

"It's very simple. The person we sent out to contact last time has not come back yet. Maybe Zhao Wen thinks we are not sincere. So, this time I want to let the people in the Beijing Camp take these troops from the Beijing Camp to Henan and surrender directly to Zhao Wen.

This is the Beijing camp, the last garrison force in the capital. You said we have handed over this force to Zhao Wen. Can Zhao Wen still disagree with our surrender?" The British Duke looked at Duke Cheng with a swearing voice. In the British Duke's opinion, he had already handed over the last defensive force in the capital to Zhao Wen. No matter what, Zhao Wen said, because of his sincerity, he should also accept his surrender.

Once you surrender, the capital will have nothing to do with you.

Duke Cheng showed a sudden enlightenment on his face, "So that's it, so that's it, I didn't expect, really, I just said why you suddenly agreed to Your Majesty's request, it turned out that you had made this idea.

It seems that His Majesty asked his troops to reinforce Henan this time, which is a blessing or a disaster for us."

"Haha, the so-called blessing is the basis of misfortune, and misfortune is the basis of good fortune." The British Duke laughed confidently.

After walking out of the hall, Chongzhen came directly to the imperial study room.

Gao Qiqian stood beside Chongzhen, "Emperor, the things arranged yesterday have been handled."

Chongzhen sat at the desk, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, "I know, but I still can't relax in the past few days. We must keep a close eye on the British Duke and others. Once the troops from the Beijing camp leave the city, we will do it directly. At that time, block the city walls and strive to uproot the British Duke and others in the shortest time.

After uprooting these people, we began to clean up their property. This time, all their property was rushing into the treasury, and I was a little worried about the treasury of the Ministry of Revenue.

I will use these silver to recruit soldiers and horses to supplement the vacancies in the Jingying and the Imperial Horse Prison. Now you inform the cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and prepare to start mobilizing the Beijing camp troops.

As for the money to mobilize troops and let the Ministry of Revenue squeeze in, put down the unimportant things first and do their best to do these things."

Gao Qi secretly bowed and then walked out of the imperial study with Chongzhen's order.

At the same time, Zhao Wen has penetrated the remaining two lines of defense in the Yellow River defense line.

He led his troops out of the Yellow River defense line.

After leaving the Yellow River defense line, Zhao Wen led his troops directly towards Jiyuan.

Jiyuan is a county under Huaiqing Prefecture. It is located in the northern section of the Yellow River, not far from the Yellow River defense line established by Sun Chuanting.

The Yellow River was diverted from Yanqu County, at the junction of Shanxi and Henan. The original direction of the Yellow River was flowing to the northeast. After passing Yuanqu, it diverted from east to east.

Sun Chuanting originally wanted to rely on the Yellow River in Henan to establish a Yellow River defense line and rely on the Yellow River natural barrier to resist Zhao Wen.

But after thinking about it, I gave up this plan. After all, Huaiqing Prefecture, Weihui Prefecture and Zhangde Prefecture are both north of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River flowing into Henan is too long. If I rely on the Yellow River to establish a Yellow River defense line, the cost is too high, and it takes a very long time.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting chose to use a fortress to connect the Yellow River at the junction of Shanxi and Henan with the Taihang Mountains to the east.

But despite this, the Yellow River defense line still did not stop Zhao Wen's pace.

When Zhao Wen broke through the Yellow River defense line, the east and west routes had not penetrated the Yellow River defense line. After all, their heavy weapon was only 120mm mortar.

Zhao Wenqi was on the war horse. He looked at Li Xiaosan who was following him, "I asked someone to notify the troops from both east and west. Once they broke through the Yellow River defense line, let them lead their troops to Jiyuan. Then the troops will be united and then make arrangements."

"As for order!" Li Xiaosan shouted, then took Zhao Wen's order down.

A moment later, more than a dozen messengers rode their war horses towards the East and West.

The Yellow River defense line is not very far from Jiyuan. If you ride a horse, it will take only half a day to die.

However, most of the soldiers under Zhao Wen were infantry, and the food and food transported by him were much slower. It was not until noon the next day that Zhao Wen arrived at Jiyuan County.

Zhao Wen rode a war horse and brought his troops outside the city of Jiyuan County.

The defenders and officials in Jiyuan County were fleeing in a hurry, so they didn't even raise the suspension bridge.

Zhao Wen rode a war horse to the front of the suspension bridge. He looked at Jiyuan City in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief, "Go into the city, have a good rest after entering the city."

Zhao Wen waved his hand and led his troops forward.

Li Xiaosan hurriedly said, "Sir, do you want me to lead the troops to clean up the city first?"

"Cleaning? There is no need to clean up. It's not that I am arrogant and underestimating the enemy, but that there is no need to do so. Now that the Yellow River defense line is completely defeated, are you still afraid of an ambush in a small Jiyuan City?

Even if there are ambushers, can they be our opponents? What Sun Chuanting wants to do most now is to gather his troops and retreat. Under this idea, how could he leave ambushers in the city?

Besides, Ye Bushang, who had sent out before, had already detected Jiyuan City, and there were no so-called ambush inside. Now Jiyuan City is an empty city, with the defenders, gentry and officials inside running away, and even the people running away completely. Since there are no ambush, what else can I clean up?" Zhao Wen pointed to Jiyuan City, which was wide open in front of the city gate, explained a few words, and then instigated the war horses and walked forward.

Seeing this, Li Xiaosan hurriedly led Zhao Wen's personal guards to follow Zhao Wen.

A moment later, Zhao Wen walked into Jiyuan City.

As soon as I walked into Jiyuan City, a sense of desolation came to my face.

There was almost no figure in the city, and the streets were filled with messy bricks and tiles and some tattered tables and benches.

The doors of almost every room are open, and there is nothing else inside except for some worthless rotten wood.

After Sun Chuanting led the defenders and gentry in the city to leave, the people stayed in the city.

These people in Jiyuan City had never contacted Zhao Wen. In addition, before Sun Chuanting left, they had someone spread rumors that Zhao Wen wanted to massacre the city. Therefore, after Sun Chuanting and others evacuated, the people in the city also worked overtime to run away.

Some of the people who ran out of the city chased Sun Chuanting, but most of them fled to the countryside.

When the people in the city left, they took away everything they could take away in the city, including tables, chairs, benches, iron pots, bowls and chopsticks that the gentry looked down upon.

These things are just some optional things for officials, gentry and defenders. After all, compared with their wealth and life, these things are not worth much money.

However, for ordinary people, these things are still very good.

"Ye Bucheng said that the news sent back before is right. There is no one in Jiyuan City now, and it is completely empty." Zhao Wen sat on the war horse, looked at the scene in front of him, and murmured.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in a foreign uniform led dozens of subordinates to hurry from the end of the street to Zhao Wen.

When Li Xiaosan saw someone running towards this side, he hurriedly placed his right hand on the big black star on his waist, and at the same time mobilized the war horse to walk forward.

The personal guards following Zhao Wen also hurried to Zhao Wen and protected Zhao Wen behind.

"Who?" Li Xiaosan looked at the person getting closer and closer and shouted.

The middle-aged man ran to the distance of seventy or eighty steps in front of Li Xiaosan and shouted at Zhao Wen: "Do you dare to ask if it is the general's army?"

"Who are you?" Li Xiaosan stared at the middle-aged man ahead.

"At the following is the shopkeeper of the cement shop in Jiyuan City, and the secret spy sent by the General to Jiyuan to collect information from Jiyuan.

I have been waiting for a long time, this is my identity certificate!" The middle-aged man said as he took out his identity certificate from his arms and kept waving.

Seeing this, Li Xiaosan took a few personal guards up there.

"Your name is Li Changming?" Li Xiaosan jumped off his war horse and took the identity certificate in the middle-aged man's hand. After checking it, he looked at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man nodded, "That's right, it's Li Changming."

Li Changming is the shopkeeper of a cement shop in Jiyuan City. In addition to selling cement, he also collects various information in the city.

"I'll ask you something about Xuanzhen, and I can only believe you after answering it." Li Xiaosan looked at Li Changming and asked about something about Xuanzhen, and these things were things that ordinary people could not notice at all.

Only after living in Xuanzhen can you answer it.

Li Changming answered Li Xiaosan's question with almost no omissions.

At this time, Li Xiaosan finally believed Li Changming.

"Since that's the case, let's follow me. The General has arrived, right in front." After Li Xiaosan checked correctly, he handed over Li Changming's identity certificate to Li Changming.

When Li Changming heard that Zhao Wen was coming, his eyes lit up instantly.
To be continued...