The person that Princess Kunxing Zhu Mai was worried about would definitely not disappoint her. When Emperor Chongzhen and Queen Zhou were hanging on a thread, he would ride a bloody horse into the capital and rescue their family from the siege of the bandits.

Just as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the 17th year of Chongzhen passed, Li Guodong began to prepare for the king in Beijing.

"All our military households in Xiangling have been withdrawn to Huai'an, including the iron and steelmaking equipment that can be dismantled and the glass-making equipment that can be fired, and all have been moved away. Niu Yong and Wang Yongkui from the court took over our Xiangling camp." Zhang Shuheng reported to Li Guodong.

Sun Chuanting was furious: "Wuwei Bo! If you make way for the Xiangling Pass, wouldn't you give way to the thieves? The bandits can cross the river from Shaanxi and enter Shanxi, go north along the Fenhe Valley, take Taiyuan, Datong, and go straight to the capital!"

"Sun Supervisor Sun calms down, please take a look at this." Li Guodong took out the imperial edict given to him by the court and handed it to Sun Chuanting.

"Your Majesty! You must have been deceived by the treacherous slander in the court! That's why you made such a fool!" Sun Chuanting saw the imperial edict and cried and fell to the ground, crying and crying.

"Master Sun, what should I do if the bandits go north, capture Datong, and then break through Ningwu Pass and directly seize the capital, Liu Zeqing and Wu Sangui are unwilling to go to Beijing to serve the king, what should we do?" Li Guodong asked.

Sun Chuanting said: "Is this too much? Of course, I advise Your Majesty to hunt south quickly! Throw the northern land to the bandits and Jiannu, and let them kill each other! We just need to defend the Jianghuai line, ensure the safety of the Yangtze River, and wait for the opportunity to attack the Central Plains in the north."

Li Guodong laughed: "Good idea, Li is about to send troops to Beijing to serve the king. He must persuade His Majesty to hunt Nanjing in the south. But after going to the south, it is probably difficult to control the situation in the court, so he asked Supervisor Sun to enter the court to assist the emperor so that he could not be controlled by the treacherous and slandered in the court."

"As long as it is a matter of loyalty to the emperor and serving the country, I will do my best. Even if I lose my life, I will be reluctant to do it! Speaking of which, I have been imprisoned twice and died twice. What else can I be afraid of?"

"Okay!" Li Guodong nodded, "Li is about to send troops to serve the king, and ask Supervisor Sun to follow our army to enter Beijing."

Li Guodong began to prepare in full swing. According to his plan, the army of the army who went to Beijing to serve the king would definitely encounter many obstacles along the way. First of all, people must be kept to defend Huguang, so as not to take advantage of the opportunity of Li Guodong's army entering Beijing to serve the king. When the navy passed by the Jiujiang River, it might be inevitable to fight a war. Some information was sent. Zuo Liangyu, who had been breathing for three months, pulled up another navy, trying to cause trouble for himself.

The next trouble is that in February of each year, before the summer grain harvest, the Guazhou ship lock is closed, and no ship on the Yangtze River is allowed to enter the canal. This is simple. At that time, lead the army directly to it. I believe that Lu Zhenfei is a person who is very wise and righteous. He will definitely not make things difficult for him when he passes through the two Huai Rivers.

The biggest trouble is Liu Liangzuo, Liu Liangchen and Liu Zeqing's group, and when they meet them, they will inevitably fight. As for Gao Jie and Huang Degong, Li Guodong is still not sure whether they will use the excuse to stop the rebels and intercept themselves halfway. Although Gao Jie and Huang Degong are loyal, they are stubborn. Now, in the eyes of the court, Li Guodong is similar to the rebels. His scope of activities is limited to the area along the Yangtze River, and he must not cross the north of the Yellow River, nor enter Shandong and northern Zhili.

It seems that there is something to fight along the way.

According to the plan to serve the king, Li Guodong will send 60,000 troops, including 20,000 naval divisions and 30,000 land divisions. Among the 30,000 land divisions, there are 3,000 heavy cavalry, 4,000 light cavalry, 4,000 dragon cavalry, 15,000 infantry and 5,000 artillery, and another 10,000 auxiliary troops. Because there are rivers along the way, there are not many auxiliary troops, and the transportation and supply replenishment depends on the navy.

Passing through the two Huaihe Rivers, there were 10,000 Huai troops who stayed in Huai'an to cooperate; passing through Shandong, there were 20,000 military households who stayed in Shandong to cooperate; entering the capital, there were more than 100,000 personal guards who were stationed in the capital, all of which were about 100,000 troops, but most of the troops had to fight with the four towns in Jiangbei and the Ming army in Shandong. In the end, only one thousand horses and heavy cavalry, two thousand light cavalry and two thousand dragon cavalry were able to enter the capital to serve the king. Their mission was to take Chongzhen out.

While arranging the king to Beijing, Li Guodong secretly ordered Zhang Shuheng: "You go to Ningwu Pass. Once Ningwu Pass is broken, you will get out of Zhou Yuji's family. He is a rare talent. I can't bear to let him die at the hands of the thieves."

Inside and outside Wuchang City, the Jinyang Army's Land Division and the Huai Army Navy were making preparations in full swing. The soldiers in the management warehouse carefully checked the food and grass for the expedition, and the soldiers checked their weapons and equipment; the navy officers and soldiers pushed the ships ashore, cleared the fleet's aquatic plants and shells, repaired the damaged warships, and the gunners wiped the cannons to check if there was any problem with the artillery; the cavalry maintained the war horses and used the period before the expedition to feed the war horses to a fat and strong body.

The Zhaoye Jade Lion that Li Guodong had been riding had already been old. This horse has been with Li Guodong since he was eight years old. He was still a two-year-old foal. Now twenty-three years have passed. The foal of that year has become a 25-year-old old horse, and the lifespan of the horse is only about 30 years old. A 25-year-old horse is equivalent to a 72-year-old man. The old foal naturally cannot accompany Li Guodong to the battlefield. Now Li Guodong is riding a maroon sweat-blooded BMW. This batch of sweat-blooded BMWs is not inferior to Zhaoye Jade Lion, but his old horse will still keep it well until it dies.

The same problem exists in the army in large numbers. Most of the war horses brought into the pass were old. Most of the horses riding by the soldiers nowadays were the war horses captured by the Later Jin army several times and the Qing army later invaded, and the Jinyang army defeated the captured war horses.

Li Guodong can only afford a cavalry of ten thousand people, but no matter how many, he can't afford it. The old horses he brought back then died, and could only be replaced by second-class Mongolian horses; the camels died almost all the time, and the camels firearms turned into mule soldiers, riding mules when marching and horses when fighting.

Through Zheng Zhilong's relationship, the Jinyang army introduced a group of good horses from overseas, but there was a lack of grasslands in the south, and those horses were raised on Danluo Island, which Zheng Zhilong captured in the name of the Japanese.

Danluo Island has a large grassland, which is a good place to raise horses. In order to ensure that everything is foolproof, Li Guodong asked Shi Fu to go back to find Zheng Zhilong and transport a batch of war horses over.

Since the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Guodong has been preparing for the intensive preparations. After more than half a month of preparations, his army embarked on the journey on the fifth day of the second lunar month. The army set off from Wuchang in a mighty manner and flowed down the Yangtze River.

The commander who went to the expedition was Li Guodong himself, the left military advisor was Sun Chuanting, the right military advisor was Sun Heding, and the right military advisor was Sun Heding. He pointed out the generals under his command as Han Dashan, Cao Bianjiao, Zhang Wei, Wang Quan, He Xing, Tang Chong, Zhang Shiwen, Wu Biao, Wu Fugui, Shi Lang and more than ten generals.

On the Wuchang Wharf, there were gongs and drums and firecrackers roaring. With the order of Li Guodong, thousands of warships of all sizes rose sails. Under the strong thrust of the northwest wind, they flowed down the river and headed straight towards Jiujiang.

As soon as the huge fleet arrived at the Huangzhou River, a clutch from the north caught up with the fleet, and the person who came was led to Li Guodong's flagship.

"Yi Bo Ye, Bei Zhi has just obtained the latest information from the Zhangjunmen in the north. The thieves have already broken through Fenzhou, Yangcheng, Puzhou, Huaiqing and other places. More than one million rebels passed by the Xiangling City Walled City where we once guarded. Xiangling City Walled City was broken by the rebels. General Niu Yong, Deputy General Wang Yongkui and 5,000 officers and soldiers were wiped out! More than one million rebels went straight to Taiyuan." The person who came reported to Li Guodong.

"I understand." Li Guodong nodded.

Now I can only hope that Li Zicheng will follow the progress rate in history. If the rebel army speed is faster, if Li Zicheng rests for two days in Taiyuan, Li Guodong may not be able to catch up with the rescue of Emperor Chongzhen.

Thinking of this, he said to the agent of the personal guard who came to report the message: "You go to Ningwu Pass in person and tell Zhang Junmen that after he rescued Zhou Yuji's family, he should immediately rush to the capital. If my army cannot arrive in time, your people will take action first, be sure to take Jin Shang away from the capital! You must also tie it up!"
Chapter completed!