Chapter 916: Overhead

Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu whose mansion was in Weihui Mansion City, was not stupid and stayed in the fiefdom to resign himself to fate.

Instead, he ran to Tianjin with his family early, and went to sea by boat to prepare to settle in Seoul.

He escaped easily, because he was the first Ming vassal king to choose to cooperate with Huang Han, and he had no notoriety, and was secretly cared for and protected by the flag guards.

The "Red Flag Army" system notified him every time he raised shares, and because he was not good at management as a literary and artistic young man, he simply recognized Huang Han's bet, and most of his family's property in recent years was basically used to buy stocks.

Now those original stocks have increased in value, and in late May this year, the "Red Flag Daily" reported that the fleet sailing to the Americas returned with a full load, and Hainan Island successfully transplanted 3,000 rubber trees and planted 100,000 tree seeds.

Encouraged investors are enthusiastic, Hainan rubber stock has doubled in half a year, and there is no market, I believe that the first batch of modern tires in the true sense of the meaning will be born early next year, this stock will rise wildly.

After the sales of bicycles and tricycles equipped with rubber tires, the stocks of vehicle factories and steel factories will soar, and the attracted Daming capital cannot be estimated.

The news that Weihui Mansion was captured by the Liukou was learned by many vassal kings, county kings, and Zhenguo generals.

Just when they thought that the fate of King Qin, King Rui, and King Xiang would befall King Lu again.

The "Red Flag Daily" published an article reporting that King Lu had the foresight to use his family wealth to buy stocks, but now he has no loss at all, and has bought a luxurious mansion in Seoul, and can live a rich life entirely on dividends.

Facts speak louder than words, King Lu is well known to be close to the "King of Han", and his good life is entirely due to the belief in the "King of Han", and many wandering Zhu Ming clans have finally made up their minds.

Wu Xiang, Liang Tingdong, and Zhang Fengyi, who were responsible for the united front and attracting investment, did a lot of good work, and too many princes and nobles took the initiative to contact and consult.

Another wave of capital fleeing from Daming is about to happen! However, the imperial court was powerless to stop it.

Because the entire Ming Dynasty has been infiltrated by the flag guards, too many civil officials and military generals have secretly sworn allegiance to the "Han King", and they are quietly transferring assets, and Emperor Chongzhen will soon be hollowed out.

After Li Yan joined, the Liukou did change their sex, and they faced the dilemma of being sparsely populated and needing to be populated.

Therefore, if they do not intentionally kill people and set fires, as long as they do not choose to resist to the end, the Ming army and the village warriors will basically be left behind.

Jin Minghu and Zhao Shisan, who went to Taihang Mountain, of course, were like fish in water, four counties and one state city surrendered without a fight, and the Ming army and township warriors who took refuge were as high as more than 10,000, plus the expansion of men and horses during this time, the "winged tiger" department had 30,000 subordinates.

Originally, the "Winged Tiger" department was incompatible with the vast majority of Liukou, but since Gao Yingxiang appointed Li Yan as a dog-headed military advisor, the situation has changed greatly.

Li Yan inspected Jin Minghu's men and horses many times, and often praised Jin Minghu and Zhao Shisan's soldiers for their strict discipline in front of Gao Yingxiang, and called on the rest of the leaders to take the "winged tiger" as an example.

How did he know that Huang Han had been arranging as early as six years ago, and the "Winged Tiger" unit would fight back in the most important meeting, and it played a decisive role more than ten times stronger than the uprising of the 110th Division in the Huaihai Campaign.

Due to the shrinkage of the defense line by the men and horses of the Beijing camp, the local garrison camp base was unable to stop it at all.

The attack of the Liukou was smooth, and the three prefectures in the southwest of Shanxi, which were originally subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, were easily captured by the Liukou, and a large amount of grain, gold and silver treasures were seized.

Now the 400,000 rogue bandits are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of rogue militia and march to Beijing in two ways.

Chongzhen, who was waiting for the good news from Liaodong, did not get what he wanted, but waited for the bad news that Liukou claimed to have invaded the land of Gyeonggi with millions of men and horses.

Liu Zhilun led more than 30,000 people in the Beijing camp to fight and retreat, and only retreated until the "Red Flag Army" had been operating for many years in Houjiazhuang and "Zhongyi Fort" defense lines before gaining a foothold.

It's not that the people in Beijing are too weak, in fact, the soldiers brought out by Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua are stronger than the Liukou, but because the actual strength of the Liukou is five or six times that of the Ming army.

The frozen back line of the Yellow River is too long, and there is no danger to be able to curb the Liukou crossing the river, in order not to be surrounded and annihilated by the Liukou, but also because the two did not dare to take risks, they folded the only remaining 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian each took 20,000 or 30,000 horses to fight and retreat all the way to the north, and the worst plan was to preserve their strength to guard the Beijing division, and then organize their forces to strike an all-out blow after a large number of Liukou were consumed outside the capital.

Chongzhen was shocked when he heard the report that Liukou was attacking, and the number of men and horses was million, and the Yellow River defense line was easily broken through, and he also expected Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua to become the seed army and finally become the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, how dare he take the risk?

His first reaction was to give an order to Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua, reminding them that they must not fight out the men and horses in their hands, and it is best to lead the men and horses to retreat into the capital immediately.

The military and civilian eunuchs in the capital also read the "Red Flag Daily", too many people knew that the "Han King" was about to fight a decisive battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Liukou suddenly launched an attack at this critical juncture, and the number was unprecedented, causing a lot of panic.

The price of grain in Beijing suddenly soared, and the "Red Flag Great Grain Bank" had to start again the mode of rationing and supplying grain from the grain book and the household registration book, and at the same time, urgently dispatched grain from Tongzhou and Tianjinwei.

In fact, there is no shortage of grain in Beijing, but because of panic purchasing, some people hoard a large number of people, resulting in the slow citizens not being able to buy rations, and there is a false appearance of food shortage.

This is the same as the rumor that salt can resist radiation, and many people who don't know the truth buy a lot of salt and put it at home, and there is a joke that you can't buy salt in the market.

As long as the soldiers and civilians of the Beijing Division saw the four-wheeled carriages full of grain entering the city, it would not be long before this panic would be alleviated, at least until the Liukou surrounded the Beijing Division and cut off the connection between Tongzhou and the Beijing Division.

The new order that has been established with great difficulty cannot be broken by the rogues again, and the defense of the territory must be done with all its might.

Huang Sifang, who was in charge of the security of Gyeonggi, did not wait or rely on it, and directly conveyed orders.

In Tianjin, Yongpingfu, Jizhou, Shuntianfu and other areas, all the regular soldiers of the "Red Banner Army", the guard army, the flag guards, the dart division, and the veterans all brought their own armor, war horses, and weapons to assemble nearby.

They were responsible for leading the regiment to train their armed forces, and the training period of more than two years was to rush to the "Zhongyi Fort" as quickly as possible.

Huang Sifang personally led the assembled men and horses to establish the "Zhongyi Fort", and the Houjiazhuang defense line cooperated with the Jingying people to defend it to ensure that the Liukou stopped here.

He has been a spy leader for ten years, and he knows how to weigh the pros and cons the most, his goal is clear, holding is victory, and how to eliminate the rogues is not considered for the time being.

If it weren't for the fear that the losses caused by the siege of the capital would be immeasurable, it would also indirectly affect the reputation of the "Red Flag Army", and Huang Sifang even thought that it was the best policy to open the door and let the thieves enter the capital and arrest the emperor.