On the afternoon of the fourth day of the tenth lunar month, a post station more than ten miles southeast of Changping Prefecture suddenly came, all of them were brocade clothes and angry horses, but the knights were all sad and haggard. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the center of the cavalry procession, there were thirty or forty splendid carriages, which hurried all the way through the dust.

This is the Qing Emperor and his entourage who rushed from the Old Summer Palace early in the morning. Because the trip was too hurried and unprepared, the march along the way was extremely difficult, and it was all cavalry, and the rest of the people who accompanied the army were also carriages, but the speed was not very fast. It was almost a day, and it was only less than forty miles.

The army of soldiers and entourage who went north was huge, but there was no guarantee of supply, neither the imperial kitchen nor the imperial tent, although Xianfeng was in a carriage, he was still sore by the bumps all the way on this official road. But it takes about six or seven days from the Old Summer Palace to the Rehe Palace, and this is only the first day.

Xianfeng was about to let the escort commander and imperial guard Zhu Leheng go to give an order and urge him to march faster, but he didn't expect that An Dehai, the little eunuch who followed the concubine behind him, came to report that it was Concubine Yi Xingzhen who shouted that her stomach hurt, presumably because she had a fetal gas all the way to the march, and it was estimated that she was going to give birth!

Xianfeng was really surprised and delighted when he heard this! When he fled north in a panic, he actually had a queen, this was his first flesh and blood, and he was naturally very happy.

"Did you call the Imperial Doctor?!" Thinking that he was about to become a father, and on the way to escape, Xianfeng couldn't help but get excited.

"Long live the lord, the imperial doctor has gone over to check the pulse of the master of Yi Concubine." An Dehai hurriedly replied.

"Lead the way, I want to go and see Lan'er, she will definitely be able to give me a prince to come out!" Xianfeng commanded, he had a strong premonition in his heart, and he decided that Xingzhen would give him a belt.

Under the guard of a hundred imperial guards and two hundred cavalry of the forward battalion, Xianfeng came to the rear team of the concubine carriage group, and a bunch of people were already busy.

As soon as Xianfeng arrived, he heard a large number of people from Qilala kneeling down and saluting: "The slave (slave maid) has seen the Long Live Lord, congratulations to the Long Live Lord, congratulations to the Long Live Lord, the master of Yi Concubine gave birth to a little brother to the Long Live Lord!" ”

"What?" Xianfeng couldn't help but be excited: "You dog slave, you said that Lan'er gave birth to an elder brother to me?" ”

Xianfeng couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, grabbed the neck of a eunuch, and shook it vigorously, so frightened that the eunuch's face turned pale and his legs trembled like a sieve. Xianfeng didn't pay attention to this, pushed the eunuch away, and shouted with a happy face: "The sky has eyes, give me Lin'er!" This is a great joy and auspiciousness! Could it be that the time for me and the Great Qing Dynasty is to come and go, and the time is to run? ”

Wen Po and the maid walked down from the carriage, saw Xianfeng, and hurriedly saluted, Xianfeng was in a good mood, waved their hands to the side, leaned into the carriage to visit the newborn little brother.

The carriage was very spacious, Xingzhen was lying on the couch, seeing Xianfeng coming, she struggled to get up, Xianfeng hurriedly waved her hand, and said in a rare warm voice: "Lan'er, don't move!" Lying down is good for life and raising. ”

After speaking, he looked at the nurse who was sitting on the side holding a pink baby, and instructed: "Be careful to serve the little brother, if something goes wrong, I will punish your nine clans, if you serve well, I will reward you heavily!" ”

The nurse turned pale with fright, and nodded her head in agreement.

Xianfeng couldn't help but touch the face of the pink baby with his hand, small, Xianfeng felt a strange feeling in his heart, is this the father-son relationship connected by blood?

Immediately, Xianfeng announced with a happy face that the eunuchs and palace maids who accompanied him were rewarded with four taels of silver, and the pro-army guards and praetorian cavalry were all rewarded with five taels of silver each, which was cashed out when they arrived at the Rehe Palace.

So, long live the mountain, and the emperor is wise. It doesn't look like it's running away from Rehe, it's like it's really going hunting.

Xianfeng immediately announced that he would give the little brother the name Zaichun, which had been set a long time ago, and directly promoted Yi Concubine Xingzhen to be Yi Guifei, and the mother was expensive with her son, not to mention that Xianfeng only had one son at this time? He also hurriedly ordered fifty guards to return to the capital and report the good news to the imperial princes and court officials of the Ying clan who remained in Beijing, especially Prince Gong.

The birth of the crown prince made Xianfeng very excited, and he didn't even realize the pain of fleeing for a while. You must know that at the end of this day, he, like everyone else, endured bumps and hardships, and for the first time in his life, there was no meal carefully prepared by the imperial chef to eat, but only thin rice porridge to fill his stomach, no wide dragon couch to sleep on, only carriage planks to sleep on......

The next day, that is, on the fifth day of the tenth lunar month, when it was dark, under the urgent urging of Xianfeng, the army finally came to a post station in the fifteenth mile southwest of Huairou ---- Chawu Station.

When they arrived at the post station, Xianfeng and the concubine could sleep in the post station without having to suffer on the wooden planks on the carriage.

In charge of the specific command of 5,000 cavalry and 500 pro-army guards was the commander of the escort army and the imperial guard Zhu Leheng, seeing that he was going to spend the night at the tea dock post tonight, he immediately ordered that 500 cavalry be sent to walk around to guard, and the rest of the soldiers set up camp to guard the entire post station.

When the sleepy Qing soldiers got off their horses, they felt that their backs ached, and they hurriedly ate some dry food, and then they fell asleep.

Xianfeng is also sore! In order to hurry, he left the dangerous place of Jingshi earlier and arrived at the Rehe Palace, he hurried directly from the official road outside Changping Prefecture, and did not enter Changping Prefecture City to rest.

Think about it, or send someone to notify the states and counties along the way in advance, so that the local minions can prepare some exquisite food, although it is only two days, Xianfeng feels a little unbearable, those dry food is not what people eat at all, and all the way to the march, there are no good ingredients, the imperial chef can only make some minced porridge, Xianfeng drank for two days and it was difficult to swallow.

Although he rode in the carriage, he was choked by the potholed official road all the way, and at the end of the day, he was sleepy and tired, so he wanted to rest early and hurry early tomorrow.

But as soon as he lay down, the joy of the little brother passed, and Xianfeng became worried and panicked. Leaving the capital where he had lived for more than 20 years and going to the Rehe Palace, Xianfeng was inevitably uneasy.

Although he claimed to the Manchu Qing soldiers that he was personally recruiting, Xianfeng himself knew that he had fled from Beijing and fled to Rehe.

After all, he is only less than twenty-four years old, how can he not panic when he encounters such a big thing?

I left the capital by myself, and I don't know what happened to the capital! Fortunately, he took all the important officials in the court away from Jingshi, otherwise, he was really worried that the court officials would collude with Prince Gong and take the opportunity to usurp the throne. However, even if it is the main thing, Xianfeng is still a little worried, he has never really let go of his sixth brother.

Just as he was dazed and about to fall asleep, a dense burst of gunfire and killing cries rang out outside the inn. Xianfeng woke up suddenly, and at this time, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, the minister of the guard, and Zhu Leheng, the commander of the guard and the imperial guard, broke in and reported in a panic: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, a large group of thieves have attacked, and the entire post station has been surrounded. ”

"What!? How did the thieves end up here? Xianfeng was suddenly awakened from his daze, and found that his back was in a cold sweat, could it be that he was going to become the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty to be forced to death by thieves?

He shouted in horror: "How many thieves are there, and the five thousand elite horsemen you lead can't beat the thieves?" ”

Prince Yi Zaiyuan said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, the thieves have sharp muskets, and they have been prepared for a long time, and in a hurry, the soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Forward Battalion were beaten at once, and the losses were great. ”

The imperial guard Zhu Leheng didn't care about being rude, and hurriedly interrupted Zaiyuan's words, and shouted: "Your Majesty, it's too late to explain." The number of thieves is tens of thousands, and the post station has been surrounded by them, and the minions have mobilized 2,000 troops to escort the emperor and rush out! ”

Xianfeng's face was shocked! It's come to this!

He only felt that his legs were weak, his whole body was weak, and between his two straddles, he suddenly had some hot flashes, and he was unconsciously relieved!