The more than 60,000 soldiers and horses who broke through the siege in two ways out of Yanjing were swallowed up by the Donghu people in just three days, and the speed of their defeat and the vibrancy of their death were jaw-dropping.

The princes, grand dukes, and harem concubines who broke through with the army were either killed or captured countless times; Even the guards and guards were scattered and fled or abandoned their weapons and surrendered, Emperor Chongguan was unwilling to be captured, and jumped into the Chaohe River with anger, and Hao Zongcheng also died of poison.

Because the Donghu people buried piles and sunken ships and threw a large number of branches into the estuary section of the lower reaches of the Chaohe River, they were prepared to prevent the warships of the Tianjin Navy from entering. Thousands of Xuanfu and Jingying generals were forced into the Chaohe River to drown during the war, and the corpses were blocked at the mouth of the river, and it was not until the 23rd that the corpse of Emperor Chongguan soaked in the river was found beyond recognition.

If it weren't for the dragon robe he was wearing, and the surrendered eunuchs led by Wang Qishan all confirmed that Emperor Chongguan threw himself into the water and died at the last moment, no one could imagine that such a corpse soaked like a white pig had any connection with the Dayue Heavenly Son sitting on the dragon chair.

In this battle, Donghu completely established the victory of the land of Yanji.

Although the cities of Yanjing, Xuanfu, Sanhe, and Jinhai have not yet been finally lost, they have not hindered the overall situation, and in the land of Yanji and Jinjun, there is no longer a military force that can really threaten the nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses of Yanhu who have entered this area.

On the one hand, Yezier ordered Emperor Chongguan to be buried to win the hearts of the people, appease the rebel generals and capture prisoners, and on the other hand, spread the news that Emperor Chongguan could not break through the siege and died by throwing himself into the water, so as to hit the determination and morale of the Dayue army and people to resist.

Yezier made his eldest son Yeji Baishan stay in Jinhai to supervise the battle, and after unlocking the threat of the periphery, with the Xinfu Han army as the main force, officially launched a brutal siege battle for Jinhai. Ye Zier personally led more than 60,000 foot cavalry main force, in Ye Ji Luo Rong and other generals from the west, on the 27th of the army under the Yanjing City, the camp was stationed in Zhangjiaji at the southern foot of Yunya Mountain.

Yanjing stayed behind to make Zhang Xie's people out of the city, entered the Donghu camp tent to discuss surrender, and led the remaining generals and more than 20,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp to surrender out of the city on the 29th.

Yezier chose an auspicious time and entered Yanjing on the first day of July.

Although there are still a few defenders in Xuanfu, Sanhe, Jinhai and other cities who insist on not surrendering, and the Donghu people continue to maintain the inner line of troops, in Yannan and Jinnan, but also to guard against the counterattack of the Southern Dynasty's soldiers and horses in the Hehuai area, but for Yezier, the most urgent thing at the moment is no longer the military gains and losses, but to stabilize the situation in Yanji and Jinjun as quickly as possible.

The foundation in Yanji is too shallow, and it is likely that he will be driven out of the pass because of an occasional military defeat.

At the same time, the Yanhu Zhubu and the Xinfu Han Army, plus Chaohe, Zhangjiaji, etc., and Yanjing surrendered, and the total number of Yanhu soldiers and horses in Yanji and Jin County reached 300,000, including more than 70,000 Yandong Zhuhu elite cavalry, more than 30,000 Yanxi Zhuhu cavalry, more than 150,000 Xinfu Han troops, and more than 50,000 prisoners.

It is by no means a simple matter to maintain such a large military garrison in Yanji and other places, and even to continue to expand the military garrison in the later period, and to use troops against Shandong, Henan, and Qin County until it completely sweeps the world.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, Yezier changed the Khan to be the emperor in Yanjing, gave Zhang Xie the title of Yanguo Gong, and ate 3,000 households, respectively, with the right Chengzheng, Yanjing Mansion Yin and other important positions to entrap Zhang Xie, Fan Wenmin, Wang Qishan and other ministers, and wantonly recruited the gentry into the local area as officials, repatriated to return, and produced with things.

On the 6th day of the first lunar month, he issued a policy to ensure the safety of the people, and issued a decree to the world, limiting the areas affected by the war to enter the customs, to reduce or exempt the land tax and grain for two years in most of the newly occupied areas, including Datong, Xuanfu, Liaoxi, Hebei, northern Shanxi, Jinzhong, southern Jinxi, Yanxi, western Hebei, Gyeonggi and other places, and return the people to recuperate and recuperate.

After the main force was transferred, the Xuanzhen army, which had only 10,000 defenders left, surrendered after holding out for more than half a year.

In Sanhe, led by Hao Xiongqi, nearly 40,000 cavalry surrounded more than 10,000 people under Chen Zhihu's department.

In Jinhai, the Donghu people, led by Yeji Baishan, rode 80,000 steps, completely blockaded Jinhai City from the land, and launched a brutal siege battle.

The most important thing for Yanhu in Yanji at present is to repatriate and return to his hometown - when Yanjing surrendered alone, there were 350,000 displaced people in the city, plus the refugees in the counties of Gyeonggi who had taken refuge in the city, it was as high as one million - so in addition to the road to Jinhai or Sanhe, groups passed through Yannan, and even if they encountered the sentinels of the Donghu people on the road, they would not be checked every time.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the military intelligence department escorted Jiang Yue and others, who were disguised as homeless people, out of the city and joined Wu Qi and Chen Dingbang.

Chen Zhihu was surrounded and killed in Sanhe, and this problem was no longer a problem that they could solve by gathering dozens of people. Chen Xinbo's niece-in-law, Si Tian Shao Jian Jiang Yue was the official named by Lin Tie to pick up, and after Jiang Yue and others rushed to Chengshouji, Wu Qi no longer stayed in the north to delay, and under the cover of the tide of homeless people's hometowns, he passed through the enemy border in southern Yannan in batches.

After a lot of hardships, he secretly went to sea from Cangzhou on July 18 and joined Huang Jinnian, Lin Xuwen, and Gao Zongting, who had been withdrawn from Jinhai first, at sea.

When Wu Tian, one of the three generals of the Tianjin Navy, led his troops to guard the west and left the village, he was hit by a mischief and unfortunately died; Also because of Wu Tian's death, the west left the village to the enemy to take advantage of the chaos, less than half of the soldiers and horses guarding the village can be withdrawn, and more than 1,000 people were annihilated at a time, which is the most heavy loss in the Jinhai defense battle to this time.

Only the last 40,000 people of Jinhai have not had time to evacuate, but they have all withdrawn to the inner line of Wukouzhai and Jinwei Island, and Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang, Sun Shangwang and others will lead the defenders to hold on to the end. Jiangning is discussing the establishment of a new emperor, and Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian have to rush to Jiangning first to compete for their position in the Jiangning regime.

Gao Zongting and Geng Quanshan learned the truth that Li Zhuo gave Emperor Chongguan wine and medicine to die, and they were disheartened, except for going to Chongzhou, the world is so big, and there is no place for them to stay, so they also withdrew this time and went to Chongzhou with the ship first.

Although he had already judged the situation in Yanji at this time, the facts were really in front of him, and he felt cruel and unacceptable.

Chen Dingbang, Gao Zongting, and Geng Quanshan met on the ship, and placed incense on the deck to pay tribute to Li Zhuo.

Lin Xuwen, Wu Qi and others all went to worship in front of the incense case, and Huang Jinnian was quite embarrassed.

Although Huang Jinnian has always been in charge of Jinhai in the later period, he has always been one of the core figures of the Chu Party and one of the black hands who control Gyeonggi Rice City behind the scenes. If you want to say that Li Zhuozhi and Yan Ji are defeated, Huang Jinnian also has a responsibility that cannot be shirked.

It's not that Huang Jinnian has a great conscience and wants to be a good person from now on, but the situation is unacceptable, and he can't help but reflect on the relationship with Huaidong's close figures.

Huang Jinnian had already taken his family to Jinhai for resettlement, and even the second son and two nephews who were in charge of Yanjing's business also withdrew to Jinhai in time before the war, and the family was preserved in danger. But if you want to withdraw from Jinhai to Jiangning, or even want to occupy a position in Jiangning, it is not so simple.

Although the fields and houses in Gyeonggi are all spent, the real money transferred by the Huang Jinnian family from Gyeonggi is seven or eight hundred thousand taels - Huaidong and Huang Jinnian are political enemies who are secretly fighting, and Huang Jinnian's bottom line, if Huaidong has not figured it out at all, it is impossible to have such a force as it is today.

In the past, Huang Jinnian was a member of the imperial court, and he fought for power with Lin Xuwen in Jinhai, but at this time, he was a catfish on the Huaidong cutting board.

Although Huang Jinnian scolded his mother when Lin Lian left Jinhai with the strategy of attacking the east and west, with the development of the situation, especially after Huaidong occupied Mingzhou Mansion, Jiangning recognized Huaidong's behavior and made Lin Lian concurrently lead the envoy of eastern Zhejiang, Huang Jinnian could no longer see the development of the situation clearly, and he had been in the officialdom for half his life.

In early May, Huang Jinnian asked his eldest son Huang Chengen's family to withdraw to Chongzhou first, that is, to let Huang Chengen negotiate terms with Huaidong, and he also knew that he was useful to Huaidong.

In the end, the conditions negotiated were that Huang Jinnian's family took out 500,000 taels of silver, half of which was donated to the Huaidong Military Division for military funds, and half was included in Huaidong Qianzhuang as the principal.

Huang Jinnian finally offered to settle his family in Chongzhou, he knew that the pool of water in Jiangning was extremely deep, maybe there would be a military disaster, and before Huaidong became the master, Jiangning was far less stable than Chongzhou. left his family in Chongzhou as a hostage, and Huaidong also wanted to support him as an official in Jiangning.

Officialdom is like this, Li Zhuo regards Chen Xinbo as a teacher and friend, but in the end, it was Chen Xinbo who gave him his last journey.

Huang Jinnian is now a member of Huaidong, and he is not the murderer who directly trapped Li Zhuo to death, and Gao Zongting, Chen Dingbang, Geng Quanshan and others cannot regard him as an enemy. Lin Xuwen invited Huang Jinnian to come to the incense case to worship Li Zhuo, and they also reciprocated as Li Zhuo's people.

With Wu Qi on the boat, there was also Jiang Yue's family of five.

Jiang Yue himself was an official who tried his best to get rid of the factional struggle, and when the Western Qin Party and the Chu Party fought to the worst, the Chu Party was the only two remaining in the center, Chen Xinbo and Jiang Yue. Chen Xinbo was able to stay because Emperor Chongguan wanted to use him to suppress Zhang Xie; Jiang Yue is indisputable with the world, and his achievements in the astronomical calendar are indeed unmatched by no one in the government and the opposition.

Although Jiang Yue has provided a lot of help to Huaidong over the years, he agrees more with Lin Lian's practice of advocating miscellaneous craftsmanship in Chongzhou, and is above the factional struggle.

Lin Jian asked the Military Intelligence Department by name to cover Jiang Yue's family going south, and he had no intention of directly involving Jiang Yue in the factional struggle; Jiang Yue can go south and serve in the Si Tianjian or the Ministry of Industry, which will naturally be of great benefit to promoting the development of miscellaneous craftsmanship.

After the worship, the frightened Jiang Yue family was first arranged to rest in the cabin, and Lin Xuwen gathered Wu Qi and Chen Dingbang in the cabin to discuss matters.

"We're going to Yangxin ...... first," Lin Xuwen said.

"Oh, Zhou Pu led the cavalry battalion to retreat into Yangxin?" Wu Qi asked.

After the battle of Zhangjiaji, the entire southeast Hebei region, except for the cavalry of the Donghu people, was overwhelmed. Don't deal with the sentinels of the Donghu people, those chaotic soldiers are deadly existences, Wu Qi, Chen Dingbang and others are trapped in Chengshouji, and they have never been able to get news from the periphery, so they don't know the movements of Zhou Pu and the Huaidong cavalry camp in Yannan.

"If only Zhou Pu led the cavalry battalion to retreat into Yangxin, we would also need to dock in Yangxin," Lin Xuwen said, "Zhou Pu rescued the Queen Mother and King Lu and his party from the enemy cavalry in the west of Hejian City, but he just gave the enemy cavalry a tight bite, so he could only retreat all the way to Yangxin......"

Wu Qi instantly understood why Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian rushed to Yangxin halfway? Yangxin has been taken over by the Qingzhou Army headed by Gu Siyuan, and outsiders look at Lin Gu's family, if Gu Siyuan doesn't have much ambition, Zhou Pu will not have much problem escorting the Queen Mother, King Lu and his party to retreat into Yangxin.

I'm afraid that Gu Siyuan will have extraneous branches - Wu Qi secretly feels a pity: Zhou Pu is used to winning on the battlefield, and he is still not familiar enough with this kind of hidden struggle; In other words, if he was in the army, he would not stay in Yangxin at all, nor would he let the news leak out, but led the troops all the way to escort the Queen Mother, King Lu and his party through the Shandong Peninsula, and directly to the territory of Huaidong to talk about other things.