In the sky, the winter snow was flying in droves, and everything between the sky and the earth was extremely pale. Under the river embankment, you can see straw huts built by refugees evacuated from Hebei everywhere.

In the hut, there was another monk. Unlike the others, he still didn't sleep even late at night. Suddenly his face changed suddenly. He lowered his hand, looked at the snow on the ground, and then looked up at the sky.

Snowflake then staggered up from the ground and ran towards the river embankment.

The people who were awakened shouted urgently.

"Monk, where are you going?"

The monk didn't answer, and several curious people ran over after him.

I saw the monk running all the way under the river embankment and straight onto the frozen river. He ran very fast and finally reached the middle of the river. Then he knelt down with a "plop", raised his hands, raised his face, and then said

There was a terrifying cry.

"It's frozen, it's frozen! There's no one for thousands of miles!"

The person who was awakened asked blankly.

"There is no one for thousands of miles? What does it mean that there is no one for thousands of miles?"

When the news of the freezing of the Huaihe River reached Zhongdu, it was almost dawn.

However, even though the sky was about to break, Shi Kefa still had not slept. As the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, he was stationed in Zhongdu and was responsible for supervising the defense of Zhongdu and other places. When the Donglu invaded last year, he was also the right minister and right minister of the Ministry of Hubu.

Du Yushi succeeded Zhu Dadian in charge of water transportation, and was stationed in Xuzhou to guard against the Eastern invaders from going south, but in the end the Eastern invaders stopped hundreds of miles north of Xuzhou.

Later, he was transferred to the Nanjing Ministry of War as Minister and Counselor of confidential government affairs. Because he knew that the army had not been trained for a long time and had no combat effectiveness, Shi Kefa submitted eight reform suggestions. However, he never thought that these eight reform suggestions had not been responded to, and the Donglu invaders invaded the Central Plains again.

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Because of his outstanding performance during the garrison in Xuzhou, he had just been promoted to Minister of War, so he naturally became the best candidate to oversee the garrison of the Southern Zhili armies, so he hurried to Zhongdu.

Fight against the captives.

In the past few days, Shi Kefa was so busy that he was physically and mentally exhausted. Although he had joined forces with the four armies, he knew his own affairs, whether it was Fengsi Commander Mou Wenshou, Commander Wang Xian, Commander Huang Degong, or the soldiers under Liu Liangzuo's command.

Horses are not necessarily Donglu's opponents.

"Jurchens are absolutely invincible!"

These words were like a mountain pressing on Shi Kefa's heart, but even so, he still had to stop Donglu from reaching Jiangbei and Zhongdu.

When he learned that the Huaihe River was frozen, Shi Kefa was not shocked, but just responded "Oh." Then, he sat in front of the case without saying a word, with a candle beside him. His figure

Falling on the wall. The shadow sat like him.

Raising his face and looking at the shadow on the wall, Shi Kefa said to himself.

"Donglu must be crossing the river."

He asked about the shadow on the wall,

"Tell me, what should I do?"

There was wind entering the window, the candlelight was swaying wildly, and the shadow was also swaying. Staring at the shadow, Shi Kefa continued to talk to himself.

"As a minister, I will only be loyal to you, but if I allow the Eastern invaders to invade the north of the Yangtze River and invade the southern capital, how will Shi have the face to see Emperor Gao after his death? How will he have the face to face the common people of the world?"

Finally, Shi Kefa said to himself again.

"Only Death!"

With piercing eyes, Shi Kefa once again picked up the letter on the table, and then said to the door.

"Send this letter to Prince De immediately and ask him not to delay along the way and to rush to the aid of Zhongdu!"

In fact, even in Zhongdu, Shi Kefa also heard about the "ridiculous thing" that the prince did in Taoyuan. The dignified court official was actually killed with a stick. When the news reached Nanjing, the six departments were naturally shocked, and even Shi Kefa was shocked.

There is also the urge to impeach "Prince De, who is extremely domineering and has no regard for the laws of the country." After all, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even the emperor has never seen that vassal king as domineering as Prince De.

Kill without asking!

It would have been fine to kill a military general, but he actually killed a civil servant. Even a seventh-grade civil servant was still a civil servant. Even if he had Shang Fang's sword in hand, he could not easily kill a civil servant.

Not to mention the prince of a foreign vassal, even if the emperor wanted to kill civil servants, he would not just kill them.

Although there was an urge in his heart to impeach him, his reason still allowed Shi Kefa to suppress this urge.

After all, Donglu is in a hurry right now, and Abatai is about to cross the river, so the prince can always be of some use.

"But, can he defend Zhongdu? He only brought more than 10,000 troops..."

Besides, he is still in Taoyuan now. Even if he travels day and night, can he come in time before the Donglu troops are closing in?

What if there is no rush?

Just when Shi Kefa was worried, he didn't know that tens of thousands of Qing troops had already crossed the frozen Huaihe River under the leadership of Abatai. Although there were tens of thousands of troops led by Liu Liangzuo on the other side to block the enemy, the tens of thousands of troops were almost

It was defeated in one battle, especially after the Qing army's cavalry crossed the river. The Ming army's defense immediately fell into disintegration. It didn't even last half a day before it abandoned the river and fled.

At dusk, in the swirling snowflakes, a messy team was running like headless flies on the land of Huainan. As they were running, they were still facing the north of Guan in fear, and looking behind them in fear.

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If there was a sound of horse hoofbeats from behind, these officers and soldiers who had abandoned their armor would scream in terror and flee around.

Among the hastily fleeing team, in addition to the officers and soldiers who had abandoned their armor, there were also hundreds of horsemen. The leader was a general wearing iron armor. I don’t know where the iron helmet on his head was thrown. There were drops on the armor.

There was a lot of ice and snow, and there were even some ice shards hanging on it. The ice shards were stained with blood. I don't know if they were his or someone else's.

Defeated!

He was defeated so quickly!

Liu Liangzuo simply couldn't imagine this. Although he had heard that the Donglu soldiers were powerful, he didn't take it seriously. But at dawn today, thousands of Donglu cavalry quietly crossed the river and deployed him.

The troops on the south bank were wiped out, and the tens of thousands of troops were defeated even after half a day's effort.

All around him were anxious officials and subordinates,

"Junmen, now, what should we do now?"

The shouts from his subordinates made Liu Liangzuo stunned and speechless for a moment.

"Junmen, here, the Donglu soldiers are really powerful. If we go to Zhongdu now, we will definitely die!"

"Yes, Military Gate, Abatai leads 50,000 to 60,000 troops, and the Jurchens are absolutely invincible. Even if Shibutang has an army of 100,000 people, how many days can it last?"

"Yes, yes, the Donglu soldiers are so powerful..."

While everyone was talking to each other, Liu Liangzuo looked around and saw that there were more than 10,000 people who had finally gathered together. What should we do now?
Chapter completed!