After coming out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he ran to the two Zhuji stores. When he returned home, it was still early, so Ning Yi walked around the courtyard.

It has been ten years since Jing Han came to live in the capital. In the blink of an eye, it has been a hurried and long three years. In these three years, a big family has moved to two places in a row.

, all due to the relocation caused by the increase in households.

Fortunately, young people are better able to adapt to the environment. Secondly, people in the prime minister's house helped to match the purchase of the house. Most of the original residents had some background. The house was carefully decorated and taken care of by the original owner. After buying it,

Once you move in, you will soon be able to treat this place as a home.

The compound where everyone lives at this time originally belonged to a Confucian master who was good at calligraphy and painting. The layout of the houses and courtyards are very particular, and there is an elegant and graceful spirit in them. After Ning Yi and others moved in,

, the appearance remains basically the same, but without as many rules as the original owner, the atmosphere becomes more lively and natural.

Autumn has arrived, and the leaves of the sycamore trees in the courtyard have begun to turn yellow, and the sunshine and shade also have a warm atmosphere. Wen Fang, Wen Ding and others are mostly indifferent to this scene, but Ning Yi likes it very much.

The atmosphere. I walked all the way back to the inner courtyard and nodded slightly with some family members. Because I knew the recent tense situation in the north and knew that Ning Yi was working in the prime minister's house, these maids or relatives such as brothers and sisters did not dare to talk too much.

to disturb him.

Returning to the room where she and Tan'er currently live, as the hostess of the family, Tan'er was looking through some account books or business records. When she saw him coming back, she greeted him with a smile and asked Juan'er to pour tea: "

Has the war in the north improved? Why did the prime minister let you back so early today?"

Ning Yi smiled and said: "I have something to tell you, so sit down first."

"Yeah." Tan'er sat down by the bed. Ning Yi took the tea and looked outside, then closed the door and the room became slightly dark.

"The news just came over and went directly to Prime Minister Qin, so you haven't seen it yet. The war in the north has collapsed." Ning Yi gulped down the tea. "Guo Pharmacist was defeated. Yisheng's army at Yanmen Pass surrendered and opened the city

Door, the Jurchens have already killed the first line of defense."

After Ning Yi took over the affairs of the Secret Investigation Department, in order to let Tan'er's power be exerted and to have another backbone in the family, a lot of information was also passed to Tan'er when it was passed to him.

At the moment, this information is too shocking and has not yet been released, so Ning Yi can only say it once. After listening to his words, Tan'er also frowned: "Well, what should we do? Does the court have countermeasures?"

"Going south from Yanmen Pass, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops. It can't be said that there are no countermeasures. But one thing has to be done. Tan'er, you have to take your family and evacuate south. You may or may not return to Jiangning.

, We have money and will live in a place with our own house first, but... we hope to evacuate as far as possible south of the Yangtze River. We will keep our things here, and we can come back after the incident is over."

Tan'er's eyes had become serious. She looked at Ning Yi and thought for a moment: "You...the prime minister's expectations...are so bad?"

"In the worst case scenario." Ning Yi lowered his voice, "There is no possibility that the capital city will be breached."

"Okay." Tan'er took a breath, "I understand. What about you? And Wen Ding Wenfang and the others? Are you leaving? If you stay in the capital, will you have a chance to escape?"

"I'm going north."

The room became quiet.

"……What?"

"Two aspects." Ning Yi pulled up a stool and sat in front of Tan'er, bowing slightly forward. "I am responsible for the plan to clear the wilderness in the north. This plan is very troublesome, but what needs to be done must be done. According to current expectations

, in the Yanmen Pass and Taiyuan front lines, the Jurchens still have infantry and baggage teams. Their cavalry is too powerful, but the infantry is our key target."

"...While attacking the infantry and slowing them down, nearby residents retreated into the city or mountains to cooperate with the army in launching battles against the Jurchens in these places. However, there are too many people in the north, and the effect of clearing the country with strong walls is limited. Those who want to completely defeat them

It is almost impossible to supply supplies. However, if we only consider the cavalry, if they fight on the move, they will only have a few days of rations at most and must continue to plunder. It is impossible for them to fight a war of attrition with us in the north, so we must consider,

It is possible for them to make a quick victory and directly attack the capital."

Ning Yi waved his hand and gestured: "If the cavalry really arrives here, they can start stationing again, and the looted food can also start to prepare for the siege and hoard it, so the most important thing is that they cannot be allowed to stay in Bian

Liang City robbed enough rations to support the siege of the city. The purpose of clearing the country on the strong wall in the north was ultimately to increase the efficiency of their advance and buy time for the clearing around Bianliang City."

"I told Prime Minister Qin that in order not to be passive politically, I would consider the order from north to south, but in fact, it must be a two-pronged approach, and Prime Minister Qin also understands this. The north is racing against time, and it is really difficult to move around Bianliang City.

But all the preparations need to be started immediately. The whole thing is very big, and I have to stay in the center so that I can have the fastest reaction speed and the highest efficiency. Tan'er, you can understand."

The two have been husband and wife for many years. Since they gained understanding from each other, they can discuss many things together. Ning Yi's words are both an explanation and a question. When doing such a big thing,

, hoping to gain support from his family. However, when he raised his head, Tan'er had straightened up and looked at him. After a moment, he suddenly shook his head.

Ning Yi rubbed it with his fingers a few times: "Tan'er, this... must be done."

"But this is a war." Tan'er said hastily. Since the two became husband and wife, in the initial period of time, Tan'er did have a strong side. However, after the Huangshang incident, at least in

In front of Ning Yi, Tan'er no longer behaves like a woman.

The strong man was sitting there just now, just listening with the attitude of a wife. It was only then that he blinked and looked anxiously, and then showed some of his previous expressions, "I don't agree this time. You

Can't you... at least stay in the capital?"

"It may not be any different from Fang La or Liangshan."

"Of course it's different. They are Jurchens, and the Liao Kingdom was completely defeated by them."

"How did you..."

In Ning Yi's heart, there is indeed no difference between many things he has experienced. Unexpectedly, Tan'er would object at this time, and he stood up. Tan'er beside the bed also stood up almost excitedly at the same time,

Both hands grabbed Ning Yi's sleeves, as if subconsciously holding him to prevent him from leaving.

There was a faint sound of family members moving around outside the window. In the room, Ning Yi sighed: "The matter has been decided." His right hand was grabbed by Tan'er, and he stretched out his left hand and hugged her body. Tan'er walked by

Two steps later, I was hugged by him. My eyes blinked, but they were already moist.

"I'm not going to die. The Jurchens are invading the south this time. The troops are at most a dozen or two hundred thousand. They are fast, and there are not many places they can sweep through. I am so well-informed that I have a lot of room for maneuver outside the city. It's very

Safe.”

Tan'er just shook her head in his arms.

"Also, the matter of strengthening the wall and clearing the field may not necessarily have much effect. The scale is too big. But there must be some effect, and it will not be completely meaningless. The battlefield is on the one hand, and on the other hand, there are hundreds of people in Zhuji

Thousands of people can participate in this operation. They have received preliminary training in following rules and regulations. I will simplify the steps and formulate rules for them. You can think about it, as long as these people participate in promoting an operation under the arrangement

millions or even millions of people

Regardless of the outcome of the great migration, Zhuji will have a large number of available talents in his hands. I know the household registration, terrain, and crowd conditions in the north. With them, let alone doing business, I will do anything in the future.

No matter what, no family force in the north can suppress us... Our enemy is not just the Jurchens this time, we can't just defeat them. Compared with the Jurchens' seriousness in defeating the Liao Kingdom, their attitude this time is basically

It's just a joke..."

When he reached the second half of the story, Ning Yi had already lowered his voice. He hugged his wife and comforted him, and at the same time, he took out his right hand and moved it up her body. He hugged her tightly, rubbed her back, and then gradually kneaded her chest.

Go up and unbutton her clothes, Tan

Naturally, her son did not resist his actions. She just listened to what he said and occasionally shook her head silently. After most of her shirt was unbuttoned and her husband put his hand into her chest for a while, she suddenly struggled, took a few steps to the side, and got away from Ning.

The embrace of perseverance.

"But I still don't agree this time." Tan'er's eyes were filled with tears, just like when Ning Yi went out to do dangerous things in the past, but in the past, although she was also worried, she didn't stop her. This time, she had something different.

It's just an attitude, "I am your woman. You obviously don't have to go to the battlefield, but you must go. Why do you want me to nod?"

"I'm not going to the battlefield."

"You just want to go to the north. Don't lie to me with lies. The less efficient it is, the more people die. The more people die, the more people die. I know you can stay in the capital. If you want to do something, I will support you. It will be for nothing.

There is such a big danger, I don't want you to go."

As she said this, she suddenly ran towards the door. While buttoning her coat, she opened the door and shouted outside: "Yunzhu, Jin'er, Xiaochan, come quickly, our husband is going to the battlefield."

It’s—”

Ning Yi didn't expect this move at all. He also walked over there. Tan'er turned around and looked at him. He wiped his tears with his left and right hands respectively. Looking at Ning Yi coming over, he suddenly knelt down in front of Ning Yi.

In front of Yi, Ning Xi was staggering in the courtyard at this time. Ning Yi picked up Tan'er and said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm staying with you in the capital to do things and I don't want you to go."

While his wife was speaking choked with sobs, Ning Yi looked outside and saw that the whole yard was in chaos. Yunzhu and others had been alerted and ran over.

Before going north, such a scene actually happened. This was definitely something he had not expected...

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North.

From Yanmen Pass to Taiyuan, a huge chaos is spreading.

After Yanmen Pass was broken, the scattered Wu Dynasty troops fled in all directions. Along the way, groups of soldiers and generals began to form formations again, either stationed and waiting for orders, or concentrated in nearby large cities. But the Jurchens did not

Stopping, the army's attack quickly expanded to surrounding counties, towns, and cities. On the third day of August, Xinzhou City, which was twenty miles away from Yanmen Pass, had just been broken.

The killings spread across the city, like a flood that covered the past. The defeated army and some of the original residents of the city organized sporadic resistance, and were subsequently crushed without a trace under this devastating disaster.

This is a big city after passing Yanmen Pass - of course, if compared with cities like Taiyuan Prefecture, this place can only be regarded as a small or medium-sized city. Because it is close to Yanmen Pass, its city defense is relatively tight, and there are many businesses going north and south.

The prosperity of this place has resulted in a permanent population of tens of thousands. In any case, it can be regarded as a big piece of fat.

At the north gate, Wanyan Xiyin pressed the hilt of his sword and led the team of soldiers into the streets of Xinzhou. The sounds of murder and arson were heard all around and spread.

A pair of eyes were staring at him quietly from a collapsed two-story building beside the road...

…

To the south of Xinzhou City, soldiers and people crowded into the city roads and rushed out of the city frantically. In the streets behind them, the Jurchens had already advanced and started a brutal fight in the streets and alleys, in an alleyway filled with people.

Three Jurchen knights blocked the back road, holding spears and stabbing forward crazily.

Blood flew out, men's screams, women's screams, and children's cries merged into one. Some people tried to hide below, and were immediately trampled by horses' hooves to crush their arms and heads. Some people were trampling on them.
To be continued...