After a big battle, Zixuan relaxed for a moment, hugged his wife's shoulders, and was chatting about the situation in the city with his wife.

There was a girl outside talking, "Master, the boy in front came to report that General Li and the others have come and they have something to do with him."

When Zixuan heard that something had happened, he hurried out, "Jinghan, you can rest well at home, it's okay, don't worry about anything." Then he went out.

When I arrived at the living room of the front yard, I saw several side generals sitting in the room. General Li did not sit, but walked back and forth. As soon as he saw Zixuan coming, these people quickly surrounded him. "Mr. Lin, the spy just came to report that the Northern Yuan army had arrived outside Zhenyuan Pass. This time, the Northern Yuan was coming with great force, and there were 100,000 people. What should I do?"

When Zixuan heard this, he was shocked. Ten thousand people? The Northern Yuan Kingdom was a big deal. "Everyone, it's not time to go. I'm afraid I have to act quickly. I'm sending people to gather the people outside the city into the city. This time, the people have to bring all the food and livestock at home. Otherwise, wouldn't they leave them all to the enemy? Everyone, soldiers are very fast, let's act separately. Within fifty miles outside the city, a grain of food and a livestock cannot be left to the enemy. One hundred thousand people can see how long they can last?"

These generals quickly led their troops to separate their heads, while Zixuan wrote several letters to send them out of the city. These letters were to Taonan County, Xianghai County, and Zhen'an County, and to Fuyu Prefecture, Hanzhou Prefecture, and Longzhou Prefecture. The most important thing is a letter to the capital. In this letter, Zixuan wrote in detail about the situation of this battle, and the situation where the Northern Yuan Kingdom continued to increase its troops. Of course, a small complaint was also necessary to sue Mo Hongfan.

This night is destined to be sleepless again.

Ziwen and Wenxuan, who were both men, immediately cleaned the battlefield. They originally planned to do it tomorrow morning, but now the military situation is urgent, so they don’t care about this. "Everyone is careful. We must take away all kinds of weapons and not leave any left. All the arrows are picked up, and it is easy to use when guarding the city. The bows and arrows in our city are limited." Ziwen shouted.

Everyone didn't speak, but they all lowered their heads and looked for it carefully. The soldiers of the Northern Yuan Kingdom were carrying several pots of feather arrows on their backs, and now they pulled a lot. Of course, there was no moon on the first day of the first lunar month. Everyone was holding torches and lanterns in their hands, but they were busy.

It took about an hour to take it, and there was nothing else left on the battlefield except the corpse. Ziwen looked at it and felt that it was almost done, so he quickly withdrew to the city with everyone.

As soon as they returned to the city, the spies from the Northern Yuan Kingdom came here. When they saw the corpses all over the ground, they were so scared that they hurried back to report. When the commander of the Northern Yuan Kingdom heard this, General Bart's army in front was all dead, and they were also shocked. "When I sent someone to report the news this morning, weren't they still doing well? Why were they all dead so quickly?"

He didn't dare to take risks and act radically, and just said that he would stay at Zhenyuan Pass tonight and rush to Xizhou again tomorrow. So this man's hesitation actually made Xizhou a success.

By the time the sky was bright, the people of the villages outside the city had almost moved to the city. In the past few days, they had known the news of the enemy's attack and had already prepared everything, waiting for the magistrate to order the entry into the city. Therefore, the migration this time was very rapid and even more neat than Zixuan expected. Everyone said that they would take everything with them without leaving any of them for the Tartars.

The four gates of Xizhou City are closed at this moment. Although there are too many people in the city, the public security is still in order and there is no chaos. The new people are all arranged in various places in the city. At this time of life and death, the cohesion between the people is revealed, and the people in the city give the vacant houses to others to live in. Of course, some of them are not very cooperative, but after the people in the yamen come, they can be solved smoothly.

Not only Xizhou City, but also several nearby counties and towns, they also implement the same method, and make sure that when the enemy comes, they will not leave any of them.

When the Northern Yuan army came outside Xizhou City, it was already noon. Looking at the corpses everywhere in front of us, the Northern Yuan commander Yid was covered with dark clouds. "Come on, let's find a place to bury these corpses first. We can't let our Northern Yuan warriors just corpses in the wilderness." So everyone dug up the snow and temporarily buried the corpses.

Id did not rush to attack the city, but sent people to inquire about the situation. When he knew that the nearby villages had already left empty, he couldn't help but sigh, "Bart's death was probably a plan. Alas, I was not thoughtful enough, and thought it was just a small town on the border that could be taken down without much military force. I didn't expect that it actually hurt Barthes."

The people next to him quickly persuaded him for a while, and it was better. It was already afternoon, so Yid asked the army to station and then attack the city tomorrow. A hundred thousand troops surrounded Xizhou City. This time, even birds could not even think of passing by.

Zixuan stood at the top of the city and looked at the Northern Yuan army outside the city. At this moment, people were crowded with people, but the actions were orderly and there was no chaos at all. Zixuan sighed secretly, it seemed that this time the person who came was a big expert in military war. In this way, the situation in Xizhou added a little more danger.

"Have all the things transferred from Longzhou and other places been put into place?" Zixuan asked.

"All of them have been stored. All the saltpeter and sulfur are stored in the warehouse of the state yamen, and heavy troops are sent to guard it." It turned out that on the day when the bomb was tested, Zixuan sent people to several nearby prefectures to collect raw materials. In fact, there are also these county towns, but Zixuan sent people to teach the bomb method to the people of the county government. In this way, several county towns can also have more self-protection power.

Saltpeter and sulfur can be used as medicine, so many pharmacies will have it, and some firecracker workshops will have it in stock. Zixuan also taught the method of making bombs to the nearby prefectures, and with the cooperation of various places, he got some raw materials back.

"You must be careful. Most of the time to defend the city will depend on those bombs. Send people to do more. For these 100,000 people, they will all be killed, but a lot of bombs will be needed." It's not that Zixuan is cold-blooded, but that on this kind of battlefield, either you die or I die, and kindness is useless here.

The people around also understood this, nodded, and then arranged things.

In Prince Fu's mansion in the capital, several exhausted people rode to the door of the mansion. One of them jumped off the horse, his legs became soft and almost fell. He barely stood up and walked to the door. He said to the guard at the door, "Several, I came from Xizhou in the north. The princess's sister, Princess Ning'an, sent us to come and ask for the prince."

The people guarding the gate were all confidants of Prince Fu's mansion. Everyone knew that the princess's sister followed her husband to a place called Xizhou in the north. These people did not dare to neglect and quickly informed them.

Mingyu is teasing his new daughter with Jingxian. This is their second child. He looks very much like Jingxian. Mingyu likes him and he has to hug him for a while every day.

"Prince, the guard in front came to report that it was the princess' sister who sent someone to meet the prince." A girl outside came in to report.

Mingyu was a little puzzled when he heard this, "Okay, invite people in first, I'll go see them now." He turned around and said to Jingxian, "Jingxian, you wait here first, I'll go and see. I'm afraid something is happening to my second sister."

Jingxian nodded, "Go quickly, don't forget to tell me if you have something to do."

Mingyu quickly walked out and walked for about a moment before he arrived at the reception room in front. He saw three people inside, one of whom was very familiar with him, and it was Changshun. "Changshun, what did you think of it? What's wrong with my second sister asking me for?"

Changshun was so tired that he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Mingyu. "Prince, the Northern Yuan Kingdom sent troops to attack Xizhou. When I came out of Xizhou, the enemy was already attacking Zhenyuan Pass. The wife sent me to the capital to report the letter and requested the court to send troops to rescue him." After saying these words, Changshun fainted on the ground. He was so tired that they had no rest on the way.

The two people next to them also said, "We ran several horses to death, and we were considered to have arrived in the capital. I hope the prince will find a way to solve the difficulties in Xizhou." After that, the two people fainted.

Mingyu quickly asked someone to settle the three of them and asked the doctor to treat them. He himself hurried to the palace with a letter.

The emperor was still reviewing memorials in the imperial study room. When he heard that Mingyu was coming, he was a little puzzled. On this first month of the year, Mingyu was not at home to accompany his wife and children, so why did he come into the palace?

After Mingyu came in, before the emperor could ask questions, Mingyu said first, "Brother, the Northern Yuan Dynasty sent troops to Xizhou. This is a letter sent by his second sister. You can take a look."

When the emperor heard this, he quickly received the letter and watched carefully. "The Northern Yuan sent 30,000 troops to attack Zhenyuan Pass? On New Year's Eve? Then it's only five days away. What's going on in Xizhou now? There are only 5,000 troops in Xizhou, so it's probably dangerous at this moment. People come and immediately send an order, asking the Ministry of War to come and see me immediately."

The eunuch outside quickly went out to pass the imperial edict, and then the two brothers discussed these matters in the imperial study. Half an hour later, the Minister of War, the Minister of War and others all arrived in the imperial study.
Chapter completed!