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Chapter 269 Everyone is on the run
This time, in addition to the public announcement, Ning Yi took away 70,000 elite troops.
But secretly, he actually mobilized the forces of four armies, 40,000 infantry, and two cavalry armies, almost 60,000 soldiers.
These troops are used to deal with the barbarians. It would be better to get rid of the barbarians who broke through the defense line at one time and thoroughly hurt the barbarians.
He wanted to prepare for a few more days and have a good flirtation with his two princesses.
Especially A Luo, she really wanted to fight with Ning Yi, and she also threatened that at the critical moment, her identity as the ninth princess could save Ning Yi's life.
But Ning Yi rejected him. What a joke! When you save my life, I might as well commit suicide.
However, the emperor actually took his two princesses to the palace as hostages, under the pretext that he was afraid that they would be threatened by barbarian assassins in the capital.
Ning Yi was speechless. The old emperor was really great. Why did he always arrest his wife?
He just asked the little girl Zeng Rou to leave first, but Zeng Rou refused and insisted on staying with Ning Yi.
Ning Yi advised, "Rou'er, the battle at Hushan Pass is extremely dangerous. This prince doesn't even have enough confidence to win. It will only be more dangerous if you go. You'd better be obedient and go to your father."
Zeng Rou kept shaking her head, her young face full of determination: "Your Highness, there is no need to say anything."
"Rou'er said, I am yours in life and yours in death. It is because of the danger of this battle that Rou'er is willing to follow His Highness."
Ning Yi had no choice but to agree.
He spent the evening being affectionate with his two wives. It was rare that A Luo and Yang Ziqin did not cause trouble for each other.
It also allows him to truly embrace the two legitimate prince consorts on his left and right.
The next morning, Yang Ziqin's eyes were still red, and her beautiful eyes were filled with reluctance as she hugged him and said, "Husband, please come back safely."
A Luo, the naughty little girl, also leaned quietly in his arms this time: "Husband, A Luo has been waiting for you to come back. If you don't come back, A Luo will go to find you personally."
Ning Yi patted their backs and comforted them, "Don't worry, your husband is absolutely safe. You should go to the palace too. It's the safest place."
Until the two of them were reluctantly taken away by the Royal Guards.
Ning Yicai, wearing the golden armor bestowed upon him by the old emperor, gave the order majestically: "Move out."
In addition to the hundreds of guards led by Qin Haifeng, there were also three hundred musketeers wearing simple and strange armor.
The two thousand servants from the ninth and tenth batches were also waiting outside the city and set off together.
Similarly, the Fire Gun Battalion, which had been training for many days and had long wanted to show its prowess on the battlefield, was also on high alert.
Forty thousand infantrymen from the Beijing Camp and ten thousand cavalrymen set out in a mighty procession northward.
In the past few days, large and small carts in the capital, loaded with various packages, have been heading south one after another. They are all wealthy and powerful people in the capital, and they are all afraid of being involved in the war.
Everyone wanted to leave the capital as soon as possible and go to the south to live a stable life.
There were also many officials in the Beijing camp who were involved in various activities and spending money recklessly, just to be transferred to other places and leave the Beijing camp, which was about to become a battlefield and was a place of trouble.
No one believed that the tens of thousands of troops led by the Sixth Prince in the Beijing Camp could stop more than 200,000 barbarians.
Even the hundreds of thousands of elite troops on the border failed and collapsed, let alone the Hushan Pass with only tens of thousands of Beijing troops.
They all felt that the south was safe, and the barbarians would not attack further south after they captured the capital.
This is also the perception of many people. After all, there have been many wars with barbarians throughout the dynasties.
However, every time the barbarians broke through the border and attacked the capital, they either had to negotiate or forcibly take the capital.
But after taking the capital, the barbarians should establish a country here.
Of course, the army marched south several times, but unfortunately they were defeated every time.
This is probably what everyone thinks.
Even Ning Yi heard the information transmitted from the palace, and even the old emperor began to order some people to pack up important supplies in the palace.
The old man was also preparing to flee. After all, he didn't want to really stay in the isolated city of Beijing.
There are no reinforcements to look forward to.
Hundreds of thousands of troops on the border collapsed. Even if there were some isolated troops left, they were no longer able to support the capital.
There were still elite troops in the northwest, but they were repeatedly withdrawn from there by Emperor Wu, and later tens of thousands were withdrawn to support the border.
There are only tens of thousands of soldiers left, and these people have to garrison in the northwestern cities. How can they have the ability to support the border?
All the elite troops in the south who could be mobilized have been transferred to the capital, and it is difficult for the remaining places to stabilize, let alone come to support.
Of course, the princes of the Dawu Kingdom who have the most troops would not come to support the capital city just for the sake of having too much food.
They hoped that the capital would be conquered as soon as possible so that the old emperor could be dealt with as soon as possible.
A group of vassal kings fought for a new emperor as soon as possible.
It would be best if the old emperor and his sons all died at the hands of the barbarians.
Although legally speaking, the princes are all subjects of the emperor, they are not obedient and each of them is a warlord.
Emperor Wu did not allow Ning Yi to move the Imperial Guards, that was his life-saving capital.
The remaining 50,000 Beijing troops are also the last force he will use to defend the capital when Hushan Pass is breached.
It is also the last barrier that helps him stop the barbarians from pursuing him.
As long as the Imperial Guards were there, as long as the emperor was there, when he arrived in the south and raised the imperial flag, people who were fed by the emperor would come to join him.
Not to mention others, Yang Long also asked the Yang family to lead all the young and old to run south.
The Yang family is wealthy and powerful. The capital is just their home, and they also have their own businesses in the south.
The prime minister was no longer so confident this time. It was time to move. Since the emperor was ready to flee, the ministers had no right to care.
Of course their families can leave and take their property with them.
But they couldn't leave, otherwise the Emperor Wu's crime of deserting the battlefield would be enough to make the whole country hunt them down.
Ning Yi was leading a large army to war, and he almost collided with this group of fleeing people.
Qin Haifeng said disdainfully, "They are all a bunch of cowards."
"When Your Highness defeats the barbarians, they will regret it."
Ning Yi shook his head slightly: "There's no need to do that. It's just human nature. How can we expect them to die for the Great Wu Nation?"
"This prince's target is the barbarians, the cavalry, and the military power. They? Just a bunch of people who want to follow him."
Ning Yi was full of confidence, but Qin Haifeng said worriedly, "Your Highness, it's better to be prepared for the worst. What if the battle goes against you?"
Ning Yi laughed and said, "Did you forget that we still have a large army?"
"If the war goes badly, haha, this prince will be powerless to reverse the situation. Now, we must retreat westward immediately, gather our troops, and be ready to retake the capital at any time."
Qin Haifeng thought about it and nodded slightly, saying that was true.
Of course, Ning Yi said that the goal was to recapture the capital, not to defend it to the death. This requires some consideration.
But Qin Haifeng was worried: "Your Highness, if it's His Majesty's side..."
"Him?" Ning Yi looked southeast at the distant walls of the capital. "The Intelligence Department will keep an eye on him."
When that time really comes and the capital is gone, how could Ning Yi still listen to his old man?
Kill him on the road and ascend the throne by force.