The Jianzhou Acropolis is high and deep, and it is heavily guarded, so Wang Zezhi did not attack immediately, but waited.

He has to gather intelligence from all sides, and then depending on the situation.

Wang Zezhi gave Yuan Chonghuan a secret letter a long time ago, if Yuan Chonghuan took it seriously and made arrangements in Longjing Pass and Daankou, then Huang Taiji's would not succeed.

In this case, Huang Taiji will not be able to attack the Jingshi, and he will definitely return to the aid as soon as he receives the news that the rear is being attacked.

If Huang Taiji comes back, the 30,000 soldiers and horses in Wang Zezhi's hands will not be able to win at all, and he will only have to flee at that time.

However, what Wang Zezhi didn't expect was that even if Yuan Chonghuan saw his secret letter, there was really no way.

When Yuan Chonghuan received Wang Zezhi's secret letter, he called his confidant Zu Dashou over.

"I've always heard that this son spent money to buy a military position, but I didn't expect him to be able to think of this." He handed Wang Zezhi's secret letter to Zu Dashou.

Yuan Chonghuan looked down on Wang Zezhi from the bottom of his heart, Yuan Chonghuan was a jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli (1619), in Yuan Chonghuan's view, Wang Zezhi just spent money to buy a military position, and was lucky and valued by Chongzhen, so that he could be promoted to a first-class Ronglu doctor in a short period of time.

Zu Dashou read it carefully, and asked with some concern: "Supervisor, if it is really as he said, Huang Taiji detours to Mongolia, how should we deal with it?" ”

"I'm not going to hide it, I've thought about it too, come on." Yuan Chonghuan pointed to the border map of Liaodong and analyzed it.

"You see, Ningyuan City and Shanhaiguan are impregnable, and if Emperor Taiji attacks them, they will be defeated.

However, the Great Wall in Jimen, Zunhua, and Xifengkou is in disrepair, and it can't be repaired for a while.

Moreover, in March this year, the soldiers of Jizhou mutinied due to a lack of salary, which led to the weakness of the soldiers and horses in this area, and the empty garrison.

If Huang Taiji makes a detour to use troops, we will inevitably take care of one and lose the other. ”

The Jizhou area is in ruins, and the army is in ruins, which was not formed overnight, and it is widely implicated in it, and it is not something that can be clearly explained in three words.

Yuan Chonghuan was able to build Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan into iron barrel-like fortified cities, in addition to the construction of the place itself, he also killed Mao Wenlong and copied his grain.

If it weren't for Mao Wenlong's food, his soldiers would have rebelled like the Jizhou soldiers.

To be honest, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation was quite complicated, and things like mutinies happened almost all the time, and the Jizhou Mutiny in March can be said to be not counted at all.

The fundamental reason for the mutiny at the end of the Ming Dynasty was the inability to pay food.

These soldiers used their lives to defend the border of the city, and when they returned to their barracks with blood and sweat, they found that the military salaries could not be paid, not to mention the high military salaries, and even the most basic living expenses were insufficient.

These soldiers are all masters who are not afraid of heaven and earth, and they are not even afraid of death on the battlefield, and of course they can do such things as a mutiny, so the so-called mutiny occurred.

On March 18, the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Song Mingwu Shu Chen was given to the military department: Zunhua Taiwan military camp soldiers, southern soldiers one or two five dollars per month, the northern army per month one stone to stop folding one tael of silver, its new battalion soldiers are all folded one or two five dollars, five buckets of rice in the true color, there are two or three dollars per month for Ma Jiading, and there are no Ma Jiading also one or two one money, the reward is abundant, the northern soldiers have sighed grievances, and the arrears are more than a day, the soldiers are desperate, and they have left the letter to ask for wages, and the battalions have heard the wind and advocated incitement.

So the eastern guerrillas, Yumuling, Baiyangyu reinforcement camp on the third day of the first month of February, the eighth day of the first month gathered outside the west gate of Zunhua, felling wood and setting up a village, serving the python to erect a flag, the big book "serve the country with a naked heart, the hungry army set up food" eight characters, the people rose and beaten, the army rose and angry, and asked for full salary, thinking of Pan Zhongjun and willingly. By March 22, there was a division to settle it.

The next day, the governor of Shuntian, the right capital of the imperial history king, should be arrested for a drastic change and put to death.

Fortunately, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong and confiscated enough food, otherwise he would not be much better.

Snatching food and salary can be said to have been one of Yuan Chonghuan's goals.

Liaodong claims to have 200,000 border troops, but Yuan Chonghuan can only call on the soldiers and horses under the command of Zu Dashou, He Kegang, and Zhao Shujiao, and the other is his supervision battalion.

None of these soldiers and horses combined were forty thousand.

He just wants to divide troops to garrison Jimen, Zunhua, and Xifengkou, but he is also powerless.

Because the soldiers and horses in his hands have been allocated to the limit, Ningyuan and Jinzhou were combined into one town, and Zu Dashou was allowed to guard it, He Kegang replaced Zhu Mei in Ningyuan, Zhao led the sect to guard the gate, and Yuan Chonghuan's supervision battalion supported the guerrillas.

"Overseer, what should we do then?" Zu Dashou asked.

"A few months ago, I had already given the emperor a fold, suggesting that food and salary be allocated to strengthen the defense of the Great Wall at the Jizhou border pass.

At that time, Jizhou and Ningyuan will be connected as one and are closely related.

In addition, I also made an excerpt and asked the emperor to allocate the food and salary allocated to us to the Jizhou border pass, only in this way can we prevent Huang Taiji.

If Jizhou has a mistake, then my Ming Liaodong defense line will collapse completely. ”

Yuan Chonghuan also wanted to keep the places that Wang Zezhi said, but he was powerless.

The main thing is to rely on the imperial court.

But now in the court, the emperor is fighting with the courtiers, and everything else has been put aside.

There is also a very important thing, that is, the court has no money, that is, Chongzhen saw Yuan Chonghuan's twists and turns, and he did not have any money to transfer.

It was not until October that the urgent news came from the border pass, and Chongzhen and the courtiers put down the struggle and worked together to resist the foreign enemy.

"Bad news at the border, bad news at the border!"

"Your Majesty, on the second day of October, Huang Taiji took the route of Mongolia, personally led the Eight Banners Army, avoided the Guanningjin defense line, detoured through the Mongolian region, and raided Longjing Pass and Da'ankou in the Jizhen defense area.

The official who reported the news finished reading the border emergency report in one breath, panting and looking at Chongzhen waiting for him to give an order.

Hearing this, Chongzhen stumbled, sat down on the ground from the dragon chair, and then stood up at a very fast speed.

"Wang Qia."

"The minister is here."

"Yuan Chonghuan has already reported that the defense line of Jizhen is empty, and I have already ordered the military department to strengthen the defense line of Jizhen and allocate the food and salary to Yuan Chonghuan to Jizhen, have you done it?"

Chongzhen has a fatal problem, that is, no matter what happens, his first reaction is to find a courtier to take the blame.

"The minister is guilty, the military department is deploying soldiers and horses, the money and food of the household department are not in place, the soldiers have no food to eat, the movement is slow, and the emperor Taiji is coming too fast." Wang Qia was frightened into a cold sweat, and knelt on the hall with a pop, he knew Chongzhen's personality well in this position, and he didn't dare not kneel.

"Bi Ziyan." Chongzhen word by word, gritted his teeth and glared at the Hubu Shangshu, and he was strict.

"Your Majesty, all the food and salaries collected this year have been allocated to the new trilateral governor, Hong Chengchou." Bi Ziyan knew that Chongzhen was going to dump the pot, but he was still not humble or silent, calm and relaxed, and replied lightly.

The reason why Bi Ziyan is like this is because in the first year of Chongzhen, the Shu and Chu soldiers of the thirteenth battalion of Ningyuan, headed by Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, made a blood alliance and wanted to recover the four months of salary owed, they invaded the shogunate, captured the governor Bi Zisu, the chief soldier Zhu Mei, etc., and asked the two for money.

Bi Zisu had a strong temperament, saw the chaos and anger of the soldiers, scolded the soldiers who caused chaos, and the soldiers did not listen to the advice, searched Bi Zisu's bedroom, saw that the pockets were empty, and began to repent.

Four days later, all the soldiers returned to the ranks. Resentful that he had not eaten, the sergeants moved him to the town, where he died thirteen days later.

Bi Zisu was dismissed from his post due to the mutiny, and his brother Bi Shaobao wrote three times as a complaint, stating that the mutiny was caused by a lack of food and salary, and requesting to retain his original official position, but he was not approved.

Chongzhen's actions have long chilled Bi Ziyan's heart, and he naturally won't give Chongzhen a good look.