At this time, Yuan Chonghuan personally led 9,000 soldiers and horses to turn south sharply, and the idea of implementing his second step was to intercept the army of Houjin in Jizhou.

On the 5th day of the first month of November, Yuan Chonghuan led the cavalry led by the commander-in-chief Zu Dashou and the deputy general He Kegang to personally gallop into the customs to defend Beijing.

At this point, Yuan Chonghuan's three generals outside the Guan, Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, and He Kegang, were all brought to the Guannei, which shows that Yuan Chonghuan has made up his mind to defend the Beijing Division to the death at any cost.

On the ninth day of November, Yuan Chonghuan arrived at Shuntianfu in Jizhou.

On the tenth day of the first month, Yuan Jun galloped into Jizhou.

Jizhou is a barrier between Zunhua and Tongzhou, about 140 miles away from Tongzhou, an eastern suburb of Beijing.

Yuan Jun intercepted in Jizhou, and he worked hard to intercept it, and he would not let Yue Jixi take a step.

On the tenth day of the first day of November, Yuan Chonghuan went to Emperor Chongzhen and said: "We will enter Jizhou to let the soldiers and horses rest for a while, carefully reconnoiter the situation between the enemy and us, and then strictly pay attention to the movements of the Houjin army, and strive to intercept them, and we will definitely not let the Houjin army cross Jixi."

Huang Taiji knew that Yuan Chonghuan intercepted him in Jizhou, but did not confront him and sneaked past Jizhou.

On 14 November, Yuan Chonghuan's scouts detected the Houjin Army Brigade sneaking past Jixi.

In this way, Yuan Chonghuan's plan to intercept the Huang Taiji army in Jizhou fell through.

After Yuan Chonghuan failed to intercept Jizhou, he did not choose to follow the Houjin army directly to the west, but went to Hexi, which is located in the southwest of Jizhou.

On November 16, Yuan Chonghuan's army reached Hexiwu.

Hexi is located between Tianjin and Beijing, about 120 miles away from Beijing, located in the southwest of Sanhe and southeast of Tongzhou.

At this time, Huang Taiji's army was already near Tongzhou, and he chose to bypass Tongzhou and go straight to Beijing.

In the face of the large-scale attack of the Houjin army, Emperor Chongzhen was in a mess.

Emperor Chongzhen instructed Yuan Chonghuan to dispatch reinforcements from various towns, and the camera stopped at the end.

At this time, a total of four towns of the Ming army came to Qinwang, in addition to Yuan Chonghuan stationed in Jizhou, Changping general soldier You Shiwei stationed in Miyun, Datong general soldier Mangui stationed in Shunyi, Xuanfu general soldier Hou Shilu stationed in Sanhe.

In order to strengthen the defense of Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen ordered that officials, relatives of the emperor, and meritorious generals in Beijing should take their families to patrol and guard the city wall. At the same time, the eunuchs were also asked to guard the city.

At the same time, Ming Datong General Soldier Man Gui and Xuanfu General Soldier Hou Shilu led troops and also came to Beijing City Desheng Gate to camp.

On November 20, Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners army to the city of Beijing.

During the period when the Beijing division was deployed, one of the reinforcements broke up before they could play their role.

This is the Xuanfu reinforcement closest to the Beijing Division.

After Geng Ruqi, the governor of Xuanfu, learned of the crisis in Beijing, he volunteered to take his Fubiao battalion elite cavalry, as well as Zhang Honggong's 8,000 elite cavalry to aid the Beijing division.

By the time they arrived in Jingshi, it was already November 26.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the army was not allowed to open food on the day it arrived at the station.

The elite cavalry led by Geng Ruqi and Zhang Hongwei arrived in the Gyeonggi area, and before they had time to rest, they were called by the military department to garrison Tongzhou City in Shuntianfu.

These two people can be regarded as conscientious, loyal and patriotic, and after receiving the order, without saying a word, they led the team to Tongzhou City.

They had just arrived at Tongzhou City, and the military department asked him to defend Changping City.

Those who are courtiers have to obey orders, what else is there to say? Go to Changping!

But the fact that the military department changed its order was too strong, they just ran to Changping, and the military department asked him to go to Liangxiang to garrison Liangxiang, I really don't understand whether these people in the military department are full of food and have nothing to do, and take Zhang Honggong to find fun.

How so?

Tongzhou is in the southeast of the capital, Changping is due north of the capital, and Liangxiang is in the southwest of Beijing.

The distance between the three places is more than 100 miles, not to mention that the soldiers can't stand it, even the war horses can't stand it.

The army under the command of the two of them changed places in three places in three days, and each place did not stay enough for a day, so it was natural that the local officials would not open granaries to give them food.

The team of two was hungry for three days, what to do?

Geng Ruqi didn't speak, and Zhang Honggong began to loot and rob the people of their food to eat.

Geng Ruqi's Fubiao battalion was also hungry, they were red with hunger, so they followed Zhang Honggong's team and began to loot, Geng Ruqi could only open one eye and close one eye when he saw this.

After Chongzhen heard about this, Long Yan was furious, the Jin soldiers had not yet arrived, but his soldiers had already begun to loot the people.

Chongzhen believes that the reason why these soldiers and horses are plundering everywhere is completely because Zhang Honggong and Geng Ruqi did not restrain the soldiers.

So Chongzhen immediately ordered the Jinyi Wei Ti to ride and arrested Zhang Honggong and Geng Ruqi to the Fusi Prison in Beizhen.

The commanders were all arrested, and the Xuanfu reinforcements panicked all of a sudden, knowing that they were the ones who carried out the looting.

When he came to King Qin, he didn't give food to eat, and now the commander was also arrested, and in an instant, these soldiers panicked, scattered in a hurry, and fled to Shanxi.

After Chongzhen heard that these soldiers and horses had fled, he was even more angry, and he put all the blame on Geng Ruji and Zhang Honggong.

At the beginning of December, Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong, who came to King Qin, were beheaded by Chongzhen in a daze.

Whoever arrives first will be able to leave more good impressions and get more benefits in the future.

Geng Ruqi volunteered to enter King Qin in Beijing, with this kind of thought, but he never thought that this time King Qin's move would cost him his life.

Holding the same idea as him is also the governor of Gansu, Mei Zhihuan.

Mei Zhihuan and Yang Jiamo drove the soldiers to speed up their march in a few days, despite the overweight armor and artillery that the soldiers carried.

The road was far away, the food was scarce, and these tired, hungry and thirsty soldiers rose up to resist under the leadership of Wang Jincai, Yin Dengke, Wu Tianyin and others.

General Sun Huaizhong, the general Zhou Daochang and Lian Dengkui, was still very loyal to Zhu Youzhen, regardless of his own safety, he stepped forward to stop him and was killed by the rebels.

The mutinous soldiers did not stop doing anything, and after killing Sun Huaizhong, Zhou Daochang, and Lian Dengkui, they seized the salaries of the army and began to return to Gansu.

Mei Zhihuan is really a smart person, knowing that "a snake does not walk without a head, and a person does not stand without a head", he planted spies in the rebels, and when the rebels arrived in Lanzhou, the spies killed Wang Jincai, Yin Dengke, Wu Tianyin and other rebel leaders.

Mei Zhihuan appeared, knew the rebels with reason, moved them with affection, promised them benefits, carrots and sticks, and finally conquered the rebels.

Despite this, there were still some soldiers who were resolutely unwilling to enter the king of Jingqin, and Mei Zhihuan had no choice, so he left them back in the camp and led the army willing to go to Jingshi to continue to advance.

What he didn't expect was that the repatriated soldiers did not return to the camp, but joined the bandits on the spot and began to loot along the way.

Mei Zhihuan is still good, and even more unlucky is Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui.

Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui, brought his soldiers and horses into King Qin, but what he didn't think about was that Wu Zimian deducted a large amount of food and salary when he was in office, and stole and sold a large number of war horses, which made him short of materials.

Before he arrived in Beijing, the soldiers and horses under his command had no food to eat, so they began to rebel.

They either fell into the grass and plundered everywhere, or fled in the middle of the night and disappeared.

In the end, he only had a dozen generals left in his hands, and Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui, could not accept the grief and died.