Chapter 289: Emergency Meeting
Juyongguan.
On the official road, a team of horses that did not collect at night and looked panicked galloped, several people were carrying fiery red red feathers, galloping towards Juyong Pass, and the generals guarding the pass were also taken aback when they saw this, and hurriedly scolded the soldiers around them to open the gate of the city.
The team broke into the city without collecting the Pegasus at night, and shouted loudly: "Ye Xianzheng is leading the Tartar iron cavalry to attack, with a force of 200,000, and the soldiers have passed Chang'an!" ”
After saying that, the team jumped off the war horses one after another, flew over the fast horses led by the soldiers next to them, rode their horses and rushed out, crossed the Juyong Pass City, and rushed towards the Jingshi.
Chang'an is located in the easternmost part of Xuanfu Town, after Chang'an is Yanqing Prefecture, the Tatars from Yanqing Prefecture all the way east, it will take less than two days to be able to come to the city of Yongguan!
If there is any mistake in Juyong Pass, then Changping Prefecture will not be able to hold it, and there will be no danger to defend the north of the capital!
As soon as he thought of this, the guard's face turned pale, stammered and roared, and he commanded the two thousand soldiers in the Guancheng to immediately close the Guancheng to prepare for battle, and at the same time asked for help from Changping Prefecture and the surrounding Bohai and Baiyangkou places.
"I hope the imperial court will send reinforcements as soon as possible!"
As soon as Pegasus left Juyong Pass, Wara Taishi had already led an army of 200,000 iron cavalry to break through Chang'an, and after the army had plundered around Chang'an, it continued to march eastward.
At the same time, 30,000 iron cavalry have been dispatched to take the first step to open the way for the main army, and at this time, these 30,000 vanguard iron cavalry have arrived under the city of Yanqingzhou, and then began to storm the city of Yanqingzhou.
A day later, he also led the main army to the city of Yanqing, accompanied by the captured orthodox emperor.
Hearing that the Warat army was attacking the city and plundering in Xuanfu Town, and the officials and troops in various places were beaten in disarray, the orthodox emperor couldn't help but feel like a knife and angrily reprimanded the king of Saikan who came to visit him.
During this period of time, King Saikan and the Orthodox Emperor have been getting along for a long time, and he admires the Orthodox Emperor very much.
Although the orthodox emperor is not a wise and martial emperor, he can only be regarded as an emperor with medium qualifications, but his personal charm is still very great, at least it makes the king of Saikan worship himself.
In the face of the orthodox emperor's angry rebuke, King Saikan did not get angry, but said: "Your Majesty is angry, this time our army is just to send Your Majesty back to Beijing." Of course, I also have to discuss the matter of paying tribute with Daming! ”
Of course, the orthodox emperor understood that the Taishi Wara was also ready to use himself to blackmail the Ming Dynasty in order to salvage a fortune.
So, the orthodox emperor said coldly: "Hmph! Wish for the moon! I am very strong-boned, and I will never bow my head to the Tartars. Even death, I will never let you succeed! ”
King Saikan smiled and said that he didn't argue with the orthodox emperor, but said: "Your Majesty, let's have a good rest, it is estimated that we can enter Yanqing Prefecture and camp today." ”
After speaking, the king of Saikan ordered someone to bring food, and he also said goodbye to the orthodox emperor.
Sure enough, with the assistance of the Mongolian merchants who had infiltrated the city in advance, in the afternoon of the same day, he led an army of 200,000 iron cavalry to capture Yanqing Prefecture.
The 3,000 Ming soldiers defending the city were all wiped out, and Warat lost only a few hundred men.
The Wara army stayed in Yanqing Prefecture for three days, and also divided the troops to loot around Yanqing Prefecture on a large scale, at this time 200,000 Warat iron cavalry harvested a lot, and there were thousands of carts with the army alone, and countless money, grain, and goods were looted.
During this period, Yexian originally wanted to capture some of the population, but when he thought that the army would still kill the city of Beijing, and the captivity of the population would greatly hinder the speed of the army's march, he dispelled this idea.
Three days later, he also led 200,000 Warat iron cavalry to continue eastward, and it only took more than a day to kill Juyong Pass.
Looking at the majestic Juyong Pass, a trace of fear suddenly surged in his heart, such a gate was in front of the army, as if it was an iron wall.
"Defeat Juyong Pass, and you can kill Beijing City!"
At this time, he also thought about Beijing City and the former Yuan Dadu, and the fear in his heart also dissipated, but he was full of fighting spirit, and he ordered the army to attack Juyongguan City on the same day.
All of a sudden, the sound of Juyong Pass's killing shook the sky, and the Warat army rushed up with the weapons seized from various cities, as if to completely submerge the majestic Guancheng!
The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.
Just when Juyong Pass was in danger, a fierce debate was breaking out in the court.
At this time, the news that he had also led 200,000 Warat Iron Cavalry to kill the Benjing Division had come, and Zhu Qiyu, the king of the prison country, was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly convened his ministers to discuss countermeasures.
At the court meeting, I saw a minister saying something impassionedly, and the words kept echoing in the hall, looking righteous and awe-inspiring, but listening carefully, this person was not discussing the strategy of resisting the enemy, but advocating that the imperial court immediately move the capital to Nanjing!
This person is Xu Youzhen, the imperial history of Zuodu!
Xu Youzhen was a member of Xuande in the eighth year of the Imperial Academy, selected a scholar, and was awarded the editor, and he was already forty-two years old at this time.
Xu Youzhen is short and concise, wise, and famous, and studies all the books of astronomy, geography, the art of war, water conservancy, yin and yang, and magic.
In the second year of orthodoxy, Xu Youzhen entered as a waiter; In the seventh year of orthodoxy, Xu Youzhen sparse Chen Bingzheng Five Things (that is, his famous "Collection of Martial Arts"), but the orthodox emperor was good and could not use it. This made Xu Youzhen a little disheartened, plus he had been in the official position of Zuodu Yushi for a long time, but he had never been able to be promoted, and he was also troubled in his heart, and he wanted to compete for fame and fortune.
At this time, Xu Youzhen advocated that the imperial court move the capital to Nanjing in order to have a later effect, follow the story of the two Song Dynasty, first stick to the southern half of the country, and then Xu Tu restored.
This absurd remark was immediately opposed by the Manchu ministers of civil and military affairs, and even the ministers of the civil and official groups also rebuked them one after another.
The civil official clique worked hard to instigate the orthodox emperor to drive the expedition and purge the Wuxun group and the Xungui group, but it was not to run to Nanjing to be a small court!
And Yu Qian, the right attendant of the military department, was even more angry, scolded Xu Youzhen in public, accused him of causing trouble to the dynasty, and strongly advocated gathering a large army to help Juyong Pass, and at the same time strengthening the defense of the capital, and fighting a decisive battle with the Wara army.
Xu Youzhen saw that her proposition had caused public anger, and her face was red and white for a while, and she stepped aside and stopped talking.
At this time, Chen Yi, the imperial envoy of the capital, played the king Zhu Qiyu and said: "The country has lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in this defeat, and now it is in the hands of the Tartars, all of which are victims of the traitorous eunuch Wang Zhen, please order: kill Wang Zhen's nine clans, in order to comfort the souls of the soldiers of the army in the sky!"
Hearing this, Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, also didn't know what to do, after all, Wang Zhen was already dead, but there were still many Wang Zhen's henchmen in the court, and rashly killing Wang Zhenjiu's clan would definitely cause turmoil in the court.
At this time, the Tartar army has already reached Juyong Pass, and if there is any more turmoil in the court, this will shake the country's capital!
But at this moment, the civil and military officials above the hall remembered what Wang Zhen had done, and immediately became angry, and everyone saw Wang Zhen's henchman Ma Shun and Wang Zhen's nephew Wang Shan (the commander of the Jinyi Guard) rushed up, and the court was suddenly chaotic, and the courtiers beat the two and beat them to the point of wailing.
Seeing this, Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly ordered the Han generals outside the main hall to pull away everyone, but those Han generals were reprimanded by the courtiers and did not dare to step forward.
After a while, the great eunuch Ma Shun and the commander of the Jinyi Guard made Wang Shan fall to the ground and did not move, and the two were beaten to death by the ministers above the main hall!
At this time, Yu Qian did not stop everyone, obviously he also hated Wang Zhen very much, and saw that the two of them had died of anger and were dragged down by the Han general, so he sighed.
This time the court meeting ended in vain because of this chaos, and in the face of the Warat army that was storming Juyong Pass, the court still did not come up with a decent countermeasure.
At the same time, in the afternoon of the same day, Yu Qian united with the courtiers to invite the empress dowager, in order to prevent Wara from using the orthodox emperor to blackmail the imperial court, and asked to abolish the orthodox emperor and set up Zhu Qiyu as the emperor instead.
After all, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and the Ming Dynasty cannot accept the coercion of the Tartars, so the queen mother did not have any resistance to this proposal, and directly agreed to the public opinion.
However, Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, could not refuse, and Yu Qian took the initiative to take the lead in a hurry, and repeatedly requested with the minister of civil and military affairs, but Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, had no choice but to agree.
Early the next morning, the imperial court put the matter of Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants, on the throne and the matter of resisting the Warat army on the agenda at the same time, ready to be resolved together.