Chapter 59: Azig who doesn't play according to the rules Today's first update
Since Azig broke through the Xifengkou Pass, 100,000 Tartars were like a bamboo, most of the soldiers of the Ming army fled from the wind, in just one month, they captured more than 10 large and small cities around the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty and the opposition were shaken.
Just when Azig and they were proud of the spring breeze, Amin and Yue Tuo went their separate ways, pulling the elite of 10,000 Tartars to the direction of Yongcheng alone.
This is a big blow to Azig and Abatai.
For Azig and Yue Tuo, the twelfth brother of Huang Taiji, Azig knows too well, knows that Amin is an ambitious person, he only convinces Nurhachi, and now that Taizu is gone, Amin's ambitions are becoming more and more obvious, and even Emperor Taizong Taiji is not in his eyes.
However, his Starling Emperor Taiji seemed to be a step ahead, and he thought that Amin felt that it was not easy to shake it, so he decided to set up another mountain to develop outside. A few years ago, he didn't want to come back when he was in the country, and he also had a soft spot for Yongping, and now he has revisited the old place.
Azig thought about it and felt that it was really hateful, but he was powerless against Amin and Yue Tuo!
The two of them blatantly went it alone, this matter was too big, Azig and Abatai did not dare to hide it, and immediately reported it to Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji knew even more about the ambitious Amin, and immediately instructed Azig and Abatai to leave Yue Tuo and Amin alone, which was tantamount to isolating these two, and the lone army would definitely be defeated.
Huang Taiji also has plans, he doesn't expect the 100,000 horses of Azig to be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the Ming Dynasty's nearly 300 years of national ancestry, that is the land of the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger, not their kind of small border country can be destroyed if they want to.
To gain as much benefit as possible, looting the city, looting property, livestock and slaves was the purpose of their march into the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, Huang Taiji has already gotten the exact news.
In the face of the pressure of the Tartars, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty had two words in his mind, war and peace. Above the court, it is also roughly divided into two factions around these two words, that is, the main battle faction and the main peace faction.
The main battle faction is represented by the famous Dao Lu Xiangsheng, and the main peace faction is Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, Yang Sichang, a university scholar, and Gao Qiqian, the great eunuch.
And the Lord and the faction have already gained the upper hand, they are intriguing, blowing the wind in Chongzhen's ears, and Lu Xiangsheng is isolated.
Huang Taiji was overjoyed when he got the news, and decided to force Chongzhen to negotiate peace, and let Azig and Abatai speed up the march and clear the obstacles around the Beijing Division.
Now Datong, Xuanhua, Changping, Huaiyi and other 12 cities, all of which belong to the Tartars.
Just as Azig and the others sent heavy troops to put pressure on Yanjing, bad news came, Amin and Yue Tuo lost the battle and returned in embarrassment, and there was not one in ten of the 10,000 elites with blue flags and red flags.
What's even worse is that Yue Tuo died.
This matter is too big, the shock caused by 100,000 Tartars, because Yue Tuo's status is too high in the Qing Dynasty, he is the eldest son of Daishan, the grandson of Nurhachi, the nephew of Azig, and the former Heshuo Belle. Although he is now punished by Huang Taiji as Dorobelle, his status and influence are still extremely human.
Now that such a big man is dead, Azig and Abatai are a little dumbfounded in shock, and now Amin is no longer arrogant, he is simply wilting and slumped.
When they learned that the famous Amin and Yue Tuo were actually planted in the hands of an unknown little person named Lin Yibai, Azig and Abatai were full of shock, how big did their mouths open?
Daming Gyeonggi is really a place where the dragon is hidden and the tiger is crouching, and a small hundred presidents can defeat Amin and Yue Tuo in a row? It seems that the Ming Dynasty is not without available people, but there are no people to make the best use of their talents.
Azig Amin Abatai sat down to renegotiate countermeasures, Amin was defeated, Yue Tuo was killed, Azig had to adjust his strategy, after the three of them discussed, Yue Tuo's surname was Aixin Jueluo, and he had the blood of the Qing Dynasty royal family, so he had to withdraw his troops outside the pass, transport Yue Tuo's body back first, and then talk about Zhengming after dealing with his funeral.
But we must not just leave, we must have crazy revenge, one is to wantonly kill the Han people, and kill all the Han people who have been captured and plundered. The second is to capture Yongping and slaughter the city, and if you find someone named Lin Yi, you have to take his head with you.
But now that they have figured it out, their flank is Lu Xiangsheng's people, they want to go east, Lu Xiangsheng will definitely not sit idly by, and must clear this obstacle first.
For this reason, they decided to use troops in three directions. The 100,000 Tartars at the time of the war have only been reduced to more than 80,000 troops. Fortunately, because he took 12 cities around Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty, captured more than 100,000 Han people, the livestock finances were not calculated, and the grain and grass supply was sufficient.
The first route of 40,000 Tartars marched eastward, which was undoubtedly the main force, led by Azig, the king of Dorowuying, himself.
The second road of 30,000 men and horses, led by Abatai Governor and assisted by Tan Tai, the deputy capital commander, ambushed Lu Xiangsheng's men and horses in the east of Yuyang City.
The remaining more than 10,000 people were handed over to Yang Guli and asked him to hold Changping and Shunyi, focusing on Xifengkou, which was the only way for them to retreat to Guannai.
Amin was robbed of military power, but as an ordinary soldier to fight with Azig, Amin had nothing to say, he also held back his strength, took Yongping City, slaughtered the city, and killed Lin Yi.
After the Tartars had been redeployed, they began their frenzied plan of revenge.
Overnight, Azig ordered to kill all the more than ten Han people who had been captured and plundered, and the corpses were in the wilderness.
Outside the city of Changping, corpses were piled up and the smell of blood was everywhere, all of which were innocent people.
After killing these unarmed civilians, Azig and Amin marched east with an army of 40,000 troops.
This ordered Lu Xiangsheng, who was stationed in Yuyang, by surprise.
Azig should attack Yanjing, Changping is so close to Yanjing, this is a straight line distance, why did they move eastward?
According to Lu Xiangsheng's strategy, Azig attacked Yanjing with heavy troops, and Lu Xiangsheng attacked his flank from Yuyang, and the Tartars were defeated. But now Azig suddenly didn't play cards according to Lu Xiangsheng's intentions, and came to move eastward, Lu Xiangsheng was a little puzzled.
"Did you make a mistake? Is this still an Azig machime? Lu Xiangsheng paced back and forth in the tent.
He has always wanted to surround and rape the Tartars, but he has not been able to complete the deployment of troops, so the key reason for the delay in launching a general attack on these Tartars is the lack of troops.
Lu Xiangsheng is now known as the Governor of the Five Regions of Soldiers and Horses, but he is actually constrained by the Commander of Soldiers and Horses, Jun Gao Qiqian. This great eunuch was one of the representatives of the Lord and the faction, and his political position was different, and he was secondary. The point is that he's not a real man.
Eunuchs were unable to conquer women because of their physical defects, so they became somewhat perverted, and their desires turned to naked money and fame.
Therefore, greed, insidiousness, and selfishness have become the common characteristics of eunuchs, and these commonalities are particularly concentrated and prominent in Gao Qiqian.
Although the Lord and the faction advocated giving the Tartars some benefits and allowing them to withdraw their troops, that is, to make peace with the Tartars, so as to free up their energy to deal with the thieves in the country.
But they are more than one ghost, in the face of Chongzhen's suspicions, they are all afraid of being responsible, whether it is Yang Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Yang Sichang, a scholar of Dongge University, or Gao Qiqian, the great eunuch, no one is willing to speak out their own opinions.
Although they had already guessed that Emperor Chongzhen had the desire to negotiate peace, they would not clearly express their views until Emperor Chongzhen directly expressed it.
Chongzhen, as the emperor of a dynasty, the Son of Heaven guards the country, of course, he can't make it clear that he wants to make peace with the Tartars, so he can only find a spokesperson to say what he wants. But these lords and factions don't know what to say, and they only play the side ball, and this is where they are insidious and treacherous.
And Lu Xiangsheng, the representative of the main battle faction, has a raging fighting spirit. Emperor Chongzhen, of course, had to encourage him, so he appointed him as the governor of the five regions, and gave him the sword of Shangfang, the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, and was fully responsible for guarding Gyeonggi.
But as soon as Lu Xiangsheng left the Jingshi, the suspicious Emperor Chongzhen immediately changed his mind, and the Lord and the faction hurriedly slandered and instigated right and wrong. So the great eunuch Gao Qiqian became Lu Xiangsheng's commander of the army of soldiers and horses.
The chief army of soldiers and horses is in charge of the army's money and food, which is equivalent to jamming Lu Xiangsheng's neck, whether to advance or retreat, and how to fight any battle, the chief army must agree.
The reason why Lu Xiangsheng did not complete the deployment of troops for so many days was precisely because of Gao Qiqian's constraints.
He singled out Lu Xiangsheng's faults and distorted the holy will, and he fell in love with Lu Xiangsheng's BMW, but Lu Xiangsheng categorically refused, and the old guy's laughter became even more gloomy.
Because Gao Qiqian obstructed and obstructed, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, colluded with him, Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu, Miyun, and the soldiers and horses in the four places, and it was difficult for Lu Xiangsheng to mobilize a single soldier and a pawn.
What he can mobilize now is more than 30,000 people from the Daimyo Mansion and Zhending, which is his descendant army and the essence of the Tianxiong Army.
But for these more than 30,000 people, Gao Qiqian also divided it into two, in the name of ensuring that Shangjing was safe and sound, and the rest could go to fight Tartar.
In this way, more than 10,000 Tianxiong troops were fixed in Daimyo and Zhending, and Lu Xiangsheng directly mobilized only more than 17,000 people.
However, to his gratification, Zu Kuanguan, the deputy chief soldier of Shanhaiguan and Zu Dashou's subordinate, came to Qinwang with 6,000 Ningyuan troops and had already arrived in Qianxi.
Lu Xiangsheng knew that Zu Kuan was brave and good at fighting, and that Ning Yuan's army was extremely strong in combat and was not inferior to his Tianxiong army, so he decisively ordered Zu Kuan to be stationed in the west of Qianxi, the east of Xinglong, and the north of Zunhua.
In this way, as long as Azig dared to go south from Changping and attack the Jingshi on a large scale, his Tianxiong army and Zu Kuan's Ningyuan army would be like two pincers to cut off these Tartars.
But at this time, Gao Qiqian played yin on him again, and as the commander of the army of soldiers and horses, he urged him to take the initiative to attack and annihilate all the Tartars. The reason is that the Tartars brutally killed so many people at once, and the Son of Heaven was furious, and it was not enough for the Tartars to be angry.
Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to pull more than 10,000 people out of Yuyang City, but Lu Xiangsheng did not take the initiative to attack, but was waiting for the fighters, he thought that Azig would inevitably attack the Beijing division next, and he would send troops to attack the flank, so that he could hope to succeed.
But now that Azig is suddenly moving east with the main force, Lu Xiangsheng is a little confused, why should these thieves and Tartars go far and near? There's definitely something strange about this.
After thinking about it, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly found Liu Zhaoji, Li Chongzhen, Luo Dai and other chief military officers to discuss countermeasures.
After the three general soldiers and the deputy general soldiers entered Shi Lilai, Lu Xiangsheng asked the three of them to sit down and asked the three of them.
Li Chongzhen believes that Azig is scheming, and this should be their plan to lure the enemy, and we should stand still and wait and see what happens, and then make plans.
Lu Xiangsheng nodded, and Li Chongzhen thought of going with him.
At this time, Liu Zhaoji spoke, "Lord Governor, my subordinates have just received the news that Amin was defeated in Yongping, Yue Tuo was killed, and Azig suddenly gave up his distance and waved his army eastward, could it be their revenge?" ”
"Oh?" Lu Xiangsheng's eyes widened in shock.
The names of Amin and Yue Tuo, of course, Lu Xiangsheng has also heard of them. Amin is the second of Nurhachi's four great beylers, and Yueto is Nurhachi's own grandson and one of the right-hand men under Huang Taiji.
In recent years, these two fierce generals have conquered Mongolia, the dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty, and they are invincible, just like the two sharp knives of Huang Taiji, clearing the way for his Qing Dynasty to expand its territory.
But now these two famous big men have died forever? Yue Tuo was also killed? Who can have such a great ability and achieve such a record? Who is the prefect of Yongping? Yongping General Army, Du Division, and who is the garrison?
Lu Xiangsheng was shocked and immediately inquired about Yongping's civil and military officials.
Soon he found out, Yongping prefect Li Qi is a mediocre generation, Yongping General Soldier and Dusi sent troops to King Qin are not in Yongping, but so far Lu Xiangsheng has not seen their King Qin's soldiers and horses, Yongping's defender will be a garrison Wang Cheng, in addition to Bu Zheng, according to the inspection, push officials and other staff, there is a lack of soldiers in the city, only more than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled left, how can they frustrate Amin and Yue Tuo?
For a time, Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Chongzhen and Luo Dai all doubted the accuracy of Liu Zhaoji's information.
At this time, Yongping's official document arrived, and this piece of music was to be sent to the Beijing Division, but during the war, the Beijing Division was already under martial law, and to enter the Beijing Division, you must first pass the Governor Lu Xiangsheng.
Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered someone to bring Yongping's tolerance in and interrogate Yongping in detail.
The tolerance did not dare to conceal it, and told Lin Yi's deeds truthfully, and the prefect folded a letter, reported the battle of Yongping to the imperial court, and recommended Lin Yi to be promoted to an official in Yongping.
After Lu Xiangsheng and the others listened, a world-famous hero popped up in their minds - Lin Yi!
Lu Xiangsheng and others sighed: Such a hero is just a hundred presidents, it's really buried!
According to the nature of the Tartars, Lu Xiangsheng felt that Azig's eastward march should be an act of revenge, and his goal should be Yongping, and they must be stopped.
But just in case, Yuyang had to leave soldiers and horses, and Zu Kuan's men and horses were moving west, but there were only 6,000 people, and it was difficult to resist the tens of thousands of troops attacking Azig.
So Lu Xiangsheng and the three chief officers immediately acted after discussion, in order to prevent the Tartars from playing tricks, intending to Beijing Division, Lu Xiangsheng ordered the chief soldier Liu Zhaoji to lead 7000 troops to sit in Yuyang, Lu Xiangsheng took the chief soldier Liu Chongzhen and the deputy chief soldier Luo Dai, led 10,000 troops, rushed to the west, and blocked the eastward advance of Azig.