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After suffering a defeat in the siege, Yismayin decided to bypass the civil fort garrisoned by Shen Xi and directly attack Juyong Pass.

Originally, his plan was not like this, but due to the outbreak of the Amagi Guard battle yesterday, he decided to change his plan temporarily, and the situation has forced him to make a change, and it is urgent to do so.

Yesterday morning, Dayan Khan Batu Mengke personally led 20,000 soldiers and horses, and encountered more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of King Qin in Datong Town and Taiyuan Town of the Ming Dynasty in Tianchengwei.

Taking advantage of the slackness of the Ming army when entering the city, the Tatar iron cavalry ambushed outside the city suddenly attacked, and the two armies fought near the city gate, and then the war burned to the inside of the Tiancheng Acropolis, and the fierce battle lasted for four hours, and finally the Tiancheng Acropolis was broken, the Ming army lost more than 10,000 yuan, and the other more than 30,000 people scattered and fled.

This battle was won by the five sons born to Manduhai led by Batu Munch.

The elite of the Dayan Department showed strong combat effectiveness in this battle, and the Ming army occupied the Tiancheng Guard, and once had a chance to turn defeat into victory, but Batumunk's eldest son Tulu Borot showed great power at the critical moment, leading more than ten cavalry into the city, and the Tiancheng Guard fought hard with the Tatars for more than three hours in the case of the loss of the city gate, and finally the army was defeated.

From the beginning of the war, the Ming army did not have the courage to win, after all, it was a unit dominated by infantry, and after entering the tragic street fighting, although it also gritted its teeth and insisted, but seeing that there was no hope of victory, it gradually sprouted a retreat. And the Dayan Department was also very smart, and did not block the four gates, and the Ming army had a way to escape, and finally dispersed.

In this battle, the plan of Datong Town and Taiyuan Town to retreat to the capital Qinwang was almost completely cut off.

With the victory in the Battle of Amagi, the main force of the Tatar army marched eastward.

Originally, taking advantage of this opportunity for soldiers and horses from all walks of life to gather together, a round of all-out attack on the civil fort could be carried out, and it was believed that it would not be difficult to conquer the civil fort, but Yismain insisted on not attacking the civil fort again.

After repeated tragic lessons, Yismain began to understand that the small civil fort was like a tiger's den in Longtan, blindly attacking the city, and the war loss might expand to a number that he did not want to see, and it was better to leave about 10,000 soldiers and horses to watch, at least the personnel were there, and they could leave at any time.

Awulu was originally full of expectations for Yismayin, and even made a promise to recommend himself for a pillow, but unfortunately Yismain did not grasp the opportunity, and not only lost but also lost completely.

After this defeat, Yismayin finally made up his mind to give up attacking the Tumu Fort after careful consideration and repeated considerations.

“…… Zhao Envoy, I hope you understand that it is the best choice not to attack Tumu Fort now, unless you want to see my Prairie Tribe warriors continue to drink hatred under Tumu Fort City. This small fortress has buried thousands of people on my grassland, and if we attack the city again, perhaps more warriors will be sacrificed. ”

"Rather than letting these good sons and daughters be consumed in the civil fort in vain, it is better to use them as the main force to capture Juyong Pass and the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, saying that they may not be able to play a greater role, why make this sacrifice?"

Because of this, Yisima was unexpectedly looking for Awulu's forgiveness, and he also knew how much he had fought in this battle, and he was forced to withdraw his troops after attacking the city, attacking more than 40,000 people and horses, and as a result, more than 7,000 people were lost, and the proportion of battle losses was nearly 20%, which dealt a great blow to the grassland soldiers and horses dominated by tribes.

The steppe people like to make gods about the people or things they are most afraid of, before this Shen Xi was afraid of the steppe people, and now the Tatar people are afraid of Shen Xi to the point of no return.

What the Tatars fear is not how many powerful soldiers and horses there are in the city, but that there is a god of war in the city who terrifies them, who can turn decay into magic every time, and make the Tatars experience the painful taste of half heaven and half hell.

A Wulu said angrily: "The national teacher doesn't want to attack the city, so let a weak woman like a concubine make the last effort for my grassland son." If you can't persuade Shen Xi to surrender, then today will be the last time the concubine and the national teacher will meet. If the concubine is trapped in the enemy camp and can't come out, the national teacher remembers to burn incense and worship every year, and the concubine is grateful! ”

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On the morning of October 18, it rained and snowed.

The Tatars went all the way, led by Yi Bura, and killed in front of Juyong Pass.

That night, the news reached the capital, and at this time, the court finally made public the news of the arrival of Tatar soldiers in the city, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

The Tatars killed in the hinterland of Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty, and it was in the case of heavy troops in the northwest, when the people of the capital learned about it, they knew that the northwest defense town, and the location of the nine-sided granary, Xuanfu was lost, and the Ningxia victory preached by the imperial court before became a joke for a while.

That night, news came that the Celestial City Guards had been defeated and broken.

In the previous month, there was very little news around Xuanfu, but when Xuanfu was lost, many news could no longer be hidden, and war reports came like snowflakes, and the imperial court was in a hurry because Zhu Youzhi was seriously ill and could not govern.

The cabinet met three times in one day, the first to discuss the military movement of the Inner Great Wall, and the second to discuss the Gyeonggi defense and the deployment of King Qin's troops and horses.

When the enemy met Juyong Pass and the news of the defeat of Tianchengwei came, the previous arrangements of the imperial court were completely disrupted, and a third meeting could only be held to discuss how to arrange the first line of the Inner Great Wall and the defense of the Beijing division without reinforcements from Datong Town and Taiyuan Town.

Liu Jian was tired for days and was ill, so he did not enter the palace that day. Immediately, Li Dongyang also committed hemorrhoids, and he didn't stop bleeding, so he didn't come at night.

At this side, Ma Wensheng said that his eye disease had recurred, his vision was blurred, and he asked for a day off.

Zhang Mao and Zhang Heling came, but when they heard that the other three advisory ministers did not come, they quickly took leave and left, because they felt that since they were the civil ministers, even if they were the advisory ministers ordered by the emperor, they should not be too lenient as military generals.

In this way, the cabinet held a meeting with several advisers, and only Xie Qian and Xiong Xiu were present.

Xie Qian heard about other people's reasons for taking leave, and he almost wanted to die headlong, if Liu Jian might be really sick, the rest of them were completely prevaricating, even if it was an old minister like Ma Wensheng, he didn't want to take too much responsibility in this kind of matter related to the overall strategic arrangement.

Obviously, the war has developed into a mess up now.

If the Xuanfu is still there, or the reinforcements withdrawn from Datong Town and Taiyuan Town have not suffered the defeat of Tianchengwei, there may be hope for a reversal in this battle, but now that the Tatars have come to the city, it will take at least half a month to wait for the follow-up troops and horses in the northwest to withdraw.

In this half a month, the capital will become the object of siege by the Tatars, and the battle line will spread directly from the inner Great Wall to the defense of the capital.

This is not directly related to whether the Inner Pass of the Great Wall was lost.

Although the inner Great Wall is stable, but it is not indestructible, before the Wara people gave the Ming Dynasty a lesson, before the capture of the Bauhinia Pass, choose to break through from the small pass, basically a dozen and a quasi, and then part of the soldiers and horses into the North China Plain, blocking the communication and liaison around the capital, with the army outside the Guan, the Ming Dynasty was disturbed and could not send reinforcements, how can the Inner Great Wall be kept?

Xie Qian held a bunch of battle reports, his heart was annoyed, and he slapped the table: "These people are asking for the life of the old man!" ”

Xiong Xiu persuaded: "The elder doesn't have to be anxious, you might as well draw up a vote, submit the recital to the celebrant and submit it to Your Majesty for decision!" ”

Xie Qian glanced at Xiong Xiu obliquely, and he understood what Xiong Xiu meant...... Xiong Xiu didn't want to be responsible, so he proposed such a bad trick and asked him to prepare a ticket to be submitted to the celebrant supervisor.

Where is this from the heavens, it's simply asking for trouble for yourself!

Because Xie Qian found a recent convention, no matter what the cabinet writes on the ticket, the Zhu Pi of the celebrant must be written in the original form, and not even a word has been changed, this is the honest and honest eunuch Xiao Jing, who is the eunuch who is honest and dedicated to stability, is basically a wall-riding faction, and where there is a wind on one side, he will pour it to the other side.

And Xiong Xiu said this because Xiong Xiu figured out the habits of the celebrant Zhu Pi, and the implication was: "Elder Xie Ge, this matter should still be decided by you, my official position is humble, and I can't be such a big lord at all!" ”

Xie Qian said: "The Tiancheng guards are defeated, and such things must be sent to the saints, but the matter of using troops in the internal customs is ...... How can the old man make his own decisions? ”

Xie Qian called himself "old man" in front of Xiong Xiu, and he was also putting on a show, he was actually not as old as Xiong Xiu, the two of them were eight years apart, Xie Qian was very young among the top ministers in the court, although he was also in his fifties, but it was rare to do this position at this age, and the Ming Dynasty wanted to be the first assistant scholar, and he was embarrassed to speak if he didn't live seventy or eighty years old.

Xiong Xiu also doesn't want to be responsible, he is Ma Wensheng, Liu Daxia is a person, is Liu Daxia's successor to the military department, this Northwest War, Xiong Xiu originally had high hopes for Liu Daxia, once Liu Daxia returned to Beijing in triumph, even if he stayed in the capital as a soldier of the military department, the credit will not be small, and the possibility of successful succession is very high, after all, Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia are not young.

According to the usual practice, it is a high probability that Xiong Xiu will take over as the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials after succeeding as the secretary of the Ministry of War.

But it's a pity that Liu Daxia was defeated!

Originally, Liu Daxia had the opportunity to turn the tide of the war and recover the trilateral land, which can be said to be guilty of meritorious service, but now that the Xuanfu is lost, Liu Daxia has completely become the laughing stock of the government and the opposition.

Xie Qian wanted to say angrily, "This matter will be discussed tomorrow" and then pick a son and stop doing it, but he knew that others could not be responsible, he couldn't.

As a cabinet scholar, I shoulder the hope of the world, and every quarter of an hour wasted is a dereliction of duty!

Xie Qian secretly thought: "No, I can't be soft on this matter anyway, isn't it just a vote?" Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu have been lost, and the big deal is that the Beijing division has also been lost, and he has encountered a crisis in his year, and he is not afraid to come again! If Shen Xi'er encountered this stubble, what would he think and what kind of decision would he make? ”

Xie Qian didn't have much assertiveness originally, and it was even more difficult for him to make a decision at this time, with a heavy burden on his shoulders, he picked up the pen, like a thousand jun, and couldn't write a word on the paper.

Xiong Xiu kept watching from the side, which made Xie Qian feel even more upset.

"Let's let the old man think about it, before tonight, there must be a decision no matter what, do you wait for the Tatars to kill the capital, and then pay attention to it?"

Xie Qian said as if he was angry, but he understood that it was only a matter of one or two days for the Tatar soldiers to come to the capital.