In mid-April, the Middle Route Army under the leadership of Diao Zheng has attacked Baoding Mansion, Fu Zonglong led the only more than 10,000 officers and troops under his command, trying to block the Middle Route Army in Baoding Mansion to continue to invade the north, but at this time, the officers and soldiers will have no fighting spirit, and they don't want to sell their lives to the Ming Dynasty anymore, so the war together, the officers and troops have surrendered, so that the officers and troops under Fu Zonglong fell into a complete collapse within a few days.

Although Fu Zonglong tried his best to recover, and even poured all his wealth to win people's hearts, so that the generals were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but this loyalty was to die, he Fu Zonglong wanted to die generously, but it did not mean that everyone was willing to follow him to the Ming court to be martyred, so his efforts had little effect, April 14, Diao Zheng and Li Xin Inspector attacked the city, Baoding Mansion under the insistence of Fu Zonglong, and only held on for two days, and then under the rebellion of the rebels, the city was broken.

Fu Zonglong led a very small number of loyal and brave generals, in the city with the general of the Dazhong army who attacked the city to the death in the street battle, on the night of the 15th, in an alley in the city, was blocked by the Dazhong army, with a flintlock gun shot to death in the alley.

Fu Zonglong also had a reputation as a loyal minister, and after his death, Xiao Tianjian gave his family that his body could be moved back to his hometown of Kunming, Yunnan Province for burial, and he was given the nickname Zhongzhi to show respect for him.

With the fall of Baoding Mansion, there was no longer a fortress to defend in the south of Jingshi, and Zhou Yuji abandoned Juyong Pass, and Jingshi has almost become a lonely city.

But at the same time, because the Right Route Army was in Huai'an Mansion along the Grand Canal upstream, the farthest away from the Beijing Division, Xiao Tianjian led the troops not yet to attack the Beijing Division, at this time had just taken Liaocheng, is approaching Linqing, and it will take some time to reach the Beijing Division.

But at this time, there was an unexpected thing for the Ming court, after the left army of the Dazhong Army stepped into Juyong Pass, it did not directly send troops to the city of Beijing, but from the direction of Miyun, after successively collecting and surrendering a group of garrisons guarding Miyun, Huairou, Pinggu and other places, bypassing the Beijing division, arrived directly under the city of Jizhou, and pointed to the area of Shanhaiguan and Xifengkou.

This situation made Zhu Youzhen a little puzzled, based on his judgment after he learned that Zhou Yuji had given Juyong Pass to the Xingtian thief, he originally thought that the Xingtian thief would definitely sweep Miyun and other places on the periphery of the Jingshi first, and then the troops would arrive at the city of the Jingshi, but he didn't think that the thief army swept the outlying places in the north of the Jingshi (on the whole, it should be persuaded to surrender), but it was not as he expected, the soldiers went to the city of the Jingshi, but went around the city and headed towards Shanhaiguan.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen received a copy of Zhou Yuji's note from the Ministry of War, Zhou Yuji obviously asked someone to write for him, and stated to Zhu Youzhen why he abandoned Juyong Pass, and told Zhu Youzhen that he did not surrender to the Xingtian thief, but at this time, under the guarantee of the traitor Lu Xiangsheng, he led the troops to "monitor" the area around the Shanhaiguan where the left army of the Xingtian thief was sent to Shanhaiguan, and first deployed there first, preparing to resist the entry of the Jiannu army outside Shanhaiguan, for his decision, Zhou Yuji stated his guilt to Zhu Youzhen, But please believe that he is also for the Ming court, and in the end he will choose to fight to the death with the Jiannu army, even if he survives, he will return to the Beijing division and help the imperial court guard the Beijing division, until he dies for Zhu Youzhen!

After Zhu Youjian listened, he smiled bitterly and threw this Zhou Yuji's recital off the dragon case, Yang Tianchang laughed for a while, coughed violently, spit out a mouthful of blood, and fainted on the dragon chair again.

After the middle route army successfully captured Baoding Mansion, at this time only Zhuozhou was left to block the Dazhong army from continuing to attack the capital, and the Ming court at this time, or sent a section of the Beijing camp to Zhuozhou, to do the final deployment, if Zhuozhou was taken again, then the entire Beijing division would be like a stripped woman, exposed to the front of the Dazhong army.

But this kind of deployment, everyone actually understands in their hearts, but it is better than nothing, the officers and troops of the Ming Dynasty at this time, it can be said that they have completely lost the ability to resist the Dazhong Army, the military spirit has been completely dispersed at this time, only the remaining officers and soldiers are just waiting for the arrival of the Dazhong Army, and even surrendered to the Dazhong Army after waiting for the arrival of the Dazhong Army, these Daming troops, what maintained their operation before was only the supply of food, and now the Ming Dynasty has no food to maintain their army. Verbal loyalty alone will not sustain the loyalty of these armies.

Therefore, don't look at the Beijing camp around the Beijing Division, which is regarded as the Praetorian Guard by the Ming Dynasty, seems to be very strong, in fact, after so many years of the Ming Dynasty, military affairs have long been abolished, and the combat effectiveness has long been in the forefront among the Ming armies, not to mention that the Guanning Army is not comparable to them, even if it is a lot of local armies, they can't compare, many times they are just numerical existence, in essence, they are not able to use at all, only a small part of the officers and troops of the Beijing camp, there is still a certain combat effectiveness, but since the Chongzhen years, In order to exterminate the local mutant army, the imperial court repeatedly transferred available soldiers and horses from the Beijing camp and sent them to various places to accompany those governors to suppress bandits, and the remaining Beijing camp became an empty shelf, and it was even more ineffective.

A Beijing camp outlier like Zhou Yuji, at this time, is definitely a rare person in Beijing, and it is impossible to say that Beijing is very strong.

However, when the Beijing battalion of the Beijing Division was busy mobilizing and deploying defenses in Zhuozhou, the Middle Route Army also suspended its continued advance in the direction of the Beijing Division after defeating Baoding Mansion, but turned around and went east, and suddenly attacked Zhaozhou, Shenzhou, Jizhou and other prefectures in the east of Baoding Prefecture.

And in these state cities, although there are also some officers and troops stationed, but these officers and troops are local troops, not to mention the limited number, the quality of equipment is extremely poor, like Zhaozhou, a Zhili state, there are only about 500 defenders in the city, the local government wants to rely on such a little official army, and the middle route army of the big middle army is against the big army, it is simply to hit the stone with eggs, so the attack of the middle route army of the big middle army to the east, as a whole can be said to be an armed parade, there is no decent resistance at all, just a few days, Diao Zheng and Li Xin led their troops to sweep through the prefectures and counties within the jurisdiction of Baoding Prefecture, and the troops pointed directly at Hejian Prefecture.

Fang Wenyao, the prefect of Hejian Prefecture, and Li Jiantai, the guard general, originally gathered 20,000 officers and troops and more than 20,000 people around Hejian Mansion to help the people fight, and they wanted to block the attack of the Right Route Army of the Great Middle Army on the Beijing Division, but they did not succeed but were suddenly attacked by the middle route army of the Great Central Army, so the two hurriedly gathered troops to respond to the battle, and launched a big battle with the Middle Route Army in Hejian Mansion.

On the bright side, the battle of Hejian Mansion, the strength of the official army occupies a great advantage, which is also one of the largest official troops gathered in the area of Jingfu since the Northern Expedition, but this so-called advantage is only an advantage on paper, between the eleventh and twelfth years of Chongzhen in Hejian Mansion, it has suffered a sack by the Jiannu army, and the officers and troops of these Hejian Mansions are basically recruited after thirteen years, and the poor quality of equipment has almost caught up with the exile army in the early years. Whether it is equipment or training, it is very poor, although Li Jiantai, the chief soldier of Hejian Prefecture, controls so many men and horses, but he is unable to compete with the large Chinese army armed to the teeth.

On 19 April, the two sides came into contact in the area of Xiaobai River in the west of Hejian Province, and Diao Zheng led his troops to attack the city of Hejian Province with only one impact, and the more than 10,000 officers and troops deployed in the area of Xiaobai River immediately collapsed.

Li Jiantai had to defend the city and try to make the last stubborn resistance, but unfortunately their stubborn resistance only lasted for two days, and the right route army of the Great Central Army under the direct command of Xiao Tianjian was led by Luo Li, and also rushed to the city of Hejian Mansion, and Diao Zheng and Li Xin's commander of the Central Route Army were in one place, and then launched the final blow to Hejian Mansion.

Li Jiantai commanded the troops to defend the south gate of Hejian Province, and on the morning of the 21st, he was killed by artillery, and then the defenders of Hejian Province collapsed on their own, and a large number of defenders were leaderless, and they all opened the city to flee or surrendered to the Great Chinese Army.

Fang Wenyao, the prefect of Hejian, was immediately captured by the rebels and handed over to the Dazhong Army, Fang Wenyao took advantage of the unpreparedness, broke free control, and tried to seize the knife to attack and kill Li Xin, who interrogated him, but was killed on the spot by the gendarmes around Li Xin, and since then Hejian Mansion has also been completely controlled by the Dazhong Army.

When Xiao Tianjian attacked Linqing, he had already learned the dynamics of the Middle Route Army and the Left Route Army, and knew that the Right Route Army led by him must speed up the process, otherwise, the three-way army is likely to lose mutual cooperation, and there was also news outside the gate at this time, Ningyuan City was under the siege of the Jiannu army, and was finally conquered by the Jiannu army, and the nearly 20,000 officers and troops stationed in Ningyuan were all wiped out, and the chief soldier Cao Bianjiao was killed in battle, and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, was before the city was broken. Escorted by the governor of Liaodong Zu Dashou from the east gate of Ningyuan City, fled to the sea, Zu Dashou chased the Jiannu army to the sea by the sea, covering Hong Chengchou to escape to the sea in a small boat, but Zu Dashou was finally captured, and the defense system outside the entire pass of the Ming Dynasty was declared to have collapsed.

As for Ning Yuan was broken, after Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, fled to the sea, he completely lost his news, no one knows Hong Chengchou's whereabouts, it is possible that he fled to Dengzhou and entered Shandong incognito and never asked about the world again, or it may be that his ship encountered a storm at sea and was buried at the bottom of the sea, in short, more than ten years later, there are many versions of legends about Hong Chengchou's whereabouts, in addition to the first two statements, some people say that Hong Chengchou fled to North Korea by boat and was secretly hidden by a North Korean official, Since then, it has fallen in North Korea, and there are rumors that Hong Chengchou simply crossed the ocean and arrived in the Japanese country, in short, there is any statement, but there is no way to verify, but there is a relatively credible statement in later generations, saying that Hong Chengchou actually fled back to the domestic Hejian Mansion to land, but after landing, he learned that Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou had fallen and was controlled by the Dazhong Army, so Hong Chengchou has been incognito since then, mixed into the refugees, and gradually fled to the south, and has since settled in a small mountain village in Fujian. A hundred years later, someone in Fujian took out his family tree, claiming to be a descendant of Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou told his descendants before his death that he could only do business but remember to never be an official, which is still more credible, but in addition to this family tree, there is no other corroboration to prove that Hong Chengchou did survive.

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