But Tang Tong, the chief soldier, lost so many cities in a row, so that Jiannu effortlessly marched to the outside of the Beijing Division, he was not in the Beijing Division, it is easy to say, the court does not dare to take him to the knife, but once he escapes into the Beijing Division, then who knows if the emperor will be polite to him, this emperor Zhu Youzhen is a merciless person, since he succeeded to the throne, over the years to kill several governors, a large group of governors, he has not many soldiers and horses, if the emperor wants to kill him, it is not like killing chickens?

Therefore, after Tang Tong arrived in Tongzhou, he didn't dare to run anymore, so he could only bite the bullet and lead the defeated generals of more than 3,000 remnants collected under his command, join forces with the defenders of Tongzhou, and began to prepare in a hurry to defend Tongzhou.

Tongzhou is the east gate of the Beijing Division, only a few dozen miles away from the Beijing Division, and the most critical here is the terminal of the Grand Canal, the goods transported into Beijing from the south have always been unloaded in Tongzhou, and then transferred to the Beijing Division by land, so the military status of Tongzhou is also extremely high, once Tongzhou is lost, the Beijing Division will basically no longer have a little shield, so although the imperial court has reached this time, but still try its best to stay in Tongzhou with six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, handed over to the current military department Zhang Erzhong to sit in Tongzhou, ordered him to defend Tongzhou to the death.

Zhang Erzhong, a person from Weixian County, Shandong, this person can be described as a late bloomer, thirty years old, but until he was fifty years old before he was admitted to the Jinshi, when he was admitted to the Jinshi as an official, it was already four years after Chongzhen, but although this Zhang Erzhong was old, but he did things quite successfully, when Chongzhen was 12 years old, there was a break in the canal, and the court panicked, so he sent Zhang Erzhong to govern the canal, Zhang Erzhong regardless of his age, inspected and dispatched back and forth on the canal, quickly restored the canal's shipping, and dredged the silted canal, completed the task assigned to him by Chongzhen very well, so he was promoted afterwards and entered the military department.

Originally, according to the original historical trajectory, Zhang Erzhong should have been transferred to Shaanxi by the imperial court to serve as the governor of Shaanxi this year, and cooperated with Sun Chuanting to arrest and kill He Renlong, but now history has been usurped by Xiao Tianjian, and the fate of countless people in China has changed, Shaanxi is basically not controlled by the imperial court, and the Dazhong Army and Jiannu are both soldiers in Beijing, so Chongzhen did not send Zhang Erzhong to Shaanxi as a governor, but saw that Zhang Erzhong was more capable, so he made him sit in Tongzhou as the right attendant of his military department.

This Zhang Erzhong is now more than 60 years old, his beard is white, but he is still ordered to go out of Beijing to Tongzhou to take up his post, after he arrived in Tongzhou, he immediately began to reorganize the soldiers and horses, out of the original Tongzhou all the 3,000 officers and soldiers, he also recruited 3,000 or 4,000 civilian troops on the spot, so that the garrison of Tongzhou reached six or seven thousand people, greatly enhancing the defense force of Tongzhou.

After Tang Tong had no way out and led the remnants all the way to Tongzhou, Zhang Erzhong saw that Tang Tong was still a chief military officer, and there were no available generals under his command, so he immediately asked the court to leave Tang Tong under his command to obey orders, Chongzhen learned that Tang Tong had lost Miyun, Huairou, and Shunyi again and again, and he was really angry and couldn't stand it, and he had the heart to order Zhang Erzhong to arrest Tang Tong, but after seeing Zhang Erzhong's invitation, he hesitated again and again, and still didn't dare to do so, Tang Tong still controlled more than 3,000 officers and troops in his hands. At this time, the Jiannu army had already arrived in Shunyi, and was about to attack Tongzhou, and the generals were not in a good mood for the army, and he was also afraid of forcing Tang Tong, so that Tang Tong would go out of Tongzhou and surrender to Jiannu, in that case, Tongzhou would be finished!

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and even if he approved Zhang Erzhong's request, he ordered Tang Tong to make meritorious service and listen to the order under Zhang Erzhong's account in Tongzhou.

In just a few days, Abatai and Haoge almost swept the north of the Jingshi in Kemiyun, Huairou, Shunyi and other places, and they burned and looted everywhere they passed, and coerced many people from Jinggi to join the army and serve as followers for them, and their power grew a lot.

On the 16th of May, Abatai and Hauge led their troops to the city of Tongzhou, and surrounded the city with heavy troops.

The reason why Abatai and Haoge did not immediately arrive at the city of Shuntianfu is because they entered the customs this time, and the troops were not much, only more than 30,000 horses, in fact, they were used as a strange soldier of Huang Taiji, with their troops, the current siege of the Ming Jingshi is not enough, and their main purpose at the moment is to contain the Ming army and the Dazhong army, so they also know that it is not easy to fight the capital, so they simply entered the customs from the Huangyakou, and rushed to Tongzhou along Miyun County, because Tongzhou is the terminal of the canal, and it is very rich here. The local oil and water are large, the population is dense, they can get a lot of grain straw under Tongzhou, even if there is a shortage of grain in Gyeonggi, but the rich people in Tongzhou still have a large amount of grain reserves in their private hands, and they can get sufficient food and salary in Tongzhou, laying the foundation for the next step and the Dazhong Army and the Ming Army for a long time, as long as they take Tongzhou, they can not only attack the rear of Shanhaiguan to the east, attack Shanhaiguan inside and outside, and let a large number of Jiannu troops enter the customs, or they can directly pounce on the Beijing Division, threatening the safety of the Beijing Division.

Abatai and Hauge did this, and it can be seen that the two are not stupid, they are still quite strategic, so after they broke through the barrier, they did not stop for a moment, and in a few days, they led their troops to kill the city of Tongzhou.

At this point, whoever comes to Tongzhou first is Zhang Erzhong's enemy, Zhang Erzhong was preparing for war here, thinking that the first to kill Tongzhou was likely to be the Dazhong army, but he didn't think that he prepared a table of dishes, and the first one to come to the banquet was the Jiannu army.

So Zhang Erzhong had to compete with Jiannu first, although Zhang Erzhong did not go to Tongzhou for a long time, but he did a good job, and soon gathered the military heart of Tongzhou, and found a way to raise some food, and gave relief to the hungry people in the city, so he won the hearts of the people in Tongzhou, when Abatai led the troops to arrive outside the city of Tongzhou, Zhang Erzhong also ordered the people within a radius of twenty miles outside the city into the city, one is to protect the people in name, and the other is to enhance the defense force of Tongzhou in essence, At the same time, some gentry from the periphery of Tongzhou were also moved into Tongzhou City, so that these gentry also rushed a batch of grain hidden in their homes into the city, so as to meet the needs of the soldiers and civilians in the city in a short time.

Zhang Erzhong's measures have played a good role in blocking the Jiannu army, and the entire Tongzhou army has increased to more than 10,000 people, Zhang Erzhong personally met with Tang Tong and told Tang Tong that the saint did not blame him for losing Miyun, Huairou, Shunyi and other places, hoping that he could make meritorious contributions in Tongzhou and help him defend Tongzhou City, Tang Tong also felt ashamed, and immediately patted his chest and promised that he would be loyal to the imperial court and cooperate with Zhang Erzhong to defend Tongzhou City, even if he died in Tongzhou, he would never run away again.

So they cooperated, Tang Tong was responsible for guarding the north gate and west gate of Tongzhou, while Zhang Erzhong sat in the city to dispatch, and the rest of the army lieutenant generals guarded the east gate and north gate and water gate to prevent the Jiannu army from attacking the city.

After Abatai led the troops to Tongzhou, he first ordered the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender, Zhang Erzhong first pretended to say that he could discuss, and asked Abatai to send people into the city to discuss the surrender, Abatai and Haoge believed that they were really happy, so they sent a traitor to sit in a hanging basket and entered Tongzhou City, as a result, Zhang Erzhong took the Jiannu envoy into the city, when even at the head of the city turned his face, the envoy who entered the city to persuade the surrender of the Jiannu cut off his ears, and directly let people throw it down from the north gate tower, and fell to death under the city gate. Seeing that the persuasion failed, the defender also killed the people he sent to persuade him to surrender, so he no longer had any illusions, and together with Haoge, he began to order the storming of Tongzhou City, and vowed that once Tongzhou City was captured, he would slaughter all the soldiers and civilians in the city.

So Zhang Erzhong also achieved his goal, so that the army and the people in the city were more united, from a defensive battle to a battle to save their lives, although the Ming army in the city was very poor, but they also knew that Jiannu was not a thing, and they must be angry that Zhang Erzhong killed their envoys, after entering the city, it will definitely wash Tongzhou City in blood, and no one will be able to save their lives at that time, so they will fight with the enemy and Jiannu.

This battle in Tongzhou was very fierce, the fierceness of the Jiannu army's attack, the fierce resistance of the Tongzhou defenders, the siege of the Jiannu army like a tide, the city was full of arrows and stones, and constantly blocked the Jiannu army to attack the city, and the two armies launched a desperate struggle in Tongzhou City.

Zhang Erzhong was more than sixty years old, tirelessly patrolling around the city, constantly cheering up the defenders, encouraging the soldiers and civilians to fight to the death, and his two sons were also included in the army, and followed the soldiers and civilians to the city to defend to the death, seeing Zhang Erzhong so loyal, the soldiers and civilians in the city were also very admired, so they risked their lives to go to the city to defend the city, and as a result, Abatai and Haoge attacked for two days in a row, but they did not survive, and also lost a number of soldiers. will slaughter the soldiers and civilians in Tongzhou City.

Originally, Wang Chengping was ordered to lead his troops to the Miyun area, wanting to stop Jiannu Jiannu before Jiannu broke through the pass, and the worst thing was to stop Jiannu in Miyun after entering the customs, and blocking Jiannu in Miyun, but when he arrived in Jizhou, he suddenly learned that Jiannu had entered from the Huangyakou Pass, and then captured Miyun County, so Wang Chengping did not dare to slack off, and immediately led troops to Huairou, wanting to rush to Huairou and drag Jiannu's right-wing army in Huairou, but when he had not yet arrived in Huairou, he learned on the road, The right wing army of Jiannu has already attacked Huairou, and even Shunyi has been taken, Wang Chengping couldn't help but scold the Ming army in these places for being really fucking stupid, and he didn't even leave him a little time, even if the defenders in these places held back Jiannu for a day or two, he could lead the troops to arrive and drag the Jiannu army, but he didn't think that there was no resistance at all in these places, so he let Jiannu capture their city.

Wang Chengping analyzed the next move of the Jiannu army, and thought that the next step of the Jiannu army was likely to attack Tongzhou, or directly to the city of Beijing, and for the time being, he might not directly pounce on Shanhaiguan, so he turned around and led the troops straight to Tongzhou.

(I'm going to tell you two pieces of news today, the good news is that you don't have to worry, this book will be a eunuch, because by this time, the book has basically entered the closing stage, and the next step is to consider the ending!) The bad news is that the editor has already asked me to write a manuscript for this book, and I haven't prepared it yet, so from this month onwards, Hanfeng will be concentrating on the next book! Although the update will not be interrupted, it will be changed to one chapter per day in the future! I'm sorry for everyone! But please understand, after all, it is not easy to write a history book, and the materials for conceiving a book and preparing in advance are massive, otherwise it will be rubbish to rush into the launch! It takes a lot of time to prepare these things every day, so you can't use them for two things, so you have to reduce the number of updates! Thank you for your understanding!

In addition, today, I would like to thank Xinli, Fengmu Chunjiang, and Donggong for their rewards! It's your constant support that has brought me to this point! I hope that after the next book begins, you will continue to support you! The cold wind knelt down and thanked you! ）