Hong Chengchou repeatedly sent people to the Beijing division to ask for pay and food, but at this time, the household warehouse of the Beijing division was already empty for running mice, not to mention so much military salary and food, even those officials in the court and the government could no longer distribute it, and Emperor Chongzhen's internal funds, at this time, had been completely tossed, and even 50,000 taels of silver could not be taken out by this time.

For the changes in Jiannu, the Ming court also learned the news, so the government and the opposition were even more miserable, Chongzhen scolded Jiannu for his treachery in the palace, but he was already embattled at this time, and he couldn't take enough troops to confront Jiannu in the Guanning area, and at this time, he also began to suspect that the purpose of the original Huang Taiji and him to sign a peace treaty was to use him to confront the Xingtian Army and transfer the officers and troops guarding the Guanning Jin defense line into the Guannei, which greatly weakened the strength of the officials and troops in the Guanning area. In order to facilitate the Jiannu army to break through the pass in the future.

So Chongzhen has some regrets, but more is afraid, the Ming River is declining, and now the Xingtian Army is unstoppable, if Jiannu suddenly turns his face and enters the army at this time, then Daming may be completely subverted at any time, although Chongzhen already knows in his heart that Daming is irretrievable, but until this moment, he still refuses to really admit his failure, and he still has the last illusion of reviving Daming in his heart.

After Chongzhen learned of the change in the Jiannu army in the middle of the thirteenth year, he scolded loudly, and hurriedly sent his subordinates to Jiannu, on the grounds that the two countries had reached a peace agreement, persuaded and urged Huang Taiji to give up attacking Ming, and later because Xiao Tianjian led the troops south, Huang Taiji felt that the time was not yet ripe, and finally Chongzhen did not happen in the thirteenth year, and Chongzhen and the ministers were somewhat relieved.

But then came the cut off of luck, so that the Ming court's finances completely collapsed, the military salary and the courtiers' salaries could not be distributed, and the food was getting less and less, and at the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the situation in the entire north was completely mired in erosion, and Chongzhen could no longer return to the sky, so he could only sit and wait for the day when the Xingtian army or the Jiannu army came to the city.

At the time of the New Year, the officials and soldiers in various parts of the north began to make trouble, and many soldiers were clamoring that if the imperial court did not give them food and salaries, they would rebel.

But this time the persuasion, in the end it ended in failure, the vast majority of the ministers and nobles of the Ming Dynasty still chose to ignore it, Tie Xin thought that the affairs of the court were public affairs, and there was no reason for the courtiers to take out money to support the country, and there were not many people who pledged to donate at all, but some of the noble ministers were really in the way of face, so they took out a little silver to send Chongzhen, so that a New Year's toss, Chongzhen only raised less than 200,000 taels of silver in the capital, It can be said that this bit of silver is not enough to even plug the gaps between the teeth, and it is not enough to meet the current financial deficit of the imperial court.

Soon after the New Year, news came from Nanbian in February, saying that Xiao Tianjian officially announced the establishment of the country and the enthronement in Nanjing City on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and the founding name of the country was Dazhong, and the year name was changed to Tianyuan, and Xiao Tianjian also ascended the throne and became the founding emperor of Great China, and announced to the world that they Xiao Tianjian was in accordance with the will of heaven, and that they would be the orthodox rulers of the world in the future.

Although the Ming court has long heard about this, but when Xiao Tianjian really ascended the throne and became the emperor, it still caused an uproar in the government and the opposition, Chongzhen immediately issued a decree to the world, saying that Xiao Tianjian was a traitor to the Ming Dynasty, and his ascension to the throne and the emperor was unjustifiable, and the edict ordered the people of the world to discuss it, which was tantamount to not recognizing the legitimacy of Great China.

Even after hearing about it, Huang Taiji outside the gate immediately issued an edict, saying that Xiao Tianjian was a rebel and a thief, not an orthodox emperor, saying that he did not recognize the status of Great China, and at the same time hypocritically said that they regarded the Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, and said that if the Ming Dynasty agreed, they would send troops to help the Ming Dynasty destroy this criminal traitor.

Huang Taiji's announcement soon spread to the Ming Dynasty, and many people immediately heard some of the unusual meanings, Huang Taiji claimed to help the Ming Dynasty to punish the traitors, and it was simply a weasel to the chicken New Year's greetings, not good! He Jiannu claimed that Xiao Tianjian was a traitor, but weren't they also descendants of the traitor's wild boar skin? Could it be that they are legitimate? At this time, he was clamoring to send troops to help Daming exterminate the Xingtian thief, making it clear that he wanted to take advantage of Daming's weakness to send troops to the south, take the first step to control the northern Jingshi area, and then divide the Daming and Xia with Xiao Xingtian to form a north and south into one.

Hong Chengchou immediately saw Huang Taiji's sinister intentions from Huang Taiji's announcement, and hurriedly dispatched troops in the Guanning area again, preparing to deal with the entry of the Jiannu army, but at this point, it was no longer than in the middle of last year, the Guanning army did not receive food and salary for several months, and at this time the soldiers had no way to support their families, and many people had become deserters. Yang Guozhu originally had more than 20,000 officers and soldiers under his command, and half of them escaped in the past few months, and these officers and soldiers were close to the water tower, and they could run to the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army by raising their legs, although Yang Guozhu tried his best to restrain the generals under his command, but he could not curb the momentum of this desertion, and at the beginning of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Guanning area under Hong Chengchou's adjustable official army had only about 50,000 people left, so many officers and troops, the Ming army's combat power was not as good as the Jiannu army, and now there is still a shortage of food and salary, and they want to resist the Jiannu army into the Kou, It can be said that it is simply impossible.

Hong Chengchou also thought of a lot of ways to raise food and wages in the Guanning area, but the results were also very small, and the limited food and salary raised was still not enough to cope with the huge deficit, so that the morale of the army was even more confused.

In February of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, a large number of troops began to gather again, and they went to the Jinzhou area, Dolgon, Duoduo, Daishan, Jierharang, Azig, Dudu and other Qing important ministers and generals began to gather in the Jinzhou area, and even Huang Taiji this time also drove the expedition in person, leading the soldiers and horses of the Zhenghuang, the yellow flag and the blue flag under the command of his son Haoge to the Jinzhou area, In addition, it also includes the Mongolian Eight Banners and the newly formed Han Eight Banners, a total of 180,000 troops, which can be said to be exhausted by the Eight Banners, ready to knock on the pass and enter the south again.

(This chapter is too few words, sorry, if you don't write more than 4,000 words in the next chapter, you can scold me!) ）