Volume 8 Chapter 59 Huang Taiji's Serial Scheme
The terrible thing about Huang Taiji is not that he can fight, it can be seen from his historical record that he is really not good at fighting.
After Nurhachi's death, the first battle he fought was to attack the Guanningjin defense line, and as a result, he directly sent Yuan Chonghuan a Ningjin victory, and then he continued to sneak attack the Jinggi area of the Ming Dynasty.
The only big victory he won was the Battle of Songjin, which overturned the main force of the Ming army, in fact, it was not that he was able to fight, but that Hong Chengchou was too inexplicable, a coach didn't even know how to protect the grain road, and it was difficult for him to win when he met such a Ming army coach.
Therefore, when it comes to fighting, Huang Taiji does not have much brilliance, and his terrible thing lies in his intrigues.
He knows the struggle of the Ming Dynasty well, and he knows that the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty will not care about the interests of the country at all, but only care about fighting for power and profit, and his intrigues and tricks basically revolve around this, and they can be invincible every time.
This time, he wants to use Xue Guoguan, the remnant of the eunuch party, to clean up Zhang Bin and save the defeat in Liaodong, can he succeed?
He believed that he could succeed, so he did not hesitate to lead 100,000 Manmeng iron cavalry to Xuanfu Town, and at the same time, ordered 50,000 Mengyuan infantry to follow.
Mengyuan Chahar Department is actually in the north of Xuanfu Town, when Lin Dan Khan was attached to the Ming Dynasty, he even led the Chahar Department to enter Xuanfu Town, grazing horses near Zhangjiakou Horse Market, providing war horses for the Ming Dynasty, and then Lin Dan Khan was defeated by Huang Taiji, went away to Qinghai, and died in a foreign country, and the Ming Dynasty re-sent border soldiers to garrison in Xuanfu Town.
This Zhangjiakou horse market is opened by Zhang Zhen, the garrison of Xuanfu in the eighth year of Jiajing, so it is called Zhangjiakou, because of the existence of Zhangjiakou horse market, Huang Taiji is quite clear about the situation here, Lu Xiangsheng has stationed a total of 2,000 people here, and the Great Wall here is in disrepair, and it cannot be garrisoned at all, and the 2,000 men and horses can only be stationed in the Guancheng where the horse market is located, that is to say, if he does not attack Guancheng, he will directly lead the army to break into Xuanfu Town, and he will not have to care about the 2,000 men and horses in Guancheng.
However, he did not do this, and after he led his army to break through the pass, he directly stationed near the gate and made a posture of attacking the gate.
At this time, the Tianxiong army in Guancheng was really startled, tens of thousands of Jiannu cavalry suddenly entered the city, they didn't even have time to gather the surrounding people, they could only hurriedly send fast horses to Xuanfu City dozens of miles away to ask for help, and then close the gate of Guancheng and wait for help.
Lu Xiangsheng was also taken aback when he received the news, he really didn't expect that Jiannu would choose to enter Kou Xuanfu Town, because this Xuanfu Town is actually a long basin, surrounded by mountains, and there are only a few exits.
Because of the limited number of troops under him, he could only send 2,000 men and horses to garrison Zhangjiakou in the west and Dushikou in the north.
However, he did not panic, because this was not so much a crisis as an opportunity, an opportunity to wipe out the main cavalry of Jiannu.
He didn't have the strength to block the openings on all sides, but there were other garrisons attached to the capital, as long as he could hold on for a few days, the main cavalry of Jiannu would be besieged to death in Xuanfu Town.
It is naturally unrealistic to say that he can withstand the attack of 100,000 Jiannu cavalry with 10,000 troops, but with the excellent equipment in his hands, he can still do it if he has to withstand it for a few days and wait for other armies to come and encircle.
He analyzed the situation a little, and then wrote a note, which was quickly sent to the capital.
The meaning of his compromise was to suggest that Chongzhen mobilize a large army near the capital and surround the Jiannu cavalry to death in Xuanfu Town.
Roughly speaking, it is to mobilize 20,000 horses from Changping to hold the line of the Badaling Great Wall in the east of Xuanfu Town, mobilize the Qijia army of Datong Town to hold Baoanzhou in the south of Xuanfu Town, and mobilize 20,000 horses from Jizhou Town to hold the Dushikou in the north, and finally, let the 30,000 Sichuan Army white pole soldiers go around the back of the Jiannu cavalry and hold the line of the Great Wall outside Zhangjiakou, so that the Jiannu cavalry will not be able to get out, and whether it is transferred to the Liaodong Army or the Fuguang Army led by Zhang Bin, the Jiannu cavalry can be surrounded and annihilated in the hinterland of Xuanfu Town.
Lu Xiangsheng completely disregarded his own safety, only begging the imperial army to besiege the Jiannu cavalry to death in Xuanfu Town, but Huang Taiji did not have the intention of fighting hard with the Ming army at all, the reason why he stationed 100,000 cavalry near Zhangjiakou Pass, one is to wait for the Meng Yuan infantry to come to gather, and the other is to let Lu Xiangsheng inform Chongzhen that he led the army to attack Xuanfu Town!
What was Chongzhen's reaction after receiving the news?
Xuanfu Town is less than 400 miles away from the capital, so Chongzhen received Lu Xiangsheng's recital on the same day, and it is precisely because Xuanfu Town is less than 400 miles away from the capital, Chongzhen did not mobilize people and horses to surround Jiannu on all sides according to Lu Xiangsheng's intentions, what kind of joke, mobilize all the garrisons near the capital to surround the Jiannu cavalry, and ask Zhang Bin's Fuguang Army or Liaodong Army to come over yet, what if Jiannu breaks through the first line of the Badaling Great Wall, and then Jiannu will not be more like entering a no-man's land!
Chongzhen believes that the top priority is not to let the Jiannu cavalry break through the dragon, and Yuan Chonghuan plays like this.
As a result, Mao Wenlong was fooled and really replied to him, he revealed the news to Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chonghuan was also fooled, and went directly to slaughter Mao Wenlong, and then, he deliberately revealed Yuan Chonghuan's correspondence with him to the remnants of the eunuchs in the court, and as a result, Yuan Chonghuan was charged with fornicating with slaves and was directly chopped alive by Chongzhen!
Huang Taiji's intrigues and tricks are linked one link after another, step by step, step by step, more vicious step by step.
Will Zhang Bin be fooled?
Will Xue Guoguan take the opportunity to make a move?
What kind of reaction will Chongzhen make?