Chapter Twenty-Eight: Your Majesty, No
Facing seventy or eighty thousand Jurchen elite cavalry, Yuan Chonghuan, who knew that the field battle would definitely not be an opponent, led his 30,000 iron cavalry to flee frantically under the city wall, and Yuan Chonghuan's army was followed by a long pair of Jurchens. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After approaching the city wall, Yuan Chonghuan took his men and horses to run around the city wall of Beijing, and the Jurchens behind him slowly began to approach, constantly bending their bows and arrows, and the sky began to rain arrows sparsely.
The Ming army on the city wall under the order of Sun Chuanting, began to support from a distance, the first powerful red-clothed cannon "boom" "boom" a burst of cannon sound down, the cannonballs ploughed out a blood ditch in the cavalry team below, but the accuracy of the cannon in this period can only rely on luck, the Jurchens are a lot dead, but there are also unlucky Guanning cavalry who were killed by the cannon by mistake, the robe is not accurate, and the trebuchet is even more useless.
To deal with the sharpest artillery and trebuchets of the cavalry, because the accuracy of the shooting is really not guaranteed, I had to stop firing, the city wall of Beijing is dozens of miles long, and the horseback is enough to run for half a day, along the way Yuan Chonghuan's men and horses just run away, regardless of how the Jurchens in the rear provoke, they are not reasonable. In desperation, the Jurchens in the rear could only follow behind and chase after them with arrows, but after approaching the city wall, the Jurchens' good days came to an end.
Artillery trebuchets are not easy to use, there are more than these things on the city wall, the accuracy of the giant crossbow is still relatively guaranteed, every time a huge crossbow arrow is shot, there will be a few unlucky Jurchens who are crucified to the ground with men and horses. On the city wall, strong bows and crossbows were fired in unison, and for a time the Jurchen casualties increased greatly.
"Mingjin withdraw his troops, let Amin withdraw his troops and come back," Huang Taiji shook his head and said to Mang Gurtai on the side.
"Great Khan, do you want to let Yuan Chonghuan go like this" Mang Gurtai did not go directly to order, but looked at Huang Taiji with an unwilling face.
"What should I do if I don't collect my troops, Yuan Chonghuan's old slippery head, he has been running and not engaging in battle, what can you do with him, can you keep chasing him against the attack of the Ming army on the city wall, running around Beijing City like this, how much is left of Ben Khan's 100,000 army?" How could Huang Taiji not want to directly disperse the cavalry in front of him, but Yuan Chonghuan, that old fritter, it was impossible to give himself this opportunity, as long as he chased after him, Yuan Chonghuan would definitely lead people to run around the imperial city.
A sound of gold came out, and when he heard the signal to withdraw his troops, Amin was so angry that he threw his horsewhip, "Go, go back" Slowly the Jurchens began to turn around and move away from the city wall.
"Great Khan, why did Mingjin withdraw his troops" In the camp, Amin complained to Huang Taiji angrily, he thought that if it wasn't for Huang Taiji's Mingjin to withdraw his troops, he would definitely be able to kill Yuan Chonghuan.
"Why did you ask the same stupid question as Mang Gurtai, he Yuan Chonghuan kept running like this, what can you do with him" Looking at his group of subordinates, Huang Taiji had a headache, they were all useless people, either reckless men like Amin and Mang Gurtai, or overly cautious cowards like Dai Shan, there was no one who could stand alone.
"Do you want to let that Yuan Manzi go like this" Although he understood what Huang Taiji meant, Amin was not very convinced.
"Who told you that you have to kill people in person, you must know that the Ming people are the best at infighting, otherwise there will be the rise of our Jurchens" As the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the chaotic Ming officials and the Jin merchants who supplied themselves met in the past few years, Huang Taiji knew very well that the current Ming Dynasty was rotten to what extent, for their own interests, what else could not be done by that group of Ming officials.
"Let's see what these are" After speaking, Huang Taiji took out a delicate small box in his sweat tent, and took out the latest correspondence between himself and Yuan Chonghuan, as long as he found a way to send this thing into the capital, with Yuan Chonghuan's arrogant personality of that barbarian, how could those officials in the Ming Dynasty tolerate him.
Yuan Chonghuan, on his side, after the Jurchens collected their troops, led people to a city gate to call the door, wanting to enter the city to rest.
"Lord Yuan, there is a holy decree to lead the troops back to Beijing" The city wall guards dare not open the door without permission and let Yuan Chonghuan put in the soldiers and horses into the city, this is going to lose his head.
"The battle situation is urgent, there is no holy decree" Yuan Chonghuan asked people to ride forward and shouted to the guards above in reply.
"Then please Lord Yuan wait for a while under the city, Ben will go to see the emperor immediately, before the emperor's holy decree is issued, he will be wronged by Lord Yuan" What if you Yuan Chonghuan is the supervisor, Ben will not be under your control, there is no emperor's will. If you want to bring troops into the city without permission, don't even think about it.
In the camp of the Jurchens, a war horse carrying the letters of Huang Taiji and Yuan Chonghuan slowly ran all the way to the city of Beijing.
"Wang Wu, look, there's a horse running over under the city" The soldier named Wang Wu turned his head to look, and sure enough, it was a war horse, and the war horse seemed to be carrying something on its back.
"Look, is there something on the back of the war horse" The nearby guards gathered together to chatter and discuss, and soon a guard who was patrolling the city nearby noticed the abnormality of the soldiers here and rushed over, "What's the matter with the noisy gatherings?"
"Back to the lord, the little one found that there was a war horse carrying something under the city gate under the city" Hearing what the soldiers said, the general guarding the city stretched out his head to take a look, and there was indeed something on the horse's back.
"Go and prepare a hanging basket, you, go down and bring up the things on the horse's back" The general pointed to the warrior named Wang and ordered him to go down to see what was going on. As the hanging basket fell and rose, a pile of letters in the box soon reached the general who patrolled the city, but after seeing the content of the letters, the guard's face changed in fright, "You stay here, I will go to see the emperor." Before he finished speaking, he hurried in the direction of the enemy platform.
Chongzhen met with the guard who called Yuan Chonghuan, and after discussing with Sun Chuanting and Wang Chengen, Chongzhen decided to let Yuan Chonghuan go to the capital, of course, this must be after he returned to the imperial city, he could only let Yuan Chonghuan in, and the garrison of the Guanning army can only be in the outer city, and now the form of the outer city is becoming more and more complicated, and Chongzhen does not want to continue to stay here to cause chaos for Sun Chuanting.
As soon as the general who got the letter arrived outside the enemy's gate, he heard Chongzhen's will to agree to Yuan Chonghuan's entry into the city, and his face turned white with fright, and he immediately shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, don't."