The Chinese New Year's Eve is the traditional New Year's Festival, but in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the entire imperial city is deserted, and there is no New Year's atmosphere at all.

At midnight, Chongzhen got up from the desk in a daze as if he had set an alarm clock, tightened the cloak on his body, and turned out the folds of the household and the northwest provinces and looked carefully at the map, then sighed, stood up, and walked out.

Chongzhen's diligence is true, as long as there is a war, it is possible for him to stay awake for several days or even dozens of days, at this time the war in the northwest is at a critical moment, he even has no thoughts for the New Year, and he stays in the imperial study for a day, reviews and folds, analyzes the war situation, urges all localities to raise grain and grass, arranges grain and grass transshipment, and never slacks off for a moment.

He gathered the cloak on his body, walked out of the imperial study, looked at the snow in the sky, and muttered, "Is there any new news from the northwest?" ”

Cao Huachun at the door saw his emaciated figure, and couldn't help but feel sad, the emperor hasn't touched the bed for more than half a month, it's really bitter, the problem Zhang Bin can't wipe out the anti-thieves with a wave of his hand, that's more than 500,000 anti-thieves!

He also knew that the war in the northwest had entered a critical moment in the past few days, but there was indeed no news in the past two days, so he could only say helplessly: "Back to the emperor, there is no news in the northwest, and this war will not end in a day or two, or you go to rest first, as soon as there is news, Weichen will send it to you." ”

Chongzhen shook his head, sighed, looked at the snowflakes in the sky, and fell into deep thought.

How did he sleep, Zhang Bin mobilized the Qi Army, the Tianxiong Army, the Qin Army, the Sichuan Army, the Shanxi Army, and the Henan Army to launch the largest encirclement and suppression of the thieves, if he was defeated, he couldn't imagine what Daming would become, this is more than half of the elite of Daming, all smashed in!

Zhang Bin is still quite satisfied with what he does, including Sun Chuanting, as long as the army has action, he will definitely notify him as soon as possible, he knows that at this time, Sun Chuanting has gone to Meridian Valley to ambush the more than 100,000 main forces led by the thief chief Gao Yingxiang, and Zhang Bin's side, due to the long distance, he only knows that Zhang Bin has taken Yunyang, Baihe and Xunyang, at this time, Zhang Bin is estimated to be fighting fiercely with Zhang Xianzhong, another thief chieftain in Xing'an Prefecture.

The situation on the battlefield is indeed good at this time, but he still can't rest assured, as long as there is a problem with the two armies, it will be a disaster!

Sometimes, things in this world are so coincidental, just when Chongzhen was worried about the war in the northwest and fell into contemplation, Wang Chengen suddenly held a piece of music and quickly ran in from outside, he originally wanted to ask Cao Huachun, is the emperor still lying on the table and pretending to sleep, but he never thought about it, when he looked up, he just saw Chongzhen standing at the door of the imperial study.

He immediately raised the fold and ran, shouting excitedly: "Your Majesty, good news, good news, good news in the northwest, Zhang Bin, the governor of the five provinces, has played, the imperial army has defeated the anti-thief Zhang Xianzhong's department and taken Xing'an Prefecture!" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his face was full of gloom, and he even ran into the wind and snow excitedly, ran to Wang Chengen, snatched the fold in Wang Chengen's hand, and stood in the wind and snow, unfolding the fold and looking fast.

Zhang Bin's recital is still so brief, and there is only one sentence throughout:

Weichen Zhang Bin played, the minister led the army of more than 60,000, the sixteenth day of the month arrived in Xing'an City and the thief Zhang Xianzhong fought fiercely, and finally conquered, this battle annihilated more than 10,000 anti-thieves, captured more than 80,000 anti-thieves, the thief chief Zhang Xianzhong led more than 50,000 thieves to flee westward, and Weichen planned to rest for three days and then continue to go west.

Chongzhen looked at it, and his face finally showed a rare joy, he held it up, and said happily: "Good, good, good, Shuangquan really didn't disappoint me!" ”

At this time, Cao Huachun ran over with a big oil umbrella, covered his head, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, since the northwest has won a big victory, you should always rest and rest." ”

Chongzhen shook his head and said: "No, this Zhang Xianzhong is not the biggest thief chieftain, Gao Yingxiang is, just defeating Zhang Xianzhong's department, it can't be said that the northwest has won a big victory, only by defeating Gao Yingxiang's department can it be regarded as a real big victory." ”

This is such a coincidence, as soon as his words fell, Fang Zhenghua ran in with a seal fold again, and shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty, good news, good news, good news in the northwest, the governor of the three sides, Sun Chuanting, the court army has defeated the anti-thief Gao Yingxiang department, and captured the thief chief Gao Yingxiang alive!" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, his face suddenly flushed, he walked over excitedly, took the fold with a trembling hand, and took a closer look, really, it turned out to be true!

Sun Chuanting led 40,000 Qin troops to ambush more than 100,000 main forces of the anti-thief Gao Yingxiang in the Meridian Valley, and none of them escaped the net, all of them were caught, and even the thief chief Gao Yingxiang was caught!

He really couldn't believe that Sun Chuanting could achieve such a big victory, he held the fold and watched it over and over again, yes, everything was true!

"Good!" Chongzhen finally couldn't help but shout, and said excitedly: "Quick, spread my will, and ask Sun Chuanting to quickly send someone to escort the thief chief Gao Yingxiang into Beijing, and I want to sacrifice to the ancestral temple and show the world!" ”

Immediately afterwards, he waved the fold and said excitedly: "This Sun Chuanting, very good, pass on my will, promote Sun Chuanting's right deputy capital Yushi, and the left servant of the military department." ”

As he spoke, he shook his head, and the fold in his hand flew out, he raised his leg and wanted to pick up the fold, but suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he almost fell to the snow, Cao Huachun saw this, and hurriedly threw the oil umbrella, held Chongzhen, and raised his hand to scoop up the fold, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" ”

Chongzhen rubbed his forehead, barely stood firm, and then said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly shook my head, and the northwest has won great victories one after another, and I am so happy!" ”

When Cao Huachun heard this, he said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, you haven't rested for more than half a month, please go and sleep." ”

Chongzhen nodded and said: "Okay, accompany you to hurry up and draft the will, and after the draft is completed, I will go to sleep, this is the New Year, you also have to take a good rest." ”

His idea is good, but unfortunately, Huang Taiji doesn't want him to rest!

As soon as Yuan Chonghuan left Huang Taiji, he put down the big stone in his heart, as for Hong Chengchou, he knew quite well that he was just a commander who blew out, what kind of thief is powerful, it is all, fooling those peasant army leaders, slaughtering unarmed civilians, can this also be called ability, he can slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians with a wave of his hand, and he doesn't need to bother to fool those peasant army leaders at all, just kill them directly!

It can be seen from the rise of the Later Jin that whether it is Nurhachi or Huang Taiji, they are well aware of the situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Like the Battle of Shenyang, in the first year of the Apocalypse, Xiong Tingbi, the Liaodong Economic Strategy, was just picked up by Wei Zhongxian, and Nurhachi immediately waved his army to attack Shenyang, and as a result, he fought all the way from Shenyang to Guangning in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Haizhou and other important towns.

Like the battle of Ningyuan, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jiliao, was so angry that he resigned and returned to his hometown, Nurhachi immediately waved his army to attack the Guanningjin defense line, at the beginning, the eunuch party sent the Jiliao Governor Gaodi was just like cooperating with him, and ordered all the soldiers and civilians outside the gate to withdraw to the Guannei, and there was a great posture of giving up the Guanningjin defense line to him, if it wasn't for Yuan Chonghuan's disobedience to defend Ningyuan, the entire Liaodong would have been pocketed by Houjin.

Like the second year of Chongzhen, Jizhou Town had just undergone a mutiny, and it was a pot of porridge, and Huang Taiji immediately led the army from Jizhou Town to Shuntianfu, all the way to the capital of Daming.

This time, Huang Taiji received news again that Yuan Chonghuan was masturbated by Chongzhen, and Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and even the elite of Shanxi Tunwei were all transferred to suppress thieves, how could you miss such a great opportunity!

Especially recently, he heard that Zhang Bin had led the army to force the northwest thieves into Hanzhong, and he immediately notified the Houjin Eight Banners, Mengba Banners, and Han Eight Banners to assemble in the Mengyuan Tumut Department, he is much more shrewd than Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, Hanzhong, that is the Jedi, go in, if you want to get out alive, it is very difficult!

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he actually received the news before Chongzhen that the anti-thief leader Gao Yingxiang had been completely wiped out, and he himself was arrested by Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, and this was okay, if Zhang Bin continued to be encircled and suppressed, the anti-thieves would be wiped out by this goods, and he immediately waved his army south without hesitation and went straight to Datong Town.

On the afternoon of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Houjin allied forces approached Datong Town, and on the first day of the new year, the Houjin allied forces broke through from Yanghekou to the Great Wall with lightning speed, and Yanghewei, Gaoshan Wei, Zhenyuwei, Tianchengwei and other guards near Yanghekou fell one after another within a day, and Datong City, more than a hundred miles away, was in danger!

Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered people to hurry up 800 miles to report to the capital.

Datong is less than 800 miles away from the capital, and on the morning of the second day of the new year, Chongzhen, who had just rested for a day, received the news.

Chongzhen was also shocked when he heard the news, at this time, there are no troops in the entire Shanxi, and it is not impossible for Jiannu to launch a ruthless attack, and it is not impossible to occupy the entire Shanxi!

What should I do, send troops from the vicinity of the capital to the rescue?

Don't be kidding, Jiannu's strong mobility is famous, Datong Town is only a few hundred miles away from the capital, and all the troops near the capital are transferred, and Jiannu wants to suddenly pounce on the capital, and the consequences are unimaginable.

Chongzhen hurriedly looked at the map and found that the only thing closest to Datong Town or the capital was the Liaodong Army, and at this time Liaodong was the time of ice and snow, and most of the main forces of the Liaodong Army were gathered along the Liaohe River nearly two thousand miles away, and it was still unknown whether they could reach the capital!

This Hong Chengchou, what the hell is going on, although Yuan Chonghuan also "lured" Jiannu to spread wild near the capital, people finally knew that they rushed to the capital with Jiannu's ass, but at this time, Hong Chengchou in Liaodong did not react at all!

His eyes couldn't help but habitually cast to Xi'an and Hanzhong, two thousand miles away, perhaps, at this time, it is more reliable to transfer Zhang Bin and Sun Chuanting to the capital Qinwang, at least the road from Xi'an to the capital has not been blocked by ice, Liaodong he really dare not count on it, according to the weather at this time, he is not sure whether the messenger can cross the ice area of more than a thousand miles and rush to the banks of the Liao River.

At this time, he didn't care about any anti-thief or not, if Jiannu occupied Shanxi or approached the capital, it would be much more terrible than anti-thief, anti-thief may not dare to attack the capital, but Jiannu absolutely dares, because they have already attacked once!

After thinking about it again, he still ordered people to rush to Xi'an for 800 miles and send a decree to Hanzhong, ordering Zhang Bin to immediately lead the army back to Shanxi and fight back the Jiannu who attacked Datong Town.

At this time, the post station was not abolished as in history, and the speed of transmission was still quite fast, less than three days, Sun Chuanting, who was far away in Chang'an County, received Chongzhen's will, however, he did not act immediately, because Chongzhen's will was mainly to let Zhang Bin lead the army back to help, not to let him lead the army back to help, maybe, Chongzhen felt that even if all the 50,000 Qin troops rushed to Datong Town, they might not be able to do Jiannu.

At this time, Zhang Bin had defeated the main force of the peasant army led by Li Zicheng and took Hanzhong, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing, and the five battalions of Gezuo had been frightened and fled in all directions, scattered into the Chencang Road, Bao Chuan Road and Fu Luo Road in the Qinling Mountains, Zhang Bin had ordered someone to summon him, so that Sun Chuanting led the Qin army to ambush at the north exit of Chen Cang Road, Bao Chuan Road and Fu Luo Road, and he himself was ready to lead the army to march in three ways, and run north with the thieves, so that they could walk into Sun Chuanting's ambush circle by themselves.

It's a pity that he hasn't received Sun Chuanting's reply yet, Chongzhen's will has arrived, ordering him to immediately lead the army back to Shanxi and beat back the Jiannu who attacked Datong Town!

If other people receive such an order, it is estimated that they will be so angry that they will vomit blood, just as the anti-thieves are about to be exterminated, but because Jiannu's invasion was abandoned, it is strange that people are not so angry that they vomit blood!

To say that this is really not a coincidence, in history, Huang Taiji always descended from the sky when the peasant army fell into despair, luring the officers and soldiers away for them, so that they could get a chance to breathe, so as to resurrect the ashes.

For example, in the ninth year of Chongzhen, the peasant army was beaten by Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng and could not find the north, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong were successively defeated by Lu Xiangsheng in Henan, Gao Yingxiang was also ambushed by Sun Chuanting in the Meridian Valley, the whole army was destroyed, and he was also captured alive by Sun Chuanting, and Zhang Xianzhong was forced to flee to his hometown with the remnants, and he was about to die, but Huang Taiji led the army to invade at this time, and even broke the sixteen cities of Changping near the capital, forcing Chongzhen to have no choice but to transfer Lu Xiangsheng back to aid the capital, Zhang Xianzhong got a chance to breathe, and soon recovered his vitality.

For example, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng was beaten by Sun Chuanting with only eighteen horsemen left, hiding in the mountains, Zhang Xianzhong was also surrounded by Xiong Wencan's army, and had to surrender to the imperial court.

During this period, it is impossible to verify whether Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng took the initiative to contact Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji definitely intended to help the peasant rebel army and consume the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

In the case of Zhang Bin, it was seen that the peasant army was about to be exterminated, but Huang Taiji suddenly invaded with an army, which happened more than once in history!

Will Zhang Bin be so angry that he vomits blood?

Of course not, he didn't want to completely exterminate the peasant army at this time, and even, if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were forced into a dead end, he would find a way to open the net!

The reason why he thinks this way is that raising the self-respect of the Kou is one aspect, and more importantly, the peasant army has not yet completed their "historical mission", and they have not yet cleaned up the royal family!

The cancer of the royal family and clansmen, no one in the Ming Dynasty can touch it, only through the hands of the peasant army!

Therefore, when he received Chongzhen's will, he immediately waved his army north without hesitation, leaving only 30,000 Sichuan troops to guard Hanzhong and 20,000 Qin troops to guard Guanzhong.

His meaning is obvious, there are not many royal clans in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, so you don't want to do it, if you want to do it, go to Shanxi, Henan, and Huguang, there are many royal clans in those places!