When the Ming court was busy with the aftermath because of the defeat of Tumubao, while changing the monarch and ministers, the victorious Mongolian side was not idle. It's just that their busy work in the past month looks more like a useless work at this time, and it can even be said to be a joke.

After being tricked into a wall under Xuanfu City, he also took Zhu Qizhen and ran to Datong again, trying to use him to knock on the gate of this Ming border fortified city. But in the end, it was still in vain, and the defenders in the city didn't take their threats seriously at all, but just waited for them.

Later, he even ordered people to go to several other cities and passes to do the same thing, but the reaction of the Ming army was the same, and they were completely unsubject to the so-called edict of the Son of Heaven. At the same time, a piece of news finally reached their ears for a long time - it turned out that the Ming court had already set up a new monarch a few days ago.

In other words, the so-called noble hostage in their hands is now just an expired emperor, and his words are no longer a holy decree that is true to his word, and it is impossible for anyone in the Ming Dynasty to open the city gate for him and let these enemies enter.

When they learned the news, all the people below were shocked. I thought that only the various tribes on the grassland would be so resolute, and once their own leader was captured by the enemy, they would quickly replace someone to continue to lead everyone in the battle. Unexpectedly, this person of the Ming Kingdom, who has always talked about the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, was so pragmatic, and when the emperor was captured by himself, he actually abandoned him directly.

This news, of course, made the Mongolian people feel unacceptable, but the one who really felt grief was our former emperor, His Majesty, Zhu Qizhen!

In fact, as early as when the Mongolian people ran into walls one after another under several cities, he had already vaguely guessed something. It's just that he didn't dare to think about it at that time, and he kept deceiving himself. And now, with the facts in front of him, he has to accept such a cruel reality.

I was abandoned by the whole world! His own courtiers, his relatives, and his own people actually abandoned themselves without hesitation at this moment when they needed to care about it the most! In addition to grief, this fact brought Zhu Qizhen deep fear!

What Zhu Qizhen didn't expect the most was that the Ming court did not appoint its own crown prince Zhu Jianshen as the emperor. In the eyes of the court, this practice is conducive to the stability of the Ming Dynasty, but in his eyes, it has become the most complete abandonment. Because if the crown prince is the emperor, then he may still be in the name of the emperor, so that his identity can still protect himself. But now that his younger brother is the emperor, it is a bit redundant to be an older brother.

The barbarism of the Mongolian people and the thirst for killing Zhu Qizhen have already seen it. If the other party directly ordered to kill him after knowing that he had completely lost his use value, he would not even have any way but to be slaughtered. This feeling of being a knife and a fish and meat made him be in absolute panic after knowing this, and he almost didn't dare to close his eyes, for fear that when he closed his eyes, he would be taken to the execution ground if he opened them again.

Such a torturous day, only a few days, for Zhu Qizhen, is even longer than ten years. In just a few days, a young man in his twenties looked no different from a middle-aged man in his forties, not only his hair had turned gray, but his face also had a lot of wrinkles.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen's worries are not unreasonable, after knowing that he has no use value, there are indeed many Mongolian people who want to kill him to show this evil breath. Thanks to Boyan Timur talking around, he was also unwilling to do so, and felt that this former great tomorrow still had some use value, so he didn't really put him to death.

It's just that in terms of treatment, it has plummeted. Not only has the tent become extremely small, but the food is no different from that of ordinary Mongolians. In this way, Zhu Qizhen finally ate the bitter fruit of his wrong decision, and truly became a standard prisoner.

But the Mongols had no intention of just stopping there. It was not easy for them to take advantage of the fault of the Great Tomorrow to achieve such a big victory, and they had completely grasped the advantage and initiative in the north of the Ming Dynasty. If you just go back like this, then maybe it will give Hui Mingguo a chance to breathe.

Therefore, after some discussion, they brazenly decided to continue to attack the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, vowing to take the opportunity of this great victory to open a gap. Even if you can't really capture the Central Plains as you wish, you have to fight into the Central Plains Flower World and loot more property.

But first, they also knew that fortified cities like Datong and Xuanfu could not be attacked. Even if the defenders of these cities are far inferior to them, they are enough to defend them with the convenience of their location. So, they started the idea of other cities.

And in this matter, those captured Ming soldiers played a key role.

Although the vast majority of them were faithful, they did not compromise even after being tortured. However, there are still a few soft bones who abandon their dignity and loyalty in the face of life, death and torture, and choose to cooperate and survive.

As a result, the Mongolian people quickly set their sights on the Bauhinia Pass.

In fact, as an important pass in the border area of the Ming Dynasty, this Bauhinia Pass is also extremely difficult to overcome. Not only are the roads dangerous here, the walls are high, but also equipped with sufficient soldiers and horses and equipment to defend the city, and the general who guards the pass is also Sun Xiang, who is good at using soldiers.

However, the situation at Bauhinia Pass at this time was much worse than before. Because during Zhu Qizhen's Northern Expedition before, nearly 3,000 elites were transferred from here for his own use.

At that time, in the eyes of everyone, this was not a big deal, because as long as the battle ahead was superior, the Bauhinia Pass side was naturally as stable as Mount Tai, and it didn't matter how many soldiers and horses there were.

But now, there are only five or six thousand defenders left in the Bauhinia Pass, which is already less than 10,000 people, so it is a little overstretched to resist the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops.

What's even more terrifying is that the original Bauhinia Pass relied not only on the troops guarding the pass, but also on the geographical convenience of the location. Stuck on the only way to the capital, there is a posture that a husband is not open.

However, there were several traitors of the Ming Dynasty in the Mongolian army, and among them there were people who were quite familiar with the geography of the Bauhinia Pass. So, under the guidance of these traitors, in addition to attacking head-on, the Mongols also sent a surprise army to raid the empty place of the pass from the side.

As the saying goes, fortresses are breached from within. Although the Mongolian people could not do anything inside the Bauhinia Pass, with the advice of the people "inside" of the Ming Dynasty, they still easily took this important level that stood in front of the Mongolian people.

Because he knew the importance of the Bauhinia Pass he was guarding - once this pass was broken, the Beijing city in the rear would no longer be in danger to defend, and the entire Beijing division would be completely exposed to the enemy's iron hooves - so after hearing that the pass was broken, Sun Xiang sent his henchmen to send out the battle report he had hurriedly written, and then led his own soldiers and other defenders in the city to rush over, and started a desperate struggle with the Mongolians who entered the pass, trying to beat the enemy out of the pass again.

It's a pity that the thousands of defenders here alone can't resist the Mongol army that is killing in a steady stream. Originally, in terms of head-to-head confrontation, the Ming army was inferior to the grassland warriors, but now they have lost the protection of Guancheng and are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops, and their behavior is actually no different from moths fighting fires.

The tragic battle lasted only half a day, and the Ming army defending the city from Sun Xiang down was all killed. The Mongolian people who captured Bauhinia Pass saw a small gate city full of corpses and blood, and they themselves paid a great price of thousands of casualties.

When he saw everything here, he also felt a chill in his back: "If the Ming army that fought with us before was as fierce as these people, I am afraid it would not be so easy for us to achieve that big victory." Fortunately, there are not many such people......" Thinking of this, his eyes swept over the Ming generals behind him who had betrayed their country.

These people's faces also became extremely pale at this time, with their heads bowed and their eyes closed, as if they did not dare to collide with these soldiers who died on the ground......

Winning the Bauhinia Pass finally made the Mongolian army excited again in addition to a bad breath. Because they are already aware of the situation in front of them, there will be a flat river ahead, and they can go straight to the smooth road under the city of Beijing. The day of retaking the old capital of the Great Yuan and re-enslaving the damned Han people at their feet does not seem so far away.

Therefore, people's hearts boiled at this moment, and countless people looked at their leader, and the Taishi also came first. There were also many people who came forward and asked him to fight, hoping to immediately lead troops to Beijing City.

Because everyone knows that after annihilating hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty before, Beijing City at this time can almost be regarded as an empty city with no defensive power, and if you attack it at this time, you will be able to take it in one fell swoop.

Just when Yexian was also moved, and was about to give an order, Xuan Chengyuan suddenly stood up and offered advice: "Taishi, in fact, we can take a little rest and then lead the troops to suppress the realm, so that we can put more pressure on the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Seeing that many of his subordinates were unhappy, he couldn't help but ask.

"Taishi doesn't know that this Beijing City is the strongest and most difficult to defend city in the world today. If it is attacked, even if the garrison in the city is empty, it will not be a problem to hold it for a few months. That's not a good thing for us. Xuan Chengyuan hurriedly explained: "As the so-called attacker attacks the enemy's heart, we can use this trick to make the Ming Kingdom mess up by itself." In this way, it can be easily taken down like when the Jin people attacked the Song capital Bianjing! ”

With Xuan Chengyuan's advice, everyone's faces quickly changed to a look of satisfaction, obviously his idea was more in line with these people's appetites. Therefore, the most hateful are often not foreign enemies, but those who betray!