Emperor Chongzhen seemed to hear Sun Chengzong's sigh, and asked sideways: "Teacher Sun, hasn't Yuan Chonghuan received the will?" Why don't you come back now? If he can be under the Guangqu Gate now, wouldn't it be a great opportunity to be able to fight Huang Taiji back and forth? ”

Even Chongzhen, who doesn't understand military affairs, can see this, how can Sun Chengzong, an old military officer, not see it?

But Yuan Chonghuan is his protégé after all, Sun Chengzong still has to defend it, so he can only guess and say: "Probably the element (Yuan Chonghuan's character) is afraid that it will easily withdraw the army and return to help, which will cause the Manchurian Tartars to turn their hands and attack their rear wings......"

Even Sun Chengzong himself may not believe in such a reason - if Yuan Chonghuan can't even command the troops and horses to retreat calmly, how can he gain a foothold in Liaodong?

However, Emperor Chongzhen believed Sun Chengzong's speculation, and began to curse You Shiwei, the general soldier of Changping stationed in Sanhe: "This You Shiwei, it should have been some time since he received the order, why hasn't he arrived at the battlefield yet?" ”

Saying that, Chongzhen stretched out his hand and pointed at Luo Yangxing, and said: "Luo Yangxing, you will send another capable person to pass on my message, and ask You Shiwei to move forward at full speed; Then pass on my message, and ask Yuan Chonghuan to divide his troops to reinforce Man Gui! These two are 100,000 urgent military information, if it is a minute and a half late, the black gauze hat on your head will certainly not be able to keep, and I don't think the head under the black gauze hat may be able to keep it! ”

Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who made others smell the change of style, heard such a vicious threat from Emperor Chongzhen, and suddenly his face changed in fright, and he hurriedly turned his back, gathered a few cronies of the Jinyi Guard, hurriedly went downstairs, and went out of the city through the Dongbian Gate, where there were no enemy troops for the time being.

Ji Qingwen was by Emperor Chongzhen's side, and he saw this scene clearly and listened to it clearly, but he didn't want to be involved in the dispute between Emperor Chongzhen and Yuan Chonghuan.

After Emperor Chongzhen gave the order in high spirits, he finally found that there were so many firearms deployed on the city tower, and only Ji Qingwen's department was continuously firing ammunition, so with a little curiosity, he came over and asked: "Ji Qingwen, if you keep shooting like this, aren't you afraid of hitting your own people?" ”

Ji Qingwen arched his hand and said: "Back to the emperor, these muskets are all purchased from overseas, and they are accurate and accurate, and they are not afraid of hurting our soldiers......"

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, his face turned pale, and he immediately attracted Sun Yuanhua to reprimand: "Sun Yuanhua, you have heard it, how can the firearms of overseas barbarians be more elite than those of my Heavenly Empire?" Are you, and the military department, all vegetarians? Even if you can't make such a firearm, don't you know how to imitate it? Even if you can't imitate it, don't you know how to spend money to purchase? ”

Sun Yuanhua is just a Shandong military senator, such a major event as imitating Western firearms and purchasing foreign arms, in fact, he can preside over such a local petty official?

However, when the emperor asked like this, he couldn't refute it face-to-face, so he could only say a few words and apologize.

In this way, the Ming army led by Mangui, Hou Shilu, Lu Xiangsheng and others outside the Guangqu Gate fought a bloody battle with the elite soldiers of the Four Banners of the Manchurian Left Wing led by Huang Taiji for most of the hour.

Man Gui was not Huang Taiji's opponent in the first place, and he couldn't get the fire assistance from the city wall of the Beijing Division, he was already exhausted and showed his decline, if it weren't for the fact that he was now backed by the Guangqu Gate and the emperor on the gatehouse, he would have been waiting for the opportunity to retreat.

However, the performance of Lu Xiangsheng's "Tianxiong Army" was unexpected.

I thought that although the "Tianxiong Army" recruited by Lu Xiangsheng as the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion had a good name, it was just a temporary patchwork of township brave regiment training, how could it withstand the impact of the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchuria led by Huang Taiji?

However, the battle has been carried out so far, although the "Tianxiong Army" has suffered a lot of losses, the formation has not been disrupted, and the sergeants still hold spears and spears specially used to deal with the cavalry, and strive to overcome the fatigue on their bodies and the fear in their hearts, and still resist the war.

Gradually, the Xuanfu and Datong troops under the command of Man Gui and Hou Shilu gradually could not support it, and began to use the "Tianxiong Army" as the basic backbone to line up to kill the enemy.

Chongzhen couldn't help but praise when he saw this: "Which team is this, according to me, it is even more powerful than the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry in Yuan Chonghuan's hands!" ”

Sun Chengzong has been away from the center of the imperial court for a long time, and he doesn't know the origin of Lu Xiangsheng and Tianxiongjun, or Ji Qingwen saw the needle and praised Lu Xiangsheng a few words.

These words made Chongzhen's heart bloom: "Hmph, I have many talents in the Ming Dynasty, and I got Lu Xiangsheng in today's war, so it can be seen that Yuan Chonghuan is not an irreplaceable person." It's just that now the Manchurian Tartars are fierce, but they can't let Lu Xiangsheng lose here! ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly became angry again and scolded: "Where is Luo's cultivation? Has my will been delivered? Why haven't Yuan Chonghuan and You Shiwei arrived yet? ”

Luo Yangxing looked frightened, bowed down and replied: "Back to the emperor, the minister has sent his most powerful subordinates down to pass on the order, as for whether it has been passed on...... Your Majesty, the minister will send another wave of men and horses out to give orders......"

Before Luo Yangxing gave the order, he heard someone on the city wall shouting: "Look, someone is coming over there!" ”

Everyone hurriedly looked into the distance, and sure enough, they saw a vote of soldiers from the east galloping on horseback, playing the banners of "Yuan", "Zu" and others, and coming straight to Guangqumen-it was the Liaodong Iron Cavalry commanded by Yuan Chonghuan.

It turned out that Yuan Chonghuan led the army to a decisive battle with the Four Banners of the Manchurian right flank, and two holy decrees were sent in a row asking him to return to the army to aid Mangui, and You Shiwei, who was stationed in Sanhe, had also rushed to the bank of the canal. This made the arrogant Yuan Chonghuan unable to stand it, so he had to order He Kegang to stay in place and organize the pursuit of the Four Banners of the Right Wing, while he led the main force of the headquarters and Zu Dashou's department, and immediately changed the rear team to the front team, and turned the direction to Guangqumen to kill.

On this way, Huang Taiji had already set up a full of outposts, and he already knew that Yuan Chonghuan had arrived, so he immediately gave up continuing to attack Mangui and Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates, and also turned around and re-arrayed, preparing to launch a decisive battle with Yuan Chonghuan.

Sun Yuanhua, who was above the gatehouse, saw that the Manchurian soldiers and horses under the command of Huang Taiji were no longer entangled with Mangui and others, and immediately ordered to fire artillery into the Manchurian sergeant array.

These cannons were in disrepair, and their power was far less than the European imports loaded on Zheng Zhilong's ship and Ji Qingwen's chariot. However, artillery is artillery after all, and a few cannons hit the heavy Manchurian troops, causing dozens or hundreds of casualties immediately.

Huang Taiji was bent on dealing with Man Gui in front of him, and now he was in a hurry to reorganize his formation to deal with Yuan Chonghuan who rushed over, and he almost forgot that there were firearms deployed on the city wall of the Beijing Division.

They discussed for a long time, and felt that although they did not find a chance to fight with Yuan Chonghuan today, they had also severely damaged the other main mobile force of the Ming army led by Man Gui, and the results were not small; Second, the four banners of the right wing of Manchuria were not in a good position to fight with Yuan Chonghuan, and the good luck was uncertain at the moment, so they needed to go to meet it immediately; Thirdly, now that Yuan Chonghuan's army has arrived, and Mangui has not been completely defeated, and there is artillery support on the city wall of the Beijing Division, it is not the best time to fight a decisive battle with Yuan Chonghuan.

So Huang Taiji made up his mind, immediately blew the horn, led his soldiers and horses to make a big circle to the north, and then headed in the direction of the Eastern Canal.

Yuan Chonghuan's Liaodong Iron Cavalry pursued it, but naturally it couldn't catch up with the light cavalry of the Manchurian Eight Banners, so Huang Taiji calmly rushed to the side of the canal, drove He Kegang's department and You Shiwei's department away, and took out the Manchurian Right Wing Four Banners led by Mang Gurtai and Azig, and left calmly.

This Huang Taiji didn't know if it was a deliberate demonstration, so he passed under the Guangqu Gate and spared half of the Beijing Division, and then galloped to the northwest.

Ji Qingwen saw that after today's half-day bloody battle, he finally drove away Huang Taiji, and immediately happily walked to Emperor Chongzhen's side, and said with a smile: "The emperor is mighty, Huang Taiji really ran away from the wind, it is really gratifying......

Ji Qingwen originally thought that his sycophant was shot in a timely manner, but he didn't expect that what he got in exchange was Emperor Chongzhen's vicious white eyes: "Tartars can come when they want to, leave when they want, and treat a Jingshi as nothing, what is there to congratulate?" ”

It turned out to be Emperor Chongzhen standing on the Guangqu Gate, and when he saw Huang Taiji leaving in front of him like this, he was already trembling with anger, and naturally he didn't have a good mood, and said: "I am personally risking arrows and stones on this Guangqu Gate, but the civil officials are enjoying happiness in the city, what kind of system is this?" The herald ordered all the civil and military officials above the third rank in Beijing to go to this Guangqu Gate, and I want to give a lecture! ”