The next day, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Emperor Chongzhen took out more than 300,000 taels of silver from the more than two million taels of silver raised a few days ago, which was a reward and a banquet, which was regarded as a reward for the soldiers who fought inside and outside the city, in order to reflect the grace of the emperor.

But among the officials who have been rewarded for so many times, there is no longer the Jiliao Governor who should be the protagonist - Yuan Chonghuan.

For soldiers, eating and drinking and taking money is eating and drinking and taking money, but for the emperor, this is part of his ten thousand letters. After Emperor Chongzhen completed this indispensable work, another task began immediately afterwards - a meeting.

Naturally, the meeting was devoted to military affairs.

In addition to Sun Chengzong, Han Kuang, Qian Longxi, Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren and other cabinet scholars, he also summoned several leading generals such as Man Gui, Hou Shilu, You Shiwei, Lu Xiangsheng and other leading generals who led the battle, and although Ji Qingwen was a humble position, he was also specially arranged by the emperor to attend the meeting.

Ji Qingwen was quite apprehensive about holding a meeting on the gate tower of Guangqu Gate - Emperor Chongzhen had just taken Yuan Chonghuan yesterday, and rumors spread outside the city that Yuan Chonghuan had been beheaded.

However, since it was the emperor's idea, although Ji Qingwen was uneasy, he couldn't change or stop it.

Because of the incident that Yuan Chonghuan was arrested by the emperor the day before, the meeting on the Guangqu Gate was extremely dull, and everyone did not dare to express their opinions, and only listened to the deployment of the old superintendent Sun Chengzong.

According to Sun Chengzong's view, in the first battle of the Beijing division on 20 November, we defeated the enemy in the first battle of Guangqumen, and we defeated the enemy in the first battle of Deshengmen.

Therefore, due to the absolute reduction of the number of Huang Taiji's troops, it was even more impossible for him to break through the walls of the Jingshi, and the Jingshi had actually been relieved of the danger. Even so, if Huang Taiji is in the Guannai for one day, the threat to Jingshi will exist for one day, and he still can't be taken lightly.

Therefore, the method that Sun Chengzong came up with was that the top and bottom of the Beijing division were still on guard as usual, and they could only wait and watch the movements of the enemy army - if Huang Taiji dared to rashly attack the Beijing division, then attack with all the remaining mobile forces; If he is going to go out of the pass, then he will chase after him in the rear and try to cause and expand the losses of his troops.

Sun Zhengzong's deployment, Emperor Chongzhen was actually dissatisfied.

You must know that Huang Taiji's invasion of the foot of the Son of Heaven is already a great shame for the imperial court, and now not only can they not be driven out of the pass, but can only wait for them to leave on their own, which is too conservative and too face-hurting.

However, even if Emperor Chongzhen can come up with any positive decisions such as taking the initiative to attack, there is no one to lead the army to implement it for him - because no matter from the perspective of popularity, age, experience, and command ability, Yuan Chonghuan, who is most suitable for leading the whole army to fight, has been imprisoned in the edict of Jinyiwei.

At the same time, Huang Taiji was also holding a meeting there.

After two bloody battles at Deshengmen and Guangqumen, although the vitality of the Manchurian Eight Banners was not injured, the losses were also not small, especially the four banners of the left wing of Manchuria that clashed with Yuan Chonghuan's Liaodong Iron Cavalry, suffered more than 40 percent casualties, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

In the face of such a situation, with Huang Taiji's shrewdness, he also knew that he would never be able to capture the Jingshi, so there were only two ways in front of him - first, before the Ming army had no effective countermeasures, he ordered the whole army to withdraw from the pass with the property looted after entering the pass; Second, wait for an opportunity to attack the Ming army first, and then withdraw from the Guanwai after inflicting heavy losses on it.

These two roads are actually the same road, but there are some differences in the way they go.

So Huang Taiji solicited another opinion: the Han people led by Fan Wencheng advocated that they should accept it when they saw it, try to preserve their strength, and return to Liaodong immediately; Mang Gurtai, Azig, Haoge and others, because they suffered a big loss when they fought with Yuan Chonghuan, advocated fighting with the Ming army again, and then retreated.

This time, Huang Taiji adopted the opinion of the Manchurians - after all, listening to reliable news from the Beijing Division, Yuan Chonghuan, the general who posed the greatest threat to him, had been dismissed from his post by Emperor Chongzhen, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was also unstable because of this, so that there was a farce of Zu Dashou leaving his post without permission.

Therefore, after resting for five days, on November 27 of the second year of Chongzhen (that is, the third year of Tiancong), Huang Taiji once again gathered his army and began to attack the defenders of the Beijing Division.

This time, because the Eight Banners of Manchuria had their own losses, Huang Taiji did not separate the troops of the Eight Banners, but promoted them by himself, and selected more than 10,000 elite main forces in the Eight Banners that were not injured to attack the Beijing Division - and the target of his attack was also very direct, that is, Guangqumen, where the Liaodong Iron Cavalry was stationed.

Huang Taiji made it very clear that he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the commander Yuan Chonghuan was not in the Liaodong Army to completely annihilate (or at least hit hard) the most elite mobile force of the Ming Dynasty that had been entangled with him for more than ten years.

Outside the Guangqu Gate, without Yuan Chonghuan's unified point, no one could suppress the main force of the whole army, so he could only divide the Liaodong Iron Cavalry into three divisions - one was commanded by Zu Dashou, one was commanded by He Kegang, and the other was temporarily assigned to the command of Man Gui.

Among these three people, Zu Dashou and He Kegang have worked together for a long time and have some tacit understanding, but both of them are quite dissatisfied with Man Gui and hate him for suing Yuan Chonghuan in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

These people were all brought out by the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, and he naturally knew the pros and cons, but this was also the only feasible way at the moment.

Therefore, none of these three people wanted to make wedding clothes for others, and each set up camp for the array, and even did not bother to send his own people to serve as the outposts, so that the spies of the Jinyi Guard sent a battle report, saying that when the whole army of Huang Taiji came to attack, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria were no more than five miles away.

After the so-called "discussion" of Man Gui, Zu Dashou, and He Kegang, they followed Yuan Chonghuan's method a few days ago and arranged a "product" formation.

It's just that Yuan Chonghuan originally changed from the formation of He Kegang in the front, Man Gui in the center, and Zu Dashou in the flank and behind, to Zu Dashou in the front, He Kegang in the back, and Man Gui in the center.

And Zu Dashou was dissatisfied with Man Gui, and when he was arrayed, he secretly ordered his soldiers to retreat twenty steps back, but instead let Man Gui, who should have been the backbone, stand out from the front very conspicuously.

With Huang Taiji's combat experience and sharp eyes, how could he not see this change in the Ming army, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command to blow the horn, sound the war drums, and shoot arrows while galloping towards Mangui.

Man Gui originally thought that Huang Taiji would be the first to attack Zu Dashou who was in front of the formation, but he didn't expect that Huang Taiji would actually kill him directly. This made Man Gui a little unexpected, and after a short hesitation, Man Gui simply ordered his soldiers to launch a counter-charge against Huang Taiji's headquarters, wanting to disrupt the situation and try his best to drag Huang Taiji.

When the enemy attack was frustrated, He Kegang and Zu Dashou would naturally send troops to attack the two wings of Huang Taiji.

So Man Gui shouted, relying on his extraordinary martial arts, and rushed forward to kill with a big knife in his hand. Seeing this, the pro-soldiers around Man Gui and the veterans he brought from Xuanfu also hurriedly urged the horses under their crotches and rushed out after them.

However, those newly organized Liaodong iron cavalry under the command of Man Gui - from middle and high-ranking officers such as guerrillas and staff generals, to petty officers such as Qi General and Baihu, all the way to the flat-headed bitter soldiers - all had a deep grudge against Man Gui, and none of them obeyed the order and rushed over together, as if the fight in front of them had nothing to do with them.

And the cronies that Man Gui can command are only two or three hundred people, how can he be the opponent of more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners?

However, in the blink of an eye, the Xuanfu general soldier was drowned in the sea of elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria......

Emperor Chongzhen watched the battle from the Guangqu Gate Gate as usual, and when he saw such a scene, he couldn't help but ask Sun Chengzong next to him: "Teacher Sun, what's going on?" Does Man Gui want to kill himself? ”

Sun Chengzong was so angry that his beard under his chin was opened, and he frowned and said: "This is the Liaodong Iron Cavalry deliberately taking revenge on Man Gui, allowing Man Gui to rush into battle alone, it's really damned!" ”

After scolding twice, Sun Chengzong regretted again: "Hey! Man Gui is afraid that he will be more auspicious, so he will sacrifice his life for the country today......"

In just a few days, among several of Sun Chengzong's protégés, Yuan Chonghuan was convicted and imprisoned, and Zhao led the sect to die, seeing that Man Gui was also in danger, how could he not make this loyal old minister of the Ming Dynasty heartbroken and sad?