If there is anything about the Jurchen Great Khan Emperor Taiji being stronger than Yuan Chonghuan, it is that he, as the co-owner of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, is on an equal footing with Emperor Chongzhen, but he knows how to listen to the opinions of his subordinates.

On the night of November 15, Huang Taiji adopted the suggestions of Fan Wencheng and Li Yongfang, and took advantage of the fact that Yuan Chonghuan's heavy troops were gathered in Tongzhou and the troops near the Beijing Division were extremely empty.

As a result—

If Yuan Chonghuan came to help, then he could take advantage of his unstable foothold to find an opportunity to completely annihilate the soldiers and horses of Liaodong; If Yuan Chonghuan does not move, he will just attack the Beijing Division, and may be able to break the head of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop; If the Jingshi is heavily garrisoned and difficult to break, you can loot around the Jingshi, and it is not in vain to risk entering the customs this time.

With this best of all three strategies, Huang Taiji did not hesitate and immediately ordered the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, a total of 150,000 people, to immediately set off separately, attack together, and kill the Beijing Division.

Such a big action, if the previous Great Belle Daishan was still there, he would definitely have to raise some objections to Huang Taiji. However, now this Huang Taiji's sworn enemy, who was injured by Ji Qingwen with a musket, is still lying on the bed and dying, how can he care about singing against Huang Taiji.

In this way, Huang Taiji's affairs and powers were unified, and more than 100,000 Manchurian elites under his command were united, and they went to Beijing overnight.

Such a large-scale operation naturally could not escape the eyes of Jinyiwei, and he reported this urgent military information to Emperor Chongzhen that night.

Although Chongzhen is the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he is still an eighteen-year-old young man, and when he heard that the whole army of Manchuria was attacking the Beijing Division, he was already panicked, and he did not care that the Beijing Division was now strong in the city, with many soldiers and sufficient food, and would not be attacked overnight, so he immediately issued several orders in succession to deploy the defense of the Beijing Division.

One is to order the old superintendent Sun Chengzong to recover on the spot and immediately rush back to the Beijing Division, responsible for the defense of the Beijing Division;

The second is to urgently order You Shiwei, the general soldier of Changping, who was stationed in Miyun, the general soldier of Datong, who was stationed in Shunyi, Mangui, and the general soldier of Xuanfu, Hou Shilu, who was stationed in Sanhe, to immediately move closer to the Beijing division and strengthen the outer defense of the Beijing division;

The third was to order Yuan Chonghuan, the Jiliao Governor stationed in Tongzhou, to immediately block Huang Taiji's actions with the whole army to prevent the Manchurian soldiers and horses from besieging the Beijing Division.

With such a stern will of Emperor Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly mobilized all the troops and sent countless scouts and light cavalry, but whenever he found the movement of the Manchurian cavalry, he immediately sent elite soldiers to block it.

But Huang Taiji's whole army was dispatched this time, and the momentum was extremely huge, but in the blink of an eye, the battle report flew into Tongzhou City like snowflakes, and flew to Yuan Chonghuan's bookcase, telling this Jiliao Governor - Huang Taiji This time it was not a delaying tactic, nor was it a strategy to lure the enemy, but really wanted to attack Jingshi.

There was no way, Yuan Chonghuan could only leave a few soldiers and horses to garrison the small city of Tongzhou, and the rest of the main army went out to pursue Huang Taiji.

Ji Qingwen now nominally wanted to obey Yuan Chonghuan's moderation, and naturally he was not spared, so he summoned 500 soldiers from all over the world, only carried two days' worth of grain with him, and then used all the pack horses that transported grain and grass to pull the chariot, and then moved in the direction of the Beijing division.

Ji Qingwen's Xiangyong regimental training was all trained in accordance with the military law of the "Qi Family Army", and the speed of action was much faster than that of ordinary infantry, but after all, it could not catch up with the speed of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry that pursued Huang Taiji like crazy, and was dragged farther and farther by the cavalry in front, and only the "Tianxiong Army" of Lu Xiangsheng's department acted with him.

At this time, Chen Wenzhao, who has rich combat experience, stepped forward to make a suggestion: No matter how fast the infantry moves, it will not be able to catch up with the cavalry, and if you follow the horse all the way behind the butt of the war horse, it will not only be impossible to catch up with the cavalry in front, but it will be easy to be led by the opponent's nose, and thus fall into complete passivity.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhao suggested that the troops should not follow behind the enemy, but should cut off the bend and straighten it and rush directly to the Beijing division, so that they could wait for work at ease and not let the 500 elite soldiers be exhausted by the enemy's mobilization.

Ji Qingwen listened to such an opinion, and agreed without thinking about it, so he asked Chen Wenzhao to lead the team in the direction of Jingshi.

Originally, Ji Qingwen also planned to let Li Yuanyin, who was acting with the army, use his identity as the commander of the Jinyi Guard to collect information along the way. But now there is such a major event as Huang Taiji's whole army attacking the Beijing Division, and all the Jinyi guards around the Beijing Division have been commanded to make Luo Yangxing recruited, so that Li Yuanyin can't find a single brother, so that Ji Qingwen suddenly became blind and deaf.

This made Ji Qingwen realize that the matter of collecting intelligence information could not be completely relied on by Jinyiwei - not only the stability of intelligence sources could not be guaranteed, but it was also very easy for people to fabricate false information to deceive themselves - so he had to find a way to establish his own intelligence information network.

But this is all for later, and the first task in front of Ji Qingwen now is how to send the five hundred brothers to the Jingshi City safely.

Tongzhou is only fifty miles away from Jingshi, and according to the speed of Ji Qingwen's department, a rapid march can be reached in half a day. However, now that the Manchurian cavalry was nearby, and there was no reliable intelligence to report the news from the front, Ji Qingwen and Chen Wenzhao did not dare to order to advance at full speed, so they could only take one step and look at two steps, and act together with Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, rolling towards the Beijing division.

As a result, the pace of action slows down considerably.

Although the main force of the Manchurian army was not encountered along the way, it still took a whole day to complete the long fifty miles.

By the time Ji Qingwen and others came to the Guangqu Gate in the southeast of the Beijing Division, it was already evening, and many Ming soldiers and horses had been stationed outside the Guangqu Gate.

Most of these people Ji Qingwen recognizes - they are all Liaodong iron cavalry brought by Yuan Chonghuan from outside the pass, and they were still eating, drinking, and laughing with the generals who led the army yesterday!

Seeing the friendly generals, Ji Qingwen fell halfway to the ground with a stone in his heart, so he hurriedly asked them about Yuan Chonghuan's movements.

But Yuan Chonghuan is not under the Guangqu Gate now, and as for where his specific location is, it is not clear who he is.

It turned out that Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to pursue the Eight Banners Cavalry, but he couldn't find the main force of Huang Taiji, so he had to break up his own forces and ask them to pursue the enemy army and meet outside the Guangqu Gate.

In this way, Yuan Chonghuan's deployment of 20,000 or 30,000 Liaodong iron cavalry was shattered, but fortunately, the order was concise and clear, and thousands of soldiers and horses were gathered under the Guangqu Gate one after another.

Chen Wenzhao, who had been in battle for a long time, couldn't help but shake his head when he saw this scene, and secretly suggested to Ji Qingwen: Although there are a lot of soldiers and horses in the city now, there is a lack of unified command, in case the Jurchens take advantage of the situation to launch a surprise attack, the Ming army will inevitably be chaotic, so they must be prepared for battle from their hometown, so as not to be caught off guard.

Although the journey from Tongzhou to Guangqumen was extremely hard, it was better to work hard than to be killed. So Ji Qingwen asked Chen Wenzhao to deploy his soldiers to line up in formation, and at the same time bury the pot and make rice, and then fill his stomach first.

Because they were in a hurry when they set out from Tongzhou early this morning, many Liaodong soldiers did not carry military rations with them, so they walked for a whole day, and they were so hungry that their chests were close to their backs. Therefore, when they smelled the aroma of rice and fish cooked by Ji Qingwen, they all involuntarily gathered over.

Although Ji Qingwen intended to share the meal with them, he only carried one day's rations when he went out, which was not enough to distribute to others.

It's better to be full than hungry for everyone.

Therefore, Ji Qingwen was ruthless and ordered his subordinates to practice the rural brave group to take care of themselves and eat their stomachs first.

At this juncture, Yuan Chonghuan personally led more than 10,000 people from the main force of Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and more than 6,000 people under the command of Zu Dashou, and finally rushed to Guangqumen.

Ji Qingwen saw that the soldiers and horses under his command were not only exhausted, but also many soldiers were injured in various ways, obviously there were some conflicts with the Eight Banners cavalry along the way.

Although the army has now been assembled, it is an out-and-out tired division, and the elusive Manchurian cavalry is eyeing the vicinity from nowhere, so that Yuan Chonghuan, the commander of the three armies, does not dare to take it lightly.

Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan convened the generals, including Ji Qingwen and Zu Dashou, to discuss for a while, and reached a consensus - now only when the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners have not arrived, they will first enter the Beijing Division, let the soldiers under their command get rest, and then fight to the death with the Eight Banners either in the field or in the city.

It's not difficult to make such a decision, but it's extremely difficult to execute.

Not to mention anything else, just the Jingshi Guangqu Gate in front of him, Yuan Chonghuan can't enter!