Everyone was drinking, and everyone was very happy, toasting each other, and the atmosphere was warm and cheerful.

According to today's preliminary statistics, after the construction of Xuanhua City, there were nearly two million taels of silver alone, and hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, so they were naturally happy.

The generals only cared about drinking, and few people noticed the change in Jiang Youguang's expression, they raised their wine glasses and congratulated each other, and at this moment, there was a sudden crisp sound in the hall, and the broken wine glasses splashed in all directions.

The sudden change made everyone who was drinking startled, and some jumped up from their chairs directly.

"Drop the cup? What is this for? Chen Du and other generals of the righteous army saw Jiang Youguang slamming the wine glass on the ground, and they were not shocked for a while, it was not that the Jiang family wanted to swallow the money and grain and their subordinates alone, so they set up a Hongmen banquet.

Although the cooperation between Xuanhua and Xuanhua is good, the righteous army is not from their Jiang family after all, and these leaders only respect the Jiang family as the leader of the alliance, and they are not close to each other.

Several people were frightened in their hearts, and they were careless, but after Jiang Youguang fell, he didn't rush in with a knife.

When everyone was stunned, Jiang Youguang attracted everyone's attention, and finally said with a gloomy face: "The Qianerlang who was arranged outside Juyong Pass by Ben Shuai was attacked, and only one person escaped back with serious injuries, and now he is outside the hall!" ”

Juyong Pass is located in the southeast of Xuanfu, is an important pass of the Great Wall in the Badaling section, connecting Xuanfu and Beijing, and the men and horses arranged there have been attacked, that is only one possibility, that is, a large number of Qing troops out of Juyong Pass.

When everyone heard this, their faces suddenly changed, which showed that in addition to the Mongol army that appeared along the Great Wall in the north, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also transferred a Qing army from the southeast to come to Xuanfu from Juyong Pass.

If so, then they were caught between the Manchus inside and outside.

At this time, Jiang Youguang had already stood up and walked out of the lobby, and the generals hurriedly threw away the wine glasses and meat, and hurriedly followed out of the lobby before they could wipe their hands.

Outside the hall, a very seriously injured Qianhu official with a weak breath was lying on a stretcher, he saw everyone coming out, struggled for a while and seemed to want to get up and say something, Jiang Youguang hurriedly squatted down and asked in a low voice: "Who attacked you, how many people and horses?" ”

There was blood bubbles in the mouth of the Qianhu official, and his breath was weak: "It's a yellow flag full of people, and there is ······"

Before he finished speaking, the officer's body suddenly straightened, his whole body tensed, and finally he lost his breath.

Jiang Youguang touched the officer's eyes with his hand, and couldn't say a word.

The information provided by the Qianhu officials is limited, but the Manchurian yellow flag has just been sent to North Korea, and from this point, Jiang Youguang can already get a lot of information.

At this time, he already knew that the Qing court should have transferred back the Qing troops stationed in Korea, otherwise it would be impossible for Beijing to have soldiers and horses to rescue Xuanhua.

It seems that Dolgon has given up Korea in order to quell the rebellion, and this Qing army broke through the men and horses he did not place outside the Juyong Pass, and preemptively drilled into his defensive circle, which is equivalent to tearing his defensive circle open, and his plan to rely on the pass to keep the Qing army out of Xuanda cannot be realized.

With such a Qing cavalry entering Xuanfu, the plan to resist the Mongols in the north will not be realized.

There are only two paths he can choose now, one is to take advantage of the Mongols' failure to break through the Great Wall, first fight a decisive battle with this Qing army, force them out of Xuanda, drive them back to Beijing, and then turn around to resist the Mongols, and the other is to only defend the big city and wait for the times to change.

"Go! Immediately send an order to go down and drop all the soldiers and horses outside the city into the city to prevent the Qing army from raiding! ”

After standing for a long time, Jiang Youguang finally opened his mouth and ordered, since the soldiers who reported the news had arrived in Xuanhua, the Qing army could be killed at any time, and the rebels outside the city were defenseless and could easily be attacked by people.

Today, in order to restore the continuity in the city, Jiang Youguang did not let the rebels with poor military discipline spend the night in the city, so 20,000 horses were still stationed in the camp outside the city.

No matter which way he goes, he must first ensure his own safety, and then find out the situation of the Qing army before he can choose to judge.

If there are not many Qing troops, then he will take the first road, and if the Qing army is strong, then he will hide in the city and not come out.

The generals of the rebel army also realized the seriousness of the situation, and when they heard this, they hurriedly clenched their fists and prepared to go out of the city to transfer troops.

Several generals hurriedly left the government and prepared to leave the city overnight, but when they arrived at the city gate, the camp of the righteous army outside the southern city suddenly burst into murder and the sky was full of fire.

The defenders of the city saw a fire dragon suddenly appear outside the southern city, and suddenly crashed into the righteous army outside the southern city.

The rebels who had been attacking the city for a day, physically exhausted, and relaxed their vigilance after defeating Xuanhua, were attacked by a cavalry of more than 1,000 people and broke through the camp, the camp tent was lit by torches, and the soldiers rushed around, and the sounds of panic and screams were endless.

At the same time, the camp in the north was also attacked by more than 1,000 cavalry, but it was discovered by the patrol soldiers, and the rebels relied on the wall of the fortress and fired a volley of rockets to force the cavalry back.

The rebels in the northern camp mainly came from the dungeons on the first line of the Great Wall in the north, and they were closer to the Mongols and kept vigilant all the year round, which was more elite than the rebels in the southern camp.

The two military camps in the north and south were attacked at the same time, and the flames outside the city soared into the sky, and the sound of killing soared into the sky, which made the people in the city also fall into panic.

In the dark, Jiang Youguang didn't know how many Qing troops came, he was worried that the Qing army would seize the city, so the city gates in the east, south and north directions did not dare to open, only to open the west gate that was not attacked, and ordered the cavalry to rush out to respond, and forced the Qing cavalry back.

There were not many cavalry of the Qing army participating in the attack, probably only more than 2,000 people, because they should be the vanguard of the Qing army, after they attacked the camp, they did not go far, but just stared at a wilderness ten miles east of Xuanhua.

As soon as the morning dawned, Jiang Youguang's 3,000 elite cavalry went out, drove more than 2,000 Qing cavalry away, and then immediately counted the losses while letting the rebels in the three military camps pull out the camp and withdraw into the city.

Last night, the Qing army raided, and the northern camp only lost more than 10 people, but the southern camp, which was trampled through by the cavalry, lost much more, and only a little more than 3,000 people withdrew into the city.

This loss made the anti-Qing rebels lose the joy of capturing Xuanhua, and their hearts were clouded with a layer of haze.

At noon, the 3,000 Datong cavalry, which was entangled with the 2,000 Qing cavalry, hastily withdrew to Xuanhua.

Two thousand Qing cavalry deliberately showed weakness and led them to the southeast, but fortunately, He Shouzhong, the general of the horse army, was vigilant and did not chase closely, they were thirty miles southeast of Xuanhua, and saw a large cavalry coming, so they retreated directly.

According to the news brought back by He Shouzhong, there were about 5,000 cavalry in the Qing Dynasty, and there should be an infantry army behind them, playing the banner of Nikan, the king of the Manchu Dynasty.

Sure enough, Jiang Youguang's judgment was not wrong, and in order to extinguish them, Dolgon had made a desperate bet, and even Nikan, who was stationed in North Korea, was transferred back.

In fact, Duo'er was transferred back to Nikan, in addition to the fact that the Qing Dynasty was close to erosion because of the Shanxi Rebellion, mainly because Nikan couldn't stay in North Korea.

Last time, the Ming army took advantage of the Qing army to attack Mobei, and Xie Qian of Korea led the coalition army and launched a campaign to recover Korea.

Although the Ming coalition forces did not capture Seoul in the end, several other puppet Korean regimes supported by the Qing army were swept away by the coalition forces.

Although Nikan said that he held Seoul, the Korean puppet regime in Seoul was able to control only a lonely city of Seoul and dozens of miles of territory around it, and all other capitals fell into the hands of the coalition army, or the rebel army was all over and fell into a state of anarchy.

Relying on the area around Seoul alone, it is naturally impossible to support the Qing army stationed in Korea, the Qing court transports supplies from the sea, which is easy to be plundered by the Ming Dynasty fleet, transported from the road, not to mention the great consumption, and is also disturbed by the Korean rebels, the Qing army has been unable to support Korea, so Dolgon did not hesitate to transfer the Qing army stationed in Korea back.

Knowing that the main force of the Qing army was coming, Jiang Youguang hurriedly ordered that all the equipment outside the city be burned, and the army quickly prepared to defend Xuanhua City.

In the afternoon, on a high slope in the east of Xuanhua City, several cavalry holding a big flag suddenly appeared, behind the high slope, the cavalry of the brigade came slowly, and then stopped and began to descend the village.

General Heluohui glanced at Xuanhua City in the distance, beat his horse to Nikan's side and said, "Lord Wang, I didn't expect us to be one step slower and let the rebels break through Xuanhua first!" ”

Nikan glanced at the city, frowned, and then said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect Hao Xiaozhong to lose the city so quickly, but it doesn't matter, since this king has arrived, then take the city back." ”

Nikan paused, his expression became serious, and he opened his mouth and ordered: "Heluohui, you lead two thousand men and horses, immediately go north, seize Zhangjiakou, and let the Mongols enter the customs." In addition, in the order of the entire Xuanda, those who dare to resist the Qing soldiers will be slaughtered all over the city by the order of the regent! ”

(End of chapter)