Just when Emperor Chongzhen was still in the court of the capital in order to be able to control the matter of personal conquest, he and the courtiers were fighting wits and courage, and the Jianlu and Mongolian troops under Huang Taiji were not idle at all.

In the early morning of October 20, Huang Taiji personally led a large army, following the pace of the Zhenglan Banner army under the command of Mang Gurtai, waved his army south, and poured all the way into the Hukou area, and met again with the two brothers Fan Yongdou and Fan Yongkui recommended by Yanguli, and praised the Fan family's contributions, and immediately gave the Fan family the right to free trade and trade within the grassland of Outer Mongolia and the Dajin Kingdom.

At noon on the same day, Huang Taiji hosted a banquet for the Fan family and his son, as well as the proprietors and shopkeepers of the Chamber of Commerce in the former Killing Hubao Counselor's Mansion, and once again assured that there was no offense against the eight major business warehouses and personnel headed by the Fan family.

Next, in the afternoon of the same day, Huang Taiji ordered the demolition of more than a dozen general cannons on the north pass of Hukou, leaving a Mongol army in southern China to garrison Hukou, and then followed the pace of the Mang Gurtai army and led the army to Shuoping City, where the right guard of Datong was located.

Shuoping City, where the right guard of Datong is located, is only sixty or seventy miles away from killing Hukou.

Although there were mountain roads along the way, the Jianguo and Mongol armies were mounted infantry in addition to cavalry, in short, all of them had horses, so the speed of advance was very fast.

Jiang Zhu led more than 1,000 defenders of Hukou Nanguan, and after fleeing from Hukou overnight, he ran south all night, and finally fled into Shuoping City around midnight on October 20.

The news brought by Jiang Ji made Ma Wei, the commander of the right guard of Datong, shocked, and in a hurry, he sent Ma Zhenyang, the grandson of the Ma family of the right guard of Datong, to lead a group of men and horses to go out of the city to the west, to find Ding Qirui, the patrol who should have been sitting in Shuoping City.

On the other side, the right guard of Datong and the servants of the Ma family were ordered to go to the city to defend.

Here, Ma Zhenyang had just left the city, and the third Beile Mang Gurtai of the Houjin Kingdom led more than 20,000 people and horses under his command Zhenglanqi and the Maoming An Department and Haoqi Special Department of Monan in Southern Mongolia to Shuoping City.

Seeing this, Jiang Jian strongly persuaded Ma Wei, the grandson of Ma Gui, who was the hereditary commander of the Datong Right Guard at this time, to lead the Datong Right Guard army and civilians to collectively withdraw to Shuozhou to preserve their strength and facilitate the future war, but Ma Wei categorically refused.

After the braided soldiers of the Houjin army and more than 20,000 Mongolian soldiers rushed to the outside of Shuoping City, Jiang Biao's persuasion was unsuccessful, and he left the Datong border military camp soldiers brought from the killing of Hukou all the way, and only took dozens of cronies to seize horses and break into the door in Shuoping City, and fled all the way to Shuozhou south of the right guard of Datong.

Regarding Jiang Pin's escape to the south, Ma Wei had no choice but to jump and scold.

Ma Wei didn't dare to escape, or couldn't escape, of course, for a reason.

The Ma family is the Jiangmen family of the Datong Right Guard, just like the ancestral Dashou family has guarded Ningyuan for generations, Ma Wei's father Ma Chengzhao, Ma Chengzhao's father Ma Gui, Ma Gui's father Ma Lu, Ma Lu's father Ma Quan, Ma Quan's father Ma Zheng, etc., are all generals of Datong Right Guard.

Among them, Ma Gui's elder brother Ma Jin, younger brother Ma Fu, and Ma Chengzhi, Ma Chengen, Ma Chengxun, Ma Chengzong, Ma Chengxuan, Ma Chengxun and others among the children and nephews are all general soldiers or deputy general soldiers, and there are more than ten children above the deputy general soldiers.

Moreover, Magui's father Ma Lu, his brother Ma Jin, and his younger brother Ma Fu all died in Mongolia.

His subordinate son Ma Chengen and son Ma Chengzong died in Liaodong.

These are all those who have the rank of chief soldier or above.

As for other lower positions, such as his son Ma Chengzhao, grandson Ma Yan, great-grandson Ma Zhensheng and other nephews of the Ma family, there are as many as a dozen who have died in battles outside the Datong border, Liaodong, and even on the Korean battlefield.

Born in such a family, Ma Wei can't run even if he wants to.

Not only did the reputation of the Ma family be ruined after he ran away, but more importantly, he lost the right guard of Datong, and his Ma family lost the foundation of his life.

Almost all of the military households of Datong's right guard are Hui people who have followed Majia Town to guard Shuoping for generations.

Among them, there are also many people who were captured and brought back by the Ma family when they went to Mongolia.

It can be said that Datong Right Guard, especially Shuoping City itself, is almost the property of the Ma family.

The Acropolis Shuoping, which lost the right guard of Datong, will destroy the family business that the Ma family has accumulated for generations.

Therefore, after Jiang Jian ran away, Ma Wei, who was the hereditary commander of the right guard of Datong, hurriedly asked the elders of the family, that is, Ma Chengxuan and Ma Chengguang, who were the only surviving nephews and nephews of Ma Guizi, what to do with Ma Chengxuan and Ma Chengguang, who were already at home.

There is no doubt that the result of the request is to organize the Ma family's family and the right guard soldiers in Shuoping City to go to the city to defend and resolutely resist.

The main force of the Zhenshuo battalion in Shuoping City originally had 3,000 battalion soldiers, and 1,000 of them were taken away by Ma Kun, the eldest son of Ma Chengxun, who was born in the Ma family's house, and followed Ding Qirui to the west to inspect the border preparation.

Because no one could have imagined that the impregnable killing of Hu Kou would suddenly change in just a few days.

Later, the battalion soldiers in the Zhenshuo camp were taken out of the city by Ma Kun's son Qianzong Ma Zhenyang.

Up to now, only 1,500 people have been left in the Zhenshuo camp to take Ma Qi and stay in the city.

And the right guard of Datong in Shuoping City is not many, only more than 1,000 people.

On paper, a guard has to govern at least three to five thousand households.

In other words, there must be at least about 3,600 people in a guard, but today's Datong right guard, like the guards in the mainland, has a considerable difference between the heads on paper and the reality.

In Shuoping City, where the Acropolis is located, more than a thousand people can be pulled out in a hurry, which is already good.

Coupled with more than 1,000 people in each room of the Ma family, and more than 1,000 killed the Hukou border army left by Jiang Ping, there were less than 5,000 soldiers in Shuoping City at this time.

Even with such a disparity in troops, the Ma family in Shuoping City still insisted on waiting for reinforcements, hoping that Ma Kun and Ma Zhenyang, who were outside at this time, would be able to invite reinforcements.

However, their hopes were doomed.

Because the speed of the Jianyu army's attack far exceeded their imagination.

After Mang Gurtai led an army of more than 20,000 people to Shuoping City, he first asked Ning Wan, who came with the army, to write a letter to persuade him to surrender and shoot into the city.

Then he waited for more than an hour without waiting for a reply, and the men and horses sent to inquire were shot back by the Majia army at the head of the city, and Mang Gurtai immediately ordered the Mongols who came with the army to abandon their horses and attack the city.

From the time of the day to the fall of night, the Mongols under his command led the Mongols to launch two ant-attached sieges under the cover of the bows and arrows of the forty Niu Lu Jurchen pigtailed soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner, and they were all repulsed.

There were more than 8,000 men and horses in the Maoming Anbu Zhaisangpo Buda Yaqi and Haoqi Special Departments of the Yierdence Zero Division, and they attacked the city twice, killing and wounding more than 3,000 people, and in the evening, under the pretext that there were no siege equipment, they hesitated and refused to attack Shuoping City again.

Although Mang Gurtai did not care about the casualties of the Mongols and despised the fighting power of the Mongols, he could not ignore the emotions of Pobudayaqi and Yildentse.

After all, Huang Taiji attached great importance to the leaders of the various tribes in Monan, and the subordinates of Bobudayaqi and Yierdenze were indeed seriously injured.

Therefore, in the evening, Mang Gurtai ordered the two strong generals under the Zhenglan Banner, one was Gushan Ezhen Tun Bulu, and the other was Meler Ezhen Ai Bali, to personally put on armor and go into battle, supervising the two Jiala 3,000 Jurchen pigtail soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner, and the battle made Shuoping City crumbling, and the Majia army suffered heavy casualties.

Ma Chengxuan, a veteran who is nearly seventy years old and has been at home for a long time, and his elder brother Ma Chengguang personally led their families to defend the city, so that they could defeat the blue banner infantry who were wearing heavy armor and were not afraid of bows and arrows that had already attacked the city.

In the end, because it was already dark, Mang Gurtai, who was in a hurry to jump in the battle under the city, was persuaded by his son Epilon and his minister Leng Seng Ji to stop the attack.

Not long after Mang Gurtai ordered the attack to be stopped, Huang Taiji led Zhenghuang Qi and other Mongol troops to the north gate of Shuoping, the right guard of Datong.

Along with Huang Taiji's army, there was also a great general's cannon that was dismantled from the head of Beiguan City, which was escorted by Turai and Sun Degong.

The eighteen general cannons that were originally dismantled were loaded on the cart and pulled by horses, marching all the way, and when they arrived outside Shuoping City, only twelve of the eighteen general cannons remained.

With these twelve general cannons, as well as more than 400 soldiers of the Datong border army who killed Hubao and surrendered, under the advice of Fan Wencheng and Sun Degong, they became the first Han army under the Huangtai Jizheng Yellow Banner.

Sun Degong, a surrendered general who was awarded the third-class guerrilla post after surrendering during the old slave period, also entered Huang Taiji's field of vision because of the merit of killing Hukou this time, and was promoted to three levels in a row, and was directly promoted by Huang Taiji to a third-class general.

At the same time, because Sun Degong had commanded and used artillery when he was in Guangning City, he became the first Han official leader of this Han army.

Huang Taiji personally led tens of thousands of troops to come, making Ma Chengxuan and Ma Chengguang, veterans of the Ma family who originally advocated holding on to the aid in Shuoping City, dare not have hope for the help anymore.

In particular, the captives outside the north gate were still setting up artillery with torches in the dark night, which made the defenders of the city panic.

In the early morning of October 21, Ma Chengxuan and Ma Chengguang, who were nearly 70 years old, suddenly rushed out of the south gate with the remaining defenders of the city with a total of more than 2,000 people, under the escort of the Ma family's disciples and the remaining hundreds of family members.

However, the possibility that the defenders in Shuoping City might break through early in the morning had already been expected by Huang Taiji.