Lin Dan Khan fled without a fight, the city of Guihua fell into the hands of Houjin, and the news that tens of thousands of Jianyu soldiers were approaching the border of Datong had already made the civil officials and military ministers of the Beijing division in an uproar and discussions.

As a result, the news had not yet been digested, and just a few days later, the governor and chief soldier of Datong sent an even more shocking military emergency report:

"Slave chief Huang Taiji personally led tens of thousands of cavalry from Jianlu and Monan Mongol coalition army, and unexpectedly broke through the border without warning!"

On the evening of October 26, the news that the Jianyu army had entered the customs from the killing of Hukou reached the Beijing Division, and the government and the opposition of the Beijing Division immediately became in an uproar, and the important ministers of the imperial court entered the palace late at night, and rumors arose in the market.

On the second day, news also came from the direction of Juyong Pass, and a large number of gentry and people from Datong Town and Xuanfu Town flocked to the gate and asked for refuge under the pass.

The news soon spread to the capital, the Beijing division of hundreds of officials, nobles, merchants and people were terrified, outside the city of Beijing, in the Tongzhou area, even many merchants began to pack their belongings, in the canal wharf hired boats to flee south.

Noble families like Dingguo Mansion and royal relatives like Jiading Bofu have found a woman with good rank to enter the palace from the beginning, and took the opportunity to greet the queen and concubines to inquire about the royal trend and the safety of the Jingshi.

Empress Zhou and Empress Yi'an Zhang, as well as Concubine Li, Concubine Jing, and Concubine Lan also took various opportunities to appease and comfort Emperor Chongzhen's mood.

All this made Emperor Chongzhen, who was originally confident and thought that everything was under control, feel very depressed.

Especially after the news of killing Hu Kou came, the panic of the civil and military officials of the Beijing Division made him feel very unhappy.

Because the overall situation in front of us is far from collapsing to the point of being out of control.

Even compared with the situation in history when Huang Taiji led his army from Zunhua to Gyeonggi, the current situation is much better.

At least it was not built as in history and went straight to the Jingshi Desheng Gate and surrounded the Jingshi.

Besides, just a few days ago, Emperor Chongzhen knew from Sun Chengzong of Rehe Fort and Fan Fucui of Datong Town that Huang Taiji had led the main force of four of the Eight Banners of Jianyu to the west to conquer Lin Dan Khan, and immediately sent Li Fengxiang, Han Zanzhou, and Zhang Guoyuan to Liaodong, Denglai, and Dongjiang with secret decrees, and ordered the governors, Fu, and Zhenchen of the three places to send troops immediately on the day of the order.

And in order to avoid missing the deadline, the emperor also clearly added a sentence to Liaodong, Denglai and Dongjiang Town:

"The deadline is November before the end of the day, and if the minister fails to arrive after the deadline, the minister will be beheaded! If the general fails to send troops within the time limit, the governor will be killed, and the town minister will be killed! Don't be unpredictable! ”

Emperor Chongzhen believed that as long as Dongjiang Town, Denglai Town, and Liaodong Town could send troops north as scheduled to launch an attack on the Jin State after the capture of Jian, then this time Huang Taiji led his army to the west, and he would definitely steal chickens and rice!

Of course, the premise of all this is that the border troops of Datong, Xuanfu and even Jizhen must withstand the attack of the captives and hold on until the day when the news of the Houjin State was invaded and Huang Taiji led the army to evacuate.

Once Datong and Xuanfu can't withstand it, then the next consequences will be dangerous!

Because once Jianyu entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty as in history, and even reached the Beijing division as in history, then even if Mao Wenlong, Li Xin and Lu Shanji achieved certain results in Liaodong, southern Liaonan and Liaoxi, now this battle that Emperor Chongzhen has been preparing for since he crossed over is likely to be a situation where the gains outweigh the losses or even the big defeats.

However, for the current Emperor Chongzhen, even if the future situation really develops to this point, all his arrangements will be defeated and lost, and his worst end will only be the same as the situation at the end of Chongzhen's second year in history.

With the lessons of the same period in history for comparison and reference, when Emperor Chongzhen received several urgent military reports from Datong and Xuanfu one after another, although he was very dissatisfied with the repeated misresponse of Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, and Zu Dashou, the chief military officer, in general, he was still relatively calm.

Because he knows what the worst situation in history is, and he knows that the situation today is far from the worst.

Therefore, except for urgently summoning several important ministers of the court, informing them of the emergency report from Datong, and asking Jinyiwei to send people to Taiyuan, Datong and Juyongguan to convey a few of his own oradic messages, Emperor Chongzhen did not have any special performance that was different from usual.

On the contrary, inside and outside the palace, the Jingshi government and the opposition suddenly fell into a panicked atmosphere.

On the morning of October 27, Emperor Chongzhen got up as usual, washed up, and jogged along the walls of the Forbidden City with a kind of attendant military attache and the commander of the three guards of the guards.

Then, according to the arrangement all along, I went to Concubine Lan and Concubine Yi of Chuxiu Palace and accompanied them to breakfast.

However, unlike usual, Emperor Chongzhen simply had breakfast, that is, he brought a kind of attendant civil and military ministers to the Wuying Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen summoned Zhang Weixian, Minister of Military Aircraft, Nan Juyi, Governor of Zhili, Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, Niu Juming, and others in the Ministry of War, and talked about the situation in front of him around the topographical sand table in the Yutu Pavilion of the right side of the Wuying Palace, and then pointed to the position of Juyong Pass and said:

"This is the most important location! The killing of Hukou has been broken, the army of Jianyu has broken in, and there is no danger to defend in the two towns of Datong and Xuanfu, although it cannot be abandoned, but it is not enough!

"However, Datong to the south, Xuanfu to the east, is still Guanshan dangerous, there are Ningwu in the south, Yanmen, and Juyong Xiongguan in the east! If Jianyu wants to repeat his old tricks, breaking through these three levels and going straight to the hinterland, it is also wishful thinking!

"Now the Minister of Military Aircraft Li Banghua is in Taiyuan, and I will order him to lead the Jin army to settle in Yanmen, and let the governor of Yansui, Sun Chuanting, lead the Yansui army to settle in Ningwu, so that these two passes are as stable as Mount Tai, and the hinterland of Shanxi can rest easy!"

After saying these words, Emperor Chongzhen did not give others a chance to express their opinions, but paused slightly, and then continued: "The most worrying thing is the gateway to the west of Beijing here!" ”

While saying this, Emperor Chongzhen held a long pole about four feet long and clicked heavily on the position of Juyong Pass.

After Emperor Chongzhen said this, the Minister of Military Aircraft, the British Duke Zhang Weixian, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty! Although the minister is old, he is willing to share his worries for His Majesty! Please let Your Majesty allow the old minister to leave Beijing and take the Beijing camp to Juyongguan to sit in the town! Guan is here! It will not make His Majesty's heart worry! ”

Since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he set up a military aircraft department outside the cabinet that is in charge of military and military affairs, and for more than a year, the functions of the military aircraft department have also been recognized by the government and the opposition.

First stabilized the defense line in Liaodong, then disintegrated the northwest bandits, and recently pacified the rebellion of Lu'an, and the prestige of the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Military Aircraft Department has continued to rise.

After the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department, two of the three ministers of military aircraft are now sitting outside to command the troops, although the British public Zhang Weixian has become the foreman of the military aircraft again, but in the eyes of outsiders, he is just a promise in front of the emperor, and has done nothing.

There are many such rumors and rumors between the government and the opposition, and they have been banned repeatedly, and Zhang Weixian will certainly not be unaware.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the position of Juyongguan and said such a thing, Zhang Weixian, as the Minister of Military Aircraft, must stand up and shoulder this responsibility in a reasonable way.

First, he is the Minister of Military Aircraft, and he does not go to anyone.

Second, he is also the governor of the Metropolitan Office of the Five Armies and the governor of Beijing, and the first line of Juyongguan has long been separated from Jizhen, which is the defense area of Beijing.

Moreover, he was ordered to sit in Zhuozhou to supervise the selection of the second town of the Guards, and now he is only waiting for the last batch of equipment to be in place, even if it is fully loaded, the training is completed.

Since the emperor put himself in charge of the arrangement, didn't he just want to make it easier for him to command in the future?

Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua were both ordered to go out to sit in the town, how could they sit indifferently and sit in Beijing every day to draw a vegetarian meal with the corpse?

In particular, Emperor Chongzhen's repeated hereditary position of marquis and earl rewarded the civil and military generals who led the troops in battle, so that the old nobles in the north and south led by the Duke of England, the Duke of Dingguo, and the Duke of Wei panicked, and if they did not make new military achievements, their own noble status of two hundred years of inheritance will inevitably be replaced by the emperor's newly crowned noble family in the future.

He is already a prince of the country, of course, he can't be sealed, but he has many children, and the descendants of those who have been knighted for military merits are not allowed to attack the knighthood without military merits, even if he wants to maintain the inheritance of the British dukedom, he has to take advantage of the time when he has to use it in front of the emperor to draw more military merits!

For a period of time, British Gong Zhang Weixian has been thinking about how to solve this dilemma.

However, this is just his own thoughts.