In such a situation under Datong City, Huang Taiji, who was three or four miles away, naturally couldn't see it. Ｘ

Therefore, at this time, Huang Taiji was still blindly giving orders to attack and attack!

For the lives of the Mongols, Huang Taiji values them a little more than the ordinary Jurchens, but he just wants to win over these Mongols.

As for how many Mongols died in such a stormy battle, it was acceptable for him to die.

Even if Mang Gurtai was in the Blue Banner army, Huang Taiji was very happy to see his army damaged in order to attack the city.

Huang Taiji's thoughts are known to all his henchmen and advisers.

In this way, the drums in the camp of Huangtaiji did not stop, and the strong attacks outside Datong City were launched one after another, and more and more Mongolians and even bannermen of Zhenglan Banner died under Datong City.

It wasn't until the sun was set to clear the city, Oba Khan and several other Mongol tribal leaders who commanded the siege came to Mang Gurtai to ask for help, and Mang Gurtai could not let the Zhenglan Banner under his command suffer greater losses, and the siege war came to an end.

Oba Khan and several other Mongol tribal leaders, after looking for Mang Gurtai, then went to Huang Taiji, and after some crying and complaining, Huang Taiji finally realized that he might have really made a big mistake under the city of Datong.

Finally, when the sun set on the city, Huang Taiji, who finally figured out the situation under the city, decisively ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

At this time, the Zhenglan Banner and the attached Mongolian tribesmen and horses had already left more than 3,000 corpses on both sides of the moat outside Datong City, and the wounded were twice as many.

Although most of them were people and horses who belonged to the Mongolian tribes, the positive blue banner of Mang Gurtai also suffered a lot of losses, compared to the loss of the right guard of Datong (the right jade of later generations) and the left guard (the left cloud of later generations), and he was angry in his heart.

Next, Huang Taiji, who knew that Datong Jiancheng was indeed impossible to attack and take hard, returned to his original plan.

However, he waited outside Datong for two more days, but the Ming defenders near and far around Datong, especially the Ming army in Xuanfu Town, which was expected to come to reinforce them, still did not move.

In the end, not a single soldier came to the rescue of Datong.

This situation made Huang Taiji and below, including Yang Guli and Fan Wencheng, who thought they knew everything about the military and political affairs of the Ming Dynasty, also couldn't understand it, and didn't know what was going on.

Yanguli said to Huang Taiji, should you wait any longer, maybe the Ming court's response is too slow, and no countermeasures have been discussed yet, or maybe it's because the Ming army in Xuanfu Town is still waiting for their court's order.

In fact, this is the wish of the town guards and generals of Xuanfu Town and Juyong Pass.

It's not that they don't dare to come to the rescue of Datong, it's not that they don't want to come to the rescue, it's that the emperor didn't allow them to send troops to Datong in his secret decree, but asked them to guard their cities.

Since the news of the Jianyu soldiers entering Monan reached the Beijing Division, and then the emperor ordered the five military camps and three thousand battalions stationed in the area of Juyong Pass to prepare for war, Jiang Yingzhao, the chief soldier of the five military camps, Hei Yunlong, the deputy chief soldier, and Wang Tingchen, the chief soldier of the 3,000 battalion, and Liu Xingzhi, the deputy chief soldier, and others who were not far from Juyong Pass, all asked the emperor to fight out of the fortress through the channels of the imperial history of the Beijing camp supervision army and the civil officials of each battalion, but they were all rejected by Emperor Chongzhen.

Including after the news of the siege of Datong came, in Xuanfu Town, which was not far away, whether it was the governor Li Yangchong, the chief soldier Hou Shilu, or the superintendent of the army Ni Yuanlu, they were all in favor of sending troops to rescue.

However, just before they sent out their troops, Emperor Chongzhen sent a secret decree to stop the dangerous operation of rescuing Datong, and turned all out to start a plan to stick to Xuanfu.

In Emperor Chongzhen's calculations, whether it is Datong, Xuanfu, or the border town that the Ming Dynasty has been operating for more than 200 years, how can an army like Jianlu and the Mongols who are not good at attacking fortifications suddenly be able to capture it?

If the governor of Datong, the chief military officer, or the imperial history of the supervising army were not familiar to Emperor Chongzhen, then he would definitely be worried about whether these people would surrender without reinforcements, so he would try to give these people hope.

But that's not the case today.

Because whether it is Fan Fucui, Zu Dashou, or Wu, including Ma Shiying, the prefect of Datong, it is impossible for these people to surrender easily.

Zu Dashou is like this, don't say it.

It was Ma Shiying, a figure known as a traitor in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who finally did not surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty when the Hongguang court collapsed and the Ming Dynasty was gone, but recruited troops to resist the Qing Dynasty until he was defeated and captured and died.

Therefore, now this Chongzhen Emperor is very relieved about these people guarding Datong, and he is not worried that they will open the city and surrender.

In this case, there is no need to risk being surrounded by the Jianjiao and the Mongols, and to waste troops to rescue a city that does not need rescue at all.

However, the things that Emperor Chongzhen took for granted seemed a little unusual to the heads of Huang Taiji's side.

On the same day that Yanguli persuaded Huang Taiji to wait any longer, Fan Wencheng, who has always been thoughtful, also came to see Huang Taiji, and strongly persuaded Huang Taiji not to waste time waiting for reinforcements under Datong City.

Fan Wencheng said to Huang Taiji: "The longer Your Majesty personally leads the army to stop troops under Datong City, the more unfavorable it will be to my Eight Banners army!"

"The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty did not come to the rescue of Datong, perhaps because they were afraid of the sharpness of our soldiers, or because they were waiting for me to retreat when I ran out of food, or because of other reasons.

"However, no matter what it is, our army is far away from the hinterland of Liaodong, and it has traveled thousands of miles to this place, but it must not stay under the enemy's fortified city for a long time!

"If there are awakened people among its monarchs and ministers, they ignore the lonely city of Datong, but send another army to attack the hinterland of our Jianzhou, Your Majesty will lead a large army to attack this fortified city, it is impossible to attack, it is difficult to take, after ten days, the snow falls, is it not dangerous to think about it!?"

When Huang Taiji heard this, his face changed, he pondered for a moment, and said, "If this is the case, what is Fan Zhen's opinion?" ”

Fan Wencheng saluted Huangtai Kedah Qianxing, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty! The minion really has three strategies in his heart to dedicate to His Majesty!

"The best policy, Your Majesty personally led the army to abandon all the cities of Datong Xuanfu, advance lightly, drive straight in, go straight to Juyong, go all out, break this city, so Your Majesty's great cause can be expected!

"Among them, His Majesty dispatched a strong army to rush to mediocrity, and if there is an opportunity, it will be attacked, and if there is no opportunity, it will be surrounded, with the purpose of mobilizing the Jinggi army of the Ming Kingdom, so that it has no time to be distracted by other things.

"Then Your Majesty divided the troops to plunder the land of Datong Xuanfu, and took its wealth such as gold, silver, grain, people, livestock, etc. for his own use. Then Xu Tu Juyong! ”

After saying these words, Fan Wencheng raised his eyes and looked at Huang Taiji, seeing that the other party was silent in thought, and then said:

"As for the next policy, the soldiers of Datong and Xuanfu Town, if they don't go out of the city to attack me, they will not harm me, and our army can plunder the population and wealth of the two places and then return north as soon as possible. In this way, Your Majesty's trip is also a complete victory! ”

Fan Wencheng said the three strategies, of course, he himself was inclined to the best policy he thought he had, including Huang Taiji who listened to these three strategies, and he was also inclined to the best policy.

It's just that Darhan, who was present at the same time, said: "Why doesn't the Great Khan take the middle way?!" If our army goes straight and does not break the mediocrity, wouldn't the back road be dangerous?

"As for the next step, it is really a last resort. With the favorable situation of our army today, it has not yet reached such a situation! ”

At the same time, Yanguli, who was present, also said: "It's okay to take the middle way!" Our army was defeated in the battle under the fortified city, and the damage was quite heavy, the morale of the various departments in Monan was low, and the three belles also complained. It is better to plunder Xuanfu and other places, one can revive the morale of all departments, and the other can anger the defenders and lure them out of the city to fight! ”

Yanguli's last sentence successfully moved Huang Taiji, making him who had already firmly chosen the best strategy sway to the middle strategy again.

After Huang Taiji's last order came out, the main force of Zhenghuang Banner, which had been following the rapid march, as well as the Zhenglan Banner and the Mongol tribes of Southern Mongolia, who had suffered losses under Datong City, cheered long live, and their morale soared.

Early in the morning of the 6th day of the first month of November, Huang Taiji left behind the men and horses of a Jiala with a red flag to guard outside the city of Datong, and sent Yanguli, Dardai, and Tulai to lead two Jiala's 3,000 horsemen to the east of Juyongguan, while the rest of the troops divided their troops to plunder all parts of Datong and Xuanfu.

All of a sudden, the east of Datong and all parts of Xuanfu were in danger!

Hunyuan and Ulzhou, southeast of Datong Town, were successively broken by the Zhenglan Banner Army of Mang Gurtai, who led the army east, and the Mongol army of Naowen Korqin Oba Khan.

Wherever the armies of Manggultai and Oba Khan passed, cities were slaughtered, men and women were killed, and only young women were left dead, some of them were given to Jurchen or Mongol soldiers who were bachelors, and some were simply used as camp prostitutes, which is too tragic to describe.

The once prosperous mountain plains turned into a hell on earth within a few days.

The Mang Gurtai army had not yet reached the Bauhinia Pass, and the refugees from Hunyuan, Ulzhou, and Lingqiu had already flocked to the Bauhinia Pass and the Baoma Pass one after another.

The defenders of Bauhinia Pass and Fallen Horse Pass immediately made a lot of noise and warnings!

The same tragic situation also occurred in various parts of Xuanfu Town.

On the second day after Emperor Chongzhen's royal car arrived at Juyong Pass, refugees from Baoan Prefecture had already poured into the dustpan-shaped valley in front of Juyong Pass.

Like two powerful arms stretching north from Juyong Pass to the Shixia Ridge and Badaling Great Wall on the left and right sides, the smoke is everywhere for a while! r