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"Zhongqing, can there be a strategy for the imperial court to help the country?" Empress Zhang looked at the hundred officials and asked in a soft voice.

In an embarrassing silence, Chen Xinjia came out of the queue and said: "The prince, the queen's mother, Kou is pressing, Houjin is not here, please transfer some of the troops of Shanhaiguan to enter the customs, and stay in the suburbs to defend the Beijing Division." If the Beijing division is not in danger, it will also help the princes of the four seas! ”

Chen Xinjia said this, in normal times, it would definitely make the official explode.

However, today is no more than ever.

The threat from Houjin has not been seen for about two years. Moreover, more than half of the forces in the grassland were close to the Ming Kingdom.

Just like the countries of later generations, there have been no wars for decades, and the peace has been too long.

Not only Chen Xinjia, but also the Yanguan and other officials also feel that it seems that Houjin will not have much of a climate. Don't worry either!

If you think about it this way, you still spend a lot of money every day to garrison so many troops in the border army, especially elite troops.

Not only is it expensive, but it is also easy to develop a private army.

This Ming Dynasty has a Zhu family army Zhu Sihai, it is enough to make people scared, if there is another private border army, it will be completely over!

Now, it is only proposed to withdraw part of the border army and return to the division to clean up the army of thieves.

It's not that all the border troops are called back.

This can only reduce military spending, and it will not be wrong to defend the border, which seems to be very reasonable!

Don't say it, the queen thinks so too.

So, after going back and forth, the proposal was finally approved, and the majority and officials agreed and passed. The military department, immediately issued an order to Shanhaiguan!

At this time, poor Zhu Zilong went back to the modern 21st century to shop and prepare.

Even if someone in the Ming Dynasty sees that it feels unsafe, they don't have the ability to affect the overall situation like Zhu Zilong. Besides, when some people reflect it, it's too late!

As a result, a big loophole was created.

A few days later!

Half of the Shanhaiguan border army marched halfway back to the division, but they didn't know that Dolgon had already learned the news, and he was overjoyed and prepared, and he could enter the customs at any time.

At this time, Li Zicheng was there.

The peaks are like gathering. The waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of the road.

The Dashun army tried to storm Tongguan and enter other provinces. Tongguan is located in the north of Tongguan County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, bordering the Yellow River in the north and the mountainside in the south.

"Notes on the Book of Water" contains: "The river flows south of Tongjiguan Mountain in the Guan, because it is called Tongguan. It was founded in the first year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (196).

It is the east gate of Guanzhong, which has always been a place for soldiers to fight, ranking second among the top ten famous passes in China, and is known as the "first pass"!

The Yellow River flows through here in the south, the northern Shaanxi Plateau in the north, and the Qinling Mountains are steep and steep.

Such a good terrain advantage is a good one-man affair, and whoever occupies it will not be able to open it. Retreat can be defended, can enter the pass, or occupy the Central Plains, which is naturally a battleground for soldiers.

However, it is not easy to lay down here.

The surrounding mountains are even mountains, peaks are even peaks, the valleys are deep and the precipices are exclusive, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, and there is a narrow sheep intestine path in the middle, and only one car and one horse can be allowed to go back and forth. In the past, people often compared the situation here with "the danger of the road and the ape" and "the danger of the road stopping at Tongguan in the world".

Since then, Du Fuyou has also had the poem "The father-in-law sees the important place, the narrow and narrow accommodates the bicycle, the struggle is difficult, and the eternal use of a husband".

At this time, tens of thousands of thieves and Dashun soldiers had already launched wave after wave of fierce attacks towards Tongguan City. They resisted the rudimentary ladders, pushed the captured cloud platforms, and stepped on the yellow sand and brown soil soaked in blood. Charge into battle!

"Kill! Enter Tongguan! Silver women and food, as much as you want, give it to me! ”

However, because Qin Liangyu's troops were already in place.

Therefore, the soldiers on the city pass can be well defended. The Shaanxi soldiers, covered in blood, roared angrily. Or lift the thick giant wood and slam into the thief ladder, or rush towards the thief soldier with a steel knife and a spear, and climb the wall one after another.

The two sides are inseparable from each other!

In the end, dozens of barrels of tung oil were spilled. Hundreds of torches were thrown down, and a raging fire soon rose under the wall.

Coupled with the power of the firearms of Qin Liangyu's department, in the end, Li Zicheng's department could only retreat!

Tongguan is a man, and it is really not a joke.

Unless, Li Zicheng is determined to fight for his family, it is really difficult to break in.

Seeing that the Tong Pass could not be attacked for a long time, corpses in different postures were everywhere on the slope path. There were so many dead and so high the density of attacks that broke into the camp that some of the hungry wept, as if they foresaw their fate, and hesitated to enter.

After many retreats, the Dashun army was in the account.

Li Zicheng and the generals were all silent, and their endurance was the same, fast to the limit.

Suddenly, a herald ran in. Xiang Li Zicheng knelt down and said, "King, there is a Houjin Dog official outside, coming here with a white flag, saying that there is something important to see you." ”

"Houjin?" Li Zicheng's brows locked.

Limited by their own cultural level and knowledge, as well as information asymmetry. To be honest, Li Zicheng really doesn't have much of an impression of Houjin, even if he is a thief boss in Daming, he has been mixed up for a few years.

also set himself up as a king, but for the Houjin. Li Zicheng and his companions, the image in their minds is rough. Well, a minority outside the Guanwai who has been fighting with the Ming army for many years, coming and going, and hearing about it.

The rest, Li Zicheng and his people, can't be imagined.

In fact, this is very understandable, even if we are Chinese living in the 21st century, how many of us have gone abroad? Met a foreigner face-to-face?

Not to mention that you often see it on TV, that's what the news broadcasts want you to see, and if you don't want to let you see it, you don't go abroad to see it yourself. You never know what the situation is like abroad, what their combat effectiveness and economy are like.

You will not understand where the real difference between China and foreign countries is.

What's more, during the Ming Dynasty, there were no televisions, there were not many newspapers, and the illiteracy rate was 99%. He Li Zicheng and his friends have never been to the border pass, nor have they directly faced the Houjin army, can he imagine how strong Houjin is?

"Let him come in, and see what this Houjin Dog Officer wants to say." Li Zicheng waved his hand and said.

The messenger who came from Houjin this time was none other than Ning Wan.

Ning Wan I (1593-1665), the name Gongfu, was a native of Liaoyang (now Liaoning), and a minister in the early Qing Dynasty.

During the Later Jin Mandate (1616-1626), he surrendered to Nurhachi and was under the red flag of the Han army. He successively served as a scholar of the Inner Hongwen Academy, a minister of parliament, and a prince and prince.

became a traitor for some reason, he can be said to be one of the earliest traitors in my country, on a par with Fan Wencheng.

The reason why I will come here in person.

The main reason is that he and Fan Wencheng are only accomplices, and they are also semi-competitive.

A few days ago, the plan proposed by Fan Wencheng was greatly liked by Emperor Jin Xindi and was very valued. This made him very jealous, so he decided to personally handle the matter of winning over the Dashun army to improve his status in the heart of the new emperor of the Later Jin.

Fan Wencheng has always been more afraid of death, and in the face of jealousy and red-eyed friends, he proposed to go out this time, and he wondered in his heart, how could he rob him of this errand?

On the Houjin side, he also thought that in order to be competent in this matter of persuading the Dashun army to unite, a high-ranking person must come out. In addition, the Han people and the Han people are better to talk after all, so after some secret operation, Ning I finished, which means that Houjin appeared here.

- (To be continued.) )