The provinces south of the Yangtze River are still in flames.

Part of the Beijing Army, the Caoyun Army and most of the troops in Nanjing, together with the Weisho Army of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Provinces, were dragged to death by the local rebel army, and had no time to care about anything else; Canton's forces were stretched thin by the conquest of barbarian thieves; Huguang and Guizhou were short of troops, so the imperial court had to transfer troops from Sichuan and Yunnan and dispatch 100,000 troops to suppress the Miao people.

After years of bloody battles, Fei Yinju million, the military action to quell the civil strife finally made progress, the leader of the Fujian civil rebellion Deng Maoqi, and the self-appointed "natural emperor", "king of the East Temple" of the Jiangxi civil rebellion leader Cai Miaoguang were killed successively, although it is still quite far from the goal of completely quelling the civil strife, but the imperial court is still impatient to show an iron fist, the body of Deng Maoqi was transported into Beijing to show the public, and Cai Miaoguang's subordinates were "tortured". This move has a strong sense of anger and warning.

The entire Ming Dynasty has been weakened by civil strife. During this period, Warat took the opportunity to open his mouth, constantly raising the asking price, and demanded too much from the Ming Dynasty, which was simply insatiable!

The envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty lacked confidence and blindly curryed favor with the Warat people, almost to the point of responding to requests. However, after the envoy returned to Beijing, when the asking price of the Warat people was submitted to the court of the monarch and ministers, everyone met and found that some of the valuables demanded by the Warat people did not even have the Ming Dynasty, and the whole country could not fulfill the envoy's promise even if they tried their best. As a result, the Warat people continued to use the past to make trouble, raising the tone of threat, and the situation in the north continued to heat up, and various places successively asked the imperial court to send Beijing troops to help.

It is really sad that a great country cannot buy peace even if it has repeatedly endured the humiliation of Warat! Think about Guan Zhong's good words about governing the country more than 2,000 years ago, "if you don't repair internal affairs, you won't do well externally", I don't know how the Ming monarchs and ministers would feel!

In July of the 14th year of Orthodoxy, the sound of rolling hooves in the north completely shattered the illusion of peace among the monarchs and ministers of the court.

In the early days of this day, in Fengtianmen, a place where "the imperial gate listens to the government", Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, brought the "Yushu" in the north.

"Your Majesty, Wara coerced and lured Qunhu to enter the Kou in a big way, and also invaded Datong first, Aro invaded Xuanfu, and Totok Buhua invaded Liaodong. He also led the army to attack Datong Maoerzhuang, our army was defeated, and Wu Hao, the right general of Datong, was killed! ”

The monarchs and ministers were all shocked when they heard the news. Fear, shame, anger, and other feelings were intertwined and welled up in his heart, causing the emotions of the orthodox emperor to almost spiral out of control.

After the class, a low-ranking official instinctively shouted: "Peace talks!" ”

Didn't the word "peace talks" shout out the hearts of many people at the scene? But it is inconvenient for them to speak out, because this is related to the last bit of integrity of the scholars, and if they don't even want this bit of integrity, then the name of "well-educated" is not a joke!

Cabinet officials Miao Zhen came out of work angrily, "It is shameless to threaten 'peace talks' at this time!" Your Majesty, the ministers have read the books of the sages and sages, and know the truth of the alliance under the city and the shame of the "Spring and Autumn Period". The Tartars invaded my territory, and made peace with them without a fight, and the peace treaty was almost like an alliance under the city! Could it be that the kingdom of Lang Shang would be willing to be in the company of a small state like the Hangguo back then? Is Warat as powerful as the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period? Since ancient times, all the monarchs and ministers of all dynasties have been ashamed of the alliance under the city, and I hope Your Majesty will see it! ”

Miao Xin's words blocked all retreats. In fact, there is no way out, the monarchs and ministers of the DPRK and China know very well that at this time, peace talks with Warat, even if the Ming Dynasty cedes Beijing City, it will not be able to satisfy the appetite of the Tartar thieves!

The emperor summoned Wang Zhen, Jiuqing, Xun Qi, cabinet ministers, and the governors of the five armies to enter the Fengtian Palace to discuss matters, and countless young and strong officials guarded outside the Fengtian Gate, refusing to retreat from the court.

"Report!"

An imperial official ran into the Fengtian Temple, and his panicked look aggravated the worries of everyone inside and outside the palace.

"Your Majesty, Datong Yushu came to report, the military affairs of the governor of Datong, Xining Marquis Song Ying, Wujin Bo Zhu Mian, and Zuo General Shi Heng led the army to fight with the Tartar thieves outside the city of Yanghe, and the whole army was defeated, and Xining Marquis Song Ying and Wujin Bo Zhu Mian were killed!"

This side report was tantamount to a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and finally woke up some people who were still fantasizing, and Jiuqing realized that the window of peace had been closed, and a big war was inevitable!

Song Ying is the captain of the horse, the fourth daughter of Zhu Di, the ancestor of Shang Ming, Princess Xianning, and later succeeded her father as a marquis. The battle of Yanghe, not only made the chief military officer Zhu Mian lose his life, but also took a horse captain, and there were few survivors of the soldiers, the town guard eunuch Guo Jing hid in the grass and picked up a life, and Shi Heng, the leading general of the Ming Dynasty, fled from the battle, and fled all the way back to Datong City, and survived.

The Datong garrison is one of the most elite armies of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of equipment and the number of participants, it is by no means under the Tartar thieves, but it is beaten by the Tartars, which shows how unworthy of blind belief is the combat power of the "Taiping" army!

The emperor's face was pale, "I will personally conquer!" ”

This is the inevitable choice of the orthodox emperor. Datong border fortress is the place where the Ming Dynasty must be saved, once it falls into the hands of the enemy, between the southeast and the capital, there is no strong castle to resist the enemy, the capital is bound to be in danger, if you want to avoid moving the capital to "Nandu", there is only a way to gather a large army to meet the Tartar thieves.

However, it is necessary to assemble the army, which is scattered in various places in peacetime, where the generals and soldiers are staggered, and each does not know each other, to form a large army, and to give the same orders and prohibitions in the face of war, and to respond to the logistical supply needs, so that the huge military machine can run efficiently, which can only be done by the Son of Heaven himself, and no one can do this to unify the army.

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

Wang Zhi and the others knelt on the ground and paused, and strongly persuaded the emperor not to be in danger, but to send good generals to lead the army to Datong. The tone of everyone's exhortation is extremely sincere, but it is inevitably suspected of pedantic, the incident happened suddenly, the military situation is extremely urgent, and there is no room for any delay, so the Ming Dynasty has no time to discuss it in detail, whether it is a big account such as political responsibility and military scheduling, or a small account such as morale and efficiency, the orthodox emperor must be pro-conscripted, unless the Ming Dynasty does not want to respond to the war as soon as possible!

At this point, the cabinet ministers, who were close attendants and assistants of the Son of Heaven, were as clear as a mirror, and they didn't want to waste their words, so Cao Nai, Chen Xun, Miao Zhen, and Gao Gu gathered together and began to discuss the rationing of the army in case the Son of Heaven consulted.

More than 200,000 of the most elite Beijing troops were mobilized in this expedition, and they were selected and transferred from among the practitioners of the Shenji Battalion, the Fifth Army Battalion, and the 3,000 Battalion in Beijing, and each person was given one tael of silver, one fat jacket and one pair of trousers, two pairs of shoes, and three buckets of fried wheat that were enough for a month, and a total of more than 800,000 pieces of weapons were distributed.

The Son of Heaven led an army of more than 200,000 to Datong, and naturally there would be no shortage of internal and external officials accompanying him, and most of them would move half of the imperial court to Datong. Accompanying members should be arranged well in advance so that everyone can prepare as soon as possible. The chief eunuch Wang Zhendang was among them and was indispensable, while Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, and Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, were in charge of military affairs and the other were in charge of logistics and supplies, and these two people must accompany them. Shoufu Cao Nai is afraid that he will also be recruited······

The emperor on the throne thought for a long time, and said categorically: "What the emperor and others said are loyal to the monarch and patriotism, but the thieves have violated the border, killed the army and civilians, and the border generals have repeatedly asked for troops to rescue, and I have to personally lead the army to suppress it!" ”