At noon on this day, Liu Ji, the general of Lengkou Pass, saw that a large number of Qing troops were marching here, so he hurriedly sent people to report to Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the prison army stationed in Shanhaiguan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Shanhaiguan City, Gao Qiqian, the supervising army, was drinking and watching a play with a group of officers of the Guanning Army in the mansion.

The wine and meat in the room are fragrant, the silk and bamboo in the hall are beautiful, and the dancing posture is moving, how can there be any atmosphere of war, and the Qing army in Gyeonggi seems to have nothing to do with them.

"Lord Warden, the Tartars are ravaging Gyeonggi, should we send troops to support?" A general named Cui Bingde asked.

glanced at him lightly, and said concentratingly: Hiding in this cold pass, there is wine to drink and meat to eat every day, it is safe and comfortable, why bother to go to Jingshi and Tartar to play for your life, hmph, this surnamed Cui is a fool. Thinking of this, he said, "General Cui, don't worry about this, just keep your cold mouth." ”

Gao Qiqian, a eunuch in the late Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen was an internal servant at the beginning, and Cao Huachun, Wang Dehua and others were deeply valued by Chongzhen. In the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), the generals of the Governor rebelled against Kong Youde. Xuan Du Ning and Jin army suppressed the peasant army. For nine years, he served as the director, dispatched the generals to the Qing army, and did not dare to fight, but cut off the dead and risked his merits. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), Huang Taiji ordered Dolgon, Yue Tuo and others to cross the Great Wall and go deeper. The Ming Dynasty took Lu Xiangsheng as the supervisor and Gao Qiqian as the supervisor. Responsible for overseeing the enemy. And Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, did not want to fight, but Lu Xiangsheng fought alone and died in a bloody battle in Julu Jiazhuang. In the seventeenth year, Li Zicheng attacked the Beijing division, he supervised Ning and the former armies, and abandoned the pass in the middle way. King Fu was called as the governor of Beijing. After the clearance.

After the Qing army invaded Beijing, Chongzhen appointed him as the chief army of reinforcements in various towns, but he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and kept looking for excuses to retreat in Shanhaiguan and not move his nest.

At this moment, an officer ran in and whispered a few words in Gao Qiqian's ear.

"What? A large number of Qing troops are rushing to Lengkou Pass? Gao Qiqian exclaimed and stood up in fright.

"**** Tartar, there are so many passes on the side wall of the Great Wall that you can go out, and you want to come to this cold pass, isn't this embarrassing Lao Tzu? To support, I don't have the courage to do it, I don't want to support, and I'm afraid that the emperor will blame me. ”

Thinking about it, Gao Qiqian decided to make a show to deceive Emperor Chongzhen, anyway, he pampered himself and said whatever he wanted

After thinking of countermeasures, Gao Qiqian gritted his teeth, strengthened his courage, and said sharply: "Generals, the Tartars are here, let's go and have a look, and then come back to discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy." After saying that, he and a few followers walked out, mounted their horses, and headed towards Lengkou Pass.

Seeing this, the generals had no choice but to follow him out of the house and follow him on horseback.

Lengkou Pass was originally guarded by 5,000 heavy soldiers, but because of the lack of pay, the sergeants fled seriously, and now there are less than 2,000 men, and there are many old and weak among them.

Azig led the Qing army's forward brigade to the cold pass, looking at the empty and sparse defenders on the city wall, he said contemptuously: "With such a small number of defenders, my Qing warriors will not be able to capture this place in an hour." After speaking, he said loudly: "Order Yanguli, let him make meritorious service for his crimes, and conquer it within half an hour." With that, he retreated to the distance to watch the battle.

After Yanguli received the order, with a sense of grief and indignation to wash away the shame, he commanded his men to attack desperately, and under his continuous attack, the cold pass was quickly lost.

"Report to the prince, the cold pass has been taken." Yanguli bowed to Azig to report.

After looking at the hourglass, it was not even half an hour, and Azig nodded: "Okay, you go down and rest." ”

"Wow." Yanguli agreed.

Looking at his back, Azig thought to himself: "This Yanguli's ability to fight is not bad, how can he be beaten so badly by a militia group?" It seems that the militia group is a little weird, wait for some time to get to know better. ”

"General, this cold pass has been taken by our army, do you want to leave the pass here, or do you want to rest here for a while?" Hilgen asked.

Looking at the majestic wall, Azig said, "Rest for a day and leave tomorrow." At the sound of the order, the army set up camp under the Lengkou Pass.

When Gao Qiqian led his troops to Liujiakou, 12 kilometers east of Lengkou Pass, he reported that Lengkou Pass had been lost.

After listening to the report, Gao Qiqian did not dare to move forward and ordered to be stationed in Liujiakou.

On September 1 of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army began to calmly take out cold mouths with nearly 140,000 looted animals and other large quantities of materials.

A day later, Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong's pursuers rushed to Lengkou Pass, and saw the Qing army flag fluttering on the city's head from a distance, and the two stopped. Seeing this, the Qing army ignored them and continued to go out of the customs.

Hearing that Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong's pursuers had arrived at Lengkou Pass, Gao Qiqian dared to go to converge.

After the three of them joined forces, there were more soldiers, but the three still did not dare to attack the Qing army.

The Qing army blew and beat in front of the eyes of more than 200,000 Ming troops and calmly went out of the customs, and all the robbed Han folk beauties were smeared on the car with heavy makeup, and the tears played music with the Qing army out of the customs. Seeing that the Qing army was so arrogant, General Cui Bingde's lungs exploded, and he shouted to fight: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Tartar army is leaving the pass, and this is the time for them to relax their vigilance, I am willing to lead the troops to fight to recapture the city, block the return of the Tartars, and rescue the plundered people." ”

"Yes, we are willing to accompany General Cui out to take Guancheng back." Yang Guozhu and others also asked for battle

But Zhang Fengyi, Gao Qiqian and Liang Tingdong were greedy for life and fear of death, and no one dared to give the order to attack, and in the end there was nothing to push, Gao Qiqian found an official army whose combat strength was weaker than that of the Tartars, and he was not sure of the battle at present, so he waited for the Tartars to attack half of the excuse that he blocked Cui Bingde.

Listening to what he said, there was some truth, Cui Bingde and the others had to continue to wait.

Yang Guozhu found that the Tartar was unusual, and actually put the baggage at the back of the team, but he himself moved forward and ignored it. He thought it was a flaw in the Tartars, so he went to war.

didn't want to, but was sent away by Zhang Fengyi, Gao Qiqian and others as this was a Tatar trick to lure the enemy.

On the third day, Cui Bingde went to ask for war again, and was deceived by Gao Qiqian's words of "wait a little longer". The mighty Qing soldiers and horses are exported several times a day,

It took four consecutive days to transport the plundered hundreds of thousands of Ming people and animals, as well as a large number of other materials, out of the customs through the cold pass.

Because the Ming army was cowardly and did not dare to fight, they could only watch the Qing army return with a full load.

After leaving the customs, Hilgen asked Azig: "Lord Wang, you put the elite soldiers in front and the baggage at the back of the team, aren't you afraid of a sneak attack by the Ming army?" ”

"Do they have the guts?" Azig laughed, and Abatai laughed too, but Yanguli didn't laugh, and he was thinking about how to explain the defeat to Huang Taiji when he went back.

After laughing, Azig thought for a moment and said, "Find some planks." ”

"What's the use of the prince's planks?" Abatai asked.

Smiling smugly, Azig said, "You'll know right away." ”

Soon, several Han soldiers cut a few pieces of wood from the side of the road, and Azig took out a brush, wrote on it four big characters, "All officials are exempted", and threw them on the road.

"Lord Wang, this is joking at the Ming Dynasty generals......" Hilgen said with a smile.

"That's right! That's what it means......" After speaking, Azig laughed, and the generals of the Qing army laughed along.

Two days later, Gao Qiqian and Zhang Fengyi got a report from the scouts, knowing that the Qing army had completed the retreat, so they pretended to wave their division and advance to Shimen Mountain (HB Funingdong), and saw that there were three Ming civilians killed by the Qing army on the road, Zhang Fengyi ordered to shave his hair, cut off his head again, put it in a wooden box, and sent someone to report to Chongzhen: kill the enemy at three levels!

After the Qing army retreated, the officials wrote to impeach Zhang Fengyi: "...... On July 15, he conquered Baodi and killed Zhao Guoding of Zhixian County. On the 21st, he entered Dingxing, went down to Fangshan, fought Zhuozhou, attacked Gu'an, Kewen'an, and Yongqing (all in the south of BJ), divided his troops to attack Qiaoxian (BJ Tong County), Zhu'an, Anzhou and Dingzhou in X County, and approached the mouth of Yanzhou. Immediately afterwards, turn to the northeast, to Huairou, trap Xihe, and occupy the west of the river (the west bank of the Grand Canal). Burdened with heavy responsibilities, he is too timid to fight, and there are many broken ...... in."

Then, more than a dozen ministers impeached Liang Tingdong for corruption in turn, and for a while, Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong became the target of public criticism.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wen Tiren knew that he could not wade into the muddy water of the two of them again, so he bowed down and bowed: "Your Majesty, it is Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong who have failed the emperor's grace, and the minister asks Your Majesty to punish these two people to improve the law and discipline." ”

After the court meeting, Wen Tiren sent someone out of the city to tell Zhang Fengyi about today's court and handed him a letter.

The messenger who sent Wen Tiren away, opened the letter and looked at the words "good for yourself" in the letter, Zhang Fengyi knew that he was abandoned by Wen Tiren, and felt that the consequences were not good, the two were very afraid, knowing that the Qing soldiers would retreat and BJ would be relieved, and they would be severely punished, so they took a large amount of rhubarb to die. Five days later, Zhang Fengyi died of poisoning in the barracks due to his weak constitution and overdose of rhubarb, and ten days later, Liang Tingdong also died of poisoning.

Not long after, the three legal divisions (the Criminal Department, the Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate) jointly drafted their crimes: Zhang Fengyi dismissed the official, Liang Tingdong was executed, and when the holy decree reached Xuanda, the two had already died of hard work, and the two were exempted from the pain of swords and axes.

In the Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen took the news of the deaths of Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong, and said stupidly: "These two rice buckets are dying very quickly." ”

Chongzhen was full of hatred for these two incompetent officials, and he had planned to punish them for a long time, but because of the tense situation of the war, he did not start, and after the Qing army withdrew, he was impatient to act. But now these two people are dead, which makes Chongzhen feel like he is punching cotton.

This time, the Tartars swept around Gyeonggi, and many Gyeonggi prefectures and counties had become a ruin, and it was a great shame that the dignified capital of the Ming Dynasty had allowed foreign robbers to wreak havoc, and such a thing made Wang Chengen, a eunuch who was not easily angry, unable to help but be angry.

"Liang Tingdong is dead, I don't know who His Majesty plans to let succeed him as the governor of Xuanda?" Wang Chengen asked.