readx; In the seventh lunar month of the sixth year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin Tiancong Khan personally led all the Jurchen Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners and a part of the Han Army Banner, a total of about 160,000 people, from Liaodong to the nest. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info he avoided the Shanhaiguan where the Ming army was heavily garrisoned, and lied that he was going west to conquer Lin Dan Khan, but in fact, after going around in a circle on the grassland, he suddenly went straight to the Xifengkou of Jizhen Border Pass, and crossed the mountains and mountains to break through, and the world was shaken!

In the battle of Xifengkou, Zhao Zuo, the chief soldier of Jizhen, was outnumbered and martyred, and only a few of the hundreds of pro-soldiers were ordered to break through, and the rest were all killed. According to the edict of the flying pigeon, all the officers and troops scattered in the cities and passes of Jizhen gave up their defensive positions and urgently retreated south to Tianjinwei, and all the people were also ordered to abandon all their possessions and flee south immediately.

First, Zhao led the sect to fight hard at Xifengkou for half a day, buying time for the subsequent actions; Second, the retreat was carried out very resolutely, and a large amount of abandoned property was allowed to be looted by the Houjin army, which also delayed the enemy's action. Therefore, although Huang Taiji was menacing, he soon occupied Zunhua, Jizhou and seven or eight nearby county seats, but the Ming army did not annihilate much, nor did it capture a large number of people.

Despite this, there will always be some people who are old, weak, sick and disabled, and those who are reluctant to abandon their family property. That night, the Houjin army rushed into Zunhua. Huang Taiji ordered the slaughter of the city in order to "establish authority", more than 1,000 people who had not had time to evacuate, regardless of men, women and children, were all killed, and the city gates on all sides were full of the heads of the victims!

The news of Zhao Shujiao's death in battle and the fall of Jizhen was soon reported to Beijing through the flying pigeon. Late that night, the Forbidden City was brightly lit, and Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen urgently convened the ministers and the relevant ministers of the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the Qianqing Palace to discuss countermeasures. When he saw the specific process of introducing how Zhao Shujiao refused to escape, covered the evacuation of his subordinates, and finally martyred the country, Zhu Youzhen let out a loud cry of grief, and almost fainted, Mei Jian and others hurriedly helped him into the back to rest.

After a while, Zhu Youzhen, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, returned to the Qianqing Palace again. The ministers were extremely surprised to find that the emperor actually had a filial piety belt wrapped around his head!

The emperor brought filial piety to his subordinates, which was the first time since the emperor was beaten. Many people felt that it was very inappropriate, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Zong Dao thought that this was a matter that he should take care of, so he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is not in line with your filial piety to your head. His Majesty is the monarch's father, Zhao Shujiao is the courtier, there is a difference between the top and the bottom, the dignity and the humility are orderly, and the etiquette can not be reversed. It is true that General Zhao was martyred, but that is the duty of a military general, and His Majesty will give him heavy compensation to his family, so why bother? I'm afraid that Zhao Shujiao can't afford it! ”

Lai Zongdao finished speaking triumphantly, but Zhu Youzhen stared at him with unprecedented cold eyes for a long time, and he could see that Zong Dao was hairy. After a while, Zhu Youzhen squeezed out a word from between his teeth: "Get out." ”

Lai Zongdao was stunned, thinking that he hadn't heard clearly, and asked in surprise: "What did Your Majesty say?" ”

"I told you to get out!" Zhu Youzhen suddenly roared angrily, "I am not only bringing filial piety to General Zhao, who sacrificed heroically, but also to the thousands of people who were innocently slaughtered!" The court is incompetent, I am incompetent, I failed to help General Zhao, and I failed to save the people of Zunhua, his sin is very deep, and he should atone for his sins with filial piety! You will only talk about it when you come to the sect, but since you entered the cabinet, can you have a strategy to help me solve the crisis? If you don't want to bring filial piety, just give me a calf, don't bother me! ”

Coming to Zongdao to enter the cabinet as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, he is a high and powerful position, and he is a great Confucian in the world, and he is also very old, no matter who he is, he is respectful when he sees him, although Zhu Youzhen did not look at him very well in the past, but on the surface he is quite passable. Today, he insulted him extremely sharply in public, and scolded Lai Zongdao bloody! The old face of the old man who came to Zongdao turned pale, and he fell to his knees with a thud, and said tremblingly: "Minister... Minister..."

He "ministered" for a long time, but he couldn't even say a whole sentence. It was still Qian Longxi who reacted quickly and grabbed the prelude: "The ministers are incompetent, the upper part will cause the monarch's father to worry, and the lower will cause the people to be robbed, and the ministers should die!" I am afraid that he is old and slow-minded, and he does not intend to offend Tianyan, and I hope that His Majesty will forgive his sins. ”

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, Qian Longxi glanced at the envoy who came to the sect. Only then did he wake up when he came to Zongdao, and he kowtowed again and again to ask for sin. Zhu Youzhen was annoyed and said: "Since Lai Zongdao is old, there is no need to stay up all night here, step down!" ”

Coming to Zongdao was like being amnestied, and he kowtowed a few more times before staggering out of the Qianqing Palace. Qian Longxi hurriedly tore off a piece of white cloth from the middle coat in the python robe and wrapped it around his head, and the ministers saw the fate of the sect, who dared to provoke the angry emperor, and they had to follow the example. For a time, the filial piety belt fluttered in the Qianqing Palace, and the atmosphere was more solemn.

Zhu Youzhen on the throne is still deeply blaming himself. Others don't know that he, Zhu Youzhen, is a person who has crossed over, but he clearly knows the "change of his own life"! Huang Taiji will definitely bypass the Guanning defense line and enter the Koujing division from the Mongolian steppe; Everything Zhu Youzhen did before, including abandoning Dalinghe, Jinzhou, and Ningyuan, building the important city of Shanhaiguan, and expanding the outer city of Jingshi, was also to prevent Huang Taiji's hand.

But the only thing that surprised him was that he didn't expect the Houjin Army to come so quickly, much earlier than the historical process! This year is the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, 1626 AD, and the historical "Jisi Change" occurred in the second year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1629. Zhu Youzhen subconsciously, always felt that he still had three years to go.

It wasn't until today that he figured out that probably because of his own stirring of time and space, many major events in history had been advanced: Nurhachi died early, the apocalypse died early, the thieves rose up early, and even the Japanese coveted Shenzhou again in advance... Under such circumstances, how could it be impossible for Houjin to invade the south in advance?

Therefore, only Zhu Youzhen understood in his heart that the martyrdom of Zhao Shujiao and the slaughter of the people of Zunhua had a lot to do with his own negligence. That's why he felt deeply remorseful, and wrapped his filial piety belt to show his apology to Zhao Shujiao and other martyrs.

Seeing that the emperor was in a trance, Qian Longxi said: "Your Majesty, something has happened, and the top priority is to arrange a countermeasure. ”

Only then did Zhu Youzhen come back to his senses, and he was silent for a moment and said, "Then the secretaries will talk about how to deal with the Tartar army?" ”

The Qianqing palace immediately opened the pot, and the ministers discussed a lot, but the mainstream opinion led by the Donglin Party was that the Jingshi should immediately impose martial law, and transfer the Shanhaiguan border army, the Xuanda border army and the Jizhou defeated army to assemble under the Jingshi city, first ensure the safety of the Beijing division, and at the same time call the world's soldiers and horses to the king. The Houjin army stayed away from the rear, intending to plunder, and when they saw the large army gathered, they would definitely retreat in the face of difficulties, and the situation would turn from danger to safety.

Zhu Youzhen didn't say a word, and when everyone had nothing to say, he said slowly and resolutely: "Pass the decree, let the governor of Liaodong, Gao Di, guard the Shanhaiguan to the death, and the generals under his command must not act rashly!" ”