"Zhang Tinggong, a traitor, actually followed the thief, it's really damned!"

In Datong Mansion, at the Yamen of the Governor of Xuanda, Xiong Wencan looked sadly at the civil and military ministers of the imperial court below, just two or three, it is really a person who is in a hurry to die, take a look, Wang Pu, the chief military officer of Datong Town, and Zhang Guoqin, the deputy chief soldier, and the deputy generals under his command are Niu Chenghu, Zheng Jiadong, and the civil officials are not seen,

Even other imperial courts, such as the appointed prefect of Datong, immediately resigned and returned to the field the moment they received the edict, saying that they were not willing to go to Datong, a place of right and wrong, to be an official, which is not the risk of losing their heads. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, today's events seem to be a bit abnormal, all of the chief soldiers and deputy generals of the imperial court are wearing the clothes of the guards in the Xuanda Governor's Mansion, if they don't know each other, no one can see their identities.

"Yes! Even Governor Zhang, a member of the imperial court, has rebelled, and we have become deaf in Datong, Lord Governor, should we lead the army to immediately return north before Li Yi did anything to harm him? Otherwise, I'm worried that he's not good for adults. ”

Wang Pu already had a plan, as soon as he arrived, he ordered his cronies and servants to dig a tunnel in the Datong General Military Mansion, and once the chaos started, he would immediately escape from the secret passage.

As soon as Xiong Wencan heard this, he immediately became angry, before the battle was fought, the person was three points weaker first,

So he scolded loudly, "Shut up, your ancestor was also the governor of Jingying, you have been blessed by our emperor, and now An can say such things?" ”

Wang Pu's father was in charge of the commander of the Beijing camp, he was replaced by grace, he was the deputy general from the beginning, he didn't suffer anything at the beginning, and he was also a big pants in the past, this heart was panicked, and he had no plans to make decisions, what else could he expect him to do?

"Mr. Zhang, since you and your subordinates entered Datong, have you ever practiced completely?"

Zhang Guoqin saw that Wang Pudu had eaten the lead, where did he dare to make a mistake, Xiong Wencan couldn't help Li Jing, but he had the power of life and death over him, so he immediately stood up respectfully and said,

"Returning to the Governor, General Wang led 1,200 sturdy soldiers from the Beijing camp into Datong, all of whom could be able to fight a battle, and the last general gathered 2,500 soldiers from the official army and guard in Datong, and also trained the whole army completely, just waiting for the Governor's Lordship to give an order, Keri can go into battle to kill the enemy."

This is to say, that is, according to Xiong Wencan's thoughts, Zhang Guoqin wants to get through the trick first, and then talk about other things, if he doesn't fight, it will be better, once the fight starts, they will have 3,000 elite soldiers in the city, or 5,000, it will be a fate, that is, they will be driven out of the city in one fell swoop.

"Good~!"

Since Xiong Wencan arrived in Datong, he was most unhappy in his heart, and he planned to take risks and fight for his life today, because Emperor Chongzhen's secret decree had arrived.

"Pass the order, the pro-guard standard camp is on guard immediately, no one is allowed to come in, put incense on the case, the governor wants to announce the decree, and the governor of Datong, Zhang Tinggong, comes to see the governor!"

With an order, the gate outside the Yamen of the Governor of Xuanda began to be closed, and all the small doors were blocked, and the two hundred guards who followed Xiong Wencan all the way, each holding a steel knife, were lined up everywhere, and the entire mansion was guarded without leakage.

"My lord, what is this about?"

Even Niu Chenghu, who has always had nothing good to say about Li Jing, has been, is this going to take the thief? But just by yourself?

"Hmph, I have a holy decree to order the relevant people in Shanxi to plan to kill Li Jing and recapture Datong, but the thief Li Jing is not out of Taiyuan easily, and we can't find a chance, so this time, just recapture Datong Town, relying on the benefits of the city, and then there are hundreds of thousands of troops in Xuanhua as foreign aid, forgive Li Jing for not daring to act rashly."

The things in this world are also funny, Li Jing planned to deal with the tens of thousands of main forces of the official army in Henan, and was also preparing to drag them down to avoid attacking the rogues entrenched in Guide, and as a result, the imperial court also made the same plan.

That is, since Henan's army has swept away the two largest streams of rogues, it has completely freed up its hands, and it just so happened that the Huguang General Army and the Xunyang General Army who were ordered to go north to exterminate Kong Youde, and the Xiangyang General Army Third Route General Officer led 15,000 troops, and received a military order at the junction of the two provinces, and immediately went north to join the Henan soldiers and horses.

In this way, on the southern front, there is the main force of about 60,000 people of the Ming army, which is commanded by the prime minister of the five provinces to suppress bandits, the secretary of the leading army, and the governor of Henan, Lu Xiangsheng, who is ready to directly attack Shaanxi from Henan Mansion and Huaiqing and other places, all the way directly to Shanxi, and all the way to Shaanxi, led by Qin Yiming, the governor of the right capital.

The other army, which Lu Xiangsheng personally commanded the Henan soldiers and the Huguang troops, attacked Shanxi from Pingyang Prefecture in Zezhou and Pingyang Prefecture, restrained the main force of the Qin army in southern Jin, and prevented them from going north to reinforce Taiyuan and Datong.

To the east of Liaozhou and Taiyuan Prefecture, there are seven regular barracks under the command of the Governor of Baoding and the generals under the command of the General Soldier of the Beizhili Regiment, a total of 28,000 people, ready to go straight to Taiyuan and capture Li Jing in one fell swoop.

On the northern front, Emperor Chongzhen also prepared another big gift for Li Jing, that is, borrowing troops to quell the chaos, and the so-called Lin Dan Khan, who is naturalizing and recuperating, is not stupid to continue to advance eastward, Li Jing's growing military strength, from the south of the three sides and the east of Datong, in two directions, completely cut off the connection between Chahar and the eight departments of the Hetao, once this part of the army goes north, Lin Dan Khan's back road is in danger of being cut off.

Therefore, under the abbot of the central committee of the Ming court, Lin Dan Khan was a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, was named Chahar Khan, and joined forces to deal with Li Jing first, and then to deal with the Jurchens of the Jin State, of course, in the eyes of Lin Dan Khan, Li Jing was just a general under the command of the Han court in the south, and the Ming court, which owned the entire Han dynasty, was much stronger than him, so this kind of thing, almost without much consideration, agreed to it.

On the twelfth day of July in the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Dan Khan immediately led the whole army of 40,000 iron cavalry to Xinping and Wanquanwei after accepting the contact of 40,000 taels of silver from the Ming Dynasty and the 20,000 Shijun provided by merchants outside the mouth, but this time, they were no longer attacking the Ming court, but fighting against the local generals of the Ming Dynasty, and they also received the support of the central government of the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhang Guoqin, this governor is ordered by the Son of Heaven to lead 800 men and horses from the headquarters to enter the city from the east gate tonight, occupy the four gates, and if there is resistance, there will be no mercy!"

"Whoa!"

"Niu Chenghu, this governor ordered you to lead five hundred strong, at the time of the child, enter the rebel Nancheng camp with the holy decree, take over the power of the army and horses, if there is resistance, there will be no forgiveness!"

"This, yes!" Niu Chenghu was stunned for a moment, and was in a panic, he was glared at by Xiong Wencan's eyes, thinking that there was a holy purpose to be a body, and those generals didn't dare to resist, so he could only grit his teeth and agree.

"Zheng Jiadong, you lead a thousand men and horses, enter the city in batches from dusk, in the name of your own official feasting all the troops and rewarding the soldiers, enter the city first, ambush everywhere, just wait for the time to start, besiege the rebels in the city, yamen and generals, be sure that they must not escape a single person!"

"Whoa!"

Seeing that the generals of the various armies had finished preparing, Xiong Wencan immediately gave the holy decree to the generals, and then said,

"I just got the news today, Zheng Renbao, the leader of the rebel army stationed in Datong Prefecture, led his guards to the west to the border pass to inspect military affairs, it is really a God-given opportunity, the thief has no leader, and it must not be defended in a panic, I want to put down the garrison of the rebels in Datong Town in one fell swoop, as long as I take down these generals in the city, everything can be expected."

I have to say that Xiong Wencan's calculation is good, and he deliberately picked the gap between the Mongolian army in the north and Xuanfu Town approaching the south at the same time, and there is a large army outside to help, and the rebel leader inside is patrolling the border in the west.

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"As soon as the governor left, the figure of the Ming army and the Mongolian Tatars came from the north, is there any fraud in this?"

Zheng Jianjun, the chief officer of the first town of the Tiger Wing Army who stayed in Datong Mansion, took the battle report at hand, and seemed to be a little thoughtful, don't look at the fact that he now has 11,000 people and horses in a whole town in his hands, but Datong is an important place, a garrison of the pass fortress, and there are many key cities, so the soldiers and horses everywhere are a little scattered.

For example, the three battalions of the first brigade, the second and third battalions, along the line of Yanggao and Changning, guarded against a possible attack on Xuanhua Town, and now found the cavalry of the Ming army and the Mongol Tartars, which made him suddenly difficult, and he had to transfer the first battalion of the first brigade stationed in Guangling to the front line fortress at the same time, ready to confront the conflict at any time.

The three battalions of the second brigade, the second battalion is in Fengzhen in the north, and it is here that a few days ago, it was reported that the Mongol army seemed to be moving inland, and within a few days, the Mongol scouts surged, so Zheng Renbao took the guards in the army to go north to investigate in person early this morning.

The third battalion of the second brigade, stationed in the west of Datong Mansion, is the left guard, ready to reinforce the northern border at any time, and is fifteen miles away from Datong City, so in Datong City, only the first battalion of the second brigade of the first town, 1,500 men and horses, with the Shanxi Tuntian Army Datong Mansion Tuntian Battalion, 800 men and horses, in fact, the strength is not more than the official army of the imperial court here,

The key is that the official army controls the nearest traffic artery from Xuanhua Town to Datong, that is, the pass along the official road from Yangyuan to Datong, which is held in the hands of the Ming army.

"This matter is strange, I will first go to the Datong governor's station to inquire about the news, come, quickly prepare the horse, Santie, you take my general order, go to the camp in the south of the city to find the Zhao brigade rate, today's situation is a little wrong, you let him try to gather the cavalry of the third cavalry brigade, I am afraid that things will change."

Zheng Jianjun was a little undecided, after all, the order given to him by the top was to strictly defend Datong City, from the beginning of the siege of the Xuanda Governor's Mansion to the later withdrawal of the siege, now he is just sending people to monitor, and he has not seen any news back, so he is not sure, there must be some connection between this...... (To be continued.) )