Chapter Ninety-Three: Dispersed

When Zhang Chu vomited painfully on the boat, the entire Jingshi area had already blown up the camp.

The fighting in Luanzhou reached the heads of the two warring sides through different channels. All sides were confused and dazed by the sudden appearance of the Ming army.

The first to get the news was Houjin Dabel Amin, Yue Tuo and others fled to Yongping Mansion with the remnants of the army, and it was Dabel Amin who was ordered to garrison Yongping Mansion, and Amin was taken aback after listening to the report.

Years of victories in the war with the Ming army have accumulated sky-high arrogance in the Houjin, and there is no psychological preparation for the defeat of the Ming army in the field.

Amin looked at Yue Tuo's defeated generals and couldn't believe his eyes, these usually majestic figures, now they have lost their armor and are disgraced, especially Yue Tuo seems to be seriously injured, unconsciously covering his chest with his hands, there are guards who defend Ming Ren and actually hurt the commander in the army.

"The Ming army has tens of thousands of horses?" Amin asked Yue Tuo, he wanted to inflict such a big loss on the Houjin army, and it would not have been possible without tens of thousands of Ming troops.

"The Ming army should have more than 1,000 foot soldiers and 2,300 cavalry." Although his face is not good-looking, Yue Tuo still tells the truth. After several battles, he roughly judged the number of Ming troops.

"Your 1,000 cavalry was defeated by the 1,000 infantry of the Ming army in the field battle, and you simply lost the face of my Dajin." Amin couldn't help but reprimand loudly.

Yue Tuo and the others bowed their heads in shame and did not dare to speak.

Although he reprimanded Yue Tuo and others, Amin was also jealous of this team, and the raid of the Ming Jingshi was about to end, and he was about to return to the gate to live a prosperous life. With this in mind, Amin's response was so unprepared that he did not send someone to immediately retake Luanzhou, but believed that Luanzhou had been destroyed by fire and had no property to rob, so it had lost its value. Only sent people to strengthen the defense of Yongping Mansion, and then reported the situation to Huang Taiji.

After receiving the report, Huang Taiji jumped like thunder and scolded: "Amin, you cowardly and incompetent fool, why don't you snatch back the lost Luanzhou!" Someone sent an order to Amin to march immediately to recover Luanzhou, otherwise he would not come back to see me. ”

It was the first time that the generals around him saw Huang Taiji's emotions out of control, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound, and the herald ran quickly to deliver the order.

There is also a reason why Huang Taiji is so angry. This time, Emperor Taiji, the master of Koujing, has discovered the weakness of the Ming Dynasty. The original idea of robbing and returning to the customs has changed, and he has the heart to enter the Central Plains. He formulated many new policies to drastically change the strategy of the Later Jin, such as treating the Han people in the occupied areas well, reducing killings, etc., and also divided troops to guard the four cities of Yongping, Zunhua, Luanzhou, and Qian'an, using these four cities as a base for advance, preparing to launch another attack on the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, the four cities formed a line to cut off the connection between the Ming army in Shanhaiguan and the Beijing Division, and there were loopholes in the defense line of Luanzhou, and the whole plan was in danger of failing.

The order was transmitted to Yongping Mansion, and Amin disagreed with it, and it was not the style of Houjin to fight for the sake of a piece of scorched earth. He only sent a few hundred men to occupy Luanzhou, but it was too late, and by the time his few hundred men arrived in Luanzhou, the city had already been occupied by the Ming army.

Infected by the victory of Luanzhou, seeing that the Ming army of the Houjin army was unusual, and did not shrink in the city to be beaten, he actually sent troops to take the initiative to attack, and the people outside Luanzhou heard the news that tens of thousands of people automatically participated in the attack on the Houjin army.

Outnumbered, the Jin army left more than 100 corpses behind and fled back to Yongping Mansion.

I heard that tens of thousands of people had gathered in Luanzhou, and Amin didn't want to fight hard. He only ordered to strengthen the defense of the three cities of Yongping, Zunhua, and Qian'an, and had no interest in recapturing Luanzhou. Huang Taiji received the report and had no other way than to scold. Secretly accelerated the speed of retreat to the outside of the pass. Ordered Amin to hold on to the three cities without loss.

The Ming army was in command of the Shanhaiguan was Sun Chengzong, who was isolated in the Shanhaiguan after the loss of the four cities of Yongping, Zunhua, Luanzhou and Qian'an, and was completely isolated from the Beijing Division. Sun Chengzong recruited a large number of dead soldiers and prepared to enter the capital through the coastal bypass.

At this time, the battle report sent by Changli's Zuo Yingxuan gave Sun Chengzong an unexpected surprise. He immediately ordered the dead soldiers to run all the way to occupy Luanzhou, and then reported to Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City was troubled one after another, and after more than two years of being emperor, the Ming Dynasty did not have Zhongxing, but there was a crisis that the building was about to collapse.

It was not a few days after his ambition to ascend to the throne and take sole power from Wei Zhongxian, and Houjin gave him a blow to the head. Breaking through the pass and plundering in the Jingshi area, as if entering a no-man's land, no Ming army has defeated the Houjin army in the field battle for several months, is the Ming really going to end?

Sun Chengzong's report made the emperor see hope again, and he felt a little comfort. I still have soldiers to fight in the Ming Dynasty, a small garrison with a thousand soldiers can destroy thousands of Houjin cavalry, if there is no false report here, this is really a huge victory, anyway, to recover Luanzhou, finally have a victory.

If the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty can be like this, what are they afraid of, thinking that the courtiers' good mood is gone, and it is replaced by greater anger, in addition to this recital, the table in front of the emperor is full of impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan.

Yuan Chonghuan, as Chongzhen's most trusted courtier, made him fall into great embarrassment. Yuan Chonghuan talked in front of him about five years of leveling Liao, spending millions of taels of silver, but Liao was not leveled, but the Houjin army hit the Beijing division. Emperor Chongzhen had a feeling that he had been fooled again.

Later Jin into the Kou Jing division outside the city to burn and loot, many ministers outside the city of the manor have suffered losses, they can not provoke the Hou Jin soldiers turned their anger to Yuan Chonghuan, impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan excerpts one after another, the emperor looked at the folds and changed his opinion of Yuan Chonghuan, from the original absolute trust to the doubt. In the end, Yuan Chonghuan was ordered to be imprisoned.

Houjin lost interest in fighting again, and the Ming Dynasty was not capable of going to war, so the two sides began to secretly negotiate peace, and finally Emperor Chongzhen still couldn't let go, and took a few ministers as scapegoats, breaking the road to peace. Huang Taiji's goal has been achieved, leaving Amin to guard Yongping, Qian'an, Zunhua and other places, and led his troops to retreat outside the pass.

In the following days, the Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty successfully made up for Yuan Chonghuan's fatal knife, and put forward the charge of Yuan Chonghuan's party and personal gain, and Emperor Chongzhen found the biggest scapegoat for his failure, and Yuan Chonghuan was executed in Beijing.

Sun Chengzong organized forces to attack Yongping Mansion, and Amin saw that the city could not be defended and slaughtered the city, so he abandoned the three cities and led his troops to withdraw from the pass.

Huang Taiji finally had an excuse to wait for a long time, and imprisoned Amin on sixteen charges such as losing the city and land, and the last internal force that threatened Huang Taiji was eliminated, and Huang Taiji established his authority in Houjin. Amin died in prison a few years later.

The defense of Jingshi is over, the threat of Houjin is temporarily gone, and Chongzhen has to face the mess in the country again, and his headaches are not over.

At this time, Zhang Chu was thriving in Jiangnan.