Chapter 463: Azig's Decision

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Zhang Fengyi is having a very bad time these days, although he was appointed as the strategy of Liaodong, but after the Jiangning camp conquered the golden Tatars, the imperial court seemed to have forgotten him, the commander in chief of Liaodong affairs, and all the aura was taken away by Su Tiancheng and the Jiangning camp, he has been guarding the Changping Mansion, in a dilemma.

More than 20,000 soldiers are all waiting in Changping Mansion, and they do not dare to retreat, who knows what the next move of the Tartars will be, Changping Mansion belongs to a relatively wealthy place, if it falls into the hands of the Tartars, he is the Liaodong Strategy, I am afraid that he will take the blame and resign. Lu Xiangsheng, who was the most capable of fighting around him, was also transferred, leaving Wang Pu, who was barely able to.

The emperor's decree finally arrived, and after receiving the decree, Zhang Fengyi's lost emotions were lost, in exchange for fear.

It turned out that the Houjin Tartars led by Azig had lost their troops in front of the Jiangning battalion, and had been preparing to retreat from the Changping area to Juyong Pass, and leave the pass through Xifengkou, and the emperor ordered him to launch a blockade in the area of Changping Mansion to delay the speed of Azig's retreat or escape to the greatest extent.

Azig led an army of 70,000, with the 20,000 soldiers of Changping Fucheng, wanting to stop Azig's army, which is similar to looking for death, under the current situation, Azig, who fled in a hurry, will never attack Changping Fucheng, that is to say, Zhang Fengyi must lead the army to block Azig's army in the field.

Thinking of such an arrangement, how could Zhang Fengyi not be creepy.

He didn't know what to say, but the emperor still had a problem with great joy.

The Jiangning battalion and the Datong border army faced the 80,000-strong army led by Azig head-on, and in just over an hour, they annihilated nearly 10,000 Tartars, and Azig led the remaining Tatars to retreat and began to flee.

A few days down. Su Tiancheng led the army and wiped out nearly 30,000 Tartars, which was a huge victory in Zhu Youzhen's view, showing that the Jiangning battalion had the ability to annihilate more Tartars, even if it could not completely annihilate 100,000 Tartars. It is also necessary to give the Tartars greater lethality and achieve greater victories.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen gave a holy decree to Zhang Fengyi, who was still in Changping, he didn't know what to say, the Jiangning battalion was originally an outlier, and the rest of the guards in Beizhili, after seeing the Tartars, their feet were still trembling, for fear that they would run slower.

After receiving the Holy Decree. Zhang Fengyi did not dare to delay, and immediately summoned Wang Pu and the commanders of Yan Qingwei, and conveyed the emperor's decree to them, especially emphasizing that the Jiangning battalion had won such a big victory, and now the Tartars have become frightened birds, thinking of escaping, such a moment. The defenders of Changping Province must delay the speed of Azig's escape as much as possible. If you watch the Tartars flee, no one should think of a good life.

Wang Pu had to express his position, the fame of the Datong border army slowly spread, and the 30,000 Datong border troops who followed the Jiangning battalion to fight had suffered heavy losses, but they had already made their own reputation. He was the chief soldier of Datong, led 5,000 sergeants, came to Changping Mansion, and if he didn't do anything, he went back like this. I'm afraid that I will be ridiculed, besides, the lesson of Liang Tingdong, the governor of Datong, is already in front of me, because I am afraid of the Houjin Tartars, I have not sent troops for a long time, and I have been deprived of the power to command the battle, and it is estimated that I will be adjusted later, I am just the chief soldier, which angered the emperor and the court, and I may be swept to the end.

Besides, the Datong border army led by himself, under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, also fought against the army led by Azig at Juyong Pass, and lasted for three days, gaining valuable time for the imperial court to mobilize the Jiangning battalion.

The holy decree is dead, people are alive, the way is always to come out, Wang Pu proposed, around the city of Changping Mansion, there are not many dangerous places to guard, the best way is to concentrate a part of the army to Juyong Pass, it is expected that the fleeing Azig will never attack the city of Changping Mansion, so it is said that 5,000 soldiers are left to guard Changping Mansion, and the remaining more than 10,000 soldiers are all sent to Juyong Pass to reinforce, hold the fortress, and delay the Tartar army led by Azig.

Zhang Fengyi approved the proposal without hesitation.

Everyone understands the catty in this, no one knows the route of Azig's escape, and they can only guess, so on the basis of guarding Changping Mansion, they held Juyong Pass, and made corresponding arrangements in accordance with the requirements of the holy decree, as for Azig to change the route of the march and leave the pass from other places, it is not his responsibility.

The only change made was that the sergeants stationed in Changping Mansion had to be kept at about 10,000, and the remaining 10,000 or so sergeants quickly rushed to Juyong Pass to strengthen the guards there.

The task of rushing to the aid of Juyongguan naturally fell to Wang Pu.

Wang Pu was a little dissatisfied, he had long expected that he would definitely be responsible for stationing in Juyong Pass, so when he put forward the proposal, he wanted to bring as many sergeants as possible, and at the same time, he could also try to hold on to some time, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, the possibility of Azig withdrawing from Juyong Pass is still very large, and this road is the closest.

It is said that there is no problem with Changping Mansion, unless Azig's brain is broken, it is impossible to attack Changping Mansion.

But Wang Pu can't raise objections, Zhang Fengyi is a Liaodong strategy, with a holy decree in his hand, if he doesn't obey the dispatch, don't wait for the emperor's holy decree, Zhang Fengyi can push himself to the end.

At this moment, neither Zhang Fengyi nor Wang Pu would have thought that Azig's brain was really as bad as they imagined.

Azig, who led 100,000 troops into the pass, now led 70,000 brothers and began to retreat, such a gas, he couldn't help it, lost nearly 30,000 sergeants, and didn't get anything, the money looted before was all returned to the Jiangning battalion, and the money looted in the city, because of the retreat, was also left in the middle of the road, needless to say, it was also obtained by the Jiangning battalion.

Such a great shame that Azig could not accept.

There are still 70,000 troops around them, these brothers follow out, what is the picture, at least to loot the money, if you go back empty-handed, the loss of the army, the emperor's brother blames it, and he can't argue.

After many thoughts came to his mind, Azig's mind quickly changed, and he stared at Changping Fucheng.

The strategists around him also understood Azig's thoughts, and suggested that they could attack Changping Fucheng, as long as they were well prepared, they would definitely be able to gain something.

In this case, Azig began to arrange, 20,000 troops attacked Changping Fucheng, 20,000 troops were on guard to block the reinforcements of the Ming army, and the remaining 30,000 troops monitored the direction of Juyong Pass, prepared, and waited until the army captured Changping Fu, looted all the money and then retreated along the direction of Juyong Pass.

Once the decision was made, the Tartars moved very quickly and began to rush in the direction of Changping Province.

Fangshan County is only more than two hundred miles away from Changping Mansion, for Azig, this distance is nothing at all, he thinks that what the strategist said is very reasonable, the Ming court probably thinks that his main task is to escape, leave the pass as soon as possible, and will never think about attacking the city, maybe the court has begun to celebrate, at such a time, he unexpectedly attacked Changping Mansion, and took Changping Mansion as quickly as possible, he will be able to have a huge harvest.

Although he learned the power of the Jiangning battalion, but for the other armies of the Ming Dynasty, Azig still did not look in his eyes, since the Xifengkou entered the customs, the army of the Ming Dynasty guard, running faster than rabbits, such an army, if he is afraid, then it is not a warrior of the Qing Dynasty.

Azig's decision was indeed beyond the expectations of most people.

Zhu Youzhen considered that he was blocking Azig's escape at various passes, so he gave a holy decree to Zhang Fengyi, who was still in Changping Mansion, but he definitely did not expect that Azig would send heavy troops to attack the city of Changping Mansion, as for the ministers in the court, including Wen Tiren and Yang Sichang and others, they were very optimistic that Azig was completely scared, and I am afraid that he couldn't wait to escape from the pass. Yang Sichang also put forward a suggestion to continue to dispatch the Datong border army to jointly encircle Azig.

At the time when the imperial court was generally celebrating, the army led by Azig bypassed the Beijing division and rushed in the direction of Changping Mansion, at this moment, Yang Sichang, who got the news, still thought that Azig was running away, and the escape route was according to his expected route, from Changping Mansion to Juyong Pass, and then Daoxi Fengkou, which was the nearest route.

Early in the morning of June 29, Zhang Fengyi, who was sleepy-eyed, was awakened by the prefect of Changping Prefecture who suddenly came to report.

The prefect's face turned pale, saying that outside the Changping Mansion, a dense crowd of tartars suddenly appeared, and he had begun to prepare to attack the city.

Zhang Fengyi, who hadn't thought about it, loudly reprimanded the prefect, the Tartars had suffered heavy losses, thinking about escaping, how could they attack Changping Mansion City, however, the prefect once again said that Changping Mansion City was really surrounded by Tartar groups, and it was estimated that the siege would begin soon, and the Mansion City was already in chaos, and I implore Lord Jingliu to preside over the overall situation.

Zhang Fengyi didn't have time to wash, so he followed the prefect and quickly rushed to the city gate.

Along the way, I saw panicked people, like headless flies, scurrying around.

The gates of the city were closed, and all the soldiers who defended the city went up to the walls.

Zhang Fengyi walked up to the city wall, saw the dense tartars outside, and felt dizzy.

He never imagined that at this time, the Tartars were still thinking about attacking the city of Changping, just yesterday, Wang Pu led more than 10,000 soldiers to rush to Juyong Pass, the defenders of the city of Changping were only 10,000 people, strictly speaking, the defense force of the city of Changping was the weakest, and the soldiers were not mentally prepared at all, and the soldiers would attack here.

Zhang Fengyi felt the seriousness of the problem, he thought of it, the decision of the Tartars, the imperial court must not have thought of it, that is to say, there will be no reinforcements to reinforce Changping Mansion, and the Tartars are ready to attack the city of Changping Mansion, they must be fully prepared, if the Tartars capture the city, I am afraid that there will be nothing left. (To be continued......)