On May 27, the eighth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji personally commanded 200,000 Manchurian, Mongolian and Han allied troops, bypassed the Shanhaiguan defense area of the Liaodong Governor's Mansion, and passed through Mongolia to break through the customs from the west of Jizhen on the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.

The battle of the entrance of the Ming and Qing dynasties broke out immediately!

After Huang Taiji secretly unified the Mongol Monan and Modong tribes, the Mongol Chahar Khanate existed in name only. In this way, the various ministries were under the authority of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and had to obey the orders of Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji commanded the four banners of the right wing with Zierharang and Yue, and Abatai and Badomin led the four banners on the left wing, and broke through Da'ankou and Longjing Pass on May 28 and 29 respectively. Huang Taiji then conquered Hongshankou City on the 30th and entered the customs to garrison the division.

On 1 June, Guo Guanghuai, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, led 5,000 cavalry to aid Zunhua, but unexpectedly fell into an ambush set up by Huang Taiji in advance, and was defeated and beheaded in the battle. Three days later, Huang Taiji transferred twelve bronze cannons from the Russian Empire to attack the city. At noon on the 4th, the city wall in the northwest corner of Zunhua was blown down, and the Qing soldiers swarmed in, and the city of Zunhua fell immediately.

After the capture of Zunhua, the morale of the Qing army soared, and Huang Taiji especially praised the heroic behavior of the white flag pawn Samhatu who bravely climbed first. After entering Zunhua City, Huang Taiji also feasted and rewarded the heroes, and used "glory and wealth" to inspire them to "work diligently".

Since the defeat of Nurhachiningyuan, the Qing army has been defeated repeatedly, and it is only at this time that it can be regarded as a turnaround battle, and it can finally capture an important town in the Ming Dynasty.

Zunhua is an important industrial base of the Ming Dynasty, although Zunhua declined with the weakening of the national strength of the Ming Empire, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a large number of advanced technologies and equipment such as iron smelting, forging, gunpowder and so on in Zunhua City are more than ten times more advanced than those of the Manchu Dynasty.

Huang Taiji did not order the slaughter of the city, he now needed a large population, especially skilled workers who knew how to smelt iron and make gunpowder. However, in order to motivate morale, it was necessary to loot, and at the same time, it was necessary to plunder the population, and capture all the Han people inside and outside Zunhua back to the desert.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty broke through the Great Wall and entered Gyeonggi to plunder, causing the dynasty to shake. The Emperor of the Apocalypse, who had just woken up, had not yet had time to be angry with the harem and the cabinet, but he was so angry with the news that he vomited blood and was bedridden.

Tang Jing knows very well that the drugs that fight poison with poison are the most harmful to the liver and kidneys, and once they are angry and vomit blood, they will accelerate the loss of life. So Tang Jing tried every possible way to persuade the Emperor of the Apocalypse not to be angry, but in the face of such a mess, it was simply impossible not to be angry, Tang Jing really regretted waking him up.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, beware of the dragon body!"

The Emperor of the Apocalypse, with the support of Tang Jing, got up and was at the head of the bed.

"I ask you, tell you the truth, whose belly are those sluts?"

"Naturally, it's the emperor!"

"Why don't I remember?"

Tang Jing then told him what had happened, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse suddenly coughed angrily.

"Do a few sluts join forces and want my life?"

Tang Jing said: "The emperor is angry, at that time, they did it for the sake of the royal family!" ”

"Let's take their lives for the time being!" The Emperor of the Apocalypse changed his words and said, "I'll clean them up after they give birth!" ”

"The emperor is sober, and the inner and outer courts are also safe. In more than a month, several ladies gave birth to princes, and as long as the emperor establishes a prince, the inner and outer courts will no longer have to fight for power and profit! ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse nodded, and suddenly asked, "Where have the rebels hit?" ”

"Shanhaiguan General Guo Guanghuai was killed, Zunhua and Jizhou Towns fell, according to the marching speed of the Qing soldiers, they could reach the city of Beijing in three days! The first to go to Beijing has been under martial law, and the cabinet has begun to discuss countermeasures! ”

The Manchus have always been rebels in the mouth of the Ming royal family, because they were originally subjects of the Ming Dynasty, so they were rebellions. Now Huang Taiji is called the emperor, the founding name of the Qing Dynasty, and he is working against the Ming Dynasty, which makes the Emperor of the Apocalypse very angry.

That's not the point, though. At this time, Huang Taiji waved his army into the customs, and had conquered Zunhua, an important town in Gyeonggi, and seeing that he had hit the city of Beijing, Emperor Tianqi no longer wanted Huang Taiji to be the emperor, and he didn't even have the mind to deal with Deng Haonan.

"Has the cabinet discussed the results?"

Tang Jing shook his head and said, "Not yet!" Wang Qiali, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Chen transferred Deng Haonan, the Duke of Liao, to return to Beijing to take up the town, but Huang Liji and they objected! ”

"How many troops are there in the capital division now?"

"100,000 forbidden troops!"

"Who can do the heavy lifting?"

"At present, Yang Sichang, the son of Yang He, the governor of the three sides, is in Beijing, and Yuan Chonghuan, the left attendant of the military department, is idle in Beijing!"

"What about the two of them?"

Tang Jing replied: "The cabinet is optimistic about Yang Sichang, but Yang Sichang led an army of 100,000 to the south to suppress bandits, and the new defeat was in Dagushan, Jiangxi, which is not conducive to leading the forbidden army. Although Yuan Chonghuan had meritorious service in guarding Liaoxi, Yuan Chonghuan could not tolerate others to criticize the army, and the Ningyuan mutiny was already well known, and it was not conducive to commanding the forbidden army. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse thought for a while and said, "It should be better to let Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Ji Liao, transfer Guan Ning Tie to ride into the pass to defend against the enemy!" ”

Tang Jing shook his head and said, "The emperor doesn't know that after Yuan Chonghuan left Liaoxi, Liaoxi has been incorporated into the Liaodong Governor's Mansion. Deng Haonan not only made up for the three-year arrears of the more than 100,000 troops in western Liaoning, but also promoted the natives of western Liaoning to be generals, and even sent henchmen to take over the key departments. ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse held back his anger and said, "In this way, Deng Haonan is already the king of Liaodong!" ”

Tang Jing nodded and said: "After the Liaoshen War, most of the Liao land fell into the hands of Deng Haonan, and he ran it like an iron bucket, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the king of the domain!" ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was silent for a long time, not knowing if it was because of his illness or if he was thinking about the problem.

Tang Jing said cautiously: "Weichen means that now the emperor has to endure it, and it is the safest way to transfer Deng Haonan back to Beijing to take charge." Drive Huang Taiji out of the Great Wall first, and then think about the next step! ”

"What other troops can come to King Qin nearby?"

"King Qin's order has been issued!" Tang Jing replied: "The reinforcements from Datong and Xuanfu are the fastest, and they will arrive in three days!" But there are only 20,000 horses, and the far water can't save the near fire! ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse asked, "The Order of King Qin has already been issued?" Isn't the Liaodong Army about to enter the customs? ”

"I didn't send a royal order to the Liaodong Governor's Mansion!" Tang Jing said: "Huang Liji, they will never allow the Liaodong Army to enter Gyeonggi, his reason is that it is easy to invite God and send God!" ”

The Emperor of the Apocalypse secretly said in his heart: This dead old man is also a little far-sighted!

No matter how Huang Liji and his infighting and party struggle, Emperor Tianqi is supportive of Huang Liji's suppression of Deng Haonan.

However, at present, in the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Deng Haonan's military secession and Huang Liji and others' cabinet party struggle are not accepted by him.

Soon, the Emperor of the Apocalypse summoned five cabinet ministers to discuss countermeasures. In the cabinet, only Wang Qia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, still strongly supports Deng Haonan to return to Beijing to sit in the town, and the other four are still the same, no matter how wind and rain you go, they just don't let go.

In addition to Wang Qia and Deng Haonan's group, as the secretary of the military department, he knew that the current situation was dangerous, and Deng Haonan's Liaodong Army had to break the siege. However, four of the five ministers opposed, and he was alone, and finally lost.

On 7 June, the cabinet finally reached a compromise on the appointment of Yang Sichang and Yuan Chonghuan, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse would rather appoint the defeated Yang Sichang than the mutinous Yuan Chonghuan.

Yang Sichang was the governor of Jiliao, but he could only mobilize the army in Shanhaiguan, and the Liaodong Governor's Office outside the customs listened to the propaganda and did not listen to the tune. If you want to emphasize the Liaodong Army, then first pay the military salaries and military expenses owed over the years.

The Shanhaiguan general was killed, and Yang Sichang appointed Hong Chengchou as the Shanhaiguan commander-in-chief. This Hong Chengchou is a little resourceful and ruthless, he gave Yang Sichang an idea, and transferred all the 120,000 Ming troops from Shanhaiguan to the Great Wall of Xiongwotou into the Guannei and entered the king of Jingqin.

Yang Sichang looked at Hong Chengchou in horror and said, "Isn't this equivalent to giving up the natural danger of the Great Wall of Jizhou?" Isn't the Emperor Taiji army even more unscrupulous? ”

Hong Chengchou sneered: "Don't worry, adults, naturally someone will wipe our butts for us!" ”

"What do you mean?"

Hong Chengchou said: "At present, Huang Taiji has broken through the North Great Wall of Hongshankou and has occupied Zunhua, and the Great Wall in Jizhou, Shanhaiguan has become useless. The Ming army above is now not helping the Jingshi to defend it, but helping the Liaodong army to guard the rear. As long as we withdraw all the 120,000 Ming troops, it must be the Liaodong Governor's Mansion that is in a hurry. If there is no Shanhaiguan Palace, the more than 100,000 Liaodong troops in western Liaoning will be attacked on three sides. ”

Yang Sichang understood Hong Chengchou's strategy, and immediately said with great joy: "In this case, the safety of this Jingshi can be guaranteed!" ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "The 120,000 Ming troops are all infantry troops, and they can defend the Great Wall, but they can't fight head-on with the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces." They withdrew to hold the Jingshi at most, and did not let Huang Taiji break the city, but they could not retreat from the enemy! ”

"It is a great achievement to be able to hold the capital!"

Yang Sichang took two steps back and forth and said, "That's it!" The Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to the first section of the Bear's Nest was abandoned, and 120,000 Ming troops were transferred to King Qin. Give Shanhaiguan to Huang Taiji, and let Huang Taiji fight with Deng Haonan! ”

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "The Liaodong Army has a lot of eyes and ears in Shanhaiguan, and if we withdraw our troops on the front foot, the Liaodong Army will take over the line from Shanhaiguan to the head of the bear nest on the back foot, but it will not take advantage of Huang Taiji." ”

"That's fine!" Yang Sichang said: "Even if the Liaodong Army doesn't help, they have to be kept idle!" And we have 120,000 horses, and we have a better chance of winning this battle! ”

Hong Chengchou nodded, said goodbye to Yang Sichang, and set off for Shanhaiguan.

On June 8, Huang Taiji's army surrounded Tongzhou on the evening of the 11th, and the troops marched directly to the capital.

The Tartar army approached the city, the dynasty was shaken, and the princes and ministers of the capital and the people of Li were all frightened, fearing that the enemy would break the city.

Yang Sichang commanded 100,000 forbidden troops in the capital, ascended to the city to defend against the enemy, 20 red-coated cannons against 12 Russian bronze cannons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the two sides conducted several fierce artillery battles, with casualties on each other. However, the city of Beijing was high and deep, and Huang Taiji could not attack it at all for a while, so he transferred the artillery to Tongzhou and attacked Tongzhou.

Once Tongzhou falls, a large number of ordnance in the city, such as artillery, gunpowder, rockets, weapons, etc., will fall into the hands of the enemy, which will put greater military pressure on the capital.

Deng Haonan had already left Nanzhili and returned to Beijing in triumph. But when passing through the sea off Shandong, he suddenly received a report that the Emperor of the Apocalypse woke up, which greatly touched Deng Haonan.

The emperor woke up, so that Deng Haonan did not dare to return to the capital, because he knew that the Emperor of the Apocalypse would never let him go. His subordinates persuaded him to rebel immediately, but Deng Haonan refused, because his family was still in the capital, where Deng Haonan's soul was sustenance, and there was no room for loss.

Deng Haonan then turned back to Jinzhou.

After returning to Jinzhou, it happened that Huang Taiji launched the Battle of the Entrance, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse had no time to repair the cabinet and the inner court, let alone do anything to Deng Haonan.

The Military Intelligence Bureau sent a message that the Liaoguo Mansion was fine, and Deng Haonan was relieved.

"Huang Taiji has conquered Zunhua and plundered countless people and animals, all of which were transported from Xifengkou to the desert!"

"The cabinet pushed Yang Sichang as the governor of Jiliao, Yang Sichang ordered Hong Chengchou to take over the defense of Shanhaiguan, but this Hong Chengchou actually played a tricky role, and transferred all the 122,000 defenders from Shanhaiguan to Xiongwotou, and the town guard of Liaoxi urgently reported to the General Staff of Jinguan, and after getting approval, he hurriedly transferred 50,000 infantry troops from Ningyuan to quickly take over the various passes of the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Xiongwotou."

"Yesterday, the general army of Datong and the general army of Xuanfu rushed to the capital with 20,000 cavalry, and the plan of the imperial Taiji soldiers to encircle Tongzhou was bankrupt, and they were afraid of being attacked from front to back, so they had to retreat fifty miles and camp in Sanhe, and the siege of the capital was temporarily lifted!"

Deng Haonan listened to Wang Zhaoyang's report with his eyes closed, and since the suppression of the rebellion in Jiangxi, Deng Haonan has not received a single piece of good news.

This Hong Chengchou, Deng Haonan has a deep memory, as one of the last spine of the Ming Empire, Hong Chengchou's contribution is remarkable.

Now this guy has just made his debut, and he has made such a ruthless trick for himself, which really impresses Deng Haonan.

"This trick is amazing!" Deng Haonan opened his eyes, smiled bitterly, and said, "I didn't expect that the strategic deployment that I had calculated for so long would be broken by this guy who just debuted!" ”

Huang Zupei and Lin Feng glanced at each other, and the latter said: "According to the current point of view, Hong Chengchou's move not only won 120,000 troops for Yang Sichang, but also calculated us. Jinguan transferred 50,000 people to take over the front-line defense of Shanhaiguan, but 50,000 people on the long Great Wall was too few. Moreover, these 50,000 people were withdrawn, and the troops on the western side of Liaoning became weak, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry had to be careful to strengthen the defense of the line from Ningyuan, Jinzhou to Dongning. It can be said that the entire Liaoxi can no longer mobilize a single soldier. ”

Huang Zupei sighed: "One more point! My lord's original plan was also disrupted. Huang Taiji broke through the Great Wall and entered the customs, which was originally a good opportunity for adults to justifiably ascend to the governor of Zhili, and we also made careful arrangements for this. But now the emperor suddenly sobered up and appointed Yang Sichang as the governor of Jiliao, this time Hong Chengchou brought him 120,000 troops, plus 100,000 forbidden troops in the capital, 20,000 cavalry in Datong and Xuanfu, and 220,000 troops to hold the capital There is no problem. ”

"Is there any news about the 20,000 horses in Nanyuan?"

Wang Zhaoyang replied: "They are very safe, it is a hunting ground, no one has gone over for dozens of miles, and the soldiers hunt every day, but they are not idle." ”

Deng Haonan nodded, this ambush was originally used to relieve the siege of the capital, once Deng Haonan became the governor of Zhili, the sudden appearance of this army would scare away Huang Taiji, and at that time it would inevitably make Deng Haonan's prestige greater. Now it is the reinforcements of Xuanfu and Datong that have been occupied, and the credit goes to Yang Sichang.

Deng Haonan was a little unhappy, but the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, people were not as good as the sky, and he didn't have a problem.

Liu Hu said suddenly: "My lord, it's better to take the ladies out and just reverse it!" ”

"No! It's too dangerous! Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "Once Madame leaves the capital, it will be very dangerous. If I were Huang Taiji, I would give up attacking the capital and go all out to capture Madame! ”

Everyone thought about it, looked at Deng Haonan, and Liu Hu asked, "How are you going to deal with it?" ”

After a long time, Deng Haonan spit out a word.

"Wait!"

What are you waiting for?

Of course, it is to wait for Yang Sichang to be defeated, otherwise Deng Haonan will have no chance at all.

On June 10, when Yang Sichang was holding the capital with Huang Taiji, Deng Haonan had already ordered the whole army to enter a state of combat readiness.

On the afternoon of the 10th, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions of the Liaodong Army's Black Armor Elite Cavalry were secretly stationed at Shanhaiguan from sea and land, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was on standby on the Ningyuan-Jinzhou line, and the Mongolian army servant army and the Korean servant army were on standby in Haizhouwei.

Everyone is waiting, the top is waiting for the opportunity, and the bottom is waiting for the order.

Hong Chengchou's actions will certainly not escape Huang Taiji's ears and eyes, and when he learned that Hong Chengchou withdrew all the 120,000 Ming troops stationed in Shanhaiguan to Xiong's dentou, Huang Taiji was also stunned, and immediately praised Hong Chengchou as a talent.

Huang Taiji immediately sent Amin to lead the elite cavalry to attack Shanhaiguan, wanting to take advantage of the chaos, but it was not as fast as the Liaodong army, and when he arrived, Jinguan had already controlled Shanhaiguan.

Huang Taiji was not surprised that the Liaodong Army quickly took over the defense of Shanhaiguan. On the contrary, he became interested in Hong Chengchou's 120,000 Ming army, because no matter how Hong Chengchou calculated Deng Haonan, there would be no fight between them, but this 120,000 Ming army was here to deal with Huang Taiji, which he could not tolerate.

At present, the 20,000 cavalry brought by the general army of Datong and the general army of Xuanfu are stationed under the capital, echoing Tongzhou, forcing the Huang Taiji army to be unable to capture Tongzhou. Now Hong Chengchou led 120,000 Ming troops to the capital, making Huang Taiji more threatened by the enemy.

Whether to destroy the 20,000 cavalry under the capital first, or the 120,000 infantry army of Hong Chengchou, Huang Taiji's subordinates debated for a while. In the end, Huang Taiji overrode public opinion and decided to sneak attack Hong Chengchou's department.

Huang Taiji left 50,000 cavalry to harass the Ming cavalry under Tongzhou and the capital, and the camp was arranged in a smoke-curling appearance, leaving the Ming army with the illusion that the army was still in the camp. Huang Taiji personally led 80,000 iron horsemen to wrap up the horses' hooves, quietly bypassed Liangcheng, and set up an ambush near Lutai.

After Hong Chengchou left Shanhaiguan, he did not dare to go back to the capital, but took a detour to the sea to the south, and took the North Canal from Lutai to the capital.

For fear of being attacked by the Huang Taiji cavalry, Hong Chengchou arranged a large number of sentry posts, but perhaps because he was too young, or because he led an army of 120,000 for the first time and had no combat experience in dealing with the Manchus, in short, he believed in the sentinels too much.

All the way south, the sentinels all reported that nothing happened, and Hong Chengchou believed it. V