Chapter 218: Zhao Rate, who was pitted

A day later, the police entered Beijing, the Ming cabinet was shocked, and the first assistant Han Yi immediately reported to Emperor Chongzhen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Is it true that Jiannu entered Kou Ji Town?" Emperor Chongzhen asked in surprise, he could never imagine how Jiannu broke through and threatened Gyeonggi.

"Long live, this time Jiannu is known as 100,000, breaking through the Great Wall passes such as Da'ankou and Longjing Pass in Jizhen, and approaching Zunhua, and the guards of the passes and the governor of Zunhua have sent people to Beijing to report the emergency." Second assistant Li Biao said on the side.

"Where did Jiannu come from this time, is it to plunder the border towns, or to capture Gyeonggi." Emperor Chongzhen's face sank like water, and the weakness of Jizhen made him lose face, and it only took three or two days to work hard for hundreds of miles of the Great Wall and dozens of military forts to fall, this is the Jizhen north of the capital that made him look at it as a barrier.

"I don't know now, but," Li Biao gritted his teeth and let go, "Long live, just in case, once Zunhua is lost, Jiannu can go south to the Gyeonggi Plain, and there is no danger to defend." ”

Chongzhen closed his eyes and thought, on the surface he was silent, but his heart was as turbulent as a stormy wave, the Ming Dynasty had served as the Son of Heaven, and the one who issued the Qin Wang Order was the one who had been trapped in the north for several years.

"Long live, without further ado, if Jiannu really captures Zunhua, arrives in Beijing, and then transfers troops, the old minister is afraid that it will be too late." Han Yi's words shattered Chongzhen's last illusion, and he agreed to transfer troops to King Qin.

"First of all, I have to give an order to Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, to transfer the soldiers and horses of Liao Town into Beijing." Qian Longxi said.

Chongzhen heard about this crookedness, and now he can't hear Yuan Chenghuan's name the most, what five years of Pingliao, now two years. Jiannu has already entered the Kou Jing Division. Five years. Is it time for the Ming Dynasty to die?

"Yes, long live, Liaozhen is the closest strong town to here, in addition, Xuanda, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Denglai and other border towns will also issue orders to transfer troops." Li said.

Chongzhen raised his hand resentfully, "Immediately issue an order to dispatch elite troops to garrison Gyeonggi with all parts of the nine sides." ”

The three ministers and Wang Chengen knelt down to receive the decree.

However, do not wait for the will of the Ming Cabinet and the Son of Heaven to be issued. Yuan Chenghuan, who knew the news of Jiannu's entry into Kouji Town, came up with great strength, and did not wait for the order of the cabinet of the Ministry of War, and ordered Liaozhen to reorganize the army and Qinwang.

In order to rush to Jizhen today, garrison Jinggi, Yuan Chenghuan led nearly 20,000 cavalry under his command to immediately set off to Jizhou, these cavalry were piled up with money and grain in the past two years, he knew that it was impossible to fight against Jiannu without cavalry, he was borrowed from east to west to establish this Liaozhen iron cavalry that was worthy of a war.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to deduct the military salary of Jizhen and postpone the renovation of various passes in Jizhen. didn't think about it, Jiannu was attacking the weak Jizhen this time. entered Kou Daming, which made him lose face.

In order to block Jiannu in the north of Zunhua as much as possible, he ordered Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, to lead 4,000 cavalry to go first, drive Zunhua directly, and be sure to stick to Zunhua before the arrival of Liaozhen reinforcements, and keep the north gate of the Beijing Division.

Zhao Shujiao is not a brainless martial artist, he knows the urgency of this trip, whether Jiannu can enter Gyeonggi depends on whether he can hold Zunhua, if Zunhua falls, even if Jiannu is just trying to loot in the border town, he will fly south at this time, because the rich land of the Gyeonggi Plain is close at hand, who can resist such a temptation.

Zhao led the army day and night, and finally arrived in Zunhua before Jiannu attacked Zunhua, and entered the city to meet Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua.

Between the importance of the Santun camp where the general army of the avant-garde castle of Zunhua was stationed, he ordered Zhao to immediately lead the troops to rush to the aid of the Santun camp, for the defense of Zunhua, he was quite confident, thinking that as long as the Santun camp was not lost, Jiannu would not dare to attack Zunhua on a large scale, not to mention that he had ordered to recruit young people inside and outside the city to defend the city.

Zhao Shujiao was shocked, he already knew that the Jiannu army broke through the pass in several ways, but they were all directed at Zunhua, and the garrison of Santun Camp could prevent the enemy from coming from two ways, but the enemy from the right flank was not on the way to Santun Camp, and could directly attack Zunhua.

Zhao led the sect to persuade in every possible way, but he was not allowed, as a military general, even if he was the chief soldier of the second rank of the imperial court, he could only submit to the orders of the governor of Zunhua of the third grade, and galloped to the station of the general army of Jizhen in the Santun camp.

When he led the exhausted 4,000 cavalry to the Santun camp, Zhu Guoyan, the chief soldier of Jizhen, thought that the Liao soldiers were vicious and had always had the bad habit of plundering the people.

As for Jiannu's entry into the Kou, he thought that the Zhou Qili built by Qi Ye and the Santunying Xiongcheng with a height of nearly three zhang would definitely make Jiannu return in vain.

Of course, Zhu Guoyan still thinks that Jiannu is just raiding and looting, if he knew that Huang Taiji would have to take down the Santun camp and Zunhua and then go straight to Jinggi, this Jizhen general soldier would not act like Meng Lang, and at this time, the Ming civil and military forces still knew nothing about the purpose of Jiannu's entry into the Kou.

Zhao Shujiao was aggrieved, shouldering the heavy responsibility of Governor Yuan, and rushed thousands of miles to help, but he even ate behind closed doors, so that Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, was like thunder, and he directly led the soldiers back to Zunhua, and the master was no longer waiting.

Unfortunately, the result of this toss was that he could never go back to Zunhua, and halfway back to Zunhua, the army of Jiannu's left wing was surrounded by the troops of the Zhenglanqi, Zhengbaiqi, and Lanqi under the leadership of Mang Gurtai, Azig, Abatai, Dolgon, and Duoze.

"Lord Zongzhen, the humble post is ten thousand deaths, and the humble duty did not expect the Jiannu Brigade to attack from the back road." The rear team made Soda thick into a sweat, and knelt on the ground in fear.

"That's it, the matter has come to this, now that the national disaster is at hand, this town will leave your head to serve the country." The successive setbacks made the gray-haired Zhao Shujiao even more haggard, but he did not change his warm demeanor of leading troops.

"Thank you for not killing." Tian Houcheng burst into tears.

Zhao Shujiao looked around, deputy general Tang Kui, general Fan Juting, guerrilla Zhang Xiao, guerrilla Bai Lumin... , are all old people who have followed themselves for many years,

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have worked together for many years, and this time we are under siege, and this is the fault of this town." Zhao led the teaching to give gifts.

"My lord, Lord Zhao has been fighting with Jiannu for decades, and he is the pillar of Liaodong, I am fortunate to follow my lord, how dare I have a grudge." Adjutant General Tang Kui knelt on the ground, and the other generals bowed to the ground.

"Everyone, please." Zhao led the teaching to personally help up his subordinates one by one.

"Jiannu is brutal. In the village of Tucheng in Liaodong. Now that I am approaching the Jinggi of the Ming Dynasty, seeing that the tragedy of Liaodong is repeated in the hinterland of my Ming Dynasty, can the generals fight to the death with me and Jiannu. Zhao said excitedly.

"My subordinates are willing to go." The crowd responded in unison.

"Okay, life for decades, today is the fastest, this town is here to thank you." Zhao led the teaching to bow and salute.

Everyone hurriedly bowed in return.

Itaia sat on a horse, dressed in fish scale armor, which was taken off by Eru from the guerrillas of the Ming army. Excellent workmanship and majestic.

He looked at the Ming army on the opposite side, and saw a big banner in the lead, the chief military officer of Liaodong, the banner of Zhao Zi, it was Jinzhou Zhao, and the Ming army cavalry under its banner covered the opposite field.

Of course, he knew the prestige of this Jinzhou Zhao, this person was good at defending the city, and the old Khan King, the new Khan King, and the Baylor had not taken advantage of him for several years. Shou Ningyuan, Shou Jinzhou. Let the Eight Banners Army suffer a lot, but at the moment, this Ming defender is in the field against the elite soldiers of the Three Banners, and he will definitely be defeated.

Itaia looked at the majestic posture of his own Ama Eruan sitting on a horse in front of him, and his heart calmed down.

Lu You, with a long knife in his hand, followed the side of the west gate of Hu Fang, looking at the battlefield to the west, and more than 1,000 of their Han army banner soldiers moved with the left wing army, and their job was to take care of the baggage, clean the battlefield, and take care of the livestock of Dingkou.

Because they have just entered the Ming Dynasty, they have very few dingkou and livestock, so they are a little idle, but after the war, cleaning the battlefield is a hard job.

"Lord Fang, I heard that it was General Zhao of Liaozhen who was besieged, do you think he can escape?" Lu Youyan asked with a smile.

"The Ming army on the opposite side is only thousands, and the three banners of our army plus more than 20,000 Mongolian barbarians, you can explain whether people can escape," Fang Ximen pouted disdainfully, and then he thought of something, "I said, there is a road, don't worry about the Ming people," he looked around, "Be careful that people accuse you of collaborating with the enemy, it doesn't matter if you die yourself, don't implicate Fang Ye and me." ”

"Master Fang, you don't know how little courage you have, I just asked, I don't mean to collaborate with the enemy." The road has a hippie smile in return.

Fang Ximen used his hand to walk a little, "Boy, when you go out in this army, Master Fang, I also have to bow my head and wait for the Jurchen masters, you kid be careful with you." ”

The Han army tuntian where they were located was exempted from half of the field endowment, which made the various tuntian offices finally settle down, and they could finally make do with it, but they immediately received an order to gather troops to go out, and the Han army tuntian drew 3,000 Ding, all of which had families, and those who did not have families could not go to the expedition.

So Lu You, as Fang Ximen's entourage, came to this place.

The dull horn sounded, and the vests of the white flag and the blue flag urged the horses to trot, and as their respective cattle and leaders approached the Ming army from both sides, the white flags and the Mongolian foreign vassals attacked from the flanks.

The Ming army also ushered in the Jiannu army formation under the leadership of the general, and at a distance of nearly 100 steps, the two sides sprayed out the rain of arrows with bows and bows.

The front of Jiannu are all iron-armored soldiers, and most of the arrows shot by the bow are hung on the iron armor, but some of the soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell off their horses and were trampled by the horses behind them, and the Ming army was just wearing leather armor and cotton armor, and there were constantly casualties of the Ming army, and the battle formation was missing, and the hundred or so steps were just three salvos of bows and arrows.

Approaching more than 20 steps, the Liaozhen cavalry fired one after another, which caused a lot of casualties in Jiannu, and the Jiannu army formation was also missing, and the military formations of both sides collided with each other, and people on both sides continued to be split off their horses, and the sound of people shouting and neighing resounded throughout the field.

Of course, most of the casualties were the cavalry of the Ming army, the Ming army that was slightly inferior in horse warfare fought against the armor of the Eight Banners, and the damage was serious, this is the most ironic scene, the cavalry of the rich Ming Dynasty wore leather armor and other simple armor and fought to the death with the Jiannu armor soldiers of the whole body, who was the rich side, where did the money and food of the Ming Dynasty go.

It was just a meal, the front of the Ming army was shattered and did not form a formation, and the Jiannu soldiers went deep into the Ming army.

Zhao Shujiao understood that if he did not break through the enemy formation as soon as possible, he would only die in battle in the encirclement, and he looked at the five hundred family members around him, which was the combat power that he had prepared with great financial resources.

Ma Qiao and Tang Yuan were the old guards who followed him for more than 30 horses, and now there are only five people with all beards and tails, and the other three are on errands in the house, and the two youngest still follow him to fight and kill.

"Maqiao, Yuyuan, are you ready?" Zhao Shujiao asked.

"Master, the whole team of soldiers is over, just wait for the master to give an order, and I will follow the master to the soup." Ma Qiao, the leader of the family in his forties, said loudly.

"Okay, when we wait for the impact on the Jiannu Great Array, we will either die or live." Zhao Shujiao took out the Yanling knife and swung it.

Ma Qiao issued an order, and a hundred people in the front row urged the horse forward with one hand and one three-eyed gun. The rest of the family men urged their horses to follow with knives and guns in hand, and hundreds of people rushed forward in unison. (To be continued.) )