At midnight, Shanhaiguan was shrouded in a cold and silent night, and the soldiers guarding the pass patrolled the city wall with a solemn expression, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

Suddenly, a burst of messy footsteps sounded from downstairs of the South City Gate Tower of Shanhaiguan, and Li Yuntian waited for the North City Gate Tower surrounded by Zhao Yong and other senior generals, overlooking the vast dark night ahead.

Although Li Yuntian couldn't see anything now, he knew very well that the main camp of the Mongolian army was stationed in a town three miles away from Shanhaiguan, and the Mongolian soldiers and servant troops in the large camp must have fallen asleep at this time.

"Master Hou, the time has come." A moment later, a guard walked quickly to Li Yuntian's side and said in a deep voice.

"Signal!" Hearing this, Li Yuntian glanced up at the twinkling stars in the sky, and gave an order in a deep voice.

With Li Yuntian's order, five red signal flares quickly rose from the city gate tower, and then exploded in the air, bursting into brilliant fireworks.

"Kill!" Soon, a faint shout of killing came from the night ahead, and Li Daniu and Xue Yi, who were quietly ambushed outside the camp of the Mongolian army, led the Korean soldiers and the defenders of Shanhaiguan to attack.

"Xingping, Juyongguan will ask you." Li Yuntian glanced at the dark night in front of him expressionlessly, turned around and said in a deep voice to Zhao Yong, who was standing aside.

"The deputy commander-in-chief can rest assured, Benhou will definitely live up to his mission and will definitely recapture Juyong Pass." When Zhao Yong heard this, he bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, and led his generals to leave in high spirits.

When Li Daniu and Xue Yi launched an attack on the Mongol army camp outside Shanhaiguan, Zhao Yong led 20,000 Liaodong Ming troops, 10,000 Uliangha soldiers and 10,000 Warahui special soldiers to Juyong Pass overnight, and after the Mongol army outside Shanhaiguan was eliminated, Li Daniu would send 10,000 Korean soldiers to reinforce Juyong Pass.

Not only Zhao Yong, but Li Yuntian then led the army to Tongzhou City, taking advantage of the fact that the Mongolian army in Tongzhou City did not know that the Ming army in Liaodong had entered the pass, and rushed to attack Tongzhou, besieging and annihilating the 70,000 elite Mongolian soldiers in the city.

The south gate of Shanhaiguan slowly opened, and the army to Juyong Pass left from the city gate in a neat line, in order to be able to reach Juyong Pass in the shortest possible time, they only brought seven days of military rations, and they were light and simple along the way, if they could not capture Juyong Pass within seven days, they would be hungry.

Not only Zhao Yong, but Li Yuntian rushed to Tongzhou City with only eight days of military rations, which was bound to Juyongguan and Tongzhou City.

In Li Yuntian's view, the Ming army's attack on Juyong Pass and Tongzhou City this time was a surprise victory, first using the Mongolian soldiers of the Wuliang Ha Division, the Dayan Division, and the Hui Special Department to enter the Juyong Pass and Tongzhou City, and then flanking the attack inside and outside, then the Juyong Pass and Tongzhou City would be broken.

The only thing that worried Li Yuntian was that the Mongol troops in Juyong Pass and Tongzhou City learned in advance that the Ming army in Liaodong had entered the pass, so that they would be prepared, and the Ming army in Liaodong would have to attack the city at that time, which would cause heavy casualties.

On the tower of the city gate, Li Yuntian looked at the team that disappeared into the night with an expressionless face, Juyong Pass was very important in his plan, only the Ming army firmly held Juyong Pass, then it could form a situation of closing the door and fighting dogs against the Mongolian army in Beizhili, making them turtles in the urn.

"Let's go!" After all the teams attacking Juyong Pass left the city gate, Li Yuntian coldly burst out of his mouth, strode down the city gate tower with the generals beside him, and rushed to Tongzhou City with a mighty wave.

Seven days later, at dusk, when the four gates of Tongzhou City were about to close, a Mongolian cavalry team of more than 100 people appeared outside the north gate of Tongzhou City.

Seeing this, the Mongol soldiers defending the city did not come forward to interrogate, and let the cavalry into the city on the side, without the slightest doubt about the identity of those cavalry.

The leader of the cavalry was Chaganbala, who came to Tongzhou City under the banner of the Mongol army outside Shanhaiguan to ask for food and grass for the New Year, and after entering the city, he stayed at a post station, and the Mongolian officials who received him arranged accommodation for them without even verifying their identities.

After all, now that the Mongolian army occupies the absolute initiative in Beizhili, and Chaganbala and others are out-and-out Mongols, the Mongolian official would not have thought that Chaganbala was a spy sent by the Ming army, and only wanted to go to the Qinglou to drink flower wine after settling down Chaganbala.

As the Mongol army entered the Gyeonggi region, both the generals and the soldiers in the Mongol army developed a sense of pride, believing that the Ming army was vulnerable, so they involuntarily had a feeling of slackness, and gradually began to enjoy the flowery world of Beizhili, not only the generals frantically robbed property and women, but the soldiers also ate, drank and had fun, and military discipline quickly deteriorated.

Originally, the Tongzhou warehouse in Tongzhou stored a large amount of grain and materials, enough for the Mongolian army to eat for more than half a year, but to the surprise of the Mongolian army, Emperor Xuande obeyed the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and the governor of Henan, Yu Qian, and asked the civil and military officials of the capital to go to the Tongzhou warehouse ninety miles away from the capital to withdraw the money in advance, and there were rewards for taking more, and sent tens of thousands of troops in the capital to the Tongzhou warehouse to rush to transport grain.

So, there was a huge crowd of people carrying grain on the ground between the capital and Tongzhou, and most of the grain in the Tongzhou warehouse was transported back to the capital in large bags and small bags, and tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of families of civil and military officials miraculously transported the grain in the Tongzhou warehouse back to the capital before the Mongolian army arrived.

Therefore, by the time the Mongol army captured the city of Tongzhou, Tongzhou had become an empty warehouse, much to Arutai's annoyance.

As the war with the Ming Dynasty had exceeded the expected time, the Mongol army had little food and grass left, and Arutai had to plunder and loot grain on the ground in Beizhili to maintain the supply of the Tatars, the Warat soldiers and the Seven Guards of the Kansai Guard.

The seven guards of Guanxi sent troops in a hurry this time, and they did not prepare much military rations at all, and their logistics materials were supplied by Arutai, but fortunately, the Ming Dynasty was rich and the people were strong under the national policy of Emperor Xuande to recuperate in recent years, and the Mongolian army grabbed a lot of food in the people, so there was no need to worry about starvation.

Speaking of which, there is a person who has to mention, this person is Yu Qian, who is named on the gold list with Li Yuntian, after the rebellion of the Han King was quelled, Yu Qian was ordered to go out to patrol Jiangxi, and rehabilitate Zhaoxue for hundreds of wronged prisoners, and later reported to the Shaanxi official school to harass the people when he was patrolling Shaanxi, so that Emperor Xuande issued an edict to arrest those officials who did evil.

In the first half of this year, when the imperial court was preparing to patrol the place with the right attendants of each department, Emperor Xuande wrote Yu Qian's name in the imperial pen and handed it to the ministry, so that Yu Qian was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and went to patrol Henan.

Yu Qian returned to Beijing from Shaanxi to report on his work, but before he left the capital to go to Henan to take up his post, he encountered the Mongolian soldiers of the Seven Guards of Guanxi entering Beizhili from the Fallen Horse Pass, so he stayed in the capital to assist Zhang Fu to defend the city, and proposed to solve the food problem of Tongzhou Cang by withdrawing the civil and military officials of the capital in advance, which was deeply valued by Emperor Xuande.

After dinner, Chaganbala led a few of his men out of the door, because 70,000 Mongolian soldiers were stationed in Tongzhou City, so Mongolian soldiers can often be seen on the street, many drunk Mongolian soldiers broke into the homes of households on both sides of the street in groups to loot, looting property and **** women, which made the atmosphere on the street very tense, and the women's crying and scolding were endless.

Chaganbala frowned at the scene in front of him, although it was a tradition of the Mongol soldiers to wantonly plunder after capturing the city, but Chaganbala did not agree with this practice.

After all, the Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains for more than 100 years, and the lifestyle of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty has not only been influenced by the people of the Central Plains, but also by the culture of the Central Plains.

As he walked, Chaganbala slowed down and stared ahead, and a stout Mongol general, staggering drunk, surrounded by several guards, entered a small alley not far away.

Seeing this, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of Chaganbala's mouth, and he quietly led the people to follow, he had seen the stout Mongolian general before, who was a member of the Tatar Asut tribe.

Chaganbala didn't come out to hang out this time, he had to find out where Arutai and other high-ranking generals of the Mongol army lived, and when the Ming army entered the city, he could go straight to the residence of Arutai and others, lest they take advantage of the chaos.

Since the stout Mongol general was from the Asuth Ministry and held a very high position, he must know the address of Arutai and the others, so that he could complete the task and save him a lot of trouble.

The stout Mongol general stopped in front of an ordinary house in the alley, and the guards around him came forward and banged on the door, and when the people inside opened the door, they swarmed in.

Seeing this, Chaganbala's eyes suddenly flashed cold, it was obviously not a good thing for the stout Mongolian general to come here so late.

Sure enough, when Chaganbala quietly approached the house, he heard the screams of a woman and the man's pleading, and it seemed that a woman in the house was going to be unlucky.

Chaganbara looked up and saw that the alley was quiet, so he nodded at one of the guards beside him, who quickly climbed over the wall and opened the door from the inside.

"You two stay here, don't let anyone go." After leaving two guards to guard the door, Chaganbala gave a deep explanation, and led the rest of the people to walk lightly towards the courtyard.

The courtyard of this house is a courtyard house common in the Gyeonggi area, which is divided into the North House, the East House and the West House, where the North House is the main house, and the screams of women come from the North House, and the sounds of those begging for mercy come from the East House.

Of course, those begging for mercy did not have the slightest effect on the Mongol soldiers on the scene, first of all, those Mongol soldiers did not understand what those begging for mercy said.

After thinking about it, Chaganbala quietly came to the east room, stretched out his hand and poked open the window paper on the window to look in, only to see that the men, women and children of this family were guarded with knives by the guards who came with the stout Mongolian general, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to plead, and the middle-aged man in the lead prayed that the stout Mongolian general would spare his daughter.