After fighting for an hour, they completely annihilated the enemy troops who entered the encirclement, and the four people such as Lingtai were like wilted eggplants, so they had to be captured obediently.

The generals counted the prisoners, and suddenly came to report to the horses: "General, there is another enemy army that has escaped!" ”

Yang Hong waved his sword: "Chase me-"

Yang Jun said: "Order." So Yang Jun, as the vanguard, hurried out of the canyon and followed the enemy's horseshoe prints. The Ming army pursued all the way to Baochangzhou, and after a fierce battle, captured five leaders such as Ataida Thorn Hua. It was getting late, and the thieves who had lost their leader had no intention of fighting again, and fled in defeat.

Yang Jun asked to lead his troops to continue the pursuit, but Yang Hong rejected his request: "We have won a great victory, and we are about to enter the hinterland of Wuliangha, so it is enough to stop." So he withdrew.

Yang Hong made new contributions, Zhu Qizhen gave him a special seal book to comfort him, promoted him to the commander of the capital Tongzhi (from the second grade), gave him a large number of silver coins, and sent the imperial doctor to Ma Ying to visit Yang Hong.

Yang Hong was deeply moved, and said to the imperial doctor: "The saint values the old minister so much, and the minister should work harder to repay the saint for his hard work......" After the injury was healed, Yang Hong gave the reward to his subordinates one by one according to the size of the merit, because he knew that the battle of Boyan Mountain was everyone's merit, and there were difficulties and blessings to share.

Zhu Qizhen also appointed Yang Hongchong as the right general to assist him on the grounds of Tan Guang's old age, which was actually to supervise Tan Guang's training of soldiers and horses. Soon Yang Hong wrote a letter to suggest that Kaiping City be added, the Longmen Institute should be expanded, and 60 earthen forts should be added from Dushi to Chaohechuan.

After deliberation, Yang Hong's suggestion was adopted, and Yang Hongjin was promoted to the commander of the capital (Zheng Erpin). He fought with the Uliangha army at the three forks, pursued the thief Kou Zhi and also put the bald river, and then promoted to the governor of Tongzhi (from the first product).

In the ninth year of orthodoxy (1443), Uliangha invaded Yansui again, Yang Hong and his ministers Han Zheng and others went out of Datong, to the north of Montenegro, intercepted and defeated Uliangha in Kresu, and beheaded the leaders such as Ra Child, Yang Hongjin was promoted to the governor of the left capital, and the soldiers who were rewarded amounted to more than 9,900 people.

Yang Hong once asked for a flag to be issued to him, but when he was not allowed, he made small feather arrows and wooden cards and ordered the army. Some officials with ulterior motives said that he acted without asking for orders, but the emperor did not pursue it. Zhu Qizhen, who was relying on Yang Hong, did not pursue it, and Yang Hong once again dodged the open guns and hidden arrows.

In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448), Yang Hong hung the seal of the general of Zhenshuo and served as the chief military officer, replacing Guo Xuanzhen to guard the Xuanfu. Since Xuande, the northern army has not invaded on a large scale, and other generals are generally cowardly, but Yang Hong has been promoted to general with the courage to fight. The tribes were also very afraid of him and called him "King Yang".

In July of the 14th year of Orthodoxy (1449), the Warat tribe unified the Mongolian Plateau. Because of the "Gongma" incident, the leader of Warat, Tokhoff Buhua, coerced and lured the Mongolian tribes under the instigation of Taishi Yexian, with a total of 150,000 troops, and attacked the Ming Dynasty in three ways, and the border was in an emergency.

Under the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, Ming Yingzong only made preparations for a few days, and the grain and grass were not collected in place, so he gathered 160,000 troops (regular army) and hastily drove the expedition in person.

On 15 August, Zhu Qizhen, who had no military command ability or actual combat experience, constantly changed the route of the march, changed the order day and night, went back on his word, and after several tosses, 130,000 Ming troops arrived at Tumubao, which was trapped in no water source, and this place became a nightmare for the Ming army.

After three days of confrontation, reinforcements from Warat arrived. also used the strategy of deception and peace to deceive the hungry and thirsty Ming army out of the castle. The unsuspecting Ming army went out of the city like birds and beasts, looking for grass and fodder everywhere, and the Wara army, which had been in ambush for a long time, took the opportunity to cover up and kill, and defeated the Ming army in one fell swoop.

At this point, the pro-conquest army led by Zhu Qizhen was completely annihilated, and Zhu Qizhen himself was also captured and attacked military fortresses in various places as a hostage, and the Ming Dynasty, which had lost its elite, was in danger.

After Ming Yingzong was captured, the eunuch Xining of the inner palace surrendered to Wara and revealed the information about the emptiness of the Jingshi garrison to Yexian. If he obtained the treasure, he first decided to take Zhu Qizhen as a hostage and hijacked him to various fortresses, trying to open a shortcut to the capital under the pretense of the emperor's order to parade.

The first thing that came to mind was Yang Hong, who had a friendship with him, so he passed through Xuanfu on his way west from Tumubao, and first passed on the emperor's order to urge the door to open the door, in an attempt to capture Xuanfu as a base for attacking Beijing. Three times in two days, he went to the city of Xuanfu and shouted for Yang Hong to open the city gate to welcome him, but Yang Hong, the chief soldier, ignored him.

The cunning had already guessed that Yang Hong was in the city, and he was very patient and forced Zhu Qizhen to write a handwritten letter, saying that he wanted to return to Beijing from Xuanfu. With the emperor's handwritten edict, a sinister smile appeared on his face: "Yang Hong, if you don't open the door this time, you are disobeying the holy order, and you have a thousand heads that are not enough to cut off!" ”

He also returned again, and then shot the edict into the city with bows and arrows, and the soldiers defending the city accepted the edict and hurriedly told Yang Hong.

Zhu Qizhen shouted anxiously in his heart: "General Zhenshuo did the right thing!" This time, it was a fake edict written by me first, don't open the door. Once the city gate is opened, I will die, the gate of the capital division will be opened, and the Ming Dynasty will be closed. Yuan Bin, the commander of the Jinyi guard, also signaled the soldiers at the head of the city not to open the door in secret words, and the soldiers understood.

At that time, it was already twilight, Yang Hong avoided it again, and ordered the city guards to reply: "We are guarding the lord's city, and the chief military officer has gone elsewhere." It's getting late now, and we don't dare to open the door without a handsome, so please forgive us. ”

After leaving first, Yang Hong took over Ming Yingzong's edict and sent someone to send it to Jingshi as soon as possible. At this time, Zhu Qizhen's younger brother Zhu Qijue was in danger of being imprisoned at the request of Yu Qian and other ministers, and was the "Emperor Jing". After Emperor Jing received the letter, he immediately sent an envoy to instruct Yang Hong to ignore Yexian's request.

In order to reward Yang Hong's dedication to defending the city, the imperial court, under the recommendation of Yu Qian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and others, specially sealed Yang Hongchang Pingbo in the line of fire. Yang Hong was encouraged by the imperial court, and his ambition to defend the city became more and more determined, and he had nothing to do about it.

Ming Yingzong still has use value, and there is no danger to life for the time being. also took a fluke first, and then took Yingzong to the gate of Datong, so the trick was repeated, and he wanted to use the same way to sneak into the city.

The guard general Guo Deng saw through Ye Xian's trick, insisted on not resigning, and after hitting a wall in two places, he decided to make a desperate bet and go deep into the army, trying to capture Beijing in one fell swoop.

In other words, the trick of trying to use Ming Yingzong's hand to open the city gate was discovered in Xuanfu and Datong, and he was bored with the closed door.

On the first day of the first month of October, the Wara army attacked the Beijing division in three ways, and the 100,000 people of the West Route Army were personally led by Yexian, and held Yingzong hostage from Jining through Datong, Yanghe (now Yanggao), and captured Baiyangkou (today's Zhenbei), and then waved his army south, directly approaching Bauhinia Pass.

The 50,000-strong Middle Route Army, led by Totobuhua, attacked Juyong Pass from the direction of Xuanfu. The Eastern Route Army attacked Miyun from the direction of Gubeikou as a diversionary force.

Gubeikou is also known as Hubeikou and Tiemen Pass, it is the place where farming people and nomads intersect since ancient times, and the Great Wall of Gubeikou is the only way to enter the customs, and it has extremely important strategic significance in military affairs.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the general Xu Da supervised the construction of this section of the earthy Great Wall to the west, which was no more than one foot high and two feet high, and no more than nine feet wide. In the last years of orthodoxy, the Great Wall fell into disrepair and neglected defense, and the number of Ming troops stationed here was small, less than 3,000 men.

Gubeikou is located in the northernmost part of the Miyun Plain, and then go north is the continuous mountains and plateaus, the tide river meanders from the north, cutting out a valley between the mountains, to the Gubeikou, this valley quickly expands into a large plain in the shape of a trumpet to the south, and the Gubeikou becomes the throat of the plain from the north.

Gubeikou is full of flowers in spring, cool air hits people in summer, golden all over the fields in autumn, and snowy in winter. In the early morning sunset, the village and the Great Wall reflect each other, and in the evening, the ploughing cattle and farmers return together. The guerrilla general Yang Qilang Yang Chuan received a secret report from Jinyiwei, and soon the invading Wara army iron cavalry was about to break the tranquility here, realizing that there must be a fierce battle in the area of the Great Wall of Gubeikou.

The Gubeikou Pass is long and narrow from north to south, and the left and right mountains face each other, the east side is Panlong Mountain, and the west side is Wohu Mountain. The road from Chengde to Beiping also extends south along the east bank of the Chaohe River through this pass. The gate of Gubeikou is built in the middle of the pass, there are two gates of water and land, the land gate on the east bank of the Chaohe River is the iron gate, and the waterway gate on the Chaohe River is the water gate. With these two gates, Yang Chuan could at least confront the Warat cavalry for a few days and relieve the pressure on the Jingshi.

The emperor's army of more than 100,000 was completely annihilated in Tumubao, and the Jinyi guard commanded Yuan Bin to be captured together with the emperor, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is that the eunuch Xining is the adviser of the Wara army, and the Ming army will drill wherever the defense is empty.

The morale of the Ming army was low, and the number was not as good as the Wara army, even if they went directly out of the Great Wall to fight them, they were evenly matched on the plain, but the Wara army would have reinforcements at any time.

"Is it to escape, or to fight to the death?" Yang Qilang has always been very entangled.

In the evening, Yang Chuan decided to take advantage of the fact that the battle had not yet started and went to the Yang Invincible Temple, perhaps this was the last time he would pay homage to Yang Ye, a famous anti-Liao general of the Northern Song Dynasty. Yang Ye belongs to the Yang family of Bingzhou, and Yang Chuan is the ancestor, that is, the first generation of the Yang family of Chengbu Village - Yang Juben, the general of Jinwu in the late Tang Dynasty.

Yang Invincible Temple was built next to the post road of Gubeikou Hedong Guanchengmen, it is an ancestral hall specially built to commemorate Yang Ye, this temple was built after the alliance of the Liao Dynasty, although the scale is not large. Yang Ling Gong Ancestral Hall has two halls before and after, the front hall glazed tile hall top, for Yang Ye and his eight sons, the apse hard mountaintop, for She Taijun and other Yang Men female generals.

Yang Chuan took a few entourage, rode to the Yang Linggong Ancestral Hall, dismounted, tied the horse to the stone stake at the door, left the entourage at the door of the ancestral hall, and entered the ancestral hall directly with the deputy general Zhu Guangzhong.

In the front hall, Yang Chuan stood in front of Yang Ye's statue, worshiped three times sincerely, and then put on a stick of incense, and said passionately: "Ling Gong, Yang Chuan, the descendant Yang Chuan came to see your old man today......