Ten miles north of Desheng Gate, Tucheng Pass, the banner is unfurled, the war horse neighs, and the Jiannu army has set up a simple camp here.

The reason why it is said to be simple is because Huang Taiji has no idea of staying here for a long time, and the tactics of the Eight Banners have always been sports warfare, and it is impossible to stay in the camp honestly. Therefore, it will not be like the Ming army, digging trenches to build earthen walls when camping, and setting up antlers to resist horses.

The purpose of setting up the camp is only to protect against the cold at night, after all, it is already November, and the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is not possible to have a tent to protect from the wind at night. Ming army attack camp? The relationship is good, Huang Taiji can't wait for the Ming army to attack.

At the beginning of their arrival outside Beijing, the Eight Banners Sentinel made it clear what was going on around Beijing. At present, there are two Ming armies outside Beijing, one is the Liaoxi soldiers led by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Jiliao, who set up a large camp ten miles east of Beijing, with tens of thousands of troops.

The other group is smaller in number, stationed outside the Desheng Gate at the north gate of Beijing, judging from the banner, there is the newly defeated Datong general soldier Man Gui, and what Sun Zushou, Hei Longyun, Ma Dengyun and other general generals are adjutant, and the total strength is almost 10,000 people.

Dai Shan suggested attacking Sun Chuanting's camp first, as long as Sun Chuanting was defeated, there would be no more threatening troops outside Beijing, and the entire Gyeonggi region would be left to the Eight Banners to gallop.

As for the capture of Beijing City, not only Huang Taiji, but also others did not think about it. Beijing City is the capital of the Ming Kingdom, the city is high and wide, has a perfect defense system, I don't know how many troops there are, just with these 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses, it is difficult to conquer Beijing City. The Ming Dynasty came here to plunder the people's food wealth, not to attack the city, and Huang Taiji did not want to lose a large number of banners to attack the city.

I have to say that Dai Shan's suggestion is still very reasonable. But after thinking about it carefully, Huang Taiji still vetoed it. Because in the autumn and winter of last year, he had just suffered a big loss in front of Sun Chuanting.

Now although Sun Chuanting is in the field, he has set up a strong camp, backed by Beijing and Tongzhou, there is no shortage of grain and grass, and if he wants to break through his camp, he does not know how many soldiers and horses will be lost.

Therefore, Huang Taiji decided to attack the Mangui Department first, although the Mangui Department was backed by the Beijing city wall, but there were only more than 10,000 people, and Mangui had just been killed by Mang Gurtai, he was actually a defeated general, so there was no need to worry at all.

Attacking Mangui, if Sun Chuanting comes to help, he can defeat Sun Chuanting in the field without attacking the strong camp!

Huang Taiji himself personally commanded the four banners of the right wing, and the right wing of the Mongolian cavalry of 3,000, launched a fierce attack on the Mangui department, Dai Shan, Abatai, Azig and others, commanded the four banners of the left wing, protected on the side, ready to meet the Sun Chuanting Department who came to help.

With Huang Taiji's order, Mang Gurtai, Jierharang, Yue Tuo, Dudu, Sakhalian and other generals, each commanding the elite of the Eight Banners, launched a fierce attack on the Mangui Division.

Outside the Desheng Gate, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky. Man Gui led his men to resist fiercely, and the defenders on the city walls also supported them with artillery.

In the past two years, the Royal Arsenal has cast hundreds of artillery, most of which are small cannons such as Franc machine and Tiger squat cannon, mainly used to equip the Praetorian Guard, but nearly 100 Hongyi cannons of thousands of catties have also been cast, some of which have been transported to Fujian to be equipped on sea ships, and the remaining about 40 are placed in the city of Beijing. In the north city wall where Desheng Gate is located, there are as many as ten Hongyi cannons, and there are also thirty or forty Franc machine guns.

Hearing that Jiannu launched an attack on the Mangui Division, Hong Chengchou, the secretary of the military department, personally went to Deshengmen to command the battle against Jiannu.

Under the command of Hong Chengchou, dozens of artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, firing shells at the Jiannu array.

The Hongyi cannon has a firing range of four or five miles, and the range of the Franc machine is also more than one mile, and the gunners of the Praetorian Guards who operate the artillery have undergone strict training, and there will be no situation where another space-time defender mistakenly shoots at the Guibu.

One by one, the shells crossed the soldiers of the Mangui Department and landed in the queue of Jiannu.

Jiannu attacked the Mangui array, the formation was naturally dense, and every time the cannon was fired, at least a few people were killed, and if it was replaced by an ordinary army, I am afraid it would have collapsed long ago, but this is the battle-hardened Jiannu Eight Banner soldiers, the strong will to fight, the tenacity of the soldiers, can be said to be the strongest army in this era.

Even if the flesh and blood of the accomplices around him were smashed by the cannonballs, the other Eight Banners soldiers still fought to the death and launched a fierce attack on the Mangui Army.

The Mangui Department was originally a rout of the army, and the subordinates of Sun Zushou, Hei Longyun, Ma Dengyun and other generals were also miscellaneous soldiers, so they naturally couldn't resist the onslaught of Jiannu, but after a stick of incense, it showed a rout.

On the city wall, Hong Chengchou saw all this, muttered for a moment, and ordered to open the city gate, and let Man Gui and other troops enter the urn city to avoid the attack of Jiannu.

"Ministry, how can this be done? As soon as the city gate is opened, Jiannu will inevitably follow, and the city of Beijing will be broken! Li Banghua on the side was shocked and hurriedly stopped Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou smiled slightly: "It's just an urn city gate, there is also an inner city gate in the urn city, as long as the inner city gate is not opened, Jiannu will not want to attack the city." ”

Li Banghua immediately understood: "Is the ministry trying to trap Jiannu with the urn city? ”

Hong Chengchou smiled: "Exactly, isn't the meaning of building the urn city exactly like this?" ”

Hong Chengchou immediately ordered to transfer 3,000 Praetorian Guards to the city and distribute them on the four walls of the urn city. Then he sent someone to call Man Gui and asked him to hold on for a little longer.

After a stick of incense, the Janissary Guards arranged the urn city properly, and Hong Chengchou ordered to open the gate outside the urn city. The Mangui tribe had long been unable to resist the attack of the slaves, and when they saw the city gate open, they immediately rushed in.

"Report, Great Khan, the city gate is open, and the Ming army is fleeing into the city in defeat." A cavalry flying horse came to the rear of the array and reported to Huang Taiji.

"Great Khan, give the order to attack, give me a soldier and horse, and I will definitely attack the city of Beijing for the Great Khan!" Belleto exclaimed excitedly.

The Ming army was defeated and entered the city, which was a good opportunity to take the opportunity to seize the city.

Huang Taiji was also very excited, as if he saw that Beijing City opened its doors to him, as long as he entered the city, he could destroy the Ming Kingdom, this is really a godsend!

However, when Huang Taiji was about to give an order, he suddenly thought of the situation in Zhangjiakou, Xuanfu, when his younger brother Dolgon went to Zhangjiakou to trade with the Ming, but was killed by the Ming at the gate of Zhangjiakou.

Why did the Ming people open the city gates now, and was it worth risking the city to be breached for the sake of a few thousand defeated soldiers?

Looking at the open city gate, like the mouth of a giant beast, Huang Taiji shuddered. Damn Mingren, he still wants to harm me, Ben Khan will never fall for this trick!

When Huang Taiji was about to give the order for the army to retreat, he stopped, thought for a while, and changed his words: "Order, order the Mongolian cavalry to quickly pursue and cover the city!" ”

If the Ming people really make a stupid mistake, maybe they will miss the great opportunity to capture the city of Beijing, in this case, let the Mongols test it, after all, it is not a pity that the Mongols will die!

Therefore, the Mongolian cavalry on the right flank, under the order of Huang Taiji, pursued the Mangui rout, and soon followed the rout over the stone bridge over the moat and rushed into the city.

Deshengmen urn city is the inner urn city, you can't see anything from the outside, the urn city is about more than 30 zhang square, in fact, you can't stand too many people, that is, the whole urn city is full, and so on can stand more than four or five thousand troops. However, there are still more than 20 caves in the urn city, which is enough to hide 3,000 soldiers.

There were only four or five thousand people who fled into the city with Man Gui, and the other soldiers were either killed by Jiannu or had no chance to escape into the city at all. After entering the urn city, under the command of the defenders on the city wall, most of the defeated soldiers entered the Tibetan soldier cave, and those who did not have time to enter the Tibetan soldier cave also leaned against the surrounding city walls, crying and trying to resist the pursuit of the Mongol cavalry.

"Release!" Seeing that more and more Mongolian cavalry rushed into the urn city, Hong Chengchou gave an order, and the firecrackers of the Praetorian Guards on the four walls of the city shot one after another, and rows of projectiles were shot, and the Mongolian cavalry on the horse fell off their horses one after another. It was too close, and it was a top-down shot, and the Mongol cavalry was gathered very closely, and it was difficult to miss the shot.

Suddenly, they were fired from all sides from above, and the Mongol cavalry was stunned, and they couldn't care about chasing and killing the routs standing against the wall, and tried to escape from the urn city in a chaotic manner. However, the Mongol cavalry outside was still trying to enter, but the inside wanted to get out, and huddled together at the city gate.

Several black shadows fell from the city, and exploded at the city gate, and dozens of shrapnel flew one after another, shooting the bodies of Mongolian cavalrymen into thousands of holes. The specialty of the arsenal, 10,000 enemies, cast iron on the outside, two catties of gunpowder inside, ignited by a fuse, can be called the ancient version of the grenade, because the gunpowder is loaded, the power is not under the grenade. There is also a kind of 10,000 enemies, which is filled with gunpowder and a large amount of fire oil outside, once it explodes, the fire oil shoots out everywhere and burns on the person, and the water cannot be extinguished, which is more insidious.

More than 10,000 enemies landed inside and outside the city gate one after another, and the Mongolian cavalry on both sides of the city gate was blown up, and the Mongolian cavalry who had not yet entered the city turned their horses in panic and withdrew from Desheng Gate.

In the distance, listening to the continuous sound of firecrackers like popping beans, and then looking at the bloody Mongolian cavalry outside Desheng Gate who were bombed by 10,000 enemies, Huang Taiji sighed softly. Fortunately, fortunately, the flagmen were not sent to take risks, otherwise I don't know how many flagmen would die inside and outside this Desheng Gate.

Yue Tuo was also secretly glad that Huang Taiji did not send himself to attack, otherwise once he fell into the city, where would he still have his life?

After a stick of incense, the sound of the fire ceased, and all the Mongol cavalry entering Weng Cheng were killed.

Huang Taiji did not try to attack Deshengmen again, but chose to retreat to the Tuchengguan camp.

After only a short contact battle, Huang Taiji knew that the fortification of Beijing City was far from being comparable to that of small cities such as Zunhua, and if he wanted to break through Beijing City, it would be impossible without an army of more than 100,000! To tell the truth, the city of Beijing is so big, I am afraid that 100,000 troops will not even be able to surround the city, and more than 200,000 troops will have the certainty of capturing it.

However, all the banners in the entire Dajin Country combined, there are not 100,000 people! Huang Taiji once again felt the enormity of the Ming Dynasty, which was far from being comparable to the Dajin Kingdom.

It's better not to fight the idea of Beijing City, just rob it honestly, and if you want to destroy the Ming Kingdom, it is not something that Dajin can do now.

He did not intend to attack the city, nor did Huang Taiji plan to attack Sun Chuanting's camp, but led the army around the city of Beijing and drove towards the south of Beijing, preparing to plunder in the south of Beijing.

Desheng Gate Tower, the results of the battle have been counted, this battle, a total of more than 900 Mongolian cavalry trapped, another captured more than 100 horses, other horses, were shot and killed.

Winning is winning, but the loss is also very large, the main loss is Mangui, Heilongyun and other departments, more than 10,000 troops, only less than 5,000 people are alive, the rest are either killed by Jiannu, or did not have time to enter the urn city, and were killed by Jiannu outside the city.

Ma Dengyun was killed on the spot, and Man Gui, Hei Longyun and other generals were seriously injured. This battle once again proved that without the protection of the city wall, the Ming army was not the opponent of Jiannu at all, let alone Jiannu, the ordinary Ming army could not even beat the Mongols.

The Jiannu army gave up the attack on Beijing and attacked the southern part of Gyeonggi, and the cities of Liangxiang and Gu'an were attacked by Jiannu.

In the court, the ministers went up one after another, asking Sun Chuanting to lead the Liaoxi soldiers and Jiannu to fight a decisive battle and rescue Liangxiang Gu'an and other cities. However, Sun Chuanting never stood still, and even the emperor turned a deaf ear to the superiors of the ministers, and had no intention of sending Sun Chuanting to fight.

On November 23, Jiannu broke through Liangxiang County, and on November 25, Jiannu broke through Gu'an, slaughtering the city, and tens of thousands of people were slaughtered. When the news reached the city of Beijing, the crowd became indignant, and the officials impeached Sun Chuanting one after another, fearing the enemy like a tiger and not saving him, and sitting and watching hundreds of people being slaughtered, unworthy of being the governor of Jiliao.

In the city of Beijing, there were suddenly more rumors, saying that Sun Chuanting and Jiannu had already colluded, and the reason why Jiannu was able to break through the invasion was that Sun Chuanting gave the slave chief Huang Taiji guidance, otherwise how would the slave chief know that Jibei was empty? Even if you know that Jibei is empty, how dare you make a detour to attack thousands of miles, and you are not afraid that the back road will be copied by the Liaoxi soldiers? It was Sun Chuanting and Huang Taiji who reached an agreement that Huang Taiji dared to send troops to attack safely, as evidenced by Sun Chuanting's constant inaction and not fighting with Jiannu.

The rumors have noses and eyes, and many people believe them, and they have scolded Sun Chuanting for betraying the country and being a traitor, and the officials took the opportunity to impeach Sun Chuanting and demand that Sun Chuanting be dismissed and imprisoned.

When the news reached the palace, Zhu Youzhen was furious when he heard this, and immediately summoned Xu Xianchun and scolded him.

"I ordered you to strictly guard the city, investigate any civil movements, and control public opinion, what do you Jinyiwei eat? There are such rumors? Zhu Youzhen scolded angrily, Xu Xianchun's face was pale and sweaty when he was scolded, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again to ask for guilt.

This matter was indeed Xu Xianchun's negligence, but the rumors started too quickly, and Xu Xianchun didn't react at all.

After Xu Xianchun left the palace, he immediately ordered a strict investigation, and all the members of the Jinyi Guard were dispatched to arrest in the city of Beijing, and in one day, thousands of people were arrested, and the Jinyi Guard Prison could not fit at all.

However, after continuous interrogation, it is still unclear where the rumors first appeared. Under severe torture, the arrested people confessed one after another, but the confessions were contradictory, and more and more people were implicated. Seeing that the people in the city were panicked by this incident, Zhu Youzhen had to order Xu Xianchun to stop.