In the second year of Chongzhen, on October 26, Huang Taiji's personal commander army divided into two routes, detoured to Mongolia, avoided the defense area of Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, attacked Longjing Pass and Da'ankou, and tore a big hole from the north defense line and went straight to the capital to attack.

The capital was in an emergency, and after Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he urgently transferred the world's soldiers and horses into the capital Qinwang, and for a time the wind was loud and the world was shaking.

Two days later, the governor of Shanxi, Geng into Qi, led the army of 5,000, galloped to the capital in the starry night, but due to the haste of coming, the army did not carry much grain and grass, and the ordnance was not very sufficient, so it was reported to the Ministry of War.

As a result, the next day, Geng Ruqi received an order from the Ministry of War, asking him to garrison Tongzhou, and at the same time informed that the grain and grass were being allocated.

On the fourth day, he told him that he was stationed in Liangxiang and that the grain and grass were being allocated, but the hungry soldiers under Geng Ruqi quit.

Tongzhou is sixty kilometers away from Changping, and Changping is seventy-five kilometers away from Liangxiang, which seems not very far now, but in ancient times, the march of the army relied on its legs, and it was not given food, you are simply shameless.

The soldiers were furious, and on the fifth day the army mutinied, and began to plunder the place, and there was no way to do it if they didn't loot, and if they didn't eat, would they starve to death, or do they expect them to have some lofty ideals, starve to death and not take a needle from the people?

Impossible, so Geng Ruqi's army mutinied, Chongzhen heard this, was furious, scolded Geng Ruqi for his crimes, and would never be forgiven, so this Ninety-Five Emperor, without investigating the specific circumstances of the matter, ordered the arrest of Geng Ruqi.

Geng Ruqi was really loyal, and he didn't lead the troops to rebel when he was arrested, but obediently tied his hands and captured, maybe he also expected his majesty to be a Ming Jun, but two years later, this Geng Ruqi was beheaded.

I have to say how wronged, and this is only the first wave of soldiers and horses, and the next soldiers and horses, the military department also used similar methods to dismiss, the reason is very simple, the first is that Emperor Chongzhen likes to command blindly, and the second is that the military department really can't take out the grain and grass of King Qin, so it can only be dragged.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and now the grain and grass cannot be taken out, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has plummeted.

On October 29, Huang Taiji successfully broke through the pass of the Great Wall, entered the Central Plains, and on October 30, the army approached Zunhua City, which was only more than 300 miles away from the capital at this time.

Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, got the news and went to Shanhaiguan from Ningyuan, but on the way he got that Huang Taiji had broken through the defense line of the Great Wall, so he urgently arranged for Zhao Shuojiao, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, to lead 4,000 light cavalry to rush to Zunhua to resist Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji annihilated 4,000 soldiers and horses of Zhao Shujiao with the advantage of a large army near Zunhua, and Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, was killed in battle.

In the early morning of the next day, the Huang Taiji army arrived at the city of Zunhua, and the city gate should be opened at night, and the Huang Taiji army entered the city, and learned the news, knowing that the governor Wang Yuanya, who was unable to return to the sky, committed suicide and martyrdom, Mo Dao Daming had no gentleman, this huge empire had a lot of problems, but there were no longer a few people who were willing to die for him.

After all, although Qian Qianyi, who is too cold in water, is the representative of the current Ming gentry class, there are always a few different among these gentry classes, and it is precisely because of them that this history is so magnificent.

When Li Chaosheng got the report from the spies, the Huang Taiji army had already been killed from Zunhua City, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Santun camp, at this time Li Chaosheng listened to the first-hand information from the front line by telegraph, and then took his senior officers to carry out a simulated offensive and defensive battle on the sand table that Li Chaosheng bought with a lot of money.

Li Chaosheng looked at the sand table and frowned, at this time Shi Xiaolei and Li Chaolong were simulating attack and defense, Li Chaolong played the Ming Empire, and Shi Xiaolei represented the Manchu forces.

At this time, the two looked at the sand table, and Shi Xiaolei said: "Now that Zunhua City has been defeated, the Santun battalion is short of soldiers and horses, and there is no natural danger to stop me for long, and then I will go straight to Qian'an, so that I can threaten Funing in the rear of your Shanhaiguan, drag your Yuan Chonghuan's soldiers and horses, and move forward calmly." ”

Li Chaolong looked at the sand table and said: "Shanhaiguan is not important now, at this time, it is necessary for a strong man to break his wrist and know how to give up, if I am Yuan Chonghuan, I will give up Qian'an, I would rather you harm Qian'an, but also gallop in the starry night, go from Changli to Luanzhou, go straight to Xianghe, and do everything possible to stop you under Jizhou City." ”

Hearing this, Shi Xiaolei said: "If you want to block Jizhou City, I will go around you, and I will use troops to go west and go west of the river." ”

"Well, if you go like this, at least hundreds of miles will be detoured, which will increase the logistical burden."

"Logistics, hehe, the people of the Ming Dynasty are my logistics, we can grab it if there is no food, and there are many cavalry in the Tartars, and the marching speed is far faster than yours, you can't block it if you want to!"

Shi Xiaolei said, Li Chaolong was furious when he heard this: "Are you still a human, how can you use the people as rations!" ”

Shi Xiaolei heard the words and said: "I am a Tartar now, I am not a human!" ”

Hearing this, everyone was silent, followed by a group of people looking at the sand table, silently thinking, how to deal with it, but they sadly found that there was no other way, since ancient times, if the defending side wants not to lose, at least several times with the enemy, but Da Ming is now full of holes, even the same number of soldiers, defense, can't be prevented, Da Ming is really disappointing.

Li Chaosheng's officers were all dejected, and the country was so weak that they were really angry.

Sure enough, the intelligence of the next few days was summarized back, basically the same as the simulation on the sand table, after Huang Taiji took Zunhua, he captured the Santun camp in two days, and then Huang Taiji left 800 troops to guard Zunhua, and personally led the army to attack Qian'an, which had no defense, Yuan Chonghuan was also anxious at this time, and directly ignored Funing, which was not far from Qian'an, and led 20,000 Guanning iron horsemen into the pass and went straight to Jizhou City.

Yuan Chonghuan has a total of three generals under him, namely Zhao Shujiao, Zu Dashou, and He Kegang, all of whom were brought this time, and they were all in a desperate posture.

As for Wu Sangui and others, who we are more familiar with, they are still petty officials, following these generals, among which Wu Sangui follows Zu Dashou, who is Wu Sangui's uncle.

Yuan Chonghuan put on a posture to do it with Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji really took a detour and didn't fight with Yuan Chonghuan, as for the elongation of the supply line, it didn't matter, just rob the people, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were not soft to kill, so it can be said that corpses were everywhere along the way, and countless deaths were killed.

That's all the devil did when he entered the village. Grain

Yuan Chonghuan's Jizhou City interception plan failed, Yuan Chonghuan knew that he could not be led by the nose by Huang Taiji, so he directly sent troops to Hexi, and when Yuan Chonghuan arrived in Hexi, Huang Taiji had already detoured to Tongzhou City, and the capital was in danger for a while.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty still had some strength, and there were some people who could recruit and fight well, such as the Qinwang troops of the two of Datong General Man Gui and Xuanfu General Hou Shilu, who first stopped the Qing soldiers.

Set up a military formation outside the BJ Desheng Gate to fight.

In the second year of Chongzhen, on November 20, Huang Taiji personally led Daishan, Jierharang, Yue Tuo, Du Du and others to lead the four banners, as well as a bunch of Mongolian soldiers, to launch a fierce attack on the troops of Mangui Hou Shilu.

Li Chaosheng got the news the next day, the spies reported, the battle was very tragic, the battle began, Hou Shilu's Xuanfu soldiers were the first to be defeated, at this time Datong general soldier Man Gui was not afraid of danger, alone led the troops to fight forward, the Ming army on the city opened artillery to cooperate with the attack, the result of the cannon directly bombarded in the Datong army's formation, Datong soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the general Man Gui was wounded, the defenders opened the urn city of Desheng Gate, gave Man Gui to recuperate, Datong soldiers rested.

Seeing this information, Shi Xiaolei and other generals widened their eyes, their own artillery bombarded their own army, in order to verify this possibility, they also called Feng Tian, the head of the artillery of the cannon, and asked if the probability of accidental injury of this kind of cannon is high?

Feng Tian's eyes widened when he heard this, and he thought for a long time and said: "On the general battlefield, the enemy fights with us in front, and the artillery generally bombards behind the enemy.

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng came to a conclusion that the artillery that could do this step was either stupid or bad.

Li Chaosheng continued to rummage for information, and the intelligence showed that on the same day, Huang Taiji also raided the Guangqu Gate on the same day, when Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou led the cavalry to guard outside the Guangqu Gate, facing the white armor guards led by the Manchu Beile, Mang Gurtai, Azig, Dolgon and others, as well as 2,000 Mongol soldiers.

Intelligence shows that in this battle, Yuan Chonghuan and others killed many people in the Ming army, and Yuan Chonghuan himself was hit by more than a dozen arrows, shooting like a hedgehog, but because he was wearing heavy armor, he was only slightly injured.

Li Chaosheng looked at the intelligence and sighed: "Yuan Chonghuan, are you loyal or traitor?" ”

You say that he is loyal, he cultivated his cronies in Liaodong, and also had correspondence with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also killed the general Mao Wenlong, you say he was a traitor, but he was able to save BJ in the starry night, and almost died here, what a strange person.

On a moonlit night, outside the capital, outside the Guangqu Gate, a young general wearing a white robe and a helmet and armor inspected the barracks, although his face showed fatigue, but his eyes were bright, his name was Wu Sangui, the word Changbo, this time he came to the capital with his uncle and ancestor Dashou to rescue the emperor, and by the way, he mixed a good background, and took over the family army in the future.

But this time to BJ can hurt his heart, he held a warm blood, came to BJ, yesterday and Guangqu Gate outside the Tartar Four Banners soldiers and horses, before the battle he killed six enemies, with his uncle, the Inspector defeated the Qing soldiers, won the Guangqu Gate, Zuo'an Gate two Jie, this is a proper achievement.

But what awaits them is not flowers and applause, but abuse and bricks, the people in the city scolded themselves and others for being spies, traitors, traitors, but they didn't, this time the Tartars entered the customs from the Jiliao General Army, Liu Ce's jurisdiction came in, and their own group got the news and rushed to the rescue, how did they become spies?

Why did you become a traitor, now many people in the city say that the Tartar was put in by the Governor, but we really don't, when did the loyal ministers end up like this.

At this time, Wu Sangui, who was less than twenty, didn't understand very much, his blood was poured with cold water, and his heart was cold.

Wu Sangui inspected a circle, came to the camp of his uncle Zu Dashou, and reported the situation, Zu Dashou saw that Wu Sangui was not in a good state, and knew that this young nephew was traumatized, so he comforted: "Uncle, don't be discouraged, the Inspector has already made a break to the emperor, and asks us to enter the city to rest, and by the way, give us food and salary, and our predicament will soon pass." ”

Hearing this, Wu Sangui glanced at Zu Dashou and said: "Uncle, don't lie to me, the superintendent has already put on three folds, and each time he has been approved, the food and salary will not be supplemented, and he is a spy who scolds us, uncle, I don't understand, what is worthy of our loyalty to such a majesty." ”

"Uncle, shut up, how can you make such a big rebellious statement, fortunately there is no one here, don't say it in the future."

Zu Dashou scolded, Wu Sangui was not convinced, but he could only retreat stupidly.

The Qing army attacked the city, could not be attacked for a long time, there were signs of retreat, when leaving, Huang Taiji gave Chongzhen a big gift, a previously captured Yang eunuch, accidentally heard Huang Taiji tell people, Yuan Chonghuan had a secret agreement with him, and then this Yang eunuch suddenly the East was undefeated and possessed, and he rushed out of the Manchu captive camp and ran back to the capital.

Tell us the suspicious Majesty Chongzhen, as soon as His Majesty Chongzhen heard it, Yuan Chonghuan 'collaborated with the enemy', so the more he thought about it, the more suspicious Yuan Chonghuan's behavior became, why did he always ask to bring troops into the inner city to rest?

Isn't it ready to cooperate with the outside, fortunately his wit didn't let them go to the capital, otherwise his head might not be there, Yuan Chonghuan, a traitor!!

Emperor Chongzhen was angry, so he had the idea of getting rid of Yuan Chonghuan, at the beginning of December, Chongzhen replied to Yuan Chonghuan's excerpt of military salary, but the specific amount still needs to be carefully discussed, so Chongzhen asked Yuan Chonghuan to go into the city to negotiate salary.

After Yuan Chonghuan got the news, he did not doubt him, and took Zu Dashou and the two to the capital, but at this time, the gate of the capital was closed, and a hanging frame was lowered from the city wall, and the two were hung on the city, and when they reached the city, they saw Emperor Chongzhen sitting on the chair with a serious face.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't say anything, and directly asked the ambushed Jinyiwei to take off Yuan Chonghuan's court clothes, tie them up and put on torture instruments, and escort them to Jinyiwei Prison.

Looking at this set of six operations, Zu Dashou on the side was scared stupid, but Chongzhen did not embarrass him, mainly because he was afraid that if he didn't go back, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry would mutiny, and one person needed to go back to preside over the work.

As a result, after Zu Dashou was put back, he was so frightened that he ran back to Jinzhou with 15,000 people overnight, let's play with eggs, it's too terrifying, let's go back to my hometown and hide.

In this way, Zu Dashou ran away, Yuan Chonghuan went to prison, and the most capable troops of the Ming Dynasty at this time could be regarded as losing their backbone and falling apart.

When Li Chaosheng got the news, he was inspecting the reservoir embankment in Lantian County.

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