Just when Zhou Xian was discussing with Zhou Guangkai and a few others.

Outside the gate of the imperial city, eight hundred miles came quickly.

The captain of the city gate guarding the city only glanced at the uniforms worn by the cavalry, and knew that the border pass had come to report urgently.

He immediately motioned for his soldiers to open the gates and let the heralds pass.

The fast horse galloped all the way, passing through the middle gate of the imperial city one after another, and entering the inner gate.

He rode his horse directly from the inner gate to the outside of the palace gate of the Qianqing Palace.

No one dared to stop the whole process.

Even Xu Xianchun, a thousand households in Jinyi who was guarding Zhou Xian's side, did not dare to stop him.

The herald turned over and dismounted, and appeared quickly at the gate of the palace, appearing in Zhou Xian's field of vision.

Zhou Xian looked at the military uniforms around him, and knew that there was gunsmoke on the border again.

"Chitose, the border is urgent."

"Hazir led 40,000 Mongolian cavalry soldiers to the city of Datong, and Weilu Fort fell!"

it!

Hearing the news, Zhou Xian was stunned for a moment.

Datong was the head of the nine-sided important town of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty could not hold Datong, Emperor Zhu would not be able to sit still in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

And Weiyu Fort is one of the outer five forts of Datong Military Town.

During the Zhu Di period, it was directly Northern Yuan.

During the Chongzhen period, he faced Mongolia.

Now the offensive on the other side of the steppe is sudden, and it has actually broken through Fort Will.

Zhou Xian's brows furrowed, and he walked quickly to the palace gate to receive the military report handed by the herald.

Finished!

Zhou Xian's heart was in turmoil, and there was a change in the north, why didn't the Xuanfu report?

That Hazier ate the bear's heart and leopard's gall, and dared to steal the sky to attack Datong!

This sudden change directly disrupted Zhou Xian's previous deployment.

According to the original plan, Zhou Xian had already asked Liu Yuzhou to disconnect the grain route between Xuanfu and the Mongolian steppe in advance.

He knew that after Dolgon couldn't get the reinforcements given to him by Huang Taiji, he would definitely look for an opportunity to have a duel with the Ming army of Xuanfu.

But what the hell is Hazir?

Dolgon's idea to attract the Ming army, and Hazir led the Mongols directly south?

One thing is certain, the three lines of defense formed by Xuanfu, Datong and Jizhen have been destroyed by Hazier's sudden southward movement.

Zhou Xian couldn't imagine that Datong Mansion, known as the head of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, would not be able to stop Hazier's attack.

You must know that most of Mongolia at this time has long been assimilated by Huang Taiji.

Whether it was Hazir or Gegemu, the combat effectiveness of the Mongol soldiers they led was much worse than before.

Now it has transformed from a wild army with swords and horses to a grassland herdsman who can sing and dance.

It is not an exaggeration to describe their actual combat effectiveness in this way.

As a result, Hazier led 40,000 herdsmen and directly broke a big hole in the defense line of the head of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

This......

Zhou Xian couldn't understand what he thought.

Let's not talk about how corrupt the defenders of Datong were.

After all, Hazir is the side that is besieging the city, and Datong Border Town is the side that is defending.

Half a month ago, Jin Wuwei just beheaded the 40,000 most elite members of Jiannu!

Half a month later, Fort Weyurf was breached by 40,000 herdsmen.

This huge gap made Zhou Xian want to kill!

wants to pull the current governor of Datong, Wang Jimo, to the prison of the Zhenfu Division, and cut the general of Datong with a thousand knives.

Especially Jiang Pin, he is a courtier in history.

On the contrary, Wang Jimo, who is the governor of Datong, is still half loyal.

In orthodox history, in the last years of Chongzhen, when the thieves approached Datong, Wang Jimo also gave the emperor an oath order, summoning the civil and military officials in the Datong military town to come to the temple of Emperor Guan and swear a blood oath.

screamed to live and die with Datong and resist Li Zicheng to the end.

However, Wang Jimo himself was impassioned on stage, but the officials in the audience had a different expression.

Those officials who had already rolled up the silver taels knew that the general situation was irreversible, and directly sent domestic slaves to Li Zicheng in advance to submit a letter of surrender.

Just wait for the army to arrive in Datong, and then Kaesong welcomes it.

Among them, the representative of the surrender faction is the general soldier of Datong, Jiang Zhuang.

Wang Jimo also knows all this, but he, the governor, has been set aside, and he is helpless.

And he also surrendered to Li Zicheng, so he took his cronies in advance and fled to Beijing with 10,000 taels of silver in the treasury of Datong Mansion.

originally planned to take the money to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

The emperor would not blame him for losing Datong.

However, his cronies mutinied directly on the way, robbing Wang Jimo's horses and treasury silver as a welcome gift for surrendering Li Zicheng.

Poor Wang Jimo became the commander of the light pole, and finally returned to Beijing silently.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard of the fall of Datong, he was furious and reprimanded Wang Jimo for regaining the lost territory.

But how could Wang Jimo, who had no soldiers and no money, recover the lost territory?

That's history!

Now, the arrival of Zhou Xian did not make Datong the target of the invasion army.

But the Mongols attacked.

The enemy has changed, but the governor and the general army defending the city have not changed.

At this time, Zhou Xian thought of two people, one was Wei Jingyuan, the governor of Datong, and the other was Zhou Yuji, the general of Ningwu under the jurisdiction of Datong Border Town.

These two men were great loyalists.

Historically, they held on to the city until they were martyred.

Zhou Xian also thought about the change of understanding on the side of Datong before.

However, the morale of the other border towns has not yet stabilized, so they plan to take full control of the Xuanfu military town before they attack Datong.

I didn't think about it, and before I started it, this problem was exposed.

In the end, it is Jiang Ji and Wang Jimo, a traitor, and a cowardly and incompetent.

Nowadays, the form is very dangerous.

Fort Weiyu was conquered, and the actual situation of the Datong military town could no longer be understood from the intelligence.

Zhou Xian took a deep breath and said to the herald: "Return to Datong quickly, you must hold on, the reinforcements from the imperial court will arrive soon." ”

"Yes!"

The herald nodded violently, and turned to leave.

"Wait."

Zhou Xian stopped him and said, "You rest, the imperial court will send someone over." ”

"Yes."

The herald looked moved and retreated.

In fact, Zhou Xian has no reinforcements now.

Datong is in the far northwest of the Ming Dynasty.

And the Xuanfu is due north.

Even if Liu Yuzhou's Praetorian Guards were to be dispatched, it would take some time.

Besides, he had to give an order to Liu Yuzhou from Beijing City.

When Liu Yuzhou was ordered, he sent troops to drive hundreds of miles to Datong.

The TM daylilies are cold.

"Hou Lianhui."

"The minions are here."

"Quickly pass on the military department, and all the cabinet members will come to the Qianqing Palace to discuss matters."

"Yes."

Late at night, many ministers in the Qianqing Palace were shocked and complicated.

In the hall, Zhou Xian's angry voice echoed.

"Go to war, an all-out war against Hazir."

"Send troops from Taiyuan to me and defend Datong at all costs."

"At the same time, it is necessary to recover Weiyu Fort, hold Yanmen Pass, and Shanxi will be safe."

"If Datong is lost and Shanxi falls, then the capital is in danger."

"If anyone is defeated without a fight, there will be no forgiveness."