Chapter 206 Ice and Fire

Xifengkou is a very familiar name, this name, in later generations, even if you are not a military fan, you also know that there was an earth-shattering battle here, a group of iron-clad Chinese soldiers, once here a group of robbers from the Oriental island country ruthlessly defeated. However, it was three hundred years later, and at this time, the name Xifengkou represents the origin of the disaster, because a group of more vicious robbers broke into the pass from this place, causing chaos in the Central Plains, and causing countless people to ruin their homes.

In October of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Azige, the first fierce general of the Later Jin Dynasty, led an army of nearly 60,000 people, known as 100,000, starting from Shenyang, bypassing the Guanning defense line known as the copper wall of the Ming Dynasty, taking the Xifeng Pass, and approaching Guanzhong.

These 60,000 people, including the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin, the herdsmen of the Mongolian tribes who were attached, the Han army that had already been accepted by the Later Jin, and even a musketeer composed entirely of Koreans, in short, although these people are mixed, no one will think that they are a rabble, in fact, they are more like a group of robbers armed to the teeth, a standard armed robbery gang.

Sometimes looking at history, many things make people feel very incredible, just like this time Azig's army went south, it was as if it was choking the watch. The main force of the Ming army is doing two jobs at the moment: one is outside the Guan, defending the Guanning defense line; And the other one is in the Guannei, for a while, Li Zicheng ran all over the mountain, and for a while he bit Zhang Xianzhong to chase after him, and even compared with the above two, the thief Lao Hui, who seemed to be very low-key, ran out of Henan and went to Shaanxi for a few laps.

In a word, the customs are in a mess, so when Azig, a big locust, came with a group of small locusts, he didn't encounter any strong resistance from the establishment, this situation, it is difficult for people to have a question, the timing of Houjin is also too well grasped, there will be nothing greasy in this, right?

If this is the case once, it can be called a coincidence, but it is a bit strange that there are so many such cases. Moreover, judging from the stubborn posture of the Qing Dynasty and the Liumin in later generations, between the two, basically, there is no possibility of cutting off the head of the chicken and burning the yellow paper.

Some people put the "ice and fire two heavens" that made Chongzhen want to live and die, and summarized it as "life" or "luck" or something, of course, this life luck does not refer to Chongzhen himself, but the Ming Dynasty's --- Ming Qi has been exhausted. Chongzhen doesn't look at him as the Son of Heaven and is ordered by heaven, but it is still a little unreliable to rely on his little arms and legs and the number of fate, so his tragedy is very necessary.

Manpower cannot overcome the sky, and the Son of Heaven is also a man.

Of course, as an emperor, Chongzhen is really qualified. If you give him a score from one to ten, you have to rate at least nine. He is thrifty, even his clothes are discounted and patched, he is hardworking, he has to work fourteen or fifteen hours a day to deal with official business, and he still has no overtime pay, he is not a woman, marrying a queen, I am afraid that he still wants a free labor to mend his clothes, other concubines, a year old, I am afraid that I will not even have a chance to see him. That's it, he didn't please him, the ministers in the court quarreled all day long, and the whole person didn't do his job, and the two ends of the three days were either chaotic here, or there was a rebellion, and they were forced to be tight, and these guys even dared to burn his ancestral grave.

And now, these guys outside the gate are adding fuel to the fire again, which really gives him a headache.

On October 15, the Houjin army Keshunyi, on the 17th, Kehuairou, on the 19th, Kemiyun, on the 23rd, took Xishan.

Azig grabbed the bowl to the brim, but the city of Beijing was in turmoil.

"The Son of Heaven guards the country", but it is not said that the Son of Heaven let people surround the country, the last time Beijing defended, there was still a Yu Qian, and there is no such person in the DPRK now. If you don't give an edict to King Qin, I'm afraid that these Tartars will treat the outside of Beijing as their home. Of course, this decree King Qin, wherever he goes, will not go down to the defenders of the Guanning defense line guarding the country, the door is wide open, and it is not the Tartars who can enter and enter freely. So, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, who was chasing Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng like a lost dog, received this decree very reluctantly and headed towards Beijing with his soldiers and horses. Behind him, Gao Yingxiang Li Zicheng smiled and sent the anxious Governor Lu away.

Lu Xiangsheng, the word Jiandou, a native of Yixing, Jiangsu, was appointed as the head of the Ministry of Officials in the second year of the Apocalypse, and two years later, he was appointed as a member of the Ministry of Officials, and after another three years, he was released to the prefect. Judging from this resume, this Lu Xiangsheng is just a very, very good official literati, and at such a promotion speed, before he retires, he is still very promising to be a cabinet scholar.

is such a rising star in officialdom, how can he get mixed up to lead troops and serve as the governor of the five provinces, an important position specially set up for the suppression of bandits? What's more, once Beijing is tight, Chongzhen immediately thought of giving him an order.

This is not only because he now controls most of the main forces of the Ming army in Guannai, but also because this old man once had a history of "King Qin". When this old man was the prefect, he once recruited more than 10,000 people from the people's army because of the appearance of Tartars outside Beijing, and came to Beijing Qinwang, although he did not fight a battle, and he also suffered some punishment, but it is not surprising that Jane has been in the emperor's heart since then, and he has mixed into the position of the governor of the five provinces by the means of his brother as an official.

Of course, it is not too accurate to say that it is mixed, after all, compared with the kind of "mixing" of most officials in the DPRK and China, he still has done a lot of things. One of the most important things is that he trained soldiers, and what he trained was strong soldiers.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, where the Fengzi battalion did not appear, the most effective troops in the Ming army were only the following.

First, there is no doubt that this is Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning Iron Cavalry, for the strength of this kind of army, there is basically no need for the soldiers of Houjin to show up in tears, the late fierce general brother Cao Wenzhao's battle example explains everything, three thousand iron cavalry, chasing 300,000 thieves, winning more than 20 battles in a row, and among these 3,000 iron cavalry, there are only 1,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry.

At the bottom of the list, is Hong Chengchou's "Hong Bing", this soldier as the name suggests is Hong Chengchou trained, how this army, and the second ranked "Qin Army", there will be a detailed statement later, however, now to talk about this, or this ranked third, although slightly inferior to Guanning Iron Cavalry and Qin Army, but it is better than Hong Chengchou's "Hong Soldiers" Tianxiong Army--- Lu Xiangsheng trained the army.

Coincidentally, the composition of this army is somewhat similar to the composition of Yu Feng's Fengzi battalion. As far as the soldiers themselves are concerned, there is nothing peculiar, but most of the soldiers of Tian Xiongjun's soldiers were recruited in Guangping and Daimyo, and most of Yu Feng's Fengzi battalion were recruited in Denglai. Although these soldiers of these two armies are not very surprising, they are all from the same place, and in addition to a local accent, the relationship between them is even more complicated and inconclusive. or father and son, or brother-in-law, uncle, or neighbor, classmate, in addition to kinship, the worst can be counted as a township party. Because of these relationships, these people are very brave in fighting, and if they are injured, they are equivalent to a litter, and they don't need to supervise the team to shout with knives, and they rush up one by one with red eyes.

And it is relying on such a strong combat effectiveness of the Tianxiong Army, Lu Xiangsheng has completed a perfect transformation in his life, from a polite gentleman who reads poetry and books, to Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's feared "King Lu Yan", a professional soldier.

Lu Xiangsheng took his Tianxiong army and some messy troops, and rushed to Beijing day and night. Azig, on the other hand, outside Beijing, returned from the original road with a swaggering return with a large bag and a small bag, with the looted money, people, and livestock, and he did this kind of work with ease. As for whether he left a wooden sign that said "All Gentlemen are exempt" and inserted it at the intersection, it is not clear.

Yu Feng knew this news, not by relying on the Di newspaper, nor by the news sent to him by the people he left in Shandong, in fact, the cavalry of the Tartars just turned around outside Beijing, and then turned around, and the people who were far away in Shandong could not find much useful news at all, and there were a lot of rumors, but the credibility was too low. He learned the full version of this news, or thanks to the post-golden tartar in front of him, this assistant leader called Zemer.

In mid-November, Cui Yanghao led his army to attack Tokugawa and won a great victory! Annihilated more than 200 enemies, captured the enemy Zuo Ling Ze Moer, known as "Tokugawa Dawn!" ”

Of course, for the generals who captured such a level as Houjin, Yu Feng's heavenly machines would not do it in vain, and directly brought that Ze Mo'er over, and under Miki, naturally this Ze Mo'er knew everything, so this latest and fastest information was obtained by Yu Feng so effortlessly.

Just began to hear such information, Yu Feng was still a little unconvinced, in this era, there is no telegraph and telephone, no news, but it has to rely on people to transmit, according to the speed of the spread of this information, this Tartar of the leadership level, so quickly get such news, it is too suspicious.

But after hearing Ze Moer's explanation, with the return of the Azig army, Shenyang is now as lively as the Han Chinese New Year, and they, the Tartars who were sent to North Korea to loot, who do not envy their comrades who entered the Ming Dynasty this time, are all disgruntled and demoralized. In view of this situation, the upper echelons of the Jin Dynasty naturally made a lot of publicity about such a thing that could show their prestige and improve the morale of the soldiers, so now not to mention that Ze Moer is a leader, I am afraid that it is just a random Tartar cavalryman, even if he doesn't know a word, I am afraid that he can know this matter clearly.