Beijing, Forbidden City.

The night was deep, the lights were flickering, Emperor Chongzhen sat in the imperial study, without saying a word, silently watching the performance, and the eunuchs who were waiting around did not dare to breathe, and there was an indescribable strange atmosphere.

Hundreds of thousands of troops from Mobei Snow Desert North Mongolia and Moxi Mongolia invaded the Ming Dynasty, and the Great Wall defense line stretching for two or three thousand miles from Hexi to Hedong was full of wolf smoke, which can be said to be the attention of the whole country.

Now the closest Mongolian army to the capital is the army of Tushetu Khan, and now it has entered Miyun County in the territory of Shuntianfu, which is only more than 100 miles away from the capital.

Chongzhen was even more concerned, and asked the military department to report as soon as there was news, and he must not delay, any slightest disturbance on the side of the Great Wall defense line would make him anxious.

Fortunately in misfortune, Cheng Shijie is still quite angry, when he first arrived at the Prime Minister of Jiubian, he helped Xuanfu East Road to thwart the conspiracy of Li Yingwai to break the city in one fell swoop, although Qiao Zhaolin abandoned the city and fled, but this opening was blocked by Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie then showed Qiao Zhaolin to the public on the nine sides, and then took over the command of the Xuanfu East Road and the nine-sided battlefield.

At first, after the fall of Jing'an Fort, the Mongolian army rushed into the territory of Miyun County, and Emperor Chongzhen was also very nervous, but fortunately, Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to go up, and more than 5,000 Ning Navy infantry resisted the attack of tens of thousands of Mongolian troops, and every three or five times, the beheaded head was sent to the capital.

In just half a month, the Ministry of War has received nearly 20,000 heads, needless to say, during this time, Chongzhen is relieved, Cheng Shijie is on the front line, and he is at ease!

But the ministers of the DPRK and China don't see it this way, they vigorously accuse Cheng Shijie of being afraid of the enemy and avoiding the war, having so many elite soldiers but only daring to defend passively, not daring to go out to fight with the Mongols, and wasting food and salary in vain!

The ministers recommended several generals in one go, patted their chests and assured that all the people they recommended had the courage to be unsuitable, ten times stronger than Cheng Shijie's shrunken turtle, as long as they used the people they recommended, they were guaranteed to make the Mongolian army come and go!

These words are very beautiful, the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen is no longer the hairy boy who couldn't distinguish between east and west, north and south when he first ascended the throne. He didn't forget the ugliness when he learned that the Mongolian army of 400,000 horses was heading south, and those civil and military officials were silent, and they all threatened to give up the defense line of the Great Wall and go south to the capital.

Now that it's okay, Cheng Shijie has stabilized the situation, and he has made a small gain, and he will immediately jump out one by one to grab the credit! For this kind of person, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude is: Accept the opinion, everything is as usual!

Although he is suspicious by nature, once he trusts someone, it is 100% trust, and he will not be easily shaken, such as Yuan Chonghuan at the beginning. Now he has no less trust in Cheng Shijie than Yuan Chonghuan, and even, compared with the scholar who threatened to "return to Liao in five years", Cheng Shijie, who is honest and honest, and does not want to die in a war, has gained more trust.

Although Emperor Chongzhen doesn't know much about war, anyway, Wang Chengen brought back Cheng Shijie's words, so it will be beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, so let's consume it.

However, something unexpected happened to Emperor Chongzhen.

The town of Taiyuan was lost, and tens of thousands of Mongolian troops were moving south along the passes of Taiyuan......

This news, the court was like pouring a scoop of water into boiling oil, and it exploded in an instant.

Emperor Chongzhen was dumbfounded, he couldn't figure out how he could lose it?

Wen Tiren, who was the first assistant to the cabinet, didn't say anything for a long time, he seemed to be like a cat stepping on his tail, and jumped up instantly: "Your Majesty, Cheng Shijie mistook the country, as the so-called, a general is incompetent, tired to death of the three armies, Cheng Shijie is the prime minister of the nine sides, the loss of side affairs, unexpectedly, he lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he was mistakenly in the prime minister; If you don't know the opportunity, you will immediately urge the war, and mistakenly be in the auxiliary ministers; Poor scheduling, helplessness, mistake in the cardinal, the minister is guilty, please Your Majesty punish the minister with death! ”

Wen Tiren was the first to admit his responsibility as a pivotal assistant and asked Emperor Chongzhen to punish him.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what to do now.

However, Wu Zongda came out and said: "Please give an order to your majesty, remove Cheng Shijie, hand over the military affairs of the nine borders to Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces, take over, transfer the Tianxiong army to the north, stick to the border city, and never go to war, hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops come and go like the wind, and fighting with them in the wild is to find death!" ”

The ministers knelt down one after another and kowtowed again and again: "Please Your Majesty immediately issue an order to remove Cheng Shijie from his position!" ”

Chongzhen was also very panicked in his heart. Ning Haijun is the most reliable force in his hands, if he loses, then he will have nothing! What's going on with Cheng Shijie?

How can you lose Taiyuan?

Emperor Chongzhen hesitated and set his sights on Xu Guangqi.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Xu Guangqi is the only elder of the Ming Dynasty who knows the soldiers, after all, Xu Guangqi's subordinates not only produced Cheng Shijie, but also produced Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Caoyun, Sun Yuanhua is also a famous general in the Ming Dynasty.

"What does Elder Xu Ge think?"

Xu Guangqixian also looked confused, in fact, he did not receive how Taiyuan was lost. He asked: "Taiyuan Town's three roads and sixty-four forts are impregnable, why will they be lost?" ”

Wu Zongda held the song in his hand and said: "Shanxi Fufu Song Tongyin played, Xie Zhiliang, the chief soldier of Taiyuan Town, was afraid of the enemy's cowardice, saw that the Mongolian army was fierce, did not think of resisting the enemy, and fled with tens of thousands of Taiyuan officers, and now he is missing, so Taiyuan lost ......"

Wang Yingxiong looked at Emperor Chongzhen and hesitated, and then continued: "Please Your Majesty issue an order to remove Cheng Shijie's post and choose a good general to resist the enemy, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this reason, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Because like the Taiyuan General Army-level general escaped, this is not the first time, let alone the only one, in fact, in the battle of the Daling River, if Wu Xiang was not the first to escape, why would it be a failure? You Shiwei, the former chief soldier of Changping Town, escaped and killed Man Gui, Ma Shilong also escaped, and Liu Ce of Baoding also escaped, including Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department.

If there were no generals who abandoned the city and fled, in the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji would not be able to enter the pass.

The most serious deal with this kind of thing is just the dismissal, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie is only responsible for leadership now, and it is said that high-ranking officials at the level of Prime Minister Jiubian and Sun Chengzong's Jiliao Governor cannot be directly held accountable, how to say that Cheng Shijie has no merit and hard work.

But the problem is that the ministers were furious and knelt on the ground.

Emperor Chongzhen was silent for a long time, and said helplessly: "I have to think again...... Let's retreat first! ”

After saying that, he walked out without waiting for the ministers to salute, he really had to think about it.

However, Wen Tiren, Wu Zongda, and Wang Yingxiong were all smiles.

Xu Guangqi looked at the appearance of the three old foxes, and knew that there must be something wrong with things, but the problem was that his body was too poor, and everyone could see that Xu Guangqi had not lived for a few years, and he also advocated Western learning, so that there were only two or three kittens under the door.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little cowardly, but gave Wu Zongda and others confidence, they made an appointment and began to impeach Cheng Shijie, this time the bullet was connected, Emperor Chongzhen just walked into the imperial study, and the two little eunuchs moved a big basket of folds.

"It's ......"

"Back to the emperor, these are all twists and turns to impeach the Duke of Haiguo!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at these twists and turns with a wry smile on his face.

It seems that there is no need to burn charcoal for heating.

……

On the defense line of the White River, looking at the Ning Navy officers who were like a black torrent, Tushetu Khan Gunbu felt a chill in his hands and feet, and he closed his eyes in pain.

Lost, lost completely.

Losing to the Ming army that has already formed a formation, he can still accept it, the ancestors have already left a lesson: "Array without fighting", this is the lesson left by the Central Plains Dynasty to the nomads for thousands of years.

Because the Han Chinese are good at foot warfare, they have always had advanced technology, which can crush them as nomads in terms of technology. While their ancestors were still using bone arrowheads, the ancestors of the Han people had already begun to use bronze tools. When they finally used bronze tools, the Han people used iron tools.

When they entered the Iron Age, the Han people had entered the age of firearms, the Han people had indestructible armor, indestructible sabers, bows and firearms, as long as the Han people continued to eat, did not fear war, they did not have the slightest chance.

However, watching the cavalry of the Ning Navy with only more than 3,000 cavalry join the battlefield, he wanted to cry now, is the glory of the Mongolian inheritance for hundreds of years really coming to an end? Has Changshengtian already given up on his descendants? Otherwise, why would the Ming army have such terrible equipment?

"We ...... Walk! ”

Gon Bu struggled to squeeze three words out of his throat.

Kyakhta wondered if he had misheard: "King Khan, go?" Now the departments are still fighting fiercely with the Ming army, what should they do if we leave!? ”

Gunbu roared, "Fierce battle? Fierce fighting, obviously slaughtered by the Ming army! If we don't leave, we will be wiped out! Hurry up and let everyone evacuate, remove as much as you can, let's get out of here and go to Hulunbuir to find a new pasture......"

Kyakhtu's face was full of helplessness: "King Khan, where do we retreat?" ”

Gonbu opened his mouth, he wanted to shout, he wanted to scream, he wanted to scold, but he couldn't make a sound, and in the end, all anger and disdain turned into a sad sigh.

What made him helpless and desperate was discovered, the originally brave Mongolian warriors, when they watched the Ming army rushing over, they no longer resisted, knelt down on their knees, threw their weapons on the ground, and raised their hands high.

Kyakhtu's eyes were so red that he almost wanted to spurt blood, and let out a terrible howl: "You cowards, I will kill you, you are not worthy to be the descendants of Genghis Khan, you are not worthy to be Mongols!" ”

Gunbu's face turned pale, and his voice was weak, "It's useless...... Hurry up and escape, if you can escape, one will count as one, or we will all die here......"

Halfway through Gunbu's words, his throat was sweet, his chest was disgusted, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and Tushetu Khan, one of the three giants of Mobei, could no longer accept such a reality, and was so angry that he vomited blood!

Originally, although the Mongol army crashed headlong into the iron plate, their strength was more than ten times that of the Ming army, however, the Ming army's superiority in weapons and equipment made up for the lack of numbers.

Even if it is impossible to turn defeat into victory, but if you deal with it calmly, at least more than half of the men and horses can be withdrawn, even if the Ming army wants to chase, it is unlikely that more than 3,000 iron cavalry will let go of the pursuit, and their hope of returning to the grassland is still quite large.

However, the back road of Jing'anbao they occupied was snatched away by a surprise attack by the Ning navy, there was a strong enemy in front, and there were pursuers in the rear, of course, the Ming army took the opportunity to launch an overwhelming offensive, and there was a sea of blood in the Baihe River Valley......

More and more Mongolian cavalry were horrified to find that there were Ming troops everywhere, as long as they formed a formation, the Ming artillery would come over, and they were killed and wounded in one shell, and they could not even see the shadow of the Ming army.

In such a desperate situation, even the most tenacious and tenacious people were discouraged, threw away their weapons and dismounted, sat on the ground and gasped, and screamed at the Ning Navy soldiers who rushed to kill: "We have lost, if we want to kill you, we will kill you casually!" ”

They had already won a great victory, and the Ning Navy soldiers were not interested in continuing to kill, and shouted at the Mongolian army who were still resisting weakly: "If you don't want to die, get off your horse and surrender, Lao Tzu is not rare for your rotten life!" ”

The Mongolian warriors called out in Mongolian: "Why do you have to fight so hard? Those who descend will not die! ”

In the end, the Mongol army surrounded in the Baihe valley laid down their weapons, and they looked at the Ming cavalry or infantry galloping back and forth with a dull and dazed expression, wondering how the Ming army, which had been retreating behind the side wall since Chengzu, and allowing them to occupy the Hetao Plain and unable to do anything, suddenly became so strong, so strong that they couldn't help the three or four thousand infantry of tens of thousands of them!

This is a double pressure on military concepts and military technology, and they may know some of military concepts, but military technology ...... I'm afraid they really don't have any idea, so of course they can't understand why their tens of thousands of people can't beat three or four thousand Ning naval infantry, just as the Chinese more than two hundred years later don't understand why the Huanghuang Daqing, which claims to have a million army, can't defeat a mere 20,000 British and French allied troops, and then they are beaten to Beijing by the 37,000 cobbled together eight-nation coalition army.

Li Dingguo excitedly rushed in front of Cheng Shijie and said, "Dashuai, we won!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "Winning is inevitable, what are the results?" ”

Meng En said with a smile: "According to preliminary statistics, there are at least 20,000 beheadings, and more than 10,000 people have surrendered!" There are more than 15,000 war horses captured, but it's a pity that these war horses are too thin, and many of them are wasted! It's a brilliant result......"

When Wang Chengen came to the Baihe battlefield with more than 100 cavalry of Jinyiwei, what he saw was the Ning Navy's thousands of cavalry, guarding more than 10,000 Mongolian prisoners, and countless Mongolian wounded soldiers wailing in pain.

This time, the Ning Navy achieved brilliant results, but the casualties were very few, but hundreds of wounded soldiers, it was very easy to place, the medical staff of the Ning Navy was not troublesome to treat the Ning Navy soldiers, but the problem was that it was very difficult to treat these Mongolian prisoners, and more than one-third of the more than 10,000 Mongolian soldiers who surrendered were wounded soldiers.

What's more critical is that there are nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers in their camp, and it must be beyond their power to treat more than 10,000 wounded soldiers.

They graded the wounded, and those with severed hands and feet, and had a broken stomach and intestines, and the only thing they could do was to let them inhale ether, and then fall asleep, and before they knew it, they would enter the arms of death, and then concentrate all their efforts on treating those who were able-bodied.

Of course, this is not fair, but it is humane, those who are too injured will not be saved, and it will only waste the time of manpower, medicine and other wounded treatment that are already in short supply, and it is better to give up and let them die with less pain.

Those who were injured by shrapnel and cut by knives concentrated on all-out treatment, hemostasis, anesthesia, cleaning, and suturing, all in one go, with extremely high efficiency.

However, it is very difficult to treat the wounded soldiers who were hit by shrapnel into the chest or abdominal cavity, and the military doctor can only use them as experiments to disembowel, disembowel, and then suture, this kind of operation is extremely difficult, and the mortality rate is frighteningly high, but there are always one or two cases in more than a dozen cases that can be successful, for the Mongolian wounded soldiers are already earned, and it is natural to die, and to be rescued is the blessing of immortality.

Injured so badly, Immortal Heaven may not be able to save them.

It was not until the Mongol soldiers surrendered that they found that they were honestly treated according to the platoon of the Ming army, and those who were not injured were dug pits and buried the dead under the supervision of the Ming army.

The mercy of his subordinates is actually the power of the strong, and a team of fifty soldiers has the courage and confidence to watch as thousands of Mongol captives dispose of their corpses and clean up the battlefield.

When Wang Chengen came to Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie had already fallen asleep.

Cheng Shijie was also tired during this time, after all, the greater the official position, the greater the responsibility, he commanded the battle during the day, and at night he had to check the military intelligence and military reports from all over the country, there was a shortage of food, there was a shortage of medicine, and there was a lack of cotton clothes.

The emperor is not short of starving soldiers, let alone this nine-sided prime minister? Although Cheng Shijie did not summon the general soldiers of the nine border towns, for more than 1,000 generals and garrisons, more than 3,000 guerrillas, as well as the general soldiers of the nine towns and dozens of deputy general soldiers, just looking at their information and resumes made Cheng Shijie spend a lot of energy.

Seeing Cheng Shijie wearing boots, leaning on the soft bed and falling asleep, Wang Chengen stared at the soldiers in the big tent with an unkind face, his eyes were really incompetent.

Wang Chengen stepped forward and took off Cheng Shijie's boots very carefully, Cheng Shijie was already sweating profusely, and he hadn't washed his feet for half a month, and the smell was so sour.

But Wang Chengen seemed to have lost his sense of smell, took off Cheng Shijie's socks, and then asked someone to bring hot water, soak in a towel, and wash Cheng Shijie's feet.

Wang Chengen's movements are very light, Cheng Shijie's sleep quality is good, and he is not too dead, but the problem is that Wang Chengen has not woken up Cheng Shijie.

After all this, Wang Chengen tiptoed to the door, looked at a few soldiers and said: "Our family is going to serve by the side of the Lord of Long Live, and you also learn to ......."

"Yes Yes ......"

Cheng Shijie's personal soldiers are really convinced, and ordinary people really can't do the work of eunuchs.

When Cheng Shijie woke up, he found Wang Chengen sitting in front of the stove, carefully warming wine and making tea.

Cheng Shijie woke up a little thirsty, picked up the teacup next to him and drank it, it was just right if it was neither hot nor cold.

Of course, Cheng Shijie didn't know that during the time that Cheng Shijie was sleeping, Wang Chengen had made tea nine times and heated five times.

Cheng Shijie found that his hands were now clean, and naturally they had been carefully wiped by Wang Chengen with a towel.

Cheng Shijie asked, "Princess, why are you here?" ”

"Grandpa Gongguo, this record is really brilliant! Since General Lan Yu, no one has beaten the Tartars so badly! ”

Cheng Shijie didn't answer this stubble and asked, "What happened in the capital?" ”

Wang Chengen told Cheng Shijie about the loss of Taiyuan, the impeachment of Cheng Shijie by hundreds of civil and military officials, and the fact that Emperor Chongzhen was forced to hang himself by his ministers.

Cheng Shijie actually wanted to lead troops south and go into the capital to cut down all those bastards, but the problem was that he couldn't do it, just like the bald head of the Xi'an Incident, and now Chongzhen is still an upright tomorrow.

is still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, even if Cheng Shijie leads his troops south and kills more happily, but the problem still exists, those gentry actually have a strong power, and this power is locked in a cage by the Ming Emperor. But once this beast is released, it will really kill people's heads and rivers of blood.

Cheng Shijie thought very clearly, he really dared to do this, those gentry dared to take refuge in Huang Taiji immediately, and the whole world, all the remaining strength of the entire Ming Dynasty, would come at him.

This is just like Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period, before Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty did not defeat the more than 400 afterglows of the Liu family, whoever dared to be the emperor would be discussed by the world.

What about Yuan Shu? What about the Fourth and Third Princes?

Now Cheng Shijie can only repel the Mongol army first, and then settle the account with them.

Cheng Shijie said: "What do you say, Taiyuan is lost?" ”

"Returning to the country's grandfather, this matter is too big, long live the meaning of the lord, please go back to Beijing!"

Cheng Shijie slapped the chopsticks on the case: "Someone! ”

Meng En said: "Dashuai, what are your orders!" ”

"You're here to clean up the aftermath!"

"Yes!"

"After Shen Mingyu arrives here, let him lead the infantry of the Annan Army to the west along the Xuanfu East Road, with the warrant of the commander, inspect the towns along the way, and dare not carry out the commander's generals, and there will be no forgiveness!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "The Annan Army's Sun Kewang Department and Liu Wenxiu's Department immediately deployed along Datong to Yulin, and the commander wants to let the Mongolian Tatars come and go!" ”

Cheng Shijie said, picked up the pen and hurriedly wrote down the order, he gave three orders in a row, which were to Shen Mingyu, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu.

After Cheng Shijie's order was written, he raised his head and said, "Order the reconnaissance cavalry to prepare immediately!" ”

Wang Chengen was anxious: "Grandpa Guo, you are ......"

"Ben Shuai goes to Shanxi!"

"But the ...... over there"

"The entire army of Tushetu Khan has been wiped out, and there are no more Mongol Tatars within a radius of three hundred miles! The capital can rest assured! ”

Cheng Shijie said: "But the people of Shanxi, Ben Shuai can't ignore it!" ”

Wang Chengen couldn't persuade Cheng Shijie, so he had to give up.

Cheng Shijie put on a windbreaker and came outside the tent.

At this time, the 3,000 reconnaissance cavalry of the Annan Regiment of the Ning Navy, in addition to the 63 killed and 122 seriously wounded, including Li Dingguo, a total of more than 2,800 people rode war horses and stood in formation.

"Tell the commander, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Annan Army has been assembled, please instruct!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Li Dingguo, who was also covered with blood and tired at this time.

Cheng Shijie looked at the generals and said: "Ben Shuai is now added as the prime minister of the nine sides, and the entire three thousand miles of rivers and mountains are in the hands of Ben Shuai, these three thousand miles of rivers and mountains are Ben Shuai's rivers and mountains, who wants to make trouble here, I want to ask Ben Shuai if he agrees?" I want to ask us if the Ning Navy agrees. ”

"I am willing to die for the handsome!"

Li Dingguo and more than 2,800 other reconnaissance cavalry roared in a low voice.

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "A thousand miles of mountain road, Ben Shuai has to wait for two days and two nights to arrive in Taiyuan, Ben Shuai only needs Taiyuan, Ben Shuai only needs the Mongolians to tremble and obey in front of Ben Shuai's iron horse." ”

Now Cheng Shijie is going to repeat the miracle of Jing'anbao again, if he occupies Taiyuan first, the Mongols who went south will definitely turn back, even if they don't want to turn back, they will turn back.

Of course, more importantly, Cheng Shijie can only trust Zhao Wencai now, and I believe that Zhao Wencai will not let him down.

As long as you survive this difficulty, you can really see the future. (End of chapter)