The Yan army captured Beiping with lightning speed, and then quickly launched an attack on the few troops loyal to the Southern Court, the strongest of which was Song Zhong, who had 30,000 troops.

Although Song Zhong was on guard, his strength with King Yan was not at the same level at all.

And he also made a stupid move, telling his subordinates that King Yan executed all their families in Beiping, naturally the crowd was excited, and everyone died of service, but King Yan pulled out the soldiers' parents in a blink of an eye.

After shouting indiscriminately, the southern army collapsed without a fight, and Song Zhong died unyielding after being captured.

The rest of the governors were also defeated by the Yan army.

Zhu Di was very fast, and quickly incorporated the three counties of Beiping, Baoding, and Yongping into his command, because he had a high prestige in the northern army, and the attitude of his direct superiors was ambiguous, resulting in a large number of Ming troops to submit to Zhu Di's subordinates, and then he broke several cities in a row, occupied Hejian Mansion, with a total strength of 120,000 people, and restored its heyday.

His army was divided into two routes, one hundred thousand people one way, commanded by Zhu Wenzheng, went west to save the king, and 20,000 people all the way, and launched an offensive with him to Zhending Mansion.

At this time, the acting king was really in dire straits.

After repelling several attacks, the acting king became even more arrogant, and even openly said on many occasions: "Feng Sheng is old." "That's the case.

And Feng Sheng, after basically figuring out the reality of the Dai army, immediately launched a general attack.

The Southern Army was 200,000 and the Dai Army was 70,000.

Fortunately, although the acting king is proud, he is not ignorant of soldiers, 70,000 fights 200,000, and his brain is not sick, otherwise he is afraid that he will not be defeated in a war. His strategy was to drag, clear the wall, and drag until Feng Sheng ran out of grain and grass and was forced to withdraw his troops.

But he overestimated the ability of his subordinates to defend the city, and not everyone was Geng Bingwen.

In the battle of Shuozhou, more than 15,000 people were annihilated, and the commander was killed in battle.

It was followed by San'in, Yingzhou...... Until Po Huairen, the soldiers came to the city of Datong.

In just half a month, the Dai army almost collapsed, all the land in the north of Jin was lost, the southern army surrounded Datong, and the last 20,000 soldiers of the Dai Wang were reduced to resist to the death in Datong City.

Although Datong Mansion is an important border town, the city is high and the walls are thick, but it can't stand 200,000 people to fight like this, continuous fighting, the Dai army suffered heavy losses, the city wall was damaged, the southern army even almost attacked the city several times, and the acting king even personally went into battle to boost morale, only to barely repel.

The army of Dai fought less and less, and by September of the first year of Jianwen, there were less than 10,000 people left, and the city was crumbling.

The king began to despair.

He began to carry a small bottle in his bosom containing a highly toxic poison.

He was a king, and he did not want to be humiliated by being captured.

That night, the Acting King was sleeping in his mansion when he suddenly felt a shout in the city.

Has this moment finally come? Zhu Gui smiled bitterly and took out the poison.

Fortunately, just as he was about to drink the bottle of poison, an attendant slammed the door open and broke in:

"Your Highness, great joy! The Southern Army retreated! ”

With a loud bang, the vial in the king's hand fell to the ground, and he looked at the attendant with a blank look in his eyes, and muttered in his mouth:

"Southern Army, retreated?"

At the beginning of September, King Yan's text spread all over the north and south of the river, and the world was shaken.

Fortunately, he had just listened to Yan Ji's words and sent someone to inform Fu Youde, it should be too late.

And the news that King Yan took Zhu Wenzheng as his commander and marched west with 100,000 soldiers quickly reached Feng Sheng's ears, and at this time, the Yan army had reached the edge of Shanxi.

After judging the solidity of the city in front of him and the speed of the Yan army, Feng Sheng decisively gave up and continued to besiege the king and led the main force to the east, preparing for a decisive battle against the Yan army.

Anyway, sooner or later, I'm going to fight.

However, he still left 20,000 troops, led by a partial general, and continued to attack the city, of course, not so much to siege the city, but to watch the king and avoid being stolen. After all, it is not easy to fight a fortified city with 20,000 and 10,000.

And Zhu Wenzheng, in order to avoid the killing of the acting king, also sent Yan Keng to lead his troops from Lingqiu in northern Jin to the west to rescue Datong.

After Feng Sheng learned the news, he immediately sent Ping'an and led an army of 30,000 to intercept it.

And he himself took 130,000 people with Zhu Wenzheng's 80,000 people.

Although the Yan army had fewer troops, it had just won a big victory and its morale was high, and Feng Sheng's 200,000 army failed to capture Datong in ten days, and there was still some demoralization that had slipped.

What's more, in fact, Feng Sheng's own fighting spirit is not high.

As a matter of fact, in the Battle of Jingjing, except for the upper echelons of the two armies, the rest of the bureaucrats did not take a particularly firm stance. Because whoever wins, they are all the masters surnamed Zhu, and they are more on the sidelines, who wins with whom.

For example, Ping An and the famous Sheng Yong, they actually didn't fight with the idea of being loyal to Jianwen to the death, they just completed the task of Jingshi.

After King Yan ascended the throne, they all chose to surrender.

In the eyes of most people, whoever is in Beijing, they will follow whomever they want.

This is still the case of Zhu Yunwen's justification in the original time and space, and in this time and space, Wu Chen is actually dissatisfied with Zhu Yunwen's accession to the throne, not to mention old-timers like Feng Sheng.

Zhu Wen was working hard for the last glory of his old age, but Feng Sheng was absent-minded and didn't want to fight the enemy with all his might.

The two people are about the same level, but their mentality is completely different, which also seriously affects the trend of the battle.

In several battles, the Southern army repeatedly retreated, without a decisive defeat, but also lost hundreds of men and horses, and its morale was low.

And although Feng Sheng released the water, if you wanted him to directly defeat the battle or surrender to the enemy, it was impossible, and he decided to stick to it.

The two armies confronted each other like this.

The center of the battlefield was shifted to the north.

Ping An is a member of the Southern Army, he is Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son, and he once followed Zhu Di out of the fortress and understood the fighting methods of the Northern Army, so he was ordered to lead the army to intercept Yan Keng's troops.

But although Ping An understands the Northern Army, Yan Keng's subordinates are not the Northern Army with foot and cavalry, but a thorough cavalry force.

King Yan transferred his right guard to Yanshan, but gave him a stronger army.

At the time of the previous battle with the Liao king, a large number of Mongol troops were captured.

In history, this battle was a war of expulsion, which only drove the Liao king away, and the few captured Mongol troops were also scattered and incorporated into the Ming army.

But this time it was different, there were too many Mongolian troops.

So at Yan Keng's suggestion, Zhu Di selected 20,000 elites and became a cavalry unit alone.

When Zhu Yuanzhang learned of this, he specially named the cavalry composed of Mongols.

Shunyi Iron Ride.

(End of chapter)