Chapter 131: For the sake of chivalry
Ningyuan City.
Looking at the letter of appointment sent by the eight hundred miles in an emergency, Ye Qiu smiled very proudly, "Chief soldier, hahahaha, the chief soldier who is less than twenty years old, the best in the country, right?"
Feng Hu, who was beside him, also shook the letter of appointment in his hand, "I'm not bad, a deputy general has arrived." ”
"It seems that Jingshi has to go there, and the emperor is so face-saving, so we have to make a show. Let's prepare, and send troops to King Qin in five days. ”
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On November 18, in Ningyuan City, Ye Qiu led 10,000 soldiers and horses to leave.
Feng Hu stayed behind and guarded Ningyuan City.
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Huang Taiji's Jurchen soldiers and horses stopped in Liangxiang for nearly half a month, snatched the surroundings cleanly, the Jurchen Eight Banners had a rich income, Amin took the cavalry around Kyoto to show off his might, the Ming army did not dare to go out of the city, and finally got the face back, and the armor soldiers drawn by Niu Lu went back to say, and the morale was no longer affected by the defeat of Unag.
Huang Taiji himself went to the tomb of Jin Taizu near Liangxiang City to pay respects, this is the ancestor he found for himself, and he doesn't care if the current Jurchens are the same thing as the Jurchen tribe hundreds of years ago, anyway, he insists that the Taizu of the Great Jin Dynasty hundreds of years ago has something to do with him.
This is really sticking "gold" on his face, and he put some sacrifices, hoping that the emperors of the Jin Kingdom will bless him.
The Qinwang army that arrived around the Ming Jingshi gradually increased, but it was very scattered, and when they saw the Jurchen army like a mouse seeing a cat, it was called a lookout and fled.
In fact, at the beginning, there were still people in these Qinwang Army who dared to fight.
It's a pity, dare to fight and dare to fight, the strength is not good!
After several battles, the cobbled together Qinwang army was low in combat effectiveness, and almost every time it was defeated in a battle, more than 30 generals below the general army and above the guerrilla were killed, and many middle-level generals were captured.
The whole army was wiped out again and again, and even one defeat occurred two miles outside the city wall of the Beijing Division, and countless soldiers and people on the city wall saw it with their own eyes, and the fear of the Jurchens in the city reached its peak.
After these Jurchen victories, no Ming army dared to get closer, and Huang Taiji even had time to come to an armed march, leading the army to the west of the Beijing division to the north, looting all the way, and leaving a letter twice to say that peace could be negotiated, and the posture was very high.
In the end, he returned to the northwest of the Beijing Division, and the Jurchen army walked a complete circle around the Beijing Division, and all the large Ming troops were defeated and conquered several county seats, showing the weakness of the Ming Dynasty.
Chongzhen was in a good mood because of the victory, and slowly the bad situation was worn away day by day.
"Is there a future for Ye Qiubu?"
"Your Majesty, the slave has counted the days, and tomorrow will definitely come. Cao Huachun hunched his waist and said cautiously, he was also looking forward to Ye Qiu's arrival in his heart to change the emperor's mood, otherwise it would be difficult to worry about life every day.
Today's Ye Qiu is already the last fig leaf of the Ming Dynasty.
On November 22, Ye Qiu's 10,000 soldiers and horses came to the vicinity of the Beijing Division, and after inquiring about the location of the Jurchen soldiers and horses, he led his troops around the place where the Jurchen army was stationed and came to the Desheng Gate of the Beijing Division.
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"Oh, Ning Yuan's Ming army has really arrived, is it the one named Ye Qiu?" asked Liangxiang County Yahuang Taiji.
"Master, the villain took the risk to get closer and take a look, it was indeed the banner of that Ye Qiu. A Jurchen dressed as a Han man knelt down and said.
"I'm going to kill this man. Amin stood up suddenly, this defeat with the blue flag was his shame, and he must get it back.
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Ye Qiu's 10,000 horses did not enter the capital, but stayed outside the Desheng Gate of the capital.
The Temple of Nourishing the Heart.
"Ye Aiqing, why did your nephew stop outside the city but not enter the city?" Chongzhen asked strangely.
"Your Majesty, that kid ...... The kid said that he would use a big victory to present to the emperor as a meeting gift. Ye Xiu said helplessly.
After Ye Qiu arrived, he also sent people to see Ye Qiu many times, and also persuaded him to accept it when he saw it, the Jurchens are not so easy to fight, once they lose a battle, the popularity they accumulated before will be over.
But this kid was a little too confident, even if he went to persuade him personally, he didn't listen, and insisted on fighting the Jurchens outside the capital......
To be honest, this made Ye Xiu quite annoyed, but he had to speak for him in front of the emperor.
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Ye Qiu did deliberately want to fight with the Jurchens outside the city, and when he heard the news that the soldiers and horses of the Qin Kings were killed by the Jurchens on the way to the capital, he made this decision.
After the defeat of so many soldiers and horses, if he fights a big victory, there will inevitably be an explosion in the prestige of this Ming Kingdom, and by the way, his chivalrous value will not rise!
That's right, it's all about chivalry.
The days before he left this virtual world were numbered, and Ye Qiu wanted to earn a few waves of chivalrous points for it.
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The reason why Ye Qiu chose Deshengmen to fight this battle was because the Qinwang army, which had been completely wiped out by the Jurchens near Jingshi all the way, was defeated in front of Deshengmen, and countless soldiers and people in Beijing City witnessed this massacre on the city wall.
Outside the Desheng Gate, the corpses of tens of thousands of Qinwang soldiers are all over the field, some Beijing camp soldiers are buried, from time to time there are wild dogs running to gnaw, and the Beijing camp soldiers keep driving away with knives and guns.
The soldiers from Ning Yuan City watched the tragedy in silence while encamping, and Ning Yuan saw hell everywhere along the way, which reminded them of the tragedies in the land of Liaodong, and the ferocity of the Jurchens aroused their anger and hatred for the enemy.
Soon, the news that Ye Qiu was going to lead his army to fight with the Jurchens outside the city spread in Beijing.
The people of Jingshi all came to the vicinity of Desheng Gate, wanting to see this only army that had defeated the Jurchen barbarians, and the streets near Desheng Gate were overcrowded, and even the front of Ye Qiubu's military camp was full of people.
This had already affected Ye Qiujun's drills, and the soldiers and horses in the outer city and the Jinyi guards had to send additional men to evacuate, and guarded the Desheng Gate to prevent them from going out of the city to watch.
However, the soldiers and horses and the Jinyi guard did not completely block the enthusiasm of the people, although they were not allowed to go out of the city, but the city wall was opened, and the people went upstairs to watch Ye Qiujun's drills every day, and even some people came every day, and they were never tired of it.
Early this morning, Ye Qiu stood on the camp platform, a team of soldiers and horses in the playground was practicing, there were bursts of cheers from above, he smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but look up at the dense heads of people on the city wall, thinking: "I'm afraid that this person and horse will be regarded as the last straw for the people of the capital." ”
Ye Qiu listened to the noisy voices above, and knew that this was a deliberate promotion by his cousin Ye Xiu, as well as the impetus of the imperial court, because the defeat was too much and too miserable, and the Ming Dynasty urgently needed a force that could bring victory to save its reputation.
He whispered to the two henchmen around him, Lu Zhenggang and Dai Zhitai: "It seems that we can only win this battle, not lose, once defeated, everything we have achieved before will be in vain!"
He understands all too well that the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment.