Although Shanxi Town is a little far away, it is never a reason to postpone it to December. According to "Mingbian" No. 476, the Ministry of War stated on the tenth day of the 10th month that "Shanxi Xuanda reinforcements are about to arrive." According to "The Records of the Later Supervisors". By the end of October 27th, "The Five Dynasties of Datong were killed in battle... Hou Shilu was five thousand. No one was noble... Zhang Honggong had five thousand kalpas of good towns, and birds and beasts scattered."

It can be seen that the Shanxi soldiers were defeated before the end of October. In addition, you can also refer to the draft of "Mingchat" No. 501, the Ministry of War instructed Hou Shilu to make meritorious contributions on the sixth day of the 12th month of the Ministry of War. It also mentioned that "Zhang Hong's achievements have been reduced to his post", which shows that Zhang Hong's achievements must have been defeated in November.

So, why did the Ministry of War insist on transferring Shanxi troops to Tongzhou first, and then Changping tomorrow, and Liangxiang later? Moreover, these three places are not far away from the Yin and the land. Are people in the Ministry of War all their brains sick?

It's really not. This is obviously related to Yuan Chonghuan's transfer of reinforcements from Jizhou one by one.

Originally, according to the Ministry of War, Man Gui, Hou Shilu and You Shiwei were all transferred to Jizhou for defense. Yuan Huan said that the Liao army was enough to defend Jizhou and let Hou Shilu go to Tongzhou for defense. This was around October 11 or 12th (see Mingchao No. 478 and No. 600. Of course, later, because Tongzhou did not open the territory gate, Hou Shilu had to run to Shunyi and join the army with Man Gui).

So, since Hou Shilu was guarding Tongzhou, Zhang Honggong would not have to go anymore, so the Ministry of War decided to temporarily reorganize Shanxi soldiers to Changping. However, on the evening of the 12th, Yuan Chonghuan sent another Tang newspaper to Beijing.

Although the official of the Fengtang newspaperman did not see the main text, the Changbian recorded Emperor Chongzhen's reply to this, so it is easy to judge its content.

Obviously, Yuan Suhuan decided to send Liu Ce back to Miyun, You Shiwei back to Changping, and Mangui back to Beijing. In this way, someone guarded Changping, and Zhang Honggong didn't have to go! So the Ministry of War decided to transfer him to Liangxiang (at the same time decided to send Mangui to Shunyi).

This is probably the Thirteenth. On this day, the Later Jin Dynasty "Qianyue Jizhou" greatly disrupted the Ming army's subordinates and made the entire north chaotic. Yuan Chonghuan did not dare to face the enemy, and ran south to Hexiwu to "circle the enemy."

Man Gui and Hou Shilu ran to the same time inexplicably

Shunyi soon received instructions from the Ministry of War to defend in Beijing, and at the same time encountered an assault from a branch of the Later Jin army. The scene was in chaos! This led to Zhang Honggong's army being transferred three times in three days, looting along the way, and finally scattering Liangxiang. The whole process was probably like this.

You should know that Emperor Chongzhen trusted Yuan Chonghuan at that time. Emperor Chongzhen used Yuan Chonghuan as a good medicine to save the world! Of course, Yuan Chonghuan did make considerable contributions in the fight against the Later Jin army, but this could not conceal the essence of being just a traditional Chinese scholar.

That is, he thought that he would know everything after reading Confucianism, and used his own ideas to take it for granted to command everything! At the same time, he was deeply influenced by the traditional concept of accomplishments of scholars. In other words, for his personal reputation, he could do everything! He even bet on his life or even on the fate of the country!

So when the Ministry of War faced the famous man in front of Emperor Yuan Chonghuan, they simply chose to give in. In addition, the people in the Ministry of War were civil servants and had never commanded such a large battle, so they simply let it go to Yuan Chonghuan.

And maybe there might be people from the Ministry of War here watching Yuan Chonghuan command randomly, waiting for his idea of ​​committing suicide. So the whole battle would allow a group of laymen to command the army to fight. How could there be no failure?

This can be seen from the fact that Huang Taiji crossed Jizhou and hit Beijing directly. On the ninth day of November, Yuan Chonghuan led his troops to Shuntian Prefecture, Jizhou and entered Jizhou. Jizhou is the barrier between Zunhua and Tongzhou, about 140 miles away from Tongzhou, the eastern suburb of Beijing.

On the tenth day of November, Yuan Chonghuan wrote to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "We enter Jizhou and let the soldiers take a break. We will carefully investigate the terrain, then strictly pay attention to the movements of the Later Jin army and strive to stop them. We will definitely not let the Later Jin army cross Jizhou."

As a result, Huang Taiji did not stop in Jizhou at all, and directly crossed Jizhou to attack the capital. This made Yuan Chonghuan's wishful combat plan completely fail!

The strangest thing happened at this time. After Yuan Chonghuan failed to intercept Jizhou, he did not catch up with him and threatened the rear of the Later Jin army. Yuan Chonghuan turned around and left contact with the Later Jin army. He led his troops to arrive all the way.

Hexi Affairs!

This is equivalent to making Huang Taiji let go and choose the combat target at will! It is something that no general will do! If you can't defeat the Later Jin army, you can follow him and threaten him! As a result, he ran away!

As for whether there is any idea of ​​using the Later Jin army to scare Emperor Chongzhen so that he can accept the proposal of Yuan Chonghuan and the Later Jin army to discuss. It can be seen that it is impossible for scholars to lead troops!

Thinking of this, Liu Pei could only sigh. Then he began to turn according to the scheduled plan. As for the defeated soldiers, Liu Pei didn't want to take them in at all, so he just sent them away and left.

Liu Pei turned the direction directly, from Fangshan to Gu'an. Then from Gu'an and then to the periphery of Xianghe, turned to Yutian, and walked into a circle from the south of the capital toward Zunhua.

The reason why Liu Pei placed the direction of the battle here was mainly because he had a small number of people and could only move on the flanks of the Later Jin army. Another reason was that Liu Pei was ambushing a fleet outside the sea. If the war was unfavorable, he could retreat directly to Luanzhou and head straight to the seaside in Kaiping. He could board the ship and evacuate.

Since the plan was made, Liu Pei's team quickly moved, leaving behind the defeated soldiers and victims along the way, and quickly approached Zunhua.

Liu Pei knew that Huang Taiji's army was raging around the capital at this time. If he fought well in Zunhua, it might have caused Huang Taiji to restrain him. Moreover, Liu Pei knew that Huang Taiji did not cross the area south of Beijing during this attack in history, so he narrowed the cavalry's reconnaissance range and began to march quickly. Now he is racing against time.

On November 20, Liu Pei led his troops to approach Zunhua City. At this time, Liu Pei had already seen the walls of Zunhua City from afar. He also saw the Later Jin army soldiers patrolling the wall with his telescope.

Liu Pei knew that today was the day of the Battle of Beijing. Just today, Huang Taiji led all the bells of the Later Jin army to command the four right-wing banners of Manchu and the Mongolian cavalry on the right-wing, and launched a fierce attack on Mangui and Hou Shilu's troops!
Chapter completed!