The smile on Altan's face stopped abruptly, and then he roared in anger: "Shenji Camp! It's Shenji Camp again!! It's awesome to Ben Khan. Harichi, Temuir, Ben Khan ordered you to lead a cavalry of 10,000, five days... No, take down Tongzhou City within three days and destroy the Shenji Camp, otherwise you will come and see you."

Harich and Temuir stepped forward and said with stern amazement: "I will receive the order."

Soon, Harich and Temuir ordered 10,000 Tatar cavalry and drove 20,000 Han slaves to Tongzhou. These Han slaves were all the Ming people captured by the Tatars along the way, and used force to force them to be coolies to help transport baggage and various looted materials.

On the city tower of Xizhimen, a group of civil and military ministers saw the Tartar cavalry outside the city being mobilized, and thought that the other party was about to launch an siege, so they persuaded Emperor Jiajing to leave the city and return to the palace. However, they soon discovered that the Tartars were not going to launch an siege, but were mobilizing their troops to the direction of Tongzhou.

Yang Yiqing stroked his beard and said thoughtfully: "It seems that Altan is adding troops to Tongzhou. In this way, the Tartars must have been blocked from attacking Tongzhou, and they have to add troops to support him."

When the ministers heard this, they were both worried and happy. Of course, the granary of Tongzhou was temporarily held. The worried was that the Tartars are now increasing troops to Tongzhou. I wonder if Tongzhou can continue to be defended. Once Tongzhou falls into the hands of the Tartars, the Tartars will obtain a large amount of food and supplies in the city, which will be very unfavorable to the defense of the capital.

"Who is the commander of Tongzhou Guard?" Zhu Houcan asked.

Duke Xu Guangzuo of Dingguo, Duke Zhu Lin of Chengguo, Xu Pengju of Wei State, Zhang Lun of British Duke Zhang of Wuding, Guo Xun of Wuding and other nobles could not help but look at each other. Although they were all governors of the Governor's Office of the Five Army and each were in charge of a battalion of imperial guards, the Tongzhou Guard was not the Jing camp. Who would deliberately remember the name of the commander of a local guard station?

Seeing this, Zhu Houcong couldn't help but look slightly dark. At this time, a clear voice replied: "Go back to the emperor, the commander of Tongzhou Guard is Miao Xin, and the commander of the Tongzhi is Liao Fa."

Everyone looked in the voice and saw a young official standing on the periphery. Although he was short, he was straight, fair-skinned, with a very spiritual look, and a gentle temperament, which made people feel good at seeing him. It was Xu Jie, the military officer.

Zhu Houcong's face was slightly clear, so he naturally recognized Xu Jie. After all, this person was the Tanhua he wrote in his pen, and Fei Hong also praised Xu Jie in front of him. At this moment, the nobles in charge of the Governor's Office of the Five Army could not answer. However, Xu Jie, the military department, answered the question. It can be seen that he is indeed a serious person and a talent worthy of reusing.

When Zhang Cong saw Zhu Houcon's expression of praise, his brows frowned. Xu Jie was indeed very outstanding among the Jinshi of the same class. He also tried to win Xu Jie over to his disciples, but the latter was always neither humble nor arrogant, and never made a clear statement. Obviously, he did not want to rely on himself, but he did not want to offend him. He was a little slippery.

At this time, Xu Jie took the opportunity to speak again: "Emperor, Tongzhou is the granary in Beijing, and now it is the Xia Taxation to be lifted out of Beijing. A large amount of rice and grain are piled up in Tongzhou City and must not fall into the hands of the Tatars. I think troops should be sent to support Tongzhou immediately."

Xu Guangzuo, Duke of Ding, immediately scolded: "It's ridiculous. How could a young scholar dare to speak out about military affairs? The capital was short of troops. How could he divide his troops to rescue Tongzhou?"

Guo Xun immediately agreed: "Duke Dingguo said very much. Food security can be compared with the emperor's safety. At this time, we should stick to the support and never divide the troops. Xu Jie ignored the emperor's safety and had ulterior motives, so he should be killed!"

"That's right, this son's evil words confusing the public, and he should be killed!" Zhu Lin, Duke Cheng, also agreed sternly.

British Duke Zhang Lun and others also asked to kill Xu Jie. Who told Xu Jie to speak out just now? He just made the limelight in front of the emperor, but he slapped all the nobles in the face. Moreover, Xu Jie also suggested that he split his troops to support Tongzhou. Isn’t this pushing them and other nobles into the fire pit? After all, someone must lead the troops to send troops to Tongzhou. This task will most likely fall on their Wu Xun.

In addition, the family businesses of all the nobles are in Beijing. Once the troops are divided to rescue Tongzhou, the family will be placed in a more dangerous situation, so they will naturally be beaten to death and will not do it!

Zhang Cong glanced at Xu Jie with a slightly dark face, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Xu Jie is a kid who is smart but is mistaken for being smart. He wants to show favor to the emperor, but he offended the noble group. He is still a little tender."

Just as a group of nobles asked to kill Xu Jie with enthusiasm, Fei Hong couldn't see it and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, my censors are not guilty of being punished for their words. Xu Zisheng's suggestions may be inadequate, but it does not necessarily contain evil intentions. If he is killed, who dares to make suggestions in the future?"

The chief assistant Yang Yiqing stroked his beard and nodded, "Jianzhai (Fei Hong's name) said very well, and Xu Zisheng's advice was not at fault. Tongzhou is indeed not allowed to be misunderstood, but it is not appropriate to divide troops from the capital to support Tongzhou. The old minister thought that the emperor could order the three guards of Tianjin to send troops."

Emperor Jiajing is very disliked by the noble group now. If it weren't for the time being to hire people, and the 12th Imperial Guard Battalion was in the hands of all the nobles, he would have chopped off Guo Xun, who dared to disobey the king's orders. At this time, he would not have heard from the nobles kill the talent like Xu Jie, and nodded, "As Mr. Yang said, quickly dispatch the three guards of Tianjin to Tongzhou."

Seeing that the emperor had no intention of punishing Xu Jie, the members of the nobles did not dare to continue to linger. After all, they all understood that the emperor did not like them now.

Doudu…

At this time, a heavy horn sound came from the Tartar barracks outside the city. The Tartar soldiers drove out of the camp like a tide, and siege vehicles, revive cannons, cloud ladders and other siege equipment were also pushed to the front of the formation.

"The Tartars are about to attack the city. The emperor is a body of thousands of chariots, and they are all in the country. It's better to go back to the palace quickly!" Zhang Cong said, and the ministers also persuaded him.

Zhu Houcon also knew that his continued stay here would affect the soldiers defending the city, so he led a group of officials to leave the city tower and return to the palace.

At about 10 a.m., the Tartars launched a fierce attack on Xizhimen, trying to fill the moat. However, Beijing City was the capital of the Ming Dynasty after all, and the moat was dug large and deep, the city walls were even tall and thick, and a solid urn was built. How easy was the Tartars trying to break through?

So the Tartars' first attack soon returned in vain and only left hundreds of corpses shot like pigs on the edge of the moat.

However, Altan was ambitious and naturally would not be intimidated by this difficulty. He immediately changed his strategy and sent people upstream to block the source of the moat while digging pits and canals to try to lure away the water of the moat.

The Tatars drove tens of thousands of Han slaves to dig pits day and night. The next day, they finally dug out several pits to lure away the moat. The water level of the moat dropped sharply. Then, the Tatars spent another half a day to fill the river section of dozens of meters, and finally attacked under the city wall. The battle suddenly became fierce.

The Tartars were not good at siege wars, but with the help and guidance of Zhao Quan, the traitor, the Tartars built a large number of siege equipment and even transported more than a dozen Ming army artillery seized.

"Roar, kill...boom boom boom!"

Tens of thousands of Tartars carried the ladder and rushed towards the foot of the city wall. The horse team used lapels to hold the giant wood as a siege ram and violently hit the city gate...

Boom boom boom boom...

The sound of cannons outside Xizhimen was heard one after another, and huge rocks flew to the top of the city one by one. The sharp arrows were covered with raindrops. After fighting for a long time, both sides suffered great casualties, but the Tartars, as the siege, naturally suffered even more heavy losses.

In Wenhua Hall, Emperor Jiajing and his ministers were waiting restlessly. Every quarter of an hour, guards would report the real-time battle situation of Xizhimen.

At this time, Wei Hanwen, the Tongzheng envoy of Tongzheng, entered Wenhua Hall with a serious expression, knelt in front of the imperial case and said in a deep voice: "Emperor, Tongzheng Department has just received an urgent report from 800 miles of Taiyuan, Shanxi. Datong General Zhang Yin is a white-loin rebel Li Fuda. Now he has publicly raised a flag to rebel, raised an army to capture Shuozhou, and forced Taiyuan. According to investigation, Zhang Yin opened the killing entrance in the early morning of the eighth day of the ninth month and allowed Altan's 100,000 cavalry to go south."
Chapter completed!