Before dawn, a group of people from the Liaodong Army arrived at the former Zhangde Guard Station. After a few brief inquiries, the leading officer ordered these temporary guards to guard all the men under the age of thirty in the camp.
All Qingzhuang Huihui soldiers were escorted back to Fucheng, while the remaining people were still handed over to the guard soldiers on the spot. At the same time, the Liaodong Army in various places received orders to escort all Qingzhuang Huihui Kou Qingzhuang in the defense area to Zhangde Fucheng.
When the first batch of 600 young men were escorted into the city, the old team leader, Chen Laoshi, who was born in a military household in Ningyuan, had not yet sharpened his knife. He raised his head when he heard the noise and glanced at the thieves. He shook his head.
Without saying a word, he lowered his head again and sharpened the already sharp knife. Looking from a distance, Chen Laoshi's back became even more hunched.
Behind Chen Laoshi are the last dozen jars of salt left in the army.
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In the capital, the entire city has been put under martial law, and people are in panic.
On March 16, just two days after the edict was issued, another imperial edict came out of Beijing. The content of the edict was to confer Lu Xiang, the prime minister of the five provinces who had just won the "Xinyang Victory", to be promoted to the governor of Xuanda. He would immediately be the governor of the reinforcements of the world.
Entering Beijing to see His Majesty. At this time in Xinyang, Lu Xiangsheng, who did not know that he had been transformed from the Prime Minister of five provinces to the Governor of Xuanda, had just received the news that his father had died of illness.
After the Qing army invaded Juyongguan, its vanguard was ordered to lead the generals. Prince Zheng Jierharang led Prince Heshuogong Degelei. Prince Tanggu of Wuying County, Duoluo Ping'an Beletabai led the two blue banners and the Korean firearms army fell successively.
Wu Aheng, the governor of Yanqing, Changping, Liangxiang, Shahe, Qinghe, and Jiliao, was so drunk that he was killed by the Qing army in his sleep.
General Yangwu of Donglu and Prince Yuetuo of Su commanded the left-wing army and led two red-banner armies of 14,000 troops. They also had 20,000 troops from Mongolia's Horqin tribe, Chahar tribe, Zhalaite tribe and Durbot tribe. They were in Heshuo.
Under the command of Prince Sahalian of Cheng, Prince Ezhe of Heshuo, Prince Badali of Heshuo Tuxietu, and Prince Wu Keshan of Heshuo Zhuoliketu, they entered from Qingshan Pass by destroying the border wall, and joined the Jierhalang army at
After joining forces in Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing, Yue Tuo's troops bypassed Beijing and reached Zhuozhou. They divided their troops into eight groups and headed west, one along the Taihang Mountains, one along the canal, and six lines between the Taihang Mountains and the Yellow River. All the prefectures, prefectures, and counties they reached fell.
King Qin's army suffered heavy losses and did not dare to look north for a while.
On the 19th, Hauge led 50,000 soldiers and horses from the Two Yellow Banners and the Eight Mongolian Banners into the pass. They successively captured Miyun, Shunyi, Yingzhou, and Yongping cities. The soldiers had already reached Qinghedian, which was only forty miles away from Beijing, and Tongzhou Ji.
Erhalang's army responded to each other from a distance and wanted to encircle Beijing from the north to the south.
After learning that a total of three groups of Donglu soldiers entered the pass, two groups surrounded Beijing, and one group went south to intercept King Qin's division heading north, Chongzhen was shocked and summoned his cabinet ministers and Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of War, for an urgent discussion.
After everyone arrived, Chongzhen couldn't wait to ask Zhang Fengyi: "Who are the teachers of King Qin from various places who are already on the way?"
"Shanxi Commander-in-Chief Wang Zhong, Datong Commander-in-Chief Cao Xian, Baoding Commander-in-Chief Dong Yongwen, Shanhaiguan Commander-in-Chief Jin Guochen and others have already sent reinforcements. They are all on the way. The fastest Jin Guochen's troops are afraid that they will reach the capital in another two days."
After hearing what Zhang Fengyi said, the second assistant Qian Wensheng said: "Jin Guochen cannot move. If he does, what will happen to Shanhaiguan?"
"How long has it been? Why don't you move?" Chongzhen asked anxiously, "If the capital is lost, what's the use of leaving Shanhaiguan!"
Qian Shisheng saw that the emperor was really anxious, so he didn't dare to say anything more, and asked Zhang Fengyi instead: "How many troops and horses are there in these King Qin's troops?"
"Five thousand each, Jin Guochen's troops have fifteen thousand, totaling thirty-five thousand." Zhang Fengyi knew the strength of the reinforcements well, so he blurted it out.
After hearing this, Chongzhen said categorically: "Not enough! The Jianlu invaded me many times, and each time we didn't have an army of 50,000 or 100,000 people. We learned from the past experience of the Jisi Revolution. When those generals heard that they were fighting with the braided soldiers, they didn't move forward! These three alone
Fifty thousand men are not enough, and we cannot defeat Jianlu, so we have to mobilize more troops."
Zhang Fengyi said cautiously: "Then we will recruit the Yanqing Commander Ma Rulong, the Tongguan Commander You Shiwei, the Yulin Commander He Renlong, the Yansui Commander Wang Chengen, and the Shaanxi Commander Yang Li to come in for reinforcements?"
"No!" The one who said no this time was Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, who said to Chongzhen: "Except for Ma Rulong, these people are all fighting bandits under Hong Chengchou. If they are transferred at this time, what will happen to the rogue bandits in the Central Plains?"
Qian Wensheng also said: "Lu Xiangsheng's army has been mobilized to help, and Hong Chengchou's troops have been mobilized, but there are no more officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits."
Zhang Fengyi didn't say anything. In his heart, he was unwilling to transfer the troops under Hong Chengchou's command. He was not even willing to transfer Lu Xiangsheng. However, the emperor was so anxious that he ordered Lu Xiangsheng to be the governor-general. He didn't even ask him if he was the Minister of the Ministry of War.
If it works, I will send it out. If Hong Chengchou's subordinates are taken away now, it will be like giving up the Central Plains to the rogue bandits.
Lu Xiangsheng had just severely damaged Gao Yingxiang in Xinyang, and the Liaodong Army under the command of Hou Xun had severely damaged the Lao Huihui and Guo Tianxing rebel armies in Tangyin. Southern Henan and Northern Henan were victorious at the same time, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted. We took advantage of this opportunity.
It was a good time to completely eliminate the rogue bandits, but at this juncture of prejudice, Donglu came to join the bandits. It was so unexpected and unbelievable.
Didn't Shi Dayong say that the Donglu were no longer able to invade the south? Zhang Fengyi secretly cursed in his heart. Originally, he was planning to persuade the emperor to heavily reward Shi Dayong and his Liaodong Army, but now he didn't even want to mention it. If it weren't for him
He made a false report, how could he, a military official, have deducted so many soldiers from Jizhen to fight against the thieves who went south!
The first and second assistants objected at the same time, and Chongzhen had to consider the feasibility of this matter. After thinking for a moment, he nodded and said: "The troops under Hong Chengchou's command are not ready, so ask Ma Rulong to come in immediately for reinforcements. In addition... let Jin Guochen
The army left five thousand troops to guard Shanhaiguan, and asked Ningyuan to send more troops and horses to help." After saying that, he asked Zhang Fengyi: "Is there anything else?"
"Shi Dayong's Liaodong Army is still in Zhangde, and Hou Xun is afraid that he has received an official document from the Ministry of War..."
Before Zhang Fengyi could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Chongzhen, "Don't count on him. This Shi Dayong deceived his superiors and deceived his subordinates. He dared to brazenly say that Donglu had been severely injured by him, but now I am surrounded by Donglu in the capital.
Oh! Huh, don’t mention him to me again. Also, Hou Xun reported that Tang Yin killed so many bandits. The Ministry of War cannot believe it entirely. They have to send someone to check it. Now I believe that Xuan Mo did not lie to me...
..anything else?"
"Can we add more troops from the trilateral governor Liang Tingdong to come in for reinforcements?" Zhang Fengyi looked at Chongzhen and hesitated and said his name.
Liang Tingdong was the governor-general of the three sides after Hong Chengchou was promoted to the governor-general of five provinces. He was still somewhat talented, but his conduct was not very good. He was repeatedly impeached by the censor. However, he had a good relationship with the inner court. Wang Dehua, Gao Qiqian and others
He often said good things for Liang Tingdong in front of Chongzhen, so Chongzhen had a good impression of him. After hearing Zhang Fengyi's proposal to let Liang Tingdong come in for reinforcements, Chongzhen immediately nodded in agreement, turned his hands behind his back, and then mused: "Tianshou Mountain,
That is the place where the ancestors are buried." He said and glanced sideways at Zhang Fengyi.
When Chongzhen looked at him like this, Zhang Fengyi suddenly stood up on all the hairs on his body! As the Minister of the Ministry of War, he was beaten right before his eyes and didn't realize it! He had already betrayed the Minister of War, Wang Qia, and executed him, and the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum was damaged. It was a mercy for the emperor not to take heavy responsibility.
If the Changping Imperial Mausoleum were to be damaged again, his head would have to be handed over to the Emperor. Thinking of this, he immediately fell to his knees and said: "Your Majesty, please come out of the capital to have a decisive battle with the traitors!"
As soon as these words came out, both Zhou Yanru and Qian Wensheng were shocked, and Chongzhen even widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "You want to come to the battle in person?"
"Yes, I will repay the Lord's kindness with my blood!" Zhang Fengyi said with certainty.
Chongzhen was overjoyed: "Okay! If a civil servant is like this, a general will not dare to neglect. I will give you Shangfang Sword, give you ten thousand gold, and reward you with five hundred merit medals!" After a pause, he said again, "Call Liang Tingdong, Governor of the West Road, and the towns on the East Road.
In every town, raise up the hidden supervisory troops and issue the decree immediately!"