The more than 60,000 soldiers and horses who broke out of Yanjing in two groups were completely devoured by the Donghu people in just three days. The speed of their defeat and the magnitude of their destruction were jaw-dropping.
Many of the princes, princes and concubines who broke out with the army were killed or captured; even the guards and guards broke up and fled or abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Emperor Chongguan was unwilling to be captured and jumped into the Chaohe River in anger. Hao Zongcheng also drank poison and died.
Because the Donghu people buried piles and sunk ships and threw a large number of tree branches in the estuary section of the Chao River downstream to prevent the warships of the Tianjin Navy from entering. Thousands of Xuanfu and Jingying soldiers were forced in during the war.
He drowned in the Chaohe River, and his corpse was blocked at the mouth of the river. It was not until the 23rd that the body of Emperor Chongguan, soaked in the river water and changed beyond recognition, was found.
If it weren't for the dragon robe he was wearing and the surrendered eunuchs headed by Wang Qishan who confirmed that Emperor Chongguan drowned at the last moment, no one would have been able to imagine that such a body soaked like a white pig was different from the one sitting on the dragon chair.
What is the connection with the Emperor of Dai Viet?
In this battle, Donghu completely established the victory of swallowing up the entire land of Yanji.
Although Yanjing, Xuanfu, Sanhe, Jinhai and other cities have not been finally lost, they have not affected the overall situation. In Yanji and Jinjun, there is no real threat to Yanhu's nearly 300,000 soldiers entering this area.
The military power of horses exists.
While Ye Jier ordered the thick burial of Emperor Chongguan to win over people's hearts and appease the rebel generals and captured soldiers, he also spread the news to the whole world that Emperor Chongguan failed to break through and drowned to death, thereby weakening the determination and resistance of the Vietnamese army and people.
morale.
Yejier sent his eldest son Yeji Baishan to stay in Jinhai to supervise the war. After clearing the peripheral threats, he formally launched a brutal siege of Jinhai with the newly attached Han army as the main force. Yejier personally led more than 60,000 people.
The main force of infantry and cavalry marched westward with the retinue of generals such as Ye Ji, Luo Rong, and arrived at Yanjing City on the 27th. The main camp was set up at Zhangjiaji at the southern foot of Yunya Mountain.
Yanjing's remaining envoy Zhang Xiemin left the city and entered the Donghu camp to discuss the surrender. On the 29th, he led the remaining generals and more than 20,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp to surrender.
Yejier chose an auspicious time and entered Yanjing on the first day of July.
Although there are still a few defenders in Xuanfu, Sanhe, Jinhai and other cities who insist on not surrendering, the Donghu people must continue to use troops on the inner lines. In Yannan and Shannan, they must also guard against the counterattack of the Southern Dynasty's troops in the Hehuai area.
But for Ye Ji'er, the most urgent thing at the moment is no longer military gains and losses, but to stabilize the situation in Yanji and Jinjun as quickly as possible.
The foundation in Yanji is too shallow, and it is very likely that they will be driven out because of an accidental military defeat.
At the same time, the tribes of Yanhu and the newly attached Han troops, together with Chaohe, Zhangjiaji and others, and Yanjing surrendered, and the total number of Yanhu troops in Yanji and Jin counties reached 300,000, including the fine cavalry of the Yandong Hus.
There are more than 70,000, more than 30,000 Hu cavalrymen from Yanxi, more than 150,000 newly attached Han troops, and more than 50,000 prisoners.
It is by no means a simple matter to maintain such a huge military preparedness in Yanji and other places, and even to continue to expand the military preparedness in the later period, to use troops against Shandong, Henan and Qin County until it completely sweeps the world.
On the fifth day of the seventh lunar month, Ye Jier changed his name to Khan and proclaimed himself emperor in Yanjing. He granted Zhang Xie the title of Duke of the State of Yan and granted him three thousand households in the city.
Wang Qishan and others surrendered to their ministers, and recruited gentry to enter the local area as officials, and sent them back to work in production.
On the sixth day of the lunar month, another policy was issued to calm the people, and the decree was announced to the world. The reductions and exemptions were limited to the areas affected by the war, including Datong, Xuanfu, western Liaoning, western Hebei, northern Shanxi, central Shanxi, southern Shanxi, Yanxi, and western Hebei.
, most of the newly occupied areas, including Gyeonggi and other places, were given land tax and grain tax for two years to return the people to self-cultivation.
After the main force was transferred away, the Xuanzhen Army, which had only 10,000 defenders left, surrendered in Kaicheng after holding on for more than half a year. In the land of Yanji, only Sanhe and Jinhai were still holding on.
In Sanhe, led by Hao Xiongqi and nearly 40,000 cavalrymen, more than 10,000 people under Chen Zhihu's command were surrounded.
In Jinhai, the Donghu people, led by Ye Jibaishan and 80,000 cavalry, completely blocked Jinhai City from the land and launched a brutal siege.
The most urgent thing for Yan Hu in Yan and Hebei is to repatriate people back to their hometowns - when Yan Jing surrendered, there were three to five million refugees in the city. Adding in the refugees from the counties in Gyeonggi and the capital, the number was as high as one million.
——Therefore, except for the impassable roads to Jinhai or Sanhe, when groups pass through Yannan, even if they encounter Donghu people's outposts on the way, they will not be checked every time.
On the eighth day of July, the military intelligence chief's spies in Yanjing City escorted Jiang Yue and others dressed as refugees out of the city to join Wu Qi and Chen Dingbang.
Chen Zhihu was surrounded and died in Sanhe. This problem was no longer something they could solve by gathering dozens of people. Chen Xinbo's niece-in-law, Si Tian Shaojian Jiang Yue, was the official named by Lin Fu to be taken out. When Jiang Yue and others arrived,
At Chengshouji, Wu Qi no longer stayed in the north in person, but took advantage of the wave of refugees returning home to pass through the Yannan enemy territory in batches.
After going through untold hardships, he secretly set out to sea from Cangzhou on July 18th, and met at sea with Huang Jinnian, Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting who had first withdrawn from Jinhai.
Wu Tian, one of the three generals of the Tianjin Navy, was killed when he led his troops to defend Xili Village. Due to Wu Tian's death in the battle, Xili Village was captured by the enemy in the chaos, and less than half of the troops and horses guarding the village were able to do so.
Withdrawing, more than a thousand people were wiped out at one time, which was the heaviest loss in the Jinhai city defense battle to this point.
The last 40,000 people living in Jinhai had not yet been evacuated, but they all evacuated to the inner line of Wokou Village and Jinwei Island. Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang, Sun Shangwang and others would lead the defenders to hold on until the end. Jiangning Na
Bian was discussing the establishment of a new emperor, and Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian had to rush to Jiangning first to compete for their positions in the Jiangning regime.
Gao Zongting and Geng Quanshan learned the truth about Li Zhuo giving Emperor Chongguan wine and medicine to die. They were disheartened. Apart from going to Chongzhou, there was no place for them in the world. They also withdrew this time and went with the ship.
Let’s go to Chongzhou first.
Although I had already made a judgment about the situation in Yanji at this time, the fact was clearly laid out in front of me, and I felt it was cruel and hard to accept.
Chen Dingbang met Gao Zongting and Geng Quanshan on the ship and placed an incense burner on the deck to pay homage to Li Zhuo.
Lin Xuwen, Wu Qi and others came to worship in front of the incense table. Huang Jinnian was quite embarrassed.
Although Huang Jinnian was always in charge of Jinhai warehouse in the later period, he was always one of the core figures of the Chu party and one of the black hands who controlled the rice market in Gyeonggi Province behind the scenes. When it comes to restraining Li Zhuo and causing Yanji's defeat, Huang Jinnian also had
A responsibility that cannot be shied away from.
It's not that Huang Jinnian had a great discovery of conscience and changed his face to be a good person, but that the situation was unavoidable and did not allow him to reflect on his relationship with people close to Huaidong.
Huang Jinnian had already moved his family to Jinhai for resettlement. Even his second son and two nephews, who were in charge of business in Yanjing, evacuated to Jinhai in time before the war and narrowly saved the family. But he wanted to evacuate from Jinhai.
It is not that simple to go to Jiangning or even want to get a place in Jiangning.
Although all the fields and houses in Gyeonggi were lost, the real gold and silver transferred by the Huang Jinnian family from Gyeonggi amounted to seven to eight hundred thousand taels. Huaidong and Huang Jinnian were political enemies who had been fighting secretly. The truth about Huang Jinnian
, if Huaidong had understood everything, it would not be possible for it to be as powerful as it is today.
In the past, Huang Jinnian was a high official in the imperial court, fighting for power with Lin Xuwen in Jinhai, but now he was the catfish on the Huaidong cutting board.
Although Huang Jinnian cursed Lin Fu when he left Jinhai with his strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, as the situation developed, especially after Huaidong occupied Mingzhou Prefecture, Jiang Ning recognized Huaidong's behavior and made Lin Fu concurrently
When Huang Jinnian led the establishment of envoys in eastern Zhejiang, even if he could not clearly see the development of the situation, he would have wasted half his life in the officialdom.
In early May, Huang Jinnian asked his eldest son, Huang Chengen, and his family to evacuate to Chongzhou first. Even if Huang Chengen was asked to negotiate terms with Huaidong, he also knew that he would be useful to Huaidong.
The final negotiated condition was that the Huang Jinnian family would come up with 500,000 taels of silver, half of which would be donated free of charge to the Huaidong Military Division as military supplies, and half of which would be incorporated into the Huaidong Bank as principal.
Huang Jinnian finally offered to resettle his family in Chongzhou. He knew that the water in Jiangning was very deep and there might be a war disaster. Before Huaidong came into power, Jiangning was far less stable than Chongzhou. He left his family in Chongzhou.
As a pledge, Huaidong also wanted Huaidong to rest assured that he would support him in becoming an official in Jiangning.
Such is the case in officialdom. Li Zhuo regarded Chen Xinbo as his teacher and friend, but in the end it was Chen Xinbo who saw him off.
Huang Jinnian is now considered a member of Huaidong. He is not the murderer who directly caused Li Zhuo's death. Gao Zongting, Chen Dingbang, Geng Quanshan and others cannot regard him as their enemy. Lin Xuwen invited Huang Jinnian to worship Li Zhuo at the incense table, and they also
He responded by claiming to be a member of the Li Zhuo family.
Also aboard the ship with Wu Qi were Jiang Yue's family of five.
Jiang Yue himself was an official who tried his best to get rid of the factional struggle. When the struggle between the Western Qin Party and the Chu Party reached its peak, the Chu Party only had Chen Xinbo and Jiang Yue in the center. Chen Xinbo could stay because Emperor Chongguan wanted to borrow
He suppressed Zhang Xie; Jiang Yue was indifferent to the world, and his achievements in astronomy and calendar were truly unmatched by anyone in the government or the public.
Although Jiang Yue had provided a lot of help to Huaidong over the years, he mostly agreed with Lin Fu's approach of advocating miscellaneous learning and craftsmanship in Chongzhou, and was above factional struggles.
Lin Fu asked the Military Intelligence Department to cover Jiang Yue's family's move south by name, and had no intention of directly involving Jiang Yue in the factional struggle. Jiang Yue's ability to go south and serve in the Si Tianjian or the Ministry of Industry would naturally have a great impact on promoting the development of miscellaneous craftsmanship.
Big benefits.
After the worship, the frightened Jiang Yue family was first arranged to rest in the cabin. Lin Xuwen and others gathered Wu Qi and Chen Dingbang in the cabin to discuss matters.
"We have to go to Yangxin first..." Lin Xuwen said.
"Oh, Zhou Pu led his cavalry camp to retreat into Yangxin?" Wu Qi asked.
After the Zhangjiaji War, the entire southeastern region of Hebei was overwhelmingly populated by Donghu cavalry and rout troops. Don’t deal with Donghu outposts. Those rogue soldiers were equally deadly. Wu Qi, Chen Dingbang and others were trapped.
In Chengshouji, there was no peripheral news, so it was not clear what Zhou Pu and the Huaidong Cavalry were doing in Yannan.
"If only Zhou Pu led his cavalry battalion to retreat into Yangxin, we would also need to dock at Yangxin," Lin Xuwen said. "Zhou Pu rescued the Queen Mother from the sword of the enemy cavalry in the west of Hejian City. King Lu and his party were just left to the enemy cavalry.
If I bite my tongue tightly, I can only retreat all the way to Yangxin..."
Wu Qi instantly understood why Lin Xuwen and Huang Jinnian rushed to Yangxin on the way? Yangxin had been taken over by the Qingzhou Army headed by Gu Siyuan. Outsiders looked at Lin Gu's family. If Gu Siyuan didn't have too many ambitions, Zhou Pu escorted the Queen Mother, King Lu and his party.
There is no big problem in retreating to Yangxin.
He was afraid that Gu Siyuan would cause trouble - Wu Qi secretly felt it was a pity: Zhou Pu was used to fighting for victory on the battlefield, and was still not familiar with this kind of hidden struggle; if he were in the army, he would not stay in Yangxin at all, nor would he
Instead of letting the news leak out, he led troops to escort the Queen Mother all the way. King Lu and his party passed through the Shandong Peninsula and went directly to the territory of Huaidong to discuss other matters.