Chapter 56 Hidden appearance

The news of the loss of Tongzhou spread to the capital in the blink of an eye. Chongzhen and the civil and military officials in the capital were shocked again and completely panicked for a while. Tongzhou is the east gate of the capital. Now the gate has been kicked by others. The whole capital is like a woman stripped of her clothes, which is equivalent to the soldiers of the family. Under the front, the red fruit is waiting to be turned.

And now the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin in various places have not even set out, and even the nearest Shanxi reinforcements have not yet left Shanxi, let alone rush to the king of Beijing before the family army attacked the capital.

In addition, Shanhaiguan, which is close to the capital, has no response to the imperial edict. Up to now, the reinforcements have not arrived at Shanhaiguan, but Zu Dashou sent the news that the Jiannu army, which has been with Chen Bing in Guanning today, has shown signs of withdrawing, but before the Jiannu army withdrew, the Guanning army could not move into the customs. King Qin.

There is also the Shaanxi army under the jurisdiction of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting. The current situation is not clear. No one knows whether they have received the imperial edict. Even if Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting receive the imperial edict and rush from Shaanxi to the king of Beijing day and night, it will take at least two months. It must be too late.

So someone gave advice to Chongzhen. Now he immediately sent people to Nanzhili and Guangdong, and ordered the officers and soldiers from Nanzhili and Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places to directly attack Fujian, and gave Yu Xiaotian a siege to save Zhao. If he attacked him, he would be saved. He directly threatened Yu Xiaotian's nest and forced Yu Xiaotian to give up attacking Beijing. Division, withdraw troops back to Fujian.

However, when there was a mess in the capital, someone from Fujian quickly sent the news, saying that in early March, Fujian governor Shen Yulong heard that he brazenly led troops north to rebel against Xiaotian, so he immediately ordered the mobilization of local officers and soldiers in Fujian who were not under the jurisdiction of Xiaotian to try to attack the siege of Touwan and attack Xiaotian's power in Fujian. Remove it in one fell swoop.

However, as soon as Shen Youlong ordered, he was detected by Yu Xiaotian's men. Immediately, the Yu family's army in various parts of Fujian rose up one after another, and almost all the remaining officers and soldiers who were not the Yu's military system in Fujian were disarmed. Liu Yidao, the general of the Yu family's army in Fujian, led the navy and the army and the army division. There were more than 17,000 people. On March 11, Zhoushi went straight into the Minjiang River and surrounded Fuzhou City.

Under the internal response of Fuzhou City, Yu Jiajun fought internally and externally. It took only two days to conquer Fuzhou City and captured the current Fujian governor Shen Yulong alive, declaring that the whole territory of Fujian was controlled by Yu Jiajun, and all the local military and government were under the jurisdiction of Yu Xiaotian.

This news is like a bolt from the blue. Some of which shocked Chongzhen. The fall of Fujian also means that Yu Xiaotian completely tore the last layer of skin and completely embarked on the road of rebellion. Fujian has declared independence and is no longer under the control of the Ming court.

So Chongzhen was furious and scolded Yu Xiaotian as a complete traitor. He immediately drew up a decree and summoned Nan Zhili, Zhejiang and Liangguang to gather an army to Fujian to suppress the rebellion.

At this point, Chongzhen looks quite tough. Yu Jiajun has arrived at his doorstep, but he is still thinking about taking Fujian back.

But after sending someone to send out the imperial edict, he found a problem. Even if the person who preached the edict did not stop for 800 miles a day, he ran to Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Liangguang to spread the decree, even the recent Nanzhili, it would take ten days and half a month to go to Guangdong. It will take at least a month.

In addition, it is estimated that it will be difficult to move troops in two months to mobilization troops by mobilization of soldiers and horses to raise food and salaries. When they take action, it is estimated that the cucumber dishes here will be cold.

Nowadays, the most critical thing is how to defend the capital. Looking at the posture of Yu's army, it is bound to break into the capital. Chongzhen quickly summoned the world again and called on the soldiers and horses of the world to go north to the king of Beijing to defeat Yu Xiaotian's rebellion, but the distant water can't quench his thirst. At this time, Yu Xiaotian has led his troops to capture Tongzhou City and go to Beijing. Under the teacher's city, it can be said that you can get there by raising your legs.

By this time, Chongzhen has completely numb his claws. He can only count on the first officers and soldiers in the area of Beijing to resist the attack of the family army. In addition, he temporarily held Buddha's feet and sent people to various places in Beizhili, Baoding, Hejian, Zhending, Huairou, Jizhou, Xuanfu and other places, urgently recruiting troops from all over the country to rush to the capital at a speed of 100,000. Assistance.

The officers and soldiers in these places can now almost gather 30,000 to 40,000 people, plus the three battalions of the capital division itself and the brave guard battalions controlled by eunuchs. At present, there are about 5 to 600 troops around the capital division and the defenders in the city.

But these 50,000 to 60,000 people are only on paper. Today's three battalions are no longer the three battalions when Zhu Di was in power. Although they are equipped with many firearms and troops, they almost never practice. Only a few days a year will they pretend to perform the weapon battle array, basically no Any combat effectiveness can be said.

There are only a few thousand soldiers of the brave guard battalion and the commander of Zhili's inner service. Over the years, Chongzhen has paid more attention to it and has some combat effectiveness. The rest of the soldiers of the Beijing battalion are basically waste snacks.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Jiannu entered the customs for the first time and rushed straight to the city of the capital. No one dared to send troops to fight against him. Only Mangui's troops dared to fight with Jiannu. Although Yuan Chonghuan's troops ran all the way to the capital, they basically did not make any achievements. On the contrary, they fired random arrows and injured Man Gui.

Therefore, these soldiers and horses of the Beijing division are not enough to resist the soldiers and horses of the family, which is also relatively clear to Chongzhen. However, now looking around, he really doesn't have many people who can use it, so he has to order Cao Huachun to supervise the army, close the gates of the capital division, and put on a posture of defending the city.

At this time, Gao Qiqian, who had no news, suddenly emerged. After the Gaoqi potential giant deer led the army to be defeated by the Jiannu army, he fled all the way to the Zhending Zhaozhou area under the escort of his own escort and hid.

Gao Qiqian was afraid that Chongzhen would be angry with him for this matter and beheaded him, so he did not dare to return to return to Beijing. He hid in Zhaozhou and sent people everywhere to search for the defeated soldiers and sent people to the capital to inquire about the news.

Later, when he heard rumors, he refused to send troops to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, and tried his best to restrain Lu Xiangsheng with Yang Sichang, resulting in the final death of Lu Xiangsheng. The court was investigating his whereabouts and seemed to have the intention of pursuing him. This guy did not dare to show up. He hid in the Zhending area and inquired about the news everywhere.

Later, I heard that Yu Xiaotian led the army to brazenly capture Tianjin Wei. The whole situation seemed to be in a mess, and Gao Qiqian couldn't understand it, so he never dared to show himself.

Until this period, he heard that Yu's army was first defeated by the Jiannu army, and then turned against the court, defeated Chen Xinjia's and Wu Xiang's men, and even killed Wu Xiang on the spot, causing a great earthquake in the capital. Gao Qiqian felt that this was the time for him to show his head.

Now Yu Xiaotian has launched the banner of the Qing Dynasty to enter the capital, and Gao Qiqian is quite familiar with the military situation of the capital. At this time, the strength of the Beijing is probably far from blocking Xiaotian from entering the capital, so there is an urgent need to order all the soldiers and horses to enter the capital.

And he was guilty. At this time, it was time to make contributions. After his collection, he had collected 167,000 soldiers and horses that were defeated at the beginning and returned to him, but he still had some combat power.

This 20,000 soldiers and horses was his chance to turn over his capital. At this time, he took 20,000 troops back to the capital to enter the guard. Even if he had made a mistake before, Chongzhen saw that when he was in danger this time, he also led the troops back to the King of Qin. He estimated that he would not do anything to him. At best scold him and would still use him.

Among the eunuchs, Gao Qiqian has a reputation as a well-known soldier and has been a prison army many times. Now Chongzhen is employing people, and he is suspicious by nature. At present, he can only believe in these eunuchs. With this, Gao Qiqian believes that this is an opportunity. If he goes back at this time, it will not be a big deal.

So Gaoqi's potential Zhendingfu rectified his soldiers and horses, and with 178,000 officers and soldiers, known as 30,000 troops, rushed to the outside of the capital city at this time.

Chongzhen is having a headache because of the lack of soldiers and horses, and there is no one who knows the soldiers at hand. Although he is angry and doesn't know where to hide for so long, he can't wait to kill him immediately.

However, when he learned that Gaoqi was at this moment of potential, he suddenly brought so many soldiers and horses, and it was said that there were still many elite soldiers who rushed back to the king of Qin, so more than half of his anger suddenly disappeared.

Chongzhen said that these waiters are still reliable. Although he has done too much on the potential Lu Xiangsheng, now he knows that the capital is in danger, but he has brought his troops back to the king of Qin, which shows that Gao Qi is still loyal.

After Gao Qiqian led his soldiers back outside the capital city, he pretended to bind himself to plead himself and cried in a mess. He wrote to Chongzhen, confessed his guilt, and fabricated a lie to shirk his responsibility. He said that he came back this time to receive the crime and was willing to be dealt with by Chongzhen, but now the thief has been a soldier in the capital. Under the city, I still hope that Chongzhen can give him a chance to make contributions.

Chongzhen quickly summoned him to sneak into the palace saint, rose high in the palace and lurked on the ground, cried loudly, confessed himself guilty, and beat around the corner to remind Chongzhen of his contributions.

Chongzhen looked at Gao Qiqian's virtue and was also unbearable. Anyway, it was also commendable that Gao Qiqian brought his soldiers back to the King of Qin at this critical moment, so he scolded Gao Qiqian and dismissed his official position, but asked him to stay and make atone for his crimes.

After listening, he was secretly happy. Basically, everything was expected by him. This time he came back at the right time, so he immediately patted his chest and promised that he would work hard and vowed to fight the thief for the court.

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