Chapter 2 Jiannu enters the customs

Yu Xiaotian didn't pay attention to the intensive discussion of how to deal with him during this period of time in the Ming Dynasty, but just buried his business.

A fleet left the dock from Danshui and Kaohsiung, Weitou Bay, and Haitan Island. The ship was filled with various ammunition, weapons, food and mules and horses. It was shipped out of the site in batches and then disappeared on the sea.

Just as Chongzhen and his ministers secretly discussed when to transfer troops south, the weather turned cold at the end of September and early October, and news came from Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi that Li Zicheng's troops had been surrounded in the mountains around Shangluo. When they were trapped and forced to leave the mountain for food, they could be wiped out.

But at this time, Jiannu, who had not been separated for a long time outside the customs, suddenly divided the army into two roads. One route led the 40,000 troops of Prince Rui Dorgan and bypassed Mongolia to break through the customs from Xifengkou, while the other way was the commander of the Jiannu general Yue Tuo, who broke through the barrier from the wall ridge and went straight to the Ming capital, and the slaves The chieftain Taiji personally led part of the army and contained the Ming border army outside Shanhaiguan, so that the other two slave armies could successfully enter the customs.

This is the third time that Jiannu has entered the customs. The report issued a decree to the capital. Suddenly, the capital division was shocked. Chongzhen was confused as soon as he heard it. This time, according to the report, Jiannu sent a total of 100,000 troops to attack the customs. The Ming army fled along the way and could hardly stop the Jiannu army.

Even some state and county generals and civilian officials, before the army of Jiannu arrived, they had abandoned the city and fled, causing an immediate and comprehensive emergency in the whole Gyeonggi area.

In fact, the last two Qing army entered the customs and almost looted the prefectures and counties in the capital. Up to now, neither the people nor the army have recovered from these places.

And the Ming army in Guan's fear of the Jiannu army has reached an unparallengeable level, so that the Ming army in Guan can hardly play the role of delaying the Jiannu army.

Even a few days after Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, who led his troops to block the Jiannu army, was also defeated and captured by Jiannu. Finally, he was killed by Jiannu because he refused to surrender to Jiannu.

After the Jiannu army broke through the customs and entered, it quickly broke through several cities in the north of the capital. After raiding, they immediately met together, bypassed the capital and attacked in the direction of Zhuozhou.

When Chongzhen heard the news, he cried. This Jiannu was really hateful. It was too time to choose this time. At present, there was news from Shaanxi that it was expected to wipe out Li Zicheng's subordinates. Before he could be happy, Jiannu came.

At present, although the military strength in the whole Gyeonggi region cannot be said to be empty, it is not much better. The main forces are basically stationed in the Shanhaiguan area. The most powerful Guanning army is guarding the Shanhaiguan area. Outside, there are also a large number of slave army led by the slave chieftain Taiji, so these Guanning army can't move at all. Cheng.

The defenders around Gyeonggi are insufficient and have no fighting spirit. At best, it is good to defend the city. There are not enough troops to intercept the Jiannu army from going south.

After Chongzhen learned the news, the first thing that came to mind was Lu Xiangsheng, the current governor of Xuanda, who immediately transferred Lu Xiangsheng and 20,000 officers and soldiers from Xuanda University to the capital. Along with Shanxi and Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Wang Pu and others, the general of Xuanda University, were transferred to the capital.

Lu Xiangsheng happened to be at home at this time and failed to make it for the time being, but Chongzhen issued an order to seize the situation, which made Lu Xiangsheng quickly enter Beijing to lead the army to block the army of the slaves, and awarded Lu Xiangsheng the governor of the world to fight against the army of the slaves.

But at this time, there is a problem, that Chongzhen has really been scared by Jiannu. Now there is a trend in the court, that is, some ministers privately think that although Jiannu is hateful, they can only stay outside the gate. Although he repeatedly broke through the barrier, the result is that they still have to return to the gate after full plunder. Outside.

In this case, as long as the court guards the capital and the capital is fine, even if Jiannu is allowed to break through some state capitals and counties, they will only rob some goods and take away some people. Sooner or later, they will still return to the customs.

In this case, why don't the Ming Dynasty make peace with Jiannu in private and imitate the Northern Song Dynasty and give Jiannu some annual tributes every year. Of course, it can't be said to be a New Year's tribute. It's just a reward to give 120,000 taels of silver to Jiannu every year, so that Jiannu can stay outside the gate and don't look for trouble.

Of course, this trend of thought also affected Chongzhen, so Chongzhen began to swing between war and peace. On the one hand, he transferred Lu Xiang to the governor of Beijing to fight against Jiannu. On the other hand, he privately sent Chen Xinjia to contact Jiannu first to see if there was a possibility of peace talks.

However, Chongzhen's small actions can be hidden from others, but they can't hide his closest relatives Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian. These people immediately saw Chongzhen's idea of being timid, so they agreed with Chongzhen and decided to make peace.

However, after Lu Xiangsheng quickly entered Beijing, he put forward a strategy of fighting to the end and vowed to separate from the Jiannu army. In this way, it was contrary to the opinions of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian.

Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian and others are most afraid of is that Lu Xiangsheng is too tough and leads the army and Jiannu to fight to the end. Once Lu Xiangsheng is fully in charge of the army, once they fight with Jiannu, I'm afraid that the peace will be ruined, so Yang Sichang and Gao Qi have tried their best to start to toss Lu Xiangsheng.

They controlled the military power in their own hands. Although Lu Xiangsheng was nominally the governor of the world, in fact, he could only control the 20,000 officers and soldiers he brought from Xuanda, including the tens of thousands of Guanning troops transferred to the guard from Liaodong, who did not listen to his dispatch.

Even so, after Lu Xiang was promoted to the capital, he still led the Xuan general to deal with the Jiannu army around the capital, knocked off some small number of Jiannu soldiers and horses, and won some small victories.

But the more Lu Xiangsheng did this, the more Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian were afraid of him. In addition, Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang also had private conflicts. Yang Sichang absolutely did not want to see Lu Xiangsheng win the battle, which would make him too incompetible.

So Yang Sichang found a way to divide Lu Xiangsheng's military power and allocated the 20,000 elite soldiers brought by Lu Xiangsheng from Xuanda to Chen Xinjia, the new governor of Xuanda. Chen Xinjia knew well that the emperor and Yang Sichang's intentions, of course, he would not cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng and the slave army, and he did not have the courage to do so.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng had only thousands of soldiers left, which was pitiful. Although Lu Xiangsheng held the sword given by Chongzhen, he had no soldiers at hand. Except for the thousands of officers and soldiers left, the rest of the soldiers and horses were in the hands of Gao Qiqian and Chen Xinjia.

Lu Xiangsheng was sad and angry, but he had no choice. Even so, he still took these thousands of officers and soldiers to chase the army of the construction slaves, trying to turn the tide.

As for Lu Xiangsheng's fate, no one can save it at this time. He rushed to the abyss without hesitation with thousands of soldiers.

After the two armies of Jiannu entered the customs, they did not concentrate their forces to attack the capital division, but left a small number of soldiers and horses around the Beijing division to attack and contain the main force of the officers near the Beijing division. The rest of the Jiannu army was once again divided into two routes in Zhuozhou, attacking Shandong and Beizhili and other places, burning, burning, killing, looting and plundering the four directions along the way. After the two soldiers and horses were divided, they went to various places and divided their troops again, pointing directly to Zhili in the north of the Ming Dynasty and the prefectures and counties in Shandong.

Beizhili and Shandong have been in a series of emergencies. Almost no one can stop the soldiers of these Jiannu. Along the way, the prefectures and counties have been broken down by Jiannu. On the way, Jiannu has made a lot of money, wrapped a large number of people, driving away these refugees and carrying all kinds of materials and goods for them.

At this time, how can Chongzhen think about going south to fight against Yu Xiaotian? The emergency chapters sent to Beijing every day are like snowflakes, and the situation is so rotten that it can be said that it is almost impossible to add.

However, in the end, Chongzhen did not dare to discuss and negotiate with Jiannu in the end, because he loved his face too much. At this time, although some people discussed in private that he might as well make peace with Jiannu, Chongzhen also just wanted to think about this kind of thing, but he really did not dare to openly express his idea of wanting to make peace with Jiannu.

Therefore, Chen Xinjia's final contact with Jiannu can only be ended. However, a group of ministers led by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian are as afraid of the enemy and have never dared to appoint a large army and Jiannu to fight to the death. Don't expect the generals below to take the initiative to attack.

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers also followed Jiannu's buttocks all over the world, but they always fell far behind the buttocks of Jiannu's army and ran blindly.

Gao Qiqian, as the supervisor appointed by Chongzhen, controlled tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. He left the Beijing Division and wandered around the area of Beizhili. He strictly ordered all the generals not to underestimate the enemy. This sentence is knowledgeable. No one underestimates the enemy, and no one dares to underestimate the enemy. The key to this sentence lies in the word wave war.

If you can't fight, you can't fight with the Jiannu army easily. Just follow them, and no one will easily go to pick up the cheapness of the Jiannu army.

Only Lu Xiangsheng himself, with thousands of officers and soldiers under his command, chased the Jiannu army. Will he fight with Jiannu? However, Lu Xiangsheng also knew that his strength was poor. Other officers and soldiers under his command would never easily provide support for him. Later, he developed into officials in some state capitals and counties along the way. I also smelled it, and even Lu Xiangsheng's salary was cut off.

Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, is the representative of it. Officials in other places are afraid of offending Yang Sichang. At least when Lu Xiangsheng arrived with his troops, he sent a little money from the city and asked Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers to buy grain by themselves, but Zhang Qiping simply closed the gate and didn't even give Lu Xiangsheng a couple of silver. As for the soldiers and horses led by Lu Xiangsheng later, they didn't even have anything to eat.

(I went out early today and went to work. The update was late. Please forgive me! In addition, kneel down to thank the desert for laughing at the spring breeze and the heavy reward of the eagle martial arts brothers! Of course, there are also rewards from sword dance fragrance, autumn home, xellos, and five things zz! In this way, the monthly ticket went up at once! Thank you very much!——)