Chapter 8 Like a Broken Bamboo

This time, as the vanguard of the Jiannu army, it is the Jiannu Zhengbai flag and the inlaid white flag. These two flags are the soldiers and horses led by the three Dorgan brothers, and their existence undoubtedly poses a threat to the power of Huang Taiji and his son Haoge. In a war like this, Huang Taiji will never let go of the opportunity to weaken the strength of the two white flags. So the three brothers Dorgan, Azig and Dodo, naturally, could only ask Ying to act as the vanguard of the Jiannu army, leading the soldiers and horses of the two white flags and some of the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners, rushed to Ningyuan City first.

At this time, there were only more than 20,000 officers and soldiers in the area around Ningyuan. After all, the limited Ming army wanted to defend Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan. It was impossible for Hong Chengchou to pile up all the available people and horses in the decisive battle with the Jiannu army in the area. Therefore, under the attack of the three Dorgo brothers, Hong Chengchou placed several defense lines outside Ningyuan City. It was soon broken through by the soldiers and horses of Dorgo and others.

In this battle, it can't be said that the officers and soldiers refused to work hard. Whether it was Cao Bianjiao, who guarded Baitai Mountain, Wang Tingchen, who guarded the old Taoshan, or even Lv Pinqi, who guarded the area of Jiulong Mountain, and other military generals, they did their best. They led their own troops and the Jiannui army to fight a fierce battle, but the morale of the officers and soldiers was not high in the first. There were not many soldiers as many Jiannu troops, that is, Cao changed Jiao, who was deployed in Baitai Mountain. He was caught off guard and won a small victory. Later, because of the lack of troops, he was going to be surrounded by the Jiannu army in the area of Baitai Mountain. Cao Wenjiao had to lead his troops to evacuate Baitai Mountain in order to preserve his strength, while Wang Tingchen was very He was quickly surrounded by the army of Duoduo and Azig in the area of Laowei Taoshan. Wang Tingchen refused to accept Dorgan's persuasion and led the troops to fight with Jiannu in the area of Laowei Taoshan. Unfortunately, his strength was limited, and he fought alone. After two days of fierce fighting, Wang Tingchen finally died in the country. Before the battle of the two armies, more than 4,000 generals under his command were killed, and almost all the rest were captured.

Cao Huajiao tried to rescue Wang Tingchen with his remnants, but was blocked by Dorge's lead. After a fight, Cao Huajiao fled back to Ningyuan City.

Only Lv Pinqi, the deputy general guarding Jiulong Mountain, was defeated after learning that Wang Tingchen was defeated and died, and finally led his troops to surrender to Dornon's construction army.

So far, after six days of the peripheral battle of Ningyuan City, the whole line collapsed, and then the Jiannu army surrounded Ningyuan City.

Although Hong Chengchou wants to delay the construction of the slave army in Ningyuan City for a period of time, delay the speed of the construction of the construction army to go south, and buy some time for the deployment of the rear Shanhaiguan area, He Nai Daming's officers and soldiers have been quite weak at this time. Even if an army like Cao Geng and Wang Tingchen are willing to fight to the death, they can't Changing their disadvantages made the battle outside Ningyuan City collapse in just a few days.

In desperation, Hong Chengchou had to lead the remaining more than 10,000 people, including Zu Dashou's headquarters and Cao Bianjiao, to stay in Ningyuan City, and hurriedly sent people to the capital for help.

Although Daming was already besieged on all sides by this time, when he learned that Hong Chengchou, Zu Da Shou and other soldiers and horses were besieged in Ningyuan City, the emperor Zhu Youjian still showed his admirable side.

At this time, although Zhu Youjian had learned that Xiao Tianjian's Xing Tianjun had begun to attack the capital in three armies, he was also very clear in his heart that the Ming Dynasty was likely to be destroyed within this year, but he was still extremely angry with Jiannu's reversal.

And just three days ago, he learned that the left soldier Ma of the Xing Tianjun, led by the rebel Lu Xiangsheng and the thief general Yan Chongxi, "defeated" Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanda University, and occupied the whole territory of Datong Mansion. At the same time, he "forced" Yang Guozhu to lead his troops to retreat from Xuanfu Town to Juyong Pass and gave up Xuan. In Fuzhen, the land of Xuanda was also quickly lost within a few days. Zhu Youjian was also very angry, but at this time, he still chose to make Yang Guozhu and Xuanhua Miyun's general Tang Tong, and led the army to Shanhaiguan to help Hong Chengchou's troops, who were besieged in Ningyuan City.

In addition, after Wu Sangui's death, there was no general in Shanhaiguan. At the request of the courtiers, Chongzhen once again reinstated Wu Xiang, who had already left office in the capital, and appointed Wu Xiang as the general officer of Shanhaiguan, ordering him to immediately go to Beijing and go to Shanhaiguan to preside over the defense of Shanhaiguan.

During this period, Chongzhen also carefully reviewed his mistakes in the past few years. Naturally, he hated Xiao Tianjian, but his hatred for Jiannu was even ten times more than his hatred for Xiao Tianjian.

Think carefully about the reason why Daming has come to the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted. Zhu Youjian believes that the most fundamental reason is still Jiannu. Since the wild boar Pinurhachi rebelled in Liaodong, Daming's finances have begun to fall into trouble. Since the Apocalypse year, Daming's fiscal revenue has mainly poured out. It slanted to the matter of dealing with Jiannu outside the customs, so that there were a series of domestic disasters and famines, but they were unable to help. They were also forced by the situation in the north and constantly increased their pay. In the end, the world was full of wolves and people rose everywhere.

Therefore, although the destruction of the Ming Dynasty is imminent, Zhu Youjian is still secretly determined to guard the Shanhaiguan area and no longer let Jiannu go south. In the face of such a situation, Zhu Youjian chose to put the main force that could be mobilized into the Guanning battlefield at this moment.

To this end, he also recruited Tang Tong, the general officer, into the capital. He personally mentioned it and gave high expectations to Tang Tong. He hoped that Tang Tong could play a key role at this time and save Hong Chengchou back to Shanhaiguan. At the same time, he also summoned Wu Xiang, who was about to leave Beijing, hoping that he could defend the front line of Shanhaiguan and no longer let Jiannu. The army enters the customs.

Tang Tong and Wu Xiang were very moved at first. They patted their chests one by one to ensure that they would live up to the holy hope. They must block Jiannu from entering the customs. After that, they went out of Beijing and led their own troops to Shanhaiguan.

A large number of officers and soldiers, led by Yang Guozhu and Tang Tong, began to leave the land of Jingji and rushed to Ningyuan City, which suddenly made the land of Jingji more empty. In order to prevent the left army of the Xingtian Army from knocking into the capital from Juyong Pass, but Zhu Youjian had no choice but to order Fu Zonglong, the current minister of the Ministry of War, to return. He returned to the capital, guarded the area of the capital, and sent General Zhou Yuji to sit in Juyong Pass to resist the offensive of the Xing Tianjun.

So the last available troops of the Ming Dynasty began to converge towards the area of Jingji. In a few days, under the command of Diao Zheng, the Dazhong Chaozhong Road Army took over Guangping Mansion, and the soldiers pointed straight to Zhending Mansion.

The three forces in northern China launched a big duel about the survival of the three parties in the 14th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the first year of Dazhong Tianyuan, and Chongde in the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, the protagonist of this duel can only be said to be Jiannu and Dazhong. As for the seemingly orthodox Ming Dynasty, in this duel, it has been completely reduced to a subordinate position and can no longer be called the protagonist.

The Northern Expedition of the Greater China Dynasty rose a few days later than that of the Jiannu Army, but for Xiao Tianjian, the situation faced by Dazhong is slightly better than that of Jiannu. After all, by this time, the last army with a certain combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty was mainly concentrated in the Guanning area. As for the left-behind officials in various parts of Guannei. The army basically has no combat effectiveness.

After Xiao Tianjian led his troops out of Huai'an Mansion on March 17, he began to go north along the Grand Canal. Along the way, he continued to attack the government city that had not yet surrendered. In front of Xiao Tianjian's powerful right-hand army, there were no soldiers or horses to resist it at all, so under Xiao Tianjian's supervision, The state capital and county along the way can be said to have been broken by the right-wing army of the Dazhong Dynasty. More local officers and officials, directly under the front of the Dazhong-right army, took the initiative to surrender and surrendered to the Dazhong Dynasty.

Therefore, the right-wing army's offensive along the Grand Canal was very smooth. In less than a month, under the control of Xiao Tianjian, they attacked from Huai'an Prefecture to Linqing City. The major towns along the Qingjiang River, Xuzhou, Jining, Dongchangfu and other canals along the way either surrendered directly, or they were soldiers of the right army. Under the front, it was quickly broken.

In order to prevent Xiao Tianjian's army from going north along the canal, the government has also thought of some ways, such as destroying the locks along the way and blocking the canal. However, these measures have little effect on Xiao Tianjian's right army. In terms of military strength, local government governments can't compete with the right army at all. When the government tried to block the canal, Xiao Tianjian often raised his arms, and countless people came to help the large and medium-sized army dredge the river and repair the damaged locks and locks. In addition, there were elite engineering battalions in this march. These engineering troops undertook a large number of repair projects, which made the government Efforts often do not have enough good effect. The right army, like a sharp blade, continues to progress towards the north like a broken bamboo.

On the 22nd day of the first year of Tianyuan, Xuzhou Zhizhou opened the city and surrendered. On March 29, Jining City was broken by the right army, and the defending Zhizhou was killed. On the sixth day of April, Dongchang Prefecture was broken. On the seventh day of April, Liu Yaoben divided his troops from Dongchang Prefecture and went straight to Jinan Prefecture. In three days, Jinan Prefecture announced its surrender. A day later, Tai'an Prefecture also announced its surrender. On April 10 On the seventh day, just after a month of the Dazhong Dynasty's northern expedition, Xiao Tianjian led his army to Linqing City.

Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, who was responsible for guarding Shandong, did not play a role at all in this month. He led the 20,000 officers and retreated again and again. He gave up many cities in succession, which was twice as fast as the right army under Xiao Tianjian. First, he rushed from Tai'an Prefecture to Jinan Prefecture, and then gave up. Jinan Prefecture fled to Binzhou again. It can be said that he did not fight with the right army in a battle, so he fled to Binzhou in mid-April and began to gasp in Binzhou. The 20,000 officers under his command had a lot of soldiers in this month's escape. When he ran to Binzhou, 20,000 officers and soldiers escaped with only 4,000 people left. Shang completely lost the strength to fight against the Great China National Defense Force and became a panicked army, which was almost the same as a bandit at best.