Chapter 11 Loyal Minister Goes to Death

After the war in Guanning in the north began in March, the war was very fierce. More than 20,000 officers and soldiers, including Hong Chengchou and Zu Da Shou, were surrounded by more than 100,000 troops of the Jiannu army in Ningyuan City. Huang Taiji sent people to persuade Hong Chengchou and Zu Da Shou in the city several times, but they were absolutely rejected by them. Therefore, Huang Taiji sent a large number of builder soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Ningyuan City.

Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou and others resisted desperately inside and outside the city. At this time, the soldiers and civilians in the city can basically be said to be determined to defend Ningyuan City. The people in the city collectively transported stone ammunition for the military and took care of the wounded, while the soldiers and generals were said to have defended and bombarded the construction of the construction army outside the city. The two sides fought abnormally. It was fierce, and Hong Chengchou took the car camp as the line of defense and built fortifications outside Ningyuan City to prevent the construction of the slave army from attacking the city. It took more than a month for the siege of Ningyuan City, and the defenders repeatedly repelled many attacks by the construction slave army.

However, the situation is very bad for Ningyuan City. Originally, Guan Ningjun was short of food and salaries. Although they received part of the grain provided to them by the Dazhong Army some time ago, not much food was transported in Ningyuan City. In more than a month, although the soldiers and civilians in Ningyuan City have been economical, they have The food was still exhausted, the ammunition and stones were almost exhausted, and gradually began to lose the ability to resist.

After April, all the mules and horses in Ningyuan City have been killed, and the soldiers and generals have eaten them. After the mules and horses are killed, the soldiers and civilians in the city can only eat the bark and grass roots. Later, even the bark and grass roots have been eaten, they eat the bodies of the dead. Later, it even developed into a tragedy of killing some old and weak people and eating meat.

After these years of operation, the Jiannu Army's ability to attack is also much stronger than in the early years. Especially after they began to equip a large number of Hongyi cannons, their firepower is no longer weaker than that of the Guanning Army. This invasion of the Jiannu Army to the south brought a lot of heavy Hongyi cannons. After these cannons began to attack the city, they were Jiannu's Han army stood outside the city and bombarded Ningyuan City almost day and night. The two sides launched an artillery battle inside and outside the city. The firepower of the defenders was obviously weaker than that of the Jiannu army, so that in a month, although Hong Chengchou led his army to block the repeated attacks of the Jiannu army, the soldiers in the city were also killed and injured, and the city wall of Ningyuan City was even more The city's soldiers and civilians had to repair the city day and night during the bombardment, but with the passage of time, their resistance has also reached the end of the crossbow.

However, the reinforcements they were looking forward to have never appeared outside Ningyuan City. Although Chongzhen finally made up his mind to send troops to rescue Ningyuan City and try to save Hong Chengchou and the officers and soldiers in Ningyuan City back to Shanhaiguan, there were too few soldiers and horses available in Daming at this time. After Yang Guozhu and Tang Tong were ordered, they supervised the army. Under the leadership of Zhang Ruolin, he went out of Shanhaiguan before the end of March, but Zhang Ruolin is just a fake bastard. As a Guanning military supervisor, he is very arrogant. In the past two years, he has caused a lot of trouble for Hong Chengchou, so that some people in the army say that he can not know Hong Duchen, but he only knows Zhang Jianjun! It can be seen how arrogant Zhang Ruolin is in the army.

This time, Hong Chengchou was imprisoned in Ningyuan, but Zhang Jianjun refused to stay in Ningyuan City for an excuse, but ran back to Shanhaiguan, and sat and watch Hong Chengchou's soldiers and horses besieged in Ningyuan City at Shanhaiguan, and did not find a way to rescue him. Now the court has ordered Yang Guozhu and Tang Tong to lead 40,000 troops out of the mountain. When the customs rescued Ningyuan City, Zhang Ruolin had no choice but to supervise the army to go out of the mountain customs.

However, Zhang Ruolin is as timid as a mouse. Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan City is only a journey of more than 200 miles. If it is fast, he can reach Ningyuan City in two days. However, Zhang Ruolin pressed the speed of the army, but he still refused to speed up the march, although Yang Guozhu repeatedly asked for more speed. However, Zhang Ruolin scolded severely, saying that he should be careful not to be ambushed by Jiannu. The result was more than 200 miles away. They did not walk for ten days. They marched for only more than ten miles a day and no more than 30 miles at most. Zhang Ruolin ordered to camp.

In this way, the suddenness of the rescue is naturally needless to say. The Jiannu side got the news early. Huang Taiji, even if Dorcon and Duoduo led more than 30,000 Jiannu troops, bypassed Ningyuan and went south, blocked Yang Guozhu and Tang Tong's reinforcements in the Liugu River, and the two sides launched a war in the area of the Liugu River.

Yang Guozhu led his troops to try to break through the slave army several times, but because Zhang Ruolin dragged him back, he failed. On the contrary, he made the army disilated and was defeated by Dorgan. Zhang Ruolin saw that the situation was not good and actually led the bid camp to retreat. Tang Tong was not a person who dared to fight. He never dared to fight with the rebel army. Zhang Ruolin retreated. He also immediately led his troops to retreat. As a result, Yang Guozhu's back road was cut off by Duoduo's army, which immediately caused the collapse of Yang Guozhu's troops. Yang Guozhu led his troops to the death to break through, but in the end, he failed. Yang Guozhu was hit by several arrows and several bullets on the battlefield, and was killed in the chaotic army on the spot.

Tang Tong protected Zhang Ruolin and ran away from the mountain customs, but he was chased by Duoduo's troops, and the whole army was also defeated. The last available soldier of the Ming Dynasty who came out of the mountain customs to rescue Ningyuan was completely disintegrated.

The defeated soldiers did not have any combat effectiveness. Under the cover of the construction slave army, a large number of officers and soldiers were chased to the seaside. In the end, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers were driven into the sea. They were not spared, including Zhang Ruolin. They were drowned in the sea alive. On the sea of this section of the sea, the Ming officers and soldiers floated. It is a film, but what makes people sigh is that these Daming officers and soldiers surrendered very little and could not escape. In the end, most people chose to go to the sea and die. Although they were defeated, their behavior was still amazing.

After this battle, only Tang Tong led a very small number of soldiers and was able to escape and return to Shanhaiguan, but Daming has completely lost the power to rescue Ningyuan City so far, and can only sit and watch the fall of Ningyuan City.

After the news spread to the capital, Zhu Youjian was silent for a long time in the hall. He neither cried nor cursed, as if the old monk had entered the house. He did not say a word for almost half a day, until he suddenly coughed violently for a while, spit out a mouthful of blood, and immediately fainted on the dragon chair.

The news that Yang Guozhu was defeated and killed, and the reinforcements were almost completely destroyed. It also quickly spread to the left army of the Dazhong Army in the area of Xuanda. After Lu Xiangsheng learned the news of Yang Guozhu's death on the battlefield, he immediately cried loudly. The relationship between Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Guozhu was quite good. At that time, Lu Xiangsheng was the president of Xuanda. At the time of the governor, Yang Guozhu was his subordinate. When he entered the defense, Yang Guozhu always followed him. Lu Xiangsheng knew Yang Guozhu's loyalty. Originally, Yang Guozhu could completely choose to surrender to the Dazhong army in Xuanda. In this case, there was no problem for Yang Guozhu to save his life, but in the end, Yang Guozhu was still He refused Lu Xiangsheng's persuasion to surrender. Although he gave up Xuanda, he led his troops into the customs and led his troops to help Ningyuan by order. He could have gone without orders at all, but in the end, he resolutely led his troops out of the customs and finally died in the battlefield.

In fact, Yang Guozhu should be very clear about the danger of their trip. Whether in terms of strength, morale or even equipment, they have no advantage in dealing with the Jiannu army going south this time. Going out to the customs to rescue Ningyuan is largely an adventure. Once it fails In that case, there is no possibility of escaping back to Shanhaiguan at all, but Yang Guozhu finally chose to lead his troops on an expedition, embarked on the road to hell, and finally killed himself.

This point is not only that Lu Xiangsheng admires Yang Guozhu very much, but also the military generals of Yan Chongxi and other large and medium-sized troops who respect Yang Guozhu very much. Yan Zhongxi immediately ordered to build an ancestral hall for Yang Guozhu in Xuanfu Town, and to find a craftsman to worship the statue of Yang Guozhu for his spirit for many years. After that, the ancestral hall of Yang Guozhu was also renamed the Martyrs' Temple by Xiao Tianjian, and the descendants of Yang Guozhu were also properly taken care of by the Dazhong Dynasty.

At this time, the situation in Guanning is already very dangerous. Although Wu Xiang once again served as the general of Shanhaiguan, there were less than 20,000 officers and soldiers stationed along Shanhaiguan at this time. It has become impossible to rescue Ningyuan. Even guarding Yushan Customs has become a big problem.

At this time, Li Xin's General Staff of the Middle Route Army sent someone to send Xiao Tianjian's edict to the Left Army, which ordered the Left Route Army to immediately straighten out of the Juyong Pass and run along the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan. Once the slave army took down the south of Ningyuan City, Wu Xiang would be ordered to surrender if he did not resist. If Wu Xiang did not surrender to Dazhong. The army will occupy the front line of Shanhaiguan in advance by force, vowing to keep Shanhaiguan to the death, and not let the Jiannu army break through the customs and enter the land of the capital, so as to buy time and space for the other two large armies of the Dazhong army.

Once the Ming army tried to stop them, they defeated them on the spot, but the left army did not need to consider the matter of the capital for the time being. All their energy should be focused on the front line of Shanhaiguan. The capital of Daming is already like a ripe apple that can be picked at any time. Now Daming Jingshi has no strength to do anything more. Leave them to survive for a while, and it is the top priority to solve the matter of building slaves who knocked into the gate first.

After Yan Chongxi and others got this order, they no longer hesitated. At this time, the situation has reached an extremely dangerous level. The Dazhong army is actually competing for time and space with Jiannu. It depends on who will control the Shanhaiguan area first. As for taking the Daming Jingshi, it is now irrelevant.

Therefore, the left army quickly began to gather in Yanqing Prefecture in Xuanfu Town, and with Wang Chengping as the vanguard, they began to enter Badaling and march towards Juyong Pass. Lu Xiangsheng, the supervisor, also took the initiative to go to Juyong Pass with the vanguard army.

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