Chapter 17 Ning Yuan's Fall

In mid-April, the Middle Route Army, led by Diao Zheng, had attacked Baoding Mansion. Fu Zonglong led the only 10,000 officers and army under his command, trying to block the Middle Route Army in Baoding Mansion to continue the north. However, at this time, the officers and soldiers would have lost their fighting spirit and did not want to work for the Ming court at all, so the war together, the officers and soldiers They defected and surrendered one after another, which made Fu Zonglong's officers and soldiers fall into a complete collapse within a few days.

Although Fu Zonglong tried his best to save it, and even spent all his money to win over people's hearts and let the soldiers and generals be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, this loyalty is to die. Fu Zonglong wants to die generously, but it does not mean that everyone is willing to follow him to be buried in the Ming Dynasty, so his efforts have little effect. April 10 Fourth, Diao Zheng and Li Xin attacked the city. At the insistence of Fu Zonglong, Baoding Mansion only persisted for two days, and then announced the destruction of the city under the rebellion of the rebels.

Fu Zonglong led a very small number of loyal and brave generals and fought a decisive street battle with the Dazhong soldiers who invaded the city. On the night of the 15th, in an alley in the city, he was blocked by the Dazhong army and killed in the alley with a feto-shot gun.

Fu Zonglong also has a reputation as his loyal minister. After his death, he was given by Xiao Tianjian to his family to move his body back to his hometown Kunming, Yunnan for burial, and gave him the posthumous title Zhongzhi to show his respect.

With the fall of Baoding Mansion, there is no more unpreparable fortress in the south of Beijing. In addition, Zhou Yuji abandoned Juyong Pass, and Beijing has almost become a lonely city.

However, at the same time, the right army went up against the flow along the Grand Canal in Huai'an Prefecture, the farthest from the capital. Xiao Tianjian led the troops to attack the capital. At this time, he had just taken Liaocheng and was approaching Linqing. It would take some time for the troops to reach the capital.

However, at this time, something unexpected happened to the Ming court. After stepping into the Yongguan, the left army of the Dazhong Army did not directly send troops to the capital city. Instead, from the direction of Miyun, after successively surrendering a number of garrisons guarding Miyun, Huairou, Pinggu and other places, they bypassed the capital and went straight to Jizhou City. Next, and pointed to the area of Shanhaiguan and Xifengkou from afar.

This situation made Zhu Youjian a little confused. According to his judgment after he learned that Zhou Yujixian Juyong Pass was given to the Xingtian thief, he originally thought that the Xingtian thief would definitely sweep the Miyun and other places outside the Beijing Division first, and then he would reach the capital city, but he did not think that the thief army would sweep the periphery of the north of the Beijing Division. (On the whole, it should be persuasion to surrender), but it was not as he expected. When the soldiers went to the capital city, they went around the city and headed for Shanhaiguan.

At this time, Zhu Youjian received a letter from Zhou Yuji transferred by the Ministry of War. Zhou Yuji obviously asked someone to write, stating to Zhu Youjian the reason why he abandoned Juyong Pass, and told Zhu Youjian that he did not surrender to the criminal thief, but at this time, under the guarantee of the rebel Lu Xiangsheng, He led troops to "monitor" the left army of the Xingtian thief in the area of Shanhaiguan, and first set up defense there, preparing to resist the entry of the Jiannu army outside Shanhaiguan. For his decision, Zhou Yuji stated his guilt to Zhu Youjian, but please ask the court to believe that he was also for the Ming court. In the end, he would choose to die with the Jiannu army, that is, Even if he survives, he will return to the capital and help the court guard the capital until he dies loyally for Zhu Youjian!

After listening to Zhu Youjian, he smiled bitterly and threw Zhou Yuji's note off the dragon case. He looked up to the sky and smiled for a while, coughed violently, vomited a mouthful of blood, and fainted on the dragon chair again.

After the Middle Route Army successfully captured Baoding Prefecture, the only one that could prevent the Dazhong Army from continuing to attack the capital at this time was Zhuozhou, the last line of defense. At this time, the Ming court still sent a part of the Beijing camp to Zhuozhou for the final defense. If Zhuozhou is taken down again, then the whole capital will be stripped. The woman of light is generally exposed to the front of the Dazhong Army.

However, everyone actually knows such a deployment, but it's better than nothing. At this time, it can be said that the officers and soldiers of Daming have completely lost the ability to resist the Dazhong army. At this time, the military heart has been completely lax. Only the remaining officers and soldiers are just eating and waiting for death, and even After waiting for the arrival of the Dazhong Army, they surrendered to the Dazhong Army. These Ming armies, which used to maintain their operation, were only the supply of grain and salaries. Now the Ming Dynasty can no food and salaries to maintain their army, so it is impossible to maintain the loyalty of these armies at all based on the verbal loyalty.

Therefore, the Beijing camps around the capital seem to be very strong, which are regarded as the imperial guard by Daming. In fact, after so many years of Daming, the military affairs have long been abandoned, and their combat effectiveness has not been at the forefront among the armies of Daming. Not to mention that they are not as good as the Guanning Army, even many local armies, they are not as good as good as those. Many times they are just a digital existence, which is actually unbearable to use. Only a small number of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp still have a certain combat effectiveness. However, since the year of Chongzhen, in order to eliminate the local civilian army, the imperial court has repeatedly dispatched usable soldiers and horses from the Beijing camp and sent them to various places to suppress bandits with those governors. The rest of the Beijing camp has become empty, and it is even less effective.

Jingying aliens like Zhou Yuji, at this time, are absolutely rare people in Jingying. They can't say that Jingying is very strong.

However, when the Beijing camp of the capital was busy mobilizing the defense in Zhuozhou, after capturing Baoding Mansion, the Zhonglu Army also suspended and continued to advance in the direction of the Beijing Division. Instead, it turned eastward and suddenly attacked Zhaozhou, Shenzhou, Jizhou and other states in the east of Baoding Prefecture. It can be said that with lightning speed, they protected The government forces in Dingfu were flattened in one fell swoop.

In these states, although there are also some officers and soldiers stationed, these officers and soldiers are all local troops. The number is limited, not to mention the quality of the equipment is extremely poor. In a Zhili state like Zhaozhou, there are only about 500 defenders in the city. If the local government wants to rely on such a little officer and army, it will work with the large army of the middle and medium army. The confrontation is basically hitting the stone with the egg, so the attack of the middle army to the east of the Dazhong Army can be said to be an armed parade on the whole, and there was no decent resistance at all. In just a few days, Diao Zheng and Li Xin led their troops to sweep the Zhuzhou and counties under the jurisdiction of Baoding Prefecture, and the soldiers pointed straight to Hejian Prefecture.

Fang Wenyao, the governor of Hejian Prefecture, and Li Jiantai, the guard general, originally gathered 20,000 officers and more than 20,000 soldiers around Hejian Prefecture to help the people. Hejian Prefecture and Cangzhou to stop the attack of the right army of the Dazhong Army on the capital, but unexpectedly, he was suddenly attacked by the middle army of the Dazhong Army, so the two of them He hurriedly gathered troops to fight and started a big battle between Hejianfu and the Middle Route Army.

On the surface, in the battle of Hejianfu, the troops of the officers and soldiers have occupied a great advantage. This is also one of the largest officers and soldiers gathered by the imperial court in the Jingfu area since the Northern Expedition. However, this so-called advantage is only a paper advantage, Hejian Between the 11th and 12th years of Fu Chongzhen, he was robbed by the Jiannu army. These officers and soldiers of Hejianfu were basically recruited after 13 years. The poor quality of equipment has almost caught up with the early civilian army. Whether in equipment or training, it is very poor. Although Li Jiantai, the general of Hejianfu, There are so many people and horses under control, but they can't compete with the Dazhong army armed to the teeth at all.

On April 19, the two sides had contact in the area of the Xiaobai River in the west of Hejianfu. Diao Zheng led his troops was just an impact. More than 10,000 officers and soldiers in the area of the Xiaobai River immediately collapsed. Then under the cover of the Dazhong army, they dispersed. On the 20th, Diao Zheng led his troops to attack the city of Hejianfu.

Li Jiantai had to defend according to the city and try to make the last stubborn resistance. Unfortunately, their stubborn resistance only lasted for only two days. The right army of the Dazhong Army directly commanded by Xiao Tianjian, under the leadership of Luo Li, also rushed to the city of Hejianfu, and joined forces with the middle army led by Diao Zheng and Li Xin. In one place, the last blow to the Hejian Mansion was launched.

Li Jiantai's troops guarded the south gate of Hejianfu. On the morning of the 21st, he was shot to death. Then the defenders of Hejianfu collapsed on their own. A large number of defenders fled the city or surrendered to the Dazhong army without a leader.

Fang Wenyao, the governor of Hejian, was immediately caught by the rebels and sent to the Dazhong Army. Fang Wenyao broke free from control and tried to seize the knife and kill Li Xin, who interrogated him. As a result, he was killed by the gendarmerie beside Li Xin on the spot. Since then, Hejian Mansion has been completely controlled by the Dazhong Army.

When Xiao Tianjian attacked Linqing, he had already learned the dynamics of the middle army and the left army. He knew that the right army he led must speed up the process. Otherwise, the three armies were likely to lose mutual cooperation. In addition, there was also news from Guanwai at this time that Ning Yuancheng was under the siege of the Jiannu army. In the end, it was conquered by the Jiannu army, and the nearly 20,000 officers stationed in Ningyuan were completely destroyed. Cao, the general officer, died in the battle. Before the city was broken, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Ji Liao, was escorted out from the east gate of Ningyuan City by Zu Dashou, the governor of Liaodong, and fled to the seaside. Zu Dashou fought hard to catch up with the Jiannu army by the seaside to cover Hong Chengchou. A small boat fled to the sea, but Zu Dashou was finally captured. At this point, the whole defense system outside the customs also announced the collapse. In Xiao Tianjian's original plan, the idea of a left army to help Ningyuan first and keep Ningyuan's defense line was also empty.

As for Ningyuan being broken, after the governor of Ji Liao Hong Chengchou fled to the sea, he completely lost his news. No one knows the whereabouts of Hong Chengchou. It is possible that he fled to Dengzhou and entered Shandong and no longer asked about the world. It may also be that his ship encountered a storm at sea and was buried at the bottom of the sea. In short, ten Many years later, there are many versions of legends about the whereabouts of Hong Chengchou. In addition to the first two sayings, some people say that Hong Chengchou fled to North Korea by boat and was secretly hidden by a North Korean official. Since then, he has landed in North Korea. There are also rumors that Hong Chengchou simply crossed the sea and went to Japan. There are all kinds of statements, but there is no way to verify it. On the contrary, there is a relatively credible saying in later generations that Hong Chengchou actually fled back to the domestic Hejian Mansion to go ashore. However, after landing, he learned that the Hejian Mansion and Cangzhou had fallen and were controlled by the Dazhong Army, so Hong Chengchou hid his name and it was difficult to sneak in. Among the people, he gradually fled to the south and settled in a small mountain village in Fujian. A hundred years later, some people in Fujian took out his family tree and claimed to be the descendant of Hong Chengchou. Before his death, Hong Chengchou told his descendants that he could only do business but remember never to be an official, which is more credible, but in addition to this Apart from the genealogy, there is no other supporting evidence to prove that Hong Chengchou did survive.

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