"Do your best and obey destiny."
Listening to Wang Chengen's words, Cheng Shijie felt bitter in his heart. In fact, Cheng Shijie also knew that Emperor Zhen was inherently suspicious. He tried his best to maintain the relationship with Emperor Chongzhen, but this day was still coming.
Wang Chengen said: "Gong Hai, on behalf of His Majesty, we are now asking you a question. Please answer truthfully!"
"Father-in-law, please speak!"
Wang Chengen stared into Cheng Shijie's eyes and asked: "How effective is the Mongolian army? If they meet in the wilderness, can Ning Haijun defeat them?"
Cheng Shijie replied seriously: "The Mongolian Tatars today are no better than before. They are extremely poor. A considerable number of cavalry still use bones as arrowheads. Most of the sabers they use are made of Burmese iron. Such a saber It would cost at least a dozen taels of silver on the grassland, but it would be scrapped after a few cuts, which is completely incomparable to the sabers of our army..."
Although he clearly knew that Wang Chengen did not know, Cheng Shijie still introduced what he had learned in detail. It was also through his introduction that Wang Chengen now knew that this old rival was extremely weak.
At present, the Mobei Mongolian tribes are nothing more than a pile of loose sand. Due to the cold climate, a large number of cattle and sheep die of cold and starvation every year. The number of livestock in each tribe has been reduced again and again. Life is even more difficult than in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. and.
The Little Glacier climate brought huge disasters to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty's mortal enemies, the Mongols, also had a hard time. The suffering they endured would only be more severe than that of the people of the Ming Dynasty. Who made their productivity so backward?
Now, Cheng Shijie finally understood the reason why Emperor Chongzhen was dissatisfied with him, that is, the Mongolian Tuxie Tu tribe had invaded Jingan Fort and entered Miyun County. This was the second time that Mongolia entered Shuntian Prefecture.
The last time Mongolia invaded the capital, it was because of the Tumu Fort incident, and under the leadership of Yu Shaobao, they won the battle to defend the capital.
Now Emperor Chongzhen was nervous. In the second year of Chongzhen, the slaves broke through the customs and troops came to the capital. Yuan Chonghuan and Governor Yuan, who were deeply trusted by Chongzhen, even killed a town commander Mao Wenlong without permission. Emperor Chongzhen also gave his endorsement. However, , because Emperor Chongzhen killed Yuan Chonghuan angrily because Jiannu attacked the capital.
Let Wang Chengen listen to Cheng Shijie's explanation. In fact, he wanted Cheng Shijie to quickly deal with the Mongolian army that rushed into Miyun. You must know that Miyun County is more than 80 kilometers from the capital, which is more than 100 miles. If Cheng Shijie had not led Ning Haijun to Baihe, the Mongolian army might have been destroyed. The army has once again besieged the capital.
This made Emperor Chongzhen very embarrassed. Of course, because those big guys controlled the public opinion, the public in the capital was even more agitated. Almost everyone pointed the finger at Cheng Shijie. Almost everyone believed that if warriors like Cheng Shijie had not started the war recklessly, It is impossible to provoke a crazy counterattack from the Mongols and Jiannu.
In fact, this public opinion was very popular, and Emperor Chongzhen was slightly dissatisfied. Fortunately, Cheng Shijie was not as timid as Yuan Chonghuan, but instead requested to mobilize 50,000 elite infantry and cavalry troops from the Liaodong Ning Navy to go north. This gave Emperor Chongzhen some peace of mind. After all, At the beginning, Yuan Chonghuan could not mobilize Guan Ningjun.
If more than 50,000 elite troops from the Ning Navy move north, Liaodong will definitely face greater risks. In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie abandoned the foundation of Liaodong and devoted himself to serving the country.
However, the Mongolians could still rob them if they had no food or clothes to wear, but the people of the Ming Dynasty had nowhere to rob. This was the difference.
Finally, Cheng Shijie concluded: "The current Mongolian cavalry fights against our Ning navy cavalry. In the battle of Zhangbei, our Ning navy cavalry only dispatched more than 6,300 people, while the Mongolian Tuxietu tribe sent out 56,000 people. In the first battle, They wiped out all these Mongols, beheaded 43,000, and captured 12,000. They had no power to fight back, and it is not difficult to see how terrifying the gap was."
"Hey, Duke Hai, you won such a big victory, why didn't you report your victory to the capital?"
Cheng Shijie casually placed Qiao Zhaolin's confession in front of Wang Chengen: "Eunuch Wang, see for yourself, how can I report it?"
Wang Chengen looked at Qiao Zhaolin's confession and his face became solemn: "This is impossible. Mr. Wang Ge only has one son, but four or six years ago, how could he go to Jingan Fort to meet Qiao Zhaolin?"
"This is their cleverness. They deliberately left such a loophole, set up a trap, and waited here specifically!"
Cheng Shijie sneered: "In the second year of Chongzhen, the son of a minister with no official position died among the soldiers. Who would notice? How could Qiao Zhaolin, a fourth-rank guard, know about the family background of Dongge University Scholar at that time?"
Wang Chengen said: "Is it because the Duke of Guo did not report this situation?"
"if not?"
Cheng Shijie also knew that the cabinet bosses were wooing military generals to oppose him, but it was a pity that he could not capture the evidence. Jinyiwei's intelligence clearly stated that Wu Zongda went to Ruzhou, Henan, and met with Lu Xiangsheng and Zuo Liangyu, but the problem was that he could not Go to Lu Xiangsheng and Zuo Liangyu to testify.
In fact, neither Lu Xiangsheng nor Zuo Liangyu accepted Wu Zongda's solicitation, but they would not stand against Wu Zongda on their own side.
After a long time, Wang Chengen said: "The Holy Lord asked the Duke, when will the enemy in Miyun be annihilated?"
Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "Currently, I have less than 5,000 troops in Baihe Castle. It is difficult to stop ten times the enemy, unless my reinforcements can arrive!"
The problem suddenly returned to its original point.
"Xuanfu Army..."
"I don't dare to use it!"
Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "I don't know how many Qiao Zhaolin there are in Xuanfu!"
Wang Chengen returned to the capital.
At this time, the news that Wuwei was captured, sixteen cities in the Gansu Hexi Corridor were lost, and only Lanzhou was still holding on was reported to the capital. Wen Tiren remained silent and could only hold his nose and agreed to Ning Haijun's request to go north.
Fortunately, Cheng Shijie ignored the reaction of the Ministry of War in the capital. He only reported to the Ministry of War instead of waiting for the order from the Ministry of War before sending the troops out. In fact, the past few days were not delayed because of Wen Tiren's obstruction. Cheng Shijie was First, issue troop deployment orders to the Ning Navy General Staff Department, and then ask for instructions from the Ministry of War.
Just as the order from the Ministry of War had just left the capital, Ning Haijun's Annan Army Corps had arrived in Funing. The Funing Guard Commander Chen Kai took the Funing Guard's commanding comrades, command officials, town envoys and other officials to look at Ning Haijun. huge army.
This is a very strange army. It can be seen as a very large convoy. They are all ice boats that crossed the sea from Liaodong. They are actually four-wheeled carriages. Now covered with ice and snow, they can move on sleds. If the snow melts in the future, the wheels can be attached and the sleds can be disassembled to become carriages.
An army of 50,000 troops was actually equipped with more than 8,000 ice boats. In the whole world, only Cheng Shijie had this strength. He had more than 8,000 ice boats and more than 16,000 draft horses. Of course, there are nearly three thousand cavalry. These cavalry are not surprising, because they are reconnaissance cavalry, assigned to the capital division, and each capital division does not have many cavalry.
There are more than 8,000 carts, half of which are loaded with equipment, and the other half are loaded with grain and grass. One cart after another, as far as the eye can see, the scene is quite shocking.
What is even more shocking is that this is a silent advancing army, and the equipment is extremely weird. The most common weapons such as shields, spears, crossbows, and horizontal knives equipped by the ordinary Ming army are not even visible. Each of their cavalrymen has a musket, which is about four feet long. This is the first bolt-action rifle in the world so far.
Under normal circumstances, if Liaodong's Ning Haijun came across the sea, they would definitely land in Tianjin first and then go to the capital. However, because the Bohai Sea was frozen, Ning Haijun's army of more than 50,000 people set out directly from Jinzhou along the Bohai Sea. The straight line directly reaches Fuwei, which is now the Gangcheng District of Qinhuangdao.
Upon arriving at Funing Guard, the commander of Funing Guard Chen Kai came forward and said, "Do you have any transfer orders from the Ministry of War?"
"No!"
"Fire ticket?"
"nor!"
"Then I'm very sorry. It's my duty as a brother, so I can't let him go!"
Shen Ming stepped forward when he saw the enemy: "This general has the transfer order from Cheng Shuai, the Prime Minister of the Nine Borders!"
"Cheng Shuai's transfer order?"
Chen Kai was now also nominally under the jurisdiction of Cheng Shijie, the Nine-Border Prime Minister. Ning Haijun successfully passed through the jurisdiction of Funing Wei, crossed the Great Wall all the way, and headed west along the Great Wall defense line.
After receiving the news that Shen Mingyu had arrived at the Great Wall defense line, Cheng Shijie looked at Yuan Shiliang and said: "Starting tomorrow, there is no need to keep it!"
With the firepower of Ning Navy, it actually had an absolute advantage against the Mongolian army. Ning Haijun started out as infantry and won many battles with infantry, thus creating a terrifying infantry regiment. The strict discipline, tenacity of will, and ferocious firepower of those infantry are unmatched by any cavalry. The Mongolian light cavalry, which still relies on sabers and bows to fight as they have for two thousand years, encountered bolt-action rifles and artillery. and the Ning Haijun infantry supported by rocket launchers, could only be a one-sided massacre.
Jingan Fort, Gun Bu actually hated Kyaktu, a guy who failed to achieve anything but failed, because he clearly occupied Jingan Fort. This is a castle covering an area of about 600 to 700 acres, with complete barracks and fortifications. But he was caught on fire by Jiaktu.
Now the Mongolian army can only pitch tents on the ruins of the abandoned walls, but fortunately the garrison is still intact, because the buildings here are very strong.
Gunbu looked at the secret message sent by the big boss in the DPRK, which clearly told them that the Ning Navy's 50,000 elite troops had gone north, and they did not have much time.
Gunbu looked at his generals and said: "We want the whole army to press forward. The dogs are all cowards. They dare not confront us head-on. They only dare to hide behind the ice wall and use firearms. How can the descendants of Genghis Khan still survive?" Lose to such a group of sheep? Rush in and kill them all like chickens, letting them know what the consequences are of fighting us!"
The Mongolian generals were as excited as chicken blood and roared like wild beasts. In fact, some generals had long been dissatisfied with this tentative attack. In their view, they could break through the Baihe defense line of Ning Haijun's defense line if they tightened their grip. , it’s just that Gunbu didn’t want to fight.
The Mongolian army, which had already gone crazy, launched another attack, and it was a decisive force at the first attack. It invested 20,000 troops. You must know that the entire Tushetu Khan tribe only had 80,000 troops.
Of course, these eight thousand troops are actually not the full strength of the ten thousand troops. They are about 16,000 or seven thousand troops. The current Mongolian army is no longer the group that used iron hoofs to crush Europeans three hundred years ago. The yellow devils of the subcontinent are gone, and their population has been shrinking after being driven back to the Mongolian plateau.
The size and combat effectiveness of the army were inevitably affected. Every 10,000-man army was short of at least one vacancy, and the strength of two 10,000-man armies was only equivalent to one 10,000-man army during the Wokuotai era. However, more than 16,000 to 7,000 people launched a charge at the same time, and the momentum was still terrifying. It was like a huge wave crashing over me!
Cheng Shijie saw that the Mongolian army no longer retained its strength. It was obvious that they already knew the news about Ning Haijun's reinforcements. If they waited for Ning Haijun's reinforcements to arrive, they would have no chance at all.
Cheng Shijie smiled evilly: "Are you finally getting anxious? Well done, let me shoot you!"
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The artillerymen of the Ning Navy, who had long been exhausted, took the lead in firing twelve five-inch guns. The caliber of the five-inch guns was 154.5 mm. Even in later generations, it is still a large-caliber heavy artillery.
So far, the warships of the Ning Navy cannot withstand the huge recoil of the five-inch naval gun. This kind of gun can only be used by the army. But the problem is that the five-inch gun is too heavy and it is difficult to move the weight. This time the Ning Navy goes north. At that time, it was covered with ice and snow, which made transportation easier.
The powerful recoil of the twelve five-inch cannons shook the ground slightly. A large cloud of air wrapped in gunpowder smoke rose from the muzzle. Twelve cannon shells weighing seventy or eighty kilograms roared into the sky. Then a fierce strike struck at the place with the most people.
The firing range was determined at the end, and the Mongolian army could not come up with any means to threaten the artillery from the beginning to the end, so the artillery did not even need to move its position. After firing a round, it immediately reloaded and then fired again.
As soon as they opened fire, the Mongolian army suffered eighteen lifetimes of bad luck. The shells exploded above them, like a series of thunders exploding on the ground. Flesh and blood flew everywhere within fifty meters, and the pouring shrapnel and steel balls would The turbulent wave swept them down in circles, and those who were not hit by the shrapnel were shocked to the point of bleeding from the nose. Some even had their eardrums cracked, and large streams of blood spurted out from their ear holes.
To be fair, this stupid, bulky five-inch cannon is not an ideal weapon. It is too heavy, difficult to operate, and can be fired with one shot. But now, it is the most terrifying weapon. The gunner does not need to worry about it. If you accidentally injure one of your own, as long as the cannonball can fly out of the barrel and land outside the ice wall, everything will be fine.
The outside of the ice wall was full of enemies, not one of them was one of our own. A single artillery bombardment would kill at least dozens of them, so these artillerymen pretended to fight fiercely and had a great time.
The Mongolian army instinctively wanted to retreat, but the machetes and sharp arrows of the supervising team immediately came over. There are giant cannons in front, and scimitars and sharp arrows behind. Life is caught in a thin gap, and you can't advance or retreat.
Under the heavy pressure, the Mongolian army went crazy, their eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, and they rushed towards the ice wall screaming for their lives. They no longer had any plans or tactics, as if they were only focused on crashing to death under the ice wall. This kind of madness is really frightening.
However, Ning Haijun's riflemen were as calm as ever, loading and firing in an orderly manner. Thin tongues of flame continued to burst out from the ice wall, the bullets roared, and the people in front fell down one after another.
However, after all, the Ning Haijun riflemen only had about 3,000 people. Three thousand bolt-action rifles could not stop the attack of more than 10,000 people who risked their lives. The Mongolian army quickly broke through the firepower network, fought under the ice wall, and took Using an ax or hammer, frantically hacking at the ice wall...
Immediately, the rocket launcher located behind fired,
The rocket launchers flew over like meteors and fire, blasting out rolling curtains of fire. Even a thousand front-loaded smoothbore cannons couldn't produce such an effect! The Mongolian soldiers approaching the ice wall were blown down in pieces, and they were unable to fight back. They didn't even have the chance to shoot an arrow or swing a knife at the person who wanted to kill them!
Ning Haijun spent astronomical amounts of manpower and financial resources to develop these firearms, but they have never been used. Now the Mongolian army has unfortunately tasted the taste of non-contact combat of "firepower first, complete suppression". The shells fired by several artillerymen can Killing dozens or hundreds of them in an instant, a grenade thrown by a soldier can easily blow up more than a dozen of them. As for the muskets... to be honest, there are not many people who have two people shot through them together.
This was a desperate battle. The Mongolian army had no chance to display their extraordinary martial arts from beginning to end, and could only be beaten passively. But after all, they were the conquerors of the world. The ferocity of the Ming army also awakened the long-sleeping militants in their blood. Their eyes were bloody, they shouted wildly, and they charged again after being repelled once, completely regardless of There were casualties.
The dead bodies quickly accumulated in a thick layer under the city.
Now Gunbu is afraid, to his core. In this battle, Tu Xie Tubu sent out all the elites, and it can be said that all the treasures were staked on breaking the border and looting. If he could not defeat Miyun and grab enough trophies, his reputation as the Khan King would be discredited; if If there are too many young men and women in Tuxie Tube, the surrounding tribes will pounce on them like wolves, bite them fiercely, and take away the fat Tumo River from their hands. At that time, Tuxie Tube will Ruined!
Gunbu stood on the mound, watching with a stern expression as his soldiers rushed towards the Baihe defense line in waves, and then were ruthlessly torn apart and devoured by the Baihe defense line, which looked like the incarnation of a giant beast.
Cannonballs kept flying over and exploding above them or at their feet, and the terrifying roar dwarfed all the sounds on the prairie. It was the roar of the God of Death. After every loud noise, dozens or hundreds of warriors fell in a pool of blood, with no body intact. The terrible explosions mixed with the screams and roars of thousands of troops, which was extremely terrifying.
Gunbu was so nervous that he forgot to count the rosary beads. He looked at all this with a pale face and murmured: "The Ming army is very tenacious... They can't attack no matter how hard they attack!"
Captain Zhebu looked like he was about to cry: "My tribal warriors suffered heavy casualties!"
Danba glared at him: "Did the warriors of my tribe die less than you?"
Zhebu was a little angry and wanted to talk back, but he was attracted by the extremely tragic battle and finally did not fight back.
These Mongolian nobles are all worried. The Ming Dynasty's new army really had some skills. A few thousand people and a few rural militiamen defended the Baihe defense line like an iron fortress. In front of them, what was the difference between Mongolian warriors and fragile eggs?
Gunbu felt his heart was filled with panic, and he turned his eyes away from the battlefield and looked towards the horizon.
On the horizon, the sunset is like blood, dim, cold, without a trace of warmth. Is the fate of Mongolia just like this bleak sunset, so gloomy that no one can see a glimmer of hope?
…
Lanzhou City is still fighting endlessly.
Different from the three tribes of Mongolia in Mobei, the Junggar tribe belongs to Mobei Mongolia. The Junggar tribe is the Oara tribe that was in conflict with the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Oara tribe moved westward and split under the attack of the rising Mongolian Tatar tribe. It was also divided in history. It is called the Oirat tribe, and is divided into four tribes: Junggar tribe, Heshuote tribe, Torgut tribe and Durbot tribe. It is also called the Mosi Oirat tribe. The area under its jurisdiction extends to the upper reaches of the Irtysh, Ob, and Yenisey rivers in the north, to the Tianshan Mountains in the south, to the dividing line between the Altai Mountains and the Mongolian Hangai Mountains in the east, and to the west the Balkhash Lake area.
Later, at the end of Wanli, the Jungar tribe became stronger and oppressed the Torgut tribe to the west. As a result, it, together with part of the Durbot tribe and the Heshuote tribe, were forced to move to the lower Volga River area. They pressed the Durbot tribe to the east and seized their territory. The Junggar tribe defeated the Kazakhs, crossed the Tianshan Mountains and conquered the Chagatai Khan of the Hui tribe and the Baishan and Black Mountain factions of Islam. They flew troops to Lhasa and captured Tibet, and finally established the The powerful Junggar Khanate arose.
Its territory borders the Irtysh River, the Ob River, and the upper reaches of the Yenisey River in the north, the Ali region in Tibet in the south, Lake Balkhash in the west, and the Sayan Mountains in Mongolia and the Selenge River Basin in the east. At its peak, it reached four More than one million square kilometers. In 1634, the leader of the Junggar tribe, Hara Hula, passed away. His son Batur became the leader and expanded the territory externally.
Batur's goal is the Ming Dynasty, which is the mission that their ancestors did not complete. Now it is very smooth. They have taken the Hexi Corridor, although they hit a wall under Lanzhou City.
But he is not worried. There are now more than 3,000 eagle shooters from the Jungar tribe. The eagle shooters are actually heavy bow archers. There were many such heavy archers in the Genghis Khan era. Mongolian heavy bows can shoot three times with heavy arrows. Targets more than 100 meters away, even those with European heavy armor, can be shot through at a distance of 90 meters using heavy arrows.
In fact, if it is the Mongolian cavalry at its peak, its combat effectiveness is indeed three points better than that of the current Jiannu. It is a pity that Mongolia is no longer the original Mongolia.
However, Jungar now has stronger strength. More than 3,000 heavy archers fired arrows desperately, trying to suppress the firepower of the Ming army. Countless sharp arrows shot on the city wall. The Ming army defenders on the wall were not shot. , just holding the shield and not daring to raise his head.
The wave of people suddenly parted, and a group of strong men rushed up carrying a thick and long giant tree with a cone-shaped iron horn on the top, and slammed it against the city gate. The huge tree was extremely heavy. Many strong men worked together, and the force of the collision was so fierce. Coupled with the collision angle, even the city gate covered with several layers of copper leaves could not withstand a few collisions. Just one collision. The soldiers on the city wall felt the wall vibrate.
In ancient sieges, unless there was an internal response, the attacking side rarely used the city gate as the main direction of attack, because the defending side regarded the city gate as the key defense object, where the firepower was the most intensive, and often used stone bars and sandbags. The entire city gate corridor is blocked, and even if the city gate is knocked down, there is no way to pass.
What's more, the border town of Lanzhou has four barbicans, and each gate is equipped with a thousand-jin gate. Just like the fourth general Xiong Kuohai in "The Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" held the thousand-jin gate until all the rebels rushed out of the city. Of course, this is a romance. Even if Xiong Kuohai really has the power of a thousand catties, he cannot lift the thousand catties gate, because the thousand catties gate is not a thousand catties. In addition to the gravity of the thousand catties gate, there is also the power of the winch. It is more than ten thousand catties. How can it be lifted?
Once the Qianjin Gate is suddenly lowered at the right time, the enemy troops attacking the city will immediately become turtles in the urn, and they will only be tortured and killed. If the attacking party uses the city gate as a breakthrough point to attack desperately, either there is nothing they can do about the city wall, or they have already hit a flaw.
Seeing the Jungar people hitting the city gate with wooden sticks, Zhang Jiwu hurriedly ordered: "Come here, block the city gate with sandbags!"
Qi Yan from Ning Haijun said: "General Zhang, no need, we still have gifts for these Tatars!"
"A gift? What gift?"
Of the more than a thousand Ning navy cavalry, there are now less than 800 left. Each of them is equipped with four grenades, but they have not been used. Qi Yan hopes to be effective at the critical moment.
In this way, the Mongolian army pushed the wood and hit the city gate. After half an hour of collision, the city gate was knocked open. As the city gate was opened, the shouting Jungar Mongolian army rushed towards the city.
Bao Tuer shouted excitedly: "The city gate is broken, and Ben Khan can celebrate in the city today!"
However, when they rushed into the city, they found that there was an urn inside.
But the problem is that the Mongolian cavalry in front discovered that it was Wengcheng and hurriedly wanted to retreat to the back, but the Mongolian cavalry behind could not see the front at all, and they were in chaos.
Seeing three to four thousand cavalrymen and more than eight hundred Ning Haijun cavalry rushing into Wengcheng, they quickly took out grenades and tied them together in groups of three to fire.
Then he hurriedly threw it down, targeting crowded places. Dozens of bundles of grenades fell from the sky with hissing smoke and banged on the shields of the Jungar soldiers. The Jungar Mongolian soldiers looked at these iron heads with wooden handles that kept smoking out, showing confusion.
They had never seen this kind of weapon. Normally, if the Ming army wanted to hit someone, they should have thrown ash bottles and horn stones. Why did they throw these things?
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
A series of violent explosions and loud noises slammed into everyone's eardrums. A large ball of fire shot up. The ground shook like crazy amidst the terrifying roar. Hot shrapnel and steel balls centered on the explosion point. The radiating particles spattered in all directions, easily piercing the leather armor, cutting open the body, and releasing large streams of blood.
Large chunks of minced meat and broken limbs were thrown high into the air by the explosion shock wave, causing waves of blood to rain among the Jungar Mongolian army!
The Jungar Mongolian soldiers wanted to escape. When they turned around, they found that the city gate behind them and the Thousand Jin Gate had fallen. They were in the closed Wengcheng and could not escape. They could only be passively bombed.
It's just that the Ning Navy cavalry carried limited grenades. The other Lanzhou defenders and Qingzhuang took rocks, bricks and other things to smash down.
The battle ended quickly. These three to four thousand Mongolians not only sent more than three thousand horses to the Lanzhou defenders so that the Lanzhou defenders could eat horse meat, but more importantly, they could also replenish a certain amount of bows and arrows. Although most of the bows and arrows were blown up, something is better than nothing.
Although the situation in Lanzhou is corrupt, there is no problem for the time being.
However, what Cheng Shijie didn't want to see was finally discovered. The border troops controlled by civilians in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and other provinces responded to their call with actions. Facing the rolling Mongolian cavalry, they all gave way to their defense lines. , and even simply aimed the butcher knife at the Ming army that insisted on the nine-border defense line.
The defense lines that the border troops of the three sides had worked hard for several years were torn into huge gaps. The barbaric torrent that had been suppressed outside the Great Wall surged in. Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Ningxia were all covered with flames and blood flowed into rivers.
The trilateral armies that tried to repel the invading enemy forces in the field were plotted by friendly forces and suffered heavy losses. They could only retreat to the strong fortress and watched in despair as the Mongols bypassed their defense lines and poured in crazily from the gaps. …
Zhao Wencai, who originally wanted to support Lanzhou, had no choice but to change his plan and had to disperse some parts to the three-sided defense line. The strict defense line of the three-sided army was full of gaps and loopholes. Ning Haijun, who was trying to fill the loopholes, was not Being besieged by the enemy is like being plotted by the border army. Ning Haijun, who was once as sharp as a knife, faced such a desperate situation
Zhao Wencai could only sigh in despair: "You are determined to kill the enemy, but you are unable to save yourself. Cheng Shuai, what should the general do?"
Qiao Siniang stood silently next to Zhao Wencai and said: "How about the general asks the commander-in-chief for instructions!"
"No, I must bear the responsibility that I should bear!"
Zhao Wencai knew very well that if he had thoughts of self-protection and did not step forward at the critical moment, he would never be able to get ahead in the Ning Haijun system in his life.
The leading troops of the Mongols, with the cooperation of many border troops, swept through dozens of border towns in Shanxi and Shaanxi like a whirlwind. Taiyuan has become an isolated city.
Zhao Wencai punched the map: "Let's go to Taiyuan!"
"But, Taiyuan... Taiyuan has not fallen yet, but the question is, who knows what the defenders of Taiyuan are thinking?"
Qiao Siniang said: "If we arrive in Taiyuan, Taiyuan will also fall..."
"That's life!"
Zhao Wencai sighed helplessly: "We can only do our best and obey fate!"
Hong Chengchou, who was cooperating with Lu Xiangsheng to encircle and annihilate Li Zicheng's troops, received news that the three sides of the Mongolian army had torn apart the three border defense lines. He cursed in his study for half an hour. He wrote a letter to Lu Xiangsheng and decided to lead his troops back to aid the three sides. .
Without the cooperation of more than 40,000 elite troops from the three sides, Lu Xiangsheng could only fall short at the critical moment of encircling and annihilating Li Zicheng's troops.
Lu Xiangsheng silently ordered: "Tianxiong Army, break away from contact with the enemy and go north immediately!"
Although many people in the Ming Dynasty betrayed their country, there are still people who love this country. The Tianxiong Army is marching northward against the current, and the Trilateral Army is marching northward against the current. More importantly, the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi are also spontaneously forming self-defense forces to save themselves. (End of chapter)
