It was just the arrival of Wala that changed everything. According to past practice, Wala paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty every year. The Ming Dynasty would price the horses and give them an equal amount of property. Of course, they would also give some additional rewards. Because of Wang Zhen, the prices are often ridiculously high. Walata liked the rewards from the Ming Dynasty. This time, he sent 3,000 horses, pretending to be 5,000 horses, and sent 2,000 people, pretending to be 3,000 people. Of course, the gift to Wang Zhen is still the same as before. I don’t know whether Wang Zhen was hot-headed or suddenly realized. While accepting bribes from Wala, he asked people to strictly count the number of horses and personnel sent by Wala, and at the same time lowered the horse prices and rewards. This undoubtedly broke Wala’s false claim. The dream of reward.
Ye Xian was so angry that he sent someone to question Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen was furious. I have taken advantage of you. What can you do? Not only did he not give the Wala envoy good face, he even ordered the closure of the negotiation room for the transaction between the two parties.
War has always been about trade. No matter how much land is occupied, food comes first. So, the roaring warriors, led by the furious Ye Xian, divided their troops into multiple groups and began to attack the Ming Dynasty's border defenses.
Many officials were gloating over Ye Xian's invasion. Wang Zhen had been in power for many years and was already the "fake emperor" of the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of some people, the so-called national affairs were not as important as watching a person slowly fall. . The Ming army's many years of Shen Ke led to continuous defeats. But the defeat of Bianting turned a major event into a trivial matter. Although urgent documents at the border were first reported to the court, there was no news after that. The court was quiet, even eerily quiet. It looked like the obedient ministers were looking at each other intentionally or unintentionally. They knew exactly what was going on in the side court! The emperor and Wang Zhen noticed it, but had no way of knowing the result. The hot-headed Wang Zhen encouraged the emperor to start a war. On the one hand, he first sent his consort to lead the army and sent eunuchs to serve as supervisors to investigate in person. On the one hand, he felt that everyone was unreliable, so he decided to lead the expedition himself. Wang Zhen was a Confucian scholar at best, and the emperor was a young man. They were two naive people who thought that with just one order, they could show off their power beyond the Great Wall and achieve unparalleled feats, but they didn't know how many people left and never returned.
On August 17, the autumn rain continued, and the emperor drove from the capital to Xuanfu. Previously, the civil servants were still worried about the stability of the Ming Dynasty. How could it be child's play for the emperor to go on a personal expedition? The civil servants kept asking the emperor not to go on an expedition, and even knelt in the rain and begged the emperor to stay, but Wang Zhen refused sternly. He increasingly felt that the civil servants were fishy, and thought that he would come back to deal with these civil servants after Oara was pacified.
After the army arrived at Xuanfu, they did not stay too long and continued their march the next day. They did not encounter a single Mongolian along the way. The emperor and Wang Zhen were very happy and even thought that the news of their own expedition made Wala frightened. The 19th was uneventful, but there was no news at all about the prince-in-law who had gone on an expedition earlier. The emperor thought that the prince-in-law had gone deep into the important territory. Early in the morning on the 20th, when the chariot was about to set off, the eunuch who had been sent to supervise the army ran to the imperial camp and informed him. The emperor and Wang Zhen were shocked by Wala's ferocity and the previous disastrous defeat of the Ming army. He lay down in the grass to save his life. At this time, the Xuanfu sent someone to report that Wala's army was following the large army and was preparing to sneak attack the Ming army. . The emperor decided to stop and accept the challenge. He sent the obedient Marquis Wu Kezhong to lead his troops to meet the enemy from behind. As a result, Wu Kezhong fought hard and the entire army was wiped out. In the evening, news of the defeat came. The emperor and Wang Zhen were shocked and sent Duke Zhu Yong and Yongshun Bo Xue Shou to lead 40,000 troops. Zhu Yong and Xue Shou came to Yao'er Ridge and took the risk. , met the prisoners in ambush, and fell into a tight siege, and the entire army was wiped out.
It happened very suddenly and very strangely. An emperor was marching on his own land, which was also an important military town. To the north was the Great Wall Fortress, and behind him was the important town of Xuanda. There had been no outpost battles before, and there was no smoke warning. Only one day away from the important town of Xuanfu, the emperor The army that Yujia personally marched was attacked by the northern cavalry! Xuanda did not take any action other than sending someone to tell the emperor: Some troops are attacking your rear army!
And this is not a small-scale harassment, this is a large-scale attack by the enemy! Moreover, the emperor did not send an incompetent person. Zhu Yong was the son of a general, and his father was the famous Zhu Neng. He had rich experience in fighting against nomadic cavalry, and he must have taught by words and deeds. And Zhu Yong was the military teacher of the noble disciples in the capital. He had no problem with his ability. He led 40,000 troops and died in one battle. The Wu Kezhong brothers who were wiped out in the first wave also fought until the end and did not collapse at the first touch. This shows that what they encountered was the elite main force of Ye Xianjun, and the scale was not small, at least more than 10,000 people.
When I arrived at Tumubao the next day, I found that the water source had been cut off by Ye Xianjun! What does this mean! Ye Xian actually knows the situation in Xuanda area well! Either there is a traitor, or he often comes and goes here, just like his own backyard! Ye Xian's elite side continuously annihilated the Ming army behind them, and at the same time, a large number of Oara occupied the water source, which at least the Ming army could not disperse for a while. What does this mean: The emperor was actually surrounded first!
Two hundred thousand Ming troops were cramped in a civil fort with a radius of less than ten miles. What was even more frightening was that there was no water ten meters underground in the civil fort! Not far away was the Oara army. They controlled the water source but did not attack.
The young emperor was panicked, and Wang Zhen was also panicked. The two people who insisted on going their own way encountered the biggest problem in life. This is the land of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no supporting army. They don't understand why, and they just think hard about how to get out of the sea of suffering. One day passed, and the hungry Ming army almost lost its combat effectiveness, while the Walas threw out the embroidered ball of peace talks. The emperor no longer had the courage to go on an expedition, so he agreed.
The next day, the Ming army discovered that the Oara army had retreated, and the peace talks were successful! ? The Ming army swarmed out and went directly to find the river. Many of them drank the last bowl of water in their lives, and the Wala people came to kill them!
Without resistance or consciousness, most of the Ming army was captured and even killed. Before the massacre, the Oara people shouted: Surrender!
The Ming army did not resist, including the princes, but the massacre of the Wala people still began. One-third of them died, including sixty-six ministers of the court!
The emperor may have seen through life and death, so he sat on the ground. His loyal soldiers, the Jin Yiwei, tried their best to hold off the swarming Oara army. However, the number of loyal soldiers was only three hundred, and people kept falling. The angry general Fan Zhong, the general Call: I will kill this thief for the sake of the world! Killed Wang Zhen. Then he led the remaining pro-army troops to fight against the swarming Oara army, and almost the entire army was destroyed. The emperor was captured! It’s for civil engineering changes!
Lin Sheng spoke slowly, and we listened quietly. The scene at that time flashed through my mind from time to time. The ferocious Wala soldiers were galloping on horseback, killing the Ming troops who had given up resistance. The normally arrogant courtiers fell to the ground one after another. In a pool of blood.
The emperor was captured, a great shame and humiliation!
After Yin Zhou listened, he thought thoughtfully and said: "Brother Lin's words can be heard as there is something in them! At that time, Wang Zhen was so arrogant that he treated the ministers in the court as if they were nothing, and there were many people who thought of getting rid of them quickly, but he dared to I'm afraid most people don't have the courage to hand over the emperor to the enemy. If he hadn't taken a detour, the emperor wouldn't have been caught. You know, Tumu Fort is at most a day's journey from Huailai City, but they stopped moving. , and I also heard that many ministers begged the driver to enter the customs first, but Wang Zhen firmly refused."
Lin Sheng glanced at him and said: "Everyone thinks that Emperor Rui was captured because of Wang Zhen's unauthorized change of route. Do you know that if you go back to Beijing via Weizhou and through Zijingguan, it will be sixty or seventy miles closer than returning to Beijing from Juyongguan. It’s a pity that it was abandoned halfway.”
Batu was speechless, but when he heard this, he said: "This is indeed the truth. It is indeed closer to Zijingguan via Yuzhou and then to the capital."
Lin Sheng looked at Batu with a smile and said, "Businessmen are still smart and know their way around well!" After hearing this, I was shocked. Lin Sheng told me that they were not businessmen at all, but high-ranking Tatar officials. As for the difference between Oara and Tatar, it seems to be the name of the Mongolian tribe.
Mrs. Wang smiled and said: "We Han people have an old saying, don't start early if there is no profit. This is what businessmen do, they have to calculate the distance."
Yin Zhou chuckled and said: "Brother Lin, you said Wang Zhen gave up halfway. Then when he arrives in Huailai, he should let the emperor enter the city quickly instead of stagnating." Lin Sheng sighed heavily and said: "At this moment , the Ming army was already in chaos. Imagine that this was the Inner Great Wall, the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but there were no reinforcements, and the Wala people came from all directions and made sneak attacks from time to time. Everyone moved forward cautiously, not daring to leave the team without authorization, in case they came to the city. If they fell into the hands of the Wala people, wouldn't they be falling into a trap? It seems that their calculation was wrong, so that the entire army was destroyed the next day. Facts also proved that Huailai City had already fallen, and the fog was thick at that time. It was a pity that these people were still covered in Guli, I rushed here as hard as I could, and I only found out the news after walking most of the way!"
