"Commander Man, please retreat to the left and right!"
While Mangui was confused, a guard in golden clothes entered the lobby of the General Military Mansion and said something immediately.
Man Gui waved his hand, and everyone in the lobby immediately exited the lobby. The Jin Yiwei took the package from behind, took out the secret letter, and handed it to Man Gui.
"Commander Man, your Majesty's secret message, please read it first!"
Man Gui handed over the secret letter and immediately opened it and read it.
"The allied forces of establishing slaves are suspected of breaking through Da'ankou and Longjing Pass to attack the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty personally ordered 30,000 elite troops to be ready to leave at any time.
From the moment you receive the imperial edict, you must rush to Da'ankou along the Great Wall defense line within five days. "
After reading the secret letter, Man Gui, who had experienced countless fights, was also shocked at this moment.
Some time ago, His Majesty plotted against Chahar Lindan Khan and Jiannu, which resulted in more than 10,000 Jiannu being killed directly in battle. Jiannu will definitely take revenge for this hatred.
But he didn't expect that Jiannu and others didn't wait. He didn't move his troops back to Shengjing, but directly detoured to Mongolia to attack the Ming Dynasty.
But what does the emperor’s order mean?
Since ancient times, unless you have no choice, how can you let the enemy into the territory to fight?
Since we already know that the Jiannu Union will attack Da'ankou, why not deploy troops to block the Jiannu coalition forces outside the Great Wall defense line?
Instead, let yourself prepare 30,000 elite troops and wait for the imperial edict to arrive before setting off?
After Mangui read the secret letter over and over with confusion, a bold idea suddenly came to his mind.
"Your Majesty asked me to take 30,000 elite troops from along the Great Wall to Da'ankou within five days, instead of passing through Beijing and going to Zunhua.
This shows that Your Majesty wants to block the Jiannu coalition forces in the pass, but it takes five days to get from here to Da'ankou, while it only takes one day for Jiannu to withdraw from Zunhua to Da'ankou.
There is no time, what is His Majesty thinking? "
While Man Gui was thinking about the emperor's intention, thousands of miles away in the Shanhaiguan General Military Mansion, the British Duke Zhang Weixian also turned over the emperor's secret letter.
My mind was also full of speculations, and while I was guessing, my heart shuddered.
"Did the emperor know that Jiannu was going to take a detour to attack the Ming Dynasty before he sent me to Shanhaiguan?
Otherwise, why would you transfer me to Shanhaiguan to take charge? Isn't it to guard against Liaodong? But to lead troops to trap Jiannu in the pass? "
The more he thought about it, the more terrible the British public felt.
The emperor's previous guesses about him and the Zhang family were all right, and now he had planned it a few months ago, and the city was terrifyingly deep.
It was a guess, but his movements were not slow, and military orders were passed out one after another.
In the intensive preparations of Mangui and the British Duke, Huang Taiji led the slave-building coalition to arrive at Black Pigeon Summit.
Standing on the top of the mountain, looking at the looming Longjing Pass beyond the mountains, everyone in the tribe was excited.
Listening to the discussions and excitement of the generals, Huang Taiji turned to look at everyone: "Everyone, the Dragon Well Pass of the Ming Dynasty is ahead of us.
By conquering Longjing Pass, a lot of money, a lot of food, and a large number of people will be ours.
However, Ben Khan’s ugly words are ahead. "
Having said this, Huang Taiji stared at everyone coldly, his eyes were quite intimidating: "Since this trip is blessed by heaven, after entering the Ming Dynasty, if the returning people are chickens or pigs, they will not be disturbed;
Those who are captured must not separate their fathers, sons, and couples, engage in adultery with women, rob people of their clothes, break down their houses and temples, destroy their utensils, and cut down their fruit trees.
Anyone who dares to kill a surrender or an adulterous woman will be beheaded;
Anyone who destroys houses or temples, cuts down fruit trees, plunders clothes, or enters villages to plunder will be severely whipped...
I heard that there are many poisonous poisons in Shanhaiguan. After entering the Ming Dynasty, I don’t want to eat the cooked food of the Ming Dynasty people, and don’t drink alcohol...
Anyone who violates this order will be punished together with Gushan Ezhen, Jiala Ezhen, Niulu Ezhen and others. "
After hearing this, all the tribesmen behind him looked at each other in shock and refused to let him rob, so why are they here?
"Great Khan, this battle is mainly about grabbing gold, silver, treasures, food, population, iron tools, etc. If we don't let the looting go, then what are we doing with all our efforts?"
Huang Taiji glanced at it and continued: "What is the use of the grain, gold and silver in the hands of the people?
If you capture Zunhua, Luanzhou, Jizhou, and Santun Camp, won't you be able to rob a lot of food and finances faster than you can do it one by one?
Taking a longer view, we will take over the Central Plains and become the masters of that land.
Of course we can kill, rob, and burn them all now, but when we take over the Central Plains in the future, what will the people think of us?
There is only endless hatred and resistance. At that time, we will have no choice but to kill them all.
If there are no people left, what is the use of such a large territory? "
"I promise that no matter what the outcome of this battle is, I will give you half a year's rations."
"Do you have any comments?"
"I will obey the Great Khan's order!"
All the generals responded in unison.
Huang Taiji was very satisfied and immediately said: "Abatai, Azig!"
"The general is here!"
"The two of you will lead the troops of the Horqin troops, the Chahar troops, and the Khalkha Mongolian troops on the left wing to attack Da'ankou."
"The last general takes command!"
"Yuetuo, Jierhalang!"
"The general is here!"
"The two of you will lead the strongest of the Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers on the right wing to attack Xifengkou."
"The last general takes command!"
"This Khan led the Chinese army to attack Longjing Pass and met at Zunhua City.
After conquering each pass, leave a thousand elite guards on each side. This is our retreat, do you understand? "
"clear!"
"Everyone, whether you can gain anything depends on this battle, let's go!"
Huang Taiji waved his hand, and all the generals left according to the plan. Huang Taiji also led the Chinese army towards Longjing Pass quickly.
One day later, a six hundred-mile express letter was sent back to Beijing from Hanerzhuang City.
It happened that during the court meeting, Li Ruolian passed the information to Chongzhen.
After Chongzhen read it, he handed it to Wang Chengen. Wang Chengen understood and started reading it immediately.
“On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in the first year of Chongzhen, the Jiannu Allied Forces detoured to Karaqin. In Yinshi, the Jiannu Allied Forces secretly attacked Longjing Pass.
General Hongshankou and Deputy General Hanerzhuang heard the sound of cannons and led their troops to reinforce. Abatai led his army to fight. There were many Jiannu coalition forces and our army was outnumbered.
Deputy General Yi Ai and General Wang Zunchen were beheaded, more than 500 of their men were wiped out, and Longjing Pass was lost.
The army of Jiannu was rushing towards Hanerzhuang City. "
quiet!
The entire Huangji Palace was extremely quiet, and all the officials were stunned by this piece of information.
In fact, more than one person has put forward the hypothesis that Jiannu detoured to Mongolia to attack Jizhen. Xiong Tingbi, Yan Mingtai, Mao Wenlong, etc. have all submitted memorials to the court.
Even the carpenter emperor Tianqi once proposed to his ministers when he called for help that if Jiannu could not attack the pass for a long time, he might take a detour to Mongolia and attack Jizhen.
Unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of the court.
The ministers did not expect that Jiannu would be so courageous and actually break through from here, and he even succeeded.
After the shock, Huangji Hall became lively.
