Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian didn't pay attention to the intensive discussions in the Ming Dynasty on how to conquer Yu Mou, and just immersed himself in his affairs.

Fleets of ships departed from the docks from Tamsui, Kaohsiung, Weitou Bay, and Haitan Island. The ships were loaded with various ammunition, weapons, food, and mules and horses, and were transported out of the location in batches, and then

Disappeared on the sea.

Just when Chongzhen and his ministers were discussing when to move their troops south, at the end of September and the beginning of October, the weather turned cold, and news came from Hong Chengchou, Shaanxi Province, saying that Li Zicheng's troops had been surrounded in the mountains around Shangluo.

, just wait until they are trapped to death and forced out of the mountain to get food, and then they can be wiped out.

But at this time, the Jiannu, who had been peacefully settled outside the pass for a short time, suddenly split into two groups. Prince Rui Dorgon commanded an army of 40,000, and detoured through Mongolia to break through the pass at Xifengkou.

The other way is to build slaves

General Yue Tuo, as the commander-in-chief, broke through the border from Qiangziling and approached the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The slave chief Taiji personally led part of the army outside Shanhaiguan to contain the Ming Dynasty border army, so that the other two slave armies could be established smoothly.

Enter the pass.

This was already the third time that Jiannu entered the Pass on a large scale. He reported the imperial edict to the capital. The capital was immediately shaken. Chongzhen was confused as soon as he heard about it. This time, according to the report, Jiannu sent a total of 100,000 troops to invade.

In the pass, the Ming army fled after hearing the news along the way, and it almost did not play any role in stopping the slave army.

Even some military generals and civil servants in some prefectures and counties had abandoned their cities and fled before the slave-building army arrived, causing an immediate emergency in the entire Gyeonggi region.

In fact, the last two times the Qing troops entered the customs, they had already looted almost all the prefectures and counties in the Gyeonggi region. Until now, neither the people nor the army in these places have recovered.

Moreover, the fear of the Ming army in the pass towards the slave-building army has now reached an extremely high level, making it almost impossible for the Ming army in the pass to delay the slave-building army.

Even Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao who led his troops to stop the Jiannu army, was defeated and captured by the Jiannu after several days of fighting. In the end, he was brutally killed by the Jiannu because he refused to surrender to the Jiannu.

After the Jiannu army broke through the pass and entered, they quickly broke through several cities in the northern part of the capital. After plundering, they immediately joined forces, bypassed the capital, and attacked in the direction of Zhuozhou.

When Chongzhen heard the news, he felt like crying. This slave-building was really abominable to the extreme, and it was the perfect time to choose it. News had just come from Shaanxi that was expected to wipe out Li Zicheng's troops, and he didn't have time yet.

Happy, Jianu came.

Nowadays, although the entire Gyeonggi region cannot be said to be empty of troops, it is not much better. The main force is basically stationed in the Shanhaiguan area. The Guanning Army, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, is stationed in the Shanhaiguan area. There are also a large number of slave chiefs Taiji outside.

The army of Jiannu led by Guan Ning was watching with eager eyes, so these Guan Ning troops could not move at all.

The garrison around Gyeonggi Province was short of troops and had no fighting spirit at all. At best, they could only hold on to the city and defend the city. They simply did not have enough troops to intercept the Jiannu army moving south.

After Chongzhen heard the news, the first thing he thought of was Lu Xiangsheng, the current governor of Xuanda. He immediately transferred Lu Xiangsheng and Xuanda's 20,000 officers and soldiers to the capital. Also transferred to the capital were Shanxi and Xuanda's general general Yang Guozhu.

Hu Dawei, Wang Pu et al.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng happened to be at home and Ding You was guarding the throne, so he could not make the trip for the time being. However, Chongzhen issued an order to seize the opportunity and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to rush to Beijing and lead his army to stop the slave army. Lu Xiangsheng was also given the title of governor of the world to fight against the slave army.

But at this time, there is a problem, that is, Chongzhen is really afraid of the slave establishment. There is now a trend in the court, that is, some ministers privately believe that although the slave establishment is abominable, they can only stay outside the customs. Although

They repeatedly broke through the customs, but in the end they always had to retreat outside the customs after being plundered.

In this case, as long as the imperial court defends the capital and there is nothing wrong with the capital, even if the Jian slaves are allowed to attack some state capitals and counties, they will only rob some goods and plunder some people, and sooner or later they will return to the outside world.

In this case, why not the Ming Dynasty negotiate peace with Jiannu privately, and follow the example of the Northern Song Dynasty, and pay Jiannu some annual tribute every year. Of course, it cannot be said to be annual tribute, but only a reward. One or two hundred thousand taels are given to Jiannu every year.

Money, let Jiannu stay outside the customs peacefully and don't look for trouble to bring him down.

Of course, this trend of thought also affected Chongzhen, so Chongzhen began to vacillate between war and peace. On the one hand, he mobilized Lu Xiangsheng to be the governor of the country to fight against the Jiannu.

Contact the slave establishment authorities to see if peace talks are possible.

However, Chongzhen's small actions could be hidden from others, but they could not be hidden from his closest confidants Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others. These people immediately saw Chongzhen's timid thoughts, so they agreed with Chongzhen and decided to make peace.

However, after Lu Xiangsheng quickly entered Beijing, he proposed a strategy of fighting to the end and vowed to compete with the Jiannu army. This conflicted with the opinions of Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others.

What Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian and others are most afraid of is that Lu Xiangsheng is too tough and will lead his army to fight to the death with Jian Nu. Once Lu Xiangsheng is given full control of the army and he gets into trouble with Jian Nu, he may not be able to negotiate a peace.

It was too late, so Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian tried their best to torment Lu Xiangsheng.

They controlled the military power in their own hands. Although Lu Xiangsheng was nominally the governor of the world's military, he could actually only control the 20,000 officers and soldiers he brought from Xuanda, including the tens of thousands of Guan Ning who were transferred to the guard from Liaodong.

The army did not listen to his orders.

Even so, after Lu Xiang was promoted to the capital, he still led the Xuan soldiers to deal with the Jiannu army around the capital, knocking off some small groups of Jiannu troops and winning some small victories.

But the more Lu Xiangsheng did this, the more Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian became wary of him. In addition, Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang also had conflicts privately. Yang Sichang absolutely did not want to see Lu Xiangsheng win the battle. In that case, he would appear to be too incompetent.

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So Yang Sichang thought of ways to divide Lu Xiangsheng's military power, and allocated the 20,000 elite soldiers that Lu Xiangsheng brought from Xuanda to Chen Xinjia, the new governor of Xuanda. Chen Xinjia knew the emperor's and Yang Sichang's intentions, and of course he would not cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng and

The slave-building army fought, and he didn't have the courage.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng only had a few thousand soldiers and horses left on hand, which was very pitiful to say the least. Although Lu Xiangsheng was holding the Shangfang Sword given by Chongzhen, he had no soldiers to mobilize. Except for the few thousand officers and soldiers he had left,

In addition, the rest of the troops and power are in the hands of Gao Qiqian and Chen Xinjia.

Lu Xiangsheng was distraught, but he had no choice but to do anything. Even so, he still led thousands of officers and soldiers to pursue the slave army everywhere, trying to turn the tide.

As for Lu Xiangsheng's fate, no one could save it at this time. He led thousands of soldiers and rushed toward the abyss without hesitation.

After the two armies of Jiannu and Jiannu entered the pass, they did not concentrate their forces to attack the capital. Instead, they left a small number of troops to harass and contain the main force of the government troops near the capital. The rest of the Jiannu army split into two groups again in Zhuozhou.

, split up and stormed all the way towards Shandong and Beizhili, burning, killing, looting and plundering all directions along the way. After the two armies were divided, they divided their forces again at various places, aiming directly at the Ming Dynasty, Beizhili and various prefectures and counties in Shandong.

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Beizhili and various places in Shandong were in constant distress, and almost no one could stop the frontline of these Jiannu soldiers. Prefectures and counties along the way were attacked by Jiannu. Jiannu made a lot of money along the way, and took a large number of people with him.

Drive these refugees and carry all kinds of materials and goods for them.

At this time, Chongzhen was still thinking about sending his troops south to conquer Yu Xiaotian! Urgent memorials were sent to the capital from all over the country every day like snowflakes, and the situation was almost corrupted to an extent that could not be improved.

But in the end, Chongzhen did not dare to publicly discuss the matter of making peace with Jiannu because he was too face-saving. Although some people were talking privately about making peace with Jiannu, Chongzhen just thought about it, but he really didn't want to.

Dare to openly express his desire to make peace with Jiannu easily.

Therefore, Chen Xinjia's final contact with Jiannu had no choice but to let it go. However, a group of ministers headed by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian were afraid of the enemy and never dared to send an army to fight Jiannu to death. The officials above

With such a performance, don't expect the generals below to take the initiative.

There were tens of thousands of officers and soldiers who followed the Jiannu army all over the world, but they always stayed far behind the Jiannu army and followed them around blindly.

As the supervisor appointed by Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian controlled tens of thousands of elite officers and soldiers. He left the capital and wandered around Beizhili. He strictly ordered the chief generals of the ministries not to underestimate the enemy's Langzhan. This sentence has knowledge. Who should underestimate the enemy's Langzhan?

There is no underestimating the enemy, and no one dares to underestimate the enemy. The key to this sentence lies in the word "war".

No wasteful warfare means no easy fighting with the slave-building army. Everyone can just run away. No one will easily take advantage of the slave-building army.

Only Lu Xiangsheng himself, with thousands of officers and soldiers under his command, was chasing the Jiannu army. Would he definitely have a fight with the Jiannu army?

, would never provide him with support easily. Later, officials in some prefectures and counties along the way also smelled it, and even Lu Xiangsheng's troops were cut off from food and salary.

Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, was one of them. Officials in other places were afraid of offending Yang Sichang, so when Lu Xiangsheng arrived with his troops, they sent some money from the city and asked Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers to buy grain themselves. However, Zhang Qiping simply

The city gates were closed and Lu Xiangsheng was not even given a tael of silver. As a result, the soldiers and horses brought by Lu Xiangsheng later did not even have anything to eat.