Daming pirates

The news of the fall of Tongzhou spread to the capital in the blink of an eye. Chongzhen and the civil and military officials in the capital heard that there was another earthquake, and they were completely panicked. Tongzhou is the east gate of the capital, and now the gate has been kicked down.

, the entire capital was like a woman who had been stripped naked, waiting naked in front of the Yu family's army to be killed.

But now the soldiers and horses of King Qin from all over the country have not even set off. Even the nearest Shanxi reinforcements have not left Shanxi yet, let alone rush to King Qin of the capital before Yu's army attacks the capital.

In addition, Shanhaiguan, which is closer to the capital, has not responded to the imperial edict. The reinforcements have not arrived at Shanhaiguan yet. However, Zu Dashou sent news that the slave-building army that has been stationed in Guanning today has shown signs of withdrawal.

, but before the Jiannu army withdrew, Guan Ning's army could not mobilize troops to enter King Guan Qin.

There is also the situation of the Shaanxi army under the jurisdiction of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting. The current situation is not clear. No one knows whether they have received the imperial edict. Even if Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting received the imperial edict, they traveled day and night from Shaanxi to the capital Qin Wang.

It will take at least two months, and it will definitely be too late.

So someone gave Chongzhen an idea. He immediately sent people to South Zhili and Guangdong, and ordered the officers and soldiers from South Zhili, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places to directly raise troops to invade Fujian and give Yu Xiaotian a

Encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, attacking it will save it, directly threatening Yu Xiaotian's home base, forcing Yu Xiaotian to give up attacking the capital and withdraw his troops to support Fujian.

But just when everything was in chaos in the capital, someone from Fujian rushed over to send news that in early March, the governor of Fujian, Shen Youlong, heard that Yu Xiaotian was brazenly leading his troops northward to plot a rebellion, and immediately ordered the mobilization of local Fujian non-officials Yu Xiaotian.

The officers and troops under their jurisdiction tried to attack Weitou Bay and wipe out Yu Xiaotian's forces in Fujian.

However, Shen Youlong had just given the order and was detected by Yu Xiaotian's men. Immediately, the Yu Jiajun in various places in Fujian broke out and almost wiped out all the remaining officers and soldiers who were not in the Yu Jiajun system in various places in Fujian and lifted their orders.

General Liu Yidao, who was armed, and the Yu Jiajun was stationed in Fujian, led the Yu Jiajun navy and land division, a total of more than 17,000 people. On March 11, the naval division went straight into the Min River and surrounded the city of Fuzhou.

Under the internal support of Fuzhou City, the Yu Jiajun cooperated with the inside and outside. It only took two days to capture Fuzhou City, and captured Shen Youlong, the current governor of Fujian, alive, declaring that the entire Fujian Province was controlled by the Yu Jiajun.

All military and political affairs were under Xiaotian's jurisdiction.

This news was like a bolt from the blue, shocking Chongzhen to his core. The fall of Fujian also meant that Yu Xiaotian had completely lost his last layer of face and embarked on the road of rebellion. Fujian was equal to

It has declared its independence and is no longer under the control of any Ming court.

So Chongzhen became furious and cursed Yu Xiaotian as a complete traitor. He immediately ordered an edict to be summoned to Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Guangxi to assemble a large army into Fujian to put down the rebellion.

At this point, Chongzhen seemed quite stubborn. Yu Jiajun had already arrived at the door of his house, but he was still thinking about taking Fujian back.

But after sending someone to deliver the imperial edict, he discovered a problem. Even if the people delivering the edict were working non-stop for eight hundred miles a day, traveling to Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Guangdong and Guangxi to deliver the edict, even if it was the nearest Nanzhili

It takes ten days and a half to get to Lili, and it takes at least a month to get to Guangdong.

In addition to mobilizing soldiers and horses and raising food and pay for the soldiers, it is estimated that it will be difficult to mobilize the troops in two months. By the time they take action over there, the cucumbers and vegetables here will probably be cold.

The most important thing now is how to defend the capital. Seeing the posture of the Yu family army, they are determined to break into the capital. Chongzhen quickly summoned the world again and called on the soldiers and horses from all over the world to go north to the capital to attack King Qin and put an end to Yu Xiaotian's rebellion. But far away

Water can't quench my thirst. At this moment, Yu Xiaotian has led his troops to capture Tongzhou City. It can be said that it is just a matter of steps to reach the capital city.

By this time, Chongzhen was completely paralyzed. He could only rely on the existing officers and soldiers in the capital to resist the Yu Jiajun's attack. In addition, he made temporary arrangements and sent people to various places in North Zhili, such as Baoding, Hejian, and Zhenli.

Ding, Huairou, Jizhou, Xuanfu and other places urgently recruited troops from all over the country to rush to the capital at an urgent speed of 100,000 to support them.

Putting the officers and soldiers in these places together, we can now gather about 30,000 to 40,000 people. Including the three major battalions of the capital itself and the Yongwei Battalion commanded by the eunuchs, there are currently five or six troops around the capital and the garrison in the city.

About ten thousand people.

But these 50,000 to 60,000 people only exist on paper. Today's three major battalions are no longer the three major battalions when Zhu Di was in power. Although they are equipped with many firearms and have a lot of troops, they almost never practice.

, there are only a few days every year to pretend to practice weapon battle formations, and there is basically no combat effectiveness at all.

There are only a few thousand soldiers and generals in the Yongwei camp, directly under the command of the internal servants. Chongzhen has paid more attention to them in recent years, and they still have some combat effectiveness. The rest of the soldiers and generals in the Beijing camp are basically useless snacks.

In the early years of Chongzhen, Jian Nu entered the Pass for the first time to plunder, approaching the capital city. No one in the capital army dared to send troops to fight with it. Only Mangui's troops dared to fight against Jian Nu. Although Yuan Chonghuan's troops fled.

They went all the way to the capital, but basically failed to achieve any success. Instead, they fired a volley of arrows and wounded Mangui.

Therefore, the troops and horses in the capital's camp were not enough to resist the Yu family's troops. Chongzhen was quite clear about this, but now looking around, he really didn't have many men left, so he had to order Cao Huachun to supervise

The army closed all the gates of the capital tightly and assumed a posture of defending the city.

At this time, there had been no news about Gao Qiqian, but he suddenly appeared. It turned out that after Gao Qiqian led his army in Julu and was defeated by the Jiannu army, he escaped to Zhending in one breath under his personal escort.

He hid in the Zhaozhou area.

Gao Qiqian was afraid that Chongzhen would be angry with him and kill him for this matter, so he did not dare to return to the capital to resume his life. He hid in Zhaozhou and sent people everywhere to search for the defeated troops and sent people to the capital to inquire about the news.

Later, I heard rumors that he refused to send troops to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, and he and Yang Sichang tried every means to restrain Lu Xiangsheng, which led to Lu Xiangsheng's death in the battle. The court was inquiring about his whereabouts and seemed to have the intention of pursuing him. This guy did not dare to show his face and hid in

In the Zhending area, I searched everywhere for information.

Later, I heard that Yu Xiaotian led his army to capture Tianjin Guards brazenly. The whole situation seemed to be in chaos. Gao Qiqian couldn't understand it, so he never dared to show his face.

Until this time, he found out that Yu Jiajun first defeated the Jiannu army, then turned against the imperial court, defeated Chen Xinjia's and Wu Xiang's troops, and even killed Wu Xiang on the spot, causing a great shock in the capital.

After taking off from the dive, he felt that it was time for him to show his head.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has taken the banner of the Qing Emperor and wants to break into the capital, and Gao Qiqian knows the military situation of the capital quite well, the strength of the capital at this time is probably far from enough to stop Yu Xiaotian from attacking the capital, so there is an urgent need to order troops from all over the country.

Enter the King of Qin in Beijing.

And he was guilty. This was the time for Dai Zui to perform meritorious service. After his gathering during this period, he had gathered 16,700 soldiers and horses that were defeated at the beginning, and they were reunited, but he still had some fighting skills.

force.

These 20,000 soldiers and horses were his chance to make a comeback. At this time, he rushed back to the capital with 20,000 troops to defend. Even if he had made mistakes before, Chongzhen saw that he was in danger this time, so he rushed back with his troops.

King Qin probably won't do anything to him. At most, he will be reprimanded and he will still be used.

Among the eunuchs, Gao Qiqian has a reputation of knowing soldiers. He has served as a military supervisor many times. Now that Chongzhen is hiring people, and he is suspicious by nature, he can only trust these eunuchs at the moment. With this, Gao Qiqian

Qian thinks that this is an opportunity. If he goes back at this time, nothing big will happen.

So Gao Qianqian Zhending Mansion reorganized his troops and led the seventeen to eight thousand officers and soldiers, known as the 30,000 army, at this time they rushed outside the capital city with a roar.

Chongzhen was having a headache due to the lack of soldiers and horses, and he had no one who knew how to fight. Although he was angry that Gao Qiqian had been hiding for so long, he didn't know where he was hiding, and he wanted to kill him immediately.

But when he learned that Gao Qiqian was at this juncture and suddenly rushed back to King Qin with so many soldiers and horses, and it was said that there were many elite soldiers, so most of the anger in his heart disappeared immediately.

Chongzhen felt that these servants were still reliable. Although Gao Qiqian went too far when it came to Lu Xiangsheng, now that he knew the capital was in danger, he led his troops to rush back to King Qin. This shows that Gao Qiqian is still loyal.

After Gao Qiqian led his troops back to the capital city, he pretended to plead guilty and cried a lot. He wrote a letter to Chongzhen, confessing his guilt, and made up a lie to shirk his responsibility, saying that he came back this time.

Those who come to accept the crime are willing to accept any punishment from Chongzhen, but now that the thief has arrived at the capital, he still hopes that Chongzhen can give him a chance to make meritorious service.

Chongzhen quickly summoned Gaoqi and sneaked into the palace to meet the saint. In the palace, Gaoqi lurked on the ground, burst into tears, confessed his guilt, and reminded Chongzhen in a roundabout way of his achievements.

Chongzhen couldn't bear to see Gao Qiqian's virtue. In any case, Gao Qiqian came back with his troops to serve the king at this critical moment, which was commendable for his loyalty, so he reprimanded Gao Qiqian in person.

Ichiban dismissed him from his official position, but asked him to stay in office and perform meritorious service to atone for his sins.

After Gao Qiqian listened, he was secretly happy. Basically everything had been expected by him. This time he came back at the right time. So he immediately patted his chest and promised that he would do a good job and he would fight to the death for the imperial court to bring peace to the thieves.

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