Chapter 248 Fierce battle with Deshengmen

Since the imperial court issued the order to serve the king, border troops in various places responded quickly, Xuanfu, Datongfu, and even Man Gui and Hou Shilu led their troops to come.

As the elites of the nine borders, Chongzhen still attached great importance to the border troops of Xuanfu and Datong Prefecture, and immediately ordered Man Gui and Hou Shilu to station in Tongzhou and Sanhe respectively. However, Huang Taiji passed directly from the periphery of Tongzhou, leaving Man Gui and Hou Shilu the two elite troops useless. Seeing that the Tartars were fighting to the city of Beijing, the Ming Dynasty entered the most tense state, but at this moment, the court received another bad news.

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The soldiers in Shanxi can be said to be the first to respond to the call of the king, but they were not the first to arrive. Since entering the capital, the marching speed of the soldiers in Shanxi has slowed down significantly. No matter how Zhang Honggong and Geng Ruqi urged them, it still has no effect. In private, the soldiers were full of resentment. They had not received enough military pay for a long time, and were chased to the capital like dogs to fight the Tartars. However, the people under Zhang Honggong were very unfriendly to these soldiers and beat and scolded them at any time.

Over time, resentment accumulated and eventually broke out. Shanxi soldiers were ordered to station on the periphery of Tongzhou, but just as Huang Taiji led his troops to detour Tongzhou, the unbearable soldiers in Shanxi mutiny occurred. They rushed to the military camp and captured the heads of the army. This matter spread quickly, causing a heavy blow to the morale of the Ming army. Before the court could fight the Tartars, the troops and horses mutiny first occurred on their own.

As the Tartars approached the capital, their troops mutiny, which no one expected. In order to resist the Tartars' attack, Chongzhen had not rested for two days and two nights. Suddenly, he heard the bad news and almost fainted. In the court, Chongzhen had a blue face and roared at his ministers: "My dear friends, who can tell me what the mutiny of the soldiers in Shanxi is going to do? A few days ago, the soldiers in Shanxi were actively serving the king, but now there is a mutiny suddenly. Can anyone explain why? "

As Chongzhen spoke, his eyes involuntarily looked at Wang Qia. Something happened to the soldiers in Shanxi, and the first thing Chongzhen thought of was Wang Qia. Wang Qia is the Minister of War. If the matter here is not clear, it will be a serious real position.

Wang Qia suddenly felt the pressure increased suddenly. Feeling the eyes of everyone, he had already scolded Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong's ancestors in his heart, and this time they really made these two guys kill him. At that time, Zhang Honggong and Geng Ruqi were busy serving the king, wanting to show their faces and show off. In order to assign a better task, they even gave Wang Qia a gift. Wang Qia took good care of Geng Ruqi, but he never thought that a mutiny occurred at this critical moment.

The war is imminent and the army mutiny. If this matter is not handled well, Wang Qia, the Minister of War, will come to an end. After thinking about it, Wang Qia bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, this matter has all started due to military pay. In recent days, the court has been closely following Shaanxi and Liaodong. Shanxi has insufficient military pay, and the soldiers have long complained. This time, they have to fight the Tartars again, and many people feel it is not worth it, so they gathered to make trouble."

Chongzhen frowned and pressed the dragon throne tightly with his hands. It was military pay and money and food. Chongzhen discovered that in the past two years, as long as something happened, it must have something to do with money. However, if there was insufficient money and food, Chongzhen had no good idea. If this is true, Chongzhen felt that he had a responsibility, so he didn't have to completely turn the responsibility to Geng Ruqi and the others.

As soon as Wang Qia retreated, Chen Xinjia, behind him, stood up and said sternly: "Your Majesty, as far as the treasury is concerned, the Ministry of Revenue has allocated a batch of money and grain to Shanxi soldiers recently. The Ministry of War has filed this matter. However, I inquired and found out that according to the soldiers who caused trouble, they have not received a penny for two months. They can't bear it anymore, so they caused trouble."

"What? Is this really the case?" Chongzhen's face changed drastically, and he patted the handrail heavily. Because he could not control his emotions, he stood up. There was no shortage of money or money. These are two concepts. He didn't see a penny for two months. Who can bear this matter? The war is imminent, and his life will be gone. If what Chen Xinjia said is true, Chongzhen would understand the soldiers a little, and even sympathize with these soldiers.

"Investigate, let me carefully investigate it. Let the Jinyiwei take Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong into the Heavenly Prison first. Once the matter is verified, we will definitely be killed."

Chongzhen was determined and wanted to chop off Geng Ruqi and the others immediately after seeing that attitude. If it were ordinary times, someone would have stood up to plead with him, but the Tartars approached the capital. At such a critical moment, no one of the civil and military officials in the court stood up to find it uncomfortable at this time. Wang Qia didn't say much. Now that the Tartars are about to attack the city, he is in trouble, and he will continue to get involved in the mutiny. Maybe he doesn't have to wait until he defeats the Tartars and now he has to go to the Heavenly Prison.

Chongzhen took someone to investigate and soon found out the matter. Some things are not difficult to check, it depends on whether you want to check it. Although the Jinyiwei who was tortured by Zhu Youjian was in name only, it was fine to find out the news. In less than two hours, the Jinyiwei sent the news to Wenhua Hall. Zhu Youjian sat in the imperial study room, closed his eyes and rested for a while. Wang Chengen handed over the note, but only half of it was read, and Zhu Youjian was already trembling all over.

"Geng Ruqi... Zhang Honggong... deserves to kill... deserves to kill, I really wish I could cut these two people into pieces!"

How could Chongzhen not be angry? Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong colluded with each other, using their responsibilities to embezzle military pay, and even intercepted part of the military pay sent to Shaanxi. Last year, Shaanxi disaster relief food was intercepted part of it when they passed through Shanxi. These two people kept saying that they were loyal ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty.

After putting the note on the table, Chongzhen was so angry that he didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, he waved his right hand and sneered: "Transfer to my oral instructions, push the two people to the south city and behead them."

The next day, before the Tartars arrived in the capital, Shanxi Governor Geng Ruqi and Shanxi General Zhang Honggong were killed at Caishikou, Nancheng. Once the two died, and the imperial court sent officials to appease him and raised some military pay, the Shanxi soldiers did not continue to make trouble. Shanxi soldiers and horses are now without a leader, so the Ministry of War placed these soldiers and horses under Mangui's command and were temporarily under Mangui's jurisdiction.

On November 18, the second year of Chongzhen, Datong General Man Gui, and the general of Xuanfu General Hou Shilu withdrew from Tongzhou and Sanhe, and was ordered to garrison Deshengmen.

Under the call of the court, almost some people in the capital were busy, and they all helped the soldiers to build the city walls. However, Beijing had not experienced war for many years. The city wall was disrepaired and urgently built, and it was too late. It can be said that the city walls of Beijing were much weaker than decades ago. It was not safe to defend the capital by leaning against the city wall.

Huang Taiji obviously did not want to give too much preparation time for the people in the capital. On October 20, the Later Jin soldiers finally appeared under the city of Beijing. When he saw the head of Beijing, Huang Taiji's eyes turned scarlet and shone with strange light.

There was almost no stop. With the order of Huang Taiji, Beile Daishan, Jiergalang, Yue Tuo and others launched a fierce attack on Beijing City. As if it was the will of heaven, Huang Taiji aimed the main attack direction at Deshengmen. It can be said that this was Huang Taiji's luck and also Huang Taiji's misfortune.

At this time, Deshengmen was stationed in Xuanfu, Datongfu's border troops, and thousands of soldiers and horses in Shanxi. They were strong and powerful. The few gates in the capital were the most powerful defense. But equally, if Huang Taiji could chew this hard bone, it would be equivalent to a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty.

Xuanfu and Datongfu are among the elites of the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty. If these two troops were destroyed, the attack on the morale of various soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty would be unimaginable. By then, Huang Taiji might be able to touch the red paint on Desheng Gate.

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Huang Taiji had his own purpose, and he never thought of capturing Beijing City. If he thought so, then Huang Taiji was either a fool or a madman. Beijing City must be beaten, and he must also beat hard to show the prestige of the Great Jin Kingdom. If you ask for anything else, just let everyone in the world know that Huang Taiji has the ability to fight to Beijing City and the Great Jin Kingdom has fought to Beijing City. So is the Ming Dynasty still that scary?

Huang Taiji wanted to pull the Ming Dynasty down from the hearts of many people, making the Ming Dynasty no longer so high and even make people afraid. After this battle was fought, it would be much smoother to recover the Mongolian tribes in the future.

Because Huang Taiji had his ultimate goal, he ordered the two yellow flags to launch a fierce attack from the beginning without leaving any backup plan.

Haoge and Yue Tuo led the Zhenghuang Banner to attack the defense line of Xuanfu soldiers from the side, with the sound of cannons rumbling and the smoke of gunpowder. In order to shake the world in one move, Huang Taiji specially asked his troops to drag two cannons. These two cannons did exert their power.

Hou Shilu never expected that the Tartars came from afar and dragged artillery. They did not notice for a while, and the troops in the front suffered a considerable loss. At this moment, Dai Shan led more than 2,000 Zhenghong Banners to pounce on them from the front and happened to meet Ma Fang's elite. Zhenghong Banners were established very early, even earlier than Zhenghuang Banners. In addition, Dai Shan personally led the troops, and Zhenghong Banners rushed forward and killed Ma Fang retreated step by step.

"Ah" A Tartar waved the steel knife in his hand, and his body was stained with blood, but the pain did not stop him from moving forward, but made him even more terrifying. With one knife, he saw that the Han people in front of him did not fall down. The Tartar dragged the steel knife backwards, and the handle of the knife kept knocking down like a brick until the person in front of him was bloody. Unfortunately, he had just walked two steps forward and stabbed the Tartar into a pair of spears behind him, stabbing the Tartar into one another.

Blood, fighting, roar and death, various scenes are intertwined to form a picture of purgatory.

"Reported, General Hou, more than 2,000 troops from the Red Banner of the Tatars suddenly came from the southwest. General Ma was attacked on both sides and has now been suppressed and retreated a mile."

"Well? Order Ma Fang, no matter what, you must hold me back. As long as he is not dead, you cannot let a Tartar come. As for reinforcements, let him wait, and there will be something soon!"

After the messenger retreated, Hou Shilu immediately called Heiyunlong closer. At this time, Heiyunlong was also covered in blood, obviously having just withdrawn from the front line, "Sir, what are your instructions?"

"General Black, withdraw your people and go to help Ma Fang. Humph, don't think I don't know. You learned to Tiemo to build a good musket team. Don't hide it this time. Send your musket team and beat me up the arrogance of the Tartars."

"Sir General, the last one will be withdrawn. What should I do if the defense line in the west? The Tatars will drive straight in!"

"You don't have to worry about this. I have already discussed with General Man. Your defense zone is under the responsibility of General Man. What you need to do now is to quickly organize the manpower and go to help Ma Fang!"

"Yes, let's go here!" The relationship between Heiyunlong and Ma Fang was already good. Now, when he heard that someone in the defense area took over, he did not hesitate anymore. Heiyunlong's troops retreated very quickly, and Mangui's speed of filling the defense area was not slow.

As the fierce battle was in full swing, Mangui, the general, held the sword and pushed it to the front. He raised the sword and roared, "Brothers, kill, let those golden lumps see who is the best man in our Ming Dynasty."

Man Gui's words were clearly a satirizing the soldiers and horses of Liaodong. In recent years, the soldiers and horses of Liaodong have sucked blood more and more powerfully, especially after Yuan Chonghuan took power in Liaodong, the court's money and food were closely related to Liaodong. As a result, other military towns became stepmothers, even Xuanfu and Datongfu stood back.

Man Gui has always been dissatisfied with it, and he is not in the way of dealing with Yuan Chonghuan, so this time he is determined to suppress the limelight of Guanning Iron Cavalry.

Not only Man Gui, the only one who has an objection to the Liaodong army, but also Hou Shilu. Xuanfu and Datong Mansion were under the pressure of the Mongolian troops, and the defense areas were much larger than those of Liaodong. They were detained by the Tartars every year, and countless soldiers in the border army were killed and injured. Even so, Xuanfu and Datong Mansion never shouted pain and tired. The Liaodong army was better, and it was fine before, but now they have become master soldiers, with military pay of several million taels.

As the general, Man Gui took the lead and was not afraid of death. The morale of the soldiers and horses of Datong Mansion naturally rose sharply. After half a day of battle, Haoge and Yue Tuo led the two yellow flags to fight several times, but they failed to get close to Deshengmen. Instead, the two yellow flags threw down many corpses.

In the southeast of Deshengmen, Dai Shan led the elite Zhenghongqi troops to chase Ma Fang and attacked him hard. He was about to defeat the Han soldiers. Suddenly, a bang sounded, and half of the Niulu soldiers lying in a pool of blood in Zhenghongqi.

At this time, there were almost people on the battlefield, crowded with people. The four hundred musketeers of the Black Cloud Dragon didn't need to aim at it. They shot the guns in a volley, and the other party was like a cut wheat. The two sides fought in a chaotic battle, fighting together, and they were dizzy. Dai Shan didn't react at first and did not notice any danger.

Dai Shan had never seen Ming munitions and weapons, but no matter how many times he was completely abused by the Later Jin cavalry, the Ming munitions and weapons only dared to hide on the city wall and be a turtle. He fought in the wild, and that was a piece of wild vegetable.
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