The smile on his face stopped abruptly, and then he roared angrily, "Divine Machine Battalion! It's the Divine Machine Camp again!! Angry Ben Khan also. Harichi, Temur, and Ben Khan ordered you to ride ten thousand horses for five days...... No, take Tongzhou City within three days and destroy the Shenji Battalion, otherwise you will see you. ”

Harichi and Temur stepped forward awe-inspiring and said, "My subordinates take orders." ”

Soon, Harichi and Temur ordered 10,000 Tatar cavalry and drove 20,000 Hannu to Tongzhou. These Han slaves were all Ming civilians captured by the Tartars along the way, and they were forced to work as coolies by force, helping to carry the baggage and various materials looted.

On the tower of Xizhimen, a group of civil and military ministers saw that the Tartar cavalry outside the city was moving, and they thought that the other party was about to launch an attack on the city, and they persuaded Emperor Jiajing to leave the city and return to the palace, but they soon found that the Tartars did not want to attack the city, but transferred troops to the direction of Tongzhou.

Yang Yiqing stroked his beard and said thoughtfully: "It seems that I am increasing troops to Tongzhou, so in this way, the Tartars must have been blocked from attacking Tongzhou, and they had to increase their troops to support." ”

The ministers were both worried and happy when they heard this, and they were happy that the granary of Tongzhou was temporarily held, and the worry was that the Tartars were now increasing troops to Tongzhou, and they didn't know if Tongzhou could continue to hold on, once Tongzhou fell into the hands of the Tartars, the Tartars obtained a large amount of food and materials in the city, which would be very unfavorable to the defense of the capital.

"Who is the commander of Tongzhou Wei?" Zhu Hou asked.

Xu Guangzuo, Duke of Dingguo, Zhu Lin, Duke of Chengguo, Xu Pengju of Wei, Zhang Lun, Duke of Britain, Guo Xun, Marquis of Wuding, and other nobles couldn't help but look at each other, although they are all governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and each is in charge of a battalion of forbidden troops, but Tongzhou Wei is not a Beijing camp, who would deliberately remember the name of the commander of a local guard?

Seeing this, Zhu Hou's face couldn't help but be slightly gloomy, and at this time, a clear voice replied: "Back to the emperor, the commander of Tongzhou Wei is called Miao Xin, and the commander is called Liao Fa." ”

Everyone followed the prestige, only to see that the person who spoke was a young official standing on the periphery, although he was short in stature, but his body was straight, his skin was fair, his eyes were quite profound, and his temperament was gentle and elegant, which made people feel good at first sight.

Zhu Hou's face was slightly pale, he naturally recognized Xu Jie, after all, this was the Tanhua ordered by his imperial pen, and Fei Hong also praised Xu Jie's in front of him, at this moment, the nobles who were in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies couldn't answer, but Xu Jie's military department gave an answer in the matter, which shows that he is indeed a serious worker, but he is a talent worthy of reuse.

Zhang Xuan saw Zhu Hou's face showing approval, his brows furrowed secretly, Xu Jie is indeed quite outstanding among the Jinshi of the same class, and he has also tried to draw Xu Jie into his own door, but the latter is always neither humble nor arrogant, never makes a clear statement, obviously does not want to be attached to himself, but he doesn't want to offend himself, he is a little slippery.

At this time, I saw Xu Jie take the opportunity to say again: "Your Majesty, Tongzhou is the granary in Beijing, and now it is the time of the summer tax to relieve Beijing, a large amount of rice and grain is piled up in Tongzhou City, and it must not fall into the hands of the Tartars, and the minister thinks that he should immediately send troops to support Tongzhou." ”

Xu Guangzuo, the Duke of Dingguo, immediately reprimanded: "Ridiculous, a little scholar An dares to speak out about military affairs, there are already insufficient troops in the capital, where can he divide troops to rescue Tongzhou?" ”

Guo Xun immediately echoed: "What Dingguo Gong said is very true, food security can be compared with the emperor's safety, at this time, we should stick to the help, and we must not divide the troops, Xu Jie's disregard for the emperor's safety, with ill intentions, should be killed!" ”

"Exactly, this son is talking to confuse the public, and he should be beheaded!" Chengguo Gong Zhu Lin also echoed sharply.

British Gong Zhang Lun and others also spoke out to behead Xu Jie, who let Xu Jie's mouth just now, and he was in the limelight in front of the emperor, but he slapped all the nobles in the face, and Xu Jie also suggested dividing troops to support Tongzhou, this is not to push them into the fire pit, after all, someone must lead the troops to send troops to Tongzhou, and this task will fall on the heads of their martial artists.

In addition, all the nobles' family businesses are in Beijing, once the troops are divided to rescue Tongzhou, the family will be in a more dangerous situation, and they will naturally refuse to do it!

Zhang Xuan glanced at Xu Jie, whose face was slightly gloomy, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Xu Jie, this kid is smart but is mistaken by cleverness, and he wants to show favor in front of the emperor, but who knows that he offended the Xungui Group, and he is still a little tender in the end." ”

When a group of nobles and nobles were passionately asking to kill Xu Jie, Fei Hong couldn't look at it, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I will be convicted by the court's speech officials, Xu Zisheng's advice may be ill-conceived, but it does not necessarily harbor evil intentions, if it is beheaded now, who will dare to make suggestions in the future?" ”

Shoufu Yang Yiqing nodded and said: "What Jianzhai (Fei Hong's number) said is very true, and Xu Zisheng's suggestion is not at fault, Tongzhou really cannot afford to lose, but it is indeed inappropriate to divide troops from the capital to support Tongzhou, and the old minister thinks that the emperor can order the Tianjin Sanwei to send troops." ”

The current Emperor Jiajing is quite displeased with the Xungui group, if it weren't for the time of employing people, plus the twelve regiments and battalions of the forbidden army are in the hands of the nobles, yesterday he cut down Guo Xun who dared to disobey the king's orders, at this time, he naturally would not listen to Xungui's beheading of Xu Jie's talents, nodded and said: "According to what Mr. Yang said, the three guards of Tianjin will be transferred to help Tongzhou." ”

Seeing that the emperor had no intention of condemning Xu Jie, all the nobles did not dare to entangle any further, after all, they all understood that the emperor did not want to see them now.

Doodle......

At this time, there was a dull sound of trumpets from the Tartar army camp outside the city, and the Tartar soldiers drove out of the camp like a tide, and siege engines, return guns, ladders and other siege equipment were also pushed to the front of the battle.

"The Tartars are about to attack the city, the emperor is the body of ten thousand times, and he is the body of the country, so let's hurry back to the palace!" Zhang Xuan said, and the ministers also persuaded one after another.

Zhu Hou also knew that his continued stay here would affect the soldiers guarding the city, so he led a group of officials to leave the city tower and return to the palace.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the Tartars launched a fierce attack on the Xizhi Gate, trying to fill in the moat, but Beijing City is the capital of the Ming Dynasty after all, the moat is dug big and deep, the city wall is even higher and thicker, and a strong urn city has been built, how easy is it for the Tartars to break through?

So the first attack of the Tartars was quickly futile, leaving only hundreds of corpses shot like porcupines on the edge of the moat.

However, he was not intimidated by this difficulty, and he immediately changed his strategy, sending people upstream to block the source of the moat, and at the same time digging a pit and trying to divert the water from the moat.

The Tartars drove tens of thousands of Hannu to dig pits and ditches day and night, and the next day finally dug several pits and ditches to divert the water of the moat, and the water level of the moat dropped sharply, and then, the Tartars spent half a day, filling in the river section of dozens of meters, and finally attacked under the city wall, and the battle became fierce in vain.

The Tartars were not good at siege warfare, but with the help and guidance of Zhao Quan, a traitor, the Tartars built a large number of siege equipment, and even transported more than a dozen captured Ming artillery.

"Rush, kill...... Boom Boom! ”

Tens of thousands of Tartar armies rushed to the foot of the city wall with ladders, and the horses used lassos to hold the giant trees as battering rams and slammed the gates......

Boom Boom Boom ......

The cannon sound outside the Xizhi Gate came and went, the boulders flew up to the city one after another, the sharp arrows were overwhelming like raindrops, the fierce battle lasted for a long time, both sides suffered great casualties, but the losses of the Tartars as the besieging party were naturally more heavy.

In the Wenhua Palace, Emperor Jiajing and his ministers were restless and waiting, and every quarter of an hour, guards would report the real-time battle situation of Xizhimen.

At this time, he saw Wei Hanwen, the general envoy of the General Administration Division, enter the Wenhua Hall with a solemn face, knelt down in front of the imperial case and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the General Administration Department has just received an urgent report from Shanwei Taiyuan for 800 miles. Zhang Yinshi, the chief soldier of Datong, is Li Fuda, the thief of the White Lotus, and now he has openly erected a flag to rebel, raised troops to capture Shuozhou, and forced Taiyuan. According to investigation, Zhang Yin, the thief, opened the killing mouth in the early morning of the eighth day of the ninth month and allowed 100,000 cavalry to go south. ”

As soon as Wei Hanwen, the political envoy, finished his report, the entire Wenhua Hall suddenly exploded, and Zhu Hou's face was like ashes in an instant, Zhang Yin was Li Fuda! Zhang Yin is really Li Fuda! I wronged Xu Qing, I shouldn't regret it!