47 The change of one's own self

Huang Taiji was originally calculating the trouble of Yuan Chonghuan, a henchman who had been blocking their Houjin people's march into the Central Plains.

After Yuan Chonghuan came to King Qin with thousands of Liaodong elite cavalry, Huang Taiji has been besieging the Jingshi without attacking, and at the same time confronting more and more Qinwang troops, which is contrary to military common sense.

You must know that the Houjin people went deep into the capital division of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the original Beijing army and government guards in the Beijing division, just because these Qinwang soldiers and horses were not familiar with the place and the logistics relied on looting, so any commander was replaced by any commander, either looking for an opportunity to attack the flaws of the Qinwang army outside the Beijing division and severely damage the other party, or should take advantage of the undecided arrival of the opponent's Qinwang army to attack the important land of the Beijing division, and use many important ministers and Emperor Chongzhen in the Beijing division as bait to force the other party to make mistakes?

However, for several days, the Eight Banners Army brought by Huang Taiji neither launched an offensive against the army of King Qinwang outside the city, nor launched a strong attack on the Jingshi City, which made the ministers of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Chongzhen suspicious.

Subsequently, a eunuch who was unfortunately captured and finally escaped back by luck brought out the things he saw and heard in the Jurchen camp, which shocked Emperor Chongzhen.

Everything was just a scene arranged by Huang Taiji, he asked his two Han generals to drink and chat freely on the edge of the house of the captured Yang eunuch, talk loudly, and deliberately gave me the head of the eunuch surnamed Yang who had colluded with Yuan Chonghuan, and then released the eunuch back.

Soon, these unfavorable news for Yuan Chonghuan were reported to Emperor Chongzhen by this eunuch surnamed Yang, which made him suspicious.

At this time, among the government and the opposition, Huang Taiji had already bribed people to secretly spread rumors that Yuan Chonghuan had the intention to surrender to Houjin or reach a partition agreement with Houjin, which had already made the suspicious Emperor Chongzhen dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan.

In addition, several times before, Emperor Chongzhen sent messengers to inform Yuan Chonghuan that his commander's army would enter Beijing and protect the safety of the Beijing Division, but Yuan Chonghuan never replied and acted, but led the army to confront the Eight Banners Army in the wilderness outside the Beijing Division.

Yuan Chonghuan has a military strategy, so he naturally knows that the city of Beijing is deep and profound, and it seems to be dangerous to be besieged, but in fact it is as stable as Mount Tai, so there is no need to bring the army outside the city into the city to guard.

On the contrary, if they want to repel the Tiger Hill of the Eight Banners Army, then they must pose a threat to the Eight Banners Army outside the Beijing Division, so as to force the Jurchens to retreat this morning, or leave a flaw.

However, Yuan Chonghuan forgot that he himself knew military strategy, but he didn't understand the little emperor in the Forbidden City, what Chongzhen saw was that he Yuan Chonghuan did not listen to the emperor's orders, and never brought troops into the city to protect the imperial city.

If it is really as Yuan Chonghuan said, their army of King Qin wants to fight to the death with the soldiers and horses of the Houjin people outside the city and strangle them in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, then it will be enough.

But now that the army is stationed outside the city, there are actually very few real battles with the Houjin army, and the scale of the battle is not huge, such a strange situation, Emperor Chongzhen can't help but speculate and think about it!

And the play that Huang Taiji let the two Han generals play is like a bucket of oil poured into a bundle of dry firewood, and only the last bit of spark is needed to ignite the growing suspicion in Emperor Chongzhen's heart.

Mars was soon sent to the little emperor Zhu Youzhen, several letters from the Ming Dynasty soldiers desperately killed the enemy, from the enemy outside the city to search out of the Huang Taiji's handwritten letters, the beginning of the letter was aimed directly at Yuan Chonghuan Yuan Inspector outside the city who was gathering the army of King Qin, most of which were about the treatment of Yuan Inspector after the annexation of the Houjin people, rewards, etc., so that Zhu Youzhen Little Emperor was panicked.

In the past, Yuan Chonghuan did not ask and punished Mao Wenlong, a military attache with many official ranks and grades higher than him, and today he did not listen to the call, firmly controlled the army of King Qin, regardless of the safety of the little emperor and the Beijing division, several times, and finally made the suspicious little emperor move to kill this important minister.

Out of scruples and worries about the power in Yuan Chonghuan's hands now, Zhu Youzhen did not dare to bet on Yuan Chonghuan with his own life as a loyal and patriotic loyal minister.

Emperor Chongzhen then sent people to Yuan Chonghuan's commander's tent to summon Yuan Chonghuan to Beijing to discuss the food and salary, and the next military affairs.

Yuan Chonghuan was also burning his eyebrows at this time for the daily food and salary of King Qin's army, and the army of King Qin of the Ming Dynasty rushed to the rescue in order to march in a hurry, so most of the soldiers set off lightly, and the food they carried was not enough to support a few days, so they could only rely on Yuan Chonghuan, the commander who controlled the army of King Qin, to raise food.

Without too much suspicion, after Yuan Chonghuan received the decree of the little emperor Chongzhen, he led a large army to break through the defense line of the Jin army of Huang Taiji and the Jin army to block the Jingshi, and came to the gate of the Jingshi City.

Previously, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to enter the capital but could not, but at this time, he was afraid that Yuan Chonghuan would turn against him after he deceived and opened the gate of the Beijing division, and attacked him instead.

Therefore, the little emperor asked people to use the fear of a surprise attack by the enemy army as an excuse not to let the army enter the city, but let Yuan Chonghuan enter the city alone to discuss.

After getting this order, Yuan Chonghuan didn't think much about it, and immediately took more than a dozen private soldiers and entered the city along the bamboo basket put down on the city, but he didn't think that as soon as he stepped into the city gate with his front foot, he was arrested by the Jinyi guard with his back foot.

However, the little emperor forgot a taboo in the army, there was a change of commander on the spot, Yuan Chonghuan entered the capital and there was no movement, for the group of Qinwang army outside the city, it was like a group of dragons without a leader, all forces were intrigued, and there was no unity before.

Moreover, I don't know why, Yuan Chonghuan's arrest and imprisonment was also leaked, which made everyone in the Qinwang army outside the city panic and shake the morale of the army, and Yuan Chonghuan's henchman Zu Dashou returned to Ning Yuan and put pressure on the imperial court.

Huang Taiji planned for many days, and finally saw the effect, and the children of the Eight Banners, who had long been ready to go, immediately under Huang Taiji's order, went to kill the leaderless army of King Qin outside the city.

Without Yuan Chonghuan, the overseer, presiding over the actions of the army outside the city, the Qinwang army from all walks of life was killed in front of the suddenly erupted Eight Banner Army, and suffered losses one after another.

Outside the Lugou Bridge, under the cover of night, the Eight Banners Army beheaded about 7,000 people under Shen Fu, the deputy chief of the Ming Army, and then defeated 40,000 reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty outside the Yongding Gate.

Subsequently, Huang Taiji was even more proud, taking advantage of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty army, Yang Chang killed to the east, and it was time for them to reap the fruits of the Jin people.

(End of chapter)