The news that Lin Dan Khan abandoned the city and fled west and that the Houjin army had entered Monan soon spread to the Ming army border forts along the border of Datong with the Chahar herdsmen who fled south, and it also quickly spread to the city of Datong, which was 400 miles to the south.

Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, has been annoyed and blamed for his previous hesitation and wait-and-see since he received the secret decree from Emperor Chongzhen.

On the night of October 18, I learned of the earth-shattering changes that had taken place in Kuku and Tun, and I sighed and regretted it even more.

On the one hand, he was worried that Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, would be angry and disappointed in himself if he knew that he was sitting in Datong and doing nothing, so that Monan Mongolia would change hands within a few days.

On the other hand, he was also worried that the army of the Houjin Kingdom, which had successfully taken Kuku and Tun, would not come to Monan only to conquer Lin Dan Khan, and not to covet the border of the Ming Dynasty, as its Red Banner Banner Master Belle Yuetuo said in his letter to Victory Fort.

On this night, Fan Fucui found Ma Shiying, the prefect of Datong, and Sun Yingyuan, his Fubiao general and Datong counselor, overnight, to discuss the news he had just received from the border forts in Hukou and other places.

Fan Fucui said: "Killing Hukou and other border forts have continuously reported news, all of which say that the slave chief Huang Taiji personally led more than 100,000 Jianyu troops to Monan, Chahar's Lin Dan Khan fled without a fight, and the Houjin army has entered the main Kuku and Tun!" ”

Speaking of this, Fan Fucui sighed, and then said: "The previous Datong civil and military affairs had different opinions for a while, and the old man also thought that Jianyu might not be able to stand up, and he compromised and acted prudently, and failed to listen to Wu Jianjun's words, so that the situation outside the Datong border took a sharp turn and fell into today's situation!"

"Now that the army of Jianyu has suddenly arrived, the army of hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves has gathered outside the border, although there have been captives who have submitted a letter before, claiming that the two will not offend each other, but the words of Jianjun can not be trusted, and it is the best policy to be prepared! You two have one article and one martial arts, helping the old man stay in Datong, how to deal with it now, can you have a word to teach me? ”

Ma Shiying, who is nearly forty years old, is tall and thin, with a yellow face and short beard, a gloomy face, and natural eight-character eyebrows, slender eyes, and a down-and-out literati who looks poor and talented.

After Ma Shiying listened to the words of Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, he bowed his hand to the governor and said:

"Although Xia Guan has never held a position in Liaodong, he has also heard a lot about the jackal heart of Dongyu! The eastern captives, the people outside the country, are even more barbaric and despicable than the northern captives outside the border!

"Since Xia Guan was transferred to Datong in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he knows that the words of the Northern Captives are not credible, not to mention that the barbarism and despicability are even worse than Lin Dan's Jianju?!

"The so-called commander only takes Mo Nan Lin Dan, and he doesn't offend me, but he wants me to be neutral and delay the army!

"Now that Lin Dan Khan has fled west without a trace, and the army of Jianyu has gathered outside the pass, his meaning is very clear, the so-called Xiangzhuang sword dance is intended for Pei Gongye! I will carry out the plan of the captivity! ”

Ma Shiying didn't speak very politely, Fan Fucui also knew that he was sitting back and watching the opportunity because he didn't want to make trouble before, so he didn't care, after listening to Ma Shiying's words, he stroked his beard, was silent for a moment, and then said to Sun Yingyuan, the deputy general of Datong:

"General Sun is a veteran general of the Datong border army, and he has served in the border army for a long time, what is his view on the current situation outside the border?"

Sun Yingyuan was born as a veteran of the border army in Datong Town, a small soldier from an ordinary military household, and was promoted all the way to the general of Datong Town.

From the end of Wanli to the Apocalypse, he was also transferred to Liaodong many times as a selector, and he was able to mix to this point, and he was killed from the battlefield with a knife and a gun.

Speaking of which, this Sun Yingyuan, like Hei Yunlong and others, can be regarded as a fierce general who relied on guarding all mouths along the border of Datong when Qu Jiazhen was the chief military officer of Datong Town.

It's just that after Qu Jiazhen, the former general soldier of Datong, was convicted, the former governor of Datong was convicted together, and Sun Yingyuan suddenly lost his support.

After Zu Dashou came to Datong from Liaodong to serve as the chief military officer, many of the original generals of Datong Town stood aside.

Soon, Sun Yingyuan, who was not from a Jiangmen family, was excluded by the Liaodong generals of Datong Town under the command of Zu Dashou.

However, Fan Fucui, the civilian governor, is not stupid at all, and knows the importance of checks and balances of power, especially when there is a strong commander-in-chief.

Therefore, Sun Yingyuan was not valued by Zu Dashou, but he was transferred to his command by Fan Fucui to serve as his own general of Fubiao, and at the same time arranged to the position of Datong general, and he was not idle.

At this time, after Sun Yingyuan listened to the words of the governor, he immediately clenched his fists and said, "Lord Qiqi Fuyuan!" The last general was the first to choose a front for Datong back then, and followed the army to conquer Liaodong under the command of Xiong Jingluo! ”

Speaking of this, the red-faced Sun Yingyuan's face instantly darkened, as if he thought of some tragic past, and after a pause, he suddenly said:

"Jianzhou is ugly, and the nature of a tiger and a wolf is also! Its treacherous and treacherous, vicious and cruel is by no means comparable to the Northern Captives! His words cannot be trusted!

"And I have come to use soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and I don't have a seven-point chance of winning, that is, I never move lightly, but the nature of the building is not like this, but I have a three-point chance of winning, that is, I dare to take risks! In this case, the adults of Fuyuan must not worry! ”

At this time, Chen Shiqi, the military commander of Datong, had already been ordered to go to Beijing to take up the post of military aircraft senator of the Military Aircraft Department.

Wu Fu also went to Yanghewei to sit in the town, Zu Dashou went to Victory Fort, and Ding Qirui went to kill Hukou.

There are no other people around Fan Fucui who can discuss the military situation.

Listening to what these two people said at this moment, Fan Fucui nodded and said, "In this case, everyone along the border of Datong can't help but be vigilant!" Even the city of Datong should be counted for requisition! ”

Next, Fan Fucui wrote the latest situation outside the Datong border and reported it to Emperor Chongzhen, and at the same time, at the suggestion of Ma Shiying, he immediately sent people to convey orders to Wu Fu, Zu Dashou, and Ding Qirui, asking the three of them to lead their soldiers and horses to increase vigilance, reorganize their armies, and strictly prevent Jianyu from raiding the Datong border fort.

At the same time, at the suggestion of Sun Yingyuan, it was also required that all mouths along the border should not enter the Chahar and Monan tribes to disperse herdsmen into the customs without authorization, so as not to give Jianlu an excuse to send troops, and second, to prevent Jianlu from infiltrating the spies.

At the same time, Fan Fucui also posted a list of people in Datong City, and at the same time recruited young and strong people, all of whom were under Sun Yingyuan's command.

As soon as Fan Fucui's recruitment notice was posted, three thousand people who dared to fight were recruited within a few days, and they were all included in the direct command of the Datong Governor Yamen.

Therefore, the defenders of Datong City, counting the battalion head of 2,000 people left by Zu Dashou, finally reached 8,000 people, and Fan Fucui's heart settled down a lot.

And far away in Datong, eighty or ninety miles north of Datong Victory Fort Victory Fortress Zu Dashou, after receiving the emperor's request to send troops to rescue Chaharin Khan, he secretly regretted in his heart, and now only one day later, once again heard the news of the change in Monan, and his heart was even more annoyed.

If he had agreed to rescue first, he would not have led the troops out of the fortress for the time being, and he would not have easily abandoned and naturalized when Lin Dan Khan learned that the Ming Dynasty was on the side of Chahar.

In this way, Huang Taiji led the army of Jianyu, and the troops were under the naturalization city, and they went south in a hurry, and they were tired for a long time.

But I never thought that this seemingly powerful Lin Dan Khan was so cowardly, and Daming's side just asked him to wait for the above request, and he actually ran away without a fight!

At this time, Zu Dashou, who had always suffered a little bit of gains and losses, finally had a little bit of the demeanor of a famous general in Liaodong, and immediately sent a 500 cavalry of his elite Chinese army, led by his cronies to guard Zu Keyong, out of the victory pass, and went to the northwest outpost.

At the same time, Zu Dashou also ordered to kill pigs and sheep in the Victory Fort, and change two meals a day to three meals, preparing for a bloody battle with the invading Jianlu.

Since the rise of the Jurchens in Jianzhou at the end of Wanli, Zu Dashou inherited his father's position and fought with Jianguo for more than ten years, and he naturally knew the virtue of the Jin State after Jianyu, and knew that after Lin Dan Khan fled west, tens of thousands of troops gathered in Monan, and he would definitely not let go of the opportunity to attack the Ming Dynasty by Monan.

The previous ancestor Dashou had pinned his hopes that Lin Dan Khan could hold out in the land of Monan for half a year, and when the veteran soldiers of Huangtai Jishi were tired, it was the turn of himself who had been recuperating.

In his opinion, after Lin Dan Khan conquered the Mongol tribes in southern Monan, the number of troops increased greatly, and the strength should also be greatly increased.

It is based on such a judgment that Zu Dashou, who has always been decisive in killing, will choose to endure again and again, waiting for the opportunity.

What he never expected was that his so-called waiting for the opportunity now seems to have become a joke, and then comparing it with His Majesty the Emperor's secret decree, and comparing it with Huang Taiji's devastating and decaying, his waiting for the opportunity has become a sign of cowardice and incompetence in the eyes of outsiders!

It is precisely because of this that Zu Dashou, who was very annoyed, also sent people to send a horse to his cousin Zu Dacheng, who was ordered to garrison Hukou, to order him to stay in Hubao day and night, and never take it lightly and neglect his duties.

However, what he never expected was that the Chinese army soldiers he sent to Xikou, that is, to kill Hukou, had not yet arrived at Shuoping City (the location of Datong Right Guard, Shanxi Youyu in later generations), not far from Hukoukou, and the news from Shuoping City had already shocked everyone, including him.

On the night of October 19 in the second year of Chongzhen, the city of Hukou was broken, and Zu Dacheng did not know whether he was alive or dead.