The fact that 100,000 Mongolian cavalry went south to Koubian made Zhao Zhigao very frightened.

He stretched out his hand to take the Datong emergency military report, and with a trembling hand, he tore open the outer seal, opened it, and looked at it.

On November 13, the 25th year of Wanli, the leader of the Tumut tribe, Shunyi Wang, betrayed the Ming Dynasty, led 50,000 iron cavalry of the Tumut department and 50,000 cavalry of the rest of the tribes, and went south to Koubian, and the border Ming army was caught off guard, and because of the lack of military food and military uniforms, it was cold and hungry, and even the weapons were cold and could not be held, it was difficult to resist, and the army was defeated like a mountain.

More than half of the seventy-two castles in Datong fell in just one day.

Mei Guozhen, the governor of Datong, urgently transferred the Cangtou army of Ma Gui's department to support the castle that was still resisting, but most of the castle soldiers were only 300, and the war horses were only ten, and the soldiers and horses were all cold and hungry and had no combat power, and they collapsed at the first touch, and the remnants abandoned the city and retreated into Datong Town.

Ma Gui fought hard for a day, because the Mongolian cavalry was too numerous, the Cangtou army lost more than half of the loss and had to retreat into the town of Datong, most of which had completely fallen except for the town and a few castles with more soldiers and horses were still resisting.

By the time Mei Guozhen sent someone to deliver the letter, the Mongolian cavalry soldiers were divided into three routes, one continued to besiege Datong Town, one attacked Yanmen Pass, and one attacked Pingxingling Pass, and the situation was extremely critical.

Fortunately, Mei Guozhen heard the news in advance, left a hand, and sent people to Taiyuan Town and Xuanfu Town to send letters respectively, so that they could be alert to the sudden attack of the Mongols.

However, the remaining castles in Datong Town that are still resisting have become isolated cities, and they cannot be connected to each other, only Yanghe City Guards will send people to risk death to break through to report for help, indicating that Yanghe City is still in the hands of the Ming army.

As for whether the rest of the cities are still resisting, it is unknown, the only thing that is known is that Datong has been destroyed.

The Datong defense line has been completely broken, broken like a sieve can not be more broken, the only thing you can go to at present is the castle with a small number of guards has definitely fallen, only the castle with a large number of people can hold on for a while, but it can't hold on for long.

The reason is very simple, there is a lack of food, there is no food, the soldiers are so hungry that they have no strength to fight, there are not enough winter clothes, and they can't even hold their weapons when they are cold, they either starve to death, or freeze to death, or they are beaten in by the Mongols and die.

Once the Mongols captured one or two of these castles, they could get siege equipment and even firearms, and all the way down, the Ming army's castle was as fragile as a piece of paper, pierced and pierced, and the reality of the nine-sided erosion was clear at a glance.

If it weren't for the Tumut tribe giving the Ming Dynasty more than ten years, I am afraid that the tragic situation of the Koubian would have happened many times.

This time, there was no Tumut to prevent the disaster, Tumut had no food to eat, and he had already betrayed the south, and joined forces with the rest of the troops, and the situation at this time was already the most dangerous since Alta, and it was even very likely that the old situation of Alta Kobian would reappear.

Because the Mongols also had a Chaoping-type pass to kill the past.

Once the Bauhinia Pass falls, there will be no defense line in the entire Hebei and Beijing-Ji land, and the Mongolian cavalry will gallop directly on the North China Plain, looting wantonly, and even pointing directly at the Beijing Division!

At that time, it will not only be Datong who will be miserable.

Zhao Zhigao's hand shook, and the urgent report fell to the ground, and the memory of Kou Bian forty years ago reappeared in his mind.

Zhang Wei hurriedly rushed over and picked up the military newspaper in front of everyone, and when he looked at it carefully, his eyes were wide at a glance, and he was very shocked.

Then Shen Zheng, Shen Li, and others read the emergency report one after another, and the cabinet bigwigs already knew the emergency incident that happened in Datong.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhang Wei and Zhao Zhigao.

Previously, Mei Guozhen wrote a letter requesting the imperial court to allocate more food to support the Tumut tribe to fight the disaster, reassure its heart, and make it continue to guard the border for the Ming Dynasty, and proposed that once the Tumut people were extremely hungry, they would not continue to starve and sit and wait to die, but would go south to Koubian to survive.

This is not betrayal in the general sense, but a quest to survive.

Mei Guozhen repeatedly emphasized that it is almost certain that the north captives will go south in the severe cold season, and under the leadership of the three ladies, the Tumert people have been on the border for the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and there are no less than 30 large and small battles, which has reduced the military consumption for the Ming Dynasty.

There is no merit and hard work, and it must not be regarded as an ordinary Mongolian tribe, and it is important not to lose this strategically and tactically important ally because of a little food.

Zhao Zhigao held a supportive opinion and strongly advocated that the Caoyun grain should be given priority to Datong and Tumut, so as to appease the hearts of the Tumut people, so that they could continue to defend the border for the Ming Dynasty, reduce the pressure on the two towns of Datong and Xuanfu, and ensure that when the north and the south were captured in the severe cold season, Tumut stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty and fought for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Wei desperately tried not to allow it, and he must give priority to the supply of grain to the people of Gyeonggi, and the reason is also very good.

If food is not distributed to appease them, I am afraid that if the Mongols do not come in, the people here will make trouble, this is the capital of the empire, the face of the country.

Once there is a civil uprising, how can Daming have face?

Zhao Zhigao was furious at that time - if you don't give food to the Tumuts, you don't even give it to the soldiers of the Nine Sides, in case the Mongols go south, the soldiers can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes and warmth, how can they resist the enemy?

Zhang Wei also argued on the basis of reason - there is no food to eat, and everyone has no food! Once the people of Gyeonggi make trouble and civil unrest, it will directly threaten the imperial capital, directly threaten His Majesty the Emperor, and directly threaten the lives of you and me.

The two argued, and went to the emperor to argue, Zhu Yijun quarreled with them so dizzy, and they couldn't come up with an idea for a while, and then this matter went to the military department and the household department, resulting in the confrontation between the military department and the household department, and the two sides were divided into two factions to quarrel that the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark.

Shi Xing was so angry that he almost took someone to the household to grab food.

The Ming government has played a fine tradition of big things and small things to quarrel and have nothing to do to find something to continue to quarrel, in short, it is to quarrel, what the purpose of the quarrel is not important, as long as the quarrel is good, after the quarrel, someone can fish in troubled waters, seize the language of some people to make a big fuss, and set off the next round of court battles.

There is no way, next year will be the year of Jingcha, seeing that Zhao Zhigao is also going to retire, the position of the first assistant and the outcome of Jingcha are related to the life and death of some factions.

As in the Yan Song era, Jingcha was already an important means of political struggle, and some of the real power positions of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Officials had become important fortresses for everyone to compete for.

So everyone is arguing for Datong on the surface, but in fact they are arguing for Shoufu and Jingcha, everyone knows that whoever represents the forces that won a big victory in Jingcha can become the next Shoufu.

It is a matter of life and future power position, who dares to slack off?

As for Datong and Tumut...... While going cool!

So they were cool, they rebelled, and something big happened.