Huang Taiji led a large army to encircle the three missing ones, only the relatively open area near the south gate, and no Jurchen soldiers and Mongol soldiers were deployed, just to lure the defenders of the city to break through from the south gate. Ｘ

As a result, Ma Chengxuan and Ma Chengguang led the soldiers of the Ma family and the defenders of the city to leave the south gate not long after, they were surrounded by the ambush regiment that suddenly appeared.

In the face of the sudden appearance of thousands of Jianyu Iron Cavalry, although everyone in the Majia army fought desperately and bloodily, it was still to no avail in the end.

Ma Chengxuan and Ma Chengguang, the only remaining brothers of the Ma family, died on the spot.

The descendants of the Ma family, Ma Wei, Ma Qi, Ma Gang, Ma Yu, Ma Yue, etc., who followed out of the city to break through, as well as Ma Gui's great-grandson Ma Zhenming, Ma Zhenyuan and others, were also killed on the spot.

There were also other Majia Jiading and the defenders in the city who followed out of the city to break through, and they were all killed.

After the organized resistance in the area of Shuoping City was eliminated, Huang Taiji led the army to divide into two routes with the troops of Mang Gurtai, and led the Zhenghuang Banner and the Mongol army under his command all the way south to Shuozhou along the mountain valley at the eastern foot of Guanshui Mountain.

At the same time, Huang Taiji handed over the unfinished matters of Shuoping City to Mang Gurtai, and he sent people to stay in Shuoping City.

And ordered Mang Gurtai to take a short rest and replenishment in Shuoping, and led the Zhenglan Banner and the Mongolian army under his command, along the mountain road from Shuoping City to Datong, all the way to the east, and went straight to Datong first.

After Huang Taiji led the army to gallop south, Mang Gurtai led the army of Zhenglan Banner and the Maoming An and Haoqi Special Divisions of Mongol Mongol in Monan, and then rushed into Shuoping City.

Mang Gurtai, who was angry because of the stubborn resistance to the siege yesterday, ordered the Zhenglan Banner army and the Mongols of Monan Maoming and Haoqi to burn and loot in Shuoping City.

The next morning, after killing and looting in the city for a day and a night, all the troops under the command of Mang Gurtai went out of the city, and everyone reaped a lot of money, and the morale of the previous frustration under the city was also greatly boosted.

There are only more than 30,000 men, women, and children in the city, and none of them have been spared.

Hundreds of old and weak women and children of the Ma family, including those who were hiding in Shuoping City, were also killed by the Jurchens and Mongols who held a grudge.

At noon on October 22, before Mang Gurtai led his army eastward, a fire burned the acropolis of Datong's right guard to the ground.

Attached to the Hui Ma family, the family business that has been operating in Datong Right Guard for two or three hundred years, in just two or three days, under the butcher's knife of the people of Mang Gurtai, it was wiped out together with Shuoping City.

Except for a small number of children of the Ma family who are serving outside, such as Ma Dengyun, who was recently appointed as the deputy commander of the capital and the commander of the Left Association in the second town of the Guards Army presided over by Zhang Weixian and Sun Yuanhua, and a few people who are still serving in Jizhen, Ningxia and other places, the Ma family is almost completely wiped out.

Ma Dengyun's father is Ma Gang, Ma Gang's father is Ma Chengen, and Ma Chengen's father is Ma Jin, and Ma Jin is Ma Gui's eldest brother.

Ma Chengen was the chief military officer of Datong Town before his death, but his son Ma Gang was frail and sickly and did not come out.

Therefore, as Ma Gang's eldest son, Ma Dengyun came out relatively early, and now he has entered the ranks of chief military officers.

Of course, now Ma Dengyun is leading the two standard men and horses of the Second Town of the Guards Army, Zuo Xie, with a large number of guns, ammunition, heavy grain, grass and other materials, rushing to the Bauhinia Pass.

He still didn't know anything about what happened to the right guard in his hometown of Datong.

Jiang Jiao, the garrison of Hukou Difficult Pass, took dozens of cronies and family members to seize the horse from Shuoping City and fled south, and that night, he ran to Shuozhou City.

Under the pretext that he was ordered to come to ask for help, Jiang Jian perfectly explained his escape behavior.

However, Huang Zongchang, the governor of Shuozhou, and Wang Yuncheng, the garrison of Shuozhou City, after receiving the terrifying news brought by Jiang Zhuang, in addition to immediately sending people to Datong to warn, did not dare to lead the army out of the city to the north of Datong to rescue Shuoping City.

Although Datong Town is a border town, Shuozhou, which belongs to Datong Prefecture, is far away from the first line.

Therefore, compared with the border forts along the border of Datong, which is heavily armed, Shuozhou, which is located on the southwest edge of the Datong Basin, does not have many troops to garrison, except for some guards near Shuozhou, there are only a few sentinels in Shuozhou City that belong to the Zhenshuo battalion.

On the evening of October 23, Huang Taiji led tens of thousands of troops to camp outside Shuozhou.

At this time, in Shuozhou City, a group of guards and a large number of young men from the surrounding areas had just been gathered, and the strength of the city had reached more than 5,000.

But Jiang Ping, who escaped all the way, was not optimistic about the city defense of Shuozhou City, and when he saw Huang Taiji's army following, he immediately found Huang Zongchang of Zhizhou, and reported that he was Ningwu Pass on the Great Wall south of Shuozhou, and reported to the army of Shanxi Town for help.

Huang Zongchang and Wang Yuncheng immediately agreed, and then Jiang Pai took advantage of Huang Taiji's army to surround Shuozhou City, and fled on horseback again, all the way to Ningwu Pass.

And Shuozhou City really couldn't withstand the siege of Huangtaiji's army.

On the morning of October 24, Huang Taiji ordered the army to launch an attack, and under the artillery bombardment of the Wuzhenchao Hahan army led by Sun Dewei, the morale of the Jianyuzheng Yellow Banner army and the Mongolian soldiers accompanying the army was unprecedentedly high, and after blowing a gap in the tower at the north gate of Shuozhou City, tens of thousands of people flocked in.

The garrison Wang Yuncheng was killed in battle, and Zhizhou Huang Zongchang also died in the chaos.

Huang Taiji led the army to attack the city with great vigor and speed, so that Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who was still sitting in Taiyuan, and Sun Chuanting, who was overseering the army in the Luya Mountain in the northern section of Luliang, had no time to react.

On the night of the day when Huang Taiji led his army to break through Shuozhou City, he convened the ministers and generals under his command to discuss the direction of the next main attack.

Chahar, who had just surrendered to Huangtaiji, advocated continuing to go south to attack the Inner Great Wall, and then enter the hinterland of Shanxi to plunder the population and wealth.

He said, "Great Khan! The minions have been in Monan for a long time, and there are many Han merchants in the land of Monan, and there are many Jin people among the Han merchants! The richness of the hinterland of Shanxi can be seen from this!

"And we and other people in the north, not satisfied with the water and soil of the Southern Dynasties, it is useless to seize its land, this time it is a rare opportunity to break the Hukou, why not take advantage of the unpreparedness of its internal pass to quickly go south to Shanxi, plunder gold, silver, grain, population and livestock to the north!"

Chahar Dou Tumen Gushan Dolzidarhan Jinong's statement of lack of ambition was naturally scorned by Huang Taiji and the strategists around him.

When Fan Wencheng heard this, he immediately said to Huang Taiji: "The plan set by Your Majesty at the beginning of the oath has now been completed, which shows Your Majesty's wisdom and wisdom!"

"However, those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and the servants ask Your Majesty not to forget the original intention of crusading against the Southern Dynasty! At this time, the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty must have learned of the movement of our army, and it was when it was not launched! Our army broke through the barrier, and although we had the first opportunity, this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was fleeting.

"The art of war is cloudy, and the soldiers are fast! Our army should abandon all selfish distractions and go straight to the Southern Dynasty Jingshi! If you can break this pass before the Southern Dynasty army reinforces Juyong Pass, Your Majesty's ambition to conquer the Southern Dynasty will be truly achieved! ”

Fan Wencheng's statement is exactly what Huang Taiji wants.

And when Fan Wencheng finished saying this, Huang Taiji's other two confidants, Yanguli and Darhan, also immediately said:

"Great Khan! Fan commented that the soldiers are very fast, and it makes sense! At this moment, it is time for our army to abandon everything and quickly march eastward! The city can be lowered, and if it cannot be avoided, it cannot be avoided! Just go all the way east! If we can break through the Juyong Pass as scheduled, then the Beijing Division of the Southern Dynasty will suddenly become the thing in the hands of my army! ”

When Chahar Dou Tumen Gushan Dolzidarhan Jinong heard this, he learned that the Jurchens actually had such ambitions, or ambitions, and sighed in his heart, and he didn't say much at the moment.

In this way, on the morning of October 25, Huang Taiji left his henchman Wu Basheng, the fierce general Mu Ketan and others, led the ten Niu Lu of the Zhenghuang Banner, and the 7,000 Mongol troops of Mongol surrender in southern China, including Chahar Akhtumen Gushan Erke Chuhuer, a total of more than 10,000 people, stayed in Shuozhou to guard against the attack of the Shanxi Zhen army, while he himself personally led the main force of more than 30,000 people and ran all the way to Datong.

From Shuozhou to Datong, it is the plain in the Datong Basin of Pingchuan, the roads are smooth, the villages and towns are border, the Huangtaiji army does not worry about the problem of grain, leaving only a group of men and horses to plunder and escort the grain and grass population, and most of them are advancing rapidly.

In just four or five days, Huang Taiji led the main cavalry under his command to capture Mayi, Shanyin, Yingzhou, and Huairen all the way.

On the afternoon of the first day of November, on the afternoon of the same day that Emperor Chongzhen swore to go out in the first town camp of the Luhewan Guards in Tongzhou, he joined forces with Mang Gurtai under the city of Datong.

And just when Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji rushed to the vicinity of Datong with their front and back feet, the victory fort ten miles away in the north of Datong was also broken by Yue Tuo and Haoge led by the army at the cost of casualties, and it was far away in Datong, seven hundred miles west of the Beijing Division.