Cheng Xiaolian didn't have any unexpected thoughts about Mu Xiaodi's offensive, if Mu Xiaodi was willing to retire in Gansu was something that surprised Cheng Xiaolian, his family suffered a big disaster when he was young, and then the days of hiding in Tibet would make Mu Xiaodi live a very insecure life.

For Mu Xiaodi, a sense of security is more important than anything else, and this ancestor Yin Ze was crowned King Qianning obviously will not have any sense of security, he needs greater merit to achieve his status, so as to gain a sense of security.

Of course, he didn't let Mu Xiaodi go deep alone, and he had already ordered the Jinyi guards over there in Gansu to do their best to deal with Mu Xiaodi, even if Daming didn't do it, it wouldn't take two years for Galdan to do it, so it was better to do it in advance.

Now it is winter, Galdan has just returned in the Central Plains, it is impossible to send troops in the short term, the cold is the biggest nemesis of the Mongolian cavalry, in this weather, they are impossible to break through the city, once they encounter heavy snow is easy to wipe out the whole army, it is better to spend the winter in the grassland, and wait until the autumn of the next year to loot is not too late.

But as long as there was food in their tents, the Mongol warriors were reluctant to do it in winter, especially if they were not sure.

Originally, the Yarkand Khanate was divided into two sects, the White Mountain faction and the Black Mountain faction, but now the Montenegrin faction has the upper hand and supported Sima Yi to become the Great Khan of the Yarkand Khanate.

The leader of the Baishan faction has already fled to Tibet because of the defeat in the court battle, and he is on his way to the Dzungar Ministry after being introduced, if there is no deviation in history, in a year, Galdan will send troops to destroy the Yarkand Khanate.

Mu Xiaodi didn't aim at those big cities at first, and Sima Yi was addicted to beauty and couldn't extricate himself, and those ministers under him were greedy for money, so they had no time to take care of the distress letters sent by those small cities that didn't have much tax, and within ten days Mu Xiaodi had pulled out all the small cities outside Jiayu Pass, and his subordinates also gathered a large number of people, and they also had a deeper understanding of the entire Yarkand Khanate.

When Mu Xiaodi set his sights on Hami, the largest city in the eastern part of the Yarkand Khanate, the old men in the capital finally couldn't sit still.

It didn't take much effort for them to organize a coalition of 100,000 troops, and Sima Yi issued an order under the command of the ministers to destroy the invading enemy, attack Jiayu Pass, and teach the Ming a lesson!

100,000 allied troops set off from the capital and rushed to Hami, Mu Xiaodi made a mistake under Hami City, Hami is not a small city, the soldiers and people in the city have stood up under the orders of the city lord, and the damage will not be small if you want to storm the city.

Although the people in the city and those soldiers are often exploited in peacetime, they have succumbed to the rule of those old men for a long time, and they dare not have the slightest intention of resisting, but anyone who dares to resist has been arrested and slaughtered by those people, and no matter how hard the bones have passed for decades, they are afraid that they will be softened.

At this time, Jinyiwei also came with new news: "The Yarkand Khanate has an army of 100,000 rushing to Hami, and it has the posture of swallowing the Ming Dynasty army in one breath. ”

When Mu Xiaodi came, there were only 2,000 people, and later he conquered a few small cities and exchanged those gold, silver and grain for the allegiance of 20,000 strong men, but these people were not reliable at all, and once they encountered trouble in the battle, they were afraid that they would run away. It will take a long time for these 20,000 soldiers to return to their hearts, but it seems that there is not so much time left for him now.

On the other hand, Yuan Zonghao also encountered a lot of trouble, Gao Dajie's army was finally forced to withstand the situation by Gao Dajie after a short period of defeat, and those new recruits also grew rapidly, and the news that made him even more disturbing was that the news came two days ago that the Manchu army had begun to march, and it seemed that they had also gotten the news of the fierce battle in Shandong.

Thinking of this, Yuan Zonghao no longer hesitated, planning not to play anything with Gao Dajie, and directly forced him to fight a decisive battle, and let him continue to consume like this, I am afraid that he will have a long night.

On this day, the Shanhe Army suddenly received an order, and the army rose up from the camp, directly crossing the Jinan Mansion that Gao Dajie was guarding and headed to the south, Yuan Zonghao's meaning is obvious, since you plan to shrink in the city and slowly consume, then I will go directly to stab Nanjing, and see if you can sit still and can't sit still.

If Gao Dajie is a young man, he may still stick to Jinan City and resolutely not fight, after all, some time ago, Hu Guozhu rushed back to Nanjing with his army, although there were less than 20,000 people, but there was absolutely no problem with a little levy of recruits to hold Nanjing.

But he was a veteran, and he was brought out by Wu Sangui, so he sat back and watched the capital fall into danger, he really couldn't do it, so he drove out of Jinan City with a large army and chased Yuan Zonghao.

And within eighty miles of Jinan City, he got the news of the scout, and the army of the Ming Dynasty was in front of him, as if he had no intention of going south.

Gao Dajie is also a little helpless in the face of this scene, these recruits have no way to build a defense line, otherwise why gather all the army in a city, now it is to give the Ming Dynasty army a chance, they casually make a surprise attack on Nanjing, their own people will meet up, and they will never dare to let them go south.

Yuan Zonghao was not ambiguous, and directly ordered the army to start marching north, and Gao Dajie had to arrange a battle formation to deal with it, and the battle seemed to be doomed before it was fought.

Half a day later, Gao Dajie led 5,000 remnants to escape from the battlefield, Yuan Zonghao won a great victory in Shandong, and the Daming Mountain and River Army shocked the world.

When the news reached the city of Nanjing, Wu Shifan was immediately stunned and couldn't say a word, Xia Guoxiang hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, don't be too anxious, although Gao Dajie is defeated, there is Hu Guozhu's army outside the capital, and this Nanjing city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Ming army will definitely not be able to cross this river!" ”

Wu Shifan now has this life-saving straw in front of him, and hurriedly responded: "Everything is up to my uncle." ”

Hu Guozhu also made a mistake when he heard the news, if he guarded Nanjing City, he would be surrounded here, and he would become Emperor Chongzhen if he was careful, and he would lose the city and lose the country. But if you don't defend Nanjing City, there is no way to retreat.

At the beginning, the Northern Song Dynasty was able to retreat from Bianliang City to Lin'an City, and there was no essential difference between retreating from Nanjing City to Hangzhou City, and even the city of Hangzhou City was not as strong as the city of Nanjing City, plus the Zheng family of Taiwan was still making trouble in Fujian and Guangdong, their situation was much worse than that of the Northern Song Dynasty at the beginning.

Their hopes at this time could only be pinned on the Manchus, and even their hatred for the Manchus had weakened, and they only hoped that they could quickly send troops to solve their own crisis.

(End of chapter)