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At this time, the thieves swept through the Daimyo's Mansion, all over the Shunde Mansion, and the capital strictly guarded against false words. Emperor Chongzhen told the Ministry of Hospitals, solidified the people, and all were in the inspectors. The subordinate officials will be strictly screened, and those who must be clear and prudent and follow good practices will be allowed to stay in office only if they are worn by the people.

He also instructed the Ministry of Officials: "I think that Yu Chu is broken, and the state and county cuisine needs people, and each Fu according to the official chooses his own clothes, regardless of the subject miscellaneous students, but only in order to change, that is, to fill in." Those who can advocate the recruitment of soldiers and restore a state and county will be awarded the knowledge of the state and county, and the merit will be rewarded. ”

He divided the ten members of the inner palace to supervise the towns, and ordered the cities of Jifu to recruit and refine the townships to prepare the city guards.

On the 22nd, Taikang Bo Zhang Guoji entered 10,000 taels of silver and became a marquis.

On the 26th, Fan Zhi, the governor of Jiliao, finished reporting the emergency situation, and the military department copied it out, and Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, was inscribed with a holy order: "The situation is unpredictable, and the investigation is strict." ”

On the 28th, Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, retired and allowed him. First of all, Xinjia was worried about Liukou, and repeatedly begged to summon Yongning Hou Dou, but he didn't listen, so he begged to go. Fifty taels of road fare, gallop back, west into Xuanfu Shanxi. Zhang Jinyan was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of War.

On the 29th, according to Yang Guozhutang, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, the head of the outpost sent to the general Kang Youde and the local outpost in Tuli Jiaer, saw that the camp fire of the thieves was about 30 miles long, and the thieves were afraid of attacking, and the beggar was strictly warned.

In the holy order: "The slave chieftains are pressing the borders of the Ridge, and it is advisable to urgently reorganize the troops and horses to prepare for the situation, gallop to the border wall to strengthen the momentum of support, and still make sure that the investigation is prepared, so as to prevent accidents." ”

Gao Xiang Han of Engineering said: "The slave thief has re-entered the blockade, Ning Yuan is approaching, and the cold mouth is coming, so it cannot be shown that he is weak, and the transfer of troops to the south is not a strange calculation?" ”

Kou was anxious, and the courtiers originally intended to transfer Yang Guozhu, and Wu Sangui responded, so he gave up.

On the 30th, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "Today's food and salary are interrupted, the soldiers and horses are in deficit, and the officials are being supervised, and the burden is about to be relieved." If ten ministers are added at one time, not only will the material resources not be continued, but the power will be divided, which will make the governor excuse. "I don't listen.

On the first day of the first month of March, Li Jiantai and others asked to move south and Yandong officials to supervise Nanjing.

On the sudden glance, he said angrily: "What the ministers say on weekdays, if the country is like this, no loyal ministers and righteous people share the worries of the court, and if the plan is like this, the death of the husband and the monarch is the righteousness of ancient and modern times." I have made up my mind, and I need not say more. ”

On the second day of the first lunar month, the people of Xianghe made a noise and burned down the official and civilian houses.

The city is full of turbulence, and the thieves are coming, and the courtiers are in each other's hands, and the government center will meet the officials and the masses of lawsuits all day long, and they are as proud as usual. The Ministry of Hospitals, the Factory and Health Department was ordered to arrest all officials to ridicule and investigate traitors, apply for strict protection of the law, set up soldiers in the alleys, prohibit night travel, and inspect warehouses and pastures.

On the fifth day of the first month, Kechen Han Ruyue sparsely sparse the thief Yongchang in the first year of the pseudo-edict, Emperor Chongzhen said: "The capital is more than garrisoned, and the reinforcements are four sets, so it is difficult to destroy it." If you dare to make false rumors to confuse the public, you will go out of the city with a private fortune, and the arrest of officials will participate in the Fa-rectification. ”

On the same day, he patrolled the defense of the Beijing division and paraded the troops in the Xuanwumen Sect, but he saw that the Beijing camp disciples were Rongguan and happy.

On the seventh day of the first month, he ordered Li Guozhen, the commander of Xiangcheng, to guard the city, and ordered the internal supervisors and officials to guard the nine gates, with one lord and two Qing Ya at each gate. At the beginning of the discussion of the militia, the university scholar Wei Zaode said: "The people are afraid of thieves, if one person goes, big things will go." "Naturally, it is forbidden for the people to go to the city.

He also instructed the civil and military to lose help, set up a yellow silk book, recruit hundreds of officials to help, seal the territory for repeat offenders, and promise redemption.

On the 10th day of the first month, Ling Xun Qi Dajue helped to pay the salary, and entered the Qi minister Jiading Bo Zhou Kui as the marquis, and sent the eunuch Xu Gao to ask for help.

Zhou Kui said: "The old minister is more golden. ”

Gao cried repeatedly, Kui Jian resigned, and Gao suddenly got up: "The old emperor is so stingy, and the big things are gone, what is the benefit of saving and being prolific?" ”

Kui had no choice but to donate 10,000 gold.

On March 11, the thieves Kexiong County, Wen'an, and Jinghai summoned Tang Tong and Wang Pu to lead troops into the guard.

When the counties and counties south of the Beijing Division, the wind collapsed, and the officials either surrendered or fled, but Zhending and Baoding held on.

The letters of the soldiers came repeatedly, the cabinet either frowned at each other, or talked and laughed as usual, Fan Jingwen raised the proposal of moving south, Fang and Wei thought that they would confuse the public, and they tried not to say anything. The soldier Zhang Jinyan had no other arrangement, but showed that along the street, set up artillery and set up soldiers, camped at the mouth of each alley, and hung curtains on the city, waiting for the thieves to arrive.

On the 12th, Liu Zongmin, the puppet general, moved to Jingshiyun: "It is scheduled to enter the city on the eighteenth and be temporarily paid at the Youzhou Hall." "There was a great earthquake in Beijing.

Li Zicheng, the puppet king of Shun, said to the counties and counties: "Inform the people in the countryside, don't panic, if our soldiers arrive, they will trade fairly, and they will not be lewd and looted." Put the head gun to the official to greet the seal, the second gun to greet the township official, and the third gun to greet the people. ”

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Dingxi Bo Tang Tong was stationed in Miyun Town at this time, after the battle of Jinzhou in Chongzhen 14 years, Tang Tong was named an earl, and he lived quite comfortably in Miyun in the past two years. All kinds of wars can be avoided, and trade with East Road, New Yongning City and other places in leisure time, although there is no luxury and luxury, the small life is also enjoyable.

But this peaceful life was broken, Jingshi to Miyun is less than 200 miles, Tangma arrived in one day, so after the emperor summoned Tang Tong into the guard on the 11th, what was placed in front of Tang Tong would be a choice problem related to the turning point of his fate.

Tang Tong had more than 8,000 soldiers and horses at this time, except for 3,000 horses in his main barracks, and the rest had two battalions, all of which were relatives of his Tang clan, so the Miyun army has always been united. This kind of major matter related to the choice of fate cannot be decided by Tang Tong alone, so in addition to the personal general Tang Zong, the battalion generals of the two battalions also rushed to the Earl's Mansion to discuss major matters.

Tang Tongling has sharp teeth and a cautious personality, and he is also cautious when he affects his subordinates to do anything, and strives to take all aspects into account. So Tang Tong talked about the matter, and how to choose everyone was also entangled in his heart. They also understood that they had to make a choice as soon as possible, after all, the thieves were overwhelmed and would soon reach the capital.

As a result of the final deliberations, the Great Shun Kingdom was surrendered.

They saw very clearly that the Beijing division would never be able to stop the attack of the Dashun army, and the Dashun swept everywhere like a hammer, and they were like a broken bamboo to break into Shandong, and they were like a broken bamboo to hit Gyeonggi, and their thousands of men and horses filled it up, and it was just a mantis arm as a car, and it was just lost in vain.

Or the one who knows the times is Junjie.

Of course, the Jingshi is clearly going to fall, and the Ming is clearly going to die, they actually have another choice, to go west to join the Yongning Hou Wang Dou.

However, the pro-general Tang Zong said well, Wang Dou is just a marquis, what can he give to his lord? Could he still make the lord a marquis, or even a prince? He can't give anything! However, everything is possible on the Dashun side, after all, the new dynasty has a new atmosphere.

He also admitted that the Marquis of Yongning was very strong, but in the face of the general trend, the trend of the righteous army sweeping the world, how many ministers and heavy generals were lost under their soldiers, presumably the Marquis of Yongning would hold on at most at most. It is even possible that the Xuanfu will fall, and the Duhufu will fall and become a prisoner of the order.

When these words came to Tang Tong's heart, he thought that if he went to join Wang Dou, he would indeed not get any benefits, and maybe even the soldiers and horses would be dismantled and ended up in the loyalty camp. This makes people feel creepy when they think about it, without soldiers, what kind of thing is he Tang Tong?

Thinking of his experience with Wang Dou, he was surprised that the two were just general friends, and even quite contradictory, if Yang Guozhu and others Wang Dou would still pay attention to it, but he ......

Even Tang Tong faintly felt that Wang Dou looked down on himself a little, which made him feel bad in his heart.

That's it, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and others can descend, why can't they descend?

However, after all, he was a cautious person, so he thought about it and said: "Why don't you follow the emperor's edict first, and our military horses will go to Gu'an to have a look." If the Dashun soldiers are really that strong, it won't be too late for us to surrender. The lives of thousands of brothers are at stake, and we have to be cautious. ”

These words also dispelled the last worries of everyone around him, Tang Zong and the others praised together: "The handsome is thoughtful, and he thinks about his brothers wholeheartedly, and the last general can follow the handsome, which is really a blessing from the previous life." ”

Tang Tong waved his hand and said reservedly: "The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, if you can not fight, it is better not to fight." ”

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From Jingshi to Datong, the general post station is complete, especially after entering Xuanfu, this road is even easier to walk. Seven hundred miles, Tangma more than 200 miles a day, 11 days from the Beijing Division, 14 to Datong, at this time Dingxing Bo Wang Pu, received the emperor's edict of King Qin, let him immediately lead the troops into Beijing.

"Did you finally remember me?"

After Wang Pu received the holy decree, he pouted, he asked people to receive the envoys, but he was not in a hurry to lead the troops into the guard, but asked people to recruit his henchman, Chief of Staff Tian.

It took a long time for the chief of staff of Tiantian to arrive in a hurry, but after the battle of Jinzhou, Wang Pu focused on economic construction, especially obsessed with tobacco and other cash crops.

This led to the imitation of a cadre of cadres, who were either in the fields or in the shops and tobacco shops, and the fewer people were in the barracks, the chief of staff of this field did not know where to go, and it took a long time to find them.

Chief of Staff Tian arrived in a hurry, he still had a goatee, but his face was much more ruddy than before.

Similarly, Wang Pu has also made a lot of fortune in the past two years, the two mustaches left on his lips are shiny, and the economic form of Datong has been very good in the past two years, and Dingxingbo has gained some weight unconsciously, and his personable image in the past has been lost.

After Wang Pu said about King Qin's edict, he slowly sipped the fragrant tea and said slowly: "Chief of Staff Tian, what do you think?" ”

Chief of Staff Tian habitually found the map and sand table in the lobby, he looked at it for a long time, but what he said was something that was not related to the wind and horses: "Did the marshal ask, did the emperor give an order to the Marquis of Yongning?" ”

Wang Pu's eyes lit up: "A word wakes up the person in the dream." ”

He put down the teacup and said with a smile: "That's it, Yongning Hou sent troops, let's send troops." Yongning Hou didn't send troops, and we won't send troops either! ”

Chief of Staff Tian just smiled reservedly, and at this time, the guards came to report, and Wei Jingying, the governor of Datong, asked to see him.

Wang Pu couldn't help frowning: "This smiling tiger is here again, don't you bother......

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On March 13, Bazhou and Tianjin fell, and the edict was issued.

Tang Tong entered the guard with 8,000 people, and ordered the eunuch Du Zhizhi to assist in guarding Gu'an, rewarding 40 taels of silver, and the big red python clothes and silk two tables. There were 8,882 officers and soldiers, and the inner treasury issued 4,500 taels of silver, and each soldier had five cents. Seeing His Majesty, Tang Tong repeatedly condoled and helped to defend Yunyun.

On the 14th, Yang Yi, the governor of Shuntian, went out to patrol and escape.

On the 15th, Gu'an fell, and the ranks of Tang Tong and Du Zhi fell.

On the same day, Wu Sangui hurriedly led thousands of elite horsemen from Ningyuan into Shanhaiguan.

On the 11th, the army of slaves and thieves who had been standing still, or only attacking the cities, suddenly stormed Shanhaiguan and Jizhen. Jizhen is okay, but the strength of Shanhaiguan is thin, in addition to the local township Yongwei soldiers, there are some battalion soldiers, there are only Shanhaiguan general soldiers, Dongpingbo Liu Zhaoji thousands of people can fight.

However, compared with the incomparably vast army of Tartars outside the Guanguan, there are still too few people in Shanhaiguan, which makes Fan Zhiwan, the governor of Jiliao who was in Guancheng at this time, worried. He couldn't afford the risk of Shanhaiguan falling, and there were no soldiers nearby, and Yang Guozhu, the Marquis of Jibei, couldn't pull it out, so he had to ask Wu Sangui in Ningyuan for help, and he made urgent calls several times a day.

At this time, Wu Sangui and Qiu Min, the governor of Liaodong, were living in Ningyuan City, and the messengers asking for help came desperately, and they wept blood and wailed, so that Wu Sangui and Qiu Minyang were moved.

It is very risky to go out of the city to rescue, and Wu Sangui's troops are actually not much, the Wu family and the ancestral family of these descendants of the Liao generals add up to only 30,000 people, they are also scattered in Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places, and his own elite Wu family has only 2,000 people.

If these backbone soldiers and horses are lost......

It's just that if you don't save it, if Shanhaiguan is broken, you will lose contact with the customs and cut off your own back road, which is also a risk that Wu Sangui and others can't bear. After all, they know that this time is different from the past, the thieves are going north to Beijing, and they are afraid that there will be no great reinforcement of Liao in the future, and if the back road is cut off, it will really be cut off.

Therefore, after discussing with Qiu Minyang for several days, it was finally decided that Qiu Minyang would stay in Ningyuan, and Wu Sangui himself would lead 3,000 elite horsemen to rush into Shanhaiguan to rescue him......

After the bloody battle, Wu Sangui's face was quite cold and solemn, and his body was awe-inspiring.

He is on the horse, compared to the past, he is more calm, and the demeanor of the children of the family is undoubtedly revealed.

It's just that compared with previous years, the wrinkles on his face have increased a lot, and he has the color of wind, frost, snow and rain. Carrying the interests of the Wu family, the ancestral family and other generals, and even the interests of the entire Liaodong group, how can there be no burden? After the Battle of Jinzhou, he has aged rapidly.

At this time, he was on the horse, although he was silent, but in fact, he was anxious in his heart, and he was worried about the situation. He knew that the thieves were like a bamboo, and they were about to hit the feet of the Jingshi, and he was not sure how long the Jingshi could hold on, and now the Tartars were taking advantage of the fire to rob.

Wu Sangui has been in the Liaodong Army for a long time, so he naturally knows their strategy. The first is to desperately drag himself and Yang Guozhu and others to prevent himself from supporting Jingshi. The second is that if the defense of Shanhaiguan and Jizhen is empty, they don't mind occupying the wall, and then rely on it to lay chess pieces for the future strategy.

The thieves and Tartars, all of them are aggressive, and the people who come are not good, which makes Wu Sangui even more worried.

He was particularly worried about the Jingshi's side, after all, if the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, would there still be millions of Liao salaries a year in the future?

If the capital is broken, where should I go? What will happen to the entire Liaodong Military Gate in the future?

Thinking of this, he was quite at a loss.

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On the 16th, Wang Pu reported that he was injured by falling from a horse, and the emperor rewarded him with forty taels of medicine.

On the same day, the Jingbian Army took over the city defense of Juyong Pass, Bauhinia Pass and other places.

At night, looking at Tongzhou from afar, the fire was candlelight, but it was the thieves who forbade plundering at night and divided their troops to plunder the grain reserves in Tongzhou.

The thieves are approaching the city. (To be continued.) )