The failure of Yuan Chonghuan's three interceptions of the Later Jin army not only caused the Ming Dynasty army to create an extremely passive situation in the battle with the Later Jin army, but also had an extremely bad impact on himself.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had recalled Sun Chengzong, who had rich military experience, to help deal with the current crisis. Although he was in Liaodong at that time, Sun Chengzong had the grace of supporting Yuan Chonghuan, and he could be regarded as half of Yuan Chonghuan's teacher. However, Sun Chengzong still pointed out the various mistakes made by Yuan Chonghuan in these three interceptions in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

And because the civil officials of the Donglin Party touted Yuan Chonghuan's military talent in the past, so now, in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, he still thinks that Yuan Chonghuan is an extremely good military commander.

But the current Emperor Chongzhen found that Yuan Chonghuan had made a lot of low-level mistakes in the military, that is, ordinary people would also produce in this situation: "Will Yuan Chonghuan collude with the Houjin and deliberately put the Houjin army here in the capital?" Such a question. Not to mention Emperor Chongzhen, who was very suspicious.

In connection with the fact that a few days ago, Yuan Chonghuan's move to kill Mao Wenlong under false proclamation and Yuan Chonghuan's failure to contain the Houjin army in Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't bear it in his heart.

At this time, the Houjin army had already driven to the foot of the capital, and in the surrounding area of the capital, it was burning and plundering in a terrible way. Because of Yuan Chonghuan's command error, in the capital at this time, in addition to Yuan Chonghuan's troops, there were only a small number of troops led by Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, and Man Gui, the chief soldier of Datong.

On November 20, Hou Shilu and Man Gui led the army to fight with the Houjin army outside the Desheng Gate, and the battle was very tragic, and Hou Shilu's troops could not resist and were the first to be defeated. And Man Gui fought alone, outnumbered, fighting and walking, and there were only more than 100 soldiers left by his side.

And it was at this time that the army of the Ming Dynasty was still engaged in chilling infighting. When the Mangui Division, which was defeated by the main force of the Later Jin, was approaching the defense line of the Liaodong Army led by Yuan Chonghuan, it was attacked by the archery troops of the Liaodong Army.

Man Gui could only retreat into the Guandi Temple with the defeated soldiers, and later Emperor Chongzhen made an exception to let him avoid entering the Deshengmen Urn City. This is also Emperor Chongzhen's affirmation of Mangui's heroic battle. Because, the court of the Ming Dynasty had a rule that King Qin's army was not allowed to enter the capital.

At the same time, the Liaodong army led by Yuan Chonghuan carried out what the author believes is the most wonderful swan song in Yuan Chonghuan's life outside the Guangqu Gate.

At that time, Mang Gurtai led the four banners of the left wing of Manchuria and 2,000 Mongolian soldiers to attack Yuan Chonghuan's army. At this time, Yuan Chonghuan and Jinzhou General Soldier Zu Dashou led 9,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry outside the Tunshawo Gate.

In this battle of Guangqumen, 9,000 Liaodong iron cavalry fought tens of thousands of Eight Banner Army and Mongolian soldiers, from Si (10 o'clock) to You (18 o'clock), fierce battle for 8 hours, and more than 10 miles.

In the fierce battle, Yuan Chonghuan was hit by several arrows in his body, his ribs were like hedgehogs, and his heavy armor was impermeable. Because Yuan Chonghuan took the lead and fought desperately, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry fought hard to slash and kill, and the Mang Gurtai army was defeated.

Yuan Chonghuan's generals attacked Liu Yingguo, Luo Jingrong, Qianzong Dou Jun, etc., and pursued the Houjin army to the canal. The enemy army rushed to cross, the ice collapsed, and countless people were drowned. In this battle, the Guanning Iron Cavalry killed thousands of enemies, and the Qing army's strong forces Abatai, Azige, and Sigel were all defeated. The Liaodong soldiers also suffered hundreds of casualties.

Then, on November 27, Yuan Chonghuan used the township guide to guard the loyal strategy, with 500 artillery men, sneaked to Haizi, Xu Xu from the Huang Taiji military camp, attacked from all sides, the Huang Taiji army was in chaos, and then moved the camp out of Haizi.

This victory, in addition to proving that the Liaodong Iron Cavalry does have strong combat effectiveness, also proves that as long as the main army of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the border army, dares to fight against the Houjin army, the Houjin army is not invincible.

And after seeing the retreat of the Houjin army, Emperor Chongzhen thought that the situation had calmed down, and his rough character was suddenly revealed. He decided to immediately arrest Yuan Chonghuan, who was "colluding with Houjin".

On December 1, after doing a good job in the security work of the capital, Chongzhen summoned Yuan Chonghuan in the name of "salary", and at the same time secretly summoned Mangui, Heiyunlong, and Zu Dashou.

After the meeting, Emperor Chongzhen asked Yuan Chonghuan about killing Mao Wenlong, causing the enemy soldiers to commit crimes, and shooting and wounding Man Gui, but Yuan Chonghuan was silent. So, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be "taken and thrown to His Royal Highness" and thrown into prison. And Yuan Chonghuan's henchman Zu Dashou, who was standing on the side, was frightened and trembled.

After the summons ended, Zu Dashou, who was afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would find him to settle accounts, immediately led the main force of the Ming army, Liaodong Iron Cavalry, to run back to Jinzhou. And after getting this information, the Houjin army, which had already walked to the Lugou Bridge, actually killed it again. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen appointed Man Gui as the prime minister and led the Ming army to meet the Houjin.

On December 7, the two sides launched a bloody battle outside the Yongding Gate, in this battle, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, Man Gui and the general soldier Sun Zushou were killed in battle, and the other two general soldiers Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong were captured. However, Houjin also suffered heavy casualties and had to withdraw from the battle, and the capital was finally saved.

And the famous general Man Gui also fell under the city of Beijing. As a soldier, Man Gui is flawless. He never chooses an opponent, he fights very desperately, and when he sees the enemy, he always takes the lead in the charge.

There are two other characteristics of Man Gui's war: first, his battles are basically won; The second is that he must be injured in every battle. However, this time, Man Gui was injured and never got back up. In order to defend the country, he died on the battlefield and realized the value of a soldier.

Among the military generals in Liaodong, compared with Zu Dashou, an old fritter in officialdom, the most military temperament is Man Gui and Zhao Shujiao. Both of them dared to engage in field battles with the Houjin army. And this time, the change of Jisi buried the only two famous generals who dared to fight in the field with the Houjin Army in the Ming army at this time.

Later, although the Jin army left the capital, they still raged in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, robbing all the people and property that could be robbed.

Emperor Chongzhen's holy edict to the king of Qin in various places was sent to various places through an expedited 800 li. And the various local governments that got the news gathered their troops and drove to the capital to Qin Wang as soon as possible.

The governor of Henan, Yamen, also received the holy edict of King Qin on the seventh day of October. The governor of Henan immediately convened all the main officials of Henan to discuss, and immediately made the decision to gather the army of King Qin.

During the discussion, all the officials immediately decided that the governor of Henan and the supervisor of Henan, Gonggong Xiao, would personally lead the governor's camp and the vicinity of Kaifeng City to assemble a total of 4,300 soldiers four days later, and cross the river directly from the frozen Yellow River. Enter the North Zhili to go to King Qin. Henan's political envoy stayed in Henan.

The orders for the transfer of garrisons in various parts of Henan were also sent from the yamen of the governor of Henan to the yamen of all prefectures and guards. On the ninth day of October, Zhao Ming, the commander of Guide Mansion and Guide Dewei, also received an order from King Qin jointly issued by the governor of Henan and the Henan Supervision Army.

Early in the morning of October 10, Wu Shigong was happily teasing a few children in the inner house, when he suddenly received a message from Chang Meng: Old man Zhao Ming sent someone to find him.

Wu Shigong said to Chang Meng a little impatiently: "You go and ask what is the matter." If you still marry a little wife and have a child, you can get him some money and send him away. I don't have the time to meet. ”

Wu Shigong thought in his heart: "Then Old Man Zhao is endless, this matter of marrying a concubine every year will make this Old Man Zhao a regular income-generating project!" ”

Chang Meng saw that Wu Shigong was a little unhappy, and his voice was lowered: "Master, the pro-soldier said that he was looking for you on business." ”

Wu Shigong followed Chang Meng to the hall outside. After seeing Wu Shigong come out, the personal soldier sent by Zhao Ming immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Wu Shigong. While kowtowing, the pro-soldier said: "Wu Qianhu is well! Our commander Zhao asked the small one to report, so that Wu Qianhu could leave and go to Guide Mansion City to discuss military affairs. ”

"What the hell is military affairs?" Wu Shigong was full of unhappiness. The voice was a little stern.

"It's not a big deal. …… The little ones don't know what military affairs are. ”

Hearing the ambiguous words of the pro-soldier, Wu Shigong immediately wanted to scold. This old man Zhao Ming is probably too full. In the end, this is a collective farm for farming. And now it's calm near Guide Mansion, and there's a fart of military affairs. That old man Zhao Ming is too idle, he wants to call me around and tease me!

But Wu Shigong thought about it and found that something was wrong. In the past, Zhao Ming's personal soldiers came to look for him, although they were very respectful, but they had never kowtowed like today's personal soldiers. And this pro-soldier is talking and spitting, there must be something hidden.

So Wu Shigong slapped the table and shouted: "Say it quickly!" Don't tell Lao Tzu that you don't know what military affairs are. Otherwise, let you taste the power of Lao Tzu. ”

The soldier immediately frowned, and did not dare to get up when he knelt on the ground. He held it like constipation for a long time, and under Wu Shigong's repeated threats, he could only tell the truth: "Wu Qianhu, it was the Tartars who entered the customs and killed them in the capital." The emperor's grandfather asked us to return to Dewei and go to the capital to King Qin. ”

Wu Shigong listened to the words of the pro-soldier, and his head was dizzy. But Wu Shigong was still lucky, and he had traveled to the Ming Dynasty for a while. I know that the "Tartar" called in the Ming Dynasty means the Mongols or Jurchens.

So, Wu Shigong calmed down for a moment, and then asked, "Is it the Mongols or the Jurchens who entered the customs?" ”

Unexpectedly, the pro-soldier replied: "Wu Qianhu, the Mongols and Jurchens are here!" ”

As soon as this sentence was said, Wu Shigong suddenly became messy.