Chapter 209 Yuan Chonghuan's Sassy Operation 1
On the second day of the second month of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji's army set off in Liaoyang and entered Mongolia. Foreign propaganda was to regulate the conflicts between Mongolian tribes.
This time, the Later Jin sent troops to be armoured and soldiers, and more than 30,000 without armor. A total of 44,000 direct troops were sent. This was also the entire force that the Later Jin could do after Mao Wenlong's death.
On the fourth day of the lunar month, Zharut Mongolia and Huang Taiji's main force merged and headed to Kala City together.
On the fifth day of the lunar month, Naiman Mongolia and Aohan Mongolia came to meet with Huang Taiji, and the entire army continued to advance.
On the sixth day of the lunar month, Bahrain and Mongolia came to meet.
On the fifteenth, a total of 23 Beile from most of the Korqin Mongolian troops led troops to meet with Huang Taiji. Each Beile led 100 cavalrymen, with a total of more than 2,500 armored soldiers.
Although Zareit Mongolia was invited by Huang Taiji, she finally shrank after halfway. The leader sent an envoy to apologize and led the tribe back to his hometown. Other Mongolian tribes in the invited places also sent troops, but the number was different. Most of them were used to make soy sauce, and the meaning of waiting and watching was obvious.
On October 20, Huang Taiji entered Kala City, and all the Mongolian tribes of Kalaqin came to meet, with a total of 2,000 armored soldiers.
On that day, Huang Taiji presided over the alliance ceremony in Kala City. All the troops came to join Huang Taiji and the people from the landlords sacrificed their swearing to heaven. From then on, they were enemies and not friends with the Ming Dynasty.
At this point, Huang Taiji completed thousands of miles, involving dozens of Mongolian tribes, with 50,000 participants and tens of thousands of insiders. However, Liaodong Dusifu remained silent at this time.
On the 24th, the army of the Later Jin began to march towards Longjing Pass. The entire army had 44,000 armored soldiers from the Later Jin Dynasty and 8,000 Mongolian armored soldiers. In addition, there were servants, coats and unarmed soldiers, totaling more than 100,000.
Until this time, the Ming army's Liaodong Dusifu still seemed to have no notice, and Jizhen still did not receive any alarm, and the Ming army's last chance was lost.
On the 27th, the Jin army vanguard began to attack Longjing Pass...
From the end of April to the beginning of October, Huang Taiji conducted a large-scale military connection to attack Jizhen, Daming. After the second day of October, he led tens of thousands of troops under the eyes of Liaozhen, Ming Dynasty, and advanced from Liaozhong to Kala City. He marched for almost a month. Moreover, Huang Taiji had not even fully grasped the sect leader of Monan as he came along.
Huang Taiji created a military miracle on October 27, the second year of Chongzhen, and the Later Jin Dynasty successfully formed a surprise attack on Jizhen! Zhao Rujiao from Jizhen had been transferred to the San Customs by Yuan Chonghuan. An incompetent Lin Jue was in charge of the empty city where 10,000 soldiers were removed by Yuan Chonghuan to save funds.
In November, the Ming Dynasty finally felt something was wrong. On November 3, martial law began in the capital.
On the afternoon of the same day, the Later Jin army cleared the remaining Ming troops along Xifengkou to resist, and Huang Taiji's central army began to enter the border wall. If you draw a line from Xifengkou to the Ming Dynasty capital according to the principle of two points and one line, then Zunhua, an important town in the Ming Dynasty border, 80 miles southwest of Xifengkou, is the first stop from Xifengkou to the Ming Dynasty capital.
On the straight line leading to the capital from Xifengkou, there are three points in Zunhua, behind it is Jizhou, then Sanhe, and Tongzhou is the last barrier in the capital.
The total length is 350 miles. In addition to the key point of Zunhua, Santunying, the transportation hub of Jizhen and Liaozhen, is 260 miles from Santunying to Shanhaiguan, and passes through Qian'an and Funing. Santunying is the closest route from Liaozhen to Jimen. Once this place is captured, the passage of Shanhaiguan to reinforcement area from Jizhen can be cut off and threats from flanks can be lifted.
After the Jin army entered the border wall in a large scale twenty-seven days later, the two important military points, Zunhua and Santun camp, were exposed to the territory of the Later Jin army. However, throughout the 28th, the Later Jin army only marched to Hanerzhuang twenty miles away from Xifengkou. All the troops of the Later Jin stopped moving forward strangely, as if waiting for something.
At 30, the Jin army officially invaded the capital, and the entire capital was shocked. At this time, the Ming Dynasty's court recovered from the relentless pursuit of the eunuch party and began to face the crisis of the army at the city.
When Yuan Chonghuan heard that Jiannu had entered the capital, his first decision was not to take the opportunity to divide his troops and take advantage of the emptiness of the Liaodong Huangtaiji nest and kill him, at least to surround Wei and save Zhao, but to strictly order the soldiers of Guanning, Liaodong to defend the dead.
Then, he ordered Zhao to lead 4,000 light cavalry back to the capital, and he brought the elite troops of Ningyuan General Zu Dashou into the pass with Yuan Chonghuan.
Zhao led his troops to rush for three days and nights, traveling 350 miles to the Santun Camp east of Zunhua. However, Zhu Guoyan, the general of the Santun Camp, refused to let Zhao lead his disciples enter the city on the grounds that he did not receive the military order from Yuan Chonghuan. Zhao led his disciples had to go west and head towards Zunhua.
On the fourth day of November, Zhao led the Jiao to lead reinforcements outside Zunhua City, and met the four left-wing banners of Manchuria and Mongolian soldiers in the Later Jin Dynasty, Bele Azige and other troops. He accidentally entered an ambush, fell off his horse by arrows, and died in a fierce battle. His entire army was wiped out.
Four thousand people fight with one hundred thousand people, and the ending is no surprise.
On that day, the Later Jin army attacked Zunhua City and attacked the city from all sides. Ming Governor Wang Yuanya defended the city and resisted stubbornly. The next day, the soldiers in Zunhua City mutiny and cooperated with each other, and Zunhua City fell. Governor Wang Yuanya hanged himself and died. The officers, soldiers and people in the city were all massacred. Then, the Later Jin army attacked Santun Camp east of Zunhua, and some generals escaped. General Zhu Guoyan posted the names of the escaped generals on the street, and then hanged himself with his wife Zhang. The Later Jin army broke Santun Camp.
Then Huang Taiji left 800 troops to guard Zunhua, and personally led the Later Jin army to head south, heading towards Beijing, approaching Jizhou. At this time, Yuan Chonghuan saw that Zunhua blocking was gone, so he planned to rush to Jizhou west of Zunhua to block it. On the tenth day of November, Yuan Chonghuan led his army into Jizhou. Jizhou was a barrier between Zunhua and Tongzhou, about 140 miles away from Tongzhou, the eastern suburb of Beijing.
However, Huang Taiji did not march in the direction that Yuan Chonghuan estimated, but headed for Tongzhou through Shunyi from the northeast. In this way, Yuan Chonghuan's plan to intercept Huang Taiji's army in Jizhou was disappointed again.
Yuan Chonghuan then continued to march and arrived at Hexiwu, one hundred and twenty miles away from Beijing and thirty miles away from Tianjin.
Zhao Xing, who saw the military newspaper, really didn't know what Yuan Chonghuan was thinking. Did he not even understand the principle of the shortest straight line distance between two points? He rushed to Tongzhou, forty miles away from Beijing to intercept the enemy. What did you do when you run to Hexiwu, one hundred and twenty miles south of Beijing between Beijing and Tianjin? There is no enemy there at all, the enemy is in the north.
You said you were lost, this excuse is too much.
Chapter completed!