Although Daishan and Mang Gurtai sensed something was wrong, they were both big beile and were not afraid of Huang Taiji killing them, so they had no choice but to pay homage to Huang Taiji because he was still a great Khan.

Leaving the guards outside, the two entered the tent and saw two people standing next to Huang Taiji.

When Daishan saw Yue Tuo and Saharian standing in the commander's tent, he was slightly startled, and then he understood immediately.

Mang Gurtai also had an angry look on his face and said: "The Great Khan has already said that he will withdraw his troops. What do you mean by calling Yue Tuo and Saharian back?"

Huang Taiji now had the help of Yue Tuo and Saha Lian, and he was much more confident. He said with a proud face: "When did Ben Khan say that he would withdraw his troops? What he said before was just to discuss, now we will continue to discuss.

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Hearing that Huang Taiji refused to admit that he wanted to retreat, Daishan and Mang Gurtai understood that they had been tricked by Huang Taiji.

Everything he did at the beginning was to delay time and wait for Yue Tuo and Saharian to come back. In fact, he had no intention of retreating at all.

Mang Gurtai said angrily: "What the Great Khan says is whatever it is. The world has become like this. No wonder there are no good-hearted people. Cunning people live longer than anyone else."

Huang Taiji also had anger on his face when he heard this. He was now Tian Conghan of the Kingdom of Jin, and someone actually ridiculed him in front of him.

Seeing the stalemate between the two sides, Sahalian quickly stood up and said to Huang Taiji: "Great Khan, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are weak. We have already conquered Da'ankou and Longjing Pass. We can attack the Great Wall tomorrow, but we can't fight back."

Seeing that his son was causing trouble, Dai Shan said angrily: "Why can't we send troops? Our army is short of food and grass. If we don't send troops today, once we can't grab the food, we won't even have the food to go back. Will we all starve to death here?"

Ming Dynasty."

Sahalian said: "The Ming Kingdom is far richer than the Jin Kingdom. As long as our army captures the city and collects food, it will definitely be able to replenish military supplies."

Dai Shan sneered and said: "What we are talking about now is the situation that cannot be supplemented. When the whole army is wiped out, what will we do?"

Mang Gurtai also said: "The Great Jin Kingdom is the Great Jin Kingdom established by the old Khan. It is the Great Jin Kingdom of all Zhushen. We are not qualified to take this risk."

Sahalian said with a smile: "It is normal to have this worry, but our army has already broken through the Great Wall. Now that we have to retreat, we will not only spend a lot of money and food, but we will also lose the hearts of the Mongolian tribes."

Daishan looked at his son coldly and said: "There are a bunch of beggars from the Mongolian tribes, and I still care what they think."

Saharian said to Huang Taiji: "Great Khan, now the army will only waste money and food. Since our army has broken the Great Wall, why not go south to attack Zunhua. If Zunhua can be captured, the money, food and weapons will be replenished. If we attack

If not, we can still retreat in time."

Huang Taiji said quickly: "This is a very good plan."

Daishan and Mang Gurtai still wanted to stop them, but Yue Tuo, who had not spoken for a long time, stood up and said: "The Ming army is vulnerable, and the rich hinterland of the Ming Dynasty is open to us. How can we be responsible for the current army?"

Yue Tuo was a general of the Kingdom of Jin. He stood up and firmly supported Huang Taiji, even Daishan and Mang Gurtai had to give him face.

When Huang Taiji saw Saharian and Yue Tuo's support, he immediately stood up and said, "I have made up my mind. Tomorrow I will go south to break through the Great Wall and attack Zunhua City."

The next day, the Eight Banners Army was the vanguard and took the lead in going south to attack Luowen Valley.

In order to ensure that the way back was clear, Huang Taiji carried out a massacre of the young people who captured the passes. The sword was bloodthirsty. All the Han people and the naturalized Mongolian barbarians were slaughtered. Some Han people fled to Luowen Valley and reported what happened in these passes.

The tragedy was publicized.

Luo Wenyu's general Li Sili knew the news and wrote three letters to Zunhua for help.

The person responsible for guarding Zunhua was the governor Wang Yuanya. He was a civil servant and had not experienced war.

Suddenly I heard that Jiannu was attacking, not besieging Guan Ning, but besieging the northern Great Wall. I was filled with fear and suddenly lost my sense of proportion.

Zunhua is only a hundred miles away from the Northern Great Wall. If the Great Wall is damaged, Zunhua will definitely be besieged by the Jiannu.

Wang Yuanya was panic-stricken, but there were thousands of officers and soldiers in Zunhua City. He opened the military book at once and saw that he only needed private soldiers to defend the city wall and prepared defensive equipment. He could resist the enemy's army several times his own. He suddenly felt a little better.

courage.

After he figured it out, he immediately summoned the generals in the city, randomly divided the city's defenses, and then asked them to fight to the death to defend the city, thinking that this was enough.

The defenders in the city did not expect Wang Yuanya to come up with an idea. In fact, they had already discussed the countermeasures and decided not to leave. They would wait for work and be able to hold the city for more than ten days, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

But Wang Yuanya didn't know how to pretend to understand, and arranged defenses indiscriminately, which immediately overturned all their original plans.

A general knew that this matter was very important, and if he failed, he would lose the city. He quickly said: "Sir, with such a dispersed force, it is impossible to resist the enemy's attack and breakthrough. From my subordinate's point of view, we should mainly guard the northern city wall and the other walls.

By sending a small army and leaving an elite army in the center to provide support, we will definitely be able to repel the Jiannu."

Wang Yuanya thought for a long time before coming up with a way to defend the city. Now a military attaché pointed out that there were loopholes everywhere. Naturally, she felt annoyed and said sternly: "Jiannu has three eyes, how can he see through me?"

The defense of the army? And if you mainly guard one city wall, what should you do if other city walls cannot withstand it? You are self-righteous and disturb the morale of the army. I think you will be punished."

The general was startled and said quickly: "My lord, please calm down. My lord, please calm down."

When Wang Yuanya saw the general's submission, there was a trace of contempt on his face, and he said: "You guys, Qiu Bajun, just need to use your lives. As for gathering people to plan, naturally I am responsible for it. I am knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and I have been studying military books recently.

We will definitely be able to keep Zunhua City intact."

The generals looked at each other in confusion, but under the control of Wang Yuanya, a civil servant, they could only obey orders honestly.

At this time, a letter asking for help from Luo Wenyu's guard Li Sili also arrived.

Wang Yuanya was not sure about this matter, so she showed the letter asking for help to the generals and said, "Li Sili is asking for help, what do you think?"

The generals didn't care whether Luo Wenyu would be breached, but if they sent reinforcements and Zunhua was breached, it would be a serious crime of beheading, so they naturally did not agree to send reinforcements.

In Wang Yuanya's view, it is too risky to send reinforcements to Luowenyu now. Compared with a mere small pass, Zunhua is naturally more important.

So he didn't pay too much attention and said to the soldiers who came to ask for reinforcements: "Let Li Sili guard Luo Wenyu properly. The reinforcement affairs officer will naturally think deeply."

The soldier naturally knew the meaning of this sentence and hurriedly cried: "Sir, although Luo Wenyu has an apparent strength of two thousand troops, in fact it only has 800 men. We cannot hold the defense at all. Please send reinforcements.

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Wang Yuanya stood up after hearing this and said angrily: "What a good Li Sili, he actually received 60% of his salary on empty wages. It is not a pity to die for such a vicious thief. How could I send reinforcements to be buried with him?"

These words were so vicious that the soldier was stunned, his dusty face was cut with tears, and he stared blankly at the adults in the council hall.

But they didn't want to send reinforcements at all, so they acted like it had nothing to do with themselves and ignored a single soldier.

Finally, Xiao Bing knew that reinforcements were impossible. Thinking of the garrison that was evacuating the people and preparing for battle, he felt sad, but he turned around on his horse and fled towards his hometown in the northwest.

As for the fate of Luo Wenyu and the reply Li Sili wanted, Xiaobing no longer thought about it. All he wanted now was to survive and go home.

None of the three messengers sent by Li Sili came back. He knew that these three people must have become deserters, and the only thing that could make them deserters was despair.

He knew that reinforcements were unlikely to come, and he only had a bunch of old and weak men in his hands, who could not resist the slave establishment at all.

He evacuated the people in the city, waited until the Eight Banners Army had attacked Luo Wenyu, and immediately opened the city to surrender. He knelt at the city gate and presented his official seal, surrendering to Yue Tuo.

Hou Jin always gave preferential treatment to the generals who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. Although he was just a surrendered guard general, Yue Tuo still dismounted his horse to appease him, which calmed down Li Sili's originally frightened heart and helped Sahalian stabilize the situation, allowing the Eight Banners Army to avoid taking control.

The strenuous act of crossing a pass.

Three cities were captured, and the troops were directed towards Zunhua City, the important military town in the south of the Great Wall.

Zunhua City is only two to three hundred miles away from the capital, and Jiannu has been able to threaten the capital, and the court officials are even more panicked.

They originally thought that the northern Great Wall could resist for at least four or five days, but they did not expect that a series of passes were breached in two days. This made the court's response very hasty and failed to mobilize reinforcements in time to consolidate the city's defenses.

The Eight Banners Army surrounded Zunhua City and immediately organized an siege. However, because the artillery speed was too slow and there were no cannons to attack the city, Yue Tuo let the army surround Zunhua City without attacking and stepped up the production of siege equipment.

When Huang Taiji learned that Yue Tuo had surrounded Zunhua City, he was very surprised. Even though he was in charge of the attack, he didn't expect that the Ming army didn't even put up any decent resistance, and everything went so smoothly.

The strategic location of Zunhua City is very important. It was an important iron smelting plant in the northern part of the Ming army, and a large number of armor weapons were cast. If the Eight Banners Army could capture Zunhua City, they could replenish the consumed armor in Zunhua City.

Moreover, Huang Taiji knew that the Eight Banners Army would never be able to destroy the Ming Dynasty this time and could only grab a handful and run away. Zunhua was the only place they would pass through in their retreat, so they must conquer it and defend it well.

In conclusion, Huang Taiji immediately ordered Yue Tuo not to waste his time fighting, but to speed up the construction of siege equipment and organize the siege.

On the other hand, Yuan Chonghuan was shocked when he learned that the Eight Banners Army had invaded the pass from the northern Great Wall.

Although he had long been aware of this possibility, Yuan Chonghuan did not think that Huang Taiji would take such a risk, so he kept writing letters requesting to rectify the defenders of the northern Great Wall without making any strategic arrangements.

However, Huang Taiji chose what Yuan Chonghuan thought was the most impossible method, breaking through the Great Wall from the west of Xifengkou and surrounding Zunhua.

Yuan Chonghuan was fully responsible for this incident, but the line south of the Great Wall from Zunhua to Jizhou belonged to the defense area of ​​Liu Ce, the governor of Jiliao. The defense in the pass was slack. Liu Ce was the main person in charge, and Yuan Chonghuan just made an oversight.

Yuan Chonghuan has been reorganizing the Liao army recently and has limited energy. However, he is also the commander of Ji Liao and is responsible for dividing the troops to defend Jizhou Town. Now that something goes wrong in Jizhou, he must be responsible for dealing with it.

Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan immediately ordered Zhao to lead the army to Zunhua for rescue.

Zhao Lijiao was originally the commander-in-chief of Jizhou Town, but now he has been transferred to the Shanhaiguan heavy-duty army. He is a battle-hardened veteran with great military exploits. He is not only talented in warfare, but also good at governing the people, so he has been handling the affairs of Liaodong refugees in Shanhaiguan.

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