At the end of May of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led an army of 100,000 to the border of Xuanfu and began to divide the troops into four groups.

Dabei Daishan and his son Yue Tuo led the Zhenghong Banner, the Enanghong Banner, the Tumote tribe and the Ordos tribe, a total of 30,000 troops continued to advance westward, searching for the remaining troops of Chahar along the way, and rushing to the border of Datong Town.

The three brothers Ajige, Dorgon and Dodo led the Zhengbai Banner, the Enangbai Banner and the 20,000 troops of the Kalaqin tribe, moved towards the Taizi City and advanced to the Longmen Guard.

Huang Taiji personally led 30,000 elite soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner and the Inlaid Yellow Banner, and advanced to the Wanquan Right Guard. He was under his command, including many generals such as Haoge, Yangguli, Darhan, Tulai, Obai, and Yangshan.

The first to launch the attack was the Eastern Front.

On May 28, the 10th son of Nurhaci, Beledegele, Gushan Ezhensele, Panggu and others led a total of 20,000 troops of Zhenglan Banner, Fanglan Banner, Zhalut tribe, Korqin tribe, etc., pried open the Great Wall from the Dushishui River, and entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty. They also broke through Dushikou Fort, Banbidian Fort, Maoeryu Fort, and then headed towards Yunzhou Fort and Chicheng Fort.

The Later Jin Dynasty entered the pass nearly a month earlier than in history.

This is because there is one more person in Luliang Mountain.

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The news that Xingxian, Kelanzhou, Baodezhou, Hequ and Ningwu Pass fell one after another quickly spread to nearby prefectures and counties. For a time, officials from all over the country and generals of the Ming army were in danger, fearing that the Qin surname would suddenly kill them.

After receiving the urgent report, Shanxi Governor Dai Junen and Xuanda Governor Zhang Zongheng hurriedly led their troops back. One was afraid that Qinchuan would attack Taiyuan because there were many royal relatives from the King of Jin in the city. If Taiyuan fell, Dai Junen would not have enough heads to cut him.

Zhang Zongheng wanted to recover the lost land in Kelanzhou and others, but before he could reach Luliang Mountain, the court's urgent order arrived: Dongnu was about to enter the Xuandayi area and ordered him to return to help immediately without any mistakes.

Zhang Zongheng was shocked again and hurriedly led Zhang Quanchang, the general of Xuanfu, to return to Datong and Xuanfu respectively.

...

Zhang Bingzhong, who was driven away by Qin Liangyu and his son in Sichuan, fled to Huguang and was surrounded by officers and soldiers in Henan.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Hongji were also surrounded here, with as many as 70,000 to 80,000 people.

As the situation became increasingly critical, Zhang Quanchang suddenly ordered to rush to Datong Town to help, and the encirclement suddenly opened.

Before Chen Qiyu, the new governor of the five provinces, had time to block it, Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Bingzhong and others led most of the bandits out of the encirclement.

Chen Qiyu hurriedly mobilized the Ming troops from Sichuan, Huguang, Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi to block the enemy everywhere, and first wiped out the bandits entering Huguang, and then advanced to the main bandits such as Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Bingzhong who fled to Hanzhong.

Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Bingzhong and others scattered. Among them, several bandits including Zhang Bingzhong and Zhang Miaoshou fled south from Xing'an area to the mountains, but accidentally entered the carriage gorge south of Xing'an.

There is an old plank road in the carriage gorge, with high mountains and steep slopes on both sides. The way out from front and back was blocked by local officers and soldiers and village warriors. It is easy to get in, but it is difficult to get out.

Chen Qiyu led all the troops to arrive in time, and surrounded the carriages and gorges with local officers and soldiers, townsmen, etc., intending to capture all the 40,000 to 50,000 troops of Zhang Bingzhong and others in one go.

The bandits were surrounded in the carriage and gorge for more than 20 days, and their food was quickly eaten up. The war horses starved to death due to lack of food and grass. They were also unable to use it because it suddenly rained for several days, and the bows and arrows were soaked in the rain. Hunger and disease, and the officers and soldiers attacked each other for several days, tens of thousands of bandits were killed and injured, and they were in danger.

At the critical moment, someone proposed to bribe Chen Qiyu's confidant and surrounding officials, and then surrender. It would not be too late to rebel after being out of trouble.

The most important thing bandits lacked was gold, silver and treasures. They quickly sent out two thousand taels of silver and mixed jewelry.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Bingzhong sent someone to surrender to Chen Qiyu, saying that they were just working hard for the people, and were bewitched by others to become thieves due to years of hunger and hardship due to natural disasters.

This trick works very well.

While Chen Qiyu was thinking about it, Zanhua and several officials around him pleaded for the bandits, saying that these bandits were all the people of the Ming Dynasty before, but they went astray due to helplessness. If they were killed, they would be despised by the world.

Moreover, other bandits will definitely rather die than surrender. It will be difficult to recruit bandits in the future.

However, if these bandits can be sent back to their hometown and ordered them to work hard, the future suppression of bandits will inevitably achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Not long after thinking about it, Chen Qiyu made a decision to accept the request of the bandits to surrender, and sent more than 50 people to comfort the officials, and sent everyone, including the leader, back to their hometown, and ordered them to farm well and work with peace of mind.

Before leaving, Zhang Bingzhong was grateful to Chen Qiyu and swore with gratitude. As soon as he left the carriage and gorge, he immediately turned against him and killed more than 50 comforters and controls. He gathered more than 20,000 people and roared away again. He took advantage of the slackness of the Ming army and captured several counties and towns one after another.

When Chen Qiyu first heard the news, he was so shocked that his face turned pale and unsteadily stood up.

He knew that if the emperor knew that this big mistake was caused by him, his fate would be dismissed from office and guard the border, and the worst would be beheaded on the streets like Sun Yuanhua.

After thinking about it, Chen Qiyu immediately wrote a memorial and ordered someone to send it to the capital quickly.

The memorial said: When Fengyang magistrate Li Jiayan and gentry Sun Peng were recruiting surrenders and pacifying the bandits, they ignored his orders and killed dozens of surrendered soldiers. There was also the Shaanxi Governor Lian State Affairs, and attacked thousands of surrendered soldiers for no reason, so that most of the bandits surrendered and rebelled again.

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The capital, Hongde Hall of the Forbidden City.

Zhu Youjian's teeth were tight and he stared at the messy documents on the imperial case.

Among them, there was an urgent report from Xuanda's Eight Hundred Miles, saying that Dongnu had already captured Dushi Fort and advanced to Chicheng.

There were urgent reports from Shanxi and Datong Town, saying that Zhang Yingchang on the West Road and Xue Dongting on the North Road were both defeated. The Qin bandits took the opportunity to capture Fangshan Fort, Xingxian and Kelan Prefecture, and said that Dongnu entered the pass. When Wang Pu led his army back to Xuanda, he captured the military forts of Ningwu Pass, Limin Fort, Sanchacheng, Baodezhou and other prefectures and counties.

There is also a memorial from the governor of five provinces Chen Qiyu, who had just been sent to the position, saying that the governor of Shaanxi Lian state affairs, and the magistrate of Fengyang Li Jiayan and others hindered the bandits' surrender and killed the surrendered soldiers for no reason, resulting in the bandits surrender and rebellion again.

In addition, among the pile of documents, there were also memorials from Qin thieves, who swear that they had no intention of rebellion, and even asked the court why they sent troops to attack him for no reason.

After arguing, he pretended that he was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty court, saying that he was willing to go north to block Dongnu and guard Ningwu Pass, Bietou Pass, Hequ County and Baodezhou for the court.

Not only that, the bold thief also threatened the court nakedly and said that he would send troops to attack him in the future, so he moved to the Hetao area with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians.

After reading this memorial, Zhu Youjian was so angry that he cursed, slapped his palms red.

The eunuch Wang Chengen, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wen Tiren, the Grand Secretary of the East Pavilion, Wang Yingxiong, He Wuzuo, the Minister of War Zhang Fengyi and others stood below, bowing their heads one by one and not daring to come out. No. 7

"Gei Master Wen, what should you do now?" Zhu Youjian suddenly asked with a cold face.

Wen Tiren trembled slightly and hurriedly bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I think... I think I should immediately arrest Jian State Affairs, Li Jiayan and others, and be strict..."

"I'm asking you, what should I do about Qin Zhe and Dongnu?"

Wen Tiren shrank his neck: "Report to Your Majesty, I think that the harm of the Qin thieves is far less than that of the Dongnu. For the sake of the current plan, we should concentrate our troops to block the Dongnu. When the slave thieves retreat, we will mobilize a large army to surround the Qin thieves and annihilate them in one fell swoop."

"snort!"

Zhu Youjian was obviously dissatisfied with this answer. After snorting angrily, he turned to ask the others: "What do you think you are waiting?"

Wang Yingxiong, He Wuzuo and Zhang Fengyi hurriedly bowed their heads and responded one after another: "I think what Master Wen Ge said is reasonable, and this plan is feasible."

"Hmph! What's the point of waiting for you?"

Zhu Youjian threw out several memorials from the imperial case.

Wen Tiren and others did not dare to say anything, lowered their heads and remained motionless.

Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen next to him again and asked, "Parent Wang, what should you do now?"

Wang Chengen pointed his head and replied in a low voice: "Emperor, since Qin thieves and Dongnu have their own harm, why not have the Emperor to take out a plan to drive away tigers and swallow wolves, and let the Qin thieves and Dongnu fight?"

"Um?"

Zhu Youjian's eyes lit up.

Wen Tiren, who was beside him nodded like a scallion, said flatteringly: "Yes, yes, yes, Eunuch Wang is right. I am about to offer this plan to the emperor. Your Majesty can draw an imperial edict to order the Qin thieves to go north to block Dongnu, and also send an edict to the generals of Xuanda and ordered them to strengthen the garrisons of Xuanda to the south, and they can relax the garrisons of the western route slightly and let the Dongnu go west, and they will naturally encounter the Qin thieves."

"When you are in the process of being in charge, your Majesty can sit and watch the two tigers fight each other, wait for both to suffer losses, and then surprise troops everywhere to defeat the Dongnu and wipe out the Qin thieves in one fell swoop."

"Um."

Zhu Youjian nodded thoughtfully.

Wang Chengen, on the other side, glanced at Wen Tiren, thinking that the Prime Minister was elegant in behavior, and on the surface he looked kind, but in fact he was a cruel and ruthless person.

Relaxing the garrison on the West Road means that the prefectures and military forts on the West Road are difficult to stop the attack of Dongnu, and the people there...

Wang Chengen didn't dare to think about it, nor did he refute Wen Tiren's words, but just lowered his head and said nothing.

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Biet to the gate, in the garrison palace.

"General Li, my elder is a person who keeps his promises. When he kidnapped the young master of the Wu family and the Zhang family, as well as Xue Dongting's wife and children, the other party immediately released the person, preaching morality and respecting loyalty."

"Now, Lord Qin said that you can protect your glory and wealth, and you will definitely be able to give you glory and wealth. You just need to open the city gate of Bietou Pass, go to the old camp fort again, and open the military fort."

Luo Wentian sat on the east side of the Eight Immortals table, chewing boiled beans while hanging on the river.

There were only two people in the room, one was him and the other was Li Baba, the platoon guard of the head.

Li Baba sat opposite him.

In the past, every time I saw Luo Wentian, Li Baba would look at this surprisingly handsome young master.

But now, he doesn't have the intention.

He is struggling with his life and future.

Luo Wentian grabbed a handful of beans and stuffed his mouth vaguely and continued: "General Li, you should also know that after my Lord Qin took Hequ County and then took the Pitouguan and Laoying Fort, the court could not do anything to him."

"Why is this? Because this boundary is facing the inner Great Wall in the east, the Yellow River natural danger to the west, the Luliang Mountain barrier to the south, and the vast grassland outside the border to the north. My adults only need to guard several important passes to the south, guard the Great Wall and the Yellow River natural danger to rest assured."

"Also, the Chahar tribe in the Hetao area has been driven away by Jiannu. Huang Taiji does not have so many troops to station in Hetao. The Tumote tribe and the Ordos tribe are in a scattered sand. The troops are weak, so it is not scary at all. If we really can't defeat the imperial court, my Lord Qin can still go north to the frontier and occupy the Hetao area."

"What's more, my Lord Qin has long planned to enter Hetao. He will definitely take over the entire Hetao area within two years at most."

"When I was in Jie, Lord Qin had the capital to compete with the Ming court and Jiannu."

"General Li, not everyone has the merit of the Dragon. After passing this village, you will lose this store. You have to think about it."

Hearing this, Li Baba raised his eyes slightly.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Baba sighed helplessly and said, "Young Master Luo, the old camp gang general He Qizheng has a close relationship with me. I can't harm him."

"Hey."

Luo Wentian threw away the beans in his hand and said in disbelief: "General Li, why did you harm him? This is to point him out the way and lead him on a smooth road."

"In a few years, General He will be successful in his life by following the dragon's merits. He will also thank you for your kindness in the support."

"ah?"

Li Baba blinked blankly, not knowing how to respond.

Luo Wentian caught another handful of beans and said indifferently: "General Li, there is only one chance. In three days, Lord Qin's army will arrive at Bitouguan and Laoying Fort."

"Whether you have the power of following the dragon or the death of the city, you can think about it carefully."
Chapter completed!