This time Huang Taiji attacked Senei and looted Northern Zhili, on the one hand, to make up for the losses in the battle in southern Liaoning. On the other hand, he wanted to mobilize the Liu family army to fight in the field, exhausted and then look for opportunities to give him a fatal blow.

His abacus was very good. Their army was attacking the capital of the Ming Dynasty. The timid Emperor and the Ming Dynasty court would definitely summon officers and soldiers from all over the country to support the capital. They could set up ambushes in various places and attack these troops who came to military rescue.

This time they entered the Frontier, mainly light cavalry and elite infantry, with very high mobility and coming and going like the wind, while the Ming army was mainly infantry, and they were easily attacked by the Jiannu army.

Of course, their main goal this time was to focus on the Liu family army. The other Ming army was already garbage-making and difficult to revive, which posed no threat at all, while the Liu family army was in a strong rise.

Outside their barriers, there has always been a practice that once a tiger eats people, it must be killed no matter what. Otherwise, when it tastes the taste, it will not be able to control its desires and treat people as prey. The Liu family army is a tiger born and must be strangled to young people.

However, their operations made them feel like they were cheating. They came to kill the Liu family army. Who knew that the Liu family army suddenly made such a fuss. Their army entered the frontier in large numbers not to hurt the Liu family army, but to help him.

Now Huang Taiji has understood that if they do nothing and just sit in Liaoyang, they will probably fight with the Liu family army and the imperial court themselves, so they can sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight and calmly clean up the mess.

Who knew that the court was already at a strife with the Liu family army and almost started fighting. Who knew that he suddenly entered the Frontier and attacked all over the capital, which caused great trouble to the Ming court, and that the troops that were originally ready to deal with the Liu family army were all used to deal with Jiannu.

Because the place where Jiannu now looted was the Northern Zhili of the Ming Dynasty, they would have to save the land. If their capital was gone, the court would have disappeared and the Ming Dynasty would have played, so they could only burn their heads--just care about the present and deal with Jiannu first.

Such a situation made Huang Taiji, who was determined to deal with the Liu family army, breathed out anger.

But at this time they were also in a difficult situation. They suffered extremely heavy losses in southern Liaoning. It can be said that all villages and villages were wearing mourning clothes, and the entire Later Jin Kingdom was immersed in a tragic and bitter rain. If they did not achieve a brilliant victory and regain their prestige, their hearts would be dispersed.

So this time they found soft persimmons and dispatched a large army to attack the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, they were to drive the Liu family army, and on the other hand, they also looted the wealthy Ming Dynasty and made up for their losses. Since they could no longer mobilize the Liu family army, they would capture more cities in the Ming Dynasty and plunder more population resources from him to make up for their losses.

Only when he snatched back a large amount of things from the Ming Dynasty and compensated the leaders of various tribes would he make up for their losses and let everyone spend this winter safely. If the troops were withdrawn at this time, it would definitely make the court feel relieved. After a sigh of relief, they would immediately go south to deal with the Liu family army.

However, it would make the nobles of Jianzhou extremely dissatisfied. Therefore, when Huang Taiji saw this situation, he was determined to help the Ming Dynasty deal with the Liu family army, but he had no choice but to order all the troops to continue to loot the major cities in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and try to steal as many people as possible cattle, sheep, gold, silver and other things to make up for their losses.

Jiannu's iron cavalry ran rampant in the north of Zhili, and wherever they went, they made the Ming army cry and moan, so that the Ming army from all over the country stood in the city, guarding the gods and worshiping Buddhas day and night, hoping that Jiannu would not come, so no one dared to send troops to rescue the king and the emperor. Even Jizhen, which is closest to the capital, gathered the main force of the army in the Santunying area, ready to face Jiannu's attack at any time. As for actively sending troops to the capital two hundred miles away to rescue the emperor, they did not have such courage.

Even Xuanfu Town, which is far away from the capital, dared not send troops to Beijing to rescue the emperor, and could not stand there. Only Governor Sun, Lu Xiangsheng, led his Tianxiong army to the capital overnight.

However, Tianxiong Army rushed all the way and was blocked by the famous Jiannu general Dorgon. Dorgon led his elite white flag and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army fought in the Weixian area.

The Tianxiong Army was originally ready to rush to the capital to rescue the king, but when they found an elite Jiannu cavalry and were lying beside them, even if they were afraid of death, they were worried that they would be attacked by the other party when they were all in their strength.

The two sides confronted each other near Zhuo County.

Ajige's army had tens of thousands. He fought in Northern Zhili to make the Ming army huddle in the city and dare not come out. However, it was still very difficult to surround the capital and attack the capital with his little force. Beijing City is the largest city in the world today and the most powerful defense system. The 12th Battalion Regiment alone has as many as 100,000 people.

Azige's army was divided into major city gates and had to attack various places. His troops were extremely empty, and he could not even implement the most basic blockade and siege of Beijing. This was also the reason why the imperial envoys were able to repeatedly break through the enemy's blockade line and spread the imperial edicts.

Although the Jiannu army did not directly attack the capital, their siege of the capital made the capital panic and extremely scared.

The court issued an edict to all places to support the king, requiring their troops to go to Beijing to support the king and rescue the emperor immediately, but the army from all over the country did not come, which made the court extremely panic.

Zhang Fengyi, the Minister of War, was originally ordered to go out to supervise the army and deal with the Liu family army, but when he first arrived in Baoding, such amazing news came.

He gathered the officers and soldiers of Baoding Town and gathered up a total of 5,000 people. These 5,000 people were originally planned to go south to deal with the Liu family army, but Jiannu rages in northern Zhili and besiege the capital. The Ming Dynasty was in danger, so he could only take these soldiers to rescue the siege of the capital.

Who knew that the news that Jiannu was invincible and swept everything was heard, which scared Zhang Fengyi's new recruits. Zhang Fengyi urged him day and night and ordered his generals to lead a large army to the capital to rescue the emperor, but his officers and soldiers refused to obey and refused to leave Baoding City no matter what.

Seeing that his subordinates refused to leave Baoding City, Zhang Fengyi was both angry and relieved. What he was angry was that these soldiers did not listen to him at all. If he sat on the sideliness and watched the court fall, he would become a sinner forever.

What he was relieved was that these soldiers were unwilling to go to fight with Jiannu in the field. This was also right. You should know that although the army they had temporarily gathered was several thousand, their combat effectiveness was very poor. They went to fight with Jiannu in the wild, and they would just deliver vegetables and die. As the Minister of War, the court issued an edict to him many times, and he had to go, but if these soldiers did not go, he could not go with him and save his life.

Even though he was hiding in Baoding and did not dare to go to the capital, he still sent people to Tianjin, Langfang and other places to mobilize troops, hoping to gather more troops and then calmly deal with Jiannu.

Zhang Fengyi knew how powerful Jiannu was. He knew that if he did not have enough troops to fight the opponent, he would go to die or deliver vegetables. So his idea was to wait until Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng's army arrived and had more than 100,000 troops and more soldiers and generals before he went to fight Jiannu. Now his strength can only save his strength first.

This also made Zhang Fengyi very anxious. His little force was so strong that he could not even deal with the slaves, let alone deal with the Liu family army who was more powerful than modeling. Therefore, they could only sit back and watch the Liu family army calmly occupy Dongchang Prefecture.

There are more than a dozen counties under Dongchang Prefecture. Originally, the local defenders also asked the court for help urgently. If the court reinforcements arrived, they could also support them.

There were three guards in Dongchang Prefecture. Although Liu Zeqing took off his main force, the local officials still summoned a lot of servants from the local landlords and powerful people to form an army, and were preparing to cooperate with the imperial army inside and outside to deal with the Xiaoning army heading north.

Who knew that the imperial army could not come at all, and they had to deal with the wolf-like Jiannu, so it was even more impossible to mobilize troops south to Dongchang Prefecture to support them, so it became a situation where the defeated generals of Dongchang Prefecture, such as the defeated generals of Dongchang Prefecture, and they were alone in dealing with Xiao Ning's tens of thousands of tigers and wolves.

They had no chance of winning against Xiao Ning's army, and under such a situation, it would be even more tragic. Therefore, when the prefect of Dongchang saw that the court was facing great difficulties, he had no ability to send troops south to support their resistance. When reinforcements were hopeless, the prefect of Dongchang, Jiang Yunxian, felt deeply desperate. In the absence of help, he hanged himself in his prefect's office.

After Jiang Yun, the prefect of Dongchang, committed suicide first, the resistance in the Dongchang Prefecture area became even more ineffective. There were some people who wanted to fight with the Liu family army. After all, the Liu family army was considered a rebel and was on the weak side. When the court came, no one had a good life. It would be better to stand firm and wait for the imperial army to come.

Who knew that the imperial army had not come, but Jiannu came first. This made them feel that the Ming Dynasty was really declining. If they insisted on opposing the Liu family army, they would be afraid that they would be dead.

Especially the suicide of the Dongchang Prefect Jiang Yunxian brought a huge blow to the local military and civilians. Originally, if this prefect led everyone to fight against the rebels, there would be some chance of victory, but this prefect was the first to hang himself in despair, which made the people below despair.
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