Emperor Wanli saw Fang Congzhe constantly sweating coldly below, and said something like "There are not many pirates, and the sharp firearm is the best skill; our army has a large number, and the number of them is the best victory, and we will definitely be able to gather and annihilate them." He was very dissatisfied. Although Emperor Wanli was passive and lazy, he was not a fool. He saw at a glance that Fang Congzhe was talking in general and had nothing practical and useful.
He waved his hand: "I already know what Mr. said. I hope that Mr. will plan and make great achievements quickly to receive a great reward. Today, the cannon in the south city disturbed the inner palace. The prince was frightened and frightened and could not get up yet. Within ten days, if the ministers cannot drive away the pirates, please give yourself a favor, sir.”
Wanli also mentioned the crown prince, which made Fang Congzhe, who had been promoting the crown prince's throne back then, feel cold from the bottom of his heart.
Fang Congzhe was sweating in a cold sweat, kneeling down on the ground, saying that he could not afford to pay, and a small eunuch whispered in his ear: "The Lord has returned to the palace,"
Fang Congzhe raised his head and found that Emperor Wanli was no longer visible on the throne of the imperial study room. He wiped a cold sweat and stepped back from the imperial study room.
After leaving the inner palace, Fang Congzhe came to all the nine ministers and ministers in the capital to discuss how to deal with the challenge. He changed his habit of shirking responsibility and procrastinating, and emphasized that he should fight quickly against pirates and gather all the officials and soldiers in Changping. He immediately launched an attack on Tongzhou and fought a decisive battle with the pirates. He asked the Ministry of Revenue to immediately transfer 200,000 yuan to various departments, urging the border troops in Xuan, Da, Yan and other places to continue to send additional reinforcements to the capital, and appointed Zou Zhiyi, the chief of Shanhaiguan, as the Liaodong Supervisor. , demanded that the Liaodong Army, the main force of the Ming army, urged to quickly attack the eastern suburbs of the capital within three days.
The other main force, the combat effectiveness of the three major battalions in the capital, was not sure of the combat effectiveness of the three major battalions, and he just asked the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, Ma Tang, to supervise the three major battalions to select soldiers and attack the eastern suburbs of the capital within three days.
At the same time, Yan Mingtai supervised the royal army in Xuanda, Yan, Ji, Shanhaiguan and other places, and asked the troops from all over the country to attack the eastern suburbs of the capital within three days and annihilate the pirates in one fell swoop.
The chief military officer who had been appointed before, Huang Jiashan, the Minister of War, and Zhao Xingbang, the chief military officer of Tianjin General Manager, was scolded by him for his unfavorable work. Fang Congzhe showed his unprecedented decisiveness and determination. Resolutely disagreeing and suppressing all the opposition, he repeated the words of Emperor Wanli to "break the enemy within ten days" and all the opponents shut up. It was obvious that they would delay the decisive battle with the pirates again. A person's black hat will not be protected, and his head may not be protected.
The many military supervisors and the command structures at various levels made the Ming army's command system chaotic. Fortunately, most of the border troops who served the king were veterans who fought for many years after all. In addition, a large amount of military pay was temporarily allocated, which made the army feel more at ease and the soldiers. Finally, he was able to obey the command. Three days later, the 100,000 Ming troops, who were in a hurry, finally set off from the gathering place of Changping.
The chief general, Ji Liao Governor Wang Ke, was in charge of Changping. In fact, he had been deprived of a lot of power. The general supervisor, Huang Jiashan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, became the general planner of the battle. He transferred a group of officials from his own department and skipped Wang Ke. He directly intervened in the mobilization arrangements of various king-supporting troops. Huang Jiashan was just a literati. He claimed to be familiar with military books and astronomy and geography. He thought that the number of people in war could determine the outcome, or the righteous would win... In short, He thought that fighting was very simple. He brought a group of subordinates into the Changping military camp, but accidentally made the Chinese army know everything about the Ming army's mobilization in advance.
Information about the general attack of the official army, through various channels, has been continuously entering the Chinese army camp by the Tonghui River in recent days, the Chinese army's eyeliner among the three camps of the capital, and the selection of soldiers under the Ministry of War The secret stakes of the small officials issued alarms and reported the detailed combat plan and military organization of the official army to Chen Zhongji and others.
Intelligence Chief Zeng Qing was reading today's summary of intelligence: "The Ming Dynasty's army plans to attack our army in four directions:
One was Du Song, the general of Shanhaiguan, and the troops of the Kaiyuan General Malin. The Du Shi was accompanied by Liu Yujie, Gong Niansui and other generals. There were 13,000 cavalry and infantrymen from Luanzhou and attacked Tianjin Wei through Kaiping;
The second is the Liaodong general Zhang Chengyin and the deputy general Po Tingxiang, the Liaodong army's troops of the participating general Pu Shifang, including the Datong general Wang Pu, the Xuanfu general Yang Guozhu, the Jizhen general Tang Tong, and the participating general Ma Ke The northern border troops led by the Kings have now more than 20,000. This route plans to join forces with Wang Xuan, the general of Baoding who was stationed in the eastern suburbs of the capital, the Baoding soldiers who guerrilla Zhang Jing, and the Jizhen soldiers. There are more than 55,000 people, and this official army will mainly attack our army's camp.
The other route is composed of the three major camps of the capital, including the guerrillas of the left camp in the capital, Dai Guangge, Wang Ping, Wang of the left wing camp in the capital, Du Sima Yingkui, and Yu of the Wujing camp in the capital. Shigong, Xiping Preparing the Imperial Army and other Beijing troops, and a small number of reinforcements from Shandong and Daming Prefecture, with a total of about 20,000 people. The newly launched Liaoyang General Liu Ying was the main general, and will set off from Nanhaizi, south of the capital. Our army's camp attacked.
The last army was the main force of the three major camps of the capital, with about 30,000 people. It is said that they were led by Li Guojian, the former Liaodong general, Li Rubai, as the deputy general. They will attack from Zuoanmen and attack our Chinese army along the Tonghui River. camp.
The total number of government troops involved in the above information is about 118,000. Given that the government troops are vacant and corruption is a trend, we have no way to judge the actual strength of the government troops going to fight this time. The statistics mentioned in the official document,"
Chen Zhongji shook his head and said, "This is the so-called division of troops and joint attacks, but the command system, organization, training, discipline and so on of the official army has too many problems. How could they be able to do everything in the division of troops and joint attacks. Launch a total attack,"
Chen Zhongji, Zhao Tie, commander of the First Division, Yang Liu, commander of the Ryukyu Corps of the Sailor Musket Team, Mai Haisheng, supervisor of the Ryukyu Corps, Lu Xiaotian, commander of the Cavalry Corps, and other major generals of the Northern Line troops are circulating this Intelligence, the commander of the military commander Cao Tai is now commanding the sailors and marines to block the Ming army reinforcements in Shandong, while the commander of the first naval fleet, the Northern Fleet, Fan Tao, returned to Penglai and commanded the troops to fight against Denglai, Liaodong, north and north. The Ming army counterattacked the Bohaikou.
Chen Zhongji took this information and said, "This Liaoyang General Liu Ying's march route seems to be south of Tonghui River. If we want to attack our army's camp, we have to cross Tonghui River. Who is this Liu Jing?"
Zeng Qing searched through a pile of documents and took out a piece of paper and said, "Liu Jing, the person, whose real name is Gong Jing, his courtesy name is Zishou, and his pseudonym is Shengwu. He was the son of Gong Xian, the famous general in the Jiajing period. He was born in the 30th day of Jiajing. In the ninth year (1560), his father Gong Xian was a teenager who was poor and was invited by Liu Min, a guard envoy who dreamed of the black tiger at night, to be respected as a guest of honor. Gong Xian repays Liu Min's kindness for his kindness. Liu Min served as his father and changed his surname to Liu. Therefore, the court documents all called Gong Xian. Gong Xian was Liu Xian. Liu Jin participated in the Korean War against Japanese devils and fought against barbarian rebels in the southwest border for a long time. Five years ago, the tribes in Jianchang, Sichuan launched a rebellion. Liu Jing was ordered to fight. He fought 56 battles in all sizes and beheaded more than 3,300 people. The tribes were almost killed. He was arrogant and deposed many times. Still the same, he beat Mahu magistrate Zhan Shu and was punished for half a year. He retired at home after the Battle of Jianchang. Recently, the imperial court launched a large-scale attack on our Chinese company, so Liu Jing was activated again. He was brave but not wise, and he was directly under the jurisdiction of The Biaozhang is a brave and good at fighting Shu soldiers.”
Chen Zhongji thought for a while and ordered: "Yang Liu, the commander of the Marine Corps, quickly assembled more than 2,000 people to cross Tonghui River to the south, build fortifications in the Sanjianfang area of our army's camp, and resist the Liaoyang General Liu Ying's official position. The army must guard the ferry for more than three days.”
Yang Liu frowned and sighed: "I have the order. So, I have no chance to participate in the battle on the front battlefield."
Chen Zhongji smiled and said, "Brother Yang Liu, you have to resist the attack of more than ten times the government army. Isn't this a big battle?"
Yang Liu stood up and grabbed his helmet, muttering while wearing it: "It's just a Beijing army, a group of wine bags, I don't take them seriously," he said.
After Yang Liu left, Chen Zhongji ordered: "The cavalry regiment will immediately send a small group of troops. It doesn't take many, hundreds of people. Go north to the area south of Kaiping to find Du Song, the general of Shanhaiguan, and continue to harass and delay them along the way. For the march, I will send out a command to inform the new 20th regiment stationed in Tianjin Guards, so that they must guard the Tianjin Guards,"
The commander of the cavalry regiment Lu Xiaotian quickly went out to dispatch people. Chen Zhongji looked at the map on the round table again and turned around and said, "Okay, now there are a total of 20,000 infantry and more than 2,000 cavalry in our camp. We The main officers and troops facing the two outer and two routes are the nine border troops and the three camps of the capital. They are the most elite troops owned by the Ming Dynasty court. The total force is 85,000, which is the four forces of our army. Bi, about tomorrow, we will fight the decisive battle with the government army in the eastern suburbs of the capital. What do you think,"
"We will win, we will win," a roar came from the tent of the old Chinese army camp.
Chen Zhongji smiled and said, "Okay, tomorrow I will take my direct battalion on the front line. Note that all Chinese military officers will pay attention: tomorrow's battle will be more important than our army's occupation of Nanjing. After our army defeats, generals inside and outside the capital will be Without defense, we can force the court to negotiate with us. All officers must do their best in the battle tomorrow."
That night, tens of thousands of people in Tongzhou were coerced and half tempted by silver. They came to the Tonghui River and urgently built a temporary fortress in a small village on the bank of the river opposite the Chinese army camp. The artillery regiment used three thousand-pound heavy artillery ships. Transported to the other side, it was placed on the cannon base in the southwest corner of the fortress. There were nearly twenty light field artillery, five thunder rockets, and ten 100-tube rain guns were placed on the square runners of the protruding city wall at the four corners of the fortress. On the building, the fortress faces the east and south sides of the land. The original village wall was built with the earth walls that were nearly one person high. The walls were covered with gun holes and cannon windows, and there was no wall on the side of the river. There was a floating bridge connected by a small wooden boat to lead to the large The south gate of the camp.
In the early morning, the fortress began to take shape. 2,000 sailors and musket teams and tens of thousands of migrant workers were busy digging trenches outside the earth wall. At this time, the Marine Scouts rode fast horses from the southwest toward Yang Liu at the fortress wall. The report said: "Commander Yang, the official army has come out of Nanhaizi,"