The Miracle of Ming Dynasty after the Change of City —— Defending Beijing

Those who suggest going south should be killed.

The speaker is Yu Qian, assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

Since World War I, Emperor Zhu Qizhen has been captured, more than 50 ministers have died, and 200,000 elite troops from three camps in the Ming Dynasty have been destroyed. Countless horses and horses have gone to Valla.

When the news came back to Beijing, people were in a panic.

On August 18th (AD 1449), the national luck of the Ming Dynasty will be decided on this day.

In the morning, the meeting began. Zhu Qiyu, the younger brother of Yingzong, presided over the meeting. There is only one thing to be discussed at this meeting, that is, Yingzong was captured, and the Walla army approached Beijing, whether to fight or flee.

The war may be a crash and burn, but fleeing means losing half of the country and ending up in the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is the first time that Zhu Qiyu came to power. He looked anxiously at the ministers below, waiting for their advice. However, since going to court, the civil and military officials have said nothing but cried, and the whole court will cry.

Zhu Qiyu, who presided over the meeting for the first time, was very stupid.

After crying for a while, the ministers gradually woke up. Although sadness is inevitable, they are still having a meeting. What a scandal it is that a group of people in their fifties and sixties have been crying. Because the problem still needs to be solved, discuss whether the court will fight or flee.

The first speaker was Xu Kun.

Xu Kun, a native of Wuxian (present-day Suzhou), was a scholar in the eighth year of Xuande (A.D. 1433) and a lecturer in the twelfth year of Zheng Tong (A.D. 1447). This Xu Kun works and plays during both leisure and work on weekdays. In addition to the study of managers, he also has one of his greatest hobbies-studying Yin and Yang.

Among them, this subject includes a subject with a long history-fortune telling.

Yes, Xu Kun is keen on fortune telling. On weekdays, he often tells others' fortune (free of charge). But he is often uncertain, so everyone doesn't believe him.

But he did one thing right, something he can brag about all his life.

This incident is the failure of the folk fortress.

On the day before Ming Yingzong's personal expedition, Xu Kun watched the astronomical phenomena at night, and was shocked. He ran home all night and told his wife to go back to his hometown and hide. I watched the astronomical phenomena at night, and I lost the battle.

Therefore, Xu Kun was the first to stand up and speak in the morning. He said loudly: I watched the astronomical phenomena at night and found that the days of Daming are gone forever. Only by going south now can we avoid this robbery.

Just as everyone was hesitating, Yu Qian stood up and shouted at Xu Kun.

Those who suggest moving south should be killed!

Yu Qian was born in Qiantang County, Zhejiang Province (now Hangzhou) in the 31st year of Hongwu (A.D. 1398). Because of his good family, he began his study career of reading four books and five classics at an early age.

In the 19th year of Yongle (A.D. 142 1), 23-year-old Yu Qian took the joint entrance examination in the countryside and went to Beijing to catch the exam. In the examination in Beijing, Yu Qian was admitted as a scholar and was appointed as an imperial envoy. Since then, he was awarded meritorious service in the rebellion of King Zhu Han, and has since embarked on the road of Qingyun.

In the fifth year of Xuande (AD 1430), Yu Qian was appointed as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and sent to the governors of Shanxi and Henan. This year, Yu Qian was 32 years old.

In the 13th year of the Orthodox Church (A.D. 1448), Yu Qian was called to Beijing as an assistant minister of the Ministry of War. The country is a deputy ministerial official with two products and three products. In World War I, the following Ministry of War Shangshu died, and Yu Qian represented the Ministry of War Shangshu.

"Beijing is the foundation of the world. If you move the capital because of this, the general trend will be irreversible. Have you forgotten Nandu in the Song Dynasty? "

Yu Qian's words were deafening and awakened this group of indecisive people. The old ministers of the DPRK stood up in support of Yu Qian, and finally the minority obeyed the majority. Under the influence of these people, the acting emperor Zhu Qiyu strengthened his determination and confidence to resist to the end.

Because Yu Qian is a hawk and a minister of the Ministry of War, the important task of defending Beijing naturally falls on Yu Qian.

This is the highest honor and the heaviest burden in the world.

Yu Qian held his first military meeting. Although Yu Qian worked as an assistant minister of the Ministry of War and is now the Minister of National Defense, he has never commanded the army to fight.

Although Yu Qian is a civilian, he has never led troops to fight, and he still has a set of methods to arrange troops.

But when Yu Qian really understood the current situation in Beijing, he realized that this was a real mess.

First of all, the army, the most important hard power to fight against Walla, has been overwhelmed.

The Battle of Civil Fort wiped out the elite of the 200,000 elite in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention that there are no sick soldiers, and even a few war horses can't be found. The most important thing is that morale is low and the elite is wiped out. Can we second-rate soldiers resist?

Therefore, the most important thing at present is to stabilize the morale of the army.

Yu Qian issued his first military order:

From now on, I have been ordered to call the following troops to guard Beijing.

1 reserve forces, including two Beijing reserve forces and Henan reserve forces.

Prepare the Japanese army, including Nanjing Japanese army and Shandong Japanese army.

3 grain transport troops, including all grain transport troops in Jiangbei.

4 Zhejiang Army in Ningyang Hou.

There are more than 100,000 people in total, but these people are not the main force, mostly logistics forces, because the main force is all buried in the civil fort.

The problem of soldiers has been solved, and another problem is the problem of food. Soldiers can't help eating. Visually, this activity can be completed in a few months. There are so many people in Beijing that we have to open so many mouths every day, so we must accumulate food.

But where does so much food come from? In Tongzhou, not far from Beijing, a large amount of grain is stored. To what extent, it was enough for everyone in Beijing to eat for one year, and it was the largest granary at that time.

Although there is food, it is unlucky, because Valla's troops are wandering around. If you want to transport food to Beijing, you need a lot of logistics personnel, and it is inevitable that Vala can't find it. If you find it, not only will people be lost, but food will also be robbed.

Soldiers were sent to escort migrant workers carrying food, but there were few soldiers in Beijing. So, Yu Qian issued a second command:

All the soldiers who went to Beijing to defend themselves came from Tongzhou. When passing through Tongzhou, the soldiers brought their own food (take as much as they can, preferably 500 kilograms per person) and transported it to Beijing.

Soldier, all the food is solved!

Yu Qian gave another order, and all the soldiers of the Ming Empire who could be mobilized gathered in Beijing to defend the capital.

So with Yu Qian's efforts, by the beginning of September, the whole country had come, the army in Beijing had reached 220,000, the food was enough, and people's hearts gradually stabilized.

Now all the problems have been solved, but there is still the biggest trouble. Ming Yingzong and Zhu Qizhen are still prisoners in other people's hands!

Yu Qian clearly realized that if the emperor was still in the hands of others, the battle would not be easy, not because he was Zhu Qizhen, but because he was the emperor.

So the ministers wrote to ask for a new emperor.

Who will be the new emperor? Because Zhu Jianshen, the son of Yingzong, is only three years old and can't speak well, he is asking for it, so he wants to establish Zhu Qiyu, the younger brother of Yingzong.

The queen mother had no opinion, and the ministers stood in succession, but one person disagreed. Who is he?

Zhu Qiyu himself!

Different from the past, Zhu Qiyu is no longer insincere and deliberately refusing. He really doesn't want to. The emperor's brother has just been taken as a prisoner, and Valla's army is coming on a large scale. Whether Beijing can survive is still unknown. If there is no shelter, his own emperor can't do it, and he has to bear an emperor who has perished. How can he go underground to meet his ancestors?

But this is not for Zhu Qiyu to decide. The emperor must do it or not!

Therefore, at the insistence of other ministers, Zhu Qiyu finally volunteered to be emperor.

On September 6th, the 14th year of the Orthodox Church (A.D. 1449), Zhu Qiyu officially became Emperor Daming, with the title of Jingtai. Zhu Qizhen will be changed to the emperor's father from now on.

From August to September, with Yu Qian's efforts, the capital moved from fragmented to unified, and Yu Qian's prestige reached its peak. Everyone believes that they can defeat any enemy.

In late September, all the defenses in Beijing were perfect, and the only thing waiting was the arrival of the enemy.

On 14491October 1 1 day, the main force of the Walla Army came to Beijing at the gates.

The mood of Valla's army is very excited. Just two months ago, the Walla army with less than100,000 easily wiped out 200,000 Ming elites and captured their emperor alive. The goal this time is to win Beijing directly and restore my Dayuan dynasty!

The target of the Walla Army's attack is the gate of the outer city of Beijing, so how many gates are there in the outer city of Beijing? The answer is nine.

Deshengmen, Andingmen, Dongzhimen, Chaoyangmen, Xizhimen, Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, Xuanwu Gate and Buchengmen.

Nine gates need to be defended. There are 220,000 Ming troops. On average, there are more than 20 thousand people at a gate. Although Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was not as big as it is now, it was not small. The position of Jiumen is roughly equivalent to the position between the Second Ring Road and the Third Ring Road in Beijing today.

Therefore, although the Ming army has an advantage in the total number of people, it is at a disadvantage on average to every household.

Yu Qian made an unusually bold decision!

He called all the participants and expressed his opinion: "The Vara army is coming, and it is very arrogant. If you can't persist, it will only fuel their arrogance. Daming has been founded for more than one hundred years. When Gaudi was born in cloth, he could sweep the world and sweep away the violent yuan. Are we afraid of small thorns? "

At Yu Qian's command, people from all walks of life left the nine gates and lined up to meet them. Yu Qian gave the second order, and the Royal Guards patrolled the city. If any soldier doesn't leave the city, he will be shot!

The most important of the nine doors is Deshengmen, because he is facing the main force of Valla. Once the war breaks out, it will be the most intense battlefield.

The main commander of Deshengmen is Yu Qian himself.

The most surprising thing is that Yu Qian announced another instruction, which is the most famous military war sitting method in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

The company's practice is that if a general ignores the withdrawal of soldiers at the beginning of the war, he will be beheaded immediately. If the soldiers ignore the general's retreat, the rear army will cut the front army, leaving none!

Yu Qian issued the last instruction. On the day of the war, all soldiers will close the nine gates immediately after leaving, and those who dare to enter the city without authorization will be beheaded!

Fight to the death, this time, throwing caution to the wind.

This is a war that will never be defeated. Once it fails, Daming's national luck will change greatly, and half of the country in the north will be lost. Daming cannot afford to lose this war.

1October 1 1 day, the horn of war sounded.

Vala's army attacked Xizhimen first. Thousands of Walla soldiers took the people hostage and launched a tentative attack on Xizhimen. The Ming army, which had endured humiliation for nearly two months, made a fierce attack on the Vara army with red eyes. In an instant, the Walla army collapsed at the touch of a button, hundreds of people died and the people were rescued.

The battle for Beijing officially started.

The Walla army finally launched an attack, this time targeting Deshengmen.

The leader of the Walla army sent a small number of cavalry to spy. When I got married, I found that there were panicked Ming cavalry all the way, and I also judged that the Ming army must not be ready first. So Walla's 10,000 troops attacked Deshengmen, which was also the elite of Walla.

The army set out to kill Deshengmen. Unexpectedly, the magic camp of the Ming army was waiting for them ahead.

As early as World War I, the camp was completely annihilated, and the remaining capital served as the main force of this camp.

When the Vara army went deep, the Ming army did not make a move, but waited for the Vara cavalry to enter a residential area. Suddenly, the Ming army came out from both sides, under the cover of private houses, and shot the Walla army from different directions. The Walla Army was instantly caught in a hail of bullets, and the high-flying Ji Shen camp regarded the Walla Army as a living target. The army of 10,000 people was suddenly annihilated, almost completely annihilated, and Beijing won the first battle of defending the war.

First, I was very angry. The Ming army gave a bad breath. But the war is not over yet.

This time, the whole army of Valla attacked and captured nine gates at the same time. I personally led a team to attack the weakest Simon Andingmen in the Nine Gates.

But I never imagined that the Ming army at this time was like fighting chicken blood, and it was far from the Ming army at that time in the folk fortress. The Ming army rushed to the Walla army waving weapons one by one, holding them left and right, and rampaging, stirring up the Walla army into a mess.

As expected, the Walla army who captured Andingmen fled after half a day. I have no choice but to order a retreat first. If I don't retreat, I may be wiped out.

Unwilling to fail again and again, the Walla army assembled all its soldiers to attack Xizhimen, and the main battlefield of Beijing's defense war moved to Xizhimen.

Xizhimen was besieged in a short time. Although the Ming army struggled to resist, it seemed that the Walla army could not kill, and the more it killed, the more fierce it became, and the Ming army was about to get out of control.

At this moment, the Ming army reinforcements who dared to come in from other doors quickly surrounded Vala from the rear. With the courage of reinforcements, the attacking Walla army was beaten back.

The defeated Walla army attacked again five days later, and the result was predictable, but it was still unable to attack. The helpless Walla army withdrew from Beijing, but went north to attack Juyongguan.

Juyongguan is the gateway to Beijing. As long as you win Juyongguan, it is equivalent to choking Beijing. Because I also understand that it is impossible to capture Beijing first.

But what I never expected was that when Vala came to Juyongguan, it actually rained ten In the snow. Overnight, the wall of Juyongguan became an ice wall. Whenever approaching, the defenders of the city wall fired round by round with muskets, and Vala lost without a fight.

In the end, Walras's army, which really couldn't get cheap, finally retreated.

The defending war of Beijing led by modesty ended in the final victory of the Ming army.

The Ming army won the final victory, and the main war faction proved with actual results that the Ming Dynasty did not move backward to the south, kept the foundation of Daming, and did not fall backward to the South Song Dynasty, which lasted for the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years.