Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 12 Tough Guy Emperor
Two days later, Hu Xinshui led a thousand barbarians out of the Great Wall from Xifengkou.

Hu Guozhu, who was only seventeen years old, urged his horse to come to Hu Xinshui and asked, "Abba, I heard that the capital has fallen and Emperor Chongzhen has also escaped. Are the rumors true?"

Hu Xinshui hummed softly, "It's true."

"Ah?" Hu Guozhu said, "Then Daming is already dead?"

Hu Xinshui said: "Even if it hasn't perished, it probably won't last for a few days."

Hu Guozhu said: "Then what should we do? Not only have we fought against thieves, but we also have a blood feud with Jiannu. Isn't there no place for us in such a big world?"

Hu Xinshui said: "You don't need to worry about this, because there are people who are more anxious than us."

Hu Guozhu said: "Abba, you mean Ping Xibo? What exactly is Ping Xibo thinking?"

Hu Xinshui shook his head and said, "I don't know what Ping Xibo thinks, but I know that when the sky falls, the taller ones will be hit first, so we just need to follow Ping Xibo. However, then you and my father and son will be fine, if the thief doesn't let Ping Xibo go, it won't be too late for us to play by ear."

Hu Guozhu said: "Then what are we going to do in Yanshan this time?"

"Catch Chongzhen." Hu Xinshui said.

"Ah? Catch Chongzhen? Catch?" Hu Guozhu was stunned when he heard the words.

"Isn't Chongzhen the emperor? Ping Xibo asked us to arrest the emperor? He wants to rebel?"

"He probably wouldn't dare to rebel, at least not now." Hu Xinshui said sarcastically, "If I'm not wrong, Wu Sangui probably wants to learn from Cao Cao and coerce the emperor to command the princes."

Hu Xinshui doesn't read much, but Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about to be broken.

He knows the allusion that Cao Cao coerced the emperor to make the princes.

He said again: "Or he just wants to dedicate Chongzhen to the intruders and replace him with a high-ranking official."

"Son, I understand." Hu Guozhu said, "These Han people have so many hearts."

"This has nothing to do with you and my father and son." Hu Xinshui shook his head and said, "We just do our own errands and arrest Chongzhen for Wu Sangui."

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Come back and talk about Chongzhen.

After leading more than a thousand people to cross the Great Wall from Pianshiliang, Chongzhen did not stay too much in the border area, but continued to go north to the territory of Chahar Mongolia.

As a traveler and lover of Ming history,
Chongzhen is very clear about the current situation in Chahar Mongolia.

E Zhe, the co-owner of Chahar Mongolia, a descendant of Genghis Khan's golden family, and Lin Dan Khan's successor, had surrendered to Houjin eight years ago, but Huang Taiji had not had time to organize the various tribes of Chahar Mongolia before his death. Banner, so now Chahar Mongolian ministries are actually in the era of tribal autonomy.

The tribe occupying the forest and grassland at the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain is called the Gongtu tribe.

Among the dozens of tribes in Chahar Mongolia, the Gongtu tribe is relatively weak, with about [-] string controllers, and they are scattered in a long and narrow area with a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

Therefore, compared to staying at the border, it is safer to go deep into the territory of Gongtubu.

However, Chongzhen did not intend to have any friction with the Gongtu tribe.

Because he came to take refuge, not to Chahar to fight the grass valley.

However, the world is so paradoxical that it does not depend on people's will.

That evening, not long after the Ming army set up camp in a valley, Sun Xiangxian happily came to Chongzhen, followed by two eunuchs guarding the mausoleum.

Two young eunuchs also supported a struggling Mongolian woman.

"Long Live Lord." Sun Xiangxian said flatteringly, "The old slave just took some sons to pick mushrooms in the nearby forest, and found several tents."

"and then?"

Chongzhen's face darkened.

He had foreseen that trouble was coming.

"Then I saw a woman." Sun Xiangxian said with a smile, "The old slave found that this woman was quite handsome, so he wanted to bring her back to serve the Lord Long Live. He never thought that other barbarians would dare to resist, so the old slave had to let his sons Kill them all, and then bring this northern barbarian woman back."

Chongzhen's face was already blackened.

Sun Xiangxian asked two young eunuchs to hold the woman in front of Chongzhen.

Sun Xiangxian said flatteringly: "Long Live Lord, look at this woman, she looks pretty pretty, right? It's bitter cold in the mountains, it's not appropriate for Long Live Lord not to have a woman to wait by his side."

"Qixiu?" Chongzhen stared blankly at the Mongolian woman in front of him.

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, unkempt hair and dirty face, and the Mongolian robe on his body is stained with oil.

That's all, when he opened his mouth to roar, he actually showed his big yellow teeth!

Sun Xiangxian, Sun Xiangxian, are you afraid that you may have misunderstood the word Qingxiu?

But Chongzhen was more concerned about another matter, and asked with a dark face: "Has anyone escaped?"

"Uh..." Sun Xiangxian's expression froze, his eyes began to flicker, as if he was weighing things up in his heart.

Chongzhen's face turned completely cold, and he shouted: "You'd better tell the truth, or I will never forgive you lightly!"

"Long live Lord, please forgive me!" Sun Xiangxian knelt down in fright, and kowtowed like garlic, "The old slave is incompetent and let a little boy run away. Long live Lord, please forgive me!"

"Damn it!" Chongzhen suddenly stood up.

Seeing Chongzhen get up, nearby noble officials such as Gong Yonggu and Wang Jiayan gathered around one after another.

"Zhuqing, something has happened!" Chongzhen kicked Sun Xiangxian hard, and said, "This dog slave has provoked the Gongtu Department, and the cavalry from the Gongtu Department should come to him soon to take revenge!"

"Ah?" Liu Wenbing lost his voice, "What should I do?"

Chongzhen glared at Liu Wenbing, a small Mongolian tribe scared you like this?

Liu Wenbing realized that he had said something wrong, so he shrank his neck and hid behind Gong Yonggu.

"But you don't have to worry too much." Chongzhen said, "It is impossible for the Gongtu Department to gather too many people in a hurry, and they don't know how many people we have come."

Wang Jiayan nodded and said: "Not surprisingly, the Gongtu Department will probably think that we are the frontier soldiers who crossed the Great Wall to rob. If this is the case, there will only be a hundred or so riders who come to take revenge."

There are indeed not many Mongolian cavalry riding for a hundred or so.

But looking at the mob around him, Chongzhen still didn't dare to take it lightly.

Even if the lion fights the rabbit, you have to do your best, let alone the Mongolian cavalry who lived on horseback when they were young?
Chongzhen immediately said: "Gather all the baggage, build a protective wall in the valley, and arrange all the firearms behind the protective wall, divide them into three teams, and wait for the cavalry of the arched rabbits to charge, and then go forward and shoot again and again! No The firearms cavalry ambushed in the left and right forests, and when the Gongtu cavalry fell into chaos, they would outflank and intercept them."

After a pause, Chongzhen said in a more emphatic tone: "Don't let anyone out!"

At this time, you can't be soft-hearted, otherwise it will be a big trouble to call the main force of the Gongtu Department. Chongzhen doesn't want to survive in the cracks between the bandits and the Gongtu cavalry.

In just one and a half hours, the Ming army built a protective wall in the valley.

This parapet consisted of grain bales, stones, logs, and bound pack horses, and was about five feet high.

The protective wall had just been built, and there was a faint sound of horseshoes on the grassland outside the valley mouth. Chongzhen looked closely, and saw a black line on the green grassland.

The scouts cruising outside the valley also rushed back.

"My lord, the enemy cavalry has arrived, there are about two hundred cavalry!"

A little more than expected, but still within tolerance.

Chongzhen was about to jump out of the protective wall as soon as he jumped, but was held back by Wang Jiayan and Jin Xuan.

Wang Jiayan burst into tears: "Your Majesty, the son of a daughter of gold can't sit down on the throne, and he is honored as a majestic son of heaven and can't take personal risks. Just hand over the matter of rushing into battle."

Jin Xuan also said: "Your Majesty, please leave this battle to the command of the minister."

"Get out of the way." Chongzhen struggled to break free from the two of them, and pulled out the protective wall, "I am the Son of Heaven, with the protection of the heavens and the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, I will definitely be safe!"

Ancestral protection or something, of course it's bullshit.

Chongzhen just felt that this was the best time to build an image.

For a long time, the impression Chongzhen gave the ministers was that he lacked literary knowledge and no military strategy, and his diligence was affirmed by almost all the ministers, and he could barely be regarded as a diligent king.

Therefore, Chongzhen wanted to create the image of a heroic emperor with a gentle and military strategy.

Especially the military strategy, it can be said to be very important for the future Northern Expedition.

As a time traveler, Chongzhen knew very well that it was the general trend for Daming to withdraw from Jiangnan.

Then, after surrendering Jiangnan, a similar situation as in the Southern Song Dynasty will inevitably appear, that is, the group of scholars and officials in Jiangnan will prevent the Northern Expedition out of consideration of their own interests.

Therefore, Chongzhen must reshape the image of Chongzhen and create a heroic image of Wen Tao Wu Lue.

Only by becoming a tough emperor like Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu would it be possible to act decisively and forcefully promote the Northern Expedition, otherwise we would never want to fight back to Beijing.

"My lord, swords and guns have no eyes, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case!"

Wang Jiayan, Wu Linzheng and other ministers wanted to dissuade them, but they were interrupted by Chongzhen's wave of his hand.

"Shut up, nothing happens!" Chongzhen yelled, "I am the Son of Heaven, nothing will happen, if there is an accident, it is God's will, and no one can disobey it!"

Wang Jiayan and the others were dumbfounded.

God's will is so, can it be violated by human beings?

Listen, is this speaking human language?You stupid king!

Chongzhen ignored Wang Jiayan and others, and shouted: "Get ready!"

More than [-] musketeers who lined up behind the parapet lit their matchlocks one after another.

Most of these musketeers were the eunuchs of the Jing army and the Beijing camp soldiers guarding various sects.

Regardless of the Jing army or the Beijing battalion, repeated shooting is a frequently practiced tactic.

According to historical records, the method of repeated shooting first appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, but crossbows were used at that time.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Duke Mu Ying of the State of Guizhou introduced the method of repeated shooting to firearms when he was conquering Yunnan, and achieved great results. Afterwards, most of the firearms used in the Ming Dynasty adopted the method of repeated shooting.

Therefore, the three-stage strike method was not invented by Gustav.

(End of this chapter)