I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Beijing, Forbidden City.

The night was dark and the lights were flickering. Emperor Chongzhen sat in the imperial study, watching the memorial silently without saying a word. The eunuchs who served around him did not dare to breathe, and there was an indescribably strange atmosphere.

Mobei heavy snow Mobei Mongolian and Moxi Mongolian troops invaded Daming with hundreds of thousands of troops. The Great Wall defense line stretching two to three thousand miles from Hexi to Hedong was full of smoke, which can be said to have attracted the attention of the whole country.

Now the Mongolian army closest to the capital is the army of Tuxietu Khan. Now it has entered Miyun County in Shuntian Prefecture, which is only more than 100 miles away from the capital. Everyone is afraid that the Ming army will fight again if they are not careful. A big defeat.

Chongzhen was even more concerned, and asked the Ministry of War to report the news as soon as possible, without any delay. Any disturbance on the Great Wall defense line would make him anxious.

Fortunately, Cheng Shijie was still up to the task. When he first came to the Prime Minister of Nine Sides, he helped Xuanfu East Road defeat the plot to destroy the city in one fell swoop. Although Qiao Zhaolin abandoned the city and fled, this opening was blocked by Cheng Shijie.Cheng Shijie then showed Qiao Zhaolin to the public on the Nine Sides, and then took over the command of Xuanfu East Road and the Nine Sides battlefield. Xuanfu East Road was guarded like an iron bucket. Every now and then, a group of heads would be sent over after losing soldiers and generals, and every time there were not a few of them.

At first, after the fall of Jing'an Fort, the Mongolian army rushed into Miyun County, and Emperor Chongzhen was also very nervous. Fortunately, Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to go up, and more than [-] Ning Navy infantry, just resisted the attack of tens of thousands of Mongolian troops. , and send the decapitated heads to the capital at regular intervals.

In just half a month, the Ministry of War received nearly [-] heads. Needless to say, during this period, Chongzhen was relieved. Cheng Shijie was on the front line, and he was able to handle it with ease!
But the court ministers didn't see it that way. They kept accusing Cheng Shijie of fearing the enemy and avoiding the battle. With so many elite soldiers, he only dared to defend passively, and dared not go out to fight with the Mongols.
Those ministers recommended several generals in one breath, and they patted their chests to ensure that all the people they recommended had the courage to be inappropriate, ten times stronger than Cheng Shijie's shrinking turtle, as long as they used the people they recommended , Guaranteed to make the Mongolian army come and go!
These words are very beautiful, but the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen is no longer the boy who can't tell the difference between east, west, north and south when he just came to the throne.He did not forget that when he learned that the Mongolian army was going south with 40 troops, all the civil and military officials were silent and threatened to abandon the Great Wall defense line and the ugly behavior when they went south to the capital. At that time, there was no one who came out to give him advice and share a little pressure. ?
It's all right now, Cheng Shijie has stabilized the situation, and has made a small gain, and immediately jumped out one by one to claim credit!For this kind of person, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude is: accept the opinion, and everything will be business as usual!
Although he is suspicious by nature, once he trusts someone, he has [-]% trust and will not be easily shaken, such as Yuan Chonghuan back then.Now he has no less trust in Cheng Shijie than Yuan Chonghuan, and even, compared with the scholar who threatened to "recover Liao in five years", Cheng Shijie, who is honest and honest, and who is desperate to fight, has more trust.

Although Emperor Chongzhen didn't know much about war, anyway, Wang Chengen brought back Cheng Shijie's words, so it would be beneficial to Daming to spend it like this, so let's spend it.

However, something unexpected happened to Emperor Chongzhen.

The town of Taiyuan fell, and tens of thousands of Mongolian troops were marching south along the various passes of Taiyuan...

With this news, Chaotang was like pouring a ladle of water into boiling oil, and it exploded in an instant.

Emperor Chongzhen was dumbfounded, he couldn't figure out why he lost it?
As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wen Tiren didn't speak for a long time. He seemed like a cat stepping on its tail, and jumped up instantly: "Your Majesty, Cheng Shijie has wronged the country. As the saying goes, one general is incompetent, and the army is exhausted. Cheng Shijie The prime minister of the nine borders around me, the mistakes of the border affairs, did not expect the other party, lost the teacher and humiliated the country, and the prime minister was mistaken; if he did not know the time, he immediately urged the war, and the mistake was on the assistant minister; His Majesty punishes ministers with capital punishment!"

Wen Tiren took the lead in admitting his responsibility as a shufu, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to punish him.

Now Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what to do.

However, Wu Zongda came out and said: "Your Majesty, please decree that Cheng Shijie will be dismissed, and the military affairs of the nine borders will be handed over to Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces. He will transfer the Tianxiong army to the north, and stick to the border towns. It is absolutely impossible to go to war. Mongolia has hundreds of thousands of troops. Coming and going like the wind, fighting with them in the wild is courting death!"

All the ministers knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please decree to remove Cheng Shijie immediately!"

Chongzhen was also very panicked.Ning Haijun is the most reliable force in his hands. If he loses, he will have nothing!What happened to Cheng Shijie?

How can Taiyuan be lost?

Emperor Chongzhen hesitated and set his sights on Xu Guangqi.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Xu Guangqi was the only old man in the Ming Dynasty who knew the soldiers. After all, Xu Guangqi's disciples not only produced Cheng Shijie, but also Sun Yuanhua, the governor of the water transport, and Sun Yuanhua was one of the famous generals in the Ming Dynasty.

"What does Elder Xu Ge think?"

Xu Guangqi also looked confused now. In fact, he didn't hear how Taiyuan fell.He asked: "Santao 64 Fort in Taiyuan Town is as solid as gold, why did it fall?"

Wu Zongda held the memorial in his hand and said: "Song Tongyin of Fufu, Shanxi made a memorial, and Xie Zhiliang, the commander-in-chief of Taiyuan Town, feared the enemy and fought cowardly. , Taiyuan fell..."

Wang Yingxiong looked at Emperor Chongzhen's hesitation, and continued: "Your Majesty, please issue an order to remove Cheng Shijie from his post and choose good generals to defend against the enemy, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous!"

Emperor Chongzhen was relieved when he heard the reason.

Because this is not the first time, let alone the only time, that a general at the level of Taiyuan's general army has escaped. In fact, if Wu Xiang hadn't escaped first in the battle of Dalinghe, how could he have failed?You Shiwei, the former commander-in-chief of Changping Town, escaped and killed Man Gui, Ma Shilong also escaped, Baoding Liu Ce also escaped, including Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War.

If there were no generals who abandoned the city and fled, in the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji would not be able to enter the pass.

The most serious thing to deal with this kind of thing is to dismiss from office, but the problem is that Cheng Shijie is only responsible for leadership. It is said that senior officials at the level of Prime Minister Jiubian and Sun Chengzong's Ji Liao Supervisor cannot be directly held accountable. How can Cheng Shijie not Credit, but also hard work.

But the problem is, the officials were so angry that they knelt all over the ground.

Emperor Chongzhen was silent for a long time, and said in desperation: "I have to think about it... let's retreat first!"

After finishing speaking, he walked out without waiting for the officials to salute. He really had to think about it.

However, Wen Tiren, Wu Zongda, and Wang Yingxiong were all smiling.

Xu Guangqi looked at the three old foxes, and knew that something must be tricky, but the problem was that he was in poor health. Everyone could see that Xu Guangqi hadn't lived for a few years, and he also admired Western learning, which made him only a kitten. Two or three.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little discouraged, but he gave Wu Zongda and others confidence. They made an appointment and began to impeach Cheng Shijie. Basket memorial.

"This is……"

"Reporting to the emperor, these are all memorials to impeach Duke Hai!"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at these memorials with a wry smile on his face.

It seems that there is no need to burn charcoal for heating.

……

On the Baihe defense line, looking at the Ning navy officers and men like a black torrent, Tuxie Tuhan Gonpo felt his hands and feet were cold, and he closed his eyes in pain.

Lost, completely lost.

He can accept losing to the Ming army that has already formed an array. His ancestors have left a lesson: "Arrangement does not fight." This is the lesson that the Central Plains dynasty has left for nomads for thousands of years.

Because the Han people are good at fighting on foot, they have always had advanced technology and can crush them nomads in terms of technology.When their ancestors were still using bone arrowheads, the ancestors of the Han people had already started to use bronze.When they finally used bronze, the Han people used iron.

When they entered the Iron Age, the Han people had already entered the age of firearms. The Han people possessed indestructible armor, indestructible sabers, bows, crossbows and firearms. As long as the Han people kept eating and fighting, they had no chance.

However, watching Ning Haijun's cavalry with only more than [-] cavalry join the battlefield, he wants to cry now. Is the glory of Mongolia that has been passed down for hundreds of years really coming to an end?Has Changshengtian given up on his descendants?Otherwise, why did the Ming army have such terrible equipment?

"let's go!"

Gonpo struggled to squeeze out three words from his throat.

Chakhtu wondered if he had heard it wrong: "King Khan, go? Now the ministries are still fighting fiercely with the Ming army, what will they do when we leave!?"

Gonpo roared: "Fierce battle? Fierce battle? You'll be massacred by the Ming army! If we don't leave, the whole army will be wiped out! Hurry up and ask everyone to withdraw as much as we can. Let's leave here and go to Hulunbuir To find new pastures..."

Chakhtu looked helpless: "King Khan, where should we retreat?"

Gonpo opened his mouth, he wanted to yell, he wanted to yell, he wanted to scold, but he couldn't make a sound. In the end, all kinds of anger and contempt turned into a mournful sigh.

What made him helpless and desperate was that the originally brave Mongolian warriors stopped resisting when they saw the Ming army rushing over. They knelt down on their knees, threw their weapons on the ground, and raised their hands high.

Chakhtu's eyes were so red that he was about to spurt blood, and he let out a mournful howl: "You cowards, I will kill you, you are not worthy to be the descendants of Genghis Khan, and you are not worthy to be Mongols!"

Gonpo's complexion was pale, and his voice was weak: "It's useless... Hurry up and run away, one who can escape counts as one, otherwise we will all die here..."

In the middle of Gonpo's words, his throat was sweet, his chest was filled with annoyance, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. Tuxietuhan, one of the three giants in Mobei, could no longer accept this reality, and was so angry that he vomited blood !
Originally, although the Mongolian army hit the iron plate, their strength was more than ten times that of the Ming army. However, the superiority of the Ming army's weapons and equipment made up for the lack of numbers.

Even if it is impossible to turn defeat into victory, but if you deal with it calmly, at least half of the troops can be withdrawn. Even if the Ming army wants to chase, it is unlikely that the more than [-] cavalry will let go. The hope for them to return to the grassland is still quite high. .

However, the back road of Jing'an Fort they occupied was snatched away by a surprise attack by the Ning Navy. There were strong enemies in front and pursuers in the back. ...

More and more Mongolian cavalry were horrified to find that the Ming army was everywhere. As long as they formed an formation, the artillery of the Ming army would hit them. up.

In such a desperate situation, even the toughest and most tenacious people were discouraged. They threw away their weapons and got off their horses one after another. They sat on the ground and gasped for breath. Kill and cut you whatever you want!"

They had already won a complete victory, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy were not interested in continuing to kill them. They shouted at the Mongolian army who were still weakly resisting: "If you don't want to die, get off your horse and surrender. I don't care about your rotten life!"

The Mongolian fighters shouted in Mongolian: "Why are you working so hard? Those who surrender will not die!"

In the end, the Mongolian army surrounded in the Baihe River Valley put down their weapons. They looked at the cavalry or infantry of the Ming army galloping back and forth dully and blankly. Why did the helpless Ming army occupying the Hetao Plain suddenly become so strong, so strong that tens of thousands of them could not do anything to mere three or four thousand infantry!

This is a double rolling of military concepts and military technology. They may know some military concepts, but military technology... I'm afraid they really don't have any concept, so of course they don't understand why tens of thousands of them can't beat the three or four thousand Ning Navy When it was infantry, it was like the Chinese who did not understand why the Huanghuang Qing Dynasty, which claimed to have an army of one million, could not defeat the mere 200 British and French allied forces, and then was beaten to Beijing by the [-] eight-nation coalition forces put together .

Li Dingguo excitedly rushed in front of Cheng Shijie and said, "Marshal, we won!"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "Winning is inevitable, what's the result?"

Meng En said with a smile: "Preliminary statistics show that beheadings are at least 1 ranks higher, and more than [-] people surrendered! The captured horses alone are more than [-] horses. It's a pity that these horses are too thin, and there are many horses. The war horses are useless! This battle result is too brilliant..."

When Wang Chengen brought more than 100 cavalry from Jinyiwei to the Baihe battlefield, what he saw was the Ning Navy with thousands of cavalry, guarding more than [-] Mongolian captives, and countless wounded Mongolian soldiers wailing in pain with.

This time the Ning Navy achieved brilliant results, but there were few casualties. However, it was very easy to arrange hundreds of wounded soldiers. It was very difficult. More than one-third of the more than [-] Mongolian soldiers who surrendered were wounded.

More importantly, there are nearly 1 wounded soldiers in their camp, and it must be impossible to treat more than [-] wounded soldiers.

They graded the wounded. Those with severed arms, legs, and guts could not be saved at first glance. The only thing they could do was to let them inhale ether, then fell asleep, and unconsciously entered the embrace of death, and then Concentrate on treating the able-bodied.

It is certainly not fair to do this, but it is humane. Those who are seriously injured will not be saved. It will only waste the time of manpower, medicine and other wounded people who are already in short supply. It is better to give up and let them die with less pain. .

Those who were injured by shrapnel or slashed by knives focused on treating them with all their strength, including hemostasis, anesthesia, cleaning, and suturing in one go, with extremely high efficiency.

However, it is very difficult to treat wounded soldiers who have been shot into the chest or abdomen by shrapnel. Military doctors can only use them as experimental objects to open up their abdomen to take the shrapnel, and then suture them. This operation is extremely difficult and the mortality rate is frighteningly high. There are always one or two successful cases in the village. For the Mongolian wounded soldiers, it is already a profit.

With such serious injuries, Changshengtian may not be able to save them.

After the Mongolian soldiers surrendered, they discovered that they honestly received medical treatment according to the order of the Ming army, and those who were not injured dug a pit to bury the dead under the supervision of the Ming army. Although the work was hard, they could still eat enough.

It is actually the power of the strong to be merciful. A team of fifty soldiers has the courage and confidence to watch thousands of Mongolian captives dispose of the corpses and clean the battlefield.

When Wang Chengen came to Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie had already fallen asleep.

Cheng Shijie was also exhausted during this period. After all, the greater the official position, the greater the responsibility. He commanded the battle during the day and checked military reports from various places at night. There was a shortage of food here, medicine there, and cotton coats.

The emperor is not short of starving soldiers, let alone the prime minister of the Nine Borders?Although Cheng Shijie did not summon the commanders of the towns on the nine borders, but for more than 1000 generals and guards, more than 3000 guerrillas, as well as the commanders of the nine towns and dozens of deputy commanders, just looking at their information and resumes, let them Cheng Shijie expended a lot of energy.

Seeing Cheng Shijie wearing boots, leaning on the soft bed and falling asleep, Wang Chengen stared at the soldiers in the big tent with an unfriendly expression, his eyes really couldn't do anything.

Wang Chengen stepped forward and took off Cheng Shijie's boots very carefully. Cheng Shijie's feet were already sweaty, and he hadn't washed his feet for half a month. The smell was indescribably sour.

But Wang Chengen seemed to have lost his sense of smell, took off Cheng Shijie's socks, and then asked someone to bring hot water, soak a towel, and wash Cheng Shijie's feet.

Wang Chengen's movements were very light, Cheng Shijie's sleep quality was good, and he was not too dead, but the problem was that Wang Chengen never woke up Cheng Shijie.

After finishing all this work, Wang Chengen tiptoed to the outside door, looked at several soldiers and said: "Our family will serve by the side of Long Live Lord, you should also learn a little..."

"Yes Yes……"

Cheng Shijie's soldiers were really convinced now, the eunuch's job is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.

When Cheng Shijie woke up, he found Wang Chengen sitting in front of the stove, carefully warming wine and making tea.

Cheng Shijie woke up a little thirsty, picked up the teacup next to him and drank it, it was neither hot nor cold.

Of course, Cheng Shijie didn't know that during Cheng Shijie's sleep, Wang Chengen had brewed tea nine times and reheated rice five times.

Cheng Shijie found that his hands were clean now, naturally they had been carefully wiped by Wang Chengen with a towel.

Cheng Shijie asked, "Eunuch Wang, why are you here?"

"Master Gong, this record is really brilliant! Since General Sapphire, no one has beaten the Tartars so badly!"

Cheng Shijie didn't answer the question, and asked, "What happened in the capital?"

Wang Chengen told Cheng Shijie about the fall of Taiyuan, the impeachment of Cheng Shijie by civil and military officials, and the fact that Emperor Chongzhen was forced to hang himself by the officials.

Cheng Shijie actually wanted to lead his troops south and go into the capital to kill all those bastards, but the problem was that he couldn't do that, just like the bald head of the Xi'an Incident, Chongzhen is still an upright son of tomorrow.

He was still the emperor of the two capitals and the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Even if Cheng Shijie led his troops to the south and killed them more happily, the problem still existed. Those gentry actually possessed a powerful force, which was locked in a cage by the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty.But once this beast is released, it will really kill people's heads and blood into rivers.

Cheng Shijie thought very clearly, if he really dared to do this, those gentry dared to turn to Huang Taiji immediately, and all the spare power of the whole world and the entire Ming Dynasty would be directed at him.

This is like Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period. Before Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was defeated by the more than [-] afterglows of Liu's great Han, whoever dared to proclaim himself emperor will be discussed by the world.

What can Yuan Shu do?What about the four generations and the three princes?
Now Cheng Shijie can only repel the Mongolian army first, and then settle the score with them.

Cheng Shijie said: "What did you say, Taiyuan has fallen?"

"Reporting to the Duke of the country, this matter is too big. The meaning of Long Live Lord is, please go back to Beijing!"

Cheng Shijie slapped his chopsticks on the table: "Come here!"

Meng En said: "Marshal, what are your orders!"

"You are here to deal with the aftermath!"

"Yes!"

"When Shen Mingyu arrives here, let him lead the infantry of the Annan Legion to go west along Xuanfu East Road, holding the commander's warrant, and patrol the towns along the way. If he dares not to execute the commander, he will be executed without mercy!"

Cheng Shijie went on to say: "Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu of the Annan Army will immediately set up defenses along Datong to Yulin. This commander will make the Mongolian Tartars come and go!"

As Cheng Shijie said, he picked up a pen and quickly wrote down the orders. He issued three orders in a row, one for Shen Mingyu, one for Sun Kewang, and one for Liu Wenxiu.

After Cheng Shijie finished writing the order, he raised his head and said, "Order the scout cavalry to prepare immediately!"

Wang Chengen was in a hurry: "My lord, this is..."

"This commander is going to Shanxi!"

"But Long Live God..."

"The Tuxietu Khan's army has been wiped out, and there are no Mongolian Tartars within a radius of three hundred miles! The capital can rest assured!"

Cheng Shijie said: "But the people of Shanxi, I can't ignore them!"

Wang Chengen couldn't persuade Cheng Shijie, so he had to give up.

Cheng Shijie put on a windbreaker and came outside the tent.

At this time, the 63 reconnaissance cavalry of the Annan Army of the Ning Navy, except for 120 people who were killed in battle and [-] people who were seriously injured, included Li Dingguo, a total of more than [-] people rode horses and stood in formation.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Annan Army has assembled, please give instructions!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Li Dingguo. At this time, Li Dingguo was also bloodstained and tired.

Cheng Shijie looked at the officers and men and said: "This commander is now added as the prime minister of the Nine Borders. The whole three thousand miles of country are in his hands. These three thousand miles of country are my commander's country. Whoever wants to make trouble here, you have to ask Ask me if the commander-in-chief agrees? Ask Ning Haijun whether he agrees or not."

"Willing to die for the commander in chief!"

Li Dingguo and more than [-] scout cavalry roared in a low voice.

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "I will wait two days and two nights for you to arrive in Taiyuan on a thousand-mile mountain road. I only want Taiyuan. I only want the Mongols to tremble and obey in front of my cavalry."

Now Cheng Shijie wants to repeat the miracle of Jing'an Fort again. If he occupies Taiyuan first, the Mongols going south will definitely turn back. Even if they don't want to turn back, they will turn back.

Of course, more importantly, Cheng Shijie can only trust Zhao Wencai now, and believe that Zhao Wencai will not let him down.

Only by overcoming this difficulty can we truly see the past. (end of this chapter)