The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 798 Ningwu Pass

In mid-October of the 16th year of Chongzhen, Huang Sheng received a letter from Princess Ma Xiangling from Shizhu, Sichuan.

In the letter, Ma Xiangling did not show any dissatisfaction with the behavior of the prince and Tian Meijiao Niang, and also brought many local specialties such as Shu brocade, Shu paper, Shu embroidery, etc. to Kunxing.

The marriage between "Nanming" and Daming has been spread all over Bashu for a long time. Not only does Ma Xiangling have no grievances, on the contrary, she is also honored, because she married Nan Wang as a side concubine, and Princess Daming will soon become one of the side concubines.

Qin Liangyu strictly abides by the etiquette of emperors and ministers. Even if the emperor marries a princess to her son-in-law, Qin Liangyu will treat each other with courtesy. Everyone has the idea of ​​coming to "New Hangzhou" to watch the ceremony.

Ma Xiangling's letter will of course reveal infinite love. She told the husband that because her mother knew that the "Nanming" army was fighting fiercely to establish slaves in Liaodong, and the stone pillar soldiers are currently undergoing intensive training. Go down to Liaodong and become a supplementary soldier.

After long-term observation, my mother found that the combat effectiveness of the women's barracks with full firearms should not be underestimated, and even asked her to take the women's barracks to Liaodong to participate in the war.

Another main purpose of Ma Xiangling's letter is to ask how the battle in Liaodong is going.I want to know if there is any possibility of the female barracks going to Liaodong to participate in the war.

Huang Sheng couldn't help laughing when he saw this, Ma Xiangling saw the lively fighting in Liaodong, and wanted to take the women's barracks up to fight for military merit, and used his mother's suggestion to test his attitude.

One of the bottom lines is that Sichuan cannot be harmed by the bandits. For this reason, Huang Sheng made every effort to plan ahead, and spared no effort to support the development of the white-armed soldiers. He was worried that Qin Liangyu would lead troops out of Sichuan to suppress the bandits, and then drew the bottom line.

Seeing that the arrangement has shown results, Li Duyan will send troops to attack the capital soon. There must be no accidents at this critical moment. If Qin Liangyu suddenly marches into Hanzhong at this time, whether he wants to or not, the intruders will turn around and fight the white soldiers. .

The capital of the pseudo-"Dashun" country is in Xi'an, Shaanxi. If the intruders in Hanzhong were lost, wouldn't they expose their eyes to the white-armed soldiers?

Huang Sheng wrote a long letter to Ma Xiangling explaining her interests, asking her to put the safety of her mother, the Qin family, and the Ma family as the top priority, and to take on the important task of resisting the bandits from entering and protecting the lives and properties of tens of millions of people in Sichuan. You can't be willful.

Ma Xiangling is very obedient, when she received her husband's letter, she immediately put aside the idea of ​​leading troops to Liaodong and devoted herself to figuring out how to stick to Bashu.

Since most of the white-armed soldiers in Central Shu went to Liaodong to fight, they could only take a defensive position for a short time, and there was no large-scale conflict with the intruders.Qin Liangyu gritted her teeth and was dormant. She eagerly hoped that her son and son-in-law would return to the teacher to clean up the bandits after they destroyed Jiannu.

In the first month of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the intruders who seemed to have no worries marched eastward, attacking the city and conquering the terrain all the way, countless officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty raised their hands and surrendered.

On February [-]th, the Jiancheng city of Taiyuan fell. Cai Maode, the governor of Shanxi Province, saw bandits and soldiers all over the mountains and plains.

Li Duyan got a lot of supplies in Taiyuan. He ordered the whole army to rest for eight days.

Zhou Yuji stood firm in Daizhou, facing tens of thousands of Shanxi people who were forced to attack the city with sticks and hoes, helpless. The city was also full of people who had fled to the city for refuge.

Zhou Yuji had no choice but to lead his army to break through and retreat to Ningwu Pass, and the intruders successfully took Daizhou City.

Ningwuguan is located in the central part of Shanxi. It is said that it was transformed by a phoenix, so it is called "Phoenix City".

Ningwu is the traffic artery from Taiyuan to Datong in the north. During the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, Guancheng was built. Together with Pianguan and Yanmenguan, it became one of the three passes in Shanxi that defended against Tartar cavalry raids. Its strategic position is extremely important.

The hero's end, even if Zhou Yuji is full of courage, so what?No matter how he prepares for the battle, the Shanxi lone brigade cannot compete with the hundreds of thousands of thieves, and it is only a matter of time before they are defeated.

The terrain of Ningwuguan is dangerous, and the intruders are determined to win, so the battle went on quite tragically.

Bandit soldiers engulfed the common people and stormed the pass city day and night, and suffered heavy casualties under the fierce artillery bombardment of the Ming army guarding the pass.

Niu Jinxing suggested that people write a large number of leaflets and shoot them into Guancheng, threatening the soldiers and civilians stationed at Ningwuguan, "those who do not surrender for five days will slaughter the city."

The thief hoped to force Zhou Yuji to surrender. When the gunpowder of the Ming army was about to run out, some generals also persuaded Zhou Yuji to change his strategy and not to fight recklessly, but Zhou Yuji, who "every army is loyal", flatly refused.

Zhou Yuji not only refused to surrender, but also actively organized a defensive counterattack. He asked his subordinates to open the city gate to lure thousands of bandits into the Wengcheng, and then quickly dropped the Qianjin Gate to gather and annihilate, winning a small victory.

Due to Zhou Yuji's tenacious resistance, the trespassers saw that the casualties were too great to shake their determination, and for a while they were about to give up attacking Ningwuguan, but Song Xiance, Li Guo, Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong and other generals unanimously demanded to persist.

The thieves launched a fierce attack on Ningwuguan again, and soon they found that the artillery fire of the defenders was getting weaker and weaker, and then the siege artillery would no longer encounter counterattacks, and became a unilateral artillery attack.

Liu Zongmin judged that the Ming army must have run out of gunpowder, and he issued a loud order to inform his minions of the situation. After hearing this, the bandit soldiers' morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed forward one by one as if they had taken stimulants. Under the bombardment of artillery fire, Guancheng continued to collapse.

Liu Zongmin personally suppressed the formation, the front team charged by the bandits died in battle, and the rear team immediately followed up to replace them. The soldiers and civilians who dared to take a step back were killed without mercy. Ningwuguan finally failed to withstand this wave of storming.

The thieves who shouted and cursed broke into the pass city, and the soldiers and civilians who defended the city fell into a pool of blood. Zhou Yuji, who knew that he wanted to kill the thieves and could not recover, did not give up. He continued to command the soldiers and civilians to fight in the streets. The last moment of allegiance.

Zhou Yuji's horse was beaten to death, he abandoned his horse and walked on foot soaked in blood and still fought endlessly, and even after being captured alive by bandit soldiers with several arrows in his body, he still yelled and refused to give in.

Liu Zongmin hung Zhou Yuji from a high pole and shot him to death with random arrows, and then chopped him up.Zhou Yuji's wife, Mrs. Liu, has always been brave and strong. She led dozens of women to refuse to guard the public house, climbed to the roof and shot arrows at the bandits, and finally ignited a raging fire.

"Before leaving the teacher, die first, and win the hero's tears." Zhou Yuji sighed admirably.

The 16th year of Chongzhen should be Li Zicheng's lucky year.

It's a pity that this thief can't become a big weapon, and will fall apart in the next step.

The 16th year of Chongzhen was also very important to Huang Sheng. After recovering Liaodong and then the Korean Peninsula, he could concentrate on dealing with intruders.

(End of this chapter)