Daming Military Empire

Chapter 47
After Zhu Cijiong and Sun Chengzong discussed the details of the mobilization of soldiers and horses in various places, they immediately ordered the commanders of the towns to start preparing soldiers and horses. Once Houjin tended to gather, they immediately entered the cities designated by them to defend.

He was still worried about this, and appointed Sun Chengzong as the governor of Jiliao, in charge of the defense of Jizhou and Liaodong, and ordered him to immediately inspect the city defense situation from the capital to Zunhua.

Hou Jin's surprise attack on the capital was no joke. Sun Chengzong naturally knew the pros and cons. Immediately after receiving the appointment, he set off with a thousand Jinyi guards. Came to the last stop Zunhua.

Zunhua, located in the Yanshan Mountains [-] miles east and north of the capital, guards the only channel for the Karaqin tribe of Mongolia outside the customs to enter Shuntian Prefecture. It is an important town in Jizhou and the core of customs defense.

The city defenses of Tongzhou, Sanhe, and Jizhou were not satisfactory. Except for the obvious lack of training of the guards, everything else was justified.Sun Chengzong wasn't too worried. Anyway, elites from various towns would be called in to preside over the city defense. The original city defense soldiers were just thugs, so it didn't matter much.

Zunhua is different. This is the core of Jizhou’s customs defense. Most of the soldiers and horses in Jizhou Town are gathered here. The focus is on Zunhua.

Starting from Jizhou, we rode horses on the rugged mountain road for half a day, and Zunhua was finally in sight. From a distance, it was worthy of being a majestic city, with towering walls, many arrow towers, and a majestic atmosphere.However, as the distance got closer, Sun Chengzong felt that something was wrong. Why did the city wall look like a dog gnawed it!
When he arrived less than a mile outside Zunhua City, Sun Chengzong was completely angry. Those who stood staggeringly on the flat ground outside the city were the Ming army or farmers who had just put down their hoes. To 1 people; what is even more annoying is the city wall, which has not been repaired for an unknown period of time. There are not many arrow stacks left, and even some places have collapsed!
Is this the so-called important town of Jizhou?After the golden cavalry came, they didn't need to get off their horses, they could directly follow the collapsed place and leap into the city!
With a livid face, Sun Chengzong turned his head and stared at the governor of Jizhou, Wang Yuanya, who came with him. If he had his original temper, he would definitely order this guy to be dragged down and beheaded.But after the Liaodong king's minister incident, he understood a truth that corrupt officials can't be killed, it's better to let them spit out the corruption gains to make up for the losses they caused.

Wang Yuanya's face was ashen at this time, he knew the situation in Zunhua, but his predecessor, the predecessor was already like this, after he took office as governor, he wanted to rectify it, but his subordinates were full of wine bags and rice bags, and rectification came. It was always like this, but it cost a lot of money and food.Slowly, he was corrupted by these people. Anyway, Meng Yuan has been in decline, and he hasn't been invaded for decades, so why should he look for trouble when he has nothing to do?

When Sun Chengzong came to inspect this time, he thought it was just a formality, and it would be enough to treat him well in Jizhou. He didn't expect that Sun Chengzong was playing for real, so he insisted on coming to Zunhua to see it!He was ready to be chopped along the way, and now he didn't bother to defend himself, so he waited for Sun Chengzong's order to drag him down and chop him up!
Unexpectedly, Sun Chengzong said: "List all the officials under your command who are suspected of corruption, and get together the food and salary of [-] soldiers and horses for three months and the cost of repairing the city wall, and I will spare you."

Wang Yuanya stared at Sun Chengzong dumbfounded. He never thought that he still had a chance to survive, and he was so stupid for a while.

Sun Chengzong didn't bother to talk to him, so he yelled: "Don't let me do it right away."

Then, Da Ma led his personal guards to Zunhua City.

He doesn't worry at all that Wang Yuanya will run away. If you run away, the monk can't run away from the temple. If you dare to run away, I will kill you from the nine clans. I will confiscate all the homes of your clan relatives. !
In ancient times, the concept of clan was relatively strong, and no one wanted to harm the family. Wang Yuanya did not run away as expected by Sun Chengzong. He followed Sun Chengzong honestly into Zunhua City, and after confessing to the corrupt subordinates, he began to raise money. , I got the money together in less than a month.

This is indeed another case. From the governor Wang Yuanya down, there is no one who is not greedy in the general army, supervising army, and thousands of households. Sun Chengzong didn't have time to argue with them, so he directly withdrew them all, and then transferred Sun Yuanhua, the right servant of the military department, to take over in Jizhou The governor, He Kegang, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, was transferred to take over as the commander-in-chief of Jizhou.

Sun Chengzong was not in a hurry to return to the capital. He was sitting in Zunhua, checking military households, replenishing troops, repairing the city walls, and preparing rolling stones, lumber, waste oil and other city defense equipment. He was very busy.

In August of the second year of Chongzheng (AD 1629), Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, wrote a letter: Most of the Jin army after Liaodong gathered to go west, fearing that they might detour Mongolia and attack the capital.

Naturally, Zhu Cijiong would not disbelieve in this evil like Emperor Chongzhen. The scouts of the Three Thousand Battalion also sent news that the Mongolian Karaqin tribe had begun to gather troops and horses, and there was a tendency to go south to knock on the pass. As stated, I can't help but come to attack the capital, this battle is inevitable!

He immediately sent a fast horse to pass the order, ordering the commanders of the towns to rush to the capital, and he wanted to hold an imperial meeting.

On the [-]th day of the eighth month, Emperor Chongzheng Zhu Cijiong called relevant personnel to discuss matters in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace to discuss the defense of the capital.

Officials involved in the deliberations are:

Grand Tutor, Grand Master of Zhongji Temple, Minister of the Ministry of War, Chief Assistant Chief of the Cabinet Sun Chengzong, Supervisor of Ji Liao;
Qin Liangyu, Admiral of the Beijing Camp;
Liaodong Economic Strategy Yuan Keli;
Luo Yangxing, Zuo Dudu and Jin Yiwei Commander of the Five Armies Commander's Mansion;
Yuan Chonghuan, governor of Liaodong, led by Yushi Youdu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War;

The right servant of the Ministry of War led Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Jizhou;
Grand Shou of the General Soldier of Liaodong;
Zhao Ledjiao, General Soldier of Shanhaiguan;
He Kegang, the general soldier of Jizhou;
Changping Soldier You Shiwei;
Hou Shilu, chief soldier of Xuanfu;
Datong is full of troops;

In fact, Zhu Cijiong and Sun Chengzong had already negotiated properly. They said they were called to discuss, but they were actually asked to wait for dispatch. Sun Chengzong directly divided the large and small cities along the line from the capital to Zunhua into defense zones. He has made detailed arrangements for which city to garrison and how to assist in the defense, and the generals only need to act according to the plan.

Of course, the war between countries is not the end of both sides gathering troops and horses to fight a battle, and it involves many aspects.After Sun Chengzong finished arranging the soldiers and horses in various places, Zhu Cijiong began to arrange other matters.

The first is to strengthen the wall and clear the field. This strong wall is okay. To defend against the enemy's siege, it is natural to strengthen the city wall and prepare more defensive equipment.But what is the purpose of clearing the field? When there is a war, there is a war. Why do you need to clean up the outside of the city?
It turned out that the post-Golden Cavalry had a very bad habit, that is, they not only love to fight, but also love to plunder, or the purpose of their war is to plunder, and every time they go to war, they will be plundered. Whether it is civilians, livestock, food, money, or even clothing, they will rob them of everything they can.

Zhu Cijiong naturally didn't want them to succeed, so he ordered Jinyiwei to arrange people to post notices along the line from the capital to Zunhua, ordering all civilians outside the city to hide in the city if they could enter the city, and move all those who could not enter the city to the capital. Near Tianjinwei in the south.There was already a guard station there, and Zhu Cijiong was going to gather troops from all over the country who came to King Qin voluntarily there, and arranged for Jin Yiwei to lay mines along the road. I believe that as long as Huang Taiji didn't have a convulsion, he wouldn't have to travel hundreds of miles to manually clear the mines.

The last thing is to arrange a defensive counterattack. There is a saying that it is indecent to come and not to go. Zhu Cijiong naturally wanted to teach him a lesson when Huang Taiji came to attack the capital so recklessly.If you come to attack the capital, I will attack Liaodong. He ordered Yuan Keli to go back and prepare. Once the main force of Houjin arrives in the capital, Liaodong will start to counterattack. It is not necessary to recover the entire territory of Liaodong, as long as Guangning is taken down before Huang Taiji returns to rescue. It is victory.

Hearing that Hou Jin had already started to learn Chinese, he wanted Huang Taiji to review it well, what is meant by stealing chickens but not losing rice.

(End of this chapter)