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Volume 4 Sword Qi Struggle Chapter 2 Tumu Fort and the Capital

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    In the 19th year of Yongle, Emperor Yongle dismissed the Daning guards after moving the capital to Yanjing due to excessive expenditure.  .In the Ming Dynasty, northern Xinjiang moved hundreds of miles southward.  The Mongolian nobles took the opportunity to expand their power and were divided into three major tribes: Oara, Tatar, and Ulyankha, competing with each other for supremacy.  In the fourth year of Zhengtong, the leader of the Wala tribe also succeeded to the throne and became the new Grand Master of Wala. After he succeeded to the throne, he used force to force the tribes to submit.  When Fang Buli was in power, he did not dare to act rashly due to Fang Buli's prestige. However, since Fang Buli's downfall in March of the 13th year of Zhengtong, his heart began to beat, unwilling to be lonely.  On the surface, Ye Xian indeed became more and more submissive, exchanging tribute and trade with the Ming Dynasty, and asking for intermarriage to ensure peace; but secretly, he was spying on the Ming Dynasty's reality, looking for opportunities to raise troops, and plotting to restore the rule of the Yuan Dynasty.  The Ming Dynasty's northern border guard general noticed that the Oara army was planning to attack the south, and sent several reports to strengthen the alert to prevent danger.  However, the eunuch Wang Zhen manipulated the power in the court and tried his best to whitewash the peace, which caused the situation of the northern frontier to deteriorate and become precarious.  In the 14th year of Zhengtong's reign, he first sent two thousand people to the capital to enter the capital, pretending to be three thousand in order to receive food.  To say that this eunuch is not just waiting to die, our Eunuch Wang Zhen is an ambitious man who is determined to imitate Li Xian, who burned down the palace of Xixia King Li Yuanhao in Tiandu Mountain, and become a fighter among eunuchs.  He ordered the Ministry of Rites to verify the number of envoys and distribute rewards according to the actual number of people. He also reduced the price of Walagon's horse by four-fifths and paid only one-fifth of the things requested by Walac.  This caused dissatisfaction among the Wala nobles.  In July of the 14th year of Zhengtong, he first thought that the time was ripe to attack the Ming Dynasty. On the grounds that the Ming court was making things difficult for his tribute envoys and breaking the marriage contract, he devoted all his strength to attack the Ming Dynasty in four directions.  Tuotuo Buhua Khan was ordered to lead the east route to attack Liaodong, Alazhiyuan led the middle route to attack Xuanfu, and sent another group to the west route to attack Ganzhou, and he led his elite cavalry to attack Datong.  On July 11, he also led his troops to Maoerzhuang and killed Datong General Wu Hao.  When the Ming Dynasty heard of the defeat, it ordered Song Ying, the governor of Datong, Jingyuan, the prince-in-law, Zhu Mian, the commander-in-chief, and Shi Heng, the left-hand general, to lead ten thousand troops each to come out to Yanghekou to resist.  The Great Wall had not yet been completed at this time, and it had almost become a practice for the Ming Dynasty to conduct personal conquests before Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, Wang Zhen was trying to seek side benefits and tried his best to encourage the Yingzong to conduct conquests in person, in an attempt to scare off the Oara army.  Ying Zong followed the advice of the eunuch Wang Zhenyan in peacetime, and refused to listen to the repeated objections of Kuang Ye, Minister of War, Yu Qian, Minister of Zuo, Wang Zhi, Minister of Personnel, and other important civil and military officials. He ordered a personal expedition and ordered his brother Zhu Qiyu, King of Yin, to stay in the capital.  On the same day, in the Battle of Yanghekou, the Ming army was defeated again. Song Ying, Jingyuan, and Zhu Mian were killed in the battle. Shi Heng was defeated and fled to Datong. Saibei Castle fell one after another.  At the same time, Asashi's troops attacked Dushi, broke through Yongning City, and advanced to Juyong Pass.  Tuotuo Buhua's troops besieged Zhenzheng Fort, but were resisted by the Ming army and withdrew.  On July 16, Yingzong and Wang Zhen hurriedly led an army of 500,000 to Datong to fight.  Accompanying him were more than a hundred civil and military officials such as the British Duke Zhang Fu, the Minister of War Kuang Ye, the Minister of Household Affairs Wang Zuo, and the cabinet academicians Cao Nai and Zhang Yi. However, the Emperor Yingzong did not allow them to participate in military and political affairs, and handed over all military and political power to him.  Wang Zhen is alone and arbitrary.  On July 19, during the march, Kuang Ye and other ministers repeatedly requested to return to the army, but they were all rejected.  On July 23, we arrived at Xuanfu.  On July 24th, he also first detected that the main force of the Ming army was out for an expedition. It was marching like ants and it was difficult to see the head and tail. So he feigned fear and took the initiative to retreat northward, hiding outside the fortress. Despite the arrogance of the Ming army, he was looking for opportunities to fight.  On the twenty-eighth day, when the Ming army arrived at Yanghe, they saw corpses strewn across the fields, and the soldiers were horrified.  On the first day of August, when the division arrived at Datong, Wang Zhen saw no sign of the Wala army and was eager to advance north to show off his military might.  At this time, Guo Jing, the eunuch guarding Datong, reported to Wang Zhen secretly that the Wala troops were very strong and that the Ming army north of Datong had been defeated miserably. If they continued to march north, they would be playing into his plan.  Wang Zhen then decided to return to his division and ordered Liu An to be the commander-in-chief of Datong and Guo Deng to be the staff general to guard Datong and cover the main force's retreat eastward.  On the third day of the lunar month, the Ming army began to return to the capital from Yuzhou via Zijingguan along the established route.  After the army marched forty miles, Wang Zhen changed the marching route without authorization and ordered the entire army to turn towards Xuanfu and return via Juyongguan.  The soldiers moved between Xuanfu and Datong, hungry, thirsty and exhausted.  He also first noticed that the Ming army was marching northward, and the command was chaotic. He concluded that it was not a trick, and immediately changed the strategy of setting up an ambush. Taking advantage of the Mongolian cavalry's characteristics of sudden coming and going and flexibility, he commanded his troops to break into the Great Wall and track and pursue them.  On July 13th, the Wala army came after them. The respectful uncle Wu Kezhong and the governor Wu Keqin led their troops to break up the rear and died on the battlefield.  Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong and Yongshun Bo Xue Shou led 50,000 cavalry to rescue them. When they arrived at Yao'er Ridge, they were ambushed and killed, and all 50,000 cavalry were wiped out.  On August 14, the army arrived at Tumubao, a fortress only twenty miles away from Huailai City. Because the baggage of more than a thousand Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles failed to arrive as scheduled, Wang Zhen ordered to camp on the spot despite the objections of all civil and military officials.  The next day, the Wala army besieged Tumubao, and the Ming army had to rush to fight. The British Duke Zhang Fu, Taining Marquis Chen Ying, Prince Consort Jingyuan, Pingxiang Bo Chen Huai, Xiangcheng Bo Li Zhen, Sui'an Bo Chen Xun,  Xiuwu Bo Shen Rong, the governors Liang Cheng and Wang Gui, the ministers Wang Zuo and Kuang Ye, the cabinet great scholars Cao Nai and Zhang Yi, the ministers Ding Xuan and Wang Yonghe, the right capital censor Deng Qi, etc., all died in the battle, and Ming Yingzong Pan died.  He sat down and was captured soon after. Wang Zhen was killed by the guard general Fan Zhong with a sledgehammer. Fan Zhong also died in battle soon after.  More than half of the Ming army died in this battle, and a large number of supplies were plundered first. Only Xiao Weizhen, the Prime Minister of the Right Temple of Dali Temple, and the Left Minister of the Ministry of Rites,??Yang Shan and several others escaped by chance.  The incident in Tumubao was reported back to Yanjing, and the government and the public were shocked.  Yu Qian, the minister of the Ministry of War, took the opportunity and asked him to return to Liaodong to manage the situation.  Wang Zhi wanted to get rid of Yu Qian's idea on the grounds that the road to Liaodong was far away and the matter was urgent and he might not have time to invite Fang Buli back.  But just at this moment, Fang Buli appeared.  It turned out that on the day the army departed, Empress Dowager Sun, who had never been interested in political affairs, knew that this time her imperial son had been destroyed in the hands of that eunuch Wang Zhen, and that the country might even be in danger, so she wrote a decree overnight and sent it to Liaodong.  The day Fang Buli received Yi's order, laughter resounded throughout Shenyang Mansion.  Before dawn, the city gate of Liaoyang Mansion opened, and more than a dozen black figures on horseback galloped along the official road towards the capital.  When I arrived, I happened to meet Ting Zheng.  When Fang Buli arrived, all the ministers fell silent.  They knew the power of this man. After the court's righteousness and orthodoxy blessed him, nothing in the world could stop him.  Accepting the order at the critical moment, Fang Buli eventually became the first Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province since the death of Hu Weiyong, the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province more than 40 years ago.  Because the original governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion was Mo Tumu Fort, the current Five Army Governor's Mansion actually has no governor.  Therefore, after the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province, Fang Buli, requested an order, he signed an order on behalf of the former governors of the front, rear, left, and middle governors' offices to move the Japanese troops in Beijing and Henan, the Japanese troops in Shandong and Nanjing, and the Japanese troops in Jiangbei and  All the grain transport troops from the Yanjing prefectures were transferred to the capital.  However, maybe Fang Buli was getting old and he had forgotten the 50,000 new troops he had trained in Liaodong. Maybe he had not forgotten because he ordered the new Liaodong troops to be ready to be dispatched.  Fang Jinglue No, it should be that Prime Minister Fang has returned to the capital now, and has mobilized a large army to station in the capital, and the people's support has been confirmed.  Because their past experiences told them that nothing in this world could be difficult for Fang Xiangguo.  I also received Fang Buli's reinstatement first No, after he was promoted to the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Province, he originally planned to return to Zhu Qi Town, but the Ming Dynasty emperors and ministers fought among themselves, but they were unwilling to do so and lost a group of strong generals and elite soldiers. Even if  So what if Fang Buli is more powerful?  With a sense of luck, he sent troops first.  On the first day of October, Oala's approximately 200,000 troops attacked the capital in three groups.  Twenty thousand troops of the Eastern Route Army attacked Miyun from the direction of Gubeikou.  The Central Army's 50,000 cavalry attacked Juyongguan from the direction of Xuanfu.  The 100,000-strong West Route Army was led by Ye Xian personally. They held Zhu Qi Town hostage and passed through Datong and Yanghe from Jining. After capturing Baiyangkou, they marched south and approached Zijingguan.  After hearing this, it was learned that the Wala army was advancing towards the capital, and Zhongshu Province and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion ordered the capital to be under martial law.  On the fifth day of October, Zhongshu Province and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion jointly issued an order to the kings to send troops to the defense.  On the eighth day of the lunar month, Prime Minister Fang Buju ordered Yu Qian to supervise the troops and horses of each battalion, and all officers and soldiers were under his control.  Liu An and Wang Tong were pardoned and released from prison to help guard the capital.  On the ninth day of the lunar month, I also arrived at Zijingguan to personally supervise the battle.  Xi Ning, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Wara Army, was familiar with the defense deployment of the Zijingguan Pass. He guided the Wara Army to sneak across the mountains and attack the city from both sides. The defenders Han Qing and Sun Xiang died in the battle, and the Zijingguan Pass was breached.  The Wala army then advanced towards Yanjing from Zijingguan and Baiyangkou.  On October 11, the Wala army arrived at Xizhimen of Yanjing, trying to force the Ming Dynasty to surrender by using Zhu Qi Town.  But he was unlucky first, and one of his troops was lost, killing Zhu Qizhen.  It also took away the last trump card in his hand.  Just when Ye was preparing to withdraw his troops, he learned that his Eastern Route Army had been completely wiped out by the Liaodong New Army.  Although the Liaodong New Army also suffered thousands of losses, this was an unexpected blow to Yexian. Twenty thousand troops were still behind him, and his most beloved sons and grandsons were still among them.  Heartbroken, Ye Xian lost all reason and left 30,000 cavalry to monitor the movements of the Ming army.  He led an army of 70,000 people to join the 50,000 cavalrymen of the Central Army and rushed towards the Liaodong New Army.  In the end, the Oara army abandoned more than 40,000 corpses and fled into the desert, changing the situation in the desert.  However, the Liaodong New Army was not completely unscathed. In the end, only more than 25,000 people made it to the capital alive Fang Buli was in power. He drew his sword and looked around, but found that he had no enemies. He was at a loss and suddenly remembered that he had been there for twenty years.  The old enemy from before - Huashan Sect.  Huashan encompasses two provinces and has countless disciples. If they rebel, the consequences will be disastrous.  Fang Buli hurriedly asked for an order to appoint Xue Jian as the governor of the Right Army Dusi, commanding the army of seven Dusi, Shaanxi Dusi, Shaanxi Xingdusi, Sichuan Dusi, Sichuan Xingdusi, Guangxi Dusi, Yunnan Dusi, and Guizhou Dusi, to prevent the Huashan faction from taking advantage of the situation.  , causing chaos in the world.  Unfortunately, he was still a step too late (To be continued.)
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