The Change of Civil Engineering
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In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the Emperor Zhu Qizhen of Yingzong not only did not hit the enemy army, but was surrounded by the Wallachian army at Tumu Fort, and nearly half of the 200,000 troops were killed and wounded, and the emperor Zhu Qizhen was also captured by the Wallachian army. Because Tumu Fort was only fifty kilometers away from Xuanfu Town, it was not seen that Yang Hong, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, led a soldier and a pawn to come to the rescue, and Yang Hong was impeached and imprisoned for this matter.
In fact, Yang Hong was very aware of the situation at tumu fort at that time, not only that, Yang Hong also expected that Zhu Qizhen's army would be in danger of being surrounded by the Wallachian army, but the 68-year-old veteran General Yang Hong still chose to close the city gate.
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Yang Hong, Zi Zongdao, Ying Tianfu Liuhe ren clan, born in a military family, grandfather in the army is a hundred households, father is also a hundred households, Yang Hong was 21 years old, his father died in the "Battle of Jingnan", as the eldest son of the family at the age of 22, he inherited his father's position, and was transferred to the northern border of Kaiping. Yang Hong, who grew up in a rich and noble land in Jiangnan, did not complain because he was sent to the bitter cold place on the border, but gladly went there, after all, the famous generals were honed on the battlefield.
Yang Hong
Sure enough, the border pass was where Yang Hong displayed his talents, and every time he was ordered to pursue and suppress the enemy, Yang Hong always bore the brunt of it and fought bravely, and even Cheng zu Zhu Di couldn't help but praise him as "really a general" when he saw it. Therefore, Yang Hong relied on his own courage to fight and fight well, and his battle achievements were numerous, all the way from a hundred households to a thousand households, from a partial general to a governor. Especially in the Orthodox Dynasty, because most of the famous generals of the former Dynasty had withered away, Yang Hong, as a rising star, was very appreciated by the imperial court, and worked in the border pass for more than forty years, and finally in the twelfth year of the Orthodox Dynasty, he was awarded the title of General of Zhenshuo and served as the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town.
This year, Yang Hong is already 66 years old, as a border general to achieve the end of the general army, wait for a few more years to retire in office, this life is also an honor. Since Xuande, daming's borders have been relatively peaceful, and the tribes in the north have not invaded on a large scale, but there are occasional small groups of cavalry to harass them. In the fourteen years of orthodoxy, the invasion of Vala not only severely damaged Daming, but also brought a stain to Yang Hong's military achievements in his lifetime.
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Zhu Qizhen's 200,000 pro-conscription army was indeed quite intimidating, so when ye first learned of this news, he slowly retreated to Saiwai, intending to lure Zhu Qizhen's army to the open grassland outside Saiwai that was beneficial to him and wait for an opportunity to move, but unexpectedly, Zhu Qizhen's army just went to Datong for a walk and was about to return to Beijing, and the ambitious ones did not want to miss the opportunity to engage the Ming army, so they quietly followed him to find new opportunities. When Zhu Qi's returning army left Xuanfu Town on August 11, they also thought that the opportunity had come.
At this time, Zhu Qizhen's army had just left Xuanfu and had not gone far, and would definitely send troops to rescue, so that zhu qizhen's army could be eaten bite by bite and avoid direct confrontation with the 200,000 troops. On August 13, Xuanfu was also besieged first, and Zhu Qizhen, who was stationed at Leijia Station at the time, received news from Xuanfu and sent troops to rescue them. Therefore, an ambush was also set up on the hill near Harrier Ridge between Xuanfu and Leijia Station, and the Ming army was almost completely destroyed. When the news came back, Zhu Qizhen was not convinced, and once again sent Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, to lead 40,000 cavalry to plan a night attack, but he did not expect that Ye Xian's military ability was much higher than that of Zhu Qizhen, and he also set up an ambush at Harrier Ridge again, in order to wait for work, and destroyed Zhu Yong's 40,000 soldiers and horses.
After the two victories in the battle, he gave Ye Xian great confidence, and he also felt that the Ming army was no more than this, so he first had a new plan, and sent people to inform the Ah Zhiyuan to increase the number of troops overnight, in an attempt to eat more Of the Ming Army and the materials of the Ming Army.
At the same time, Yang Hong, who had retreated to Xuanfu Town, also received a battle report that the two main cavalry of the Ming Army were all killed, and the soldiers and horses of The first army gathered overnight to no longer besiege Xuanfu, but chased in the direction of Zhu Qizhen's army, at this time, Zhu Qizhen's large army should move to Leijia Station and Tumu Fort, where there is a wide plain, and it is very favorable to the Wallachian army at the speed of the Wallachian cavalry. With the depletion of the two main cavalry of the Ming army, most of the remaining part of Zhu Qizhen's army was infantry, and in the wide plains, the infantry against the cavalry could be said to have no chance of winning.
More importantly, Yang Hong, who was familiar with the defense system of Xuanfu, immediately thought that the defense around Xuanfu North Road had basically been destroyed, and if the enemy cavalry drove straight in, it would reach the vicinity of Tumu Fort in less than a day, and form a north-south encirclement with Yexian's cavalry. And such a good opportunity, how can the ambitionist let it go. That meant that Zhu Qizhen's army might be about to be in greater danger.
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The defense of Xuanfu North Road was destroyed, and Yang Hong had an unshirkable responsibility. As early as July 11, when Ye Xian and others invaded the border in three ways, they also advanced to datong, and the Ara Zhiyuan besieged the Xuanfu Chicheng and did not spend Kou Liaodong. The Datong defenders suffered heavy losses, and the Xuanfu side was only a small-scale harassment, and then the Ara zhiyuan marched east to surround Chicheng and Maying, which Yang Hong had already reported before Zhu Qizhen had personally marched. However, it was clear that the target of this army was not just Akagi and Maying, but the monolithic stone located 20 kilometers northeast of Maying, the northernmost point of the Great Wall. Monolith is the gateway to Xuanfu North Road, the mountain pass between the two mountains is the only passage, easy to defend and difficult to attack, defending Monolith is to guard the northeast gate of Xuanfu, after dushi and then want to effectively resist the Wala cavalry to go deeper it is difficult.
Of course, the Arachi-in knew that it would be difficult to succeed in attacking the monolith from the front, so he adopted a roundabout tactic, detouring from the side of the horse camp behind the monolith, capturing the monolith, and destroying the fortifications of the monolith, creating conditions for the long drive of the cavalry in the future. However, Dushi lost his defense and the defenders fled, but they did not see Yang Hong report to the imperial court, because the defender of Dushi was Yang Jun, Yang Hong's son.
Yang Hong spent his whole life at Border Pass, and spent most of his time guarding the area around Dushi and Maying before becoming the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, and he knew too well the terrain and importance there. The monolith is lost, and the defender will not be able to blame it. Datong was defeated, the only escaped general Shi Heng was already in prison, if the matter was reported, then the son as a defender did not swear to defend the monolith will certainly not be able to escape the prison to pursue responsibility, so Yang Hong thought of selfishness, thinking that anyway, the Wallachian army has not yet occupied the monolith, destroyed the defense and retreated, the offensive on this side has not yet attracted the attention of the imperial court, and after the emperor's personal conquest, slowly build the fortifications, then this matter will pass.
Therefore, in the days when he accompanied Zhu Qizhen's imperial conquest, Yang Hong did not mention the instability of the defense in the Dushi area, so the Zhu Qizhen army was not aware of the potential dangers of being stationed in the area of Tumu Fort. Sure enough, people can't do bad things, otherwise they are really afraid of what is coming, if Zhu Qizhen's army is really surrounded, Yang Hong, who has an unshirkable responsibility, will save or not save?
05
In fact, Yang Hong couldn't save it if he wanted to.
Although Xuanfu was an important town in the nine major towns of Daming to defend Gyeonggi, the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu were not as many as imagined, especially after Yongle, the treatment of the northern tribes was mainly defensive, and Hong Xi died in July of the first year, according to xue lu, the Marquis of Yangwu, who guarded Xuanfu, there were only 20,000 troops in Datong and only 10,000 in Xuanfu. In the twelfth year of orthodoxy, when Yang Hong took office as the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu, he also counted the total number of soldiers and horses, which was about 13,500 at that time. These people and horses are still defending the city, the rescue is really not enough to see, moreover, once the risk out of the city to rescue, the rear is empty, if they are also taken advantage of the opportunity to seize Xuanfu Town, the consequences are unimaginable, Yang Hong does not dare to take such a risk.
The situation was the same as Yang Hong expected, Zhu Qizhen arrived at Tumu Fort on August 14, and the first troops reached the Sangan River on the south side of Tumu Fort first, and cut off the water source, and the troops of the Ara zhiyuan rushed from the north road of Xuanfu, but when they reached Mayukou, they encountered Guo Mao's desperate resistance, and also reached the north side of Tumu Fort, and the two cavalry troops completed the siege on the morning of August 15. The cunning one did not immediately organize an attack, pretending to negotiate and let the Ming army relax its vigilance, taking advantage of the Ming army to fetch water, unguarded, besieging on all sides, killing on a large scale, the minister of culture and military affairs died more than fifty people in the rebel army, and Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was also captured.
Yang Hong did not save, he chose to abandon the emperor, perhaps even if he went to save, it was only in the name of loyalty and righteousness, and the outcome of the war was of no help. For Yang Hong, of course, he is not a greedy person who is afraid of death, but the honor and disgrace of personal life and death are no longer important, in the Baojun or Baosheji, he must choose Baosheji, which is the most rational choice of a veteran who has been fighting for a long time. Xuanfu Town was safe and sound, but he knew that he was ashamed of the emperor, so when he also kidnapped Zhu Qizhen and called the door first, Yang Hong only asked someone to reply on his behalf, and he avoided seeing it. The door would never be opened, and since he had already apologized to the emperor once, it would not be bad for the second time.