In the palace, Emperor Chongzhen listened solemnly to a eunuch who was reporting what had happened in the city. He was secretly relieved when he learned that Chang Yu had ordered an appropriate counterattack to maintain his strength. However, he was also worried that Chang Yu would play with fire and burn himself, forcing the Qing army to attack the city. If so,
An accident... I couldn't help but shudder when I thought about it, and I became more and more uneasy: "Do you know where Chang Yu is?"
"Back to the emperor, Eunuch Chang should be in the city now." The eunuch whispered: "Would you like me to send a message to Eunuch Chang to come over..."
"No need." Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand. At this time, a eunuch waved to Wang Chengen at the door. Wang Chengen walked over. The eunuch whispered in his ear for a while, and then Wang Chengen walked into the palace: "Your Majesty, the Shuntian Mansion often says
Several commanders under the father-in-law’s command smashed up the teahouse and even beat the governor who went to break up the fight..."
"Nonsense!" Emperor Chongzhen, who was depressed at first, was furious when he heard this. He was about to ask someone to accuse him, but something suddenly occurred to him: "Why did they cause trouble for no reason?" Wang Chengen quickly told the reason, and Emperor Chongzhen immediately turned pale and raised his fists.
The veins in my grip bulged out, and my whole body was shaking.
"Your Majesty, don't be angry. I will send someone to Eunuch Chang to punish them now!"
"Why punish them?" Emperor Chongzhen snorted coldly: "They are all heroes who have done great service in killing the enemy and protecting the country. They have to be humiliated for drinking tea. If I were here, I would not only beat people, but also set fire to kill people!"
Wang Chengen responded repeatedly and said: "Those arrogant dandies will beat them up, but beating up Shuntian Prefecture Yin... If word of this spreads out, it will damage the reputation of Dongchang, and it will definitely be taken advantage of by people with ulterior motives.
Impeach Dongchang for being arrogant and domineering..."
"It's just his bad luck." Chongzhen sighed and finally felt uneasy, so he asked Wang Cheng'en to send someone to comfort the governor, saying that he would be severely punished. However, he turned around and asked the eunuch to send fifty taels of silver to the Dongchang Yamen.
Said it was tea money for a few fights.
As the sun sets and night falls, the Tatars outside the city are making great noises, which makes people panic. There is a lot of excitement in the city but they can't feast their eyes or ears on it. Of course, they don't care.
But it wasn't that he didn't care at all. After all, Dorgon's actions were to test the reaction of the Ming army in the city. He surrounded the city and launched a feint attack at the same time, causing the Ming army to panic. He fired cannons and fired arrows. He was so scared.
When he thought of the virtue of the Ming army just now, Dorgon couldn't help but laugh to the sky. He felt that it was no longer interesting to laugh. After all, there was a very powerful and calm opponent in the city, that little eunuch!
From the very beginning, the Ming army bombarded the city with artillery shells as if they were free of charge. It only took more than a quarter of an hour for the men and horses in the city to stop firing and passively counterattack. It was obvious that someone had seen through his intentions, and there were only many people who could do this quickly except the little eunuch.
Ergon couldn't think of anyone else.
But so what if he saw through it, the Ming army's initial reaction was the most realistic reaction. There were at least twenty artillery pieces of various sizes on the city, and the number of troops was at least 30,000. They were obviously well prepared to fight, and could attack as quickly as possible.
Du mobilized the troops into the city, they were very mobile, but they looked panicked, obviously lacking in actual combat, and most of them were rookies.
The Ming army's capable field troops first went to Baoding Prefecture to suppress the bandits, and then hurriedly returned to Beijing. Their combat power was already inferior to that of the Qing army. At this time, the Qing army was exhausted, so what was there to fear? No wonder they only dared to watch from a distance.
Seeing themselves besieging the city, they didn't dare to take a step forward.
But just in case, Dorgon decided to send a team of troops to keep an eye on the Ming army in the south while attacking the city to prevent them from taking the opportunity to make a sneak attack. He didn't have this worry before, but since he fought against Chang Yu
After that, I had to be on guard against the fact that Ming Ting came up with such a thing. Who knew what tricks he was playing secretly? If he took another bite, his future would be ruined.
It is essential to be on guard against others, but how to attack the city is the main problem. The capital of the Ming Dynasty has a circumference of dozens of miles, the city has high walls and a moat, and Dorgon has no artillery weapons and only 30,000 troops. How can he defeat them?
Which side to hit is a headache.
But he believed that there were more solutions than problems, and three days was enough.
Yes, three days is enough! Li Yan thought so too. In Daxing, fifty miles away from the south of Beijing, Li Yan finally led his troops in a hurry from thousands of miles away to meet Shi Kefa and learned that Chang Yu was transferring troops eastward.
Hidden in ambush, you will know their intentions after a moment of reflection. It is better to block them than to chase them. The little governor wants to run in front of the Tartars to stop them.
Will the Tatars just give them time to make arrangements? Li Yan thought that with Chang Yu's wisdom, he would definitely stumble under the capital and hold the Tatars back so that his subordinates can implement the plan.
Huang Degong said that the scouting horse had been reported and the Tatars were about to attack the capital.
Li Yan sneered and shook his head: "With the power of the cavalry and the governor in charge of the capital, it is extremely difficult for the Tatars to break through the city. It is just to vent their anger." Shi Kefa stroked his beard and nodded, thinking that Li Yan was indeed extremely smart:
"It should be Eunuch Chang's delaying plan that deliberately angered envoy Dorgon."
The troops were so fast that Li Yan did not dare to delay in Daxing. After only half a day's rest, he immediately led his exhausted troops eastward. The red lady stayed in Daxing, and Huang Degong sent her several miles away: "General Li, after defeating the enemy, I, Old Huang, will be here
The capital invites you to drink." Li Yan cupped his hands and left with a laugh: "You won't come back until you're drunk!"
Under a tree with a crooked neck in the east of Daxing City, the red lady looked at the flying dust in the distance. It was not until the sky was getting dark that she sighed and waved. Not far away, three playful children ran towards her. One was picked up by Chang Yu halfway.
One of the little Taoist priests is Qiao Heling, Qiao Sanxiu's son, and the other is Nangong Yu who was rescued in Zhaozhou City.
Back in Daxing City, Huang Degong and Shi Kefa were listening to Tan Ma's report on the military situation. Seeing the arrival of the Red Lady, they both clasped their fists and nodded without any sign of neglect. They had also heard about this heroic girl for a long time, and even though they were relegated to the second line to do logistics work at this time
But her husband was at the top of his game at this time. Not only did he receive awards from the emperor, but he was also regarded as a pillar of talent by Chang Yu.
After the red lady returned the courtesy, she sat down aside and listened for a while to get an idea of the general situation. At present, the Tatar soldiers, about 30,000 men and horse, were approaching the imperial capital. They were mad and wanted to attack the city. However, surprisingly, they were one step ahead of them.
The young governor who returned to Beijing was not impatient and even ordered all ministries to stop and rest and wait for orders.
But the Tatar soldiers were not so calm. After exploring the location of the Ming army, although they did not send out troops to attack, they sent several groups of scouts to attack, ranging from more than ten people to hundreds of people, provoking them endlessly.
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Shi Kefa knew that the Tatars' provocation was actually to test the bottom line of the Ming army here. If they turned around to avoid it or couldn't get out like in the past, it wouldn't be a worry. He chose to be patient and wait for the order, but Huang Degong was so temperamental.
Due to the provocation of the Tatars, and the fact that Chang Yu did not give orders not to fight, whenever the Tatars came to harass him, he would order a counterattack, and even went into battle himself several times.
Shi Kefa couldn't control him, so he had to let him do whatever he wanted. He thought that maybe this rough guy had muddied the water and made it easier to catch fish. So during the few days of rest, fights were going on every day within a radius of more than ten miles. The scale was huge.
Not big, no more than a hundred at most. Both the Ming and Qing armies had their own casualties.
Daxing is a small county town, and the small city cannot accommodate many people. Follow-up reinforcements are coming one after another, and most of them camp outside the city. Only direct members and generals will enter the city. As the head of the logistics department, the red lady is naturally qualified to enter the city to rest, but other
His subordinates mostly stayed outside the city.
The Logistics Department is mainly responsible for saving lives, healing the wounded, making fires, making meals, etc. Most of them are female soldiers, but there are also some old, weak and disabled male soldiers. The main force of them also surrendered with the Red Lady from the rebel army. Later, they followed Chang Yu in his battles in the north and south.
When you reach a place, you will leave a group of people to save lives and heal the wounded there, and then you will take in many homeless refugee women and train them.
This female soldier was very eye-catching in the bandit army at that time. Now she has surrendered to the officers and soldiers and is still the shining star. For no other reason than because there are so many women, the male soldiers like to join in there when they have nothing to do.
However, military regulations do not prevent male and female soldiers from contacting each other. On the contrary, they are encouraged to interact, of course under the premise of seriousness. After all, these female soldiers are poor people with broken families and homeless people, and most of the male soldiers are also bachelors.
, we can solve some if we can, but in these troubled times, especially in the military, whether the sun will see tomorrow is still uncertain. No one can tell whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for them to combine.
After dinner, the red lady left several children in the city and then left the city to live in the camp. Although she was informal, she was formidable. There were all male generals in the city, and her husband avoided suspicion when he could outside.
The military camp of the female logistics soldiers is just a few hundred meters outside the south gate of the city. There are also camps of other brother troops nearby. This is also to take care of them. After the red lady came back, she began to patrol the camp to prevent any dirty things from happening. (To be completed.