Jiang Yan's confidence is not unreasonable. Datong is one of the nine important towns and one of the most powerful cities in the world. The current Datong City was built during the Hongwu period by General Xu Dadu and his army and civilians on the basis of Liao, Jin and Yuan Tucheng. The inner part of the city wall is made of rammed soil, and the outer layer is made of hard and strong special large green bricks (this kind of green bricks are several times heavier than common city wall bricks). Moreover, the city wall of Datong is quite tall, higher than the city wall of Beijing, with an average height of about four or a few feet!
In addition, the outer contour of the Datong City Wall does not present a common straight line, but is like a gear, with concave and convex alternating and arranged in an orderly manner. The protruding part is the enemy platform, there are 52 in total! Now these 52 enemy platforms are equipped with artillery, which can form a dense cross fire!
The four gates of Datong Fucheng are equipped with urn, arrow tower and plaque tower, forming four independent fortresses. Even if all other parts of the four walls fall, Datong Fucheng can continue to hold on as long as the barbican is not lost.
There is also a square "Imperial City" in Datong City, which was the original Prince Dai's Mansion, located in the northeast corner of Datong City. It also has a tall wall made of rammed earth bricks, which can serve as an independent fortress.
Even if other parts of Datong Fucheng fall, they can continue to resist relying on the "Imperial City"!
After the "Civil Engineering Revolution", Datong Xiongcheng was expanded again. The "Playground City" was built in the north of the city, the "East Small Town" was built in the east of the city, and the "South Small Town" was built in the south of the city. Because of the three small towns, It is close to the main city of Datong and looks like a pass, so it is also called the Three Passes. Datong also formed a defensive pattern of one main city and three gates.
Later, two forts, "Jule" and "Gaoshan", were built dozens of miles away in the east and west of the city. It forms the left and right wings of Datong City. This formed a defense system with one city, two wings and three passes.
Therefore, in the eyes of the soldiers and civilians inside and outside Datong City, their city was simply impossible to break.
To ask them to abandon such a strong castle and go fight guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains is simply fantastic!
As for the siege, the soldiers and civilians of Datong are not very afraid. Because Datong Town has been facing the threat of invasion in recent years, it has been making preparations for a long time. It has a lot of food reserves. If it can seize the time and reserve a little more, the Manchurians may not be able to starve to death in Datong even if they surround it for a year... .
Moreover, Datong City is so big, not to mention the "two wings", it is the core of one city and three gates. It cannot be tightly surrounded without 70,000 to 80,000 Tatars!
How many Tatars are there in total? They all come to Datong to besiege the city. Who will take care of my wife and children? Can you rest assured if Fan Wencheng takes care of you like that?
Don't go back and have a cheap son...
Just when Jiang Gan was patting his chest and assuring Luo Xiushen how many years the city of Datong could be defended, one of his staff walked in quickly and saluted Jiang Gan: "Chief Rong, I just got the report from Lingqiu County, saying that he is the new one." Wang Yongji, the governor of the three sides, and Gao Di, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, led 5,000 troops to escort the newly-confessed Dai Fan."
Jiang Yan turned to look at Luo Xiushen, "Why is there another acting king? Is he a member of the original acting vassal sect?"
Luo Xiushen shook his head and said, "I don't know. I haven't contacted the imperial court since March 21st."
Jiang Yan stroked his beard and asked the staff: "Who can you say is the new acting king?"
"Say he's the third prince!"
Jiang Yan stood up: "Oh, then we have to go and greet him grandly!"
He said to Luo Xiushen, "Commander Luo, this town cannot be separated from Datong Mansion now, so I will help you to go to Datong Mansion to welcome His Royal Highness and Governor Wang to Datong Mansion."
The city of Datong is opening its doors to welcome guests, but the city of Beijing, more than five hundred miles away, is closed and rejecting guests at this moment.
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The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the huge gray castle, giving people an inviolable and solemn feeling.
The seven gates in the outer city of Beijing and the six gates in the inner city that lead to the outside of the city have been tightly closed since the day before yesterday when Hauge and Kong Youde led their troops to the city. Not only was it closed, but it was completely blocked with earth, rocks, etc. As a result, all internal and external communications have to be carried out using hanging baskets. Luo Yangxing, the "Loyal and Righteous Minister", was hung up and down several times in the past two days.
Of course Luo Yangxing took the gondola out of the city to negotiate with the Manchus who were approaching the city...to negotiate the terms of surrender!
He used to be a traitor under the order, but now he is going to be a traitor under the order.
It was still Zhu Cihong’s order!
This order from Prince Zhu was brought into Beijing by the Jin Yiwei on the third day of May - at that time, Li Zicheng had already left Beijing, and Wu Sangui and the Qing allied forces were
He directly pursued Li Zicheng before entering Beijing, so the city of Beijing was temporarily in a power vacuum.
Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng, two certified "loyal ministers", took advantage of this opportunity to step forward and became the "maintenance president." Of course, the two "maintenance presidents" were not traitors at this time. Instead, they are really maintaining the situation and waiting for Chongzhen and his son to return.
On the third day of May, Zhu Cixiang's order to deceive people arrived.
The decree was given to Luo Yangxing and Guang Shiheng. Zhu Cixiang told them that the two courts were negotiating with the Manchus and were prepared to use marriage, annual coins, and the cession of land in Liaodong in exchange for the Manchus withdrawing their troops from the pass. In order to gain enough bargaining chips in the negotiations, Zhu Cixiang asked them to immediately close the thirteen gates from Beijing to the outside of the city. At the same time, they recruited troops and set up defenses to prevent the Manchus from entering the city.
In addition, Zhu Cihong also told the two loyal ministers in the edict that he had made an agreement with Hong Chengchou to ask him to return to the Ming Dynasty, and also asked him to be a bachelor, stay in Beijing, and become the governor of North Zhili. As long as they wait for Hong Chengchou to arrive, they can hand over the city defenses, and then go to Dagukou to receive the reward, or stay in Beijing to live their lives, it's up to them...
This decree was of course deceptive. Zhu Cixiang had no intention of negotiating with the Manchus. What's there to talk about? The Manchus were about to take over the Central Plains, and Zhu Cixiang was reincarnated as Emperor Taizu Gao.
Would Emperor Taizu Gao agree to hand over the city of Beijing to the Manchus? Will you agree to give one million coins a year? Would you agree to marry a 6-year-old Tatar girl to be your queen?
You don’t even need to think about these conditions!
Moreover, will the Manchus stop at Yanyun and be satisfied with one million taels of silver a year?
That's impossible too!
So both sides are cheating, it just depends on who cheats better.
As for the bunch of traitors and treacherous bastards in Beijing, as well as the Manchurian heavenly soldiers outside the city, they were naturally the targets of being deceived.
Luo Yangxing, a traitor who had been the commander of the Jinyi Guards for more than ten years, was now a traitor who met a traitor, and was fooled around.
On the Manchu side, Hauge, Obai and Kong Youde didn't understand the situation either. Although Dorgon's order to them was to wait for an opportunity to seize Beijing, he did not strictly order them to attack by force.
And Hauge and Kong Youde were reluctant to expend their own troops to attack Beijing. How strong is Beijing's city defense? Even if Kong Youde's Han army had the Wuzhenchaoha artillery team equipped with Hongyi cannons, it would not be easy to blast through the walls of Beijing.
And there are also Hongyi cannons on the walls of Beijing! If an artillery battle really breaks out, the Uzhenchaoha artillery team may not be able to take advantage. If we really want to fight a siege, we may suffer heavy losses... The only losses will be Hauge and Kong Youde's troops!
Besides, Beijing didn’t say it couldn’t hand over the city of Beijing!
That Luo Yangxing has been here several times, just to discuss handing over the city of Beijing... Of course, it cannot be handed over directly to the Qing Dynasty, but to Hong Chengchou!
As long as he sees Hong Chengchou, he will hand over the city of Beijing!
As for who Hong Chengchou wants to hand over Beijing to, it is none of his business.
In order to prove that he was not lying, Luo Yangxing left the city today with Zhu Cixiang's instructions.
At the gate of Beijing, Luo Yangxing met Obai, the second warrior in Manchuria (now the first warrior in Manchuria) who came to greet him - but this Obai looked a little sluggish and his eyes were red, and he didn't know if he was. Did you stay up late at night to beat yourself up?
Luo Yangxing hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Ao Zhangjing, I have brought the order from Prince Fujun..."
"Oh." Obei, who was a little distracted, clasped his fists quickly, "Commander Luo, the horse has been prepared. Please get on the horse and follow me."
please? Oboi actually used the word "please", and his tone was very gentle!
Luo Yangxing thought: The peace talks must have been successful! This is great. I can finally hand over the burden of Beijing City.
