It was September 15th, the first year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.
The Tucheng campus in Beijing is already a scene of chilling!
It has to be said that Zhu Chunchen, Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi, Li Shouqi (Brother of Xiangcheng), Li Zunzu, Liu Kongzhao, Xu Yunzhen (Prince Dingguo) and other Wu Xun who retired from the country can still accomplish something if they really use their strength. Damn it, otherwise how could you have fooled me for so many years?
Although the Beijing camp has always had shortcomings such as vacancies, occupation, pretense, idleness, and guaranteed service, at least 89% of the 120,000 troops are empty, and the rest are "shangyong" who fled when they saw the enemy. But that time the emperor's family was holding a grand ceremony, and the capital camp could not pull out a "strong force" of 89,000 people, and the golden drums, flags, armor, and weapons all looked like new. If the elite soldiers of Liao Town were brought over to compete with them, it might be worse!
This is how you fool the emperor!
But this time they met an emperor who was not easy to fool, so of course the ministers in charge of the capital camp had to work extra hard to fool him.
After Zhu Chunchen received the advice from Liu Kongzhao, the "think tank", he discussed a "strategy to settle the accounts" with the six deputy generals of the third camp in Beijing. Although "settling the accounts" is a bit dangerous, it must be done. Otherwise, after the little emperor completes the rectification of the four towns of Xuan, Chang, Bao, and Ji, they, the nobles of Beijing who have been short-changed for generations, will have to confiscate their homes.
In order to preserve the wealth inherited from their ancestors, these nobles also devoted all their efforts and even spent a lot of money, offering a "sky-high price" of one penny a day to recruit heroes from the capital. The servants and slaves of various houses and houses who were falsely paid were also forced out. Together with the "one-cent silver" warriors and the old veteran Youzi who had been messing around in the Beijing camp for a long time, they all wore armor and armed themselves and went out five miles north of Beijing. Six miles away, within the earthen wall left over from the Yuan Dynasty (originally the capital city wall of the Yuan Dynasty, about three to four feet high and about ten miles long, with a moat outside the wall), neatly stood on a school ground. There are always around 100,000 people!
The military formation of the Beijing camp has always been very intimidating. It is neat and thick and far superior to the nine-sided force. It stands in the wilderness, with countless spears stretching out like a forest. When the autumn sunshine shines, it is as dazzling as the steel jungle. The people inside and outside the capital were also attracted by the momentum of the swearing-in, and watched from a distance. The pits and valleys were filled with people. Of course the people at the emperor's feet knew the details of the capital camp. Now that they saw that they were really going to send troops to fight against the captors, they were all so shocked that they were speechless with their mouths wide open.
Fan Wencheng, who once again put on the monk's robe, was also among the crowd watching the excitement. He was once again sent out by Huang Taiji to collect intelligence.
Now Huang Taiji's army is stationed by the Huai River in the north of Shunyi City. Although I didn't dare to attack the impregnable Shunyi fortress, I still broke the estates of many wealthy families - Shunyi is located on the outskirts of Beijing and adjacent to the remaining mountains of Yanshan Mountain. The nearby mountains and forests are extremely beautiful, so many wealthy families from Gyeonggi are in Shunyi. Villas and manors were built near the city. Now most of them have been broken by the Hou Jin Army, and to some extent the Hou Jin Army has gained some property.
In addition, it is now the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the wheat in the fields around Beijing is ready to be harvested. Therefore, in addition to looking for wealthy manors to attack these days, the Hou Jin Army has been busy harvesting wheat. They have harvested almost 100,000 dan, enough to feed the army for two months.
But compared with the psychological expectations of Huang Taiji and a group of Eight Banners dignitaries, this harvest is really far behind.
Although there are many valuable items in the mansions of the wealthy families in Gyeonggi, such as exquisitely made furniture and exquisite materials, such as the strange stones from Taihu Lake transported thousands of miles south of the Yangtze River... But for Da Jinbing, these things are nothing. Not real! Just grab some rocks and wood when you go to the entrance and go back? This thing is everywhere outside the mouth, do you need to travel thousands of miles to grab it?
Entering the pass is a big battle. This time there are Eight Banners soldiers and coated slaves, Xiao Sanwan. The food and food expenses along the way are huge! If you can't grab enough wealth serfs, you will lose money... and you will lose a lot!
Of course Huang Taiji was unwilling to return at a loss, but he was also worried about being surrounded and beaten by the main force of the Ming army.
Of course, he was not worried about being beaten to death by the Ming army. The ability of the Eight Banners soldiers in field battles is obvious. When the elite soldiers of Liao Town encountered a larger number of Eight Banners soldiers, they could only repel the Eight Banners soldiers in the city battle.
But Huang Taiji is afraid of losing money!
If he was really besieged by 200,000 to 300,000 Ming troops, even if he could win, he would still suffer heavy casualties... If thousands of Eight Banners disciples died and nothing was gained, life in the Kingdom of Jin would be even more difficult in the future. .
Therefore, Huang Taiji, who was in a dilemma, sent a large number of detailed operations to Beijing, Changping, Pinggu, Miyun and other places, hoping to find out the true and false status of his opponents so as to find an easy target and at the same time ensure that he would not be besieged by the Ming army. .
Fan Wencheng, who had been to Beijing, of course went to Beijing to inquire about it by familiar means. Because the gates of Beijing were strictly guarded, he could not enter the city, so he had to wander outside the city. Today he happened to catch up with the Ming army to take the oath in the capital camp. Troops were sent out.
Of course he had to come and watch, and when he saw it, he took a breath!
These are elite soldiers!
The formation was neat, the armor was excellent, and the morale was high... Moreover, Fan Wencheng also discovered that the Ming army's Beijing camp assembled in the Tucheng school field was not equipped with many firearms (most of the firearms were left to defend the city), and the long spears were extremely many!
Having more spears means you dare to fight hand to hand. Moreover, these Ming Dynasty soldiers in the capital were neatly arrayed and must be good at defeating cavalry. During the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, the greatest loss suffered by the Later Jin Dynasty army in the field was caused by the Sichuan Baigan soldiers who were good at using spears in the bloody battle of Hunhe River.
If Li Yongfang hadn't persuaded the captured Ming gunners to surrender in time and brought in some general artillery, the outcome of the bloody battle at Hunhe would not have been certain!
Now the Ming army's Huben troops in Beijing have so many spears, while the Hou Jin soldiers at the entrance have no artillery...
Cold sweat broke out on Fan Wencheng's bald head!
Just when Fan Wencheng was on tenterhooks, a cheer suddenly broke out from deep in the military formation: "Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"
The cheers immediately filled the sky and covered the earth. Hundreds of thousands of tigers and warriors all raised their weapons and shouted hoarsely: "Ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories... I swear to kill the slave thieves! Flatten Liaodong." !”
terrible!
Fan Wencheng was already frightened!
He no longer dared to watch the Ming army's battle formation from afar, but tried his best to squeeze out the crowd of onlookers, went out through a breach in the earth wall, and trotted all the way to Shunyi.
Something bad is happening! It turns out that the Ming Army's Jingying Camp is not a waste...
When Fan Wencheng ran away, Wang Zaijin was giving instructions to Zhu Chunchen, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, and Zhang Fengyi, the right minister of the Ministry of War, who assisted in the military affairs of the Beijing camp.
To be honest, Wang Zaijin was also shocked by the majestic military power of the fake accountants in the Beijing camp. If he didn't know the details of the Beijing camp, he would have thought that these fake accountants were really elite!
But what is fake cannot be true after all. The Beijing camp soldiers have to deal with various ceremonies, so the formation can still be used. Moreover, their iron armor and cloth armor both look very beautiful, and they can be fooled by both the layman and the expert. But when they really go to the battlefield and face the enemies coming in like a tide, the false soldiers will be exposed for their true colors.
In fact, there is no need to go to the battlefield. Once you get out of the earthen wall, you have to flee...
Wang Zaijin sighed and ordered in a low voice: "Gong Chengguo, Boqi, we know exactly what happens to the 100,000-strong capital camp here. So after leaving the wall, we must be cautious... The earth wall reaches the north of Shunyi City. The camp of slaves and bandits is sixty or seventy miles away. If the three armies move in a hurry, they can reach it in a day and a night. You can't go too fast. Walking six or seven miles in a day is enough. You must make a camp step by step and set up camp after walking six or seven miles. The stronghold must be firmly entrenched, because what the slave thieves are most afraid of is that we fight with the city and the stronghold! I have given Yuan Yuan Yuan an order to set up camp at every step after he leaves Pinggu. Our two armies are 100,000 (a hundred thousand people are out in battle) Impossible, at least half of them escaped, so Wang Zaijin only counted the soldiers from the Beijing camp (50,000) and came to a fortress to advance, approaching Shunyi bit by bit, without giving the slaves any chance, and they would be able to force them away. As long as we force them away, we will be considered a complete victory. Because the slave thieves gained very little from this entrance, which is not enough to cover their expenses, it is considered a loss... Once you lose, there is no second time. , three times!”
