Chapter 109: Joining Forces Tongzhou
After two hours of fierce fighting, the gunfire in the city became less and less, more than half of the 5,000 Qing soldiers in the city were wiped out, and Adun led the 2,000 remnants to escape from the West Gate, and also coerced tens of thousands of people.
Under the pursuit of the Yongwei Battalion and the Shenshu Battalion all the way, Ah Dun and other 2,000 Qing soldiers hid among the people, dodging the muskets of the Yongwei Battalion and the slashing of the cavalry of the Shenshu Battalion, and the cavalry of the Shenshu Battalion cut off their back roads with their mobility ability.
"Let us evacuate, or we'll kill these people!" A general in the Qing army shouted a threat.
The Yongwei Battalion and the Shenshu Battalion also stopped attacking, and as officers and soldiers, they did not dare to shoot and injure the people easily, and everyone hated and angered, and secretly said that the Tartars were shameless.
Not long after, Zhu Cihong rode his horse and said to the herald: "Tell the Tartars, we will withdraw the army and let them release the people, if you don't agree, there will be only a dead end!" ”
The Qing army began to shout again: "Let us take these people for ten miles first, and then let them come back after ten miles!" You are not allowed to follow! ”
Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "At most five miles, our army will withdraw to Miyun City, and the palace will not chase it!" ”
The herald quickly conveyed Zhu Cihong's meaning to the Qing army, and Ah Dun was also very happy, and immediately agreed, five miles was enough for them to run away.
After the two sides negotiated, Zhu Cihong ordered the whole army to withdraw to Miyun City, seeing that the Ming army had withdrawn, Adun immediately ran to the mountains with the remnants, which was a mountain road leading to the outside of the pass, with mountains on both sides, although it could be out of the pass, but it was very difficult to walk.
After running out of five miles with the people, the Qing army directly threw off the people who were dragging their feet, and accelerated their speed to run in the direction of the outside of the pass.
Miyun City, in the state hall.
"Your Highness! We just let this Tartar go? Huang Degong was very angry.
Zhang Shize sighed: "His Royal Highness Chrysostom has been opened, and it is necessary to pay attention to integrity ........"
Zhu Cihong glanced at Zhang Shize and said lightly: "For brutes, do you need to pay attention to integrity?" ”
When Zhang Shize heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately ran out with a fist, shouting at the Shenshu camp as he ran: "The whole camp of the Shenshu camp gathers, follow me to pursue the Tartars!" ”
The sound of people neighing and horses immediately sounded in Miyun City, followed by the rumbling of iron hooves in the distance.
Zhu Cihong took the fruit brought by Wu Zhong, and after tasting it, he said lightly: "On such a hot day, Zhang Shize has nothing to hunt .......?"
When the generals in the hall heard this, they were all speechless, and secretly said that the crown prince was really thick-skinned at a young age.
An hour later, the thousands of cavalry of the Shenshu battalion finally chased the fleeing Tartars at Dashiling, and ruthlessly charged and killed the remnants of the Tartars as soon as they met.
The Tartar infantry ran for an hour on a hot day, and they were already tired and exhausted, and they couldn't stop the charge of the cavalry of the Shenshu camp at all, and the hundreds of cavalry of the Tartars were a little energetic and began to fight back, but after all, they were still outnumbered and annihilated by the Shenshu camp.
As soon as he saw Zhu Cihong, Adun, who had already been dragged into a beggar, shouted angrily: "Prince of the Ming Kingdom, why don't you keep your promise and send someone to pursue us?" ”
Zhu Cihong was surprised: "Send someone to pursue? When did it happen? Hongu has never ordered a pursuit, huh? ”
Seeing the innocent look of the crown prince of the Ming Kingdom, Ah Dun almost believed it, and he said angrily: "If you hadn't ordered the pursuit, why would I have come here?" ”
"How did he get here?" Zhu Cihong looked at Zhang Shize with a more unprovoked expression and asked.
Zhang Shize said with a smile: "This old Jiannu followed us all the way back, it should be out of his own volition!" ”
Adun was extremely angry: "Barbarian! You Nanban, you are really shameless! ”
Huang Degong pointed at Adun and said angrily: "Shameless? You old thing, and you have a shameless face! Did you kill those people in Shunyi City? Did you take the people captive? ”
Ah Dun was stunned by what he said for a while, but he was still not convinced, and turned his head away with a snort, very unconvinced.
Seeing the hanging appearance of this old thing, Huang Degong was very unhappy, he shook his arms and said: "Lao Tzu heard that you are a slave of the Baturu?" Come on, come on! Lao Tzu will practice with you, and see how good you shit Batulu is! ”
Ah Dun's face was blue and extremely ugly, while Huang Degong squinted at him with a disdainful sneer on his face.
Adun finally broke out completely, it was his honor to be given the title of Baturu, and he couldn't tolerate insults from others, he rushed towards Huang Degong with red eyes and roaring.
Huang Degong swept at Adun who pounced, and the whirlwind right leg swept heavily on Adun 's side shoulder, only to hear a bang, Adun's body was smashed to the ground, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Good!" The generals who gathered around to watch the play applauded.
Huang Degong was arrogant, he squinted at each other, and looked at Adun and sneered.
Ah Dun fell to the ground, and it took a long time to recover his strength, he roared and jumped up and punched to attack Huang Degong, but Huang Degong grabbed his arm and pulled back, Huang Degong took the opportunity to hit an elbow, knocked Adun and spit out two mouthfuls of old blood, and staggered to the ground.
Huang Degong snorted and said, "Bullshit Baturu! It's not as good as the uncle who chops wood in my hometown! ”
Ah Dun slept on the ground, trembling and pointing at Huang Degong with his finger, wanting to say something, but in the end his face turned red, and he died without saying a word.
Everyone laughed, only Zhang Shize was a little speechless, and thought to himself: "What should I do?" Whose military exploits is this old thing? ”
After recovering Miyun, Zhu Cihong then asked people to appease the people in the city and count the seized materials, there were too many hoarded materials in Miyun City, and many people in Shunyi and Huairou were captured and concentrated here, which required a lot of money.
On August 25, Abatai in Pinggu failed to capture Shunyi and was unable to aid Miyun, so he turned to besiege Jizhou, and the Yutian defenders supported in time to relieve the siege of Jizhou.
When Zhu Cihong learned of this, he ordered Lu Jiude to lead 2,000 men and horses of the Yongwei battalion to stay in Miyun, and he led the army to Tongzhou in a hurry to meet reinforcements from all walks of life.
The Qing army near Tongzhou was not much, it was safe, and after receiving the order, the general soldiers of all walks of life did not delay and marched to Tongzhou one after another.
On 26 August, the armies of Qinwang from all walks of life arrived in Tongzhou one after another, and tens of thousands of troops were scattered within a radius of more than ten miles from Tongzhou.
Such a war atmosphere looks good, but in fact, there are many soldiers and horses.
The spacious streets of Tongzhou City were full of drunken Ming troops, dressed in colorful armor from various towns in the north, including Xuanfu, Datong, Liaodong, and Shandong, wandering around in groups.
The people in the city hardly left their homes, worried about being harassed by the officers and soldiers, but the merchants were overjoyed.
In the city of Tongzhou, there was a lot of noise on the streets, groups of drunken border soldiers were scolding and scolding, and in the taverns on both sides of the street, the noise of guessing and drinking came and went, and the tavern owner carefully welcomed and sent these military masters.
The Shenji Battalion marched with artillery along the way, the speed was very slow, Zhu Cihong asked the Yongwei Battalion and the Shenshu Battalion to escort the Shenji Battalion all the way, and he took Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan, Xu Sheng and others into Tongzhou City first.
When he saw the lazy appearance of these border troops in the city, he frowned without worrying, and the joint operation plan that he had originally considered in his heart began to waver a little.
Huang Degong and others are also sighing, the most elite border army of the Ming Dynasty is now far worse than the Yongwei battalion, and the undisciplined army is like the walking dead, no matter how strong it is on the surface, it is useless.
Zhu Cihong walked around the city for a long time and felt a little tired, so he found a tavern that looked more upscale and rested for a while.
The tavern was crowded with people, all of them were soldiers, all of them were so drunk that their faces were red and their necks were thick, their eyes were blood-red, their sleeves were rolled up, their feet were on the bench and they were guessing the boxing order, and the cheers and scolding were endless.
The army of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of excellent and gorgeous armor, the Beijing camp ranked first, followed by the nine sides, the nine sides of the towns in Liaodong are the most refined, the officers and soldiers in the hinterland of the Central Plains are the last, and the armor worn on the body is very simple.
Therefore, when Zhu Cihong and the others came in, the originally noisy voices in the tavern were lowered a lot, and many soldiers stared at Zhu Cihong and the others with red eyes.
Huang Degong and several others were wearing bright armor, although they were the outfits of ordinary soldiers in the Yongwei Battalion, they were still very eye-catching in the chaos of soldiers, especially the few soldiers with muskets behind Zhu Cihong.
Most of these soldiers in the tavern were uneducated, they were all temporarily transferred from various towns in the north, and they had never seen much of the world, and the armor of each town on the nine sides was slightly different, so few people knew which army Huang Degong and the others were.
The tavern owner hurriedly greeted him, nodded and said, "How many ...... Hello Mr. ”
The boss has opened a hotel all the year round, he has seen a lot of people, his eyesight is outstanding, he is a good person, he wanted to open his mouth and call the military master, but when he saw that Zhu Cihong was not dressed simply, he immediately changed his mouth and became the chief master.
Not only did the boss think so, but many of the soldiers present also thought so, these people were dressed like this, and their bearing was extraordinary, at least they were a thousand generals, maybe they were generals!
Huang Degong said in a loud voice: "I haven't mixed with the general army yet, go to the whole twenty catties of beef, serve a few signature dishes, and then make a pot of wine." After speaking, he threw down an ingot of ten taels of silver on the table next to him.
The boss took the silver with a smile on his face, and said while wiping the table with his sleeve: "The master wants to dine in the villain's shop, which is really a blessing for the villain." ”
Upstairs and downstairs were noisy, and the entire tavern was full of the noise of soldiers, Zhu Cihong shook his head and sighed, at the end of the dynasty, there was almost no army that the Ming could take.