"Tianjin Wei reported that the Wusong Naval Division of the Yixing Dynasty marched west from Dagukou, and because of the strong guns of the ships, the key passes along the way were destroyed by artillery...... At this time, one of the soldiers had approached Tianjin. ”

Suddenly, there was a dead silence in the hall, and a moment later there was chaos again, like a pot of boiling water.

Tianjin, before the Ming Dynasty, did not have this title.

In the past, Tianjin had the name of "Zhigu", which was during the Zhenyou period of the Jin Dynasty, and the location was probably at the three-way junction, but it was not a city, but a village, called "Zhigu Village".

Later, during the reign of Yuan Yanyou, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain, Zhigu Village was changed to Haijin Town, and the Dazhigu Salt Transportation Department was set up to manage the production and marketing of salt.

In other words, before the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin was called Haijin, and it was still a town, and it had nothing to do with the military.

However, Zhu Di launched the "Battle of Jingyan", which was from this Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the south, seized power and ascended the throne.

In order to commemorate this proud battle, Zhu Di will change its name to Tianjin, that is, the meaning of the ferry where the Son of Heaven passes, in order to prevent future generations from painting gourds, Zhu Di set up a guard in Tianjin, just to prevent future generations from following suit, but Tianjin is only a guard, not an ordinary state capital, just a military pass.

Dagukou is the mouth of the sea, less than 100 miles away from Tianjin Wei, and Tianjin Wei is more than 300 miles away from Shuntianfu.

The key is that the distance from Dagukou to Tianjinwei can be reached directly by warships.

That is, as long as the enemy landed from Tianjinwei, a hurried march...... The army came to the city.

Of course, at that time of Zhu Di, there was no such powerful fleet in the world that could threaten the "invincible armada" of Tianjin Wei and Zheng He's seven voyages to the Western Ocean, that is, scorpion - the only one.

Otherwise, even if he borrowed Zhu Di's ten guts, he wouldn't dare to decide that he would be in Shuntianfu.

But even so, Zhu Di did not dare to be careless, and after setting up the Tianjin Guard, he was still expanding the scale of defense, adding the Tianjin Left Guard and the Tianjin Right Guard, and building piers and artillery in Dagu Haikou.

The Qing army went south, and the Ming Dynasty perished.

Originally, in the past four years or so, it may be possible to reorganize the Qing defenders of Tianjin Wei.

Unfortunately, first the Qingtai Dynasty and then the Yixing Dynasty restrained the huge military and financial resources of the Qing court, and the remnants of the Dashun and Daxi armies and the Yongli Dynasty in the south had a chance to breathe, which caused the Qing court to be unable to consolidate the Tianjin Guard.

It's no wonder who would have thought that the enemy would come from the sea.

But now, the problem arises.

This time, Dolgon was supposed to fight a quick decisive battle, and the eight banners stationed in Beijing were transferred, and at this time in Gyeonggi, there were only 20,000 people in the eight banners available, and the other was to surrender the Qingming army.

This amount of troops is enough to fight the battle, can you dare to send it to Tianjin?

Don't want it anymore?

The Qing court was really shaken now!

This is like a great man who once said that there is a real thing that can conquer a country by setting up a few cannons along the coast.

Yes, the Ming Dynasty also had a key pass in Tianjin Wei and even Dagukou, and also deployed a lot of artillery.

At this time, it is still retained, but the problem is that the range is not enough, and it cannot be compared with the artillery on the new battleship of the Wusong Water Division.

The artillery deployed in the key passes can indeed block the Haihe River, but the Wusong Water Division can destroy the shore artillery positions one by one outside the range of the shore artillery.

The defenders were powerless to fight back.

Along the way, they were uprooted one by one until Tianjin Wei.

How did the Qing court respond?

No one is bothered with Bumubutai's temporary "mutiny" anymore, nor is there any need to worry about Dorgon's disposition.

In the face of the life and death of the dynasty, everything can be ignored.

Wu Zheng was afraid that he never dreamed that he would inadvertently do Dolgon a great favor.

Jilharang rushed to the herald in a few steps and shouted urgently: "How many ships does Wusong Sailor have...... Tell me quickly, how many enemies are there? How to deal with the two guards stationed in Tianjin? ”

"Back to my lord, the enemy has ten large ships and countless small and medium-sized boats...... The key points of the Dagukou garrison have been destroyed by enemy artillery fire, and the garrison has fled to Tianjin to defend ....... ”

"Bastard!" Zilharang, who had always been a good man, slapped the herald over with a slap, and was still angry, and kicked him again.

Only then did he turn back to Bumu Butai and Fu Lin and said: "There are ten big ships, if one is counted as carrying 800 people, excluding sailors, about 3 or 400 people can go ashore, and 10 ships are about 3 or 4,000 people...... It is impossible to estimate whether small and medium-sized boats are carrying troops. The minister thought that the most important thing was to order the Tianjin Wei garrison to detect the enemy's strength, and at the same time, mobilize the troops of Gongwei Gyeonggi to go to Tianjin to block the enemy! ”

"No!" Bel Tunqi (grandson of Prince Zhuang Shuerhaqi) objected loudly, "Once the Gyeonggi army is mobilized, in case there is a mistake...... Why? ”

These words expressed the worries in the hearts of most of the courtiers.

Nowadays, many tribes in Shandong, Shanxi, and even Mongolia have rebelled, and if an army really enters Gyeonggi, the Qing court, which has an army of one million, will really become a joke.

Although Zilharang was confronted by Belle Tunqi, he was not angry, he knew that Tunqi's words were reasonable, the capital was already empty, and if he was redeployed, he was afraid that he would really not be able to deal with it.

Just when the ministers in the hall were all full of sorrow and had no countermeasures, Hong Chengchou suddenly said: "Or...... Dispatch new troops to reinforce Tianjin Wei? ”

These words instantly made the faces of the ministers lift, so that the imperial court also invested millions of taels of silver in the new army under the financial constraints, and it was time to contribute.

But these words made the generals of Tunqi and other Dolgon's faction frown.

They were scolding Hong Chengchou for being too cunning and slippery in their hearts.

The musket battalion and the rifle battalion of the new army have been dispatched, all the way to the west to reinforce Azig to quell the rebellion, and all the way south to suppress the Jiaodong rebellion.

Fools can understand that if this strategy is implemented, then it must be the spear cavalry battalion that will be transferred back, first, because the spear cavalry battalion is cavalry, and the speed of return is fast, and the second is that the Jiaodong rebellion is progressing smoothly, and the spear cavalry battalion has already squeezed the seven divisions within the area of Ninghai Prefecture, Mo County and Haiyang County.

But the commander of the spear cavalry battalion is Qian Qiaogong, the grandson-in-law of Zierharang, that is, the emperor's lineage.

This time, if he had made great contributions to Tianjin Wei, coupled with the defeat of the battle in front of Dolgon, and the loss of troops, then the power of the emperor's line would undoubtedly rise sharply.

How could Fu Lin think of so much, but he considered the fundamental interests of the Qing court, and he said loudly: "Spread my will, urgently call Qian Qiaogong's gun cavalry battalion to reinforce Tianjin Wei, as for the Jiaodong civil rebellion...... Discretion is at your disposal! ”

Ji'er Harang, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and other ministers quickly stepped forward and bowed and said, "The emperor is sage!" ”

The generals of Dolgon's faction couldn't help but look at each other, and they looked anxiously at Bumu Butai, hoping that the queen mother would say something fair.

No, Bumu Butai actually nodded in agreement, "The regent is unable to return at this time, and the imperial court can only take expedient measures, compared to the civil unrest in Jiaodong, the situation of the Tianjin Wei army is more urgent...... Just do what the emperor wants! ”

"Your Ministers obey!"