Jiang Jiu's self-confidence is not unreasonable, Datong is one of the nine important towns, and there are several male cities in the world. The current Datong city is in the Hongwu period, led by the general Xu Dadu to lead the army and civilians, on the basis of Liao, Jin, Yuan Tucheng to build. The inside of the city wall is made of triple earth, and the outer layer is made of hard and sturdy large blue bricks (this kind of blue bricks are several times heavier than the common wall bricks). Moreover, the Datong city wall is still quite tall, higher than the city wall of Beijing City, with an average height of about four zhang and 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, concave and convex, arranged in an orderly manner. The protruding part is the horse-faced enemy platform, and there are as many as 52 of them! Now these 52 horse-faced enemy platforms are equipped with artillery, which can form cross-continuous firepower!

The four gates of Datong Mansion City are attached to the urn city, the arrow tower, and the plaque tower, forming four independent fortresses. Even if the rest of the four city walls all fall, as long as the urn city is not lost, Datong Mansion City can continue to hold on.

There is also a square "imperial city" in the city of Datongfu, which is the original palace of the king, which is located in the northeast corner of the city of Datongfu. It also has a tall enclosure wall of rammed earth bricks that can exist as a free-standing fortress.

Even if the rest of Datong Mansion City falls, relying on the "Imperial City" can continue to resist!

And after the "change of civil engineering", Datong Xiongcheng has been expanded, successively built in the north of the city "playground city", the east of the city built the "east small city", the south of the city built the "south small city", the three small cities because close to the main city of Datong, the shape is like a pass, so it is also called the three passes. Datong also formed a defensive pattern of one main city and three closed cities.

After that, in the east and west of the city, dozens of miles away from the construction of "Jule" and "high mountain" two forts. The left and right wings of Datong City were formed. As a result, a defense system of one city, two wings and three passes was formed.

Therefore, in the eyes of the soldiers and civilians inside and outside Datong City, it is impossible for their city to be breached.

It would be whimsical to let them give up such a strong castle and fight guerrilla warfare in Taihang Mountain!

As for the siege or something, the Datong army and people are not very afraid. Because Datong Town has been facing the threat of invasion all these years, it has been preparing for a long time, and it has a lot of food in reserve......

And Datong City is so big, not to mention the "two wings", it is the core of one city and three passes, and there are no seventy or eighty thousand Tartars who are not tightly surrounded!

How many full tartars are there? They all came to Datong to besiege the city, who will take care of their wives and children? Can you rest assured that Fan Wencheng will take care of them like that?

Don't go back and have a cheap son......

When Jiang Hao was patting his chest and assuring Luo Xiushen that Datong Mansion City could be defended for many years, one of his staff members walked in quickly and saluted Jiang Huang: "General Rong, I just got a report from Lingqiu County, saying that the new trilateral governor Wang Yongji and Xuanfu General Gao Di led 5,000 troops to escort the arrival of the newly sealed Dai Domain. ”

Jiang Hao turned his head to look at Luo Xiushen, "How come there is another acting king?" Is it the original generation of the clan? ”

Luo Xiushen shook his head and said, "I don't know, Xia Guan hasn't contacted the imperial court since March 21. ”

Jiang Hao touched his beard and asked the staff: "Who can be said to be the new acting king?" ”

"Say it's the third son of the emperor!"

Jiang Hao stood up: "Ouch, then you have to go and greet it ceremoniously!" ”

He said to Luo Xiu, "Commander Luo, this town is now inseparable from Datong Mansion, so I will leave this experience, and His Royal Highness the Acting King and Governor Wang will usher in Datong Mansion." ”

Datong Mansion City is about to open its doors to welcome guests, but Beijing City, which is more than 500 miles away, is closed at this moment.

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The afterglow of the setting sun casts on the huge gray castle, giving it a sense of inviolability.

The seven gates of the outer city of Beijing and the six gates of the inner city that can lead to the outside of the city have been tightly closed since the day before yesterday when Haoge and Kong Youde led their troops to the city. Not only was it closed, but it was completely blocked with earth, stones, etc. As a result, internal and external communication has to be carried out with hanging baskets. "Loyal and righteous minister" Luo Yangxing was hung up and down several times in the past two days.

Luo Yangxing went out of the city in a hanging basket, of course, to negotiate with the Manchurians who were in the city...... Negotiate the terms of surrender!

He was ordered to be a second minister before, and now he is ordered to be a traitor.

It's still Zhu Cihong's order!

This edict of the Great Prince of Zhu was brought into Beijing by the fine work of Jin Yiwei on the third day of the fifth month, when Li Zicheng had already left Beijing, and the allied forces of Wu Sangui and the Qing State were

Before entering Beijing, he directly pursued Li Zicheng, so Beijing was temporarily in a power vacuum.

Luo Yang and Guang Shiheng, two certified "loyal ministers", took advantage of this opportunity to come forward and become the "maintenance president". Of course, these two "maintenance presidents" are not traitors at this time. is really maintaining the situation, waiting for Chongzhen's father and son to return.

On the third day of the fifth month, Zhu Cihong's decree arrived.

The decree was given to Luo Yang and Guang Shiheng, and Zhu Cihong told them that the two imperial courts were negotiating peace with the Manchurians, and were ready to exchange the price of peace and affection, New Year's coins, and the cession of Liaodong land in exchange for the Manchurians withdrawing troops from Guannei. In order to hold enough bargaining chips in the negotiations, Zhu Cihong demanded that they immediately close the thirteen gates leading from Beijing to the outside of the city. At the same time, troops were recruited and deployed to prevent the Manchurians from entering the city.

In addition, Zhu Cihong also told the two loyal ministers in the edict that he had agreed with Hong Chengchou, asked him to return to the Ming Dynasty, and also made him a scholar, staying in Beijing, and the governor of Beizhili. As long as Hong Chengchou arrives, they can hand over the city defense, and then go to Dagukou to receive the reward, or stay in Beijing to live, it's just as they please......

Of course, this edict was foolish, and Zhu Cihong didn't want to talk to Manchurians at all. What is there to talk about? The Manchurians want to enter the Central Plains, and Zhu Cihong is the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao.

Would Emperor Taizu Gao agree to cede the city of Beijing to the Manchurians? Will you agree to give millions of coins a year? Would you agree to marry a 6-year-old Tartar chick to be the queen?

You don't have to think about these conditions!

Moreover, the Manchurians will stop at Yanyun and will be satisfied with a million taels of silver a year?

That's impossible, too!

So both sides are flickering, and it depends on who has a higher level of flickering.

And a group of bastards of retainers and traitors in Beijing, as well as the Manchurian soldiers outside the city, are naturally the targets of deception.

Luo Yangxing, a traitor who has been the commander of the Jinyi Guard for more than ten years, is now also a big traitor, and he has met a giant rape, and he has been tricked around.

On the Manchurian side, Haoge, Aobai and Kong Youde also did not figure out the situation. Although Dolgon's orders were to seize the city, they were not strictly ordered to storm it.

And Haoge and Kong Youde are not willing to consume their own troops to storm the city of Beijing, how strong is Beijing's city defense? Even if Kong Youde's Han army had a Wuzhen Chaoha artillery team equipped with Hongyi cannons, it was not so easy to blast through the city wall of Beijing.

And there are also Hongyi cannons on the city walls of Beijing! If there is really an artillery battle, the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery team may not be able to take advantage. If you really want to fight a siege war, you may have to lose a lot of money...... The losses are all Haoge and Kong Youde's men!

Besides, Beijing didn't say that it couldn't hand over the city of Beijing!

That Luo Yangxing has come a few times, that is, to talk about handing over Beijing City...... Of course, it can't be handed over directly to the Great Qing Kingdom, but to Hong Chengchou!

As long as he sees Hong Chengchou, he will hand over Beijing City!

As for who Hong Chengchou wants to hand over Beijing, it is none of his business.

In order to prove that he did not lie and deceive others, Luo Yangxing also went out of the city with Zhu Cihong's order today.

Under the city of Beijing, Luo Yangxing met Ao Bai, the second warrior of Manchuria (now the first warrior of Manchuria) who came to greet him - but this Ao Bai looked a little sluggish, his eyes were red, and he didn't know if he stayed up late at night to fight horses?

Luo Yangxing hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Ao Zhangjing, the lower official brought the order of the prince of Fujun......"

"Oh." Ao Bai, who was a little distracted, hurriedly hugged his fists, "Commander Luo, the horse has been prepared, please get on the horse and come with me." ”

Please? Ao Bai actually used the please, and the tone was very gentle!

Luo Yangxing thought to himself: It must be a success in the peace talks! This is great, I can finally hand over the burden of Beijing City.