Wuqing County, one of the oldest cities in northern China, the Grand Canal runs through it, bordering Xianghe County in the north and Tianjin Wei in the south, which is very rich.

At dusk, Huang Degong stood several miles outside the city and looked at the ruined Wuqing County in front of him, his eyes were full of anger.

He sent troops late last night, and he traveled all the way but still slowed down the Qing army, Wuqing County was not spared, this kind of small city could not stop the Qing army's iron cavalry at all, and the city was broken for no more than half an hour.

"The Tartar is really fast enough, I'm afraid this city has been burning for a few hours" Ji Jike looked at the smoke in the city, his face was solemn: "It's fast enough, it's time to go to Tianjin Wei at this time."

"The faster you run, the more it means that the dog is scared," Huang Degong sneered.

"Maybe it's just to get rid of our army's pursuit" Tu Yuan said, Huang Degong sighed: "That's not afraid, I'm not afraid why I want to get rid of us"

Xianghe to Wuqing nearly 100 miles, and the Qing army broke through the encirclement yesterday afternoon all the way to the south, a day and a night to see more than 100 miles in the middle of the break down a small city, although it is all cavalry, but after all, there is still a burden drag, this speed is already amazing, as Tu Yuan said, Dolgon's move should be in a hurry to shake off the ass after the Ming army.

"Whether he is afraid or wants to get rid of it, we can only watch the Tartar run away now" Ji Jike sighed, he and Huang Degong led eight or nine times out of ten were infantry, and running seventy or eighty miles in a day and night was really the limit.

"Our running leg is about to break, and the cavalry masters behind are also calm" Huang Degong snorted coldly, and shouted: "The little eunuch and Li Yan are chattering all day long, but they are really a little weak without him here."

Ji Jike, Tu Yuan and other generals laughed when they heard this.

Seeing that it was dark, everyone decided to camp outside this abandoned city after a little discussion, and while they were busy, there were scouts in front of them to send information: the Qing army had passed Tianjin Wei in the south!

Damn, so fast! Wuqing is more than 70 miles away from Tianjin Weishang, and I thought that this would be the most worthwhile to arrive, but it has already passed.

Hey, that's not right! Why did the Qing army just rush by and did not plunder, you must know that Tianjin Wei is fat.

Could it be the officers and soldiers in the guard station? Don't be funny, there are only a few soldiers there. But even if it is not advantageous because of the thick walls of the city, it can also be plundered around the periphery of the city, so it just passed by and left.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

It's just that Huang Degong and the others can't figure out why the Qing army let go of Tianjin Wei like this, if it is said that in order to get rid of the Ming army, the nearest Ming army at this time is seventy or eighty miles away from them and the soldiers are tired, as for the main cavalry of the little eunuch is nearly two hundred miles away, what are they afraid of!

Although Tianjin was garrisoned by soldiers on the Acropolis, the combat effectiveness of the permanent soldiers and horses in the Daming Guard at this time was ...... Ay! It's still the same sentence before, the Ming army who didn't attack the city but plundered the acropolis around didn't have the courage to come out!

Can't think of it!

Then report to the little eunuch immediately!

Chang Yu is still in Xianghe County, not because he is not in a hurry but because he is weak, the main soldiers and horses in the previous battle are too tired, and they must rest and recuperate, just take the opportunity to let Li Yan recuperate from his injuries, although it is impossible for the injury to heal in a day or two, but it is faster than the march.

He had considered letting Li Yan stay in Xianghe or go back to Beijing directly to recuperate from his injuries, but Li Yan refused to swear to fight with the army.

This day was comfortable and fulfilling, get up early to beat the army and then convene the generals in the army to register their merits, this is also the most exciting moment for the army, I heard early that the emperor wants to reward meritorious deeds, how to discuss meritorious deeds? It is subject to the list of the little eunuchs.

After a busy day, it was already afternoon, and after drinking tea and chatting with Li Yan for a while, seeing him fall asleep, Chang Yu went out of the city and Zhou Yuji to the east of the Chaobai River to set a rod to fish.

At night, the fish soup was cooked, everyone was full, and when they were about to fall asleep late at night, two pieces of information were sent to them, and the first one was particularly surprising, the capital rioted!

After reading the secret letter sent by Chunxiang, Chang Yu took a long breath, and his heart was also shocked, the latent power of the Qing army in the territory of Daming was far more powerful than he imagined.

Li Yan and the others were also dumbfounded when they heard about it, the little spy stirred up the chaos in the whole city, if it wasn't for the timely and proper handling of the Beijing camp, the consequences were really unimaginable!

Fortunately, the chaos has been quelled, Chang Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and discussed another piece of information with Li Yan and others, Huang Degong sent someone to report that the Tartar had passed Tianjin Wei, and Qiu did not commit any crimes!

It is impossible for the autumn to commit no crimes, and the places where the Tartars go south all the way are chickens and dogs that do not stay, and they meet the villages and the towns and towns.

It's just that what happened when they passed through Tianjin and didn't commit it, Chang Yu and Li Yan were also confused!

Tianjin is not called Tianjin at this time, but called Tianjin Wei, is an acropolis is a castle of soldiers, and not one has Tianjin left and right guards, until the Qing Shunzhi nine years of three guards in one called Tianjin Wei.

Tianjin Wei is the only city in China that has a clear record of building a city, that is, the second year of Yongle, because at that time Zhu Di crossed the canal from here to the south to the south to "Jing Nan" to commemorate the establishment of a guard here to build a city, take the meaning of the Son of Heaven to cross the river, the name Tianjin!

Originally, it was only under the jurisdiction of the Acropolis and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and after more than 200 years of development, it has become one of the big cities in North China.

But how can the Qing army pass without disturbing and go south directly?

Afraid of the defenders in the city, with 5,000 guards per guard in the Ming Dynasty, there should be 16,800 troops in Tianjin, but that was a hundred years ago, at this time Tianjin Weili was able to pull out 3,000 soldiers and horses out Chang Yu are thankful.

But after all, it is an acropolis, and there is a moat behind the thick walls of the city, and it is not so easy to fight, but at this time, the officers and soldiers defending the city in Daming are suffering from an infectious disease, hypochondriasis, and many times they don't need to fight at all, and they will automatically surrender with a wave of their hands, regardless of whether the other party is a thief army or a Qing army.

If the defenders of Tianjin Wei who retreated 10,000 steps did not surrender, the Qing army would not be able to fight, but there were still a lot of resources to plunder within hundreds of miles outside the city, why didn't the Qing army look at it?

Chang Yu, Li Yan, and Li Muxian also frowned, looking at the flickering candle flame in a daze.

"Even if the Tartars are trying to get rid of us, they won't run so fast, it's just a wild escape, we don't have much of a threat to them now, it's not like this, and it's more than a hundred miles apart, it's completely okay to do nonsense, but why is this the way it looks" Li Muxian muttered there.

"Entering the customs is for plunder, but it is unreasonable to see that the meat is indifferent, can it be said that there is fatter meat waiting for them?" Li Yan was also meditating.

"Our family has already said that the Tartars will eventually enter Shandong to plunder, but I really can't understand why I don't enter Tianjin, it stands to reason that Shandong has been plundered twice in the past few years, and this year's drought and locust plague continues, Shandong is not as fertile as Tianjin, why should he abandon it!"

Chang Yu frowned, his toes were scratching on the ground, thinking about the topography map of Tianjin in his mind, and he was suddenly stunned: "This governor knows the reason!" ”

"River, Tianjin Weiduo River!" Almost at the same time, Li Yan also shouted.

"Tianjin is located at the mouth of the sea, the territory is full of large and small rivers more than 10, although most of the rivers are cut off due to drought for many years, but it will still cause great trouble to the Qing army, one is not conducive to cavalry combat, and the other is that the plundered baggage will be seriously delayed because of crossing the river so that we can catch up!" Li Yan analyzed.

"That's just one thing, but it's not a big reason!" Chang Yu laughed and got up: Tianjin Wei has been "Sanhui Haikou" since ancient times, in addition to those countless rivers that can not be named, there are three big rivers flowing through its territory, one is the Grand Canal, the second is the Sancha River that passes through the city, and the third is the "Five Rivers Tail" that is, the Haihe River.

And it was precisely this Haihe River that allowed the Qing army to pass through Tianjin without disturbing it!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a two-year drought in the north, and the large and small rivers were cut off, and the Grand Canal also had many shoals, but there was no such worry for the Haihe River, because it was a hundred rivers and led to the sea, and even the high tide would even cause the sea water to flow backwards, and it was abundant all year round.

What's even more interesting is that this Haihe River flows from the east to the south of the Tianjin Acropolis to the northwest of the city, which just encloses the Acropolis half.

However, if the Qing army wanted to plunder in Tianjin, but could not directly cross the river from its main river to the south, it would have to turn around the west from a new turn to find a shoal.

And if the Ming army is chasing from behind at this time, it will completely block them in the dead, the east is the sea, the south of the Haihe, where to flee, once it is blocked, it can be worse than the previous siege in the Xianghe, if the front is blocking the Ming army can also rush to break through, but in the face of the sea and the Haihe River, my special horse can fly over!

"I'm still afraid that we'll catch up!" Chang Yu sneered.

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