In the palace, Emperor Chongzhen listened to a eunuch who was reporting what he had seen in the city, and learned that Chang Yu had ordered a proper counterattack to maintain his strength, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he was also worried about whether Chang Yu would play with fire and self-immolation, forcing the Qing army to attack the city, if he was careless...... Thinking about it, I couldn't help but shudder, and became more and more uneasy: "Do you know where Chang Yu is?" ”

"Back to the emperor, Grandpa Chang should be in the city now" The eunuch whispered: "Do you want to send Grandpa Chang over ......?"

"No need" Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand, at this time a eunuch at the door beckoned to Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen walked over, the eunuch whispered in his ear for a while, and then Wang Chengen walked into the hall: "Your Majesty, the Shuntian Mansion said that several commanders under the command of Chang Gonggong smashed the teahouse, and also beat the Fu Yin who went to persuade the fight......

"Nonsense!" Emperor Chongzhen was already depressed in his heart, and he was suddenly furious when he heard this, and he was about to ask people to ask for the guilt, when he suddenly thought of something: "Why did they make trouble for no reason?" Wang Chengen hurriedly told the reason, and Emperor Chongzhen's face immediately turned pale, the green tendons in his fists burst out, and his whole body trembled.

"Emperor, you, don't be angry, the old slave will send someone to find Chang Gonggong to punish them now!"

"Why do you want to punish them" Emperor Chongzhen snorted coldly: "They are all heroes who have meritorious service in killing the enemy and protecting the country, and they will be humiliated if they drink tea, if I am here, not only will they beat people, but they will also set fire to kill people!" ”

Wang Chengen responded again and again, and said: "Those few mouth-wives will be beaten, but they will beat up Shuntianfu Yin...... This will hurt the reputation of Dongchang, and it will not be used by people with intentions to impeach Dongchang for arrogance and domineering......"

"It's just that he is unlucky" Chongzhen sighed, and finally he was still not at ease, so he asked Wang Chengen to send a good person to appease Nafu Yin, saying that he would be severely punished, but he turned around and asked the eunuch to send fifty taels of silver to the Dongchang Yamen, saying that it was for a few fights for tea.

When the sun sets and the night falls, the Tartars outside the city make people panic, but the bustle inside the city and the outside of the city can't feast their eyes or even ears, and of course they don't care.

But it's not that he doesn't care at all, after all, Dolgon's action is to test the reaction of the Ming army in the city, and the four sieges of the city and the feint attack at the same time make the Ming army panic, and they are firing cannons and arrows, and they are frightened.

Thinking of the virtue of the Ming army just now, Dolgon couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, laughing and laughing, he felt that it was not interesting, after all, there was a very powerful and very calm opponent in the city, that little eunuch!

From the beginning, the Ming army bombarded the shells as if they didn't want money, and it only took more than a quarter of an hour for the men and horses in the city to stop firing and counterattack passively, it was obvious that someone saw through his intentions, and the people who could be so fast could not think of anyone else except the little eunuch Dorgon.

But what if he saw through it, the initial reaction of the Ming army was the most real reaction, there were at least twenty artillery pieces of various sizes in the city, and the strength was more than 30,000 and it was obvious that they were prepared to fight, and they could transfer men and horses to the city at the fastest speed, and they were very mobile, but they looked panicked, and they were obviously not enough in actual combat, and they were mostly rookies.

The field troops that the Ming army could fight first went to Baoding Mansion to suppress the bandits, and then hurriedly returned to Jingqin Wang, the original combat power was inferior, and the Qing army was tired and tired at this time, and what was there to fear, no wonder they only dared to watch from a distance and watch their siege, but they did not dare to take a step forward.

But just in case, Dolgon still decided to attack the city at the same time, but also to send a team of men and horses to keep an eye on the Ming army in the south, in case it takes the opportunity to sneak attack, he didn't have this worry before, but since he fought with Chang Yu, he had to guard against it, Ming Court has such a thing, who the hell knows what tricks he is secretly playing, and if he bites it again, his future will be ruined.

The heart of defense is indispensable, but how to attack the city is the main problem, the circumference of the Ming Emperor's capital is dozens of miles, the city wall is thick and there is a moat, and Dolgon has no artillery and weapons on hand and only 30,000 soldiers and horses, how to fight from which side is a headache.

But he believes that there are always more solutions than problems, and three days is enough.

That's right, three days is enough! Li Yan also thinks so. Fifty miles south of Beijing in Daxing, Li Yan led his troops to finally rush to the ground from thousands of miles away to see Shi Kefa, and learned that Chang Yu transferred troops to the east to ambush, and after a little contemplation, he knew his intentions, it was better to chase than to block, and the little overseer was going to run in front of the Tartars to stop them.

It's just that the Tartars will give them time to arrange, Li Yan pondered that with Chang Yu's wisdom, he would definitely stumble under the capital and drag the Tartars so that his subordinates could implement the plan.

Huang Degong said that Tanma had reported that the Tartars were going to attack the capital.

Li Yan sneered and shook his head: "With the power of his cavalry, there is a governor in the capital, and it is extremely difficult for the Tartars to break the city, but it is just to vent his anger" Shi Kefa stroked his beard and nodded, and said in his heart This Li Yan is really very smart: "It should be a delaying plan by Gonggong Chang to deliberately provoke Dolgon's envoy."

The soldiers were fast, Li Yan didn't dare to delay in Daxing, and immediately led the tired soldiers east after a short rest of half a day, while the red lady stayed in Daxing, and Huang Degong sent him a few miles away: "General Li, after breaking the enemy, my old Huang will invite you to drink in the capital" Li Yan laughed and left: "If you don't get drunk, you won't return!" ”

Under a crooked-necked tree in the east of Daxing City, the red lady looked at the dust in the distance, until the sky was getting dark, she sighed, beckoned, and three frolicking children rushed not far away, one was the little Taoist priest picked up by Chang Yu in the middle of the road, one was Qiao Sanxiu's son Qiao Heling, and the other was Nangong Yu who was rescued in Zhaozhou City.

Back in Daxing City, Huang Degong and Shi Kefa were listening to the military report of the horse, seeing the arrival of the red lady, both of them hugged their fists and nodded without slacking off, they had already heard of this heroine, although they retreated to the second line to engage in logistics work, but her husband was in full swing at this time, not only rewarded by the emperor, but also regarded as a pillar of talent by Chang Yu.

After the red lady returned the salute, she sat down on the side, listened to it for a while, and knew the general situation, and now the Tartar soldiers were about 30,000 horsemen under the imperial capital, and their brains were dizzy to attack the city, but what was surprising was that the little overseer who returned to Beijing before them was not in a hurry and ordered all the departments to stop and rest and wait for orders.

But the Tartar soldiers were not so calm, after the Ming army was located, although they did not send troops to attack, they sent several units of probe horses to attack, small more than ten people, more than hundreds, endless provocations.

Shi Kefa expected that the Tartars were so provocative that they were actually here to test the bottom line of the Ming army here, and it was not a matter of concern if he turned around to avoid or retreated as in the past, so he chose to wait for the order, but Huang Degong's temper was so provocative that the Tartars were so provocative, and Chang Yu was not allowed to fight, so whenever the Tartars came to disturb him, he would order a counterattack, and even went into battle several times.

Shi Kefa couldn't control him, so he had to let him go, thinking that maybe this rough goods had muddied the water and it would be better to catch fish, so within a few days of resting, a radius of more than ten miles was staged every day to catch and kill, the scale was not large, at most not more than 100, and the Ming and Qing armies had casualties.

Daxing is a small county town, the city of square inches can not accommodate too many people, follow-up reinforcements have come one after another, mostly camped outside the city, only the descendants and generals will enter the city, the red lady is the head of the logistics department naturally has this qualification to enter the city to rest, but his command is more outside the city.

The logistics department is mainly responsible for saving the dead and helping the wounded, making fires, making meals, etc., most of them are female soldiers, and there are also some old, weak and disabled male soldiers, among which the main force is also from the thief army with the red lady to surrender to Cheng, and later with Chang Yu's southern expedition to the north, a group of people will be left in the local area to save the dead and help the wounded, and then will receive a lot of homeless refugee women to train.

This female soldier was very eye-catching in the thief army at that time, and now she is still the most shining star in the officers and soldiers, for no other reason, just because there are many women, and the male soldiers like to go there when they have nothing to do.

But the military regulations do not prevent male and female soldiers from contacting, on the contrary, they are also encouraged to socialize, of course, under the premise of seriousness, after all, these female soldiers are poor people who are ruined and lost, and it just so happens that male soldiers are mostly bachelors, and they can solve some of them, but in these troubled years, especially whether the soldiers can see Ming'er Sun is still a thing, and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to let them combine is a bad thing, no one can tell the difference.

After dinner, the red lady left a few children in the city and went out of the city to live in the camp, although she was informal, but people were terrible, the city was full of male generals, and the husband could avoid suspicion when he was outside.

The barracks of the female logistics soldiers are hundreds of meters away from the south gate of the city, and there are camps of other brother troops around, which is also the meaning of taking care of them.