The 40,000 Guanning army is coming to Beijing?

That's good news!

It seems that the national glory of the Ming Dynasty will not be finished for a while......

It's just that when will Wu Sangui arrive?

Fifteen of the sixteen goalkeepers all showed a look of surprise. There is also Wu Sanfu from Chaoyangmen, who has long known that Guan Ningjun is coming, so there is no special surprise.

Zhu Cihong then said: "Of course, the Guan Ning army can only temporarily relieve the plight of the Beijing Division. After all, the Jingshi has been attacked by the enemy, there are thieves in the west, and there are ugly captives in the east...... The imperial court has no ability and no need to be caught between them. Therefore, the father has decided to move south after Wu Sangui's soldiers arrive! After the imperial court moved south, the northern Zhili was thrown to the thieves and the captives to fight, and the imperial court could recuperate in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on the danger of Jianghuai, relying on the benefits of the sailors, and relying on the wealth of the southeast.

And all the soldiers in charge of the Beijing camp are all pillars of the imperial court, and they will be of great use when they stay in the capital. Therefore, all of them are among the escorts, and your family members must also move south, so as not to fall into the hands of thieves and ugliness.

The palace has ordered someone to clean up the Qingfu Hall next to the inner school field and use it to house your parents, wives and children. When you go home as soon as possible, you will send your parents, wife and children tonight. When your parents, wives and children arrived, they went to the dirty penalty treasury to receive their military salaries, and they were given 5,000 taels of silver for each one...... These 5,000 taels are the salary reward for the two days after tomorrow. How it is distributed, you decide for yy. The palace is only in charge of two things, one is to lead the reinforcements to break through the door of the main attack; The second is to severely punish those who guard the door and abandon the door.

In addition, the main palace will send an overseer to each gate. The prison officials sent by the imperial court before all stepped down. ”

Zhu Cihong is holding silver in one hand and a knife in the other!

The obedient obediently take the silver to guard the door, and if you don't want to do a good job, you have to be prepared to be stabbed! If you want to surrender, hehe, killing your whole family is not negotiable! This prince is super fierce!

How did the guards of the Sixteen Gates not know Zhu Cihong's plans, and now the big guys were impressed by Prince Zhu.

This prince is really ruthless, with the legacy of Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Cheng Zuwen!

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Just when everyone was shocked by Prince Zhu's methods, a forty-year-old man wearing a brocade guard flying fish suit and a bearded man suddenly got up and bowed to salute, "The commander of the lower official Jinyi Guard is the same knowledge, and Li Ruolian, who guards Chongwenmen, has something unclear about, and wants to ask His Highness." ”

Zhu Cihong looked at the high-ranking official of the Jinyi Guard, "What do you have to ask?" ”

"The minister wants to ask when Wu Sangui's soldiers can arrive in Beijing? If the Beijing division does not defend before the arrival of the Wu army, what should be done? ”

That's a morale-boosting question!

But what kind of person is Zhu Cihong, of course he won't tell the truth to a Ming Dynasty brocade guard. At that moment, he asked rhetorically: "Commander Li, how many days do you think our Beijing city can be defended?" ”

Li Ruolian frowned and thought for a while, and then saluted again, "Please move to the inner hall Your Highness." ”

Zhu Cihong's eyes swept left and right, and a group of fire eunuchs stopped eating and drinking, and they all held their breath, and it seemed that they also wanted to know how many days Beijing City could be guarded!

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" Zhu Cihong said with a smile.

He knows that at this time, people are panicking, and what they are most afraid of is uncertainty, even if it is false information disclosure, it is better than covering it up.

"Then the lower official will say it directly," Li Ruolian took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Before today, the minister felt that if the Jingshi was attacked by thieves, he would not defend it for two days at most. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, isn't it just two days? Li Chuang attacked the city on the 17th, and Emperor Chongzhen hung on the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain on the 19th.

Li Ruolian said: "And now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in Beijing, the ministers should have five to seven days to defend." ”

"Enough!" Zhu Cihong showed a confident smile, "In five days, Wu Sangui's 10,000 iron cavalry will be able to arrive, and on the seventh day, Wu Sangui's entire army will also arrive!" The circumference of the Jingshi city is forty-eight miles, and if you want to besiege it, the thieves need to go down to the joint camp for eighty miles. The thieves are only 100,000, how can they build a village for 80 miles? Therefore, the Guanning Iron Cavalry will be able to enter the city. ”

What Zhu disclosed was not entirely false information, but the best that could occur.

Wu Sangui is still in Shanhaiguan, 500 miles from Beijing. And Tian Cunzhi only left the city this afternoon with Wu Xiang's handwritten letter, and if everything goes well, he will be able to arrive at Shanhaiguan in one day and one night.

Assuming that Wu Sangui was an obedient and obedient son, he immediately reorganized his troops and attacked after seeing Wu Xiang's handwritten letter. Then it should be able to set off around noon on the 18th, and with the marching speed of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, how can you reach it after walking 500 miles for three days.

And the cavalry of the Guanning army has more than 10,000 people, if they can follow Wu Sangui to rescue the Beijing division, then Li Zicheng has to deal with it carefully, and it is impossible to attack Beijing City with all his strength.

As for encircling Beijing at the same time and then reinforcing the Guanning army, it should be difficult to accomplish it with Li Zicheng's troops. Many studies in later generations are about the number of troops Li Zicheng used to conquer Beijing, and the total number of troops is estimated to be between tens of thousands and 200,000, but there are only tens of thousands of old battalions that can really fight.

Otherwise, Li Zicheng would not have abandoned Beijing immediately after the Battle of Yishi, fled in embarrassment, and was also pursued by Wu Sangui's cavalry and a small number of Manchurian soldiers all the way, and was still in the north of Dingzhou and Zhending.

Although there is no Qing army now, Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of troops alone are not enough to defeat Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of old battalions. But as long as Wu Sangui's cavalry can enter the Beijing Division, then Li Zicheng will not be able to break through Beijing City in a short period of time, and it is still very likely that he will finally retreat to Shanxi.

In this way, Zhu Cihong and Chongzhen can leave calmly...... This is certainly the best outcome!

Of course, in the experience of Zhu's senior financial dogs, the best outcome usually does not occur in a downtrend...... The current Ming Dynasty is in a bear market that has been plummeting, and it would be good if there was no worst outcome at this time!

However, the country of Daming belongs to Zhu Cihong, and of course there is no reason for him to empty himself.

After saying the words to calm people's hearts, Zhu Cihong then loudly announced: "There will be a first battle tomorrow, and the first battle must be won!" Today's monarchs and eat happily, tomorrow's Japanese palace with Er and other thieves, all the monarchs should work hard, the palace has prepared 300,000 taels of silver, meritorious soldiers, there will be heavy rewards! ”

After saying these words, in the midst of cheers, Zhu Cihong ordered again: "All the guards of the gates, follow the palace to speak." ”

Now that the morale-boosting words are over, it's time to set up the battle defense!

Zhu Cihong himself didn't know how to fight, and he didn't know how to deploy defenses, he only knew that he had to block the upper city gate to delay time. The specific deployment of defending the city was handed over to Wu Xiang, Qiu Zhizhong, Zhu Chunjie and Wang Chengen, a deputy of Wang Chengen, who was in charge of the internal and external armies and supervised the Nanhaizi Jing Army.

And the leopard house near the inner school field has become the temporary camp of the Chinese army.

When Zhu Cihong and more than a dozen city gate guards arrived, Wu Xiang was frowning and talking to Wang Dehua. And Qiu Zhizhong and Zhu Chunjie were not there, and both of them led a team to inspect the blocking project of the six gates of the inner city.

"Sit, sit down and talk." After Zhu Cihong sat down on the main seat of the head, he politely ordered the gatekeeper who followed him in, Wu Xiang and Wang Dehua to sit down and talk.

Seeing that everyone sat down according to their words, Zhu Cihong said with a solemn face: "The thieves have arrived in Changping today, and tomorrow the Beijing division should have the first battle, how to deploy the defense, and ask you to give advice." ”

It's hard to think about! Not to mention Zhu Cihong, even Wu Xiang is also sad now.

"Your Highness, the minister has some ways to defend the war." It was Li Ruolian who spoke, although he was the head of Jinyiwei, but he was born as a martial artist in the first year of Chongzhen, and he has been an officer in Beijing for generations, and his military knowledge is still very rich, and he is very familiar with the situation in Beijing. In the second year of Chongzhen's change (Huang Taiji entered the customs and besieged Beijing City), he was also an official in Beijing, and also participated in some military affairs.

"Say it." Zhu Cihong nodded approvingly.

Li Ruolian said: "The minister just said that if there is no prince to raise the army, the Beijing division will not defend for two days, because the hearts of the Beijing division are fluctuating, and there is no battle defense arrangement. If the thieves are rough, I'm afraid there will be internal changes. Now that the crown prince is raising the army, giving a reward of silver, and letting people block the city gates, it is not easy for internal changes to happen. That's why the minister thought he could keep it for five days. The reason why it is five days is because the first day should be a battle of thieves and thieves, and with the prince's camp and enough silver to support, it should be victorious. After losing the first battle, the rebel will order someone to build siege equipment. In this way, it was possible to attack from several sides, and the few officers and soldiers were not enough to defend the city on all sides. Therefore, after preparing the equipment for the reversal, the Jingshi will undoubtedly break it within two days! Let's assume that it takes two days to build a device for the reverse, and the city will be broken in five days! ”