On the west mountain, Chang Yu on the upper floor of Chaoyang Gate City watched the wild birds in the endless wilderness in the east pass by at low altitude, looked back and swept away the smoke rising in the city, and his eyes stayed on the imperial city.

According to the scouts, Dolgon's Qing army had reached Tongzhou, forty miles away, and camped on the banks of the Grand Canal to plunder, and it is unknown whether they would capture the city of Tongzhou.

The Tartars pulled out of the camp and left, the imperial capital was protected, and the imperial city was spared a catastrophe, looking at the Forbidden City at dusk Chang Yu sighed in his heart, in history, Li Zicheng entered the imperial city for a month after breaking the city, and then was defeated by the Qing army, so he patted his ass and left, before leaving, a torch burned the Forbidden City almost all, and only a few palaces survived.

Of course, historians have debated for decades whether Li Zicheng burned the Forbidden City and how much it burned, and according to the record of the "Records of the Li Dynasty of North Korea", it was almost burned, but some people say that the records of North Korea seem to be historical evidence, but in fact, many hearsay is not credible.

In fact, Chang Yu doesn't think that Li Zicheng really burned the Forbidden City with a fire, the most direct evidence is that he walked the Qing army on the front foot and entered the Forbidden City on the back foot, could he set up a tent in the ruins! You must know that it takes years or even ten years to build a palace with manpower and material resources at that time, let alone an imperial city.

Some people have said, but now many palaces in the Forbidden City were rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, please, the buildings of the Celestial Empire are all wooden structures, and now the brick and stone houses will be dilapidated for decades, not to mention that the Qing Dynasty alone has been more than 200 years, and the maintenance of wooden buildings is more difficult, and it is normal to repair and repair natural and man-made disasters for hundreds of years.

And now there is a Forbidden City ancient architect in the census of the Forbidden City ancient buildings statistics according to the architectural lacquer paintings and so on to make a detailed statistics, the Ming Dynasty is still far more buildings than the Qing Dynasty, the side evidence that Li Zicheng at least did not have a wide range of arson at that time, interested friends can search the Internet for his detailed information.

History has deviated from the original trajectory, Li Zicheng was beaten back by Chang Yu as soon as he hit Baoding Mansion, at least it was impossible to approach the capital for a short time, but unexpectedly Dolgon suddenly came to the city, which made Chang Yu shocked into a cold sweat, although he changed some historical trends, but also brought more unpredictable and uncontrollable accidents.

In the past, we relied on knowing the history well, and we were able to seize the opportunity step by step, but the future is ...... If you are not careful, you will never recover, thinking of this, Chang Yu couldn't help but shudder.

If the imperial city is protected, the Ming Dynasty will be protected first, and the future will be a long way to go.

Wang Jiayan didn't know when he came over, and slowly walked to Chang Yu's side: "Tartar travels forty miles a day, and at this speed, he can enter the encirclement tomorrow, and the factory governor doesn't send troops to do it at this time, and it's too late at night."

Chang Yu turned his head and chuckled: "What's late?" ”

Wang Jiayan frowned: "Zhou Zongbing and other ambushes near Sanhe are only half a hundred miles away from Tongzhou, and the Tartars can be found in one day, it is a big battle, not to mention whether Zhou Zongbing can be the enemy, once exposed, it will be unfavorable to the overall situation, and the factory superintendent's plan will not be wasted."

Chang Yu didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Where does Lord Wang speculate that the Tartars are going east?" ”

Wang Jiayan pondered for a while and said: "This east goes to Tongzhou to govern the three counties of Sanhe, Wuqing, and Baodi, and then goes east into the territory of Tangshan, Sanhe is close to Jizhen, the border fortress and the barren mountains of the Qing army may not go, Baodi is in the east of Tongzhou and the territory of Tangshan is a plain without mountains and suitable for the Tartar cavalry, they will definitely go to plunder, as for Tangshan may not go because it is too close to the coast, close to Shanhaiguan, the Tartars should worry about the Ming army from Shanhaiguan to transfer troops from Shanhaiguan and the capital soldiers and horses to intercept them from the back It is easy to block them at the seaside, So they should choose to go south to Wuqing, and then enter Tianjin and then go south......"

The civil official is very good at this, and the army is not good at marching and fighting, but the analysis of the situation is the first way, but even so, it seems to be comprehensive, but it is still inferior to Chang Yu meticulously, and he smiled slightly and said: "The Tartar will not give up plundering because the Sanhe is close to the barren mountains of Jizhen, nor will it not enter because Tangshan is located in the cracks, and the ant legs are also meat, and Dolgon will rob in these places, but if he passes by, he will not miss it, but the main force will not go, and he may not attack the city, as Lord Wang said, his purpose is to go south."

"Since the factory governor said so, won't General Soldier Zhou still be exposed tomorrow?"

Chang Yu shook his head: "General Zhou Bing must be no longer in Sanhe at this time, and tomorrow the Tartars will not go away on a large scale" Wang Jiayan was stunned, and then figured out that Chang Yu should have sent someone to order Zhou Yuji to avoid it early in the morning, but why wouldn't the Tartars plunder on a large scale tomorrow?

"Because the Tartars will definitely attack the city of Tongzhou."

Wang Jiayan didn't ask why, the reason is very simple, Tongzhou is the source of the Grand Canal, the south to the north to the shipper's wharf, is the richest state in the capital, think about the Tartars in the past half month in Gyeonggi looting everywhere, except for Miyun and Pinggu were broken by it, everything else is guaranteed, just rely on the small villages and towns below how many belongings can be grabbed.

The attack on the capital was ineffective, which not only damaged the soldiers and horses but also wasted time, and Dolgon would inevitably break a city to replenish supplies and boost morale, and Tongzhou must be the target.

"To save or not to save?" Wang Jiayan looked at Chang Yu, his eyes full of expectation.

Chang Yu looked around, it was already dark, and he sighed: "If you can't save it, there's no need to save it, the gains outweigh the losses!" ”

"Then you should try it too, maybe...... Did the factory governor ever think that maybe the soldiers in Tongzhou City were waiting for us to come to the rescue, just thinking that when the Tartars entered the customs, the whole capital was also waiting for the army to come to King Qin...... "Wang Jiayan suddenly felt that the little eunuch in front of him suddenly became ruthless.

Chang Yu shook his head: "There are no soldiers and no soldiers in Tongzhou City."

"The common people in the city ......" Wang Jiayan was a little anxious, Chang Yu glanced at him: "Lord Wang, Dolgon's siege of the city is not conducive to holding back the fire in his heart, let's send troops to the middle of his arms, he will be hit head-on, he will even deliberately use the capture of Tongzhou City as a guise to lure Bendu to send troops forward, the Qing cavalry is strong and invincible, and the Qing army in the Gyeonggi Plain can give full play to the advantages of cavalry combat, dare to ask Lord Wang, what can we resist?" Do you want to fill your life with those melons under your command? Do you know how terrifying the combat power of 30,000 Tartar cavalry is, we can't beat him in the plain cavalry battle."

"Then the factory governor watched the people of Tongzhou being slaughtered?" Wang Jiayan was angry and roared in a low voice.

"The Qing army is mainly a captive and will not massacre the people, but for the Ming army, they are all exterminated, we want to ask Lord Wang, do you Ning Yuan watch tens of thousands of Ming troops being slaughtered or do you want to see thousands of people slaughtered, which is more important?"

"But doesn't the factory governor keep saying that the Ming soldiers are here to protect the people, so why not die in battle to protect the family and defend the country?" Wang Jiayan is full of pride.

"It's not terrible to die in battle, it's a pity to die in battle and not save the people, this is called fearless sacrifice, if it is left for tens of thousands of soldiers to slow down their lives, it will definitely hit the Tartars hard, Lord Wang, there must be a trade-off in everything, and the light will be heavy."

"What is severity? Is the life of the common people cheap......" Wang Jiayan was furious, Chang Yu sighed, civil officials are dead-headed and admit death, like Wang Jiayan, who is full of courtesy, righteousness, shame, filial piety, loyalty and bravery, sometimes it is unreasonable.

Seeing that the good words didn't make sense, my heart was also a little angry: "For this governor, the lives of the soldiers at this time are heavier than the common people, if Lord Wang doesn't think so, please lead tens of thousands of soldiers under your command to Tongzhou to send them to death."

Wang Jiayan froze for a moment, stared at Chang Yu and gritted his teeth, and finally let out a long sigh, many times it is easy to say, it is another matter to really do it, he does not have the courage to let tens of thousands of soldiers die, and the little eunuch is such a good fighter that he does not dare to tease the Tartar cavalry.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, the two of them were full of resentment at the head of the city and looked side by side outside the city without saying anything, and Chang Yu broke the silence for a long time: "What our family can do now is to do our best to obey the destiny of heaven, at most send a team of people to attack and disturb the attention of the Tartars, and the rest depends on the will of heaven."

Wang Jiayan bit his lip and sighed: "Let's talk about it, how about this team of people being transferred from Beijing?" Chang Yu shook his head: "The people of the Beijing camp are now sent to death, they can't hold a sprint under the Tartar cavalry at all, let's let Huang Degong's men and horses go, and now they have the strongest combat power under their command."

"If you don't use the people of Jingying, forget it, you can't let others die with your own selfish thoughts" Wang Jiayan shook his head, "The factory supervisor focuses on the overall situation, not as narrow as the lowly position, and this matter has never been mentioned in the humble position."

Having said that, it can be regarded as Wang Jiayan's softness, after all, if you think about it carefully, it is really harmful and not beneficial to send troops, as Chang Yu said, the Tartar soldiers can't ask for it now, you can send people over.

In the field, the cavalry of the Qing army is really awesome!

"I'm afraid it's pointless to send troops or not now!" Chang Yu said suddenly, Wang Jiayan followed his gaze and looked out of the city, there was a fire in the distance approaching quickly, if it was expected, it should be a scout of the Ming army.

Tongzhou City was besieged by the Tartar army at dusk, and the city was broken in less than half an hour!

Wang Jiayan looked stunned on the ground, his hand holding the wall buttress kept trembling, and Chang Yu beside him looked at the dark night sky in the east, his expression was indifferent, and he couldn't see a trace of anger or other emotions.

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