With Gao Keng and his people joining, Yang Hongzhang's team became even larger, and attacked several temporary transit stations of the Qing army along the way, and the most harvested was not war horses or grain and grass, but ordinary people who became prisoners. From Renqiu to Bazhou, nearly 5,000 Ming people were rescued. This is a bitter thing for Yang Hongzhang and Gao Keng. With a team of nearly 10,000 people, especially more than half of them ordinary refugees, management is a big problem. Fortunately, most of these people have seen the power of the Qing soldiers, and they have witnessed Yang Hongzhang and others beating the Qing soldiers to the ground, so as long as there is food, most of them are still relatively honest.

As the team approached the city of Beijing, the bad news continued, the Dolgon brothers were indeed besieging Beijing, but they were not completely blindly attacking, but took the siege point to send reinforcements. Coming from the south, whether it was Guanning Tieqi, Lu Xiangsheng and Hu Dawei, they were repeatedly attacked by Dolgon's men at night.

Until Sun Chengzong led all the soldiers and horses of King Qin to arrive in Beijing, Dolgon had besieged Beijing for three days, and the Manchu Dynasty was panicked, and the people sighed. Fang Zhenghua, the commander of the Beijing camp, stayed awake day and night on the city wall.

Fortunately, Sun Ge finally led the troops, otherwise Fang Zhenghua really did not have the confidence that under the attack of the Qing army's 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry, he would be able to ensure that Beijing City was safe and sound.

However, Sun Ge Lao was not omnipotent, and Dolgon's place gave up the siege of Baoding and Julu, just to give full play to the mobility of the cavalry and mobilize the Ming army from the strong city defense. Therefore, when Sun Chengzong led the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Tianxiong Army to arrive, he was attacked by the Qing army many times. Finally gained a firm foothold, several head-to-head battles between the two armies were also more defeats than victories, Shanxi Town General Soldier Hu Dawei was killed, Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng was seriously injured again and sent to the capital for treatment.

As a result, the sky over Beijing was gloomy again. Emperor Zhu Youzhen was in a hurry and didn't think about tea and dinner all day long, and a group of cabinets did not know anything about military affairs, but only knew how to blindly urge the imperial court to send the soldiers and horses of Henan, Shaanxi Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting into Beijing.

But everyone knows Hong Chengchou's Shaanxi soldiers, and although Sun Chuanting's Qin army is powerful, it is thousands of miles away, and it is estimated that it will take several months for the infantry to arrive in Beijing City day and night. The only Shandong soldiers who were close to it had been resting in Jinan since they were defeated by Duoduo, and the city of Beijing, which had been the center of bustling and noisy China, seemed to become a besieged and lonely city for a while.

A new day began, the atmosphere in the Taihe Hall was depressed, and the Qing army, as always, divided its troops into two routes, attacking the city all the way, and pinning down Sun Chengzong all the way. No one had any good ideas to comfort Emperor Zhu Youzhen. Because the combat effectiveness of the Qing army led by Dolgon was too strong, they successively defeated the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Tianxiong Army, and then severely damaged the soldiers and horses of Datong Town, and defeated the real soldiers and horses of Shandong in Linqing. The Ming Dynasty said that the capable military generals from Sun Chengzong down, including Yang Sichang, Lu Xiangsheng, Hu Dawei, Wang Fu, and even Guan Ning Tieqi Zu Dashou, all became defeated generals under Dolgon, and this is the strange thing that the Qing cavalry besieged Beijing City.

Now Sun Chengzong's subordinates have gathered the soldiers and horses of Xuanda, Baoding, and Shanxi towns, plus the Guanning Iron Cavalry, but they are still inferior to the Qing army in terms of numbers, and the combat effectiveness is even worse.

Since Dolgon and Yue Tuo entered the customs in two ways, Dolgon killed from Gu'an to Baoding, and chased from Baoding to Julu, and then went north all the way to ambush and assault, and the Ming army lost at least 60,000 or 70,000 people. Of course, the Qing army also paid a lot of price, five or six thousand people were consumed by Yang Hongzhang between Gaoyang and He, another three or four thousand people were consumed in order to conquer Linqing as soon as possible, and three or four thousand people were finally lost by Lu Xiangsheng in the ambush of Hu Dawei. Coupled with the losses of several general battles, the Qing army entered the customs this time with 100,000 people, and now there are a little more than 60,000 left.

If the Ming army continued to fight in the Baoding area, the Qing army could eventually win, but the cost was too great, so Dolgon decided to give full play to the mobility of the cavalry, mobilize the Ming army, and annihilate it on the way. The siege of the capital made the Ming army from all walks of life have to be rescued!

In fact, so far Dolgon's plan has been successful. In several battles outside Beijing, the Ming army had already lost a general soldier and a governor. Morale is even more demoralized. In a few days, Dolgon did not dare to say that it was entirely possible to take the city of Beijing and wipe out the Sun Chengzong troops outside the city, and then negotiate with the Ming court, and there was no military force near the Ming court that could compete with him.

In fact, the Ming court was already planning for the worst, and Xue Guoguan, a scholar in the cabinet, was privately talking to the minister according to the proceeds of Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and wanted to propose peace talks with the Qing army by the wicked people below during the court discussion, and then Zhu Youzhen reluctantly agreed.

Fang Zhenghua was watching the Qing army attack the city outside the city worriedly, and suddenly there was a commotion in the Qing army's array, Fang Zhenghua hurriedly stopped and watched, but he didn't find anything abnormal, so he picked up the clairvoyance and looked into the distance.

The next moment, Fang Zhenghua was shocked, because another support army of the Ming Dynasty arrived under the city of Beijing. I saw outside the Anding Gate, behind the Qing army, waving the flag, looking under the flag, the cavalry in front of him was all the same, and the armor was bright! Fang Zhenghua gasped, fortunately, this team is a Ming army, if there is another Qing army like this, then Beijing City will not be able to hold it.

When Fang Zhenghua looked at those flags again, he was stunned for a moment, only to see that it was written on it: Xiong, Governor of the Five Provinces, Sun Sun, Governor of Shandong and Zhili, Hong, Governor of Shaanxi, and Yang ......

It's not that Fang Zhenghua is so strange, if the people on these banners have arrived, then almost all the elites of the Ming Dynasty are here. Especially the trilateral governor Sun, isn't that Sun Chuanting, and the governor of Shaanxi, Hong, isn't it Hong Chengchou? Plus Xiong Wencan, Yang Sichang and Yang Hongzhang, who has become famous recently!

Fang Zhenghua immediately denied this possibility, not to mention Xiong Wencan and Yang Sichang, that Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou were far away in Shaanxi, and the Qing army entered the customs less than a month, even from the first day of the Qing army's entry into the customs, the imperial court issued a holy decree to King Qin, and Sun Hong and the two came non-stop after receiving the holy decree, and they were not so fast.

But no matter who comes, as long as it is reinforcements, it is good news for the Ming army. This is also the only place where the Ming army can confront the Qing army, that is, the Ming court has thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, 20,000 people, King Qin's soldiers and horses will be endless, and the Qing army will always only have these people, as long as it is consumed, the last retreat must be the Qing army! Therefore, Fang Zhenghua prepared to immediately write a chapter to tell the emperor and all the important ministers the good news.

At the same time, in the camp of the Ming army outside the city, Sun Chengzong also received the news, and he was also stunned for a long time, but then he thought of a possibility, but I don't know how this kid got so many people, can he scare Dolgon?

In the Taihe Palace, the Huangmen squire rushed in, holding the chapter and shouting: "Your Majesty, good news!" Good news! Shaanxi

The soldiers and horses of King Qinwang of Henan arrived. ”

Zhu Youzhen and the court bigwigs were overjoyed when they heard this, and then a few calm people suddenly frowned. However, I still waited patiently for Zhu Youzhen to finish reading the recital.

Zhu Youzhen didn't say a word and handed it to Wang Chengen, who hurriedly walked down and handed the recital to Xue Guoguan.

Xue Guoguan hurriedly glanced at it a few times and was immediately overjoyed, and said to Zhu Youzhen while handing the chapter to the people behind him: "Congratulations to the emperor, since a few adults have led the troops, they will definitely be able to fight to the death with Jiannu, and the victory of our army is just around the corner!" ”

"Your Majesty, Fang Zhenghua made it clear in the recital that although this support army is waving its flags, it can be seen at a glance from the city wall, and there are only more than 10,000 people. Moreover, the team is very disorderly, and the combat effectiveness is average. It is possible to say that these people are soldiers and horses of Shandong. To say that Sun and Hong, two generals who were far away in Shaanxi, also arrived, the minister did not believe it. Chen Xinjia, the squire of the military department, poured cold water in time.

"According to Chen Aiqing's opinion, which part of this should have arrived?" Zhu Youzhen is actually not confused, even if Fang Zhenghua doesn't say it, he can understand that in addition to the soldiers and horses who are in Zhili, it is impossible for him to arrive in Beijing so quickly. Then the result is about to come out, either Yang Sichang or Yang Hongzhang!

Thinking of Yang Sichang, Zhu Youzhen shook his head, feeling that this guy was still in Jinan nine times out of ten. Yang Hongzhang, thinking of Yang Hongzhang, Zhu Youzhen's heart was suddenly full of expectations, at the beginning, this guy dared to pull the banner of the Fujian Navy Division with four hundred people, and came to scare the five or six thousand Japanese soldiers into the sea. Then more than 1,000 pirates were slaughtered outside Shanghai. Then came Zhili, 200 people ambushed the Qing army, and a Niu Lu was completely annihilated!

Then there was Gaoyang, where two hundred men rushed into the six hundred Qing cavalry and routed the enemy in one fell swoop, and then Aobai, Haoge, Groha, Yuetuo, and Duoduo were defeated in his hands one by one. If Yang Hongzhang can have 10,000 horses, Zhu Youzhen really expects this guy to turn Dolgon's military camp upside down!

"Yang Hongzhang!"

Just when Zhu Youzhen was thinking nonsense, Chen Xinjia also gave a positive answer.

"That's right! It must be him, haha, when he was at the mouth of the Yangtze River, he pulled the banner, making the Japanese think that it was the Fujian Navy who went north to suppress the bandits. Haha, this time is even more exaggerated, I think that Dolgon will definitely be taken aback by him, you Aiqing, I want to go to Andingmen to see how this Yang Hongzhang defeated Dolgon, haha! ”

"Your Majesty, no, never. The son of a daughter can't sit down. The emperor has a body of ten thousand times, how can he take risks. Xue Guoguan hurriedly landed on the ground, and Chen Xinjia and the others were also terrified when they heard this, and hurriedly knelt down to dissuade them.

"Hmph, when it comes to Yang Hongzhang's mistakes on weekdays, you have the head to say, I just want to witness with my own eyes how this young general broke the enemy this time, you don't go, I go alone!" After saying that, he hurriedly walked down the throne and walked towards the door.

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly followed after a few steps, and followed in the direction of Andingmen.

On the wall of Andingmen, there was a black line on Fang Zhenghua's face, and there was already a news from the Yellow Gate squire, saying that the emperor had come in person to see how the new reinforcements outside the city broke the enemy! Fang Zhenghua complained bitterly, and said that the emperor was too capricious, not to mention that there were only more than 10,000 reinforcements, even if there were 70,000 or 80,000, it would not be able to defeat tens of thousands of Qing troops overnight. Don't you come to the city wall at this time to cause trouble for the defenders? There are complaints in my heart, I can't say it yet, and I have to deal with it carefully, first clean up the city wall, replace all my own henchmen, and then mobilize the most elite archers to stand by under the enemy tower.