Chapter 92: Prologue II of the Battle of Beijing

The roots of Dongyu in Liaodong are too deep.

It was so deep that almost as soon as Jie Shu raised his arms, many cities responded.

Of course, Zheng Chenggong's arrangement is negligent, which is also the problem. After all, Zheng Chenggong sent almost all his troops in the direction of Beijing, and Liaodong was naturally a little empty.

As for how Liaodong will fight after Zheng Chenggong goes back. Leave it at ease.

Li Dingguo faced the same direction not others, but Emperor Shunzhi's personal expedition.

In order to expand the ruling base, Shunzhi sealed a total of five auxiliary kings, Jieshu, Nikan, and Boluo, these three are from the Aixin Jueluo family, Wu Sangui, and Wu Keshan.

It can be said that if anyone can bring tens of thousands of troops to vote now, Shunzhi will not hesitate to seal an auxiliary king.

But how can the authority of oneself be guaranteed if the power is divided too much.

Shunzhi had to take the military victory to ensure his position.

The battle to defend Datong is that Shunzhi has to fight the first battle.

Of course, Shunji understands very well that he can only win, not lose. Once he fails, I am afraid that he will only become a puppet on the grassland in the future.

So Shunzhi fought very carefully, and he brought out almost all the men and horses of his headquarters and the Mongolian cavalry, about 200,000 people, most of whom were cavalry.

Li Dingguo could only give up attacking Datong, carefully guarding Juyong Pass and others, and Xiongguan in the northwest of Beijing, so as not to allow the Qing army to enter the vicinity of Beijing.

Shunzhi also made other preparations, that is, a peace mission.

Li Dingguo didn't dare to decide, so he sent someone to Cao Zongyu's side, and Cao Zongyu naturally didn't dare to make a decision, so he sent someone to Zhang Xuan's side in Luoyang.

Zhang Xuan didn't see the mission at all.

The meaning couldn't be clearer.

According to Zhang Xuan's original intention, he wanted to drive the mission away immediately. But he also knew that the rear was tightened to a certain level.

Although the autumn harvest in the north has harvested a lot of grain. Some of the burdens on the South have been relieved. But most of the materials are supported by the south.

Zhang Qian's recital had already been placed in front of Zhang Xuan.

And not a letter, but a stack.

One is more urgent than the other, indicating that the situation in the south is getting worse and worse.

Just now, the Mint has been shut down. It's because all the silver has run out. The Mint Bureau is one of Zhang Xuan's military spending. But where in China is there so much silver to mint coinage.

The national debt is also heavily indebted.

Zhang Zhen can't go on anymore, almost all the gentry in the world, everyone hears the word national debt, and the color of the smell changes.

The two most important sources of wealth cannot be continued.

Zhang Zhen said directly: "If the battle cannot be ended before the first month of next year, then the tax increase must be inevitable." ”

After all, Zhang Xuan's time to recuperate was too short.

The national treasury has too little savings, and firearms are used in large quantities and are also made

It has become a massive increase in military spending.

But Zhang Xuan did not reveal any pressure to the front-line generals. Perhaps a high-ranking officer like Cao Zongyu also has his own eyeliner in the rear. These things cannot be hidden from them.

But Zhang Xuan was not ready to urge.

The reason is very simple, the more you rush to do such a thing as a war, the easier it is to make mistakes. If something else goes wrong, there may be a possibility of recovery, but in a war, many times when something goes wrong, there is no possibility of recovery at all.

What's more, although the Northern Expedition was victorious, it still did not reach Zhang Xuan's goal.

It is possible not to kill the eastern captives, but at least there is a better terrain in front of you that is conducive to defense. And the north is good for defending places, and everyone knows where it is?

It's the line of the Great Wall.

At least push the line of control to the line of the Great Wall, so that there is a possibility of withdrawing troops.

Otherwise, the Qing army, together with the Mongols, and more than 100,000 cavalry, would take advantage of the situation and go down, and the northern land would never be at peace, such a situation was unacceptable to Zhang Xuan.

"What can you do in these three months?" Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "Brother Cao, Brother Cao, how can I count on you." ”

Cao Zongyu didn't know if he knew that Zhang Xuan was thinking so much. At this time, he put all his mind on the city of Beijing.

Although the official assault on the city of Beijing has not yet begun. But the preparations are in full swing.

Cao Zongyu ordered a camp to be set up outside every gate in Beijing to lock the city gate and trap the defenders of Beijing.

Zhang Xuan still sent a steady stream of troops from Luoyang to Beijing, after the logistics line from Nanjing to Tianjin Wei was opened. From Luoyang to Beijing, the transportation function was reduced, and the brigade was easier to mobilize.

Therefore, Cao Zongyu held the absolute main force of the Xia army, with an army of nearly 400,000.

Cao Zongyu also gave a lot of these soldiers and horses to Li Dingguo, so that Li Dingguo and Shunzhi could engage in a full-scale battle along the Great Wall. There was no major fighting in the war.

The main reason is that Li Dingguo has too few cavalry and can't catch the main force of Shunzhi, so he can only defend passively.

And Cao Zongyu is meeting He Hutou at the moment. Q: If you attack the city of Beijing.

He Hutou talked eloquently in front of Cao Zongyu and said: "The benefit of attacking the city is nothing more than artillery, and the sharpness of artillery is no better than flowering shells." The new flowering bomb of the Manufacturing Bureau, has Tang Wang ever seen it? ”

Cao Zongyu said: "I've seen it, didn't you say that the firing rate and the explosion rate are not very reliable? ”

He Hutou said: "This is Your Majesty's love for soldiers like sons, and I don't want a soldier to die in the explosion, but now after all, it is a war, and every day it drags on, I don't know how much people's fat and people's ointment are consumed." ”

"Even if this flowering bomb has some flaws, it will be used."

"I heard that in order to conquer Luoyang City, the Manufacturing Bureau made a lot of flowering bombs, which happened to be used here."

Cao Zongyu sighed lightly in his heart.

Which is more important than the lives of the soldiers and the lives of the people in the rear?

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At that time, there were few taxes that were not stained with blood.

Cao Zongyu didn't say anything, and said, "Are you going to attack Beijing City?" ”

He Hutou said: "Lord Bing, besiege it in an all-round way, and attack a little." ”

"The walls of Beijing are too wide, and they are besieged from many sides, so that the Qing army can disperse their forces, and then storm a little, it is enough to break the city."

Cao Zongyu listened, his face was expressionless, he didn't say anything, and let He Hutou continue.

Because Cao Zongyu knew that what He Hutou said was empty words, and there was no dry goods yet.

He Hutou also knew this, and continued: "The onslaught I said doesn't require many people, only three battalions of 10,000 people are enough. ”

Cao Zongyu said: "Ten thousand people? ”

10,000 people seems like a lot, but in the face of the war of hundreds of thousands of people now, there is a lot of talk.

He Hutou said: "The onslaught I am talking about is not that there are many people, but that there are many cannons, and I want a hundred Hongyi cannons." And these cannons are equipped with flowering shells. ”

When Cao Zongyu heard this, he was almost startled and said, "A hundred? ”

Although at this time, Cao Zongyu was trying to deploy artillery from all over the city to Beijing, but on the whole, there were not many of these artillery, and there were only more than 200 Hongyi cannons.

It's not that Great Xia's artillery is insufficient.

It's that these cannons are everywhere, and the artillery of the Xia Army's sailors is enough, but Zheng Chenggong transferred some of them and gathered in Liaoyang, wanting to fight a big battle with Jieshu in Liaoyang.

There are a lot of artillery under Luoyang City, but it is too far to transport it to the front line.

Artillery could only be unloaded from the walls of Guangdong, Fujian, Nanjing, Wuchang, these places.

Naturally, mobilization was a bit slow for a while.

But Cao Zongyu couldn't wait any longer. He listened to He Hutou's words and said, "What do you want so many artillery pieces for?" ”

He Hutou said: "I want to storm a section of the city wall, it doesn't need to be wide, at most one mile, with three battalions, and I have prepared three batches of attacks." Quite enough in terms of numbers. It's even a bit too much. No amount of troops can be deployed. By onslaught, I never meant a manpower onslaught, but a firepower onslaught. ”

He Hutou was a little excited when he said it, this is a principle that Zhang Xuan told him, that is, the concentrated use of firepower. But this is the first time that such a big deal has been done.

"The guns entered the positions at night and were hidden before they opened fire. Only during the siege of the city did all the flowering bullets fall on the city wall in an instant. He Hutou said with a bit of excitement on his face: "I don't believe it, Dongyu is still impregnable, and under such artillery fire, he can't die." ”

Then let the soldiers behind follow the artillery and go to the city. Capture the city walls. In this way, the big thing is decided. ”

He Hu slammed his head into the place of Beijing City on the map, shaking some small parts on the table and jumping, he looked at Cao Zongyu with blazing eyes, waiting for Cao Zongyu's decision.