Chapter 105: Beijing

Since Zhang Xuan was sure that there was no situation in the rear, he naturally went all the way north to Beijing City.

He went north from Luoyang all the way, and he hurried up, no, he came to the city of Beijing in a few days.

Although the Beijing city wall suffered a lot of damage during the offensive and defensive battles in Beijing, this damage did not damage the main structure of the city itself.

On the contrary, it has added a lot of vicissitudes to the city of Beijing. Then the sunset shines on the city wall, and there is a feeling of desolation like blood.

"Your Majesty." Cao Zongyu took the big and small courtiers out of the camp to greet him.

Zhang Xuan immediately turned over and dismounted, helped Cao Zongyu up, and said: "In this Northern Expedition, the general is the first hero of the imperial court, and he will go hand in hand with me. ”

Immediately, Zhang Xuan grabbed Cao Zongyu's hand, and the two entered Beijing City side by side.

It is to enter through the Yongding Gate. The city of Beijing looks more desolate than the outside of Beijing. Although there are many people cleaning the large area of fire relics, many blackened places cannot be covered at all.

Zhang Xuan never expected that the first thing he saw was such a Beijing city, and he was embarrassed in his heart. When he came to the Forbidden City, although he was familiar with the city tower, there were a large number of palaces behind the city tower that were burned, after all, the Forbidden City was too big, although Fan Wencheng tried his best to burn it, but he also took the Qianqing Palace as the center, and burned some palaces left and right.

Zhang Xuan found a complete palace to settle in, but it was in the Zhongcui Palace. This Zhongcui Palace is the residence of the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, and Shunzhi has no prince. As a result, the palace is mostly empty.

Even blessings and misfortunes.

This deserted palace welcomed most of the generals of the Xia Army today.

In the palace, there is a huge sand table in front of Zhang Xuan, which is the terrain near Beijing, and Cao Zongyu's 1510 sand table reproduces the situation of the battle of Beijing.

When Zhang Xuan heard this, he sighed slightly in his heart and said, "Qin Meng is really a pity. ”

Cao Zongyu listened and said: "General Qin has knowledge under the spring, and he will definitely remember the five." ”

Zhang Xuan pressed Qin Meng's death, after all, he had seen a lot of life and death since he joined the army, and it had long been a habit for the deceased to leave. His eyes swept over everyone below, and said: "The capture of Beijing City is the most critical battle of the Northern Expedition. ”

The hall below laughed, and then Zhang Xuan waved his hand and let them all go down.

The millions of taels of silver he brought were also rewarded to the whole army, whether it was Cao Zongyu's army, Li Ding**, or Zheng Chenggong's army, all of them had a share.

As for the knighthood, everyone is used to it, this is a big deal, and it must be carefully considered and scrutinized in the court.

Naturally, it is

After returning to Nanjing.

After these people left, Zhang Xuan asked Cao Zongyu and said, "How about the other directions?" ”

Cao Zongyu said: "According to the Liaodong war report, the battle line has been stabilized between Shenyang and Liaoyang, and General Zheng cannot go north to conquer Shenyang for a while, so it is temporarily deadlocked. ”

"As for Datong, Shunzhi Xiao'er is in Datong City, gathering more than 100,000 cavalry, and almost sweeping up the family on the grassland."

"General Li Dingguo has already asked for war several times."

"As long as the Dongyu is annihilated in Datong City, the Dongyu will no longer exist."

"As for the northwest, Wu Sangui has occupied Lanzhou, the Quartet strategy, and cleaned up the grass between the Wu army and our army one by one, Wang Fuzhi has been in the battle, but the troops are lacking, no matter how big the battle with Wu Sangui, it can only stabilize the form."

Zhang Xuan closed his eyes and said: "Northwest, Liaodong, Datong, if you want the world to settle, but it is also difficult, and you also know the situation in the middle of the dynasty today." ”

Cao Zongyu said: "Madame is so decisive. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "I don't know if it's good or bad, this kind of thing is indispensable, this battle can't be fought." I came to Beijing this time to do a good job of this official and not let Dongyu get cheap. ”

"Brother Cao, what do you think should be done?"

The form of the south has forced Luo Yujiao to use human heads to suppress the people below. Zhang Xuan knew that the rich people of the Ming Dynasty were probably at their limit.

If you press it any further, I'm afraid there will be a mess.

Collecting troops is his only choice.

Cao Zongyu pondered for a while and said: "The minister thinks that when His Majesty leads the army, commands the three armies, and leaves Juyong Pass with great fanfare, the army goes straight to Datong, and makes it look like a decisive battle with the Dongyu under the city. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, his heart moved, and he said secretly: "I have already said that the war can't be fought anymore, why do you still want to fight this battle of Datong?" As soon as he thought about it, he immediately understood what Cao Zongyu meant, and said, "What a bluff." ”

The current situation is that Zhang Xuan is in financial difficulty, but the Qing army's finances are not difficult?

Zhang Xuan's financial difficulties are just that he can't sustain them later, and he has to make trouble. But as Luo Yujiao said, the rebellion in the northwest is a real rebellion, and the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River can be pacified by borrowing a few heads.

In short, it was still within Zhang Xuan's expectations.

It can't threaten the rivers and mountains of Great Xia.

It's like when Ming Chengzu was on the Northern Expedition, did Tang Sai'er Uprising in Shandong have any impact on Ming Chengzu's military operations? Naturally, there is, but is it important?

Unimportant.

But the Qing court was different.

If it weren't for the heavy troops of Great Xia, they might not have caused internal strife, and now the Qing court has become a khanate court, which is a joint stock company of the Aixin Jueluo family and the gold family.

It's just that the Mongolians want to be dogs for the Aixin Jueluo family so much? However, it's just because of the threat of Great Xia.

In the battle of Datong, even if the Qing army wins, it is just to protect the corner of Datong, and once it fails, I am afraid that Guihua City will not be able to stay.

The world is so big that there is no place for them.

Weighing the pros and cons, it is likely that Shunzhi will withdraw from the Great Wall before the Great War.

In this way, the Xia army got a nine-sided victory without much effort, and with the help of the Ming Dynasty's fortifications, that is, the Great Wall, stationed on the front line of the Great Wall, it could save a lot of troops.

In this way, the North China side will be stable.

Cao Zongyu said: "Your Majesty is laughing, but Your Majesty is well-managed, I am rich and wealthy, I can afford to win and lose, but Dongyu does not dare to lose again." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Since this is the case, this matter is decided. ”

Immediately Zhang Xuan gave an order, and the army after conquering Beijing began to mobilize. In order to achieve the effect of bluffing, this time the momentum of the expedition to Datong was greatly increased.

The army that went out to fight, across the city of Beijing, showed off its might, and underwent the downstairs of Fengtian City, accepted Zhang Xuan's review, and the army went through one battalion after another, and walked from morning to evening, which was the end.

After leaving Beijing, if anyone looks down in the sky, they will find that all the roads to the northwest of Beijing have been filled with large armies.

In many places, three or five miles apart, there is an army, and countless armies march side by side, opening roads and building bridges in the mountains. It's immense and almost unstoppable.

On the main road, there are also countless artillery carriages, end to end, almost like a steel dragon. Some people use animal power, and some soldiers push it. It's even different when you get to Juyongguan.

Li Dingguo has been waiting here for a long time.

Waiting here are all the cavalry under Li Dingguo's command.

Zhang Xuan hasn't seen it for a long time, there are so many cavalry, at a glance, the entire valley is full of cavalry, and you can hardly see the edge, these cavalry may be because there are too many troops, and the combat effectiveness is still lacking, but it is still okay to pretend.

Zhang Xuan also ordered Li Dingguo to release a large number of scouts and besiege all the Qing troops near Datong.

In this way, the fight between the Qing army and the Xia army near Datong was even more inspiring.

Zhang Xuan actually knew that with the strength of the Xia army's cavalry, it was impossible to cover the battlefield, but Zhang Xuan didn't think about covering the battlefield.

He just wanted to startle the snake and use such a means to tell Shunzhi one thing, that is, he was here.

Xia Jun's movement was so big that it almost shook the north, even if Shunzhi was deaf and blind, someone would stuff things into his ears, not to mention, Shunzhi was not deaf and blind. At this moment, it has long been inexplicably shaken.