The biggest snow in the twenty-fourth year of Chongzhen's Beijing division came a little late, and at the end of November, the entire city of Beijing was shrouded in snow.

Compared with the cold brought by the weather, the mood of the soldiers from above and below in the Jingshi City and the people who had no time to escape from the Jingshi at this time was even more cold.

Five days ago, the city wall of the capital division was blasted out of a gap several zhang wide from the east and south sides, and before the Ming defenders didn't even have time to react, the Hongtang army, which had already been assembled, was like a group of evil tigers descending from the mountain, and fiercely killed and entered the city from the direction of these two gaps.

Suddenly, the entire defense line of the outer city of the Beijing Division can be said to have collapsed, although many of the Ming soldiers fought hard to resist the attack of the Hongtang army, but in the face of the strong strength of the Hongtang army, they were annihilated one by one.

In the end, under the pressure of the situation, the commander Du Yinxi still agreed to Cao Bianjiao's plan to fight street battles, and after a stormy battle, the Ming army lost more than 50,000 people of more than 20,000 soldiers.

Of course, among them, the people who suffered the most were naturally the people of the Ming Dynasty who were affected by the accident, and the people of the Ming Dynasty who were stranded in Beijing at this time have grown from more than 1 million people at the peak to only 400,000 people living in it today, and the loss of more than 60% of the population is still a number that should not be underestimated.

As the Ming Dynasty army retreated into the complicated lanes, it was joined by the Hongtang advancing army again and again, raids and counter-raids, and finally the most seriously damaged, naturally these innocent people and the houses they accommodated.

Even Confucian scholars who think they are honest and honest and govern the country with benevolence and righteousness, in the face of war, how can they take care of these ordinary people who should be protected by them!

The gentry, landlords, and nobles who should run and can run have either gone south for refuge a long time ago, or escaped from the purgatory of the Beijing Division, and went outside to escape the war.

"Soldiers of the second regiment and one battalion, keep up with me!!"

Between the lanes, you can hear the instructions issued by the non-commissioned officers of Hongtang at any time, and in this dense and complex environment, no one knows what accidents will happen at the next moment and the next turn.

If there is no appearance of Li Tianyang, Cao Bianjiao, who proposed to turn the entire Beijing division into a combat field, may leave a color in the history.

In ancient Chinese history, after the outer city was breached, the battle in the inner city would actually end quickly, because the besieging side only had to push all the way along the two official roads that ran through the east and west, north and south, and control the official yamen, and the siege war would be considered to be over.

However, the environment of the Beijing Division, which can accommodate millions of people, is not as narrow as the ordinary city, and the urban street warfare formulated by Cao Bianjiao on this basis is quite a bit of the prototype of modern warfare urban warfare in later generations.

However, what Cao Bianjiao didn't know was that under the influence of Li Tianyang, the Hongtang army training plan had a special drill for urban offensive and defensive warfare, which could be said to be a general training in preparation for a rainy day.

Of course, it is inevitable that all the losses should be made, and most of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are natives of Beijing, or spend a lot of time living here, and they do have an advantage in terms of terrain familiarity.

"Be careful, enemy attack!!"

"Array!!"

The Hongtang soldiers, who were advancing cautiously all the way, jumped all their nerves tightly, always paying attention to any subtle movements between the lanes that connected the left and right around them.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!! ”

Dozens of bows and arrows were shot from a dark place in an alleyway, and they were immediately caught off guard by several Hongtang soldiers.

"Medic! Medic! ”

"A row, follow me!!"

"A long line, don't chase deeply!!"

All kinds of orders followed, this is already the Hongtang army is well-trained, and it reacts extremely quickly in the face of unexpected situations, and the sudden attack did not cause too much trouble in the end.

It didn't take long for the platoon leader who had led people to chase and kill, and soon came back dejectedly.

"Didn't catch up again?"

The second platoon leader quietly approached each other and asked in a low voice.

"Chase a fart, grandma, when Lao Tzu chased over, I didn't even see a hair on the other side, only the footprints that were stepped on in the snow remained!"

The platoon leader shook his head and replied angrily.

"Whew! Bang! ”

Just as the two were talking, a cloud-piercing arrow suddenly rose from the sky not far away, which immediately attracted the attention of the two.

"A platoon of warriors, assemble!"

"Second platoon soldiers, assemble!!"

The two of them began to shout loudly in unison, organizing the gathering of the resting soldiers around them.

"One platoon of men left behind to protect the wounded and medics, and the rest followed the second platoon to support our team!"

At the sound of an order, the two platoons searched the surrounding pairs of soldiers, and under the leadership of the platoon commander, they quickly moved forward in the direction where the cloud-piercing arrows were before.

However, going around the lanes, not only did not shorten the distance between the two platoon commanders and the previous signal location, but made the two platoon commanders feel farther and farther away.

"This can't be done, I'm afraid it will delay time if I take a detour!"

The leader of the platoon, Suning, said with a frown.

"Then what do you say we should do, there is no guide in the team who is familiar with the route, you can't ask us to go around and catch a local resident over!"

Qiao Yuxi, the second platoon commander, was also distressed, and said with a wry smile: "If we are discovered by the Gendarmerie Department at that time, we will not be able to eat and leave!" ”

"Go over the wall!"

Suning trembled when he heard the three words of the gendarmerie department in Qiao Yuxi's mouth, they who were soldiers might not be afraid of their superiors, but in the face of the gendarmerie department, the law enforcement team in the army, they were still quite weak-minded.

"As long as we don't disturb the local people, the gendarmerie department can't make irresponsible remarks!"

Suning's mind turned, and he played a sidekick, this is also no way, the Hongtang army is not at a critical juncture, they will not release the cloud-piercing arrow, that team of colleagues who have already sent a signal, no one knows what kind of trap they have encountered, if it continues like this, Suning They are afraid that even if they rush to the scene, they may only collect the bodies of their comrades in the end.

(End of chapter)