Of course, Yang Qing didn't really have to help the Li family counterattack to regain the lost territory in the north.

All he wants is the Li family's counterattack.

But even if Dolgon has shifted his strategic focus to Guannai, the 20,000 Qing troops left in Korea are not something that the Li family can defeat, even if only 5,000 of the 20,000 are genuine, and the rest are all puppet troops.

It must be understood that North Korea, like before the Ming Dynasty, was also a noble and lowly martial artist.

In fact, their generals are even cheaper.

And Dolgon's invasion and co-optation made those North Korean troops soar in combat effectiveness like the green battalion in the original history, after all, it was welcomed by those generals to kill people, set fires, rob money, and rob women together, and being the Eight Banners of our Qing Dynasty was obviously happier than defending the Li family. Therefore, the 5,000-8 Banner Manchuria and the 15,000-Banner Korea that remained in Seoul actually maintained an advantage over the Li family, and the Li family's 100,000 army was said to have relied on the mountains to hold on and was crumbling.

Want him to counterattack......

You'll have to draw him a big pie.

Send a battalion over first, and then tell the Li family that there is still an army behind the sea that is being transported one after another, but the opportunity for a decisive battle between Dolgon and Li Zicheng must not be missed.

He can counterattack first.

Let this battalion go to the battlefield to win a victory first, boost the fighting spirit of the Li family, and let his 100,000 troops counterattack Seoul first, it is nothing more than more dead soldiers, and the Li family will definitely not care how many soldiers die, and then slowly send a battalion over every once in a while, maintain their fighting spirit, let them be cannon fodder to consume the strength of the Qing army, and at the same time reduce the number of Koreans, anyway, in the end, it will definitely help them recapture Seoul.

But it will take longer.

There will also be more North Koreans who will die.

As for Zheng Chenggong as the commander of the Korean army, Zheng Zhilong did not object, and he also knew that he would not be able to pass the Jinshi exam with his son's literary talent.

In this way, the reinforcement army set off.

Zheng Sen, the son of Nan'an, was given the name Zheng Chenggong by the prison state, and then led an infantry battalion and a cavalry post attached to it, to be precise, a reinforcement army composed of 1,000 chariot infantry and 200 light cavalry, escorted by the Ming Navy warships, from the Nanjing Xiaguan Wharf to North Korea with the sound of drums to see off.

"A battalion, the loyal and brave marquis is really ......"

Huang Degong said with emotion.

"Shameless!"

Yang Qing added a word to him again.

Huang Degong smiled dryly.

"I'm not interested in saving North Korea, I'm just interested in how North Koreans die more."

Yang Qing said.

"Commander-in-chief, the Huai'an guard will bring back 5,000 wounded soldiers to Li Zicheng's grain boat, saying that Li Zicheng asked the court to take care of it on his behalf, and the Huai'an guard will ask for instructions on whether to accept it."

An officer walked up to him and saluted.

"Accept, send to the ambulance station in Yangzhou!"

Yang Qing said.

In fact, the vast majority of the wounded Shun soldiers did not go back, only a very small number returned to the north, and all those who stayed were reorganized into militia by Yang Qing and then sent to Tuntian, Huainan. There are even some who ran back and even picked up their families, in the final analysis, compared with the drought and war in the north, even Huainan in the south is a good place, because of the war between the Shun army and the Qing army, the number of refugees who fled south during this period skyrocketed again, and they were all stuffed by Yang Qing to Huainan, a land barren due to war and became a militia.

"Li Zicheng didn't fight well!"

Huang Degong said.

Indeed, 5,000 wounded soldiers represent 10,000 casualties, and this is not counting those who died on the road, nor are they those who could barely continue the battle with minor injuries, if they are all counted, these 5,000 wounded soldiers represent at least 12,000 or 3,000 casualties. Obviously, Li Zicheng's road to Beijing this time is not as easy as the last time, I have to say that this is very speechless, those officials and gentry who almost fell to the wind when defending the Ming Dynasty are now defending the foreign invaders, and they have suddenly become unyielding warriors.

They knew what they were today, but why did they bother in the first place?

Even if they had resisted with the strength they have now, they wouldn't have been where they are today!

"Where did Li Zicheng go?"

Yang Qing asked the officer.

"Back to the Hou Ye, I have arrived in the Northern Capital."

The officer said.

"He becomes a snake and a dragon, it depends on this battle!"

Yang Qing took a deep breath and said.

Beijing.

"Fire!"

Zhang Nai shouted with a knife.

More than a hundred Hongyi cannons beside him lined up and sprayed flames at Chaoyangmen, and one after another solid bullets flew out with a whistling and disappeared in the smoke and dust that enveloped the city wall, and at the same time, the shells that returned fire on the city wall also continued to streak across the sky, and then hit the earth near the cannon group.

And what also crossed the sky, there were traces of smoke falling at a large angle.

This is a shell from a mortar cannon.

Yang Qing sponsored twelve mortar cannons for Li Zicheng, but the cannonballs had to be bought by Lao Li himself, and Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and bought 2,000 flowering shells that had caused him serious casualties, which had never been used before, and now they were all used to counterattack Beijing. However, the city is too big, and such flowering shells are at most a psychological deterrent, and it is difficult to cause much damage, not to mention the twenty-pound flowering shells of just 2,000 black powder, even modern heavy artillery will have to spend countless shells if they want to destroy this huge city.

Of course, in this day and age, such an artillery bombardment can still be considered spectacular.

Even in Europe, this is amazing.

"Your Highness, your strength is astounding!"

John Tang stood beside Li Zicheng and said in his exotic Chinese.

Li Zicheng did not answer.

"But alas, your army has no faith!"

John Tang then said.

"Your subjects also have no faith, so when the Tatars invade, they will shamefully choose to surrender, and the army without faith has no loyalty, because they have no fear of the gods in their hearts, no fear of the afterlife, and when the flames of hell await the betrayer, they will understand the value of loyalty."

He continued to bewitch Li Zicheng.

"Then can your god tell me why Yang Qing can't be killed?"

Li Zicheng said with a hint of mockery.

The first translation of the word GOD as God was Matteo Ricci, and John Tong continued this translation, but it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that the word "God" was finally taken over by the Yawei Magpie's Nest as the word "God" was interrupted by their mission in China.

"He's the devil!"

John Tang said very simply.

"He is a demon minions, as we usually call them vampires in Europe, they suck the blood of living people, they have a long lifespan, great strength and agile bodies, they are cunning, treacherous, and generally knowledgeable, they haunt the mountains and forests of Transylvania, and they cannot be killed at all with ordinary weapons, they must cut off his head or pierce him in the heart with a stake to kill. But they are afraid of holy water and silverware, they are afraid of the cross, and they have died under the siege of the church, but there are still some very powerful vampires who have fled, Yang Qing is clearly a powerful vampire, he fled from the mountains and forests of Eastern Europe to the East, and the great mission God has given you is to destroy him. ”

He continued.

In fact, he didn't know what Yang Qing was.

If Yang Qing is a vampire, but this guy can move in the sun, this makes him very confused, all dark creatures are obviously afraid of the sun, fortunately, he also knows that Li Zicheng can't know what a real vampire looks like.

"But I've never seen him suck blood!"

Li Zicheng said with interest.

"They are very good at camouflage and turn into bats in the dark, which explains his legend that he can fly."

John Tang said.

"Looks like I'll have to prepare a cup of blood for him next time we meet!"

Li Zicheng said.

At this moment, there was a sudden loud noise in the distance, followed by cheers around him, Li Zicheng hurriedly raised his head, and saw that on the city wall shrouded in gray dust in the distance, a large area of obvious different colors appeared, accompanied by a gust of wind, a gap more than ten zhang wide suddenly appeared......

"Attack!"

He drew his sword and shouted.

The Shun army, which was arrayed almost at the same time, let out a tsunami-like roar, with the dead soldiers in the trench as the vanguard, the commandos with heavy armor and long knives behind, and the ordinary infantry behind them, suddenly began to charge like a tide sweeping forward. And at this time, the Chaoyang Gate opened, the Dongbian Gate opened, the Dongzhi Gate opened, and the counterattacking Qing cavalry surged out and rushed straight to the Shun army, followed by the two wings of the Shun cavalry forward, and the cavalry on both sides quickly collided together. Then the dead soldiers of the Shun army who filled the trench quickly filled the attack channel, and the assault infantry rushed frantically to the gap with bullets, shells and sharp arrows on the city wall.

And the dense Qing infantry at the gap also surged.

The bloody battle of the infantry began.

A real bloody battle.

The soldiers on both sides huddled together in a density that was almost difficult to turn around, slashing and even biting with their teeth, shooting each other with bows and arrows and muskets at a distance that they could spit on each other, and the dead bodies kept falling one by one, and the people behind continued to step on the dead bodies and continue to make more dead bodies in the same way, even simply by crowding down the opponents and trampling them under their feet.

Their blood soon soaked the dry ground and began to flow in all directions.

On both sides of the breakthrough, countless flying ladders were also set up, and the Shun soldiers holding shields attacked up the ladders, while the Qing army and gentry above their heads desperately blocked, attacking with various defensive equipment in the falling cannonballs, and the dead bodies of the Shun army were also falling, but there were more Shun troops rushing across the moat to join the attack on the city wall.

Soon the moat was stained red with blood, the walls were stained red with blood, and beneath the dense corpses, the earth was also stained red with blood.

This is the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

But neither the defenders nor the attackers were Ming troops.

At least not the real Ming army, when Emperor Yongle built this magnificent city, it is estimated that he did not think that more than two hundred years later, there would be such a bloody battle here, and the two main enemies of their Zhu family would actually start a battle in Beijing, which can almost be said to be the largest offensive and defensive battle in the history of Beijing's city building.

200,000 Shun troops against 100,000 Qing troops.

Of course, only half of the latter were real Qing troops, and the remaining half was ......