Chen Yue arranged the city defense of Yongdingmen, while anxiously waiting for Chongzhen's news. At present, the great enemy, all the gates of Beijing are tightly closed, and the Yongding Gate where Chen Yue is located is the gate of the outer city, and he wants to enter the inner city when he goes to see Chongzhen, without Chongzhen's order, I am afraid that the Ming officers and soldiers who defend the inner gate will not allow Chen Yue to enter.

Although he was anxious, Chen Yue could only wait, waiting for Chongzhen's order. However, he didn't know that Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, promised to send someone to report the matter of Chen Yue's request for an audience in the imperial court, but he turned his head and forgot about it. It's just reinforcements all the way, honestly assisting in the defense, the emperor is what you want to see?

The defense of the soldiers in the capital camp in the city is clueless, as if it is a mess, and there are a lot of various city defense equipment, but looking at the soldiers who are nervous and flustered, at a loss, if the army is attacking, many people will be so frightened that they will turn around and flee, even if there is a strong city as a basis.

Chen Yue couldn't see it, so he personally arranged the defense of the matter, with the right battalion of the iron lion as the mainstay, each soldier of the Xishan Army was responsible for defending a battlement, and then with the assistance of two or three soldiers of the Beijing battalion, the ash bottles and stones were placed one by one, and the iron pot was set up, and the gold juice was prepared in the iron pot, and the dry firewood was placed under the pot, just waiting for the thieves to attack the city.

Although there is no trace of the thieves yet, everyone knows that hundreds of thousands of thieves have already arrived in the city of Beijing and will soon come to the south of the city.

The original general of the defenders of Yongdingmen was a thousand households in Beijing, and the minister in charge was Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and a eunuch Wang Dehua as a supervisor. Now, with the arrival of Chen Yue, Zhang Jinyan left under the pretext of inspecting other city gates. At present, this city head belongs to Chen Yue's highest official position, except for the eunuch Wang who is ordered to supervise the army.

Chen Yue was not as disgusted with the eunuchs in the palace as other civil officials, and he would not discriminate against them. Eunuchs, after all, are just a profession, and people give up their birds to wait for the emperor in the palace, and they should gain some power. On the contrary, Chen Yue admires such a person very much, after all, those who can ruthlessly stab themselves are amazing people, at least Chen Yue can't be so cruel to himself.

As soon as the defense of the city was arranged, a commotion was heard, and the Ming army at the head of the city looked nervously to the west, and saw a huge army, swept like a dark cloud.

In front was a cavalry, galloping like a whirlwind, sweeping along the moat outside the city, and standing two miles above the city. Then there was a black infantry army, which quickly approached behind the cavalry.

The sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry was like thunder, knocking on the hearts of the defenders in the city, and looking at the huge power of the thief cavalry, many soldiers in the Beijing camp changed color in shock. By the time the bandit infantry lined up outside the city, many of the soldiers were already panicking.

As the saying goes, there are no boundaries when there are 10,000 people, and looking at the scale of the thieves outside the city, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of foot riders, and this is only the defenders who attack the southern city.

Holding the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, Chen Yue carefully watched the lineup of the breaking army. The array of the intrusive army in the mirror was tightly organized, and the faces of the soldiers were full of arrogance, Chen Yue knew that this was the high morale formed by successive victories. On the other hand, the Ming army at the head of the city, except for the Xishan army under his own subordinates, the other soldiers of the Beijing camp panicked one by one, and half of the battle was already lost before it was fought.

In this case, if you want to hold the city, you can only think of dampening the spirit of the invading army, so as to boost the morale of the Ming army in the city.

The best thing to do is to send an army and attack the invading army that is not firmly established. It's a pity that there are only 3,000 people under his command, and he is still responsible for escorting Chongzhen away, so he can't be easily damaged, otherwise, Chen Yue really wants to lead the troops to fight with the breaking army!

What Chen Yue didn't know was that at this time, there was already a Ming army and a Chuang army working together!

Naturally, the defenders of the city could not retreat in the city, and that would completely fall into passivity. It is necessary to send troops outside the city, with their backs to the city walls, and cooperate with the defenders of the city, so that they can be both offensive and defensive.

This is common sense in military affairs, and there is naturally no shortage of people in the Ming Military Department who know about military affairs, and the same is true for the strategy of defending the city. Therefore, Li Guozhen, the governor of Beijing and the governor of Xiangcheng, took the three battalions of the Beijing soldiers to set up a position outside the city, taking on the important task of blocking the thieves from attacking the city.

Li Zicheng set up a temporary headquarters in Gonghua City, Shahe, between Changping and Beijing, with the general Liu Zongmin as the commander of the former enemy. Liu Zongmin led his army directly to the city of Beijing, and launched an attack on Li Guozhen's Beijing camp without saying anything.

Tens of thousands of Shunjun cavalry rushed towards the Ming army's position with a thunderous momentum, the soldiers of the Beijing camp were frightened, countless people cried and turned around and fled, but behind them was the Beijing city wall, and the city gate had long been tightly closed. All they could do was cry and run down the moat, trying to enter the city through the other gates. More soldiers in the Beijing camp threw down their weapons and knelt directly on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.

Li Guozhen was stunned as he looked at the cavalry of the Shun army swept in the distance, and then looked at the Jingying army scattered like birds and beasts around him, and his heart suddenly became sad.

"Uncle, let's run!" A housekeeper pulled Li Guozhen's sleeve and shouted nervously.

"Run, where are you going?" Li Guozhen shook his head, "The building is about to fall, what can I do?" ”

After speaking, he threw away the sword in his hand and sat on the ground, waiting for fate to come.

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The city wall of Beijing city is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the so-called outer city is not completely surrounded by the inner city, but it is just a large place in the south of the city, and then connected with the southwest corner of the southeast corner of the inner city, the whole Beijing city wall presents the shape of "convex", and the lower part of the word "convex" is the outer city, relative to the inner city, although the thickness and height of the outer city wall are about the same as the inner city, the defense is not a star and a half, the minimum number of arrow towers, the width of the moat outside the city, are far inferior to the inner city.

Therefore, Liu Zongmin took the outer city in the south of the city as the focus of the attack. Liu Zongmin personally led a large army and approached Nancheng, which was the weakest defense, counting on the generals to enter from here.

However, before the strong attack, it is necessary to persuade to surrender, this is the practice of attacking the city, with the Shun army crossing the Yellow River in the east, has tasted too many benefits of persuasion, Taiyuan, Datong, Juyong Pass, dozens of famous cities are dangerous, all surrender without a fight. This makes the march of the Shun army like a game.

And today, naturally, we must also persuade to surrender. If Chongzhen can be persuaded to surrender, then it is ideal, and the worst is to persuade the generals defending the city to surrender, so that they can enter the city without blood.

Attacking the heart is the top, attacking the city is the bottom, this truth is still understood by the monarchs and ministers of Dashun State

So, Liu Zongmin sent Du Xun, a eunuch who surrendered in Xuanfu, and ordered him to enter the city to persuade him.