As soon as Zhang Gaowen returned to the house, he pulled his wife into the house, turned around and closed the door, and said: "The Ming army is close to Beijing, we have to make plans in advance." ”

"Ming Army?" His wife was shocked, "How many people are here?" ”

"There are only a few thousand people, but with this first one, there will be two or three times." On the way home, Zhang Gaowen remembered that after that, Jin continued to attack Beijing, at first only a few thousand people, and then more and more, until he finally took charge of Beijing.

Mrs. Zhang panicked: "When I asked you to go out early, you had to pretend to be high, and you had to wait for a year at home." It's so easy to figure it out, and he spent a lot of money on it, and he just mixed it up, and before the chair was hot, the Ming army called back...... Hey, why am I so miserable? ”

Zhang Gaowen sighed helplessly, "Don't talk about this now, you let the subordinates quickly pack up their things, go out of the city with my mother first, and go to ......"

When he said this, he felt that if the Ming army attacked, it would be unsafe for the countryside, and since he had surrendered, it would be impossible to redo the Ming minister.

After thinking about it, he found that it was only advisable to go north outside the pass, after all, it was a place full of people and dragons, and they would desperately defend there, and it was far away from the Central Plains battlefield, so it should be the safest.

"I'll find a way to send you to Shen, no, settle near Shengjing."

As soon as he said it, he immediately prepared the silver and went to follow the path of Tan Bai. He himself is a member of the Han Army, and only a few family members are out of the customs, and Tan Bai helped him very happily after receiving the money.

Two days later, the Zhang family's valuables filled three carriages and went straight to Shanhaiguan through Funing......

"It's better to prepare early. The Ming army broke through Tianjin, and a large number of people came straight to Beijing! On the Xianpeng Building, the most lively restaurant next to Guang'anmen Gate in Beijing, a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman lowered his voice and said to the people gathered around him, "It is said that the army has laid down the East Fence Village yesterday, and maybe it will arrive at the city tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!" ”

This person is one of the twelve officials of the Propaganda Department in Beijing, named Bao Yang'an.

A diner peeked around and saw that there were Han people nearby, so he asked carefully: "Shopkeeper Bao, how many Ming troops are here?" ”

"I don't know the exact number, but it should be quite a lot." Bao Yang'an pretended to be mysterious, "It is said that the Forbidden City was greatly shaken, and a series of six-way armies were sent to intercept it!" ”

Originally, in order to reduce the panic in the city, Dolgon did not use the forbidden army and the Beijing camp, but transferred troops from the surrounding areas of Beijing, and the number of people and horses on each side was not very large.

However, in the mouth of the response officer, it became a corroboration that the defense of Beijing City was insufficient, and the Sixth Route Army had to be mobilized to assist in the defense.

"The Army of the Six?!" Sure enough, someone immediately exclaimed, "Then at least tens of thousands of Ming troops must attack, so it will be like this!" ”

"That's right, when Chuang Kou attacked Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen mobilized troops and horses everywhere, which is somewhat similar to now......

"If you want me to say, there must be more than 10,000 people. If there were no forty or fifty thousand Ming troops, the imperial court would not have transferred so many men......"

"It makes sense, otherwise why was Tianjin captured so quickly?"

How did these people know that the six troops sent by Dolgon only had more than 10,000 people, and they didn't know that because there had been no war in Tianjin, the defenders were only three or four thousand. Everyone is so blind that they only feel that Beijing is crumbling.

Bao Yangan was very satisfied with the effect of the "discussion", and continued to "add": "Have you heard? Hong Chengchou was deflated everywhere in northern Zhejiang, and 100,000 horses and horses were deployed in Fuyang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places to defend it, but the Ming army still captured Pinghu, which was close to Jiaxing. Now that the Qing army is retreating in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, according to the situation, it will not be long before the Ming army will reach Nanjing! ”

His words were true and false, and some of the diners next to him heard some news about the battle situation in Jiangnan, which corroborated with what he said, and they all nodded their heads.

"Is it going to change again?"

"As I said, Tartars won't be in Beijing for a long time......"

"Be quiet, you don't want to die?!"

"What are you afraid of, when the Han army comes, I will kill these Tartar dogs with them!"

"It's useless to talk about that." Someone turned to Bao Yang'an again, "Shopkeeper Bao, you said that this army is attacking the city, what are we going to do?" ”

Bao Yangan Zhengse said: "Needless to say, it is natural to pack up and take your family to the countryside for refuge first." I won't hide it from you, I've packed up all my things, and I'll be out of the city today and tomorrow......"

"Ahem, this official, please inside."

As the shopkeepers sang, the crowd dispersed, but they rushed home to tell relatives and friends to take shelter from the fighting. And Bao Yangan quickly moved to the next place to spread "rumors".

In just a day or two, the news of the Ming army's arrival in the city reached the streets and alleys of Beijing. It's not that the response officials are efficient, with more than ten of them, even if they are tired to death, they can't spread so quickly.

However, most of the news was spread by small traders. Since the Ming army broke through Zhigu, the traders in Beijing who privately sold wigs, Hanfu and even Chongzhen tablets have made a windfall.

In order to expand sales, they spread the news they heard from the policy officer everywhere, and even added fuel to the fire, and the number of Ming troops was "soared" by them all the way to two or three hundred thousand.

Under the influence of the atmosphere of the approaching war, many people in the city wore Hanfu and wigs before going out, waiting to welcome the Ming army at any time. Tens of thousands of people left the city to avoid the battle in the past two days.

When Dolgon got a report of the chaos in Beijing, he was furious, and on the one hand, he asked people to arrest the rumor-mongers, and on the other hand, he ordered the city gate to be strictly checked, and those who did not get the official gate were forbidden to leave the city.

On that day, thousands of people in the city were arrested for "gossiping and confusing the people", while more people gathered near the city gate to wait to leave the city, and the price of grain soared under the hoarding of profiteers.

The Ming army only used more than 1,000 people to stir up such a big storm in the capital of Jianyu, this is the power of public opinion warfare and psychological warfare!

Although the chaos gradually disappeared after more than half a month with the withdrawal of the Ming army from Dagu, the city of Beijing was far less lively than before, and it was much more difficult to even implicate the Qing court's taxation and conscription.

However, the non-governmental anti-Qing organizations, which were already disheartened, were inspired by this and began to act one after another......

At the same time that Beijing was in chaos, the expeditionary force of the Daming Navy Division had sailed into the Sancha River from Gaizhouwei in the northern part of the Bohai Sea, which was later known as Yingkou Port, and then entered the Hunhe River in the north. In the end, 700 soldiers of the Naval Division's infantry army landed near Long Beach, less than 100 miles southwest of Shenyang.

However, because the water depth of the Hunhe River was too shallow, small boats of less than 70 tons were easy to enter, and the landing force could not be supported by warships.