At this moment, in Qiaozhuang, southwest of Tongzhou City, an extremely tall Mongolian general, surrounded by dozens of Qing army generals, quietly looked south. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 It was the minister who led the troops stationed in Tongzhou to deploy the Qincha minister, and was named the monk Grinqin of the Prince of Bodol Katai.

"Report, Zhangjiawan urgent!" Two fast horses rushed over, and the two messengers quickly turned over and dismounted, kneeling in front of everyone: "Lord Wang, a total of 6,000 Chahar cavalry led by the deputy commander Yiledonga and Namashan attacked the Cantonese thieves camped in Zhangjiawan at night. ”

"Huh!? How could it be such a fiasco? How many artillery pieces did the Cantonese thieves have? He newly succeeded Wen Qing into the military plane, and became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the Minister of Military Aircraft, and he was also considered a high authority, because he also served as the commander of the Mongolian Eight Banners, and heard that the Mongolian cavalry was defeated, and he was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly asked.

"Not only are the thieves numerous, but they are also extremely powerful. Even the war horse was frightened and refused to charge forward, and returned repeatedly, which led to this great defeat. The Courier reports.

Monk Greenqin sighed: "I didn't expect the thief soldiers to become such a climate, completely different from the long-haired thief soldiers." This king originally asked Ildona and Namashan to take advantage of their unstable foothold to lead the Mongol elite cavalry to attack and test it, but he didn't expect this to be the result. It's no wonder that the king didn't find out clearly. ”

Ruilin on the side persuaded: "Monk King, no one would have thought that the artillery in the Guangdong thief army is equipped with so much, and it has been prepared, looking at the speed of its march, I am afraid that tomorrow we will attack our army's defense line in the Tongzhou area, it is better to hurry up and deploy defense." ”

Monk Greenqin nodded: "The thief artillery is too sharp. According to the spies, there were more than 200 ships on the canal that transported heavy firearms, and it is estimated that there were also large heavy artillery, which were specially used to attack the city. The city wall of Tongzhou is low, it is difficult to hold on, and Tongzhou must not be defended. Now that it is newly defeated, it is still necessary to withdraw all the Manchu and Mongolian banner soldiers in Tongzhou City to the side of the Beijing Division and concentrate their troops, while Tongzhou City only sends more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers to defend it. ”

"As soon as the king arrived in Tongzhou the day before yesterday, he thought that in order to defeat the thieves with sharp firearms, he also needed to borrow the speed of the cavalry to rush up and fight hand-to-hand with the thieves, so the king built a large number of earthen ramparts and trenches in the area of the Bali Bridge of the canal in the area where Tongzhou must pass through the capital, and prepared to wait for the thieves to arrive, and then launched a field battle with a three-sided attack to defeat the thieves with the power of cavalry."

"Tomorrow's war, related to the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty, all the Manmeng brothers, you must do your best to kill the thief!"

The generals responded in unison and arranged the defense separately.

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At the same time, the Zhangjiawan begging camp tent, after the hustle and bustle, the begging barracks slowly fell silent, and the lights dimmed, except for the people on duty, the soldiers all seized the time to rest, and as soon as the sky dawned tomorrow, they would continue to march, and everyone knew that they would arrive outside Tongzhou City tomorrow, and there would be a fierce battle.

And in the middle of the pitch-black tent that spread out for several miles, there was the largest yellow satin tent, which was brightly lit, and it was Feng Yunshan's Saint King Tent.

Considering that the Qing army had already attacked at night and suffered heavy losses, Feng Yunshan did not dare to attack again, plus Lin Fengxiang and Tan Shaoguang both sent people to report that they had captured dozens of Mongolian cavalry who came to attack, and obtained a lot of information. Therefore, Feng Yunshan summoned all the division masters overnight to come to his king's tent to discuss the military situation and arrange tomorrow's war.

Lin Fengxiang's 1st Division captured a Mongolian leader with a white flag, and after some severe torture, the traitor named Ebendui humiliated himself and surrendered to the Holy Country. He provided the captive army with the military information such as the troop arrangement of the Mongolian prince and monk Grinqin, which made Feng Yunshan overjoyed, and said on the spot that he would reward Ebendui as the title of "Guishun Gong" of Mongolia, and form a Mongolian Guishun Corps in the future to fight for the holy country.

According to the confession of the "Guishun Gong" Ebendui, the Manchu Emperor appointed the Mongolian prince Seng Lingqin as the minister of the Qincha, responsible for the defense of the Gyeonggi area, and was fully responsible for the defense of the Tongzhou area.

Only two days ago, Monk Lingqin led a large number of Mongolian cavalry from the Zhaowuda League to rush back to Beijing, and after receiving Xianfeng's edict, he did not stop, and then rushed to Tongzhou.

After on-the-spot inspection, Seng Lingqin found that the area from Bali Bridge to Qiaozhuang between Tongzhou and Beijing was the most suitable for cavalry charging field battles in order to hold the throat of the capital and the most suitable for cavalry charges.

Speaking of the deployment of the Qing troops, Lin Fengxiang told the Holy King Feng Yunshan, the Yiwang Shi Dakai, the deputy chief of the general staff Zuo Zongtang, the king of Xinwang and the commander of the 5th Division of the 1st Division, the commander of the 8th Division Chen Tianshi, the commander of the 9th Division Tan Shaoguang, the commander of the 10th Division Lu Shunde, the commander of the 5th Division of the 2nd Division Liang Peiyou, and others, as well as the chiefs of staff and deputy division commanders of each division, and others about the information they had inquired about from the "Guishun Gong" Ebenduina.

Because most of the 1st Division was sent to garrison Dagukou, Tianjin City, Wuzhen in Hexi, and Beicang, the commander of the 1st Division, He Lu, was stationed in the area of the North Canal, but not in the camp of the Chinese army.

"The Holy King, the King of Yi and the King of Xin, as well as the brothers, according to the confession of the Mongolian leader Ebendui who defected to our Holy Country after being captured, the demon head monk Greenqin was invited to supervise a total of nearly 37,000 people, and he led a total of more than 17,000 demon soldiers in the Chinese army, of which 11,000 were the elite cavalry of the Mongolian Manqi, and the rest were Manchurian foot soldiers. The base camp is located in Guojiafen between Tongzhou and Qiaozhuang, along the line from Qiaozhuang to Bali Bridge, full of defensive fortifications, and guards the official road from Tongzhou to Jingshi Guangqumen. ”

"The other troop arrangements are roughly as follows: 3,000 full-flag infantry soldiers stationed in Tongzhou City, more than 1,000 Cangchang soldiers, 4,000 infantry of the Zhili Green Battalion outside Tongzhou City, plus 3,000 horsemen from the towns of the Zhili Governor who fled to Tongzhou from Tianjin Prefecture, led by Gui Liang, the governor of Zhili, and Chonglun, the waiter of Cangchang; The Qing demon Chahar Dutong Xiling A and the staff leader Ge Bandage each led 3,000 Mongolian horse teams, as well as 2,000 Manqi cavalry soldiers, stationed in the east and south of Qiaozhuang, as the left flank; The deputy commander of the Qing Demon, Yiledong Adu, led a Mongolian horse team of 4,000 people to defend the Bali Bridge as the right flank; Another 1,000 Chahar Mongolian horse teams were led by the governor Na Ma Shan, to defend the southeast of the Maju Bridge, in order to prevent our army from advancing westward from Matou and making a detour to attack the Beijing Division. ”

Lin Fengxiang finished talking about the information he got in one breath.

Feng Yunshan nodded and said, "Everyone has also heard that there are so many Qing Demon troops stationed in the forty or fifty miles between Tongzhou and Beijing alone. Moreover, the secret service department just came with news that the Qing Demon Chief has ordered the Qing Demon in the Gyeonggi and Zhili areas to come and stop our army. More than 6,000 green battalions from Baoding were assembled, more than 4,000 green battalions were stationed at Miyun Gubeikou, the governor of Zhili in the suburbs of Beijing, and other green battalions from Malan Town, Taining Town, Xuanhua Town, Zhengding Town, Tongyong Town and other places were also mobilized to Beijing, with a total of nearly 20,000 people. ”

In addition, the Qing demons under the command of the Eight Banners of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and the Five Battalions of the Admiral Nine Gate Infantry Patrol were stationed in Beijing and the suburbs of Beijing, with a large number of troops. Due to the strict prevention and control inspections in Beijing, the Special Service Department has lost several spies in Beijing, and has not been able to find out the specific number of troops, but according to the investigation, it is estimated that there are 70,000 or 80,000 troops. Ji Gao, tell me about your discovery! Feng Yunshan looked at Zuo Zongtang.

Zuo Zongtang saluted Feng Yunshan and said slowly: "Yu Shengwang, in order to find out the strength of the Qing Demon in Beijing, I consulted some records and materials of the military department, and finally found a casual record in the "King James Central Political Examination" during the Daoguang period of the demon chieftain, there are 48,582 people in the Xiaocai battalion, 23,122 people in the infantry battalion, 20,083 people in the guard battalion, 7,813 people in the firearms battalion, 3,833 people in the Jianrui battalion, and 1,764 people in the forward battalion. A total of eight banners in Beijing, a total of 105197 people. However, after many deployments to fight against the Taiping Army and our captive army, plus the troops transferred to Liaodong and the Central Plains to quell the rebel army in the early stage, it is estimated that there are still more than 70,000 troops, which is consistent with the investigation of the Special Service Division. And according to the analysis of the quantity of military rations transferred from Tianjin, the same is true. ”

Everyone was amazed! I didn't expect that the Qing Demon still had so many troops in the area of the capital!

Liang Peiyou, the commander of the Fifth Division, said in surprise: "There are so many Qing demons, and they are based on the city, can't they be conquered in a short period of time?" Holy King, my subordinates are worried that if it drags on until winter, the weather will be very cold, and I will capture the soldiers and soldiers, especially the sailors, who are all people from Guangdong and Fujian, and are not tolerant of severe cold. ”

Chen Tianshi said: "Brother Liang, rest assured, with our Lu Shi here, no matter how many troops he has to clear demons, no matter how thick the wall of Beijing is, he will also take it down." If you don't have enough artillery, just take it off your sailors' ships. ”

Luo Outline and Lu Shunde nodded, and Luo Outline smiled: "Brother Chen, this is a good idea!" Luo and Shunde have discussed, our sailor soldiers, after Tongzhou is a small canal, only small boats can enter, those big warships and warships are useless, we will turn the sailor into a land division, anyway, there are still a lot of gunpowder cannons on the ship, push the artillery behind your land division, blow up the damn. ”