"When will the next batch of supplies arrive?" On the march, Zhu Houzhao has been paying attention to this issue tirelessly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although he had asked Tang Fei to produce firearms in batches when he left Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he still had no bottom in his heart, if he didn't have that batch of new equipment, the 10,000 new troops in his hands would be a scum.

You can't let a group of people who are used to playing with guns and throwing grenades fight hand-to-hand with knives, although their strength is destined to be much better than that of the troops of the Daming Guard, but only when they get firearms can they become an invincible army.

"My lord, the first batch of firearms has crossed the Yangtze River and rushed over along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and the second batch has also been on the road."

Such words undoubtedly made Zhu Houzhao feel much more relieved, at this time, not long after the autumn flood, the water level of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal rose sharply, and the boat waterway was bound to be much faster than the land route.

Since it is now difficult for a young woman to cook without rice, Zhu Houzhao made the final decision.

"Brother Chen, you lead the Huizhou army to Datong immediately to join the army over there, since you have mastered the leadership of the Huizhou army, you must march carefully on the road, and you must not be wiped out by the Tatars in the middle of the road!" All the people in Zhu Houzhao's Chinese army tent who can be called generals are there.

"Yu Dayou, you also go together, although the Chen family brothers are all smart people, but you have to come up with ideas in terms of marching and fighting, you can discuss the specific situation, I don't have too many requirements, I just hope that after such a battle, you can come back alive, and there can be three generals in my army!"

Zhu Houzhao said very sincerely, there is a lack of generals around him now, and these three people can obviously be vigorously cultivated. Needless to say, Yu Dayou has always been obsessed with martial arts and the military, and although he has some deficiencies in his chest, he does have a military book in his mind.

And Chen Ergou and Chen Fugui, after such a long period of observation, Zhu Houzhao has found that both of them are wise and demonic characters, especially Chen Fugui, a person who has a good body, can be called perfect in terms of IQ and EQ, but he is unwilling to show it.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Houzhao was not sure that he would really subdue these two people, so he could only take one step at a time, after all, what happened to Moshanlin before was still in front of him.

The whereabouts of more than 10,000 Huizhou defenders were arranged, and after seeing them leave, Zhu Houzhao gave an order to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang troops who had already rested.

At this time, they were already in Hebei, not far from the capital, but Zhu Houzhao did not have a general election, and now he went straight to the capital to give the little prince who was still storming Kyoto a backyard to blossom.

"Tongzhou!" Zhu Houzhao pointed to a point on the map and said: "At this time, Zhili has become a pot of porridge, and we are not sure whether Tongzhou is still in the hands of our own people, but we must go to this place, and we must defend it no matter what!" ”

Tongzhou is the northernmost point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it can be said that the Tongzhou Wharf is the most important place in the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, as long as Zhu Houzhao firmly occupies Tongzhou, their supplies can be continuously transported from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

However, Zhu Houzhao was obviously much luckier, if he had appeared in Zhili ten days earlier, the Tatar iron horsemen who were everywhere would definitely trample his 10,000 horses into pulp.

However, because the Ming army, including the defenders of Shanhaiguan, was cleaned up by the Tatars in this short period of time, the Qinwang army in Jinan Mansion, Daimyofu and other places has become a group of stragglers who have lost their armor and lost their armor, which is not enough to worry about the little prince, so basically the Tatar iron cavalry with big heads are moving closer to Datong Mansion.

Because of this, Zhu Houzhao did not encounter large-scale Tatar cavalry when he led the army towards Tongzhou Mansion, and even occasionally hundreds of enemy troops would be wiped out by the defenders of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who had experienced a major battle, and none of them escaped.

After three consecutive days of marching, after several skirmishes, the city of Tongzhou was close at hand.

However, it is a pity that this inland port, which has always been rich in things, has obviously been abandoned at this time, and there are countless decomposed corpses along the road, along the road to the Tongzhou City Gate, except for the corpses, half-dead homeless people are like savages and even eats meat everywhere.

Among them, Zhu Houzhao didn't want to talk about it, and he didn't want to mention it.

Wild dogs are infested and howling like wolves, and no one collects the bones for hundreds of miles.

Tongzhou City has become a dead city.

After easily killing the Tatar rangers wandering in the city, Zhu Houzhao, in anger, cut off all the heads of these people, and piled up a hungry Jingguan more than one person high at the gate of Tongzhou City.

Looking at this pile of dead heads, the anger in Zhu Houzhao's heart still couldn't be calmed.

"When will the supplies arrive?" Cutting off the last Tatar dog's head with his own hands, Zhu Houzhao asked coldly after kicking the bloody dog's head aside.

"Back to my lord, there is news from Jinyiwei that the ship transporting supplies has crossed the Yellow River, and it will be able to reach Tongzhou Wharf in three days at most!"

"It's too slow, tomorrow at ten o'clock in the evening, I must see the supply ships appear at the Tongzhou dock!" After leaving this sentence, Zhu Houzhao went back to the room, he had to rest well, there were nearly 40,000 Tatar troops in the capital, snakes swallowed elephants, and if they were not careful, they would be strangled to death.

Wang Shouren was already at the end of his crossbow, and he had been rooted in the city wall for seven consecutive days without sleep, and he was beaten with iron, and he also had a rusty feeling.

The original five military battalions of the Shenji Battalion have almost been completely wiped out, and Zhang Yi, the commander of the Shenji Battalion who was created before, had to put on armor again and take the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion with less than 1,000 people to make a final fight.

The Fifth Army Battalion was equally miserable, with less than 10,000 men and horses now numbering less than 10,000 men, and a terrible 60 percent attrition.

If it weren't for the forcible requisition of tens of thousands of slaves, I am afraid that Beijing would have been destroyed a few days ago.

The little prince is also a little anxious now, at this time, the Tatar army that entered the pass has reached 150,000, and such a huge army can be regarded as his entire family.

He really didn't expect that the Ming army in the capital could be guarded for so long, although his army had suffered only thousands of casualties during this time, but it had never been able to successfully climb the city wall, which couldn't help but make the little prince's heart not feel angry.

"We won't be on guard for long!" Zhang Yi wore armor with a few arrows hanging on it and fought beside Wang Shouren, smiled bitterly and said: "If it wasn't for the emperor who gave me instructions on how to train soldiers, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to hold on for a long time!" ”

Wang Shouren's eyes were bloodshot, he looked at Zhang Yi with a smile, and said: "Admiral Zhang, your three major battalions have made great contributions in this battle, I'm afraid that all the Zhu Zi nobles in the capital will be impressed by you in the future!" ”

Zhang Yi shook the steel knife in his hand full of chips, and found that it was useless. Picking it up from the ground again, he looked at the Tatar army that attacked again under the city wall, and sneered: "Let's talk about it after the battle!" ”