The news of no reinforcements was deliberately blocked by Zhu Houzhao and others. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

No one knows what the millions of people in the capital will do when they hear the news. Will you defend the city to the death or will you scatter in a hurry?

In the past two days, a steady stream of Tatar cavalry has rushed back from the direction of Datong, and there are about 20,000 horses before and after, and as for how many will continue to press the capital after that, no one in the know wants to think about it, and no one dares to think about it.

Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath and said, "Immediately organize people and horses to lead the people from the outer city to the inner city." Gather all the people in the city who dare to fight, and start training immediately! ”

"Is it too late?" Many people immediately expressed doubts that recruits would have to train for at least three months before they could achieve combat effectiveness!

"If you can hold on for one more day, you can hold on for one more day, fighting a war depends on details, and victory depends on the accumulation of bits and pieces." Zhu Houzhao suddenly laughed.

In ordinary cold-weapon combat, a veteran of a hundred battles is indeed worthy of a new soldier's egg, but his army of Zhu Houzhao is not just a cold-weapon army.

The soldiers in his mind are all characters in the death squad, and they can afford to play with firearms, and it is impossible to put down cold weapons, after all, double cultivation is the last word.

Under such a disadvantage, Zhu Houzhao still did not give up, as long as Jiangnan is well, he Zhu Houzhao is still there, and the Ming Dynasty will not die!

is so confident, God has left a glimmer of life for Lao Tzu, why can you be a mere chief on the grassland to drive Lao Tzu to death?

The final war finally came, and after the little prince gathered nearly 100,000 troops, the tragic siege battle began in Xicheng.

In addition to the manpower necessary for the defense of various places in the capital, all the 8,000 Jiangsu and Zhejiang soldiers under Zhu Houzhao were mobilized in Xicheng.

The entire Xicheng has been set up by Zhu Houzhao as a military stronghold, and no idle people can approach it.

With so many ammunition put together, it is not child's play to be targeted by people with intentions, not to mention that the 8,000 defenders will be wiped out, and even whether Xicheng can still exist is a question.

The 3,000 battalions that Wang Shouren had deliberately not consumed finally came in handy at this time.

Day and night, he did the work of the transport team.

Speaking of which, I have to thank Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty for his foresight.

He was haunted by Emperor Taizu's rescue of the imperial grandson Zhu Yunwen and left a secret passage. So he learned from the same, and in order to leave a glimmer of life for his children and grandchildren, he also built a secret passage in the imperial city.

Zhu Houzhao made a special trip to see it when he was a child, and it was enough for two horses to run side by side to a mountain villa twenty miles outside the city, which was not within the warning range of the Tatars at all.

Therefore, it is said that heaven is not as good as man, it is all chance.

But it's all a drop in the bucket. I don't know where I learned it, but this group of steppe barbarians who can't dismount to fight actually learned to play siege equipment.

The siege battle on the first day was still in order, the two sides came and went, the Tatars climbed up like ants, and the Ming army on the tower stabbed down with spears. Unless somewhere when the city wall is tight, Zhu Houzhao allows the latte and cucumber to clean up.

But from the next day, a roar began to be heard from the direction of the Tatar army. Listening to the sound and even looking at it to know that it is artillery.

Zhu Houzhao's position was firmly hit by a few shots

, but it's all live ammunition, unless it's a direct hit, it's just a sound.

The Tatar commanders quickly recognized this problem, and their artillery no longer beckoned to the towers, but aimed at the gates.

Iron eggs can also hit stones, and gravel flies, not to mention the wooden door, and soon the gate is full of holes under the bombardment of cannonballs.

However, Zhu Houzhao had already prepared, and after discovering that the Tatars had artillery, he ordered his soldiers to block the hole in the city gate with large stones and earth.

Fuck you, you want to enter the city of Beijing, unless you gnaw the city walls.

All the Ming sergeants had such a mind, and they fought very the city tower.

The Tatar artillery was clearly outdated, firing no more than two hundred paces.

Unfortunately, this distance happens to be the limit kill distance of the Great Ming Bird Gun. Therefore, for a long time, the Tatar gunner became a more dangerous profession than the soldiers who were attached to the city.

If this style of fighting is followed, it is estimated that this battle will not be fruitful for ten years.

For the Tatars, Beijing is obviously much warmer than their grasslands, and there are food and beautiful women, and they will not get tired of grabbing it here for ten years.

But for Zhu Houzhao, the siege of the Tatars was not a good thing.

During the Ming Dynasty, the population of the entire city of Beijing was about 300,000, including the entire population of Cheng and Guo.

In other words, not counting the people in the outer city, there are still hundreds of thousands of people waiting for Zhu Houzhao to find them something to eat.

When water is not an issue, food becomes a huge problem.

Although there is grain in the capital. But it can only support half a year, and if you want more, you can only go to the surrounding granaries to transport. But these granaries are probably already in the hands of the Tatars.

In other words, if the Tatars were determined to besiege Zhu Houzhao, they would only need to wait another month or two to starve everyone in Beijing to death!

Seeing that the days are passing day by day, the people on both sides don't do much in the cold winter, and it's good to bask in the sun on a cold day.

But Zhu Houzhao can't afford it, he doesn't want to eat human flesh.

"It seems that Datong's reinforcements will not come!" Zhu Houzhao rubbed his frozen and stiff hands, and said to several generals around him: "It's not a way to go on like this, now our people are hundreds of thousands of obedient sheep, once they have nothing to eat, they will become hungry wolves who eat people in just three days!"

We've got to get out of town and fight! ”

"Your Majesty, there are 100,000 Tatar wolves riding outside, and even if we all go out, it won't be enough for them to stuff their teeth. Today's plan is only to resist the city and fight, wait for the soldiers of King Qin of Jiangnan, and then make a final decision on both sides. Wang Shouren did not agree with the idea of Zhu Shou, the chief military officer.

Zhu Houzhao shook his head and said, "Bo'an, you have been to the south. How many soldiers do you think it takes for those soldiers in the garrison to defeat the 100,000 enemy troops outside the city? ”

Wang Shouren shook his head bitterly, he had trained soldiers in Jiangnan, unless there were tens of thousands of soldiers like the new army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there must be a general who could accurately dispatch, otherwise it would be useless to have more people.

The more than 100,000 displaced people who died outside the south gate are the best proof of this, and you must know that there were only 40,000 Tatars behind them at that time.

"Alright, that's it!" Zhu Houzhao quickly patted the board: "Two days later, I will personally lead 5,000 new troops out of the city!" ”

"Never, the emperor has to think twice!" Hearing Zhu Houzhao say this, everyone knelt down in fright.

The son of a daughter can't sit down, let alone the king of a country?

Zhu Houzhao seemed to be the king of the scales, she waved her hand and said, "Only in this way can we have a chance." ”

"Your Majesty. We can share your worries, and we are willing to go to war! ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head.

Only I, Zhu Houzhao, will do it myself, and his little prince of Tatar will crawl out of that damned tent and come under our city gates.