Just when the Ming Air Force showed its might and quickly recovered the fifteen countries of the Western Regions, Shenyang Zhongwei, who was far away in the Liaodong region, came with the news of Li Dingguo: Mao Yansen, the commander of the Left Guard Army of the Later Ming regime, agreed to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, and promised to cover the entry of the Ming army and attack the Choibalshan area by Dodger. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Choibalshan was a large gathering place of local tribes in the Hulunbuir steppe, and is now the temporary administrative center of the Manchu regime.

Once the Ming army's surprise attack was successful, it could wipe out the Manchu royal families such as Shunzhi and Xiaozhuang, and if it was done properly, it might even make the Manchus withdraw from the political arena in advance.

And the so-called Left Guard Army of the Later Ming regime was adapted from the original Duoyan City Guard, and the commander was Mao Yansen, who had let go of Xue Zhen and other special forces before, and sent people to show favor to the Ming Dynasty in time.

After Xiaozhuang used the strategy to unify the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty, he did not rush to merge the Later Ming regime, but recognized its independence and let it act as a buffer zone between the Manchus and the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Later Ming Dynasty seems to be a government governed by the Han people, neither its master nor its actual leader, Helian (Zhu Yousong's wife), has anything to do with the Han people.

In addition, in order to conquer Mongolia, the Manchu Qing Dynasty wantonly exploited the Later Ming regime, and the cavalry unit of the 2,000-strong Later Ming Left Guard Army, now all the war horses add up to less than 50 horses, what kind of cavalry is this?

Mao Yansen knew that the Later Ming regime would not last long, so he secretly sent his henchmen to frequently contact the guards of the Ming border and inform all the actions of the Later Ming regime at any time.

After Li Dingguo entered the Northeast, he immediately targeted Mao Yansen.

According to the information provided by the other party, the so-called Later Ming regime, except for the military, was completely controlled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was almost impossible to get it to quietly switch to the Ming Dynasty.

The only one who could do it was Mao Yansen's Left Guard.

Originally, even if the Left Guard Army was co-opted and the plan to attack the Manchu base camp was only one-third, the success rate was only one-third.

Although the Manchus recognized the independence of the Later Ming regime, they also strengthened their supervision over it, and sent some of the soldiers of the Han Eight Banners who participated in the Battle of Siberia to join the Later Ming regime, expanding the total strength of the other side from more than 3,000 to more than 6,000.

That is to say, in addition to Mao Yansen's 2,000 Left Guards, the other 2,000 City Guards and 2,000 Imperial Forest Guards all belong to the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Helian Clan, and it is almost impossible to win them over.

And Mao Yansen's troops, because they were difficult to control, were directly found a reason by the Helian clan and transferred them to the Hazaren region further north to guard (later Heihe City).

It is a pity that the wise man must make a mistake, despite the various calculations and layouts of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but they ignored an important thing, the Ming army could not only attack Choibalsan from the land, but also be able to take the waterway and reach the Choibalsan area.

Both: From the Tatar Strait (later called the Whale Sea in China, the East China Sea in Korea, and the Sea of Japan in Japan, located between Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok) to the north, take the Trynwei (later Russian Temple Street Port) under the jurisdiction of the Nuer Gandu Division, and enter the Heilongjiang River.

Because this area was basically uninhabited, the Manchus did not have much control over this area, and after arriving in the Hazaren region (Heihe) from Heilongjiang, almost all of them were in the area controlled by Mao Yansen.

Therefore, as long as the Ming army sailors marched west along the Heilongjiang River, diverted south from the Erguna River, and finally passed through the Hailar River, they could reach the Choibalshan area where Hulunbuir was located.

Although it seems to spare a lot of circles, the speed of the Daming Shui Division is not much slower than that of the cavalry, as long as it successfully reaches the Hazaren area where Mao Yansen is located, and is not discovered by the Manchus, then it will only take five days at most to enter Choibalshan.

At this time, even if the Manchus reacted and wanted to evacuate safely, or send troops back for reinforcements, it would be too late in time.

What's more, it was the marines of the Beiyang Naval Division who participated in this operation, and the Ming Army did not draw many troops, even if the surprise attack failed, there was no need to worry about the defense of the Liaodong region.

Li Dingguo could completely let go of his hands and hands and leave this operation to the Beiyang Naval Division led by Shi Lang.........

Due to the shallow waterline in some areas of the inland river, it was difficult for large warships to pass through, so the Beiyang Naval Division had no choice but to mobilize a large number of river defense gunboats from China to form an escort team, and recruited more than 300 steam passenger ships that had been converted by the people.

Coupled with the small and medium-sized troop carriers prepared by the Beiyang Naval Division, it is no problem to transport 30,000 soldiers at a time.

Nearly 800 steamers of all kinds are lined up on the river, stretching for more than 10 kilometers from end to end, and it is difficult not to be discovered.

At least the fishermen who fished along the river, as well as the hunters who hunted in the forest, discovered the anomaly on the Heilongjiang River the day after the Beiyang Sailors entered the Nuer Gandu Division, and reported it to the local government in time.

It's a pity not to mention that the speed of war horses in the forest with complex terrain is not the opponent of steamships sailing along the river, even if the local officials can report the abnormality here, but the supreme military commander in charge of this area, Mao Yansen, the commander of the Left Guard, has secretly defected to the Ming Dynasty, and any news about the Beiyang Naval Division will be directly sunk into the sea after reporting to him.

Even the top local governor is not in a hurry, and they have nothing to worry about, life is still the same, the Daming Sailor did not provoke them, and they are simply happy.

So, in this wonderful atmosphere, after entering the Tatar Strait, the Beiyang naval division went all the way unimpeded, and ten days later, it successfully arrived in the Hazaren area where Mao Yansen was located, and sent 2,000 marines to land to absorb Mao Yansen's Left Guard.

After Shi Lang's main fleet replenished some of the food supplies here, it continued to sail along the Heilongjiang River to the Manchu Laochao and Choibalshan area.

Thanks to the cooperation of the 300,000 troops of the Ming army into Mongolia, all the energy of the Manchu Qing and Tsarist Russia at this time was spent on how to deal with the Ming army in Mongolia.

However, sometimes, it is really not as good as the sky, the Ming army in order to defeat the Manchu Qing as soon as possible, took a wonderful move, the Manchu Qing was also not to be outdone, and directly gave the Ming army a draw from the bottom of the kettle..........

Just when Shi Lang led the fleet to the Hazaren area, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army also made a big move, gathering a full 100,000 troops, as well as more than 600 large and small artillery, avoiding the main force of the Ming army in the northwest region, making a detour through the desert, and suddenly appeared outside the Jiayu Pass of the Ming Dynasty.

The southeast of Juyong Pass is less than 100 miles away from Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, if Juyong Pass is breached, with the speed of the cavalry of the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, go south at full speed, it only takes two hours, you can reach the outside of Beijing.

At this time, in addition to the 20,000 troops stationed in Zhangjiakou, there was only one full-fledged instructor left under Qi Hongying in Beijing.

Of course, at the Juyong Pass, there is also a division to guard it.

According to Stilwell's thinking, even if the Qing army went south, it should be the first to break through Zhangjiakou and then enter Juyong Pass, because Zhangjiakou is not far from Juyong Pass, and it is in the northwest of Juyong Pass.

Although there is a small road between Juyong Pass and Zhangjiakou that can be directly avoided, if the Russian-Manchurian coalition forces cannot take Juyong Pass and enter the pass within a day, then the defenders of Zhangjiakou can rush back to help and plug this gap by taking advantage of the situation, so that the Russian-Manchurian coalition forces that will invade in the future are blocked in this narrow path to achieve the effect of completely annihilating the enemy.

In the final analysis, this trail seems to be a shortcut, but it is actually a trap, and most of the foreign enemies who have come to invade Juyong Pass in the past have folded here.

Therefore, when Qi Zhifeng was arranging the troops, he still left this gap as always.

It's a pity that the Qing army has been in Beijing for a year or two, and it was even able to withdraw from here smoothly, so the understanding of the terrain near Juyong Pass is not much worse than that of the Ming army.

If it is 350,000 cavalry troops, it is really impossible to break through in a short time, but what if it is tens of thousands of firearms soldiers, plus 5 or 600 artillery pieces?

The Ming Dynasty had spies on the Manchu side, and the Manchus also planted eyeliner near the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

After learning that there were only 10,000 defenders in Juyong Pass, and that there were only some auxiliary troops in the capital of the Ming Dynasty (the instructor was a top secret, and it was difficult for the Qing army to explore), he decisively ordered to give it a go, and before the Ming army reacted, he took Juyong Pass in one go and occupied the capital again.

Although in the eyes of the Qing army, it is completely useless to take a capital without many defenders, after all, once the Ming army reacts, transfers Shanhaiguan and Zhangjiakou, and even transports it from Tianjin to the marines, it will definitely be able to recapture Beijing in a short period of time, and deal a heavy blow to the Russian-Manchurian coalition army that attacked this time.

But the Tsarist Russians did not think so, and Tsarist Russia, which was influenced by European thought, felt that both sides were at war, and as long as one of the countries was occupied, it would mean defeat, even if there were not many enemies eliminated, but the significance of the representation was more shocking than several wars of annihilation.

As long as the capital is captured, the Russian-Manchurian coalition can use this to blackmail the Ming Dynasty and force the other side to recognize the Russian-Manchurian coalition's right to occupy the Mongolian region, withdraw troops from Mongolia, and compensate a large amount of war funds in exchange for the Beijing occupied by the Russian-Manchurian coalition army...........

Well, Tsarist Russia regards itself as a victorious country, but unfortunately, not to mention whether the other party can capture Beijing City, even if it really occupies this place, but now Li Hongfei, who has the decisive right to speak in the Ming Dynasty, is still at ease in the northwest region!

If the Russian-Manchurian coalition really dares to put forward such conditions, it is estimated that their good days will come to an end, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely raise the strength of the whole country (now only the important towns of the nine borders have been mobilized, as well as the war potential of the Central Plains), to the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, and even to recover today's humiliation with interest.

Of course, these are all later words, and it is not yet known whether the Russian-Manchurian coalition forces can break through the Juyong Pass, but just the fact that the soldiers are approaching the Juyong Pass is enough to make the Ming Dynasty nervous.

The closest reinforcement to the capital is the marines of the Beiyang Naval Division, which can reach Beijing in a few hours by train from Tianjin, but unfortunately, at this time, Shi Lang has already led all the marines into the Heilongjiang area.

The Ming Dynasty carried out a sneak attack behind enemy lines, and as a result, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army also came to this hand, and it has to be said that after several similar defeats, the tactics of the Qing army became more and more flexible.

The Marines could not reach it, so there were only 20,000 field troops at Shanhaiguan, but even if they were fast enough, it would be three days before they arrived in Beijing.

With the momentum of the Russian-Manchurian coalition army's trip, can Juyongguan really hold out for three days?

"The training instructor goes up, no matter what, it has to withstand three days, only in this way can reinforcements from all over the country arrive as soon as possible." Qi Hongying proposed.

Due to the Ming army's attack on Mongolia, most of the field armies in the nine border towns were transferred, and the current national defense force in the capital only has 5,000 field troops who have just been converted from the second-line troops, as well as Qi Hongying's instructor.

In addition, Defense Minister Li Dingguo and Prime Minister Li Hongfei are not in the capital, and the only military officer who can call the shots is Qi Hongying (Stilwell has been stationed on the front line of Juyong Pass).

"But........ Once the training instructor goes to the front line, the capital will be completely defenseless! Shi Kefa worried.

Although he has long been out of charge of military affairs, he has been the commander of an army of more than 100,000 people before, and this basic military common sense is still there.

Although there are still 5,000 temporarily promoted field troops in the capital, these people have not even implemented the most basic individual equipment, and they are still using front-loading flintlock pistols, and when they really fight, they are basically the same as the Qing army's current firearms units in terms of individual equipment, and as for heavy firepower, it is more than one grade behind.

If Juyong Pass is lost, Beijing can indeed be regarded as an undefended city.

"10,000 well-equipped instructors, in the face of 100,000 Russian-Manchurian coalition troops, how long do you think you can hold out in the huge city of Beijing?" Qi Hongying asked rhetorically.

Indeed, Beijing is now a super metropolis that can accommodate more than one million people, and with 10,000 troops scattered into it, it is estimated that not even a bubble will be inflated.

The Russian-Manchurian coalition army has a full 100,000 people, once the troops are divided to attack, in any place, they can form an absolute number of suppression of the instructor, as long as any location is breached, then the capital is taken, it is only a matter of time.

Moreover, most of the units with pure firearms are regimental units, so that they can cooperate with each other and give full play to their strongest combat effectiveness.

Once dispersed, artillery and all kinds of heavy weapons will not be able to form a cluster power at all, and the defensive and offensive effects will be greatly reduced.

"Defending the capital, it is difficult to give full play to the full strength of the instructor, but in Juyong Pass, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army can attack a limited target, if you really have to resist hard, you may not be able to hold on for three days, this is our only chance!" Qi Hongying analyzed.

A qualified commander, at the moment of crisis, must know how to make trade-offs, although Beijing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but Juyong Pass is the last barrier of this national capital, once Juyong Pass is lost, even if Qi Hongying is given 10,000 people, it may not be able to hold the entire Beijing.

Of course, it is possible to abandon the periphery and stick to the Forbidden City.

It's just that Qi Hongying can really do this?

Since its establishment, the National Defense Force has never lost an inch of land in the area under its jurisdiction, let alone the important checkpoint of Juyong Pass.

If you can't even protect the common people, what face do you have to call yourself a national defense force.

If she can only retreat to Beijing in the end, then Qi Hongying would rather die in battle than give up any inch of land in Beijing..........