The fat army's partial division Gao Dejie's team is mostly cavalry, and the mobility on the North China Plain is stronger than the main force of the fat army led by Lu Fatzi himself, and at the same time compete for the glory of first hitting the capital of Yanjing City, Gao Dejie's team up and down is holding back the fierce punch, and the speed of advancement is more than the main force of the fat army, and the main force of the ninth fat army has just broken through Nanpi and advanced to Cangzhou in early June, and Gao Dejie's team has hit Zhengding City. [No pop-up novel network]

The fat army is in the city, and there are only more than 1,000 local township soldiers in the hands of the Zhengding prefect who knows that he is not an opponent, and he honestly surrenders to the city, and the Gao Dejie army is stationed in Zhengding, and the forward team is rapidly advancing towards Dingzhou, Dingzhou prefect Chang Wenkui is a man of the blue flag of the Han Dynasty in Mite Prefecture, and has always been known for his greed and violence, and has a very bad reputation among the people, and knows that the fat army cannot forgive him, and I heard that the old witch of Xiaozhuang has run away with Kang Mazi, so Chang Wenkui did not hesitate, and fled to Liaodong with gold, silver, jewelry, and his wife and children early, Gao Dejie's army effortlessly took the small city of Dingzhou and continued to advance to Baoding, the provincial capital of Zhili. At the same time, the main force of the Fat Army led by Lu Fatzi had just arrived in Cangzhou, and it was more than a hundred miles behind Gao Dejie's army in Yanjing.

However, this is the end of it, by the crow of the fat man, all the way forward, the momentum of the high Jiejie army, in Baoding City, which is greater than Jackie Chan's defense, encountered the most fierce resistance since the Northern Expedition of the Fat Army, Yu Chenglong, who has always been known for his foolish loyalty, not only refused the surrender of Gao Qi, the striker of the Fat Army, but also carried the coffin on the city wall of Baoding, and personally led more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers and 4,000 villagers in Baoding City to desperately resist the siege of the Fat Army. Most of the more than 100,000 people in Baoding City went to the city to help the battle, and used all kinds of weapons to desperately repel the two sieges of Gao Qi's 5,000 forwards.

After two sieges, Gao Qi's team, which suffered heavy casualties, had to stop, wait for the brigade led by Gao Dejie to arrive with siege artillery, and then use regular siege tactics to join forces with the main force of Gao Dejie's army to attack Baoding Fucheng. At the same time, the Fat Army led by Lu Fatzi surrendered the small town of Cangzhou without blood, and continued to advance unhurriedly towards Jinghai County.

There is no Tianjin Mansion in the Mazi Dynasty, there is only one Tianjin Guard, set up the Tianjin General Army to lead the army to garrison, the notorious Han Dynasty Zhao Liangdong and Liu Guoxuan after the surrender of the Qing Dynasty have held this position, the current Tianjin General Soldier is called Li Zhending, and he is also a Han Jianzheng Blue Banner person, with about four or five thousand Han Annihilation Green Battalion soldiers in his hands, stationed in Jinghai, Tanggu and Tianjin Acropolis and other places, at the same time, because Tianjin Wei needs to consolidate the defense of Gyeonggi, the fortifications of the city are quite complete and solid, if the city is defended, it can indeed create some trouble for the fat armyIn addition to sending a large number of scouts to closely reconnoiter every move of the Qing army in Tianjin, he also sent envoys to the Tianjin Acropolis with heavy gifts to surrender, striving to take down Li Zhending's team by means of appeasement.

To Lu Fatzi's surprise, it didn't take long for the scout to bring the news, saying that Li Zhending's army had abandoned the relatively well-fortified Tianjin Zhucheng, and all of them had withdrawn to Yanjing, taking away all the grain, grass and weapons that could be taken away, and also taking away a large number of middle-aged people, and the current Tianjin Weizhucheng is basically an empty city. After hearing these news, Lu Fatzi's heart inevitably sank, and Yao Qisheng, who was on the side of the expedition, also immediately warned: "Lord Wang, this siege battle in Yanjing is not as easy as imagined, and our army is only afraid that we have to be mentally prepared for a long-term hard battle." ”

Lu Fatzi nodded slowly, and felt the same as Yao Qisheng's warning, since the left-behind Jieshu decisively gave up the Tianjin Acropolis, he would definitely give up the small cities around Yanjing, and concentrate all the small cities around Yanjing to resist stubbornly, and strive to delay time as much as possible, while his main force was two thousand miles deep, and there was almost no food to cover the new area, and the logistics burden was extremely heavy. capsized in the gutter and tasted the first defeat in his life.

After carefully thinking for a long time, in addition to ordering the army to continue to drive and take over the cities of Tianjin, Lu Fatzi separately called Mao Yougui, the deputy general of the sailor division who led the fleet to escort the grain and grass, and instructed him: "General Mao, from now on, in addition to carrying grain and grass, your fleet must also cut down the timber on both sides of the canal that can be used to build siege weapons and load it on ships, and send it to Yanjing together. ”

"Chopping wood?" Mao Yougui was stunned and hurriedly asked: "Dare to ask the prince, why do you want to cut wood?" ”

"You haven't been to Yanjing, so you don't know the situation around Yanjing." Lu Fatzi casually explained: "Because of the massive population growth and land development, there are no suitable tall trees around Yanjing City, and the timber used is basically transported from the south by the canal, hoarded at the Tongzhou wharf to sell in the capital, and now the Mangou Wang Yejieshu has determined to defend Yanjing, and will definitely not leave the timber on the Tongzhou wharf to us, if we don't prepare in advance, wait until we get to the bottom of Yanjing City and then look for trees to cut down, it will be too late." ”

"Understood." Mao Yougui suddenly realized, and hurriedly patted his ass and said: "The prince is still thoughtful, there are dozens of grain ships in the team, please give the general some manpower, and the last general will keep these dozens of ships full of wood and send them to Yanjing." ”

"Give you 3,000 infantry to choose from among the new troops." Lu Fatzi casually ordered again, Mao Yougui agreed, took Lu Fatzi's order and hurried away. Lu Fatzi called Xiao Erlang in front of him again and instructed: "Erlang, arrange for people to send orders to all armies, from now on, our army is only allowed to drink boiled water, not raw water, arrange special people to boil water and deliver water, and try to prevent water and soil adaptation." Xiao Erlang agreed, and he also hurriedly went down to arrange the herald.

In order to defend Yanjing as much as possible and wait for a turnaround, Jie Shu not only ordered to burn all the timber that could not be taken away from the dock in Tongzhou, but also burned the entire Tongzhou City to ashes, and did not even leave a safe grain storage land for Lu Fatzi. At the same time, Jieshu also set fire to the two county towns of Daxing and Wanping next to Yanjing City, and also moved all the prime-aged people of these two counties into Yanjing, and enlisted in the army together with the middle-aged men and women in Yanjing City, forming a militia volunteer division of about 80,000.

In order to let these militiamen help the Eight Banners of the Mites to defend Yanjing, in addition to following Tuhai's example to spread rumors that the Fat Army was going to slaughter the city after breaking the city, Jie Shu also made a vow to these militiamen, promising countless benefits that even Jie Shu himself did not dare to imagine, and encouraged these people who could not even be equipped with weapons to charge into battle for the Qing Dynasty and resist the siege of the Fat Army.

In addition, Jie Shu expelled the old and weak women and children who were destined to waste food as much as possible, and transferred all the green battalion soldiers, Xiangyong and various auxiliary troops that could be mobilized around Yanjing back to Yanjing, plus the Fengtai garrison and Miyun garrison left by the old witch of Xiaozhuang, as well as the servants and powerful domestic slaves of the major yamen in Yanjing City, and put together nearly 40,000 regular troops - the regular army referred to here is actually a regular army that can barely be equipped with military weapons such as bows, arrows, knives and guns, and seriously lacks combat experience. Morale is also very low.

Fortunately, Jieshu also has two major reliance, one is to rely on Yu Chengchan to kowtow everywhere in the prefectures and capitals of Zhili to borrow food from the people, the grain and grass in Yanjing City can support at least three months, and the saving point can be used for more than four months; The second is that the city of Yanjing is quite strong, the shortest part of the city wall of the inner nine cities is also four zhang, the widest part of the moat is up to 20 zhang, the narrowest place is also ten zhang, more than one zhang deep, each city gate has an inner urn city, the enemy platform on the city wall is as many as one hundred and seventy-two, and a large number of arrow towers are built, each corner is built with a corner tower to enhance the corner defense, in addition, outside each city gate there is a big enemy platform, up and down with rope ladders, there is food and water hidden on the platform to let the defenders hold on for a long time, shoot the siege soldiers from behind with bows and arrows, and the fortifications are perfect, It is better than Nanjing.

As for the hardness of the Yanjing city wall, Liang Qichao's son has made it very clear when he opposed the demolition of the Yanjing city wall, the city wall bricks that are as strong as bluestone are sandwiched with rammed earth, and the rammed earth is mixed with special materials, and after hundreds of years, it has been as strong as concrete, which happens to be the nemesis of the fat army's heavy artillery. At the same time, he learned the lesson of the Fat Army's explosives to blow up the door, and Jieshu also prepared a large number of bricks, soil and stones, which can block all the city gates at any time, and the Fat Army will not be able to attack the city even if the city gate is blown up. It is precisely by relying on these two great reliance that Jieshu, who has been wiped out in front of Lu Fatzi twice, is once again full of confidence, ready to teach Lu Fatzi a lesson under Yanjing City, and snow the shame of the year.

On June 29, the main force of the Fat Army, which was like a bamboo, finally arrived at the Tongzhou Wharf under the personal leadership of Lu Fatzi, and set up a large camp outside the city of Tongzhou, which was already in ruins, and began to build a large number of various siege weapons, as well as build a grain warehouse, and prepare for a long-term hard battle.

At the same time, after 12 days of arduous fighting and consuming a large amount of artillery ammunition, the Fat Army led by Gao Dejie finally broke through the city of Baoding and captured Jackie Chan, who was already wounded. However, the result was just as Lu Fatzi expected, Yu Chenglong really categorically refused Gao Dejie's surrender, Gao Dejie according to Lu Fatzi's instructions, allowed Yu Jackie Chan to kneel to the northeast and die, and gave him a coffin to be buried, and at the same time buried more than 300 people under Jackie Chan's deputy to defend the city, Baoding General Soldier Wang Yuan, and their families were also executed together, avenging the more than 4,000 fat soldiers who died during the attack on Baoding.

The camp was settled, and Lu Fatzi had to lead Yao Qisheng and other dog-headed military divisions and an elite army to Yanjing City to observe the defense of Yanjing City and look for tactics to break the city. After eight years and six months, he returned to Yanjing City again, looking at the tall and gray city wall of the capital standing in the distance, Lu Fatzi was so excited that his heart was beating again, he couldn't help but strangle his war horse, and sighed to the sky: "Yanjing, I am finally back again, and the oath I made outside Yanjing City back then is finally about to come true." ”

"The prince's oath back then?" Yao Qisheng, Zhu Fangdan and the others next to him were all in the same place, and they couldn't help but ask curiously together: "Lord Wang, what oath did you make outside Yanjing City back then?" ”

"The ...... of the sixth year of the lunar month of the full dog Kang Mazi seems to be the eighteenth lunar month." Lu Fatzi recalled the past and said: "I led Erlang and them to Yanjing City for the first time, and they also took the road of Chaoyangmen, when I saw the wall of Yanjing City for the first time, I once quietly swore that one day I must personally lead the army to break through this Yanjing City, kill all the dirty dogs entrenched in our Huaxia capital, and drive them all back to their Tunguska hometown!" Eight and a half years have passed, and I have finally fulfilled my wish! (See Chapter 44 of this book) "I am finally about to fulfill my wish!" Fat Lu waved his right hand, closed his eyes and looked up to the sky, and said with emotion: "Eight and a half years of hardship, eight and a half years of hard work, I finally see the reward." ”

"I remember, I remember." Xiao Erlang shouted, "I also remember that when I was outside Yanjing City, my biggest wish was for the young master to become the prefect of Yanjing City, Liu Zhen and I followed the young master to pay respect, and I didn't expect to come back to Yanjing City after eight and a half years, and the young master was already a prince." ”

"I remember too." Zhu Fangdan also sighed: "The first time I met the prince, it was in a wine shop on Qianmen Street in Yanjing City, I was still ...... at the time, I just didn't know if the restaurant was still there, if it was still there, I really wanted to go to the palace with the prince to have a few more drinks." ”

"If that restaurant is still there, when Yanjing City is breached, this king will definitely go with you to have a few drinks." Fat Lu said brightly: "This time, let's take down that restaurant and drink a good one!" ”

Zhu Fangdan applauded loudly, but Yao Qisheng, Huang Ji and others on the side were extremely surprised, saying that they couldn't imagine that Lu Fatzi had been holding back to Yanjing City eight and a half years ago, and as a result, Lu Fatzi realized this wish. Secretly admiring the forbearance of the fat man, Yao Qisheng smiled and said: "Lord Wang, Doctor Zhu, if you want to sigh, let's wait until we enter Yanjing City, it's not early, we have to hurry up and inspect the defense of Yanjing City, otherwise it will be too late." ”

In fact, the so-called patrol of the city is to roughly observe the garrison of Yanjing City, the general situation of Yanjing City, eight and a half years ago, Lu Fatzi has already felt it clearly, the wall of Yanjing City is in the shape of "product", the south is wide and the north is narrow, the north is the inner city, which is entrenched by mites, there are nine gates, the middle of the inner city is the imperial city, the middle of the imperial city is the Forbidden City, the south is the outer city, and all the people who live are Han civilians. There is also a moat between the outer city and the inner city, even if the outer city is broken, the inner city still has to be attacked, and the innocent Han people will be affected in the siege battle, so the best choice for the fat army to attack the city can only be the six gates of the inner city without the outer city, Chaoyang Gate, Dongzhi Gate, Anding Gate, Desheng Gate, Xizhi Gate and Fucheng Gate, as long as any of these six city gates are broken, the main force of the fat army can enter the inner city entrenched by dogs, and realize Lu Fatzi's oath to recapture Yanjing.

Of course, Jie Shu, who had gradually accumulated a lot of battlefield experience, also expected that Lu Fatzi would choose these six city gates to attack, so most of the defenders' forces were arranged on these six city gates, and they were very tightly guarded.

In the eyes of the people of the Yanjing defenders in fear and hatred, Lu Fatzi rode a horse around Yanjing City for a small half circle, quickly reined in the war horse, pointed to the way and said: "No need to inspect, the breakthrough point of the siege is Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate, and the main attack is Chaoyang Gate." ”

"Lord Wang, these two city gates are very well guarded, let's take a look at them." Yao Qisheng kindly persuaded: "Also, Chaoyangmen is close to the canal wharf, which is not conducive to the deployment of our troops, and it is better than Dongzhimen." ”

"No need." Lu Fatzi shook his head, pointed to the defenders in the city and said, "See, many of the defenders on the city wall are ordinary people wearing ordinary clothes?" Jie Shumangou must have requisitioned a large number of people to go to the city to help defend, we don't matter which city gate we attack, it is the same, rather than wasting time looking for impossible flaws, it is better to directly attack the Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate in the east, we can also save a lot of siege weapons transportation time, and it is also convenient for the army to go back and forth from the camp. ”

"So ...... the dock problem in Chaoyangmen?" Yao Qisheng asked again.

"Chaoyangmen is really not suitable for our troops." Lu Fatzi replied: "But it's all the same, the Yanjing moat is so wide, no matter which gate we attack the main city, it will be difficult for our troops to fully deploy." In addition, attacking Chaoyangmen, for our army, there is another convenience that can be used, that is, the bridge of Chaoyangmen, in order to transport heavy grain into the city, the bridge on the moat of Chaoyangmen should not only be spacious, but also very strong, suitable for transporting siege weapons across the river. ”

"The prince is clever, Xia Guan also saw this just now, the bridge of Chaoyangmen is indeed a little wider, but I didn't expect it to be used in siege warfare." Yao Qisheng hurriedly patted his ass, "Xia Guan can be sure, and Jieshu must not have paid attention to this." ”

"Did he pay attention to leave him alone for the time being, but this guy has grown a little bit." Lu Fatzi sighed: "Judging from the fact that he organized the people to go to the city to help defend it, and the city defense arrangements were extremely tight, this guy still has been fighting and learning on the battlefield all these years. ”

Putting on a high hat for the enemy to elevate himself in disguise, Lu Fatzi commanded again: "Pass the order, let Hutongchun lead an army of 20,000 to the west, set up another big camp twenty miles outside Chaoyangmen, transfer all our artillery to Chaoyangmen, and bombard the city wall of Chaoyangmen all night and night, destroy the towers and fortifications of Chaoyangmen, and also destroy the morale of the full dogs, and then launch an attack when the siege weapons are ready!" ”

Speaking of this, Fat Lu paused, gritted his teeth and gave an unprecedented order, "Also, tell the brothers that after the attack on Yanjing, in the inner city of Yanjing where the people are full of dogs, the military discipline will be disbanded for seven days, and the brothers can have as much freedom as they want!" Chickens and dogs don't stay! ”

(To be continued)