readx; In history, the Houjin army was in the second year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1629 A.D., the first time in the year of the lunar calendar to enter the Kou and attack the Beijing Division, known as the "change of Jisi". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, due to Zhu Youzhen's crossing, history has undergone subtle changes. Huang Taiji not only proclaimed himself emperor in advance, but also attacked the Jingshi three years ahead of schedule. Since the Jiajing period broke through the barrier and threatened the Beijing Division, this is the first time in 70 years that the Beijing Division has been attacked by foreign enemies. Listening to the sound of horns outside the city, both the officials and the people in the capital were shocked.

At this juncture, the most important thing is morale. If the morale is gone, the city will not be able to be defended. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen categorically rejected the suggestion of understanding victory and insisted on waiting for the arrival of the enemy army at the head of Taipingmen.

When today's son was not afraid of arrows and stones to come to the battlefield in person, the morale of the Ming army defending the city was greatly boosted. In particular, the non-commissioned officers of the new military camp, although they were not required to undertake combat duties for the time being, trained under the city walls. Seeing Zhu Youzhen wearing a golden helmet and armor, standing at the head of the city to personally command the battle, these people were moved to tears, if it weren't for Liu Quanzhong and other generals to stop sternly, they really wanted to rush to the city, and now they would fight with the Tartars.

Huang Taiji was also in no hurry to attack the city. Through a large number of spies passing information, he had long known that the city defense of Jingshi had been strengthened. Now seeing with his own eyes the moat outside the city that is dozens of zhang wide and rolling waves, Huang Taiji is also secretly surprised. Fortunately, there is a gap about one mile wide in the moat in each direction, and the Qing army can attack from here, and he can't help but secretly rejoice, it seems that the project has not been completed, and the moat has not yet been closed, otherwise it will be too difficult to attack the city.

In the past few days, the Qing army has not been idle in Tongzhou, and after three days of rushing work, dozens of ladders have been produced, as well as simple chariots and battering rams. The city wall of Jingshi is a rammed earth wall, and the city bricks have not yet had time to be laid, and they are much worse than Ning Yuan in terms of strength, so Huang Taiji is still looking forward to attacking the city.

As usual, the first wave of Qing attacks was a tentative attack, intended to test the defenders' combat effectiveness and consume their arrows and ammunition. In other words, the soldiers of the first wave of attacks were sent to death. This "glorious" task naturally fell on the banner of the Han army again, Huang Taiji's eyes just swept coldly over the faces of those traitor generals, and Tong Yangzhen, the general of the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, came out of the column with a smile on his face and bowed: "Master, this first battle is handed over to the minions, right?" ”

It turned out that although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was founded, it still did not get rid of the social habit of slaves, the nobles were slave owners, and the generals below were all his slaves, and there were lower slaves below the slaves. Slaves call themselves nobles "masters", call themselves "slaves", and are quite proud of being slaves. If the newly surrendered Han people call themselves "slaves", they are often despised by the old traitors: "Are you qualified to be the master's slaves?" ”

So even though Huang Taiji has been proclaimed emperor, Tong Yangzhen still habitually calls him "master". Huang Taiji was also very satisfied with this loyal watchdog, nodded and said: "You lead the three thousand people of the headquarters to go over, first read out the 'Seven Hatreds' and my enthronement edict, persuade the Ming army to surrender, and if they do not obey, they will attack the city." If you can break through the city gates, I will be rewarded! ”

"Slaves obey!" Tong Yangzhen's face flushed with excitement, and he kowtowed to Huang Taiji a few times in a row, and then he got up and shouted to his subordinates vividly, "Come on, follow General Ben to attack the city!" ”

There is also a reason why Tong Yangzhen is so active in the siege. His Tong family was full of traitors, and he and his brother Tong Yangxing, as generals of the Ming army, took the lead in surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, and then led the entire family to surrender to the enemy. The battle of Ningyuan three years ago was triggered precisely because Tong Yangzhen rebelled against another clan brother, Tong Yanghao, and Tong Yanghao was killed by Yuan Chonghuan.

However, in the Battle of Ningyuan, Tong Yanghao was beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan, Tong Yanghao's son Tong Tuyuan was killed by Zhu Youzhen, and Tong Yangzhen's own son Tong Tulai was beheaded by Wu Sangui, and the vitality of the Tong family was greatly damaged. Fortunately, Huang Taiji still used Tong Yangzhen very much, and after ascending to the throne, he let him lead the Han army Zhenghuang Banner, and married Tong Yangzhen's youngest daughter as a concubine. Tong Yangzhen was grateful, and from then on he was even more willing to be a lackey for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

A traitor is often like this, on the one hand, he does the most shameless act in the world, and on the other hand, he is afraid that people will call him shameless. Tong Yangzhen also knew that his reputation among the people of the Ming Dynasty was extremely stinky, so he hated his former compatriots to the core. Like Fan Wencheng and others, he also hoped that Huang Taiji would break through the Jingshi and destroy the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, so that he could kill all those who dared to call him a traitor, and become a "founding hero who conforms to the trend of history".

This time, the Eight Banners Army entered the Kou in a big way, and in the earliest battle of Xifengkou, Tong Yangzhen was the vanguard. This time, he was "entrusted with a heavy task" by Huang Taiji, and Tong Yang was really overjoyed. As for how many traitors under his command were killed and injured in the siege, it was not within his consideration, anyway, as long as he could live and enjoy glory and wealth with his military exploits in the future.

The emperor ordered that although the 3,000 traitor troops under Tong Yangzhen knew that they were sent to death, they had to rush through the gap in the moat and slowly advance towards the Taipingmen of the Beijing Division. As soon as they passed, Huang Taiji ordered the Manchu Eight Banners cavalry to form a team of hundreds of people, with bows and arrows in the back, pointing far ahead. If this traitorous army retreats without an order, what awaits them is a random arrow rewarded by their master.

The strange thing is that although there is artillery at the head of the Jingshi City, and there are also many Ming troops standing, but at this time, they are silent, just quietly watching Tong Yangzhen advance. Although Tong Yangzhen was not afraid of the death of others, he was afraid of death, and walked about a hundred steps away from the city wall in fear, and estimated that he was about to enter the range of the Ming army's bird guns and bows and arrows, so he no longer dared to move forward. His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom has the virtue of a good life, and he does not want to kill too much, as long as you wait for Kaicheng to surrender, His Majesty the Emperor will ensure that you will not die..."

But Tong Yangzhen shouted, but no one in the city paid attention to him, and no one scolded him back, just looked at him coldly, like watching a clown perform. Tong Yangzhen was so embarrassed that he had to take out the so-called "Seven Hatreds" and read them out immediately.

He beat the drum in his heart while reading, thinking that when Li Yongfang read out the "Seven Great Hatreds" under Ningyuan City, he was not only scolded back by Zhu Youzhen, who was the king of letters at the time, with the "Seven Great Debts", but also gave him a shot while he was unprepared, almost killing Li Yongfang. It's yourself today, but don't be shot in the head by the Ming army!

But until he finished reading the last word, the Ming army in the city still did not react, as if he did not exist at all. Tong Yangzhen finally became angry, and his eyes rolled and said, "Come on, pick up the head of Zhao Shujiao for me!" ”