readx; When Zhu Youzhen also ordered someone to shoot arrows and pass a message to the city of Tongzhou, categorically refused all the requests of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and gave Huang Taiji a "name" after the emperor was not anxious about the eunuchs, Huang Taiji was furious and finally made up his mind to launch an attack on Jingshi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Prior to this, in fact, there were different opinions within the Manchu Qing on whether to attack Jingshi. Some of the older, high-ranking generals, such as Daishan, Amin, and Zilharang, among the four major beylers, advocated bypassing the Gyeongshi and attacking the rest of Gyeonggi.

The reason is also very simple, the Jingshi must be a place where the Ming Dynasty tried its best to defend, the city is strong and the artillery is sharp, and the siege of the city will inevitably lead to heavy casualties. Moreover, the strength of the Manchu Eight Banners was field warfare, and this time they fought deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and they did not bring heavy siege equipment at all. Instead of fighting an uncertain battle, it is better to plunder the weakly defended prefectures and counties and villages, and reap the greatest benefits at the lowest cost.

And some young and vigorous new nobles, including Azig, Dolgon, Duoduo, Hauge and others, strongly demanded to attack the Jingshi. Their reason is that since the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry broke through the Xifeng Pass, the Ming army patrolled and avoided the battle, and the Eight Banners were like bamboos, indicating that the Ming Dynasty had run out of oil and was completely unable to organize a large-scale counterattack. There are two major advantages of attacking the Beijing Division, one is that if it can be captured, then the Ming Dynasty will directly lose the country, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty can enter the Central Plains; The second is to besiege the Beijing Division, and the Ming army from all over the country will come to the rescue no matter what, and then the Eight Banners Army can use the "siege and reinforcement" that the Eight Banners Army is best at to completely annihilate the living force of the Ming army.

Huang Taiji himself hesitated and deliberated repeatedly. He was not as optimistic as Azig, Dolgon and others, and the scene of the Ming army's breakthrough from Daling River and Jinzhou is still deeply rooted in his mind. He still hasn't figured out how tens of thousands of Ming troops have broken out of the iron bucket-like encirclement. Especially the kind of firearm that defeated the white-armored soldiers, he had followed Nurhachi to fight in the east and west since he was ten years old, but he had never heard of or seen this kind of firearm, how could he not be afraid.

From a strategic point of view, this time he personally led the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry into the customs battle, which has been a great success, and has completely consolidated his position, and it seems that there is no need to take any more risks to attack the Beijing Division.

But on the other hand, the smooth progress after entering the customs was indeed beyond Huang Taiji's expectations. In addition to the fierce resistance of Zhao Shujiao in the first battle of Xifengkou, from Zunhua to Jizhou and then to Tongzhou, the Eight Banners Army was almost bloodless, and has occupied more than ten counties and towns so far. In particular, the seizure of 500,000 stone grain in Tongzhou made him even more overjoyed.

There is no end to human greed, especially the murderous and insatiable Manchu aristocracy. The march was so smooth and the harvest was so abundant, which made Huang Taiji have a great appetite. Now that the Beijing division is close at hand, and the Ming army is so weak, why can't it be tried?

There is also a reason to support Huang Taiji's attack on Jingshi, that is, although the booty captured by the Eight Banners Army is abundant, the population plundered is not too large. This is in stark contrast to the war in Liaodong, where a large number of people could be captured every time they occupied. There were only a few hundred thousand people in Manchuria, and they were not good at farming, so they usually lived by looting and enslaving Han Chinese. If you don't catch more Han Chinese, it will be a problem just to transport so much loot back to Liaodong.

Although the Eight Banners Army has occupied a lot of places, most of the local people have fled under the organization of the government, and the rest are the old, weak, sick and disabled who can't run, which also makes Huang Taiji feel unsatisfied.

In this contradictory mood, Huang Taiji decided to establish a state in Tongzhou and proclaimed himself emperor, and wrote a letter to threaten the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty succumbs and signs an alliance with the city, even if there is some bargaining with him, he can still return with a full load, and after fully digesting the fruits of victory, he will make a comeback next time.

If the Ming Dynasty ignored it, Huang Taiji was ready to launch a feint attack on Jingshi. He was convinced that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty must be afraid that the city would be captured or killed, and he would definitely urgently call for the soldiers and horses of King Qin to come to his aid, and at that time, as Dolgon said, he would fight several big victories near the Beijing Division, and annihilate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming army, and it was best to lure the defenders of Shanhaiguan. At that time, the Ming Dynasty had no more available soldiers, and it was only a matter of time before the Manchus entered the Central Plains.

Unexpectedly, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually replied, and did not even mention his shameless requests, but only informed himself that he was renamed "The emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry"! Although there are also three words in this word, "Huang, Tai, and Ji", the meaning is 108,000 miles away, full of banter and disdain, and Huang Taiji can not be angry. Coupled with his traitor think tank Fan Wencheng trying his best to persuade him to capture Jingshi and become the real lord of the world, Huang Taiji finally made up his mind to attack Jingshi.

On the tenth day of the eighth month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Huang Taiji personally led the Eight Banners army from Tongzhou and marched to the east of Beijing in just over an hour. In addition to Amin's Eastern Route Army, more than 100,000 Qing troops who entered the customs this time came to meet and surrounded the Beijing Division on all sides. Among them, the yellow flag and the yellow flag are in the east of the city, the blue flag and the blue flag are in the south of the city, the white flag is in the north of the city, and the red flag and the red flag are in the west of the city. There are also Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Army Banners camped in front of the Eight Banners military camp, and when attacking the city, they are natural cannon fodder.

Zhu Youzhen got the news early, and at this time he was standing on the tall city tower of the Taiping Gate, looking at the Manchu military camp from afar. Although his face was expressionless, his mood was tense and excited. Because, Huang Taiji was finally lured by him!

Long before the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry entered the customs, Zhu Youzhen expected that Huang Taiji would definitely bypass Shanhaiguan to fight, and it was for this reason that he expanded the outer city of Jingshi. But there is a big question in this: what if Huang Taiji doesn't attack the Beijing Division, then wouldn't he be busy in vain?

In history, the Qing army entered the pass several times, only one of which attacked the Jingshi, and the rest were looted in the Gyeonggi area, and even the farthest one reached Jinan. Because the Ming army could not defeat the Qing army in the field battle, it could only defend the city to avoid the war, and as a result, the Qing army plundered a large number of people and wealth, and the national strength, which was already weakened to the extreme, was severely damaged several times in a row, and finally led to the destruction of the country.

Now Zhu Youzhen is also facing the same problem: how to stop the Qing army from plundering areas outside the Beijing Division?

After thinking about it repeatedly, Zhu Youzhen painfully found that he had no good way. There is only one way that is not a way: vacate Tongzhou for the Qing army to rob! Because Tongzhou is too close to the Beijing Division, and a large amount of materials are stored, it is strange that Huang Taiji is not conducive to attacking the Beijing Division after making a big profit in Tongzhou.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen deliberately did not let Sun Chengzong transport the materials from Tongzhou before, he completely used Tongzhou as a bait to attract Huang Taiji firmly and prevent the Qing army from harming other places! This price is not high, but compared with the Qing army's burning and looting in other prefectures and counties, Zhu Youzhen thinks it is still worth it!

"Holy Lord, the Tartars are about to start attacking the city, and it is not safe on the city tower, please take shelter in the upper and lower cities!"

Xie Sheng's words interrupted Zhu Youzhen's contemplation. He glanced out of the city and said to himself, "It's finally begun." ”

Yes, this battle to defend the capital division that has gone down in history has finally opened!

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