When Duoduo led his army to the city of Beijing, he saw a situation that made him desperate.

The gates of Beijing were closed, and the Ming army was waiting for the attack. People in the vicinity outside Beijing have also been relocated to the city or rushed to other places. All kinds of indications show that the Ming army had already discovered the news of the Qing army's attack and made arrangements as early as possible to prevent the Qing army from having a chance to succeed in a sneak attack.

This time, Duoduo had the same thoughts as Cao Yue thought, and wanted to use his last bit of strength to fight with Daming to break the net, and destroy everything in Beijing with a suicidal attack.

Duoduo knew that the members of the Ming royal family went to Beijing to worship the Ming Tomb, and Cao Yue also followed, which was the best opportunity for revenge. If he could kill the city of Beijing by surprise and the Ming army did not take precautions, then the troops and horses he led were likely to be able to attack the city of Beijing, destroy the city of Beijing at the same time, massacre the members of the Ming royal family, and even kill Cao Yue.

In order to avoid detecting the whereabouts of the Ming army, Duoduo made a lot of preventive measures, and the speed of the march was also very fast, and he could travel almost two or three hundred miles in one day and one night. Duoduo and his generals all thought that they had done a good job of secrecy in this kind of rapid attack, and the speed was fast enough, even if the Ming army Cao Bianjiao could find their traces, it would be too late to respond. Even if they spread the news to Beijing, Cao Yue would not have time to arm his defenses.

If the defenders of Beijing were not defended, then they could use their speed advantage to break through the city and completely destroy the city.

But no one expected that Cao Yue's situation was like this, and the Ming army was fully prepared and was waiting for the city.

Having lost the opportunity to sneak attack, Duoduo no longer dared to defeat the Ming army, which was equipped with a large number of firearms and had the tall walls of Beijing to rely on. But this time he came with the determination to die. He just wanted to use the destruction of the people he led to give Daming a fatal blow.

The shame of Shengjing being attacked by Cao Yue has not been washed, and the revenge of the death of his closest brother Dorgon at the hands of the Ming army has not been avenged. But now. It's all going to come to naught.

Duoduo is not a reckless person, this time in a sudden attack, although he has the determination to die, but he will not be stupid enough to lead the only tens of thousands of horses left in the Qing Dynasty to attack the city with a shooting style. He knew that if he attacked the city desperately, tens of thousands of Qing sons would die under the city of Beijing, and the walls of Beijing would still not be able to be breached.

But at this point, Dordor would never retreat with his army. The Qing Dynasty has no way to gain a foothold on the grasslands now. He could only hide in the mountains and forests, and Duoduo could not tolerate such a situation. He wants to fight, he wants revenge, he wants to wash away his shame.

Since he has fought under the city of Beijing, he cannot retreat like this, and this battle must be fought.

In the end, Duoduo made a decision that everyone did not expect and Cao Yue was dumbfounded.

He sent someone to send a war letter to Cao Yue. Prepare to make an agreement with Cao Yue and lead their armies outside Beijing. Fight a decisive battle.

After receiving the war letter sent by Duoduo, Cao Yue couldn't cry or laugh a little.

"What age is it, and he still plays the challenge of this mode, doesn't he understand that when the two armies fight, it is enough to achieve victory. It doesn't matter how you win, what tricks is this guy going to play? However, although he ridiculed Duoduo, Cao Yue finally replied to Duoduo, accepted the other party's challenge, and promised to work with Jiannu outside Beijing. Fight in earnest.

After sending the reply, Cao Yue also responded immediately, and he was ready to personally lead more than 20,000 men out of the city to fight, including 12,000 musketeers, 8,000 cavalry and an artilleryman. Other troops, including pikemen and archers, he didn't use them, but with musketeers, he felt that pikemen and archers were useless.

In the Ming Guards sequence, the scale of pikemen and archers was already very small, and the musketeers did not practice bows and arrows, and there were assassinations, but only to practice courage, not to train them to master assassination skills.

In the future, the "modernized" services such as artillery and musketeers in the Ming Guards will develop on a larger scale, and other arms will be gradually streamlined, or even finally abolished. This is the trend of military and scientific and technological development, and as a traverser, Cao Yue will lead this trend.

Whether others understand it or not, this trend will not change.

Cao Yue only led more than 20,000 people out of the city to fight, facing the Jiannu elite cavalry led by Duoduo. According to pre-war reconnaissance, there were nearly 50,000 men and horses led by Duoduo, and although the number of men and horses who arrived in Beijing was not as high, there were many losses along the way, but they were not much different. With 20,000 people facing nearly 50,000 people, and it was 50,000 Jiannu Jingqi who would definitely rush desperately to kill, which made many people sweat.

Gao Hongtu, Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa and others all tried their best to dissuade Cao Yue from being impulsive. Now that Beijing is short of troops, don't risk going out of the city to face the battle, just hold on to the fortified city and wait for reinforcements to arrive. With the current military strength of Beijing, relying on the fortified city, Jiannu will definitely not be able to do anything. If you take the risk of going into battle, there is a case that will be troublesome.

Although many of them do not want to see Cao Yue always in charge of power, controlling the government, they also know that if there is no Cao Yue, maybe the Ming Dynasty will fall into civil strife, the Ming Guards will be torn apart, and the world will fall into chaos again.

At least for now, most people don't want to see Cao Yue have an accident. You must know that in Beijing, their lives are pinched in the hands of Weiqi, and if Cao Yue is defeated, then they may end up miserable. Both public and private, they hope that Cao Yue will be more conservative and safe.

But Cao Yue was moved, insisted on his own opinion, and said that he would personally lead the army out of the city to fight with Duoduo, so that Duoduo would be convinced. He also wants everyone not to worry, even if he goes out of the city and is defeated, Jiannu will not be able to break through the city of Beijing, reinforcements are gathering on all sides, even if Jiannu wins a battle, he will not dare to stay under the city of Beijing for a long time. Inside the city of Beijing, it is definitely safe.

In the end, no one could convince Cao Yue, so he could only let Cao Yue "do nonsense".

Cao Yue also handed over the command of the defenders in Beijing to Sun Chuanting, and repeatedly instructed Sun Chuanting that no matter how the battle outside the city was fought, they could not go out of the city to reinforce, and the defenders in Beijing only needed to stick to the city gate.

Sun Chuanting naturally agreed, and he was also the only one who did not bother to persuade Cao Yue, he believed that Cao Yue had the ability to defeat Duoduo, completely wipe out the remnants of Jiannu, and declare the might of the Ming Guards to the world.

Cao Yue did not tell Zhu Yujiao and Liu Rushi, who came to Beijing with him, and a few other women about his decision, for fear that they would worry. After arranging the defense in the city, Cao Yue led more than 20,000 soldiers and carried dozens of artillery pieces out of the city to meet the enemy! (To be continued.) )