After hearing the news of Cao Yue's report, Sun Chuanting was taken aback: "What, Jiannu is going to attack Beijing?" ”

Cao Yue had a cold face and nodded slightly: "Duoduo should be a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry, wanting to play a desperate blow." Old man Sun, don't worry, this is the last madness of Jiannu, as long as the remnants of Duoduo are eliminated, Jiannu will almost be wiped out, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled are lambs to be slaughtered. With the Governor here, your safety is guaranteed, so don't worry about anything. ”

Cao Yue instantly understood Duoduo's thoughts, and Duoduo, who was almost cornered, was ready to use this suicidal desperate effort to complete the last blow in his career. This Duoduo's sudden attack must have come with the intention of preferring to be a broken jade rather than a complete tile. The remnants of the Jiannu led by Duoduo will not have any worries, they just want to annihilate the remnants of the army and deal a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty.

This is not difficult to understand, how Cao Yue fell into this situation, maybe he will also adopt this kind of combat method of fish and net breaking, and deal a fatal blow to the enemy at any cost. Now the remnants of the Jiannu led by Duoduo are almost gone, and even the place to live is almost gone, all of this is caused by the persecution of the Ming Dynasty, and the death of Dolgon must have dealt a great blow to Duoduo, and the last strategist of the remnants of the Jiannu is likely to have lost his mind at this time, and wants to prove that he is not a bad breed in this way, and the Manchus are still bloody.

"Is Jiannu really at such an end of time?" Sun Chuanting didn't quite believe what Cao Yue said, and he didn't expect that the persecution of the Ming Dynasty would reduce Jiannu to this point.

This is really incomprehensible, just two years ago, the powerful Jiannu fought the Ming official army did not have a little temper and was unable to deal with it. Although the situation is now reversed, Cao Yue commanded the Ming Guards to recreate slaves several times and drove Jiannu out of the pass, but Sun Chuanting still thinks so. The emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and it was once extremely powerful, known as the invincible Jiannu, and its strength is still not to be underestimated.

Dolgon's death made Jiannu suffer a lot of vitality again, but there is still Duoduo, a strategist, and tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight well in the Manchu Eight Banners, Sun Chuanting does not think that Jiannu's qi is exhausted, otherwise Cao Bianjiao's hundreds of thousands of horses and horses will not need to stay outside the pass any longer.

Sun Chuanting is not the only one with this mentality. Other officials were more or less in the same way. In their minds, Jiannu is an incomparably powerful existence, and even if Cao Yue leads the army to severely damage them several times, it can't fundamentally change this. Although today's Jiannu is disabled, it will definitely make a comeback, Cao Yue said that Jiannu has been exhausted, and Duoduo wants to play the last fight, almost no one believes it.

In fact, they did not really understand the real situation of the so-called Manchu state, although the Manchu Qing controlled a large area after the founding of the state. Even Beijing was occupied by them, but there is one thing that cannot be changed quickly, that is, the number of Manchus, that is, the Jurchens, is still very small, and at most it does not exceed one million. Years of conquest have prevented the Manchurian population from increasing significantly, which is their fatal shortcoming.

The Manchu population is insufficient, and the area under its control, whether it is the Mongols or the Han Chinese. Or maybe there are a lot more North Koreans than they are. The Manchus are invincible, and when they rarely suffer defeat in battle, they can also control other peoples or tribes. This also makes their overall strength appear very strong, and the number of troops is also large. But after successive defeats, these servant tribes or nations will no longer obey their orders, and they have lost control or even betrayed. Now that a large number of Han Chinese are out of their control, and the same is true in Korea, several powerful Mongol tribes have also turned from allies to enemies after seeing that Jiannu was greatly demoralized, and receiving news from Bumu Butai and Zhezhe asking them to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty. In this case, Jiannu's strength plummeted, which is really normal.

It's just that very few Ming officials can really understand the situation, and few can really analyze the situation of Jiannu.

Cao Yue had no choice but to tell Sun Chuanting and other ministers in detail what he thought. After listening to Cao Yue's detailed analysis, Sun Chuanting and others dispelled some of their doubts, but they still didn't fully believe that Duoduo led the army to attack Beijing was a lose-lose strategy. They still believed that Jiannu didn't want to fight normally with Cao Bianjiao's men and horses, so they played the tactics they were good at, and quickly sneak attacked, hoping to achieve great success by sneaking up on Beijing. If their sneak attack is unsuccessful, they will still flee back to the grassland, and they will not fight.

Cao Yue didn't bother to explain more to them, but he didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, and immediately personally organized troops and horses to prepare to meet the sneak attack of the remnants of Jiannu.

There were not many town troops in Beijing, only a few thousand, and most of the soldiers and horses in the north were taken out of the pass by Cao Bianjiao. , no one could have imagined that Jiannu would lead the army to attack Beijing, which was almost an empty city, and Cao Bianjiao was the same, he thought that at the beginning of the war, Jiannu would do his best to protect Shengjing, and there was no strength to attack south, so the northern cities, including Beijing, did not have many troops left.

Fortunately, this time, Cao Yue escorted the royal family members to the north to pay homage to the Ming Tomb, and there were nearly 30,000 people, including naval officers. Coupled with the town army in the area of Beijing, there are at least 40,000 men and horses who can be put together in a short period of time.

It's just a pity that these 40,000 horses don't have any more heavy weapons except for dozens of artillery pieces on naval warships and more than 100 fixed guns on the head of Beijing. There were only more than 10,000 musketeers in the 25th Guards Division led by Cao Yue, because the number of muskets could not meet the needs of the army, and there were a large number of sergeants in each Guards Division who could not be equipped with muskets.

The number of soldiers and horses left behind in the northern towns is not large, and the musketeers are mainly using old-fashioned muskets.

Cao Yue urgently ordered Cao Bianjiao's troops to return to the division to help, and at the same time surrounded and annihilated the Duoduo tribe together, he also urgently summoned nearby soldiers and horses to come to Beijing Qinwang. At the same time, the South was urgently ordered to transport muskets in case of emergency. Beijing's arsenal also worked overtime to produce muskets and ammunition.

With 40,000 horses in hand, Cao Bianjiao's reinforcements can soon return to the division, and facing only tens of thousands of Jiannu remnants, Cao Yue has nothing to worry about.

It's just that the attack speed of the remnants of the Jiannu led by Duoduo was still beyond his surprise. When the first extermination reached Beijing, Jiannu was still about 400 miles away from Beijing, and according to Cao Yue's estimate, it would take at least three to four days for Jiannu to arrive, and he could calmly deploy defenses.

But to his surprise, two days later, Jiannu's men and horses had already crossed from the east of Datong and quickly came to Beijing. In other words, when Jiannu arrived in Beijing, it was at least a day earlier than originally expected.

But Cao Yue was not worried about anything, and continued to arrange calmly, but raised the alert level of Beijing City to the highest level, and the whole city was under martial law. (To be continued.) )