Chapter 332: Duoduo Breakout
Kong Youde was a little unsettled from the morning, and in the morning he couldn't stay in Tongzhou any longer, so he ran to the front line of Zhangjiawan with dozens of personal soldiers, and he wanted to personally listen to what the Wehrmacht was shouting on the loudspeakers.
What was said in the loudspeaker was a little vague, which made Kong Youde a little uncertain, is it really the Wehrmacht spreading rumors?
Kong Youde returned to Tongzhou in confusion, and the soldiers sent back to Beijing had returned, but he did not bring back accurate news, but he just said that the current Beijing city was heavily guarded, and the civil and military officials had not been to the court for several days, and Prince Yu Duoduo had a very bad temper, and had killed more than a dozen soldiers who were discussing privately when patrolling the city.
Kong Youde let his soldiers retreat, sat on his chair and began to think nonsense.
In the command tent of the Zhangjiawan Foreign Defense Army, the newly received information confirmed the accuracy of the last information, that is, Dolgon was indeed dead, and the little emperor had indeed fled.
Luo Jian, who got the accurate news, was not in a hurry, anyway, several divisions of the National Defense Army had already besieged Beijing tightly, and Duoduo couldn't escape if he wanted to, and since the little emperor had been running for more than ten days, he might not be able to catch up if he chased after him, so he could only wait to solve it later.
In the fortifications outside the city and outside the city, dozens of loudspeakers are still shouting, the Qing soldiers on the city wall will not jump off the city wall to surrender, and there are no Qing soldiers in the fortifications outside the city running over like outside Cangzhou, Wang Qiang is a little impatient.
Just when Wang Qiang ordered the whole division to prepare for the siege, Duoduo in the city was also driven crazy.
Despite the killing of dozens of soldiers and civilians who were talking in private, the news continued to spread in the capital. It is said that rumors will become the truth if they are said 10,000 times, not to mention that what the Wehrmacht said is not a rumor at all. Of course, Duoduo couldn't invite the little emperor out to refute the rumors. You can't pull the regent Dorgon out of the coffin. This kind of practice of killing people to block everyone's discussion is annoying even to Duoduo himself.
After inspecting the whole circle, Duoduo felt exhausted, returned to the palace and sat on a chair to close his eyes and recuperate, when someone came to report that Fan Wencheng asked to see him.
The extremely tired Duoduo wanted to let his subordinates go back to Fan Wencheng, but he remembered Dolgon's deathbed confession, saying that only Fan Wencheng could be trusted among the Hanchens, so he forced his subordinates to lead Fan Wencheng into the palace.
In the past few days, there is no way to go up, and Fan Wencheng is also restless in the house alone. He had also heard the news from the Wehrmacht outside the city, and after a calm judgment, Fan Wencheng thought it was not a rumor.
Where should he go, even the scheming Fan Wencheng felt very confused.
As a veteran Manchu Han minister and the top of the list of traitors of the Nanjing government, Fan Wencheng consciously included himself in the ranks of the Nanjing government and the national defense army that would not be pardoned.
The city of Beijing must not be able to be defended, Fan Wencheng is very sure of this, the national defense army is not the Qing army that looted in the Guannai back then, and the Qing court cannot summon soldiers and horses from all over the world to come to the capital to Qinwang like the original Ming Dynasty.
What shocked Fan Wencheng was the Wehrmacht's heart-to-heart warfare, which was too powerful. If they hold out for a few more days, the morale of the soldiers in the city will probably be gone. How can an army without morale defend the city? Fan Wencheng felt that he had to come up with a way, he was a civil servant, and he didn't have a single soldier in his hands, so he had to go to find Duoduo, the prince of Yu who was in power.
"Mr. Fan came, I don't know what advice you have?" Duoduo knew that his eldest brother Dorgon had great respect for Fan Wencheng, and he was now hesitating, and he also needed someone to help him get an idea, so he said very politely to Fan Wencheng.
"Weichen heard that the regent was not in good health, and he went to visit but was not allowed to enter the mansion, so he came to greet King Yu." Fan Wencheng bowed to Duoduo before speaking.
Hearing Fan Wencheng talk about Dolgon, Duoduo frowned, his heart was very unhappy, he couldn't care about being polite anymore, and said coldly: "Big brother's body is fine, Mr. Lao is worried." ”
Fan Wencheng didn't care about Duoduo's cold tone, he still bowed down and said, "King Yu, please forgive Weichen for being blunt, the regent is a regent?" ”
"Bold! How dare you say that about my eldest brother? Hearing Fan Wencheng's words, Duoduo jumped.
"King Yu, please be calm, the regent treats Weichen as heavy as a mountain, and Weichen is also grieving these days, but in Weichen's view, this is not the time to be sad. The capital is now in danger, and if the king of Yu no longer makes a decision, I am afraid that things will not work. ”
Duoduo's attitude had long been expected by Fan Wencheng, and he was not alarmed by Duoduo's anger, Fan Wencheng still said unhurriedly.
Seeing that Fan Wencheng was very calm, the somewhat irritable Duoduo also slowly calmed down, but his face was still very ugly, staring at Fan Wencheng and saying: "The defense of the capital is as stable as Mount Tai, how did it become like a dangerous egg?" ”
"The national defense army's offensive heart war is extremely powerful, if it takes a long time, my Qing generals will have no morale, at that time, I am afraid that the national defense army will not attack the city, since someone will give the city of Beijing to the national defense army, with the wisdom of the king of Yu, it will not be impossible to see this, right?"
Fan Wencheng's words made Duoduo completely calm down, he didn't think about this, but he didn't think about the problem so seriously.
"Sir, please sit down, don't hide it from Mr., the eldest brother has passed away, and the five kings will be burned, if there is any offense, I hope Mr. Haihan." Duoduo, who had figured it out, began to be polite to Fan Wencheng.
"King Yu, in the opinion of Wei Chen, for this occasion, we must wait for the morale of the army to not be completely lost, and gather the elite army to break out, otherwise I am afraid that the jade will be burned, and it will be too late to regret it!" Fan Wencheng sat down and said slowly to Duoduo.
"Don't hide it, sir, the Queen Mother has taken the emperor to Mongolia, and now we are breaking through and going to Mongolia?" Dodor asked.
"Weichen thinks it can't, the queen mother is a Mongolian, they will be accepted when they go to Mongolia, but the Mongolians have been suppressed by the Manchus for a long time, and they have long been dissatisfied, but they were only threatened by the Qing Dynasty and did not dare to make a time, King Yu has no foundation in Mongolia, if he rushes to Mongolia, he will not end up in a safe place, but it is dangerous." Fan Wencheng had obviously thought about this question and answered it quickly.
"Then let's go back to Liaodong?" Duoduo continued to ask.
This is exactly what Weichen meant, the previous news said that Nanjing's fleet was in Hubei, and now it seems that they did not choose to land in Liaodong. This is the land of Longxing, and King Yu also has a certain foundation there, if he can escape from tens of thousands of elites, it will not be a problem to return to Liaodong to stabilize his position. ”
Fan Wencheng's words caused Duoduo to fall into deep thought, and at this time he remembered Dorgon's words before he died, which made him want to escape from the capital.
"In my opinion, in my opinion, which direction is the best way for us to break through?" Duoduo thought for a long time and then asked.
"There are national defense forces on all sides of the capital, the south, north and west three gates of the national defense army have been under the city, as soon as they go out of the city gate, they will be discovered, it may be difficult to break through, only outside the east gate there is my Qing army stationed, although there are the most elite seven divisions of the national defense army, but its defensive range is too large, if Kong Youde can entangle it, we should not be difficult to escape from the capital."
Fan Wencheng, who had already calculated it, talked eloquently, and Duoduo nodded frequently when he heard it, it seemed that it made sense for the eldest brother to trust him so much.
"Turai is loyal and brave, he can be trusted, the prince can tell the truth, if he can get the strength of Turai and his new army, he can also open up the situation as soon as possible after returning to Liaodong." Fan Wencheng continued to give advice to Duoduo.
Duoduo was already completely moved by Fan Wencheng's words, and no longer hesitated at the moment, and immediately ordered his subordinates to go to the east gate to invite Turai to come and discuss.
Wang Qiang's patience had reached the limit, and he no longer ignored Ma Qianjun's persuasion, and held a divisional combat meeting in the command tent that night, and decided to launch an attack on Tongzhou and Baliqiao early tomorrow morning.
The later results proved that Wang Qiang's decision was really extremely correct, which even Luo Jian felt a little magical.
Just after four o'clock in the morning, although the sky has not yet dawned, the whole division of the seventh division has already moved, except for the 20 artillery pieces handed over to Ma Yingkui's 10th division to take away, Wang Qiang concentrated all the more than 60 artillery pieces of the whole division on the front line of Zhangjiawan, the muzzle of the black hole pointed forward, the situation on the defensive position of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side has long been clearly detected, and even the shooting targets have long been assigned.
At half-past four, all the troops had breakfast, and the time for the attack was set for five o'clock in the morning.
As the main regiment of the whole division, the regiment still served as the main attack task, and no one dared to compete with Xie Kui, no matter in terms of seniority or relationship with the division commander, several regiment commanders could not compete with Xie Kui.
Zhao Quan's cavalry brigade was on standby in the rear of the attacking troops, and they had to wait for the 7th Division to break through the Qing army's defensive line and pursue the fleeing Qing soldiers in depth.
The huge movement on the position of the Seventh Division has already alarmed the Qing soldiers in the fortifications, and these days the Qing soldiers have almost all slept in the trenches with their clothes together, but fortunately it did not rain, although it was a little cold, but several people huddled together and finally survived.
The generals kept roaring along the trenches with their waist knives, shouting out from the trenches the Qing soldiers who were huddled together for warmth.
Although Luo Jian was no longer in charge, the movement outside the tent still woke him up, and when Luo Jian walked out of the tent after a simple wash, he saw that Mr. Zuo Maodi was already standing outside the tent waiting for him.
"Mr. Zuo, it's early, why don't you sleep for a while?" Luo Jian hurriedly greeted Zuo Maodi.
"Oh, Xinghua, what are you sleeping? You really don't ask? Although Zuo Maodi likes Wang Qiang, he also thinks that he is too young, the so-called hairless mouth and insecure work, he still thinks that Luo Jian is more stable.
"Mr. Zuo, you have to let go of young people to do things, don't experience more things, they will never grow up." Luo Jian said with a smile. "But don't worry, if there is a real problem with their arrangement, I will point it out."
"Mr. Zuo, let's go and eat breakfast, how about I accompany you to watch the battle after breakfast?" Luo Jian saw that Zuo Maodi was still a little worried, so he had to accompany him to watch the battle.
Hurriedly drank a bowl of porridge, Zuo Maodi couldn't eat it anymore, holding a steamed bun in his hand, eating one bite at a time, his eyes staring at Luo Jian, hoping that he could eat faster.
Luo Jian looked at the watch on his wrist and said to Zuo Maodi: "The steamed bun in Mr. is steady. ”
Just when Zuo Maodi was a little strange, the rumbling cannon sound rang out from the left front, and the sound almost shook off the steamed bun in his hand, and then he knew the meaning of Luo Jian's reminder just now.
"Let's go! Xinghua, I haven't seen a cannon power yet, go and take a look! Although Zuo Maodi was shocked enough, he was even more interested, urging Luo Jian vigorously. (To be continued.) )