Sun Chuanting is right, the current Jiannu does not have the strength to attack Yanjing.

The day after the platform was summoned, Jiannu launched a tentative attack on Guangqumen, but in the end, before he could even get close to the moat, he was killed by the Hongyi cannon on the city wall.

Dolgon immediately stopped the frontal attack and urgently summoned Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan to discuss countermeasures.

Fan Wencheng said: "Master, it seems that we have seriously underestimated the strength of Yanjing's defense, and there are more than two hundred Hongyi cannons equipped in Yanjing, which is almost ten times that of Ningyuan City!" ”

Ning Wan said: "I'm afraid that the method of digging tunnels to blow up the city wall will not work, hey, what can I do?" ”

"Hey, hey." Dolgon smiled darkly and said, "It's not surprising that you can't defeat Yanjing. ”

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan glanced at each other, and said in a lost voice: "Did the master think that he couldn't beat Yanjing from the beginning?" ”

"That's right." Dolgon said, "From the very beginning, this king did not have any hope of defeating Yanjing, Yanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, how can it be so easy to fight?" However, even Datong could not be defeated, but it was somewhat unexpected by the king, and more than 40,000 troops were lost, but fortunately, the losses were all some clothed minions and Mongols, and our Eight Banners elite did not suffer much loss. ”

Ning Wan said: "It turns out that all this has already been in the master's calculations, the master is far-sighted, and the slave admires." ”

Dolgon said: "This time into the Central Plains, capturing Wang Pu and Chongzhen Xiaoer alive is just a pretense, the real purpose of this king is to reintegrate the forces of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the two yellow flags and strengthen the strength of the two white flags, and then wash Gyeonggi and Shandong with blood, and then carry a large number of people and property from Dengzhou to cross the sea and return to Liaodong, in order to make up for the losses that Wang Pu brought to us in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Fan Wencheng said: "Haoge was defeated in Dadong, and his 30,000 army was wiped out, the nine Niu Lu of the Yellow Flag, the thirteen Niu Lu of the Yellow Flag, and the seven Niu Lu of the Blue Flag have been assigned to the White Flag of the King of Wuying County and the White Flag of Prince Yu respectively, and your first goal has been achieved, Master. ”

"Hmm." Dolgon nodded and said in a deep voice, "So, we don't have to entangle with Chongzhen Xiao'er in Yanjing anymore, tomorrow we will divide our troops into ten routes, kill Shandong along the canal, loot it, and then return to Liaodong with the minions and livestock we need." ”

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From April to August of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Jiannu entered from Datong, went down to Shandong through the Beijing Division, and finally crossed the sea from Dengzhou to return to Liaodong, all the way to fight thousands of miles, the people of Daming suffered an unprecedented catastrophe, more than one million people died tragically under the butcher's knife of Jiannu, nearly a million people were taken to Liaodong as slaves, countless villages were reduced to ruins, countless market towns were razed to the ground, and the loss of money, grain and property was countless.

Tens of millions of people have been left homeless and without food and clothing.

After this catastrophe, the Ming Dynasty weakened even more, but Jiannu quickly recovered through bloody plunder.

Under the urging of the impeachment of the imperial historian of the DPRK and the snowflakes of the Ministry of War, Sun Chuanting led the soldiers and horses of Cao Bianjiao, Bai Guangen, and Liu Zeqing to fight with Jiannu, and finally lost due to lack of food and low morale.

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Time flies, in a blink of an eye, it came to September of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the weather in Datong was hot and cold, Chen Yuanyuan also added a son to Wang Pu, the second master Wang Hua gave him a strange name, called "Wang Fa", the spear battalion and the baggage battalion were also completed, although they have not officially been on the battlefield, but it looks like that.

This year's year is not bad, Datong Mansion is more orderly under the governance of Wei Daben, there are obviously fewer people who go out to escape from the famine compared with previous years, under the iron fist suppression of Wang Pu, the horse thieves and bandits in Datong have completely disappeared, and the security of Taiyuan Mansion adjacent to Datong Mansion has also improved a lot.

In the past few months, Liu Zongmin has made a lot of trouble in Shaanxi, Pingliang, Qingyang, and Yan'an have been completely captured by thieves, Jiang Rang and Jiang Pai brothers are guarding Yulin and Guyuan, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong are guarding Xi'an and Hanzhong, and they are watching the thieves sit big and stand still.

These warlords are all unprofitable and unprofitable, they don't scatter eagles if they don't see rabbits, the court doesn't give them money, food and weapons, they don't give them additional officials and knights, they won't take the initiative to send troops to fight with thieves, the official documents of the military department and the edict of Emperor Chongzhen are a fart in the eyes of these martial artists, worthless.

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Datong Chengbei camp

Wang Pu was inspecting the newly formed spear battalion and baggage battalion on the school grounds.

The establishment of the spear battalion and the baggage battalion is the same as the firearms battalion, and the battalion sentry system improved by Wang Pu is adopted: five people are in the team, and the army commander is appointed; What is the second army, and what is the long; The second is the team, with a captain; The five teams are sentinels with a sentry chief; Ten whistles are the total, and there are thousands of generals; The five general battalions are set up in general (full number of five posts).

According to Wang Pu's conception, the spear battalion and the baggage battalion are both auxiliary arms of the firearms battalion.

The main equipment of the baggage battalion is chariots, antlers and knives, and the main task in wartime is to build a chariot formation and antler formation on the two wings and front and rear of the firearms battalion to form the first line of defense to block the enemy's infantry and cavalry charge, and the main equipment of the spear battalion is a spear more than two zhang long, and the main task in wartime is to rely on the chariot formation to build a spear formation to form a second line of defense to block the enemy's infantry and cavalry charge.

On the premise of no artillery, with the combined formation of the firearms battalion, the spear battalion and the baggage battalion, Wang Pu was confident that he could destroy the offensive of any army in the world today, and Jiannu's Eight Banners Iron Cavalry was no problem.

Looking at the officers and men of the three armies who were practicing in full swing on the school ground, marching, arraying, and changing formations, Wang Pu's brows were frowning tightly, he was really not happy in his heart, he always lacked something without an artillery battalion under his hands, and his heart was lacking in confidence after all.

But how easy is it to form an artillery battalion?

Cast cannons? Don't even think about it, Man Datong can't find a craftsman who can cast cannons, how to cast cannons?

Spend money to buy? I have money, but where can I buy a gun? Don't count on the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Pu is not worried about the quality of their earthen cannons, Wang Pu wants the Hongyi cannon can only go to Macao to buy, from Macao to Datong is not far away, even if you can buy it, there is no way to transport it back to Datong.

When Wang Puzheng was so worried, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw Wei Daben running onto the parade platform sweating profusely.

Wang Pu was stunned and said, "Lord Wei, you are not in the government office, why are you running to the north camp of the city?" ”

Wei Daben gasped and said, "Don...... Master Horse, there is ...... Someone looking for ...... Find you. ”

"Someone looking for me?" Wang Pu became more and more stunned and said, "Who is looking for me?" Do you have to come and spread the word yourself? ”

Wei Daben took a deep breath, calmed his tone, and said, "That person is waiting in the mansion, you will know when you go." ”

"Huh?" Wang Pu was surprised, "Dare to love this person is not small?" ”

Wei Daben smiled bitterly and said, "Master Horse, don't be embarrassed by your subordinates." ”

"Okay, let's go." Wang Pu nodded, and said to Zhao Liujin, the deputy chief soldier beside him, "Liujin, you continue to practice." ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Liujin responded and took the order flag from Wang Pu's hand.

Wang Pu and Wei Daben left the camp in the north of the city on a fast horse, and rushed all the way, and rushed back to the palace in less than half an hour.

In the side hall in the backyard of the mansion, Wang Pu saw the guy who could let Wei Daben go to spread the word, this guy was wearing an ordinary Confucian shirt, his face was thin, he looked like he was in his fifties, some faces, but vaguely seemed to be a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere?

"Hey." Wang Pu scratched his head and said to the man, "Where do we seem to have met?" ”

"Stinky boy." The man smiled and pointed at Wang Pu and scolded, "Hurry up and call Daddy." ”

"So it's you, old boy?"

Wang Pu immediately recognized the person, wasn't this his cellmate when he was in prison? He was overjoyed at the moment and said: "Hehe, I didn't expect you to be Sun Chuanting, old boy, and I didn't expect you to get out of prison alive." ”

Emperor Chongzhen's re-use of Sun Chuanting, Wang Pu had already known about it from the Tang newspaper, but he just didn't know that the old prisoner who was in the prison with him was Sun Chuanting.

Wei Daben was speechless when he heard this, and he was worried that Wang Pu could talk to Sun Chuanting like this in person.

"Stinky boy, you can get out of the prison alive, why can't the old man?" Sun Chuanting frowned and said angrily, "Also, the old man is so old, and now he is also the governor of the five provinces and the squire of the military department, plus the imperial history of Zuo Du, you kid don't scream at an old boy, you really don't know how to respect the old and love the young at all." ”

"Okay." Wang Pule said, "Then I will call you Old Man Sun from now on." ”

"Call Daddy." Sun Chuanting straightened his face and said seriously, "The old man is your father." ”

I don't know why, Sun Chuanting just felt that Wang Pu was particularly angry with him, when he was still in prison, Sun Chuanting found that he admired this young man in his heart, and felt that this young man was courageous, knowledgeable, brave and resourceful, and his biggest dream at that time was to recognize Wang Pu as his godson.

(To be continued)