After Huangtaiji captured Tongzhou and the Tartars broke through the entire Ming Xuanfu and Beizhili defense lines, the more than 30,000 Han soldiers who surrounded Zhangjiakou Fort withdrew their troops and went to Tongzhou to meet Huangtaiji.

Therefore, Zhangjiakou Fort was relieved, and Lu Xiangsheng gathered the army of Yansui and other towns to King Qin, and went to King Qin, Beijing, non-stop.

At present, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Yansui Army have arrived in Beijing and are stationed in the west of Beijing.

Zhang Zhang has always been very concerned about Lu Xiangsheng, because in this dark era, Lu Xiangsheng is definitely an outlier.

Zhang Li glanced at the generals in the conference hall, Jiannu had not launched the imaginary general attack in the past few days, which made him feel a little uneasy.

Today's battle under the city is more like a show off, fighting to defeat the morale of the Ming army, not a siege battle. If it is a siege, at least Jiannu's artillery, ladders and other siege equipment must be on the field, but Jiannu just showed their "riding and archery skills" under the city of Beijing.

Jiannu didn't seem to really want to attack Beijing City, what were they going to do?

……

In the Qianqing Palace of the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen's face was pale, and he sat alone on the dragon chair sulking.

Above the main hall, there was another person standing with his hands down, but it was not the first assistant Wen Tiren, but the second assistant Zhou Yanru.

In the past two days, Jiannu launched a lot of tentative attacks, whether it was defending the city or defending the river, the Ming army suffered heavy losses, and lost more than 50,000 soldiers and horses.

Fortunately, Beijing's city defense was strong, and the Wuding River was surging, so Jiannu did not succeed. Even so, it was enough to make the Manchu civil and military tremble, and no one was willing to "offer advice" anymore -

Except for Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru handed over a secret letter early this morning. Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen immediately summoned him.

Now Chongzhen is in a bad mood. Zhou Yanru is naturally very clear, but he is very sure of the "big move" he put this time. It will definitely hit the biggest "traitor" in my heart!

"Zhou Aiqing, you said in the recital that I am afraid that Ji Sun's worries are not in the future, but within the Xiao Wall. Who do you mean? ”

Zhou Yanru's heart was stunned, and he immediately responded loudly: "The ministers are afraid of the worries of the Ming Dynasty, not in Jiannu, but in the Jingshi!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen is not a fool after all, although Zhou Yanru's words are slightly twisted. But he still understands......

"You mean the ministers and the generals?!"

The green tendons on Chongzhen's forehead were exposed, and it was obvious that Zhou Yanru's words hit the most sensitive place in his heart......

Zhou Yanru did not answer directly, but shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" The Emperor Shengming! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's whole body began to tremble, and Zhou Yanru's meaning couldn't be clearer. Wen Tiren is a minister, and Hong Chengchou is a border general. Wen Tiren is the first assistant of the cabinet and the number one leader of the civil official system, while Hong Chengchou is the "Governor of King Qin's soldiers and horses", and the commander-in-chief of King Qin's more than 200,000 soldiers and horses -- well, 60,000 or 70,000 have been wiped out by the Tartars. There are only more than 100,000 left.

If Nima and the two "pick up soap", Emperor Chongzhen will be in danger!

Dead silence, the needles in the Qianqing Palace can be heard, and the atmosphere is unusually weird.

After a long time. Emperor Chongzhen said in a trembling voice: "Zhou Aiqing, the current situation is so bad, the country still needs to borrow the governor of Hongdu-then." What Aiqing said is also reasonable, but is there a good way to deal with it? ”

Zhou Yanru had 10,000 "grass and mud horses" galloping in his heart. The power of Wen Tiren's old thief's previous "dedication" is too great! Even the suspicious Emperor Chongzhen didn't say a word about him. It is only said that it is necessary to borrow heavy Hong Chengchou, this Nima......

However, it was only a short moment before Zhou Yanru spoke, because he had already thought of various countermeasures.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty must guard against Dong Zhuo's story, and you must not let King Qin's soldiers and horses enter the city!"

Although Chongzhen doesn't read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he has read a few pages of the official history of "Three Kingdoms", how can he not know about Dong Zhuo of the Three Kingdoms?

Soon, Emperor Chongzhen made a decision: "Aiqing is reasonable. Zhou Aiqing went to the cabinet to draw up a plan, and the soldiers and horses of the three battalions of the Beijing Division were used to defend the city, and all the Qinwang troops were moved outside the city. ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhou Yanru gave a long response, the time is not yet ripe to bring down Wen Tiren, but the first step has already begun. If Hong Chengchou is defeated, Wen Tiren will definitely not be able to escape the involvement!

If Beijing can't defend the city or not, Lord Zhou naturally doesn't care, so it's a big deal to go to Nanjing...... Bring down Wen Tiren, that's the first important thing!

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The summer sun was very poisonous, and the more than 5,000 musketeers of the Tuanshan Army were all hidden in the trenches, quietly monitoring the Tartar military camp on the other side of the Wuding River.

The Tartars on the opposite side of the Lugou Bridge were white flags, and they had also tried to attack the positions of the Tuanshan Army with bows and arrows from afar, but after being "educated" by the 300-pound Furlong machine gun, they were no longer close to the river.

The artillery team of the Tuanshan Army was mainly composed of 300-pound Franc machine guns, and the thousand-pound Franc machine was too cumbersome and unsuitable for field battles after all.

At this moment, Zhang Li took Gao Yuanliang, accompanied by wood, and was inspecting in front of the position.

Zhang Zhang is holding a "clairvoyant mirror" in his hand, which is actually the so-called telescope in later generations, which was invented by Westerners a long time ago, but the clarity is not good, but it can also be seen roughly.

After looking at the Tartar Zhengbai Flag camp camped on the other side of the river two miles away through the clairvoyant mirror, Zhang Li slowly put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and his expression became grim.

Gao Yuanliang saw Zhang Li's expression, and faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, so he asked, "My lord, is there anything wrong with the Tartars on the other side?" ”

Zhang Zhang frowned and said: "The Tartars confronted our army under the city of Beijing, and it is really not a good battlefield. The only explanation is that the Tatars wanted to control Tongzhou, the northernmost point of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. However, I always felt that this was a façade. ”

"Appearances?" Gao Yuanliang was slightly stunned, obviously Zhang Li's thinking jumped a little.

Mu Tou has been on duty on the defense line of Lugou Bridge for the past few days, and at this moment he also spoke: "My lord, there is an incident, my subordinates feel a little strange, and I don't know ......."

"What?" Zhang Zhang immediately asked, after all, front-line commanders are often able to find some information that "in the midst of planning" people can't find.

Wood's eyes deepened, and two words came out of his mouth faintly: "Grain cart ......"

"Grain carts?" Zhang Zhang exclaimed, "Tartar's grain cart? What happened to the grain cart? ”

"In the past few days, the number of grain trucks for the army to operate grain has been more than half less than in the previous days!"

"What?!" Zhang Li and Gao Yuanliang shouted out almost in unison.

The large reduction of grain trucks indicates that there are fewer people to eat, which means that there are clearly -

There are not so many people in the Tartar barracks anymore!

"Wood, why didn't you say it earlier?!" (To be continued.) )