Chapter 202: I have to stay for five more days
Since it was already night, the Qing army naturally did not attack again, and Duoduo also took advantage of this to convene the generals in the tent.
The defeat of losing dozens of white-armored soldiers during the day made Duoduo very unhappy, but it also aroused his great interest in taking Kaifeng, and what made him even more excited at the moment was that Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty was still in Kaifeng City!
At this time, he said to Zhishun Shang Kexi, Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming:
"The regent has already said that this king's expedition to the south of the Ming court this time is focused on getting rid of the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen and his royal descendants!
At present, Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen is the backbone of the entire Ming Dynasty, and his newly formed guards are all based on him, completely obeying the imperial power, and they are all well-trained troops, and the predecessor of the guards has a record of appeasing Liu Fangliang, annihilating Liu Zeyu, Liu Liangzuo, and then only using a guard corps to unite Huang Degong and others to annihilate hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of Zuo Liangyu.
It can be seen that this Guards is indeed not to be underestimated! Now I'm afraid that the one that killed dozens of our white-armored soldiers on the Kaifeng city wall is also the firearms battalion of the Guards, otherwise its firearms would not be so sharp, and the shooting would not be so proficient! Under the fire of my heavy arrows, they even damaged me dozens of baba alas! But if Zhu Youzhen is eliminated at this time, it can be done once and for all, so that the guards are leaderless, and when the time comes, I will go south to attack Ming in order to Pingchuan and go straight to Nanjing! ”
Duoduo's implication is obvious, that is, to continue to attack Kaifeng City, and it is because Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is in the city.
"What the prince said is extremely true, now the Ming Emperor Chongzhen went south to Jiangnan is the greatest benefit to the Ming Dynasty, with the wealth of Jiangnan, once there is an emperor, it will increase the difficulty of destroying the Ming court, the most important thing to destroy the Ming Dynasty is to kill the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen and his princes, for the territory to occupy the second, destroying the core of the Ming court is the fundamental purpose of this southward trip, that is to say, the most important thing now is how to trap Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen under the city of Kaifeng!"
Shang Kexi echoed Duoduo, as a former general of the Ming Dynasty, he now knows that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen is in the city, forcing him to have a feeling of being poked and scolded in the backbone from time to time, so he wants to get rid of Zhu Youzhen while Zhu Youzhen is still in Kaifeng City, and make a great contribution to the unification of the world by the Qing Dynasty.
Geng Zhongming is the same, he couldn't help but speak actively: "But, Lord, Kaifeng City is not a small city in the end, otherwise Li Zicheng will not open the seal three times, now my Chinese army is only tens of thousands of horses, plus Li Zicheng flooded Kaifeng in the past, so that this area is mostly muddy, inconvenient for cavalry, it is difficult for us to surround Kaifeng City, once Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen takes advantage of this to escape immediately, it is not good, according to Weichen, we might as well face Kaifeng City and not defeat, so that Zhu Youzhen can think that he can stay in Kaifeng City for a few more days, At the same time, immediately order the other two armies to speed up to Kaifeng, and maybe they can surround Kaifeng within five days! ”
Duoduo nodded, agreed with Geng Zhongming's opinion, and immediately ordered someone to notify the other two armies overnight, and at the same time ordered the army to camp on the spot, and ordered Turai to lead the Eight Banners to guard the movement of Kaifeng City at any time, and also ordered the Han Eight Banners to launch an attack on Kaifeng City, and implement the strategy of attacking but not conquering.
Duoduo even said that this time he must capture Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen alive!
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"Don't worry, if I am not mistaken, with the wisdom of Dolgon and the determination of Duoduo, I will not know that I am in Kaifeng City and do not want to besiege me, if they immediately attack Kaifeng City with red-coated cannons at this time, I will naturally immediately leave the city and retreat, then what they get is just an empty city that has already been killed and slaughtered once by Li Zicheng, even if Duoduo did not ask the three-way army to join forces to attack Kaifeng and return to Deke Fengyang in advance, then he now knows that I will redeploy such a strategy here!" From Wuyang, it is expected to take about five days, and it is no problem for me to stay here for four or five days. ”
Zhu Youzhen didn't really want to show how calm he was as a king, and how much he wanted to live and die with Kaifeng City, but he suddenly realized now that if he left at this moment, he would only let Duoduo order the Qing army from all walks of life to surround him in other places outside Kaifeng Mansion, that is to say, Zhu Youzhen had realized that he seemed to have become the most important purpose for Dolgon to send Duoduo south to attack Ming.
According to the original history, Dolgon sent Azig and Duoduo to the south, all the way to the remnants of the Pingchuang thieves and the Zuo Liangyu department, and all the way to destroy the Southern Ming court and get rid of the Hongguang Emperor and then return north immediately.
Zhu Youzhen believed in this life, but he was afraid that Dorgon's instructions to Duoduo still wanted to seize himself, the Ming Emperor, as the first purpose of going south.
Dolgon, who was considered the most far-sighted of the Manchu military aristocracy, was naturally aware of his importance to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Youzhen thought that instead of going now, so that Duoduo would pursue him to other places, or be surrounded and intercepted by Duoduo's other two armies, it would be better to stay in Kaifeng and let Duoduo gather all the three armies, and then take Duoduo in circles and take him south into the pocket of the guards.
The key deployment areas of the First Army, the Third Army, and the Second Army of the Guards Army were in Huai'an and Yangzhou, that is, Huaiyang, which Zhu Youzhen deployed on the basis of the experience of the original historical development.
And in this life, he didn't know if Duoduo would attack the Ming Dynasty according to this routine, so he was now taking advantage of this to take the initiative to attract Duoduo to Huaiyang by relying on his status as emperor.
In addition, Zhu Youzhen felt that he was also relying on his imperial status to sit here and prepare for Lu Daqi to transfer more soldiers and horses to Guide Mansion.
It doesn't matter if Duoduo sees through his purpose, because what he wants is a decisive battle with himself and the guards behind him.
Shi Kefa and the others didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen to stay in Kaifeng City, and they all persuaded Zhu Youzhen to leave quickly.
Zhu Youzhen naturally did not comply, and gradually, the accompanying officials were not able to persuade him again.
Even on the fifth day, the ministers had begun to get used to following His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen around the Kaifeng Mansion City, and they had even stopped urging Zhu Youzhen to leave.
However, this time, Zhu Youzhen did not wait for the persuasion of the ministers, but directly and suddenly ordered to evacuate Kaifeng City.
"Your Majesty refused to evacuate a few days ago, why did you choose to be in such a hurry, and it was in the middle of the night, and our sentry cavalry had not yet discovered that the Qing army was coming from the other two directions", Lu Daqi asked.
"It's too late for your sentry to report the time, and after I leave, you immediately post a notice, saying that Your Majesty has issued an edict ordering the officers and soldiers of Kaifeng City to hold on for another day, and Your Majesty will personally send reinforcements to rescue Kaifeng, if there are no reinforcements in Kaifeng after a day, you can evacuate immediately!"
Zhu Youzhen immediately rode out of the governor's office as he spoke, but in order to paralyze the Qing army, Zhu Youzhen did not wear a dragon robe when he left the city, and he first took five hundred brocade guards to break through from the north, which the Qing army had observed clearly, and then turned south.