After listening to Gao Qiqian's promise, Chongzhen ordered him to continue to control the soldiers and horses he brought back, and the defeated Xuanda and the remnants of Shanxi before Chen Xinjia were also included in Gao Qi's tent to obey orders.

This time he trembled again, and he controlled more than 30,000 officers and troops at once, and was ordered by Chongzhen to be sent to the east of the capital, responsible for guarding the gates of Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen, Guangqumen and Zuo'anmen.

Gao Qiqian actually knows very well, what is the combat strength of these officers and troops under his command, these people have just suffered defeat, their morale is low, and their equipment is not very good, let him take these officers and soldiers out of the city to fight against Yu Jiajun, basically it is almost the same as looking for death, where is Wu Xiang's end, if he is defeated and will go out of the city, he can basically guarantee that he will collapse at the touch of a button, and there is no possibility of victory.

So he didn't dare to go out of the city to block the Yu family's army, and after playing Chongzhen, he put these soldiers and horses in the city and was responsible for defending these city gates.

In addition, he raised the hidden guò relationship, and from the Beijing division and Beijing camp armory, he proposed some weapons, and supplemented them to these generals under his command, so as to prepare a posture to defend to the death.

It should be explained that although the combat effectiveness of the army is not strong, as the Beijing division of the Ming Dynasty, the quality of weapons and equipment in the Beijing division is definitely very interesting!

Over the years, as the Hongyi cannon began to be imitated by all parts of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingshi side has also been equipped with a lot of Hongyi cannons over the years, in addition to the general cannon, Lianzhu cannon (Franc machine gun) various firearms, the number of equipment is large, which is incomparable to other cities.

Moreover, among the Beijing Division, there is a workshop for the production of weapons, which is subordinate to the War Bureau, responsible for creating various weapons and armor for the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Division, and also creating fire guns and other things.

Therefore, among the Beijing divisions, there is a fairly complete weapon production system, which can basically meet the needs of the Beijing division.

In addition, for some reason, it is probably because of the appearance of Yu Xiaotian, the butterfly effect of the guide, and the famous explosion of Wang Gongchang that occurred in Beijing in history, but it did not happen in this time and space.

Therefore, on the whole, the quality of the weapons and equipment of the Beijing Division is still quite high, and there are enough ammunition and materials in reserve, as long as the officers and soldiers are willing to fight to the end, it is still very, very difficult for the family army to conquer the strongest and largest city in the world.

On the fifth day after Yu Xiaotian led the troops to conquer Tongzhou City, he began to raise troops to kill the capital, on the morning of the ninth day of the fourth month, Yu Jiajun finally appeared outside the Chaoyang Gate and Guangqu Gate in the east of the capital, and began to set up a large camp about ten miles east of the capital, and the cavalry immediately began to scatter and guerrilla in all directions, blocking the entire east of the Beijing division and the north and south sides.

With the arrival of the Yu family's army, the Beijing division also entered the most severe martial law, and a large number of officers and soldiers began to ascend the city under the leadership of the generals.

One cannon after another was also pushed behind the battlement, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed out of the city......

After Yu Xiaotian led his troops to arrive outside the capital, he took his staff officers and generals to carefully observe the city walls and defense facilities in the east of the capital, such as Guangqu Gate, Chaoyang Gate, and Dongzhi Gate.

After seeing the situation of the Beijing Division, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, the city wall is built tall and majestic, thick and solid, and the city wall of the Beijing Division as a whole is a plate rammed earth structure, and the outer layer is wrapped with huge city bricks.

Almost every city gate, there is a large urn city, there is a moat up to several zhang wide outside the city, filled with river water, at this time the weather has become warmer, the river water of the moat has been thawed, so if you want to break through the city defense, you must find a way to build a pontoon bridge or fill the moat, in order to attack the city wall.

After thousands of years of war, Chinese dynasties have formed a unique concept of city building and a unique culture of city building, and formed a complete set of perfect city defense facilities.

Although with the development of artillery technology, the construction of Chinese-style cities is a bit backward, but the rammed earth city wall structure is solid, has a certain ability to absorb the kinetic energy of cannonballs, and various ancillary defense facilities, so that the Chinese-style city still has a strong ability to resist attack.

Such a strong city wall, even if the later generations of large-caliber artillery pulled up, directly against the city wall, it is not necessarily able to quickly demolish the city wall, in the later generations of the War of Resistance against Japan, many cities stormed fortifications, the Japanese invaders in the possession of strong heavy artillery firepower, the city walls of some cities shelling, did not achieve good results.

It can be seen that it is very difficult to collapse such a strong city wall with artillery alone, and Yu Jiajun is now equipped with some smoothbore front-loading artillery, although it is in the absolute leading position in this era in technology, but it is basically impossible to gnaw down such a city wall.

After all, this is the Ming Dynasty Jingshi, after hundreds of years of continuous construction and reinforcement, the city wall is built so strongly, I am afraid that there is no one else in the world.

Therefore, after looking at the city defense here, including Yu Xiaotian, they all feel not optimistic, and under the strong attack, the Yu family army will definitely pay a heavy price for casualties.

And through the guò telescope, you can see that the official army on the city wall also arranged a considerable number of artillery, although the quality of the artillery officially equipped by the Ming Dynasty, compared with the Yu family army is much behind, but the number is huge, just on the city wall around Chaoyangmen, they have through the guò telescope, found no less than 100 guns of various types.

Among them, there are as many as seven or eight Hongyi cannons with relatively large caliber, and there are also many old general cannons with large calibers and large-caliber Franco machine guns, which will cause great casualties to the attacking side when fired at close range.

After Yu Xiaotian saw these situations, he took out the topographic map of the capital that had been drawn in advance and hung it in the big tent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the matter has come to this, the attack on the capital is something we must face, today you have also seen the defense of the Beijing division, it stands to reason that the current strength of the officers and troops in the capital is far more than twice that of our army, but the officers and soldiers are uneven, morale is low, tactics and equipment are not as good as mine!

Therefore, the imperial court also saw this, and now almost all the troops have shrunk into the city, and put on a posture of defending the city!

Then we can only take the Beijing division by storming, and now there is not much time left for us, outside of Shanhaiguan, there are still more than 70,000 elites in the Guanning army, and they may enter the customs at any time to attack our back.

In addition, the imperial court has issued an edict, the edict ordered the world's soldiers and horses to enter the king of Beijing, the current governor of Shanxi Wu Fu estimated that after the edict, about 30,000 soldiers and horses in Shanxi will be mobilized to enter the guard, and the fastest can arrive in Beijing within half a month.

There are still tens of thousands of Shaanxi soldiers under the command of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, who are estimated to arrive in a month at the earliest, and then there are Shandong, there are still 40,000 officers and troops under the command of Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, who are in Dezhou.

There are still more than 20,000 officers and soldiers in Shunyi, Jizhou, and Huairou in the north, and it is estimated that they will arrive soon!

If these reinforcements arrive in Beijing before we break through the Beijing Division, we will probably face the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of officers and troops at the same time.

So the key now is that we must capture the capital within ten days and order the world to withdraw its troops! Otherwise, I'm afraid it's going to be a bitter battle!

Although I know that you are not afraid, but after all, our strength is limited, and now even if we include the new barracks in Tianjin Weihe Tongzhou and other places that have not yet formed an army, our strength is only 70,000, and the main force is only yours, and the strength is only 30,000 A little stronger!

This attack on the capital is a bowl of raw rice, whether we eat it or not, we must eat him, if we are responsible, it will be a protracted tug-of-war, even if we can defeat these reinforcements from all walks of life, it is estimated that we will eventually suffer heavy losses.

After all, we are on an expedition, and the logistics and supplies are all transferred from the south, and it seems that the supplies are quite sufficient at present, but they cannot support us to fight here for a long time.

Therefore, you must be mentally prepared in advance, once the war starts, you must use the fastest speed to defeat the defenders, even if you only capture one gate, then you can also break the will of the defenders!

Now the big guys might as well talk about how to fight this battle, I want to hear your thoughts today! ”

Yu Xiaotian didn't look at this picture either, and turned his back to this map of the city defense of the Beijing Division and asked the staff officers and officers present.

Participating in the pre-war meeting were officers at the post of deputy battalion commander and above, as well as staff officers at the brigade and headquarters level, including members of the temporary pre-war general staff, a total of nearly 100 people, crowded into the big tent, a little too crowded, but everyone listened to Yu Xiaotian with a fanatical look on their faces.

Although Yu Xiaotian just said the situation very strictly, for these officers, it didn't seem to cause them much pressure, isn't it hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers? Forget it! Many people secretly thought so in their hearts.

The army of Jiannu is powerful enough, the 100,000 army in front of Lao Tzu did not touch his head and bleed, and was finally crippled by Lao Tzu, and even Dolgon was beheaded, what can these officers and soldiers be?

Therefore, no one present really felt too much pressure, but they all carefully examined the defense map of the capital division in front of them, thinking about how to fight this battle.

After Yu Xiaotian asked, someone immediately stood up and began to point to the city defense map and talk about his thoughts, and soon the big tent was lively, and the officers and staff officers expressed their opinions one after another, and argued loudly, talking about their own opinions.

Soon everyone's opinions gradually unified, and finally formed a preliminary battle plan, Yu Xiaotian listened while looking at the map to analyze, now that the battle has been fought more, he has formed an instinct for analysis, and is no longer as arbitrary as before.

(Thanks to the Eagle Warriors for the tip!) ）