Therefore, as a retreat for the Tatars, Taiyuan Town fell into the hands of the Tatars, even Balsborot did not take the Ming soldiers to heart from his heart, and never considered that the Ming Dynasty could block the 100,000 iron cavalry under his command, but he also left 5,000 troops in Taiyuan Town, and he did not dare to be careless.

Xu Tianzuo said excitedly: "The general manager's strategy is very good, once we recapture Taiyuan Town and seal the retreat of the Tatar army, then the Tatar army will have no way to retreat, and it will be trapped in the land of Gyeonggi, even a little bit of consumption can grind these Tatars to death in the Central Plains." ”

Compared with entering Beijing after returning to Beijing, and then honestly staying in the city to defend the city, waiting for the Tatars to retreat without patience, Chu Yi's idea of recapturing Taiyuan Town, blocking the retreat of the Tatars, and killing the Tatars in one net was naturally more exciting for Xu Tianzuo and others.

Chu Yi smiled slightly, turned around and looked at the rolling river.

It's only two or three days, and it's gone by in a flash.

The army arrived in Tianjin for several miles, Tianjin is not Taiyuan from the city of Beijing, if you are fast, you can arrive in one day, Tianjin Port is the gateway to Beijing City, it is said that the Tatars should send people to occupy the port of Tianjin, directly blockade the port.

However, the Tatar army was staring at the city of Beijing, and did not think of occupying the port of Tianjin.

Therefore, Chu Yi and the others successfully landed and landed from Tianjin Port, but in half a day, tens of thousands of troops all went ashore, and the soldiers and armor were neat, but because they came from the south of the Yangtze River, there were only a few hundred horses.

Even if he looted the whole of Tianjin, in the end, he only gathered 500 war horses.

Watching Yu Huatian leave with a letter written by himself to Zhu Houzhao, Chu Yi turned his eyes to the tens of thousands of troops behind him, and as soon as he broke off, he saw the army rolling straight towards the land of Shanxi.

In the city of Beijing, from the panic of the arrival of the Tatar army in Beijing to the calm a few days later, the people of the capital are really adaptable.

In just a few days, everyone has adapted to the existence of nearly 100,000 Tatar troops outside the city, and the initial panic has long since dissipated.

Some people have even adapted to the sound of the artillery roaring on the city wall every day, and if the artillery does not go off one day, everyone is really a little uncomfortable.

Over the course of a few days, the Tatars, despite the fact that they had collected the surrounding trees, spent a day or two creating simple siege equipment.

But they are a people on horseback, and if they want to fight on horseback, it is their instinct, but to let them get off their horses and carry ladders to attack the city, to be honest, this is really a bit difficult for them.

For a long time, the Tatars rarely chose to attack the city, and in the border towns, the Tatars chose to avoid the city and plunder the place.

But this time it was different, and the ambitious Balsborough was not content to enter the Central Plains and plunder.

In the battle of Tumubao that year, the Wara army defeated hundreds of thousands of troops of the Ming Dynasty in a battle, and even the great emperor was captured by it. Even if it weren't for Yu Qian and others to turn the tide, I am afraid that the city of Beijing would have been breached at that time.

Whenever he thought about this, Balsborot, who thought that he had replaced Varat as the lord of the steppe, naturally wanted to surpass Varat and shape their Tatar deeds.

What feat can compare to the storming of the city of Beijing?

Besides, this time when the 100,000-strong army entered the Central Plains, if it was just to run over and plunder, wouldn't it be too much of a loss of Tartar prestige?

An army of 100,000 people came to the army, and as a result, they came over and plundered like a gang of robbers, even Balsborough himself felt too embarrassed to think about it.

So even though he knew that the Tatars were not suitable for attacking the city, Balsborough still chose to let his warriors dismount and attack the city.

In almost half a month, Balsborough personally supervised the battle several times to supervise the siege of a team of 10,000 people, but it is a pity that the city of Beijing is really high and thick, even if tens of thousands of troops were sent out to attack the city at one time, they were still repelled by the Ming soldiers who defended the city.

It was only half a month's effort, and the nearly 100,000 troops suffered more than 10,000 casualties at once, and the originally high morale gradually wore out after repeated defeats.

In the huge camp, Balsborough slapped a young girl in the face very irritably, and scolded angrily: "Waste, you can't even make a cup of tea, do you want to burn Prince Ben to death?" ”

Miao Yue fell to the ground, half of her face was red and swollen, and she looked pitiful and sobbed in a low voice.

Thinking about her half a month ago, her life could be said to be carefree, but in a blink of an eye, everything changed, and her father, who usually treated her like a pearl in his palm, suddenly told her that he wanted to send her to the Tatar prince as a concubine.

Miao Yue was stunned at the time, she only felt that the sky had collapsed, no matter how she cried, her father, who was usually obedient to him, was unmoved and sent it to Balsborough.

Miao Yue felt that her nightmare had begun, and that night she served Balsborough, almost tortured to death, but fortunately, after Balsborough lost interest in her, she just stayed by her side to serve, like a maid.

The siege of the city has not been going well in the past few days, and Balsborough has long been holding back a breath of anger in his heart and has no way to vent, so he can only say that Miao Yue is unlucky.

Hearing Miao Yue crying, Balsborough became even more irritable in his heart, and shouted: "Come on, drag this slut out for me." ”

Several guards came in and dragged the pale Miao Yue out.

A personal guard walked in and said to Balsborough: "Your Royal Highness, Damon, Amu and several other adults have asked to see Your Highness. ”

Balsborot nodded and said, "Send them to me!" ”

Soon, several strong men in leather robes walked into the big tent and saluted Balsborough: "I've seen Your Highness!" ”

Balsborough glanced at a few people and said, "You have come to see this prince, but is there anything wrong?" ”

Several people glanced at each other, and they heard Amu take a step forward and say: "Your Highness, we are here to implore Your Highness to stop the siege of the city, if it continues like this, I am afraid that the warriors of the clan will not be able to bear it." ”

Damon and the others also spoke in unison: "Please also ask Your Highness to have mercy on the clansmen, after several days of hard fighting, the clansmen have suffered heavy casualties, and they really can't hold on!" ”

Balsborot, who was upset in his heart, couldn't help but stare at several captains viciously and said, "Do you want to rebel?" ”

"Poof!"

With a pop, I saw several captains kneeling on the ground in unison, and said, "I don't dare to wait!" ”

Balsborough suddenly got up and roared: "Don't you want to break through the city of Beijing and capture the Ming Emperor alive?" My Tatar clan is no worse than the Warats, and if the Warat can create a great victory in the civil fort, the prince will break through the city of Beijing and not let the Warats be beautiful! ”

If it was a few days ago, hearing Balsborough say this, Damon, Amu and others would definitely be stimulated by Balsborot's words, and then led his men to attack the city with a roar.

But it's been half a month, and they've shed too much blood under the walls, killing and wounding too many people.

Although there are still more than 70,000 men and horses, there are nearly 20,000 dead and wounded, which is about 20% of the dead and wounded.

If it weren't for the absolute psychological advantage of being the besieging party, I am afraid that the army would have been on the verge of rout with such casualties.

Even so, after a series of siege battles, seeing the people around him die one by one under the city wall, and then going to collect the corpses in person, the psychological impact on these soldiers is too great.

Many soldiers are now war-weary, otherwise several captains would not have risked being suspicious of Balsborought and jointly implored Balsborough to stop.

Looking at the group of captains and tribal leaders who bowed down in front of him, Balsborough took a deep breath and said, "You all get up, I will consider your suggestions carefully." ”

If Balsborough was really willing to stop, then he wouldn't be so perfunctory, so hearing Balsborough say this, Damon, Amu and others all sighed in their hearts.

However, they are not stupid, and they have already touched their bottom line by jointly imploring Balsborough to stop, and if they continue to entangle, they are looking for death.

I saw a cold light flash in Balsborot's eyes and said: "You come with me, I don't believe that this Beijing city really can't be breached!" ”

Amu and the others sighed in their hearts, Balsborough is going to attack the city again, but I don't know how many people will die in the future.

Woooooo

The desolate trumpet sounded, and when the trumpet sounded, the originally scattered Tatar army was quickly assembled, although it was still a little chaotic, but the army of nearly 100,000 people was black and oppressive, standing on the city wall, just looking at it made people feel jealous.

On the city wall, the whole person seemed to have lost a circle, but the energetic British Duke Zhang Mao boarded the city wall and looked at the Tatar army in the distance.

Han Kun, Lu Dazhu and others, who were dressed in armor, also stood on the city wall with Zhang Mao, watching the Tatar army assembled, Han Kun couldn't help but say: "These Tatars really don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin, it's been a few days, I'm afraid that there are no less than 20,000 soldiers who died in this city, and they still refuse to give up." ”

Brushing his beard, Zhang Mao said slowly: "That's fine, the Tatars are looking for death by themselves, so let's take the opportunity to kill them a little more." ”

Cheng Xiangwu patted the city wall and said with a little grievance: "I really want to rush out of the city and fight with these Tatars." ”

As he was talking, he saw that the horn in the Tatar army changed, and then a burst of shouting and killing came out, and the black Tatar soldiers got off their horses, and one by one carried the ladder to attack the city and went straight to Beijing City.

For this kind of scene, the soldiers defending the city have long been familiar with it, after all, this kind of siege is staged almost every day, and it is not good to be unfamiliar.

The corners of Han Kun's mouth curled slightly: "Everyone, the Tatars have attacked the city, and after this time, it is time to transfer the Tengxiang Four Guards Battalion under this official to defend the city." ”

It turned out that Han Kun, Lu Dazhu, and Cheng Xiangwu After gathering many soldiers and horses in the city, they divided the soldiers and horses into three parts, and Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu, and Han Kun led a group of men and horses respectively, and then took turns to garrison the city wall to face the Tatars.

In this way, the soldiers can not only have enough time to rest to maintain enough energy, but also allow all the soldiers to sharpen themselves in the battle to defend the city.

After all, the battle of attack and defense again and again is the best tempering for many soldiers who have never even seen blood.

With the walls to rely on, they only had to defend themselves against the Tatars above the city, which was more comfortable than in the wilderness, when the two armies fought to the death.

In the past half a month, almost all of the more than 100,000 soldiers in the city have had the experience of fighting with the Tatars, and many of them have killed people for the first time and seen blood, and have transitioned from a new recruit to a qualified soldier.

At present, these soldiers can only be said to be qualified soldiers, and as for whether they can become elites, they cannot be achieved in a while.

Without a few trials of blood and fire, how can you become an elite.

The sound of cannons and soldiers shouting to kill was heard endlessly, and many soldiers picked up the rolling logs and smashed them down at the string of Tatars on the ladder.

Accidentally, an arrow flew and sank into the neck of the soldier who came out.

Although it is said that the besieging side suffered more casualties, it is obviously impossible for the defending side to be free of casualties, and it is nothing more than that the Tatars have suffered a lot fewer casualties.

But even so, in the short half a month's effort, the soldiers defending the city were almost seven or eight thousand killed and wounded, and after removing the more than 5,000 wounded, there were almost 3,000 soldiers who were actually killed in battle.

Compared with the Tatars who suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, as the defender of the city, the casualties of the Ming soldiers were not too many.

Besides, there were more than 100,000 soldiers in the city, and less than 10,000 were killed or wounded, which was nothing, otherwise the city would not be so stable. The most important thing is that Zhu Houzhao did what he said, and the silver of Baihuahua was transported from the treasury, but anyone who killed the Tartars was rewarded with silver.

Nearly 20,000 Tatars were killed and wounded, and according to Zhu Houzhao's promise, nearly 1 million taels of silver were distributed.

And those soldiers who died in battle, the deceased's pension tattoo was 100 taels of silver, plus the wounded that Zhu Houzhao later added, according to the severity of the disability, from 10 taels to 50 taels, adding up to almost 500,000 taels.

In just about ten days, almost two million taels of silver flowed out in such a hurry, and the effect of this silver scattering was very obvious.

But all the soldiers who defended the city fought bravely one by one, otherwise, even if the city was used as a barrier, it would not have been possible to let the Tatars suffer so heavy casualties.

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