With money, food, and population, Li Xingzhi can do what he wants, and with these 700 young and strong people and 200 old and weak, plus the 500 homeless people sent by Huang Wenchang, the defense line of Lijiashan can be reorganized.

There was a lesson from the last time the official army attacked the mountain, and this time to rebuild the defense line of Lijiashan, Li Xingzhi ordered to dig three trenches along the left side of Lijiashan, and these three trenches were about 300 steps apart, and the front of the trenches was all filled with sharp piles.

Behind these three ditches was a four-foot-high mud wall, and the two sides of the mud wall were firmly fixed with wooden stakes, and there was a gate about a zhang wide, which was also made of logs, and was connected to the arrow tower behind the mud wall with a noose, just like a drawbridge of the city wall.

After the completion of the three trenches, Li Xingzhi asked people to build a watchtower every 500 steps or so behind the last mud wall, which could be used as both arrow towers and watchtowers, so that the enemy could no longer sneak attack.

While actively building a defensive line, Li Xingzhi ordered Qian Anning to arrange for people to dig a few caves in the foothills behind the cottage and start mass production of cement.

To be honest, the old and weak people in the rear camp are a little powerless for this kind of physical work, but no one dares to complain, because Li Jiashan has food, since he has eaten the food of the master of Li Zhai, then he has to work hard for the master of Li Zhai, and it is better to exert strength than to starve to death.

Considering that the Dongyu can enter Baoding Mansion at any time, Li Xingzhi decided to hand over the 300 troops transferred by Huang Wenchang to Wang Zhong under the command of Wang Zhong and reorganize them into the Zhenyu battalion to expand the strength of the cottage.

Li Xingzhi decided to garrison the newly formed Zhenyu battalion, and Li Xingzhi did not conduct the whole training according to the training method of the mandarin duck soldiers, one is that the time does not allow it, and there is no time to reorganize it, and the other is that Li Jiashan does not have so many weapons and equipment.

The reason why the garrison embraced the city was because the back of the city was against the horse shed, and from the waterway, the sentinels of the righteous army could approach the vicinity of Xin'an County.

Wang Zhong has no disobedience to Li Xingzhi's military orders, he has been haunted by the defeat of the official army last time, Li Xingzhi let him lead the troops alone to garrison the city, he is also secretly ruthless, this time no matter what, he will cut off a few Tartar dog heads to atone.

In order to celebrate the birthday of the superintendent Deng Xizhao, Wu Zongbing actually recalled all the generals stationed at the border pass to Miyun, resulting in the defense line of Qiangziling being useless.

According to intelligence, the slave chief Yue Tuo is leading his troops to the area of the wall and the collar.

Wu Guojun didn't care, he thought that the mountains in the area of Qiangziling were dangerous, that is, the east captives were killed under the city, and they couldn't break through the defense line in a hurry, and they ignored the warrant of Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao.

On August 23, Yue Tuo's troops were the first to arrive at Qiangziling, the Ming army had no subordinates, and was actually broken through the side wall by the pigtailed soldiers in one fell swoop, and forced the fortress of Qiangziling, Wu Guojun was shocked when he heard the report, and led the army and horses of his headquarters to evacuate Miyun on the same day.

Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, did not choose to retreat at the critical juncture, and at the same time he reported to the Beijing division, he also sent a message to the troops to immediately reinforce the fortress of Qiangziling, and he even gathered the remnants of the army and stationed in the fort.

However, Wu Aheng's general order did not summon a single soldier, and the generals in Gyeonggi either delayed or fled in a hurry.

At the critical juncture, Wu Aheng was not afraid, but led hundreds of remnants, with the city to defend to the death, to resist tens of thousands of people in the east, in a desperate situation, the Ming army broke out of the strong courage, when the rolling wood and the stone these instruments were exhausted, they dismantled the city bricks as weapons, desperately resisted the Tartars, but the enemy was outnumbered, on the seventh day of the siege of the city, the defenders of the wall ridge finally ran out of ammunition and food, and all the seven hundred defenders were killed, and Wu Aheng, the commander of Jiliao, fought to the death with a knife, and was captured by exhaustion.

Yue Tuo, the prince of pseudo-Qingqing, personally surrendered, Wu Aheng was unswerving, refused to kneel, and scolded, Yue Tuo was ashamed and angry, and ordered to cut off the knees of Wu Inspector left and right, Wu Tuo's knees were injured, but he was still loyal and unyielding, and scolded the slave chief, Yue Tuo was so mad that he broke the teeth in Wu Inspector's mouth with a blunt object, and pulled his tongue out of his mouth.

After breaking through the wall, the Dongyu Yue Tuo Department immediately entered Tongzhou, and Feishu asked the commander of Dongyu to enter the pass, and Dolgon led the army to meet in Tongzhou.

Liu Tongsheng, the governor of Tongzhou, was afraid of the prestige of the Eastern Captives, and did not dare to organize a defense at all, and after the Eastern Captives entered the country, he abandoned the city and fled.

Liu Tingxun, a Gongsheng of Tongzhou, stepped forward and resolutely donated all his family wealth, calling on the soldiers and civilians of the city to resist the pigtail soldiers.

On the seventh day of the first month of September, the two armies of the East Captives met at the west gate of Tongzhou, and immediately launched an offensive against Tongzhou, Liu Tingxun was not afraid of danger, and personally commanded the city, and the people of Tongzhou were also united, in order to resist the East Captives, they spontaneously demolished their houses, and then moved all the bricks and stones, and wood to the city tower.

When the eastern captives attacked the city, they smashed the bricks and stones under the city, and the eastern captives used shield carts and chariots to attack the city, and they threw the dismantled wood and hay under the city, and then threw down countless torches and lit a raging fire under the city to stop the attack of the eastern captives.

With a strong city defense, the soldiers and civilians of Tongzhou withstood the attacks of the Tartars again and again, and on the third day of defending the city, Liu Tingxun was unfortunately shot by a stray arrow, and finally died of serious injuries.

After Liu Tingxun was martyred, the soldiers and civilians of Tongzhou were not afraid, but more united, all the men went to the city, and the women went out of their homes to carry supplies for the soldiers and civilians defending the city, and they resisted the endless attacks of the Tartars with their flesh and blood.

Facts have proved that the Tartars are not terrible, as long as the Han people can stick to one heart and unite as one, then they can resist the pigtailed soldiers under the city, the bricks and stones are gone, they jump off the city tower with the pigtailed soldiers who have just climbed the city, and one after another the old and weak rush to the cannibalistic Tartars without hesitation,

Dongyu attacked for more than ten days, but could not break through the defense line composed of the people, when Dongyu entered the pass not long ago, due to the shortage of food, the puppet Qingrui prince Dolgon saw that Tongzhou was in urgent trouble, so he divided his troops into eight routes, and plundered all parts of Gyeonggi.

After Dolgon divided his troops, he personally led the main force of the two white flags to attack and advance to Anzhou and Baoding, and sent the Han army to lead 2,000 troops under the white banner Meile Zhangjing Sun Degong and his descendants Youguang to attack Xin'an.

For a time, Gyeonggi was in turmoil, Santunying, Qian'an, Zunhua and other cities were lost one after another, where the pigtailed soldiers passed, the city was sparse, the corpses were everywhere, the bones were piled up, and the blood was surging, and countless people were reduced to the so-called people and animals, and the vanguard of the Dongyu even arrived at Niulanshan, which was only more than 30 miles away from the Jingshi.