Beijing.

Li Zicheng came to the city again, and his eyes were full of ruin and desolation.

Once a city of a million people, it has gone through wars, plagues, famines, and plunder, and has died and fled, and now there are less than 100,000 people.

This is still the result of Liu Zongmin's two years of governance in Beijing.

However, the ecology around Beijing has improved, and the once bare mountain peaks are now overgrown with vegetation. The profession of woodcutter has reappeared, and the residents of Beijing do not have to burn coal to cook rice every day.

"The Tartar hasn't moved yet?" Li Zicheng asked.

Liu Zongmin said: "Haoge sent someone to deliver a letter, let us go to Bazhou first." As long as Bazhou is surrounded, they will cooperate to fight Tianjin, so that the puppet army will lose the other. ”

"Whoever strikes first is the same, you have to join forces to fight." Li Zicheng's tone was quite helpless.

The strength of the Datong Army in Hebei was deployed on the front line of Tianjin, Bazhou, Baoding, Zhending, and Shunde. The west and north sides of this line all belong to Li Zicheng's territory.

Li Zicheng can retreat to Shanxi at any time and defend with mountain obstacles. The Datong army could not retreat, and the Great Plains were all behind it, so they could only hold the city with heavy troops.

Li Zicheng's total strength is about 100,000 people, which is already the limit of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu.

He didn't dare to divide his troops to attack Henan, so he could only concentrate on attacking Hebei, and he had to cooperate with the Manchus.

Li Zicheng has not experienced the combat power of the Datong Army, but he has defeated the Eight Banners Army many times, and everyone knows that it is a first-class strong soldier.

Liu Zongmin worried: "This battle is not easy to fight, there is Fei Ruhe in Bazhou, and Zhang Mingshan (Zhang Tieniu) in Tianjin, both of whom are famous generals in the world." Listening to the news sent back, Fei Ruhe has been appointed as the governor of the rear army and is in charge of the Hebei war. Let's go to Bazhou, which is equivalent to attacking the marshal camp of the puppet army. ”

"How about a siege for reinforcements?" Li Zicheng asked.

"I can only try." Liu Zongmin is not hopeful.

Fei Ruhe's first division was stationed in Bazhou.

Zhang Tieniu's second division was stationed in Tianjin.

Huang Shun's 7th Division, stationed in Baoding (Fucheng).

Vancetong's 16th Division, stationed in Xiongxian.

Li Dingguo's 17th Division was stationed in Shunde.

There are also Baoding, Xin'an, Anzhou, Jinghai and other county seats, each city has at least 3,000 garrisons, all of which are peasant soldiers and police forces. Including the regular army, there are as many as 70,000 or 80,000 people.

The Datong army did not go out, but all of them were stationed in the city.

And Li Zicheng had a total of 100,000 people, and he had to leave troops to garrison the pass to prevent Henan's Datong Army from attacking Shanxi. The people he could bring to the battlefield in Hebei were about 80,000 people.

How can a one-to-one army storm the cities?

Of course, Li Zicheng brought a large number of civilian men and auxiliary soldiers, and claimed to be "sending 500,000 troops" to the outside world.

Li Zicheng looked at the map and said: "If we encircle Bazhou, the puppet army of Beizhili will all come to fight us." At that time, the Tartars can besiege Tianjin with heavy troops, and there will be no pseudo-reinforcements there. The Tartars can fight if they can, and if they can't, they will leave, and the hard battle is all ours. How can there be such a good thing? ”

This is related to the situation of the three parties, the Manchu Qing sent troops to attack North China, and they could only go to fight Zhang Tieniu in Tianjin. When the Datong army was attacked, it could only save Bazhou first, and if it directly saved Tianjin, it would be stopped by Bazhou, and it would be time-consuming and laborious to Rao Road from the south.

How could Li Zicheng stand up to the front and let the Manchu Qing quietly take advantage?

Since ancient times, the coalition forces have always been like this, they have all calculated each other, and it is impossible to work together.

Li Zicheng said: "Contact Tartar, let's besiege Tianjin with him, and besiege Tianjin together to send reinforcements." ”

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Liang Cheng Office.

This place is in the north of Ninghe District of Tianjin City, and now it has become a place for soldiers and grain after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

From Shanhaiguan to here, there were no civilians all the way, and it was impossible for the Tatars to solve the problem of military rations on the spot. It can only be transported from western Liaoxi, the road is very long, and it is easy for the Datong army to land on the grain route by ship, so Haoge is extremely cautious.

Funing, Changli, Luanzhou (Luanxian), Kaiping (Tangshan), these cities along the way, the Manchu Qing Dynasty stationed at least 3,000 people, and more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers were forced to stay behind to guard the grain road.

The Manchurian aristocracy was frightened by the Datong Navy!

The army that Haorge brought to Liangcheng was only more than 60,000. More than 10,000 of them were still Mongolian cavalry from the outer domains, and these people didn't want to fight the Manchus very much.

"Li Zicheng wants to fight Tianjin with us, what do you think?" Hauge asked.

Man Dahai said: "What else can I think? If we don't agree, Li Zicheng may withdraw our troops, won't we come for nothing? ”

"Then the two sides will join forces, more than 100,000 people, and besiege Tianjin to death!" Duerhu said.

Durhu is the great-grandson of Nurhachi and the eldest grandson of Chu Ying.

If it weren't for Chu Ying's ambition and house arrest by Nurhachi, most of them would have been the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty, and Du Erhu would be the emperor's grandson.

Chu Ying's family has been suppressed for decades. Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is declining, in order to balance the factional struggle, Du Erhu has been restored to lead troops, otherwise he can only honestly be an auxiliary prince in the rear.

The Manchurian aristocracy discussed it repeatedly and finally accepted Li Zicheng's proposal.

Immediately, Hauge took the lead and moved to Yangcun in the north of Tianjin to station, and at the same time collected and built large and small ships. The place in Yangcun was later Wuqing District, Tianjin.

Li Zicheng also moved, and asked Liu Zongmin to guard against the Datong army in the direction of Baoding, and he personally led an army of 50,000 to march towards Tianjin.

After the two forces joined forces, they went straight to Dingzigu, seven miles north of Tianjin.

In the past, the T-shaped Gu was a grain transshipment hub, as evidenced by poems: thousands of miles of clouds and sails are blue and blue, and the village smoke and fishing fire are anchored by Wu boats. Layers of cranes are gathered in Sangu, and clusters are clustered on both sides of the river. The northwest group lingers on Haidai, and the southeast is a giant dipping arch and a swallow. Fengcheng is a thousand miles away, and only Yongnu overflows Guangchuan.

Nowadays, there are few people.

However, there were a few people left, but they were all transferred to Tianjin City in advance.

"Have you found out the enemy?" Zhang Tieniu asked.

The sentinel replied: "The enemy cavalry covers the battlefield, and it is difficult to get close to probe. Or with the help of hot air balloons and clairvoyant mirrors, the enemy can be detected from afar, and the main forces of the pseudo-Shun and pseudo-Qing should be in Dingzigu, and the camp over there stretches for ten miles. ”

Zhang Tieniu said: "Inform Fei Dudu of the news immediately!" He also said to the herald, "Let Jinghai County strengthen its defenses, and the enemy may divide his troops to attack Jinghai County after encircling Tianjin." ”

After another two days, it is estimated that Li Zicheng and Haoge discussed it, and finally came to Tianjin with the army.

After the two sides combined, the number of soldiers reached 110,000, and there were nearly 200,000 civilian soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

Li Zicheng's army camped between the canal and the triangle. Hauge's army, camped south of the canal. The camps on both sides are distinct, with the Grand Canal in between, and the city walls must have been assigned to each other during the siege.

In the first few days, it was the shelling of each other inside and outside the city, and the besieging party organized people to fill the moat.

The troops of Fei Ruhe, Huang Shun, Li Dingguo, and Wan Sitong, after assembling in Bazhou one after another, gradually moved closer to the Tianjin battlefield.

The battle of the three large corps, the division of troops and the surprise attack or something, can only be regarded as a small fight.

Who dares to send thousands of troops around the rear to ensure that there is no return, or simply lack food and be trapped alive.

Coupled with the problem of battlefield distribution, Li Zicheng and Haoge were unwilling to suffer losses, so they could only choose to conduct a decisive battle in Tianjin.

Of course, other battlefields are not idle, and wars have already begun.

On the Liaodong side, several divisions came out together and were besieging Haizhou and Phoenix.

On the Henan side, the same divisions came out together, trying to break through the checkpoint and take Shanxi directly.

It is equal to the Manchu Qing and Li Zicheng, who took the initiative to attack in Hebei. The Datong Army, on the other hand, took the initiative to attack in Liaodong and Henan.

……

"Boom, boom!"

Outside Tianjin, artillery fire was continuous.

Thousands of Eight Banner cavalry and Mongolian cavalry of the Outer Domain were sent to Jinghai County for a raid. If you can't take it quickly, then you don't need to storm it, you can just loot in the villages and towns of Jinghai County.

Thousands of cavalry rushed to the outside of Jinghai County, and when they saw that the city gate was closed, they immediately dispelled the idea of seizing the city.

"The thieves have retreated."

"Don't take it lightly."

The two people who talked at the head of the city, one was Yan Yingyuan, the magistrate, and the other was Gao Eryan, an old acquaintance.

Gao Eryan should have been Chongzhen's thirteenth year of exploration, but because he took refuge in Li Zicheng, he was beaten as a traitor by the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty. With Li Zicheng leaving, Nanming couldn't go, so he chose to take refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and finally became the Manchu official Shangshu and Zaifu.

Zhao Han fled south with his little sister and met the peasant army in Jinghai County.

He was also not admitted to the Daming Tanhua, because Chongzhen hanged himself in advance.

After the Datong army occupied Jinghai County, Gao Eryan immediately came out to become an official, but was told that he could only start as a junior official. This product felt faceless, and he was reluctant to be reserved for a year, but he still came out to be a small official, and now he has just been promoted to a county official.

As for Yan Yingyuan, he has been the county governor of Jinghai for two years in Shandong Province.

After this territorial expansion, Yan Yingyuan will definitely rise.

Yan Yingyuan wore civilian official clothes, personally carried a sword to inspect the city defense, and handed over the dispatch of materials in the city to Gao Eryan. As for the real "generals" who lead the troops, one is the county canon (the director of the public security bureau), who leads the police force of the whole city; The other is a veteran officer in charge of the county's peasant soldiers.

There were thousands of soldiers, and even ordinary people came to assist in the defense, and rolling logs, falling rocks, gold juice, and vegetable oil were prepared.

It's a pity that the enemy ran away.

Thousands of cavalry, scattered into three groups, went to the villages and towns in the countryside of Jinghai to plunder.

After the cavalry of the Chahar Department separated from the cavalry of the Eight Banners for two miles, Zuo Xiaocheng rode to catch up with Daiqin.

"Dai Qin replied, there is no one everywhere, and the Han people have long since withdrawn," Zuo Xiaocheng said, "This is the consistent road of the Datong army, and the prefectures and counties close to the battlefield will clear the wilderness in advance." ”

Dai Qin said: "Go far and then dismount and rest, don't be seen by those Eight Banner soldiers." ”

After running out of another mile, Dai Qin sent spies to scatter the sentry posts in all directions, and the rest all dismounted and lazied.

Since there's nothing to grab, why bother?

Zuo Xiaocheng said: "Dai Qin I answer, which side do you think can win?" ”

"I don't know." Dai Qin shook his head.

Zuo Xiaocheng asked again: "If the Qing Dynasty wins, what benefits can Chahar have?" ”

Dai Qin said: "There is no benefit, our Chahar Department has always been guarded by Manchurian nobles. We have a tough battle, but we don't have a good one. ”

"So what's the point? Surrender to the Datong Army! Zuo Xiaocheng blurted out.

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