Chapter 705: Aixinjueluo Yiwoduan (Part 1)

Lin Yue said, "Do you have an opinion?"

Yuan Chonghuan said: "I dare not."

"Don't dare or disdain?"

Yuan Chonghuan fell to his knees with a thud: "I dare not."

"In the seventh year of the apocalypse, when I revived you, you said that you would be able to pacify Liaodong within five years. Now, only two years later, Huang Taiji led people to detour south and broke the Great Wall defense line to point at the capital. Do you have anything to say?"

"I...have nothing to say." Yuan Chonghuan bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"In the spring of this year, you took the Shangfang sword I gave you and killed Mao Wenlong. It is truly majestic and you must be happy."

"My lord... panic."

"Are you terrified? What are you terrified of? You think I don't know that you said that the five-year pacification of Liaodong is an empty ticket for comfort...or to deceive my trust, why I didn't expose you, I think you should Know."

Yuan Chonghuan didn't know, really didn't know, but now he couldn't say he didn't know: "Your Majesty, my minister..."

Yuan Chonghuan didn't know the reason, and Lin Yue himself didn't know the reason. After all, when Chongzhen used Yuan Chonghuan, he was still working as a young eunuch in Kunning Palace. Now he was using this matter to run on Yuan Chonghuan, so that the emperor appeared to be unpredictable and far-sighted.

"Okay, don't justify yourself. I won't pursue the matter of you deceiving the emperor for the time being. I won't pursue Mao Wenlong's death. This time, Huang Taiji's expedition to Gyeonggi, if you dare to make small moves behind the scenes..."

"I don't dare." To be honest, Yuan Chonghuan was really afraid of his threat. First, because "Emperor Chongzhen" hadn't been idle for a while, he had been tossing civil servants to win over generals, and his power was getting more and more inflated. Second, All the officials thought that "Emperor Chongzhen" actually appeared in Shanhaiguan when he was recovering from his wounds in the harem. This kind of courage and responsibility did not look like a son of the clan who grew up in a greenhouse. Three times... this is an exaggerated plan .

Lin Yue said, "I'm sorry you don't dare."

"Your Majesty, excuse me, is it too dangerous to do so?"

"I know what you are worried about." Lin Yue said: "Where I am is where Daming's heart is. Doesn't Huang Taiji want my capital? If he has the ability, he will take it away."

Yuan Chonghuan stopped talking, because speaking of this, if the war is lost, he can't be blamed, it's all the emperor's responsibility.

Did he think fighting with Huang Taiji was just a joke? The cavalry of the Houjin Eight Banners has a high barbarian content and strong combat effectiveness, how can it be compared with the forbidden army in the capital that has long lost its combat effectiveness?

In addition, this is also good, his Guan Ning army can still preserve its strength, and come out to turn the tide at a critical moment, which may make His Majesty the Emperor agree to negotiate a peace.

After that, Lin Yue gave him several orders in a row, and took him away when he was done.

In the official history, Zhao Ledjiao took 4000 Jingqi to Santunying Town first. He wanted to knock on the city gate and enter the city to rest, but was rejected by the city guards. He had no choice but to continue westward. Ambush, the whole army was wiped out.

Here, Yuan Chonghuan followed Lin Yue's order to send the emperor's letter to Zhao Liaojiao. What happened in the official history has changed slightly. Under the leadership of the teacher, he broke out to the east.

When the Hou Jin army saw that Zhao led the teachings to leave, their morale was greatly boosted, and they continued to attack Zunhua and Santun camps.

On the fifth day of November, traitors set fire to the city of Zunhua, and Zunhua fell; on the seventh day, Santunying fell, but what made Huang Taiji and Dorgon angry was that when the city broke down, the granary caught fire and the grain reserves were burned. The post-Golden army circumventing Mongolia had difficulty in supplying supplies. Once the granary was burned, the soldiers could only plunder the rations of the residents on the spot, which led to many killings, thousands of dead, and rivers of blood in the city.

At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan led his troops into the customs and feigned movement in a small area south of the Houjin army in order to confuse Huang Taiji.

In mid-November, Yuan Chonghuan arrived in Jizhou and ordered the army to fortify the walls and clear the fields, and defend the city without getting out. Huang Taiji concealed hundreds of cavalry, and the main force quickly crossed Jizhou and went straight to Huanglong.

Arrived in Sanhe on November 13th, and approached Tongzhou on November 15th, and then... Huang Taiji became a little uneasy, and held a battle meeting with Baylor Daishan, Azig and others.

Yes, their army's offensive momentum is very fierce. From the entrance of the Great Wall, they went all the way to the three camps, Zunhua, Sanhe, and Yuan Chonghuan's troops hid in Jizhou and did not dare to stand out. The morale of the troops was like a rainbow, but if you observe carefully, you will find , although the Ming army retreated steadily, they did not panic and collapsed, and the situation along the way was extremely strange. You must know that from Yongping Mansion to Shuntian Mansion, the terrain is flat and open, and there should be many villages and towns that can be plundered. After I went there, I found out that all the rooms were empty and there was no food at all. Supplies are a big problem for the cavalry to attack. Judging from the current situation, the rations seized from Santunying and Zunhua are only enough to last for eight or nine days. You must know that what they launched was a surprise attack and a cavalry battle. How did the Ming army manage to quickly evacuate the residents of Zunhua to the TZ area?

After more than an hour of discussion, Huang Taiji and others reached a consensus that this battle must continue, because they have traveled so far, and now they have fought to Tongzhou, approaching the capital, and it would be too bad to withdraw , and the soldiers below will not agree.

Since ancient times, the method used by the northern nomads to trample on the Central Plains is to break into the Central Plains with iron cavalry, and then rely on their mobility to roam in undefended or less fortified areas. Since the Ming army quickly evacuated the villages and towns along the way, the looting objects should be moved to Moving south, they can't evacuate the entire village and town residents of Shuntian Prefecture.

Huang Taiji ordered Sahalian to send scouts to Changping in the north and Gu'an in the south to investigate information about the defense of populated villages and cities, while leading the army to continue westward.

On November 16th, the situation became even more wrong. Dorgon led the army to attack Shunyi, almost to the point of no one, but there were only a few old, weak, sick and disabled in the city, and killing them all did not squeeze out much.

Further north are Changping and Miyun. Whether to go there to try their luck or attack the capital, the answer is obvious.

On November 18th, the Houjin troops arrived at Deshengmen in the north of the city, and then they saw a network of trenches stretching for several miles.

On November 19th, Huang Taiji led the main force to arrive. After listening to Dai Shan's report, he decided to send some troops to attack Deshengmen, Andingmen, Guangqumen, etc. at the same time, hoping to disrupt the rhythm and coordination of the defending troops. , and then punched heavily to break the face, completely disintegrating the defense of the capital.

The idea is good, but the combat effectiveness of the famously weak Forbidden Army has greatly exceeded his expectations. If there is one word to describe the tactics of these guys, it would be turtle, and it would be cowardly. Rejecting horses, trenches, traps, mud pits, gold juice, iron nails... using everything to the extreme, using firearms to fight and run in the network of trenches that stretch for several miles, and constantly retreating, leading the Hou Jin army to the fire range of the Hongyi cannon There was a bombardment inside, after the golden army was beaten and killed, the people from the Shenji Battalion came out to line up and shoot, and then the infantry advanced to drive the enemy out of the position. One day, the Houjin Army left thousands of corpses in front of Desheng Gate.

Facing the dense network of trenches stretching for several miles, it was difficult for the Jin iron cavalry to penetrate the defense, and the infantry couldn't get in. In addition to throwing a few cannons captured from the Ming army and bombarding them twice, they laughed and scolded "Chongzhen children" under the city. The imperial guards in the city were helpless.

At night, Huang Taiji stared fixedly at BJ City, the piece of fat he had been thinking about day and night, but he just couldn't chew it off.

As the attacking side, they can cut off the supply of the capital, and the people inside will be without food and water for a period of time. Chongzhen Xiaoer can only surrender and surrender when he has no other choice. The gold soldier starved to death first.

They can still gather around to fight for aid, but the news from the spies said that after Yuan Chonghuan's troops left Jizhou, they hanged behind Hou Jinjun's buttocks for two days and then went back.

In addition, the capital was besieged, and King Qin's troops were not seen in Shanxi and Shandong.

Things are weird, really weird.

At this time, the spies sent to Gu'an to investigate reported that although the villages and towns along the way were also evacuated, the situation was better than that from Jizhou to the capital. There were several relatively large towns with only small groups of infantry garrisoned.

BJ's city defenses could not be breached for a while, and the rations of the troops were short. Huang Taiji ordered Belle Sahalian to lead 2,000 fine cavalry to the south to plunder the rations, and asked him to do a good job of investigation, because he always felt that something was not right.

After Sahalian left, Huang Taiji summoned Dorgon and others to discuss changing the battle plan. According to Daishan and others, horses can graze in Nanhaizi when they are hungry, and people can go far to Shanxi, Baoding, and Shandong when they are hungry. When the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, they will kill another carbine. With the strength of the Ming army, it is impossible to keep their post-gold iron cavalry.

However, just after the meeting, Daishan and others were slapped in the face.