At the beginning of April, Azig adopted the strategy of cage city, collected all the soldiers of Hebei, collected the grain of the people, fortified the wall, cleared the wilderness, and held the city of Beijing.After Xie Qian's troops withdrew from Heluohui, they immediately occupied Shanhaiguan and entered Yongping Mansion, so they temporarily stopped marching and only sent a small number of scouts to peep into Beijing, waiting for the regent Zhao Ming to lead the main force to arrive.After all, in the city of Beijing, there are still more than 100,000 Qing troops, more than 100,000 Manchurian dependents, and 30,000 cavalry should not advance rashly before the main force arrives, so as not to suffer setbacks.Moreover, Xie Qian's 30,000 elite cavalry did little to attack the city, and their main mission was to monitor the city of Beijing and prevent the Manchurian nobles in the city from escaping.If Azig dares to abandon the city and flee, the 30,000 Ming army iron cavalry will launch a ruthless pursuit of more than 100,000 Manchurians, which will inevitably make Manchu corpses all over the field and floating corpses for hundreds of miles.With such a Ming Dynasty elite cavalry, Azig could only choose to stick to the city.When Xie Qian's troops entered Yongping Mansion, Zhao Ming led more than 200,000 Ming troops, 30,000 Shandong rebels, and tens of thousands of people, who had already marched north along the Grand Canal.At the same time, the 20,000 naval troops of the Ming army had arrived at the mouth of Dagu and approached Tianjin.Because Azig collected the army of Hebei, the Ming army almost did not meet resistance, and it was a scene of desiring the wind and descending, eating pot pulp to welcome the king's division.Zhao Ming went all the way north, passing through Cangzhou, Jinghai, and arriving in Tongzhou.Along the way, the biggest difficulty for the Ming army was not the Qing army, but the people of Hebei and the banner slaves of the Manchurian manor.Since a few months ago, Azig has collected all the surplus grain of the people, causing Hebei to fall into a serious famine, hoping to rely on the homeless people and bandits, as well as a dilapidated Hebei, to drag Zhao Ming into the army.After Zhao Ming saw a mess, he was discouraged.However, Zhao Ming had expected this, so he took a large number of merchants and gentry to march north together.Zhao Ming was responsible for recovering lost land, while merchants and wealthy gentry were responsible for relocating displaced people and recruiting tenants for their farms.Azig didn't expect that his actions not only did not hold Zhao Ming back, but instead allowed Zhao Ming to take the opportunity to sell people's hearts, making the merchants and rich gentry return to their hearts, and the people of Hebei were relieved and grateful to Zhao Ming.What made Azig even more unexpected was that Zhao Ming used the Northern Expedition to directly skip the bloody and cruel land enclosure movement, dismantle the small peasant economy, and realize the new planting model of large estates and large farms, saving nearly a hundred years of time, making the Ming Dynasty already ahead of the world.Zhao Ming went all the way north, all the way to the accompanying businessmen and rich gentry to divide the area, take over the Manchurian Qitian, Qizhuang, liberate the banner slaves, Azig did the evil thing, Zhao Ming just gave a little favor, won the hearts of the people, won the support.On the tenth day of April, the main advance of the Ming army arrived in the southern suburbs of Beijing.Li Yuanyin and other forward generals appeared under the city of Beijing, and were immediately shocked by the behemoth in front of them.This former capital of the Ming Dynasty, the height of the city wall, the width of the moat, far more than the Ming army saw before, than the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, is more majestic and magnificent.Li Yuanyin led hundreds of cavalry, beat horses around the city, and found that the Beijing city wall was more than 40 miles long, and the city wall was about four zhang high.When Li Yuanyin peeped, thousands of cavalry rushed out of the city of Beijing, Li Yuanyin did not dare to despise it, and immediately withdrew from Pegasus and reported to Zhao Ming in Tongzhou.Since Beijing was designated as the capital, it has relied entirely on forcible attack, and there is no precedent for it to be captured.In the previous siege of the city, either the emperor fled, or someone in the city rebelled.For example, Yuan Dadu, it was Yuan Huizong who fled north in panic and was easily captured by Xu Da.In the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, but the traitors in the city opened the city gates, and the city fell in only a few days.The Qing army was able to take Beijing because Li Zicheng led the crowd to flee.Looking at the unity of the army and the people in the city, when there was no civil strife, neither Wara nor Huang Taiji could capture Beijing.Therefore, it is not easy for the Ming army to storm Beijing, and this may be the confidence of Azig to stick to Beijing.Li Yuanyin flew to Zhao Ming to explain the situation in Beijing, and Zhao Ming had already led a large army to Tongzhou.Although Beijing is not easy to attack, Zhao Ming led hundreds of thousands of troops to come, but he has already been prepared.If Beijing cannot be recaptured, what can we talk about reviving China and dominating the world?
Zhao Ming then ordered the army to march into Beijing.April 12th, sunny day.In the city of Beijing, Qing soldiers and Manchurian dependents were busy carrying arrows, gunpowder, wood, stones, fire oil and other materials.On the city wall, Hongyi cannons and Buddha cannons are lined up, and behind the city wall, there is a stone thrower hidden in the corner of the wall, which will throw earth-shattering thunder to curb the Ming army from approaching the city wall.The Ming army artillery has used a large number of flowering shells, the Qing army began the study of flowering shells a few years ago, but the technology of the fuze has not been able to break through, and the flowering bombs created are only a little stronger than the flowering bombs of the Ming Dynasty, and they are not as reliable as the catapult projectile and explosive packs, so the production and equipment are not much.At the head of the city, the Qing army and Manchurian dependents were busy.Azig brought all the people into Beijing, which has become their last bastion.More than 100,000 Manchurians, there is no way to retreat, they can only desperately defend the city, otherwise once the city is broken, what awaits them will be the slaughter of the Ming army.Since entering the customs, the Manchurians began to enjoy the life of food and clothing in the customs, and many people have not been engaged in labor for more than ten years.At this time, after working for a long time, many people were already tired and panting, sweating profusely.This made them can't help but start cursing Zhao Ming, who put them in such a situation, and at this moment, a man who had just put a log on the city straightened up and beat his weak waist, but suddenly found that outside the city, a fiery red figure was moving in the direction of the city.The man looked at it fixedly, his eyes suddenly bulged, and he exclaimed, "It's coming!"
The enemy army is coming!
”The Qing army who were busy on the city wall, as well as Manchurian dependents, put down their work one after another, straightened up, and looked out of the city.In a moment, the edge of the city wall was crowded with Qing troops, and the originally noisy city wall was suddenly quiet.At this time, a Qing general separated the crowd, took out a clairvoyant mirror, and looked out of the city, only to see that under the camera, there were all moving saucer helmets and bright flags hunting in the wind.On a sunny day, the field of vision is excellent, and under the thousand libily mirror, it is impossible to see the beginning and end of the Qingming army, and the marching team is afraid that it will spread for dozens of miles.At the head of Beijing, there was silence for a while, and the defenders felt tremendous pressure.At this time, the Qing general took away the clairvoyant mirror with some trembling hands, turned his head half-loudly, grabbed the chest of a pro-soldier, and shouted urgently: "Quickly report to the emperor, Zhao Zamao is here!"
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