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Chapter 404 Prepare to Siege

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    (ps: I have been disconnected from the Internet for a whole day, and all the information on the city wall of old Beijing is searched online on my mobile phone, which wastes a lot of time, so the number of words is less, please understand.)

    The fat man's army is partial to Gao Dejie's team, most of which are cavalry. On the North China Plain, they are more mobile than the main force of the fat man's army led by Lu Fatzi himself.  It was a full-strength rush and attack, and the advancing speed even surpassed the main force of the Fatty Army. On the ninth day of June, the main force of the Fatty Army had just broken through Nanpi and advanced towards Cangzhou, when Gao Dejie's team reached the city of Zhengding.

    Fatty's army approached the city, and the magistrate of Zhengding, who had only a thousand local soldiers in his hands, knew that he was not an opponent. He honestly opened the city and surrendered.  The traitor from Zhenglan Banner has always been known for being greedy and violent, and has a very bad reputation among the people. He knows that the fat army cannot forgive him, and he also heard that the old witch of Xiaozhuang has already taken Kang Mazi away, so Chang Wenkui also  Without hesitation, he fled to Liaodong with gold, silver, jewelry, his wife and children early on, and the Gaode Jie army took the small town of Dingzhou without any effort, and continued to advance towards Baoding, the provincial capital of Zhili.  At the same time, the main force of the Fatty Army led by Fatty Lu had just arrived in Cangzhou, more than a hundred miles behind Beijing.

    However, that's all for now. According to Fatty Lu's crow's words, the Gaode Jiejun, who had been advancing all the way, was advancing like a broken bamboo. Under Baoding City, which was guarded by Jackie Chan, it encountered the most fierce resistance since the Fatty Army's Northern Expedition.  The famous Yu Chenglong not only flatly rejected the surrender of Fatty Army forward Gao Qi, but also lifted the coffin up to the Baoding City Wall, and personally led more than 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers and 4,000 rural soldiers in Baoding City to resist the Fatty Army's siege.  Yu Chenglong's official reputation is very good, and he has a strong appeal among the people. Most of the 100,000 people in Baoding City went to the city to help in the battle.  Siege.

    After the two sieges failed, Gao Qi's troops, who suffered heavy casualties, had to stop and wait for the brigade led by Gao Dejie to arrive with heavy siege artillery, and then use regular siege tactics to attack Baoding Fucheng together with the main force of Gao Dejie's army  .  At the same time, the Fatty Army led by Fatty Lu surrendered the small city of Cangzhou without bloodshed, and continued to march towards Jinghai County with a wicked smile.

    There was no Tianjin Mansion in the Mazi Dynasty, but only one Tianjin Guard, and the Tianjin General Soldier led the army to garrison. The notorious traitor Zhao Liangdong in history and Liu Guoxuan who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty both served in this position. The current Tianjin General Soldier is called Li Zhending, who is also a traitor.  Zhenglan Banner people have about four or five thousand traitor green battalion soldiers stationed in Jinghai, Tanggu and Tianjin Acropolis respectively. At the same time, because Tianjin Defense needs to consolidate the defense of Gyeonggi, the fortifications of the city are quite complete and strong. If  According to the words of the city guard, it could indeed cause some troubles for the Fatty Army, so Lu Fatty did not dare to underestimate the enemy. In addition to sending a large number of scouts to closely observe the every move of the Qing army in Tianjin, he also sent envoys with heavy gifts to the Acropolis of Tianjin to surrender.  Take down Li Zhending's team by appeasement.

    To Fatty Lu's surprise, it didn't take long for the scouts to spread the news, saying that Li Zhending's army had abandoned the relatively well-fortified cities of Tianjin, and they all withdrew to Beijing, taking away all the food, grass and weapons that could be taken away.  , and took away a large number of middle-aged people, the current Tianjin Weizhu City is basically an empty city.  After hearing the news, Fatty Lu's heart sank unavoidably, and Yao Qisheng, who was accompanying the army on the sidelines, also immediately warned: "My lord, the siege of Beijing this time may not be as easy as imagined, and our army may have to fight hard for a long time.  psychological preparation."

    Fatty Lu nodded slowly, deeply sympathetic to Yao Qisheng's warning, since staying behind Jieshu decisively gave up the Tianjin Zhuwei City, he will definitely give up the small cities around Beijing, and gather all who can concentrate in the strong city of Beijing to fight tenaciously and strive for as much as possible.  There may be a delay, but my main army has gone two thousand miles alone, there is almost no food available for the newly occupied land, and the logistical burden is extremely heavy. If Beijing cannot be captured quickly, the siege battle will be delayed for a long time, the food and grass will be insufficient and the rear will catch fire, and I will miss it again.  The precious summer and autumn time was wasted, and the southern soldiers were impatient with the wind and snow, and it was not possible to experience the first defeat in their lives when they capsized in the gutter.

    After careful consideration for a while, in addition to ordering the army to continue to march and take over the cities of Tianjin, Fatty Lu also called Mao Yougui, the vice-admiral of the navy who led the fleet to escort the food and supplies, and told him: "General Mao, from now on, your ship  In addition to carrying food and grass, the team has to cut down all the wood on both sides of the canal that can be used to build siege weapons and send them to Beijing together. Is there enough manpower? If not, I will give you a few thousand more infantry?"

    "Chopping wood?" Mao Yougui was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Dare to ask your lord, why do you want to cut wood?"

    "You have never been to Beijing, so you don't know the surroundings of Beijing." Fatty Lu explained casually: "Because of the huge population growth and massive land development, there are no more places around Beijing.The bridge on the moat of Yangmen should not only be wider, but also very strong, suitable for transporting siege weapons across the river.  "

    "My lord is brilliant, I also saw this just now. The Chaoyang Gate bridge is indeed wider, but I didn't expect it to be used in siege warfare." Yao Qisheng hurriedly flattered, "Your official can be sure, and Jie Shu must not have paid attention to it.  up to this point."

    "Have he paid attention to him? Leave him alone for the time being, but this guy has improved somewhat." Fatty Lu sighed, "Judging from the fact that he organized the people to help defend the city and the city defense arrangements are extremely strict, this guy  Nian is still learning while fighting on the battlefield, if I give him a good army to defend the city, and give him more time to arrange arrangements, I may not be able to take Beijing city with confidence."

    Putting a high hat on the enemy to elevate himself in disguise, Fatty Lu ordered again: "Pass down the order, let Hu Tongchun lead an army of 20,000 to march westward, and set up another big camp 20 miles outside Chaoyang Gate, and take all of us away.  All the cannons were dispatched outside Chaoyangmen, bombarding the city walls of Chaoyangmen day and night, destroying the towers and fortifications of Chaoyangmen, and also destroying the morale of the army, wait for the siege weapons to be ready before launching the siege!"

    Speaking of this, Fatty Lu paused, gritted his teeth and gave an unprecedented order, "Also, tell the brothers, after the capture of Beijing, the inner city of Beijing, where the people live, will be disbanded for seven days. Brothers want to  You can be as happy as you want! Dogs and chickens will not stay!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)(  Remember the URL of this website: www.hlnovel.com
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