Chapter 71 Things are weird
As for Tang Tong, who is responsible for guarding the North Gate, he was forced to have no way out at this time. He had to fight to the death and fight for a future for himself. At least in order to survive, he must also guard Tongzhou City, so when he got up early on the third day, he kicked the idea of escaping into the toilet and hung his helmet. The armor was neatly hung, and he carried a big knife. He personally climbed the gate tower and began to command his subordinates to resist the attack of Jiannu.
A soldier bears a nest of bears. On the contrary, one or two soldiers who bravely kill the enemy will not play much role in being a soldier, but once the main general is determined to play with his life, it will have a great impact on being a soldier. Once Tang Tong makes up his mind, not to mention, he is really a bit of a general soldier. The general of the official was demeanor. He took his family to run back and forth on the head of the city, and commanded the soldiers to counterattack the enslave army that attacked the city. He also personally cut off a Mr. Qian, who had left the place of defense without authorization, and hung the head of Mr. Qian on the gate to set an example.
At the peak of the Jiannu attack at noon, even Tang Tong personally carried a knife to fight and blocked a section of the stack. He repeatedly cut down several Jiannu soldiers who attacked the wall from the hook ladder with a big knife in his hand, and even grabbed the gunner's torch and personally bombarded the Jiannu army under the city, which made the remnants under his command defeated generals. They can't help but boost their morale, and they desperately followed Tang Tong to fight with the Jiannu army on the wall.
Even Zhang Erzhong did not expect such a situation. Originally, Zhang Erzhong was also determined to die. Seeing the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city decline in the past two days, the Tongzhou city was about to be insured. Zhang Erzhong was even ready to kill Ren when Tongzhou City was broken, and used his life to complete him. In the name of Zhongliang, he was martyred in the city, but on this day, he saw that the soldiers and civilians in the city were all excited again and fought with Jiannu. Therefore, he asked people to ask why. As a result, one of his sons secretly told Zhang Erzhong about the Dazhong about the middle army. After Zhang Erzhong heard it. This heart can be said to be full of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty!
During his time in Tongzhou, he recruited soldiers, bought horses, and prepared all kinds of guard tools. It turned out that his preparation was originally made for the Dazhong army, but it was the Jiannu army who didn't want to come to eat first. Seeing that his table of dishes was about to be eaten by Jiannu, he didn't think that the Dazhong army had become their savior. It was really a huge irony, which made Zhang Erzhong laugh and cry. After staying for a long time, Zhang Erzhong sighed and said to his son, "It's okay! If this criminal thief can save tens of thousands of lives in the whole city of Tongzhou, so that he will not become a ghost under the knife of Jiannu, then this Tongzhou City can be given to them! They have finally accumulated virtue! Although Xiao Xingtian is a thief chieftain, at least this man has the word "people" in his heart. No wonder he can force me to such a point! You all go! Go to guard the city. No matter what, you can't give Tongzhou City cheaply to the Jiannu army!"
So there was a desperate resistance on the third day of Tongzhou City. Abatai and Hauge Dushi attacked for a whole day, but it can be said that it was not built. Instead, hundreds of corpses of slave soldiers were lost under Tongzhou City in vain. Seeing that it was getting late, there was no chance to fight any more, so Abatai After discussing with Hao Ge, he had to order the soldiers and horses who attacked the city to be taken back, so that all the troops under his command camped outside the city to rest, and then attacked the state city after dawn on the fourth day.
The sound of gunfire in Tongzhou for three consecutive days has spread to the capital from afar. Under Chongzhen's will, the whole city is under martial law, and the defenders in the city are on guard, ready to welcome the siege of the Jiannu army at any time. Hundreds of thousands of residents in the city can be said to be panic, and they all listen to The faint rumble of gunfire kept coming from the direction of Tongzhou in the east of the city, and they didn't know what to do like a frightened bird.
Chongzhen now knows better than anyone that his Ming Dynasty has reached the last moment. Whether it is the Dazhong army or the Jiannu army, he can no longer keep the foundation left by his ancestors. At present, the capital has become a lonely city. Although he is still known as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his imperial edict has been After leaving the capital, the Jiannu army only captured Miyun, Huairou, Shunyi and other places after entering the capital. However, the garrison in Changpingzhou actually messed up the position when it did not see the Jiannu army appearing in Changping City. Most of it ran most of the time. There were large and small works in the city, they took the opportunity to get up. He recruited a group of soldiers and civilians, announced that they had surrendered to the Great China and North Korea, and closed the gates, grabbed the officials in the city, and took over the guard of Changping City by themselves.
So at this time, Zhu Youjian has completely left only his capital under his control, while the surrounding state capitals and counties have basically fallen into the hands of the Dazhong army. Either the official announced the surrender of Xiancheng and transferred to the Dazhong Dynasty, or abandoned the city and fled, disappeared by the Dazhong Dynasty. The detailed entanglement of the people took over the city. Zhu Youjian was in the palace. Although the last order was issued to order the world's soldiers and horses to help and enter his capital, his imperial edict was not even sent out of the capital at all, because the person who issued the edict no longer knew where to send this edict.
Even at this time, the diligent Zhu Youjian still wanted to go to the early morning. Unfortunately, there are few officials who came to the early morning. Zhu Youjian was on the court and looked down at the empty hall. He couldn't help but be angry and ordered the servant to send those ministers to the court, but After the minister went out of the palace to announce the decree, there were still not many ministers who came to participate in his early morning, but let the ministers bring back a lot of messy excuses. In short, this early morning is already an irrelevant thing for these ministers. What can they do if they participate or not? It's better to take this opportunity to stay at home for a few more days and stay with your family. Besides, now Saint Zhu Youjian is in a bad mood and goes to participate in the early morning. I can't guarantee who he will kill again! Therefore, it's safer to stay at home, even for some eunuchs who go out to preach the decree. As soon as they leave the palace, they beat the dog and don't go back, and they don't know where to hide.
Zhu Youjian's face was pale. He looked at the empty hall. Looking back on the power of the court after he ascended Wei Zhongxian in his early years. After he killed Wei Zhongxian, he took charge of the power of the court. At that time, what a beautiful it was, and those ministers were all able to go to the court to see him. He waved his hands. It's so energetic, but now even the ministers are unwilling to come to the imperial meeting. It can be seen that his Ming Dynasty has reached a point.
So Zhu Youjian waved his hand like ashes, stood up and staggered back to the harem, and was no longer interested in dealing with any political affairs! Anyway, it's already like this. You can do whatever you want!
The unexpected fierce resistance of Tongzhou City made Abatai's strong attack on the third day finally return. He failed to capture Tongzhou City as he wished, which made Abatai very discouraged. After returning to the camp, he gritted his teeth and swore that he would never give up if he did not attack Tongzhou City. As long as he was allowed to attack Tongzhou City, He let these damn man and barbarians know the consequences of his Lord Abatai's anger. He will kill all the men in the city. Let's see if anyone dares to resist him so desperately in the future.
But Hauge seemed to have noticed something wrong from this day's war. After returning to the camp at night, he sat down and thought about it carefully. Combined with the sentry that had been losing contact in the past two days, he always felt that this incident seemed a little strange.
Now it's too late today. According to the normal situation, the sentry riders will send people back to return to their lives. Whether they meet or not they meet the enemy, they have to return a letter to let them know that nothing big has happened, but today's situation is very abnormal. At this time, only a small number of sentry riders come back. For life, many sent sent sent posts didn't have any news at night, so Haung went straight to Abatai's big account and told Abatai about this abnormal thing.
Abbatai also realized that things seemed to be a little beyond his expectations. As these generals who have been fighting all year round, who doesn't know the importance of whistle riding to them? This is not outside the gate, but their own territory. They are free to come and go. Now they are inside the gate, and Just not far from the capital of Daming, if you spread your feet, you can touch the wall of the capital of Daming in an hour. There are barbarians who hate them everywhere, which can be said to be a place of danger.
So the importance of whistle riding is self-evident for them! Nowadays, there are suddenly a large number of lifeless whistle riders, which is not normal. Even if occasionally a few whistle riders go hunting outside, women are happy to play, and drink too much, but it is impossible for so many whistle riders to drink too much at the same time!
So combined with what the sentry riders who escaped back said that they met many scouts of the large and medium-sized army, it fully shows that I'm afraid it's not as simple as they think.
As an old general who has been fighting with his father's wild boar skin since he was a child, how can he not know that there must be a problem in it? But now his bigger problem is the disappearance of a large number of sentry riders, so that he can only control the situation within the surrounding area of more than ten miles. No matter how far away he is, he can't know what will happen near them.
This is like making them suddenly become blind. They are in a fog and can't see the situation around them at all. This kind of thing is an extremely bad thing. If you are not careful, it may lead to a terrible failure.
So after listening to Hauge's words, Abatai immediately realized that things were not going well, so he immediately ordered to send more sent outposts overnight to explore around, especially in the southeast, either to find the whereabouts of their missing sentinels, or to find out what was going on around.
After these slave soldiers got the order, they immediately got on their horses in groups, rushed out of the camp at night, fell into the darkness, and searched in all directions.
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