Chapter 69 sharpening the knife

Wang Chengping originally wanted to launch a strong attack on Abatai's slave army with the momentum of lightning, disrupting Abatai's offensive against Tongzhou and forcing Abatai to give up attacking Tongzhou City, but just as he led his troops closer to more than 30 miles to the northeast of Tongzhou, he was about to take a break, so he had to take a breath to lead the attack. When attacking the slave army, he received an edict from Xiao Tianjian.

After Wang Chengping received the order, he thought about it for a moment and immediately understood Xiao Tianjian's intention. After looking at the map, he immediately laughed and smiled at the messenger and said, "The last general will obey the oracle. I will go back and tell the emperor. Please rest assured that the general will not mess things up! As long as the emperor defeats them, the last general will promise that they will not get out of the way!"

After sending away the soldiers sent by Xiao Tianjian, Wang Chengping began to arrange it. First, he gave up the idea of gathering troops to attack the Jiannu army, and then began to divide his cavalry. One by one, he sent them out and marched towards Tongzhou. His order to these cavalry was not to fight with Jiannu. They should seize the opportunity to constantly attack the Jiannu army, clean up the ridings scattered by Jiannu by hunting, and seize the opportunity to bite Jiannu, and order these cavalry not to spread the flag and expose their numbers, so as to confuse the Jiannu side and make it unclear. How many people of the large and medium-sized army came from Chu to lay the foundation for Xiao Tianjian to lead troops here to fight against Jiannu.

And he himself led 4,000 main cavalry, chose a place to settle down, released many batches of scouts, formed a warning curtain around them, blocked their whereabouts, and made the scouts maintain surveillance of the Jiannu army in the direction of Tongzhou at any time, so that they can pick up at any time. Take action.

When Wang Chengping adjusted the layout, the details in Tongzhou City also received a letter from Flying Pigeon. He learned the instructions given to him by Xiao Tianjian, so he immediately took action and began to contact the defenders in the city. He first found Tang Tong in the city, so he gave up the idea of Tang Tong abandoning the city and fled again.

After taking the Tianjin Guard, Xiao Tianjian did not make any rest and left the military camp to take over the Tianjin Acropolis. Then he led the remaining 25,000 soldiers and immediately headed in the direction of Tongzhou City.

This time, in addition to mobilizing the people he led, Xiao Tianjian also called Wang Chengping's subordinates and Diao Zheng's subordinates, but Diao Zheng must not have time to catch up with this battle of Tongzhou. At this time, Diao Zheng is still far between Zunhua and Jizhou, and is moving towards Miyun, even if he is taking over now. When the order came, it was too late to rush to Tongzhou to participate in the war, so Xiao Tianjian simply ordered him to divide his troops into two. One group immediately turned around and returned to the mountain customs, while he himself led the remaining half of the people and rushed to Miyun at the speed of an urgent march, recaptured Miyun County and blocked the Huangyakou Pass.

At this time, the Dazhong army in the whole capital took action. Even Li Lingfeng, who is now temporarily seated in Xuanda, quickly learned the news that Jiannu broke through the customs from Miyun Huangyakou, so he quickly began to gather troops in Xuanfu and reinforce Juyongguan and other places that had been guarded by them. The defense of the area around Xuanda has been strengthened to prevent the construction of the slave army from suddenly entering the territory of Xuanda from these gates. In that case, I'm afraid that Xuanda will suffer another life!

Abatai broke through the Huangyakou Pass, which also had a great impact on the Dazhong Army. After that, they also cut off the connection between Shanhaiguan and Xuanda, forcing the prepared batch of materials to be unable to be shipped from Juyongguan to Shanhaiguan again for the time being.

However, this impact is not a big problem for the Shanhaiguan garrison at present. Xiao Tianjian has opened up the whole canal at this time, so that the materials of the Dazhong Army can be basically unimpeded to Tianjin Wei on the way to the Grand Canal, and Li Xin, Luo Li, Diao Zheng and others When rushing to Shanhaiguan, it has also been opened up along Tianjin Wei to Shanhaiguan and control the road here. Therefore, even if the material support of Shanxi is lost, the materials transported from Tianjin Wei will completely replace the supply of materials from Shanxi, and greatly exceed the amount of materials provided sustainably by Shanxi. It is also the main reason why Xiao Tianjian insisted on going north along the canal to open up the Grand Canal.

While Xiao Tianjian was busy mobilizing people, Abatai and Haug basically knew nothing about the situation of the Dazhong army. They only knew that they wanted to speed up the action, quickly conquer Tongzhou City, and get enough food to support them in the short term. In this way, they could survive in the customs.

But Abatai and Hauge are not that kind of brain-damaged. Although they broke through the barrier this time, they all understand that their entry is much more dangerous than the previous years. Now the protagonist they have to deal with is no longer the Ming army who has been bullied by them for decades. Instead, they were as fierce as them and even exceeded their large and medium-sized army, so they entered the customs this time, a little less arrogant, but a little more cautious.

After killing all the way to Tongzhou, they were afraid that there would be a large number of large and medium-sized troops nearby, so while besieging Tongzhou City, Abatai and Hauge released a large number of riders, which made them patrol around Tongzhou. While grabbing some food women for their use, they explored the news of the Dazhong army nearby. A warning curtain was opened on the periphery of Tongzhou to prevent it from being raided by the Dazhong army.

However, although Abatai and Hauge are more careful this time, Abatai has no intuitive feeling about the strength of the Dazhong army. Unlike Hauge, he has seen the brave and good fight of the Dazhong army with his own eyes. The last time at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when Dorgan led his troops into the customs, Abatai was left outside the customs, so Abatai I just heard that Xing Tianjun is very powerful, but he has not really learned the fierceness of Xing Tianjun. Therefore, psychologically, the pressure on Abatai is not very great. However, after Haoge entered the customs, he seemed to be much more cautious than Abatai, which made Abatai somewhat look down on Haoge, the "prince" and felt that this Hao It's a little too bold.

In Abatai's view, the Dazhong Army may be relatively powerful, but the strength of the Dazhong Army is only compared with the Ming army, which is far less powerful than their state-building warriors. The last time Dolcon and Hauge encountered the Xingtian Army and suffered a great loss, mainly because they underestimated the enemy. This time he led the troops into the customs, as long as He was a little more careful. He expected that after meeting the criminal thief, he expected that with the strong bow and hard crossbow of their Jianzhou warrior, he would not suffer any more losses.

Over the years, Abatai has fought with the Han people with his father's wild boar skin and his brother Huang Taiji, which has already formed a kind of psychology for them, Jianzhou Erlang, and there is absolutely no problem for them to fight three Han barbarians.

But the Han barbarians also have their strengths, that is, defending the city. Most of the slaves agree on this, but in the wild, the three Han barbarians may not be their opponents of Jianzhou Erlang.

So although Abatai was more careful, he still despised Xing Tianjun psychologically. What's more, now he has Shi Tingzhu and other Han barbarians to help them fight. Even the Xingtian thief, like Dorman Hauge said, the firearms are very sharp. Now their Han Baqi has been equipped with a large number of firearms to fire. Firearms, coupled with their slaves' archers and the brave and good-fighting Aliha Chaoha Camp (the vest soldiers are also cavalry), there is no reason to lose to the Xingtian Thieves again.

As long as the number of Xingtian thieves who hit the customs this time does not exceed them, Abatai privately believes that there is still a great possibility that they will defeat them. Think about if he leads his troops into the customs this time and defeats the main force of the Xingtian thief in one fell swoop, then he Abatai will be completely in the Qing Dynasty in the future. Raise your eyebrows and exhale. You don't have to always be bullied because of your origin!

However, Abatai did not visit Shanhaiguan in person and personally experienced the power of the firearms of the Dazhong Army. If Huang Taiji could let him enter the Shanhaiguan before sending him out to the expedition and actually watch the firepower strength of the Dazhong Army guarding the customs, it is estimated that Abatai would be more cautious. It's a pity. Huang Taiji calculated everything, but he did not count this point, which was also a hundred secrets and one sparse. However, this hundred secrets and one sparse of Huang Taiji finally caused irreparable losses to their slaves, which made Huang Taiji regret to death.

After Abatai and Hauge led their troops to surround Tongzhou City, the governors stormed Tongzhou City. Although the Tongzhou garrison resisted fiercely for two consecutive days under the command of civil and military officials such as Zhang Erzhong and Tang Tong, Abatai, as an experienced veteran of the battlefield, still saw the weakness of the defenders.

Although it seems that the strength of the Ming army guarding Tongzhou is not too small, the combat effectiveness of these Ming army is far lower than that of the Guanning army outside the customs. It is qualitatively different from those Guanning army in terms of equipment, morale, and even combat skills. Although the first two days of fighting is also tenacious, it is the next day. In the evening, Abatai and Haoge had seen that the Ming army guarding Tongzhou was at the end of the crossbow, and the morale had fallen to the bottom, and the resistance had begun to become weak.

This reassured them. Both of them thought that in one more day, if they only needed to concentrate their troops to launch a strong attack, they would be able to take down Tongzhou. At that time, they would take Tongzhou City. With what they got in the city, they would be able to meet their needs for grain for quite a few days, and instead, they could attack Shanhaiguan and give Shanhaiguan a Attacked inside and outside, Shanhaiguan will be captured in one fell swoop. At that time, the main force of their slave army will swarmed into the customs. In that case, whether it is Abbatai or Hager, his status in the Qing Dynasty will be improved by leaps in the future. Hager believes that as long as this is done, the three Dorpon brothers will not become him in the future. The challenger succeeded to the throne, so both of them sharpened their knives and only waited for the third day to launch the last blow to Tongzhou City.

But the next night, Abatai and Hauge received a bad news from the riding. Around Tongzhou, after nightfall, an unknown number of enemies suddenly appeared. The identity of these enemies was unknown, but most of them were cavalry, with a small force. Moved, he began to have contact and engage with their Jiannu sentry riders scattered on the outskirts of Tongzhou.