Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 254 Entering the Capital

With Battelle around, these young and strong Han people had a backbone, and they all followed him and took out their swords to kill into the city.

The Manchu and Han officers and soldiers guarding the city gate only knew how to exploit passers-by and merchants on weekdays. When the city gate was closed at night, they went to eat, drink and have fun.

Caught off guard, Battelle and a group of Han Qingzhuang who had just put down their hoes killed many of them.

If other officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners found out, they would definitely laugh out loud.

Although there were still many officers and soldiers around, the city gate was very crowded, and they were unable to come to support for a while, and could only watch helplessly as Battelle led people to occupy the city gate.

But even if they grew their wings and flew over, it was too late, and the soldiers and horses sent by Abney to support had already arrived at the city.

A gust of prairie Qingqi suddenly charged over, and the horse raised its front hooves and kicked down a soldier who was trying to stop him.

When Battle saw the reinforcements coming, he felt even more courageous. He took a shortcut to the city gate tower with four or five good men, and turned the place upside down. The city gate defenders were in such a mess that they couldn't even reach the Thousand Jin Gate Gate. Putting it down, gave Abney a good chance.

Not long after, Battelle completely occupied the city gate, lit a beacon on the gate tower, and signaled that Abnai could come.

Then, after half a stick of incense had passed, Abnai appeared in his sight with Han Chinese cannon fodder and prairie cavalry.

In order to guard the city gate, dozens of people like Battelle dared not move.

And after Abunai led his troops into the city, he dispatched [-] cavalry to search and plunder wealth. He has long coveted the wealth of the capital. Today he will not only attack the Forbidden City, but also steal the wealth in the city. .

The rest followed Abnai to the inner city, which was the last hurdle before Abnai wanted to break into the Forbidden City.

The capital is divided into inner and outer cities, and the defense of the inner city is slightly worse than that of the outer city, and it is rarely useful.

But that is compared to the outer city, and compared to ordinary cities, the inner city of the capital can be said to be impenetrable, and it has all the fortifications that should be there.

Although it was in disrepair and was destroyed by Li Zicheng's attack on the capital, the inner city's defense was extremely poor.

But that's not something that Abnay's army, which doesn't even have heavy weapons or siege equipment, can break through.

Just now Abnai was able to enter the city only because of Battelle's sudden attack and the slackness of the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate.

It's a pity that the inner city of the capital won't give Abnai this chance, because just now when Battelle ignited the beacon and led Abnai into the city, the officers and soldiers guarding the inner city already knew that there were enemies coming into the city.

So at this moment, the gates of the inner city are closed tightly, and the city guards are standing on the wall, preparing stones and arrows in full swing, always ready to hit the incoming enemy head-on.

At this moment, in the outer city, there are pedestrians and residents crying for their parents and mothers everywhere. Mongolian cavalry suddenly broke into the streets and alleys, killing people everywhere.

After all, these prairie cavalrymen who were separated by Abnai entered the streets and alleys to kill and plunder only for money.

If a fire killed all the residential areas in the capital, and all the gold, jade, and cloth were turned into dust in the fire, wouldn't their work be in vain.

The common people living in the outer city would never have imagined that they not only encountered the change of ownership of the capital twice in just one year.

Today, it is still in vain to suffer this innocent disaster, being robbed by a group of prairie people who live hundreds of miles away.

It's a pity that the current rulers of the capital are only focused on concentrating their troops to guard the inner city, and have no intention of caring about the lives of these Han civilians.

In a yamen outside Zijin City, it is now requisitioned by the military nobles of Mizhou to make a meeting hall.

The princes and nobles were quarreling here endlessly, discussing how to lift today's siege.

"I said earlier that these grassland grazing guys are not good things. Once they came to the pass, they regarded themselves as masters, and they dared to break into the capital to plunder."

A middle-aged nobleman slapped the table and shouted at everyone.

Although it has only been a few months since they entered the capital, these people have already regarded themselves as the masters of the capital.

Not only because the Qing army was victorious on the front line, but it seemed that it was just around the corner to take over the Central Plains.

Moreover, Dorgon moved all the Qing government's bosses outside the Pass to the Pass, putting on a desperate posture.

This allowed the nobles of Mizhou to stay in the capital with peace of mind, and to hand over the people and soldiers in their hands to the Qing court.

"What's the use of saying this now, let's find a solution quickly."

"The capital city is too big, and the population is uncountable. It cannot be besieged for a long time, otherwise we will starve to death before others come to attack."

An aristocrat from Mizhou stepped forward to persuade the man just now to calm down, and to find a solution quickly is the right way.

Although a big city like the capital has tall walls, a complete city defense system, and a large number of troops, in fact, this is the most difficult city to defend.

Because it is big, the city wall is good and there are many soldiers, but the corresponding disadvantage is that the area to be defended is too large.

A city wall that is more than ten miles long, or even a city wall that is tens of miles long, requires almost astronomical numbers of guards in this era. Sometimes even the people in the city are recruited and it is not enough.

The most important thing is that there are too many people, the consumption of food is too high, and there is also a lot of garbage in the city. If you are surrounded by the enemy, you will not be able to get out. I am afraid that it will not be long before the city will become stinky. dump.

It is full of all kinds of excrement, garbage, and dead bodies. At that time, I am afraid that people living in the city will flee here even if they die.

"If you ask me, whoever caused the trouble should be dealt with." Suddenly, a young man stood up.

Although he is young, he has inherited the title of his father and has become a noble. He is qualified to discuss national affairs with everyone.

"Enough!" At this moment, Daishan couldn't bear it anymore.

He slammed the table, and the princes and nobles who had been arguing just now stopped arguing.

Daishan is the son of Nurhachi, he is very old, and he has both Zhenghong and Xianghongqi. If he is not too old, he must be more effective in speaking in the Qing court than Dorgon.

"The tens of thousands of people in Abu Nai are nothing more than mobs. Pull out all the private soldiers in your mansion. Together with the Eight Banners soldiers, 1 people are enough to drive them out." Daishan said.

He knows the tactics and combat effectiveness of the Mongols on the grassland very well. It looks like riding a horse and shooting arrows, and fighting like a gust of wind.

In fact, it can't withstand too many casualties, let alone fight tough battles, and can't deal with enemies wearing heavy armor.

Hearing Daishan's words, all the princes and nobles looked at each other in blank dismay, and handed over their private soldiers to deal with emergencies. This is of course possible, but what to do in case of future troubles.

(End of this chapter)