Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 112 Dilemma on the Road (An Appointment with Storm)

Duo Ze took Li Yangeng, the son of the late Han Army Li Yongfang and inherited the third-class general officer of the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner, to take this road, and he was already familiar with it.

After crossing the Great Wall, we came to Zunhua City again and carefully observed the enemy's situation. Duo Ze smiled and Li Yangeng smiled.

"The current Ming Dynasty is so miraculous that it turns out that what you hear is false and what you see is belief. Look, the Ming army on the city is still the same as before. The defenders are sparse, their armor is not neat, and their weapons and weapons are incomplete. According to the intelligence, Why did King Ding lead his army against the rogue bandits, fight three battles with three victories, and recover several cities in Shandong? This only shows that the rogue bandits were more capable. It was Hong Chengchou who first advocated that it was right to capture Beijing."

Li Yangeng sneered: "Hong Chengchou is just a guy who follows the wind. When he saw the regent change his tone, he immediately changed his mind and followed the regent. Hmm, he is just a flatterer."

Li Yangeng despised Hong Chengchou from the bottom of his heart, and was even more jealous that as soon as Hong Chengchou surrendered, he was reused by Taizong and the current regent, and his limelight overshadowed the Li family.

When it comes to surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, my Li family was the first person. You, a little traitor later on, why are you so arrogant in front of me, an old traitor? As a traitor, do you have our qualifications?

I despise you, a bastard who gets his own way.

Duo Ze said discouragedly: "Let's not comment on him. We must strictly implement the regent's order. Even if the gates of Chongzhen City are opened and he surrenders to us, we cannot accept his surrender. We must follow the strategy formulated by Hong Chengchou. , leaving Chongzhen to the bandits."

"Okay, then let's prepare to take Zunhua."

As he was talking, he suddenly received a report: "The Ming army has escaped from the east gate on horseback?"

"What? Did they run away? How many people ran away."

"Five hundred, all cavalry, can no longer catch up."

Duoze laughed loudly: "If we can't catch up, we won't catch up. We will continue to attack."

"Your Majesty, there's no need to bother. We've already gone to the city to see it. There's no one in the city."

"On that city wall——"

"The people standing on the wall are all dummies, delaying their escape."

Duoze laughed loudly and said to Li Yangeng: "You Han people have used all your intelligence in crooked ways. You can even be so rigorous in escaping. I admire you. I admire you."

Li Yangeng's face turned red and he quickly changed his subject: "Please invite the prince into the city."

Entering Zunhua, taking a short rest, Duo Zai ordered to leave a thousand Han troops to guard Zunhua, and the whole army continued to move south.

They could not stay because the army did not carry any supplies and food, so they had to rush to rob, otherwise the army would be stopped.

The 70,000-strong army roared, led by the Qing Eight Banners cavalry, followed by the Han infantry, passing through Zunhua and fighting all the way south.

According to the route, the next stop for the army is Shimen Town, which is also the planned first supply point for the army.

Here it was expected that no less than the army would need for three days. Then, without stopping, they rushed to the outskirts of Beijing to show off their military power to the Ming Dynasty.

From Zunhua to Shimen, we walked very slowly because we had to take care of the infantry behind us. But fortunately, just when the entire army ran out of food, Shimen Town was already in sight.

Shimen Town, although its name is a town, has always been the seat of Shimen County and is the same size as the county seat. Although it has gone through five bloodbaths, this place is still the distribution center for commercial food in this area. Rush over and have enough to eat and drink.

As a result, when the army arrived, the people did not panic and flee the town. The entire Shimen was silent and there was no movement at all.

The army entered the stone gate and saw that the long street was silent, with no human beings at all, only a few wild dogs running around in a panic.

Seeing such a situation, Duo Zai's heart couldn't help but tremble, and an unknown feeling filled his heart. "Quickly dismount and search the four streets. We must find food. Hurry."

The generals shouted and spread throughout the town and began to break down doors and pick locks, rush into every house, and search vigorously. But they were disappointed, because no matter whether they were big or small, only crude furniture and other items were left, and the rest was gone. Not to mention grain, there is no chaff to be found.

Li Yangeng rushed over panting: "Your Majesty, something seems to be wrong. It seems that we have been prepared for tomorrow."

Duo Ze nodded: "Our army has been marching for thousands of miles. It is impossible to conceal the situation. It is not surprising that the Ming Dynasty knew about it."    "It's just that this seems to be an organized and premeditated way of clearing the country. This is weird."

Of course this is weird. Ming Dynasty actually had the ability to organize people's cars?

"Immediately divide the troops and go to the countryside to grab food. I don't believe it. This big place has been prepared. Did the small villages also get the news? When did the Ming government become so diligent?"

The army immediately dispersed and looted in four villages.

But when the troops returned at night, they were all dejected. Except for a few excavated grains that were not well hidden, most of them came back without results.

Duoze was surprised and ashamed. It was such a shame for a group of bandits to survive until they had no way to eat.

Sitting in the main room of a family, holding a bowl of porridge, Duozhi drank it slowly. Looking at the cooked dog meat of a wild dog caught by the soldiers in front of me, it was tasteless.

Facing the opposite side, Li Yangeng said: "This time is different from the past. I feel that Ming's mobilization ability is surprisingly high. It seems that we will not be able to complete the task so easily this time."

Li Yangeng also nodded: "Officials of the Ming Dynasty have always cared about the life and death of the people, but this time it suddenly changed. I also feel that there is something strange here. So what should we do next, Your Majesty?"

Duozhi said helplessly: "What else can we do? We continue to go deeper, and we must speed up our march, otherwise, our supplies will be a problem."

Now, Duo Ze finally learned why the Han people recruited a large number of civilians to be responsible for the logistics and transportation of grain and grass every time they fought.

The Han people are still rigorous in doing things, which is not comparable to our own people who blindly rely on looting. Next time, when you send out troops, you must bring enough food.

Why doesn't Duoze talk about grain and grass like the Han people do?

Food was for food at that time, so did we have to bring our own firewood?

You misunderstood. The reason for bringing grass is because it is for soldiers to sleep on. In this era of extreme scarcity of supplies, grass, in addition to feeding horses, was also necessary for soldiers to sleep at night. They were spread with thick grass and then covered with thick grass to keep out the cold. So, you haven’t seen ancient soldiers carrying luggage and backpacks from historical documents, pictures and paintings.

First of all, there was no cotton during the wealthy dynasty. When cotton became a crop, poor people like the Ming Dynasty no longer had the money to buy bedding for their soldiers.

"In order to take advantage of the fact that the people in front may not have evacuated yet, should we divide our troops? Your Majesty will lead the group first, otherwise my infantry will seriously slow down Your Majesty's speed. This is not appropriate." Li Yangeng made a very self-aware suggestion.

Although without the protection of cavalry, the infantry will hate the danger, but at this time, obtaining food supplies is the top priority.

Duoze nodded: "I also have this idea. After I collected the food and grass, I sent it over, so that it would be safe. However, I think that going down is the path we have taken before. This may also be the way the people of the Ming Dynasty went. When there is an early warning, they will flee to the cause in advance, so I am going to send you to change the route and attack the right guard of Yingzhou."

Li Yangeng frowned: "After Shunyi of Yingzhou Right Guards, there is the Inner Great Wall, which is the area occupied by the intruder Yuan Zongdi. Not only must they have been looted by him, but the regent also asked us not to fight with them. Isn't this right? Change it?"

Duo Ze thought about it for a while, the regent's decision cannot be changed. The temper of the fourteenth brother is much worse than that of the eighth brother back then.

"In this case, we will continue to go deeper, and then we will turn to attack Sanhe. After obtaining the supplies from Sanhe, we will then attack Beijing and show our force.

If this time we can scare the small court like the previous times, it would be better to negotiate a peace on our terms. Even if we can't, then we will continue to go south, and then follow Hong Chengchou's strategy to attack the border of Shandong and Henan, open a passage for Li to break into Beijing, and realize the regent's strategy. "

One of the conditions for the second peace negotiation last time was that the Qing court asked the Ming Dynasty to invite the Qing army to enter the pass and "help" the Ming Dynasty in encircling and suppressing the northwest bandits.

But it was rejected by Ming Dynasty. If he could come to the city this time and force the Ming Dynasty to agree to his "help", then the regent's goal of entering the northwest of the Ming Dynasty would be achieved.

Li Yangeng clapped his hands and applauded.

"At that time, we will force Chongzhen to personally issue an edict and invite us to enter the pass to destroy the Yellow River for them. No, now they are rogue bandits north of the Yangtze River. The whole strategy will be perfect."

"That's what we do."

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