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Chapter 890 Chapter 895 Xiao Zhuang breaks through (third watch)
Xiaozhuang played this trick very well, with a soft knife piercing people, killing without blood.Letting Zhu Yousong kill them is not enough, and it is not right not to kill them. To break their morale, this psychological warfare can be said to be used to the extreme.

But Zhu Yousong seems to be taller than her. As long as you have gold, silver and jewelry, you can throw them out. We want as much as you have, and the basic principle is whoever grabs it!
Earning extra money while fighting, more pay for more work, this is an unprecedented stimulus for the vast number of more than 20 expeditionary soldiers!
Not only can it not disintegrate the morale of the army, but it can also boost morale.Because Zhu Yousong neither beats nor kills those who have vested money, but encourages them. The only requirement for them is that they do not neglect their duties.

The so-called as long as you don't neglect your duties, it means trapping Shengjing City, preventing the Qing army from running out, and preventing reinforcements from outside from entering.What's so difficult about it?Strategizing is the business of His Majesty and the generals. They just follow orders, charge when they are told to, and kill when they admit it. As long as they use their lives, that is what the soldiers do.

Therefore, after the Qing army in the city "gifted" three times, more than 20 expeditionary troops took turns to rob gold, silver and jewelry. Looking forward to getting more next time.For several days in a row, the Qing army in the city did not see any movement, and the soldiers of the Ming army waited a little anxiously, and some even scolded them.

Now the Qing army in the city is more anxious than them. Of course, the most anxious one is the Qing government headed by Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.

Because the silver, gold, silver and jewelry were sent out, the savings of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, the treasury in the city, and all civil and military officials were basically dispersed.There was no movement in the Ming camp, no mutiny, let alone surrender, not to mention officials, not even a single soldier came.

How embarrassing is this for the empress dowager?Should I continue to give them gifts?The gold and silver in the city are already stretched.

Because although the current Qing Dynasty is not small, they are not rich.The savings of these few years have all been used for military expansion and preparations for war. In the final analysis, wars are fought for money!
Don't look at them after the last few wars, they have suffered consecutive defeats and lost a lot of territory, but they have consumed a lot of money.If their treasury is piled up with gold and silver, there is no need for him, the Queen Mother, to spend all his savings.

If you want to send the silver down like this, within a few days, the 10,000+ Qing soldiers in the city will have to drink the northwest wind.

All civil and military officials came to ask Empress Ji, but Empress Xiaozhuang was helpless.Millions of silver, priceless gold, silver and jewelry, just for nothing?Even if so many things are thrown into the rivers, rivers, and seas, there will be a splash of waves, and they will disappear when they are thrown into the camp of the Ming army?The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was too unwilling.

"Don't worry, wait and see." Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang did not give up and forced herself to calm down, but then passed an order to stop throwing money outside the city.

Three days, five days, ten days, half a month... More than 20 days passed in a flash.The camp of the Ming army is surprisingly stable, and Xiaozhuang has not received any reports of mutiny or desertion from the Ming army. The only report they can get is that the soldiers of the Ming army outside the city are waiting for money to fly out of the city. In a hurry, some jumped and scolded in a hurry.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang vomited blood angrily. This is really evil. If things go on like this, the money will be gone. After all, they will run out of ammunition and food, and will be trapped to death here. It has been more than a month. They didn't come, it seems that we have to lead the crowd to break through, we can't wait any longer, we will reap the rewards of melons, millions of silver and priceless gold, silver and jewels will definitely play a role, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is not reconciled, The soldiers of the Ming army received so many gifts from the Qing Dynasty, and it will definitely work when they lead them to break out of the encirclement.

Not only the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang thought this way, but all the civil and military officials in the Qing Dynasty also thought so. People like to think about the good in everything, and no one will always think about bad luck.

Where to go after a successful breakout, first of all they have to judge the direction. After discussing with the civil and military officials, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang decided to go to the Horqin area temporarily.

During the day, they secretly prepared everything, such as the carts that should be set up, the chariots that should be prepared, the infantry and cavalry, the supplies of major artillery, food, and so on.

At the second watch, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang burned two sticks of incense, knelt in front of the tablets of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, and prayed silently for a while, asking her ancestors to bless them through this difficult time.

It was the third watch of the night, the moon was dark and the wind was high. The Eight Banners Army and the Green Battalion led a total of 11 Qing troops to protect the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and all the civil and military officials. , suddenly killed out.

These two groups of troops, each route has [-] to [-] troops, and each route has cavalry at both ends, with infantry and luggage in the middle. This is to cover people's eyes and ears, and to cover the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's breakout, so that the Ming army can't tell whether the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is here. which team.

But they had just left the city and within two or three hundred meters, the Ming army camp fired repeatedly, and the lights and torches shone like daylight, and countless Ming troops formed a mountain of soldiers.

Li Zicheng led the army outside the west city of Shengjing, while outside the north gate, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army was Zhang Xianzhong.

These two former emperors are now the Marshals of the Ming court, each leading tens of thousands of Ming expeditionary troops, blocking the way of the two Ming troops who broke through the encirclement.

A fierce battle, life and death.

Headed by the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, the civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty and the generals dreamed that the soldiers of the Ming army took so much silver and jewels from them, they should be lenient, or that the army had lost their fighting spirit and their morale was fluctuating. .

Unexpectedly, after this confrontation, they realized that their thinking was wrong. These Ming soldiers were more brave than usual, and the soldiers were all dedicated to their lives, and they were even more fearless.The Qing army was no match for the expeditionary army in the first place, so it would be astonishing to fight a bloody path from here and break out of the encirclement.

But they never dreamed that this was all due to their few batches of money.To be precise, from the standpoint of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, their money had the opposite effect!

Because Zhu Yousong once made it clear that if the people in the city were allowed to run out of soldiers, all the silver, gold, silver and jewelry they had robbed in front of them would be in vain, and their Majesty Zhu Yousong would follow the prior agreement If all these silver, gold, silver and jewelry are brought back to the treasury, they will have nothing to do. They have just robbed their silver, gold, silver and jewelry for nothing these days, and they are also happy in vain.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's millions of taels of silver and priceless gold, silver and jewelry not only did not disintegrate the morale of the Ming army, but turned into a powerful motivation under the reward of Zhu Yousong's heavy gold. Who dare not die?

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the two Qing armies left a lot of casualties and were driven back to the city...

(End of this chapter)