The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 26
"Zhou Aiqing, today we defended so hard, and were almost attacked by the opponent, how should we defend tomorrow?"

"Do we need to abandon the outer city and concentrate our troops to defend the inner city?"

After suppressing the matter of Li Yan and Hong Niangzi, Zhu Cihong asked.

Really freaked out today.

He has no confidence in tomorrow at all. If he can't escape, he will want to escape tonight.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the bandit army is besieging from all sides today, and the offensive lasted from morning to dusk. There will inevitably be heavy losses, countless wounded, and a sharp drop in morale.

In a short period of time, it is absolutely impossible to organize such a large-scale attack. Most of the bandit army will rest for a few days and then choose one side to attack.

After today's fierce battle, our army has fully adapted, so it will be extremely difficult for the bandit army to break through the city again, and there is no need to abandon the outer city! "

Zhou Yuji said confidently, he thought that the opponent would choose to attack from the weak outer city first, who would have thought that the opponent would attack so frantically from all sides.

But thinking of the opponent's strength is also relieved.

"Oh?"

Zhu Cihong's eyes lit up, he didn't know how many casualties the bandit army had suffered, but they must have suffered heavy casualties.

"Your Majesty, the way to attack and defend, in fact, the most difficult thing for the defender is the first day, and the first day is also the easiest time for the attacker to break through the city, otherwise the bandit army would not be so crazy today, just want to take advantage of our army's unbalanced deployment, take care of one thing and lose another , break it in one go.”

"So that's how it is. It's just like the so-called exhaustion after one bang, and exhaustion after three times. Now I can rest assured."

Zhu Cihong nodded knowingly, and a smile appeared on his face.

As a modern person, his thinking and comprehension abilities are still very strong, and Zhou Yuji understood it as soon as he said it.

In fact, Zhu Cihong didn't know that if Zhou Yuji hadn't had Zhou Yuji, an experienced and calm general who was good at commanding and dispatching, if anyone else came, the end would most likely be the end of the city.

Because even if there is a slight waste of troops today, or if the deployment is improper, the dispatch is not timely, or the distribution of the strength of the troops is wrong, it will all end in the destruction of the city.

And Zhou Yuji's command and dispatch today can be said to be impeccable, especially his ability to adapt.

This not only requires insight into the command ability of the overall situation, but also requires rich experience in defending the city and an understanding of the enemy.

In this regard, even Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others may not be able to compare with Zhou Yuji.

The former may be stronger than Zhou Yuji in terms of big strategy, but in this kind of tactical level defense battle, it is far behind Zhou Yuji.

This is the difference between general and handsome, the first three are all handsome.

Although the latter is the best general, he cannot command the three armies.

As the saying goes, it is easy to get a thousand troops, but hard to find a general, but it is even more difficult to find a general.

At least looking at the entire Ming Dynasty now, there is no more handsome person who can command the three armies.

That night!

Into the west camp of the army, the big tent of the Chinese army is full of gunpowder.

As soon as Hong Niangzi came in, she stared at Li Guo with fiery eyes, and said sharply: "Li Guo, as the main attacking general, why did you withdraw your troops early? It made me fall short, and tens of thousands of soldiers died in vain."

"Hmph! Today I invested a total of 20 horses and horses, resulting in countless casualties. If you hadn't preserved your strength and feinted your efforts, I would have already broken through Xizhimen."

Li Guo was also furious, staring at the two of them, and finally fell on Liu Zongmin.

"Damn, what are you looking at me for?"

"I also invested 6 horses today, causing countless deaths and injuries. Is this motherfucker not working hard?"

Liu Zongmin stopped doing it immediately, jumped up and roared, and all the generals behind him also echoed and abused.

"Hmph, Liu, who doesn't know your little thoughts?"

"Do you dare to say that among the 6 people you have invested, there are elite veterans?"

The red lady snorted coldly.

The others were also staring at Liu Zongmin.

Obviously, he knew his temperament well. He never looked at the life and death of recruits, and the elite veterans never attacked by force.

"How do you know I haven't invested in the old pawn? Have you seen it?"

"Hmph! The fact is that I invested a lot of elite veterans from the very beginning."

Liu Zongmin hummed sullenly.

A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.

"It turned out to be so, do you dare to let me wait until I enter the camp to investigate?"

Li Guo said aggressively.

Obviously also very annoyed that Liu Zongmin preserved his strength.

"fart!"

Liu Zongmin immediately cursed, how dare they let them enter the camp for inspection?
All of a sudden, the three sides were fighting with each other, and the generals under their command had already started fighting while pushing and shoving.

Only Liu Fangliang remained silent. The three of them didn't blame him for his lack of preparation.

"Enough, shut up!"

Seeing that there was a pot of porridge in the tent, Chuang Wang immediately got up and roared, his face was so gloomy that water was about to drip out.

Everyone stopped their hands one after another, retreated to their respective positions, and kept silent.

Li Zicheng then looked at Niu Jinxing: "Prime Minister, have the casualties of the main battalion been counted?"

"Back to Your Majesty, after a rough count, the casualties should be between [-], of which about [-] were wounded."

Niu Jinxing said carefully.

Everyone's expressions changed when they heard the words, King Chuang also took a deep breath, and looked at the other three.

"Back to Your Majesty, the casualties of our troops are about [-]."

The red lady cupped her fists and answered first, the look of pity on her face flashed away.

Liu Zongmin also immediately said: "Brother, our troops also suffered around [-] casualties, including [-] old soldiers."

"Brother, our department only suffered more than [-] casualties."

After Liu Fangliang finished speaking, everyone gasped.

Although I knew that after a day of war, the casualties would definitely be serious, but I never thought that it would be as high as 16.

Li Zicheng also couldn't sit still anymore, staring at a pair of bull's eyes, tremblingly said: "How could there be so many casualties?"

At the beginning of the attack on Ningwuguan, after more than ten days of fighting, the total number of casualties was only 15.

It's good now, just one day, surpassing the original, how can this battle be fought?
"Your Majesty, the perimeter of the capital's city wall is more than 16 miles, and our army is attacking from all sides. After fighting for a whole day, the casualties reached [-], which is quite normal."

Li Yan explained with a sigh.

He knew that this would be the result. A giant city like Beijing could not be attacked by force if it had sufficient food, grass and troops.

Especially with such a fierce attack on all sides for a whole day, if it is really spread out to fight, tens of 10 people may not be enough to fill it.

"Mr. Li, what do you mean by that?"

"Do you think that 10,000+ dead in our army is still less?"

Song Xiance said in a dark tone.

It's inconvenient for Li Yan to argue with him, but Hong Niangzi couldn't help but said coldly: "Song Immortal, if you don't know how to speak human words, just shut up. If you are angry with yin and yang, don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword."

After finishing speaking, she firmly held onto the hilt of the sword, and she could not bear it any longer for Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing to run on her husband every time. If not for her husband's permission, she would have given them a hard lesson.

All the generals behind Hong Niangzi also stared at Song Xiance.

This made Song Xiance feel guilty for a while, but forced a cold snort.

"Okay, stop arguing!"

"Tell me what to do next!"

Li Zicheng waved his hand impatiently, making a lot of noise all day long, which really made him exhausted physically and mentally.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's not advisable to continue besieging from all sides. You should choose one side and attack it. The southern outer city wall is slightly shorter, which can be used as a breakthrough."

Li Yan stood up again and suggested.

"Mr. Li's words are wrong. The outer city is indeed easier to attack, but after the outer city is broken, the Ming army can still retreat to the inner city and stick to it. The loss of troops will break the outer city. If you want to attack the inner city, it is better to attack the inner city directly."

Niu Jinxing shook his head, then looked at Li Zicheng and said.

Most of the generals and civil servants in the account also nodded in agreement.

"What the prime minister said is not unreasonable. However, our army can hold food and grass for another month at most, and directly attack the inner city. If we can't attack for a long time, morale will be low. In addition, the food and grass are not enough. Once the Ming army comes to help, our army may be destroyed. danger.

And if you can break through the outer city quickly, you can compare it to forcing the little emperor to negotiate. "

Li Yan continued to argue with reason, obviously the heart of negotiation is still not dead, even worse than before the war.

In the end, Li Zicheng hesitated again and again, but still adopted Li Yan's suggestion.

The army was ordered to rest for three days, and while continuing to build siege equipment, all the moats of the southern outer city were buried.

At the same time, people were sent to nearby states and counties to collect grain and grass in case of emergency.

(End of this chapter)