Ming Empire

Chapter 304 Martial Law in the City
After hearing the news from Cao Yue, Sun Chuanting was shocked: "What, Jiannu is going to attack Beijing?"

Cao Yue put on a cold face and nodded slightly: "Duoduo should be in a hurry to jump the wall and want to play a desperate blow. Old man Sun, don't worry, this is the last madness of Jiannu. As long as the remnants of Duoduo are wiped out, Jianu will also die." The species has almost been exterminated, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled are lambs at the mercy of others. With a general in charge, your safety can be guaranteed, so don’t worry about anything.”

Cao Yue instantly understood what Duduo was thinking. Duduo, who was almost desperate, was going to use this kind of suicidal desperate effort to complete the final blow in his fighting career.This time, Duoduo's sudden attack must have come with the idea of ​​burying the jade rather than the whole.The remnants of the slaves led by Duoduo will not have any worries. They just want to destroy the entire army of the remnants and deal a heavy blow to Ming Dynasty.

This is not difficult to understand. If it were Cao Yue, how could he fall into this situation? Maybe he would also adopt this kind of fighting method of killing the enemy, and deal a fatal blow to the enemy regardless of the cost.Today, the remnants of the slaves led by Duoduo almost have no place to live. All this is caused by the persecution of Ming Dynasty. The death of Dorgon must have dealt a heavy blow to Duoduo. A strategist may have lost his mind at this time, and wants to prove that he is not a coward in this way, and Manchu still has blood.

"Has Jiannu really reached such a desperate situation?" Sun Chuanting didn't quite believe what Cao Yue said, and he didn't expect that Ming's persecution would bring Jiannu down to this point.

This is really hard to understand. Just two years ago, the powerful Jiannu army of the Ming Dynasty had no temper and was unable to deal with it.Although the situation is now reversed, Cao Yue commanded the Daming Guards to rebuild the slaves several times, and drove the slaves out of the customs, but Sun Chuanting still believes that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it was once extremely powerful, and it was said to be invincible. Jian slave, the strength should not be underestimated.

The death of Dorgon once again hurt Jiannu's vitality, but there is also Duoduo, an outstanding strategist, and tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight well in the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty. There is no need to stay outside the customs for the 10,000+ people.

Not only Sun Chuanting has this kind of mentality, but other officials have almost similar thoughts.In their minds, Jiannu is an extremely powerful existence, and even if Cao Yue led the army to injure them several times, this cannot be fundamentally changed.Although today's Jiannu has been beaten and maimed, he will definitely make a comeback. Cao Yue said that Jiannu is at the end of his rope, and Duoduo wants to play the last fight, but almost no one believes it.

In fact, they did not really understand the real situation of the so-called Manchu Kingdom. Although the Manchus controlled a large area after the founding of the country, and even Beijing was occupied by them, there is one thing that cannot be changed quickly, that is, the Manchus also Even though the number of Jurchens is still very small, at most it was less than a million. Years of wars have prevented the population of the Manchus from increasing significantly. This is their fatal shortcoming.

The Manchu population is insufficient, and there are many more Mongols, Han Chinese, or Koreans in the area under their control.The Manchus are invincible, and when they seldom suffer defeat in battle, they can still control other ethnic groups or tribes, which also makes their overall strength appear very strong, and the number of troops is also large.But after successive defeats, these slave tribes or nations would no longer obey their orders, and one after another broke away from control or even betrayed.Nowadays, a large number of Han people are out of their control, and North Korea is the same. Several powerful Mongolian tribes, after seeing Jiannu's vitality, received news from Bumbutai and Zhezhe that they should cooperate with Daming , also changed from an ally to an enemy.Under such circumstances, it was quite normal for Jiannu's strength to plummet.

It's just that very few Ming officials could really understand the situation, and few of them could truly analyze the situation of Jiannu.

Cao Yue had no choice but to tell Sun Chuanting and other ministers what he thought in detail.After listening to Cao Yue's detailed analysis, Sun Chuanting and others dispelled some of their doubts, but they still didn't fully believe that Duoduo led the army to attack Beijing in a sneak attack, which would hurt both sides.They still believed that Jiannu didn't want to fight normally with Cao Bianjiao's men, so they played the tactics they were good at, and quickly attacked Beijing, hoping to achieve great success by attacking Beijing.If their sneak attack is unsuccessful, they will still flee back to the grassland and will not love to fight.

Cao Yue didn't bother to explain more to them, but he didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, so he immediately organized soldiers and horses to prepare for the sneak attack of the remnants of Jiannu.

There are not many town troops in Beijing, only a few thousand people. Most of the soldiers and horses in the north were taken out of the pass by Cao Bianjiao. , No one would have thought that Jiannu would lead an army to attack Beijing, which was almost an empty city, and Cao Bianjiao was the same. He believed that at the beginning of the war, Jiannu would devote all his strength to defend Shengjing, and had no strength to attack south, so including Beijing There are not many troops left behind in the northern cities.

Fortunately, this time Cao Yue escorted members of the royal family northward to worship the Ming Tomb with a lot of soldiers and horses, including nearly [-] soldiers including naval officers and soldiers.Including the town army in the Beijing area, the number of troops that can be put together in a short period of time is at least [-].

It's just a pity that these 4 horses don't have any more heavy weapons except for dozens of artillery pieces on naval warships and hundreds of fixed artillery pieces on the top of Beijing City.Musketeers, there are only more than 25 people in the 1th Guards Division led by Cao Yue, because the number of muskets produced cannot meet the needs of the army, and each Guards division has a large number of sergeants who cannot be equipped with muskets.

The soldiers and horses left behind in the northern towns are not equipped with many new-style muskets, and the musketeers mainly use old-fashioned muskets.

Cao Yue hurriedly ordered Cao Bianjiao's tribe to return to the army to help, and surrounded and wiped out the Duoduo tribe together. At the same time, he also hurriedly called nearby soldiers and horses to Beijing to serve the king.At the same time, it also urgently ordered the south to deliver muskets in case of emergency.The arsenal in Beijing also worked overtime to produce muskets and ammunition.

With 4 horses in hand, Cao Bianjiao's reinforcements can return to the army soon, and Cao Yue is not worried about the remnants of Jiannu who are only tens of thousands of horses.

It's just that the attack speed of the Jiannu remnants led by Duoduo was beyond his surprise.When the first eradication spread to Beijing, Jiannu was still about [-] miles away from Beijing. According to Cao Yue's estimation, Jiannu would take at least three to four days to arrive, and he could deploy defenses calmly.

But to his surprise, two days later, Jiannu's men and horses had crossed from the east of Datong and came quickly to Beijing.In other words, when Jiannu arrived in Beijing, it was at least one day earlier than originally expected.

But Cao Yue didn't worry about anything, and continued to arrange calmly, but raised the alert level of Beijing to the highest level, and the whole city was under martial law.

(End of this chapter)