Ming Empire

Chapter 305
When Duoduo led his army to the city of Beijing, he saw a situation that made him desperate.

The gates of all the cities in Beijing were closed tightly, and the Ming army stood on the top of the city, and the troops came to prepare the ground to meet the invading enemy.The common people near the outside of Beijing were also moved to the city or driven to other places.There are various indications that the Ming army had already detected the news of the Qing army's attack, and deployed defenses early, so as not to give the Qing army a chance to succeed in a sneak attack.

This time, Duoduo had the same thoughts as Cao Yue, and wanted to use his last bit of strength to fight Daming to the death and destroy everything in Beijing with a suicide attack.

Duoduo knew that members of the Ming royal family went to Beijing to pay homage to the Ming Tomb, and Cao Yue also followed. This is the best chance for revenge.If the Ming army did not take precautions against the city of Beijing by surprise, then the soldiers and horses he led might be able to attack the city of Beijing, destroy the city of Beijing, and at the same time massacre members of the Ming imperial family, and even kill Cao Yue. .

In order to avoid finding out the whereabouts of the Ming army, Duoduo took many preventive measures, and the speed of the march was also very fast, almost two to three hundred miles a day and one night.Duoduo and his generals believed that their sudden attack was well kept secret, and the speed was fast enough. Even if the Cao Bianjiao Department of the Ming Army could find their traces, it would be too late to respond.Even if they spread the news to Beijing, Cao Yue had no time to deploy his defenses.

If Beijing's defenders were not fortified, they could take advantage of their speed to break through the city of Beijing and completely destroy the city.

But no one expected that Cao Yue's situation would be like this. The Ming army had made full preparations and stood ready at the top of the city.

Losing the opportunity for a sneak attack, Duoduo no longer dared to defeat the Ming army equipped with a large number of firearms and Beijing's tall city walls to rely on.But this time he came with the determination to die, and he wanted to deal a fatal blow to Daming with the destruction of the troops he led.

The shame of Shengjing being captured by Cao Yue has not been washed away, and the death of his closest brother Dorgon at the hands of the Ming army has not been avenged. Duo Duo decided to make up for these regrets with his own destruction.But now, everything will come to nothing.

Duoduo is not a reckless person. Although he was determined to die in this sudden attack, he would not be so stupid as to lead the few tens of thousands of troops left in the Qing Dynasty to attack the city by shooting and killing.He knew that if he attacked the city recklessly, tens of thousands of Qing children would all die under the city of Beijing, and the city wall of Beijing still could not be breached.

But when things got to this point, Duoduo would never lead his army back.Daqing has no way to gain a foothold on the grassland now, and can only hide in the deep mountains and old forests. Duoduo cannot tolerate this situation.He wanted to fight, to take revenge, and to wash away his humiliation.

Now that he has reached the city of Beijing, he cannot retreat like this, this battle must be fought.

In the end, Duoduo made a decision that surprised everyone and made Cao Yue dumbfounded.

He sent someone to write a letter of war to Cao Yue, preparing to make an agreement with Cao Yue that each of them would lead an army to fight a decisive battle outside Beijing.

Cao Yue couldn't laugh or cry when he received the letter of war sent by Duoduo.

"What age is it, and he still plays this type of challenge? Doesn't he understand that the two armies are fighting, as long as they win, it doesn't matter what kind of way they win. What kind of tricks does this guy want to play? "But even though he laughed at Doduo, Cao Yue finally replied to Doduo, accepted the other party's challenge, and agreed to have a serious fight with Jianu outside Beijing.

After sending the reply letter, Cao Yue responded immediately. He planned to lead more than 1 people out of the city to fight, including [-] musketeers, [-] cavalry and an artillery.He didn't use other arms including pikemen and archers. With musketeers, he felt that pikemen and archers were useless.

In the sequence of the Great Ming Guards, the pikemen and archers were already very small, and the musketeers didn't practice bows and arrows. There were assassinations, but it was just for the sake of courage, not for them to develop superb assassination skills.

In the future, the "modernized" military units such as artillery and musketeers in the Ming Dynasty Guards will develop on a larger scale, and other arms will be gradually streamlined and even finally eliminated.This is the trend of military and technological development. As a time traveler, Cao Yue will lead this trend.

Whether other people can understand it or not, this trend will not change.

Cao Yue only led more than 2 people out of the city to fight, facing the Jiannu elite cavalry led by Duoduo.According to pre-war reconnaissance, Doduo led nearly 5 troops. Although the number of troops who arrived in Beijing did not have this number, there were many losses along the way, but they were not much worse.With [-] people facing nearly [-] people, and [-] people will definitely rush to kill Jiannu Jingqi, which makes many people sweat.

Gao Hongtu, Ma Shiying, Shi Kefa and others tried their best to dissuade Cao Yue from being impulsive.Now that Beijing is short of troops, don't venture out of the city to fight, just defend the city and wait for the reinforcements to arrive.With the current strength of Beijing's military and defending the city, Jiannu must be helpless.If you take the risk to fight, it will be troublesome if there is an emergency.

Although many of them are unwilling to see Cao Yue always in power and influence the government, they also know that without Cao Yue, maybe Daming will fall into civil strife, the Ming guards will fall apart, and the world will once again into chaos.

At least for now, most people are unwilling to see Cao Yue have an accident.You know, their lives in Beijing are in Weiqi's hands. If Cao Yue is defeated, they may end up miserable.Both public and private, they all hope that Cao Yue will be more conservative and prudent.

But Cao Yue was unmoved, and he insisted on his own opinion, saying that he would personally lead the army out of the city to fight Duoduo, so that Duduo was convinced that he was defeated.He also wanted everyone not to worry, even if he went out of the city and was defeated, Jiannu would not be able to break through the city of Beijing. Reinforcements were gathering from all directions, even if Jiannu won a battle, he would not dare to stay under the city of Beijing for long.Inside Beijing, it must be safe.

In the end, no one could persuade Cao Yue, so he could only let Cao Yue "act wildly".

Cao Yue also handed over the command of the defenders in Beijing to Sun Chuanting, and asked Sun Chuanting repeatedly that no matter how the battle outside the city was going, he could not go out of the city for reinforcements. The defenders in Beijing just had to stick to the city gate.

Sun Chuanting naturally agreed, and he was the only one who didn't persuade Cao Yue earnestly. He believed that Cao Yue had the ability to defeat Duoduo, completely wipe out the remaining forces of Jiannu, and declare the might of the Ming Dynasty Guards to the world.

Cao Yue didn't tell Auntie Zhu and Liu Rushi, who came to Beijing with him, and other women of his decision, for fear that they might worry.After arranging the defense of the city, Cao Yue led more than [-] soldiers, carrying dozens of artillery pieces, and went out of the city to meet the enemy!
(End of this chapter)