Forty thousand Guan Ning's army is coming to Beijing?

This is good news!

It seems that Guo Zuo of the Ming Dynasty will not be finished for a while...

But when will Wu Sangui arrive?

Fifteen of the sixteen gatekeepers showed expressions of surprise. Another one, Wu Sanfu from Chaoyang Gate, had long known that Guan Ningjun was coming, so he was not particularly surprised.

Zhu Cixiang continued: "Of course, Guan Ning's army can only temporarily relieve the capital's difficulties. After all, the capital is already surrounded by enemies from both sides. There are bandits in the west and ugly captives in the east... The imperial court has no ability and no need to get in between them. So.

My father has decided to move south after Wu Sangui's troops arrive! After the imperial court moves south, Northern Zhili will be left to the bandits and captives to fight for. The imperial court can be in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on the dangers of the Jianghuai River and the strength of the navy.

Li, relying on the wealth in the southeast, can rest and recuperate.

And all the soldiers who are in charge of the capital camp are the pillars of the imperial court and will be of great use when they arrive in the capital. Therefore, they are all included in the escort, and your family members must also move south with them to avoid falling into the hands of rogue thieves and captors.

I have ordered people to clean up the Qingfu Hall next to the inner school grounds to accommodate your parents, wives and children. You can go home quickly and send your parents, wives and children here tonight. Waiting for your parents, wives

After your son arrived, he went to the Zangfang Treasury to collect military pay, and each door was given 5,000 taels of silver... These 5,000 taels are the military pay rewards for the battles in the next two days. You decide how to distribute them. I only care about two things. One is

Lead reinforcements to break through the main attack gate; second, severely punish the generals who fail to guard the gate and abandon the gate and leave.

In addition, this palace will send supervisory troops to every city gate. All the supervisory officials previously assigned by the imperial court will step down from their posts."

Zhu Cixiang is holding silver in one hand and a knife in the other!

If you are obedient, take the money and go to guard the door. If you don't want to do it well, you have to be prepared to be knifed! If you want to surrender, haha, I will kill your whole family without any negotiation! This prince is very fierce!

How could the guards of the sixteen gates not know Zhu Cixiang's plan? Now everyone looked at Prince Zhu with admiration.

This prince is really ruthless. He has the legacy of Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Cheng Zuwen!

"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Just when everyone was shocked by Crown Prince Zhu's methods, a bearded man in his forties, wearing a Jinyiwei Feiyu uniform, suddenly stood up and bowed in a salute, "Commander Jinyiwei, commander of the lower official.

I understand that Li Ruolian, the guardian of Chongwen Sect, has something unclear and would like to ask His Highness for advice."

Zhu Cixiang looked at this senior official of Jinyiwei and asked, "What do you want to ask?"

"I would like to ask how many days will it take for Wu Sangui's troops to arrive at the capital? What will happen if the capital is not defended before Wu's army arrives?"

This problem is very demoralizing!

But who is Zhu Cixiong? Of course he would not let a Ming Dynasty Jinyi guard tell the truth. He immediately asked: "Commander Li, how many days do you think we can hold the city of Beijing?"

Li Ruolian frowned and thought for a while, then saluted again, "Your Highness, please move to the inner hall."

Zhu Cixiang glanced left and right. A group of fire eunuchs stopped eating and drinking. They all held their breath and concentrated. It seemed that they also wanted to know how many days Beijing City could be defended!

"But it doesn't matter!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile.

He knew that at this time, people were in panic, and what they feared most was uncertainty. Even if it was false information, it would be better than hiding it.

"Then let me tell you straight," Li Ruolian took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Before today, I felt that if the capital was attacked by bandits, it would not be able to defend it for two days at most."

Zhu Cixiang nodded, wasn't it just two days? Li Chuang attacked the city on the 17th, and Emperor Chongzhen hung on a tree on the crooked neck of Meishan on the 19th.

Li Ruolian said again: "Now that the capital has His Royal Highness the Prince advising the army, I will observe that we should be able to defend it for five to seven days."

"That's enough!" Zhu Cixi showed a confident smile, "In five days, Wu Sangui's 10,000 cavalry will arrive, and in seven days, Wu Sangui's entire army will arrive! The circumference of the capital city is forty-eight miles. If it is to be besieged, thieves will escape

We need to join forces for eighty miles. If there are only a hundred thousand thieves, how can we form a stronghold for eighty miles? So Guan Ning's cavalry will definitely be able to enter the city."

What Zhu Cixi disclosed was not completely false information, it was just the best possible situation.

Wu Sangui is still in Shanhaiguan, which is 500 miles away from Beijing. Tian Cunzhi just left the city this afternoon with Wu Xiang's personal letter. If everything goes well, he can reach Shanhaiguan in one day and one night.

Assuming that Wu Sangui was an obedient son and immediately organized his troops to attack after seeing Wu Xiang's autographed letter. Then he should be able to set off around noon on the 18th. At the marching speed of Guan Ning's cavalry, it would take three days to cover 500 miles.

Can arrive.

Guan Ning's army has more than 10,000 cavalry. If they can follow Wu Sangui to rescue the capital, then Li Zicheng will have to deal with it carefully, and it will be impossible to attack Beijing with all his strength.

As for encircling Beijing at the same time and then attacking Guan Ning's army, it should be very difficult to accomplish with Li Zicheng's military strength. Many studies in later generations are about the number of troops Li Zicheng used when he conquered Beijing. Estimates of the total military strength ranged from tens of thousands to two hundred thousand.

Among them, there are only tens of thousands of old battalions that can really fight.

Otherwise, Li Zicheng would not have abandoned Beijing immediately after the Battle of Yishi and fled in embarrassment. Moreover, he would have been chased by Wu Sangui's cavalry and a small number of Manchurian soldiers while he was still in Dingzhou. It was true that both battles ended in the north.

Although there is no support from the Qing troops, Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of troops alone are not enough to defeat Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of old battalions. But as long as Wu Sangui's cavalry can enter the capital, Li Zicheng will not be able to break through Beijing in the short term, and will eventually retreat to Shanxi.

The possibility is still very high.

In this way, Zhu Cixi and Chongzhen can leave calmly... This is of course the best result!

Of course, judging from the experience of Zhu Cixi, a senior financial dog, the best results usually do not appear in a downward trend... The Ming Dynasty is now in a bear market that continues to plummet. If the worst result does not appear at this time,

Not bad!

However, the country of Ming Dynasty belongs to Zhu Cihong, so of course there is no reason for him to talk short of himself.

After speaking to calm people's hearts, Zhu Cixi then announced loudly: "Tomorrow there will be a first battle, and the first battle must be successful! Today you all have a good meal, and tomorrow I will lead you and others to kill the thieves. You should fight hard, I have prepared enough."

Three hundred thousand taels of silver, and the soldiers who have made meritorious deeds will be heavily rewarded!"

After saying these words, amidst cheers, Zhu Cihong ordered again: "The guards of the gates, please follow me inside to speak."

Now that the morale boosting words are over, it’s time to set up the battle defense!

Zhu Cixiang himself did not know how to fight and did not know how to deploy defenses. He only knew to block the upper city gate to delay time. The specific deployment of the city defense was handed over to Wu Xiang, Qiu Zhizhong, Zhu Chunjie and a deputy of Wang Chengen.

Wang Dehua and four others were in charge of the internal and external armies and admiral of the Nanhai Zijing Army.

The Leopard Room near the inner school field became the temporary Chinese army camp.

When Zhu Cihong and a dozen city gate guards arrived, Wu Xiang was frowning and talking to Wang Dehua. However, Qiu Zhizhong and Zhu Chunjie were not there, and they both led the team to inspect the sealing project of the six gates of the inner city.

"Sit down, please sit down and talk." After Zhu Cihong took his seat at the head of the table, he politely ordered Shoumenguan, Wu Xiang, and Wang Dehua who followed him in to sit down and talk.

Seeing that everyone sat down as he was told, Zhu Cixiang said solemnly: "The bandits have arrived in Changping today, and tomorrow the capital will have its first battle. I would like to ask for your suggestions on how to set up defenses."

It’s hard to think about this! Not to mention Zhu Cihong, even Wu Xiang is looking sad now.

"Your Highness, I have some ways of fighting and defending." The one who spoke was Li Ruolian. Although he was the leader of the Jinyi Guards, he was a martial arts scholar in the first year of Chongzhen. He had been an officer in the Beijing camp for generations, and he had very rich military knowledge.

At the same time, he was very familiar with the situation in Beijing. During the Jisi Revolution in the second year of Chongzhen (Huang Taiji entered the Pass to siege Beijing), he was also an official in Beijing and participated in some military affairs.

"Tell me." Zhu Cixi nodded approvingly.

Li Ruolian said: "I just said that if the prince did not support the army, the capital would not be defended for two days. It is because the people of the capital are unstable and there is no defense arrangement. If the rebels are rough, there may be internal changes. Now that the prince is assisting the army, it will happen."

I offered a reward of silver and asked people to block the city gates, so that internal changes would be less likely to happen. Therefore, I thought that I could defend it for five days. The reason why it was five days was because the first day was supposed to be a test battle for the bandits, and there was a prince.

The Kengnan camp is there, and with enough bounties to support it, we can win. After losing the first battle, Chuangni will order people to build siege equipment. In this way, we can attack from several sides, but there are not enough officers and soldiers to defend the city.
Chapter completed!