"Your Highness"

Although the Truqin Army's defense has been leaked, the Qing army's defense is obviously under the control of the Truqins.

According to the regulations of Truqin's intelligence agency, it is obviously the embassy responsible for the collection of information in Beijing. The people in the embassy have not been evacuated at present. The reason for doing this is because the people in the embassy of the Qing Dynasty are still in Bogda City.

In addition to the few military officers on the surface, the embassy was responsible for collecting intelligence, naturally arranged secret spies to hide their identities in the inner and outer cities. Among them were locals who instigated the rebellion and sent from other places.

These people do not know each other, and the only person they are responsible for is the military officer of the embassy.

Therefore, even if one of the secret agents leaked the secrets, there are still secret agents from other places who reported real news continuously.

Of course, spies are also divided into levels. In a vast place like Beijing City, there must be more than one radio station. Those who own radio stations are obviously considered absolutely reliable.

Just as Yongyan was discussing how to defend the city, Ashina, who was stationed in Baiyun Temple near Xibianmen, received a telegram from Qitade to speed up the attack.

As the highest intelligence manager in the entire Far East, Zhou Jixun is reporting to him about the deployment of defense in the city.

"Beijing City is divided into inner city and outer city, but this is just a nominal statement. In fact, both inner and outer cities are outer cities. The inner city is north of the outer city, with a slightly smaller circumference, and is roughly 'Lu' shape stacked together"

"There are also city walls blocking the middle. According to the news conveyed by the embassy, ​​after all the three camps retreated to the city, the elite Eight Banners and the elite infantry commanders of the infantry were stationed in the inner city."

"The one who stationed on the east side of the inner city, guarding Jianguo Gate, Chaoyang Gate, and Dongzhi Gate is the former general manager of the Tongzhou Daying, and the deputy commander of the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner. This person has served as the governor and governor, and has a good way to lead troops to fight, and can be said to be both civil and military."

"There are about 20,000 elite troops under Eledenbao, and the total number of young and strong bannermen and their coated slaves living on the east side of the inner city can reach 30,000"

"The guards are stationed on the north side of the inner city, guarding Desheng Gate and Andingmen are the former Miyun Camp general manager and the deputy commander of the Manchurian Red Flag. This person's experience is similar to that of Eredenbao, but he is a civil servant and is said to be the most intelligent plan"

"The number of people under Lebao is similar to Eredenbo"

"The guards are on the west side of the inner city, guarding Xizhimen, Fuchengmen, and Xibianmen are the former Fengtai camp general manager and the deputy commander of the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner Delentai. This man was born in Hulunbuir Soren Umit tribe, and is actually a Soren native. He has the title of Batulu and is brave and good at fighting"

"The number of people under Delentai is also around 30,000"

"That is to say, the regular troops in the entire inner city are about 60,000, and there are about 30,000 flag soldiers who are on standby at any time. With the coat slaves, up to 150,000 people can be invested in battle."

"The inner city walls are generally more than 12 meters high, and the width of the city wall is about six meters. There are already artillery everywhere. After adding the artillery of the three major battalions, it is even more airtight. They even put some extremely heavy red barbarian cannons on it..."

"Pu..." As soon as he heard this, Ashi almost spit out his tea.

He smiled and said, "It is said that the heaviest red cannons in Mannu are tens of thousands of kilograms. How strong should such cannons be? Can a mere section of city wall withstand it?"

Zhou Jixun also smiled and said, "In this world, in addition to our country, we have advanced technology to determine coordinates and fix artillery. Even Europeans are basically fixed and finished, let alone Qing people."

"According to information, their range of red barbarian cannons is similar to that of our country's army's field battles. It is four miles long. Although the city walls are generally six meters wide, some places are more than ten meters, and these red barbarian cannons are arranged in these places."

"The rest of the artillery can't be underestimated. Due to their dense emissions, at the suggestion of the British, they fixed them all firmly to the city walls, and then used the rail slide device of the naval gun, but the range is generally limited, and most of them are within two miles."

"Although they are all fixed bombardment, due to the dense arrangement, the fire density and effect of being cast together are still quite considerable"

Asuna nodded, "Do they have sufficient ammunition for so many artillery?"

"Your Highness, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a firearm and ammunition workshop supervised by eunuchs in the inner city. After the Qing people took over, they expanded the workshop and set up one in the outer city. There were thousands of people in every workshop. In recent decades, the Qing court has been constantly fighting against foreign countries, but they are all opponents like the Jinchuan chieftains of the big and small Jinchuan and the White Lotus Sect."

"The ammunition in the capital does not actually need to be transported there. They also have firearm workshops in Chengdu and Wuchang inner city, just use it there"

"So, Beijing City actually has a large amount of ammunition?"

"Your Highness, with our country's scientific and technological strength, gunpowder can only be kept for half a year for the longest time, and then it needs to be taken out and dried again. The Qing people obviously have not reached the level of half a year. According to the observation of the spies, they will have to be dried again in three months."

"Therefore, they cannot produce too much gunpowder at one time, and they can only be used in the past three months, up to half a year. The remaining ones are bought as firecrackers, or distributed to the Zhili Green Camp and the troops stationed in the border areas."

"The outer city did not divide the defense zone according to the city gate, and only had one guard general, namely the brother Mingliang of Fukang'an, the three camps, the troops eliminated by the infantry commander's yamen, plus a small number of Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners soldiers were all stationed there"

"There are more people there, and the total number has reached 60,000, and each city wall is about 20,000. Nowadays, the population of the entire city of Beijing is nearly one million, and most of them are in the outer city. Therefore, if the war is urgent, they can also draw the young and strong people to fight in the city, and the total number can reach 100,000."

"Compared with the inner city, although the outer city walls are densely packed with artillery, the density is far less than that of the inner city, and there is not even the red barbarian cannons"

"There are moats on the outside of the inner and outer cities. The moat is about ten meters wide and has a depth of more than one meter, so it is not easy to cross. The water of the moat flows to the Tonghui River near Dongbianmen, and the Tonghui River is connected to the Grand Canal"

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"There is also a Forbidden City in the inner city, with a radius of about five or six miles. It is actually the size of a county town. It has a moat that is 50 meters wide. The height and thickness of the city wall are far better than that of the outer city"

"However, there is only one guard army in the Forbidden City, that is the Xishan Ruijian Camp. It was originally stationed in Xishan, with only about a thousand people. Later, it was transferred to Jingshan, north of the Forbidden City, and the number of people also increased to three thousand people"

"Xishan Ruijian Camp is not a fixed team. He is all drawn by the emperor from the powerful figures that emerged from the martial arts, hunting and wars in previous years."

"There are naturally flagmen among them, but the Sorens are still the main body, mixed with the chieftain soldiers who performed well in the wars in Xichuan and western Hunan. They were all brave and good at fighting. Later, under the training of the British, a thousand Han army flags and flags who were quite good at firearms"

"This part of the flag captains obviously used a flintlock rifle, and there were many light cannons given by the British"

"The commander of Xishan Ruijian Camp is called Tefeiyinga. He is a first-class guard of the Manchu Principal White Banner Batulu and Danei. He comes from the Kuyala tribe of the Jurchens of the East China Sea. This tribe contributed many famous warriors to the Qing Dynasty, such as Yangguli, Tan Tai, etc., from this tribe"

Ashin seemed to have thought of something, "It is easier to attack the outer city than the inner city?"

"That's not, Your Highness, our country's smallest caliber field artillery range is four miles, and we can attack anywhere four miles away from a distance. No matter how dense the artillery on the inner city walls is, it cannot withstand the bombardment of our army's howitzers, and the enemy is only matched by the Red Barbarian cannons"

"But firstly, the number of red barbarian cannons is small, and secondly, once it is launched, it will take a lot of time to reset it. Moreover, our army can concentrate firepower to deal with the cannon at the beginning"

"From the war, there is not much difference between the inner and outer cities"

"From the war? That is to say, there are other opportunities to take advantage of?"

"Yes, Your Highness, the inner city is also very large, but almost all living in bannermen, and with the elite troops, their determination to resist is obviously very strong. Unless there is too much accident, the inner city will never surrender easily."

"But the outer city is different. Although there are Manchu ministers who are fighting, the Eight Banners soldiers are only a few, most of them are Green Camp soldiers. Moreover, Mingliang only has a cavalry team of three thousand people, and the main force to defend the city is still Green Camp soldiers."

"Even so, the Qing court was still worried. All the commanders of the Green Camp soldiers were bannermen, of course, it was the Han army flag"

"Oh? Let's talk about it in detail"

"Yes. Sixty thousand green camp soldiers, mainly three commanders, all descendants of the Han army flag nobles who were born as the emperor's personal bodyguard"

"First of all, Zhao Yumi, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture. He is the fifth-generation grandson of the first-class man Zhao Liangdong. According to the bright defense zone, he guards the entire southern part of the outer city, namely the Yongding Gate, Zuo'anmen and You'anmen areas."

"Then there is Zhang Chengxun, the fourth-generation grandson of the first-class marquis Zhang Yong, who guards the east side of the outer city, which is the Guangqumen area"

"The last one is the first-class man, Sun Sike, the fifth-generation Sun Qinglin, who guards the Guang'anmen area to the west"

"In addition to hereditary titles, the three of them also have the title of admiral, and they are all young people in their twenties and thirties. They are usually famous for their bravery. By the way, Sun Qinglin is the younger brother of Sun Qingcheng, the admiral of Gubeikou, one of the two admirals under the current Zhili Governor. He is the legitimate descendant and inherited Sun Sic's title"

"In addition, the Minister of Military Affairs Sun Shiyi just applied to join the Han military flag last year. Emperor Qianlong did not want to agree, but recently agreed to him enter the flag. Now he is assisting Mingliang in the outer city. Although this person is a civil servant, he has also led troops to fight, and he is quite capable."

Asina smiled and said, "Master Zhou has been operating in the Far East for twenty years, so I guess he has a plan in his mind"
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