After the Qing army "recaptured" Xibianmen, both sides seemed to have calmed down, and no war occurred for ten consecutive days.

Beijing city is too big. Although the Truqin Army had five reorganized troops and blocked all external gates, there were obvious omissions. Perhaps they were deliberately left out, the Qing court still obtained some information from the outside world one after another.

"A group of Green Camp soldiers under the command of the Governor of Zhili was led by Sun Qingcheng, the admiral of Gubeikou, and led the lead in advance. When he arrived near Zhuozhou, he was attacked by a brigade of Truqin cavalry. The unit immediately collapsed, and Sun Qingcheng was also killed in battle in this battle."

"After learning the news, the governor of Zhili, Liu E, brought his army back to Baoding Prefecture. At this time, some of the king-supporting troops from Zhili, Shanxi and Shandong had arrived at Baoding Prefecture. After learning the news, he stopped in Baoding Prefecture."

"Liu E has 15,000 troops and horses, and the number of troops to support the king is the same. The total amount is 30,000. The local tax has been released to the capital. It is really hard to bear if a mere government wants to support the 30,000 troops."

"The king-supporting troops began to rob the countryside"

Yuqing Palace.

Yongyan asked, "Sir, what are your opinions?"

A Gui replied: "The strangest thing is that the barbarian thieves actually stopped siegeing the city. Have they transported a large amount of ammunition, food and grass to the capital? In another twenty days, Tonghui River and the Grand Canal will freeze, and they can only transport supplies by land"

"For them, isn't it the best way to occupy the capital within a month? The longer the time goes on, the more unfavorable it will be for them"

"For us, after we had already reserved food and grass for one year, we could still support six months after we cleared up the city's tyrants and cleared up a large number of people with ulterior motives."

"In the past year and a half, except for the more and more troops of kings gathering, the barbarian thieves have been in foreign lands for a long time. How can there be no chaos if they can't be captured for a long time..."

"How to say it?"

"Your Highness, before the Emperor hunted the West, he had issued an order to the Governor of Zhili to train the entire Zhili Province to train the group and make a strategy to let him guerrillas attack the thieves' army everywhere. They naturally have not yet trained them. But in time, the army of kings and the army that is hard to defend, I want to see how they can supply them."

Yongyan was still worried, "We have reinforcements coming, and barbarian thieves can also use their steamships to transport more troops here?"

Agui nodded, "This is true, but the barbarian thieves have always regarded themselves very well. In addition, their territory is extremely vast, and most of the neighboring countries are enemy countries. How can they not leave a large number of troops to defend?"

"The army slaves who can be sent here think they have reached the top"

"Then why don't they attack a lot?"

"Your Highness, I was also very surprised at first. After you reminded me, I suddenly realized something"

"Oh?"

"There are three divisions of troops in the west of the barbarian thief. At present, the main cities in Xinjiang have been occupied by them. According to their usual tactics, only a few people will be left to guard the spot. The main force will enter Dunhuang and then enter Longyou along the Hexi Corridor"

"It's cold and the ground is freezing now, and their marches are probably starting to slow down. I guess that in one month at most, the thief army will definitely enter Gansu."

"At that time, there will be two reorganized troops in the north, three reorganized troops in the west, and two in the Yangtze River, which will greatly restrain the soldiers and horses of the kings in various places"

"In addition, there is another reason why the thief army did this"

"Oh?"

"The barbarian thieves have ulterior motives. If the emperor was still in the capital, they would have launched a large-scale attack early in the morning, but they must have received news that the emperor had been hunting the west long ago..."

As he said that, he took a secret look at Yongyan.

"I changed my strategy and hoped to use the capital as bait to attract all the troops from Zhili Province, Shandong Province and Henan Province in the Qing Dynasty to the vicinity of the capital. They are used to being arrogant. If they can be wiped out in one fell swoop, it will be of great benefit to consolidate Zhili Province"

"If the capital is taken down immediately, this effect will not be achieved. The green camp soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers from all over the country are loyal to our Qing Dynasty and must guard the city. The bandits need to attack one by one. Once they are captured, they need a large number of soldiers to guard it."

"In time, its forces will be scattered in major cities, and the mobile forces that can be dispatched will be greatly reduced. At that time, there will be no big advantage in facing our elite troops"

"Also, Qitade must have received the message that King Khalkha convened the Onon River Conference, and he can become the new Genghis Khan, and he can win over the Mongolian tribes nearby, so this guy will never miss it."

"Before this matter is completed, he probably doesn't want the situation in the capital to be too bad. Although the thief army is elite, they probably think that once they enter the city, they will be blocked by the soldiers hidden in major temples and all the hutongs in our country"

"But if Qitade could gather tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry to go south to assist the war after completing the Onon River Conference, it would definitely be a great shock to the military and civilians in the capital, and it would be possible to go down without a fight."

"You mean Ashina is still waiting for his father's Onon River Conference?"

"It is possible that it is the end of October and early November. The day of the Onon River Conference is the end of the year. If Qitade wants to arrive in Khalkha smoothly, he will definitely not carry a small number of troops, but at least one reorganizer will need to guard nearby"

"In that case, it will take at least two months to reach the source of the Onon River, and it will be the end of the year"

"So we have at least one month of quiet days?"

"Slaves think this is what it is"

....

Just when Yongyan and Agui were puzzled by Truqin's strange behavior, they didn't know that there was indeed a huge change in the city.

Since they are urban residents, they will definitely not hoard a large amount of food and grass like the farmers. The government obtained a large amount of money and food through the targeted massacre of the last targeted massacre. However, most of the people in the city can hoard food for one month, and a large number of people below the middle class can hoard food for up to ten days and half a month.

Then buy from the grain shop, especially the large number of poor people who rely on Tonghui River and the Grand Canal. They often need to obtain the food for the day through their labor, and the slightest surplus of food at home will not last more than ten days.

In the last massacre, due to its extreme targeting nature, most of the people killed were grain merchants with low backgrounds, while the remaining grain merchants were mostly associated with the inner court and senior officials, so there were no big increases in prices. Therefore, ordinary people's lives were even worse.

The enemy troops besieged the city outside the city, and the Qing court naturally imposed a curfew in the city. Faced with such a situation, the remaining grain merchants in the city were also panicked, and most of them were closed down. Even if the people had money, they could tolerate high prices but had no place to buy them.

The Qing court did not know anything about the situation, but facing Truqin, an unprecedented enemy, from Yongyan, Agui, to the pen style of the Eight Banners soldiers, they suddenly returned to the scene before their ancestors entered the pass.

There are also signs of returning to the Nurhaci era.

Generally speaking, in the late dynasty, in addition to man-made disasters, natural disasters were indispensable, and even more so in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The severe drought and great cold, and locust plagues not only occurred in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the northeast and southern desert grasslands. At that time, the population and livestock of the tribes in the south of the desert also decreased significantly.

Huang Taiji has only entered the pass and robbed many times. Huang Taiji is still good. In the Nurhaci era, facing such natural disasters, he only has one word.

Kill!

Kill more Han farmers outside the pass, reduce the number of people eating food, and then tilt resources towards the public. This is his only magic weapon.

Originally, there were two million Han people outside the pass, but after war and conscious massacre after the war, it dropped sharply to only a few hundred thousand, and most of them were obviously killed on purpose.

Back in front of you, although Yongyan was Jiaqing in later generations, Agui was also a famous minister, but when it comes to this extremely dangerous situation, he obviously will not take ordinary Han people seriously.

In addition to not being allowed to walk around at will, the residents in the city cannot get enough food to fill their stomachs. The neighbors can still get through after the first ten days, but they will not be able to do so after the tenth day.

At any time, food and money are concentrated in the hands of a few people. If it were later generations, it would be that 20% of the people occupied 80% of the food (money is far less important than food at this time), and some of these two people were killed by the Qing court in the name of foreign countries, and at most 10% of the people occupying the food.

Of course, the Qing court did not regard all Han people in the outer city as animals that could be abandoned at any time. Although they did not care about their lives, they still had food to satisfy them.

Since Truqin sieges the city, almost all of these people have lived in the military camp and cut off contact with their families. They obviously don’t know the situation at home. But since these people are all young and strong, they are naturally the pillars of the family. How can they not know the situation at home?

A Gui, Yongyan and others obviously would not consider this. For a long time, the shock of the Eight Banners of Manchuria on the Green Camp soldiers has long been deeply rooted, and the pressure on ordinary people is far greater than that of the Green Camp soldiers. In their eyes, as long as they deploy hundreds of vests, they can calm the entire outer city.

The cowardice and obedience of the Han people in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties left them with a deep impression. Moreover, the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty is still in our prime. Although the combat power of the Eight Banners soldiers was weak, they obviously had not reached the situation decades later.

With their knowledge, they obviously would not realize this.

They don't realize it doesn't mean it won't happen.
Chapter completed!