Chapter 919 Worrying about Superfluous
After Liu Bu gathered enough troops, he began to set out from Langfang, and his subordinates divided the defense zones.
Facing Beijing City, the largest city in North China, Liu Bu did not despise it at all. He knew that if he wanted to forcibly break it, his strength would be insufficient.
Forced attacks can easily cause them to lose their steps, take too fast, and easily pull them.
After going through a lot of hardships, today is here, just waiting to enjoy the harvest, Liu Bu is not in a hurry.
Liu Bu now first blocked the capital and cut off his external contact, and then waited for their various siege weapons, mainly cannons, tower cars, siege wood and other things.
The Chinese army owns these things, but these things do not seem to be suitable for dealing with Beijing City, because Beijing is more than twice as high as ordinary cities, which means that ordinary ladders are useless.
Such a high cloud ladder is very difficult to manufacture and soldiers are very dangerous, so this was rejected by Liu Bu. They used giant trees to hit the door or used building cars to attach the city instead of using cloud ladders and ants to attack the city.
Liu Bu currently has only nearly 40,000 troops under his command, but he soon received reinforcements. It was not the soldiers of the Chinese army, but the Guanning army regarded as reinforcements by the Ming army.
The Guanning Army was very hesitant at first. They were very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty mobilized 700,000 troops to move south in large numbers, preparing to recover the lost territory, in the eyes of the court, this was a dignified army to recover the lost territory. However, in the eyes of Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and other old fried dough sticks, they could see that the Ming Dynasty was not good.
The army of 700,000 was very powerful, but this army had no food, and was just preparing to rob it. It was a policy of using war to support the war and feeding the enemy.
Are these bad things done by people? Even if they are done, they will lose all their hearts and will definitely not last long.
Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and others saw more thoroughly. You have so many troops rushing out but have no food. If the Chinese army is smart, I will not fight you at all. Even if you drag it down, you can drag you down.
Although this momentum is great, it is just a reflection of the light. At the end of the powerful crossbow, it cannot penetrate Lu silk.
At this time, the Chinese Army's envoy secretly announced the Chinese Army's combat plan to him. In fact, Liu Buji was in charge of Dengzhou Water City, which really scared them. At this time, they knew that the Ming Dynasty was really over.
If Liu Bu landed from Tianjin Wei, their 700,000 troops would have no way out. Collapse would mean the situation, either collapse or surrender.
At this time, Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang and others no longer hesitated and were immediately willing to surrender to the Chinese army and cooperate with the Chinese army's actions.
They had many conditions, but seeing that the Chinese army was so strong and they played this trick, they no longer mentioned unnecessary conditions. If they followed the dragon early, they might be able to treat a founding hero. If they did not return for a long time, they might not need them when the Chinese army took over the capital.
In order to show sincerity, the Guanning Army also sent 20,000 troops to attack from Shanhaiguan to Deshengmen and Andingmen in the north of the capital.
In fact, the Chinese army is not short of the Guanning Army's 20,000 people. To put it bluntly, even if the Guanning Army does not cooperate and comes to serve the king and rescue the emperor, it is not the opponent of Liu Bu's elite troops. At this time, it is no longer the number of soldiers or morale, which determines the direction of the war.
What determines the direction of the war mainly consists of equipment and training. After Liu Buqi's three divisions were filled with staff, he felt that the overall situation was settled.
At least looking at the Northern Zhili, the Ming Dynasty had no power to compete with them. Even if Yang Sichang could lead an army of 300,000, Liu Bu didn't have to be afraid.
It is difficult for the Ming army to replicate the miracle of Zhu Xieyuan's complete annihilation of a division of the Chinese Army under Yiling City. The weapons of both sides are a different era, and it is not that personnel or morale can be saved.
The Chinese Army established four camps around the capital, each camp was responsible for one direction. They set up strong villages to fight tough battles according to the standards of the Light Army, and were ready for tough battles.
The so-called hard village refers to digging three trenches, each trench is two meters deep, and then erecting three-meter-high fences around, placing deer antlers, horse-resisting and other tools to prevent enemy troops from striking or robbing camps.
The Ming army has always been best at fighting this kind of war, and some people call it a tough village or a stupid war.
The Chinese Army did this, which was not in line with its usual style. They always focused on offense and defense were not their strengths.
This is also related to their continued snatching the world and turmoil of the great people after they rose.
What's even worse is that even the defenders in the city can see that they have built a large camp, so they naturally have to wait for the arrival of other troops.
Liu Bu knew that with the little strength he had in his hands, forcibly attacking the capital might be successful, but there would be great casualties, so he decided to wait until the army gathered before he could give a fatal blow here.
And Liu Bu can also be sure of one thing, that is, the city is now in chaos, the morale of the army is extremely low, time is beneficial to the Chinese army and is not good to the Ming army. The longer it drags on, the more problems there will be in the city.
When they knew that Hong Chengchou and Yang Sichang's army surrendered, they probably had no confidence to resist, so Liu Bu came up with such a way, which was to wait for the arrival of the army and show off his strength.
The main reason for showing off military power is that the Chinese army rose too quickly, succeeded too quickly, and had no background. If they fought a smooth battle, it would be fine when they were going smoothly, but if they encountered any setbacks or battles against the wind, they would die miserably.
Liu Bu took this opportunity to slow down, rectify the army, remove the drought and preserve the essence, increase morale, and strengthen cohesion, and also let the people and the military and civilians in the city see the powerful military force of the Chinese army. They no longer have the intention to fight with a powerful military force, and ultimately they can only choose to surrender.
That's why Liu Bu deliberately made such a huge noise and pulled out all the weapons they could use, mainly to show off his martial power and shock the enemy's hearts.
Originally, in Liu Bu's idea, they would have a very tragic war. After this war, the fate of both sides would be determined. It was through this war that the Chinese army would take the lead in the north, establish a country and become an emperor, and establish a foundation that will never be defeated.
But even Liu Bu could not have imagined that the Ming Dynasty was so weak that the political system was extremely corrupt, and the army had no combat effectiveness at all.
Originally, they were still holding on and fighting against the Chinese army, but when they knew that the Chinese army had not landed in Tianjin and quickly surrounded the capital, the army lost its morale and no longer had the confidence to go against the Chinese army.
This made Liu Bu sigh, knowing that the Ming Dynasty was very weak, but he never expected that he would fall to such a step. It can be said that it was not that the Chinese army and the others were strong, it was not that they defeated the Ming Dynasty, but that the Ming Dynasty killed itself.
More than two hundred years of emphasis on culture and military affairs, coupled with corruption among officials, withering people's livelihood and dark society, this made the Ming Dynasty, a giant, corrupt from the inside out. Although he still looked very huge, outsiders gently pushed him and fell down. After falling to the ground, he could no longer get up.
Liu Bu couldn't help but sigh that when the Ming army was in the beginning, it dominated the world and defeated the invincible Mongolian cavalry. It made all the countries in all directions surrender to it. It established the Jiaozhi Administrator's Office in the south and established the Yingnurkandu Division in the north. Even in the southwest, it swept all the way and almost connected with India. It can be said that at the beginning of the founding of the country, it was a country that was extremely powerful.
Liu Bu was thinking that if they dared to rebel at that time, they would probably be wiped out if they had a riot in Laizhou. Any Ming army would destroy them.
People are still those, but they are not as famous officials and generals as founding the country. They are more mediocre and incompetent, like Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, who are just a corpse. They have no use for the country, but they have caused chaos and long-term party struggles, party struggles against each other, causing chaos in the court, and chaos among the people.
In addition to the arrival of the Little Ice Age, many places have either floods or droughts, and the people cannot eat enough.
If a person cannot eat enough, he cannot do anything? Liu Bu knew this. Even the ancients knew that Cang Bian knew rituals and music. When a person was hungry, he would only think of ways and use all means to fill his stomach without thinking about other problems.
The great people have been raising officials for more than 200 years and raising people for more than 200 years. The people have a profound foundation, but they cannot withstand their troubles. The people consumed their loyalty to the court in the midst of hunger, hunger and cold.
Northern Zhili is the core area of the Ming Dynasty rule, and its status is far above Shandong. When Liu Bu entered here, he originally thought there would be a lot of resistance.
They dare not think like the Southern Song Dynasty that when they sent troops to attack the north, the local Han people would carry pots of slurry and food to them. Liu Bu and others were also ready to be the whole people after entering the area.
Who knew that after they entered this area, the local people were very numb and indifferent. When they saw the Chinese army coming here, they had nothing to fear. They neither fled in the wind nor welcomed warmly, just like watching strangers walking over.
I didn't realize that if the government and the masters changed, their lives would undergo major changes. Perhaps the hearts of these people would be numb. The city walls were changing with the king's flag. After you finished singing, I would appear. Whoever is the emperor or the head of the family is still the same. People are the slaughter and I am the fish. This will never be changed.
Seeing this situation, Liu Bu was not disappointed, but seemed very happy. This was his belief that Zhu Ming had completely lost the morale of the people.
Liu Bu was still wondering whether the Ming Dynasty was established for more than two hundred years and was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Should he learn from the original version first send a spokesperson, such as bandits, and after they conquered Beijing, they forced the emperor to death and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and then they took action, and in the name of avenging the Ming Dynasty, they destroyed the enemy and took the opportunity to seize the opportunity to seize the world.
Chapter completed!