At the beginning of December of the first year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, a Ming Dynasty army with extremely low morale and dejected walking, came to the city of Beijing, which they were both familiar with and unfamiliar with.

This army is the army of Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, when they decided to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, the army led by the two had a total of more than 20,000 people, which can be described as a strong army.

But just ten days later, when they came to the city of Beijing, the number of troops had been reduced by three-quarters! The whole army was less than 5,000 people, and they lost their armor and lost a lot of baggage.

The reason why they mixed up so badly was because they were attacked by the 7,000 new army commanded by Li Ruolian near Liaocheng. Don't look at Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo's 20,000 people, but that is the total strength, including a large number of rabble and baggage soldiers who can't fight, and the real ones that can be fought are only five or six thousand, not as many as Li Ruolian!

Moreover, Li Ruolian's four associations were strengthened by Su Guansheng, the governor of Denglai, and Shen Tingyang, the minister of Beiyang, and the equipment was very good. In particular, after Shen Tingyang became the Minister of Beiyang, he began to operate Dengzhou Water City as his base camp, expanded the Water City, connected it to Dengzhou City, and also opened a shipyard and an iron factory in the Water City.

The former can produce centipede warships, while the latter can produce artillery and firearms...... Although the production is not large, the production of turtledove's foot firecracker is only a pitiful 50 pieces per month, and from the start of construction in August to the beginning of November, 150 suitable turtledove foot firecrackers were produced.

This Beiyang minister is also interesting enough, he did not leave a single one, and all of them supported the main force of the Shandong Command Envoy Dengzhou Association, that is, the new army of Dengzhou Wei (belonging to the Zhuwei New Army) - Dengzhou Association is a soldier who guards his hometown for the water division, if they are defeated by the Tartars, the Beiyang naval division will be miserable.

As for the possibility that the sailor was defeated by the Tartars at sea, in Shen Tingyang's opinion, it did not exist. He originally owned two centipede ships, and after becoming the minister of the Beiyang, he ordered a batch of new ships, and now one has been delivered, for a total of three centipede ships, each with two 12-pounder Hongyi cannons!

If you meet the old Zheng family or the navy of the Westerners, it is not enough to look at it, but it is not a piece of cake for the Korean sailors and the Tartar sailors!

Therefore, Shen Tingyang's biggest concern is not the situation at sea, but the problem on land. Therefore, he not only gave all the 150 turtledovefoot firecrackers produced by his own iron factory to the Dengzhou Association, but also purchased 170 turtledoves at a high price through various channels, and also gave them to the Dengzhou Association.

Therefore, when Dengzhou Li Ruolian took the Dengzhou Association to attack, each flag team of this association was equipped with 20 turtledoves foot firearms team (the rest were equipped with spears and knives). When fighting with Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo's subordinates, these 320 turtledoves really showed their might!

The firecrackers of the Dengzhou Association are all highly trained, and the quality of the firearms is also reliable. Facing the rebels of Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo, the Dengzhou fire soldiers were also protected by pikemen and sword soldiers, so they could fire with confidence.

Therefore, these 320 turtledove-footed firecrackers all exerted their normal power, using waves of salvos (now the firecrackers of the new army will not shoot in turn, only salvos and scatters), and the two rebels will turn on their backs.

And then the momentum of the spear assault launched by the new army gave them a fatal blow! If it weren't for Li Ruolian's lack of cavalry, the heads of these two would have gone to Nanjing to see Zhu Cihong a long time ago......

Although his head has been preserved now, there is not much money left to be a traitor, and his heart to serve the Qing Dynasty is also a little "gray". The two of them thought that they couldn't beat the Tartars, the Liukou, the divisions of the New Army, and the ruthless characters like Huang Degong, Gao Jie, and Zuo Liangyu, but they couldn't beat the Zhuwei Army, right?

The foundation of the guards is nothing more than a group of guards farmers, how good can a group of farmers be after four or five months of training? Can it be compared to a battle-hardened family?

In the battle of Liaocheng, Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo fought hard in order to fight quickly, but they took out their families to fight at the beginning. I thought I could win with one blow, but who knew that the opponent used more than 300 turtledoves to shoot several volleys from 30 paces away, followed by a wave of spear assault...... The loss is a tragedy!

When the battle was like this, the two traitors felt that they were not worthy of being traitors, so on the way to Beijing, they discussed making some merit as a meeting gift to the Tartar regent.

Thinking about it, what they can come up with now is nothing but the truth of the new army that they have mastered, that is, the evidence of Wu Sangui's collusion with the Southern Dynasty.

But could this "incriminating evidence" be Prince Zhu's counter-plot? That rebel is a cunning and murderous master! If it was a counter-plan, they would have harmed Wu Sangui.

Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo couldn't make up their minds until they entered the realm of Shuntian Mansion.

"Mr. Liu, it doesn't seem right!"

The tall and majestic city of Beijing was already within reach, but Xu Dingguo and Old Man Xu knew that something was wrong.....

"What's wrong?" Liu Liangzuo glared at the old man Xu who was walking with him, "The lord of the Southern Dynasty is a traitor, and the lord of the country is in power, and sooner or later he will be destroyed by the Northern Dynasty...... Since ancient times, the north has been set in the south nine times out of ten, and the south and the north are only once. I, the Qing Dynasty, have defeated the Liukou, and will soon pacify the Central Plains, as the lord of the Northern Dynasty, and then from the north to the south, the momentum is like a bamboo! ”

What he said was the Tao, but the old man Xu on the side waved his hand again and again, "Don't talk about this, this old man knows that the old man is talking about the outside of Beijing, is it not too cold?" It's almost Chaoyangmen, and when the old man returns to Beijing, there is a lot of traffic outside Chaoyangmen, and people are boiling. What's going on here......"

was told what he said, Liu Liangzuo also felt that something was wrong. When he came back to Beijing, it was not as cold as it is now.

Although Beijing has changed its master twice this year, after all, there has been no big fight, and the Qing Dynasty has been in Beijing for more than half a year, so why should it recover some popularity, right?

"Second brother, why is it so lonely here?"

Liu Liangzuo was called as the second brother by Liu Liangchen, who was inlaid with the Yellow Banner Han Army and Lazhangjing Liu Liangchen, who surrendered with Zu Dashou when the Dalinghe army was defeated in the fourth year of Chongzhen - Zu Dashou himself surrendered by fraud that time, and later found an opportunity to run back to the Ming Dynasty. Liu Liangchen, on the other hand, really surrendered, and has been a traitor for 13 years now, winning the trust of his Manchurian masters.

Before Liu Liangzuo rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was leading his troops to fight hard in Datong Mansion with Haoge and Aobai!

Because the Datong Ming army also carried out a drastic "land reform", at least 100 acres of land were allocated to all the soldiers. Therefore, the morale of the Datong army has been significantly improved, and its combat effectiveness has also risen to a higher level.

And Jiang Jiu is not a fool, he has long been wary of the Qing army's betrayal of the alliance. Therefore, the defense of the Zhenyu Guard and the Anton Zhongtun Guard was arranged very carefully. The former is facing Xuanfu, and the latter is facing Daizhou. The soldiers and civilians of the two places were under the orders of the Datong General Commander and cleared the wilderness and prepared for war at all times.

Therefore, the Qing army attacking Datong Mansion was in a predicament from the beginning, the surprise attack failed to succeed, and it was also caught in a series of hard battles - if you don't attack the fortification, you will not be able to get supplies on the spot, and if you attack the fortification, you will lose your troops.

Hauge's proposal to retreat from Shanxi and divert troops to Shandong also had this factor......

And Liu Liangchen's Han army was the vanguard of attacking the city and fighting the hard village, and the losses were even more painful! Now that I see my brother coming back in embarrassment, my mood is even more depressed.

So when I heard Liu Liangzuo's question, I sighed deeply: "Big brother, haven't you heard of enclosing land, occupying houses, and charging money?" Today's Beijing is no longer the Beijing of the past...... The people who live in it have changed their species! ”

Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo both took a breath when they heard this.

At this time, Liu Liangchen said again: "Big brother, you and General Xu's soldiers and horses can't enter the city, so let them camp outside Chaoyang Gate...... You are not allowed to leave the camp without permission, and you are not allowed to disturb the people. Now most of the land outside Beijing is called Eight Banners to be occupied, and the people who farm the land are all coated slaves. Although they are slaves, they are also more noble than the Han people! ”

What?

Isn't that as good as a minion?

Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo were unhappy for a while. They are princes on the side of the Ming Dynasty, but they don't even dare to mess with the minions here......

Liu Liangchen commanded again: "In addition, the regent of the Qing Dynasty is wise and decisive, and he is a genius. Whatever you two know, you must tell the truth, and you must not hide anything. ”

There must be no concealment, Liu Liangzuo and Xu Dingguo thought: Then we have to sell Wu Sangui!

Wu Sangui, I'm sorry!