In the past two days, in fact, the defenders of Tongzhou have fought very hard, they have not many troops, and most of the troops in the army are the remnants of the defeated generals who have recently been collected by Zhang Erzhong, and there are a large number of people who have just been recruited by the people's army, and the weapons and equipment are already very poor at this time.

Although Zhang Erzhong tried his best to mobilize morale, but fighting is a game of life, although under Zhang Erzhong's vigorous mobilization, many soldiers rushed forward with bravery, but many soldiers and civilians who had never seen blood saw the robe fall in a pool of blood, and this bloody courage immediately went east like a river of spring water, so although they blocked Jiannu's attack for two days, but morale was also extremely low, Tang Tong performed well this time, leading the troops to fight to the death at the north gate and the west gate, and repelled several attacks by Jiannu in succession. He ran back and forth between the north gate and the west gate, commanding the soldiers to fight, but after two days, Tang Tong's momentum was also discharged, watching the strong Jiannu army like locusts outside the city, his loyalty was quickly used up, seeing that the morale of the defenders was getting lower and lower, one by one the soldiers were numb and numb, and they were at a loss, Tang Tong knew that Tongzhou might not be able to hold on.

So Tang Tong began to think about how to save his life next, because he knew that Tongzhou had become a lonely city at this time, don't look so close to the Beijing Division, but it was impossible for the Beijing Division to send troops to rescue Tongzhou, and the little strength of the Beijing Division to defend the city was not enough, and it was expected that those bigwigs of the Beijing camp would risk their lives to go out of the city to fight with the Jiannu army, without even thinking about it, they stayed in the Beijing Division and estimated that they could hold out for a few days. Reinforcements from the Jingshi could not be counted on.

And the counties outside Tongzhou at this time the official army has long fled to flee the surrender, it is impossible to count on it, the largest number of troops around the Beijing division is even the Tianjin Wei area, Tianjin Wei as a military powerhouse, has always stayed in the town of more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, but now Tianjin Wei is said to be difficult to protect itself, there is a road to the Dazhong Army at this time under the leadership of the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian, has arrived in Tianjin Wei, is attacking Tianjin Wei, trying to capture Tianjin Wei, as their last stop in opening up the canal, Tianjin Wei is used as a place for them to store and transport the grain and materials transported from the south, so no one knows whether Tianjin Wei can keep it at this time.

So staying in Tongzhou is a death, when Tang Tong started, he was also excited by Zhang Erzhong is blood boiling, and he planned to simply be loyal to Tongzhou and pull down, kill some more Tartars in a death battle, which can be regarded as a loyal name for him, but loyalty is this kind of thing, it is at the cost of life, not everyone can see death as home, at this point, sometimes the military generals are not necessarily stronger than some literati, literati still have some integrity, but the generals are mostly rough people, and they are more interested in the immediate interests, Tang Tong was obviously not the kind of person who could see death as home, and his courage was quickly exhausted after two days, and on the night of the second day of the siege of Jiannu, Tang Tong had already begun to ponder about escaping again.

But at this time, someone found Tang Tong and told Tang Tong a piece of news, which made Tang Tong dispel the idea of fleeing overnight, and immediately cheered up again, and decided to stay in the city on the third day to defend Tongzhou City.

It turned out that the person who was looking for Tang Tong was also the fine work of the Dazhong Army in Tongzhou City, subordinate to Feng Weihan's subordinates, they found Tang Tong and told Tang Tong that the Dazhong Army was galloping to aid Tongzhou in the starry night, as long as Tongzhou held on for another day or two, the soldiers and horses of the Dazhong Army would arrive in Tongzhou and relieve the siege of Tongzhou.

And the fine work also told Tang Tong that the emperor of the Dazhong Dynasty had already taken Tianjin Wei at this time, and he was happy to ask Tang Tong to return to his command, which could ensure Tang Tong's future glory and wealth, but the premise was that Tang Tong must help Zhang Erzhong defend Tongzhou City, otherwise, Tang Tong would be the first person he wanted to kill, no matter where he fled to, he would be chased and killed to the end, and he would be killed.

After Tang Tong heard this, he was surprised and delighted, and he was also afraid to die, because he had already seen that the fall of the Ming Dynasty was irreversible, and this world was likely to be his Xiao Tianjian's in the future, if he escaped at this time, where could he escape? In the future, his surname will be Xiao in the world, if he runs now, I am afraid that there will be no place for him Tang Tong and his family in this world in the future, so he is happy to follow Dazhong and Chao in the future, but the premise is to hold Tongzhou first.

So Tang Tong hurriedly agreed, patted his chest and promised that he would never live up to the expectations of Xiao Tianjian, the saint of Dazhong, even if he died in Tongzhou, he would never lose Tongzhou to Jiannu (it seems that he had just said this sentence to Zhang Erzhong two days ago!). ）。

At the same time, Tang Tong is a timid and afraid of death, but after all, he can do the post of chief military officer, this military is still a little experienced, from this Dazhong Army, he got the news, and soon he found a problem, this time Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian ordered him to defend Tongzhou, I am afraid that it is not just to get Tongzhou, I am afraid that behind this is Xiao Tianjian has a bigger plan, but this kind of thing is not something he can manage, now Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian only ordered him to defend Tongzhou City, he is a chess piece, In addition to doing what Xiao Tianjian instructed, he couldn't control more things.

Xiao Tianjian rode on horseback, his body slowly rising and falling with the movement of the war horse, and beside him was a group of Yu Linwei under the iron head to protect him.

From the beginning of the Northern Expedition to now has been two months, these two months, although he is already the emperor of Dazhong, but there is almost no much difference from an ordinary soldier, every day day and night, towards the north attack, along the way, he neither takes a boat, enjoy the comfortable journey on the boat, let alone sit on any dragon, but along the way with the generals, riding on horseback to march, commanding the soldiers under his command to attack the city and attack the north.

Along the way, he was an emperor, but he still slept in the open air, did not enjoy too many privileges as much as possible, and even worked harder than ordinary generals every day, and from time to time in the evening as an emperor, he would go around the camp and ask for warmth to the soldiers under his command, which made the soldiers and generals loyal to him, and they all secretly made up their minds to serve him to death.

Moreover, every night Xiao Tianjian had to discuss the next day's actions with his generals in the tent, and formulate various combat plans; although the current formulation of combat plans was mostly formulated by staff officers and generals, but as the head of an army, he often had to participate in them, and at least he had to make decisions on various combat plans, and choose the plans he thought were feasible to issue orders.

The war situation in the north, he is the most worried thing on the road, the communication in this era is inconvenient, he can't always know how the war situation in the north is going, the thing he is most worried about is that Jiannu broke through the Shanhaiguan before them, and captured the land of Yanyun first, in that case, although he can't say that he has lost all his efforts, but if he wants to regain these territories from Jiannu, he doesn't know how much strength he has to consume, and the slightest carelessness will be the end of losing everything.

So although he was talking and laughing with his subordinate generals along the way, there was always a kind of uneasiness in his heart, because it was not easy for him to get to this point, and he was about to succeed, but at this time, Jiannu began to move south before him, wanting to enter the customs and seize the land of Yanyun, which caused him a lot of pressure.

He didn't want to follow in the footsteps of Li Zicheng in history and become a sinner in this new history, he destroyed the Ming Dynasty in order to revitalize the Han nation, not to lead Jiannu into the customs, and finally give the great country to Jiannu, so he went north this time, it can be said that it is the ultimate battle, in order to block Jiannu from the pass, and then the next step is to destroy the Ming Dynasty, and then erase Jiannu from the land of Liaodong and recover the land of Liaodong.

However, his worries during this period with the news reported by various armies, also gradually reassured him, because of Yan Chongxi, Lu Xiangsheng's ability, they arrived in the Shanhaiguan area before the Jiannu army, and cooperated with Feng Weihan's special intelligence department to force down the Shanhaiguan guard Wu Xiang, and finally controlled the Shanhaiguan defense line before Jiannu, so that although the Shanhaiguan defense line did not dare to say that it was worry-free, but at least with the strong reinforcement of Yan Chongxi's left army, the Shanhaiguan defense line could still hold out for a while.

Moreover, after Li Xin and Diao Zheng's middle route army met with Luo Li's department, they also galloped to the Shanhaiguan area first, as long as Yan Chongxi and Wu Xiang supported them in Shanhaiguan until their arrival, and blocked the Jiannu army from Shanhaiguan, there was basically no problem.

For those generals under his command, Xiao Tianjian still has full confidence, these armies he has created single-handedly are not comparable to ordinary armies, even if Jiannu is fierce, but he is also confident in his generals, his subordinates are only stronger than the Jiannu army, and will never be weaker than the Jiannu army, so although even if the strength of the middle route army is added, the troops on the front line of Shanhaiguan are still much weaker than Jiannu, and he also believes that with these generals, even if Jiannu uses the strength to eat milk, he can't beat Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, after he conquered Cangzhou, his mood began to become much more relaxed, and he walked along the canal more steadily, leading the remaining right army all the way to Tianjin Wei.

Along the way as a whole they did not suffer any strong resistance from the Ming army, although some of the Ming defenders and officials did not look at the wind and surrender, but at most under his soldiers, can hold on to two or three days of the city is almost none, many states and counties along the way are often under his large army soldiers, even a day can not hold on, then the city is broken, so the right army losses along the way are not large, on the contrary, also received a lot of Ming troops.

(At present, I have two immature ideas for the new book, I am very entangled, I want to discuss with you, the first idea was born very early, that is, to write a novel about the Chinese expeditionary force in Burma to kill devils, the second idea is to write another novel about ancient naval warfare!) It's really tangled, so I want to just ask the brothers, I set two options in the voting area, everyone choose! How about giving me an idea? In addition, thanks to the fadespecter brothers for their tipping today! I'm really embarrassed that there are so few updates today, and I give a reward! ）